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book_n	common_a	order_n	prayer_n	3,129	5	6.3580	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00193	Interrogatories to bee enquyred of by the churche-wardens and sworne-menne within the diocesse of Lincolne, and the trueth thereof to be by them vpon their othes duly prese[n]ted vnto the Bishop there or his deputies, at his visitation, nowe to be holden this present yeare of our Lord, 1580 with particular answere to euery interrogatorie.	Church of England. Diocese of Lincoln. Bishop (1570-1584 : Cooper); Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1580 (1580)	STC 10230.5; ESTC S863	6,908	14

¶ Interrogatories to bee enquyred of by the Churche-wardens and Sworne-menne within the Diocesse of Lincolne and the trueth thereof to be by them vpon their othes duly presēted vnto the Bishop there or his Deputies at his Visitation nowe to be holden this present yeare of our Lord. 1580. with particular answere to euery Interrogatorie Imprinted at London by Ralph Newberie from the Archdeacons iurisdiction exhibited a true Certificate in writing vnder the handes of your Churchwardens truly testifying what he hathe done for performaunce of the matter in the laste saide Interrogatorie contayned and accordyng to the forme prescribed by the Laws of this Realme in suche behalfe 5 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate haue at euery of the saide Synodes and Visitations or in places exempte from the Archedeacons iurisdiction to the Commissarie halfe yearely made a true Certificate howe many sermons haue bin made in their Church or Chappel and by whome and when they were preached 6 Whether the Parson Vicar or Curate haue suffered any to preache and expounde the holy Scriptures in youre Church or Chappell but such as be lawfully licenced therevnto vnder the hād seale of me your Bishop and shal then shewe the same to your Parson Vicar or Curate vnlesse it be such Preachers as your Parson Vicar or Curate doth certainelie knowe to be aucthorized and licenced therevnto by me 7 Whether the Quarters Sermons appointed by the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions haue bin made vpon those dayes speciallye wherein the holy Communion hath béene ministred if it might so conueniently be and whether the saide Sermons haue bin in some part directed to the setting forth of that action And that both may the more easily concurre whether warning haue bene thereof giuen publikely in the Churche by the Minister thereof the Sondaye before the preaching of euery such Sermon 8 Whether youre Minister and Churchwardens haue within one fortnight after the publication of my foresayde Iniunctions appointed and proportioned for euerye Sonday a certain number of housholders to send in their course so many of their families as are not alreadie knowne to the Minister to haue a good vnderstanding in the Catechisme lately set out with certain additiōs made by M. Alexander Nowell Deane of Paules to be in the Church one houre be●ore Euening prayer publikely therein to be taught and ex●mined And whether this order and course hath béen by the ●ayde Minister published in the saide Church before the first of August following the publication of my foresayde Iniun●tions And whether the said Ministers haue to their Arch●eacons in euerie of their Sinodes and Visitations and in ●laces exempt to the said Commissaries yearelye exhibited 〈◊〉 testimoniall vnder the handes of their Churchwardens ●f their attendaunce in this sorte euerye Sondaye and also 〈◊〉 true Certificate subscribed with his owne hande of suche ●ousholders as haue in their course failed to sende their families as is aforesaide 9 Whether that your Parson Vicar or Curate haue admitted any to the holy Communion since the time of publi●ation of the course and proportion aforesaide whiche haue ●ot bene before publikely examined and instructed in the ●aide Catechisme or haue admitted anye to aunswere as Godfathers and Godmothers at the christning of any child ●xcept they haue before receiued the holy Communion and ●an wel answere suche matter as is contayned in the saide Catechisme being required therto 10 Whether for the auoiding of inconuenience whiche ●ometimes groweth by licences to marry without the banes ●sking whiche notwithstanding are oftentimes reasonably ●raunted any minister hath bin suffered to marry any per●on or persons by suche licence but in the Churche or Chap●ell where he is Parson Vicar or ordinarie Curate and whether at any other time than is vsuall for publique and ●ommon prayer except he hath firste shewed his licence ●o the Churchwardens of the saide Churche or Chappell ●nd either by his owne knowledge or by the knowledge of ●he sayde Churchwardens hath bin assured that the parties ●o be marryed haue thereto had the assent of their parentes 〈◊〉 other gouernors 11 Whether any woman