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B07665	Articles to be inquired of, in the metropoliticall visitation of the most Reuerend Father in God, Richard, by the prouidence of God, Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke, primate of England, and metropolitane. In the yeere of our Lord God, 1633..	Church of England. Province of York. Archbishop (1631-1640 : Neile); Neile, Richard, 1562-1640.	1633 (1633)	STC 10380; ESTC S92473	10,368	17

ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF In the Metropoliticall Visitation of the most Reuerend Father in God RICHARD by the prouidence of God Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke Primate of England and Metropolitane Jn the yeere of our Lord God 1633. LONDON Printed by John Norton 1633. The Aduertisement THe Minister and Church-wardens are to call vnto them the Neyghbours of the Parish and out of them to make choyce according to the custome of the place of two of the discreetest parishioners to bee Side-men and they altogether are to reade ouer these Articles diuers times Then after they haue duely considered of them they are to write their answere or presentment vnto euery Article particularly and truly according to their consciences Lastly they are all of them to bring their presentments to the Visitation and there the Church-wardens and Side-men vpon their oathes but the Minister according to the Canon in that behalfe are to deliuer them vp vnder their hands The oath to be ministred to the Church-wardens Sworne-men YOu shall sweare that all affection fauour hatred hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set aside You shal vpon due consideration of the Articles giuen you in charge present all and euery such person of or within your parish as hath committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected and defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shall deliuer vprightly and according to truth neyther of malice presenting any contrary to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and so conceale the truth hauing in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to mayntaine truth and to suppresse vice so helpe you God and the contents of this Booke Touching the Church Church-yard Parsonage and Vicarage-house FIrst whether your Church Chappell and Chancell bee well and sufficiently repaired in the walls and roofe the Seats conuenient the floore paued the windowes glazed your Bells in tune and all these cleanely kept and the mansion-house of your Parson or Vicar with the building thereunto belonging bee likewise well and sufficiently repayred and your Church-yard well fenced with walls rayles or payles and cleanely kept 2 Whether hath your Church or Church-yard beene abused and prophaned by any fighting chiding brawling or quarrelling any playes Lords of misrule summer Lords morris-dancers pedlers bowlers bearewards butchers feasts schooles temporall courts or Leets Lay Iuries musters or other prophane vsage in your Church or Church-yard any bells superstitiously rung on holidayes or their eeues or at any other time without good cause allowed by the Minister and Church-wardens haue any trees beene felled in your Church-yard and by whom 3 Whether are your Almes-houses and Church-house sufficiently repayred mayntaned and to godly and their right vse imployed 4 Whether haue you in your Church all things necessary for common prayer as the Bible in the largest volume the booke of common Prayer lately authorized by his Maiesty the booke of Homilies allowed two books of common prayer a conuenient Pulpit for the preaching a decent seat for the Minister to reade Seruice in conueniently placed a strong chest with three lockes and keyes one for the Minister the other for the Church wardens for the keeping of the Register booke of the Christnings Marriages and Burials and a poore mans boxe with three locks conueniently seated neere the Church doore 5 Whether have you in your Church a font of stone for baptisme set in the ancient vsuall place a decent table for the communion conviently placed couered with silke or other decent stuffe in time of diuine Seruice and with a faire linnen cloth ouer that at the administration of the communion 6 Whether haue you all such bells ornaments and other vtensels as haue anciently belonged to your Church a communion-cup o● siluer with a couer a fayre standing pot or two of pewter or purer metall for the wine vpon the communion table a comely Surplesse with sleeues a Register booke of parchment for christnings marriages burials a booke for the names of all christnings marriages burials a booke for the names of all strange preachers subscribed with their names and the name of the Bishop or other where they had licence 7 Whether is the Almes for the poore duely distributed