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A00272	Ar[c?]ticles to be inquired of, in the visitation of the most reverend father in God, Richard, by the providence of God, Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke, primate of England, and metropolitane had in the yeere of our Lord God 1636.	Church of England. Province of York. Archbishop (1631-1640 : Neile); Neile, Richard, 1562-1640.	1636 (1636)	STC 10380.5; ESTC S2656	10,484	18

Clarke or Sexton when any is passing out of this life neglect to toll a bell having notice 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 unto the parish Clarke or Sexton such wages as are unto them due have beene accustomably payd Touching Parishioners FIrst whether hath any in your Parish spoken against or any way impugned the Kings Majesties 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 be any person or persons knowne or vehemently suspected to have written printed or by any meanes published and dispersed or otherwise to have or to have had in his or their use or keeping any Popish bookes or libels or any of those slanderous or schismaticall seditious libels or other books that impeach the booke of common Prayer or the Religion Ecclesiasticall government or any other part thereof established by Law in this Realme or doth impeach the credit or estate of any Ecclesiasticall person or governour within the same 3 Whether hath any in your Parish spoken against or impugned the Articles of Religion agreede upon in Anno. Do. 1562. the rites and ceremonies established in the Church the government 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 have any separated themselves from the society of the Congregation and combined in a new Brother-hood or depraved the Synods of the Church of England held by the Kings Authority 5 Whether hath any in your Parish maintained or defended any such Ministers or Schoole-masters as refuse to subscribe to the order of the Church have 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 Holidaies appoynted in the Church of England using any offensive conversation or worldly labour in those dayes or any of them or is there any that wilfully refuse or negligently hath absented himselfe from Divine Prayers on Sundayes or Holidayes 7 Whether doth any in your Parish in the time of Divine Service use to sit with his hat on his head or is there any who hath not reverently kneeled when the generall Confession Letany and other prayers are read which have not stood up at the saying of the Beleefe 8 Whether hath any in your Parish disturbed the Service or Sermon by walking talking or any other way or departed out of the Church during the Service or Sermon without some urgent 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 received the Holy Communion thrice at the least every yeere namely at Easter las● or thereabouts for once whether any abandoning his or th●●r Parish Church have received the Holy Communion in any ●ther Parish Church or Chappell or private place 10 Whether hath any parent beene urged to be presented or admitted to answere as Godfathers for his owne child or hath any God father or Godmother made any other answer or speech than is prescribed by the Booke or have any bin admitted for Godfathers fathers or God-mothers at Baptisme who have not first received the Communion 11 Whether doe all Fathers Mothers Masters Mistresses come cause their children servants and Apprentices to come duely to the Church and according to the Ministers direction to be instructed and catechized or who be they that have not obeyed the Minister herein 12 Whether have any persons married together within the Degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity prohibited set forth in a Table appoynted to be placed in every Church or have any married or contracted themselves under the age of one and twenty yeeres without the consent of their Parents or Governours if their parents be dead 13 Whether have any persons once lawfully married forsaken each other or doe live asunder otherwise than by law is permitted or doe any being divorced or separated marry againe the former Wife or Husband yet living 14 Whether hath any of your Parish unreverently used your Minister or have any layd violent Hands upon him or disgraced his office and calling by word or deede 15 Whether have you in your Parish any Popish Recusant or maintayner of popish doctrine or suspected to keepe or disperse Schismaticall bookes or to favour any Hereste or errour 16 Whether have you any common resorters to your Church which are not of your Parish abandoning their owne Parish Church or doe any such receive the communion amongst you what be their names and of what parishes are they 17 Whether hath any upon any Sunday or Holiday opened their shops exercised their trade or used any gaming bin in any Tavern or Ale-house or otherwise ill imploied in the time of Divine Service ●● Whether are there in your Parish any adulterers fornicat●rs incestuous persons bawds receivers of defamed persons close favourers conveyers away of such or which suffer to depart any incontinent person unpunished or are there in your Parish any blasphemers common swearers drunkards ribawds usurers malicious slanderers scolds or sowers of discord or any