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A00201	Articles to be enquired of in the visitation of the Dioces of London, by the reuerende father in God, Edwyn Bishop of London In the thirtenth yeare of the raigne of our soueraigne ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of Englande, Fraunce and Irelande defender of the fayth. &c. 1571.; Visitation articles. 1571	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1570-1577 : Sandys); Sandys, Edwin, 1516?-1588.	1571 (1571)	STC 10250; ESTC S116787	8,080	16

Articles to be enquired of in the visitation of the Dioces of London by the Reuerende Father in God Edwyn Bishop of London In the thirtenth yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God Quéene of Englande Fraunce and Irelande defender of the fayth c. 1571. Imprinted at London by William Seres Articles to be enquired of in the visitation of the Dioces of London 1571. FIrst whether Common prayer be saide in your church or Chappell at conueniente houres orderly and distinctly and whether your Minister so turne himselfe and stande in such place of your Church or Chauncell as the people maye best heare the same and whether the holy Sacramentes be duelye and reuerently ministred as is set forth by the lawes of this Realme And whether vpon Wednesdayes and Fridayes the Letanie and other praiers be sayde accordingly 2 Whether you haue in your parishe Churches and Chappelles all things necessarie and requisite for Common prayer and administration of the Sacramentes specially the Booke of Common prayer with the new Kalender a Psalter the english Bible in the largest volume the two Tomes of the Homelies a comely and decent Table standing on a frame for the holye Communion with the furniture thereto prescribed a fayer and comely Communion Cuppe of Siluer and a couer of Siluer for the same and all other things requisite in to the premisses 3 Whether you haue in your Church or Chappell a comely Pulpet conueniently placed the Paraphrases of Erasmus translated into english the Table of the tenne Commaundements a strong Chest or Boxe for the almose of the poore 4. Whether in any Church or Chappell if singing be there vsed such partes onely of the Common prayer be song as by the Booke of Common prayer are appoynted to be song and the rest reuerently sayde and read with an audible voyce And whether there be a modest and distinct song so vsed concerning the sayde partes of the common prayer which be song that the same may be as plainely vnderstanded as if they were reade without singing or whether any part thereof be so abused that thereby the common prayer is the worse vnderstanded of the hearers 5 Whether in your Church or Chappel any Organs be vsed in the time of Common prayer or ministration of the Communion otherwise than is appoynted by the sayde booke of common prayer or by the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions and whether the vse of them be vrged by any person or persons as any percell or supply of the common prayer or other diuine seruice appoynted by the lawes of this Realme 6 Whether the forme of Commination against sinners with certaine prayers following the same set forth in the latter ende of the booke of common prayer to be vsed at diuers tymes in the yere be by your Minister plainely and distinctly reade in your Church or Chappell vnto the people as is prescribed thrée times at the least in the yere that is to say for order sake vpon one of the thrée sundayes next before Easter for the first time vpon one of the two Sundayes next before the feast of Penticost for the seconde time for the thirde time vpon one of the two Sundayes next before the feast of the birth of our Lord our besides the accustomed reading therof vpon the first day of Lent. 7 Whether your Person or Vicar haue preached or cause to be duely preached in your Church his quarterly or monethly Sermons as by the Quéenes Iniunctions he is bounde and what be the names of such as haue preached for him whether he hath admitted any man to preach not hauing sufficient lycence or hath inhibited or letted any from preaching hauing sufficient licence 8 Whether your Person Vicar or Curate doe euery Sunday when there is no Sermon reade distinctly and plainely some part of the Homelies prescribed set forth by the Quéenes authoritie to be read and euery holy day when there is no Sermon immediatly after the Gospell openly plainely and distinctly recyte to his Parishoners the Lordes prayer the Articles of the fayth and the ten Commaundements in English and whether any Minister not admytted by the Ordinarie or by other lawfull authoritie doe expounde any scripture or matter of doctrine by the way of exhortation or otherwise and thereby omit and leaue of the reading of the Homelies 9 Whether your minister doe at the least euery Sunday and euery holy day openly in the church call for heare and instruct all the children apprentises and seruauntes of both the sexes that be of conuenient age within your Parishe or at the least so many of them by course as the tyme will serue and as he may well heare and instruct for halfe an houre at the least before or at the Euening prayer in the ten Commaundements the articles of the Beliefe and the Lords prayer and diligently examine and teach them the Cathechisme set forth in the booke of common prayer And whether for that purpose he doth take the names of them all and by course call certaine of them by name euery Sunday and holy daye to come to the teaching of the same Cathechisme 10 Whether your Person Vicar or Curate after the Gospell haue read openly in your Church twise