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A00267	Iniunctions giuen by the most reuerende father in Christ, Edmonde by the prouidence of God, Archbishop of Yorke primate of England, and Metropolitane, in his Metropoliticall visitation of the prouince of Yorke, aswell to the clergie, as to the laytie of the same prouince. Anno do. 1571.; Visitation articles. 1571	Church of England. Province of York. Archbishop (1570-1576 : Grindal); Grindal, Edmund, 1519?-1583.	1571 (1571)	STC 10375; ESTC S111863	27,196	46

Iniunctions Giuen by the most reuerende father in Christ Edmonde by the prouidence of God Archbishop of Yorke primate of England and Metropolitane in his Metropoliticall visitation of the Prouince of Yorke aswell to the Clergie as to the Laytie of the same Prouince Anno do 1571. Imprinted at London by William Seres Cum priuilegio Iniunctions giuen by the most Reuerende Father in Christ Edmonde by the prouidence of God Archebishop of Yorke c. ❧ For the Clergie INPRIMIS you must trauel diligently and painefully to set forth Gods true religion and adourne the same with example of godly life being circumspect that you offende no man eyther by light behauiour or by light apparell 2 Item vpon euery Sunday and Holyday yee shall in your Churche or Chappell at conuenient howers reuerently and distinctly say or sing the Common prayer appointed by the lawes of this Realme both in the forenoone and afternoone standing in a pulpit or seate appointed for that purpose and so turnyng your face towards the people as they may best heare the same and vpon euery Wednesday and Friday in the forenoone not beyng holy day ye shall in like manner saie the Letanie and other Praiers appointed for the daie and likewise the euenyng Praier euery Saterday holy Euen and shall also at all times requisite and conuenient duely and reuerently minister the two holy Sacraments that is to say Baptisme and the Lordes Supper commonly called the holy Communion accordyng to such order as is set forth in the booke of Common prayer and administration of the Sacramentes 3 Item ye shall minister the holy Communion euery moneth ones at the least in euery of your Churches Chappels where ministration of the Sacramentes is permitted And to the intent that the people may better vnderstande theyr dueties and come the better prepared to the holy Communion ye shall monethly exhort your Parishioners to come to the same and alwaies giue them warnyng therof the next Sunday before yée ministre the same declaring vnto them that by the lawes of this Realme euery person of conuenient age is bound to receiue the holy Communion at the least thrée times in the yéere and namely at Easter for ones 4 Item that at all times when yée minister the holy Sacramentes and vpon Sundaies and other holy daies when ye say the Common prayer and other diuine seruice in your Parishe Churches and Chappelles and likewise at all Mariages Burials ye shal when ye minister weare a cleane and decent surples with large sléeues and shall Minister the Holy communion in no challice nor any prophane cup or glasse but in a Communion cup of Siluer and with a couer of Siluer appointed also for the ministration of the Communion bread ye shall not deliuer the Communion bread vnto the people into their mouthes but into their handes nor shall vse at the Ministration of the communion any gestures rites or Ceremonies not appointed by the booke of Common prayer as crossinge or breathing ouer the Sacramentall ▪ bread and Wine nor any shewing or liftinge vp of the same to the people to be by them worshipped and adored nor any such like nor shall vse any Oile or Chrisme Tapers Spattle or any other Popishe ceremony in the ministration of the Sacrament of Baptisme 5 Item ye shall euery Sunday and Holy day openly in your Church or chappell call for heare and instructe the children and seruantes both menkinde and womenkinde that be of conuenient age within your Parishe at the least so many of them at once by course as the time will serue and as you may well heare and instruct for an hower at the least before Euening praier in the ten commaundementes the articles of the Beliefe and the Lordes prayer in Englishe and diligently examine and teache them the Catechisme set forth in the booke of Common prayer And to thintent this thinge may be more effectually executed ye shall take the names of all the children yong men maydens and seruantes in your Parishe that be aboue six yeres of age and vnder twentie which can not say the Cathechisme shall call by course certaine of them by name eeuery Sunday and euery Holy day to come to the Catechisme whereby you may easily note and obserue what Parentes or Maisters be negligent in sending their children and seruantes to be instructed and take occasion thereof both priuately and openly to exhorte them to sende their youth as they are appointed and shall present the refusers to the ordinarie 6 Item you shall not admitte to the receiuing of the holy Communion any of your Parish which be openly knowen to liue in any notorious sinne as Incest Adulterie Fornication Drunkennes much Swearing Bawderie Usurie or suche like without dewe penaunce firste donne to the satisfaction of the congregation nor any malicious person