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A00214	Articles to be enquired of vvithin the diocesse of London In the third trienniall visitation of the Right Honourable, and Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of London, Lord High Treasurer of England. Holden in the yeare of our Lord God, 1640; Visitation articles. 1640	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1633-1660 : Juxon); Juxon, William, 1582-1663.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1640 (1640)	STC 10267; ESTC S101627	23,004	28

ARTICLES TO BE ENQUIRED OF Within the Diocesse of LONDON In the third Trienniall Visitation Of the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in GOD WILLIAM Lord Bishop of LONDON Lord High Treasurer of ENGLAND Holden in the Yeare of our LORD GOD 1640 LONDON Printed by RICHARD BADGER M.DC.XL The Oath to be administred to the Church-wardens and Sworn-men YOu shall sweare that you and every of you shall diligently enquire of the Articles given you in charge and without any affection favour 〈◊〉 hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice of any person you shall present all and every such person and persons that now is or ●f late was within your Parish as hath committed any incest adultery fornication or simony and any misdemeanour or disturbances committed or made in any Church or Ch●ppell in time of Common Prayer Preaching or Divine Service there used to the disturbance thereof and also that have committed or done any other offence fault or default presentable in the E●clesiasticall Court according to the Articles now delivered to you Wherein you shall deale uprightly and according to truth neither of malice presenting any contrary to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and ●o conceale the truth having in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine the truth and suppresse vice So helpe you God and the Contents of this Booke Articles to be enquired of within the Diocesse of LONDON in the Visitation to be holden in the Yeare of our LORD 1640. Concerning Religion and the true worship of God In This Realme established IS there any who doth affirme teach that the 39 Articles agréed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops in b●th Provinces and the whole Clergie in the Convocation h●lden at London Anno 1562. are in any part superstitio●s or 〈◊〉 or such as hée may not with a good conscience subscribe unto Who is that so teacheth or affirmeth and what is his name 2 Is there any who doth affirme and ●ea●h that the forme of Gods worship in the Church of ●●gland established by the Law and contai●●d in the booke of Common ●rayer and administration of Sacraments is a corrupt superstitio●s 〈◊〉 unlawfull worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is rep●g●●nt to the Scriptures Who is it that so teacheth c. 3 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that the Rites and Ceremo●ies of the Church of England by Law established are wicked antichristian or superstitious or such as being commanded by lawfull Authoritie ●ay not with good cons●ience ●ee approved used or subscribed unto by men who are zealously and godly affected who is it c 4 Is there any that separateth himselfe from the Communion of Saints as it is approved by the Apostles Rules in the Church of England and c●mbine themselves together in a new brother-hood accounting the Christians who are conformable to the Doctrine Governement ●ites and Ceremonies of the Church of England to be prophane or unmeet for him to ioyne within Christian profession who are they that so separa●e ●●mselves and what are their names Concerning the Church the Governement Authoritie and Discipline thereof 1 IS there any who doth affirme or teach that the Church of England by Law established under the Kings Maiestie is not a true and Apostolicall Church teaching and maintaining the Doctrine of the Apostles Who is it that doth so affirme and teach c 2 Is there any who doth affirme and teach that the Governement of the Church of England under his Maiestie by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and the rest that beare office in the same is antichristian and repugnant to the Word of God Who is it that doth c. 3 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that the formes or manner of making and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Word of God or that they who are made Bishops Priests and Deacons in that forme are not lawfully made nor ought to be accounted either by themselves or others to be truly either Bishops Priests or Deacons untill they have some other calling unto those Divine Offices Who is it c. 4 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that the Church hath no power to decree Rites or Ceremonies nor any authoritie in Controversies of Faith or in the changing