this yeare plainely without addition or chaunge the declaration of certaine principall articles of Religion set forth by both the Archbishops and the rest of the Bishops of this realme for vnitie of doctrine being appointed to be read vpon some Sunday within the Moneth next Michaelmasse and Easter yearely 11 Whether all Fathers Mothers Maysters and Dames of your Parishe cause their children seruauntes and apprentises both mankinde and womankinde being aboue sixe yeres of age and vnder twentie which haue not learned the Cathechisme to come to the church on the Sundayes and holy dayes at the times to them appointed or at the least such and so many of them as your Minister shall appoint and there diligently and obediently to heare and to be ordered by the Minister vntyll such time as they haue learned the same Cathechisme what be the names of those that doe not cause their children seruants and apprentises so to come to the church to be instructed and examined and how many of the sayde children seruauntes and apprentises be in your Parish which being aboue seauen yeres olde and vnder twentie yeares of age cannot say by heart the sayd Cathechisme and what be their names and age and with whome they dwell 12 Whether any person or persons be admitted to aunswere as Godfathers or Godmothers at the christening of any childe except he or she haue before receyued the holy communion and can say by heart the Articles of the christian fayth and will recite the same before the Minister if he or she be therevnto required 13 Whether your Person Vicar Curate or other Minister in your church or Chappell hath admitted to the receyuing of the holy communion any open and notorious sinner or euill

or be an inconuenient person giuen to dronkennesse or ydlenesse or be a haunter of Tauernes Alehouses or suspected places a Punter ●●●ker Dicer Carder Tabler Swearer or 〈…〉 euill example of life 25 Whether your Persons and Vicars be resident and dwell continually upon their Benifices doing their duties and keeping hospitalitie according as their lyuinges will extende And whether their houses and chaunceles be well repayred and vpholden And whether being not resident they leaue their cures to an vnlearned or lewde persō or do not distribute yerely among their pore parishioners the fourteth parte of the fruites of their benefices the same being of the yearely value of twentie poundes or aboue 26 Whether they or anye of them haue mo Benefices than one how many and in what countries they be and what be the names thereof 27 Whether any Person or Vicar hath come to his Benefite by Simonie or any other vnlawfull meanes and whether the Patrone of any Benifice hath made a gaine by any colour deceit or Simoniacall pa●te in for the bestowing of the same 28 Whether there be any Lay or temporall man not being 〈◊〉 orders or any childe that hath or enioyeth any Benefice or spirituall 〈◊〉 29 Whether any Priest or Minister be come into this Dioces out of any other Dioces to serue any Cure here without letters testimoniall of the Ordinarie from whence he came to testifie the cause of his departing from thence and of his behauiour there 30 Whether your Persons Vicars Curats and Ministers keepe well their 〈◊〉 of all weddings buryings christnings within your Parish and doe present a coppy of them once euerie yeare by Indenture to the Ordinarie or his Officers And whether they reade the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions euery quarter of a yere once or no. And whether they praye for the prosperous estate of hir Maiestie as is prescribed in the sayde Iniunctions or no. 31 Whether the Church of your Parish be now vacant and destitute of an Incumbent or no and if it be how long it hath bene vacant and who is the Patrone and whether he suffereth the Benefice to lye vacant and occupyeth the glebe lande and taketh the Tithes and other fruites to himselfe during the time of the vacation or who else occupieth and taketh the same and by what colour or title if by Sequestration from whome hee hath receyued his letters of Sequestration or authoritie to take and gather the saide fruites 32 Whether your Church and Chauncell be sufficiently rep●ted and cleanly kept the Mansion house of your person and 〈◊〉 with the buildings therevnto belonging likewise repayred and your Churchyarde well fenced and cleanly kept and if any of the same be ruinous and in decay through whose default it is so Whether the last Churchwardens were enioyned to haue repaired anye parte of the Church or fenced the Churchyarde and did neglect to doe the same 33 Whether there be any Masse bookes Portesses or other bookes of the latine Popish seruice Albes Vestmentes or other Massing geare Images Candlestickes Holywater fattes or other Ornamentes or Monumentes of Papistrie Superstition or Idolatrie reserued in your Church Chappell or else where or in the handes or custodie of any person or persons which yet are not defaced and destroyed and in whose custodie the same is and what be the per 〈…〉 les thereof 34 Whether the last Churchwardens haue giuen to the parish a iust account of the Church goodes that were committed to their charge according vnto the custome that hath bene before time and what Church goodes they haue solde and to whome and whether to the profite of the Church or no. And whether any person suppresse the last Will of the deade and perfourme not the Legacies bequeathed to the Church or to Orphanes pore Maydes mariages high wayes scholes or anye other godlye vse 35 Whether ye haue Collectors for the poore of your parishe whether they doe their duetie in gathering