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A79627	Articles to be inquired of in the diocesse of S. Asaph. In the fift visitation of the reverend father in God, Iohn, Lord Bishop of S. Asaph. 1642	Church of England. Diocese of Saint Asaph. Bishop (1660-1666 : Griffith); Griffith, George, 1601-1666.	1642 (1642)	Wing C4080A; ESTC R231297	7,368	15

ARTICLES To be inquired of in the Diocesse of S. ASAPH IN THE FIFT VISITATION Of the Reverend Father in God IOHN Lord Bishop of S. Asaph 1642. LONDON Printed for Nath Butter 1642. ARTICLES To be enquired of in the Diocess OF Saint ASAPH ARTICLES concerning publique PRAYER and administration of the SACRAMENTS FIRST Depraving of the Book of Common Prayer and ceremonies Whether hath any of your Parish spoken or declared any thing in the derogation or depraving of the forme of Gods worship in the Church of England and Administration of the Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies set forth and prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer 2. Item Whether hath any interrupted hindred Disturbing the Minister in the time of prayer let or disturbed the Minister to reade divine Service and to administer the Sacraments in such manner and form as is mentioned in the said book or interrupted him in his preaching 3. Children refused to be Baptized or dying without Baptisme Item Whether is the Sacrament of Baptisme refused to be administred to any children borne in or out of Wedlock their birth being made knowne to the Minister of the Parish and offered unto him to be baptized 4. Private Baptisme Item Whether have there béene any children baptized in private houses by any Lay-person or Midwife or Popish Priest or by any other Minister but upon urgent occasion when the child was in danger of death 5. Baptizing of Papists children Item Whether have the children which have béene borne to any popish Recusants or begotten by them in your Parish béene publikely baptized in your parish Church by your Parson Vicar or Curate or by whom were they baptized or where to your knowledge 6. Receiving of the Lords Supper thrice a yeere Item Whether hath the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper béen duly and reverently administred every moneth or thrice every yeare at least whereof once at Easter within your Parish Church to every parishoner being of sixtéene yéeres of age or upwards Articles concerning the Church the ornaments thereof and the Churches possessions FIrst Have you the Bible in the largest volume the Common prayer booke and the Bookes of Homilies in the Welsh tongue Have you a Register book in Parchment and a Table of the degrees prohibited in marriage 2. Item Whether have you a Communion cup of silver with a covering for it a faire standing pot of silver or pewter for the wine a faire covering of silke or other decent stuffe for the Communion Table a faire linnen cloth to be laid over it at the administration of the Communion 3. Item Things appertaining to Churches Whether have you in your said Church or Chappell a convenient seat for your Minister to read divine service in together with a comely Pulpit set up in a convenient place with a decent cloth or cushion for the same with all other ornaments necessary for the celebration of divine service administration of the Sacraments and whether have you a chest for almes with three locks and keyes another chest for kéeping the Books and ornaments of the Church and the Register book Whether have you a register book in parchment for Christnings Weddings and Burials and is the same kept in all points according to the Canons And is the mothers christian name therein registred as well as the Fathers 4. Item Whether is your Church or Chappell Reparation of Churches and Parsonage houses with the Chancel thereof and your Parsonage or Vicarage houses your Parish Alms house Church in good reparations are they imployed to godly their right holy uses if any be ruinated wasted in whom is the default Is your Church Chancel Chappel decently and comely kept as well within as without be the seáts well maintained the stéeple and bels preserved the windows well glazed the floore kept paved plaine and even and all things in orderly and decent sort 5. Item Fencing and keeing the Churchyard Whether be your Church-yards well fenced and kept without abuse if not whose default is it hath any person encroached upon the ground of the Church yard have any used a place consecrated to holy use Profaning and annoying the Churchyard prophanely or wickedly have any quarrelled or stricken another in Church or church-yard or abused and prophaned them with any unlawfull games as bowles Tennis foot-ball hand-ball dancing and such like 6. Item Whether is your Church full Churches vacant or vacant of an Incumbent if vacant who receiveth the fruits thereof and who serveth the Cure and by what authority and whether is it a Parsonage Vicarage or Donative or Appropriation 7. Concealing of Church goods Item What Legacies hath béen given to the use benefit of your Church how have they béen bestowed who received them and