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A00272	Ar[c?]ticles to be inquired of, in the visitation of the most reverend father in God, Richard, by the providence of God, Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke, primate of England, and metropolitane had in the yeere of our Lord God 1636.	Church of England. Province of York. Archbishop (1631-1640 : Neile); Neile, Richard, 1562-1640.	1636 (1636)	STC 10380.5; ESTC S2656	10,484	18

Clarke or Sexton when any is passing out of this life neglect to toll a bell having notice 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 unto the parish Clarke or Sexton such wages as are unto them due have beene accustomably payd Touching Parishioners FIrst whether hath any in your Parish spoken against or any way impugned the Kings Majesties 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 be any person or persons knowne or vehemently suspected to have written printed or by any meanes published and dispersed or otherwise to have or to have had in his or their use or keeping any Popish bookes or libels or any of those slanderous or schismaticall seditious libels or other books that impeach the booke of common Prayer or the Religion Ecclesiasticall government or any other part thereof established by Law in this Realme or doth impeach the credit or estate of any Ecclesiasticall person or governour within the same 3 Whether hath any in your Parish spoken against or impugned the Articles of Religion agreede upon in Anno. Do. 1562. the rites and ceremonies established in the Church the government 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 have any separated themselves from the society of the Congregation and combined in a new Brother-hood or depraved the Synods of the Church of England held by the Kings Authority 5 Whether hath any in your Parish maintained or defended any such Ministers or Schoole-masters as refuse to subscribe to the order of the Church have 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 Holidaies appoynted in the Church of England using any offensive conversation or worldly labour in those dayes or any of them or is there any that wilfully refuse or negligently hath absented himselfe from Divine Prayers on Sundayes or Holidayes 7 Whether doth any in your Parish in the time of Divine Service use to sit with his hat on his head or is there any who hath not reverently kneeled when the generall Confession Letany and other prayers are read which have not stood up at the saying of the Beleefe 8 Whether hath any in your Parish disturbed the Service or Sermon by walking talking or any other way or departed out of the Church during the Service or Sermon without some urgent 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 received the Holy Communion thrice at the least every yeere namely at Easter las● or thereabouts for once whether any abandoning his or th●●r Parish Church have received the Holy Communion in any ●ther Parish Church or Chappell or private place 10 Whether hath any parent beene urged to be presented or admitted to answere as Godfathers for his owne child or hath any God father or Godmother made any other answer or speech than is prescribed by the Booke or have any bin admitted for Godfathers fathers or God-mothers at Baptisme who have not first received the Communion 11 Whether doe all Fathers Mothers Masters Mistresses come cause their children servants and Apprentices to come duely to the Church and according to the Ministers direction to be instructed and catechized or who be they that have not obeyed the Minister herein 12 Whether have any persons married together within the Degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity prohibited set forth in a Table appoynted to be placed in every Church or have any married or contracted themselves under the age of one and twenty yeeres without the consent of their Parents or Governours if their parents be dead 13 Whether have any persons once lawfully married forsaken each other or doe live asunder otherwise than by law is permitted or doe any being divorced or separated marry againe the former Wife or Husband yet living 14 Whether hath any of your Parish unreverently used your Minister or have any layd violent Hands upon him or disgraced his office and calling by word or deede 15 Whether have you in your Parish any Popish Recusant or maintayner of popish doctrine or suspected to keepe or disperse Schismaticall bookes or to favour any Hereste or errour 16 Whether have you any common resorters to your Church which are not of your Parish abandoning their owne Parish Church or doe any such receive the communion amongst you what be their names and of what parishes are they 17 Whether hath any upon any Sunday or Holiday opened their shops exercised their trade or used any gaming bin in any Tavern or Ale-house or otherwise ill imploied in the time of Divine Service ●● Whether are there in your Parish any adulterers fornicat●rs incestuous persons bawds receivers of defamed persons close favourers conveyers away of such or which suffer to depart any incontinent person unpunished or are there in your Parish any blasphemers common swearers drunkards ribawds usurers malicious slanderers scolds or sowers of discord or any defamed of the same crune 19 