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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00136	Articles ecclesiastical to be enquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men within the [blank] in the visitation of the [blank] and in the ([blank] yeere of the reigne of our most dread soueraigne lord King Iames)	Church of England.	1621 (1621)	STC 10133.9; ESTC S421	7,466	15

ARTICLES ECCLESIASTICAL TO be enquired of by the Church-wardens and Sworne-men within the _____ In the Visitation of the _____ And in the _____ yeere of the Reigne of our most dread Soueraigne Lord King IAMES LONDON Printed by IOHN BILL 1621. ❧ The Oath YOu shall sweare by the Name of Almighty God well and truely to execute the Office of Churchwardens and Sidemen c. That you shall diligently consider and enquire of all and euery the Articles following and make a true answere to euery of the same seuerally and distinctly in writing presenting euery person of your Parish who hath or shall in your Parish or elsewhere and euery person of any other Parish who hath or shall in your Parish commit any offence or fault mentioned in any of the said Articles or which are publikely and credibly defamed for any such offence or fault wherein you shall not vnduely present any person or persons of euill will malice or any corrupt affection nor shall for loue fauour dread or any other indirect affection spare to present any that bee offenders in any of those cases but shall doe vprightly as men hauing the feare of God before your eyes and desirous to maintaine vertue and suppresse vice So helpe you God by Christ Iesus ¶ Note you are by your said Oath to present truely what you either know of your owne knowledge or what is publikely or credibly famed and spoken touching any matter or thing contained in any Article following FIrst whether any person whatsoeuer of your Parish doth maintaine or defend any Heresies false opinions or Popish errors contrary to the word of God and the Articles of Religion established in this Realme 2 Whether any person bee an impugner or deprauer either in word or writing the of forme of Ecclesiasticall gouernement of the Church of England or of the Booke of Common prayer or the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed therein or of the Kings supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall or of the Oath of Supremacie or Allegeance 3 Whether any Parson doth reade publique Seruice in any Church or Chappell not beeing lawfully ordered Deacon at the least and licensed by the Lord Bishop or his Chauncellor 4 Whether any Parson Vicar or Curate presume to preach in their Cures or elsewhere not being licenced by the Bishop or Ordinarie 5 Whether is your Parson or Vicar knowen or probably and publikely famed or reported to haue obtained his Benefice by Simony or to let out his Liuing to farme or any part thereof to any person in consideration of any such Simoniacall compact 6 Whether haue you had a Sermon preached euery Sabbath day this last yeere in your Church if not yet how many haue you had and vpon those Sundaies that you had not a Sermon haue you had an Homely read 7 Whether hath any stranger been suffered to preach in your Church or Chappell without hauing first shewed his licence to preach vnto the Minister and Churchwardens according to the 50. Canon 8 Whether doth your Minister vpon euery Sunday and Holy day in the afternoone before euening prayer call for and instruct all the youth and ignorant persons of your Parish of both Sexes in the Catechisme and grounds of Christian Religion for halfe an houre or more 9 Whether bee there any Parents Masters or gouernours who send not their children or seruants to bee chatechized on euery Sabbath day and Holy day or any children or seruants that refuse to bee instructed or examined 10 Whether doth your Minister neglect or forsake his calling and betake himselfe to worldly affaires mercenary or manuell Trades haunt markets or intermeddle with or solicite matters of Law for other men 11 Whether doth your Minister haunt or frequent Ale-houses or Tauernes or is hee probably or publikely famed or any notorious crime or any euill example of life to the offence and scandall of his vocation 12 Whether doth your Minister vse or weare any kind of apparell which is vnseeming his calling for colour or fashion of the same or otherwise then according to the 74. Canon 13 Whether doeth your Minister at all times weare the Surplesse in the time of Diuine Seruice and administration of the Sacraments And if hee bee a Graduate whether doeth hee also vpon his Surplesse weare a hood incident to his degree 14 Whether doe you know or haue credibly and publikely heard of any within your Parish that are procurers of Schismes or maintainers of Schismatikes or which are resorters to conuenticles or congregations of the Kings Subiects other then such as by the Lawes Ecclesiasticall of this Realme are allowed 15 Whether doeth your Minister vse any other forme of Common prayer then is prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer and whether doth hee vse such directions rites and ceremonies in Seruice and the administration of the Sacraments as by the said booke are required and none other 16 Whether doeth your minister admit to the Communion any notorious adulterer fornicator or incestuous person or other great offender which hath not first done his penance or any stranger of another Parish contrary to the 28. Canon 17 Whether haue any been married within your Parish that haue not vpon the day of their marriage receiued the holy Communion or any been married in times prohibited or without banes solemnely asked three seuerall Sundayes otherwise then by licence of the Ordinary as you know or credibly and publikely haue heard 18 Whether hath your Minister vsed the forme of thanksgiuing prescribed for women after childbirth for any woman vnlawfully begotten with childe otherwise then in the habite of a penitent sinner or before sufficient caution be taken for her not departing the Parish vntill shee hath done penance for her offence 19 Whether doth your Parson Preacher Lecturer and Vicar in his owne person at the leastwise in euery yeere vpon two Sundayes publikely both in the forenoone and afternoone in your Church or Chappell reade Diuine Seruice and administer both the Sacraments in such manner and forme as is prescribed by the Booke of Common prayer according to the 56. Canon 20 Whether doth your Minister dayly visite the sicke and exhort them truely to beleeue in Christ and repent therof their sinnes and comfort and pray for them as is prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer 21 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Farmor of the Tithes suffer either the Parsonage or Vicarage-house or other buildings thereto belonging or the Chancell to fall to ruine or decay and doth not presently repaire them 22 Whether hath any person taken away or vncouered any Church Chappell or Chancell or any part of them or any Church porch or Vestrie or hath pulled downe the belles or made any other spoile or waste vpon his Benefice either in timber or woods 23 Whether is your Church euery way sufficiently and well repayred and no defect in glazing tiling sieling pauing or in any thing else belonging to the same and whether the Church bee beautified and adorned with Scripture

and whose are those children 46 Whether hath any Father answered as Godfather to his owne childe and whether haue any beene admitted to be Godfather or Godmother to any childe in your Parish who before that time haue not receiued the holy Communion 47 Whether any persons of your Parish diuorced lawfully doe notwithstanding accompany together and whether any persons lawfully married haue forsaken their wiues or husbands or liue not together or any which haue married any person contracted to others or which had not the consent of their parents and whether any were married in any priuate house or within the degrees prohibited or not betweene the houres of eight and twelue of the clocke in the forenoone 48 Whether doe you know any person formerly presented which hath not beene conuented and censured by the ordinarie for the same or any enioyned to doe pennance who either hath not done it or done it not penitently but scornfully and not in forme habite and time prescribed or any that haue laughed or scorned at those who haue done their pennance and what be their names 49 Whether any Hospitall or Almes-house be either pulled downe or growne to decay whether the number of poore and impotent persons appointed by the founders are maintained there and if not in whose default whether any lands or legacies giuen to such or other godly vses are not imployed accordingly and whether any rights or duties belonging to your Church be detained by any person 50 Whether doe you know any person within your Parish who directly or indirectly taketh vsurie or interest for money lent contrary to the lawes of God and this Realme who are they and what is the manner of their vsurie 51 Whether any person of your Parish hath suppressed the last will and testament of any person deceased or administred the goods of any person intestate before administration committed vnto him whether doe you know any forgers or changers of such will or any Executor which hath not fulfilled the Testators will in payment of Legacies to good and godly vses 52 Whether haue your Churchwardens solde or alienated any of the Church bookes ornaments or goods if yea then to whom and vpon what cause and in whose possession are they and whether hath any Churchwarden or Sworneman at any time concealed any disorder crime or fame of any crime and not presented the same to be reformed 53 Whether for the retayning of the circuite and limits of your Parish doe your Parson Vicar or Curate Churchwardens and certaine of the substantiall men of your Parish in the dayes of perambulation commonly called the Rogation weeke walke and compasse the accustomed bounds of your Parish and whether in the said perambulation doth the Minister vse any other