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A00186	Articles ecclesiasticall to be inquired of by the churchwardens and the sworne-men within the dioces of Hereford in the first visitation of the reuerend father in God, Harbart Bishop of the said dioces: this present yeare M. D.LXXXVI. and in the XXVIII. yeare of the raigne of our most gracious soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth, &c. And so hereafter, till the next visitation, & from titme to time to be presented.; Visitation articles. 1586	Church of England. Diocese of Hereford. Bishop (1586-1602 : Westfaling); Westfaling, Herbert, 1532?-1602.	1586 (1586)	STC 10215; ESTC S120530	8,902	18

ARTICLES ECCLESIASTICALL TO BE INQVIRED OF BY THE CHVRCHWARDENS AND THE SWORNE-MEN WITHIN THE dioces of Hereford in the first visitation of the reuerend father in God Harbart Bishop of the said dioces this present yeare M.D.LXXXVI and in the XXVIII yeare of the raigne of our most gracious soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth c. And so hereafter till the next visitation from time to time to be presented Imprinted at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes Printer to the vniuersitie ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED of in the Dioces of Hereford FIRST ye shall enquire truly present vpon your oathes takeÌ„ whether you do know of any which hath thrust himself into any functioÌ„ Ecclesiastical without ordinary calling as to say publike seruice in Church or chappell not being lawfully ordered Deacon at the least 2 Whether your Parson or Vicar be known suspected or reported to haue bought his benefice or come to it by any simoniacall compact made either by himself 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 Vicar curat or minister or anie other Priest or layman or woman doe wilfully maintain or defend any heresies false opinions or popish errors contrary to the lawes of almightie God and true doctrine by publike authoritie now set foorth in this realme and what be their names 4 Whether your Parson Vicar or curate do not say coÌ„mon prayer in your church or chappel distinctly reuereÌ„tly in such order as it is set foorth by publike authority without any kind of alteration at due conuenient hours whether your minister do not so turne himselfe stand in such place of your church or chancell as the people may best heare the same and whether the sacraments be not likewise ministred reuerently in such maner as by the lawes of this realm is appointed whether vpon wednesdayes and fridayes the Letany and other praiers appointed for the day be not said accordingly 5 Whether your Minister or any other not being licenced take vpon him to expound scripture therby omit vpon any sunday the reading of a part of an Homily at the least or vpon any other occasion do omit the same 6 Whether your Minister do not read the coÌ„mination against sinners with certaine praiers appointed at the least thrice a yeere besides the lent time and whether he doth not read the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions quarterly in the Church 7 Whether he haue preached or caused to be preached his monethly or quarterly Sermons at the least and who they be that preached them and whether he haue suffered any not licenced to preach or forbidden any that was licenced 8 Whether any notorious offender or which is out of charity or excommunicate or a stranger of an other parish be admitted to the communion by your minister or such as being aboue twentie yeres of age haue not beene able to say at the least the Lords prayer ten commandements and Articles of the beliefe or being aboue fourteen yeres vnder twenty that could not say the Catechisme whether your minister at times conuenient before he administer vnto them and namely before Easter do vse to examin his Parishioners whether they can say by heart the same which is required in this behalfe whether he marry any persons that were single before that cannot say the Catechisme 9 Whether your Ministers on euery Sunday and Holyday in the after-noone before euening prayer do not instruct all the youth within your parish of conuenient age of both sexes in the Catechisme or at the least so many of them by course as time wil serue as he may wel hear instruce for half an hour space at the least present to the Ordinary such quarterly as refuse to come to be catechised 10 Whether he do diligently visite the sick comfort them with exhortation to contribute by wil for the reliefe of the Poore as their abilitie shall serue 11 Whether he be diligent in study of the holy Scriptures for further increase in knowledge and for that purpose hath if hee bee vnder the degree of a Maister of Arte at the least the new Testament in Latine English and whether he doth daily conferre certaine Chapters thereof together vsing at vacant times such good and seemly exercises as may keepe him from sluggishnes and idlenes 12 Whether any mynister haue maried any in times forbidden by the Ecclesiasticall Lawes or without bannes thrice asked otherwise than by licence of the ordinary or hath vsed the forme of thanks