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B07640	Articles to be enquired of by the church-wardens in the visitation of the Right Worshipfull, Master Robert Iohnson, batchelor in diuinitie, and Arch-deacon of Leicester, in the yeare of our Lord God. 1622..	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Leicester. Archdeacon (1591-1625 : Johnson); Johnson, Robert, 1540-1625.	1622 (1622)	STC 10223; ESTC S92357	8,587	19

ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF BY THE CHVRCHwardens in the Visitation of the Right Worshipfull Master ROBERT IOHNSON Batchelor in Diuinitie and Arch-deacon of Leicester In the yeare of our Lord God 1622. LONDON Printed for IOHN GRISMAND 1622. The Tenour of the Oath ministred to all and euery the Church-wardens and Sworne-men chosen for this present yeere YOu and euery of you shall sweare by Almightie GOD that all affection set aside you shall vpon due consideration of these Articles giuen you in charge present vnto Master Robert Iohnson aforesaid and his Officiall euery such person and persons of or within your Parish as hath committed any offence or made any default mentioned in the same Articles or which are vehemently suspected or otherwise defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you and euery of you shall deale vprightly as before God So helpe you God A short Admonition to the Church-wardens and Side-men YOu which shall bee sworne consider well of this Oath and make your Presentments in writing vnder your hands to euery Article seuerally in this Booke bringing the same with you to Master Archdeacon of Leicester his Visitation there to bee deliuered vpon your Oathes Articles concerning Church-men as Parsons Vicars Curats c. INprimis Whether your Parson Vicar A Preacher or Curate be a Preacher of Gods word a fauourer and furthered of true Religion now established in this Realme of England by publike authoritie or not 2 Whether your Parson or Vicar haue preached or caused to be preached in your Church In preaching monethly Sermons c. ●o many Sermons as by the late Canons are required and whether before all Sermons Lectures Homilies vseth that form of Prayer which is set downe in the late Canon and what be the names of them who haue preached for him and whether he hath admitted any man to preach not hauing sufficient licence 3 Whether any person or persons Say Seruice vnordered not being ordered at the least for a Deacon doe say Common Prayer openly in your Church or Chappell 4 Whether the Parson Vicar Serue vnlicensed or Farmer of your Benefice doe cause or suffer any Curate or Minister to serue your Church before he be examined and admitted by the Ordinary or his Deputie in writing and doe shew his Licence to the Church wardens and whether any Curate doe serue two Cures Two Cures at one time or not 5 Whether any Parson Vicar or Curate Read Homilies doe euery Sunday when there is no Sermon read distingly and plainly some part of the Homilies as is prescribed by the Canons and whether any Minister not admitted by lawfull authoritie doe expound any scripture or matter of doctrine by the way of exhortation or otherwise and thereby omit and leaue off the reading of the Homilies contrary to the Canons 6 Whether any Lectures Conuenticles Priuate Conuenticles or priuate Meetings be read or vsed within your parish either publikely in the church or priuat in the house or in any other place whatsoeuer by any person not sufficiently licensed thereunto by the Ordinary or whether any Ecclesiastical person do teach any doctrine of Innouation to withdraw the people from due obedience to the ordinances of the Church set foorth by publike authoritie or cause them to forbeare participating in Prayer and Sacraments with our Church Catechise 7 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate do euery Sunday and Holyday openly in the Church call for heare and instruct all children apprentices and seruants of both sexes that be of conuenient age within your parish or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serue as he may wel heare and instruct for one houre at the least before or after Euening prayer in the ten Commandements the Articles of the beléefe and the Lordes prayer and diligently examine and teach them the Catechisme as is now allowed and set forth in the Booke of Common prayer or M. Nowels Catechisme with the vnderstanding thereof and faile not to present the offender heerein together with such as are negligent commers to the said Catechisme 8 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate or other Minister in your Church or chappell hath admitted to the holy Communion any open and notorious fornicator adulterer or euill liuer by whom publike offence is giuen without due Penance first done to the satisfaction of the congregation inioyned him by his Ordinary or any other malicious person notoriously known and detected to be out of charity or hath done any open wrong to his neighbour by word or déed without due reconciliation first made to the party that is wronged Communion with ordinary bread 9 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate doe administer the holy Communion with any other then common bread appoynted in the Booke of Common Prayer Ignorant persons admitted to