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A00187 Articles to be inquired of in the Arch-deaconrie of Salop within the diocesse of Hereford, in the year 163[9?] at the visitation of Morgan Godwyn, Doctor of Lawes, Arch-deacon of Salop. Church of England. Archdeaconry of Salop.; Godwyn, Morgan. fl. 1685 1639 (1639) STC 10217.5; ESTC S1243 12,815 15

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Communion at the hands of your Minister taking exception against him and what causes or exceptions doo they alledge or have any married Wives refused to come to Church according to the Booke of Common Prayer to give God thankes after their Childbirth for their safe deliverance And whether 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 11 Do an● of your Parish usually goe to other Parish Churches to heare Div●ne Service or Sermons Or doe they communicate or baptize their children in any other Parish 12 Whether be there any in your Parish who will come to heare the Sermon but will not come to publique Prayers appointed in the Booke of Common Prayer making a schisme or division as it were betweene the use of publique Prayer and Preaching 13 What persons within your Parish for any offence contumacie or crime of Ecclesiasticall cognisance doe stand excommunicate present their names and for what cause they doe stand excommunicated and how long they have so stood and what person or persons doe wittingly and usually keepe them company 14 Whether any not being in Orders doe execute any Priestly or Ministeriall Office in your Church Chappell or Church-yard and what bee their names 15 Hath any person in your Parish quarrelled or stricken or used any violence to your Minister or hath 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 base or immodest behaviour Or hath disturbed the Minister in time of Divine Service 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 cognisance 16 Whether any of or in your parish without consent of the Ordinarie or other lawfull authority have caused any to doe penance or to be censured or punished for any matter of Ecclesiasticall cognisance by any Vestry-meetings or otherwise by their owne authority or have taken any mony or commutation for the same present their names that have done it and who have beene so punished in what manner and upon what cause 17 Whether any person in your Parish do exercise any trade or labour buy or sell or keepe open Shops or Ware-houses upon any Sundaie or Holy-day by themselves their servants or Apprentises or have otherwise prophaned the said dayes contrary to the Orders of the Church of England And whether there be any In-Kéepers Ale-house-kéepers Victuallers or other Persons that permit any Persons in their Houses to eate drinke or play during the time of Divine Service or Sermon or reading the Homilies in the forenoone or afternoone upon those dayes 18 Whether is the 5 day of November kept Holy and thankesgiving made to God for his Maiesty and this States happy deliverance according to the Ordinance in that behalfe 19 Whether any of your Parish hold or frequent any Conventicles or private Congregations or make or maintaine any Constitutions agreed upon in such assemblies Or any that doe write or publiquely or privatly speake against the Booke of Common Prayer or any thing therein conteined or against any of the Articles of Religion agreed upon in Anno 1562. Or against the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastique or against the Oath of Supremacy or of allegeance as pretending the same to bee unlawfull and not warrantable by Gods word or against any of the Rites or Ceremonies of the Church of England now established Or against the Governement of the Church of England under the Kings most excellent Majesty by Arch-bishops Bishops Arch-deacons Deanes and other Officers of the same affirming the same to be repugnant to the word of God and that the said Ecclesiasticall Officers are not lawfully ordeined Or whether there be any Authors Favorers or maintainers of Heresie or Schisme or that be suspected to be Anabaptists Libertines Brownists of the Family of Love or of any other Heresie or Schisme present their names 20 Whether have any in your Parish Married within the degrees by Law prohibited and where and by whom And whether any couple in your Parish being Lawfully Married live apart one from the other without due separation by the Law or any that have beene Divorced which keepe company with any other at Bed or at Board 21 Whether your Hospitalls and Almes-Houses and other such Houses and Corporations founded to good and charitable uses and the Lands Possessions and Goods of the same bee ordered and disposed of as they should be And do the Masters Governors Fellowes and others of the said Houses and Corporations behave and demeane themselves according to the holy Ordinances and Statutes of their severall Foundations 22 Whether have you any in your Parish to your knowledge or by common fame or report which have committed adultery fornication or incest or any which have impudently bragged or boasted that he or they have lived incontinently with any Person or Persons whatsoever or any that have attempted the chastitie of any woman or solicited any woman to have the carnall knowledge of her bodie or which are commonlie reputed to be common Drunkards Blasphemers of Gods holy Name common swearers common slanderers of their Nighbours and sowers of discord filthie and lascivious Talkers Vsurers simoniacall persons Baudes or Harborers of Women with child which be unmarried or conveying or suffering them to go away before they have made satisfaction to the Church or anie that having been heretofore presented or suspected os any of the aforesaid crimes have for that cause departed your parish and are now returned againe Or any which have used any inchantments Sorceries Charmes or witchcrafts which are not made Felony by the Statutes of this Realme Or any that have committed any perjury in any Ecclesiasticall Court in an Ecclesiasticall Cause or which have committed any forgery punishable by the Ecclesiasticall Laws or any procurers or abettors of the said offenses Ye shall truly present the names of all and singular the said offenders and with whom they have committed the said offenses in case they have not been publiquely punished to your knowledge for the said crimes Fiftly Touching the Church-wardens and Side-men 1. VVHether you and the Church-wardens Quest-men or Side-men from time to time do and have done their diligence in not suffering any idle person to abide either in the Church-yard or Church-porch in Service or Sermon time but causing them either to come into the Church to heare Divine Service or to depart and not to disturbe such as be hearers there And whether they have and you do diligently see the Parishioners duly resort to the Church every Sunday and Holy-day and there to remaine during Divine Service and Sermen And whether you or your predecessors Church-wardens there suffer any Playes Feasts Drinkings or any other prophaine usages to bee kept in your Church Chappell or Church-yards or have suffered any person or persons without restreining them to your and their uttermost power to be tipling or drinking in any Inne or victualling house in your Parish during the time of Divine Service and Sermons on Sundays and Holi-dayes 2 Whether and how often have you admitted any to Preach within your Church or Chappell who was not sufficiently licensed And whether you together with your Minister have not taken diligent head and care that every Parishioner being of 16 yeares of age or upwards have received thrice every yeare as aforesaid and also that no stranger have usually come to your Church from their owne Parish-Church 3 Whether have there been provided against every Communion a sufficient quantity of fine white Bread and good and wholesome Wine for the Communicants that shall receive And whether that Wine be brought in a cleane and sweet standing Pot of Pewter or some other purer metall 4 Whether were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and the parishioners And have the late Church-wardens given up a just accompt for their time and delivered to their successors by bill indented the money and other things b●longing to the Church which was in their hands And are the Almes of the Church faithfully distributed to the use of the poore 5 Whether do you see the names of all Preachers which are strangers and do preach in your Parish-Churches to be noted in a Booke for that purpose and whether ev●ry Preacher do subscribe his name and of whom he had his Licence 6 Whether any man do trouble or molest you for doing your duties 7 Whether be there any Legacie given to the Church or poore people or to ●…e mending of high-wayes or otherwise by the Testators with holden ●…n whose hands is it by whom was it given and by whom is it with●olden 8 Do you know of any other default or crime of Ecclesiasticall Cognisance ●…f yea you are to present the same by vertue of your Oathes THe Minister of every Parish may and ought to joyne in presentment with the Church-wardens and Sidemen and if they will not present the Minister may and ought himselfe to present the defaults and crimes aforesaid And there must bee severall presentments made to every severall Article and the Minister Church-wardens and Sworne-men are to meete and confer about the said presentments and answering of every the aforesaid Articles FINIS