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cause_n	authority_n	church_n	king_n	2,752	5	4.0125	3	true

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A00181	Articles to be enquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men, within the peculiar iurisdiction of the deane and chapter of the cathedrall church of S. Peter in Exeter	Church of England. Diocese of Exeter. Dean (1588-1629 : Sutcliffe); Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.	1609 (1609)	STC 10207.5; ESTC S862	7,841	16

least is he of honest conuersation can he reade write and sing is he diligent in his office and seruiceable to his minister 2 Whether doth your Clarke meddle with any thing aboue his Office as churching of women burying the dead reading of prayers or such like 3 Whether doth your Clarke or Sexton kéepe your Church clean the doores safe locked is any thing by his default lost or spoyled in the Church doth he suffer any vnreasonable ringing or any prophane exercise in your church 4 Whether doth your clarke or Sexton when any is passing out of this life neglect to toll a bell hauing notice thereof or the party being dead doth he suffer any more than 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 them due and haue béen accustomablie paid Touching Parishioners WHether hath any in your parish spoken against or any way impugned the Kings Maiesties supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall the Truth and Doctrine of the Church of England the forme of Gods worship contained in the Booke of common Prayer and administration of Sacraments 2 Whether hath any in your parish spoken against or impugned the Articles of religion agreed vpon in An. 1602. the rites ceremonies established in the church the gouernment by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and others that beare office in the same 3 Whether hath any in your parish spoken against or impugned the forme of making and consecrating Bishops Priests or Deacons or haue any separated themselues from the society of the congregation and combined in a new Brotherhood or depraued the Synod lately held by th Kings authority 4 Whether hath any in your parish maintained or defended any such Ministers or Schoolemasters as refuse to subscribe to the order of the Church haue they affirmed that such Ministers and their adherents may make rules and order in causes Ecclesiasticall without the Kings authority 5 Whether doth any in your parish prophane violate or mispend the Sabboth or holy-daie or any part of them vsing any offensiue conuersation or worldly labour in those daies or any of them 6 Whether hath any in your parish in time of diuine seruice couered his head albeit he haue infirmity in which case a cap or night-coyfe is allowed or is there any who hath not reuerently knéeled when the generall Confession Letanie and other prayers are read and which haue not stood vp at the saying of the Beléefe 7 Whether hath any in your parish disturbed the Seruice or Sermon by walking talking or any other way or departed out of the Church during the seruice or sermon without some vrgent cause or loytered about the Church or church-porch 8 Whether doe all parishioners receiue the holy communiō thrise euery yeare at the least whereof the Feast of Easter to be one haue all being of the age of 16. yeares dulie receaued or not 9 Whether hath any Parent béen vrged to be present or admitted to answere as God-father for his owne child or hath any God-father or God-mother made any other answere or spéech than is prescribed by the Booke or haue any béene admitted for such at baptisme who haue not first receiued the Communion 10 Whether doth all fathers mothers masters mistresses come and cause their children seruants and apprentises to come dulie to the church according to the ministers direction to be instructed and catechised or who be they that haue not obeyed the minister herein 11 Whether haue any persons married together within the degrées of consanguinitie or affinitie prohibited set forth in a Table appointed to bée placed in euery church or haue any married or contracted themselues vnder the age of 21. yeares without the consent of their Parents or Gouernours if their Parents be dead 12 Whether haue any persons once lawfully married forsaken each other or doe liue a sunder without the authority of the Ordinary or doe any being diuorced or separated marrie againe the former wife or husband yet liuing 13 VVhether haue any béene maried in the times wherein mariage is by law restrayned without lawfull license viz. From the Saturday next before Aduent Sunday vntill the Fouretéenth of Ianuarie and from the Saturday next before Septuagesima sunday vntill the Munday next after lowe Sunday and from the Sunday before the Rogation wéeke vntill Trinitie Sunday 14 Whether hath any of your parish vnreuerentlie vsed your minister or haue any laid violent hands vpon him or disgraced his Office and Calling by word or déede 15 Whether haue you in your parish anie dweller or soiourner a maintainer of Popish doctrine or suspected to kéepe scismatical books or to fauour any heresie or errour 16 Whether haue you any common resorts to your church which are not of your parish or doe anie such receaue the communion amongst you what be their names and of what parishes are they 17 VVhether haue anie in the time of seruice opened their shops exercised their trade vsed anie gaming béene in anie Tauerne or Ale-house or otherwise ill employed 18 Whether are there in your parish any Adulterers Fornicators incestuous persons bawdes receauers close fauourers conueyers away or which suffer to depart any incontinēt person vnpunished any blasphemers Common swearers Drunkards Rybands Vsurers malicious slaunderers Scolds or sowers of discord or any defamed of the said crimes 19 Whether doe any in your Parish administer the goods of the dead without authoritie or suppresse their will or Testament haue any Executors neglected to performe their Wils especiallie in paying of Legacies giuen to the church to the poore or to any other charitable or godlie vses 20 Whether doe any refuse to paie to the reparations ornaments and other things required in your church as they are ceassed by a lawfull vestrie or any dwelling out of your parish which hold land in your Parish 21 Whether hath any person suspended or excommunicated béene suffered to heare Diuine seruice or the sermon to receiue the sacraments to be maried or churched or haue any Excommunicants béene buried in christian buriall 22 Whether haue any in your Parish béene christned churched buried or receiued the communion or béen maried out of your church both parties dwelling in your Parish 23 Whether haue all women in your parish deliuered of child come at conuenient time after to church to giue thanks and haue they béene churched according to the Booke of common praier 24 Whether hath the perambulation of the circuit of your Parish béene obserued once euerie yéere if not whose default is it 25 Whether haue any in your Parish giuen the churchwardens or Sidemen or any of them euill words for doing thier dutie according to their oath and conscience in making presentment for any fault Touching Church-wardens and Swornemen WHether doe any in your Parish take vppon them to be church-warden or Sideman which is not lawfully chosen by the Minister and Parishioners according to the Canon or doe any continue that Office longer than one yéere except they bee chosen againe and are all such Officers chosen yéerelie in Easter wéeke 2 Whether doe your churchwardens within one Moneth at the most after their yéere ended before the Minister and Parishioners giue vp a iust account of all such monie and other things as they haue receiued and bestowed haue they deliuered all remaining in their hands belonging to their church or parish by bill indented to be deliuered to the next churchwardens 3 Whether haue the Churchwardens with the aduise of the Minister from time to time prouided a sufficient quantity of fine white bread and holsome wine for the number of Communicants 4 Whether doe the Churchwardens and Swornemen before euerie Visitation and at other times when there is iust occasion méete and conferre about their presentments and the answering of these Articles and who hath after notice giuen him of the time and place carelesly absented himselfe 5 Whether the forfeiture of xij d. for absence from Church appointed by Statute to the vse of the poore bee taken and leuied by the Churchwardens and employed according to the same Statute and whether is the same forfeiture taken of all persons which stand wilfully suspended or excommunicated 6 Whether haue any churchwardens lost sold or detayned anie Goods Ornaments Bels Rents or Implements of the Church 7 Whether doe you the Churchwardens and Sidemen about the middest of diuine Seruice vsually walke out of the Church and sée who are abroad in any Alehouse or elsewhere absent or euil employed and haue you presented all such to the Ordinarie 8 Whether doe you know or haue heard a fame of anie offence committed or dutie omitted by any of your Parish before your time and heretofore not presented to the Ordinary or as yet not reformed and haue you presented the same 9 Finally doe you know of any matter or cause which is a breach of the lawes Ecclesiasticall here not expressed and haue not presented the same