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A00185	Articles ecclesiasticall to be inquired of by the churchwardens and the sworne-men within the dioces of Hereforde in the visitation of the reuerend father in God, Harbart Bishop of the saide dioces, this present yeare M.D.LXXXXII. and in the XXXIIII. yeare of the raigne of our most gratious soueraigne lady Queene Elizabeth, &c. and so hereafter till the next visitation, & from time to time to bee presented.	Church of England. Diocese of Hereford. Bishop (1586-1602 : Westfaling); Westfaling, Herbert, 1532?-1602.	1592 (1592)	STC 10215.5; ESTC S4281	7,555	14

ARTICLES ECCLESIASTICALL TO BE INQVIRED OF BY THE CHVRCHWARDENS AND THE SWORNE-MEN WITHIN THE Dioces of Hereforde in the visitation of the reuerend father in God Harbart Bishop of the saide Dioces this present yeare M. D.LXXXXII and in the XXXIIII yeare of the raigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth c. And so hereafter till the next visitation from time to time to bee presented Imprinted at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes Printer to the Vniuersitie ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF IN the Dioces of Hereforde FIrst ye shal enquire truely present vpon your oathes takē whether you doe know of any which hath thrust himselfe into any funccion Ecclesiastical without ordinary calling as to say publike seruice in church or chappel not being lawfully ordered Deacon at the least 2 Whether your Parson or Vicar be knowen suspected or reported to haue bought his benefice or come to it by any simonicall compace made either by himselfe or others directly or indirectly or do let out his liuing or any part thereof to any in consideration that he hath obtained the same 3 Whether your Parson or Vicar Curate or minister or any other Priest or laiman or womā do wilfully maintaine or defend anie heresies false opinions or popish errors cōtrary to the lawes of almighty God and true doctrine by publike authority now set foorth in this realme and what be their names 4 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curat doe not say commō praier in your Church or Chappel distinctly and reuerently and in such order as is set forth by the Lawes of this Realme without any kinde of alteration and at du●●●●d conuenient howers And whether your Minister doe not so turne himselfe stande in such place of your Church or Chancell as the people may best heare the sue And whether the holy sacramēts be not likewise ministred reuerently in such maner as by the Lawes of this Realme is appointed and whether vpon wednesdaies and Frydaies not being holy daies the Letany and other praiers appointed for the daie bee not said accordingly 5 Whether your Minister or any other not being licenced take vpon him to expounde scripture thereby omit vpon any sunday the reading of a part of an Homily at the least or vppon any other occasion doe omit the same 6 Whether your Minister doe not read the cōmination against sinners with certaine praiers appointed at the least thrise a yeere besides the lent time and whether he doth not reade the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions quarterly in the church 7 Whether he haue preached or caused to bee preached his monthly or quarterly sermons at the least and who they bee that preached them and whether he haue suffered any not licenced to preach or forbidden any that was licenced and whether hee or any other haue preached declared or spoken any thing in derogation of the book of common praier which is set forth by the lawes of this realm dispraysing the same or any thing therin conteined 8 Whether any open notorious fornicatour adulterer or euil liuer by whom the cōgregation is offended haue without due penance first done been by your Minister admitted to the holy cōmunion or any malitious person that is notoriously knowen to be out of charitie or that hath done any open wrong to his neighbour by word or deede without due reconciliation first made to the party that is wronged or any that at the time stood excommunicate or a stranger of another parish 9 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curat haue admitted to the holy communion any of his parish being aboue twenty yeares of age either mankinde or womankinde that cannot say by heart the ten commaundements the articles of the faith and the Lords praier in english and what be the names of those that cannot saie the same or being aboue foureteene yeares and vnder twenty that coulde not say the catechisme allowed and set foorth in the booke of cōmon praier And whether your minister at times conuenient before he administer vnto them and namely before Easter yearely doe vse to examine his parishioners whether they can say by hare the same which is required in this