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cause_n	authority_n	ecclesiastical_a	matter_n	1,806	5	5.6659	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00008	Articles to be inquired of in the first trienniall visitation of the most reverend father VVilliam, by Gods providence, lord arch-bishop of Canterbury, primate of all England; and metropolitan: in and for the dioces of Canterbury, in the yeare of our lord God 1637, and in the fourth yeere of his Graces translation.	Church of England. Diocese of Canterbury.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1637 (1637)	STC 10169.7; ESTC S92296	13,149	14

during the time of Diuine Seruice vnlesse it be in case of necessity in which case they may weare a Night cap or Coife Or who do giue themselues to babling talking or walking and are not attentiue to heare the Word preached or read Whether any of your parish being of sixtéene yéeres of age or vpwards doe not receiue the holy Communion in your Church thrice euery yéere whereof once at Easter and whether they doe not deuoutly kneele at the receiuing thereof And whether any hauing diuerse houses of remoue doe shift from place to place of purpose to defeat the performance of their Christian duties in that behalfe 2 Whether any of your parishioners being admonished thereof do not send their children seruants and apprentices to the Minister to be catechized vpon such Sundayes and Holydayes as are appointed Or whether any of them doe refuse to come or if they come refuse to learne those instructions set forth in the Booke of Common Prayer 3 Whether any of your Parish doe entertaine within their house any soiourner common guests or other persons who refuse to frequent Diuine Seruice or receiue the holy Communion as aforesaid present their names their qualities or conditions 4 What Recusant Papists are there in your Parish or other Sectaries present their names qualities or conditions whether they kéep any Schoole-master in their house which commeth not to Church to heare diuine Seruice and receiue the Communion What is his name and how long hath he taught there or elsewhere 5 Whether any of the said popish Recusants or other Schismaticks doe labour to seduce and withdraw others from the Religion now established Or instruct their families or children in popish religion or refuse to entertaine any especially in place of greatest seruice or trust but such as concurre with them in their opinions 6 How long haue the said popish Recusants abstained from diuine Seruice or from the Communion as aforesaid 7 Is there any in your parish that retaine sell vtter or disperse any popish bookes or Writings or other Bookes Libraries or writings of any Sectaries touching the Religion State and Gouernement Ecclesiasticall of this Kingdome of England or kéep any Monuments of Superstition vncancelled or defaced 8 Whether haue you any in your Parish which heretofore being popish Recusants or Sectaries haue since reformed themselues and come to Church to heare diuine Seruice and receiue the Sacraments if yea then who are they And how long since hau● they so reformed themselues And whether they still remaine and abide in that conformity 9 Is there any in your parish that refuse to haue their children baptized or themselues to receiue the Communion at the hands of your Minister taking exception against him and what causes or exceptions doe they alleage or haue any maried wiues refused to come to Church according to the Booke of Common Prayer to giue God thankes after their childe-birth for their safe deliuerance And whether doe any of or in your Parish refuse to haue their children baptized in your parish-Church according to the forme prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer 10 Doe any of your Parish vsually goe to other Parish Churches to heare Diuine Seruice or Sermons Or doe they communicate or baptize their children in any other Parish 11 Whether there be any in your Parish who will come to heare the Sermon but will not come to publike prayers appointed by the Booke of Common Prayer making a schisme or diuision as it were betweene the vse of publike prayer and preaching 12 What persons within your parish for any offence contumacy or crime of Ecclesiasticall Conusance doe stand excommunicate present their names and for what cause they are excommunicated and how long haue they so stood and what person or persons do wittingly and vsually keepe them company 13 Whether any not being in Orders doe execute any Priestly or Ministeriall Office in your Church Chappell or Church-yard and what be their names 14 Whether any in your parish that hauing heretofore taken vpon him the order of Priest hood or Deacon hath since relinquished the same and liues as a Lay-man neglecting his vocation 15 Hath any person in your Parish quarrelled or stricken or vsed any violence to your Minister or haue stricken or quarrelled with any other person within your Church or Church-yard or demeaned himselfe disorderly in the Church by filthy or prophane talke or any other base or immodest behauiour Or hath disturbed the Minister in time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon or hath libelled or spoken slanderous words against your Minister to the scandall of his vocation or defamed any of his Neighbours touching any crime of Ecclesiasticall Conusance 16 Whether any of or in your Parish without consent of the Ordinary or other lawful authority haue caused any to do pennance or to be censured or punished for any matter of Ecclesiasticall Conusance by any Vestry-meetings or otherwise by their own authority Or haue taken any money or commutation for the same Present their names that haue done it And who haue beene so punished In what manner and vpon what cause 17 Whether any person in your Parish doe exercise any Trade or labour buy or sell or kéep open Shops or Ware-houses vpon any Sunday or Holiday by themselues their Seruants or Apprentices or haue otherwise prophaned the said dayes contrary to the orders of the Church of England And whether there be any Inne-kéepers Ale-house-kéepers Victuallers or other persons that permit any persons in their houses to eate drink or play during the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon or reading the Homilies in the forenoone or afternoone vpon those dayes 18 Whether the fifth day of Nouember be kept holy and thanksgiuing made to God for his Maiesties and this States happy deliuerance according to the ordinance in that behalfe 19 Whether any of your Parish hold or frequent any conuenticles or priuate Congregations or make or maintaine any constitutions agreed vpon in any such assemblies Or any that doe write or publikely or priuately speake against the Booke of Common prayer or any thing therein contained or against any of the Articles of Religion agreed vpon in Anno 1562. or against the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall or against the Oath of Supremacy or of Allegiance as pretending the same to be vnlawfull and not warrantable by the Word of God Or against any of the Rites or Ceremonies of the Church of England now established Or against the Gouernment of the Church of England vnder the Kings most excellent Maiesty by Archbishops Deanes Arch-Deacons and other Officers of the same affirming that the same is repugnant to the Word of God and that the said Ecclesiasticall Officers are not lawfully ordained Or whether there be any Authors Maintainers or fauourers of Heresie or Schisme or that be suspected to be Anabaptists Libertines Brownists of the Family of Loue or of any other heresie or schisme present their names 20 Whether any in your Parish haue maried within