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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00263	Articles to be enquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men, within the diocesse of Winchester in the visitation of the Reuerend Father in God, Thomas Bishop of Winton, in his triennall visitation, holden 1603 in the first yeere of the raigne of Our Most Gracious Soueraigne Lord, Iames by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.	Church of England. Diocese of Winchester. Bishop (1597-1616 : Bilson); Bilson, Thomas, 1546 or 7-1616.	1603 (1603)	STC 10356.5; ESTC S874	8,425	17

ARTICLES To be enquired of by the Church-wardens and Sworne-men within the Diocesse of Winchester in the Visitation of the reuerend Father in God Thomas Bishop of Winton in his Triennall Visitation holden 1603. In the first yeere of the raigne of our most gracious Soueraigne Lord Iames by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Faith c. Printed at London by Thomas Purfoot 1603. THe Church-wardens and their assistants are straightly required to read or heare all these Articles read ouer vnto them and diligently to consider and enquire thereof betweene the time of the deliuery hereof vnto them and the making of their presentments Articles to bee enquired of by the Church-wardens and Sworne-men within the Diocesse of Winchester and the trueth thereof to be by them vpon their oathes certainely presented to the Bishop or his Deputie with perticular answere to euerie Article Articles concerning the Cleargie WHether your common prayer be read by your Minister in your Churches or Chappels plainly and reuerently vpon all Sundayes and Holydaies and other daies prescribed in such order as is set foorth in the Booke of common praier authorized by the Lawes of this Realme without any innouation or change of any part thereof at due and conuenient houres And whether the holy Sacraments be likewise ministred reuerently in such manner as by the Booke of common praier is appointed 2 Item whether any person not being ordered at the least a Deacon hath attempted to say common praier openly in your Church or Chappell or to solemnize matrimonie or administer the Sacrament of Baptisme 3 Item whether the Church-wardens haue permitted or do suffer any Curator Minister to serue your Church before he be admitted and examined by the Ordinarie in writing and doe shew his licence vnder seale vnto the Church-wardens and whether any Curate doe serue two Cures in one day 4 Item whether your Minister not being a Preacher do euerie Sunday when there is no Sermon read distinctly and plainely some part of the Homilies prescribed and set forth by the Queens authoritie to be read and whether any Minister not admitted by the Ordinarie or by other lawfull authoritie doe expound any scripture or manner of doctrine and thereby omit and leaue off the reading of Homilies or whether any in your Parish doe depraue or speake against the Homilies and the vse of them in the Church 5 Item whether your Minister doe at the administration of the Lords Supper reuerently kneele when himselfe receiueth it according to the Booke of common praier and whether the communicants themselues in like sort doe reuerently kneele vppon their knees at the time of the receiuing thereof or whether he doe administer it confusedly to some kneeling to some sitting and to some standing 6 Item whether your preacher in his praier made in his Sermon whether it be at the beginning middle or end therof doe vse or omit at any time the praier for his Maiestie with his whole title giuen him as King of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland desender of the faith c. of all causes and ouer all persons within his Maiesties Dominion as well ecclesiasticall as temporall next and immediatly vnder God supreame Gouernour and for our most gracious Queene the Prince of Wales their eldest Sonne and all their royall Progenie 7 Item whether any Lectures Cenuenticles or priuate meetings be read or vsed within your Parishes either publique in the Church or priuately in any house by any not licenced thereto by the Ordinary Or whether any such Reader do teach any doctrine of innouation to withdraw the people from due obedience to the ordinances of the Church set foorth by publique authoritie or to cause them to forbeare participating in prayer and sacraments with our Church 8 Item how many sermons hath your Parson or Uicar preached in his owne Church within this yeere past And if your Parson or Uicar be not a preacher how many sermons hath he procured to be preached there in this yeere past and who hath preached them and whether were they that did preach them licensed or no and by whom 9 Item whether your Minister hath receiued to the holy communion any persons which be not of his owne Parish without testimony from the minister of the place where they dwell what they be that it may appeare they be not persons excommunicate or otherwise notorious offenders 10 Item whether your Minister doe euerie Sunday or holiday openly in the Church call for heare and instruct all the children apprentices and seruants that be of conuenient age within your Parish or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serue and as he may well heare and instruct for one halfe houre at the least before or after Euening praier in the ten commandements the articles of the beleefe the Lords praier and the sacraments and diligently examine and teach them the Catechisme as it is now allowed and set forth in the Booke of common prayer and whether to that purpose he hath taken the names of them all and by course call certaine of them by name euery Sunday and Holiday to come to the teaching of this Catechisme and if the Parents Master be slacke in sending them whether he hath called vpon the churchwardens to present them 11 Item whether your Parson Uicar or Curate or other Minister in your Church or Chappell hath admitted to the holy communion any publicke excommunicate person or any open or notorious fornicator adulterer or euill liuer by whom publicke offence is giuen without due pennance first done to the satisfaction of the congregation enioyned him by his Ordinarie 12 Item whether your Preachers or Ministers be peace-makers and exhort their Parishioners to obedience towards their Prince and all other that be in authoritie and to the gouernement ecclesiasticall now established and to charitie and mutuall loue among themselues whether they be diligent in visiting the sicke and comforting them 13 Item whether any person hath preached declared or spoken any thing in derogation of the Book of cōmon praier which is set forth by the Lawes of this Realme dispraising or deprauing the same or any thing therein contained or against the Preachers or Ministers of the word and sacraments 14 Item whether there be prouided in your Parish one conuenient parchment Book And whether therin are written the names of all persons which haue beene christened married or buried in that Parish since the beginning of the raigne of our late most gracious Soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth And whether euerie page of that Booke being filled with the inscription of those names be subscribed by the Minister and Church-wardens And whether euerie Sunday after morning or euening praier the Minister in the presence of the Churchwardens doe write into that parchment booke the names of all persons that haue been christeneed married or buried in the Parish the weeke before And immediatly after the wr●ting of all the

