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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07654	Articles to be enquired of, and ansvvered vnto by the churchvvardens and sworne men in the visitation of the right vvorshipfull the archdeacon of Norwich. Anno Domini 1638.	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Norwich.	1638 (1638)	STC 10302; ESTC S92408	9,601	17

your Parish in christian buriall doth hee goe before the corpes to the grave and there say the whole service appointed not omitting the lesson or any part of it doth he devoutly knéele when hee saith the prayers and collect or hath hee admitted to Christian buriall any which bee excommunicated or otherwise ought not to be butied in Christian buriall 12. Hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint hold or continue in your Parish or elsewhere any private fasts or méetings for Preaching or praying for prophesies or other religions exercises not approved or have hee at such meetings consulted about depraving the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England 13. Hath your Minister or Curate read the booke of cannons Ecclesiasticall set forth by publicke authoritie Anno Domini 1603. once every yeare as is injoyned 14. Hath your Minister at any time taken upon him in the Church to confuse the doctrine of any other Preacher in the same Church without order from the Bishop doth he standing excommunicated or suspended by his Ordinarie intermeddle with reading divine service preaching administring the Sacraments or any other part of his Priestly office if not doth hee séeke to be absolved and desire to conforme himselfe in obedience to the Church Is there any that being once admitted to the holy orders of Priest or Deacon doth voluntarily relinquish his calling and become as a lay man 15. Hath your Minister with the rest of your Parishoners gone the Peramblation of your Parish yéerely upon the Regation dayes viz. Munday Tuseday or Weddenseday before Ascention and no other time hath he used the prayers and thankesgivings Psalmes and sentences of Scripture at that time and doth he returne to the Church and there reade divine service as was lately enjoyned by publique authority 16. Hath your Minister admitted any excommunicated or suspended person into the Church in time of divine service or hath he read the prayers while any such person hath beene present hath he deferred the publishing of any excommunication or suspention under the seale of any Ecclesiasticall Iudge the next Sunday or holiday after the same is brought or shewed unto him doth he every sixe moneths denounce and publish in the Church by name all Recusants Convict or Excommunicated persons that doe persevere in that sentence and not seeke to be absolved 17. Hath your Minister solemnized the marriage of any persons under the age of 21. yeares without the consent of their parents or godmothers or of such as doe not audibly say and answer in all things appointed by the Liturgy or of any without a Ring or of such as have not had their banes published in their severall Churches thrée severall Sundayes or holidayes or bée married in the times prohibited without speciall licence from the Ordinary and doth hee begin in the body of the Church and then goe up to the table as is appointed and doth hee as oft as there is a marriage appoint to have a Communion and doth hée reade all that is prescribed to be read at matrimony by the booke of common prayer 18. Is your Minister a man of sober life and conversation is he reputed to be an incontinent person a frequenter of Taverns Innes or Alehouses a common gamester or player at dice and Cards a common swearer or drunkard or guilty of any other scadalous crime or offence doth he use any mechanicall trade or bodily labour soliciting of causes in law doth he use common buying selling or any other imployments not befitting his calling and is he suspected to have obtained his benifice by Simonie directly or indirectly doth he usually weare a gowne when he doth officiate and doth he in his journying use a cloake with sléeves doth he at any time goe abroad in his doublet and hose without a Coute or Cassocke or weare any light coloured stockings or is he or his wife any waies excessive in their apparrell 19. Lastly doth your Minister commonly upon Sundayes and holidayes after the reading of the second lesson at morning and evening prayer admonish the Churchwardens and Questmen to note such as without cause doe absent themselves from divine service or doe not receive the holy Communion thrice in the yeare and if they be negligent in their office doth hee present them to the Ordinary CHAP. 4. Concerning the Parishioners and Leyetie 1. HAth any in your Parish prophaned any Sunday or Holiday by unlawfull gaming drinking and tipling in Tavernes Innes or Alehouses in the time of divine service or sermon by working in their trades selling of wares setting open their shops by themselves their servants or apprentises or any other waies 2. Is the fist day of November observed and kept in your Parish with prayers and thankesgiving unto God as by the statute is appointed 3. Doe all and singular persons dwelling in your Parish diligently resort to your Parish Church with their servants and children to morning and evening prayer upon every Sunday and holiday doe they come at the beginning of prayer and then with due attention doe they orderly abide there the whole time of divine service and Sermon hath any person in that time presumed to cover his head with his hat doe they all devoutly knéele when the generall confession the Letany the ten Commandements and other prayers and collects of the Church or at Baptisme Marriage Buriall and visitation of the sicke are read is there any person that doth not use lowly reverence when the name Iesus is mentioned or that doe not stand up when the Creede is rehearsed and doe all the people say Amen and make such other answers as are prescribed in the booke of common prayer 4. Is there any in your Parish that hath rudely behaved themselves in the Church or disturbed the Minister in time of divine service by walking talking laughing ringing of bells or contending for place or seates in the Church doe any sléepe in the Church in the said time or have an● loytered about the Church or Churchyard in the same time or have any brawled quarrelled or tought in Church or Churchyard 5. Are there any Popish or scismaticall persons or suspected to be popish or scismatically affected or that have wilfully absented themselves from the parish Church or Chappell in time of morning and evening prayer or doe refuse or neglect to receive the holy Communion or that do perswade others from the same are there any that doe leave their owne Minister and usually resort to other Preachers or Churches or that doe cause their children to be baptized by any other Minister or in another Parish and to what Parish or Church doe such usually resort 6. Hath every one in your Parish being above 16. yéeres of age and of discretion received the holy Communion thrice every yéere whereof once at the feast of Easter doe all of them of what sort soever according as the Church expressly commandeth draw néere and with all revernce come to the Lords table when they are to