that is out of Charitie or that hath done open wrong to his neighbour by woorde or déede without dewe reconciliation firste made to the partie that is wronged or maliced 7 Item you shall not admitte to the holy Communion any of your Parishe men or women being aboue fower and twentie yéeres of age that can not say by heart at the least the tenne Commaundementes the articles of the Faith and the Lordes praier in English nor any being fouretene yéeres and aboue and vnder fower and twentie yéeres of age that can not say by harte the Catechisme that is set forth in the saide booke of common Praier 8 Item for that purpose ye shal before Easter and al other times of the yeare when the holy Communion is to be by you ministred giue warning before vnto your Parishioners to come vnto you either in the afternoone of some Sunday or holy daie or the daie before they purpose to receiue or at some other times before as necessitie shall cause you to appointe if there be any multitude or if the numbre be but small in the morning at the farthest before they shall receiue so that it be before the beginning of Morning prayer so many of them as intende to receiue not onely to signifie vnto you their names to the intent ye may kéepe a Register or note of all suche persons as from time to time shall communicate but also to be by you examined whether they can saie by heart the tenne commaundementes the Articles of the Faith the Lordes prayer and the Catechisme according as after the diuersitie of their ages is aboue required and such of them as either can not or will not recite the same by harte vnto you ye shall repell and put backe from the holy Communion vntill they shall be able willing to learne and can by harte recite the same vnto you for your better assistance wherin ye shall call vpon and require the Churchwardens and Sworne men of your Parishe to be present one of them at the least at euery such examination to thintent they may helpe to put this good order in practise and ye shall take

Parishioners to contribute and giue towardes the reliefe of the Poore as they may well spare and specially when ye visite them that be sicke and make their Testamentes and for your owne partes also ye shall charitably relieue the Poore to your habilitie 22 Item ye shall daily reade at the least one chapter of the Old Testament and an other of the Newe with good aduisement and such of you as be vnder the degrée of a maister of Arte shall prouide and haue of your owne according to the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions at the least the New Testament both in Latine and English conferring the one with the other euery daie one Chapter thereof at the least so that vpon the examination of the Archedeacon Commissary or their Officers in Synodes and Uisitations or at other appointed times it may appeare how ye profite in the studie of holy Scripture 23 Item ye shall not kéepe or suffer to be kept in your personage or Uicaridge houses any Alehouses Tipling Houses or Tauerns nor shal sell Ale Béere or Wine nor any of you shal kéepe any suspected woman in your house or be an incontinent liuer giuen to Drunkennesse or Idlenesse nor any of you beyng vnmaried shall kéepe in your house any woman vnder the age of thréescore yéeres excepte shée be your Daughter by former Mariage or be your Mother Aunte Sister or Niece and such an one as ye shall kéepe shal be of good name and fame nor any of you shal be a haunter of Tauernes Alehouses or suspected places or a Hunter Hawker Dicer Carder Tabler Swearer or otherwise giue any euill example of life but contrarywise at all times when ye shall haue leysure ye shal heare or reade some parte of holy Scripture or some other good Authours or shall occupie your selues with some other honest studie or exercise oftentimes giue your selues to earnest praier and shal be diligent in visiting the sicke comforting of them 24 Item you shall exhorte your Parishioners to obedience towardes their Prince and all other that be in authoritie and to charitie and mutuall loue amongst themselues helping to reconcile thē which shall happen to be at variance at any time and if ye can not Preache ye shall teache children to reade to write to know their dueties towards God their Prince Parentes and all others and by all meanes ye can ye shall endeuour your selues to profite the Common Wealth hauing alwaies in minde that ye ought to excell all other in puritie of life and should be examples to the people to liue well and Christianly not giuing any way iuste cause of offence 25 Item all Proprietaries Parsons Uicars and Clerkes hauing Churches or Chappels within this prouince shall cause the Chauncels or Quéeres of their Churches or Chappels to be from time to time accordinge to the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions in that behalfe sufficiently repaired and mainteined in good estate and all Parsons Uicars and other Clerkes hauing Mansion houses belonging to their promocions shall likewise repaire and kéepe the same in good estate and vpon the same Chauncels or Quéeres and Mansion houses with buildinges therevnto belonging being in decaye shall yéerely bestowe according to the same Iniunctions the fift parte of that their benefice till they