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B00013	Articles to be enquired of vvithin the dioces of London, in the second trienniall visitation of the right honorable, and right reuerend father in God, William Lord Bishop of London. holden in the yeere of our lord God, 1631.	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1628-1633 : Laud); Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1631 (1631)	STC 10264; ESTC S122642	17,330	25

in the time of Common Prayer or Sermon on the Sabbath day or Holy dayes or any that did not receiue the Communion yéerely at the feast of Easter or within some conuenient time after 3 Whether the Churchwardens doe prouide against euery Communion with the aduice of the Minister a sufficient quantitie of fine white bread and of good and wholesome wine for the number of the Communicants that shall receiue and that to be brought in a cleane and swéet standing pot of Pewter or other pure metall 4 Haue you admitted any to preach within your Church or Chappell which was not sufficiently licensed and how often And haue you with your Minister taken diligent care that no strangers doe vsually come to your Church from their owne parish 5 Whether haue you or your predecessors Churchwardens there suffered since the last Visitation of the Lord Bishop of London any Playes Feasts Banquets Church-ales Drinkings Musters and shewing of Armes or any other prophane vsages to be kept in your Church Chappell or Churchyard Were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and Parishioners 6 Whether hath your Minister Churchwardens and Parish Clerke or Clerkes taken care that all excommunicated persons be duely published in the Church as the lawe requires And likewise had care that no excommunicated persons be admitted to the Communion nor suffered to be present at Diuine seruice and publike prayers in your Church you shall truly present euery one that hath neglected this duty or béene stacke therein 7 Whether the Churchwardens at the end of their yéere giue vp in writing a iust account before the Minister and Parishioners of their receipts and disbursements and deliuer the residue by Bill indented to the next Churchwardens And whether at any time heretofore the Churchwardens or the Ministers or the Parishioners or any of them to your knowledge or as you haue heard haue with-held or detained in their custody or haue sold wasted spent or otherwise alienated any Lead Bells or Bell-metall or other of the Church goods or stocke of money and let them specifie their names and the value and quantitie of such things as were so sold made away or detained and how long since Concerning Parishioners and others of the Laitie WHether any in your Parish or elsewhere néere about the same to your knowledge or as you haue heard hath affirmed that the King hath not the same Authoritie in all causes Ecclesiasticall which the Kings Christian Emperors had in the Primitiue Church or that haue impeached or gain-said his Royall Supremacie 2 Whether doe you know or haue credibly heard of any within your Parish that depraue the Christian Religion and namely as it is established by publike authority and professed within the Church of England And whether hath any person as you haue heard affirmed that the Church of England is not a true Catholike and orthodoxe Church and doth not teach and maintaine the Catholike Faith and doctrine of the Apostles 3 Whether any haue said or affirmed that any thing in the Booke of Common Prayer or in the Booke of Articles set forth by the Conuocation Anno Domini 1562. Or any of the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England in or by the same appointed are corrupt wicked Antichristian superstitious vnlawfull or repugnant to the Scriptures or that any of the said Articles may not with a good conscience be subscribed vnto or any of the said ceremonies may not with a good conscience be approued vsed or subscribed vnto 4 Are there any that doe not reuerently behaue themselues during the time of Diuine Seruice deuoutly knéeling when the generall Confession of sins the Letany the ten Commandements and all prayers and Collects are read and vsing all due and lowly reuerence when the blessed name of the Lord Iesus Christ is mentioned and standing vp when the Articles of the Beliefe are read or which doe couer their heads in the Church during the time of Diuine Seruice vnlesse it be in case of necessitie in which case they may vse a nightcap 5 Whether haue any affirmed preached or taught that the forme of making and consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons or any thing therein contained is repugnant or not agréeable to the Word of God Or that the Bishops Priests and Deacons so made are not to be accounted for Bishops Priests or Deacons or ought to bée ordained in any other forme Or that the gouernment of the Church by Archbishops Bishops or others that beare any Office therin is Antichristian or not agréeable to the Word of God 6 Whether any person haue lurked or tippled in Tauerns or Ale-houses on Sundaies or other Holi-dayes or vsed his or their manuall Craft Trade or Mysterie or any bodily labour or kept their shops open vpon the said dayes or any of them especially in the time of Diuine Seruice or suffered his or their seruants to sell any wares or victuals in that time or to offend in any of the promises 7 Whether are there any in your Parish that since the Lord Bishop of London his last Visitation haue or doe prophane the Lords Day called Sunday or other Holy-day contrary to the orders of the Church of England in that behalfe prescribed which hath not heretofore béene openly punished for the same and what be their names 8 Whether hath any person in your Parish brawled quarrelled or striken or vsed any violence vnto or with your Minister or any other person in the Church or Church-yard or vsed himselfe disorderly in the Church by filthy and prophane talke or any other rude and immodest behauiour 9 Whether haue any in your Parish bin Godfathers or Godmothers to their owne children Or whether your Minister or any Godfathers or Godmothers haue vsed or doe vse any other forme answer or spéech in Baptisme then is in the Booke of Common Prayer appointed Or doe giue the children baptized any name absurd or inconuenient for so holy an action Or whether any which haue not communicated be admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers contrary to the Law 10 Whether is there any in your Parish that doe refuse to haue their children baptized or themselues to receiue the Communion at the hands of your Minister because he is no Preacher you shall present their names 11 Whether doe all Fathers Mothers Masters and Mistresses cause their Children Seruants and Apprentices to come to the Catechisme vpon the Sundayes and holi-dayes before Euening prayer to heare and to be instructed and taught therein And those that doe not their duties herein you shall present their names 12 How many Inhabitants within your Parish Men or Women aboue the age of sixtéene yéeres doe refuse to frequent Diuine Seruice established by publike authoritie of this Realme or to receiue the holy Communion or are negligent therein or comming to Church doe depart before the end of diuine Seruice or Sermon what be their names and of what degrée state or trade of life are they you are to present

