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B07665	Articles to be inquired of, in the metropoliticall visitation of the most Reuerend Father in God, Richard, by the prouidence of God, Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke, primate of England, and metropolitane. In the yeere of our Lord God, 1633..	Church of England. Province of York. Archbishop (1631-1640 : Neile); Neile, Richard, 1562-1640.	1633 (1633)	STC 10380; ESTC S92473	10,368	17

lawes of the Church of England is allowed 6 Whether doth your Minister as oft as hee administreth the communion first receiue it himselfe whether doth hee vse any bread and wine newly brought before the word of institution bee rehearsed and the bread and wine present on the Table doth he not deliuer the bread and wine to euery communicant seuerally in such sort as is prescribed 7 Whether doth your Minister giue warning publikely in the Church at Morning prayer the Sunday before hee administreth the communion for the better preparation of the parishoners and whether doth hee administer the Sacraments so often as that euery parishione may receiue thrice in the yeere at the least whereo Easter to be one 8 Whether hath your Minister administred the Communion to any but such as kneele or doe you know any that refuse to kneele hath he administred to any that are vnder Ecclesiasticall censure as for refusing to bee present at publike Prayer or who hath depraued the Booke of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments or the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed or the Articles of religion agreed vpon or the Book of ordering Deacons Priests and Bishops or against his Maiesties Supremacy or hath committed other the like enormities and what be their names 9 Whether haue your Minister more Benefices than one if hee haue how far distant are the●… how often is he absent in the yeere when hee is absent from your parsonage or vicaridge hath he a licensed Preacher for his Curate 10 Whether your Churches or Chappels bee or haue beene destitute of a Curate And how long and by whose default And whether any Curate haue serued or doe serue without licence of the Ordinary 11 Whether doe you know any Popish Priests Seminary Iesuite or runnagate persons that doe preach say Masse or minister any Popish Sacrament ●r Ceremonies or else doe resort secretly or openly into your Parish And whose house doe they resort vnto and of whom are they harboured and what bee the names of such Popish Priests Seminaries Iesuites or Runnagates and such as so harbour and releeue them 12 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate or any other person in your parish be a fauourer of the Romish Church or religion or any other Sect or Schismaticall opinion or hath or doth maintaine or teach any doctrine contrary or repugnant to Gods Word or to any of the Articles agreed vpon by the Clergy in the Conuocation holden at London An. Dom. 1562. And whether they haue taught publiquely or secretly any doctrine tending to the discredit and disprayse eyther of the Booke of Common Prayer or of the Preachers and Ministers of the Word and Sacraments or of the receiued order for gouernment by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and other officers in the Church of England or make any other innouation And whether haue they permitted any man so teaching or making such innouation and not made the same knowne 13 Whether is your Minister an allowed Preacher if he be doth he euery Sunday in your Church or some other next adioyning where no Preacher is preach 14 Whether doth your Minister being no Preacher allowed presume to expound the Scripture in his owne Cure or elsewhere doth he procure euery month a Sermon to be preached in his cure by preachers lawfully licenced and on euery Sunday when there is no Sermon doth hee or his Curate reade some one of the Homilies prescribed 15 Whether your Minister doe openly euery Sunday after he haue read the second Lesson at Morning Euening praier admonish and warne the Church-wardens Swornemen to look to their charge to obserue who offend in absenting themselues negligently or wilfully from their Parish-church or Chappell or vnreuerently vse themselues in time of diuine Seruice 16 Whether is your Curate allowed by the Ordinary vnder his hand and seale to serue for your Cure and whether doth hee serue two Churches or chappels in one day whether is he Deacon at the least and what stipend hath he for seruing the Cure 17 Whether doth your Minister alwaies in saying publike prayer administring the Sacraments weare a decent surplesse with sleeues and being a graduate doth he alwaies weare therewith a hood by the order of the Vniversity agreeable to his degree 18 Whether hath your Minister or any other