defamed of the same crune 19 Whether doe any in your Parish administer the goods of the dead without authority or supresse their Will or Testament have any Executors neglected to performe their Wils especially in paying of Legacies given to the Church to the poore or to any other charitable or godly uses 20 Whether doe any refuse to pay to the reparations ornaments other things by Law required to be 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 have any not being of your Parish beene christned churched buried or received the Communion or beene married out of your Church both parties dwelling in your Parish 22 Whether have all women in your Parish delivered of child come at convenient time after to Church to give thanks have 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 observed oncē every yeere if not by whose default is it 24 Whether hath any in your Parish given the Church-wardens or Side-men or any of them evill words for doing their duety according to their oath and conscience in making presentment for their default 25 Whether there beany man or woman in your Parish that useth witch-craft sorcery charmes or unlawfull prayer or invocations in Latine or English or otherwise upon 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 themselves to be Physicians or Chirurgeons do take upon them to practise Physicke or Chirurgery not being lawfully licensed thereunto or which refuse to shew their sayd licence tō 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 upon them to be 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 〈◊〉 ye●re 〈…〉 chosen againe or that it be a custome 〈…〉 warden to continue two yeers a … all such ●fficers yerely in Easter weeke 2 Whether doe your Chu●●●-wardens with … 〈…〉 … th at the most after their yeere 〈…〉 before the Minis●●● Parishio●ers give up a iust acco●●● of all such money 〈…〉 they have received bes … ed have they 〈…〉 remaining in their hands belong●●● to their Church o●●●●ish by Bill indented to be delivere● 〈◊〉 the next Church 〈…〉 3 Whether have the Church-●●rdens with the 〈◊〉 Minister from time to time p●●●●ded a sufficient quanti●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 white bread who●esome w●●● for the number of co●●●●●cant● 4 Whether doe the Church-●●●rdens and Sworn●me● before every visitation and at oth●● times when there is 〈◊〉 … n meete and confer about th●●● presentments the 〈◊〉 … ring of their Articles who hath af●er notice given him of th● time and place carelesly absented himselfe 5 Whether the forfeitur● 〈◊〉 twelue pence for 〈…〉 from Church appoynted by St … to the use of the poore 〈◊〉 and levied by the Church-war●●●● imployed according 〈◊〉 the said Statute and whether i● … said forfeiture taken of all persons which stand wilfully susp●n●●d or excommunicated 6 Whether have any Church-wardens lost sold or detained any Goods Ornaments Bels Rents or Imp●e … t s of the Church 7 Whether doe you the Church wardenns and S 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about the middest of divine Service usually walke out the Church and see who are abroad in any Ale-house or elsewhere about or evilly imployed and have ●●u presented all such off●nders to the Ordinary 8 Whether doe you kno● or have heard a fame of any offence committed or duty omitt●● by any of your Parish before your time heretofore not preseared by the former Church-wardens to the Ordinary or as yet not reformed and have you presented the same 9 Finally doe you know of any matter or cause which is a breach of the lawes Eccl●●●icall here not expressed have you presented the same FINIS

ARCTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF IN THE VISITATION OF the most Reverend Father in God RICHARD by the Providence of GOD Lord Arch-bishop of York● Primate of England and Metropolitane Had in the Yeere of our Lord God 1636. LONDON Printed by JOHN NORTON 1636. The Advertisem●nt THe Minister and Church-wardens are to call unto them the Neyghboures of the Parish and out of them to make choyce according to the custome of the place of two of the discreetest parishioners to be Side-men and they altogether are to reade over these Articles divers times Then after they have duely considered of them they are to write their answere or presentment unto every Article particularly and truely according to their consciences Lastly they are all of them to bring their presentments to the Visitation and there the Church-wardens and Side-men upon their oathes but the Minister according to the Canon in that behalfe are to deliver them up under their handes The oath to bee ministred to the Church-wardens Sworne men YOu shall sweare that all affection favour hatred hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set aside you shall upon due consideration of the Articles given you in charge present all and every such person of or within your Parish as hath committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected and defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shall deliver uprightly and according to truth neyther of malice presenting any contrary to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and so conceale the truth having in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to mayntaine truth to suppresse