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Articles to bee enquired of by the minister, church-wardens, and sidemen of euery parish and chapelry within the deanry of [blank] in the yeare of our Lord God [blank] and presentment to be made by them conteining a particular answer to euery article
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Church of England. Province of Canterbury.
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1624
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STC 10147.9; ESTC S856
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⧠Articles to bee enquired of by the Minister Church-wardens and Sidemen of euery Parish and Chapelry within the Deanry of _____ in the yeare of our Lord God _____ And presentment to be made by them conteining a particular Answer to euery Article The forme of the OATH taken by the Church-wardens and Sidemen YOu shall sweare that you and euery of you shall dulie consider and diligently informe your selues of these Articles giuen you in charge and that all fauour hatred hope feare or any other corrupt affection set aside you shall present all and euery such person now or lately of your Parish which haue committed any offence comprized in any of these Articles or which arâ— vehemently suspected or defamed of any such offence Wherein you shall deale according to an vpright conscience neither presenting nor sparing tâ— present any person contrary to truth So helpe you God and his faithfull promises in Iesus Christ WHETHER haue you in your Church all things requisite for the common Prayer 〈…〉 ing 〈…〉 rch and due administration of the Sacraments Canon And namely a faire Bible the Booke of common Prayer 80. 81. 82. 83. 84 70. lately ordeined only to be vsed A Font of stoâ—e set vp in the ancient vsuall place A decent Communion table standing vpon a frame with a carpet of silke or some other seemely stuffe and a faire linnen clotâ— to lay thereon at the time of communion A faire communion Cup with a couer of siluer a decent Pulpit with a cloth and Cushion for the same a conueniâ—…t seat to read seruice in a comely large surplice a strong chest for almes for the poore with three lockes and keyes and another chest for keeping the Ornaments of the Church and Register booke and whether haue you a Register booke in parchment of all Christnings Weddings and Burials and whether is the 〈…〉 ept according to the Canons and a transcript thereof brought yeerely into the Office of principall Registrie of the L. Archb. of Canterbury And whether 〈…〉 Minister vpon euery Sunday reade the names of such as haue beene christened married or buried in the weeke before 2 Whether your Church 85. 88. Chancell and Churchyard be kept in good reparation 〈…〉 without whether any prophanation be or hath beene vsed in them or whether any man hath incroached vpon them And whether your personage or vicaridge â— thereunto belonging be likewise maintained in sufficient reparations If not through whose default and what is the defect 3 Whether haue you a Terrier of all the gleabe Landes 87. Meadowes Gardens â—…des Houses Stockes Implements Tenements and portions of Tythes lying within or without your Parish which belong to your Parsonage or Vicaridge and in whose ha 〈…〉 oeth it remaine If not you shall together with your Minister make diligent enquirie of all the premises and exhibite with your next presentment a true note of them in 〈…〉 ent subscribed with your hands specifying how they are buttalled or bounded and in whose occupation at this present they are 4 VVHether diuine seruice be said in your Church by your Minister distinctly and reâ—erently 〈…〉 ing 〈…〉 vpon Sundayes and such holydaies as are appointed to be obserued by the book of Common prayer 14. 15. 58. and their Eues and vpon Wednesdaies and Fridaies at emuenient and vsuall times and whether doth he in ministring the Sacraments solemnizing of matrimony visitation of the sicke burying the dead churching of women or any other rites and offices of the Church vse the formes of prayers prescribed in the same booke without any omission or addition And whether doth he read the booke of Canons once yeerely and weare a Surplice according to the Canon 5 Whether doth your Minister solemnly giue warning to his Parishioners for the holy Communion 22. 64. 67. 84. 66. 26. 27. 28. 29. 62. 63. 68. 69. 62. 100. and for all Holydaies fasting daies And whether doth hee visite the sick when he is thereunto desired to comfort and instruct them And whether doth hee offer to confere with Recusants in your Parish if there bee any And whether doth hee admit to the holy Communion any notorious offenders schismatickes or strangers of other Parishes or râ—iect any who are not by presentment or publique scandall infamous for some notorious crime And whether doth he admit any Father to be Godfather to his owne Childe or any to be Godfathers and Godmothers which haue not receiued the holy Communion or doth not vse the signe of the Crosse in baptisme or doth baptize in any bason or other vessell and not in the vsuall Font or doth baptize any children that were not borne within the Parish And whether doth he marry any in any exempt place or without banes published three seuerall Sundaies or Holidaies or without a sufficient dispensation or licence or without licence in times prohibited albeit the banes were thrice published or not betwixt the houres of 8. and 12. in the forenoone or if the parties bee vnder the age of 21. yeares before their parents haue signified their consent vnto him or whether doth hee refuse to Christen or to bury or doth deferre the same longer then hee should and whether by his default any Childe hath died without baptisme in your Parish 6 Whether doth he preach minister the communion baptize children 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. or church women vnlesse in case of necessitie or in any case without a faculty solemnize matrimony in priuate houses Or doth keepe or suffer any Fastes Prophesies Exercises or Exorcismes without lawfull authoritie or doth hold or suffer any priuate conuenticles And whether doth he frequent Tauernes Alchouses or any place suspected for incontinencie or doth table or ledge in any such house or is hee a common gamester at Dice Cardes Tables or any other vnlawfull game a Swearer or Drunkard or one that applieth not himselfe to his studiâ—… Or doth not vse decencie in his apparrell Or is otherwise offensiue or scandalous to his function and ministry 7 Whether is hee continually resident vpon his benefice 45 46. 