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A00206	Articles to be enquired of within the dioces of London, in the visitation of the reuerend father in God, Richard Bishop of London, in his first generall visitation, holden in the fortieth yeere of the raigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England, Fraunce and Ireland, Defender of the Faith,&c.; Visitation articles. 1598	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1597-1604 : Bancroft); Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.	1598 (1598)	STC 10253; ESTC S111851	12,656	18

ARTICLES To be enquired of within the Dioces of London in the Visitation of the Reuerend Father in God Richard Bishop of London in his generall Visitation Holden In the fortieth yeere of the raigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England Fraunce and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. AT LONDON Printed by Valentine Simmes 1598. ¶ A Branch of the Statute made in the first yeere of the raigne of our Soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth intituled An Act for the vniformitie of Common prayer and seruice in the Church THat from and after the feast of the Natiuitie of Saint Iohn Baptist next comming all and euery person and persons inhabiting within this Realme or any other the Queenes maiesties dominions shal diligently and faithfully hauing no lawfull or reasonable excuse to be absent indeuour themselues to resort to their Parish Church or Chappell accustomed or vpon reasonable let therof to some vsuall place where common prayer and such like seruice of God shall be vsed in such time of let vppon euery Sunday and other dayes ordained and vsed to be kept as holidayes and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of commō prayer preaching or other seruice of God there to bee vsed and ministred vpon paine of punishment by the Censures of the Church And also vpon paine that euerye person so offending shall forfeit for euery such offence twelue pence to be leuied by the Churchwardens of the Parish where such offence shal be done to the vse of the poore of the same parish of the goods lands and tenements of such offender by way of distresse And for due execution heereof the Queenes most excellent Maiestie the Lords temporal and al the commons in this present Parliament assembled doth in Gods name earnestly require and charge all the Archbishops Bishops and other Ordinaries that they shall indeuour themselues to the vttermost of their knowledge that the true and due execution heereof may be had throughout their Diocesse and Charges as they will answer before God for such euills and plagues wherewith almighty God may iustly punish his people for neglecting this good and wholesome Lawe ❧ The Tenour of the Othe ministred to the Churchwardens and Swornemen YOu shall sweare that all affection fauour hatred hope of rewarde and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set aside you shal vpon due cōsideration of the articles giuen you in charge present all and euery such person of or within your parish as hath committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected or otherwise defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shall deale vprightly and according to trueth neither of malice presenting any contrary to trueth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and so conceale the trueth hauing in this action God before your eies with an earnest zeale to maintaine trueth and to suppresse vice So help you God and the contents of this Booke ¶ The charge of the Churchwardens and Swornemen set downe for the better performance of their dueties and discharge of their Othes THey are straitly charged to heare all these Articles read ouer to them diligently to consider and inquire therof And for that the time is so short in this Visitation that they shall not be able to make a perfect answer vnto all of them and that notwithstanding there are many notorious faults presently worthy of presentment and reformation they are charged to make their answers vnto them presently so farre foorth as their memorie shall now serue them And to present now such faults in their parish as at this time are worthie of presentment or reformation and that after their comming home betwixt this and Saint Martins day next they shall againe heare all the Articles read ouer vnto them and diligently consider and enquire thereof requiring the Minister to assist them for the better performance of their duetie to make a true and full answer in writing signed with their hands and markes wherein they shall present aswell all such faults or offences contrary to the Articles as they forgot or omitted to present at the time of the Visitation as also all such faults and offences contrarie to the Articles as shall happen and chaunce betwixt this and then Articles to be enquired of within the Diocs of London in this visitation holden in the yeare of our Lord God 1598. Articles concerning the Clergie 1 WHether is common prayer read by