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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00206	Articles to be enquired of within the dioces of London, in the visitation of the reuerend father in God, Richard Bishop of London, in his first generall visitation, holden in the fortieth yeere of the raigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England, Fraunce and Ireland, Defender of the Faith,&c.; Visitation articles. 1598	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1597-1604 : Bancroft); Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.	1598 (1598)	STC 10253; ESTC S111851	12,656	18

incontinent persons themselues or giuen to drunkennesse or idlenesse or be haunters of Tauerns alehouses or suspected places hunters hawkers dicers carders common table-players swearers dauncers or otherwise suspected persons of any notorious crime or light and vnseemely behauiour or giue euill example of life or vse disordered or vnseemely apparrell either in colours guardes or light fashion 27 VVhether there be any ministers or priests within your parish which liue idlely without any cure neither seruing in any place nor hauing any place of reading or preaching and so become offensiue to their calling Articles concerning the Church 1 VVhether haue you in your parish Churches and Chappels all things necessarie and requisite for common prayer and administration of the sacraments especially the booke of common prayer with the new Kalender two Psalters the English Bible in the largest volume of the edition sette forth by the Bishops and lately imprinted by the Quénes Printer the Table of the ten commandements a conuenient pulpit well placed a comely and decent Table standing vppon a frame for the holy Cmmunion with a faire linnen cloth to lay vppon the same and some couering of silke buckram or other such like for the cleane keeping therof a faire and comely communion cup of siluer and a couer of siluer for the same which may serue also for the ministration of the communion bread a decent large surples with sléeues and a strong chest or boxe for the almes of the poore with thrée locks and keyes to the same and all other things necessarie in and to the premisses 2 VVhether there haue growne in your Church since the last visitation in the yeare 1595. any contention betwixt any of the parishioners touching the placing or displacing of any in any seate or pew in the church and whether there haue beene any pew builded since the foresayd yeare 1595. in any your churches without the expresse leaue and consent first had of the Ordinarie of the Dioces and by whom haue any such been built 3 VVhether is your Church or Chappell and the Chauncell well and sufficiently repaired and kept without abuse of any thing whether doth your Parson vicar or curate or the proprietarie or farmour of your parsonage or vicarage in your parish keep the parsonage or vicarage house with al other the edefices therunto appertaining in good sufficient reparations and whether is your churchyard well fenced and cleanely kept without any laystall or other annoyances 4 VVhether the Church of your parish be now vacant or destitute of an Incumbent or no and if it be how long it hath beene so and who is the patron whether during the vacancie of the benefice he occupieth the globe land and taketh the tithes and other fruites to him selfe during the time of vacation or who else occupieth taketh the same and by what authoritie 5 Whether your church be a parsonage or a vicarage presentatiue or donatiue or otherwise serued by a curate whether did they euer heeretofore heare or know that it was a parsonage or vicarage and how came it to bee decayed from beeing presentatiue to be in the state it nowe is and when was it first decayed from being a benefice presentatiue as you remember 6 Whether your fonts or baptisteries be remooued from the place where they were wont to stand or whether any persons leauing the vse of them do christen or baptize in basons or other vesselles not accustomably vsed in the church before time or do vse any kind of lauor with a remouable bason or haue taken downe the old vsuall font heretofore vsed in your parish 7 Whether is there in your parish a sufficient Register booke of parchment of marriages christnings and burialls prouided at the charge of the parish whether are all the names of those that haue bin either christned maried or buried since the beginning of hir Maiesties raigne newly written into the saide parchment booke whether doth the Minister euery sunday reade the names publikely of those that were eyther christned married or buried the weeke before whether haue you a publike chest with 3. lockes for the minister and the two churchwardens to kéepe the said booke in and whether haue you brought a transcript of all the names of such as haue been christned married and buried this last yere into M. Blackwel my Register his office as you are bound to do euery yere hereafter within a month after the feast of Easter by the constitutions last authorized by her Maiestie Articles concerning Ecclesiasticall Officers 1 Whether the Chancelor Archdeacon Commissarie Official or any other vsing Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction in this diocesse their Registers or Actuaries Apparators or Summoners haue at any time winked at and suffered any adulterers fornicators incestes or other faultes or offences presented vnto them to passe and remaine vnpunished and vncorrected for mony rewards bribes pleasure frindship or any other partial respect 2 Whether doth the Chancellor Commissaries Archdeacons or any other Officialles heare any matters of office or correction priuately in their chambers without the presence of the sworne Register or his deputy or do discharge any mans penance for mony without the consent of the ● Bishop according to the last constitutions by her Maiestie confirmed or doe send any writing vnder their owne hands to your church without the Registers presence at the dooing of it either for marriage of any couples or for ending or ordering of any matter of office correction or penance Articles concerning Schoolemasters 1 Whether the Schoolemaster or schoolemasters within your parish openly or priuately in any noble or gentlemans house or in any other place be of good and sincere religion life and conuersation and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth and whether they haue béene examined allowed and licensed for schoolemasters by the Ordinarie or his officers in that behalfe 2 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemasters do themselues receiue the holy communion as often as they ought to doo and whether they bring with them so many of their schollers as bee of age sufficient and of capacity by instruction to receiue the Lords supper or els be able to giue testimonie in what church their schollers do receiue and heare publike prayer 3 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters do orderly on sundayes with their schollers come to the church of their parish where they teach and there sée their schollers placed in some conuenient place so as they do not disquiet the minister or parish in time of diuine seruice but may exercise themselues godly in reading and hearing the seruice and sermons and in answering with the congregation in reading of publike prayer 4 Whether the schoolemaister or schoolemaisters either priuate or publike do teach their schollers the Catechisme authorized by publike authoritie at the least once euerie wéeke and do instruct and examine them in the same or do teach any other catechisme and what catechisme it is that they so do teach 5 Whether your