behalfe And whether hee marry any persons that were single before that cannot say the aforesaide catechisme 10 Whether your Minister on euery sunday and holidaie in the after noone before euening praier do cal for heare instruct al the youth within your parish of cōueniēt age of both sexes in the catechisme or at the least so many of them by course as time will serue and as he may wel heare and instruct for halfe an hower at the least before euening praier in the tenne commandementes the Articles of the beliefe and the Lordes praier and diligently examine and teach them the catechisme as it is now allowed and set forth And whether for that purpose he doth take the names of thē all and by ●ourse cal certaine of them by name euery sundaie and holiday to come to the teaching of the same and present to the ordinary such quarterly as refuse to come to be catechised and whether he doe diligently visite the sicke and comfort them with exhortation to contribute by wil for the reliefe of the poore as their abilitie shal serue 11 Whether he be diligent in study of the holy scriptures for further increase in knowledge and for that purpose if he be vnder the degree of a Master of art hath of his owne at the least the new testament in latine and English and whether he doeth dailie conferre certaine chapters thereof togither and obserue such orders as for his increase in knowledge are set downe by his ordinary vsing at vacant times such good seemely exercises as may keepe him from sluggishnes and idlenes 12 Whether any Minister haue maried any in times forbiddē by the Ecclesiastical Laws or without banes thrise asked otherwise thā by licēce of the ordinary or hath vsed the forme of thākesgiuing for woman after childebirth being vnlawfully begotten with childe otherwise then in a form of a penitent person viz. in a white sheete or other habit prescribed by the ordinary or vpon any other day than a Sunday or holyday or before sufficient caution taken that she should not depart the Parish til she should performe such penance as should be enioined by the ordinary 13 Whether your Minister vse any other Rite or Ceremony in the Church than is prescribed by the booke of common praier whether he or any other keepe or vse any secret Conuenticles Preachings lectures or Reading contrary to the Law and what be their names 14 Whether your Parson or Vicar doth not in his own person at the least sometimes in the year both say publike praiers himselfe and also administer the holy communion according to the booke of common Praier 15 Whether for the retayning of the perambulation of the circuit of your parish the Parson Vicar or Curat churchwardens certaine of the substantial men of the parish in the

daies of Rogation commonly called the gange daies walke the accustomes boundes of your Parish and whether in the same perambulation and going about the Minister doe vse anie other rite or ceremonie then to say or sing in English the one hundred and three and one hundred and foure Psalmes and such sentences of the scriptures as are appointed by the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions with the Letany and suffrages following the same and reading of one homilie alreadie diuised and set forth for that purpose with out wearing any surplesses carying of banners or handbels or staying at Crosses or any such like popish ceremonies 16 Whether any doe serue as a Minister or Deacon not licenced vnder the Ordinaries seale or serue two cures and whether any Minister comming out of another Dioces hath not the Ordinaries letters testimonial concerning aswel the cause of his departure as his behavior and what stipend your Curate hath by year 17 Whether is your Minister a peace maker and exhorter of his parishioners to obedience toward their Prince and all other that be in authoritie and to charitie and mutuall loue among themselues and such a one as is no sower of discord amongst neighbours 18 Whether your Parson or Vicar suffer his buildinges or Chaunsell to fall to ruine or decay and whether hee or any other haue taken awaie or discouered any Church Chappel or Chauncel or any part of them any church-porch vestrie spittle almes-house or such like or hath pulled downe the belles or hath made anie spoile or wast vpon his benefice either in his timber or woodes or by felling trees in the church-yearde 19 Whether the Minister and church-wardens according to her Maiesties Iniunctions doe keepe well the Register booke and therein register al weddings buryings and Christnings and once every yeare exhibite a copy thereof by Indenture to the office of the Ordinaries Register and if it haue not beene done which of them it was long of 20. Whether your minister hath executed and published all such processes and other thinges as hath from time to