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A68021 Articles to be enquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men within the arch-deaconrie of Worcester, in the visitation of the worshipfull Mr. Edward Thornburgh, Arch-deacon of Worcester, anno Domini. [blank] Church of England. Archdeaconry of Worcester.; Thornburgh, Edward. 1634 (1634) STC 10372.7; ESTC S4289 8,387 14

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compact either directly or indirectly 17 Hath any of your Parish or of any other Parish vnreuerently vsed your Minister layd violent hands on him or disgraced his office and function by word or déed Diuine Seruice 18 Is diuine Seruice in due time on Sundayes Holy-dayes and their Eues and at other times appoynted reuerently said or sung in your Church or Chappell with the Letany on Wednesdayes and Frydayes and all other rites and ceremonies according to the prescript forme of common Prayer in the Communion Booke 19 Whether doth any not being licensed or any not ordered at least for a Deacon say common Prayer openly in your Church or Chappell 20 Doe any men young or old vse to weare their hats in the Church or Chappell in time of diuine Seruice or are there any that behaue themselues disorderly in the Church Chappell or Churchyard or any disturbers of diuine Seruice or Sermons 21 Whether doe any Victualers or others in your Parish suffer any drinking or gaming in their houses on Sundayes or Holy-dayes especially in time of diuine Seruice or Sermons 22 Whether any in your Parish vpon Sabbath dayes or Holy-dayes doe vse their trade or doe any other worke or labour as Brewing Baking Washing Barbing or such like or doe any Mercers Drapers Shoomakers Butchers or others whatsoeuer open their shops for sale of Wares vpon those dayes or doe hedge ditch dig carry or draw burdens by themselues their seruants horses or other cattell whatsoeuer on such dayes And is the fifth day of Nouember obserued according as is ordayned in that behalfe The holy Communion 23 Haue you a decent Communion Table on a frame with a séemely Carpet and a cloth of Linnen a Communion cup and couer of siluer a faire Flagon of Pewter or purer mettall for the Wiue a plate for the Bread and a Towell to lay ouer it 24 Whether is there any in your Parish which being full sixteene yeares of age and vpward hath not receiued the holy Communion thrée seuerall times in the yeare past at least in his or her Parish Church whereof Easter to be one of the thrée times 25 Doth your Minister instruct or examine his Parishioners concerning the Sacraments at conuenient times before he administer the Communion And doeth hee admit any thereto that cannot say at least the Lords Prayer the Articles of the Christian faith and the ten Commandements 26 Is your Communion ministred with Bread and Wine consecrated in such order as in the Booke of common Prayer is appoynted And doth your Minister deliuer both kindes to euery seuerall Communicant with the blessing prescribed in the booke of common Prayer 27 Doth any receiue the holy Communion either sitting standing or otherwise then knéeling as is prescribed in the booke of common Prayer Or doe any refuse to receiue the same kneeling and doth your Minister admit any to receiue the Communion otherwise then kneeling 28 Doth your Minister admit any notorious Offenders or any Schismaticks to the holy Communion before one penance enioyned by the Ordinary be duly performed by them or doth he admit any notoriously known to be out of charity or any that hath done any open wrong to his neighbour before reconciliation made to the party wronged 29 Whether doth your Minister appoynt and obserue so many Communions euery yeare as that the Parishioners may conueniently receiue all of them thrée seuerall times in the yeare And doth he use to giue publike notice thereof in the Church the Sabbath day next going before euery such Communion that the Parishioners may prepare themselues to be partakers thereof Baptisme 30 Haue you in your Church a conuenient Font of stone well kept and couered standing in the ancient place Doth your Minister baptize therein or in a Bason or other thing or with any other ceremonies than such as are allowed in the Booke of common Prayer or doth he omit neglect or not vse all the ceremonies therein prescribed and doeth hee vse the signe of the Crosse in Baptisme 31 Doth your Minister refuse to baptize any children of Christian parents that are brought to the Church 32 Are parents vrged to be present at the baptizing of their children or be any admitted to be God-fathers or Godmothers that haue not receiued the holy Communion or do any parents refuse to haue their children signed with the signe of the Crosse in