and are the names and surnames of all persons married christned and buried and of their parents with the day and yeere entred in your parchment Register booke 8 Whether are the ten Commandements set vp in your Church or Chappell and other chosen sentences of holy Scripture vpon the walls in conuenient places and the table of the degrees prohibited in marriage set forth 1563 9 Whether haue you in your Church or Chappell the booke of the Canons agreed vpon in the conuocation holden at London Anno Dom 1603. and confirmed by his Maiesties royall authority and whether your Minister haue read the same in your Church or Chappell once euery yeere according to his Maiesties Iniunctions in that behalfe Touching the Ministery Seruice and Sacraments VVHether is the common prayer said or sung by your Minister both morning euening distinctly and reuerently euery Sunday and Holiday and on there eeues and at conuenient and vsuall times of those daies and in most conuenient place of the Church for the edifying of the people 2 Whether doth your Minister obserue the orders rites ceremonies prescribed in the booke of common prayer in reading holy Scriptures prayers administration of the Sacraments without diminishing in regard of preaching or any other respect or adding any thing in the manner or forme thereof 3 Whether doth your Ministér on wednesdaies and fridaies not being holidaies at the accustomed houres of seruice resort to the Church and say the ordinary prayers and Letany prescribed And doth your Clarke or Sexton giue warning before by tolling of a bell on those daies 4 Whether any Minister leauing the vse of the Font doe in your Church or Chappell christen or baptize in any Basons or other profane vessells or whether your Minister do baptize or christen any out af the face of the Church Congregation without speciall cause or without Godfathers or Godmothers And whether any person or persons be admitted to answere as Godfathers Godmothers at the christning of any childe except he or she haue before receiued the holy communion And whether doth your Minister in the baptizing of children obserue the orders rites ceremonies appointed prescribed in the booke of common prayer without addition omission or other innouation 5 Whether doe you know any Parents that keepe children vnchristened or that were not christened at their owne Parish Church or Chappell for what cause they remaine yet vnchristened or haue not beene christned at their Parish Church or Chappell or do you know haue heard or vehemently suspect any parents whose children haue beene christned by any Popish Priest or otherwise than by the

into the Church or Church-yard or to Church any woman hauing had conuenient warning thereof 28 Whether hath your Minister being truely informed of the danger of death of any infant vnbaptized and being desired to go to the place where the child is to baptize it neglected to go by meanes whereof the child hath dyed vnbaptized 29 Whether doth your Minister at any time preach or administer the communion in any priuate house except when they are so impotent that they cannot goe to Church or very danger ously sicke 30 Whether doe any Chaplens in your parish preach or administer the Sacrament in any Chappell not consecrated or in any house hauing no Chappoll allowed by Law and doe the Lords and Masters where such Chappels are resort often to the Parish-church and there receiue the Communion once at the least euery yeere 31 Whether hath your Minister held or appointed any publike fast not appointed by Authority or beene present at such doth he or any other in your Parish hold any lecture or exercise or attempt by fasting or prayer or otherwise to cast out any Deuils without the priuity and allowance of the Bishop vnder his hand and seale 32 Whether hath there beene any secret Conuenticles or meetings in your Parish by any priests ministers or others tending to the deprauing of the forme of prayer doctrine or gouernment of the Church 33 Whether doth your Minister weare decent apparell doth he in publike goe in his Doublet and Hose without a Coate or Cassocke or Cloake and doth he weare any vnseemely light-coloured apparell or stockings 34 Whether doth your Minister make accustomed resort to any Tauerns or Ale-houses except for his honest necessities or doth hee boord or lodge in any such place doth he vse any base or seruile labour or frequent drinking riot dice cards tables or any other vnlawfull games is he contentious with his neighbours or a hunter hawker swearer dancer vsurer suspected of incontinency or doth giue euill example of life 35 Whether is there in your Parish any Minister or Deacon who hath forsaken his calling vsing himselfe in his course of life as a meere Lay man 36 Whether is his Maiesties declaration lately published for quieting and silencing