time since the last visitation beene sent vnto him from the ordinarie And whether he hath made any certificates of penaunce orderlie and penetently done which hath indeede beene scoffingly or impenitently performed or done at other times or in other sorte then was prescribed by the Ordinarie or else not done at all 21 Whether your Parson or Vicar hath at any time since the thirteenth year of the Queenes Maiesties raine made any manner of lease or graunt of his Parsonage or Vicarage or any part thereof he being absent and 〈◊〉 resident vpon the same to any other then to his curate that did or doeth serue his cure in his absence 22 Whether hath your Parson or Vicar mo benefices then one how many and in what countries be they and what bee the names of them and whether is he absent from among you aboue eighty daies in any one yeare in al not being lawfully qualified dispensed withal being so licenced whether is the Cure serued by an honest learned Curate whether doth he not at the least for one month in the year keepe hospitality at his liuing also giue if his benefice be aboue twenty pounds a yeare the fortith part thereof to the Poore 23 Whether any Minister doe forsake his function and giue himselfe to any other trade of life then is fite or may be incident with that calling 24 Whether doth your Minister keepe any suspected woman in his house or being not maried any woman not of neere kindred vnto him or doth he liue in any tauerne or alehouse or commonly resort thither or is he a hawker or hunter or a gamester at any game or other then at shooting or otherwise suspected of any notorious crime or any euill example of life 25 Whether doth your Minister keepe or suffer to be kept any Alehouse Tauerne or Victualing house in his Personage or vicarage house 26 Whether doth your Minister vse any excessiue or vnseemely kinde of apparell not commendable in that calling 27 Whether the Patrone haue freely bestowed the benefice without any Simony directly or indirectly betweene him and the incumbent or any other 28 Whether your Scholmaster teaching within your parish openly or within any noble or gentlemans house or in any other place there be licensed there 〈◊〉 by the ordinary Whether doth he teach such bookes as be commaunded to be taught and that diligently And whether is he reputed of sincere Religion and honest conuersation and frequenteth diuine seruice or no 29 Whether haue you in your Parish Church or Chappell the booke of common Praier with the newe Kallēder two Psalters the great English Bible the two Volumes of Homilies the Paraphrase of Erasmus in English the Table of the Ten commaundements whole and vntorne the Table of degrees of Consanguinity and Affinity a conuenient Pulpit a decent Communion Table on a frame a Linnen Cloth to couer the same with some other couering of silke or such like a Communion Cuppe a couer of Siluer a decent Surples with sleeues a sure Coffer with two lockes for the Register booke a strong Chest for the Almes Boxe with three lockes thereunto all other things necessary to the Premisses 30 Whether doth your Parson Vicar Curate or Minister weare any Cope in your Parish Church or Chappell or minister the holy Communion in any Chalice heretofore vsed at Masse or in any prophane Cup or Glasse or in any other kinde of liquor then wine 31 Whether are all Altars taken downe to the very foundation and the place whited and paued vnderneath and the Roode-lofte downe to the Cros beame all superstitious bookes vsed either in the Church or otherwise defaced togither withall monuments of Superstition and Idolatry as Vestiments c. And if not in whose custody are they or any of them 32 Whether any Church-wardens since the last visitation haue suffered any vnmaried woman begotten with childe to depart their Parish before such pennance done as was enioyned 33 Whether is your Church or chappell and chauncell sufficiently repaired and churchyard decently and sufficiently fenced and kept cleane if not in whose default 34 Whether haue your churchwardens from time to time truly leuied xii pence for euery day of those who absent thēselues from church and whether hath the same beene bestowed vpon the poore as it ought or no And whether the churchwardens themselues haue absented themselues or beene negligent in their duty or in frequenting diuine seruice and whether doth you Minister ●●monish the churchwardens openly in the church after the second lesson at morning euening praier to looke to their charge in this behalfe 35 Whether haue any of your churchwardens or swornemen since the last visitation or at that time concealed any disorder or crime done in your parish or not presēted the same to be reformd 36 Whether any of your churchwardens without iust cause haue or doe delay to giue account euery yeare of