retaineth them without due imployment doth any detaine or imbezel any of the Church goods or any other gifts given to charitable uses 8. Alienation of tithes and profits of the Church Item Whether be not the profits tithes and other commodities ecclesiasticall impiously and wickedly to the dishonour of Almight God and prejudice of the sacred ministery converted to the use and benefit of covetous Patrons and by them received and detained and how long they have béene so used to your knowledge 9. Item Whether have there béene made any bargaine and sale exchange or other alienation of the Glebe lands or tithes of your Parsonage or Vicarage being presentative without the consent of the Ordinary Patron and if yea specifie the said lands and tithes so sold exchanged or alienated where it lay and lieth how it was and is abutted together with the value of the same and who made the same sale exchange or alienation and to whom was it made 10. A Terrier of Glebe Lands and other possessions of the Church Item Whether have you the Terrier of all the Glebe Lands Medowes Gardens Orchards Houses Stocks Implements Tenements portion of tithes whether within your Parish or without belonging unto your Parsonage or Vicarage taken by the view of honest men in your said Parish whether the said Terrier be laid up in the Bishops Regestry and in whose hands are any of them now and if you have no Terrier already made in parchment you the Church-wardens and Sidemen together with your Parson or Vicar or in his absence you are to make diligent inquiry and presentment of the premises and make subscribe and signe the said terrier as aforesaid Articles concerning Ministers and Preachers of Gods holy Word FIrst Whether doth your Minister distinctly Observation of the form and time of Common Prayer Sacraments reverently say Divine Service upon Sundaies Holydayes and other dayes appointed to be observed by the book of Common Prayer at fit and usuall times And doth your Minister duly observe the orders rites and ceremonies prescribed in the said book of common Prayer as well in reading publique Prayers and the Letany as also in administring the Sacraments solemnization of Matrimony visitation of the sicke burying the dead churching of women and all other like rites and offices of the Church in such manner and forme as in the said Book of

Profaning the Lords day Whether doe any in your Parish prophane the Sunday by unlawfull games drinking or tipling in the time of common Prayer or Sermon by working and doing the ordinary workes of their vocation and trades 2. Item Impugning the Rites of the Church Is there any in your Parish that do impugne or speake against the Rites and ceremonies of the Church of England or the lawfull use of them government of this Church under his Majestie by Arch-Bishops Bishops and other Ecclesiasticall officers 3. Item Reverent behaviour at divine service Who in your Parish do come to the Sermon only not to divine Service who do not reverently behave themselves during the time of divine Service devoutly knéeling when the general confession of sins the Letany the ten Commandements and all Praiers and Collects are read or who doe give themselves to babling talking or walking and are not attentive to heare the Word read and preached 4. Item Are there any of your Parish Leaving their own Churches to goe to others having a Preacher to their minister that do absent themselves from his Sermons and resort to other places to hear other Preachers or doe any in your parish communicate or baptize their children in any other Parish 5. Item Opening of shops upon the Sunday Whether doe any in your Parish exercise any trade or labour buy or sell or keepe open shops or set out any wares to be sold upon Sundaies and holydayes by themselves their servants or apprentices or have otherwise prophaned the said daies 6. Item Whether is the 5. of November kept holy Keeping holy the fift of November and thanksgiving made to God according to the order set forth in that behalfe 7. Item Are there any in your Parish that be Adultery Fornication Incest c. or are commonly knowne or reputed to be blasphemers of Gods holy Name drunkards adulterers fornicators incestuous persons concealors or harbourers of fornicators or adulterers have any béene detected of such notorious crimes what penance have they done for the same 8. Item Whether there be any In-kéepers victualers or Ale-house-kéepers within your parish that admit unto orsuffer in their houses any person at the time of commnn Prayer or Sermon upon any Sabbath day or holy day who they be that hant such Tauerns Innes or tipling houses at prayer time 9. Item Whether any markets or selling of any meat or other wares be suffered or used in your Church yard or néere the same upon the Sabbath day and whether any butchers packmen pedlers or any mercers or other trades-men within your parish open their shops or make any common or open sale of their stuffe upon Sabbath dayes and holy dayes 10. Item What Recusant Papists are there in your Parish and whether do they or any of them kéepe any Schoole-master