deliuered of any childe begotten in fornication hath bin admitted to hir thankes giui●● in your Church before she had publikely reconciled hirsel● in suche order and forme as by the Archdeacon of the place or other officer to me the sayde Byshoppe hathe béene to 〈◊〉 prescribed 12 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate or other Minister in your Church or Chappell haue admitted to the r●ceyuing of the holy Communion any open and notoriou● fornicatour adulterer or euil liuer by whom the congregation is offended without due penaunce firste done to the satisfaction of the congregation or also any malicious pers●● that is notoriously known to be out of Charity or that ha●● done any open wrong to his neighbor in word or déed with out due reconciliation firste made to the partie that is wro●ged 13 Whether the forme of Commination agaynste sinners with certaine prayers following the same set forth i● the latter end of the Booke of Common Prayer to be v●●● at dyuers times in the yeare haue bene by youre Ministe● plainely and distinctly read in youre Churche or Chappe● vnto the people betwene the Letanie and the commemoration or ministration of the holy Communion thrée times 〈◊〉 the yeare that is to saye for orders sake yearely vpon o●● of the thrée Sondayes nexte before Easter for the firste time vpon one of the two Sondayes next before the feaste of Pentecoste for the seconde time and for the thirde time vpon 〈◊〉 of the two Sondayes next before the feast of the byrth of ou● Lorde ouer and besides the accustomed reading thereof vpon the firste day of Lent 14 Whether to put your Churchwardens and Sworn●men the better in remembraunce of their duety in obseruin● and noting such as offēd in not comming to diuine seruice your Minister or Reader haue openly euery Sonday afte● he hath read the seconde lesson at Morning and Euenin● Prayer monished and warned the Churchwardens 〈◊〉 Swornemen to looke to their charge in this behalfe and 〈◊〉 obserue who contrarie to the sayde Statute offende in absenting themselues negligently or wilfully from their Parishe Churche or Chappell or vnreuerently as is aforesaid vse themselues in the tyme of diuine seruice 15 Whether within one fortnight after my laste Visitation ended euery Minister vpon some Sondaye or Holiday haue openly read my sayde late Iniunctions and Interrogatories that the whole parishe mighte knowe and vnderstande to what things as well the Ministers as themselues were bounde by those orders and accordingly from time to time haue made complaint to the Ordinarie of such eyther Minister or Parishioner as haue offended in the premisses 16 Whether Common prayer be sung or sayde by your Parson Vicare or Curate in youre seuerall Churches or Chappells distinctly and reuerently and in suche order as it is set forth by the lawes of this Realme without anye alteration and at due and conuenient houres

And whether youre Minister so turne himselfe and stande in suche place of your Churche or Chauncell as the people may best heare the same And whether vpon Wednesdayes and Fridayes not beyng Holidayes the Letanie and other Prayers appointed for the daye be sayde accordingly 17 Whether you haue in youre Parishe Churches and Chappels all things necessarie for Common Prayer and administration of the Sacramentes specially the Booke of Common Prayer with the newe Kalendar a Psalter the Englishe Bible in the largest Volume the twoo Tomes of Homilies the Paraphrases of Erasmus translated into Englishe the Table of the tenne Commaundements a conuenient Pulpit well placed a comelie and decent Table standing on a frame for the holy Communion with a faire linnen cloth to laye vpon the same and some couering of silke Buckeram or other suche like for the cleane kéeping thereof a fayre and comely communion Cup of Siluer and a couer of Siluer for the same whyche may serue also for the ministration of the Communion bread a decent large Surplesse with sléeues a sure Coffer with two locks and kayes for the kéeping of the Register Booke and a strong Chest or Boxe for the Almes of the poore with thrée lockes and kayes to the same and all other things necessary in and to the premisses 18. Whether when any man or woman is in passing out of this life the Bell be tolled to moue the people to praye for the sicke person especiallye in all places where the sicke person dwelleth neare vnto the Church And whether after the time of his or hir passing out of this worlde there bée any more ringing than one shorte peale before the buriall and another shorte peale after the buriall withoute anye other superfluous or superstitious ringing and whether on all Saints day at Euening prayer there be any ringing at all or any other superstitious ceremony vsed tending to the mainteinaunce of Popishe Purgatorie or of Prayer for the dead and who they be that vse the same And whether there be any ringing