Vice so helpe you God and the contents of this Booke Touching the Church Church-yard Parsonage and Vicarage-house FIrst whether your Church Chappell and Chancell be well and sufficiently repaired in the walls and roofe the Seats convenient the floore paved the windowes glazed your Bells in tune and all these cleanely kept and the mansion-house of your Parson or Vicar with the building thereunto belonging be likewise well and sufficiently repayred and your Church-yard well fenced with walls rayles or payles and cleanely kept 2 Whether hath your Church or Church-yard beene abused and prophaned by any fighting chiding brawling or quarrelling any playes Lords of misrule summer Lords morris dancers pedlers bowlers bearewards butchers feasts schooles temporall courts o● Leets Lay Iuries musters or other prophane usage in your Church or Church-yard any hells superstitiously rung on Holidayes or their eeves or at any other time without good cause allowed by the Minister and Church-wardens have any Trees beene felled in your Church-yard and by whom 3 Whether are your Almes-houses and Church-House if you have any sufficently repayred mayntained and to godly and their right use imployed 4 Whether have you in your Church all things necessary for common prayer as the Bible in the largest volume the books of common Prayer the booke of Homilies allowed two bookes of common Prayer a convenient Pulpit for the preaching a decent seat for the Minister to reade Service in conveniently placed a strong chest with three lockes and keyes one for the Minister the other for the Church-wardens for the keéping of the Register booke of the Christnings Marriages and Burials and a poore mans boxe with three locks conveniently placed neere the Church doore 5 Whether have you in your Church a font of stone for baptisme set in the ancient usuall place a decent table for the communion conveniently placed covered with silke or other decent stuffe in time of Divine Service and with a faire linnen cloth over that at the administration of the Communion 6 Whether have you all such bells ornaments and other utensils as have anciently belonged to your Church a communion-cup of silver with a cover a faire standing pot or two of pewter or purer metall for the wine upon the communion table a comely Surplesse with sleeves a Register booke of parchment for christnings marriages burials a booke for the names of all strange preachers subscribed with their names and the name of the Bishop or other by whom they had license to preach 7 Whether is the Almes for the poore duely distributed and are the names surnames of all persons married christened and buried and of their parents with the day and yeere entred in your parchment Register booke 8 Whether are the ten Commandements set up in your Church or Chappell and other chosen sentences of holy Scripture upon the walls in convenient places and the Table of the degrees prohibited in marriage set forth 1563 9 Whether have you in your Church or Chappell the booke of the Canons agreed upon in the convocation holden at London Anno. Dom. 1603. and confirmed by his Maiesties royall authority and whether your Minister have read the same in your Church or Chappell once every yeere according to his Maiesties Iniunctions in that behalfe Touching the Ministery Service and Sacraments VVHether is the common prayer said or sung by your Minister both morning evening distinctly reverently every Sunday and Holiday and on their eeves and at convenient and usuall times of those dayes and in most convenient place of the Church for the edifying of the people 2 Whether doth your Minister observe the orders rites ceremonies prescribed in the booke of common prayer in reading holy Scriptures prayers administration of the Sacraments without diminishing in regard of preaching or any other respect or adding any thing in the manner or forme thereof 3 Whether doth your Minister on wednesdaies and fridaies not being holidaies at the accustomed houres of service resort to the Church and say the ordinary prayers and Letany prescribed And doth your Clarke or Sexton give warning before by tolling of a bell on those daies 4 Whether any Minister leaving the use of the Font doe in your Church or Chappell christen or baptize in any basons or other profane vessells or whether your Minister do baptize or christen any out of the face of the Church Congregation without speciall cause or without Godfathers or Godmothers And whether any person or persons be admitted to answere as Godfather Godmother at the christening of any child except he or sh● have before received the holy Communion and whether doth your Minister in the baptizing of children observe the orders rites ceremonies appointed prescribed in the booke of common prayer without addition omission or other innovation 5 Whether doe you know any Parents that keepe children unchristened or that were not christened at their owne Parish Church or Chappell for what cause they remaine yet unchristened or have not beene christened at their Parish Church or Chappell or doe you know have heard or vehemently suspect any parents whose children have beene christened by any Popish Priest or otherwise than by the lawes of the Church of England is allowed 6 Whether doth