your minister in your Church or Chappell distinctly and reuerently vppon all Sundayes and holy daies and in such order as is set forth by the laws of this Realme in the booke of Common prayer without any kind of alteration omitting or adding any thing and at due and conuenient houres 2 Whether doth your minister vpon Wednesdayes and Fridaies not being holy daies reade in your church or chappel publikely the Letanie and other prayers appoynted in the sayd booke for those dayes and whether doth he reade the comination against sinners in such order and forme as it is there also prescribed 3 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate in the administration of the Lords Supper or of baptisme when he solemnizeth matrimonie burieth the dead churcheth women c. vse the formes and prayers prescribed in the Communion booke without omitting or altering any part of them and without any of his owne additions 4 Whether doth your parson or Vicar reade publike prayer and administer the Sacraments ordinarily himself vsing such rites and ceremonies as are prescribed in the booke of common prayer as namely whether doth he knéele at the receiuing of the holy communion make the signe of the Crosse vpon the childes forehead in the administration of baptisme baptise any without Godfathers and Godmothers vse the ring in marriage and generally whether doth he in the discharging of all these duties and when he readeth common prayer either vpon Sundaies holidaies Wednesdayes and Fridayes weare a surplice or if you be serued with a curate whether doth he the sayd curate obserue all the sayd particular rites and ceremonies mentioned in this article 5 Whether doth your minister vppon Sundayes at morning prayer declare vnto the parishioners what holyedaies and fasting dayes are appoynted to be kept the weeke following wherby they may be put in mind to prepare themselues and to repaire to the church to publike prayer according to the lawes of the Realme 6 Whether doth your parson vicar or curate or either of them reiect at any time those women being married which doo come to church to giue God thankes after their childbirth or refuse to visit the sicke or to burie the dead according to their duties prescribed in the booke of common prayer 7 Whether doth your minister in the Rogation dayes of procession vse the perambulation of the circuite of your parish appoynted by her maiesties Iniunctions and whether

incontinent persons themselues or giuen to drunkennesse or idlenesse or be haunters of Tauerns alehouses or suspected places hunters hawkers dicers carders common table-players swearers dauncers or otherwise suspected persons of any notorious crime or light and vnseemely behauiour or giue euill example of life or vse disordered or vnseemely apparrell either in colours guardes or light fashion 27 VVhether there be any ministers or priests within your parish which liue idlely without any cure neither seruing in any place nor hauing any place of reading or preaching and so become offensiue to their calling Articles concerning the Church 1 VVhether haue you in your parish Churches and Chappels all things necessarie and requisite for common prayer and administration of the sacraments especially the booke of common prayer with the new Kalender two Psalters the English Bible in the largest volume of the edition sette forth by the Bishops and lately imprinted by the Quénes Printer the Table of the ten commandements a conuenient pulpit well placed a comely and decent Table standing vppon a frame for the holy Cmmunion with a faire linnen cloth to lay vppon the same and some couering of silke buckram or other such like for the cleane keeping therof 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 a decent large surples with sléeues and a strong chest or boxe for the almes of the poore with thrée locks and keyes to the same and all other things necessarie in and to the premisses 2 VVhether there haue growne in your Church since the last visitation in the yeare 1595. any contention betwixt any of the parishioners touching the placing or displacing of any in any seate or pew in the church and whether there haue beene any pew builded since the foresayd yeare 1595. in any your churches without the expresse leaue and consent first had of the Ordinarie of the Dioces and by whom haue any such been built 3 VVhether is your Church or Chappell and the Chauncell well and sufficiently repaired and kept without abuse of any thing whether doth your Parson vicar or curate or the proprietarie or farmour of your parsonage or vicarage in your parish keep the parsonage or vicarage house with al other the edefices therunto appertaining in good sufficient reparations and whether is your churchyard well fenced and cleanely kept without any laystall or other annoyances 4 VVhether the Church of your parish be now vacant or destitute of an Incumbent or no and if it be how long it hath beene so and who is the patron whether during the vacancie of the benefice he occupieth the globe land and