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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00007	Articles to bee enquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men within the arch-deaconrie of Barnestaple, in the diocesse of Exeter, in the visitation there holden in the yeare of our lord God. 1617.	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Barnstaple.	1617 (1617)	STC 10137; ESTC S92272	9,185	14

ARTICLES To bee enquired of by the Church-wardens and Sworne-men within the Arch-deaconrie of Barnestaple in the Diocesse of Exeter in the Visitation there holden in the yeare of our Lord God 1617. AT LONDON ❧ Printed by Thomas Purfoot An. Dom. 1617. * ⁎ * THE Church-wardens and their Assistants are straightly required to read or heare red all these Articles and diligently to consider of them betweene the time of the deliuery hereof vnto them and the making of their presentments for the better discharge of the Oath which they shall receiue ❧ The Oath to be ministred vnto the Church-wardens and their Assistants YOu and euery of you shall make diligent Inquisition and true presentment of al such crimes offences and enormtties which are to be reformed and corrected by authority of the Kings M. Ecclesiasticall lawes of this Realme and which by confession of the party or parties notorietie of the facts or by common fame haue beene committed within your parish or hamlet by any person or persons and haue not yet beene duely reformed presented and punished according to the said Ecclesiasticall Lawes and you shall present the names and Surmames of euery of the said offenders as you shal be directed by the Articles now deliuered vnto you So helpe you God in Christ Iesus Articles concerning the Cleargie WHETHER your Minister hath said and vsed in your Church or Chappell vpon all Sundaies and holi-daies and their Eeues and other daies prescribed by publike authoritie common and open Morning and Euening prayer and hath administred the Sacraments in such order and forme as is prescribed in the booke of Common praier established by publike authoritie and that plainely distinctly and reuerently as by the said Booke is appointed and at due and conuenient howers without any innouation or change of any part thereof 2 Item whether your Minister vpon all Wednesdaies and Fridaies not being holi-daies hath said in your Church at the accustomed howers of seruice the Letany prescribed in the booke of Common prayer 3 Item whether your Minister hath administred the holy Communion in your Church twice a yeare at the least in his owne person and so often and at such times as euery parishioner might cōmunicate at the least thrice in the yeare whereof once at the Feast of Easter according as by the booke of Common praier is appointed And whether as often as hée so administred the Communion hée reuerently knéeling did first receiue the Sacrament himselfe And whether hée hath vsed any Bread or Wine newly brought not first rehearsing the words of Institution when the said bread and wine is set vpon the Communion Table And whether hée hath deliuered the bread and wine to euery Communicant seuerally 4 Item whether your Minister hath giuen warning to his Parishioners publikely in the Church at Morning praier the Sunday before euery time of administring that holy Sacrament for their better preparation of themselues and for all holy daies and fasting daies 5 Item whether your Minister hath admitted to receiue the holy Communion any of his Cure who haue béene openly knowne to liue in notorious sinne or any who haue maliciously openly contended with their neighbours vntill they were reconciled Or any Churchwardens or swornemen who wittingly and ignorantly refused or neglected to present to their Ordinary all such publike offences as they themselves did know to haue béene committed in their Parish or to haue béene notoriously offensiue to the congregation there 6 Item whether your Minister when he hath celebrated the Communion in your Church hath wittingly administred the same to any person not kneeling or to any that then refused to be present at publike prayers according to the order of the Church of England or to any that then were common and notorious Adulterers fornicators blasphemers excommunicate or suspected persons of incontinency common swearers common gammesters or suchlike 7 Item whether your Minister hath adminitted any parent to answere as Godfather for his owne child or hath admitted any person to be Godfather or Godmother to any child at christening before the said person so vndertaking hath receiued the holy communion or doth not vse the signe of the crosse in baptisme or baptizeth in any Bason any child not borne in the parish 8 Item whether your Parson or Vicar not being allowed to