47. 74. and how longtime hath hee beene absent from the same in case hee belicenced to be absent whether doth he cause his cure to be sufficiently supplied And whether if hee bee allowed a Preacher doth hee preach one Sermon euery Sunday or if not so allowed doth procure monthly sermons and read Homilies And whether not being so allowed doth hee expound any Scripture or suffer any man to preach in your Church whom you haue not well knowne to haue beene sufficiently licenced and who hath not first subscribed his name together with the day when he did preach and who was not soberly and decently apparrelled 8 Whether doth your Preacher and Lecturer read diuine seruice 56. 55. and minister the Sacraments twice a yeare at the least in his owne person And whether doth hee vse the forme of prayer before his sermons for the Kings most excellent Maiestie
exhorting the people to obedience to his Maiestie and other Magistrates in authority vnder him 9 Whether doth your Minister on Sundaies and Holidaies Catechize the Youth and ignorant persons in your Parish 59. And whether doth hee admit any women to bee churched who were begotten with childe in adultery or fornication without licence from the Ordinarie And whether doth hee in the Rogation dayes vse the perambulation of the circuite of the Parish 10 Whether doth he euery sixe moneths denounce in his Parish Church all such o 〈…〉 rish as doe perseuer in the sentence of excommunication not seeking to bee absolued And whether hath hee admitted any such excommunicate person to the communion 〈…〉 Church without certificate of his absolution And whether doth hee or any of your Parish familiarly frequent the company of any such excommunicate person 11 WHether any of your Parishioners doe not cause their 〈…〉 〈…〉 rs and Apprentiâ—es to come to 〈…〉 vpon Sundaies and Holidaies to bee instructed in the Catechisme by them 59. or whether any of them refuse to come or if they come refuse to be instructed And what bee the names of them so not causing or refusing 12 Whether any of your Parishioners 13. 14. 18. or other strangers soiourning lodging or commonly resorting to any house within your Parish aboue 16. yeares of age doe wilfully or negligently absent themselues from your parish Church vpon Sundayes or Holidayes at Morning or Euening prayer or who come very late to Church vpon the said dayes or who depart from Church before seruice bee finished or who doe not reuerently behaue themselues during the time of diuine Seruice deuoutly kneeling at such times as the generall Confession of sinnes the Letanie the ten Commandements and all prayers and Collects are read or who doe vse any gameing or pastime abroad or in any house or doe sit in the street or Church-yard or in any Tauerne or Victualing-house vpon any of those dayes in time of diuine Seruice or who haue quarrelled brawled or vsed violence to any person within your Church or Church-yard or who hath vsed filthy or prophane talke or other rude and in modest behauiour there 13 Whether there be any of 21. 22 28. or within your parish being sixteene yeeres of age and vpwards that doe not receiue the holy Communion in your Church thrice in this yeare at the least and chiefly once at Easter And whether any of your parish doth not deuoutly kneele at the receiuing thereof And whether doth not your Minister receiue it himselfe on euery day that he administreth it to others and vse the words of institution at euery time that the bread and wine is administred And whether doe your selues diligently obserue your office in marking what persons of or within your parish offend against this or the next precedent Article and in due presenting their names 14 Whether any in your parish haue a Preacher to your Parson 46. 10. 57. 9. 10. 100. Vicar or Curate doe absent themselues from his Sermons and resort to other places to heare other Preacher And whether any hauing beene ordeyned Priest or Deacon hath relinquished the same and be â—…en him to a course of life as a lay man Or whether any not being in Orders doth openly read Common prayer or execute any ministeriall dutie in your Church and what be their names 15 Whether there be any that doe publiquely or priuately speake against the Booke of Common prayer deprauing the same or any thing therein contained or against any of the said Articles of Religion agreed vpon in Anno 1562 Or against the Kings Royall Supremacie iâ—… causes Ecclesiasticall Or against any of the rites or ceremonies of the Church of England Or against the gouernment of the said Church of England vnder the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Bishops Archbishops Deanes Archdeacons other Officers in the same affirming that the same is repugnant to the word of God and that the said Ecclesiasticall Officers are not lawfully ordeyned Or whether there by any that be Authors or maintainers of Scisme or frequenters of any priuate conuenticles or meetings or that be or are suspected to be Anabaptists Libertines Brownists of the Familie of Loue other herefie orschisme And what be their names 16 Whether doe you know any Schoolemaster that doth teach 77. 