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B07664	Articles to be enquired of in the visitation of the Right Reuerend Father, Iohn, by the prouidence of God, Bishop of Worcester. In the yeere of our Lord God, 1632..	Church of England. Diocese of Worcester. Bishop (1617-1641: Thornborough).; Thornborough, John, 1551-1641.	1632 (1632)	STC 10369; ESTC S92464	8,151	17

ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF IN THE VISITATIon of the Right Reuerend Father IOHN by the Prouidence of God Bishop of Worcester In the yeere of our Lord God 1632. LONDON Printed for John Grismond 1632. The Aduertisement THe Minister and Church-wardens are to call vnto them the Neighbours of the Parish and out of them to make choyce according to the custome of the place of two of the discreetest Parishioners to be Side-men and they altogether are to reade ouer these Articles diuers times Then after they haue duly considered of them they are to write their answere or presentment vnto euery Article particularly and truely according to their consciences Lastly they are all of them to bring their presentments to the Visitation and there the Church-wardens and Side-men vpon their oathes but the Minister according to the Canon in that behalfe are to deliuer them vp vnder their hands The Oath ministred to the Church-wardens and Sworne-men YOu shall sweare that all affection fauour hatred hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set aside You shall vpon due consideration of the Articles giuen you in charge present all and euery such person of or within your Parish as hath committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected and defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shall deliuer vprightly and according to truth neither of malice presenting any contrary to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any 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 the Contents of this Booke God saue the King Concerning Church and Church-yard WHether is your Church and Chancell in all respects well and sufficiently repaired and kept swéet and cleane if not in whose default Haue you therein the ten Commandements the Articles of the Beliefe and other godly sentences fairely written the Bible of the largest volume the Bookes of Common prayer the two volumes of Homilies the booke intituled God and the King and all other bookes requisite a séemely Pulpit a conuenient seat for the Minister at prayers a large and comely Surplesse whole and vntorne 2 Haue you in your Church a strong Chest for Almes with a hole in the top and thrée lockes and keyes thereto Is the money therein put imployed to the vse of the poore 3 Haue you a Register of Christnings Weddings and Burials in a booke of Parchment duely kept in a Chest with thrée locks and keyes 4 Hath any man pulled downe or vncouered or suffered to decay any Parsonage or Vicarage houses or any Church Chancell Chappell Vestry or Church houses in part or in all or imployed them or any of them to any prophane vses 5 Whether is your Parsonage Vicarage or Ministers house or any part thereof conuerted made vsed or imployed to or for any common passage entry thorow fare or common way for people or cattell vsually to passe thorow forth of the Churchyard into or vnto any Alehouse Tipling or victualling house common Inne or Wine-Tauerne And by whom and by whose sufferance and permission and how long hath the same béen so made enioyned vsed imployed or rather misused and misimployed as aforesaid 6 Whether are the pales fences enclosures and markes of ancient bounds and limits of your Parsonage Vicarage or Ministers houses or of the courts entries gardens backsides or other appurtenances belonging to the same or any part thereof remoued or altered or taken away from their ancient places bounds and limits thereof and laid and vsed to and with any victualling-house common Inne or Wine-Tauerne And by ●hom when and by whose sufferance and how long time hath the same ●●ene so done and suffered And whether by the continuance of the vse of ●he premises as aforesaid may not the same in short time grow out of ●nowledge and by some prescription to become preiudiciall to the Church or succéeding Incumbent thereof 7 Are your Bels Bell-ropes and Clocke in good repaire and well ordered Is your Churchyard well fenced and decently kept Is it not prophaned with fighting brawling chiding gaming dancing playing or with vnlawfull cattell or otherwise and how and by whom and by whose default Ministers and Curates 8 Doth your Minister reade or say the whole diuine Seruice euery Sunday and Holy-day and administer the holy Sacraments according to the booke of Common Prayer Is your Minister a licenced Preacher doth he diligently preach sound doctrine and for matters of gouernement seriously teach and maintaine the Kings supremacy vnder God within his Maiesties dominions ouer all persons and in all causes as well Ecclesiasticall as Ciuill and the abolishing of all forraigne power 9 Hath your Minister more Benefices than one if two or more doth he reside vpon one of them himselfe and maintaine a licenced Preacher on the other If he haue but one is he resident and dwelling thereupon is he painefull in his vocation of sober and good conuersation and giuen to