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A00211	Articles to be inquired of in the metropoliticall 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 London, in the yeere of our Lord God 163[blank], and in the [blank] yeere of His Graces translation.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1633-1645 : Laud); Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1635 (1635)	STC 10265.5; ESTC S2639	13,240	13

read 〈◊〉 who doe couer their heads in the Church during the time of Diuine Seruice vnlesse 〈◊〉 be in case of necessity in which case they may weare a Night cap or Coyfe Or who ●●e giue themselues to babbling 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 o vpwards doe not receiue the holy Communion in your Church thrice euery yéere ●●ereof once at Easter and whether they doe not deuoutly knéele at the receiuing thereo And whether any hauing diuerse houses of remoue doe shift from place to place of p●rpose to defeat the performance of their Christian duties in that behalfe 2 Whether any of your parishioners being admonished therof do not send their Childen Seruants and Apprentices to the Minister to be catechized vpon such Sundayes ●●d Holydayes as are appointed Or whether any of them do refuse to come or if they cme refuse to learne those instructions set forth in the Book of Common prayer 3 Whether any of your Parish doe entertaine within their house any soiourner cmmon guests or other persons who refuse to frequent Diuine Seruice or receiue 〈◊〉 holy Communion as aforesaid present their names their qualities or conditions 4 What Recusant Papists are there in your Parish or other Sectaries present t●eir names qualities or conditions whether they keep any Schoole master in their h●use which commeth not to Church to heare Diuine Seruice and receiue the Com●uni●n 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 ●ouce and with-draw others from the Religion now established Or instruct their familes or children in Popish religion or refuse to entertaine any especially in place of g●eatest seruice or trust but such as t●ntur●e 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 o● Writings or other Bookes Libraries or w●itings of any Sectaries touching the Religion State or Gouernement Ecclesiastical of this Kingdom of England or kéep any Monuments of Superstition vncancelled or vndefaced 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 haue they so reformed themselues And whether they still remaine and abide in that conformitie 9 Is there any in your Parish that refuse to haue ●heir Children Baptised or the●selues to receiue the Communion at the hands of your Minister taking excep●ion 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 G●d thankes after their child-birth for their safe deliuerance And whether doe any of or ●n your Parish refuse to haue their children Bap●ized in your Parish Church according ●o the forme prescribed in the booke of common Prayer 10 Doe any of your Parish usually goe to other Parish Churches to heare Diuine Seruice or Sermons Or doe they communicate or Baptize their Children in any ●ther Parish 11 Whether there be any in your Parish who will come to heare the Sermon b●t will not come to publike prayers ap●ointed by the Book of Common Prayer making● Schisme or diuision as it were betwéene the use of publike prayer and preaching 12 What persons within your Parish for any offence contumacy or crime 〈◊〉 Ecclesiasticall Conusance doe stand excommunicate present their names and for wh● cause they are excommunicated and how long they haue so stood and what person 〈◊〉 persons doe wittingly and usually kéepe them company 13 Whether any not being in Orders doe execute any Priestly or Ministeriall o●fice 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 orde● of Priest-hood or Deacon hath since relinquished the same and liues as a Lay-ma● neglecting his vocation 15 Hath any person in your Parish quarrelled or stricken or vsed any violence 〈◊〉 your Minister or haue stricken or quarrelled with any other person within your Chur● or Church yard or demeaned himselfe disorderly in the Church by filthie or prophan talke or any other base or immodest behauiour Or hath disturbed the Minister in tim of Diuine Seruice or Sermon or hath libelled or spoken slanderous words again● your Minister to the scandall of his vocation or defa●ed any of his Neighbours to●●ching any crime of Ecclesiasticall Conusance 16 Whether any of or in your Parish without consent of the Ordinarie or othe● lawfull authoritie haue caused any to do pennance or to be censured or punished for an● matter of Ecclesiasticall Conusance by any Uestrie méetings or otherwise by thei● own authoritie Or haue taken any mony or commutation for the same Present thei● names that haue done it And who haue beene so punished In what manner and vpo● what cause 17 Whether any person in your Parish doe exercise any Trade or labour buy o● sell or kéepe open Shops or Ware-houses vpon any Sunday or Holiday by themselues their Seruants or Apprentices or haue otherwise prophaned the said dayes contrar● to the orders of the Church of England And whether there be any Inne-kéepers Ale house-kéepers Uictuallers or other persons that permit any persons in their houses t● eate drink or play during the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon or reading the Ho●milies in the forenoone or afternoone vpon those dayes 18 Whether the fifth day of Nouember be kept holie and thankesgiuing made t● God for his Maiesties and this States happy deliuerance according to the Ordinanc● in that behalfe 19 Whether any of your Parish