saide names whether the Minister hath openly and distinctly read in the Church all the said names of that precedent weeke and the day and moneth of the christening marriage or buriall of euerie such person And whether there bee prouided in the Church a conuenient coffer with three locks and keyes for the sure keeping of that Register parchment booke And whether the Minister and both the Church-wardens hauing euerie of them one of the sayd keyes in their custodie doe safely keepe the said Register Booke in the sayd coffer according as hath been by the Canons of this Church of England prouided 15 Item whether your Ministers doe keepe any man or woman in their houses suspected to be incontinent persons or bee themselues giuen to drunkennesse haunters of Tauernes ale-houses or suspected places or otherwise suspected of any notorious crime or light disordered behauiour or haue giuen any euill example of life or vse vnseemely apparell in colours guards or light fashions 16 Item whether for the retaining of the perambulation of the circuit of your Parish the Minister Churchwardens and certain substantiall men of the Parish in the dates of the Rogations commonly called Gang-daies walke the accustomed bounds of your parish whether in the same they vse any superstitious or popish ceremonie but onely meditate of Gods mercie giue him thankes for blessing of the earth as is by the law of the Church set downe 17 Item whether there be any in your Parish that readeth any priuate lectures or vseth expositions of the Scriptures in any priuate mans house whatsoeuer contrarie to law and whether any preach and doe not at certaine times in the yeere minister the Sacraments in their owne persons and in such Church where he readeth his Lecture 18 Item whether any Parson Uicar or Minister hath procured himselfe to bee admitted into sacred orders by any corrupt meanes of money reward guift or promise of reward or by any symonicall compact hath procured his benefice directly or indirectly or be thereof by common same suspected or defamed 19 Item whether your Minister doe reiect those women being married which do come to the Church to giue thanks after child birth according to the order set down in the booke of common prayer 20 Item whether your Minister haue married any person not being three seuer all sundaies lawfully asked in their Parish churches according to the book of common prayer or not being sufficiently licensed thereunto by license from the L. Bishop of Winchester his officers 21 Item whether your Parsons and Uicars doe maintaine and keep in due reparations their mansion houses and other edifices belonging to their ecclesiasticall liuings and not suffer them to fall into ruine and decay and whether your almeshouses hospitals and spittles be well and godly vsed according to the foundation and auncient ordinances of the same and whether there be any other placed in them than poore impotent and needie persons that haue not wherewith or whereby to liue Articles concerning the Churchwardens and their assistants ITem whether you haue in your Parish Churches and Chappels all things necessarie and requisite for common praier and administration of the Sacraments specially the booke of common praier with the new Kalender two Psalters the English Bible in the largest volume the Table of the ten commaundements a conuenient Pulpit well placed a comely and decent Table standing on a frame for the holy communion with a faire linnen cloath to lay vppon the same and some couering of silke buckeram or other such like for the cleane keeping thereof a faire and comely communion cup of siluer and a couer of siluer for the same which may serue also for the ministration of the communion bread and a decent large surplesse with sleeues 2 Item whether your Churches and Chappels with the chancell be well and sufficiently repaired and kept without abuse of any thing and whether your churchyards be well fenced and cleanly kept and if any part thereof be in decay through whose default it is so and whether any strife hath growne amongst your neighbours about pewes or seats in the Church 3 Item whether those decayes of your Chauncels and Churches which were lately vppon speciall inquisition presented haue been and are sufficiently repaired sithence that time according to former commandement giuen to that purpose or how much thereof doe yet remaine vndecent ruinous or in any decay and to what value by whose fault 4 Item whether your Font or Baptisteries be remooued from the place where they were woont to stand or whether any persons leauing the vse of them doe christen or baptize in basons or other prophane vessels not accustomably used in the Church before time 5 Item whether the Schoolemasters within your Parish openly or priuately in any mans house be of good and sincere religion life and conuersation and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth and whether with their Schollers they do resort orderly on Sundaies and Holidaies to church and whether your Schoolemasters doe receiue the holy communion so oft as they ought to do and so many of their schollers as be of sufficient age and capacitie to receiue and whether they haue ben examined allowed and licensed for schoolmaisters by the Ordinarie or his officers in that behalfe 6 Item whether all Houshoulders in your Parish haue caused their children seruants and apprentices both mankind and womankind being aboue seauen yeeres of age which haue not learned the Catechisme to come to the church on Sundaies and Holydaies at the times appointed for catechizing and there diligently and obediently to heare and what be the names of those that haue not caused their children seruants and apprentices so to come to the Church to be instructed and examined 7 Item whether doe any worke or keepe any shop or any part of their shop open vpon the Saboath daies or vpon any Holydaies appointed by the lawes of the Realme to be kept holyday or doe vse any worke or labour vpon those daies 8 Item whether you your selues or the Churchwardens in the yeeres before haue suffered any vnmarried woman being begotten with child to go out of the Parish before she hath done penance or any man defamed of whoredom to depart vnpunished and forth of whose houses they haue gone away with vnpunished 9 Item whether there be any in your Parish which for any cause whatsoeuer wilfully forbeare to come to Church to publique praier or to heare Gods word preached pretending it vnlawfull to come to our assemblies as the church of England now standeth and how many moneths they and euerie of them haue so absented themselues by the space of one yeere last past 10 Item whether any doe refuse to receiue the holy communion at their owne Ministers hand either because he is not a preacher or because he duely obserueth y● order of ministration appointed by the booke and who they be that doe go from their owne Parish to receiue at any other Ministers hands and