hospitality 10 Doth your Minister vse decencie of Apparell as well in the Church as else-where And in the time of Diuine Prayers and administration of the Sacraments doth he vse to weare the Surplesse and if he be a Graduate such a Hood as is agréeable to his calling 11 Is your Minister a peace-maker and no sower of discord or is hée suspected famed or noted of any notorious crime or giueth he any ill example in his cariage or demeanour 12 Doth any preach in your Parish that refuseth to conforme himselfe to the lawes ordinances and rites of the Church of England 13 Hath your Minister a Curate and how is he licenced doth he serue two Cures and doth he giue notice of the fasting dayes and Holy-dayes commanded and allowed and amongst others of the fifth of Nouember 14 If your Minister be not a Preacher allowed doth he procure monethly Sermons and when there is no Sermon doth hée reade an H●mily doth he take vpon him to expound any text of Scriptures 15 What Preachers haue come from any other place and Preach in your Parish haue you their names written in a booke kept for th●● purpose hath such a Preacher subscribed his name thereto and set dow● the day when he preached and by whom licenced 16 Hath your Minister obtained his Benefice by any Symontacall compact either directly or indirectly 17 Hath any of your parish or of any other parish vnreuerently vsed your Minister laid violent hands on him or disgraced his office and function by word or déede Diuine Seruice 18 Is diuine Seruice in due time on Sundayes Holydayes their Eeues and at other times appointed reuerently said or sung in your Church or Chappell with the Letany on Wednesdayes and Fridayes and all other rites and ceremonies according to the prescript forme of Common prayer in the Communion booke 19 Whether doth any not being

or in the night who and by whom and who were present thereat 47 Doe the Executors or Administrators or other friends of them that are buried in Church or Chancell repaire againe the pauement and giue any thing to the Church or in whose default is the same neglected and not repaired Churching of women 48 Doth any woman refuse to giue God thanks openly in the Church or as we terme it to be churched at conuenient times after Childbirth or doth any Minister refuse to church them or church them any otherwise then is prescribed in the booke of Common prayer 49 Hath any woman vnlawfully begotten with child bin admitted to publique thanksgiuing in the Church before shee hath performed such pennance as was enioyned her by the Ordinary or at least béen Churched in a white shéet and confessed her fault penitently before sufficient witnesses and vndertaken to stand to the censure of her Ordinary for her said offence Parish Clearks 50 Haue you a Parish Clearke chosen by the Minister is he of honest conuersation hath he a competent skill in reading writing and singing And doth any with-hold or detaine his Wages or duties from him Scoolemasters 51 Haue you any Schoole-house and how is it repaired And haue you any Schoolemaster in your Parish that teacheth publikely or priuately is he lawfully licenced doth hée come duely to the Church and receiue the holy Communion doth he instruct his Schollers in the Catechism● allowed and in the booke intituled God and the King causeth hée them to repaire to diuine Prayers in the Church and to heare and note S●●mons Teacheth he any other Grammar than that which is allowed 52 Is any Schoolemaster knowne or suspected publiquely or priu●●●ly to reade to his Schollers or suffer them to reade any booke that 〈◊〉 confirme them in Popery superstition or disobedience to the Kings Maiestie or to his lawes Ecclesiasticall or ciuill how many either men or women doe teach children in your Parish and what be their names Schismaticks and Recusants of all sorts 53 Doe you know any that teach or maintaine any doctrine contrary to the Articles agréed vpon in the conuocation Anno Dom. 1562. 54 Doth any preach minister the Communion baptize children or church women in priuate houses or other where then in the Church except it be in cases of necessity 55 Know you any that absent themselues from the Church negligently or wilfully how long haue they so done And of them that are absent without a sufficient and lawfull cause is the forfeiture of twelue pence taken euery Sunday and conuerted to the vse of the poore according to the Statute Eliza. 1. 56 In your Parish where there is a Preacher doe any vse to absent themselues from his Sermon and resort to any other 57 Know you any that forbeare to participate with the Church of England in prayer or Sacraments either denying the Church to be Apostolicall or condemning the ceremonies thereof as superstitious 58 Haue you in your parish any Popish Recusants and halfe Papists that come to the Church and receiue not the Communion any Church Papists that come and receiue themselues but either perswade others or maintaine their wiues children family or friends not to come 59 Doth any Seminary Priest or Iesuite resort to any place within this Diocesse or suspect you any such Or doe you know any that resort to any popish Priest or Iesuite 60 Know you any that by writing talke or argument impugne the Kings Supremacie or any that haue kept in their custody that sell disperse