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A00244	Articles to be inquired of, in the [f]irst metropoliticall visitation, of the most reuerend father, George, by Gods pro[v]idence, Arch- bishop of Canterbury, and primate of all England in, and for the dioces of Peterbury, in the yeare of our Lord God, 1613 and in the third yeare of His Graces translation.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1611-1633 : Abbot); Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1613 (1613)	STC 10314.7; ESTC S2101	11,036	19

ARTICLES To be inquired of in the ●●●st Metropoliticall visitation of the most ●euerend Father GEORGE by Gods pro●●●ence Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Primate of all ●●gland in and for the Dioces of Peterbury in the yeare of our Lord God 1613 and in the third yeare of his Graces Translation HEB DDIM HEB DDIEV LONDON Printed by William Iaggard The Tenor of the Oath to be Ministred to the Church-wardens and Side-men YOu shall sweare that you and euery of you shall dulie consider and diligently enquire of all and euery of these Articles giuen you in charge and that all affection fauour hatred hope of reward and gain or feare of displeasure or mallice set aside you shall present all and euery such person of or within your Parish as hath committed any offence or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected or defamed of any such offence or default Wherein you shal deale vprightly and fully neither presenting nor sparing to present any co●●●●● to truth hauing in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine truth and to suppresse vice So help you God and the holie Contents of this Booke ¶ Concerning the Church the Ornaments thereof and the Churches possessions IMprimis whether haue you in your seuerall Churches and Chappels the whole Bible of the largest volume and the Booke of Common Prayer lately set forth by his Maiesties authoritie both fairely and substantiallie bound a Font of Stone set vp in the auncient vsuall ●●ace a conuenient and decent Communion Table with a Carpet of ●ilke or some other decent stuffe continuallie laide vpon the Table at ●●ne of Diuine seruice and a faire Linnen cloath vpon the same at the ●●ne of the receiuing of the holy Communion And whether is the same ●●ble placed in such conuenient sort within the chancell or church as that ●he Minister may be best heard in his Prayer and administration and ●hat the greatest number may communicate And whether is it so vsed 〈◊〉 of time of Diuine seruice as is not agréeable to the holy vse of it as ●atting on it throwing Hats on it writing on it or is it abused to other ●●phaner vses and are the Ten Commaundements set vpon the East●d of your church or chappell where the people may best sée and reade ●un and other sentences of holy Scripture written on the walles like●●se for that purpose 2 Item whether haue you in your said church or chappell a conueni●● seat for your Minister to read seruice in together with a comely pul●● set vp in a conuenient place with a decent cloath or cushion for the ●●e a comely large Surplice a faire Communion cup with a couer of ●●uer a Flaggon of Siluer Tinne or Pewter to put the Wine in hereby it may be set vpon the Communion Table at the time of the ●essing thereof with all other thinges and ornaments necessarie for the ●●bration of Diuine Seruice and administration of the Sacraments ●nd whether haue you a strong Chest for Almes for the poore with thrée ●●ckes and Keies and another chest for kéeping the Bookes and Orna●ents of the Church and the Register Booke And whether haue you a ●egister Booke in Parchment for Christnings Weddings and Buri●● and whether the same be kept in all pointes according to the Cannons in that behalfe prouided And whether haue you in your saide Church or Chancell a Table set of the degrées wherein by Law Men are prohibited to marry 3 Whether are your Church and Chappels with the Chancels therof and your parsonage or vicarage house your Parish Almes-house and Church-house in good reparations and are they imployed to godly and the r●ght holy vses Is your Church Chancell and Chappell decently and comely kept as well within as without and the seats well maintained according to the 85. Cannon in that behalfe prouided Whether your Church-yard be well fenced and kept without abuse and if not in whose default the same is and what the defect or fault is and whether any person haue incroached vpon the ground of the Church-yard or whether any person or persons haue vsed any thing or place consecrated to holy vse prophanely or wickedly 4 Whether haue you the Terrier of all the Gleabe Lands Medowes Gardens Orchards Houses