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A00185	Articles ecclesiasticall to be inquired of by the churchwardens and the sworne-men within the dioces of Hereforde in the visitation of the reuerend father in God, Harbart Bishop of the saide dioces, this present yeare M.D.LXXXXII. and in the XXXIIII. yeare of the raigne of our most gratious soueraigne lady Queene Elizabeth, &c. and so hereafter till the next visitation, & from time to time to bee presented.	Church of England. Diocese of Hereford. Bishop (1586-1602 : Westfaling); Westfaling, Herbert, 1532?-1602.	1592 (1592)	STC 10215.5; ESTC S4281	7,555	14

ARTICLES ECCLESIASTICALL TO BE INQVIRED OF BY THE CHVRCHWARDENS AND THE SWORNE-MEN WITHIN THE Dioces of Hereforde in the visitation of the reuerend father in God Harbart Bishop of the saide Dioces this present yeare M. D.LXXXXII and in the XXXIIII yeare of the raigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth c. And so hereafter till the next visitation from time to time to bee presented Imprinted at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes Printer to the Vniuersitie ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF IN the Dioces of Hereforde FIrst ye shal enquire truely present vpon your oathes takē whether you doe know of any which hath thrust himselfe into any funccion Ecclesiastical without ordinary calling as to say publike seruice in church or chappel not being lawfully ordered Deacon at the least 2 Whether your Parson or Vicar be knowen suspected or reported to haue bought his benefice or come to it by any simonicall compace made either by himselfe or others directly or indirectly or do let out his liuing or any part thereof to any in consideration that he hath obtained the same 3 Whether your Parson or Vicar Curate or minister or any other Priest or laiman or womā do wilfully maintaine or defend anie heresies false opinions or popish errors cōtrary to the lawes of almighty God and true doctrine by publike authority now set foorth in this realme and what be their names 4 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curat doe not say commō praier in your Church or Chappel distinctly and reuerently and in such order as is set forth by the Lawes of this Realme without any kinde of alteration and at du●●●●d conuenient howers And whether your Minister doe not so turne himselfe stande in such place of your Church or Chancell as the people may best heare the sue And whether the holy sacramēts be not likewise ministred reuerently in such maner as by the Lawes of this Realme is appointed and whether vpon wednesdaies and Frydaies not being holy daies the Letany and other praiers appointed for the daie bee not said accordingly 5 Whether your Minister or any other not being licenced take vpon him to expounde scripture thereby omit vpon any sunday the reading of a part of an Homily at the least or vppon any other occasion doe omit the same 6 Whether your Minister doe not read the cōmination against sinners with certaine praiers appointed at the least thrise a yeere besides the lent time and whether he doth not reade the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions quarterly in the church 7 Whether he haue preached or caused to bee preached his monthly or quarterly sermons at the least and who they bee that preached them and whether he haue suffered any not licenced to preach or forbidden any that was licenced and whether hee or any other haue preached declared or spoken any thing in derogation of the book of common praier which is set forth by the lawes of this realm dispraysing the same or any thing therin conteined 8 Whether any open notorious fornicatour adulterer or euil liuer by whom the cōgregation is offended haue without due penance first done been by your Minister admitted to the holy cōmunion or any malitious person that is notoriously knowen to be out of charitie or that hath done any open wrong to his neighbour by word or deede without due reconciliation first made to the party that is wronged or any that at the time stood excommunicate or a stranger of another parish 9 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curat haue admitted to the holy communion any of his parish being aboue twenty yeares of age either mankinde or womankinde that cannot say by heart the ten commaundements the articles of the faith and the Lords praier in english and what be the names of those that cannot saie the same or being aboue foureteene yeares and vnder twenty that coulde not say the catechisme allowed and set foorth in the booke of cōmon praier And whether your minister at times conuenient before he administer vnto them and namely before Easter yearely doe vse to examine his parishioners whether they can say by hare the same which is required in this behalfe And whether hee marry any persons that were single before that cannot say the aforesaide catechisme 10 Whether your Minister on euery sunday and holidaie in the after noone before euening praier do cal for heare instruct al the youth within your parish of cōueniēt age of both sexes in the catechisme or at the least so many of them by course as time will serue and as he may wel heare and instruct for halfe an hower at the least before euening praier in the tenne commandementes the Articles of the beliefe and the Lordes praier and diligently examine and teach them the catechisme as it is now allowed and set forth And whether for that purpose he doth take the names of thē all and by ●ourse cal certaine of them by name euery sundaie and holiday to come to the teaching of the same and present to the ordinary such quarterly as refuse to come to be catechised and whether he doe diligently visite the sicke and comfort them with exhortation to contribute by wil for the reliefe of the poore as their abilitie shal serue 11 Whether he be diligent in study of the holy scriptures for further increase in knowledge and for that purpose if he be vnder the degree of a Master of art hath of his owne at the least the new testament in latine and English and whether he doeth dailie conferre certaine chapters thereof togither and obserue such orders as for his increase in knowledge are set downe by his ordinary vsing at vacant times such good seemely exercises as may keepe him from sluggishnes and idlenes 12 Whether any Minister haue maried any in times forbiddē by the Ecclesiastical Laws or without banes thrise asked otherwise thā by licēce of the ordinary or hath vsed the forme of thākesgiuing for woman after childebirth being vnlawfully begotten with childe otherwise then in a form of a penitent person viz. in a white sheete or other habit prescribed by the ordinary or vpon any other day than a Sunday or holyday or before sufficient caution taken that she should not depart the Parish til she should performe such penance as should be enioined by the ordinary 13 Whether your Minister vse any other Rite or Ceremony in the Church than is prescribed by the booke of common praier whether he or any other keepe or vse any secret Conuenticles Preachings lectures or Reading contrary to the Law and what be their names 14 Whether your Parson or Vicar doth not in his own person at the least sometimes in the year both say publike praiers himselfe and also administer the holy communion according to the booke of common Praier 15 Whether for the retayning of the perambulation of the circuit of your parish the Parson Vicar or Curat churchwardens certaine of the substantial men of the parish in the