taketh the tithes and other fruites to him selfe during the time of vacation or who else occupieth taketh the same and by what authoritie 5 Whether your church be a parsonage or a vicarage presentatiue or donatiue or otherwise serued by a curate whether did they euer heeretofore heare or know that it was a parsonage or vicarage and how came it to bee decayed from beeing presentatiue to be in the state it nowe is and when was it first decayed from being a benefice presentatiue as you remember 6 Whether your fonts or baptisteries be remooued from the place where they were wont to stand or whether any persons leauing the vse of them do christen or baptize in basons or other vesselles not accustomably vsed in the church before time or do vse any kind of lauor with a remouable bason or haue taken downe the old vsuall font heretofore vsed in your parish 7 Whether is there in your parish a sufficient Register booke of parchment of marriages christnings and burialls prouided at the charge of the parish whether are all the names of those that haue bin either christned maried or buried since the beginning of hir Maiesties raigne newly written into the saide parchment booke whether doth the Minister euery sunday reade the names publikely of those that were eyther christned married or buried the weeke before whether haue you a publike chest with 3. lockes for the minister and the two churchwardens to kéepe the said booke in and whether haue you brought a transcript of all the names of such as haue been christned married and buried this last yere into M. Blackwel my Register his office as you are bound to do euery yere hereafter within a month after the feast of Easter by the constitutions last authorized by her Maiestie Articles concerning Ecclesiasticall Officers 1 Whether the Chancelor Archdeacon Commissarie Official or any other vsing Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction in this diocesse their Registers or Actuaries Apparators or Summoners haue at any time winked at and suffered any adulterers fornicators incestes or other faultes or offences presented vnto them to passe and remaine vnpunished and vncorrected for mony rewards bribes pleasure frindship or any other partial respect 2 Whether doth the Chancellor Commissaries Archdeacons or any other Officialles heare any matters of office or correction priuately in their chambers without the presence of the sworne Register or his deputy or do discharge any mans penance for mony without the consent of the ● Bishop according to the last constitutions by her Maiestie confirmed or doe send any writing vnder their owne hands to your church without the Registers presence at the dooing of it either for marriage of any couples or for ending or ordering of any matter of office correction or penance Articles concerning Schoolemasters 1 Whether the Schoolemaster or schoolemasters within your parish openly or priuately in any noble or gentlemans house or in any other place be of good and sincere religion life and conuersation and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth and whether they haue béene examined allowed and licensed for schoolemasters by the Ordinarie or his officers in that behalfe 2 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemasters do themselues receiue the holy communion as often as they ought to doo and whether they bring with them so many of their schollers as bee of age sufficient and of capacity by instruction to receiue the Lords supper or els be able to giue testimonie in what church their schollers do receiue and heare publike prayer 3 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters do orderly on sundayes with their schollers come to the church of their parish where they teach and there sée their schollers placed in some conuenient place so as they do not disquiet the minister or parish in time of diuine seruice but may exercise themselues godly in reading and hearing the seruice and sermons and in answering with the congregation in reading of publike prayer 4 Whether the schoolemaister or schoolemaisters either priuate or publike do teach their schollers the Catechisme authorized by publike authoritie at the least once euerie wéeke and do instruct and examine them in the same or do teach any other catechisme and what catechisme it is that they so do teach 5 Whether your