in their house which commeth not to Church to heare divine Service and receive the holy Communion what is his name and how long hath he taught 11. Item Whether hath your Minister or any other of your Parishioners béen at any schismaticall conventicles in any private house or houses within your Parish and there have conferred about any private orders for prayers preaching or expounding the Scriptures contrary to the book of common Prayers and the laws established in that behalfe Or whether any lay men have then taken upon them to expound the Scriptures or preach if so you shall present them all Articles concerning Schoolemastees Physitians and Chirurgions and Parish-clarkes FIrst is there any Schoole-master in your Parish that teacheth publikly or privately not licenced by the Ordinary doth he teach any Papist or Sectaries children that come-not to Church And doth he instruct all his Schollars to learne the short catechisme by Law established contained in the book of common Prayer Is he a Graduate and sufficient to teach 2. Item Physicians not licensed What Physitian or Chirurgion is in your parish unlicensed and being not a Doctor of Phisick in either of the Vniversities doth practice Phisick And what ignorant persons have left their trade and taken upon them to professe Phisick or Chirurgery who bée they that so abuse the people and doe any in your parish take upon them to heale and cure men or cattell by charmes spels witchcraft or any other unlawfull wayes or meanes 3. Item Have you a fit parish clarke Parish clark aged twenty yéeres at least of honest life able to read write are his and the Sextons wages paid without fraud if not then whose default is it by whom is he chosen Is he diligent in his office serviceable to the Minister doth he meddle with any thing above his office doth he keepe the Church cleane the doores locked Is any thing lost or spoiled by his default and doth he execute his office duely Articles concerning Ecclesiasticall offices FIrst Exceslive fees Whether be there any Ecclesiasticall Officers that exercise Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction within this Diocesse that take and receive or exact any extraordinary fées for any cause whether have your Churchwardens and Questment concealed any abuses or offences punishable in the Ecclesiasticall Court whether such offences being presented are suppressed and unpunished 2. Item Table of fees in Court Whether is there not a table of fées in the Court of the consistory allowed and subscribed by the Iudge and Register of the Court of Consistory Anno Dom. 1597. and the same every Court day hung up in some publike place of the Court and Registry 3. Abuses in Apparitors and Sumners Item Have any Apparators or Sumners under pretence of authority cited or summoned any person unlawfully or hath taken any reward for the concealing of any offence or sinne or the avoiding of punishment of the offenders and who be they that have done so Or doe they take any fees not accustomable Have they threatned any to prosecute them if they have no reward and do they summon any without a citation first had If you know any other default or crime of Ecclesiasticall cognisans you are to present the same The Minister of every Parish may joyne in presentment with the Church-wardens and Side-men and if they will not present then the Ministers themselves being the persons that should have the chiefe care for the suppressing of sin and impietie in their Parishes may present the crimes aforesaid and such things as shall be thought to require due Reformation FINIS

Common Prayer is enjoyned 2. Item Doth your Minister endeavour and labour diligently to reclaime the Popish Recusants in his parish from their errors if there be any such abiding in your parish Or whether is your Parson Vicar or Curate over-conversant with or a favourer of Recusants whereby he is suspected not to be sincere in Religion 3. Item Doth your Minister Curate or Lecturer in his or their Sermons deliver such doctrine as tends to obedience and the edifying of their Auditory in Faith Religion and good life without intermedling with particular matters of State not fit to be handled in the Pulpit 4. Item Preachers without Licence Whether is your Minister a Preacher licenced or no if no whether doth he take upon him in his owne Cure or elsewhere to expound any Scripture or matter of doctrine And if he be licensed doth he preach usually in his owne Cure or in some other neighbour Church where no Preacher is Or whether doth he or his Curate upon every Sunday when there is no Sermon reade a Homily or some part thereof according as he ought to doe 5. Preaching of false doctrine and new opinions Item Whether doth your Minister publish in his Sermons any doctrine which is new and strange and disagreeing froin the word of God and from the Articles of Christian faith and Religion agreed on and published Anno Dom. 1562. 