abolishing of Ceremonies and R●tes of the Church ordained only by mans authority contrary to the 20. and 34. Articles of the Church of England Who is it c. 5 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that the Kings Maiestie hath not the same Authoritie in causes Ecclesiasticall that the godly Kings had among the Iewes and Christian Emperours in the Primitive Church Or that the Kings Maiestie within his Realmes of England Scotland and Ireland and all other his Dominions and Countries is not the highest Power under God to whom all men as well Inhabitants as bor●e within the same doe by Gods law owe most loyaltie and obedience Or that impeach any part his Royall Supremacie in the said causes restored to the Crowne and by the Lawes of the Realme therein established Who is it c 6 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that no manner of person eith●r of the Clergie or Laitie are to be subiect to the Decrees and Constitutions of the Church in causes Ecclesiasticall made and ratified by the Kings Maiesties Supreme authoritie other then such as are particularly assembled in the sacred Synods of the Church for the making of the said Decrees and Constitutions and have given their voices to the same Who is it c 7 Is there any that doth affirme or teach that it is lawfull for any sort of Ministers and lay persons or either of them to ioyne together and make rules orders and Constitutions in Causes Ecclesiasticall without the Kings Authority or any that submit themselves to be ruled and Governed by the same Who is it c 8 Is there any who doth affirme teach maintaine or publish that such Ministers who refuse to subscribe to the forme and manner of Gods worship in the Church of England and their adherents may truly take unto them the name of another Church or that there are within this Realme other meetings assemblies or congregations of the Kings borne Subiects then such as by the lawes of this Land are held and allowed which may rightly chalenge to themselves the name of true and lawfull Churches Who is it that doth so affirme c 9 Doth any Minister or Ministers without the Licence and direction of the Bishop of the Diocesse first obtained appoint or keep any solemne Fasts publikely or in any private houses other then such as are or shall be appointed by lawfull authoritie or not being Licensed as afore is said presumes to appoint or hold any meeting for Sermons Sermon Lectures

Prophecies or exercises in Market Townes or other places or doth attempt without such Licence upon any pretence whatsoever either of possession or obsession to cast out any Divell or Divels Who is it that offendeth in the premises c. 10 Doe any Priests or Ministers of the Word of God or any other persons meet together in any private hou●e or el●ewhere to consult upon any matter or course to be taken by them or by any other upon their motion and direction which may any way tend to the impeaching or depraving of the Church of E●gland or of the booke of Common Prayer or of any part of the Government or Discipline in the Church of England now established and who are they Concerning Churches the Ornaments Vtensils and other necessaries to the same belonging 1 IS your Parish Church or Chappell well and sufficiently repaired and so from time to time maintained and kept Are the windowes well glazed the floare kept paved plaine and even and all things there in such ●n orderly ●nd decent sort without dust or any thing that may bee either noysome or un●eemely as best becommeth the house of God 2 Are the ten Commandements set upon the East end of your Church or Chappell where the people may best see and reade the same and other chosen sen●ences written upo● the walls of your said Church or Chappell in convenient places 3 Doe the Cha●cels remaine as they have d●ne in times past that i● to say in the convenient situation of the Seates and in the ascent or 〈◊〉 unto the place appointed anciently for the standing of the holy Tab●● Is the Chancell of your Church or Chappell cleane kept and repaire● within and without in the windowes and otherwhere as appertaineth And is there a comely partition betwixt your Chancell and the body of the Church or Chappell as is required by the Law 4 Is the Church-yard of your Church or Chappell well and sufficiently sensed maintained and kept with walls ●ailes or poles as hath beene heretofore accustomed And if not then by whose neglige●●e or default is it that the fenses of the same are grown into decay 5 Are there any Playes Foasts Banquets Suppers Church-Ales Drinkings Temporall Courts or Le●tes Lay-iuries or Musters or is there any other prophane usage kept in your Church Chappell o● Churchyards of what sort soever By whom ●re your said Church or Chappell or Churchyard so prophaned as afore is said and by whose permission 6 Have you in the Chancell of your