bée a Preacher hath procured sermons to be preached in his Cure once in euery moneth at the least by preachers lawfully licensed and whether vpon euery Sunday when there hath not béene a sermon he or his Curate hath read some one of the Homilies prescribed by authority 9 Item whether your Parson or Vicar being licensed by the lawes of this Realme not to reside vpon his Benifice hath not in his absence caused his Cure from time to time to bée supplyed by a Curate that is a sufficient and licensed Preacher 10 Item whether the Minister or Churchwardens haue suffered any man to preach in your Church but such as haue first shewed their Licences to preach viz. from the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury or from the Lord Bishop of Exeter or one of the Vniuersities in writting vnder their seale 11 Item whether in the beginning of all Sermons Lectures and Homilies your Preacher or Lecturer hath wittingly omitted to mooue the people to ioyne with them in praier for Christs holy Catholique Church and therein for the Kings most excellent Maiestie our gratious Quéene the Noble Prince Charles and the rest of the King and Quéenes Royall Issue in the forme or to the effect of the 55 Canon Ecclesiasticall agréed vpon in the Conuocation Anno 1603. 12 Item whether your Parson or Vicar stipendary Preacher or Lecturer in your Church though chiefly hée attend to preaching hath twice at the least euery yeare read himselfe the diuine seruice in your Church vpon the seuerall Sundaies publikely and at the vsuall times both in the forenoone and afternoone and hath likewise as often in euery yeare administred the Sacraments of Baptise if there haue béene any to haue béene baptised and of the Lords Supper in such manner and forme and with the obseruation of all such Rites and Ceremonies as are prescribed by the Booke of Common praier in that behalfe 13 Item whether your Parson Vicar or Curate hath either receiued to the Communion any person or persons which haue not béene of your Church Parish or any child dyed without Baptisme through his default 14 Item whether your Parson Vicar or Minister saying the publiks praiers or ministring the sacraments or other rites of the Church hath wittingly omitted or neglected to weare a decent comely Surplice with sléeus prouided at the charge of the Parish And further whether such of them as are graduats haue omitted to weare vpō their Surplices at such times such hoods as by the orders of the Vniuersities are agréeable to their degrée 15 Item whether your Minister hath neglected vpon euery Sunday and Holi-day before euening praier by the space of halfe an

hower or more to examine instruct the youth and ignorant persons of your parish in the ten commandements the Articles of the beléefe in the Lords praier and diligently instructed and taught them the Catechime set forth in the booke of Common prayer 16 Item whether your Parson Vicar Curate or Minister hath celebrated Matrimony betwéene any persons without any faculty or license granted by such as haue Episcopall authority or by the Comissary for faculties or by the Vicars generall of the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury or the Lord Bishop of Exeter except the Banes of Matrimony haue béen first published thrée seuerall Sundaies or Holidaes in the time of diuine seruice in the parish Church or Chappell where the said parties then dwelled according to the booke of Common prayer or at any other time then betwéen the howers of eight and twelue in the forenoone or any other place then in the Church or Chappell where one of the parties dwelled or at at any time whē Banes haue béen so thrice asked before the parents or gouernors of the parties to be maried being vnder the age of 21 yeares haue signified their consent or maried any Adulterer fornicator or incontinent person or any womankind with child before mariage 17 Item whether your Parson Vicar or curate hath in his cure neglected to declare to the people euery sunday at the time appointed in the communion booke such Holidaies fasting daies as haue béen in the wéeke following 18 Item whether when any person hath béen dangerously sick in your Parish your Minister hauing knowledg thereof hath not resorted to euery of them if the disease were not probably suspected to bée infectious to instruct and comfort them in their distresse according to the manner and forme appinted in the Communion Booke if hée were no Preacher and if he were a Preacher then as he thought most néedfull and conuenient 19 Item whether your Minister hath at any time refused or delayed to christen according to the booke of Common praier any Child that hath béen brought to the Church to him vpon Sundaies or Holi-daies to be christened or to bury any corps that hath béene