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A00204	Articles to be enquired of within the dioces of London, in the visitation of the Reuerend Father in God, Ihon Bishop of London, 1589 in the xxxj. yeare of the raigne of Our Most Gratious Soueraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1577-1594 : Aylmer); Aylmer, John, 1521-1594.	1589 (1589)	STC 10252.5; ESTC S866	11,106	16

you euer heretofore heare or knowe that it was a Parsonage or Vicaredge and how came it to be decayed from being a presentatiue to be in the state it nowe is and when was it first decayed from being a benefice presentatiue as you remember 6 Whether your Fonts or Baptisteries be remoued from the place where they were wout to stand or whether any persons leauing the vse of them doe Christen or Baptize in Basons or other prophane vessells not customably vsed in the Church before time or whether any Christen without eyther Godfather and Godmothers and the signe of the Crosse appoynted by the booke of common prayer Articles concerning Ecclesiasticall officers WHether the Chancellor Archdeacon Commissary officiall or any other vsing Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction in this Dioces their Registers or Actuaries Apparitors or Sumners haue at any time winked at and suffered any Adulterers Fornicators incests or other faults or offences presented vnto them to passe and remayne vnpunished and vncorrected for Money Rewards Bribes Pleasure Frendship or any other partiall or affectionate respect 2 Whether at the Archdeacons visitations which haue bin sithence 1586. the Archdeacon of your Archdeaconrie or his officers hath called to the Church wardens for a Certificate from the Parson Vicar or Curate of your Parish thereby to vnderstand whether the Iniunctions of the saide Bishop giuen in his visitation held in that yeare 1586. haue bin duely and precisely obserued or not according to the Tenor and effect of one of those Iniunctions 3 Whether any haue beene lawfullie presented to the Chancelor Archdeacō Commissarie or Official within these three yeres passed for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiasticall Courts who neither haue made their purgation for the infamie of the same offence nor haue receaued pennance whereby the parish hath béen satisfied Articles concerning Schoolemaisters WHether the Schoolemaisters within your parish openly or priuatly in any Noble or Gentlemans house or in any other place be of good and sincere Religion life and Conuersation and bée diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth and whether they haue bin examined allowed and licensed for Schoolemaisters by the ordinary or his officer in that behalfe 2 Whether your Schoolemaisters doe themselues receiue the holy Communion as often as they ought to doe whether they bring with them so many of their Schollers as be of age sufficient and of capacity by instructions to receiue the Lordes Supper 3 Whether your Schoolemaysters doe orderly on Sondaies with their Schollers come to the Church of their Parish where they teach and there see their Schollers placed in some conuenient place so as they doe not disquiet the Minister or parish in time of deuine seruice but may exercise themselues godly in reading and hearing the seruice and Sermons and in answering with the Congregation in reading of publique prayers 4 Whether the Schoolemaisters eyther priuate or publique doe teache their Schollers the Catechisme aucthorised by publique aucthoritie at the least once euery weeke and doe instruct and examine them in the same or doe teache any other Catechisme and what Catechisme is it that they so teach 5 Whether any of your Schoolemaisters be knowne or suspected to reade vnto their Schollers priuately any bookes or priuately to instruct them in theyr yong yeares eyther in Poperie Superstition or disobedience or contempte to her Maiestie and her Lawes Ecclesiasticall by publique authoritie allowed 6 Whether any Schoolemaisters vnder pretence of Catechising their Schollers which is a most godly order carefully by them to be obserued do keepe Lectures reading or expositions in diuinitie in their houses hauing continuall repayre vnto them of such people as seeke after innouations and refuse their owne Parish Churches and their Minister Articles concerning the Parishioners and others of the Laity Whether all Housholders in your Parish cause their Children Seruants and Apprentices both mankinde and womankinde being aboue seauen yeares of age and vnder twenty which haue not learned the Catechisme to come to the Church on Sondayes and holy-daies at the times appoynted for Catechising there diligently and obediently to heare And what be the names of those that do not cause their Children Seruants and Apprentises so to come to the Church to be instructed and examined 2 Whether any doe worke or kéepe any Shop or any parte of their shop open vpon the Sabaoth dayes or vpon any holy-daies appointed by the Lawes of the Realme to be kept holyday 3 Whether you your selues or the Churchwardens in the yeares before you haue suffered any vnmaried women being begotten with Childe to goe out of the Parish before she hath done pennance or any man defamed of whoredom to departe vnpunished vpon direction appointed by the ordinary and forth of whose houses haue they gone away with Childe vnpunished and how many vnmaried women which haue bin deliuered within your parish these three yeres last past haue gone away without doing of penance 4 Whether there bee any in your Parish that doe themselues forbeare or dehort others from comming to publique prayer and hearing the word Preached condemning all forme of praier which they cal stinted prayer calling our Churches the Temples of Idols and our Preachers false teachers sent in the Lordes wrath which leude opinions some Sectaries haue lately broched 5 Whether any man keepeth or readeth any seditious and Schismaticall bookes or pamphlets written by any which enuaieth against the Religion now receaued or the order and gouernement of the Church now publiquelie established or that stirreth vp the hearers to innouation or altring of the Churches gouernement by Lawe now established 6 Whether the Parish Clarke be appointed according to the auntient custome of the Parish with the allowance of the