the Communion 10 Whether your Parson Vicar Curate or Minister hath admitted to the holy Communion any of his parish that cannot say the ten Commandements the Articles of the Faith the Lords Prayer in English and whether he marry any persons which were single before and cannot say the Catechisme and whether hee vseth to examine his Parishioners at conuenient times before he administer the Sacrament vnto them to the intent hee may know whether they can say by heart the same which is required in that behalfe or no 11 Whether your Preachers Ministers be peace-makers Ministers disturbers no brawlers no sowers of discord whether they be diligent in visiting the sicke and comforting them and doe moue them earnestly specially when they make their Testaments to consider the necessity of the poore and to giue to their boxe or Church their charitable deuotion and almes 12 Whether any doe preach declare or speake any thing in derogation of the Booke of Common prayer Impugne the Booke of Common prayer set foorth by the Lawes of this Realme dispraising the same or any thing therin contained or against the Preachers or Ministers of the Word and Sacraments 13 Whether your Parsons Vicars Curates Register Book or Ministers keepe well their Registers of all Weddings Burials and Christenings within your Parish according the Order published lately 14 Whether they or any of them Ministers offend in any thing keepe any suspected woman in their houses or bee incontinent persons giuen to drunkennesse idlenesse or to be haunters of Tauernes Ale-houses or suspected places or be Hunters Hawkers Dicers Carders Table-players Swearers Liars False dissemblers Dauncers or otherwise suspected of any notorious crime or giue any euill example of life or vse disordered or vnseemly apparell either in colours gards or light fashion or doe not obserue the order prescribed in the seuentie fourth Canon touching decencie in Apparell 15 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate haue married any person within the times prohibited contrary to the Canon lately published in that behalfe 16 Whether any contention hath growen among the Preachers

in these parts for any matter of Doctrine or ceremonies Contention of Doctrine or Pewes and what who was the cause thereof and whether any strife hath growen about pewes or seats in the Church and betwéen whom it was and whether any new pewes haue been built in your Church and by whom and what authoritie ●ester Booke 17 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curat do kéepe a iust and perfect note of all such as doe communicate in their seuerall Parishes Strangers communicate 18 Item Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate doe admit to the holy Communion any stranger or any of the next or any other néere parish without licence of the Ordinary leaue of his Minister that is so admitted or any that do not reuerently knéele vpon their knées Can. 23. or any notorious drunkard adulterer and publike offender or any Churchwarden that haue omitted to present such offenders Can. 109. 19 Item Whether any of your parishioners hauing beene formerly admitted a Minister or Deacon doth now relinquish his calling vsing and carrying himselfe in the course of his life as a lay man Can. 76. ¶ Articles concerning the Church All books and ornaments of the Church WHether you haue in your parish Churches Chappels all things necessary and requisit for Common prayer and administration of the Sacraments specially the Booke of Common prayer published since his Maiesties time that now is the English Bible in the largest volume the two Tomes of Homilies the Table of the Commandements the Booke lately set forth by his Maiesty the Booke called God and the King the works of the right reuerend Father in God Iohn Iewell late Bishop of Sarisbury a conuenient Pulpit well placed a comely and decent table standing on a frame for the holy Communion with a faire linnen cloth to lay vpon the same some couering of silke buckram or other such like for the cleane kéeping thereof a faire and comely cup of siluer a couer of siluer for the same which may serue also for the ministration of the Communion bread a decent large Surplice with sléeues a sure Coffer with two lockes and keyes for the kéeping of the Register booke a strong Chest or box for the almes of the poore with thrée locks and keyes to the same and all other things necessary in and to the premisses Church and Church-yard in reparations 2 Whether your Churches and chappels with the Chancell therof be wel and sufficiently repaired and kept without abuse of any thing and whether your Church-yards be well fenced and cleanly kept and if any part be in decay through whose default it is so 3 Whether any man haue pulled downe or vncouered any Church Chancell or Chappell or any part of any of them Sell Church goods any Church-porch Vestry or Stéeple Almes-house or such like or haue pulled downe the Bels Chimes Clocks or haue felled or spoyled any wood or timber in any Church-yard ¶ Articles concerning Schoolemasters VVHether the Schoolmasters which teach within your parish openly or priuately Teach vnlicensed in any Noble or Gentlemans house or in any other place be of good and sincere Religion life conuersation