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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00153	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	Church of England. Province of Canterbury.	1624 (1624)	STC 10147.9; ESTC S856	5,817	1

❧ 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 ar● vehemently suspected or defamed of any such offence Wherein you shall deale according to an vpright conscience neither presenting nor sparing t● 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 sto●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 clot● 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 conueni●…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 ● 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 ●…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 re●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 r●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 studi●… 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