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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68021	Articles to be enquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men within the arch-deaconrie of Worcester, in the visitation of the worshipfull Mr. Edward Thornburgh, Arch-deacon of Worcester, anno Domini. [blank]	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Worcester.; Thornburgh, Edward.	1634 (1634)	STC 10372.7; ESTC S4289	8,387	14

compact either directly or indirectly 17 Hath any of your Parish or of any other Parish vnreuerently vsed your Minister layd violent hands on him or disgraced his office and function by word or déed Diuine Seruice 18 Is diuine Seruice in due time on Sundayes Holy-dayes and their Eues and at other times appoynted reuerently said or sung in your Church or Chappell with the Letany on Wednesdayes and Frydayes and all other rites and ceremonies according to the prescript forme of common Prayer in the Communion Booke 19 Whether doth any not being licensed or any not ordered at least for a Deacon say common Prayer openly in your Church or Chappell 20 Doe any men young or old vse to weare their hats in the Church or Chappell in time of diuine Seruice or are there any that behaue themselues disorderly in the Church Chappell or Churchyard or any disturbers of diuine Seruice or Sermons 21 Whether doe any Victualers or others in your Parish suffer any drinking or gaming in their houses on Sundayes or Holy-dayes especially in time of diuine Seruice or Sermons 22 Whether any in your Parish vpon Sabbath dayes or Holy-dayes doe vse their trade or doe any other worke or labour as Brewing Baking Washing Barbing or such like or doe any Mercers Drapers Shoomakers Butchers or others whatsoeuer open their shops for sale of Wares vpon those dayes or doe hedge ditch dig carry or draw burdens by themselues their seruants horses or other cattell whatsoeuer on such dayes And is the fifth day of Nouember obserued according as is ordayned in that behalfe The holy Communion 23 Haue you a decent Communion Table on a frame with a séemely Carpet and a cloth of Linnen a Communion cup and couer of siluer a faire Flagon of Pewter or purer mettall for the Wiue a plate for the Bread and a Towell to lay ouer it 24 Whether is there any in your Parish which being full sixteene yeares of age and vpward hath not receiued the holy Communion thrée seuerall times in the yeare past at least in his or her Parish Church whereof Easter to be one of the thrée times 25 Doth your Minister instruct or examine his Parishioners concerning the Sacraments at conuenient times before he administer the Communion And doeth hee admit any thereto that cannot say at least the Lords Prayer the Articles of the Christian faith and the ten Commandements 26 Is your Communion ministred with Bread and Wine consecrated in such order as in the Booke of common Prayer is appoynted And doth your Minister deliuer both kindes to euery seuerall Communicant with the blessing prescribed in the booke of common Prayer 27 Doth any receiue the holy Communion either sitting standing or otherwise then knéeling as is prescribed in the booke of common Prayer Or doe any refuse to receiue the same kneeling and doth your Minister admit any to receiue the Communion otherwise then kneeling 28 Doth your Minister admit any notorious Offenders or any Schismaticks to the holy Communion before one penance enioyned by the Ordinary be duly performed by them or doth he admit any notoriously known to be out of charity or any that hath done any open wrong to his neighbour before reconciliation made to the party wronged 29 Whether doth your Minister appoynt and obserue so many Communions euery yeare as that the Parishioners may conueniently receiue all of them thrée seuerall times in the yeare And doth he use to giue publike notice thereof in the Church the Sabbath day next going before euery such Communion that the Parishioners may prepare themselues to be partakers thereof Baptisme 30 Haue you in your Church a conuenient Font of stone well kept and couered standing in the ancient place Doth your Minister baptize therein or in a Bason or other thing or with any other ceremonies than such as are allowed in the Booke of common Prayer or doth he omit neglect or not vse all the ceremonies therein prescribed and doeth hee vse the signe of the Crosse in Baptisme 31 Doth your Minister refuse to baptize any children of Christian parents that are brought to the Church 32 Are parents vrged to be present at the baptizing of their children or be any admitted to be God-fathers or Godmothers that haue not receiued the holy Communion or do any parents refuse to haue their children signed with the signe of the Crosse in Baptisme 33 Haue any children that were borne in your parish béen carried out of the parish to bee baptized elsewhere or haue any not been baptized at all or in places or by parties vnknowne 34 Whether hath your Minister refused deferred or delayed to co●● vnto and to christen any child being in weakenesse or in danger of death being thereunto required by reason whereof such a child hath through his negligence or by his default dyed vnbaptized Cathechisme 35 Doth your Minister or his Curate duely catechize according to the late Canons euery Sunday such children and seruants of both sexes as are of conuenient age or at least so many of them by course as the time will serue 36 Doe