giuing for a woman after childebirth being vnlawfully begotten with childe otherwise than in forme of a peninent person viz. in a white sheet or other habit prescribed by the ordinary or vpon any other day than on a Sunday or Holy-day or before sufficient caution taken that shee should not depart the Parishe till shee should performe such pennance as should be enioyned 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 and whether he or any other keep or vse any secret Conuenticles Preachings Lectures or Readings contrary to the Lawe and what be their names 14 Whether your Parson or Vicar doth not in his owne person at the Church sometimes in the Yeare both say Publike Prayers himselfe and also administer the holy Communion according to the booke of Common Praier 15 Whether your Minister vse the dayes of Perambulations accustomed and that without wearing of any Surples or any other Rite or staying at any olde Crosse and also without vsing any other Praiers than the 103. and 104. Psalmes an Homily for that purpose the Letanie and such sentences of the Scripture as are appointed by Iniunction in that behalfe 16 Whether any do serue as a Minister or Deacon not licenced vnder the Ordinaries Seale or serue twoo cures and whether any Minister comming out of an other Dioces hath not the Ordinaries letters testimoniall concerning aswell the cause of his departure as his behauiour and what stipend your Curate hath by yeere 17 Whether is your minister a peacemaker and exhorter of his Parishioners to Christian loue concord and such a one as is no sower of discorde amongst Neighbours 18 Whether your Parson or Vicar suffer his buildings or Chauncel to fall to ruine or decay and whether he or anie other haue taken away or discouered any Church Chappell 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 any spoile or waste vppon his benefice either in his timber or woods or by felling trees in the Church-yarde 19 Whether the Minister and Church-wardens according to hir Maiesties Iniunctions doe keepe well the Register book therin register al Weddings buriengs Christenings and once euery yeere exhibite a Copie thereof by Indenture to the office

of thordinaries Register and if it be not done through whose default 20 Whether your Minister hath put in vre such orders concerning Catechising of youth c. and executed all other such things as hath from time to time since the last visitation beene sent vnto him from the Ordinary as processes such like And whether he hath made any Certificats of penance orderly penitently done which hath indeed bin scoffingly or impenitently performed or els not done at all 21 Whether your Parson or Vicar hath at anie time since the thirteenth yeere of the Queenes Maiesties raigne made anie manner of lease or graunt of his Parsonage or Vicarage or anie part thereof hee being absent and not resident vpon the same to any other then to his Curate that did or doth serue his Cure in his absence 22 Whether is your Parson or Vicar absent from among you aboue eightie daies in anie one yeere in all not being lawfully qualified and dispenced withall and beeing so licenced whether is the Cure serued by an honest learned Curate whether doth hee not at the least for one month in the yere keepe hospitalitie at his liuing and also giue if his benefice be aboue twentie poundes a yeere the fortith part thereof to the Poore 23 Whether any Minister do forsake his function giue himselfe to any other trade of life then is fit or may be incident with that calling 24 Whether doth your Minister keepe any suspected womaÌ„ in his house or being not married any woman not of neere kinred vnto him or doth he liue in any tauerne or alehowse or commoÌ„ly resort thither or is he a hawker or hunter or a gamester at any game 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 Tauern or Victualing house in his Parsonage or Vicarage house 26 Whether doth your Minister vse any excessiue or vnseemely kinde of apparell not commendable in that calling 27 Whether doth the Patrone suffer the Church to lie voide without incumbent and take any the profites thereof and how long he hath so done 28 Whether the Patron haue freely bestowed the benefice without any Simony directly or indirectly betweene him the incumbent or any other And whether he doth not retaine his owne tithes or hath the benefice whereof he is Patrone or some part thereof in farme 29 Whether your Schoolemaster teaching within your Parish openly or within any Gentle-mans house be licenced thereunto by the ordinary whether doth he teach such books as be commanded to be taught and that diligently And whether is he reputed of sincere Religion and conuersation and frequenteth Diuine seruice or no 30 Whether haue you in your Parish Church or Chappel the booke of Common Praier with the new Rallender two Psalters the great English Bible the two Volumes of Homilies the Paraphrase of Erasmus in English the Table of the Ten commandements whole and vntorne 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 Cup and a couer of Siluer a decent Surplese with sleeues a sure Coffer with two lockes