and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of Youth and whether they haue been examined allowed and licenced for Schoolemasters in such order as is required by the Statutes and Canons in this behalfe 2 Whether your Schoolemasters doe themselues come to the Church and receiue the holy Communion as oft as they ought and whether they bring with them so many of their Schollers as are of knowledge and age sufficient to receiue the Lords Supper 3 Whether the Schoolemasters either priuate or publike Teach Novvels Catechisme do teach their Schollers M. Nowels Catechisme or some other publikely authorized at the least once euery wéeke 4 Whether any of your Schoolemasters Teach Popery or Seditions be knowne or suspected to read to their Schollers in priuat any vnlawful books priuatly to instruct them in their young yéeres either in Popery superstition disobedience or contempt to his Maiestie and his lawes either Ecclesiasticall or Temporall 5 Item whether any Schoolemasters doe teach and instruct children in the Booke called God and the King ¶ Articles concerning Executors and Administrators IN primis What children vnder the age of 21. yéeres or other persons haue died in your Parish since Michaelmas last that had any goods rights chattels or legacies belonging vnto them at the time of their death and whether administration be takers of the said goods yea or no and what be the names of such persons as are so deceased 2 Item whether any in your Parish doe meddle with any goods of any person deceased before the will be proued or administration be granted by the Ordinary 3 Item whether any person in your parish haue administred or medled with the goods of any deceased by colour of proouing the Wil or obtaining administration elswhere hauing not also first taken administration from the Ordinary of the Dioces of Lincolne for all the goods of the said deceased being within the said Diocesse and whose will hath been so prooued or administration granted and by whom Articles concerning Ecclesiasticall Officers IN primis whether hath any Ecclesiasticall Iudge Register Procurator Apparitor or other Minister belonging to any Ecclesiasticall Courts within this Countrey extorted or taken by colour of his or their Offices any greater fees for probate of wils and granting Letters of Administration or otherwise then héeretofore hath been accustomed to bee taken or then are allowed by the lawes of this Realme 2 Item whether any of the said Officers belonging to such Ecclesiasticall Courts doe take vpon them the office of Informers and Promoters Can. 138. 3 Item whether do you know or haue heard that any person of your parish hath paid or promised to pay any summe of money or other reward directly or indirectly by himselfe or others to any Officer of the said Ecclesiasticall Courts for the auoyding of punishment for Incest adultery fornication or other crime punishable in the said courts if so declare to whom when and what summes c. 4 Item whether any Apparator or other Messenger haue summoned any person to appeare in any Ecclesiasticall Court without a lawfull processe hauing the name of euery person so summoned to appeare expressely entred in the said Processe subscribed and sealed by the Iudge or his Deputy Can. 120. ¶ Articles concerning Church-wardens IN primis whether were you the Churchwardens and Side-men chosen by the consent of the Minister and Parishioners and whether do you serue in your owne right or as Deputies to others Can. 90. 2 Item whether haue the Churchwardens before you giuen vp a iust and true account of their time and deliuered vnto you whatsoeuer money or other goods or stocke belonging to your Church which was in their hands Can. 89. 3 Item whether haue you a terrar of the Gleabe lands belonging to your Church eyther such

as concerneth the Ministers right or such as hath been giuen to any Schoole or other religious vses 4 Item whether any part of such Gleabe lands be encroached by any of the neighbours and by them detayned from the Church and right vses 5 Item whether your Parsonage or Vicarage houses or any part thereof be suffered to fall to decay or be vsed and conuerted to common Innes Alehouses or tipling houses 6 Item whether haue you suffered any strange Preacher to preach in your parish Church or Chappel but such as are licenced by lawfull authority and whether haue you a booke to enter the names of such Preachers according to the 52. Canon ¶ Articles concerning the Parishioners and others of the Laitie WHether all fathers and mothers Receiuing the Communion and gouernours of youth within your Parish cause their children seruants and apprentises both mankind and womankinde aboue 7. yéeres of age and vnder twenty which haue not learned the Catechisme to come to the Church on Sundayes Holydayes at the times appoynted there diligently and obediently heare and be ordered by the Minister till such time as they haue learned the same Catechisme and what be the names of those that cause not their children seruants and apprentises so to come to Church to be instructed and examined 2 Whether you your selues Whores depart vnpunished or the Churchwardens in the yéeres before you haue suffered any vnmaryed woman gotten with child to go out of the parish before she hath done penance