and distributing the Almes of the Parishioners according to● statute thereof made in the first yeare of the Quéenes Maiesties raigne and make a iust account thereof quarterlye What sommes of money the last Churchwardens and Swornemen haue leuied and deliuered to the sayde Collectors of the forfeytures of such persons as haue not duely resorted to their parish Church or Chappell vpon Sundayes and Holidayes during the time that they were in office 36 Whether there be any person or persons in your parish of habilitie that obstinately or frowardly refuse to giue resonably towardes the helpe and reliefe of the poore or doe wilfullye discourage others from so charitable a deede and what be their names and what sommes doth any of them withdrawe which he or she before was wont to giue there being no iust cause so to doe 37 Whether your Hospitales Spittles and Almose houses be well and godly vsed according to the foundation and auncient ordinaunces of the same whether there be any other placed in them than poore Impotent and néedie persons that haue not wherewith or where by to liue 38 Whether the Scholemaisters which teach within your parish eyther openly or priuatly in any Noble or Gentlemanes house or in any other place there be of good and sincere relygion and conuersation and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth whether they be examined allowed and lycenced by the Ordinarie or his officer in that behalfe whether they teach the Grammer set forth by King Henrie the eight of noble me morie and none other whether they teach any thing contrarie to the order of religion nowe established by publike authoritie And whether they teach not their Schollers the Cathechisme in latine lately set forth and such sentences of Scripture as shal be most expedient and méete to mone them to the loue and due reuerence of Gods true religion nowe truely set forth by the Quéenes Maiesties authoritie and to induce them to all godlynesse and honest conuersation and what be the names and surnames of all such Scholemaisters and Teachers of youth within your parish 39 Whether there be any among you that is a hinderer of true religion or a fautor of the Romish power or that stubburnely refuseth to conforme himselfe to vnitie and godly religion set forth by common authoritie or any that wilfully or obstinately defende or maynetaine anye heresies errours or false doctrine contrarie to holy Scriptures or doe kéepe any secrete conuenticles preachings lectures or readings contrarie to the lawe and what be their names 40 Whether any in your parishes doe openly or priuatlye say or heare Masse or vse any other kinde of seruice or common prayer then is set forth by the lawes of this Realme 41 Whether any in your parishes haue in their handes or haue deliuered to other any english bookes set forth of late by Harding Dorman Allen Saunders Stapleton Marshall or any of them or by any other english Papist eyther against the Quéenes Maiesties supremacie in matters ecclesiasticall or against true religion and Catholike doctrine now receyued and established by common authoritie within this Reame what their names be 42 Whether there be any in these partes that haue married within the degrees of affinitie or consanguinitie by the lawes of God forbidden or any that being diuorsed or seperated for the same doe yet notwithstanding cohabite and kéepe company still together or any that being married without those degrees haue vnlawfully forsaken their wiues or husebandes and marsied others Any man that hath two wiues or any woman that hath two husebandes Any married that haue made precontractes Any that haue made priuie or secrete contractes Any that haue married without baines thrise solemnely asked Anye cupples maried that liue not togither but slaunderously liue aparte Any that haue maried out of the parish church where they ought to haue solemnized their Mariage 43 Whether there be in your Parish any contentious person or that giueth occasion of the breach of Christian loue and charitie among you disturbers of diuine seruice and common prayer common swearers or blasphemers of the name of God anye that bruteth abroade rumors of the alteration of religion receyued within this Realme any Fornicators Adulterers Incestuous persons Baudes or receyuers of such incontinent persons or Harbourers of women with childe which be vnmaried conueying or suffering them to go away before they doe anye penaunce or make satisfaction to the congregation or any persons vehemently suspected of such faultes any that vseth forcery Witchcrafte Inchauntment Incantations Charmes vnlawfull prayers or inuocations in Latine or otherwise anye common Drunkardes Ribawdes or other notorious euill lyuers The tenor of the othe ministred to the Churchwardens and sworne men YE shall sweare by Almightye God that ye shall diligentlye consider all and euery the Articles giuen to you in charge and make a true aunswere vnto the same in writing presenting all and euerie such person or persons dwelling within your parishe as haue committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in any of the same Articles or which are vehemently suspected or diffamed of any such offence fault or default wherein ye shall not present any person or persons of any euill will malice or hatred contrarie to the trunth nor shall for loue fauour meede dreade or anye corrupt affection spare to present any that be offendours suspected or diffamed in anye of these cases but shall doe vprightly as men hauing the feare of God before your eies and desirous to maintaine vertue and suppresse vice So God helpe you