carry or deliuer vnto others any vnlawfull Bookes against the Religion and gouernment established or in defence of any forraigne power or domesticall Consistory Excommunicated persons 61 Are all excommunicated persons kept out of the Church from diuine prayers and receiuing the holy Communion vntill they be lawfully absolued And are there any in your parish which haue stoode excommunicated forty dayes and vpwards are such persons as stand excommunicated once in euery sixe moneths denounced in your Church in time of diuine Seruice vpon some Sunday 62 Hath any Excommunicated person not absolued at least in his extremity not giuing any testimony of his repentance before his departure béene burled in Christian buriall who buried him her or them where and when and who were present at such burials 63 Doe any retaine or kéepe in their house or seruice any person denounced excommunicate or doe any way encourage them therein or conuerse with them in buying selling eating drinking or otherwise kéepe company with them in any sort Wills Testaments and Administrations 64 Doe any in your Parish administer the goods of the dead or any way intermeddle therewith without lawfull authority committed vnto them vnder the Ordinaries seale 65 Know you any in your Parish that suppresse the last will of the Dead or any that forge or alter any Wills or any Executors that fulfill not the testators Will or any that detaine Legacies giuen to any charitable vses Seuerall Articles 66 Doe any in your Parish prophane the Sabbath-dayes or not duly obserue the Holy-dayes appointed Are Ember Fasts orderly obserued at the foure times of the yeare appointed 67 Are the dayes and orders of Perambulation duly obserued in the Rogation wéeke if not in whose default 68 Are the Canons Constitutions and Orders made and agréed vpon in the Conuocation-house Anno Dom. 1603. read ouer once euery yéere in your Church vpon Sundayes or Holy-dayes according to his Maiesties Commandement in that behalfe 69 Doth your Minister yéerely present and giue vp in writing to the Ordinary the names of all Recusants and halfe Recusants men and women as well sosourners as Parishioners and common guests in your Parish aboue the age of thirtéene according to the 114 Canon or not 70 Doe any in your Parish take vpon them to practise Physicke or Chirurgery not being lawfully licenced 71 Are any in your Parish or which were of your parish and are now departed knowne suspected famed or reported to haue offended in Fornication Adultery Incest Witchcraft Sorcery Charming Vsury Swearing drunkennesse common slandering sowing of discord brawling scolding or any other vncleannesse of life or had manners 72 Are any Housholders in your Parish in whose house there is any one that can reade which haue not the booke intituled God and the King and who be they which want the same 73 Haue any Apparators or others taken any reward to compound or conceals any offence presentable or punishable in the Ecclesiasticall Court if so let the same be presented 74 You shall further present whether any in your Parish vpon Sundaies or Holy-daies 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 premisses Church wardens and Sidemen 75 Are your Church wardens and Side-men chosen yearely in the Easter wéeke according to the Canons And doe the Church-wardens yearely truly make and deliuer vp in writing their account of all their receits and disbursements whatsoeuer by them receiued and laid out for the parish and of all the Church goods Bookes and other things as the Canons require 76 Doe your Church-wardens themselues come duly to the Church to diuine Prayers and Sermons doe they their best endeuours especially vpon Sundayes and Holy-dayes to cause all parishioners to doe the like 77 Whether is there a transcript or copy of the Register booke of the Church or christnings weddings and burials yearly exhibited and deliuered vp into the Registry of the Ordinary or not 78 Whether is there a sufficient terriar of the gléebe land and other rites belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage truly taken and exhibited into the Registers office as by the law it ought 79 Haue the late Church-wardens concealed any crime offence or disorder in their times and not presented the same what be the matters so concealed or doth any trouble molest vex or abuse in words or otherwise the Ministers Church-wa●rdens or Sidemen for doing their office according to their Oath and duty and who be they that so doe And haue your Church-wardens continued in that office aboue one yeare without a new Election Articles concerning the order and iniunctions lately enioyned by his Maiestie 81 Haue you any Lecturer or preaching Minister in your Parish doth he preach in the afternoone on Sabboth 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 hée be a Graouate in a Hood answerable to his Degrée and doth he Preach in a Gowne and not in a Cloake 83 Haue you any in your parish either Rerusants or others which refuse or doe not come to Diuine prayers Lectures Sermons and Catechiz●ngs in your Church or doe negligently absent themselues and not frequent the same or any of them present the names and true additions of euery offe●●●r herein 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 reade 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 doe 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

