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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

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. AT CAMBRIDGE Printed by Cantrell Legge 1613. The tenor of the Oath of the Church wardens and sworne-men YOu shall sweare that vpon due consideration of these Articles giuen you in charge you shall present euery such person of or within your Parish as you shall know to haue committed any offence or omitted any dutie mentioned in any of these Articles or which are publikely defamed or vehemently suspected of any such offence or negligence So helpe you God by the contents of his holy Gospell Articles Touching the Church WHETHER is your Church or Chappell with the Chauncell thereof and euery part of either of them well and sufficiently repaired the windowes well glased the floares paued plaine and euen without dust or any thing noisome or vnseemely 2. Whether is your Churchyard well fenced with walles rayles pales as hath beene accustomed if not whose default is it 3. Whether hath there beene any fighting chiding brawling or quarrelling any plaies feasts temporall Courts or Leets lay Iuries musters or other prophane vsage in your Church or Churchyard any bels superstitiously rung on holy dayes or their Eues or at any other time without good cause allowed by the Minister and Churchwardens haue any trees beene felled in your churchyard and by whom 4. Whether is the mansion house of your Parson Vicar or Curate with all the buildings therunto belonging your Parish Almes-house and church house sufficiently repaired maintained and to godly and their right vses employed 5. Whether haue you in your church the Bible in the largest volume the booke of common prayer lately authorised by his Maiestie the books of Homilies allowed the two Psalters a conuenient pulpit for the preaching a decent seat for the minister to say seruice in conueniently placed a strong chest with an hole in the lidde and three locks and keies one for the Minister the other for the Churchwardens for the Almes of the poore and the keeping of the Register booke of the Christenings mariages and burials 6. Whether haue you in your Church a Font of stone for baptisme set in the auncient vsuall place a decent table for the Communion conueniently placed couered with silke or other decent stuffe in time of diuine seruice and with a faire linen cloath ouer that at the administration of the Communion 7. Whether haue you all such bells ornaments and other vtensils as haue aunciently belonged to your Church a communion cup of siluer with a couer a faire standing pot or stoope of pewter or purer mettall for the wine vpon the communion table a comely surplesse with sleeues a Register booke of parchment for christenings marriages and burials booke for the name of all strange preachers subscribed with their names and the name of the Bishop or others where they had licence 8. Whether is your almes for your poore quarterly at the least distributed by you the church-wardens and the Minister in the presence of sixe of the chiefe Parishioners to your poore And are weekely the names and surnames of all persons married christened and buried and of their Parents with the day and yeare entred in your said parchment booke and is euery leafe beeing full subscribed by you the Minister and churchwardens 9. Whether are the tenne commandements set vp in the east ende of the church and other chosen sentences of holy Scripture vpon the wals in conuenient places are all your seates in your church in good repaire cleanly kept conueniently placed and the Parishioners in them or elsewhere orderly set and is there no contention or striuing for any seat or place among them Touching the Ministrie Seruice and Sacraments WHether is the common prayer said or sung by your Minister both morning euening distinctly reuerently euery Sonday and holy-day and on their Eues and at conuenient and vsuall times of those dayes and in most conuenient place of the church for the edifying of the people 2. Whether doth your Minister obserue the orders rites and ceremonies prescribed in the booke of common prayer in reading the holy Scriptures prayers and administration of the Sacraments without diminishing in regard of preaching or any other respect or adding any thing in the matter or forme thereof 3. Whether doth your Minister on wednesdayes and fridaies not being holydaies at the accustomed houres of seruice resort to the church and say the Letanie prescribed and doth your clarke or sexton giue warning before by tolling of a bell on those dayes 4. Whether doth your Minister as oft as he administreth the communion first receiue it himselfe Whether doth he vse any bread or wine newly brought before the words of institution be rehearsed and the bread and wine present on the table doth he not deliuer the bread and wine to euerie communicant seuerally 5. Whether doth your Minister giue warning publikly in the church at morning prayer the Sonday before hee administreth the communion for the better preparation of the parishioners 6. Whether hath your Minister admitted to the communion any notorious sinner openly knowne or defamed or any who hath openly and maliciously contended with his Neighbour before repentance and reconciliation made and done by appointment of the Ordinarie 7. Whether hath your Minister admitted to the communion any church-warden or Side-man who hath wittingly and willingly neglected contrarie to his oath to present any publike offence or scandall beeing mooued to present either by some of his neighbours the Minister or his Ordinarie 8. Whether hath your Minister administred the Communion to any but such as kneele or doe any refuse to kneele hath he administred to any who refuseth to be present at Publike prayer or who hath depraued the Booke of common prayer administration of the Sacraments or the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed or the Articles of Religion agreed vpon or the Booke of ordering Preists and Bishops or against his maiesties Supremacie or haue any beene for these causes repelled and haue they repented in writing or otherwise and what be their names 9. Whether hath your Minister more Benefices then one if he haue how farre distant are they how often is he absent in the yeare when he is absent hath he an allowed preacher for his Curate 10. Whether is your Minister an allowed Preacher if he be doth he euery Sunday in your church or some other neere adioyning where no Preacher is preach one Sermon euery Sunday 11. Whether doth your Minister beeing no Preacher allowed presume to expound the Scripture in his owne Cure or else where doth he procure euery moneth a Sermon to be preached in his cure by Preachers lawfully licensed and on euery Sunday when there is no sermon doth he or his Curate read some one of the Homilies prescribed 12. Whether is your Curate allowed by the Ordinarie vnder his hand and seale to serue for

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