Whether doe any in your Parish administer the goods of the dead without authority or supresse their Will or Testament have any Executors neglected to performe their Wils especially in paying of Legacies given to the Church to the poore or to any other charitable or godly uses 20 Whether doe any refuse to pay to the reparations ornaments other things by Law required to be 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 have any not being of your Parish beene christned churched buried or received the Communion or beene married out of your Church both parties dwelling in your Parish 22 Whether have all women in your Parish delivered of child come at convenient time after to Church to give thanks have 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 observed oncē every yeere if not by whose default is it 24 Whether hath any in your Parish given the Church-wardens or Side-men or any of them evill words for doing their duety according to their oath and conscience in making presentment for their default 25 Whether there beany man or woman in your Parish that useth witch-craft sorcery charmes or unlawfull prayer or invocations in Latine or English or otherwise upon 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 themselves to be Physicians or Chirurgeons do take upon them to practise Physicke or Chirurgery not being lawfully licensed thereunto or which refuse to shew their sayd licence tō 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 upon them to be 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 〈◊〉 ye●re 〈…〉 chosen againe or that it be a custome 〈…〉 warden to continue two yeers a … all such ●fficers yerely in Easter weeke 2 Whether doe your Chu●●●-wardens with … 〈…〉 … th at the most after their yeere 〈…〉 before the Minis●●● Parishio●ers give up a iust acco●●● of all such money 〈…〉 they have received bes … ed have they 〈…〉 remaining in their hands belong●●● to their Church o●●●●ish by Bill indented to be delivere● 〈◊〉 the next Church 〈…〉 3 Whether have the Church-●●rdens with the 〈◊〉 Minister from time to time p●●●●ded a sufficient quanti●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 white bread who●esome w●●● for the number of co●●●●●cant● 4 Whether doe the Church-●●●rdens and Sworn●me● before every visitation and at oth●● times when there is 〈◊〉 … n meete and confer about th●●● presentments the 〈◊〉 … ring of their Articles who hath af●er notice given him of th● time and place carelesly absented himselfe 5 Whether the forfeitur● 〈◊〉 twelue pence for 〈…〉 from Church appoynted by St … to the use of the poore 〈◊〉 and levied by the Church-war●●●● imployed according 〈◊〉 the said Statute and whether i● … said forfeiture taken of all persons which stand wilfully susp●n●●d or excommunicated 6 Whether have any Church-wardens lost sold or detained any Goods Ornaments Bels Rents or Imp●e … t s of the Church 7 Whether doe you the Church wardenns and S 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about the middest of divine Service usually walke out the Church and see who are abroad in any Ale-house or elsewhere about or evilly imployed and have ●●u presented all such off●nders to the Ordinary 8 Whether doe you kno● or have heard a fame of any offence committed or duty omitt●● by any of your Parish before your time heretofore not preseared by the former Church-wardens to the Ordinary or as yet not reformed and have you presented the same 9 Finally doe you know of any matter or cause which is a breach of the lawes Eccl●●●icall here not expressed have you presented the same FINIS

baptize any childe brought to the Church or to bury any corps brought into the Church or Church-yard or to Church any woman having had convenient warning thereof 28 Whether hath your Minister being truely informed of the danger of death of any infant vnbaptized and being destred to go to the place where the child is to baptize it neglected to go by meanes whereof the child hath dyed unbaptized 29 Whether doth your Minister at any time preach or administer the Communion in any private House except when they are so impotent that they cannot goe to Church or very dangerously sicke 30 Whether doe any Chaplens in your Parish preach or administer the Sacrament in any Chappell not consecrated or in any House having no Chappell allowed by Law and doe the Lords and Masters where such Chappels are resort often to the Parish-church and there receive the Communion once at the least every yeere 31 Whether hath your Minister held or appointed any publike fast not appointed by Authority or beone present at such doth he or any other in your Parish hold any lecture or exercise or attempt by Fasting or Prayer or otherwise to cast out any Devils without the privity and allowance of the Bishop under his Hand and Seale 32 Whether hath there beene any secret Conventicles or meetings in your Parish by any Priests Ministers or others tending to the depraving of the forme of Prayer Doctrins or Government of the Church 33 Whether doth your Minister weare decent apparell doth he in publike goe in his Doublet and Hose without a Coate or Cassocke or Cloake and doth he weare any unseemely and light-coloured apparell 34 Whether doth your Minister make accustomed resort to any Taverns or Ale-houses except for his honest necessities