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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00268	Articles to be enquired off, within the prouince of Yorke, in the Metropoliticall visitation of the most reuerend father in God Edwin Archbishoppe of Yorke, primate of England and Metropolitane. In the .xix. and .xx. yeare, of the raigne of our most gratious souereigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England, Fraunce and Ireland Queene, defendor of the fayth, &c. 1577. &. 1578.; Visitation articles. 1577-1578	Church of England. Province of York. Archbishop (1576-1588 : Sandys); Sandys, Edwin, 1516?-1588.	1577 (1577)	STC 10376; ESTC S111867	7,611	18

¶ ARTICLES TO BE enquired off within the prouince of Yorke in the Metropoliticall visitation of the most Reuerend Father in Go● Edwin Archbishoppe of Yorke primate of England and Metropolitane In the .xix. and .xx. yeare of the raigne of our most gratious souereigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England Fraunce and Ireland Queene defendor of the Fayth c. 1577. 1578. ¶ Imprinted at London by William Seres ¶ ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED off within the prouince of Yorke in the Metropoliticall visitation of the most reuerend Father in God Edwin Archbishoppe of Yorke Primate of England and Metropolitane In the .xix. yeare of the raigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady Elizabath by the grace of God of England Fraunce and Ireland Queene defendour of the Faith c. FIrst whether Commō praier be sayd in your church or chappel vpon the Sundaies holy dayes at conuenient houres reuerently distinctly and in such order without any kinde of alteration as is appoynted by the booke of Commō prayer And whether your Minister so turne himselfe and stande in such place of your Church or Chauncell as the people may best here the same And whether the holy Sacraments be duely and reuerently ministred in such manner as is set foorth by the same booke And whether vpon wednesdayes and Fridaies the Letany and other prayers be sayd accordingly the comminatiō against sinners redde thryce yearely 2 Whether you haue in your Church or chappell all things necessarie and requisite for common prayer administration of the holy Sacramentes specially the booke of Common prayer with the newe Kalender the Psalter the Bible of the largest volume the Homilies bothe the firste and seconde Tome a comely and decent Table standing on a frame for the Communion Table with a fayre linnen cloth to lay vpon the same and some coueringe of Silke Buckram or other such like for the cleane kéeping thereof a fayre and comely Communion Cup of Siluer and a couer of Siluer for the same which may serue for the administration of the LORDES BREAD a comely large Surples with wyde sléeues and of fine lynnen cloth for your Minister to weare all other things necessary for the premisses with a comely pulpet conueniently placed and also a Chest or Boxe for the poore 3 Whether your Person Vicar or Curate at all tymes in saying the common prayer vpon sundayes and holydayes and in administring of the Sacraments doth vse and weare the Surples yea or no or doe suffer any other to saye the common prayer or minister either of the Sacraments in your Church not wearing the same 4 Whether any Person or persons not being ordered at the least for a Deacon or lycenced by the Ordinary do saye common prayer openly in your Church or Chappell or any not being at the least a Deacon do solemnize Matrimonie or administer the Sacrament of Baptisme or deliuer vnto the communicants the Lords Cup at the celebration of the holy communion what he or they be that so do And whether the Person Vicar or Farmer of your benefice doe cause any Curate to serue your Church before he be examined and admitted by the Ordinary or his deputie in writing 5 Whether your Person Vicar or Curate hath or doth maintaine any doctrine contrary or repugnant to any of the Articles agréed vpon by the Clergie in the Conuocation holden at London Anno Domini 1562. And whether they haue publikely or secretly taught any doctrine tending to the discredit and disprayse eyther of the Booke of common prayer or of the receiued order for gouernment in the Church or make any other innouation And whether they haue permitted any man so teaching or making such innouation and what be their names 6 Whether your Person or Vicar haue any mo benefices than one how many and in what countrie be they and what are theyr names and who is the Patrone of his benefice or benefices And whether he be resident vpon his benefice and kéepe hospitalitie or no and if he be absēt whether he doth relieue his parishioners and what he giueth them and if he may dispend twenty pounde or aboue by yeare and