appoynted by the Ordinary and out of whose houses they haue gone away with child vnpunished how many vnmaried women haue bin deliuered of child within your parish these 3. yéers last past hauing gone away without doing penance and whether any maried couples within your parish doe liue asunder Papists 3 Whether there be any man or woman in your parish that resorteth to any Popish priest for shrift or auricular confession or receiueth instructions from them for any the like cause 4 Whether there bee any person or persons Ecclesiasticall or temporall Popish Bookes within your parish or elswhere within this Archdeaconry that haue retained or kept in their custody or that read sell vtter disperse carry or deliuer to others any English Bookes set foorth of late yéeres in any other place beyond the seas by Papists Iesuites or Seminary Priests either against the Kings Maiesties supremacy in matters Ecclesiasticall or against the true Religion and Catholike doctrine now receiued and established by common Authority within this Realme and what their names and surnames are Papists 5 Whether there be any in your Parish that vseth to pray in English or in Latine vpon Beades or any such like thing or vpon any superstitious Popish Primer or other such like Booke Absent from Sermon 6 Whether any of your parishioners having a Preacher to their Parson Vicar or Curate do absent themselues from his Sermons and resort to any other place to learne or follow after such innouasions as are there taught 7 Whether the people of your parish especially housholders hauing no lawfull excuse to bee absent Resort to Church doe faithfully and diligently endeuour themselues to resort with their children and seruants to their parish Church or Chappell on the Holidayes and chiefly on the Sundayes to Morning Euening Prayer at the beginning and not depart vntill the end thereof without vrgent occasion 12. d. for absents leuied 8 Whether the forfeiture of twelue pence for euery such offence appoynted by a statute made in the first yéere of the late Quéenes Maiesties reigne bee leuyed and taken according to the same Statute by the Church-wardens of euery person that offendeth and by them be put to the vse of the poore of the parish if it be not by whose default it is not leuied Baptized in other Parishes 9 Whether any children that be borne in your Parish bee carried foorth of the Parish to be baptized elsewhere or with any Popish Ceremony or otherwise then is appoynted by the Booke of Common Prayer or whether any haue not beene baptized at all or in places vnknowne 10 Whether there be any Inne-kéepers Ale-wiues Sell in Seruice time Victuallers or Tiplers that suffer or do admit any person or persons in their houses to eate drinke or play at Dice Cards Tables Tennis Bowles or such like Games in the time of Common prayer or Sermon on Sundayes or holydayes or any Butcher or other that commonly vse to sell meate or other things in the time of Common prayer preaching or reading of Homilies and whether in any Faires or common Markets falling vpon the Sunday there bee any shewing of wares before Morning prayer be done and whether any Markets or selling of wares be vsed or suffered in any Church-yards by common packmen or Pedlers going about to any such people either of your Parish or not of the same Parish 11 Whether the late Church-wardens and Sworne-men haue concealed any crime or disorder in their time done in your parish haue not presented the same Concealed offences and whether they or any of them at any such time as they should haue béen at diuine seruice on sundayes or holydayes and should there haue obserued others that were obsent haue been away themselues at home or in some Tauerne or Alehouse or else about some worldly businesse or at bowles cardes tables dice or other gaming without regard of their office and duty in that behalfe 12 Whether any of your Parish being of conuenient age Receiue the Communion hath not receiued the holy Communion thrice this last yeere at the least and namely at Easter day last or thereabout for once and what their names are or which receiuing haue not signified the same before to your Parson Vicar or Curate that hee might conueniently examine them and who haue refused to come to him to bee examined and héerein you shall exhibite a scedule from your Minister containing all the names of the offenders within your Parish 13 Whether there be any in your Parish that administer the goods of those that bee dead without lawfull Authority Willes or any that suppresse the last will of the dead or any Executors that haue not fulfilled their Testators will especially in paying Legacies giuen to the Church or any other good and godly vses as the reléefe of Orphanes or poore Schollers Maydens mariages mariages Highwayes Schooles and such like and by whom they are so deteined Married after Popish orders 14 Whether any couples that haue bin maried within these two yéeres last haue béene knowen or suspected to haue béene maried without the ring or after the Popish order or any other order then is appoynted by the Church of England by reason that the one party or the other are noted to be such as refuse to come to the Church Swearers Bawdes c. 15 Whether there be among you any Blasphemers of the name of