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A00267	Iniunctions giuen by the most reuerende father in Christ, Edmonde by the prouidence of God, Archbishop of Yorke primate of England, and Metropolitane, in his Metropoliticall visitation of the prouince of Yorke, aswell to the clergie, as to the laytie of the same prouince. Anno do. 1571.; Visitation articles. 1571	Church of England. Province of York. Archbishop (1570-1576 : Grindal); Grindal, Edmund, 1519?-1583.	1571 (1571)	STC 10375; ESTC S111863	27,196	46

Iniunctions Giuen by the most reuerende father in Christ Edmonde by the prouidence of God Archbishop of Yorke primate of England and Metropolitane in his Metropoliticall visitation of the Prouince of Yorke aswell to the Clergie as to the Laytie of the same Prouince Anno do 1571. Imprinted at London by William Seres Cum priuilegio Iniunctions giuen by the most Reuerende Father in Christ Edmonde by the prouidence of God Archebishop of Yorke c. ❧ For the Clergie INPRIMIS you must trauel diligently and painefully to set forth Gods true religion and adourne the same with example of godly life being circumspect that you offende no man eyther by light behauiour or by light apparell 2 Item vpon euery Sunday and Holyday yee shall in your Churche or Chappell at conuenient howers reuerently and distinctly say or sing the Common prayer appointed by the lawes of this Realme both in the forenoone and afternoone standing in a pulpit or seate appointed for that purpose and so turnyng your face towards the people as they may best heare the same and vpon euery Wednesday and Friday in the forenoone not beyng holy day ye shall in like manner saie the Letanie and other Praiers appointed for the daie and likewise the euenyng Praier euery Saterday holy Euen and shall also at all times requisite and conuenient duely and reuerently minister the two holy Sacraments that is to say Baptisme and the Lordes Supper commonly called the holy Communion accordyng to such order as is set forth in the booke of Common prayer and administration of the Sacramentes 3 Item ye shall minister the holy Communion euery moneth ones at the least in euery of your Churches Chappels where ministration of the Sacramentes is permitted And to the intent that the people may better vnderstande theyr dueties and come the better prepared to the holy Communion ye shall monethly exhort your Parishioners to come to the same and alwaies giue them warnyng therof the next Sunday before yée ministre the same declaring vnto them that by the lawes of this Realme euery person of conuenient age is bound to receiue the holy Communion at the least thrée times in the yéere and namely at Easter for ones 4 Item that at all times when yée minister the holy Sacramentes and vpon Sundaies and other holy daies when ye say the Common prayer and other diuine seruice in your Parishe Churches and Chappelles and likewise at all Mariages Burials ye shal when ye minister weare a cleane and decent surples with large sléeues and shall Minister the Holy communion in no challice nor any prophane cup or glasse but in a Communion cup of Siluer and with a couer of Siluer appointed also for the ministration of the Communion bread ye shall not deliuer the Communion bread vnto the people into their mouthes but into their handes nor shall vse at the Ministration of the communion any gestures rites or Ceremonies not appointed by the booke of Common prayer as crossinge or breathing ouer the Sacramentall ▪ bread and Wine nor any shewing or liftinge vp of the same to the people to be by them worshipped and adored nor any such like nor shall vse any Oile or Chrisme Tapers Spattle or any other Popishe ceremony in the ministration of the Sacrament of Baptisme 5 Item ye shall euery Sunday and Holy day openly in your Church or chappell call for heare and instructe the children and seruantes both menkinde and womenkinde that be of conuenient age within your Parishe at the least so many of them at once by course as the time will serue and as you may well heare and instruct for an hower at the least before Euening praier in the ten commaundementes the articles of the Beliefe and the Lordes prayer in Englishe and diligently examine and teache them the Catechisme set forth in the booke of Common prayer And to thintent this thinge may be more effectually executed ye shall take the names of all the children yong men maydens and seruantes in your Parishe that be aboue six yeres of age and vnder twentie which can not say the Cathechisme shall call by course certaine of them by name eeuery Sunday and euery Holy day to come to the Catechisme whereby you may easily note and obserue what Parentes or Maisters be negligent in sending their children and seruantes to be instructed and take occasion thereof both priuately and openly to exhorte them to sende their youth as they are appointed and shall present the refusers to the ordinarie 6 Item you shall not admitte to the receiuing of the holy Communion any of your Parish which be openly knowen to liue in any notorious sinne as Incest Adulterie Fornication Drunkennes much Swearing Bawderie Usurie or suche like without dewe penaunce firste donne to the satisfaction