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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72036	Articles to be enqvired of in the ordinary visitation of the Right Worshipfvll Master Doctor Pearson, Archdeacon of Suffolke, Anno Domini 1637	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Suffolk. Archdeacon (1629-1639 : Pearson); Pearson, Robert, d. 1640.	1637 (1637)	STC 10343.5; ESTC S124524	10,017	14

bee there any that perswade others to forbeare and abstaine comming to their parish Church to heare Divine Service and to receive the holy Communion according to his Majesties Law in that behalfe enacted 3. Item whether be there any in your parish that hath beene or is vehemently suspected to have been present at any unlawfull assemblies conventicles or meetings under colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion or doth any affirme or maintaine such meetings to be lawfull 4. Item whether be there any within your parish that deny or perswade any to deny or impugne the Kings Majesties authority and supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall 5. Item whether be there any abiding or resorting to your parish that be or are commonly reputed or taken to be ill affected in matters of Religion professed in our Church or taken to be Recusant papists refusing to repaire to Church to heare Divine Service and receive the holy Communion and disobedient to his Highnesse lawes in that behalfe established present their names qualities and conditions Doth any papist keepe a Schoole-master in his house which repaireth not to your parish Church as is required what is his name and how long hath he so taught there or elsewhere 6. Item is there any in your parish who in the manner of preaching hath taken upon him to repeat any Sermon in any privat house in any assembling or meeting together of people Articles concerning publique Praier and administration of the Sacraments Tit. 4. FIrst whether any of your parish hath spoken or declared anything in derogation or depraving of the forme of Gods Worship in the Church of England and administration of the Sacraments rites ceremonies set forth and prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer by the Kings Majesty authorized and confirmed Do any preach speake or declare that it containeth any thing which is not agreeable to the holy Scriptures 2. Item whether hath any in your parish caused procured or maintained any Minister to say any common or publique prayer or to administer either of the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper otherwise or in any other manner and forme than is mentioned in the said Booke of Common prayer or whether hath any interrupted hindred let or disturbed the Minister to reade divine service administer the Sacraments in such maner and forme as is mentioned in the said booke or interrupted him in his sermons 3. Item whether is the Sacrament of Baptisme rightly and duely administred according to the prescript forme expressed in the Booke of Common Prayer with due observation of all rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the administration of the same without adding or altering any part or parcell of any prayers interrogatories or not using the signe of the Crosse in the administration of the same 4. Item whether is the administration of the Sacrament of Baptisme deferred longer than the next Sunday or Holy-day immediatly following the birth of the childe 5. Item whether is the Sacrament of Baptisme refused to be administred to any children borne in or out of Wedlock their birth being made known to the Minister of the parish and offered unto him to be baptized or have any such children dyed unbaptized 6. Item whether be the parents of any childe to be baptized admitted to be God-fathers and God-mothers to the same 7. Item whether have there any children been baptized in privat houses by any Lay person or Midwife or popish Priest or by any other Minister without urgent occasion when the childe was in danger of death 8. Item whether have the children which have been borne to any popish Recusants or begotten by them beene publiquely baptized in your Parish Church by your Parson Vicar or Curate or by whom were they so baptized or where to your knowledge 9. Item whether hath the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper beene duly and reverently administred every moneth or thrice every yeare at least whereof once at Easter within your Parish Church to every Parishioner being of the age of 16 yeares or upwards 10. Item whether is the said holy Sacrament delivered unto or received by any of the Communicants within your Parish that unreverently sit or stand and do not devoutly and humbly kneele upon their knees at the time of the administration of the same 11. Item whether have any excommunicate persons or Schismatickes common and notorious depravers of the Religion and government of this Realme without unfained sorrow shewn for their impiety and wickednesse been admitted to receive the holy Communion within your Parish present their names 12. Item whether hath any of your Parish been debarred from receiving the said holy Communion without just cause and without