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cause_n	bishop_n	church_n	time_n	3,239	5	3.7702	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72036	Articles to be enqvired of in the ordinary visitation of the Right Worshipfvll Master Doctor Pearson, Archdeacon of Suffolke, Anno Domini 1637	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Suffolk. Archdeacon (1629-1639 : Pearson); Pearson, Robert, d. 1640.	1637 (1637)	STC 10343.5; ESTC S124524	10,017	14

said Coffer or hath the Minister kept the said Booke in his privat house 4. Item hath your Minister in the presence of the Church-wardens upon every Sabbath day immediatly after Morning or Evening Prayer written and recorded in the said Book the names of all persons Christened together with the names and sirnames of their parents and also the names of all persons married and buried in that parish in the weeke before Articles concerning Schoolemasters Tit. 8. FIrst doth any in your parish openly or privatly take upon him to teach schoole without licence of the Ordinary and is he conformable to the religion now established and doth he bring his Schollers to the Church to heare Divine Service and Sermons and doth he instruct his Schollers in the grounds of the Religion now established in the Church of England and is he carefull and diligent to benefit his Schollers in learning 2. Item doth your Schoole-master teach and instruct his youth in any Catechisme than is allowed by publique Authority and what Catechisme it is that he so teacheth 3. Item doth any keepe Schoole in the Chauncell or Church by which meanes that holy place and the Communion Table are many waies profaned and the windowes broken Articles concerning the Parishioners Tit. 9. FIrst whether doe any of your Parish or any other that hath resorted or doth resort to your parish prophane the Sabbath day or Holy-dayes by drinking and tipling in Iunes or Ale-houses or by playing at unlawfull games 2. Item is there any in your parish that doe impugne or speak against the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England or the lawfull use of them and the governement of this Church under his Majesty by Arch-bishops Bishops and other Ecclesiasticall Officers 3. Item who in your parish do come to the Sermon onely and not to divine Service and who do not reverently behave themselves during the time of Divine Service kneeling when the generall confession of sinnes the Letany the ten Commandements and all praiers and Collects are read and using all due and lowly reverence when the blessed name of the Lord Iesus is mentioned in the time of Divine Service standing up when the Articles of the beleefe and the Gospell are read And who do cover their heads in time of Divine service unlesse it be in case of necessity in which case they may weare a night cap And who do give themselves to babbling talking or walking and are not attentive to heare the Word read and preached 4. Item is there any in your parish that refuse to have their children baptized or themselves to receive the Communion of your Minister taking exception against him because he is no preacher Or have any wives refused to come to Church to give thankes to God for their safe deliverance in a decent habit with a rayle as hath been anciently accustomed 5. Item have any of your parish spoken slanderous and reprochful words against your Minister to the scandal of his vocation or against their marriage or wives or defaming him touching any crime of Ecclesiastical cognizance 6. Item whether do any in your parish exercise any trade or labour buy or sell or keepe open their shops or set out any wares to be sold upon Sundaies and Holy-dayes by themselves their servants or apprentises or have otherwise prophaned the Sunday or Holy-dayes 7. Item is there any in your parish that be or are commonly knowne or reputed to be blasphemers of Gods holy Name or accustomed swearers or to use any ribaldry in their talke or be drunkards adulterers fornicators incestuous persons And have any been detected of any such notorious crimes and offences and whether have they done penance for the same 8. Item is there any in your parish who is publiquely defamed or vehemently suspected of getting his or their wives with childe before Marriage 9. Item whether have any persons dyed within your parish whose Will and Testament if any were made is not proved or administration of their goods taken according to law and whether is there any in your parish who do administer the goods of any person deceased without lawfull authority and before he or they have proved the Will and Testament of the party deceased or have obtained Commission from the Ordinary viz. the Bishops Chancellor or Commissary to dispose the said moveable goods 10. Item what excommunicate persons be within your parish and for what causes are they excommunicate to your knowledge And whether do any such excommunicate persons repaire to your parish Church in time of Divine service or sermon not being absolved 11. Item if there be any persons excommunicate within your parish which is made notorious by denouncing them excommunicate in the face of the Church who and what person and persons do keepe or frequent their company eat or drinke or have any thing to do with any such excommunicate person present their names for it is not lawfull for them so to doe so long as they remaine under the sentence of excommunication 12. Item whether do all Fathers Mothers Masters and Mistresses cause their Children Servants and Apprentises both males females which have not learned their Catechisme to come to the Church upon Sundayes and Holy-daies before Evening Prayer obediently to heare and to be ordered by the Minister untill they have learned the same 13. Item is there any House-holder within your parish that doth not duly goe in perambulation with the Minister and the rest of the parishioners the circuit and bounds of your parish What are the names of such as made or suffered default to be made therein 14. Item do the old Church-wardens or any other persons that were Church-wardens retaine any goods belonging to the Church and have not made the just account of their receits and expences about the executing of their office 15. Item what person or persons is or are chosen Chuch-warden or Church-wardens of your parish for this yere 1637 and when were they so chosen and by whom 16. Item whether is there a Booke in your Parish wherein the name of every strange Preacher that preacheth in your parish should subscribe his name the day when he preached and the name of the Bishop of whom hee had licence to preach whether hath every Preacher that was a stranger so subscribed before he preached in your Church 17. Item whether doth not every one dwelling within your Parish observe all those days for fasting daies which are appointed by a statute made in the fifth and sixth yeare of Edw. 6. or shall eat flesh upon those dayes 18. Item whether you the Church-wardens and Assistants have according to the 28. Canon marked whether all and every of your parishioners in your parish come so often every yere to the holy Communion as the law and his Majesties Constitutions Ecclesiasticall do require And whether any stranger have come often commonly from other parishes to your church and whether have you shewed your Minister of them least they should bee admitted there to the Lords table and whether such person or persons have been forbidden and remitted home to his or their own parish church there to receive the communion or hath he or they notwithstanding received the same in your Church Declare their names and who admitted them thereunto 19. Item whether do the people say audibly with the Minister the Confession the Lords Praier and the Creed and make such other answers to the publique Praiers as are appointed in the Book of Common Praiers or who faileth therein 20. Item whether hath any one in your Parish answered as God-father for his owne childe Or hath any been a Godfather or God-mother before he or she have received the holy Communion Declare their names 21. Item whether there be any married women in your parish who after Childe-birth have refused to come to the Church to give God thanks for their safe deliverance and to have the praiers publiquely appointed on that behalfe by the Booke of Common prayer to be used 22. Item whether hath any woman been churched sitting in her seat and not kneeling downe in some covenient place nigh unto the place where the Communion Table standeth 23. Item How many have you in your parish that do practise as Physicians or Chirurgians and by what authority specifie their severall names FINIS