of the congregation nor any malicious person that is out of Charitie or that hath done open wrong to his neighbour by woorde or déede without dewe reconciliation firste made to the partie that is wronged or maliced 7 Item you shall not admitte to the holy Communion any of your Parishe men or women being aboue fower and twentie yéeres of age that can not say by heart at the least the tenne Commaundementes the articles of the Faith and the Lordes praier in English nor any being fouretene yéeres and aboue and vnder fower and twentie yéeres of age that can not say by harte the Catechisme that is set forth in the saide booke of common Praier 8 Item for that purpose ye shal before Easter and al other times of the yeare when the holy Communion is to be by you ministred giue warning before vnto your Parishioners to come vnto you either in the afternoone of some Sunday or holy daie or the daie before they purpose to receiue or at some other times before as necessitie shall cause you to appointe if there be any multitude or if the numbre be but small in the morning at the farthest before they shall receiue so that it be before the beginning of Morning prayer so many of them as intende to receiue not onely to signifie vnto you their names to the intent ye may kéepe a Register or note of all suche persons as from time to time shall communicate but also to be by you examined whether they can saie by heart the tenne commaundementes the Articles of the Faith the Lordes prayer and the Catechisme according as after the diuersitie of their ages is aboue required and such of them as either can not or will not recite the same by harte vnto you ye shall repell and put backe from the holy Communion vntill they shall be able willing to learne and can by harte recite the same vnto you for your better assistance wherin ye shall call vpon and require the Churchwardens and Sworne men of your Parishe to be present one of them at the least at euery such examination to thintent they may helpe to put this good order in practise and ye shall take

Parishioners to contribute and giue towardes the reliefe of the Poore as they may well spare and specially when ye visite them that be sicke and make their Testamentes and for your owne partes also ye shall charitably relieue the Poore to your habilitie 22 Item ye shall daily reade at the least one chapter of the Old Testament and an other of the Newe with good aduisement and such of you as be vnder the degrée of a maister of Arte shall prouide and haue of your owne according to the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions at the least the New Testament both in Latine and English conferring the one with the other euery daie one Chapter thereof at the least so that vpon the examination of the Archedeacon Commissary or their Officers in Synodes and Uisitations or at other appointed times it may appeare how ye profite in the studie of holy Scripture 23 Item ye shall not kéepe or suffer to be kept in your personage or Uicaridge houses any Alehouses Tipling Houses or Tauerns nor shal sell Ale Béere or Wine nor any of you shal kéepe any suspected woman in your house or be an incontinent liuer giuen to Drunkennesse or Idlenesse nor any of you beyng vnmaried shall kéepe in your house any woman vnder the age of thréescore yéeres excepte shée be your Daughter by former Mariage or be your Mother Aunte Sister or Niece and such an one as ye shall kéepe shal be of good name and fame nor any of you shal be a haunter of Tauernes Alehouses or suspected places or a Hunter Hawker Dicer Carder Tabler Swearer or otherwise giue any euill example of life but contrarywise at all times when ye shall haue leysure ye shal heare or reade some parte of holy Scripture or some other good Authours or shall occupie your selues with some other honest studie or exercise oftentimes giue your selues to earnest praier and shal be diligent in visiting the sicke comforting of them 24 Item you shall exhorte your Parishioners to obedience towardes their Prince and all other that be in authoritie and to charitie and mutuall loue amongst themselues helping to reconcile thē which shall happen to be at variance at any time and if ye can not Preache ye shall teache children to reade to write to know their dueties towards God their Prince Parentes and all others and by all meanes ye can ye shall endeuour your selues to profite the Common Wealth hauing alwaies in minde that ye ought to excell all other in puritie of life and should be examples to the people to liue well and Christianly not giuing any way iuste cause of offence 25 Item all Proprietaries Parsons Uicars and Clerkes hauing Churches or Chappels within this prouince shall cause the Chauncels or Quéeres of their Churches or Chappels to be from time to time accordinge to the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions in that behalfe sufficiently repaired and mainteined in good estate and all Parsons Uicars and other Clerkes hauing Mansion houses belonging to their promocions shall likewise repaire and kéepe the same in good estate and vpon the same Chauncels or Quéeres and Mansion houses with buildinges therevnto belonging being in decaye shall