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A00233	Articles to be inquired of vvithin the dioces of Norwich in the first visitation of the R. Reverend Father in God, Matthevv, Lord Bishop of Norwich.; Visitation articles. 1636	Church of England. Diocese of Norwich. Bishop (1635-1638 : Wren); Wren, Matthew, 1585-1667.	1636 (1636)	STC 10298; ESTC S122526	22,475	20

ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF VVITHIN THE DIOCES OF NORWICH In the first Visitation of the R. Reverend Father in God MATTHEVV LORD BISHOP OF NORWICH Printed at London by Richard Badger 1636. The Tenour of the OATH to be Ministred to the Church-wardens and any other of every Parish that shall be sworne to make Presentments YOu shall sweare that you and every one of you shall and will duly consider and diligently enquire of every one of these Articles here given you in charge and of all the branches therof and make true answere to all particulars therein demanded and that all affection or favour or hatred or hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice of any person and all other pretences set aside you shall and will present every such person of your Parish or within it as hath committed any offense or f●ult or made any default mentioned in any of these Articles or which is vehemently suspected or otherwise defamed of any such offense fault or default wherein you shall deale uprightly and fully according to the truth neither presenting nor sparing to present any contrary to the truth Having in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine truth and vertue and to suppresse vice and to discharge your owne consciences So helpe you God and the Holy Contents of this Booke God save the KING Articles to be enquired of in the Dioces of Norwich at the Visitation holden in the yeere of our Lord 1636. Chap. 1. Concerning Religion and Doctrine ARE there any abiding in your Parish or resorting to it who haue wilfully maintained any heresies errours or false opinions contrary to the faith of Christ and holy Scripture Or that do impugne any of the 39. Articles of Religion agréed vpon in Anno. 1562. and stablished in the Church of England And is the declaration which the Kings Maiesty prefixed before those 39. Articles concerning the setling of the questions late in difference duly obserued by all within your Parish according to his Maiesties commandement 2 Be there any in your Parish that haue denied or perswaded any other to deny withstand or impugne the Kings Maiesties authority and supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall within this Realme 3 Is there in your Parish any that hath béene or is vehemently suspected to haue béene present at any vnlawfull assemblies conuenticles or méetings vnder colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion Or do any affirme and maintaine such meetings to be lawfull 4 Be there any abiding in or resorting to your Parish that are commonly reputed to be ill affected in matter of the religion professed in our Church or taken to be Recusant Papists or factious separatists refusing to repaire vnto the Church to heare diuine Seruice and to receiue the holy Communion Or that haue or do publish sell or disperse any superstitious seditious or schismaticall Bookes Libels or Writings touching the Religion State or Ecclesiasticall gouernment of this Kingdome of England Present their names qualities and conditions if you know or haue heard of any Chap. 2. Concerning publike Prayer and administration of the holy Sacraments c. 1 HAue any in your Parish spoken or declared any thing in derogation or deprauation of the forme of Gods worship establ●shed in the Church of England and the administration of the Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies set forth and prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer Or do any preach speak or declare that the Book of Common Prayer containeth any thing that is repugnant to the holy Scripture or not méet to be vsed Or do vse any scornefull words against those godly Sermons called The Homilies of the Church 2 Hath any in your Parish caused procured or maintained any Minister to say any common or publike prayer or to administer the Sacrament of Baptisme or of the Lords Supper otherwise or in any other manner than is mentioned in the said Book of Common Praier Or hath any interrupted hindered let or disturbed the Minister in reading of diuine Seruice or administring the Sacraments in such manner as is mentioned in the said Book Or hath any interrupted him in his preaching or reading the Homilies 3 Is the Sacrament of Baptisme rightly and duly administred according to the forme prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer with due obseruation of all Rites and Ceremonies prescribed to be vsed in the same without adding or altering of any part of any prayers or interrogatories Is the signe of the Crosse euery time vsed and the Surplice neuer but worne in the administring of it 4 Hath the administration of the Sacrament of Baptisme beene at any time deferred longer than till the next Sunday or Holiday immediately following the birth of the childe 5 Hath the Sacrament of Baptisme béene refused to be administred to any children borne in or out of wedlock their birth being made knowne to the Minister of the Parish and they offered vnto him to be baptized Or haue any such children died vnbaptized 6 Haue the Parents of the childe baptized beene at any time admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers to the same Or haue any been admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers to any child before they haue receiued the holy Communion Or haue any Godfathers or Godmothers vsed any other answers or speech in Baptisme then is by the Book of Common Prayer appointed Or haue they giuen to the children baptized any name that is absurd or inconuenient for so holy an action 7 Haue any children been baptized in priuate houses or by any Lay-person or Midwife or popish Priest or by any other than your owne Minister And haue all children priuately baptized if they liued beene afterwards brought to your Church that the Congregation and the Minister of the Parish in case they were not baptized by him might be certified whether they or any of them were lawfully baptized or no 8 Haue the children that haue béene borne to any popish Recusant in your Parish beene publikely baptized in your Parish Church by your owne Parson Uicar or Curate Or by whom else were they baptized or where to your knowledge or as you haue heard 9 Hath the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper béene duely and reuerently administred in your Church or Chappell so often and at such conuenient times that at least thrice euery yeere whereof once at Easter euery parishioner within your Parish being of the age of 16. yeeres or vpwards might receiue the same 10 Hath the said blessed Sacrament been deliuered vnto any or receiued by any the Communicants within your Parish that did vnreuerently either sit stand or leane or that did not deuoutly and humbly kneele vpon their knees in plaine and open view without collusion or hypocrisie 11 Haue any of your Parish which are openly knowne to liue in notorious sin without repentance or any excommunicate persons or schismaticks common and notorious deprauers of the Religion and Gouernment of this Realme without vnfained sorrow shewed by them for