last yeare haue giuen to the parish a iust account of the church goods and rents that were committed to their charge according to the custome that hath béene aforetime vsed and what church goods they or any other haue sold and to whom and whether to the profite of your church or no and what hath bin done with the mony thereof comming 16 Whether the churchwardens and sworne men since the fourth day of August 1597. haue of any priuate corrupt affection concealed any crime or other disorder in their time done in your parish and haue not presented the same to the Bishop Chauncelor Archdeacon Commissarie or such other as had authoritie to reforme the same and whether they or any of them at any such time as they should haue béene at diuine seruice on sundayes and holidaies and should there haue obserued others that were absent haue béene away themselues at home or in some tauerne or alehouse or else about some worldly businesse or at bowles cards tables dice or other gaming without regarde of their office and dutie in that behalfe 17 Whether your minister and you the churchwardens or any other in your parish haue in your reuestries made any orders or do vse to call anie parties before you for any cause to be ordered by the ecclesiastical lawes and so do vse a kind of Presbiterie or censuring ouer your neighbours vnder pretence of your vestrie méetings 18 Whether any of your parish being of conuenient age haue not receiued the holy communion thrice this last yeere at the least and namely at Easter last or thereabouts for once and what their names are or which at their receiuing haue not signified the same before to your parson vicar or curate that he might conueniently examine them and who haue refused to come to him to be examined 19 Whether there be any in your parish that doth administer the goods of those that be dead without lawfull authoritie or any that suppresse the last wil of the dead or any Executors that haue not fulfilled their testators last will especially in paying of legacies giuen to the church or to other good and godly vses as to the reléefe of pouertie to orphants poore schollers poore maidens marriages hiewayes schollers and such like and by whom are they so deteined And whether any such legacies or goodes of what kinde soeuer payde or deliuered to any godly or publique vses since the beginning of her Maiesties raigne be otherwise imployed and not in such sort and to that end for the which they were giuen 20 Whether there be any in your parish that since the fourth of August 1597. hath or doth offend contrary to the statute made in the seauen and thirtieth yeere of the raigne of King Henrie the eight for the reformation of vsurie and reuiued by an Act made in the thirtéenth yeere of the raigne of the Quéenes Maiestie that now is taking aboue the rate of ten pounds for the lending of an hundred pounds by the yeere and what be the names of such offendors 21 Whether hath your minister or any of the parish without the consent or priuitie of the Ordinarie caused any to do penance or be punished either openly or otherwise for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiasticall lawes onely and what be the names of the parties that haue beene so punished and in what manner 22 Whether the Iniunctions sent from my Lords grace of Canterburie and the high Commissioners in Nouember 1587. directed to your minister and churchwardens not to receiue strange Preachers not licensed be obserued and whether the saide Iniunction remaine in your Church or no. 23 whether there be any amongst you that do vse sorcerie or witchcraft punishable by the ecclesiasticall lawes or that be suspected of the same and whether any vse any charmes or vnlawfull prayers and whether any do resort to any such for help and councell and what bee the names both of such as vse it and of such as resort to them for helpe 24 Whether any couples that be married in priuate houses within these thrée yeares last past haue bin knowne or suspected to haue bin married by any popish priest or otherwise after any other order then is appoynted by the church of England 25 whether there be among you any blasphemers of the name of God great or often swearers adulterers fornicators harlots or whoremasters incestuous persons bawdes or receiuers of naughtie and incontinent persons or harborers of women with child which be vnmaried conueying or suffering them to go awaie before they doe anie penance or make satisfaction to the congregation or any that be vehemently suspected of anie such faults or that be not of good name and fame touching such crimes and faults of drunkards or ribawds or any that be malitious contentious or vncharitable persons railers scolders or sowers of discord betwéen neighbours and especially railers against ministers and against their marriage 26 whether there be any in these partes that haue béene married within the degrées of affinitie or consanguinitie by the lawes of God forbidden or anie that being diuorced or separated for the same do yet notwithstanding cohabite and kéepe company stil together or anie that being married without those degrées haue vnlawfully forsaken their wiues or husbands and married others anie man that hath two wiues or anie woman that hath 2. husbands any that being diuorced or separated asunder haue married again anie that haue married and contracted themselues without the consent of their parents tutors or gouernors any that haue maried without banes thrice solemnely asked any couples married that liue not together but slaunderously liue apart 27 VVhether there be any in your parish who wil come to heare the sermon but will not come to the publique prayer appoynted by the Booke of common prayer