48. 79. or Curate that doth reade diuine Seruice within your parish without licence of his Ordinary vnder his Scale And whether doth not such Schoolemaster instruct his schollers in the Catechisme and teach them he grounds of Religion and bring them to Church to heare diuine Seruice and Sermons And whether is he a common officer or artificer or any wayes reprooueable in life And whether is your Clarke also allowed by the Ordinary And whether doth your clarke serue more cures than one And whether doe they demeane themselues according to their seâ—rall duties 17 How many Midwiues haue you in your Parish which doe exercise that office how long â—ue they so done and by what authoritie Also how many in your Parish doe practise as Physitions or Chirurgions how long haue they so done and of what skill are they reputed their profession 18 Whether doe you know any persons that doe administer the goods of the dead without laâ—full authoritie 86. or suppresse the last will of the dead or with-hold any stocke of the Church or any Legacies giuen to godly and charitable vses and whether is the almes of the Church faithfully distributed to the vse of the poore And whether the late Church-wardens haue giuen a iust accompt before the Minister and Parishoners at the end of their yeere according to the Canon 19 Whether doe you know in your parish any common swearers drunkards blasphemers any â—…oniacal persons or vsuerers contrary to the Statute 37. of Henry the eight any sooth-sayers charmers fornicators adulterers incestious persons brawlers common slanderers of the neighbours raylers scoulds silthy and lasciuious talkers sowers of discord between neighbors or any that receiue or lodge incontinent persons or harbour women with childe whiâ—… be vnmarried conueying or suffering them to goe away before they haue made satisfaction to the congregation or any persons that are by common fame noted or vehemently â—…ected of any of these crimes or that being heretofore suspected or presented for any of these faults haue for that cause departed out of your Parish and are now returned againe 20 Whether there bee any persons within your Parish that be married within the prohibited â—…grees of consanguinitie or affininitie or their old wiues or husbands being yet aliue albeit diuorced from them 99. 57. or that being lawfully married doe liue scandalously apart 〈…〉 married in times prohibited or without banes three seuerall Sundayes or Holy-daies published hauing no sufficient licence or dispensation for the same And whether there â—…ar doe communicate or cause their children to be baptized in other Parishes abroad or keepe their children vnbaptized longer then is conuenient 21 Whether any woman deliured of childe in your Parish in time conuenient after child-bâ—…th doe not come to the vsuall place in the Church to giue God thanks And whether doth your Clarke lap a Cushion at the said vsuall place 117. whether any inhabitant within your Parish doth detaine the Clarkes wages dueties for bread and wine or any other Church dueties present particularly what be their names and what and how much those dueties be 22 Whether any person in your Parish doe exercise any Trade Handicraft or bodily labour or doe buy and sell or keepe open Shops or warehouses vpon any Sunday or Holiday by themselues their seruants or Apprentizes or haue otherwise prophaned the sayd daies contrary to the order of the Church of England And whether there bee any Inne-keepers Alehouse-keepers or Victualers that permit any persons in their houses to eat drinke or play at any games during the time of diuine Seruice or Sermon in the forenoone or afternoone vpon those dayes 23 Whether doe any in your Parish familiarly frequent the company of excommunicate persons And whether doeth your Minister or any of your Parish without consent of the Ordinarie cause any to doe penance or to be censured or punished by any Vestry meetings or otherwise by their owne anthoritie or doe or haue taken any money for any crime or matter punishable by the Ecclesiasticall Law who haue beene so punished in what manner anâ—… vpon what cause 24 If any one or more of you doe know 113. or haue heard of any fault inquired of in these Articles or of any other crime the reformation whereof belongeth to the spirituall iurisdicton happening from the _____ day of _____ that then you doe informe one another thereof and you shall likewise present the same by vertue of your oathes 25 The Minister of euery Parish may ioyne in euery presentment with the Churchwardens and Sidemen 118. 118. who if they will not present the Minister may himselfe present to the said Commissary or his Surrogat such faults or crimes abouesaid as shall be thought to require due reformation You are charged to specifie the fault or crime proper name and surname trade or addition and place of dwelling of euery person presented And to bring your first generall presentment vpon all these Articles into Bowe Church in Cheapeside in the forenoone between the houres of viij and xi of the clocks the 28. day of _____ next comming And your last generall presentment on the _____ day of _____ then next following or else they and there to appeare personally to shew the cause of your default therein Intimating further that you may besides those generall dayes present offenders as oft as you shall thinke meete as by the Canonis prescribed Vnto the sayd Deane Commissary or his deputy sitting at any time in the open court