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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	church_n	king_n	2,752	5	4.0125	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07665	Articles to be inquired of, in the metropoliticall visitation of the most Reuerend Father in God, Richard, by the prouidence of God, Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke, primate of England, and metropolitane. In the yeere of our Lord God, 1633..	Church of England. Province of York. Archbishop (1631-1640 : Neile); Neile, Richard, 1562-1640.	1633 (1633)	STC 10380; ESTC S92473	10,368	17

thereof or the party being dead doth he suffer any more ringing than one short peale 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 haue beene accustomably payd Touching Parishioners FIrst whether hath any in your parish spoken against or any way impugned the Kings Maiesties supremacy 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 the Sacraments 2 Whether there bee any person or persons knowne or vehemently suspected to haue written printed or by any meanes published dispersed or otherwise to haue or to haue had in his or their vse or keeping any Popish bookes or libels or any of those slanderous or schismaticall seditious libels or other books that impeach the kooke of common prayer or the Religion Ecclesiasticall gouernment or any other part thereof established by Law in this Realme or doth impeach the credit or estate of any Ecclesiasticall person or gouernour within the same 3 Whether hath any in your parish spoken against or impugned the Articles of Religion agreede vpon in Anno. Do. 1562. the rites and ceremonies established in the Church the gouernment by Arch-bishops Bishops Deanes Arch-deacons and others that beare office in the same 4 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 Sinods of the Church of England held by the Kings Authority 5 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 adherents may make Rules Orders in causes Ecclesiasticall without the Kings Authority 6 Whether doth any in your Parish prophane violate or mis-spend the Lords day commonly called Sunday or Holidayes appoynted in the Church of England vsing any offensiue conuersation or worldly labour in those dayes or any of them or is there any that wilfully refuse or negligently hath absented himselfe from diuine prayers on Sundayes or Holidayes 7 Whether doth any in your Parish in the time of diuine Seruice vse to sit with his hat on his head or is there any who hath not reuerently kneeled when the generall Confession Letany other prayers are read which haue not stood vp at the saying of the Beleefe 8 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 9 Whether there be any in your Parish man or woman being about fifteene yeere of age that hath not receiued the holy Communion thrice at the least euery yeere namely at Easter last or thereabouts for once whether any abandoning his or their Parish Church haue receiued the holy Communion in any other Parish Church or Chappell or priuate place 10 Whether hath any parent beene vrged to be present or admitted to answere as Godfather for his owne child or hath any Godfather or godmother made any other answer or speech than is prescribed by the Booke or haue any bin admitted for Godfathers or Godmothers at Baptisme who haue not first receiued the Communion 11 Whether doe all Fathers Mothers Masters Mistresses come cause their children seruants and apprentices to come duely to the Church and according to the Ministers direction is be instructed and catechized or who be they that haue not obeyed the Minister herein 12 Whether haue any persons married together within the Degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity prohibited set forth in a Table appoynted to bee placed in euery Church or haue any married or contracted themselues vnder the age of one twenty yeeres without the consent of their Parents or Gouernours if their parents be dead 13 Whether haue any persons once lawfully married forsaken each other or doe liue asunder otherwise than by Law is permitted or doe any being diuorced or separated marry againe the former wife or husband yet liuing 14 Whether hath any of your parish vnreuerently vsed your Minister or haue any layd violent hands vpon him or disgraced his office and calling by word or deed 15 Whether haue you in your parish any popish recusant or maintayner of popish doctrine or suspected to keepe or disperce schismaticall bookes or to fauour any heresie or errour 16 Whether haue you any common resorters to your Church which are not of your parish abandoning their owne parish Church or doe any such receiue the communion amongst you what be their names and of what parishes are they 17 Whether hath any in the time of diuine Seruice vpon any Sunday or Holiday opened their shops exercised their trade or vsed any gaming bin in any Tauern or Alehouse or otherwise ill imployed 18 Whether are there in your Parish any adulterers fornicators incestuous persons bawds receiuers of defamed persons close fauourers conueyers away of such or which suffer to depart any incontinent person vnpunished or are there in your parish any blasphemers common swearers drunkards ribawds vsurers malicious slanderers scolds or sowers of discord or any defamed of the same crime 19 Whether doe any in your Parish administer the goods of the dead without authority or suppresse their will or testament haue any Executors neglected to performe their wils especially in paying of Legacies giuen to the Church to the poore or to any other charitable or godly vses 20 Whether doe any refuse to pay to the reparations ornaments other things by Law required to bee in your Church as they are seased by Law or are any dwelling out of your Parish which hold land in your Parish that refuse the like payment or seasement 21 Whether haue any not being of your Parish beene christned churched buried or receiued the Communion or beene married out of your Church both parties dwelling in your parish 22 Whether haue all women in your Parish deliuered of child come at conuenient time after to Church to giue thanks haue they beene Churched according to the forme of the Booke of common Prayer 23 Whether hath the Perambulation of the circuit of your Parish bin obserued once euery yeere if not by whose default is it 24 Whether hath any in your Parish giuen the Church-wardens or Sidemen or any of them euill words for doing their duety according to their oath and conscience in making presentment for their default 25 Whether there be any man or woman in your Parish that vseth witch-craft sorcery charmes or vnlawfull prayer or inuocations in Latine or English or otherwise vpon any Christian body or beast or any that resorteth to the same for counsell or helpe and what be their names 26 Whether there be any that pretending themselues to bee Physicians or Chirurgeons do take vpon them to practise Physicke or Chirurgery not being lawfully licenced thereunto or which refuse to shew their sayd licence to the Minister or Curate and Church-wardens of your Church or Chappell when they shall be hereunto required Touching Church-wardens and Sworne-men FIrst whether doe any in your Parish take vpon them to bee Church-warden or Side-man which is not lawfully chosen by the Minister Parishioners according to the Canon or do any continue the office longer than one yeere except they be chosen againe or that it be a custome of your Parish for a Church-warden to continue two yeers and are all such officers chosen yeerly in Easter weeke 2 Whether doe your Church-wardens within one moneth at the most after their yeere ended before the Minister and Parishioners giue vp a iust accompt of all such money other things as they haue receiued bestowed haue they deliuered all remaining in their hands belonging to their Church or Parish by Bill indented to be deliuered to the next Church-wardens 3 Whether haue the Church-wardens with the aduice of the Minister from time to time prouided a sufficient quantity of fine white bread wholesome wine for the number of communicants 4 Whether doe the Church-wardens and Sworne-men before euery visitation and at other times when there is iust occasion meete and confer about their presentments the answering of their Articles who hath after notice giuen him of the time place carelesly absented himselfe 5 Whether the forfeiture of twelue pence for absence from Church appoynted by Statute to the vse of the poore bee taken leuied by the Church-wardens imployed according to the said Statute and whether is the said forfeiture taken of all persons which stand wilfully suspended or excommunicated 6 Whether haue any Church-wardens lost sold or detained any Goods Ornaments Bels Rents or Implements of the Church 7 Whether doe you the Church-wardens Side-men about the middest of diuine Seruice vsually walke out of y● Church see who are abroad in any Ale-house or elsewhere absent or euilly imployed haue you presented all such offenders to the Ordinary 8 Whether doe you know or haue heard a fame of any offence committed or duty omitted by any of your Parish before your time heretofore not presented by the former Church-wardens 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 haue you presented the same FINIS