ordinarie and whether he be not obedient to the Parson Vicar or Curate and whether he be able to reade and whether he keepe the bookes and ornaments of the Church fayre and cleane and cause the Churche and Quier the Communion table and the fonte to bee kepte cleane and decent against the seruice time the Communion Sermon and Baptisme 7 Whether there be any person or persons Ecclesiastical or Temporall within your Parish or elsewhere within this Dioces that haue reteyned or kept in their custodie or that reade sell vtter disperse carrie or deliuer to others any English bookes or Libels set forth either on this side or beyond the Seas by Papistes or others against the Quéenes Supremacie in causes Ecclesiastical or against true Religion and Catholique doctrine or the gouernment and discipline of the Church of England now within this Realme receiued and established by common authoritie and what their names and surnames are 8 Whether there be any in your Parish which for any cause whatsoeuer forbeare to come to Church to publique praier or to heare Gods word preached pretending it vnlawfull to come to our assemblies as the Church of England now standeth 9 Whether any do refuse to receiue the holy Communion at their owne Ministers handes either

❀ ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF within the Dioces of London in the visitation of the Reuerend Father in God Ihon Bishop of London 1589. In the xxxj yeare of the raigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady ELIZABETH by the grace of GOD Queene of England Fraunce and Ireland defender of the faith c. Imprinted at London 1589. The tenor of the othe ministred to the Church-wardens and sworn-men YEe shall sweare that all affection fauour hatred hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set a side you shall vpon due consideration of the Articles geuen you in charge present all and euery such person of or within your parish as hath cōmitted any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected or otherwise defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shal deale vprightly and according to equitie neither of malice presenting any contrarie to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present anie and so conceale the truth hauing in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine truth and to suppresse vice So helpe you God and his faithfull promises contained in these his holie bookes The charge of the Church-wardens and swornemen set downe for the better performance of their duties and discharge of their oathes THey are straightly charged to heare all these articles read ouer vnto them and diligently to consider and enquire thereof And for that the time is so short in this the visitation that they shall not be able to make a perfect answere vnto all of them and that notwithstanding there are manie notorious faultes presently worthy of presentment and reformation they are charged to make their answere vnto them presently so farre forth as their memory shall now serue them And to present now such faultes in their Parish as at this time are worthie of presentment and reformation And that after their comming home betwixt this and Michaelmas next they shall agayne heare all the Articles read ouer vnto them and diligently consider and enquire thereof with the Minister of the Parish who shall if he know any thing in the Parish to be reformed together with them make a due presentment and a true and full aunswere in wryting signed with their handes and markes wherein they shall present aswell all such faultes or offences contrarie to the Articles as they forgot or omitted to present at the time of the visitation as also all such faultes and offences contrarie to the Articles as shall happen and chaunce betwixt this and then ¶ Articles to be inquired of within the Dioces of London in this Visitation holden in the yeare of our Lord God 1589. Articles concerning the Cleargie WHether Common praier bée read by your Minister in your seuerall Churches or Chappels distinctly and reuerently and in such order as it is set foorth by the lawes of this Realme without any kind of alteration omitting or adding to any thing and at due and conuenient houres the Minister wearing a Surples And whether the holie Sacraments be likewise ministred reuerently in such manner as by the booke of Common praier is appoynted And whether vpon Wednesdaies and Fridaies not being holi-daies the Letanie and other praiers appoynted for the day be sayd accordingly 2. Item whether the forme of Comination against sinners bée by your Minister plainlie and distinctly read in your Church or Chappell vnto the people according to the Booke 3 Whether any Parson or Parsons not being ordered at the least be a Deacon do say Common praier openlie in your Church or Chappell or do solemnize matrimonie or administer the Sacraments of Baptisme and what be their names that do so 4 Whether the Parson Vicar or Farmer of your Benefice do cause or suffer any Curate or Minister to serue your Church before he bee examined and admitted by the Ordinarie in writing and do shewe his license to the Church-wardens 5 Whether your Minister doo serue two Cures in one daie whereby he must néedes be driuen to serue the one of them at inconuenient houses 6 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate doo euerie Sonday whē there is no Sermon read distinctlie and plainlie some part of the Homilies prescribed and set foorth by the Quéenes authoritie to be read and whether any Minister not admitted by the Ordinarie or by other lawfull authoritie doe expound anie scripture or matter of doctrine by the waie of exhortation or otherwise and thereby omit and leaue off the reading of the Homilies Or be there any in your Parish that do depraue or speake against the Homilies and the vse of them in the Church 7 Whether any Lectures Conuenticles or priuate méetings bée read or vsed within your Parishes either publique in the Church or priuate in the house by any not sufficiently licensed thereunto by the Ordinarie or whether any such Reader do teach any Doctrine of Innouation to withdrawe the people from due obedience to the Ordinances of the Church set forth by publique authoritie or to cause them to forbeare participating in praier and Sacraments with our Church 8 