yéerely bestowe according to the same Iniunctions the fift parte of that their benefice till they be fully repayred and being repaired shall mainteine the same in good estate and order ▪ ¶ For the Laytie FIrst wée doe enioyne and straitly commaunde that from hencefoorth no parish Clerke nor any other parson not being ordered at the least for a Deacon shall presume to solemnize Matrimonie or to Minister the Sacrament of Baptisme or to deliuer to the Communicantes the Lordes Cuppe at the celebration of the holy Communion And that no person not being a Minister Deacon or at the least tollerated by the Ordinarie in writing doe attempt to supplie thoffice of the Minister in saying of Diuine seruice openly in any Church or Chappell 2 Item to thintent that the people may the better heare the Morninge and Eueninge Prayer when the same by the Minister is saide be the more edified thereby we doe enioyne that the Churchwardens of euery parishe in places aswell exempt as not exempt at the charges of the Parishe shall procure a decent low Pulpit to be erected and made in the body of the Church out of hande wherein the Minister shall stande with his face towardes the people when he readeth Morninge and Euening prayer Prouided alwaies that where the Churches are very small it shall suffise that the Minister stande in his accustomed stall in the Quéere So that a conuenient deske or lecterne with a rowme to turne his face towardes the people be there prouided by the saide Churchwardens at the charges of the parishe The iudgement and order whereof and also the forme and order of the Pulpit or seate aforesaide in greater Churches wée doe referre vnto the Archdeacon of the place or to his Officiall Prouided also that the prayers and other seruice appointed for the Ministration of the holy Communion be saide and done at the Commūion table except the Epistle and Gospell which shal be read in the saide pulpit or stall and also the tenne commaundementes when there is no Communion 3 Item that the Churchwardens according to the custome of euery parishe shal be chosen by the consent aswell of the Parson Uicare or Curate as of the Parishioners otherwise they shall not be Churchwardens neyther shall they continue anye lenger than one yeare in that office except perhappes they shal be chosen againe They shall not sell or alienate any Belles or other church goodes without consent of the Ordinarie in writing first had nor shal put the money that shall come of any such sale to any other vse than to the reparations of their Churches or Chappelles or for prouiding of necessaries for the same Churches or Chappels And all Churchwardens at the ende of euery yeare shall give vp to the Parson Uicare or Curate and their Parishioners a iuste accompte written in a booke to be prouided at the charges of the Parishe for that purpose of al suche money ornamentes stocke rentes or other Churche goodes as they haue receiued during the time they were in office and also shall particulerly shewe what coste they haue bestowed in reparations other thinges for the vse of the Church And going out of their offices they shall truely deliuer vp in the sight of the Parishioners to the next Churchwardens and note in the saide Churche booke whatsoeuer money ornamentes stocke or other Church goodes shall remaine and be in their handes at the time of giuing vp of their accomptes 4 Item that the Churchwardens in euery Parishe shall at the costes and charges of the Parishe prouide if the same be not already prouided all thinges necessary requisite for common Prayer and Administration of the holy Sacramentes on this side the .xx. day of next ensuyng specially the booke of Common prayer with the newe Kalender and a Psalter to the

raigne of our most gracious soueraigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God Quéene of England Fraunce and Irelande defender of the fayth c. ¶ Imprinted at London by William Seres Anno. 1571. Articles to be enquired of within the prouince of Yorke in the Metropoliticall visitation of the most reuerent father in God Edmond Archebishop of Yorke Primate and Metropolitane of England WHether common prayer be song or sayde by your person Uicar or Curate in your seuerall Churches or Chappels distinctly and reuerently in such order as it is set forth by the lawes of this Realme without any kinde of alteration and at due and conuenient houres 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 holye Sacraments be likewyse ministred reuerently in such maner as by the lawes of this realme is appoynted And whether vpon Wednesdayes and Fridayes not béeing holydayes the Letanie and other prayers appoynted for the day be sayde accordingly 2 Whether you haue in your parish Churches and Chappels all things necessary and requisite for common prayer ▪ and administration of the Sacraments specially the Booke of common prayer with the newe kalender a Psalter the Englishe Bible in the largiest volume the two Tomes of the Homelyes the Paraphrases of Erasmus translated into Englishe the table of the ten cōmaundements a conuenient Pulpit well placed a comely and decent table standing on a frame for the holy Communion with a fayre lynnen cloth to lay