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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	bishop_n	church_n	diocese_n	2,662	5	10.6930	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32960	Articles of visitation & enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and sidemen, of every parish within the diocess of Lincoln, at the primary visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of that diocess	Church of England. Diocese of Lincoln. Bishop (1675-1691 : Barlow); Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing C4062; ESTC R41982	5,763	11

Persons in Private Houses or such as are under age not having the content of their Parents and Guardians Doth he Marry any without Banes first published three Sundays or Holydays in the Church or at prohibited times or hours without Licence so to do Or with the Licence of any other than the Archbishop Bishop of this Diocess or his Chancellor IX Doth your Minister duly bid and observe Holy-days and Fasting-days as is appointed And doth he then use the Forms of Prayer prescribed by the Church Hath he taken upon him to appoint any private Fasts or Religious Exercises without Lawful Authority Doth he or any other Minister or Lay person in your Parish hold any Conventicles or Religious meetings for people of several Families to resort unto contrary to the Laws in that case provided X. Is your Minister constantly resident among you and how many weeks in the year hath he been absent from his Benefice Hath he a Curate to assist him in his absence or presence Is that Curate in Holy Orders and hath he a Licence from the Bishop to serve the said Cure Doth he carry himself in all things as an able and discreet Minister and conformable to the Church of England Doth he serve any more Cures beside that of your Parish and at what distance And doth any Lay-man not being in Holy Orders presume to read Publick Prayers in the Church XI Is there in your Parish any Lecturer Is he in Orders and duly Licenced Doth he read Divine Service before his Lecture And is he conformable to the Discipline of the Church of England XII Doth your Minister every six months publickly denounce all such as persevere in the Sentence of Excommunication not seeking to be Absolved Have any Excommunicate Persons been received into the Church without a Certificate from the Ordinary of their Absolution Or any so dying buried with Christian Burial TIT. III. Concerning Parishioners I. ARE there any in your Parish who are reputed Hereticks or Schismaticks refusing Communion with the Church of England Any Impugners of the Religion established of his Majesties Supremacy or of any of the Laws Rites and Ceremonies Ecclesiastical Have any spoken or declared any thing in derogation or to the depraving of the Form of Gods Worship in the Church of England and Administration of the Sacraments prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer as it is now Established by Law Are there any convicted Papists known Anabaptists or Quakers in the Parish II. Are there any in your Parish who lie under a common fame or vehement suspition of Adultery Fornication or Incest Are there any common Drankards Swearers or Blasphemers of Gods Holy Name and Word Are there any Excommunicate persons or any who countenance or keep company with them What punishment for any such offences have been commuted and exchanged into a Pecuniary Mulct or Sum of Money by any Ecclesiastical Judge exercising Jurisdiction within this Diocess by virtue of any Grant or Commission What was the Sum of Money by them or any of them so received and taken and to what uses was the same bestowed III. Do any of your Parish prophane the Lords Day by neglecting of publick holy Duties or by doing the works of their ordinary Calling or using unlawful Recreations or permitting their Children and Servants so to do Do they duly observe other Holidays Festivals and Fasts appointed by Authority IV. Do all those who inhabit in your Parish duly resort to your Church or Chappel and continue there during Divine Service Sermon and other Holy Duties with that reverence order and decency as befits devout Christians Or have any occasioned riot clamour or fighting in the Church at any time Is there any Recusant Papists or Sectaries in your Parish Do they or any of them keep any School-master in their House which cometh not to Church to hear Divine Service and receive the Holy Communion V. Are there any in your Parish who refuse to have their Infant-children Baptized by your Minister or do they keep them unbaptized longer than the Church allows and what Infants or more aged persons are there in your Parish unbaptized VI. Do all your Housholders duly send their Children Apprentions and Servants to be Catechized And do they take care when occasion is offered they should be Confirmed by the Bishop VII Is there any person in your Parish so confirmed and instructed and being sixteen years of age who refuseth to receive the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper at least three times every year whereof Easter to be one And do all