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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07665	Articles to be inquired of, in the metropoliticall visitation of the most Reuerend Father in God, Richard, by the prouidence of God, Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke, primate of England, and metropolitane. In the yeere of our Lord God, 1633..	Church of England. Province of York. Archbishop (1631-1640 : Neile); Neile, Richard, 1562-1640.	1633 (1633)	STC 10380; ESTC S92473	10,368	17

into the Church or Church-yard or to Church any woman hauing had conuenient warning thereof 28 Whether hath your Minister being truely informed of the danger of death of any infant vnbaptized and being desired to go to the place where the child is to baptize it neglected to go by meanes whereof the child hath dyed vnbaptized 29 Whether doth your Minister at any time preach or administer the communion in any priuate house except when they are so impotent that they cannot goe to Church or very danger ously sicke 30 Whether doe any Chaplens in your parish preach or administer the Sacrament in any Chappell not consecrated or in any house hauing no Chappoll allowed by Law and doe the Lords and Masters where such Chappels are resort often to the Parish-church and there receiue the Communion once at the least euery yeere 31 Whether hath your Minister held or appointed any publike fast not appointed by Authority or beene present at such doth he or any other in your Parish hold any lecture or exercise or attempt by fasting or prayer or otherwise to cast out any Deuils without the priuity and allowance of the Bishop vnder his hand and seale 32 Whether hath there beene any secret Conuenticles or meetings in your Parish by any priests ministers or others tending to the deprauing of the forme of prayer doctrine or gouernment of the Church 33 Whether doth your Minister weare decent apparell doth he in publike goe in his Doublet and Hose without a Coate or Cassocke or Cloake and doth he weare any vnseemely light-coloured apparell or stockings 34 Whether doth your Minister make accustomed resort to any Tauerns or Ale-houses except for his honest necessities or doth hee boord or lodge in any such place doth he vse any base or seruile labour or frequent drinking riot dice cards tables or any other vnlawfull games is he contentious with his neighbours or a hunter hawker swearer dancer vsurer suspected of incontinency or doth giue euill example of life 35 Whether is there in your Parish any Minister or Deacon who hath forsaken his calling vsing himselfe in his course of life as a meere Lay man 36 Whether is his Maiesties declaration lately published for quieting and silencing the controuersies lately stirred vp to the disturbance of our Church with new questions strictly obserued by your Parson Vicar or Curate or whomsoeuer else preacheth in your Church 37 Whether doth your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer catechize the youth of the Parish in your Church euery Sunday after dinner by question and answere and apply his afternoone preaching and exhortation to the instructing and edifying of the congregation in that kind of catechizing 38 Whether haue you in your parish any weekeday Lecture or not And if you haue by whom is the same performed whether by one particular man thereto licensed or by sundry neighbour Ministers and whether are the publike prayers alwaies read before such lecture and sermons in his surplesse and hood according to his Maiesties instructions lately set forth 39 Whether are there any within your parish vnder the degree of Noblemen and men qualified by law who doe keepe any priuate Chaplaines in their houses Touching Ecclesiasticall Courts FIrst whether the Chancellor Commissaries or any other vsing Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction in this Diocesse their Registers or Actuaries Apparitors or Sumners haue at any time beene corrupt in their places or taken any excessiue fees or winked at suffred any Adulteries Fornications Incests or other faults or offences to passe remaine vnpunished vncorrected or haue commuted any penance without speciall licence of the Bishop 2 Whether doe you know that there hath beene any commutation of penance allowed of by the Ordinary in your parish and whether hath your Minister publikely signified it to his Congregation what summes of money haue therefore beene payd and whether haue the sayd sùmmes of money or part thereof beene distributed by your Minister and Church-wardens to the poore or otherwise imployed to some such godly charitable vse as was prescribed by the Ordinary 3 Whether doe you know any housholder or other person whatsoeuer within your parish or Chappelry that is deceased that hath made his last Will and Testament and the same not hitherto beene proued nor administration taken from the Ordinary or other Iudge competent 4 Whether hath your Chancellor Commissary or other exercising Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction heard any matter of office priuately in their chamber without their sworne Registers or their Deputies presence or in their absence of such other person as the Law doth allow for an actuary in such a case Touching Schoole-masters FIrst whether haue you in your Parish any Schoole-master who teacheth eyther in publike Schoole or priuate house whether is he reputed to be of sound Fayth and Religion doth he resort duely to Church and receiue the Communion or doth he giue any euill example of life is hee allowed by the Ordinary vnder his hand and seale or doth your Minister or Curate teach and is he allowed in like manner 2 Whether doth your Minister or Schoole-master