Parents and Housholders bring or send their children and seruants to the Church euery Sunday duely to be catechized according as the late Canons require and who are negligent therein Matrimonie 37 Whether is Matrimonie solemnized in your Church or Chappel according to the booke of common Prayer 38 Haue you in your Church a Table of the degrees of Marriage are any married within the degrées of consanguinity or affinity therein forbidden or doe any children vnder the age of twenty one yeares contract themselues or marry without consent of their parents or Guardians 39 Haue any beene marryed without the Banes thrice asked in the Church thrée seuerall Sundayes or Holy-dayes vnlesse by Licence of the Ordinary granted vnder Seale or at any time of the day than betwixt the houres of eight and twelue in the forenoone or at any times prohibited that is to say from Aduent Sunday to the Octaues of Epiphany from Septuagesima Sunday to the Octaues of Easter from Rogation Sunday to Trinity Sunday 40 Haue any that dwell in your Parish beene married in any other Parish or any of another Parish béene married in your Parish or haue any béene married priuately out of the Church or face of the Congregation when where by whom and who were present at such marriages 41 Haue any women not well knowne to be married béen deliuered of any Child in your Parish and in whose house or hath any woman in your Parish béene carnally knowne or begotten with child before marriage and by whom 42 Haue any forsaken their Wiues or husbands and married others Haue any married againe after they haue béene diuorced Or doe any which haue beene diuorced keep company still together 43 Doe any married couples liue asunder and not together and doe either of them keepe in their house or secretly resort to any other to the raising of suspition or fame of incontinency 44 Hath any in

be they that want the same 73 Haue any Apparators or others taken any reward to compound or conceale any offence Presentable or punishable in the Ecclesiasticall Court let this be manifested and information and presentment made for euery offence accordingly 74 You shal further present whether any in your parish vpon Sundaies or Holy-dayes doe vse any dancing plaies or other sports or pastimes whatsoeuer before all Seruice on those dayes be fully ended And are the same vsed by any of another parish or any which haue not the same day béene at diuine Prayers in their owne parish Church who be they which haue offended in any of the premises Church-wardens and Sidemen 75 Are your Churchwardens Sidemen chosen yearly in the Easter weeke according to the Canons And doe the Churchwardens yearely truely make and deliuer vp in writing their account of all their receits disbursements whatsoeuer by them receiued and laid out for the parish of all the Church goods books and other things as the Canons require 76 Doe your Churchwardens themselues come duly to the Church to diuine prayers and Sermons and do they theyr best endeauors especially vpon Sundaies and Holy-daies to cause all parishioners to do the like 77 Whether is there a transcript or coppy of the Register booke of the Church of Christenings weddings and burialls yearly exhibited and deliuered vp into the Registry of the Ordinary or not 78 Whether is there a sufficient teriar of the gléebe land and other Rights belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage truely taken and exhibited into the Registers office as by law it ought 79 Haue the late Churchwardens concealed any crime offence or disorder in theyr times and not presented the same what be the matters so concealed Or doth any trouble molest vexe or abuse in words or otherwise the Ministers Churchwardens or Sidemen for doing their Office according to their Oath and Duety and who bee they that so doe And haue the Churchwardens continued in that office aboue one yeare without a new election 80 Whether any Churchwardens Questmen or Sidemen or any Parish haue bin called and enforced to present any faults committed in their parishes otherwise than at the Visitations or time or times limited in the 116 Canon Articles concerning the orders and iniunctions lately inioyned by his Maiesty 81 Haue you any Lecturer or preaching Minister in your parish doth he preach in the afternoone on Sabbath dayes and doth he then vse a catechisticall forme by question and Answer 82 Whether doth your Lecturer or preaching minister in your parish before his Sermon reade diuine prayers in a Surplice and if hee bee a Graduate in a hood answerable to his degree and doeth hee preach in a gown and not in a cloke 83 Haue you any in your Parish either Recusants or others which ●e●●ss or doe not come to diuine prayers Lecturers Sermons and Cate●hizings in your Church or doe negligently absent themselues and not ●equent the same or any of them 84 Whether is there any in your Parish which kéepeth any priuate Chaplaine in his house and who by name 85 Haue you aduisedly and diligently perused read or heard others ●eade and peruse this booke of Articles and euery particular Article and branch thereof and haue you framed your answers or presentments to the same accordingly 86 Generally whether doe you know any of the Canons broken or any other Ecclesiasticall matter worthy to be presented or not and if you ●oe you shall truly present the same by the Oath you haue taken as well now as hereafter when it shall come to your knowledge FINIS