Church or Chappell a decent and convenient Table for the celebration of the Holy Comm●●ion Is i● so set as is directed in the Queenes Iniunctions and appointed by the Canon made in the Synod held at London Anno 1640. Have you a Carpet of silke or other decent stuffe appointed by the Ordinary to lay upon the Table in the time of Divine Service and a faire linnen cloth to lay upon the same in time of the Communion And is the said Carpet and linnen cloth laid constantly upon the Table at the times aforesaid 7 Have you a faire Communion Cup or Chalice of silver with a cover of the same and a decent standing pot or Flagon of pewter if not of purer metall in which the wine for the Communion is to be brought unto the holy Table Is the said Table Carpet Linnen cloth Cup or Flagon or either of them any wayes prophaned or otherwise imployed then to their owne proper and right holy uses 8 Have you in your Church or Chappell a Font of stone where Baptisme is to be administred decently made and kept as it ought to be Is the same set in the Ancient usuall place appointed for it and doth your Minister publikely baptize in the same Font only 9 Have you in your Church or Chappell a convenient Seat made 〈◊〉 the Minister to reade Service in as also a comely and decent Pulpit set in a convenient place within the same for the preaching of Gods Word and there seemely kept 10 Have you in your Church or Chappell a strong Chest with an hole in the upper part thereof 〈◊〉 the Almes of the poore Hath the same chest three severall keyes and is the one of them in the castodie of the Parson Uicar or Curat Is the same so set and fastened in the most convenient 〈◊〉 to the intent the parishioners may put into it their Almes for their poore neighbours 11 Have you a true note and Terrar of all the Glebes Lands Meadowes Gardens Orchards Houses stockes implements Tenements and portions of tythes lying out of your Parish which belong unto your Parsonage or Uicarage And is the same or a true Coppie of the same layed up in the Bishops Registry for a perpetuall Memory thereof 12 Have you a comely decent Surplisse with sleeves for the use of your Minister in saying the publike prayers or ministring the Sacraments and other rites of the Church together with an Universitie hood according to the degree of your said Minister And doth the Parson Uicar or Cu●●te use the same as oft as he officiates Gods publike Service administreth the Sacraments or dischargeth any publike duty in the Congregation 13 Have you a Bible of the largest volume allowed by Authoritie the booke of Common Prayer and the booke of Homilies all very well and fairely bound As also a booke of the Canons And Constitutions made in the Synod held at London Anno 1603. and ratified by the Kings Authority A booke of prayers for the 5. of November and for the 27. of March being the day of his Maiesties most happy Inauguration Have you a parchment Register booke wherein to keep upon record the severall Christenings Weddings and Burials which happen weekly quarterly or yearly in your Parish Have you also a Register booke wherein to write the names of all Preachers which come and Preach in your Church from other places And have you one sure Co●er with thrée lockes and keyes for keeping of the bookes aforesaid And doth one of your keyes remaine alwayes in the hands of your Minister Whether is your Parsonage-house or Vicarage-house Barnes Stables and other out-houses thereto belonging in good and sufficient repaire Whether hath any person in●roached upon the ground of your Church-yard or other consecrated ground if any hath then you shall present him and set out what quantitie of ground is so incroached upon and whether any new doore or window hath be●ne lately made into your Church or Church-yard and by what authority Concerning the Celebration of Divine Service the Administration of the Sacraments c. DOth your Minister or Curate that ministreth in your Parish Church or Chappell say daily the Morning and Evening Prayer in the same Parish Church or Chappell where he ministreth unlesse he be lawfully hindered And doth he cause a Bell to be tolled thereunto a convenient time before he begin that such as