who teacheth the Catechisme by Authority set forth doth he when there is any Sermon or diuine Seruice bring his schollers to Church and see them quietly and reuerently ordered doth hee examine them after their returne what they haue learned of the Sermon 3 Whether doth he at other times teach them such sentences of holy Scripture as may induce them to all godlinesse doth he teach the Grammar set forth by King Henry the eight continued by King Edward the sixt and Queene Elizabeth 4 Whether hath your Schoole-master an Vsher vnder him are they both diligent is your Vsher allowed by the Ordinary doth your Schoolemaster direct his Vsher the forme manner of teaching and doth hee weekely take account of him and the Schollers vnder his charge how they haue profited and what they haue learned and out of what Authors 5 Whether hath eyther of them spoken writ or taught against any thing whereunto hee formerly subscribed as the Kings Supremacy the Articles of Religion Booke of Common prayer or any thing therein contained Touching the Parish Clarke and Sexton FIrst whether haue you a parish Clarke appointed by the Minister sufficient for his place of the age of twenty yeeres at the least is he of honest conuersation can he read write sing is he diligent in his office and seruiceable to his Minister in the time of diuine Seruice and otherwise 2 Whether doth your Clarke meddle with any thing aboue his office as Churching of women burying the dead reading of prayers or such like 3 Whether doth your Clarke or Sexton keepe your Church cleane the dores safe locked is any thing by his default lost or spoyled in the Church doth hee suffer any vntimely ringing or any prophane exercise to be committed in your Church 4 Whether doth your Clarke or Sexton when any is passing out of this life neglect to toll a bell hauing notice

thereof or the party being dead doth he suffer any more ringing than one short peale before his buriall one and after the same another 5 Whether doth any of your parish refuse to pay vnto the parish Clarke or Sexton such wages as are vnto them due haue beene accustomably payd Touching Parishioners FIrst whether hath any in your parish spoken against or any way impugned the Kings Maiesties supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall the Truth and Doctrine of the Church of England the forme of Gods worship contained in the booke of common prayer and administration of the Sacraments 2 Whether there bee any person or persons knowne or vehemently suspected to haue written printed or by any meanes published dispersed or otherwise to haue or to haue had in his or their vse or keeping any Popish bookes or libels or any of those slanderous or schismaticall seditious libels or other books that impeach the kooke of common prayer or the Religion Ecclesiasticall gouernment or any other part thereof established by Law in this Realme or doth impeach the credit or estate of any Ecclesiasticall person or gouernour within the same 3 Whether hath any in your parish spoken against or impugned the Articles of Religion agreede vpon in Anno. Do. 1562. the rites and ceremonies established in the Church the gouernment by Arch-bishops Bishops Deanes Arch-deacons and others that beare office in the same 4 Whether hath any in your Parish spoken against or impugned the forme of making and consecrating Bishops Priests or Deacons or haue any separated themselues from the society of the congregation and combined in a new Brotherhood or depraued the Sinods of the Church of England held by the Kings Authority 5 Whether hath any in your Parish maintained or defended any such Ministers or Schoolemasters as refuse to subscribe to the order of the Church haue they affirmed that such Ministers and adherents may make Rules Orders in causes Ecclesiasticall without the Kings Authority 6 Whether doth any in your Parish prophane violate or mis-spend the Lords day commonly called Sunday or Holidayes appoynted in the Church of England vsing any offensiue conuersation or worldly labour in those dayes or any of them or is there any that wilfully refuse or negligently hath absented himselfe from diuine prayers on Sundayes or Holidayes 7 Whether doth any in your Parish in the time of diuine Seruice vse to sit with his hat on his head or is there any who hath not reuerently kneeled when the generall Confession Letany other prayers are read which haue not stood vp at the saying of the Beleefe 8 Whether hath any in your Parish disturbed the Seruice or Sermon by walking talking or any other way or departed out of the Church during the Seruice or Sermon without some vrgent cause or loytered about the Church or Church-porch 9 Whether there be any in your Parish man or woman being about fifteene yeere of age that hath not receiued the holy Communion thrice at the least euery yeere namely at Easter last or thereabouts for once whether any abandoning his or their Parish Church haue receiued the holy Communion in any other Parish Church or Chappell or priuate place 10 Whether hath any parent beene vrged to be present or admitted to answere as Godfather for his owne child or hath any Godfather or godmother made any other answer or speech than is prescribed by the Booke or haue any bin admitted for Godfathers or Godmothers at Baptisme who haue not first receiued the Communion 11 Whether doe all Fathers Mothers Masters Mistresses come cause their children seruants and apprentices to come duely to the Church and according to the Ministers direction is be instructed and catechized or who be they that haue not obeyed the Minister herein 12 Whether haue any persons married together within the Degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity prohibited set forth in a Table appoynted to bee placed in euery Church or haue any married or contracted themselues vnder the age of one twenty yeeres without the consent of their Parents or Gouernours if their parents be dead 13 Whether haue any persons once lawfully married forsaken each other or doe liue asunder otherwise than by Law is permitted or doe any being diuorced or separated marry againe the former wife or husband yet liuing 14 Whether hath any of your parish vnreuerently vsed your Minister or haue any layd violent hands vpon him or disgraced his office and calling by word or deed 15 Whether haue you in your parish any popish recusant or maintayner of popish doctrine or suspected to keepe or disperce schismaticall bookes or to fauour any heresie or errour 16 Whether haue you any common resorters to your Church which are not of your parish abandoning their owne parish Church or doe any such receiue the communion amongst you what be their names and of what parishes are they 17 Whether hath any in the time of diuine Seruice vpon any Sunday or Holiday opened their shops exercised their trade or vsed any gaming bin in any Tauern or Alehouse or otherwise ill imployed 18 Whether are there in your Parish any adulterers fornicators incestuous persons bawds receiuers of defamed persons close fauourers conueyers away of such or which suffer to depart any incontinent person vnpunished or are there in your parish any blasphemers common swearers drunkards ribawds vsurers malicious slanderers scolds or sowers of discord or any defamed of the same crime 19 Whether doe any in your Parish administer the goods of the dead without authority or suppresse their will or testament haue any Executors neglected to performe their wils especially in paying of Legacies giuen to the Church to the poore or to any other charitable or godly vses 20 Whether doe any refuse to pay to the reparations ornaments other things by Law required to bee in your Church as they are seased by Law or are any dwelling out of your Parish which hold land in your Parish that refuse the like payment or seasement 21 Whether haue any not being of your Parish beene christned churched buried or receiued the Communion or beene married out of your Church both parties dwelling in your parish 22 Whether haue all women in your Parish deliuered of child come at conuenient time after to Church to giue thanks haue they beene Churched according to the forme of the Booke of common Prayer 23 Whether hath the Perambulation of the circuit of your Parish bin obserued once euery yeere if not by whose default is it 24 Whether hath any in your Parish giuen the Church-wardens or Sidemen or any of them euill words for doing their duety according to their oath and conscience in making presentment for their default 25 Whether there be any man or woman in your Parish that vseth witch-craft sorcery charmes or vnlawfull prayer or inuocations in Latine or English or otherwise vpon any Christian body or beast or any that resorteth to the same for counsell or helpe and what be their names 26 Whether there be any that pretending themselues to bee Physicians or Chirurgeons do take vpon them to practise Physicke or Chirurgery not being lawfully licenced thereunto or which refuse to shew their sayd licence to the Minister or Curate and Church-wardens of your Church or Chappell when they shall be hereunto required Touching Church-wardens and Sworne-men FIrst whether doe any in your Parish take vpon them to bee Church-warden or Side-man which is not lawfully chosen by the Minister Parishioners according to the Canon or do any continue the office longer than one yeere except they be chosen againe or that it be a custome of your Parish for a Church-warden to continue two yeers and are all such officers chosen yeerly in Easter weeke 2 Whether doe your Church-wardens within one moneth at the most after their yeere ended before the Minister and Parishioners giue vp a iust accompt of all such money other things as they haue receiued bestowed haue they deliuered all remaining in their hands belonging to their Church or Parish by Bill indented to be deliuered to the next Church-wardens 3 Whether haue the Church-wardens with the aduice of the Minister from time to time prouided a sufficient quantity of fine white bread wholesome wine for the number of communicants 4 Whether doe the Church-wardens and Sworne-men before euery visitation and at other times when there is iust occasion meete and confer about their presentments the answering of their Articles who hath after notice giuen him of the time place carelesly absented himselfe 5 Whether the forfeiture of twelue pence for absence from Church appoynted by Statute to the vse of the poore bee taken leuied by the Church-wardens imployed according to the said Statute and whether is the said forfeiture taken of all persons which stand wilfully suspended or excommunicated 6 Whether haue any Church-wardens lost sold or detained any Goods Ornaments Bels Rents or Implements of the Church 7 Whether doe you the Church-wardens Side-men about the middest of diuine Seruice vsually walke out of y● Church see who are abroad in any Ale-house or elsewhere absent or euilly imployed haue you presented all such offenders to the Ordinary 8 Whether doe you know or haue heard a fame of any offence committed or duty omitted by any of your Parish before your time heretofore not presented by the former Church-wardens to the Ordinary or as yet not reformed and haue you presented the same 9 Finally doe you know of any matter or cause which is a breach of the lawes Ecclesiasticall here not expressed haue you presented the same FINIS