or knolling of Bels on Sondayes or Holidayes betwéen Morning Prayer and the Letany or in any time of the Common Prayer reading of the Homilies or of Preaching except one Bel in conuenient time to be rong or tolled before the Sermon or whether any other ringing be vsed vpon Saints euens or Festiuall days sauing to Common prayer and that without excesse and who doe ring or knoll otherwise 19 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate doe serue any more than one Cure and whether that he haue licence therevnto by me the Ordinarie 20 Whether any doe preach declare or speake any thing in derogation of the Booke of Common Prayer whiche is set forth by the Lawes of this Realme dispraysing the same or any thing therein conteined 21 Whether any popish Priests either going as priests or disguised in other apparell or altering their names for any cause or any other are runnagate persons mislikers or deprauers of true Religion or of the Ministers of the same or are suche that do not minister or frequent Common Prayer now vsed nor communicate at times appointed by the law and do resorte secretly or openly into youre parishe and to whome and of whome they be receyued harboured and reléeued and what be their true names and surnames and by what names they are called 22 Whether your own Parson Vicar or Curate be any common resorter to open Games Playes or Assemblies whatsoeuer in ciuil causes or doe kéepe or suffer to be kept in his Parsonage Vicarage or other his dwelling house any Alehouse Tipling house or Tauerne or that he doe or haue kepte any suspected woman in his house or that he being vnmaried doth kéepe any woman in his house vnder the age of .lx. yeres except their Daughter Mother Aunte Sister or Néece and those of good and honest name or whether he himselfe be any haunter of Alehouses Tauernes or suspected places an hunter hawker dicer carder swearer or any otherwise do giue euill example of life whereby the worde of God and the forme of Religion nowe vsed by the lawes of Englande is or may be any way euill spoken of And generallye whether he behaue not himselfe soberly godly and honest as becommeth a Minister of Gods moste holy worde 23 Whether your Parson or Vicar be resident and dwel continually vpon his benefice doing his dutie in preaching reading and ministring the Sacraments and whether hée kéepe hospitalitie according as his liuing will extende● and whether his houses and Chauncels be wel repayred and vpholden 24 Whether such your Parson or Vicar as is not residēt neither kéepeth hospitalitie doe reléeue his poore Parishioners and what he giueth yearely to them and if he be not resident and may dispend yerely twentie pounds or aboue either in my Diocesse or else where whether then he do distribute euerie yeare among his pore Parishioners at the leaste the fortith parte of the fruites of his benefices where he is not resident 25 Whether any Minister or Priest presented to anye benefice within this Diocesse haue couenaunted promised or practised to or with the Patrone thereof or anye other person or persons that had the Aduousion or gifte of the same Benefice or with any other persō or persons on his or their behalfe to giue to his friend any summe of ready money or money worth for presenting him to the same Benefice or haue offered by promise or bonde any lease eyther of the whole benefice limiting the rent farre vnder the iuste value or of the Mansion house glebelandes or any portion of the Tithes and Fruites of the sayde benefice receiuing little or nothing thereof either suffering the Patrone that presented him or any other person who furthered him to saue his owne Tithes within suche your benefice frée vnto himselfe or else hath granted some yerely portion or other yerely commoditie to him his childe seruant or friende for preferring him to the same Benefice or otherwise hath suffered him to make a gaine by any coloure deceite or symonaicall compacte in bestowing the saide benefice 26 Whether the people of your parishe especiallye housholders hauyng no lawfull excuse to be absent do faithfully and diligently endeuour themselues to resort with their children and seruauntes to their parishe Churche or Chappel or such vsuall place where Common Prayer is lawfully to be vsed vpon the Sondayes and Holidayes and then and there doe abide orderly and soberly during the time of the Common Prayer Homilies Sermons other seruice of God there to be vsed reuerently and deuoutely giuing themselues to the hearing and exercise therof and who they be that negligently or wilfully absent themselues or come very late to the Churche vpon the Sondayes especiallye or that walke talke or otherwise vnreuerentlye behaue themselues in the Church or vse any gaming or pastime abroad or in house or sitte in the stréetes or Churchyarde or in any Tauerne or Alehouse vpon the Sonday or other Holiday in the time