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Articles to be enquired of, and ansvvered vnto by the churchvvardens and sworne men in the visitation of the right vvorshipfull the archdeacon of Norwich. Anno Domini 1638.
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Church of England. Archdeaconry of Norwich.
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1638
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ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF AND ANSVVERED VNTO BY THE CHVRCHVVARDENS AND SWORNE MEN IN THE Visitation of the Right VVorshipfull the Archdeacon of NORWICH Anno Domini 163 LONDON Printed by John Raworth The tenor of the oath of the Church-wardens and Sworne-men YOu shall sweare that you and every of you shall diligently inquire of all and every of these Articles given you in Charge And that all favour affection hatred feare of displeasure or hope of reward set aside you shall faithfully present to this Court all and every such person which now or lately was in your Parish that have committed any crime or offence or omitted any duty mentioned in these Articles or which are vehemently suspected or defamed of any such Crime offence or default So helpe you God and the contents of his holy Gospel Articles to be inquired of and answered unto by the Churchwardens Questmen or Sidemen in the visitation of the right worshipfull the Archdeacon of NORVVICH Anno Domini 163 CHAP. 1. Concerning Religion and Doctrine FIrst have any within your Parish Preached maintained or held any hereticall or scismaticall opinions impugned the Kings Majesties supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall or the Articles of Religion established in the Church of England and is the Kings Majesties Declaration prefixed before those Articles duely observed 2. Have any person within your Parish affirmed that the Church of England is not a true Church or that the forme of Gods worship contained in the booke of Common Prayer the administration of the Sacraments and other religious duties therein prescribed are corrupt or contrary to the holy Scriptures Or that the government of the Church of England under his Majesties Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and others that beare office in the Church is Antichristian or repugnant to Gods holy word or that the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England now established are superstitious or not to be used or have any such spoken against the Kings Majesties Courts Ecclesiasticall or the procéedings thereof 3. Are there any in your Parish that have béene or are vehemently suspected to be present at Convinticles or private meetings under colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion to repeate Sermons or expound the Scriptures and doe any affirme that such méetings are lawfull CHAP. 2. Concerning the Church the Ornaments and possessions thereof 1. IS your Church or Chappell with the Chancell in good reparation the windowes in no part stopped up but well glazed the walls thereof within comely whited and adorned with sentences of holy Scripture the floores paved even the Stéeple Belles and frames with the Bell-rores well maintained if otherwise by whose default 2. Have you in your Church or Chappell a Bible of the largest volume and last translation the booke of common prayer the two Tomes of Homilies and Bishop Iewels workes faire and well bound have you a Table of the degrées of Marriage set up in some eminent part of your Church the Kings Majesties armes and a table of the Ten Commandements of God set up in the East end of your Church or Chancell have you the Prayer bookes appointed for the fift of November and twenty seven of March the booke of Canons or Constitutions Ecclesiasticall 3. Have you a comely Communion Table placed in the East end of the Chancell the ends thereof North and South and upon an assent is the same rayled in from anoyances or otherwise as was lately injoyned by publque authority have you a comely carpet of Silke or other decent cloth or stuffe continually laid upon it in time of Divine Service and a faire fine linnen cloth laid on it at the administration of the holy Communion is it at any time prophaned by sitting or laying of hats leaning or writing on it or otherwise and by whom have you a Communion cup with a cover of silver a flagon or stoope of silver or pewter sufficient to containe the wine used at every Communion have you a comely Font of Stone with a cover set in the ancient usuall place of the Church is it whole and cleane have you a strong and comely Biere for burialls and a hearse-cloth sutable 4. Have you in your Church or Chappell a convenient deske for your Minister to reade Divine Service a comly Pulpit with a round boâ—rd are they so placed as the Minister reading the Divine Service doe not stand or knéele with his backe towards the Communion Table as hath béene injoyned have you a convenient cloth and cushion for the Pulpit have you a faire linners Surplesse for your Minister with a hood fitting his degrée in the Vniversitie have you a Register booke of Parchment wherein all Christnings Marriages and Burialls within your Parish are duely recorded and every page therof being full suscribed by your Minister and Church-wardens according to the Cannon have you a paper booke to insert the names of all strange Preathers in your Church or Chappell with the name of the Bishop by whom they were licenced have you a chest with thrée lockes and keyes for the safe kéeping of the goods bookes and ornaments of the Church and are they so kept and have you also a poore-mans bore for the almes of the poore 5. Have you a fayre and comely partition betwéene the Church and the Chancell are your Chancells or allies of your Church incroached upon by building of Seates or otherwise have you any close Pewes or Galleries have you any Seates or Pewes so high to hinder the prospect of the Chancell are they in good repaire and decent are they planched or matted is there any straw brought into them are the Parishoners conveniently placed in them according to their rankes and qualities and doe any contend for seates in the Church or Chancell have any erected any new pewes seates or monuments without authority from the Ordinary present the persons that have so erected them in the Church or Churchyard 6. Have your Church or Church-yard béene at any time imployed to any prophane use by kéeping of Feasts Church-ales Temporall Courts or Leets Musters exercises of Dauncing Stooleball Football or the like is your Churchyard well fenced with stone walls rayles or pales as have béene accustomed have any incroached upon your church-yard or annoyed the same by féeding of noysome cattell hanging or laying of cloathes or leaving of any dust rubbish or filth therin by opening their doores into it making by pathes or waies through it have any person brawled quarrelled or fought in your Church or Church-yard or otherwise behaved him or herselfe rudely disoredrly therin by prophane or filthy talke or otherwise when any grave is digged are the bones or corpes of the dead piously used have any convict or any excommunicated person béen buried in yours Church or Churchyard and by whom and who have béene present at it 7. Are your Parsonage or Vicarage Houses in good reparations are yours Almes Houses imployed to a godly and the right holy uses if not