Preacher in your church preached any thing to confute or impugne any doctrine deliuered by any other Preacher hath hee they prayed for Christs Catholike Church the Kings Maiesty the Lords Archbishops and Bishops c. as is prescribed Canon 55 19 Whether hath or doth any preach in your Church which refuseth to conforme himselfe to the Lawes Rites Ordinances established or which hath not first shewed a sufficient licence 20 Whether doth your Minister in his sermons foure times in the yeere at the least teach and declare the Kings Maiesties power within his Realmes to be the highest power vnder God to whom all within the same owe most loyalty and obedience and that all forraine power is iustly taken away 21 Whether doth your Minister euery Sunday and Holiday halfe an houre before Euening prayer or more or at some other conuenient time at Euening prayer examine and instruct the youth in the ten Commandements the Beleefe the Lords Prayer the Catechisme set forth in the Booke of Common prayer and whether doe the Church-wardens assist the Minister herein 22 Whether hath your Minister married any which haue not beene three seuerall Sundaies or Holydaies asked in your Church in the tune of diuine seruice without licence or without a ring or hath hee with licence or without married any whereof neither dwelt in your Parish 23 Whether hath your Minister with licence or without married any at any other times than betweene the houres of eight and twelue in the Forenoone or in any priuate house or when there is no licence before the Parents and Gouernours the parties being vnder the age of 22. yeeres haue testified their consents 24 Whether hath your Minister declared to the people euery Sunday at the time appointed what Holidaies and Fasting-daies be that weeke following doth he being a Preacher confer with all recusants and persons excommunicate or suspended being no Preacher doth he procure a sufficient Preacher to reclaime them thereby 25 Whether doth your Minister keepe a note of all persons excommunicate and once euery sixe moneths doth hee denounce them which haue not obtained their absolution on some Sunday in seruicetime that others may bee admonished to refraiue their company 26 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate bee diligent in visiting the sicke and comforting them and whether they bury their dead in such christian and comely manner as is prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer and whether any Lay man other than a lawfull Minister hath taken vpon him to bury the dead contrary to order 27 Whether hath your Minister refused to baptize any childe brought to the Church or to bury any corps brought

ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF In the Metropoliticall Visitation of the most Reuerend Father in God RICHARD by the prouidence of God Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke Primate of England and Metropolitane Jn the yeere of our Lord God 1633. LONDON Printed by John Norton 1633. The Aduertisement THe Minister and Church-wardens are to call vnto them the Neyghbours of the Parish and out of them to make choyce according to the custome of the place of two of the discreetest parishioners to bee Side-men and they altogether are to reade ouer these Articles diuers times Then after they haue duely considered of them they are to write their answere or presentment vnto euery Article particularly and truly according to their consciences Lastly they are all of them to bring their presentments to the Visitation and there the Church-wardens and Side-men vpon their oathes but the Minister according to the Canon in that behalfe are to deliuer them vp vnder their hands The oath to be ministred to the Church-wardens Sworne-men YOu shall sweare that all affection fauour hatred hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set aside You shal vpon due consideration 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 and defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shall deliuer vprightly and according to truth neyther of malice presenting any contrary to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and so conceale the truth hauing in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to mayntaine truth and to suppresse vice so helpe you God and the contents of this Booke Touching the Church Church-yard Parsonage and Vicarage-house FIrst whether your Church Chappell and Chancell bee well and sufficiently repaired in the walls and roofe the Seats conuenient the floore paued the windowes glazed your Bells in tune and all these cleanely kept and the mansion-house of your Parson or Vicar with the building thereunto belonging bee likewise well and sufficiently repayred and your Church-yard well fenced with walls rayles