be not resident whether he doth distribute the .xl. part of the benefice where he is not resident among the poore of the Parish or no And whether any vittaling typling or ale selling be had and kept within the mansion house of any Person or Vicar 7 Whether any person or persons be admitted to aunswere as Godfathers or Godmothers at the Christening of any childe except he or she haue before receiued the holy communion and can say by heart the Articles of the Christian faith the ten commaundements of God and the Lords prayer ▪ and will recite the same before the Minister if he or she be therevnto required 8 Whether for the retayning of the perambulation of the circuite of your parish the Minister and Clarke with the Churchwardens and certaine of the substantiall men of the parish in the dayes of Rogations walke about your parish according to the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions 9 Whether the Register booke of al Christenings Mariages and Burialls that happē in your parish from tyme to tyme be duely kept and the same Christenings Mariages and Burialls entred into the same Booke by your Minister according to the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions And whether ye haue one Coffer with two lockes for the kéeping of the same Register Booke or no 10 Whether your Person Vicar or Curate doe kéepe any suspected woman in his house or be an incontinent Person giuen to dronkennesse or idlenesse or be a haunter of Tauerns Alehouses or suspected places a Hunter Hawker Dicer Carder Tabler Swerer or otherwyse giue any euill example of lyfe And whether his apparell be comely and graue And whether he be diligent in visiting the sicke especially if he be therevnto required 11 Whether when any christiā body is in passing the Bell be tolled to moue the people to pray for the sick person especially in the greater townes where the sicke person dwelleth néere vnto the church whether after the tyme of his or hir passing out of this world ther be any more ringing but one short peale before the buriall and another short peale after the buriall And whether on all Saints day after Euening prayer there be any ringing at all in your Church or Chappell or any other superstitious ceremonies vsed tēding to the maintenāce of the popish purgatorie or praying for the dead who they be that vse or doe the same And whether there be any ringing on Sundayes or holy dayes in the seruice tyme or betwene morning prayer and the Letany or at any other times contrary to good order or lawe 12 Whether your Minister do at the least euery second Sunday euery holy day openly in the Church especially when it is fayre weather here examine and instruct the children apprentices and seruaunts of both the sexes that be of conuenient age

within your parish in the Catechisme allowed and set foorth with certaine additions or at the least so many of them by course as cannot say the same by hart and as he may well heare and instruct for an houre at the least before or after the Euening prayer And whether for that purpose he doth take the names of them all and by course call certaine of them by name euery seconde sunday and holy days to come to the teaching of the same Catechisme vntyl they haue learned the same 13 Whether all fathers mothers masters and dames of your parish cause theyr children seruaunts apprentizes both mankinde womankinde being abou● sixe yeares of age vnder twentie which have not learned the Catechisme to come to the Church on the Sundayes and holy dayes at the times to them appointed or at the least such and so many of them as your Minister shall appoint and there diligently and obediently to heare and to be ordred by the minister vntill such tyme as they haue learned the same Catechisme and what be the names of those that do not cause theyr children seruaunts and apprentices so to come to the Church to be instructed and examined and how many of the sayd children seruauntes apprentices be in your parish which being aboue seauen yeares olde vnder twentie yeares of age cannot saye by heart the sayde Catechisme and what be their names and age and with whome they dwell 14 Whether your Person or Vicar hath preached or caused to be preached foure sermons at the least euery yeare in your Church and what be the names of him or those that so did preach and whether they were lawfully licenced so to preach if any other than your Person or Vicar did preach the same and whether if ther be no Sermon your Minister do reade for the moste part euery Sunday distinctly and plainlye some part of the Homelies appointed to be reade And whether any Minister not admitted by the Ordinary do expounde any scripture or matter of doctrine by way of exhortation or otherwyse and thereby omit and leaue off the