the time of divine Seruice the Lord Iesus shall be mentioned is due and lowly reverence done by all persons present have you any that offend in the neglect of these particulars and what are there names 8 Have you any parishioner that being 16. yeares of age doth not receive the Communion at the least thrice in the yeare of which Easter to be one or that doth not receive the Sacraments and other rites according to the order of the common prayer booke Or that doth not reckon with his Parson Uicar or Curate or his or their deputies at Easter yearely paying such Ecclesiasticall du●ies as are accustomably due then and at that time to be paid 9 The Minister standing as he is appointed at the North side or end of the Table when hee prepares to celebrate the holy Communion and calling on those who doe intend to communicate to draw neare and take that holy Sacrament to their comfort as it is in the words of the common prayer booke have you any in your parish that keepe their seats and sit still in their places not drawing neare as is commanded by the Church but looking that the Minister should forsake the place of his station by the Church appointed to bring it to them 10 Is there any of your parish who doth forsake his owne Church or Chappell to receive the Communion at the hands of any other than their owne Minister or any strangers that usually repaire to your Church or Ch●●●ell to the same intent or any that refuse to receive the holy Communion at ●●e hands of their owne Minister because hee is no Preacher or to have their children baptized by him in the same respect or that in the same respects communicate or cause their children to be baptized in other Parishes abroad Or doth your Minister baptize any children presented unto him out of other Parishes you shall present the names of all offenders in these particulars 11 Have you any that procure their children to be baptized at home in their houses without great cause and necessity or by any other than their own lawfull Minister if he may be had Or after any other form and manner than is pr●scribed by the Liturgie of the Church of England or any that procure themselves to be married privately or ●fter any other manner than the Church prescribes 12 Do all and every housholder of your Parish Fathers Mothers Masters Mistresses cause their children seruants and apprentises which have not learned their catechisme come unto the Church on Sundayes and Holydayes in the afternoone obediently to heare and to be ordered by the Minister till they have learnt the same 13 Have you any in your Parish that refuse to contribute and pay the rate ass●ssed ●pon him for the repaire of your Church or Chapp●ll or the providing of any bookes utensils or necessary ornaments to the same belonging present the names of those which doe so refuse 14 Have you any that keepe company and hold society with suc● as are denounced and declared Excommunicate 15 Have you any living in your Parish which have beene legally separated and divorced have afterwards beene married unto others either men or women during the life of each other or that being so divorced as afore is said keepe company with each other at bed and at board Or any that being lawfully married doe yet live asunder without a separation in due course of law 16 Have you any persons in your Parish which are and have been married within the d●grees prohibited by the Lawes of God and expressed in a Table set forth by authority And is the said Table publikely set up and fix●d in your Church or Chappell at the Charge of the Parish 17 Are there in your Parish any Wills unproved or any goods unadministred by lawfull Authority Did any dying in your Parish give any legacy unto your Church or Chappell or to the use of the poore and needy 〈◊〉 how have the said legacies so given beene disposed of by whom and by whose Authority And have they otherwise beene disposed of then to the said pious and charitable uses Whether is there in your parish a common fame and report of any which have committed Adulterie Fornication or Incest or any Baudes harbourers or receivers of such persons or vehemently suspected thereof if yea then specifie their names Whether have you any in your Parish which are by common fame and report and vehement suspition reputed and taken to be common Drunkards blasphemers of Gods holy Name common and usuall swearers filthy speakers railers sowers of discord among their neighbours or speakers against Ministers Marriages or Vsurers contrary to the Sta●ute made in the 37. yeare of King Henry the eighth you shall not faile to present their names Whether have any in your Parish received or harboured any women with child suspected to be of a● incontinent life or have had any such woman delivered of child in his or her house or have suffered such women to depart without penance first inflicted upon them by the Ordinary if yea you shall present as well the partie harbouring as harboured and all that help to conveigh them away and the parties suspected to have committed adultery or fornication with them Whether doe you know or have heard of any Patron or any having an Advowson in your Parish that have made gaine by any colour deceit or Symoniacall pact in bestowing his Be●efice and presenting to the same for gaine for or receiving money or promise of the Lease of the whole or part or by reserving his owne tithes or any pension to himselfe or any other What Almes-houses Hospitals Free-schooles have you in your Parish that are not