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A68015	Articles to be inquired of vvithin the dioces of Ely in the first visitation of the R. Reverend Father in God Matthevv, Lord Bishop of Ely.; Visitation articles. 1638	Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1638-1667 : Wren)	1638 (1638)	STC 10197; ESTC R960	26,209	24

ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF VVITHIN THE DIOCES OF ELY In the first Visitation of the R. Reverend Father in God MATTHEVV LORD BISHOP OF ELY Printed at London by Richard Badger 1638. 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 truly consider and diligently enquire of every one of these Articles here given you in charge and of all the branches thereof and make true answer to all particulars therein demanded and that all affection or favour or hatred or hope of reward or 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 offence or fault or made any default mentioned in any of these Articles or which is vehemently suspected or otherwise defamed of any such offence 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 help you God and the Holy Contents of this Booke GOD SAVE THE KING Articles to be inquired of in the Dioces of Ely at the Visitation holden in the yeare of our LORD 1638. Chap. 1. Concerning Religion Doctrine and Church-government ARE there any abiding in your Parish or resorting to it who as farre as you know or haue credibly heard from persons of déeper iudgment do at any time preach teach deliuer publish or maintaine any heresie or any erroneous false opinion contrary to the faith of CHRIST or any sentence matter or cause which hath heretofore béene determined ordered or adiudged to be heresie by the authority of the Canonicall Scriptures or by the first foure generall Councels or any of them or by any other generall Councell determining the same to be heresie by the expresse words of holy Scripture Or are there any which do deny or impugne any of the 39 Articles of Religion agréed vpon in Anno 1562. and established in the Church of England And is the Declaration which the Kings Maiesty prefixed before those 39 Articles concerning the selling 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 Be there any in your Parish that haue affirmed that the Forme of consecrating Bishops and making Priests and Deacons as it is vsed in the Church of England is not holy right true and lawfull Or that the Gouernment of this Church vnder the Kings Maiestie by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and other Ecclesiasticall Officers is vnlawfull or antichristian 4 Is there in your Parish any that hath béene or is vehemently suspected to have 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 méetings to be lawfull 5 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 or conueigh to others 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 6 Haue any in your Parish spoken or declared anything in derogation or deprauation of the forme of Gods worship and the set forme of common prayer prescribed and established in the Church of England or in dislike of the administration of the Sacraments or of the other Rites and Ceremonies set forth and prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer and the Canons Ecclesiasticall Or do any preach speak and declare that the Booke of Common Prayer containeth any thing that is repugnant to the holy Scripture or not meet to be vsed Or do vse any scomfull words against those godly Sermons called the Homilies of the Church Chap. 2. Concerning Publike Prayer and the Administration of the Holy Sacraments c. 1 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 maner than is mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer 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 booke Or hath any interrupted him in his preaching or reading the Homilies 2 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 3 Hath the administration of the Sacrament of Baptisme béene at any time deferred longer than till the next Sunday or Holiday immediately following the birth of the childe And do they all come to Church when a child is to be baptized at or about the beginning of diuine Seruice And is the baptizing performed immediately after the second Lesson 4 Hath the Sacrament of Baptisme béen refused to be administred to any children borne in or out of wedlock their birth being made known to the Minister of the Parish and they offered vnto him to be baptized Or haue any such children died vnbaptized 5 Haue the parents of the childe baptised béene at any time admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers to the same Or haue any béene admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers to any childe before they haue receiued the holy Communion Or haue there béene admitted more or lesse than two Godfathers and one Godmother for a male child and two Godmothers and one Godfather for a female Or haue any Godfathers or Godmothers vsed any other answers or spéech in Baptisme than is by the Book of Common Prayer appointed Or haue they giuen to the children baptised any name that is absurd or inconuenient for so holy an action 6 Haue any children béene baptised in priuate houses except vpon great necessity and if so what was the same or by any Lay-person or Midwife or Popish Priest or by any other than your owne Minister And haue all

euery Sunday and Holiday and their Eues and on the day of the conuersion of Saint Paul Saint Barnabies day and euery day of the holy Wéek next before Easter as also on all Wednesdaies and Fridayes at fit and vsuall times according to the forme prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer in a reuerent manner ouer and as audibly and distinctly as he vseth to Preach Doth he also read 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 due they stand and say Glory be to the Father c. and doth hée leaue out and not read the Contents of the Chapters After the Lessons doth he use no other Psalme or Hymne but those which the Booke of Common Prayer hath appointed Doth hée read the Créed of S. Athanass●… called the Quicunque vult on all those dayes for which it is appointed and the Commination on Ash wednesday adding the Letany on euery Wednesday and Friday 9 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 10 Doth your Parson or Vicar hauing a Curate vnder him notwithstanding read diuine Seruice himselfe frequently and publikely at the vsuall times both in the forenoone and after noone in the Church which hée possesseth and doth hée also administer both Sacraments 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 and how oft in the yéere hath he done it 11 Doth your Minister Preacher and Lecturer euery yéere of purpose and expresly yet not by way of disputation but by plain conclusion determination only teach and declare the lawfull authority which the King hath ouer the State both Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill and the iust abolishing of all Popery and forraigne power or iurisdiction over the same 12 Hath your Minister or any Preacher among you published 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. Or hath he taught any thing which he would haue the people religiously obserue and belieue 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 as you conceiued or haue béene informed by others of better iudgement 13 Doth your Minister goe to the administration of holy Baptisme euer immediately after the second Lesson Doth he alwayes at first aske whether the child bée baptized or no Afterward doth he euer vse and neuer omit both to take the child in his hands and also to make the signe of the Crosse to as to touch the childs forehead in making the same Doth he at any time publikely baptize but in the Font or with any Bason Bucket or Paile or other vessell 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 béene giuen to him And hath any child dyed without baptisme by his default 14 Doth your Minister or Cur●…ten admonish the people that they deferre not the baptisme of their infants any ●…ger after they are borne than is prescribed vnlesse vpon a great and reasonable ●ain● declared withe Minister or Curate and approued by him nor that they procure them to bée baptized at home without great necessity 15 Hath your Minister admitted any person to answer as Godfather or Godmother at the christening of a child 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 hée 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 it hath learned the Catechisme 16 Doth your Minister euery Sunday and Holiday before euening prayer halfe an houre or more catechise and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of your Parish both male and female in the ten Commandements the Articles of Beliefe and the Lords Prayer And doth he vse for that purpose the Catechisme set forth in the Book 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 private And be 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 or care not to learne 17 Are your afternoone-sermons if there were wont to be any turned into catechizing by question and answer where and whensoeuer there is no great cause apparent to the contrary And is this truly and sincerely performed without mockery or in shew only and so without any long or large discourse Sermon-wise vpon the said Questions and Answers but only to explaine the same in few and briefe passages easie to be remembred 18 Doth your Minister vse to administer the holy Communion at least thrice in the yéere whereof once at Gaster to euery parishioner in your Parish that is sixtéene yéeres of age and upwards and first to receive 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 Book of Common Prayer without alteration at euery time that the Bread and Wine is renewed Doth hée 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 blood of our Lord IESUS and upon no pretence till the Church appoint otherwise 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 prayer the Sunday before euery time of his administring of the Holy Communion for their better preparation thereunto 19 Hath your Minister admitted vnto the holy Communion any of his cure or flocke which he openly known to liue in sinne notorious