or payles and cleanely kept 2 Whether hath your Church or Church-yard beene abused and prophaned by any fighting chiding brawling or quarrelling any playes Lords of misrule summer Lords morris-dancers pedlers bowlers bearewards butchers feasts schooles temporall courts or Leets Lay Iuries musters or other prophane vsage in your Church or Church-yard any bells superstitiously rung on holidayes or their eeues or at any other time without good cause allowed by the Minister and Church-wardens haue any trees beene felled in your Church-yard and by whom 3 Whether are your Almes-houses and Church-house sufficiently repayred mayntaned and to godly and their right vse imployed 4 Whether haue you in your Church all things necessary for common prayer as the Bible in the largest volume the booke of common Prayer lately authorized by his Maiesty the booke of Homilies allowed two books of common prayer a conuenient Pulpit for the preaching a decent seat for the Minister to reade Seruice in conueniently placed a strong chest with three lockes and keyes one for the Minister the other for the Church wardens for the keeping of the Register booke of the Christnings Marriages and Burials and a poore mans boxe with three locks conueniently seated neere the Church doore 5 Whether have you in your Church a font of stone for baptisme set in the ancient vsuall place a decent table for the communion conviently placed couered with silke or other decent stuffe in time of diuine Seruice and with a faire linnen cloth ouer that at the administration of the communion 6 Whether haue you all such bells ornaments and other vtensels as haue anciently belonged to your Church a communion-cup o● siluer with a couer a fayre standing pot or two of pewter or purer metall for the wine vpon the communion table a comely Surplesse with sleeues a Register booke of parchment for christnings marriages burials a booke for the names of all christnings marriages burials a booke for the names of all strange preachers subscribed with their names and the name of the Bishop or other where they had licence 7 Whether is the Almes for the poore duely distributed and are the names and surnames of all persons married christned and buried and of their parents with the day and yeere entred in your parchment Register booke 8 Whether are the ten Commandements set vp in your Church or Chappell and other chosen sentences of holy Scripture vpon the walls in conuenient places and the table of the degrees prohibited in marriage set forth 1563 9 Whether haue you in your Church or Chappell the booke of the Canons agreed vpon in the conuocation holden at London Anno Dom 1603. and confirmed by his Maiesties royall authority and whether your Minister haue read the same in your Church or Chappell once euery yeere according to his Maiesties Iniunctions in that behalfe Touching the Ministery Seruice and Sacraments VVHether is the common prayer said or sung by your Minister both morning euening distinctly and reuerently euery Sunday and Holiday and on there eeues and at conuenient and vsuall times of those daies and in most conuenient place of the Church for the edifying of the people 2 Whether doth your Minister obserue the orders rites ceremonies prescribed in the booke of common prayer in reading holy Scriptures prayers administration of the Sacraments without diminishing in regard of preaching or any other respect or adding any thing in the manner or forme thereof 3 Whether doth your Ministér on wednesdaies and fridaies not being holidaies at the accustomed houres of seruice resort to the Church and say the ordinary prayers and Letany prescribed And doth your Clarke or Sexton giue warning before by tolling of a bell on those daies 4 Whether any Minister leauing the vse of the Font doe in your Church or Chappell christen or baptize in any Basons or other profane vessells or whether your Minister do baptize or christen any out af the face of the Church Congregation without speciall cause or without Godfathers or Godmothers And whether any person or persons be admitted to answere as Godfathers Godmothers at the christning of any childe except he or she haue before receiued the holy communion And whether doth your Minister in the baptizing of children obserue the orders rites ceremonies appointed prescribed in the booke of common prayer without addition omission or other innouation 5 Whether doe you know any Parents that keepe children vnchristened or that were not christened at their owne Parish Church or Chappell for what cause they remaine yet vnchristened or haue not beene christned at their Parish Church or Chappell or do you know haue heard or vehemently suspect any parents whose children haue beene christned by any Popish Priest or otherwise than by the