Stockes Implements Tenements and portions of Tiths whether within your Parish or without belonging vnto your parsonage or vicarage taken by the view of honest men in your said Parish And whe her the same Terrier be laid vp in the Bishoppes Registery and in whose hands any of them are now And if you haue no Terrier already made in Parchment you the Church-wardens Side-men together with your Parson or Vicar or in his absence with your Minister are to make diligent inquiry and presentment of the premises and make subscribe and signe the said Terrier as aforesaid Concerning the Ministers 1 VVHether doth your Minister distinctly and reuerently say Diuine seruice vpon Sundayes and Holidaies and other daies appointed to be obserued by the booke of Common Prayer as Wednesdayes and Fridaies and the eeues of euery Sunday and Holiday at si● and vsuall times And doth your Minister duely obserue the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the said Booke of Common Prayer as well in reading publike prayers and the ●etany as also in administring the Sacraments solemnization of Matrimony visiting the sick burying the dead Churching of Women and all other like Rites an● Offices of the Church in such manner and forms as in the said Book of Common prayer he is inioyned without any omiss on or addition And doth hee read the Booke of the last Cannons once yearely and wear● a Surplice according to the said Cannons 2 Doth your Minister bid Holidaies and Fasting-daies as by th● Boke of Common Prayer is appointed And doth he giue warning before hand to the Parishioners for the receiuing of the holy Communion as the 22. Cannon requireth And whether he doth administer the holy Communion so often and at such times as that euery Parishioner may receiue the same at the least thrice in euery yeare whereof once at Easter as by the Booke of common Prayer is appointed And doth your Minister receiue the same himselfe on euery day that he administreth it to others and vse the wordes of institution according to the Booke at euery time that the Breade and Wine is renewed accordingly as by the Prouiso of the 21. Cannon is directed And doth hée deliuer the Bread and Wine to euery Communicant seuerally Whether hée hath admitted to the holy Communion any Offendor or Schismaticke contrary to the 26. and 27. constitutions or receiued any to the communion beeing not of his owne cure or put any from the Communion who are not publiquely infamous for any notorious crime Doth hée vse the signe of the Crosse in Baptisme or Baptize in any Bason or other Vessel and not in the vsuall Font Or admit any Father to bee

God-Father to his owne child or such which haue not receiued the holy Communion or Baptise any children that were not borne in the parish or wilfully refuse to baptise any Infant in his Parish beeing in danger hauing béene enformed of the weakenesse of the said child and whether the saide child dyed through his default without Baptisme 3 Whether hath your Minister married any without a King or without Banes published thrée seuerall Sundaies or Holidaies in time of Diuine seruice in the seuerall churches or chappels of their seuerall abode according to the Booke of common Prayer or in times prohibited albeit the Banes were thrice published without a License or dispensation f●om the Arch-bishop the Bishop of the Diocesse or his Chancellor first obtained in that behalfe Or not betwixt the houses of eight and twelue in the forenoone or haue married any in any priuate house or if the parties be vnder the age of twenty one yeares before their Parents or Gouernours haue signified their consent vnto him 4 Doth he refuse to bury any which ought to be inferred in christian burial or deferre the same longer then he should or bury any in christian buriall which by the constitutions of the church of England ought not so to be interred 5 Is your Minister a Preacher allowed If yea then by whom if not Whether dooth he procure some who are lawfully licensed to preach monthly amongst you at the least 6 Doth your Minister being licenced preach vsually according to the Cannons either in his owne Cure or in some other church or chappell néere adioyning where no Preacher is and how often he hath béene negligent in that behalfe and doth he preach standing and with his hat off Or whether doth he or his Curate vpon euery Sunday when there is no Sermon read an Homilie or some part thereof according as hée ought to doe or in case he be not licensed to preach doth he take vpon him to Preach or expound the Scriptures in his owne Cure or else-where If so then you are to present the same the time and place when and where he did it 7 Doth your Minister vse to