of t●e Foundation or Patronage of the King and who was the Patron or Founder thereof and whether the said Almes-houses Hospitals or Free-schooles in your Parish being under the Rule and Government of the Lord Bishop of London be well and godly used according to the ancient Foundations and Ordinances of the same Whether any Persons within your Parish either for the offences aforesaid or for any other contumacy or crime doe remaine excommunicated what be their names and for what cause and how long have they stood excommunicated Concerning Church-Wardens and Sidemen ARe you the Churchwardens chosen by the ioynt consent of your Minister and Parishioners or one of you by the Minister and the other by the Parishioners Have the last Churchwardens given up their accounts delivering up to the Parishioners the money remaining in their hands and other things of right belonging to your Church or Chappell and is the same delivered to you by bill indented 2 Do you the Churchwardens and Sidemen diligently see that all your parishioners resort duly to your Church or Chappell upon Sundayes and Holydayes and there continue the whole time of Divine Service doe you suf●er any to walke or stand idle or talk in

in as due season as may be 9 Hath any Register unto your knowledge or as you have credibly beene informed receiued wittingly any certificate without the knowledge of the Iudge Or willingly omitted to call any persons cited to appeare upon any Court day Or that hath unduely put off and deferred the Examination of witnesses to be examined by a day set and assigned by the Iudge Or that hath set downe or enacted any thing false or conceited by himselfe as decreed by the Iudge or not as so ordered or decreed by the Iudge Or that hath received any reward in any Causes whatsoever in favour of any partie or that is of counsell directly or indirectly with either of the parties in suit declare your knowledge in these particulars 10 Do●h any Register or any other Minister of Ecclesiastical Courts or any of the Iudges of the said Courts take or receive any other or greater fees then such as were ratified and approved by the Archbishop of Canterbury Anno 1597. and contained in the Tables of fees for that purpose made And are two Tables containing the severall rates and summes of the said fees set up according to the Law in that case provided That is to say one of them in the usuall place or Consistorie where the Court is kept and the other of them in the Registry or Registers Office And are they set up in such sort that every man whom it concerneth may without difficultie come to the view thereof and take a copie of them if they so desire And doth any Register or other Ecclesiasticall Officer take more for shewing Letters of Orders then is appointed in the 137. Canon 11 Doth any Proctor take upon him to appeare in any Cause or pretend to be entertained in the same unlesse hee be constituted and appointed by the party himselfe either before the Iudge and in open Court or by sufficient Proxie con●●rmed by some authenticall Seale the parties ratification therewithall concurring If you know any such present him that so he may be punished as the law provides Or doth any Proctor ●ake the oath in Animam Domini in any cause what ever contrary to the ordinance of holy Church 12 How many Apparatours have you in your Dioc●sse or Archdeaconrie as you either know or doe conjecture Doe they or any of them execute their Office by themselves or by their Deputies And if by their Deputies then is the cause of such their deputation and employment made knowne and approved of by the Ordinary of the place Doe they take upon them the Offfce of Promot●rs or Informers for the Court or exact more or greater fees then are prescribed in the Tables before remembred What other abuses and aggrievances can you complaine of justly in the said Apparators Whether any Archdeacon or Officiall within the Diocesse of London hath or doth commute or change any p●nance or corporall punishment in whole or in part and what money such Archdeacon or Officiall hath received what 〈◊〉 offence was for which any summe of money was received or appointed to be paid set downe the particulars of the premisses Whether any Archd●acon or Officiall or his Surrogate have within thes● three yeares last past granted any Licences for the Marriage of any parties in your parish Church or elsewhere whether hath your Minister by vertue o● the said Licences so married them and by whom the said Licences were so granted and you are likewise required by vertue of your corporall oath to make diligent search in the Register booke of marriages kept within your parish what parties have beene married by the said authoritie and if you know any such present their names and places where they dwell Whether have you in your Parish any Curats Schoolemasters