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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07633	Articles to be enquired of in the ordinary visitation of the worshipfull, Mr. Lavvrence Pay, Archdeacon of Chichester. Anno Domini, 1635.	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Chichester (1635-1640 : Pay); Pay, Laurence, 1583 or 4-1640.	1635 (1635)	STC 10186; ESTC S92310	5,263	10

ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF IN THE ORDINARY Visitation of the Worshipfull Mr. LAVVRENCE PAY Archdeacon of Chichester Anno Domini 1635. 〈…〉 Printed by THOMAS COATES The forme of the Oath to be ministred to all and every the Church-wardens and Quest-men YOu shall sweare that all affection favour hatred hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set aside you shall upon due consideration of the Articles given you in charge present all and every such person of or within your Parish as hath committed any offence mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected and defamed of any such offence wherein you shall discharge your consciences uprightly and according to truth neither of malice presenting any contrary to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and so conceale the truth having in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine truth and to suppresse vice So helpe you God and his faithfull promise contained in his holy Bookes GOD save the KING Articles concerning RELIGION PRAYER and SACRAMENTS FIrst Hereticall and Schismaticall opinion whether there be any abiding in or resorting to your parish that be knowne to defend or maintaine any Hereticall or Schismaticall opinions contrary to the holy Scriptures of God or doe openly or secretly impugne or dislike the publike worship of God or the Rites and ceremonies now established in the Church of England 2 Item Whether all and singular the Inhabitants or dwellers within your parish Absence from the Church doe diligently repaire to their parish Church on every Sabbath day and Holiday according to the orders of the Church of England prescribed in that behalfe 3 Item Labourers on Sundayes or holi-dayes Whether any person or persons within your parish have laboured or wrought or gone to plow or cart upon any Sabbath day or Holiday or have prophaned any Sabbath or Holiday by unlawfull Games drinking and tipling especially in the time of common prayer 4 Item Whether all and every one in your parish being of the age of 16. yeares and of discretion have received the holy communion thrice at the least this last yeare whereof once at Easter or thereabouts 5 Item Outward behaviour at prayers and Sacraments Whether all and every one within your parish doe use due reverence in the time of divine Service by the outward gesture of their bodies in kéeping their heads uncovered in knéeling standing and other decent behaviour as they are enioined by the 18. Constitution and Canon Ecclesiasticall 6 Item Children not baptized Whether any children dyed within your parish unbaptized and by whose default was not the Sacrament of Baptisme administred 7 Item Whether have you in your Church or Chappell or Church-yard any Plaies Feasts Banquets Suppers Church-ales Drinkings Temporall Courts or Léets Layiuries Prophanation of Churches Musters or any other prophane usage and who are the offenders or by whom such abuses are suffered Articles concerning Ministers and Preachers of Gods holy Word Titul 2 FIrst Observation of the forme of Common-Prayer whether doth your Minister say or sing divine Service according to the prescript forme confirmed by his Maiesties Authority distinctly and reverently on Sundaies and Holi-dayes Wednesdayes Fridayes and the Eves of every Sunday and holiday and at convenient usefull times of those dayes and in such place as is méetest for the hearing of the people and whether your Minister doe observe the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the Book of Common prayer as well in reading of the holy Scripture and Prayers as in administration of the Sacraments without either adding or diminishing to or from the Booke of Common Prayer Diligent in execution of his office 2 Item Whether he be diligent and carefull faithfully to execute his Pastorall Office and Function by reading of the holy Scriptures and in case he be an allowed Preacher whether having no lawfull impediment he doth preach ordinarily And being not allowed doth procure Sermons in his Cure once in every moneth at the least Residence of the Minister 3 Item Is he a licened Preacher and by whom is he resident upon his Benefice or not if not then by whom is the cure served is your Curate licensed to serve the said Cure if yea then by whom doth your Curate preach if yea then by whom is he licensed so to preach Prayer for his Maiesty 4 Item whether your Minister before his Sermon Lecture or Homily doe pray for his Maiestie giving him his lawfull title as in his iust stile and commend his Highnesse and our Royall Quéene Prince in his prayers to Almighty God 5 Item Whether doth