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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	church_n	king_n	supremacy_n	1,454	5	10.5536	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00149	Articles to be inquired of, in the first metropoliticall visitation, of the most reuerend father, George, by Gods prouidence, Arch- bishop of Canterbury, and primate of all England in and for the dioces of [blank], in the yeare of our Lord God [blank], and in the fifth yeare of His Graces translation.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1611-1633 : Abbot); Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1615 (1615)	STC 10147.4; ESTC S2091	10,328	16

cause 16 Whether any person in your Parish doe exercise any Trade or labor buy or sell or keepe open Shoppes or Ware-houses vppon anie Sunday or Hollidaie by themselues their Seruants or Apprentices or haue otherwise prophaned the saide daies contrarie to the orders of the Church of England And whether there bee any Inne-kéepers Ale-house-kéepers Victualers or other persons that permitte any persons in their Houses to eate drinke or play during the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon or reading the Homilies in the forenoone or afternoone vpon those daies 17 Whether the fift daie of August and the fift daie of Nouember be kept holie and thanks-giuing made to God for his Maiesties and this States happie deliueraunce according to the Ordinance in that behalfe 18 Whether anie of your Parish hold or frequent anie conuenticles or priuate Congregations or make or maintaine anie constitutions agreed vppon in anie such assemblies Or anie that doe write or publiquelie or priuatelie speake against the Booke of Common prayer or any thing therein contained or against anie of the articles of Religion agréed vppon in Anno 1562. or against the Kinges Supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall or against the Oath of Supremacie or of Allegiance as pretending the same to bee vnlawfull and not warrantable by the worde of GOD Or against anie of the Rites or Ceremonies of the Church of England now established Or against the gouernment of the Church of England vnder the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Arch-Bishops Bishoppes Deanes Arch-Deanes and other Officers of the same affirming that the same is repugnant to the Worde of GOD and that the saide Ecclesiasticall Officers are not lawfully ordained Or whether there bee anie Authours Maintainers or Fauourers of Heresie or Scisme or that be suspected to be Annabaptists Libertines Brownistes of the Familie of Loue or of anie other Heresie or Scisme present their names 19 Whether any in your parish haue ●arried within the de●rées by Law prohibited or any couple in your parish being lawfully married liue apart one from the other without our separation of the Law or any that haue beene diuorced which kéepe company with any other at B●ode or at Boord and when and where were they married Phisitions Surgeons and Mid-wiues 20 HOw many Phisitions Chirurgions or Mid-wiues haue you in your parish How long haue they vsed their seuerall Sciences or Offices and by what authority And how haue they demeaned themselues therein and of what skill are they accounted to be in theyr profession 21 Whether do any persons administer the goods of the dead without lawfull authority or suppresse the last will of the dead Or are there in your parish any wils not yet prooued or goods of the dead dying intestate left vnadministred By authority in that behalfe you shall not faile to present the Executors and all others faulty therein and also how many persons being possessed of any Goods and chattels haue died within your parish since the xvii day of Aprill 1613. 22 Whether any with-hold the stocke of the church or any goods or other things giuen to good and charitable vses 23 Whether your Hospitals and Almes-houses and other such houses and corporations founded to good and charitable vses and the lands possessions and goods of the same be ordered disposed of as they should be And do the Maisters Gouernours Fellowes and others of the saide Houses and corporations behaue and demeane themselues according 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 report which haue committed Adultery Fornication or Incest or any which haue impudently bragged or boasted that he or she haue liued incontinently with any person or persons whatsoeuer or any that hath attempted the chastitie of anie woman or solicited anie woman to haue the carnall knowledge of her bodie or which are commonly reputed to be common Drunkards Blasphemers of Gods holie Name common Sweaters common Slanderers of their Neighbours and sowers of discord filthy and lasciuious Talkers Vsurers fr●monicall persons Bawdes or Harborers of women with childe which bée vnmarried or conueying or suffering them to goe awaie before they haue made satisfaction to the congregation or any that hauing héeretofore béene presented