thereof or the party being dead doth he suffer any more ringing than one short peale before his buriall one and after the same another 5 Whether doth any of your parish refuse to pay vnto the parish Clarke or Sexton such wages as are vnto them due haue beene accustomably payd Touching Parishioners FIrst whether hath any in your parish spoken against or any way impugned the Kings Maiesties supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall the Truth and Doctrine of the Church of England the forme of Gods worship contained in the booke of common prayer and administration of the Sacraments 2 Whether there bee any person or persons knowne or vehemently suspected to haue written printed or by any meanes published dispersed or otherwise to haue or to haue had in his or their vse or keeping any Popish bookes or libels or any of those slanderous or schismaticall seditious libels or other books that impeach the kooke of common prayer or the Religion Ecclesiasticall gouernment or any other part thereof established by Law in this Realme or doth impeach the credit or estate of any Ecclesiasticall person or gouernour within the same 3 Whether hath any in your parish spoken against or impugned the Articles of Religion agreede vpon in Anno. Do. 1562. the rites and ceremonies established in the Church the gouernment by Arch-bishops Bishops Deanes Arch-deacons and others that beare office in the same 4 Whether hath any in your Parish spoken against or impugned the forme of making and consecrating Bishops Priests or Deacons or haue any separated themselues from the society of the congregation and combined in a new Brotherhood or depraued the Sinods of the Church of England held by the Kings Authority 5 Whether hath any in your Parish maintained or defended any such Ministers or Schoolemasters as refuse to subscribe to the order of the Church haue they affirmed that such Ministers and adherents may make Rules Orders in causes Ecclesiasticall without the Kings Authority 6 Whether doth any in your Parish prophane violate or mis-spend the Lords day commonly called Sunday or Holidayes appoynted in the Church of England vsing any offensiue conuersation or worldly labour in those dayes or any of them or is there any that wilfully refuse or negligently hath absented himselfe from diuine prayers on Sundayes or Holidayes 7 Whether doth any in your Parish in the time of diuine Seruice vse to sit with his hat on his head or is there any who hath not reuerently kneeled when the generall Confession Letany other prayers are read which haue not stood vp at the saying of the Beleefe 8 Whether hath any in your Parish disturbed the Seruice or Sermon by walking talking or any other way or departed out of the Church during the Seruice or Sermon without some vrgent cause or loytered about the Church or Church-porch 9 Whether there be any in your Parish man or woman being about fifteene yeere of age that hath not receiued the holy Communion thrice at the least euery yeere namely at Easter last or thereabouts for once whether any abandoning his or their Parish Church haue receiued the holy Communion in any other Parish Church or Chappell or priuate place 10 Whether hath any parent beene vrged to be present or admitted to answere as Godfather for his owne child or hath any Godfather or godmother made any other answer or speech than is prescribed by the Booke or haue any bin admitted for Godfathers or Godmothers at Baptisme who haue not first receiued the Communion 11 Whether doe all Fathers Mothers Masters Mistresses come cause their children seruants and apprentices to come duely to the Church and according to the Ministers direction is be instructed and catechized or who be they that haue not obeyed the Minister herein 12 Whether haue any persons married together within the Degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity prohibited set forth in a Table appoynted to bee placed in euery Church or haue any married or contracted themselues vnder the age of one twenty yeeres without the consent of their Parents or Gouernours if their parents be dead 13 Whether haue any persons once lawfully married forsaken each other or doe liue asunder otherwise than by Law is permitted or doe any being diuorced or separated marry againe the former wife or husband yet liuing 14 Whether hath any of your parish vnreuerently vsed your Minister or haue any layd violent hands vpon him or disgraced his office and calling by word or deed 15 Whether haue you in your parish any popish recusant or maintayner of popish doctrine or suspected to keepe or disperce schismaticall bookes or to fauour any heresie or errour 16 Whether haue you any common resorters to your Church which are not of your parish abandoning their owne parish Church