Physitians Ch●●urgions Parish Clarkes or Midwives licensed by any other authority than of the Lord-bishop of this Diocesse or his Chancellor and whether any fees have beene demanded or received by any other besides the Lord Bishop of this Diocesse or his Chancellor in the Lord Bishops Visitation for exhibiting the said licences Whether any Commissarie Archdeacon or Officiall have at any time especially within these three yeares last past intermedled in the placing or displacing of any persons in pewes in your Parish Churches or have granted any confirmation of seates under his seale of office or by his authority hath caused to be removed the Pulpit or Font or reading Deske f●om their ancient and accustomed place or given way to making of doores or windowes in Churches or Chappels or erecting of Galleries Whether any Commissarie Archdeacon or Officiall have proved the Wils or granted Administration of the goods of any beneficed man or Curat dying within his Iurisdiction or of any other person being in holy Orders The Charge of the Church-wardens and Sworn men set downe for the better performance of their duties and discharge of their Oaths THey are not to bring in any Bills into the Archdeacons Court upon the Articles to be enquired of in their Visitation by reason of my Lords Visitation but only now during the said Visitation to make their presentments upon these Articles They are therefore charged that after their Oath taken and their returne home they doe require their Minister to reade over both the Book of Canons or Constitutions set forth by his Majestie in the Convocation holden in the year of our God 1604. and also these Articles unto them and to consider of every particular Article and of the offences by them to be presented as also of such persons in their Parish as shall bee noted to offend in the same and so the Church-wardens and Side-men assembling themselves together within some convenient time are to make their Bill answering every Article by it selfe before the time hereafter appointed them which Bill shall be signed with the hands of all the Church-wardens and Side●men with conference had with their Minister upon the said Bill of presentment who according to the 26. Canon is to see that the said Church-wardens doe their duties in presenting upon the penaltie in the 26. Canon prescribed These Bills shall be brought by both the Church-wardens AT the delivery of your Bill of presentment at the time and place before set downe you the Church-wardens are likewise in the said Bill to set downe the names of all such as have died within your parish at any time since the day of Iuly last past being Men Maides or Widowes and what person or persons have beene married since the said time and by what Licence or authority and likewise you the Minister Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish must in the end of the said Bill of presentment set downe the number of all Recusants and non-Communicants as followeth Recusants men Recusants women Non-Communicants of both sex Communicants of both sex in the whole Parish So setting down the number of every one you the Minister Church-wardens and Side-men must put your hands to the said Note FINIS Can. 5. Can. 4. Can. 6. Can. 9. Can. 3. Can. 7. Can. 8. Art 20. 34. Can. 2. 1. ●an ● 4 Can. 12. Can. 10. Can. 11. Can. 72. Can. 73. Can. 85. Can. 82. Rubr. before Morning Prayer Orders of Queene Elizabe●● An. 1561. Ib. Order ● Can 85. Can. 88. Injunct of Q Eliz. Orders of Q Eli● Can. 82. Com. Book Can. 20. Can. 81. Can. 82. 83. Can. 84 Can. ●7 Can. 58. Can. 80. Can. 70 Can. 52 Can. 70 Rubrick after the Pre●ace Can. 14 Rub●i●k of the Common P●ayer booke Can. 15. Rubr. f●●r the Communion Can. 4● Can. 4● 46 Can. 47 Can. 48 Rubr Cap. 4. Can. 55 Can. 55 Can. 56 Can. 5● can. 5● Can. 21 Can. 2● Can. 26 Can. 27. ●ubr ●an ●1 ●ubr ●an 21. Rubr. Can. 28. 57. Can. 71 Instructions Can. 6● Rubr o● Bap. Can. 30. Can. 29. Can 69 Can. 61 Can 59. Rubr. of Con●ir Inst●ucti●ns Rub. of Confirm Can. 62. Rubr of Matrimo●ie Can. 87. Rubr. of ●isitation Rubr. of Visitation Can. 130 Rubrick of Com. Can. 68. Rubr. Can. 1. Can. 64. Rub. of Com. Injunctions and Adver●isements of Q Eliz●b Can. 48. Can An. 1571. Cap. ult. Can. 65. Can. 74. Can. 75. Can. 76. Can. 66 Can. 66. Can. 114 Can. 70. Can. 77. Can. 78. Can. 79. Can. 91. Can. 67. Can 109 Can. 110 Can. 114. Q Eliz. ● ● 1 E●z c. ● Can. Ann● 157 1. c● 5 Can. 111 Can An● 1571. Can. 18. Can. 18. Can. 114 Rubr. Can. 122 Rubr. ●nvi●ation ●an 58. Rubr of B●● Can. 59 Can. 91 Can. 8 Can. 6● Can. 10 Can. 9 Can. ● ●●n 89 Can. 90 Can. 19. 90 Can. 20. Can. 52. Can. 53. Can. 115● 1. Eliz. ● ●● Ca● 1571 Can. 119 Can. ●6 C●n 117 Can. Art 1571. p. 11. Can. An. 1603. c. 127. Can. 178 Can An. 1571. Can. An. 1571. 1597. Can. 120 Can. 12● Can. 123 Can. 125. Ca● 134 〈…〉 Can. 136 Can. 137 Can. 1●9 Can. 138