Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
book_n holy_a read_v scripture_n 8,342 5 5.9261 4 true
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A04122 Anno Domini 1629 articles to be inquired of by the churchwardens and inquisitors of euery parish in the lord primates visitation metropoliticall. Church of Ireland. Province of Dublin. Archbishop (1619- 1660 : Bulkeley) 1629 (1629) STC 14265.1; ESTC S3080 2,488 1

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

ANNO DOMINI 1629. ❧ Articles to be inquired of by the Churchwardens and Inquisitors of euery Parish in the Lord Primates Visitation Metropoliticall 1 INprimis whether is your Parson Vicar or Curate resident continually in at and vpon his Benefice doing his dutie in reading distinctly the Diuine Seruice Preaching the Word and duely administring the holy Sacraments according to the Booke of Common prayer 2 Item whether doth your Parson or Vicar being lawfully absent from his Cure at any time leaue in his place a sufficient and conformable Curate to celebrate Divine Seruice administer the Sacraments and teach and preach the Scriptures 3 Item whether is your Parson Vicar or Curate a common resorter to Tauernes or Alehouses giuing himselfe to drinking ryoting and playing at Cards Dice or other vnlawfull games or is he a striker dueller dancer or hunter or so reported 4 Item whether is your Parson or Vicar or any other of or in your Parish an Vsurer or lender of his Money for vnlawfull gaine or whether is he or they taken or reputed so to be 5 Item whether doe the Proprietaries Parsons Vicars and other possessors of the Churches Chappels and their mansions within your Parish keepe the Chancels of their Rectories and Vicarages and other their houses and buildings belonging to the same in due reparations 6 Item whether hath your Parson Vicar or Curate receiued any persons to the holy Communion being openly knowne to bee at debate and out of charitie with their neighbours or defamed with any notorious crime and not reformed 7 Item whether hath your Parson Vicar or Curate denied or neglected to visite the sicke or burie the dead being brought to the Church and hauing thereof notice 8 Item how many Benefices or Ecclesiasticall promotions hath your Parson or Vicar and how farre distant are they the one from the other what Chappels hath hee to his Cures belonging by what names are they called and how and by whom are they serued 9 Item whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate minister the holy Communion any otherwise then onely after such forme and manner as is set forth in the Booke of Common prayer 10 Item whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate being no Preacher allowed presume to expound the Scriptures in his owne Cure or elsewhere or doth hee procure once in a Moneth at the least a Sermon to be preached in his Cure by Preachers lawfully licensed And vpon euery Sunday when there is no Sermon doth hee or his Cure reade some one of the Homilies prescribed 11 Item whether doth your Minister euerie Sunday and Holy day halfe an houre at least before Euening prayer examine and instruct the youth of your Parish in the Catechisme set forth by Authoritie in the Booke of Common prayer and whether doth hee call them thereunto in course and whether doe the Churchwardens of the Parish assist him therein 12 Item what Schoolemasters haue you in your Parish that eyther teach priuately or publickly and not licensed thereunto and by whom be they harboured 13 Item whether be there in your Parish any persons that contemne or abuse by word or dee●e the Ministers of the Church 14 Item whether the Seruice of your Church be begun and ended at due and conuenient houres and whether the same be celebrated by your Parson Vicar or Curate according to the Booke of Common prayer 15 Item whether any person within your Parish doe wilfully maintaine and defend any Herefie error or opi●ion contrarie or repugnant to the Script●res doctrine of the Church 16 Item whether there be any in your Parish that be common Drunkards swearers or blasphemers of the name of God 17 Item whether there be any in your Parish who haue committed Adulterie Fornication or Incest or be common Bauds or receiuers of such lewd and euill persons or that bee vehemently suspected the●eof or of any the like crimes 18 Item who they be if any such there bee in your Parish that bee Brawlers slanderers chiders scolders make-bates and sowers of discords betweene one person and another and especially betweene Man and Wife Parents and their Children Masters and their Seruants 19 Item whether bee there in your Parish that doe vse and exercise Charmes Sorceries Inchantments Inuocations Circles Witchcrafts sooth-sayings or any like Arts inuented by the Deuill and especially in or at the time of Womens travaile 20 Item whether is your Church sufficiently repayred and therein your Pulpit and Communion-Table decently furnished and appointed if not whose default the same is 21 Item whether there be in your Parish any that in contempt of their owne Parish Church doe resort to any other Church or Chappell 22 Item whether any Inne-holders or Alehouse-keepers within your Parish doe commonly vse to sell meate and drinke within the time of Common prayer Preaching or reading of the Homilies aforesaid 23 Item whether any in your Parish vnder governement of their Parents or others haue made priuie contracts of Matrimonie not calling thereunto two or moe witnesses nor hauing the consent of their Parents or such others vnder whose gouernement they are 24 Item whether such Persons or other in your Parish haue married the Banes not first solemnely asked or at vnseasonable houres 25 Item whether you know in your Parish any Executors of Dead mens goods which doe not bestow or haue not bestowed the same especially such of the said goods as were bequeathed or appointed to be distributed among the poore repayring of High-wayes finding of poore Schollers or marrying of poore Maydens or such other charitable deedes accordingly 26 Item whether any in your Parish doe vse to keepe any other holy-dayes then by order of the Churches of England and Ireland are appointed for holy-dayes by the Booke of Common prayer CHANCELLORS 27 Item whether is your Chancellor Commissarie or Officiall learned in the Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill Lawes and such an one as is twentie sixe yeares olde at the least and is reasonably well practised in the course of these Lawes and touching whose life and conuersation no euill report hath gone 28 Item whether your Chancellor Commissarie or any other exercising Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction in this Diocesse their Registers Actuaries Apparitors or Sumners haue at any time wincked at and suffered Adulteries Fornications Incests or other like offences to passe and remaine vnpunished or haue commuted any penance without speciall licence of the Lord Bishop of the Diocesle 29 Item what persons are there in your Parish that haue beene married that haue beene divorced and haue married with others for these three yeares last past By whose sentence were they diuorced and by whose licence and by whome were they so married Declare your knowledge in the premisses and what you haue credibly heard 30 Item whether doth your Chancellor Commissarie or Officiall for his exercising the Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction of the Diocesse giue any yearely Rent summe or summes of Money or other consideration for the same to any person or persons whatsoeuer 31 Item Is there in your Parish any other matter or cause of the Cognizance of the Church aboue not expressed worthy presentment in your iudgement If any such matter or cause there be you are charged likewise to present the same as you are the rest by vertue of the same Oath FINIS Imprinted at DVBLIN by the Company of Stationers Anno 1629.