your Minister admit any to the holy Communion Notorious offenders not Communicants Sober conversation in Ministers that are knowne to be notorious offenders or any malicious or openly contentious persons untill they be reconciled 6 Item Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate do kéep any suspected woman in his house or be an incontinent person given to drunkennesse or idlenesse a haunter of Tavernes Ale-houses or suspected places or one that doth board or lodge in any such place a dicer carder tabler swearer or given to base or servile labour or otherwise doth give any evill example of life and whether his apparell be comely and grave as becommeth his function and calling A Register of Christnings Weddings and Burials Ministers hants 7 Item Whether your Minister and Church-wardens kéep a Register of the Christinings weddings and Burialls according to the prescript forme 8 Item Whether your Minister in time of Divine service or ministring the Sacraments being a Graduate doth wear a decent and comely surplice with sléeves and upon it a Hood sutable to his Degrée in the Vniversity and if he be no Graduate then doth he weare at such times such a surplice as is above mentioned Perambulations 9 Whether doe your Minister and parishioners yearely in Rogation wéeke walke the bounds of your parish according to the accident custome 10 Whether he doth Catechise duely according to the order set downe in the booke of Common Prayer and whether your parishioners doe duely send their children and servants especially such as be no Communicants to the catechizing if not to certifie the Parents and Masters names of such children and servants that a reformation may be had of the great defect in that Religious exercise 11 Whether all such houses out-houses barnes stables and other buildings belonging to your Parson Vicar or curate be kept in sufficient reparations or no if not what are the decayes and defects hereof Articles concerning the Church FIrst whether have you in your Church or Chappell Bookes and other implements of the Church the Titul 3 book of Common Prayer by the Kings Maiestie confirmed according to the Lawes of this Realme a Bible of the largest Volume and last translation the booke of Homilies allowed by authority a decent

Communion Table with a decent cloath and cover for the sme a comely pulpit a cloath and cushion for the same a faire Communion Cup a decent font-stone wherein Baptisme onely is administred a fine large surplice a coffer with two lockes and keyes for the Register booke to be safely kept and whether one key be kept by the Minister and the other by the Church-wardens 2 Item Whether your Church-yard be kept swéete and cleane and swine and other cattle kept out of the same and whether it be well and sufficiently repaired fenced and maintained with walles Railes or Pales as hath béene in each place accustomed 3 Item Whether your Church or Chappel Church to be repared with all parts belonging thereunto be decently kept in good and sufficient Reparation as becommeth the House of God and are the decayes thereof prevented so much as may be if not by whose default is the same hindred or not done Articles concerning the Church-wardens and Side-men Titul 4 The choise of Church-wardens and their accounts FIrst whether your Church-wardens and Side-men be chosen yearely in some day of the Easter wéeke according to the Canon and whether the Church-wardens and Side-men at the end of the yeare or within one moneth after doe give a iust and true account before the Minister and the parishioners of such money and other things as they have received and disbursed 2 Item Whether have the Church-wardens and Sidemen béene diligent and carefull in the execution of their office to sée decency and comelinesse observed in the Church in the time of common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments and that every parishioner behave himselfe orderly and soberly in the Church without disturbing the Minister and Preacher and suffered no idle person to abide in the Church-yard or the porch during the time of divine Service or Sermon Legacies given to godly uses by whom detained 3 Item Whether do you know of any Legacies given in the last Will and Testament of any person deceased out of his moveable goods to the use of the poore or reparations of the Chu●ch or to either of the Vniversities Oxford and Cambridge or Schooles of Learning or Colledges for increase of vertue and knowledge or to any other charitable end what be those bequests by whom were they given and whether they have béene paid to the use aforesaid by the Executors of any Testators deceased If not in whose possession or charge they be now remaining Titul 5 Articles concerning Matrimony Marriage within the Leviticall Degrees forbidden Marriagge in private Mariage without Banes or Licence FIrst Whether be there any in your parish that have married within the degrées of affinity or consanguinity by the Lawes of God forbidden 2 Item Whether have any Matrimony béen secretly celebrated or