making a schisme or diuision as it were betwéene the vse of publike prayer and preaching And whether there be any who being present at publique praier do not deuoutly and humbly knéele vpon their knées at such times as by the Booke of common prayer they are appoynted to wit when they make a generall confession of their sinnes when all prayers and Collects are read in the time of the Letanie when the tenne Commaundementes are read c. And what are theyr names that haue at any time shewed themselues vnduetifull and vnreuerent in this behalfe 28 Whether the minister and churchwardens haue suffered anie lord of mis-rule or summer lord or ladies or any disguised persons any players or maie-games or any moris dauncers at any time to come vnreuerently into the church or churchyard and there to daunce or play or shew them selues disguised in the time of common praier and what they be that commit such disorder or that accompanied or maintained them or any playes to be played in the church 29 Whether there be any married women or others within your parish which after childbirth refuse or contemne to come to the church to giue God thanks for their deliuery and to haue the praiers publikely appointed in that behalfe by the booke of common prayer 30 Whether anie within your parish do resort vnto barns fields woods priuate houses or to any extraordinary expositions of scriptures or conferences together and doe as it were make a seuerall church or sect vnto themselues and be drawers or perswaders of others to any such schismaticall or damnable sects and in whose houses or what places haue you heard of any such méeting 31 Whether any do kéepe their children vnbaptized longer than is conuenient vnles it be for sickenes of the child or other vrgent occasion And whether anie doe carrie their children from the parish they are borne in to other parishes to be baptized and so refuse their owne parish or doe bring strange ministers into their owne houses to baptize their children priuatly according to their owne fantasies 32 Whether anie notorious recusant who obstinately refuseth to be partaker with the church of England in publique prayer and hearing of the word of God preached who is for his disobedience and contempt excommunicated and so dieth excommunicate be buried in christian burial not hauing before his death sought to be absolued and testified the same his submission to some honest and discréete man who shal vpon his othe signifie to the Bishop of the Dioces whereby his Lordship may giue order to the Ordinarie before whom he was excommunicate for his absolution The second billes and in them the names are to be set downe of all such as haue beene buried at any time since the seuenth day of August 1598 and likewise of such as haue bin married by any license with the names of those who graunted the license euer since the saide seuenth of August they are to be brought into Maister Blackwells office in Iuie lane being the principall Register to the Lord Bishop of London betwixt the 26. of Nouember next and the 4. of December then following if there be not any other place appointed at his Lordships sitting in Visitation to bring them vnto

schoolemaister or schoolemaisters or any of them bee known or suspected to reade vnto their schollers priuately any vnlawful books or priuately to instruct them in their yong yeares either in popery superstition or disobedience or contempt to hir Maiestie and hir lawes ecclesiasticall by publike authoritie allowed 6 Whether your schoolemaister or schoolemaisters or any of them vnder presence of Catechising their schollers which is a most godly order carefully by them to be obserued do keepe lectures readings or exposition in diuinitie in their houses hauing continuall repaire vnto them of people not being of their owne family and houshold 7 Whether the schoolemaister or schoolemaisters within your parish do teach his or their schollers any other grammer then that which is commōly called the kings grammer sette forth by the authoritie of King Henry the eight Articles concerning parishioners and others of the Laitie 1 VVhether all housholders in your parish cause their children seruants and apprentises both mankind and womankind being aboue seuen yeares of age and vnder twentie which haue not learned the catechisme to come to the church on sundaies and holidayes at the times appointed for catechising and there diligently and obediently to heare and what bee the names of those that do not cause their children seruants and apprentises so to come to the church to be instructed and examined 2 Whether the church wardens do quarterly deliuer to the Archdeacon a note of al those who do not send their children seruants to be catechised 3 VVhether any do worke or keepe any shoppe open vpon Saboth daies or vpon any holidaies appointed by the lawes of this realme to be kept holiday or vse any worke or labor or open shew of their wares in any of those daies 4 VVhether you your selues or the Churchwardens in the yeares before you haue