right or ceremonie then to say or sing to the praise of God some Psalme of Dauid of thankesgiuing as the hundred and third or hundred and fourth Psalmes with the Lettanie and prayers following or reading some part of holy Scripture or homely and without carrying of Banners or handbels or such like Popish obseruations 54 Whether are there any persons in your Parish which doe not diligently resort to your Parish Church or Chappell accustomed euery Sunday and Holiday according to the statute what are their names who doe not so resort when haue they so beene absent and whether doth your Minister admonish the Churchwardens openly in the Church after the second Lesson at morning and euening prayer to looke to their charge in that behalfe 55 What Recusant Papists are there in your Parishes present their names qualities and conditions how long haue they abstained from diuine Seruice or from the Communion or doe any of them keepe any ornaments of superstition vndefaced 56 Whether any in your Parish who heretofore being Popish Recusants haue reformed themselues doe still remaine and abide in the same conformity and is there a booke prouided in your Parish to register the names of all such Recusants who so conforme and submit themselues according to the Statute of 35. Eliz. 57 Whether haue you a terrier of all the gleabelands medowes gardens orchards houses stockes implements tenements and portions of tythes whether within your Parish or without belonging to your Parsonage or Vicaridge taken by the view of honest men in your Parish and whether the same terrier be laide vp in the Bishops Registrie and in whose hands are any of them now and if you haue no terrier already made in parchment you the Churchwardens Side-men together with your Parson or Vicar or in his absence with your Minister are to make diligent inquirie and presentment of the premisses and to make subscribe and signe a terrier as aforesaid 58 Whether doth your Minister vpon Wednesdayes and Fridayes not being Holydayes reade in your Church or Chappell publiquely the Letany and other prayers appointed in the booke of Common prayer for those dayes and whether doth hee read the Commination against sinners in such order and forme as it is there also prescribed 59 Whether doth your Minister vpon some Sundayes or Holidayes in the after noone before diuine seruice reade ouer once euery yeare all the Canons Ecclesiasticall published by his Maiesties authority Anno 1603. publiquely in your Church or Chappell where hee serueth diuiding the same in such sort as that the one halfe may be read one day and the other another day 60 Whether doth your Minister refuse or delay to christen any childe brought to be christned vpon Sundayes and Holy-dayes according to the booke of Common prayer or being informed of his weakenesse or danger of death doth refuse to goe to the place where the said Infant remaineth to baptize it 61 Whether hath there beene since the last Visitation or before which is not presented any contention brawling or fighting in your Church or Churchyard betwixt any of the Parishioners touching the placing or displacing of any in any seat or Pew in the Church or touching any other cause and whether hath there beene any Pew builded or alteration made since the foresaid time in any your Churches without the expresse leaue of the Ordinary of the Diocesse and by whom hath the same beene done 62 Whether are there any Inne-keepers Alewiues or Victualers in your Parish that suffer any person to eate drink or play at Dice Cards Tables Bowles or such like games in their houses in the time of Common prayer or Sermon on Sundayes or Holydayes whether any Butchers or others doe sell meate or other things in the time of Common prayer preaching or reading of Homilies 63 Whether hath any person cut downe any tree or trees growing in your Churchyard to the hurt or preiudice of the Church and to what vse was it conuerted as you know or credibly and publiquely haue heard 64 Whether hath your Minister or any other Minister baptized any childe in your Parish without vsing the signe of the Crosse at the baptisme thereof or solemnized marriage without vsing the Ring therein according to the book of Common prayer 65 Whether is all due reuerence vsed in time of diuine seruice and of euery part thereof according to the 18. Canon and whether there be any in your Parish that vse any vnreuerent speeches or iestures against Ministers and in contempt of their calling and function 66 Whether any Apparitor or other person hath compounded or smothered for reward or fauour any cause or matter of office belonging to the Ecclesiasticall Court if yea then doe you declare the same and what money or reward hee had for the same 67 And generally whether doe you know of any of the Lawes Ecclesiasticall violated or broken or any Ecclesiasticall matters worthy of redresse and if you doe then you are to present the same and in all your presentments as neere as possible you may you are to note the yeare time and place of euery offence committed FINIS