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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