hold or frequent any conuen●●cles or priuate Con●gregations or make or maintaine any constitutions agréed vpon in any such assem●blies Or any that doe write or publikely or priuately speake against the Booke o● Common prayer or any thing therein contained or against any of the Articles of Re●ligion agréed vpon in Anno 1562 or against the Kings Supremacie in causes Eccless●●sticall or against the Oath of Supremacie or of Allegiance as pretending the same t● be vnlawfull and not warrantable by the Word of GOD Or against any of the ●ites or Ceremonies of the Church of England now established Or against the Gouernment of the Church of England vnder the Kings most excellent Majesty by Arch-Bishops Deanes Arch-Deacons and other Officers of the same affirming ●hat the same is repugnant to the Word of God and that the said Ecclesiasticall Offi●rs are not lawfully ordained Or whether there be any Authors Maintainers or Fa●urers of Heresie or Schisme or that be suspected to be Anabaptists Libertines ●rownists of the Familie of Loue or of any other Heresie or

Schisme present their ●m●s 20 Whether any in your Parish haue maried within the degrées by Law prohibited ●●d where and by whom And whether any couple in your Parish being lawfullie ma●ed liue apart one from the other without due separation by the Law or any that haue bene diuorced which kéepe company with any other at Bedde or at Boord 21 Whether doe any persons administer the goods of the dead without lawfull autho●ty or suppresse the last will of the dead Or are there in your Parish any wils not yet ●oued or goods of the dead dying intestate left vnadministred By authority in that ●halfe you shall not faile to present the Executors and all others faultie therein and ●●o how many persons being possessed of any goods and chattels haue died within your ●arish since the x. day of Februarie 1635. 22 Whether any with-hold the Stocke of the Church or any goods or other things euen to good and charitable vses 23 Whether your Hospitals and Almes-houses and other such houses and corporati●s founded to good and charitable vses and the lands possessions and goods of the same ● ordered and disposed of as they should be And doe the Masters Gouernours Fellwes and others of the said Houses and Corporations behaue and demeane themselues acording to the godly Ordinances and statutes of their seuerall Foundations 24 Whether haue you any in your Parish to your knowledge or by common fame or ●port which haue committed Adultery Fornication or Incest or any which haue im●dently bragged or boasted that he or they haue liued incontinently with any person or ●rsons whatsoeuer or any that haue attempted the chastity of any Woman or solici●● any Woman to haue the carnall knowledge of her bodie or which are commonly ●puted to bee common Drunkards Blasphemers of Gods holy Name common ●wearers common Slanderers of their Neighbours and sowers of discord filthy and ●sciuious Talkers Usurers Symoniac all Persons Bawdes or Harborers of Wo●en with childe which be vnmaried or Conueying or suffering them to goe away be●e they haue made satisfaction to the Church or any that hauing heretofore béene pre●nted or suspected of any the aforesaid crimes haue for that cause departed your Pa●h and are now returned againe Or any which haue vsed any inchantments sorce●es incantations or witchcrafts which are not made felony by the Statutes of this ●ealme or any which haue committed any perjurie in any Ecclesiasticall Court in an ●cclesiasticall cause or which haue committed any forgerie punishable by the Ecclesi●●icall Lawes and the procurors and abettors of the said offences you shall truly pres●t the names of all and singular the said offendors and with whom they haue committd the said offences in case they haue not béene publikely punished to your knowledge 〈◊〉 the same crimes Physitions Chir●rgions and Mid-wives 2 HOw many Physitions Chirurgions or Mid-Wiues haue you in your Parish How long haue they vsed their seuerall Sciences or Offices and by what authorite And how haue they demeaned themselues therein and of what skil are they accountd to be in their profession Touching the Church-wardens and Side-men 1 VVHether you and the Church-wardens Quest-men or Side-men from tine to time doe and haue done their diligence in not suffering any idle persor to abide either in the Church-yard or Church-porch in Seruice or Sermon time bu causing them either to come into the Church to heare Diuine Seruice or to depart an● not disturbe such as be hearers there And whether they haue and you doe diligently se the parishioners duely resort to the Church euery Sunday and Holiday and there to renaine during diuine Seruice and Sermon And whether you or your predecessors Ch●rch-Wardens there suffer any playes Feasts drinkings or any other prophane vsag●s to be kept in your Church Chappell or Church-yards or haue suffered to your and heir vttermost power and endeauour any person or persons to be tipling or drinking in any Inne or Uictualling house in your Parish during the time of Diuine Seruice or ●ermon on Sundayes and Holidayes 1 Whether and how often haue you admitted any to preach within your Churh or Chappell which was not sufficientlie licensed And whether you together with your Minister haue not taken diligent héed and care that euerie parishioner being of sixtene yéeres of age or vpwards haue receiued thrice euerie yéere as aforesaid and also hat no stranger haue vsuallie come to your Church from their owne Parish-Church 3 Whether haue there béene prouided against euerie Communion a sufficient q●antitie of fine white bread