licenced or any not ordered at least for a Deacon say Common prayer openly in your Church or Chappell 20 do 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 Holydayes especially in time of diuine Seruice or Sermons 22 Whether any in your parish vpon Sabboth dayes or Holydayes 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 digge carry or draw burthens by themselues their seruants horses or other cattell whatsoeuer on such dayes And is the fifth day of Nouember obserued according as is ordained in that behalfe The holy Communion 23 Haue you a decent Communion Table on a frame with a séemly carpet and a cloth of Linnen a Communion cup and couer of siluer a faire Flagon of pewter or purer mettall for the Wine a plate for the Bread and a Towell to lay ouer it 24 Whether is there any in your parish which being full sixtéene yéeres of age and vpward hath not receiued the holy Communion thrée seuerall times in the yéere past at least in his or her parish Church wher●f Easter to be one of the thrée times 25 Doth your Minister instruct or examine his Parishioners concerning the Sacraments at conuenient times before hee administer the Communion And doth he 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 appointed 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 than knéeling as is prescribed in the booke of common prayer or doe any refuse to receiue the same knéeling and doth your Minister admit any to receiue the Communion otherwise than kneeling 28 Doth your Minister admit any notorious offenders or any Schismaticks to the holy Communion before due penance enioyned by the Ordinary be duly performed by them or doth he admit any notoriously knowne to be out of charity 29 Whether doth your Minister appoint and obserue so many Communions in one yéere as that the Parishioners may conueniently receiue all of them thrée seuerall times in the yéere And doth he vse to giue publique notice thereof in the Church the Sabbath day next going before euery such Communions 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 any Bason or other thing or with any other ceremonies than such as are allowed in the booke of common prayer or doth hée omit neglect or not vse all the ceremonies therein prescribed and doth hée 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 vnbaptized 32 Are Parents vrged to be present at the baptizing of their children or be any admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers that haue not receiued the holy Communion or doe 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 béene caried ou● of the Parish to be baptized else where or haue any not béen baptized all or in places or by parties vnknowne 34 Whether hath your Minister refused deferred or delayed to c●r● vnto and to christen any childe being in weaknesse or in danger of deat● being thereunto required by reason whereof such a childe hath throng his negligence or by his default died vnbaptized Catechisme 35 Doth your Minister or his Curate duly 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 56 Doe Parents and Housholders bring or send their children and seruants to the Church euery Sunday duly to be catech●zed according as the Canons require and who are negligent therein Matrimonie 37 Whether is Matrimony solemnized in your Church or Chappell according to the booke of Common Prayer 38 Haue you in your Church a Table of the degrées of Mariage are any maried within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity therein forbidden or doe any children vnder the age of twenty one yéeres contract themselues or marrie without consent of their Parents or Guardians 39 Haue any béene married 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 fore-noone or at any time prohibited that is to say from Aduent Sunday to the Octanes of Epiphanie from Septuagesima Sunday to the Octanes of Easter from Rogation Sunday to Trinity Sunday 40 Haue any that dwell in your Parish béene married in any other Parish or any of another Parish béen married in your Parish Or haue any béen 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 béene deliuered of any childe in your Parish and in whose house Or hath any woman in your Parish béene carnally knowne or begotten with childe 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 béene diuozced kéepe company stil together 43 Doe any married couples liue asunder and not together and doe either of them kéepe in their house or secretly resort to any other to the ●●ising of suspition or fame of incontinency 44 Hath any in your Parish for money or reward married any Woman that committed Fornication or Adulterie with another man Or ●ath any vnmarried Woman begotten with childe gone out of your Parish before shée hath done penance enioyned by the Ordinarie where was she or is she receiued or harbored at whose charge and who conueyed her away Visitation of the sick 42 Doth your Minister or Curate visite the sicke doth he admonish them to repentance comfort the penitent and exhort them to charitable Almes-déeds Buriall of the dead 45 Are your dead buried according to the forme of buriall set downe in the Booke of Common prayer or haue any béene buried secretly