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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00240	Articles to be inquired of within the diocesse of Peterborough in the visitation of the reuerend father in God, Thomas, by the permission of God, Lord Bishop of Peterborough this present yeare 1605 and presentment to be made thereof by the churchwardens and side-men for that purpose lawfully appointed, in visitations, synods, or elswhere, within the dioces aforesaid, at any other time, when occasion shall be offered, giuing in an answer to euery particular article.	Church of England. Diocese of Peterborough. Bishop (1600-1630 : Dove); Dove, Thomas, 1555-1630.	1605 (1605)	STC 10314.3; ESTC S2646	6,310	14

Articles TO BE INQVIRED OF within the Diocesse of Peterborough in the visitation of the Reuerend father in God THOMAS by the permission of God Lord Bishop of Peterborough this present yeare 1605. And presentment to be made thereof by the Churchwardens and Side-men for that purpose lawfully appointed in visitations Synods or elswhere within the Dioces aforesaid at any other time when occasion shall be offered giuing in an answer to euery particular Article Printed by IOHN LEGAT Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1605. The tenour of the Oth to be ministred YOu shall sweare that all fauour hatred malice hope of reward or gaine feare of displeasure and all other vnlawfull affections set aside you shall vpon due consideration of these Articles giuen you in charge present euery such person of or within your parish as hath committed or made any offence or fault mentioned in any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected or defamed of any such offence or fault wherein you shall deale vprightly neither of malice presenting any contrarie to truth nor corruptly sparing to present any or to conceale the truth hauing in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine truth and to suppresse vice So helpe you God in Iesus Christ and by the contents of this booke ARTICLES TO BE INQVIred of within the Diocesse of Peterborough Ann. Dom. 1605. IN primis whether is there any in your parish that hath affirmed that the forme of Gods worshippe in the Church of England established by law and contained in the booke of Common praier and administration of Sacraments is a corrupt superstitious or vnlawfull worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures or any that hath affirmed that any of the nine and thirtie Articles agreed vpon by the Archbishop and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Cleargie in the Convocation holden in London in the yeare of our Lord 1562. for the auoiding of diuersities of opinions and for the establishing of consent touching true religion are in any part superstitious or erronious Or any that hath affirmed that the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England by law established are wicked Antichristian or superstitious And if you how or haue heard say of any such within your parish you are to present the same 2 Item whether there be any in your parish that hath not celebrated and kept the Lords day commonly called Sunday and other holy daies according to Gods holy will and pleasure and the orders of the Church of England prescribed in that behalfe And if there be any such you shall present them Also whether the Common praier hath beene said or sung in your parish church by your Minister distinctly and reuerently vpon such daies as are appointed to be kept holy by the booke of Common praier and their Eues and at conuenient and vsuall times of those daies and in such conuenient place of your church so as the people may be most edified And whether your Minister hath obserued the orders rites and ceremonies prescribed in the booke of Common praier as well in reading the holy scriptures and saying of praiers as in the administration of the sacraments without either diminishing in regard of preaching or in any other respect or adding any thing in the matter or forme thereof And whether the Letanie hath been said or sung when and as it set downe the booke of Common praier by your parson vicar or curate in some conuenient place of your Church And also vpon wedensdaies and frydaies weekely though there be no holy daies at the accustomed houres of seruice 3 Item whether is there any within your parish that hath couered his head in your church or chappell in the time of diuine seruice except he haue some infirmitie And whether all manner of persons in the time of diuine seruice haue reuerently knceled vpon their knees when the generall confession Letanie and other praiers are read and stood vp at the saying of the Beleefe according to the booke of common praier And likewise when in time of diuine seruice the Lord Iesus hath beene mentioned due and lowly reuerence hath beene done by all persons present And whether in the time of diuine seruice any haue busied themselues in the Church either in talking or walking or any other way then in quiet attendance to heare marke and vnderstand that which hath been read preached or ministred not departing out of the church during the time of seruice and sermon without some vrgent cause And when any idle persons haue in the churchyard or church porch during the time of diuine seruice and preaching whether the Churchwardens or Questmen haue not then caused them either to come into the church or to depart 4 Item whether against the time of euery Communion within your parish there be prouided by the Churchwardens a sufficient quantitie of fine white bread and of good and wholesome wine for the number of the Communicants and not of beare or ale or beare or ale and wine together And whether your parson vicar or Curate hath administred the holy communion so often and at such times as euery parishioner may communicate at the least thrice euery yeare whereof the feast of Easter to be one And whether euery person within your parish beeing of sufficient age hath so communicated And whether your Minister doth deliuer both the bread and the wine to euery communicant seuerally And whether your parson vicar or curate hath giuen warning to his parishioners publikely in the church at morning praier the Sunday before euery time of his Administration of that holy sacrament that so they might the better prepare themselues And if you know any defect to haue beene in any of these you are to present it 5 Item whether your Minister haue admitted to the receiuing of the holy communion any of his cure which be openly knowne to liue in sinne notorious without repentance or any who haue malitiously and openly contended with their neighbours vntill they haue beene reconciled or any other that are common and notorious deprauers of the booke of common praier and administration of the sacraments and of the other rites and ceremonies therein prescribed or of any thing that is contained in any of the Articles agreed vpon in the Conuocation 1562 or of any thing contained in the booke of ordering Priests and Bishops or to any that haue spoken against and depraued his Maiesties soueraigne authoritie in causes Ecclesiasticall And whether when he hath celebrated the holy Communion he hath admitted any to the same but such as doe kneele did such as come to publike praier according to the orders of the church of England 6 Item whether your Parson vicar or curate saying the publike praiers or ministring the sacraments or other rites of the church hath worne a decent and comely surplisse with sleeues and his hood if he be a graduate agreeable to the orders of the Vniuersitie

