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A00136 Articles ecclesiastical to be enquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men within the [blank] in the visitation of the [blank] and in the ([blank] yeere of the reigne of our most dread soueraigne lord King Iames) Church of England. 1621 (1621) STC 10133.9; ESTC S421 7,466 15

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ARTICLES ECCLESIASTICAL TO be enquired of by the Church-wardens and Sworne-men within the _____ In the Visitation of the _____ And in the _____ yeere of the Reigne of our most dread Soueraigne Lord King IAMES LONDON Printed by IOHN BILL 1621. ❧ The Oath YOu shall sweare by the Name of Almighty God well and truely to execute the Office of Churchwardens and Sidemen c. That you shall diligently consider and enquire of all and euery the Articles following and make a true answere to euery of the same seuerally and distinctly in writing presenting euery person of your Parish who hath or shall in your Parish or elsewhere and euery person of any other Parish who hath or shall in your Parish commit any offence or fault mentioned in any of the said Articles or which are publikely and credibly defamed for any such offence or fault wherein you shall not vnduely present any person or persons of euill will malice or any corrupt affection nor shall for loue fauour dread or any other indirect affection spare to present any that bee offenders in any of those cases but shall doe vprightly as men hauing the feare of God before your eyes and desirous to maintaine vertue and suppresse vice So helpe you God by Christ Iesus ¶ Note you are by your said Oath to present truely what you either know of your owne knowledge or what is publikely or credibly famed and spoken touching any matter or thing contained in any Article following FIrst whether any person whatsoeuer of your Parish doth maintaine or defend any Heresies false opinions or Popish errors contrary to the word of God and the Articles of Religion established in this Realme 2 Whether any person bee an impugner or deprauer either in word or writing the of forme of Ecclesiasticall gouernement of the Church of England or of the Booke of Common prayer or the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed therein or of the Kings supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall or of the Oath of Supremacie or Allegeance 3 Whether any Parson doth reade publique Seruice in any Church or Chappell not beeing lawfully ordered Deacon at the least and licensed by the Lord Bishop or his Chauncellor 4 Whether any Parson Vicar or Curate presume to preach in their Cures or elsewhere not being licenced by the Bishop or Ordinarie 5 Whether is your Parson or Vicar knowen or probably and publikely famed or reported to haue obtained his Benefice by Simony or to let out his Liuing to farme or any part thereof to any person in consideration of any such Simoniacall compact 6 Whether haue you had a Sermon preached euery Sabbath day this last yeere in your Church if not yet how many haue you had and vpon those Sundaies that you had not a Sermon haue you had an Homely read 7 Whether hath any stranger been suffered to preach in your Church or Chappell without hauing first shewed his licence to preach vnto the Minister and Churchwardens according to the 50. Canon 8 Whether doth your Minister vpon euery Sunday and Holy day in the afternoone before euening prayer call for and instruct all the youth and ignorant persons of your Parish of both Sexes in the Catechisme and grounds of Christian Religion for halfe an houre or more 9 Whether bee there any Parents Masters or gouernours who send not their children or seruants to bee chatechized on euery Sabbath day and Holy day or any children or seruants that refuse to bee instructed or examined 10 Whether doth your Minister neglect or forsake his calling and betake himselfe to worldly affaires mercenary or manuell Trades haunt markets or intermeddle with or solicite matters of Law for other men 11 Whether doth your Minister haunt or frequent Ale-houses or Tauernes or is hee probably or publikely famed or any notorious crime or any euill example of life to the offence and scandall of his vocation 12 Whether doth your Minister vse or weare any kind of apparell which is vnseeming his calling for colour or fashion of the same or otherwise then according to the 74. Canon 13 Whether doeth your Minister at all times weare the Surplesse in the time of Diuine Seruice and administration of the Sacraments And if hee bee a Graduate whether doeth hee also vpon his Surplesse weare a hood incident to his degree 14 Whether doe you know or haue credibly and publikely heard of any within your Parish that are procurers