or suspected of any the foresaid crimes haue for that cause departed your Parish and are now returned againe Or any which haue vsed any inchantments sorceries incan●ation● or witchcrafts which are not made fellony by the statutes of this Realme or am which haue committed any periuty in any Ecclesiasticall Court in an Ecclesiasticall cause or which haue committed any forgery punnishable by the Ecclesiasticall Lawes and the procurors and abeitors of the said offences You shall truely present the names of all and singuler the said Offendors and with whome they haue committed the laide offences in case they haue not béene publikely punnished to your knowledge for the same cr●mes Touching the Church-wardens and Side-men 1 WHether you and the Church-wardens Quest-men or Side-men from time to time doe and haue done their diligences in not suffering any idle person to abide eyther in the Church yard or Church-porch in Seruice or Sermon time but causing them eyther to come into the church to heare diuine Seruice or to depart and not disturbe such as be hearers there And whether haue they and do you diligently see the parishioners duely resort to the Church euery Sunday and Holliday and there to remaine during Diuine Seruice and Sermon And whether you or your predecessors Church-wardens there suffer any Plaies Feasts Drinkings or any other prophane vsages to be kept in your church chappell or church-yards or haue suffered to your and their vttermost power and endeuour any person or persons to be tipling or drinking in any Inne or Victuling House in your parish during the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon on Sundaies and Hollidaies 2 Whether and how often haue you admitted any to preach within your church or chappell which was not sufficiently licensed And whether you together with your Minister haue not taken diligent héed and care that euery of your parishioners béeing of sixtéene yeares of age o●vowards haue receiued thrice euery yeare as aforesaid and also th●t no stranger haue vsually come to your church from their owne parish church 3 Whether haue there béene prouided against euery communion a sufficient quantity of fiue white bread and of good and wholesom wine forthe communicants that shall receiue And whether that wine bée brought in a cleane and swéete standing pot of pewter or of other purer Mettall 4 Whether were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and the parishioners And haue the late Churchwardens giuen vp a iust account for their time and deliuered to their Successors the Money and other things belonging to the Church which was in their hands And are the Almes of the Church faithfully distributed to the vse of the poore Concerning Ecclesiasticall Magistrates and Officers 1 VVHether doe you know or haue heard of any payment composition or agréement to or with any Ecclesiastical M●gi●trate Iudge or Officer for winking at or sparing to punish any person for any offence of Ecclesiasticall Conusance or for suppressing or concealing of any excommunication or any other Ecclesiasticall Censure of or against any Recusant or any other offender in the cases aforesaid what summe of Money or other consideration hath beene receiued or promised by or to any of them in that respect by whom and with whom 2 Hath any person within your parish paide or promised any sum of Money or other reward for comutation of pennance for any crime of Ecclesiasticall Conusance If so then with whom When and for what and how hath the same beene imployed 3 Are your Ecclesiasticall Iudges and their substitutes Maisters of Artes or Batchellors of the Lawes at the least learned and practised in the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall Lawes Men of good Life and Fame zealously affected in Religion iust and vpright in executing their offices Haue they heard any matter of office priuately in their Chambers without their sworne Registers or their Deputies presence 4 Doe you know or haue you heard that any Ecclesiasticall Iudge Officer or Minister hath receiued or taken any extraordinary Fées 〈◊〉 other rewards or promises by any wayes or meanes directly or indirectly of any person or persons whatsoeuer either for the graunting of the administration of the Goods and Chattelles of those that haue died intestate to one before another or for allotting of larger portions of the goods and chattels of those that haue dyed intestate to one more then to another or for allowing large and vnreasonable accounts made by Executors or Administrators or for giuing them Quietus est or discharges without Inuentory or account to defraude Creditors Legataries or those who are to haue portions And what summes of Money doe you know or haue you heard that any Ecclesiasticall Iudge or Officer hath taken out of the state of any dying intestate vpon pretence to bestow the same in pios vsus and how haue the same béene bestowed 5 Hath any Ecclesiasticall Magistrate Iudge Officer or any other exercising