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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00136	Articles ecclesiastical to be enquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men within the [blank] in the visitation of the [blank] and in the ([blank] yeere of the reigne of our most dread soueraigne lord King Iames)	Church of England.	1621 (1621)	STC 10133.9; ESTC S421	7,466	15

and whose are those children 46 Whether hath any Father answered as Godfather to his owne childe and whether haue any beene admitted to be Godfather or Godmother to any childe in your Parish who before that time haue not receiued the holy Communion 47 Whether any persons of your Parish diuorced lawfully doe notwithstanding accompany together and whether any persons lawfully married haue forsaken their wiues or husbands or liue not together or any which haue married any person contracted to others or which had not the consent of their parents and whether any were married in any priuate house or within the degrees prohibited or not betweene the houres of eight and twelue of the clocke in the forenoone 48 Whether doe you know any person formerly presented which hath not beene conuented and censured by the ordinarie for the same or any enioyned to doe pennance who either hath not done it or done it not penitently but scornfully and not in forme habite and time prescribed or any that haue laughed or scorned at those who haue done their pennance and what be their names 49 Whether any Hospitall or Almes-house be either pulled downe or growne to decay whether the number of poore and impotent persons appointed by the founders are maintained there and if not in whose default whether any lands or legacies giuen to such or other godly vses are not imployed accordingly and whether any rights or duties belonging to your Church be detained by any person 50 Whether doe you know any person within your Parish who directly or indirectly taketh vsurie or interest for money lent contrary to the lawes of God and this Realme who are they and what is the manner of their vsurie 51 Whether any person of your Parish hath suppressed the last will and testament of any person deceased or administred the goods of any person intestate before administration committed vnto him whether doe you know any forgers or changers of such will or any Executor which hath not fulfilled the Testators will in payment of Legacies to good and godly vses 52 Whether haue your Churchwardens solde or alienated any of the Church bookes ornaments or goods if yea then to whom and vpon what cause and in whose possession are they and whether hath any Churchwarden or Sworneman at any time concealed any disorder crime or fame of any crime and not presented the same to be reformed 53 Whether for the retayning of the circuite and limits of your Parish doe your Parson Vicar or Curate Churchwardens and certaine of the substantiall men of your Parish in the dayes of perambulation commonly called the Rogation weeke walke and compasse the accustomed bounds of your Parish and whether in the said perambulation doth the Minister vse any other right or ceremonie then to say or sing to the praise of God some Psalme of Dauid of thankesgiuing as the hundred and third or hundred and fourth Psalmes with the Lettanie and prayers following or reading some part of holy Scripture or homely and without carrying of Banners or handbels or such like Popish obseruations 54 Whether are there any persons in your Parish which doe not diligently resort to your Parish Church or Chappell accustomed euery Sunday and Holiday according to the statute what are their names who doe not so resort when haue they so beene absent and whether doth your Minister admonish the Churchwardens openly in the Church after the second Lesson at morning and euening prayer to looke to their charge in that behalfe 55 What Recusant Papists are there in your Parishes present their names qualities and conditions how long haue they abstained from diuine Seruice or from the Communion or doe any of them keepe any ornaments of superstition vndefaced 56 Whether any in your Parish who heretofore being Popish Recusants haue reformed themselues doe still remaine and abide in the same conformity and is there a booke prouided in your Parish to register the names of all such Recusants who so conforme and submit themselues according to the Statute of 35. Eliz. 57 Whether haue you a terrier of all the gleabelands medowes gardens orchards houses stockes implements tenements and portions of tythes whether within your Parish or without belonging to your Parsonage or Vicaridge taken by the view of honest men in your Parish and whether the same terrier be laide vp in the Bishops Registrie and in whose hands are any of them now and if you haue no terrier already made in parchment you the Churchwardens Side-men together with your Parson or Vicar or in his absence with your Minister are to make diligent inquirie and presentment of the premisses and to make subscribe and signe a terrier as aforesaid 58 Whether doth your Minister vpon Wednesdayes and Fridayes not being Holydayes reade in your Church or Chappell publiquely the Letany and other prayers appointed in the booke of Common prayer for those dayes and whether doth hee read the Commination against sinners in such order and forme as it is there also prescribed 59 Whether doth your Minister vpon some Sundayes or Holidayes in the after noone before diuine seruice reade ouer once euery yeare all the Canons Ecclesiasticall published by his Maiesties authority Anno 1603. publiquely in your Church or Chappell where hee serueth diuiding the same in such sort as that the one halfe may be read one day and the other another day 60 Whether doth your Minister refuse or delay to christen any childe brought to be christned vpon Sundayes and Holy-dayes according to the booke of Common prayer or being informed of his weakenesse or danger of death doth refuse to goe to the place where the said Infant remaineth to baptize it 61 Whether hath there beene since the last Visitation or before which is not presented any contention brawling or fighting in your Church or Churchyard betwixt any of the Parishioners touching the placing or displacing of any in any seat or Pew in the Church or touching any other cause and whether hath there beene any Pew builded or alteration made since the foresaid time in any your Churches without the expresse leaue of the Ordinary of the Diocesse and by whom hath the same beene done 62 Whether are there any Inne-keepers Alewiues or Victualers in your Parish that suffer any person to eate drink or play at Dice Cards Tables Bowles or such like games in their houses in the time of Common prayer or Sermon on Sundayes or Holydayes whether any Butchers or others doe sell meate or other things in the time of Common prayer preaching or reading of Homilies 63 Whether hath any person cut downe any tree or trees growing in your Churchyard to the hurt or preiudice of the Church and to what vse was it conuerted as you know or credibly and publiquely haue heard 64 Whether hath your Minister or any other Minister baptized any childe in your Parish without vsing the signe of the Crosse at the baptisme thereof or solemnized marriage without vsing the Ring therein according to the book of Common prayer 65 Whether is all due reuerence vsed in time of diuine seruice and of euery part thereof according to the 18. Canon and whether there be any in your Parish that vse any vnreuerent speeches or iestures against Ministers and in contempt of their calling and function 66 Whether any Apparitor or other person hath compounded or smothered for reward or fauour any cause or matter of office belonging to the Ecclesiasticall Court if yea then doe you declare the same and what money or reward hee had for the same 67 And generally whether doe you know of any of the Lawes Ecclesiasticall violated or broken or any Ecclesiasticall matters worthy of redresse and if you doe then you are to present the same and in all your presentments as neere as possible you may you are to note the yeare time and place of euery offence committed FINIS