of Schismes or maintainers of Schismatikes or which are resorters to conuenticles or congregations of the Kings Subiects other then such as by the Lawes Ecclesiasticall of this Realme are allowed 15 Whether doeth your Minister vse any other forme of Common prayer then is prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer and whether doth hee vse such directions rites and ceremonies in Seruice and the administration of the Sacraments as by the said booke are required and none other 16 Whether doeth your minister admit to the Communion any notorious adulterer fornicator or incestuous person or other great offender which hath not first done his penance or any stranger of another Parish contrary to the 28. Canon 17 Whether haue any been married within your Parish that haue not vpon the day of their marriage receiued the holy Communion or any been married in times prohibited or without banes solemnely asked three seuerall Sundayes otherwise then by licence of the Ordinary as you know or credibly and publikely haue heard 18 Whether hath your Minister vsed the forme of thanksgiuing prescribed for women after childbirth for any woman vnlawfully begotten with childe otherwise then in the habite of a penitent sinner or before sufficient caution be taken for her not departing the Parish vntill shee hath done penance for her offence 19 Whether doth your Parson Preacher Lecturer and Vicar in his owne person at the leastwise in euery yeere vpon two Sundayes publikely both in the forenoone and afternoone in your Church or Chappell reade Diuine Seruice and administer both the Sacraments in such manner and forme as is prescribed by the Booke of Common prayer according to the 56. Canon 20 Whether doth your Minister dayly visite the sicke and exhort them truely to beleeue in Christ and repent therof their sinnes and comfort and pray for them as is prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer 21 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Farmor of the Tithes suffer either the Parsonage or Vicarage-house or other buildings thereto belonging or the Chancell to fall to ruine or decay and doth not presently repaire them 22 Whether hath any person taken away or vncouered any Church Chappell or Chancell or any part of them or any Church porch or Vestrie or hath pulled downe the belles or made any other spoile or waste vpon his Benefice either in timber or woods 23 Whether is your Church euery way sufficiently and well repayred and no defect in glazing tiling sieling pauing or in any thing else belonging to the same and whether the Church bee beautified and adorned with Scripture
sentences 24 Whether is your Church-yard sufficiently fenced with Wall Raile Pale or other fence and is your Church-yard profaned or swine suffered to roote there 25 Whether haue you in your Parish Church or Chappell the new booke of Common prayer two Psalters the Bible in English of the largest volume lately set foorth by his Maiesties authoritie the two volumes of Homilies Master Iewels workes Erasmus Paraphrase the table of the tenne Commandements and the Table of the degrees of Affinitie and Consanguinitie wholly and vntorne a conuenient Pulpit a fit seate for your Minister a decent Communion Table vpon a frame a linnen cloth to couer it with some other couer of silke or such like a Communion cuppe of siluer and couer of the same a cleane sweete standing Pet or stoope of pewter or other purer mettall to put in the wine for the vse of the Communion a sufficient fou● well couered decent Surplesse of fine holland with large sleeues a sure coffer with three lockes for the Register Booke a strong chest with three lockes there to for the almesboxe and haue your Minister and Churchwardens seuerall keyes to those Coffers according to the 70. Canon 26 Whether doth your Minister and Churchwardens euery Sunday after Euening prayer take the Register booke and then Register the names of all those who were Christned married or buried the weeke before and is the same a faire booke of parchment and safely kept vnder lockes and keyes 27 Whether doth any Parson serue two Cures or any Curate serue his Cure not in due time and what slipend hath your Curate by the yeare 28 Whether hath your Minister published and executes all such processes excommunications and penances as haue been directed vnto him from the Lord Bishop or his Chancellour in such sort as was prescribed and without delay and whether hath he duly made Certificates thereof and of all penances according as they haue beene performed and no otherwise as you know or credibly and publiquely haue heard 29 Whether hath your Parson or Vicar moe Benefices then one how many and in what places be they what be the names and values of them and