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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00184	Articles to be enquired of in the generall visitation of the Archdeacon of the diocesse of Glocester holden in the yeare of our Lord, 1635.	Church of England. Diocese of Gloucester.	1635 (1635)	STC 10214.5; ESTC S4280	9,685	14

holy Communion Or hath he baptized any children that were not borne in the Parish or buryed any in Christian buriall that dyed excommunicate or wilfully destroyed himselfe 22. Hath your Minister admitted any woman to be Churched that was begotten with childe in adultery or fornication without licence of his Ordinary 23. Whether doth your Minister use such decency and comlinesse in his apparell as by the 74 Can. is enioyned him as well at home as abroad And is he of sober behaviour and one that doth not use such bodily labour as is not séemely for his Function and calling 24. Is your Minister noted or defamed to have obtained his Benefice or his Orders by Simonye or otherwise to be Simoniacall or scismaticall or reputed to be an incontinent person or doth he kéepe any man or woman in his house that are suspected to be either of evill Religion or bad life Or is he a common drunkard or a common haunter of Tavernes Alehouses or other suspected places a common gamester or player at dice or other unlawfull game a common swearer or one that neglecteth his study or is any other way notorious whereby he is offensive and scandalous to his Function or Ministry 25. Doe you know in your Parish any that having heretofore taken upon him the Order of Priesthood or Deacon hath since relinquished the same living as a Lay man and neglecting his Vocation 26. Whether hath your Minister Curate and Lecturer duly observed the Kings Maiesties Instructions and his Declaration for setling of Questions in difference set before the Articles of Religion Printed 1629 And hath your Minister read the Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall once every yeare upon some Sundayes or Holidaies in the afternoone before divine Service Concerning Schoolemasters 1 HOw many Schoolemasters or Teachers of Youth have you in your Parish either publicke or private and what be their severall names Whether be they of good and sincere Religion life and conversation and diligent in teaching and bringing up of Youth Have they béene licensed for Schoolemasters by the Ordinary 2. Whether your Schoolemasters doe come themselves and bring their Scholers to the Church to heare divine Service and Sermons and such as are of age to receive the Communion Doe they instruct their Scholers in the grounds of the Religion now established in this Church of England and no other or doe they teach them any other Catechisme than is authorized by publicke authority or not examine them therein once every wéeke at the least And what Catechisme is it they doe so teach 3. Whether your Schoolemaster or Schoolemasters doe teach his or their Scholers any other Grammer than that which is called the Kings Grammer set forth by the authority of King Henry the eighth teaching the Prescript forme thereof whereby the Scholers may perfectly understand their Grammar rules and constructions Parish Clarkes and Sextons 1 VVHether have you a fit Parish Clarke aged twenty yeares at least of honest conversation able to reade and write And whether he and the Sexton be payd their wages without fraud according to the ancient custome of your Parish if not then by whom is it so defrauded and denied by whom are they chosen Is the Clarke approved by the Ordinary diligent in his Office and serviceable to the Minister And doth he meddle with nothing above his place as Reading of Prayers Churching of women burying the dead or such like 2 Doth your Clarke or Sexton kéepe the Church cleane the doores lock't at fit times Is any thing lost or spoyled in the Church through his default Are the Communion Table Font Bookes and other Ornaments of the Church kept faire and cleane Doth he suffer any unseasonable ringing or any profane exercise in your Church or Chancell or doth he when any is passing out of this life neglect to toll a hell having notice thereof Concerning the Parishoners 1 VVHether is there any within your Parish that hath or doth impugne or impeach any way the Kings Maiesties Supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall or the oath of Supremacy or of Allegiance or that denieth the Church of England by law established under the Kings most excellent Majesty to be a true Apostolicall Church teaching and maintaining the doctrine of the Apostles or that impugneth and speaketh against the Booke of Common Prayer any of the Articles of Religion agreed upon in Anno 1562 or the Rites and ceremonies established in the Church of England or the lawfull use of them or the government of the Church of England by Arch-bishops