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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00225	Articles to be enquired of in the generall visitation of the right vvorshipfull M. Robert White, Bachelour in Divinity, Arch-deacon of Norfolke, anno Domini 163[3?]	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Norfolk.; White, Robert, Archdeacon of Norfolk.	1633 (1633)	STC 10280.3; ESTC S2642	8,422	10

The Forme of the Oath to be administred to the Church-wardens and Sworn-men YOu shall sweare that all hope of gaine feare and affection set aside you make true presentment of all such parties as have offended against these Articles or are vehemently suspected famed or reported so to have offended So helpe you God and the Contents of the holy Gospels God save the KING Concerning the Church of England ARe there any in your Parish that being Popishly affected doe derogate from his Maiesties supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall who be they 2 Are there any in your Parish that out of factious and schismaticall spirits doe affirme that this Church of England by law established vnder the Kings Maiestie is not a true and Apostolicall Church teaching and maintaining the doctrine of the Apostles 3 Are there any in your parish that affirme that the forme of Gods worship in the Church of England established by the law and contained in the booke of Common prayer administration of Sacraments is a corrupt superstitious or vnlawfull worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures 4 Are there any in your Parish that affirme that any of the 39 Articles agreed vpon by the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of both prouinces and the whole Clergie in the Conuocation holden at London Anno Dom. 1562. are in any part superstitious or erronious or such as with good conscience they may not subscribe vnto 5 Are there any in your Parish that affirme that the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England by Law established are wicked Antichristian or superstitious or such as being commanded by lawfull authority men that are zealously and godlily affected may not with good conscience approue them vse them or subscribe vnto them 6 Are there any in your parish that affirme that the gouernment of the Church of England vnder his Maiestie by Arch-Bishops Bishops Deanes Arch-deacons and the rest that beare office in the same is Antichristian or repugnant to the word of God 7 Are there any in your parish that impugne the forme or manner of making and consecrating Bishops Priests or deacons vsed in the Church of England 8 Are there in your Parish any Schismaticall Separatists new combined brotherhoods deprauers of such as conforme themselues to the doctrine gouernment rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England or any secret maintainers and fauourers of such separatists and new brotherhoods Are there any Corner Conuenticles or any that maintaine or fauour or defend them Are there any such factious people in your parish that disliking the gouernment of the Church of England take vpon themselues the name of Church and make orders rules or other constitutions to be obserued and kept by themselues Concerning the Ministrie Service and Sacraments 1 WHether are the common Prayers said or sung by your Minister both Morning and Euening distinctly and reuerently euery sunday and holy-day and on their Eues and at couenient and vsuall times of those dayes and in most conuenient place 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 Sacraments without diminishing or adding any thing in the matter or forme thereof 3 Whether doth your Minister on wednesdayes and frydayes not being holydayes at the accustomed houres of seruice resorte to the Church and say the Letany and other prayers prescribed And doth your Clerke or Sexton giue warning before by tolling of a Bell on those dayes and doth one person of euery house repaire to the Church at those times usually and there stay according to the Cannon 4 Whether doth your Minister leauing the use of the Font Christen or baptize in any Bason or other prophane vessels doth your Minister baptize or Christen any out of the face of the Church and Congregation or at any other time then upon sundayes or holy-dayes without speciall cause or without Godfathers and God-mothers Are any persons admitted to answer as God-fathers or God-mothers at the Christning of any Child except he or she haue before receiued the Holy Communion doth your Minister in Baptizing of Children obserue the orders Rites and Ceremonies appointed in the Booke of Common prayer without addition omission or innovation 5 Doe you know any Parents that deferre the Christning of their Children or any that haue not had their Children Christned at their owne Parish Church or Chappell what is the cause that they keepe them so long vnchristned doe you know of any parents that haue had their children priuatly Baptized either by a Popish priest contrary to the Lawes of the Church of England or by an unconformable Minister omitting any part of the forme of Baptizing Children contained in the Booke of common prayer 6 Doth your Minister giue warning publikly in the Church at Morning prayer the sunday before he administreth the Communion for the better preparation of the parishioners 7 Doth your Minister as oft as he administreth the Communion first receiue it himselfe doth he use any bread or wine newly brought before the words of institution be rehearsed and the bread and wine present on the Communion table doth he not deliuer the bread and wine to euery Communicant seuerally 8 Hath your Minister admitted to the Cōmunion any that be openly knowne to liue in some notorious offence or Crime without repentance or satisfaction of the Congregatio● or who hath openly and maliciously contended with his or her Neighbours before hée or shée haue openly and charitably reconciled themselues againe and remitted all rancour and malice whatsoeuer Controuersie hath beene betweene them 9 Doth your Minister administer the Communion to any but such as knéele or doe any refuse to knéele hath he administred to any who refuse to be present at publick 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 agréed upon or the Booke of Ordering Priests and Bishops or against his Maiesties supremacy haue any béene for these causes repelled and haue they repented in writing or otherwise and what be their names 10 Hath your Minister more benefices then one if he hath how farre distant are they and whether serues he two Cures or not when he is absent hath he an allowed Preacher for his Curat 11 Hath your Church or Chappell béene destitute of a Curate and how long and by whose default hath any Curate serued or doth any Curate serue without lycence of the Ordinary 12 Doe you know any Popish Priests Seminaries Iesuits or Runnagate persons that doe preach say Masse or minister any Popish Sacraments or Ceremonies or else doe resort secretly or openly unto your parish and what be their names and unto whose houses doe they resort and of whome are they harboured and reléeued set downe their Names and Sir-names 13 Is your Parson Vicar or Curate or any other