be fully repayred and being repaired shall mainteine the same in good estate and order ▪ ¶ For the Laytie FIrst wée doe enioyne and straitly commaunde that from hencefoorth no parish Clerke nor any other parson not being ordered at the least for a Deacon shall presume to solemnize Matrimonie or to Minister the Sacrament of Baptisme or to deliuer to the Communicantes the Lordes Cuppe at the celebration of the holy Communion And that no person not being a Minister Deacon or at the least tollerated by the Ordinarie in writing doe attempt to supplie thoffice of the Minister in saying of Diuine seruice openly in any Church or Chappell 2 Item to thintent that the people may the better heare the Morninge and Eueninge Prayer when the same by the Minister is saide be the more edified thereby we doe enioyne that the Churchwardens of euery parishe in places aswell exempt as not exempt at the charges of the Parishe shall procure a decent low Pulpit to be erected and made in the body of the Church out of hande wherein the Minister shall stande with his face towardes the people when he readeth Morninge and Euening prayer Prouided alwaies that where the Churches are very small it shall suffise that the Minister stande in his accustomed stall in the Quéere So that a conuenient deske or lecterne with a rowme to turne his face towardes the people be there prouided by the saide Churchwardens at the charges of the parishe The iudgement and order whereof and also the forme and order of the Pulpit or seate aforesaide in greater Churches wée doe referre vnto the Archdeacon of the place or to his Officiall Prouided also that the prayers and other seruice appointed for the Ministration of the holy Communion be saide and done at the Commūion table except the Epistle and Gospell which shal be read in the saide pulpit or stall and also the tenne commaundementes when there is no Communion 3 Item that the Churchwardens according to the custome of euery parishe shal be chosen by the consent aswell of the Parson Uicare or Curate as of the Parishioners otherwise they shall not be Churchwardens neyther shall they continue anye lenger than one yeare in that office except perhappes they shal be chosen againe They shall not sell or alienate any Belles or other church goodes without consent of the Ordinarie in writing first had nor shal put the money that shall come of any such sale to any other vse than to the reparations of their Churches or Chappelles or for prouiding of necessaries for the same Churches or Chappels And all Churchwardens at the ende of euery yeare shall give vp to the Parson Uicare or Curate and their Parishioners a iuste accompte written in a booke to be prouided at the charges of the Parishe for that purpose of al suche money ornamentes stocke rentes or other Churche goodes as they haue receiued during the time they were in office and also shall particulerly shewe what coste they haue bestowed in reparations other thinges for the vse of the Church And going out of their offices they shall truely deliuer vp in the sight of the Parishioners to the next Churchwardens and note in the saide Churche booke whatsoeuer money ornamentes stocke or other Church goodes shall remaine and be in their handes at the time of giuing vp of their accomptes 4 Item that the Churchwardens in euery Parishe shall at the costes and charges of the Parishe prouide if the same be not already prouided all thinges necessary requisite for common Prayer and Administration of the holy Sacramentes on this side the .xx. day of next ensuyng specially the booke of Common prayer with the newe Kalender and a Psalter to the

same the English Bible in the largest volume the two Tomes of the Homelies with the Homelies lately written against Rebellion the table of the tenne Commaundementes a conuenient Pulpitte well placed a comely and decent table standing on a framefor the holy Communion with a faire linnen clothe to lay vpon the same and some couering of Silke Buckram or other such like for the cleane kéeping thereof a fayre and comely Communion cuppe of siluer and a couer of siluer for the same which may serue also for the ministration of the Communion bread a decent large Surplesse with sléeues a sure Coffer with two lockes and keyes for kéeping of the Register booke and a strong chest or Boxe for the almose of the paire with thrée lockes and keyes to the same and all other things necessarie in and to the premisses And shall also prouide before the sayde day the Paraphrases of Erasmus in English vpon the Gospels and the same set vp in some conuenient place within their church or chappell the charges whereof the person or proprietarie and Parishioners shall by equall portions beare according to the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions all which bookes must be whole and not torne or vnperfit in any wise And the Churchwardens also shal from time to time at the charges of the Parish prouide bread and wine for the Communion And for that purpose shal take some order among the Parishioners that euery one may pay such a reasonable summe towards the same as may suffice for the finding of breade and wine for the Communion throughout the whole yeare so as no Communion at any tyme be disappoynted