How many Sermons doth your Parson or Vicar preach in his owne Church yearely and if he be no Preacher himselfe how many doth he yearely procure to be preached there and who haue preached them and whether bee they that do preach them licensed or no and by whom were they licensed 9 Whether your Minister haue or do receiue to the holie Communion any persons which be not of his owne Parish without testimonie from the Minister of the place where they dwell what they be that it may appeare that they be not persons excommunicate 10 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate do euery Sonday and Holi-day openly in the Church call for heare and instruct all the children apprentises and seruants of both sexes that bee of conuenient age within your Parish or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serue and as he may well heare or instruct for one houre at the least before or after Euening praier in the tenne Commandements the Articles of the beléefe and the Lords praier and diligently examine and teach them the Catechisme as it is now allowed and set forth in the Booke of Common praier And whether for that purpose he doth take the names of them all and by course call certaine of them euery Sonday and Holi-day to come to the teaching of this Catechisme 11 Whether your Parson Vicar Curate or other Minister in your Church or Chappell hath admitted to the holie Communion any open and notorious fornicator adulterer or euill liuer by whom publique offence is giuen without due penaunce first done to the satisfaction of the Congregation enioyned him by his Ordinarie Or any malicious person that is notoriously knowne and detected to bée out of charitie or detected to haue done any open wrong to his neighbour by word or déede without due reconciliation

anie that being diuorced or separated for the same doo yet notwithstanding inhabit and keepe companie still together or anie that being maried without those degrees haue vnlawfullie forsaken their wiues or husbands married others Anie man that hath two wiues or anie woman that hath two husbands anie that beeing diuorced or separated asunder haue married again anie that haue maried or contracted themselues without the consent of their parents tutors or gouernors anie that haue married without Banes thrice solemnlie asked anie couples maried that liue not together but slanderouslie liue apart 26 Whether there be anie in your parish who will come to heare the sermon but wil not come to the publique praier appointed by the booke of common praier making a schisme or diuision as it were betweene the vse of our publique praier and preaching 27 Whether the Minister and Churchwardens haue suffered anie Lords of misrule or Summer Lords or Ladies or anie disguised persons or May games or anie morrice dancers at anie times to come vnreuerentlie into the Church or Churchyard and there to dance or play especially in the time of common praier and what they be that commit such disorder or that accompanied or mainteined them 28 Whether there be among you anie notorious euill liuers or anie suspected of any notorious sinne fault or crime to the offence of Christian people or any that stubbornly refuse to conforme thēselues to vnitie and godly Religion now established by publique authority or any that beareth abroad rumors of the alteration of the same or otherwise that disturbeth good orders and the quietnesse of Christes Church and the Christian Congregation 29 Whether all such admonitions and Iniunctions as haue come to your parishes from my Lord of London in and sithence the last visitation for the obseruing of anie order for the Church or putting downe anie disorder haue ben dulie kept euer since or no by whose default they haue not been kept 30 Whether there be any married women or others within your parish which after child-birth doo refuse or contemne to come to the Church to giue thanks for their deliuerie to haue the prayers publique appointed in that behalfe by the booke of common prayer 31 Whether any carry out the Infants to be Christened in other parishes as misliking the order of Christening in their owne parish whether any preach in any Noble mans or Gentlemans house not being licensed of the Bishop 32 Whether any within your Parishes doo resort vnto barnes fieldes woods out-houses or to any extraordinarie Expositions of Scriptures or conferences together and so doo as it were make a seuerall Church or Sect vnto themselues or be drawers or perswaders of others to any such schismaticall and damnable Sects 33 Item whether your Parson Vicar or Curate haue wittingly maried together any couples whereof the woman hath ben got with childe or carnally knowen before mariage or whether the man for money or reward hath married anie woman that hath committed adulterie with another man without publique acknowledgement of their offences and reconciliation to the parish what are the names of all such that haue been so maried in anie such case and when and by whom they were so maried together 34 Whether any doo keepe their Children vnbaptised longer than the Sunday after Birth vnlesse it be for sicknesse of the childe or other vrgent occasion whether any doo carrie their children from the Parish they are borne in to other Parishes to bee baptised And whether any do refuse and carrie their children from their owne Parish to bee baptised in other places or do bring strange Ministers into their owne houses to baptise their children priuatly according to their owne phantasies 35 Whether the order of praiers on Wednesdaies and Fridaies set forth lately by the most reuerend Father the Archbishop of Canterburie by him appoynted to bee obserued through his whole Prouince be obserued as it is required and who bee they that vnder colour of it do bring in any newe deuised order prayer or fastes leauing the prescribed order of that booke FINIS The seconde bils which are to be deliuered at Michaelmas next are to be brought into Maister Blackewels office in Iuie Lane Register to my Lord Bishop of London betwixt Michaelmas and the eyght day of October following or els the Church-wardens and Side-men making default herein are at their perils to shew cause the x. of October next in the Consistorie in Pauls why they should not according to law bee proceeded agaynst for their contempt