Baptisme 33 Haue any children that were borne in your parish béen carried out of the parish to bee baptized elsewhere or haue any not been baptized at all or in places or by parties vnknowne 34 Whether hath your Minister refused deferred or delayed to co●● vnto and to christen any child being in weakenesse or in danger of death being thereunto required by reason whereof such a child hath through his negligence or by his default dyed vnbaptized Cathechisme 35 Doth your Minister or his Curate duely catechize according to the late Canons euery Sunday such children and seruants of both sexes as are of conuenient age or at least so many of them by course as the time will serue 36 Doe Parents and Housholders bring or send their children and seruants to the Church euery Sunday duely to be catechized according as the late Canons require and who are negligent therein Matrimonie 37 Whether is Matrimonie solemnized in your Church or Chappel according to the booke of common Prayer 38 Haue you in your Church a Table of the degrees of Marriage are any married within the degrées of consanguinity or affinity therein forbidden or doe any children vnder the age of twenty one yeares contract themselues or marry without consent of their parents or Guardians 39 Haue any beene marryed without the Banes thrice asked in the Church thrée seuerall Sundayes or Holy-dayes vnlesse by Licence of the Ordinary granted vnder Seale or at any time of the day than betwixt the houres of eight and twelue in the forenoone or at any times prohibited that is to say from Aduent Sunday to the Octaues of Epiphany from Septuagesima Sunday to the Octaues of Easter from Rogation Sunday to Trinity Sunday 40 Haue any that dwell in your Parish beene married in any other Parish or any of another Parish béene married in your Parish or haue any béene married priuately out of the Church or face of the Congregation when where by whom and who were present at such marriages 41 Haue any women not well knowne to be married béen deliuered of any Child in your Parish and in whose house or hath any woman in your Parish béene carnally knowne or begotten with child before marriage and by whom 42 Haue any forsaken their Wiues or husbands and married others Haue any married againe after they haue béene diuorced Or doe any which haue beene diuorced keep company still together 43 Doe any married couples liue asunder and not together and doe either of them keepe in their house or secretly resort to any other to the raising of suspition or fame of incontinency 44 Hath any in
your Parish for money or reward marryed any woman that committed fornication or adultery with another man Or hath any vnmarried Woman begotten with Childe gone out of your Parish before shee hath done penance enioyned by the Ordinary where was she or is she receiued or harboured at whose charge and who conveyed her away Visitation of the sicke 45 Doth your Minister or Curate visite the sicke doth hee admonish them to repentance comfort the Penitent and exhort them to charitable almes déedes Buriall of the Dead 46 Are your dead buryed according to the forme of Buriall set downe in the Booke of Common Prayer or haue any been buryed secretly or in the night who and by whom and who were present thereat 47 Doe the Executors or Administrators or other friends of them that are buried in Church or Chancell repaire againe the Pauement and giue any thing to the Church or in whose default is the same so neglected and not repayred Churching of women 48 Doth any woman refuse to giue God thanks openly in the Church or as we tearme it to be churched at conuenient times after Childbirth or doth any Minister refuse to church them or church them any otherwise than is prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer 49 Hath any woman vnlawfully begotten with child bin admitted to publique thankesgiuing in the Church before shee hath performed such pennance as was enioyned her by the Ordinary or at least been churched in a white sheete and confessed her fault penitently before sufficient witnesses and vndertaken to stand to the censure of her Ordinary for her said offence Parish Clarkes 50 Haue you a Parish Clarke chosen by the Minister is he of honest conuersation hath hee competent skill in reading writing and singing And doth any with-hold or detaine his Wages or dueties from him Schoolemasters 51 Haue you any School-house and how is it repayred And haue you any Schoolemaster in your Parish that teacheth publikely or priuately is he lawfully licensed Doth he come duely to the Church and receiue the holy Communion Doth hee instruct his Schollers in the Catechisme allowed and in the booke entituled God and the King Causeth he them to repayre to diuine prayers in the Church to hear and note Sermons Teacheth he any other Grammar than that which is allowed 52 Is any Schoolemaster knowne or suspected publikely or priuately to reade to his Schollers or suffer them to reade any booke that may confirme them in Popery superstition or disobedience to the Kings Maiesty or to his lawes ecclesiasticall or ciuill and how many either men or women doe teach children in your Parish and what be their names Schismaticks and Recusants of all sorts 53 Doe you know any that teach or maintaine any doctrine contrary to the Articles agreed vpon in the Conuocation Anno Dom 1562. 