6. Item Whether any victualling tipling or aleselling have béen used in your Parson Vicar or Curat his house by themselves or others dwelling therein and by whom 7. Names of strange Preachers to be taken Item Whether are any strange Ministers admitted to preach in your Church who doe not before the Church-wardens subscribe their names in your book for that purpose the day when he preached and the name of the Bishop of whom he had License to preach and is any one admitted to preach before hée shewed his Licence 8. Opposition of Preachers in their Sermons Item Doth any Preacher in your Pulpit particularly impugne and confute any doctrine delivered by others his fellow Preachers before he hath acquainted the Bishop of the Diocesse therewith and received order from him what to doe in that case 9. Praying for His Majesty Item Doth your Minister use to pray for the kings Majesty Clergy Counsell c. giving them their full titles 10. Non-residence of the Minister Item Whether is your Minister Resident upon his Benefice or absent if absent by whom is the Cure served the fruits received Doth your Minister or Curate serve any more cures than one if yea then what other cure doth he serve and how farre are they distant 11. Item Whether doth he Catechize the youth of his Parish upon sundaies and holy-dayes before evening Prayer for halfe an hower or more in the Catechisme set forth in the Book of Common prayer and whether doe all the Parishioners diligently attend his catechizing and who refuse to send their children and servants to be catechized by him 12. Item Ministers to call for reliefe of the poore and almes-deeds Doth your Minister carefully looke to the reliefe of the poore from time to time call upon his parishioners to give somewhat according to their ability to godly and charitable uses especially when they make their Wills 13. Item Symony Whether is your Minister suspected or knowne to have obtained his Benefice or spirituall promotion by any Symonicall compact directly or indirectly 14. Item Demising of Benefices Whether doth your Minister demise the profits of his Benefice to any Lay-man above thrée yéeres is not resident there keepeth no hospitality vpon his Benefice being of sufficient value 15. Item Conferring with Recusants Whether hath he being learned sufficient conferred with the Popish Recusants of his parish endeavouring to reclaime them from their errors and presenting them being obstinate for their recusancy 16. Item hath your Minister or any other Preacher Preaching in private houses made any Sermon administred the Sacraments or churched women in any private houses otherwise than is by law allowed 17. Item Curates not licenced and Lay-men doing the offices of a Minister What Curates or Preachers doe read Prayers or administer the Sacrament in your Parish without lawfull licence or doth any Lay man not having holy orders presume to read publique Prayers in the Church 18. Item Ministers forsaking their calling Whether is your minister studious in the holy Scripture abstaineth from mechanicall trads or labour not befitting his function from apparell unseemely for his calling and from gaming swearing and drunkennesse or such notorious crimes or is there any in your Parish who have béene admitted into holy Ordérs either Deacon or Minister doth relinquish or forsake his calling and liveth in the course of his life as a Layman Articles concerning Marriage FIrst Marriage within Leviticall degree Whether be there any in yuur Parish that have married within the degrées of affinity or consanguinity by the Law of God forbidden if any what bée they 2. Private marriage and without consent of Parents Item Whether have any béen married secretly in private houses or without their parents or governors consent signified being under the age of 12. yéeres 3. Marryed persons living apart Item Whether do any persons lawfully married live asunder unlawfully and in whom is the default 4. Marriage without banes or licence Item Whether any persons banes being not thrice published in the Church have béene married without licence who were present at such marriages and what Minister married them 5. Persons married out of their parishes Item Whether any persons by licence or without have béen married in your Parish Church neither of them at that time dwelling in your Towne 6. Recusants marriage Item What Popish Recusants or their children have béene married in your Parish in what sort was that matrimony solemnized when and by whom Articles concerning Church-wardens FIrst Election of Church-wardens Whether be the Church-wardens chosen by the Minister and Parishoners and whether hath any taken him to be Church-warden being not so chosen or hath any continued above one yéere in his office without a new choice 2. Church-wardens due accompt Item Whether have any Church-wardens detained any of the Church goods not made a just accompt of what they have received and expended 3. Church-wardens diligence in the Church Item Have they béen are they diligent in their office to sée decency kept in the Church order in the time of common prayer and administration of the Sacraments and that there be no disturbance but sobernesse and quietnesse in the Church Articles concerning the Parishioners FIrst