brought to the Church or Churchyard conuenient warning hauing béene giuen him thereof before in such manner and forme as is prescribed in the booke of Common prayer 20 Item whether your Minister hath preached and administred the holy Communion in any priuate house except it hath béene in times of necessity when any of your parish by reason of impotencie could not come to Church or being very dangerously sicke were desirous to bée partakers of that holy Sacrament in their house And in that case whether without a conuenient number of thrée foure or more to communicate with the sicke person 21 Item whether your Minister without license of his Diocesan first obtained vnder his hand and seale hath appointed or kept any solemne fasts either publikely or in any priuate houses other then such as by publike authority haue béen appointed Or hath béene present at any such 22 Item whether your Minister hath at any time other then for honest necessity resorted to any Tauerne or Alehouse or hath boorded or lodged in any such place or hath giuen himselfe to any seruile or base labor or to drinking or ryot spending his time idlely by day or by night at Dice Cardes Tables or any other vnlawfull games Or hath béene suspected of any notorious crime or hath giuen any euill example of life 23 Item whether your Minister hath from time to time diligently called vpon his parishioners especially when they make their testaments and earnestly mooued and exhorted them to conferre and giue somewhat as they may spare to the necessity of the poore 24 Item whether your Minister hath once in this last yéere read in your Church and Chappell all the Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions Ecclesiasticall agréed vpon with his Maiesties license in the Synod holden at London An. Dom. 1603. according to the Kings Maiesties commandement 25 Item whether any Parson not being ordered at the least a Deacon hath said or read common praier openly in your Church or Chappell or hath solemnized Matrimonie or administred the Sacrament of Baptisme 26 Item whether your Minister hath reiected any maried woman which hath come to Church to giue thankes after child-birth according to the order set downe in the booke of Common praier or vseth not the prayers appointed for the visitation of the sicke burying the dead and churching of women 27 Item whether the Chancell Mansion house and other edifices belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage be in any ruine or decay and how long they haue remained so decayed or ruinated and to what value as you are verily perswaded in your consciences 28 Item whether any Curate or Minister haue serued your Church before hee was examined and admitted by the Bishop of Exeter or his Chancellor in writing and did shew his or his Chancellors licence vnder seale vnto the Churchwardens and whether any Curate hath serued Two Cures in one day 29 Item whether for the retaining of the perambulation of the circuit of your parish the Minister Churchwardens and certaine substantiall men of the parish in the daies of the Rogations commonly called Gang daies haue walked the accustomed bounds of your parish whether in the same they haue vsed any superstitious or popish ceremonie Articles concerning the Church-wardens and their Assistants ITem whether they haue suffered any idle persons to abide either in the Church-yard or in the Church porch vpon any Sundaies or Holidaies during the time of diuine Seruice or Preaching and haue not either caused them to come into the Church at that time or to depart thence 2 Item whether against the time of euery Communion they haue neglected or omitted at any time to prouide a sufficient quantity of fine white bread and of good and wholesome wine for the number of Communicants and the same brought to the Communion Table in a cleane and swéet standing pot or stoope of pewter if not of purer mettall 3 Item whether all and euery of the parishioners of your parish being of the age of Eightéene yeares or aboue haue come so often to the holy communion as the Lawes and constitutions Ecclesiasticall doe require viz. Thrice a yeare at the least wherof once at or about the feast of Easter And whether any strangers haue come from other parishes to your Church to receiue the communion And whether the Churchwardens haue obserued such accesse of strangers and therof aduertised the Minister to the intent he should not admit them to the Communion 4 Item whether they haue caused the names of all Preachers which haue in the time aforesaid preached in their Church comming from any other place to be noted in a booke prouided by them for that purpose and euery preacher to subscribe his name and the day when he preached and the name of the Bishop of whom he had license to preach 5 Item