Bishops Archdeacons and the rest that beare office in the same affirming the same to be Antichristian or repugnant to Gods Word or lastly that doth impugne the forme of consecrating and ordaining of Archbishops Bishops Priests and Deacons affirming that the same is repugnant to the Word of God or that they who are so ordered are not lawfully made 2 Is there any in your parish that doth hold or frequent any Conventicles or private congregations or make or maintaine any private orders or constitutions agreed upon in any such private assemblies other than are in the Cannons set forth by publicke authority Or have you any Schismatickes that separate themselves from the Church of England or any that maintaine Scismatickes 3. Whether any of your Parish have profaned the Lords day commonly called Sunday or other Holydayes by working or labouring in their manuall trades by selling or buying or kéeping open their shops for sale of wares by lurking and tippling in Tavernes or Alehouses especially in the time of Divine Service And whether any Inne-kéepers Alehouse-kéepers Victualers or others permit any person or persons in their houses to eate drinke or play in the time of Common Prayer or Sermon on Sundayes or Holydaies 4 Whether any of your Parish disturbe let or discourage others from lawfull sports and recreations upon the Lords day so farre as they are allowed by the Kings declaration in that behalfe Or doe any of your Parish abuse that liberty allowed them by using unlawfull sports as Beare-bayting Bull-bayting Interludes or Bowling upon the Lords day or by using lawfull recreations before the end of all Divine Services for that day or having absented themselves from the same 5 Whether any of your Parish being sixtéene yéeres of age or upwards or others lodging or commonly resorting to any house within your Parish have wilfully absented themselves from your Parish Church upon Sundayes or Holidayes at Morning or Evening prayers or came late to Church or departed out of Church before the end of Service and Sermon without some great cause Or have any behaved themselves irreverently during the time of divine Service covering their heads or not knéeling when the generall confession Let any and other Prayers are read and standing up at the Beleefe or not doing lowly reverence at the name of our Lord Iesus or talking walking sléeping or any other way busying themselves in the Church then in quiet attendance unto Gods Service Or have

any disturbed the Minister either praying or preaching by word or déede 6 Whether any of your Parish being siixtéene yéeres old and upwards have not received the holy Communion in your Church thrice this last yéere whereof once at Easter and that knéeling And who are they 7. Is there any in your Parish that refuse to have their children Baptized or themselves to receive the Communion at the hands of your Minister for some exceptions against him And what exceptions doe they alledge And doe any of or in your Parish refuse to have their children Baptized in your Parish Church according to the forme prescribed in the booke of Common Prayer 8 Whether any of your Parishioners being warned thereof have not sent their children servants and apprentices to the Catechisme upon Sundayes and Holydayes before evening Prayer to heare and to be instructed therein you shall present their names 9. How many Inhabitants within your Parish men or women above the age of 16 yéeres doe refuse to frequent Divine Service established by publicke authority of this Realme or to receive the holy Communion present their names and of what degrée state or trade of life they are 10 Doe any of the Inhabitants of your sayd Parish entertaine within their house any sojourners lodgers or any common resorters and guests who refuse to frequent Divine Service or receive the holy Communion as aforesayd What be their names of what quality or condition are they 11. Whether any of the said Popish Recusants or other Sectaries are of insolent behaviour or doe boldly busy themselves in seducing and withdrawing of others 12. How long the said Recusants have abstained either from Divine Service or from the Communion as aforesaid And if any of them have lately reformed themselves what be their names 13. What persons 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 have they stood excommunicated and what person or persons doe wittingly and usually kéepe them company 14. Have any in your Parish married within the degrées forbidden by law Where and by whom Or doth any couple married lawfully now live apart without due separation by the Law or any heretofore divorced kéepe company with any other at bed or board as man and wife 15. Whether have you any in your Parish to your knowledge or by common fame and report which have committed adultery fornication or incest or any Bawds harbourers or receivers of such