receive this Sacred Mystery with that outward gesture of humility and reverence as becomes them meekly kneeling upon their knees according to the order and custom of the Church VIII Are there any in your Parish who are known or suspected to be unlawfully Married contrary to the Laws of God and this Church Are there any who being lawfully Married and never Divorced do yet live asunder Or any who being lawfully Divorced do live together again Or being separated for Adultery have afterwards enter married with any other during the life of their first Consort IX Are there any married Women in your Parish who after their safe delivery from Childbirth refuse to make their humble and publick Thanksgivings to God according to the appointment of the Church X. Are there any of your Church who refuse to pay their Easter Offerings and other Duties to your Minister Or to pay the Rates assessed on them for the repair and provisions of the Church XI Do you know or have you heard of any Patron or other person in your Parish who having the Gift of an Ecclesiastical Benefice hath made gain thereby upon any Bargain either for Money Pension Lease Reserve of Tithes or Gle●e or other Simoniacal Compact whatsoever XII Do any among you refuse to bury their Dead according to the Rites of the Church of England Are there any Wills of deceased persons unproved or Goods not administred Do you know of any Legacies given to your Church on the Cathedral Curch of St. Paul in London or to the Poor or to other charitable uses not yet received by you or detained from you or not applied to the charitable uses appointed TIT. IV. Concerning the Officers belonging to the Church I. ARe the Church-Wardens of your Parish yearly chosen according to Law And are there Sidemen appointed to assist them for the due ordering of the Church II. Have the former and last Church Wardens given up their Accounts to those that succeed them together with all Moneys and other things belonging to your Church or Chappel III. Have you a Parish Clark aged twenty years at least who is of sober Life and good report Is he chosen by your Minister and approved by the Parish And is he able for Reading Writing and Singing as a Clerk And his Wages duly paid him IV. Doth he or your Sexton take care of your Church to keep it lockt and clean to open the doors and ring the Bells in due time to call the Living to the Worship of God also to admonish them by Tolling of a Passing-Bell for any that are dying thereby to meditate of their own death and to commend the others weak condition to the mercy of God TIT. V. Concerning Alms-houses Schools and School-Masters Physicians Chyrurgions and Midwifes I IS there any Hospital Alms-house or Free-School Founded in your Parish Are they so governed and ordered in the use and revenue as the Founders appointed according to the Ordinances and Statutes which have been made concerning the same II. Doth any man keep a publick or private School in your Parish Is he or they licenced and allowed thereunto by the Bishop or his Chancellor Doth he instruct his Scholars in the Catechism and Religion of the Church of England Is there any Woman that taketh upon her to instruct and educate any young Maidens Doth she resort duly and bring with her to Divine Service upon the Lords Day and Holidays all such young Maidens as are committed to her care III. Do any in your Parish practice Physick Chyrurgery or Midwifery without Licence from the Ordinary TIT. VI. Touching Ecclesiastical Officers I. ARE there any Ecclesiastical Officers that exercise Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction within this Diocess that take and receive any extraordinary Fees for any Cause Have abuses or offences been presented by Church-wardens and Quest-men And are such offences being presented suppressed or left unpunished II. Have any Apparitors taken any reward for the concoaling of any offence or the avoiding of the punishment of the Offenders And do they summon any without a Citation first had IF you know of any other Default or Crime of Ecclesiastical Cognizance you are to present the same Advertisements I. EVery Parson and Vicar and in their lawful absence the Curate of any Parish may join in Presentments with the Church-wardens and Side-men and if they will not Present then the Ministers themselves being the Persons that have the chief care of suppressing Sin and Impiety in their Parishes may Present such Crimes as are against the Ecclesiastical Laws and want due Reformation Can. 113. II. THe Ministers are to take notice that the Bishop at his Visitation will be ready to Confirm the Youth who shall be fitted and brought before him and therefore they are desired by diligent Catechizing in the Grounds of Religion to prepare those under their charge and bring them at the time appointed to the Bishop For as de Jure he cannot so de Facto he will not Confirm any save such who have been duly Catechiz'd and by their Pastors Testimony have attain'd such a measure of Knowledge of the Principles of Christian Religion as may render them capable of Confirmation T. LINCOLN