vpon the same and some couering 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 also for the ministration of the communion bread a decent large surplesse with sléeues a sure Coffer with two locks keies for the kéeping of the Register booke and a strong chest or boxe for the almose of the poore with thrée locks and keyes to the same and all other things necessary in and to the premisses 3 Whether the forme of commination agaynst sinners with certaine prayers following the same set forth in the latter ende of the booke of common prayer to be vsed at diuers tymes in the yeare be by your Minister plainely and distinctly red in your Church or Chappel vnto the people betwéene the Letany and the cōmemoration or ministration of the holy cōmunion thrée times at the least in the yeare that is to say for order sake yearely vpon one of the thrée Sundayes next before Easter for the first tyme vpon one of the two Sundayes next before the feast of Pentecost for the seconde tyme And for the thirde tyme vpon one of the two Sundayes next before the feast of the birth of our Lord ouer and besides the accustomed reading therof vpon the first day of Lent 4 Whether in your churches and chappels all Aulters be vtterly taken downe and cleane remooued euen vnto the foundation and the place where they stoode paued and the wall wherevnto they ioyned whited ouer and made vniforme with the reast so as no breach or rupture appeare And whether your Roodlofts be taken downe and altered so that the vpper partes thereof with the soller or loft be quite taken downe vnto the crosse beame and that the sayde beame haue some conuenient creast put vpon the same 5 Whether your Churches and Chappels with the chauncels thereof be well and sufficiently repayred and kept without abuse of any thing And whether your churchyardes be well fensed and clenly kept And if any part thereof be in decay through whose default it is so 6 Whether all and euery Antiphonars Masse bookes Grailes Portesses Processionals Manualles Legendaryes and all other bookes of late belonging to your Church or Chappell which serued for the supersticious Latine seruice be vtterly defaced rent and abholished and if they be not through whose default that is and in whose kéeping they remaine And whether all Uestments Albes Tunicles Stoles Phanons Pixes Paxes Handbelles Sacringbelles Senseres Crismatories Crosses Candlestickes Holy water stocks Images and such other reliques and monuments of superstition and Idolatrie be vtterly defaced broken and destroied And if not where in whose custodie they remaine 7 Whether your person vicar curate or minister doe weare any cope in your Parish church or chappell or minister the holy Communion in any Chalice heretofore vsed at Masse or in anye prophane cuppe or glasse or vse at the ministration thereof anye gestures rites or ceremonies not appoynted by the booke of common prayer as crossing or breathing ouer the sacramentall bread and wine or shewing the same to the people to be worshipped and adored or any such lyke of vse any Oyle and Chrisme Tapers spattle or any other Popish ceremonie in the ministration of the Sacrament of Baptisme 8 Whether any holy dayes or fasting dayes heretofore abrogated or not appoynted to be vsed as holy daies or fasting daies by the newe Kalender of the booke of common prayer be eyther proclaymed and bidden by your Person Uicar or Curate or be superstitiously obserued by any of your parish and what be their names that so doe obserue the same and whether there be anye ringing or tolling of Belles to call the people togither vsed in any of those dayes more or otherwise then commonly is vsed vpon other dayes that be kept as workedayes 9 Whether when anye man or woman is in passing out of this lyfe the Bell be tolled to mooue the people to pray for the sicke person especially in all places where the sicke person dwelleth néere vnto the Church and whether after the time of his or hir passing out of this worlde there be any more ringing but one short peale before the buriall and another short peale after the buriall without any other superfluous or supersticious ringing And whether on all Saintes daye after Euening praier there be any ringing at all or any other supersticious ceremonie vsed tending to the maintenaunce of Popishe purgatorie or of prayer for the deade and who they be that vse the same And whether there be any ringing or knolling of belles on sundayes or holy dayes betwene morning prayer and the Letanie or in any time of the common prayer reading of the Homelies or of preaching except one Bell in conuenient time to be rong or tolled before the Sermon or any other ringing vsed vpon Saintes éeues or festiuall dayes sauing to common prayer and that without excesse and who doth ring or knolle otherwise 10 Whether your Person or Uicar haue preached or cause to be duely preached in your Church his quarterly or monethly Sermons as by the Quéenes Iniunctions he is bounde and what be the names of such as haue preached for him and whether he hath admitted any man to preach not hauing sufficient licence or hath inhibited or letted anye from preaching hauing sufficient licence 11 Whether any Person or Persons not