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book_n	administration_n	prayer_n	sacrament_n	2,563	5	7.2488	4	true

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A00168	Articles to be enquired of within the diocesse of Chester, in the visitation of the reuerende father in God, William Bishop of Chester in the xxij yeere of the reigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady Elizabeth &c.	Church of England. Diocese of Chester. Bishop (1579-1595 : Chaderton); Chaderton, William, 1540?-1608.	1580 (1580)	STC 10174.5; ESTC S2635	9,982	16

Articles to be enquired of within the Diocesse of Chester in the visitation of the reuerende father in GOD William Bishop of Chester In the xxij yeere of the reigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady Elizabeth c. Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes Maiestie HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE FIDES HVMILITAS Articles Church and Churchyards FIrst whether your Church Chappel or Chauncell be well and sufficiently repayred and clenly kept and the mansion house of your Parson or Vicar with the buildings thereunto belonging likewise well and sufficiently repayred and your Churchyard well fensed and clenly kept And if any default be made in the premisses or your sayde Church Chappell or Churchyarde be abused or prophaned by any vnlawfull or vnseemely acte game or exercise as by Lordes of misrule Summer lordes or ladies Pipers Rushebearers Moricedancers Pedlers Bearewardes and such like Then through whose default and what be the names of the offenders in that behalfe Waxe 2 Whether any man hath pulled downe or discouered any Church Chauncell or Chappell or any part of any of them any church Porche Vestry or Steeple Almeshouse Churchhouse or such like or haue pulled downe any belles or haue felled or spoiled any wood or tymber in any churchyardes The benefice 3 Whether your parish church be now vacant or destitute of an incumbent or no Whether any Chappell where diuine seruice hath accustomed to be said vsually be without a Curate or no And if they be how long haue they bene so and who is the Patrone and who occupieth the parsonage or vicarage house with the glebe lande and taketh other the tythes and commodities belonging to the same The parsonage 4 Whether any vitailing tippling or ale selling be kept or vsed within the mansion house of any parson or vicar Necessary ornaments 5 Whether you haue in your churche or chappell all thinges necessary and requisite for common prayer and 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 both first and second tome Erasmus Paraphrasis translated into English or for want thereof Marlorates exposition vpon S. Matthewes Gospell A comely and decent table standing on a frame for the Communion table with a faire linnen cloth to lay vpon the same and some couering of silke buckram or other such like for the cleane keeping thereof a faire and comely communion cuppe of syluer and a couer of siluer for the same a comely large surples with wyde sleeues A sure coffer with two lockes and keyes for keeping of the Register booke and all other things necessary for the premisses with a comely pulpit conueniently placed and also a chest or box for the poore Altars defaced 6 Whether in your churches and chappels all altars be vtterly taken downe and cleane remoued euen vnto the foundatiō and the place where they stoode paued and the wall whereunto they ioyned whyted ouer and made vniforme with the rest so as no breach or rupture appeare And whether your Roode loftes be taken downe and altered so that the vpper partes thereof with the soller or lofte be quite taken downe vnto the crosse beame that the said beame haue some conuenient creast put vpon the same Implements vnlawfull 7 Whether all and euery Antiphoners Masse bookes Grailes portesses processionals manuals legendaries and all other bookes of late belonging to your church or chappel which serued for the supersticious Latine seruice be vtterly defaced rent and abolished and if they be not through whose default that is and in whose keeping they remaine And whether all vestimentes albes tunicles stoles phanons pixes paxes handbels sacringbelles censers chrismatories crosses candlestickes holy waterstickes Images and such other reliques and monuments of superstition and idolatrie bee vtterly defaced broken and destroyed And if not where and in whose custody they remaine Seruice 8 Whether common prayer be vsed in your church or chappell vpon Sondayes and holy dayes at conuenient houres reuerently distinctly and in such order without any kinde of alteration as is appointed by the booke of common prayer and the lawes of this Realme And whether your Minister so turne him selfe and stande in such place of your church or chauncell as the people may best heare the same And whether your Parson or Vicar do once euery quarter at the least in his owne proper person saye diuine seruice and administer the Sacramentes wearing a surplesse according vnto the Queenes Iniunctions and the lawes of this Realme And whether the holy Sacramentes be duely and reuerently ministred in such maner as is set foorth by the same booke And whether your Minister at al times vpon Sundayes and holy dayes do we are in time of diuine seruice administration of the Sacraments the surplisse 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 Preaching 9 Whether your Parson or Vicar be a preacher allowed and hath preached or caused to be preached foure sermons at the least euery yeere in your church and what bee the names of him or those that so did preache and whether they were lawfully licensed so to preache if any other then your Parson or Vicar did preache the same And whether if there be no Sermon your Minister do reade for the most part euery sunday distinctly and plainely some part of the Homilies appointed to be read and the Queenes Iniunctions euery quarter of a yeere or no Catechisme 10 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate do euery Sundaye and holy daye openly in the Church call for heare and instruct all the children apprentises and seruantes of both sexes that be of conuenient age within your parish or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serue and as hee may well heare and instruct for halfe an houre at the least before or at the euening prayer in the tenne Commandements the Articles of the beliefe and the Lordes prayer and diligently examine and teache them the Catechisme as it is nowe last allowed and set forth And whether for that purpose doth hee take the names of them all and by course call certaine of them by name euery sunday and holy daye to come to learne the same Catechisme Superstition innouation 11 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate or any other within your Parish be a fauourer of the Romish church or religion or hath or doth mainteine or teache and doctrine contrarie or repugnant to any of the Articles agreed vpon by the Clergie in the conuocation holden at London An. Dom. 1562. And whether they haue publikely or secretly taught and doctrine tending to the discredit and dispraise either of the booke of Common prayer or of the Preachers and Ministers of the word and sacraments or of the receiued order for