by whose default Have you a terrier of all the houses and gleabe lands and portions of tythes belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage taken by the view of honest and discréete men is it safely kept and a coppie brought into the Register of the Bishop CHAP. 3. Concerning Ministers and Preachers FIrst doe your Minister or Curate distinctly and reverently reade the whole Divine Service by the booke of cōmon prayer prescribed every forenoone and afternoone upon every Sunday and holiday and their eves and upon wednesedayes and fridayes and every day of the holy wéeke next before Easter in your Church or Chappell at fit and convenient times for the same and also for Preaching and administration of the Sacraments Marriages Burials Christnings and visiture of the sicke according to the prescript forme of the said booke doth hée observe all the rites and ceremonies therein prescribed without omission alteration or addition doth he at all times of performing his Priestly duties weare the Surplesse with a hood sutable to his degrée never omitting the same doth hee reade the common service called the second service at the holy Table with an audible voice unto the end of the Nicean Creed And doth he then begin his sermon or Homelie and doth he before his sermon or Homely reade or use any other forme of prayer then is prescribed by the 55. Cannon and doth he conclude his sermon with Gloriae patri c. and doth hee or whosoever officiates proceede to read the remainder of the divine service and conclude with the blessing called the peace of God as he hath bin injoyned by publike authoritie 2. Doth your Minister or Curate reade all those Psalmes and lessons and no other with the Epistle and Gospel appointed for the day and at the end of every Psalme doe he and all the people standing say Gloria patri c. and after the lessons doth he use any other Psalme or Hymne but those appointed in the booke of Common Prayer doth he reade the Creede of Athanasius on all those dayes prescribed and the Commination on Ashwednesday and the Letany on every Sunday Wednesday and Friday 3. Doth your Minister or Lecturer having a Curate under him reade Divine Service himselfe upon two severall Sundaies in the yeare publikely and at the usuall tymes both forenoone and afternoone in the Church which he possesseth and administer the Sacraments as often in every yeere in such manuer and with such observations of Rites and Ceremonies as are prescribed in the booke of Common Prayer 4. Is your Minister resident upon his benefice if absent how long hath he béene so and where if he have another benefice doth he supply his absence by a Curate lawfully licenced to Preach and a competent allowance if your Minister bee a licenced Preacher doth he Preach once every Sunday in his own Church or some other where there is no Preacher if he be not a licenced Preacher doth he take upon him in his owne Cure or elsewhere to Preach and doth hee upon every Sunday when there is no Sermon reade one of the Homilies published by authority and procure monethly Sermons by such as are licenced and doth your Minister or Curate serve more cures then one if yea how farre distant are the said Cures the one from the other and doe any take upon him to be Curate not being licenced by the Ordinary or is not a Minister or Deacon or being but Deacon to administer the holy Communion alone in your Church or Chappell 5. Doth your Minister or Curate every Sunday before evening prayer standing in his D●ske halfe an houre or more Catechise the youth and ignorant persons of your Parish in the Catechisme set forth in the booke of common prayer and is it performed by questions and answers doth your Minister goe to the administration of holy Baptisme presently after the second lesson doth hée aske first whether the child be baptized or no doth hee take the child in his armes and doth hee touching the childs forehead signe it with the signe of the Crosse or doth hée at any time omitt the same hath hee at any time deferred or refused to baptise any infant within the Parish being in danger of death after notice given or request made unto him and hath any child died unbaptized by his default and hath he before the Godfathers and Godmothers admonished them to bring the child to the Bishop to be confirmed when it shall be fitted for the same and hath hee used any other vessell then the Fontonely hath he admitted any to answer as godfather or godmother any parents or such as have not received the holy communion or any more then two godfathers and one godmother for a male child and two goodmothers and one godfather for a female and hath he baptized any child at home or upon any day but on a Sunday or holy day without great necessity 6. Doth your Minister administer the holy Communion so often in the yeere as that every Parishioner may receive thrice in the yéere whereof Easter to be one doth he first receive the same himselfe kneeling or doth he administer it to any not knéeling doth he alwaies use the words of Institution set downe in the booke without alteration at every time the bread and wine is received and doth he repeats the words prescribed to every one severally at the delivery of the bread and wine and not omit any part of the words or saying them to many at once and doth he give publique warning in the Church at morning prayer the Sunday before every Communion to bée administred and admonish the Parishioners to prepare themselves accordingly 7. Hath your Minister admitted to the holy Communion any notorious offenders or that have maliciously and openly contended with their neighbours or to any strangers that doe commonly come to your Church from other Parishes or doth he administer the Communion to any in private houses without great necessity 8. Doth you Minister use the forme of thankesgiving for married women after childbirth immediately before the Communion service doth he use it to any not being vailed according to the ancient custome of the Church without a hat or that doth not come and knéele néere the Communion table as hath béene injoyned by publique authority 9. Hath your Minister given warning for the kéeping of holydayes and fasting dayes hapning the wéeke following on Sunday in time of morning prayer immediately after the Sermon or Homily as hath béene injoyned 10. Doth your Minister or Curafe resort unto such as bee dangerously sicke in your Parish notice thereof being given to him is instruct and comfort them and doth hee earnestly exhort them to be liberall to the poore and if any being sicke desire the prayers of the congregation is it done in the Church according to the forme in the Liturgie at the time of divine service and in the reading deske 11. Hath your Minister ever refused or deferred to burie the dead of