for the Register booke a strong Chest for the Almes Bore with three lockes thereunto and all other things requisite 31 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 32 Whether are all Altars taken downe to the very foundation and the place Whited and paued vnder-neath and the Roode-lofte downe to the Crosse-beame al superstitious books vsed either in the Church or otherwise defaced togither with all monuments of Superstition and Idolatry as Vestiments c. And if not in whose custody are they or any of them 33 Whether any Church-wardens since the laste visitation haue suffered any vnmaried woman begotten with childe to depart their Parish before such pennance done as was inioyned 34 Whether is your Church chappel or chauncell sufficiently repaired and churchyard decently and sufficiently fenced and kept cleane if not in whose default 35 Whether haue your churchwardens from time to time truly leuied xii pence for euery day of those who absent themselues 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 your Minister admonish the churchwardens opeÌ„ly in the church after the second lesson at morning and euening praier to looke to their charge in this behalfe 36 Whether haue any churchwardens or swornmen since the last visitation or inquisition or at any time concealed any disorder or crime done in your Parish or not presented the same to be reformed 37 Whether any churchwardens without iust cause delaieth to giue account euerie yeare of the church goods or detaineth any of the church goods or common stocke and whether is the stock of the poore mans boxe faithfully and indifferently distributed to the poore without any partiall affection 38 Whether any churchwardens haue continued in that office at any time aboue one yeare without a newe election 39 Whether the clerke be appointed according to the custome of your Parish whether is he obedient to the minister in such things as belong to his office vseth diligence in keeping al such things as belong to his charge decent cleane whether is he able to read distinctly to answere as appertaineth to him in the church whether is hee suffered to read any thing in the church saue the one lesson and the epistle 40 Whether when any man is passing out of this life the Bel be not touled to moue the people to pray for the sick person and whether there be any ringing for any that died out of the parish whether in the parish there be any more ringing than one short peale before an other after the buriall whether on Allsoules euen or day or any Saints euen or vpon any abrogate holidaies there be any other ringing than is vsual on coÌ„mon working dates or other than ringing to common praier or sermons that but moderate whether there be any ringing at al in time of common praier reading of homilies or of preaching 41 Whether any Lords of misrule dauncers plaiers or any other disguised persons do dance or play any vnseemly parts in the Church Church-yard or Chappel-yard or whether are there any playes or common drinking kept in church or Church-yarde who maintaine accompany such 42 Whether any person in your parish hath remained excoÌ„municated by the space of fortie daies whether any such doe intrude himselfe to diuine seruice the Sacrament or publike assemblies and who are encoragers and keepers of company with

such as so remaine excommunicate 43 Whether any holy daies or Fishdaies abrogated by authority are either by your minister bidden or by any other obserued superstitiously or any festiual daies vsed a new by any without lawfull authority 44 Whether all superiours as parents masters c. do asmuch as in them lieth to bring to the church to be catechised on holy daies Sundaies in the afternoone before euening praier their children seruants and apprentices both mankind and womankind being aboue seuen yeares of age and vnder twenty or at the least such so many as your minister shall thinke meete to be sent thither for that purpose and there diligently obediently to heare and to be ordered by the minister vntil such time as they haue learned the same Catechisme what their names be that neglect so to doe and who betwixt the saide ages cannot say the Catechisme 45 Whether there be any that refuse to come to diuine seruice in their parish Church or Chappell or doe not frequent the same or doe not being of conuenient age communicate thrice a yere at the least namely once about Easter or receiuing have not signified the same to the minister in tyme conuenient that he might examine them how they were instructed for partaking of so high mysteries and whether there bee any strangers that soiourne in your parish especially about Easter and do absent theÌ„selues from Church or any that be hinderers or deriders of true religion or of those which professe it 46 Whether there be any lay or temporall man not being within orders or any child that hath or enioyeth any benefice or spirituall promotion 47 Whether any in your Parish be suspected to resort to any Masse or other kind of seruice than is receiued by authority or to be reconciled to the Church of Rome or do goe vp downe in secretwise or