pray for the Kinges Maiesty King Iames and for the Quéenes Maiesty the Prince and all their Royall Progeny with addition of such stile and Titles as are due to his Highnesse and exhort the people to obedience to his Maiesty and all Magistrates in authority vnder him 8 Is your Minister continually resident vppon his Benefice and how long time hath he beene absent and in case he be licensed to bee absent whether doth he cause his Cure to be sufficiently supplied according to the Cannons or in case he hath another Benefice whether doth he supply his absence by a Curate sufficiently licensed to preach in that Cure where he himselfe is not resident Or otherwise in case the smalnesse of the Liuing cannot finde a Preaching Minister doth he preach at both his Benifices vsually 9 Doth your Minister or Curate serue any more Cures then one if yea then what other Cure dooth hee serue and how farre are they distant 10 Doth your Minister euery Sunday and Holliday before Euening Prayer for halfe an houre or more examine and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of his Parish in the Ten Commaundements Articles of the Beléefe and in the Lords Prayer and the Sacrament according as it is prescribed in the Catechisme set foorth in the Booke of Common Prayer 11 Doth your Minister in the Rogation daies goe in perambulation of the circuit of the Parish saying and vsing the Prayers Suffrages and Thanksgiuing to God appointed by Law according to his duty thanking God for his blessinges if there be plenty on the earth Or otherwise to pray for his grace and fauour if there be a feare of s●●sitie 12 Hath your Minister admitted any Woman begotten with child in Adultry or Fornication to be churched without license of the ordinary 13 Hath your Minister or any other Preacher baptized Children churched any woman or ministred the holy Communion in any priuate house otherwise then as by Law is allowed 14 Doth your Minister being a Preacher endeuour and labour diligently to reclaime the Popish Recusants in his Parish from their errors if there bee any such abiding in your Parish Or whether is your Parson Vicar or Curate ouer conuersant with or a fauourer of Recusants whereby he is suspected not to be sincere in Religion 15 Hath your Minister taken vpon him to appoint any publique or priuate Fasts Prophesies or exercises not approued by Law or publike authority or hath vsed to méete in any priuate house or place with any person or persons there to consult how to impeach or depraue the book of common prayer or the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England If yea then you shall present them all 16 Hath your Minister stated the publication of any excommunications or suspitions or doth he euery halfe yeare denounce in his Parish-church all such of his Parish as are excommunicated and perseuer therein without seeking to be absolued or doth he wittingly and willingly kéep company with such as are excommunicate And hath he admitted into your Church any person excommunicate without a Certificate of his absolution from the Ordinary or other competent Iudge 17 Doth your Minister carefully looke to the reléefe of the poore and from time to time call vpon his Parishioners to giue somewhat as they can spare to godlie and charitable vses especially when they make their Testaments 18 Whether your Minister or any hauing taken holy orders being now silenced or suspended or any other person of your knowledge or as you haue heard hold any conuenticles or doth preach in any place or vse any other forme of Diuine seruice then is appointed in the Booke of Common praier If yea then you are to present their names and with whom 19 Whether is your Curate licensed to serue by the Bishop of this Diocesse or by any other and by whom 20 Doth your Minister vse such decency and comelinesse in his apparrell as by the 47. Cannon is enioyned and is he of sober behauiour and one that doth not vse such bodily labour as is not séemely for his suntion and calling 21 Is your Minister noted or defamed to haue obtained his Benifice or his orders by Symony or any other way defamed to be Symoniacall person or any way noted to bee a Schismaticke or scismaticallie affected or reputed to be an incontinent person or doth table or lodge any such in his house or is he a frequenter of Tauernes Innes or Ale-houses or any place suspected for ill rule Or is he a common Drunkard a common Gamster or player at Dice a Swearer or one that applyeth himselfe not at his study or is otherwise offensiue and scandalous to his function or Ministry 22 Doth your Preacher or Lecturer read Diuine seruice and Minister the Sacraments twice a yeare at least in his own person according to the Cannons