whether is he absent from among you aboue 80. dayes in all in any one yeare and if hee hath two Benefices hath he a preaching Curate on that Benefice whereon he doth not reside and whether doth he let any lease of any of his Benefices or any part thereof and to whom and for how long 30 Whether is your Clarke aged twenty yeares at least and approued by the Ordinary and hath hee taken an Oath and is he able to read distinctly as by law is required and is he diligent in keeping the Church Chauncell Communion table Font Bookes ornaments of the Church and all such things as belong to his charge safe decent and cleane 31 Whether is there any Schoolemaster teaching either openly or priuately in your Parish or any person who practiseth Phisick or Surgerie and what be their names 32 Whether haue any Lords of Misrule Dauncers Players or any other disguised persons beene suffered to enter the Church Chappell or Churchyard with their sports and if they haue what be the names of such disordered persons 33 Whether be there in your Parish any vnlawfull exercises vsed vpon any Sabaoth or Festiuall dayes whether doe any vse dauncing or such like sports on the Sabaoth day before the end of all diuine Seruice appointed for that day whether be there any common drinking in your Church who were present at such drinking or sports and whether any doe sit in the Tauerne Alehouse or Streete vpon Sundayes or Holy-dayes in the time of morning or euening prayer 34 Whether be there any in your Parish that vse any handie craft or worke or keepe open shop vpon any Sabbaoth or Festiuall day or that within time of Haruest doe vpon Holy-dayes labour about their Haruest or then vse any carriages by Wayne or otherwise vnlesse necessity shall require or the law permit it 35 Whether there be in your Parish any disturbers of the diuine seruice of God or which doe vse any talking walking or any vnreuerent behauiour in Church or Churchyard in time of diuine seruice 36 Whether doth your Minister giue warning afore-hand to his Parishioners for the receiuing of the Communion and are there any in your Parish of conuenient age viz. aboue sixteene yeares that doe not receiue the Communion thrice in euery yeare at the least or any that receiue the Communion otherwise then most reuerently kneeling on their knees 37 Whether any of your Parish doe receiue Seminarie Priests or other Seducers into their houses and whether there be any Strangers that socourne in your Parish especially about Easter and doe absent themselues from Church 38 Whether haue your Churchwardens beene diligent themselues in frequenting diuine seruice and doing their office and duly giuen account at the yeares end of the goods and rents of the Church or not distributed the publique almes indifferently 39 Whether when any man or woman is passing out of this life the Bell be tolled to giue warning to the people to pray for the sicke person if not in whose default 40 Whether any person of your Parish hath remained excommunicate by the space of fourty dayes and whether any excommunicate person hath intruded himselfe or beene admitted vnto diuine seruice the Sacrament or like publique assemblies and who are keepers of company with any excommunicate person or doe harbour any excommunicate person in their houses or set them to worke contrary to the law 41 Whether any excommunicate Recusant or other obstinate excommunicants haue beene buried in your Church or Churchyard by whom were they so buried and who were present 42 Whether any of your Parish be knowne or credibly and publiquely famed to be attempters of the chastity of any woman or incestuous persons or adulterers or fornicatours before or after marriage Bawdes or receptors of incontinent persons into their houses or which conuay them away before they haue done penance for the same and whether any that heretofore haue for those crimes departed your Parish vnpunished are now returned againe 43 Whether there be any blasphemers of the name of God or swearers or any common drunkards slaunderers or defamers of their neighbours in your Parish and what are their names 44 Whether any person in your Parish be knowne or reputed to vse any Witchcraft Sorcerie Charmes or any that doe take vpon them to tell destinies or to guide men to things lost or any that resorteth vnto such for helpe and counsell 45 Whether haue there beene any children borne in your Parish which haue not beene brought to be baptized in your Parish Church and whether any children of your Parish haue been baptized by a Seminarie Priest what is the name of that Priest and whether any of the children of Recusants or Soiourners with Recusants haue had their baptisme deferred longer then the next Sabboth day or which remaine as yet vnbaptized