and good and wholesome wine for the communicants that ●all receiue And whether that wine be brought in a cleane and swéet standing pot of pewter or of other purer mettall 4 Whether were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and the Parishiones And haue the late Church-wardens giuen vp a just account for their time and deliu●red to their successors by Bill indented the money ●nd other things belonging to the Church which was in their hands And are the Almes of the Church faithfullie distributed to the vse of the poore 5 Whether doe you sée the names of all Preachers which are strangers and pre●ch in your Parish Churches to be noted in a Booke for that purpose and whether eu●ie Preacher doe subscribe his name and of whom he had his License 6 Whether any man doe trouble or molest you for doing your duties 7 Whether there be any Legacies witholden giuen to the Church or poore people o● to the mending of Highwayes or otherwise by the Testators In whose hands it is by whom it was giuen and by whom it is with-holden 8 Do you know of any thing that hath béene complained of that is not yet redresse Concerning Ecclesiasticall Magistrates and Officers 1 VVHether doe you know or haue heard of any payment composition or agrement to or with any Ecclesiasticall Magistrate Iudge or Officer for wil●ing at or sparing to punish any person for any offence of Ecclesiasticall Conusance ●r for suppressing or concealing of any excommunication or any other Ecclesiasticall C●sure of or against any Recusant or any other offendor in the cases aforesaid Wh●t summe of money or other consideration hath béene receiued or promised by or to any ●f them in that respect by whom and with whom 2 Hath any person within your Parish paid or promised any summe of money or ●ther reward for commutation of pennance for any crime of Ecclesiasticall Conusance If so then with whom When and for what and how hath the same beéne impl●yed 3 Are your Ecclesiasticall Iudges and their substitutes Masters of Arts or Batcellors of the Lawes at the least Learned and practised in the Ciuill and Ecclesiastic●l Lawes Men of good life and fame zealously affected in Religion and iust and v●right in executing their Offices Haue they heard any matter of Office priuatel●e in th●●● Chambers without their sworne Registers or their Deputies presence● 4 Doe you know or haue you heard that any Ecclesiasticall Iudge Officer or Mi●nister hath receiued or taken any extraordinarie fées or other rewards or promises b● any vayes or meanes directly or indirectlie of any person or persons whatsoeuer eithe● for th● granting of the administration of the Goods and Chattels of those that haue die● inte●●te to one before another or for allotting of larger portions of the G●ods and Chatels of those that haue died i●testate to one more than to another or for allowing large and vnreasonable accounts made by Ex●cutors or administrators or for giuing them Quietus est or discharges without Inuentory or account to defraude Creditors Leg●aries or those who are to haue portions And what summ●s of money doe you knov or haue you heard that any Ecclesiasticall Iudge or Officer hath taken out of the s●te of any dying intestat● vpon pretence to bestow the same in Pios vsus and how ●aue the same béene bestowed 5 Hath any Ecclesiasticall Magistrate Iudge Officer or any o●her exercising Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction within this your Diocesse Or any Aduocate Register Procter Cla●kes Apparators or other Minister belonging to the same Ecclesiasticall Courts exaced or taken by any wayes or meanes directly or indirectly extraordinarie or greater Fées than are due accustomed And whether is there a Table for the rates of all Fée● set vp in their seuerall Courts and Offices And whether they haue sent or suffered my Processe to goe out of the Ecclesiasticall Courts otherwise than by Law they oug●t Or haue they taken vpon them the Offices of Informers or Promoters to the said Courts or any other way abused themselues in their Offices contrarie to the Law and Canons in that behalfe prouided 6 What number of Apparators haue euery seuerall Iudge Ecclesiasticall And whe●ein and in what manner is the Countrey ouerburthened by them And wherein hau● they caused or summoned any to appeare in the said Courts without a presentme●t or Citation first had Or whether haue they threatned any to prosecute them in the said Courts if they would not giue them some rewards and what bribes in that behal● haue they taken 7 What reward or fees hath any of the Apparators taken to saue the iournies to the Ec●esiasticall Court of any persons what after composition so made haue they or any of hem taken and receiued and what acquittance or discharge haue they giuen or promised them and whether haue they not cited some to appeare before the Arch-Deacon or his Officiall after they haue béene ordered by the Commissary and done their pennance acc●rdingly and whom haue they so cited and troubled and what hath it cost them as you 〈◊〉 or haue heard or by inquiry can finde I● you know of any other default or crime of Ecclesiasticall Conusance you are to ●●●ent the same by vertue of your Oathes ●he Minister of euerie Parish may and ought to ioyne in presentment with the Ch●rch-wardens and Side men and if they will not present the Minister may and ou●ht himselfe to present the defaults and crimes aforesaid and there must be seuerall pr●entments made to euery seuerall article and the Minister Church-wardens and Sw●rne-men are to méete and conferre about the said presentments and answering of eu●ry of the aforesaid Articles FINIS