Schoole-Maisters 23 DOth any in your Parish take vpon him to teach Schoole without License of the Ordinary and is he conformable to the Religion now established And doth he bring his Schollers to the Church to heare Diuine seruice and Sermons And doth he instruct his Shollers in the groundes of the Religion now established in this Church of England and is he carefall and diligent to benefit his Schollers in learning Parish Clearkes and Sextons 24 HAue you a fit Parish Clark aged twenty yeares at least of honest conuersation able to read and write whether are his and the Sextons wages paid without fraud according to the ancient custome of your Parish if not then by whom are they so defrauded or denyed By whom are they chosen And whether the said Clarke be approued by the Ordinary And hath he taken an Oath as in such cases is fit and required And is he diligent in his office and seruiceable to the Minister and doth he take vpon him to meddle with any thing aboue his Office as Churching of Women burying the dead or such like 25 Doth your Clarke or Sexton kéepe the Church cleaue the doores locked Is any thing lost or spoyled in the Church through his default doth he suffer any vnseasonable ringing or any prophane exercise in your Church Or doth he when any is passing out of this life neglect to tole a Bell hauing notice thereof Concerning the Parishoners 1 VVHether any of your Parishoners béeing sixtéene yeares of age or vpwards or others lodging or commonly resorting to any House within your Parish do wil●ullie absent themselues from your Parish-church vpon Sondaies or Holidaies at Morning and Euening Prayers Or who come late to Church and depart from church before ●●ruice be done vpon the said daies Or who doe not reuerently behaue ●●emselues during the time of Diuine Seruice deuoutly knéeling when ●e generall confession of sinnes the Letany the ten Commandements and all Prayers and Collects are read and vsing all due and lowly reue●●nce when the blessed name of the Lord Iesus Christ is mentioned and ●tanding vp when the Articles of the Beleefe are read or who doe couer ●heir heads in the Church during the time of Diuine seruice vnlesse it be a case of necessity in which case they may weare a Night-cap or coy●e Or who doe giue themselues to babling talking or walking and are ●ot attentiue to heare the word preached or read or reading or praying ●●ring the time aforesaid Whether any of your Parish being of sixtéen yeares of age or vpwards doe not receiue the holie communion in your ●hurch thrice euery yeare whereof once at Easter and whether they ●●e not deuoutly kneele at the receiuing thereof 2 Whether any of your Parishioners being admonished thereof ●●e not send their Children Seruants and Apprentizes to the Minister 〈◊〉 be catechized vppon such Sondaies and Holidaies as are appointed Or whether any of them doe refuse to come or if they come refuse to ●●ne those instructions set forth in the Booke of common prayer 3 Whether any of your parish doe entertaine within their house ●●y soiourner common guests or other persons who refuse to frequent ●iuine seruice or receiue the holie communion as aforesaide present ●●eir names their qualities or conditions 4 What Recusant Papists are there in your parish present their ●●nes qualities or conditions whether kéepe they any Schoolemaister 〈◊〉 their house which commeth not to church to heare Diuine seruice and ●●trine the Communion What is his Name and how long hath hée ●●ght there or else-where 5 Whether any of the said popish Recusants doe labour to seduce 〈◊〉 withdraw others from the Religion now established Or instruct 〈◊〉 Families or children in popish Religion or refuse to entertain any ●●●cially in place of greatest seruice or trust but such as concurre with 〈◊〉 in their papistry 6 How long haue the said Popish Recusants abstained from diuine ●●●uice or from the communion as aforesaid 7 Is there any in your parish that retaine vndefaced or sell vtter 〈◊〉 verse any popish Bookes or writings or any Bookes Libels or ●●●ings of any Secturies touching the Religion State or Gouern●●nt Ecclesiasticall of this Kingdome of England or kéepe any Ornaments of superstition vncancelled or defaced 8 Whether haue you any in your Parish which héeretofore being Popish Recusants or Sectuaries haue since reformed themselues and come to Church to heare Diuine Seruice and receiue the Sacraments If yea then who they are And how long since haue they so reformed themselues And whether they still remaine and abide in that conformitie 9 Is there any in your Parish that refuse to haue their Children Baptized or themselues to receiue the Communion at the