them all of each sort 13 Whether doe any of the inhabitants within your said Parish entertaine within their house any soiourners lodgers or any common resorters and guests who refuse to frequent diuine Seruice or receiue the holy Communion as aforesaid what be their names and of what qualitie or condition are they 14 Whether any of the said Popish Recusants be of insolent behauiour not without publike offence or doe boldly busie themselues in seducing or withdrawing others either abroad or in their owne families by instructing their Children in Popish Religion or by refusing to entertaine any especially in place of greatest seruice or trust but such as concurre with them in opinion of Religion and what be their names that so doe 15 How long the said Popish Recusants haue obstinately abstained either from diuine Seruice or from the Communion as is aforesaid whether any long time or onely since his Maiesties Reigne and how long 16 Whether there be any Popish Recusants married the child of any Recusant christned or any Recusant buried within your Parish by any other then the Minister of the Parish where when and by whom and what certificate you haue receiued thereof or whether the child of any Recusant remaine vnbaptized aboue one moneth or be not baptized in the Parish Church 17 You shall present how the children of such as refuse to come to Church are brought vp vnder what Schoolemaster or Tutor where and in what Schoole or place what those childrens names are how long their Parents haue béene married by whom when and in what place and by what authoritie were they married and what Certificate you haue receiued of their marriage 18 What persons aforesaid within your Parish either for the offence aforesaid or for any other contumacy or crime doe remaine excommunicated what be their names and for what cause and how long haue they so stood excommunicated And whether any doe familiarly vse the company of such as doe obstinately stand excommunicate knowing the same and what be their names 19 Whether doe all persons aboue the age of sixtéene yéeres vsually resort to heare diuine Seruice vpon Sundayes and Holi-dayes approued and whether hath each one of your parishioners being aboue the age of 16. yéeres as aforesaid receiued the holy Communion thrice this last yéere chiefly once at Easter in your Parish Church knéeling If no then you shall present their names which haue not so done 20 Whether haue any in your Parish béene married within the prohibited degrées forbidden by law and expressed in a certaine table published by authority in Anno 1563 If yea then you shall present their names And whether haue you the said Table publikely set vp in your Church and fastned to some conuenient place 21 Whether doth any heretofore diuorced or married and not diuorced kéepe company at bed and boord as man and wife with any other man or woman then with the person that he or she was married vnto and what be their names If the parties now so liuing together say that they be married when and where were they married and how long haue they so continued together 22 Whether haue you in your Parish to your knowledge or by common fame and report any which haue committed adultery fornication or incest or any bawdes harborces or receiuers of such persons or vehemently suspected thereof which haue not béene publikely punished to your knowledge If yea then specifie the names of them all 23 Whether haue you any in your Parish which are by common fame and report or vehement suspition reputed and taken to be common drunkards blasphemers of Gods holy name common and vsuall swearers filthy speakers raylers sowers of discord among their neighbours or speakers against Ministers marriages Vsurers contrary to the Statute made in the 37. yéere of King Henry the eight or Symoniacall persons you shall not faile to present their names 24 Whether haue any in your Parish receiued or harbored any woman with child that was not before a housholder in your Parish If yea whether you know that she was married and to whom where and when and specifie her name also and from whence she came 25 Whether haue any in your Parish receiued or harbored any woman gotten with child out of wedlocke and suffered them againe to depart without penance first inflicted vpon them by their Ordinarie You shall truly present as well the party harbouring as harboured and all that helped to conuey them or her away And who is suspected to haue committed adultery or fornication with her 26 Whether the parties offending in any of your Parishes in the sinne of fornication adultery or incest bawdry or kéeping of a bawdy house or vehemently suspected of these or any other Ecclesiasticall offences haue for them or any one of them béene presented since the Lord Bishop of London his last visitation to any Commissary Archdeacon or his Officiall their Surrogates or Deputies and whether for such their offences they haue done publike penance before the Congregation in their owne Parish Church in time of diuine Seruice And if any so presented haue not done such penance what be their names what the offence was and of what Parish they then were of and where they or any of them doe now remaine and dwell 27 Whether any person or persons suspected or detected heretofore of incontinency and therefore departing out of your Parish is now returned againe or in what place else is he or she now abiding as you know or haue heard And whether he or she hath done any penance and what penance or else escaped without penance and by what whose meanes You shall present the whole truth in that behalfe 28 Whether there be any person or persons Ecclesiasticall or Temporall within your Parish or else-where within this Diocesse that haue retained and kept in their custody or that reade sell vtter disperse carrie or deliuer to others any English or Latine Bookes or Libels set forth or printed either on this side or beyond the Seas by Papists or Sectaries against the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall or tending to Popery Puritanisme or any other Sect error or heresie against true Religion and Catholike doctrine now publikely professed in this Church or the gouernment or discipline of the Church of England now within this Realme receiued and established by common authoritie that you know or haue heard of what their names and surnames are 29 Whether there bée any in your Parish who are knowne or suspected to conceale or kéepe hid in their houses any Masse-bookes Portesses Breuiaries or other Bookes of Popery or superstition or any Chalices Copes Vestments Albes or other ornaments of superstition vncancelled or vndefaced which is to be coniectured they kéepe for a day as they call it 30 Whether haue you any in your Parish to your knowledge or as you haue heard which heretofore being Popish Recusants Sectaries haue since conformed themselues and come to Church to heare Diuine