intimation first given to the Ordinary viz. the Bishop of the Diocese Chancellor or Commissary and by whose default 13. Item whether hath any affirmed that any of the 39. Articles agreed upon by the Archbishop and Bishops in the yeare of our Lord God 1562. for the avoiding of diversities of opinions are in any part superstitious or erroneous or such as he may not with a good conscience subscribe unto Articles concerning Ministers and Preachers Tit. ● FIrst whether doth your Minister distinctly and reverently say Divine service upon Sundaies and Holy-daies and other dayes appointed to bee observed by the Booke of Common Praiers at fit and usuall houres of the day and doth your Minister duly observe the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer as well in reading all publique Prayers the Letany as also in administring of the Sacraments solemnization of Matrimony visitation of the sick burying the dead churching of women and all other like Rites and Offices of the Church in such manner and forme as in the said Booke of Common Prayer is injoyned without any omission or addition of any thing 2. Item whether doth your Minister alwayes viz. every Sunday and Holy-day both Morning and Evening reading Divine Service administring the Sacraments and other Rites of the Church weare the Surplesse according to the Canons and doth he never omit the wearing thereof at the times aforesaid if at any time he have omitted specifie the times 3. Item whether doth your Minister bid Holy-dayes and fasting dayes as is appointed Doth he administer the holy communion every moneth or thrice in the yeare at least whereof once at Easter to every parishioner doth he receive the same himselfe on every day that he doth administer the same to others and doth he use the words of institution according to the Book of Common Prayer without alteration at every time that the Bread Wine is renewed doth he use and never omit the Signe of the Crosse in Baptisme or doth he ever baptize in any bason or any other thing but the usuall Font If yea then is the bason set within the Font and doth hee baptize out of the same bason standing in the Font Doth he marry any couple without a ring or in times prohibited or without

said Coffer or hath the Minister kept the said Booke in his privat house 4. Item hath your Minister in the presence of the Church-wardens upon every Sabbath day immediatly after Morning or Evening Prayer written and recorded in the said Book the names of all persons Christened together with the names and sirnames of their parents and also the names of all persons married and buried in that parish in the weeke before Articles concerning Schoolemasters Tit. 8. FIrst doth any in your parish openly or privatly take upon him to teach schoole without licence of the Ordinary and is he conformable to the religion now established and doth he bring his Schollers to the Church to heare Divine Service and Sermons and doth he instruct his Schollers in the grounds of the Religion now established in the Church of England and is he carefull and diligent to benefit his Schollers in learning 2. Item doth your Schoole-master teach and instruct his youth in any Catechisme than is allowed by publique Authority and what Catechisme it is that he so teacheth 3. Item doth any keepe Schoole in the Chauncell or Church by which meanes that holy place and the Communion Table are many waies profaned and the windowes broken Articles concerning the Parishioners Tit. 9. FIrst whether doe any of your Parish or any other that hath resorted or doth resort to your parish prophane the Sabbath day or Holy-dayes by drinking and tipling in Iunes or Ale-houses or by playing at unlawfull games 2. Item is there any in your parish that doe impugne or speak against the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England or the lawfull use of them and the governement of this Church under his Majesty by Arch-bishops Bishops and other Ecclesiasticall Officers 3. Item who in your parish do come to the Sermon onely and not to divine Service and who do not reverently behave themselves during the time of Divine Service kneeling when the generall confession of sinnes the Letany the ten Commandements and all praiers and Collects are read and using all due and lowly reverence when the blessed name of the Lord Iesus is mentioned in the time of Divine Service standing up when the Articles of the beleefe and the Gospell are read And who do cover their heads in time of Divine service unlesse it be in case of necessity in which case they may weare a night cap And who do give themselves to babbling talking or walking and are not attentive to heare the Word read and preached 4. Item is there any in your parish that refuse to have their children baptized or themselves to receive the Communion of your Minister taking exception against him because he is no preacher Or have any wives refused to come to Church to give thankes to God for their safe deliverance in a decent habit with a rayle as hath been anciently accustomed 5. Item have any of your parish spoken slanderous and reprochful words against your Minister to the scandal of his vocation or against their marriage or wives or defaming