54 Doth any preach minister the Communion baptize children or church women in priuate houses or other-where than in the Church except it be in cases of necessity 55 Know you any that absent themselues from the Church negligently or wilfu●ly how long haue they so done And of them that are absent without a sufficient lawfull cause is the forfeiture of xii d. taken euery Sunday conuerted to the vse of the poore according to the statute Eliz. 1 56 In your Parish where there is a Preacher doe any vse to absent themselues from his Sermon and resort to any other 57 Know you any that forbeare to participate with the Church of England in prayer or Sacraments either denying the Church to be Apostolicall or condemning the ceremonies thereof as superstitious 58 Haue you in your Parish any Popish Recusants any halfe Papists that come to the Church and receiue not the Communion any Church-Papists that come and receiue themselues but either perswade oth●rs or maintaine their wiues children family or friends not to come 59 Doth any Seminary Priest or Iesuite resort to any place within this Diocesse or suspect you any such Or doe you know any that resort to any Popish Priest or Iesuite 60 Know you any that by writing talke or argument impugne the Kings supremacy or any that haue kept in their custody that sell disperse carry or deliuer vnto others any vnlawfull Bookes against the Religion and gouernement established or in defence of any forraigne power or domesticall consistory Excommunicated p●rsons 61 Are all excommunicated persons kept out of the Church from diuine prayers and receiuing of the holy Communion vntill they be lawfully absolued And are there any in your Parish which haue stood excommunicated forty dayes and vpwards are such persons as stand excommunicated once in euery six months denounced in your Church in time of diuine Seruice vpon some Sunday 62 Hath any excommunicated person not absolued at least in his extremity not giuing any testimony of his repentance before his departure beene buryed in christian buryall who buryed him her or them where and when and who were present at such burialls 63 Doe any retain or kéep in their house or seruice any person denaunced excommunicate or doe any way encourage them therein or conuerse with them in buying selling eating drinking or otherwise kéep company with them in any sort Wills Testaments and Administrations 64 Doe any in your Parish administer the goods of the dead or any way intermeddle therewith without lawfull authority committed vnto them vnder the Ordinaries seale 65 Know you any in your Parish that suppresse the last Will of the Dead or any that forge or alter any Wills or any Executors that fulfill not the Testators will or any that detaine Legacies giuen to any charitable vses Seuerall Articles 66 Doe any in your Parish prophane the Sabbath dayes or not duly obserue the Holy-dayes appoynted Are Ember Fasts orderly obserued at the foure times of the yeare appoynted 67 Are the dayes and orders of Perambulation duely obserued in the Rogation weeke if not in whose default 68 Are the Canons constitutions and orders made agréed vpon in the Conuocation-house Anno Dom. 1603. read ouer once euery yeare in your Church vpon Sundays or Holy-dayes according to his Maiesties Commandement in that behalfe 69 Doth your Minister yearely present and giue vp in writing to the Ordinary the names of all Recusants halfe Recusants men women as well soiourners as Parishioners commons guests in your Parish aboue the age of thirtéene according to the 114 Canon or not 70 Doe any in your Parish take vpon them to practise Physicke or Chirurgery not being lawfully licensed 71 Are any in your Parish or which were of your Parish are now departed knowne suspected famed or reported to haue offended in Fornication Adultery Incest witchcraft Sorcery Charming Vsury Swearing Drunkennesse common slandering sowing of discord brawling scolding or any other vncleanenesse of life or bad manners 72 Are any housholders in your Parish in whose house there is any one that can reade which haue not the booke intituled God and the King and who