And whether in the admini●●ing of the sacrament of Baptisme he hath vsed the signe of the crosse according as it is prescribed by the booke of common praier not admit●ing any man to answer as godfather for his owne child nor any godfa●her or godmother to make any other answer or speech then by the book of Common praier is prescribed in that behalfe 7 Item whether your Minister beeing a licensed preacher and resident upon his liuing hath preached euery Sunday and if he be not a preacher whether hath he procured sermons to be preached in his cure once in euery moneth at the least by preachers lawfully licensed and in defect thereof whether hath he read a Homelie prescribed by authoritie to the intents aforesaid And if he be not residēt vpon his benefice whether is his charge supplied by a Curate that is a sufficient and licensed preacher And whether doe they in their Sermons pray for the Kings most excellent Maiestie giuing his Maiestie his vsuall title and style for our gratious Queene Anne the noble prince Henrie and the rest of the King and Queenes royall issue according to the order prescribed in the late Canons exhorting also the people to obedience to his Maiestie 8 Item whether your Parson Vicar or Curate doth euery Sunday and holiday halfe an houre at the least before euening praier call for heare and instruct all the children apprentises and seruants of both sexes that be of conuenient age in the Lords praier the ten Commandements and in the Articles of beleefe and diligently examine them teaching them the Carachisme set forth by authoritie And whether for that purpose he doth take the names of them all and by course call certaine of them by name euery Sonday and holiday to come to learne the same Catechisme And whether the Churchwardens and sworne-men doe assist the Minister as he doth prescribe them in that godly examination 9 Item whether your Parson vicar or curate haue married any persons within your parish without the publishing of banes according to the orders of the Church of England or without lawfull license thereunto obtained or any within the degrees forbidden or whether there be any in your parish that hauing bind diuorced doe inhabit and keepe companie together and beeing married that haue left their wiues any man that hath two wiues any woman that hath two husbands any that deferre the solemnization of matrimonie beeing lawfully contracted any that haue contracted themselues without consent of parents any that haue beene married in any priuate house or chamber or at any vnlawfull time but onely betweene the houres of eight and twelue of the clocke in the forenoone who married them who were the parties so married who were present at the marriage expressing their names and surnames 10 Item whether your Minister doth euery Sunday at the time appointed by the cōmunion booke declare to the people whether there be any holidaies or fasting daies the weeke following And whether doth he solemnely denounce Recusants and excommunicate persons in the church that so others may be admonished thereby to refraine their companie and societic And whether doth he visit the sicke and instruct them and comfort thē in their distresse according to the order of the communiō booke if he be no preacher And whether doth he refuse or delay to christen any child according to the forme of the booke of cōmon praier that is brought to him to the church vpon Sundaies or holidaies to be christened or to burie any corps that is brought to the church or churchyard in such manner and forme as is prescribed in the said booke of common praier And if he haue beene defectiue in any of these you must present him 11 Item whether you haue a Register booke in parchment to write in all christenings weddings and burialls and whether those christenings weddings and burialls be diligently noted therein and whether your minister euery Sabboth day after morning or euening praier doth distinctly read in the church the names of all such as haue beene the weeke before either baptized married or buried And whether the Minister and churchwardens doe set their hands to euery lease of this booke And whether you haue a chest with three lockes wherein the said booke is safely kept the Minister keeping one key and each of the Churchwardens another And whether you haue a strong chest for the poore with three locks and three keies to the same And whether your Minister doth mooue and exhort the people to bestow their almes and charitable deuotion vpon their poore neighbours 12 Item whether your Minister doth preach or administer the Communion in priuate houses or appoint publike and priuate fasts or prophefies or hold any priuate conuenticles And whether doth he were such decent apparrell as is inioyned him by authoritie And whether he be not a resorter to Tauernes or alehouses or giueth himselfe to base and scruile labour or to drinking or riot spending his time idlely by day or by night playing at dice cardes tables or any other vnlawfull games a common hawker a hunter swearer or doe giue any euill example of life whereby the word of God and the religion now receiued may be euill spoken of 13 Item whether your Parson Vicar or Curate hat bought their benefices or come by them by fraud guile deceit or simonie and whether he hath moe benefices then he ought to haue not hauing sufficient dispensation thereto And whether doth your Minister receiue into his church any excommunicate person before he bring to him a true certificate of his absolution and restoring to the church And whether he hath receiued any woman deliuered of child begot in fornication to her thanksgiuing in the church before shee hath publikely reconciled her selfe in such order as by the officer in that behalfe hath beene to her prescribed 14 Item what Schoolemasters haue you within your parish that teach either openly or priuatly in any schoole gentlemans house or els where and whether be they of good and sincer religion and licensed by the Bishop of this Dioces or Ordinarie vnder his hand and seale and whether be they diligent in teaching and bringing vp youth and to instruct them in godlines and vertue and whether they teach any thing contrarie to the religion now godlily established or doe not cause their children to reside vnto the church to heare diuine seruice 15 Item whether haue you in your church or chappell the booke of Common praier lately explained in some few points by his Maiesties authoritie according to the lawes and his Highnesse prerogatiue in that behalfe the Bible of the largest volume and other bookes allowed by authoritie Whether haue you also a font of stone where baptisme is to be ministred standing in the auntient vsuall place in which onely the minister shall baptize publikely a decent communion table in time of diuine seruice with a carpet of silke or other decent stuffe a comely and decent pulpit standing in