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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00010	Articles to be inquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men, in the ordinarie visitation of Lancelot Lord Bishop of Elie, within the Diocesse of Elie, Ann. 1610.	Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1609-1619 : Andrewes).; Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1610 (1610)	STC 10195; ESTC S92329	7,548	14

ARTICLES To be inquired of by the Church-wardens and sworne-men in the ordinarie visitation of the Reuerend Father in God LANCELOT Lord Bishop of ELIE within the Diocesse of Elie. Ann. 1610. AT CAMBRIDGE Printed by Cantrell Legge 1610. The tenor of the Oath of the Church wardens and sworne-men YOu shall sweare that vpon due consideration of these Articles giuen you in charge you shall present euery such person of or within your Parish as you shall know to haue committed any offence or omitted any dutie mentioned in any of these Articles or which are publikely defamed or vehemently suspected of any such offence or negligence So helpe you God by the contents of his holy Gospel Articles Touching the Church WHETHER is your Church or Chappell with the Chauncell thereof and euerie part of either of them well and sufficiently repaired the windowes well glased the floares paued plaine and euen without dust or any thing noisome or vnseemely 2. Whether is your Churchyard well fenced with walles rayles pales as hath beene accustomed if not whose default is it 3. Whether hath there beene any fighting chiding brawling or quarrelling any playes feasts temporall Courts or Leets lay Iuries musters or other prophane vsage in your Church or Churchyard any bels superstitiously rung on holy dayes or their Eeues or at any other time without good cause allowed by the Minister and Churchwardens haue any trees beene felled in your churchyard and by whom 4. Whether is the mansion house of your Parson Vicar or Curate with all the buildings thereunto belonging your Parish Almes house and Church house sufficiently repayred maintained and to godly and their right vses employed 5. Whether haue you in your church the Bible in the largest volume the book of common prayer lately authorized by his Maiestie the books of Homelies allowed the two Psalters a conuenient pulpit for the preaching a decent seat for the Minister to say seruice in conueniently placed a strong chest with an hole in the lidde and three locks and keies one for the Ministèr the other for the Churchwardens for the Almes of the poore and the keeping of the Register booke of the Christenings marriages and burials 6. Whether haue you in your Church a Font of stone for baptisme set in the auncient vsuall place a decent table for the Communion conueniently placed couered with silke or other decent stuffe in time of diuine seruice and with a faire linnen cloath ouer that at the administration of the Communion 7. Whether haue you all such bells ornaments and other vtensils as haue aunciently belonged to your Church a Communion cup of siluer with a couer a faire standing pot or stoope of pewter or purer mettall for the wine vpon the communion table a comely surplesse with sleeues a Register booke of parchment for christenings marriages and burials a booke for the names of all strange preachers subscribed with their names and the name of the Bishop or others where they had licence 8. Whether is the almes for your poore quarterly at the least distributed by you the Church-wardens and the Minister in the presence of six of the chiefe Parishioners to your poore And are weekely the names and surnames of all persons married christened and buried and of their Parents with the day and yeare entred in your said parchment booke and is euerie leafe beeing full subscribed by you the Minister and Churchwardens 9. Whether are the tenne commandements set vp in the east ende of the Church and other chosen sentences of holy Scripture vpon the wals in conuenient places are all your seates in your Church in good repaire cleanly kept conueniently placed and the Parishioners in them or elsewhere orderly set and is there no contention or striuing for any seat or place among them Touching the Ministrie Seruice and Sacraments VVHether is the common prayer said or sung by your Minister both morning and euening distinctly and reuerētly euery sonday and holy-day and on their Eues and at conuenient and vsuall times of those dayes and in most conuenient place of the Church for the edifying of the people 2. Whether doth your Minister obserue the orders rites and ceremonies prescribed in the booke of common prayer in reading the holy Scriptures prayers and administration of the Sacraments without diminishing in regard of preaching or any other respect or adding any thing in the matter or forme thereof 3. Whether doth your Minister on wednesdayes and fridayes not being holy daies at the accustomed houres of seruice resort to the church and say the Letanie prescribed and doth your clarke or Sexton giue warning before by towling of a bell on those dayes 4. Whether doth your Minister as oft as he administreth the communion first receiue it himselfe Whether doth he vse any bread or wine newly brought before the words of institution be rehearsed and the bread and wine present on the table doth he not deliuer the bread and wine to euerie communicant seuerally 5. Whether doth your Minister giue warning publikely in the church at morning prayer the Sunday before he administreth the communion for the better preparation of the parishioners 6. Whether hath your Minister admitted to the Communion any notorious sinner openly knowne or defamed or any who hath openly and maliciously contended with his Neighbour before repentance and reconciliation made and done by appointment of the Ordinarie 7. Whether hath your Minister admitted to the Communion any Church-warden or Side-man who hath wittingly and willingly neglected contrary to his oath to present any publike offence or scandall beeing mooued to present either by some of his neighbours the Minister or his Ordinarie 8. Whether hath your Minister administred the Communion to any but such as kneele or doe any refuse to kneele hath he administred to any who refuseth to be present at Publike prayer or who hath depraued the Booke of common prayer administration of the Sacraments or the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed or the Articles of Religion agreed vpon or the Booke of ordering Priests and Bishops or against his maiesties Supremacie or haue any beene for these causes repelled and haue they repented in writing or otherwise and what be their names 9. Whether hath your Minister more Benefices then one if he haue how farre distant are they how often is he absent in the yeare when he is absent hath he an allowed preacher for his Curate 10. Whether is your Minister an allowed Preacher if he be doth he euery Sunday in your Church or some other neere adioyning where no Preacher is preach one Sermon euerie Sunday 11. Whether doth your Minister beeing no Preacher allowed presume to expound the Scripture in his owne Cure or else where doth he procure euery moneth a Sermon to be preached in his Cure by Preachers lawfully licensed and on euery Sunday when there is no sermon doth he or his Curate reade some one of the homelies prescribed 12. Whether is your Curate allowed by the Ordinarie vnder his hand and seale