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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	absent_v	according_a	act_n	20	3	4.5422	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32937	Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens & side-men of every parish within the diocess of Canterbury, in the ordinary visitation of the Most Reverend Father in God, William, by divine providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury His Grace, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1678-1690 : Sancroft); Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.	1682 (1682)	Wing C4021; ESTC R40818	9,366	18

of the Parishioners in general How is it setled and in whose hands and is it or hath it been misemployed or disposed of to other Uses III. DOTH any Man keep a publick or private School in your Parish Is he allowed so to do by the Ordinary Is he of sober Life and honest Conversation and conformable to the Doctrine and Discipline Established Doth he teach his Scholars the Catechism of Religion set forth by Authority Doth he upon Sundays and Holy-days and all good Occasions repair to your Church or Chappel and cause his Scholars to do so too and see that they behave themselves there quietly orderly and reverently during the time of Divine Service and Sermon and doth he teach them good Manners Sobriety Modesty and Obedience as well as other Learning IV. Doth any Man or Woman in your Parish take upon them to practise Physick or Chirurgery Or any Woman to exercise the Office of a Midwife without being first examined and approved and thereupon Licensed by the Ordinary TIT. VII Concerning Ecclesiastical Officers I. HAVE any abuses or offences presented by the Church-wardens or others been suppressed or left unpunished by any Officers exercising Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction within this Diocess Do they unnecessarily delay or protract any causes brought before them Do they vexatiously cite any into their Courts for greediness of Gain or other undue Ends Do they demand exact or take unlawful or extraordinary Fees Or in any kind grieve or oppress His Maiesties good Subjects II. IS there a Table of Fees publickly fastned and set up in the Consistory or Ecclesiastical Court to which you are called to appear and make your Presentments that so every one may know what Fees he ought to pay as the Canons enjoyn III. HAVE any Apparitors taken any Reward for the concealing any Offence or the avoiding the Punishment or Reformation of Offenders And do they summon any to appear at the Consistory without Citation first had and granted from the Ecclesiastical Iudge IV. HATH any Sum of Money been lately or heretofore paid to any Ecclesiastical Officer for Commutation of Pennance What was the Sum Unto whom was it paid and to what Use appointed or employed If you know of any other default or Crime of Ecclesiastical Cognizance you are to present the same TIT. VIII Queries to be put to the Minister concerning the Church-wardens and Side-men I. ARE the Church-wardens of your Parish duly chosen by the joynt consent of the Minister and Parishioners Or one of them by the Minister and the other by the Parishioners Or as the custom of the Parish is II. HAVE the former and last Church-wardens given up their due Accompts to the Parish and deliver'd up to the succeeding Church-wardens the Moneys remaining in their hands together with all other things belonging to your Church or Chappel III. DO your Church-wardens and Side-men take diligent care to see and observe who of the Parishioners are absent from Divine Service and Sermon in your Church or Chappel every Sunday and Holy-day and when they find any to have absented themselves without a sufficient cause do they by Warrant of some Iustice of the Peace levy of them by way of Distress upon their Goods the Sum of 12 Pence for every such day of their absence according to the Act of Parliament in that case provided And do they distribute the several Sums so levied among the Poor of your Parish according to Law IV. DO they present all them that come late to Church after Divine Service is begun or depart before it be ended Do they take care that none stand idle or talk together in the Church-porch or walk in the Church or Church-yard during the time of Prayers Preaching or other Sacred Offices V. DO they take care that no Misbehaviour or Disorder be done by Men Women Servants or Children in your Church or Chappel that none of them sit lean or lay their Hats upon the Communion-Table That no Minstrels nor Morris-Dancers no Dogs Hawks or Hounds be brought or come into your Church or Chappel to the disturbance of the Congregation VI. DO they against every Communion appointed in your Church or Chappel provide a sufficient quantity of fine white Bread and of good Wine according to the number of Communicants at the Parish charge VII DO they cause all Strangers that preach in your Church or Chappel to enter their Names the same day in a Book provided for that purpose together with the Name of the Bishop that Licens'd them to preach in this Diocess and do they permit no other to preach VIII HAVE they the Church-wardens and Side-men now sworn to give in a true answer unto all these Articles of Enquiry in all their several Titles taken sufficient time to draw up their Presentments and therein consulted with you their Minister for your faithful assistance WE do not by Vertue of this Oath require or expect that the Parson Vicar or Curate or any one of the Church-wardens or Side-men of any Parish should detect impeach or accuse himself of any Fault enquir'd off in these Articles Nevertheless the Faults of any one of them may and ought to be presented by the rest And if the Church-wardens or Side-men will not do their Duty herein yet the Minister of every Parish or in his absence the Curate may and ought to present such Persons and Things as want due Reformation for upon them is the chief Care incumbent of suppressing Sin and Wickedness and all Irregularities in their Parishes And let all of both sorts know assuredly that as the Conscientious Discharge of their Duty herein is the next and readiest Mean whereby publick Disorders and Offences may come to be punished and reformed so if they wilfully refuse or neglect to discover such Things as either they themselves know or by common Fame have heard to have been or to be amiss in their Parish the Guilt will lie at their Doors and in such cases the Bishop and his Officers will proced against them in their Courts with all the Severity which the Law enables them to use in such cases FINIS