solemnized within any private house the banes being not thrée severall Sundayes or holidaies in the time of divine service asked or in the Parish Church or any private house in time prohibited without licence in that behalfe obtained who so married them and what are their names that were so maried Married persons living apart without Divorce 3 Item Whether be there any persons coupled together in lawfull manner that doe kéepe apart and live asunder without lawfull divorce Articles concerning Schoole-masters and Curates Titul 6 FIrst Schoolemasters not repaiing to church by whom is your Schoolemaster if you haue any licenced to teach doth he repaire to his parish Church in time of Common Prayer and instruct and teach his schollers in the Principles of true Religion 2 Item Schoolemasters not to be Popish or contemners of orders Whether doth your Schoolemaster teach or is he suspected to teach any of his schollers in Popery superstition disobedience or contempt of the truth and Christian Religion now established-within this Realme or to contemne the orders Ecclesiasticall and is he carefull to sée that his schollers doe duely and orderly frequent the Church Articles concerning the Parishioners and others of the Laitie Diligence of Churchwardens and Side-men FIrst whether be there any in your parish which do affirme that the forme of Gods worship in the Church of England established by the Law and contained in the Booke of Common Prayer is corrupt superstitious or unlawfull or contemneth any thing in it and what be their names 2 Item Whether be there any that mislike of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England Impugners of Rites and Ceremonies by authority confirmed or doe affirme them to be wicked Antichristian superstitious or such as godly and zealous men may not with a good conscience aproue 3 Item whether be there any that haue used themselves unreverent towards your Minister or any other of the Clergie either by unreverent spéeches or other unséemely behaviour to your knowledge as you have credibly heard 4 Item Whether be there any in your Parish Contention Drunkennesse Vncleannesse that be malicious contentious or uncharitable persons séeking the uniust vexation of their neighbours common swearers or blasphemers of the name of God fornicators adulterers incestuous persons bawds or receivers of such incontinent persons or harbourers of women with childe unmarried drunkards ribaulds or any that be not of good name and fame touching crimes or faults 5 Item Whether be there any man or woman in your parish that useth witch-crafts sorceries Sorcerie charmes or unlawfull prayer or invocation in Latine or English or otherwise or any that resorteth to such persons for counsell or for helpe and what be their names and who doth practise Physicke or Chyrurgerie in the parish unlicensed thereunto 6 Is there any of your Parish having a preacher to their Minister that doe absent themselves from his sermons and resort to other places to heare other Preachers or doe any dwelling in your Parish communicate or baptize their children in any other Parish 7 Have any in your Parish administred the goods of any person dying intestate without lawfull authority to them granted by the Ordinary or before they have proved the Will or Testament of any person deseased that made any Will or Testament Are there any Wills unproved or goods not administred in your Parish 8 What persons be communicate in your Parish for what cause were they so excommunicate how long have they so stood excommunicate and doe any of them repaire to your parish Church or to any other parish Church to your knowledge in time of Prayer unabsolved 9 Have any excommunicate person or persons béene buried in your Church or Chappell or Church-yard if yea what were their names so buried by whom were they so buried and who were present at the same burials 10 Doe you know of any other matter worthy of presentment or any person or persons that have committed any fault or offence contrary to any other his Maiesties Ecclesiasticall lawes not set downe or expressed in these Articles or doe you know of any person or persons that are vehemently suspected for committing any such fault or offence by vertue of your oathes present the said faults and the names of the persons that have committed or are vehemently suspected for committing the same offences There must be a full and severall answer made to every particular Article and branch thereof MEmorandum it is lawfull for every Minister be he Parson Vicar or Curate to present any enormity or common Fame of any enormious crime that shall arise within his Parish And whereas it seemed by the Canon that the Officers are not to present oftner than twice a yeare it is to be understood as in that Canon appeareth of presentments in generall But it is lawfull meet for every Minister Church-wardens and Side-men to make notorious Offenders knowne to their Ordinaries as often as occasion is offered to the end that such offences may in due time be punished and reformed