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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04123	Anno Domini M.DC.XXXIII [i.e. M.DC.XXIII] articles given in charge to be inquired upon and presented too, by the churchwardens, side-men, quest-men, and inquisitors in every parish within the province of Ardmagh [sic], in the course of the metropoliticall visitation of the same, in this present yeare begun, by the most reverend father in God, Christopher, by the mercie of God, Lo. Archbishop of Ardmagh, primate and metropolitane of all Ireland : the said presentments to be made upon their and every their corporall oathes, whereunto the parson, vicar, curate, and parish-clarke in every of the said parishes are to be assisting, so farre as they and every of them can, respectively in their knowledge or understanding.	Church of Ireland. Province of Armagh. Archbishop (1613- 1625 : Hampton); Hampton, Christopher, 1552-1625.	1600 (1600)	STC 14265.3; ESTC S3423	2,685	1

ANNO DOMINI M. DC●…XXIII ¶ ARTICLES given in charge to be inquired upon and presented too by the Churchwardens Side-men Quest-men and Inquisitors in every parish within the Province of Ardmagh in the course of the Metropoliticall visitation of the same in this present yeare begun by the most reverend Father in God Christopher by the mercie of God Lo Archbishop of Ardmagh Primate and Metropolitane of all Ireland The said presentments to be made upon their and every their corporall Oathes whereunto the Parson Vicar Curate and Parish-clarke in every of the said Parishes are to be assisting so farre as they and every of them can respectively in their knowledge or understanding INprimis whether is your Parson Vicar or Curate resident continually in at and upon his Benefice doing his duetie in reading distinctly the divine Service preaching the word and duly 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 leave in his place a sufficient and conformable Curat to celebrate divine Service administer the Sacraments and teach and preach the Scriptures 3 Item whether is your Parson Vicar or Curate a common resorter to Tavernes or Alchouses giving himselfe to drinking ryoting playing at Cards dyce or other unlawfull games or is he a Striker dueller dancer or hunter or so reported 4 Item whether is your Parson or Vicar or anie other of or in your parish an Usurer or lender of his money for unlawfull gaine or whether is he or are they taken or reputed so to be 5 Item whether do the Proprietaries Parsons vicars other possessors of the Churches Chappell 's and their mansions within your parish keep the chancels of their rectories vicarages other their houses buildings belonging to the same in due reparations 6 Item whether hath your Parson Vicar or Curate received anie persons to the holy communion being openly knowne to be at debate and out of charitie with their neighbours or defamed with anie 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 having thereof notice 8 Item how many Benefices or ecclesiasticall promotions hath your Parson or vicar and how farre distant are they the one from thother what chappels hath he to his Cures belonging by what names are they called and how and by whom are they served 9 Item whether doth your parson vicar or curate minister the holy communion anie otherwise then onely after such forme and maner 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 upon everie Sunday when there is no Sermon doth he or his Curate reade some one of the Homilies prescribed 11 Item whether doth your Minister every Sunday and Holy-day halfe an houre at the least before Evening 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 he call them thereunto in course and whether do the Churchwardens of the parish assist him therein 12 Item what Schoolemasters have you in your parish that eyther teach privatly or publickly and not licensed thereunto and by whom be they harboured 13 Item whether be there in your parish anie persons that contemne or abuse by word or deed the Ministers of the Church 14 Item whether the Service of your Church be begun and ended at due and convenient 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 anie heresie error or opinion contrary or repugnant to the Scriptures and doctrine of the Church 16 Item whether there be anie in your parish that be common drunkards swearers or blasphemers of the name of God 17 Item whether be there anie in your parish who have committed adulterie fornication or incest or be common baudes or receivers of such lewd and evill persons or that be vehemently suspected thereof or of anie of the like crimes 18 Item who they be if any such there be in your parish that be braulers slanderers chiders scholders make-bates and sowets of discords betweene one person and another and especially betweene man and wife parents and their children masters their servants 19 Item whether be there anie in your parish that doe use and exercise charmes sorceries inchantmēts invocations circles witchcrafts soothsayings or anie like arts invented by the divell and especially in or at the time of womens travaile 20 Item whether is your Church sufficiently repaired 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 contēpt of their own parish church do resort to any other church or chappell 22 Item whether any In holders or Alchouse-keepers within your parish do commonly use to sell meat drink within the time of cōmon prayer preaching or reading of the Homilies aforesaid 23 Item whether any in your parish under government of their parents or others have made privie contracts of matrimonie not calling thereunto two or mo witnesses nor having the consent of their parents or such others under whose government they are 24 Item whether such persons or other in your parish have married the banes not first solemnly asked or at unseasonable houres 25 Item whether you know in your parish any executors of dead mens goods which doe not bestow or have not bestowed the same especially such of the said goods as were bequeathed or appointed to be distributed among the poore repayring of high-waies finding of poore schollers or marrying of poore maydens or such other charitable deeds accordingly 26 Item whether any in your parish do use to keep abrogate holy-dayes or other then by order of the Churches of England and Ireland are appointed for holy-daies by the book of cōmon praier CHANCELLORS 27 Item whether is your Chancellor Commissarie or Officiall learned in the Ecclesiasticall and civill lawes and such an one as is xxvj years old at the least and hath taken some degree in Schooles and is reasonably well practised in the course of those lawes touching whose life and conversation no evill report hath gone 28 Item whether your Chancellor Commissarie or anie other exercising Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction in this Diocesse their Registers actuaries Apparitors or Sumners have at anie time wincked at suffered adulteries fornications incests or other like offences to passe and remaine unpunished or have commuted anie penance without the speciall license of the Lord Bishop of the Diocesse 29 Item what persons are there in your parish that have beene married that have beene divorced and have married with others for these three yeares last past by whose sentence were they divorsed and by whose license and by whom were they so married Declare your knowledge in the premisses and what you have credibly heard 30 Item whether doth your Chancellor Cōmissarie or Officiall for his exercising the Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction of the Diocesse give any yearely rent summe or summes of money or other consideration for the same to any person or persons whatsoever 31 Item is there in our parish any other matter or cause of the cognizance of the Church above 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 Imprinted at Dublin by the Societie of Stationers Anno 1623.