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B00011	Articles to be inquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men, in the ordinarie visitation of the reuerend father in God, Lancelot Lord Bishop of Elie, within the Diocesse of Elie, Ann. 1613.	Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1609-1619 : Andrewes).	1613 (1613)	STC 10196; ESTC S92330	7,545	14

your cure and whether doth he serue two churches or chappels in one day 13. Whether doth your Minister in saying the publike prayers and administring the Sacraments weare a decent surplesse with sleeues and beeing a graduate doth he weare therewith a hood by the order of the Vniuersities agreeable to his degree 14. Whether hath your Minister or any other Preacher in your church preached any thing to confute and impugne any Doctrine deliuered by any other Preacher and hath he and they praied for Christs catholike church as is prescribed by the canon 15. Whether hath or doth any preach in your church which refuseth to conforme himselfe to the Lawes Rites and ordinances established or which hath not first shewed a sufficient licence 16. Whether doth your Minister in his sermons foure times in the yeare at the least teach and declare the Kings Maiesties power within his Realmes to be the highest power vnder God to whom all within the same owe most loyaltie and obedience and that all forraine power is iustly taken away 17. Whether doth your Minister euery sunday and Holyday halfe an houre before euening prayer or more examine and instruct the youth in the ten commandements the Beleefe the Lords prayer and the catechisme set forth in the Booke of common Prayer 18. Whether hath your Minister maried any which haue not bin three seuerall Sundayes or Holidayes asked in your Church in the time of Diuine seruice without licence and hath he with licence or without married any wherof neither dwelt in your Parish or with any licence but only from the Bishop of Elie or his Chancellers or from his grace of Canterbury 19. Whether hath your Minister with licence or without married any at any other times then betweene the houres of Eight and Twelue in the fore-noone or in any priuate house or when there is no licence before their Parents and Gouernours the parties beeing vnder the age of 21. yeares haue testified their consents 20. Whether doth your Minister declare to the people euery Sunday at the time appointed what Holydaies and fasting-dayes be the weeke following doth he beeing a Preacher conferre with all Recusants and persons Excommunicate or suspended beeing no Preacher doth he procure a sufficient Preacher to reclaime them thereby 21. Whether doth your Minister keepe a Note of all persons excommunicate and once euery sixe moneths doth he denounce them which haue not obtained their absolution on some Sunday in seruice time that others may be admonished to refraine their company 22. Whether doth your Minister hauing notice giuen him diligently visit the sicke the Disease not beeing infectious doth he instruct and comfort them doth he then mooue them to make their Testaments and remember the poore and other workes of charitie and the passing Bell tolling doth he then neglect his last dutie 23. Whether hath your Minister refused to baptize any Childe brought to the Church vpon any Sunday or holiday or to burie any Corps brought into the Church or churchyard or to church any women hauing had conuenient warning thereof 24. Whether hath your Minister beeing truely enformed of the danger of death of any Infant vnbaptized and beeing desired to goe to the place where the child is to baptize it neglected to goe by meanes whereof the child died vnbaptized 25. Whether doth your Minister at any time preach or administer the Communion in any priuate house except when any are so impotent that they cannot goe to Church or verie dangerously sicke 26. Whether hath your Minister held or appointed any publik fast 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 Deuills without the licence of the Bishop vnder his hand and seale 27. Whether hath there beene any secret conuenticles or meetings in your parish by any Priest Ministers or others tending to the deprauing of the forme of prayer doctrine gouernment of the Church 28. Whether doth your Minister in his iourney weare a cloake with sleeues called a preists cloake without gards welts long buttons or cuts 29. Whether doth your Minister weare a wrought night-cap abroad or a peccadilly with a broad falling band or doth hee weare any cut or pinckt apparell doth he in publike goe in his Dublet and Hose without a coat or cassocke and doth he weare any light coloured stockings 30. Whether doth your Minister 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 drinking ryot dice cards tables or any other vnlawfull games is he contentious a hunter hawker swearer dauncer