or doe any such receiue the communion amongst you what be their names and of what parishes are they 17 Whether hath any in the time of diuine Seruice vpon any Sunday or Holiday opened their shops exercised their trade or vsed any gaming bin in any Tauern or Alehouse or otherwise ill imployed 18 Whether are there in your Parish any adulterers fornicators incestuous persons bawds receiuers of defamed persons close fauourers conueyers away of such or which suffer to depart any incontinent person vnpunished or are there in your parish any blasphemers common swearers drunkards ribawds vsurers malicious slanderers scolds or sowers of discord or any defamed of the same crime 19 Whether doe any in your Parish administer the goods of the dead without authority or suppresse their will or testament haue any Executors neglected to performe their wils especially in paying of Legacies giuen to the Church to the poore or to any other charitable or godly vses 20 Whether doe any refuse to pay to the reparations ornaments other things by Law required to bee in your Church as they are seased by Law or are any dwelling out of your Parish which hold land in your Parish that refuse the like payment or seasement 21 Whether haue any not being of your Parish beene christned churched buried or receiued the Communion or beene married out of your Church both parties dwelling in your parish 22 Whether haue all women in your Parish deliuered of child come at conuenient time after to Church to giue thanks haue they beene Churched according to the forme of the Booke of common Prayer 23 Whether hath the Perambulation of the circuit of your Parish bin obserued once euery yeere if not by whose default is it 24 Whether hath any in your Parish giuen the Church-wardens or Sidemen or any of them euill words for doing their duety according to their oath and conscience in making presentment for their default 25 Whether there be any man or woman in your Parish that vseth witch-craft sorcery charmes or vnlawfull prayer or inuocations in Latine or English or otherwise vpon any Christian body or beast or any that resorteth to the same for counsell or helpe and what be their names 26 Whether there be any that pretending themselues to bee Physicians or Chirurgeons do take vpon them to practise Physicke or Chirurgery not being lawfully licenced thereunto or which refuse to shew their sayd licence to the Minister or Curate and Church-wardens of your Church or Chappell when they shall be hereunto required Touching Church-wardens and Sworne-men FIrst whether doe any in your Parish take vpon them to bee Church-warden or Side-man which is not lawfully chosen by the Minister Parishioners according to the Canon or do any continue the office longer than one yeere except they be chosen againe or that it be a custome of your Parish for a Church-warden to continue two yeers and are all such officers chosen yeerly in Easter weeke 2 Whether doe your Church-wardens within one moneth at the most after their yeere ended before the Minister and Parishioners giue vp a iust accompt of all such money other things as they haue receiued bestowed haue they deliuered all remaining in their hands belonging to their Church or Parish by Bill indented to be deliuered to the next Church-wardens 3 Whether haue the Church-wardens with the aduice of the Minister from time to time prouided a sufficient quantity of fine white bread wholesome wine for the number of communicants 4 Whether doe the Church-wardens and Sworne-men before euery visitation and at other times when there is iust occasion meete and confer about their presentments the answering of their Articles who hath after notice giuen him of the time place carelesly absented himselfe 5 Whether the forfeiture of twelue pence for absence from Church appoynted by Statute to the vse of the poore bee taken leuied by the Church-wardens imployed according to the said Statute and whether is the said forfeiture taken of all persons which stand wilfully suspended or excommunicated 6 Whether haue any Church-wardens lost sold or detained any Goods Ornaments Bels Rents or Implements of the Church 7 Whether doe you the Church-wardens Side-men about the middest of diuine Seruice vsually walke out of y● Church see who are abroad in any Ale-house or elsewhere absent or euilly imployed haue you presented all such offenders to the Ordinary 8 Whether doe you know or haue heard a fame of any offence committed or duty omitted by any of your Parish before your time heretofore not presented by the former Church-wardens to the Ordinary or as yet not reformed and haue you presented the same 9 Finally doe you know of any matter or cause which is a breach of the lawes Ecclesiasticall here not expressed haue you presented the same FINIS