or doth he boord or lodge in any such place doth he use any base or servile labour or frequent drinking riot dice cards tables or any other vnlawfull games is he contentious with his neighbours or a Hunter Hanker swearer dancer usurer suspected of incontinency or doth give evill example of life 35 Whether is there in your Parish any Minister or Deacon who hath forsaken his calling using himselfe in his course of life as a meere Lay man 36 Whether is his Majesties declaration lately published for quieting and silencing the controversies lately stirred up to the disturbance of our Church with new questions strictly observed by your Parson Vicar or Curate or whomsoever else that preacheth in your Church 37 Whether doth your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer catechize the youth of the Parish in your Church every Sunday after dinner by question and answere and apply his afternoone preaching and exhortation to the instructing and edifying of the congregation in that kind of catechizing if he Preach 38 Whether have you in your Parish any weeke-day Lecture or not And if you have by whom is the same performed whether by one particular man thereto licensed or by sundry neighbour Ministers and whether are the publike prayers alwaies read before such lecture and sermons in his surplesse and hood according to his Majesties instructions lately set forth 39 Whether are there any within your Parish under the degree of Noblemen and men qualified by Law who doe keepe any private Chaplaines in their Houses Touching Ecclesiasticall Courts FIrst whether the Chancellor Commissaries or any other using Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction in this Diocesse their Registers or Actuaries Apparitors or Sumners have at any time beene corrupt in their places or taken any excessive fees or winked at suffred any Adulteries Fornications Incests or other faults or offences to passe remaine unpunished and uncorrected or have commuted any penance without speciall licence of the Bishop 2 Whether doe you know that there hath beene any commutation of penance allowed of by the Ordinary in your Parish and whether hath your Minister publikely signified it to his Congregation what summes of money have therefore beene payd and whether have the sayd summes of money or part thereof beene distributed by your Minister and Church-wardens to the poore or otherwise imployed to some such godly and charitable use as was prescribed by the Ordinary 3 Whether do you know any housholder or other person whatsoever within your Parish or Chappelry that is deceased that has made his last Will and Testament and the same not hitherto beene proved nor administration taken from the Ordinary or other Iudge competent 4 Whether hath your Chancellor Commissary or other exercising Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction heard any matter of office privately in their Chamber without their sworne Registers or their Deputies presence or in their absence of such other persons as the Law doth allow for an Actuary in such a case Touching Schoole-masters FIrst whether have you in your Parish any Schoole-master who teacheth either in publike Schoole or private House whether is he reputed to be of sound Fayth and Religion doth he resort duely to Church and receive the Communion or doth he give any evill example of life is he allowed by the Ordinary under his hand and seale or doth your Minister or Curate teach and is he allowed in like manner 2 Whether doth your Minister or Schoole-master who teacheth the Catechisme by Authority set forth doth he when there is any Sermon or divine Service bring his schollers to Church see them quietly and reverently ordered doth he examine them after their returne what they have learned of the Sermon 3 Whether doth he at other times teach them such sentences of Holy Scripture as may induce them to all godlinesse doth he teach the Grammar set forth by King Henry the eight continued by King Edward the sixt and Queene Elizabeth 4 Whether hath your Schoole-master an Vsher under him are they both diligent is your Vsher allowed by the Ordinary doth your Schoole-master direct bis Vsher the forme manner of teaching and doth he weekely take account of him and the Schollers under his charge how they have profited and what they have learned and out of what Authors 5 Whether hath eyther of them spoken writ or taught against any thing whereunto he formerly subscribed as the Kings Supremacy the Articles of Religion Booke of Common prayer or any thing therein contained Touching the Parish-Clarke and Sexton FIrst whether have you a Parish-Clarke appointed by the Minister sufficient for his place of the age of twenty yeeres at the least is he of honest conversation can he read write and sing is he diligent in his office and serviceable to his Minister in the time of Divine Service and otherwise 2 Whether doth your Clarke not being in holy orders meddle with any thing above his office as Churching of women Burying the dead Reading of prayers or such like 3 Whether doth your Clarke or Sexton keepe your Church cleane the dores safe locked is any thing by his default lost or spoyled in the Church doth he suffer any untimely Ringing or any prophane exercise to be committed in your Church 4 Whether doth your