suspected of incontinencie or giue euill example of life 31. Whether is there in your parish any Minister or Deacon who hath forsaken his calling vsing himselfe in his course of life as a gentleman or other lay man Touching Schoole-masters WHether haue you in your Parish any Schoole-master who teacheth either in publike Schoole or priuate house doth he giue any euill example of life is he allowed by the Ordinarie or doth your Minister or Curate teach and is he allowed in like manner 2. Whether doth your Minister or Schoolemaster who teacheth teach the catechisme by authoritie set forth doth he when there is any sermon or diuine seruice bring his Schollers to church see thē quietly and soberly ordered doth he 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 godlinesse doth he teach the Grammar set forth by King Henrie the eight continued by King Edward the sixt and Queene Elizabeth 4. Whether hath he spoken writ or taught against any thing whereunto he formerly subscribed as the Kings supremacie the Articles of religion Booke of common prayer or any thing therein contained Touching the Parish Clarke and Sexton WHether haue you a Parish Clarke sufficient for his place of the age of 20 yeares at the least is he of honest conuersation can he read write and sing is he diligent in his office and seruiceable to his Minister and not giuen to ouermuch drinke 2. Whether doth your Clarke meddle with any thing aboue his Office as churching of women burying of the dead reading of Prayers or such like 3. Whether doth your Clarke or Sexton keep your church cleane the doors safe locked is any thing by his default lost or spoiled in the church doth he suffer vnseasonable ringing or any prophane exercise in your Church 4. Whether doth your Clarke or Sexton when one is passing out of this life neglect to toll a Bell hauing notice thereof or the partie beeing dead doth he suffer any more then one short peale and 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 and haue been accustomably paid Touching Parishioners WHether hath any in your Parish spoken against or any way impugned the Kings Maiesties supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall the Truth and Doctrine of the Church of England the forme of Gods worship contained in the booke of common praier and administration of the Sacraments 2. Whether hath any in your Parish spoken against or impugned the Articles of religion agreed vpon in An. 1602. the Rites and ceremonies established in the Church the gouernment by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and others that beare office in the same 3. Whether haue any in your parish spoken against or impugned the forme of making and consecrating Bishops Priests or Deacons or haue any separared themselues from the societie of the congregation and combined in a newe Brotherhood or depraued the Synod lately held by the Kings authoritie 4. 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 their adherents may make rules and orders in causes Ecclesiasticall without the Kings authoritie 5. Whether doth any in your parish prophane violate or mispend the Sabbath or holy daie or any part of them vsing any offensiue conuersation or worldly labour in those dayes or any of them 6. Whether hath any in your Parish in the time of diuine seruice couered his head albeit he hath an infirmitie in which case a cap or night-quoife is allowed or is there any who hath not reuerently kneeled when the generall confession Letanie and other prayers are read and which haue not stood vp at the saying of the beleefe 7. 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 loitered about the church or church porch 8. Whether doth all parishioners receiue the holy communion thrise euery yeare at the least whereof the feast of Easter to be one and haue all beeing of the age of 16. yeares dulie receiued or not 9. Whether hath any Parent beene vrged to be present or admitted to answeare as Godfather for his owne childe or hath any Godfather or Godmother made any other answer or speech then is prescribed by the Booke or haue any beene admitted for such at Baptisme who haue not first receiued the communion 10. Whether doe all Fathers Mothers masters mistrisses come and cause their children seruants apprentises to come duely to the church and according to the ministers direction to be instructed and catechised or who be they that haue not obeyed the minister herein 11. Whether haue any persons married together within the degrees of consanguinitie or affinitie prohibited set forth in a table appointed to be placed in euery church or haue any married or contracted themselues vnder the age of 21. yeares without the consent of their Parents or Gouernours if their Parents be dead 12. Whether haue any persons once lawfully married forsaken each other or doe liue asunder without the