your Parish in christian buriall doth hee goe before the corpes to the grave and there say the whole service appointed not omitting the lesson or any part of it doth he devoutly knéele when hee saith the prayers and collect or hath hee admitted to Christian buriall any which bee excommunicated or otherwise ought not to be butied in Christian buriall 12. Hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint hold or continue in your Parish or elsewhere any private fasts or méetings for Preaching or praying for prophesies or other religions exercises not approved or have hee at such meetings consulted about depraving the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England 13. Hath your Minister or Curate read the booke of cannons Ecclesiasticall set forth by publicke authoritie Anno Domini 1603. once every yeare as is injoyned 14. Hath your Minister at any time taken upon him in the Church to confuse the doctrine of any other Preacher in the same Church without order from the Bishop doth he standing excommunicated or suspended by his Ordinarie intermeddle with reading divine service preaching administring the Sacraments or any other part of his Priestly office if not doth hee séeke to be absolved and desire to conforme himselfe in obedience to the Church Is there any that being once admitted to the holy orders of Priest or Deacon doth voluntarily relinquish his calling and become as a lay man 15. Hath your Minister with the rest of your Parishoners gone the Peramblation of your Parish yéerely upon the Regation dayes viz. Munday Tuseday or Weddenseday before Ascention and no other time hath he used the prayers and thankesgivings Psalmes and sentences of Scripture at that time and doth he returne to the Church and there reade divine service as was lately enjoyned by publique authority 16. Hath your Minister admitted any excommunicated or suspended person into the Church in time of divine service or hath he read the prayers while any such person hath beene present hath he deferred the publishing of any excommunication or suspention under the seale of any Ecclesiasticall Iudge the next Sunday or holiday after the same is brought or shewed unto him doth he every sixe moneths denounce and publish in the Church by name all Recusants Convict or Excommunicated persons that doe persevere in that sentence and not seeke to be absolved 17. Hath your Minister solemnized the marriage of any persons under the age of 21. yeares without the consent of their parents or godmothers or of such as doe not audibly say and answer in all things appointed by the Liturgy or of any without a Ring or of such as have not had their banes published in their severall Churches thrée severall Sundayes or holidayes or bée married in the times prohibited without speciall licence from the Ordinary and doth hee begin in the body of the Church and then goe up to the table as is appointed and doth hee as oft as there is a marriage appoint to have a Communion and doth hée reade all that is prescribed to be read at matrimony by the booke of common prayer 18. Is your Minister a man of sober life and conversation is he reputed to be an incontinent person a frequenter of Taverns Innes or Alehouses a common gamester or player at dice and Cards a common swearer or drunkard or guilty of any other scadalous crime or offence doth he use any mechanicall trade or bodily labour soliciting of causes in law doth he use common buying selling or any other imployments not befitting his calling and is he suspected to have obtained his benifice by Simonie directly or indirectly doth he usually weare a gowne when he doth officiate and doth he in his journying use a cloake with sléeves doth he at any time goe abroad in his doublet and hose without a Coute or Cassocke or weare any light coloured stockings or is he or his wife any waies excessive in their apparrell 19. Lastly doth your Minister commonly upon Sundayes and holidayes after the reading of the second lesson at morning and evening prayer admonish the Churchwardens and Questmen to note such as without cause doe absent themselves from divine service or doe not receive the holy Communion thrice in the yeare and if they be negligent in their office doth hee present them to the Ordinary CHAP. 4. Concerning the Parishioners and Leyetie 1. HAth any in your Parish prophaned any Sunday or Holiday by unlawfull gaming drinking and tipling in Tavernes Innes or Alehouses in the time of divine service or sermon by working in their trades selling of wares setting open their shops by themselves their servants or apprentises or any other waies 2. Is the fist day of November observed and kept in your Parish with prayers and thankesgiving unto God as by the statute is appointed 3. Doe all and singular persons dwelling in your Parish diligently resort to your Parish Church with their servants and children to morning and evening prayer upon every Sunday and holiday doe they come at the beginning of prayer and then with due attention doe they orderly abide there the whole time of divine service and Sermon hath any person in that time presumed to cover his head with his hat doe they all devoutly knéele when the generall confession the Letany the ten Commandements and other prayers and collects of the Church or at Baptisme Marriage Buriall and visitation of the sicke are read is there any person that doth not use lowly reverence when the name Iesus is mentioned or that doe not stand up when the Creede is rehearsed and doe all the people say Amen and make such other answers as are prescribed in the booke of common prayer 4. Is there any in your Parish that hath rudely behaved themselves in the Church or disturbed the Minister in time of divine service by walking talking laughing ringing of bells or contending for place or seates in the Church doe any sléepe in the Church in the said time or have an◠loytered about the Church or Churchyard in the same time or have any brawled quarrelled or tought in Church or Churchyard 5. Are there any Popish or scismaticall persons or suspected to be popish or scismatically affected or that have wilfully absented themselves from the parish Church or Chappell in time of morning and evening prayer or doe refuse or neglect to receive the holy Communion or that do perswade others from the same are there any that doe leave their owne Minister and usually resort to other Preachers or Churches or that doe cause their children to be baptized by any other Minister or in another Parish and to what Parish or Church doe such usually resort 6. Hath every one in your Parish being above 16. yéeres of age and of discretion received the holy Communion thrice every yéere whereof once at the feast of Easter doe all of them of what sort soever according as the Church expressly commandeth draw néere and with all revernce come to the Lords table when they are to