hands of your Minister taking exception against him and what causes or exceptions doe they alledge or haue any married Wiues refused to come to church according to the Booke of common Prayer to giue God thankes after their Child-birth for their safe deliuerance And whether doe any of or in your Parish refuse to haue their children Baptized in your parish-church according to the forme prescribed in the Booke of common Prayer 10 Whether any of your Parish hauing a Preacher to their parson Vicar or Curate doe absent themselues from his Sermons and resort to other places to heare other Preachers Or whether any of your parish doe communicate or baptize their Children in any other parish 11 What persons within your parish for any offence contumacy or crime of Ecclesiasticall Conusance do stand excommunicate present their names and for what cause they are excommunicated and how long they haue so stood and what parson or persons doe wittingly and vsualli● keepe them company 12 Whether any not being in orders doe execute any priestlie o● ministeriall office in your Church Chappell or Church-yard and wha● be their names 13 Whether any in your parish that hauing héeretofore taken vpon him the order of Priest-hood or Deacon hath since relinguished th● same and liues a Lay-man neglecting his vocation 14 Haue any person in your Parish quarrelled or stricken or vsed any violence to your Minister or haue strucken or quarrelled with any other person within your Church or Church-yard or demeaned him selfe disorderedly in the Church by filthy or prophane talke or any othe● leud or immodest behauiour Or haue disturbed the Minister in time o● Diuine seruice or Sermon or haue libelled or spoken slanderous worde against your Minister to the scandall of his vocation or diffamed an● of his Neighbours touching any crime o● Ecclesiasticall conusance 15 Whether any of or in your parish without consent of the Ordinary or other lawfull authority haue caused any to doe pennance or 〈◊〉 be censured or punished for any matter of Ecclesiasticall conusance by any Vestry meetings or otherwise by their own authoritie Or haue ta●en any Money or commutation for the same Present their names that ●●ue done it And who haue beene so punished In what manner and vpon what cause 16

Whether any person in your parish doe exercise any Trade or ●●bour buy or sell or keepe open Shoppes or Ware-houses vppon any Sunday or Holliday by themselues their Seruants or Apprentizes ●r haue otherwise prophaned the said daies contrary to the orders of the ●hurch of England And whether there bée any Inne-kéepers Ale-house-kéepers Victulers or other persons that permit any persons in their Houses to eate drinke or play during the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon or reading the Homilies in the forenoone or afternoone ●pon those daies 17 Whether the fift day of August and the fift day of Nouember b●eacute e kept holie and thanksgiuing made to God for his Maiesties and this States happy deliueraunce according to the ordinance in that behalfe 18 Whether any of your parish hold or frequent any conuenticles or priuate congregations or make or maintaine any constitutions agréed vppon in any such assemblies Or any that doe write or publiquelie or priuately speake against the Booke of common praier or any ●hing therein contained or against any of the Articles of Religion agréed vpon in Anno 1562. or against the Kinges Supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall or against the Oath of Supremacy or of Alleagiance as pretending the same to be vnlawfull and not warrantable by the word of God Or against any of the Rites or ceremonies of the Church of England now established Or against the gouernment of the church of England vnder the Kinges most excellent Maiestie by Arch-Bishops Byshoppes Deanes Arch-Deacons and other Officers of the same affirming that the same is repugnant to the Word of God and that the saide Ecclesiasticall Officers are not lawfully ordained Or whether there be any Authours Maintainours or Fauourers of Heresie or Scisme or that be suspected to be Annabaptists Libertines Brownists of the Familie of Loue or of any other Heresie or Scisme present their ●●mes 19 Whether any in your Parish haue married within the degrées by Law prohibited or any couple in your Parish being lawfully married liue apart one from the other without due separation of the Law or any that haue beene diuorced which keepe company with any other at Bed● and at Boord and when and where were they married Phisitions Surgeons and Mid-wiues 20 HOw many Phisitions Chirurgions or Mid-wiues haue you in your parish How long haue they vsed their seuerall science or offices and by what authority And how haue they demeaned them selues therein and of what skill are they accounted to be in their profession 21 Whether do any persons administer the goods of the dead without lawfull authority or suppresse the last will of the dead Or are there in your parish any Wils not yet prooued or goods of the dead dying intestate left vnadministred By authority in that behal●e you shal not faile to present the Executors and all others faulty therein and also how many persons beeing possessed of any Goods and Chattels haue dyed w thin your parish since the xvij day of Aprill 1613. 