persons Or which are by common same reputed for common drunkards blasphemers of Gods holy name common swearers filthy speakers raylers slanderers sowers of discord among their neighbours or speakers against Ministers Marriages Vsurers contrary to the Statute made in the two and twentieth yeare of our late Soveraine King Iames. Simoniacall persons or periured in any Court Ecclesiasticall or any that use Inchantments Sorceries Charmes or Witch-crafts which are not made felony by the Statutes of this Realme or any that seeke to such for helpe You shall not faile to present them all 16. Have any in your Parish harboured any woman with childe unmarried conveying or suffering her againe to depart without due pennance You shall truely present as well the party harbouring as harboured and who is suspected to hau●e committed the incontinency with her Or is any heretofore suspected or detected of incontinency and therefore departing out of your Parish returned now againe Or in what place else is he or shée now abiding to your knowledge or at you have heard You shall not faile to present the whole truth in that behalfe 17. Be there any in your Parish that retaine or sell utter disperse carry or deliver to others any English Bookes or Writings either of Papists or Sectaries touching and against the Religion State or Government Ecclesiasticall of this Realme or kéepe any monuments of superstition uncancelled or undefaced 18. Whether any of your Parishoners have usually gone to heare Prayers or Sermons in other Churches Or have they communicated or baptized their children in any other Parish or brought strange Ministers into their owne houses to baptize their children privately according to their owne fantasies 19. Hath any of your Parish behaved himselfe irreverently in word or déed towards your Minister or his Vocation by quarrelling striking slanderous spéeches or libels Or hath any offered violence or quarrelled with any other in the Church or Churchyard or used himselfe disorderly in the Church by filthy or profane talke or any other rude or immodest behaviour 20. Whether hath your Minister or any else of your Parish without the privily and consent of the Ordinary caused any to doe penance or be punished either openly or otherwise for any crime punishable by Ecclesiasticall lawes only And what be the names of the parties that have punished and have béene so punished in what maner and for what cause 21. Be there any in your Parish who will come to heare the Sermon but not to the publicke Prayers according to the Booke making a scisme or division as it were betwéene the use of publicke Prayer and Preaching 22. Doe any Women of your Parish after Child-birth refuse to come to the Church to give God thankes for their safe delivery according to the Booke of Common Prayer Or do any neglect to kéepe the fasting daies appointed by the lawes 23. Whether have you knowne or heard of any Fidlers or Minstrels or any which goe under the name of Musitians within this Diocesse that either at Weddings Churchings or any other Feasts or meetings have sung or use to sing any songs ballads or rimes tending to the disgrace of Religion or the Ministers thereof or tending to profanenesse or the corruption of good manners You shall truely present the names of such if you know or can learne them as also the names of the housholder or housholders where they have sung such songs as also the particular names of them before whom they have sung them 24 Whether doe the Surveiers of your high wayes looke diligently to the mending of the Church-wayes that the Parishioners may conveniently come to Church from all places of the Parish in Winter time Concerning the Churchwardens and Sidemen 1 VVHether doe yée the Churchwardens and Sidemen from time to time take care that no idle persons or loyterers abide either in the Churchyard or Church porch in Service or Sermon time but cause them either to come into the Church to heare Divine Service or to depart and not disturbe such as be hearers there And doe ye take care that the Parishioners duely resort to the Church every Sunday and Holyday and there so remaine during Divine Service and Sermon And that none be tippling or drinking in any Ale-house Inne Taverne or Victualling house of your Parish during the times aforesayd as farre as you are able to hinder it 2 Doe ye assist your Minister diligently in bringing the youth of your Parish to Catechizing in the Perambulation the Rogation dayes and such other things as send to the furtherance and advancement of Gods Service especially in taking diligent héede and care that 〈…〉 or somtyme 〈◊〉 5. Doth any man trouble or molest you for doing your duties 6. If you know of any other matter of Ecclesiasticall cognizance worthy presentment in your iudgement above not expressed you shall likewise present the same by vertue of your oath FINIS