reading of the Homilies already set out 15 Whether your Minister hath admitted to the receiuing of the holy Communion any open and notorious sinner or euill liuer by whome the congregation is offended without due penance first done to the satisfaction of the cōgregation Or any malicious person that is notoriously known to be out of charitie or that hath done any open wrōg to his neighbour by word or déede without due reconciliation first made to the partie that is wronged according as is required by the Booke of common prayer 16 Whether your Minister hath admitted to the holy Communion any of his parish being aboue twenty yeares of age either mākinde or womankinde that can not say by heart the ten commaundements the articles of the fayth the Lordes prayer or being aboue twelue yeares and vnder twentie yeares of age that cannot say by heart the sayde Catechisme And whether he marry any persons which were single before that cannot saye the sayde Catechisme And whether he vseth to examine his parishioners at conuenient tymes to the intent he may know whether they can say the same which is required or no 17 Whether your Minister doe Church any vnmaryed woman after they haue bene deliuered of theyr children begotten vnlawfully before they haue acknowledged theyr faultes openly occording to the order prescribed by the Ordinarie or his deputie 18 Whether there be any in your parish man or woman being of conuenient age that hath not receiued the holy Communion thrice at the least this last yeare and namely at Easter last or ther about for once what be theyr names And for what cause they do abstayne from the holy Communion And whether yearely before Easter at conuenient tymes namely on Sundayes in Lent at afternoone or such other dayes in the wéeke next before Easter such of your parishioners as the Person Vicar or Curate shall appoint require to come vnto him do come and recite vnto him the Catechisme or at the least the Lordes prayer the articles of the christian beliefe and the ten cōmaundements by hart in English and if any so required do wilfully and stubburnely refuse to come recite the same Whether the Church-wardens and sworne men or any of them do assist the Minister therein that such stubburne persons may be rebuked and expelled from the communion at that tyme and so presented to the Ordinarie 19 Whether the people of your parishe especially householders hauing no lawfull excuse to be absent doe faithfully and diligently endeuor themselues to resorte with their children and seruants to their parish Church or Chappell on the holydayes chiefly vpon Sundaies to Morning and Euening prayer and vpon reasonable let therof to some other Church or Chappell wher common prayer is vsed and then and there abide orderly soberly during the time of common prayer Homelies preachings and other seruice of God there vsed reuerently and deuoutly giuing themselues to the hearing thereof and occupying themselues at tymes conuenient in priuate prayer and who they be that either negligētly or wilfully absēt themselues or come very late to the Church vpon Sundaies especially or that walke talke or otherwise vnreuerently behaue themselues in the Church or vse any gaming abroade or pastime in anye house or sit in the stréets or Churchyard or in any Tauerne or Alehouse vpon the Sunday or holydaye in the tyme of common prayer Sermon or reading of the Homelies either before noone or after noone 20 Whether the forfeiture of twelue pence for euery absence from common prayer appointed by a statute made in the firste yeare of the Quéenes Maiesties raigne set foorth in the beginning of the booke of common prayer hath bene leuied and taken according to the same statute by your Churchwardens of the last yeare of euery person that so hath offended and by them be put to the vse of the poore of the parish and if it be not by whose default it is not leuied and what perticular summes of money haue bene forfeyted that way and by whome since Easter in the yeare of our Lord 1575. vntill the daye of giuing vp the presentment concerning these Articles and so from time to time as the sayd Church-wardens and sworne men shall be appointed to present in this behalfe and how much of such forfeytures haue bene leuied by the Churchwardens and by them deliuered to the vse of the poore of the parishe and to whome the same hath bene deliuered 21 Whether your Church or Chappell Chauncell be sufficiētly repayred clenly kept the mansion house of your Parson Vicar with the buildings therevnto belonging likewise sufficiently repayred your Churchyarde well fenced and clenly kept and if any of the same be ruinous and in decay through whose default it is so whether the Churchwardens of the last yeare were enioyned to haue repaired any part of the