authoritie of the Ordinarie or doe any beeing diuorsed or separated marrie againe the former wife or husband yet liuing 13. Whether haue any beene married in the times wherein marriage is by law restrained without lawfull licence viz. from the Saturday next before Advent Sunday vntill the Fourteenth of Ianuarie and from the Saturday next before Septuagesima Sunday vntill the Monday next after low Sunday and from the Sunday before the Rogation weeke vntil Trinitie Sunday 14. Whether hath any of your Parish vnreuerētly vsed your Minister or haue any laid violent hands vpon him or disgraced his Office and calling by word or deed 15 Whether haue you in your Parish any dweller or soiournour a maintainer of Popish Doctrine or suspected to keepe scismaticall books or to fauour any heresie or errour 16. Whether haue you any common resorters to your Church which are not of your parish or doe any such receiue the Communion amongst you what be their names and of what parishes are they 17. Whether haue any in the time of seruice opened their shops exercised their trade vsed any gaming beene in any Tauerne or Alehouse or otherwise ill imployed 18. Whether are there in your parish any Adulterers Fornicators incestuous persons bawdes receiuers close fauourers conueyers away or which suffer to depart any incontinent person vnpunished any blasphemers common swearers drunkards ribauds vsurers malitious slanderers scolds or sowers of discord or any defamed of the said crimes 19. Whether doe any in your parish administer the goods of the dead without authoritie or suppresse their will or Testament haue any Executors neglected to performe their Wills 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 and other things required in your church as they are ceassed by a lawfull vestrie or any dwelling out of your Parish which hold land in your Parish 21. Whether hath any person suspended or excommunicated beene suffred co heare diuine seruice or the Sermon to receiue the Sacraments to be maried or churched or haue any Excommunicants beene buried in christian buriall 22. Whether haue any in your Parish beene christened churched buried or receiued the communion or been maried out of your church both parties dwelling in your parish 23. Whether haue all women in your parish deliuered of child come at conuenient time after to church to giue thanks and haue they beene churched according to the forme of the Booke of common prayer 24. Whether hath the preambulation of the circuit of your Parish beene obserued once euery yeare if not whose default is it 25. Whether haue any in your parish giuen the churchwardens or sidemen or any of them euill words for doing their dutie according to their oath and conscience in making presentment for any fault Touching Churchwardens and Swornemen WHether doe any in your Parish take vpon them to be churchwarden or side-man which is not lawfully chosen by the Minister Parishioners according to the canon or do any continue that office longer then one yeare except they be chosen againe and are all such Officers chosen yearely in Easter weeke 2. Whether doe your churchwardens within one Moneth at the most after their yeare ended before the Minister and Parishioners giue vp a iust account of all such money and other things as they haue receiued and bestowed haue they deliuered all remaining in their hands belonging to their church or parish by bill intended to bee deliuered to the next church wardens 3. Whether haue the church-wardens with the advise of the the Minister from time to time prouided a sufficient quantitie of fine white bread and wholesome wine for the number of communicants 4. Whether doe the church wardens and Swornemen before euerie Visitation and at other times when there is iust occasion meete and conferre about their presentments and the answering of these Articles and who hath after notice giuen him of the time and place carelesly absented himselfe 5. Whether the forfeiture of twelue pence for absence from church appointed by statute for the vse of the poore be taken and leuied by the church-wardens and employed according to the said Statute and whether is the same forfeiture taken of all persons which stand wilfully suspended or Excommunicated 6. Whether haue any churchwardens lost sold or detained any 〈◊〉 ornaments Bels Rents or implements of the Church 7. Whether doe you the Churchwardens and Sidesmen about the middest of Diuine Seruice vsually walke out of the Church and see who are abroad in any alehouse or elsewhere absent or euill employed and haue you presented all such to the Ordinarie 8. Whether doe you know or haue heard a fame of any offence cōmitted or dutie omitted by any of your Parish before your time and heretofore not presented to the Ordinarie 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 and haue you presented the same FINIS