suffered any vnmarried women being begotten with child to go out of your parish before she hath done penance or any man defamed of whoredome to depart vnpunished vppon direction appoynted by the ordinarie And forth of whose houses haue they gone away with child vnpunished and how many vnmarried women which haue béene deliuered within your parish these thrée years last past haue gone away without doing of penance 5 VVhether the parish Clarke be appoynted according to the law by the parson or vicar of the parish with the allowance of the Ordinarie and whether he be not obedient to the parson vicar or curate and whether hée be able to reade and whether hée kéepe the bookes and ornaments of the Church faire and cleane and cause the church and quire the communion table and the 〈◊〉 to bee kept cleane and decent against the seruice time the communion sermon and baptisme 6 Whether there bee any person or persons ecclesiasticall or temporall within your parish or elsewhere within this Dioces that haue retained and kept in their custodie or that reade sel vtter disperse carrie or deliuer to others any English bookes or libels sette forth either on this side or beyond the seas by papists or others against the Quéens supremacie in causes ecclesiasticall or against true religion and catholike doctrine or the gouernment or discipline of the church of England now within this realme reuiued and established by common authority and what theyr names and surnames are 7 Whether there be any in your parish who are noted knowne or suspected to conceale or kéepe hidden in their houses any masse bookes portesses breuiaries or other bookes of poperie superstition or any Chalices copes vestments albs or other ornaments of superstition vncancelled or vndefaced which it is to be coniectured they do kéep for a day as they cal it 8 Whether there be in your parish any popish or sectarie recusant or recusants which for any cause whatsoeuer forbeare or disswade and dehort others to come to Church to common prayer or to heare Gods word preached pretending it vnlawfull to come to our assemblies as the church of England now standeth established by her maiesties authoritie and what their seuerall name or names are and how long they haue béene recusants 9 Whether any do refuse to receiue the holy communion at their owne ministers hands either because he is not a preacher or because he duly obserueth the order of ministration appoynted by the booke and who they be that do go from their owne parish to receiue at any other ministers hands 10 Whether any of your parishioners hauing a preacher to their parson vicar or curate do absent themselues from his sermons and resort to any other place to heare other preachers 11 Whether all the people of your parish aboue 16. yeares of age and especially housholders hauing no lawfull excuse to be absent doo resort with their seruants and children to their parish Church or Chappel on the holy daies and on the Sundayes to morning and euening prayer and who they be that either negligently or wilfully absent themselues or come very late to the church vpon the Sundayes or holidaies or that walke talke or otherwise vnreuerently behaue themselues in the church or vse anie gaming or pastime abroade or in any house or sitte in the streete or churchyard or in any tauerne or alehouse vpon the Sunday or holiday in the time of common prayer sermon or reading of the homilies or any of them either before or after noone 12 Whether the forfeiture of xii pence for euerie time of absence from the church vpon euerie sunday and holiday appoynted by a statute made in the first yeare of the Queenes maiesties raigne to bee leuied and taken according to the same statute the tenor whereof is sette downe in the beginning of this booke by the churchwardens of euerie person that offendeth and by them be put to the vse of the poore of the parish if it bee not so leuied by whose fault it is 13 VVhether there be in your parish who doo receiue into their houses keepe harbour or releeue or which do resort to any popish priest or which be noted or suspected to be seducers and perswaders of others by their example or doctrine to poperie or superstitiō therby to alienate the Quéenes subiects from their due obedience and christian religion now by law established in England 14 VVhether there be any Inkéepers alewiues victuallers or tiplers that suffer or do admitte any person or persons in their houses to eate drinke or play at dice cards tables bowles or such like games in the time of common prayer or sermon on the sundayes or holidayes or any Butchers or other that commonly vse to sell meate or other things in the time of Common prayer preaching or reading of homilies and whether in any faires or common markets falling vpon the Sundayes there be shewing of any wares before morning prayer be done and whether any markets selling of wares be vsed or suffered in any churchyards on the Sabboth day by common packmen or pedlers going about or anie Butchers 15 Whether the Churchwardens of the