22 Whether any with-hold the stocke of the Church or any goods or other thinges giuen to good and charitable vses 23 Whether your Hospitals and Almes-houses and other such houses and Corporations founded to good and charitable vses and the lands possessions and goods of the same be ordered and disposed of as they should be And doe the Maisters Gouernours Fellowes and others of the said Houses and Corporations behaue and demeane themselues according to the godlie Ordinances and Statutes of their seueral Foundations 24 Whether haue you any in your Parish to your knowledge or by common fame or report which haue committed Adultry Fornication or Incest or any which haue impudentlie bragged or boasted that he or she haue liued incontinently with any person or persons whatsoeuer or any that hath attempted the chastity of any woman or sollicited any Woman to haue the carnall knowledge of her bodie or which are commonly reputed to be common Drunkards Blasphemers of Gods holy Name common Swearers common Slanderers of their Neighbours and owers of discord filthy and lasciuious Talkers Vsurers sc●monicall persons Bawds or Harborers of Women with Childe which be vnmarried or conueying or suffering them to goe away before they haue made satisfaction to the Congregation or any that hauing heretofore béene presented or suspected of any the foresaid crimes haue or that cause departed your Parish and are now returned againe Or any which haue vsed any inchantments sorceries incantations or witch ●asts which are not made fellony by the statutes of this Realme or any which haue committed any periury in any Ecclesiasticall Court in an Ecclesiasticall cause or which haue committed any lorgerie punishable by the Ecclesiasticall Lawes and the procurors and abettors of the saide ●fences You shall truely present the names of all and singuler the said Offendors and with whom they haue committed the saide offences in ●ase they haue not beene publikely punnished to your knowledge for the ●●me crimes Tou●hing the Church-wardens and Side-men ● VVHether you and the Church-wardens Quest-men or Side-men from time to time doe and haue done their diligences 〈◊〉 not suffering any role person to abide eyther in the Church-yard or Church-porch in Seruice or Sermon time but causing them either to ●●me into the Church to heare Diuine Seruice or to depart and not di●●urbe such as be hearers there And whether haue they and do you di●●gentlie see the Parishioners duely resort to the Church euery Sundaie and Holidaie and there to remaine during Diuine seruice and sermon ●nd whether you or your predecessors Churchwardens there suffer any places Feasts Drinkings or any other prophane vsages to be kept in ●ur Church Chappeil or Church-yards or haue suffered to your and ●●●ir vttermost power and indeuour any person or persons to bée tip●ng or drinking in any Inne or Victuling House in your Parish du●●g the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon on Sundaies and Holie●ies 2 Whether and how often haue you admitted any to Preach ●●thin your Church or chappell which was not sufficientlie licensed ●nd whether you together with your Minister haue not taken diligent ●●e and care that euery of your Parishioners being of sixteene yeares ●●ge or vpwards haue receiued thrice euery yeare as aforesaide and 〈◊〉 that no stranger haue vsually come to your church from their owne ●ish-church 3 Whether haue there béene prouided against euerie communion sufficient quantity of fine Wh te Bread and of good and wholesome ●me for the Communicants that shall receiu● And whether that wine brought in a cleane and swéete standing Pot of Pewter or of other ●●r Mettall 4 Whether were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and the parishioners And haue the late Churchwardens giuen vp a iust account for their time and deliuered to their Successors the Money and other things belonging to the Church which was in their hands And are the Almes of the Church faithfully distributed to the vse of the poore Concerning Ecclesiasticall Magistrates and Officers 1