schoolemaister or schoolemaisters or any of them bee known or suspected to reade vnto their schollers priuately any vnlawful books or priuately to instruct them in their yong yeares either in popery superstition or disobedience or contempt to hir Maiestie and hir lawes ecclesiasticall by publike authoritie allowed 6 Whether your schoolemaister or schoolemaisters or any of them vnder presence of Catechising their schollers which is a most godly order carefully by them to be obserued do keepe lectures readings or exposition in diuinitie in their houses hauing continuall repaire vnto them of people not being of their owne family and houshold 7 Whether the schoolemaister or schoolemaisters within your parish do teach his or their schollers any other grammer then that which is commōly called the kings grammer sette forth by the authoritie of King Henry the eight Articles concerning parishioners and others of the Laitie 1 VVhether all housholders in your parish cause their children seruants and apprentises both mankind and womankind being aboue seuen yeares of age and vnder twentie which haue not learned the catechisme to come to the church on sundaies and holidayes at the times appointed for catechising and there diligently and obediently to heare and what bee the names of those that do not cause their children seruants and apprentises so to come to the church to be instructed and examined 2 Whether the church wardens do quarterly deliuer to the Archdeacon a note of al those who do not send their children seruants to be catechised 3 VVhether any do worke or keepe any shoppe open vpon Saboth daies or vpon any holidaies appointed by the lawes of this realme to be kept holiday or vse any worke or labor or open shew of their wares in any of those daies 4 VVhether you your selues or the Churchwardens in the yeares before you haue suffered any vnmarried women being begotten with child to go out of your parish before she hath done penance or any man defamed of whoredome to depart vnpunished vppon direction appoynted by the ordinarie And forth of whose houses haue they gone away with child vnpunished and how many vnmarried women which haue béene deliuered within your parish these thrée years last past haue gone away without doing of penance 5 VVhether the parish Clarke be appoynted according to the law by the parson or vicar of the parish with the allowance of the Ordinarie and whether he be not obedient to the parson vicar or curate and whether hée be able to reade and whether hée kéepe the bookes and ornaments of the Church faire and cleane and cause the church and quire the communion table and the 〈◊〉 to bee kept cleane and decent against the seruice time the communion sermon and baptisme 6 Whether there bee any person or persons ecclesiasticall or temporall within your parish or elsewhere within this Dioces that haue retained and kept in their custodie or that reade sel vtter disperse carrie or deliuer to others any English bookes or libels sette forth either on this side or beyond the seas by papists or others against the Quéens supremacie in causes ecclesiasticall or against true religion and catholike doctrine or the gouernment or discipline of the church of England now within this realme reuiued and established by common authority and what theyr names and surnames are 7 Whether there be any in your parish who are noted knowne or suspected to conceale or kéepe hidden in their houses any masse bookes portesses breuiaries or other bookes of poperie superstition or any Chalices copes vestments albs or other ornaments of superstition vncancelled or vndefaced which it is to be coniectured they do kéep for a day as they cal it 8 Whether there be in your parish any popish or sectarie recusant or recusants which for any cause whatsoeuer forbeare or disswade and dehort others to come to Church to common prayer or to heare Gods word preached pretending it vnlawfull to come to our assemblies as the church of England now standeth established by her maiesties authoritie and what their seuerall name or names are and how long they haue béene recusants 9 Whether any do refuse to receiue the holy communion at their owne ministers hands either because he is not a preacher or because he duly obserueth the order of ministration appoynted by the booke and who they be that do go from their owne parish to receiue at any other ministers hands 10 Whether any of your parishioners hauing a preacher to their parson vicar or curate do absent themselues from his sermons and resort to any other place to heare other preachers 11 Whether all the people of your parish aboue 16. yeares of age and especially housholders hauing no lawfull excuse to be absent doo resort with their seruants and children to their parish Church or Chappel on the holy daies and on the Sundayes to morning and euening prayer and who they be that either negligently or wilfully absent themselues or come very late to the church vpon the Sundayes or holidaies or that walke talke or otherwise vnreuerently behaue themselues in the church or vse anie gaming or pastime abroade or in any house or sitte in the streete or churchyard or in any tauerne or alehouse vpon the Sunday or holiday in the time of common prayer sermon or reading of the homilies or any of them either before or after noone 12 Whether the forfeiture of xii pence for euerie time of absence from the church vpon euerie sunday and holiday appoynted by a statute made in the first yeare of the Queenes maiesties raigne to bee leuied and taken according to the same statute the tenor whereof is sette downe in the beginning of this booke by the churchwardens of euerie person that offendeth and by them be put to the vse of the poore of the parish if it bee not so leuied by whose fault it is 13 VVhether there be in your parish who doo receiue into their houses keepe harbour or releeue or which do resort to any popish priest or which be noted or suspected to be seducers and perswaders of others by their example or doctrine to poperie or superstitiō therby to alienate the Quéenes subiects from their due obedience and christian religion now by law established in England 14 VVhether there be any Inkéepers alewiues victuallers or tiplers that suffer or do admitte any person or persons in their houses to eate drinke or play at dice cards tables bowles or such like games in the time of common prayer or sermon on the sundayes or holidayes or any Butchers or other that commonly vse to sell meate or other things in the time of Common prayer preaching or reading of homilies and whether in any faires or common markets falling vpon the Sundayes there be shewing of any wares before morning prayer be done and whether any markets selling of wares be vsed or suffered in any churchyards on the Sabboth day by common packmen or pedlers going about or anie Butchers 15 Whether the Churchwardens of the