then comming from the Pulpit if the Sermon were made within the Church or Chappell doth he or whosoeuer then officiates at the same place where he left before the Sermon procéed to reade the remainder of the diuine Seruice and at the close of all to giue the Blessing 7 Doth euery Priest and Seacon in your Parish daily say the Morning and Euening prayer either priuately or openly vnlesse he be vpon lawfull cause hindered Doth your Curate say the same daily in your Church or Chappell with the tolling of a Bell before he begin Especially doth your Minister or Curate do it on euery Sunday and Holiday and their Eues and on the day of the conuersion of S. Paul S. Barnabies day and euery day of the holy wéeke next before Easter as also on all Wednesdayes and Fridayes at fit and vsuall times according to the forme prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer in a reuerent manner euer and as audibly and distinctly as he vseth to preach Doth he also reade all those Psalmes and Lessons and no other with the Collect Epistle and Gospell which are appointed for the day At the end of euery Psalme doe they stand and say Glory be to the Father c. and doth he leaue out the Contents of the Chapters After the Lessons doth he vse any other Psalme or Hymne but those which the Booke of Common Prayer hath appointed Doth he reade the Créed of S. Athanasius called the Quicunque vult on all those dayes for which it is appointed and the Commination on Ashwednesday and the Letany on euery Wednesday and Friday 8 Doth your Minister and Curate at all times as well in preaching or reading the Homilies as in reading the Prayers and the Letany in administring the holy Sacraments solemnization of Mariage burying of the dead churching of women and all other Offices of the Church duly obserue the Orders and Rites prescribed without omission alteration or addition of any thing And doth he in performing all and euery of these weare the Surplice duly and neuer omit the wearing of the same nor of his Hood if he be a Graduate 9 Doth your Parson or Uicar hauing a Curate vnder him notwithstanding read diuine Seruice himselfe vpon two seuerall Sundayes in the yéere publikely at the vsuall times both in the forenoone and afternoone in the Church which he possesseth and doth he also administer both Sacraments as often in euery yéere in such manner and with the obseruation of all such Rites and Ceremonies as are prescribed in the booke of Common Prayer in that behalfe 10 Doth your Minister Preacher and Lecturer euery yéere of purpose and expresly yet not by way of disputation but by plaine conclusion and determination teach and declare the lawfull authority which the King hath ouer the State both Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill and the iust abolishing of all forraigne power or iurisdiction ouer the same 11 Doth your Minister publish in his Sermons any doctrine which is new and strange and disagréeing from the Word of God and from the Articles of Christian Faith and Religion agréed on and published Anno Domini 1562. And doth he teach any thing which he would haue the people religiously obserue and beleeue but that which is agréeable to the Scriptures and that which the Catholike Fathers and ancient Bishops haue gathered out of that Doctrine according to the Canon 12 Doth your Minister go to the administration of holy Baptisme euer immediately after the second Lesson Doth he alwayes at first aske whether for childe be baptized or no Afterward doth he euer vse and neuer omit both to take the childe in his hands and also to make the signe of the Crosse so as to touch the childs forehead in making the same Doth he at any time baptize but in the Font or with any Bason or Paile or other Uessell set into the Font Hath he euer deferred or willingly neglected or refused to baptize any infant within the Parish being in danger of death notice thereof hauing beene giuen to him And hath any childe died without baptisme by his default 13 Doth your Minister or Curate often admonish the people that they defer not the baptisme of their infants any longer after they are borne than is prescribed vnlesse vpon a great and reasonable cause declared to the Minister or Curate and approued by him nor that they procure them to be baptized at home without great necessity 14 Hath your Minister admitted any person to answer as Godfather or Godmother at the christning of a childe that hath not before receiued the holy Communion and is not able to recite the Lords Prayer the ten Commandements and the Articles of Beliefe and to answer to the same being required And doth he at the Font as soone as he hath baptized any child admonish them to bring the child to the Bishop to be confirmed as soone as he hath learned the Catechisme 15 Doth your Minister euery Sunday and holyday before euening prayer where no Sermon was wont to be halfe an houre or more catechize and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of your parish in the ten Commandements the Articles of Beliefe and the Lords Prayer And doth be vse for that purpose the Catechisme set forth in the booke of Common Prayer and diligently heare instruct and teach them in the said Catechisme Or what other Catechisme doth he vse either in publike or priuate And bee the youth and ignorant persons of your parish sent in due time vnto your Church by them that ought to send them to be catechized and instructed by the Minister And if not you are to present the names of those that make default in sending them and of all those that vse not to come 16 Are your after-noone Sermons if there were wont to be any turned into catechizing by question and answer where and whensoeuer there is 〈◊〉 great cause apparent to the contrary And is this truly and sincerely performed without mockery or in shew only 17 Doth your Minister vse to administer the holy Communion at least thrice in the yéere whereof once at Easter to euery parishioner in your Parish that is sixtéene yeeres of age and vpwards and first to receiue the same himselfe knéeling on euery day that he administreth it to others and to administer it to none but to such as doe knéele at the receiuing thereof And doth he alwayes vse the words of Institution according to the Booke of Common Prayer without alteration at euery time that the Bread and Wine is renewed Doth hee also vse to deliuer the Bread and Wine to euery Communicant seuerally and with his owne hand repeating to euery one all the words appointed to be said at the distribution of the holy Body and Bloud of our Lord IESUS and vpon no pretence omitting any part of the words or saying them all but now and then to many at once And is there warning giuen by him to the parishioners publikely in the Church at morning