disguised or that haue beene not long sithence beyond the Seas being no merchants vsing traficke or otherwise lawfully licenced 48 Whether any do pray in an vnknowen tongue or vpon beads or do any way number their praiers superstitiously or do read sel or deliuer any popish books come from beyond the seas 49 Whether any be in your parish which at time of diuine prayers do vse any iangling talking walking or other vnseemely behauior in church or churchyard or do any way disturbe coÌ„mon prayer or any part of the diuine seruice or do vse any game or pastime abroad at those times or sit in the tauern or alehouse or streetes at such times or which doe worke on Sundaies any handicraft worke or which keepe open any shoppes for sale of wares til euening praier be finished or which depart before praiers bee finished or coÌ„meth late without cause sufficient or which be brawlers or fighters in the church or churchyard 50 Whether any in your parish be knowen or suspected to vse any witchcraft or sorcerie charme inchantment or vnlawful inuocation and namely Midwiues at the labor of women or any who do take vpon them to tel destinies or to guide men to things lost or any that resorteth vnto such for helpe counsaile or finally any blasphemers of the name of God or swearers among you 51 Whether any be known or suspected to be adulterers fornicators incestuous persons bawdes or recettors of incontinent persons into their houses or which conuey or suffer them to goe away before they do make satisfaction to the congregation offended any drunkards ribalds malicious contentious and vncharitable persons common slaunderers raylers scoulders or sowers of discord amongst you 52 Whether any childe being born since the 13. yeare of the Queenes Maiesties raigne hath not been brought to be baptised to your parish church but hath beene baptised at home or their baptisme differred 53 Whether your hospitales spittles almes-houses be well godly vsed according to the fouÌ„datioÌ„ ancient ordinaÌ„ces of the same Whether there be any other placed in theÌ„ then poore impotent needy persons that haue not whereby or wherwith to liue 54 Whether there be any man that hath or hath had at one time two wiues or a woman two husbandes any maried within degrees of consanguinity or affinity set foorth in a table for that purpose any diuorced keeping company stil togither any maried without the degrees forbidden which without law haue forsaken their wiues or husbaÌ„ds or liue not togither any maried that haue made precoÌ„tracts to other any that haue made priuy contracts or maried without consent of their parents or gouernors any maried without bannes thrise solemnly asked or out of the parish church where the solemnization ought to haue been without the Ordinaries licence vnder his seale 55 Whether there be any that directly or indirectly do take any vsury or interest who they be what is the maner of their vsury 56 Whether any set downe in the last will and testament of any as executors do presume to execute or deal with the deads goods before the wil be proued or any presume to administer before administration committed vnto them any hinderers of the performance of such wil any forgers or changers of wils or any executors which haue not fulfilled their testators will especially in not paying legacies giuen to good and godly vses 57 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate churchwardens swornemen euery of them certifie in writing vnder their handes seales to their Ordinary of the Dioces or his Vicar general the names surnames of al those persons that absent theÌ„selues froÌ„ hearing the diuine seruice coÌ„trary to hir Maiesties lawes according to the iniunction giueÌ„ in that behalf quarterly to be made or at the leastwise in time coÌ„uenieÌ„t before ech the assises or quarter sessioÌ„s to be holdeÌ„ wtin the said dioces of Hereford 58 Whether do you know or haue you hard of any man or woman that hath practized or doth practise Phisicke or surgery within this dioces of Hereford not being licenced so to doe by thordinary of the same vnder his hand and seale according to the Statute in that case prouided what is his or her name which doth or hath so done 59 Whether the Archdeacon Chauncelor Commissarie Official or any other vsing ecclesiastical iurisdiction in this dioces their registrars or arctuaries apparitors or summoners haue at any time wincked at suffered any adulteries fornications incestes or other faults offences to passe remaine vnpunished vncorrected for mony rewards bribes pleasure friendship or any other partiall or affectionate respect or any of them haue bin burdensome to any in this dioces by exacting or taking excessiue fees excessiue procurations any rewards or commodities by the way of promotion gift contribution help redemptioÌ„ of penance omission of quarter sermons obteining of any benefices or office or any other like waies or meanes 60 How many Adulteries Incests and Fornications are notoriously knowen to haue bin committed in your Parish since Easter 1585. how many offendors in

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