him touching any crime of Ecclesiastical cognizance 6. Item whether do any in your parish exercise any trade or labour buy or sell or keepe open their shops or set out any wares to be sold upon Sundaies and Holy-dayes by themselves their servants or apprentises or have otherwise prophaned the Sunday or Holy-dayes 7. Item is there any in your parish that be or are commonly knowne or reputed to be blasphemers of Gods holy Name or accustomed swearers or to use any ribaldry in their talke or be drunkards adulterers fornicators incestuous persons And have any been detected of any such notorious crimes and offences and whether have they done penance for the same 8. Item is there any in your parish who is publiquely defamed or vehemently suspected of getting his or their wives with childe before Marriage 9. Item whether have any persons dyed within your parish whose Will and Testament if any were made is not proved or administration of their goods taken according to law and whether is there any in your parish who do administer the goods of any person deceased without lawfull authority and before he or they have proved the Will and Testament of the party deceased or have obtained Commission from the Ordinary viz. the Bishops Chancellor or Commissary to dispose the said moveable goods 10. Item what excommunicate persons be within your parish and for what causes are they excommunicate to your knowledge And whether do any such excommunicate persons repaire to your parish Church in time of Divine service or sermon not being absolved 11. Item if there be any persons excommunicate within your parish which is made notorious by denouncing them excommunicate in the face of the Church who and what person and persons do keepe or frequent their company eat or drinke or have any thing to do with any such excommunicate person present their names for it is not lawfull for them so to doe so long as they remaine under the sentence of excommunication 12. Item whether do all Fathers Mothers Masters and Mistresses cause their Children Servants and Apprentises both males females which have not learned their Catechisme to come to the Church upon Sundayes and Holy-daies before Evening Prayer obediently to heare and to be ordered by the Minister untill they have learned the same 13. Item is there any House-holder within your parish that doth not duly goe in perambulation with the Minister and the rest of the parishioners the circuit and bounds of your parish What are the names of such as made or suffered default to be made therein 14. Item do the old Church-wardens or any other persons that were Church-wardens retaine any goods belonging to the Church and have not made the just account of their receits and expences about the executing of their office 15. Item what person or persons is or are chosen Chuch-warden or Church-wardens of your parish for this yere 1637 and when were they so chosen and by whom 16. Item whether is there a Booke in your Parish wherein the name of every strange Preacher that preacheth in your parish should subscribe his name the day when he preached and the name of the Bishop of whom hee had licence to preach whether hath every Preacher that was a stranger so subscribed before he preached in your Church 17. Item whether doth not every one dwelling within your Parish observe all those days for fasting daies which are appointed by a statute made in the fifth and sixth yeare of Edw. 6. or shall eat flesh upon those dayes 18. Item whether you the Church-wardens and Assistants have according to the 28. Canon marked whether all and every of your parishioners in your parish come so often every yere to the holy Communion as the law and his Majesties Constitutions Ecclesiasticall do require And whether any stranger have come often commonly from other parishes to your church and whether have you shewed your Minister of them least they should bee admitted there to the Lords table and whether such person or persons have been forbidden and remitted home to his or their own parish church there to receive the communion or hath he or they notwithstanding received the same in your Church Declare their names and who admitted them thereunto 19. Item whether do the people say audibly with the Minister the Confession the Lords Praier and the Creed and make such other answers to the publique Praiers as are appointed in the Book of Common Praiers or who faileth therein 20. Item whether hath any one in your Parish answered as God-father for his owne childe Or hath any been a Godfather or God-mother before he or she have received the holy Communion Declare their names 21. Item whether there be any married women in your parish who after Childe-birth have refused to come to the Church to give God thanks for their safe deliverance and to have the praiers publiquely appointed on that behalfe by the Booke of Common prayer to be used 22. Item whether hath any woman been churched sitting in her seat and not kneeling downe in some covenient place nigh unto the place where the Communion Table standeth 23. Item How many have you in your parish that do practise as Physicians or Chirurgians and by what authority specifie their severall names FINIS