for want of bread and wine 5 Item that the Churchwardens shall sée that in theyr churches and chappels all Aultars be vtterly taken downe and cléere remooued euen vnto the foundation and the place where they stoode paued and the wall wherevnto they ioyned whited ouer and made vniforme with the reast so as no breach or rupture appeare And that the Aulterstones be broken defaced and bestewed to some common vse And that the Roode loftes be taken downe and altered so that the vpper bordes and timber thereof both behinde and aboue where the Rood lately did hang and also the soller or loft be quite taken downe vnto the crosse beame wherevnto the particion betwéene the Quéere and the bodie of the church is fastened and that the sayde beame haue some conuenient creast put vpon the same And that all the bordes beames and other stuffe of the Roode loftes be solde by the churchwardens to the vse of the church so as no part thereof be kept and reserued 6 Item that the churchwardens shall from time to time sée that their churches and chappels and the stéeples thereof be diligently and well repayred with leade tyle slate or shingle lyme stone tymber glasse and all other necessaries and that their churches and chappels be kept cleane and decently that they be not lothsome to any eyther by dust sande grauell or anye filth and that there bée no feastes dinners or common drinkings kept in the church and that the churchyardes be well fenced and clenly kept and that no folkes be suffered to daunce in the same 7 Item that the Churchwardens and Minister shall sée that Antiphoners Masse bookes Grayles Portesses Processionals Manualles Legendaries and all other bookes of late belonging to their church or chappell which serued for the supersticious latine seruice be vtterly defaced rent abolished And that all Uestments Albes Tunicles Stoles Phanons Pixes Paxes Handbelles Sacringbelles Senscers Crismatories Crosses Candlestickes Holy water stocks or Fattes Images and all other reliques and monuments of superstition ydolatrie be vtterly defaced broken destroyed if they cannot come by any of the same they shall present to the Ordinary what they cannot come by and in whose custodie the same is to the intent further order may bée taken for the defacing therof 8 Item when anye man or woman dwelling néere to the church in any Citie Borough or great towne is in passing out of this life the Parishe clarke or Sextan shall knoll the bell to mooue the people to pray for the sicke person And after the time of the departing of any christian bodie out of this life the churchwardens shall sée that neyther there be any more ringing but one short peale before the buriall and another short peale after the buriall without ringing of any handbels or other superfluous or supersticious ringing eyther before or at the time of the buriall or at any time after the same nor any other forme of seruicesayde or song or other ceremonies vsed at any buriall than are appointed by the booke of common prayer And also that neyther on all Saints day after Euening prayer nor the day next after of late called all Soules day there be any ringing at all other then to common prayer when the same shall happen to fall vpon the Sunday And that no Moneth myndes or yearely commemorations of the dead nor any other supersticious ceremonies be obserued or vsed which tende to the maintenaunce eyther of prayer for the deade or of the Popishe Purgatorie 9 Item that the Churchwardens shall not suffer any ringing or tolling of Belles to be on Sundayes or holydayes vsed betwéene the morning prayer Letanie and Communion nor in any other tyme of common prayer reading of the Homelies or of preaching except it be one Bell in conuenient time to bée rong or knolled before a Sermon nor shall suffer any other ringing to be vsed vpon Saintes euens or festiuall dayes sauing to common prayer and that moderately and without excesse nor the Minister shall pawse or stay betweene the morning prayer Letanie and Communion but shall continue and saye the morning prayer Letanie and communion or the seruice appoynted to be sayde when there is no Communion togither without any intermission to the intent the people may continue togither in prayer and hearing the worde of God and not depart out of the church during all the time of the whole diuine seruice 10 Item that all fathers mothers maysters and other gouerners of youth shall in euery parish cause their children and seruaunts both menkinde and womenkinde being aboue seuen yeares of age and vnder twentie yeares which haue not learned the Catechisme or at the least such and so many of them as the Minister shall appoynt diligently to come to the church euery Sunday and euery holy day at the time appoynted and there diligently obediently to heare learne and be ordered by the Minister vntill such time as they haue learned all the sayde Catechisme by heart and shall giue to the Minister the names of all their children and seruauntes both men kinde and women kinde being aboue seuen yeares and vnder twentie yeares of age to the intent he may call for them to be examined and instructed in the sayde Cathechisme And if any of the sayde fathers mothers maysters or other gouernours of youth shall refuse or