the controuersies lately stirred vp to the disturbance of our Church with new questions strictly obserued by your Parson Vicar or Curate or whomsoeuer else preacheth in your Church 37 Whether doth your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer catechize the youth of the Parish in your Church euery Sunday after dinner by question and answere and apply his afternoone preaching and exhortation to the instructing and edifying of the congregation in that kind of catechizing 38 Whether haue you in your parish any weekeday Lecture or not And if you haue by whom is the same performed whether by one particular man thereto licensed or by sundry neighbour Ministers and whether are the publike prayers alwaies read before such lecture and sermons in his surplesse and hood according to his Maiesties instructions lately set forth 39 Whether are there any within your parish vnder the degree of Noblemen and men qualified by law who doe keepe any priuate Chaplaines in their houses Touching Ecclesiasticall Courts FIrst whether the Chancellor Commissaries or any other vsing Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction in this Diocesse their Registers or Actuaries Apparitors or Sumners haue at any time beene corrupt in their places or taken any excessiue fees or winked at suffred any Adulteries Fornications Incests or other faults or offences to passe remaine vnpunished vncorrected or haue commuted any penance without speciall licence of the Bishop 2 Whether doe you know that there hath beene any commutation of penance allowed of by the Ordinary in your parish and whether hath your Minister publikely signified it to his Congregation what summes of money haue therefore beene payd and whether haue the sayd sùmmes of money or part thereof beene distributed by your Minister and Church-wardens to the poore or otherwise imployed to some such godly charitable vse as was prescribed by the Ordinary 3 Whether doe you know any housholder or other person whatsoeuer within your parish or Chappelry that is deceased that hath made his last Will and Testament and the same not hitherto beene proued nor administration taken from the Ordinary or other Iudge competent 4 Whether hath your Chancellor Commissary or other exercising Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction heard any matter of office priuately in their chamber without their sworne Registers or their Deputies presence or in their absence of such other person as the Law doth allow for an actuary in such a case Touching Schoole-masters FIrst whether haue you in your Parish any Schoole-master who teacheth eyther in publike Schoole or priuate house whether is he reputed to be of sound Fayth and Religion doth he resort duely to Church and receiue the Communion or doth he giue any euill example of life is hee allowed by the Ordinary vnder his hand and seale or doth your Minister or Curate teach and is he allowed in like manner 2 Whether doth your Minister or Schoole-master who teacheth the Catechisme by Authority set forth doth he when there is any Sermon or diuine Seruice bring his schollers to Church and see them quietly and reuerently ordered doth hee examine them after their returne what they haue learned of the Sermon 3 Whether doth he at other times teach them such sentences of holy Scripture as may induce them to all godlinesse doth he teach the Grammar set forth by King Henry the eight continued by King Edward the sixt and Queene Elizabeth 4 Whether hath your Schoole-master an Vsher vnder him are they both diligent is your Vsher allowed by the Ordinary doth your Schoolemaster direct his Vsher the forme manner of teaching and doth hee weekely take account of him and the Schollers vnder his charge how they haue profited and what they haue learned and out of what Authors 5 Whether hath eyther of them spoken writ or taught against any thing whereunto hee formerly subscribed as the Kings Supremacy the Articles of Religion Booke of Common prayer or any thing therein contained Touching the Parish Clarke and Sexton FIrst whether haue you a parish Clarke appointed by the Minister sufficient for his place of the age of twenty yeeres at the least is he of honest conuersation can he read write sing is he diligent in his office and seruiceable to his Minister in the time of diuine Seruice and otherwise 2 Whether doth your Clarke meddle with any thing aboue his office as Churching of women burying the dead reading of prayers or such like 3 Whether doth your Clarke or Sexton keepe your Church cleane the dores safe locked is any thing by his default lost or spoyled in the Church doth hee suffer any vntimely ringing or any prophane exercise to be committed in your Church 4 Whether doth your Clarke or Sexton when any is passing out of this life neglect to toll a bell hauing notice