Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

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
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A25923 Articles given by [...] and delivered to the church-wardens to be considered and answered in his visitation holden in the year of our Lord God [...] : whereunto the said church-wardens and side-men are upon their oathes to answer truly and particularly. Church of England. 1664 (1664) Wing A3829; ESTC R170379 9,690 12

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

whether there be any Inn-kéepers Ale-house-kéepers Victuallers or other persons that permit any persons in their Houses to eat drink or play during the time of Divine Service or Sermon or reading the Homilies in the forenoon or afternoon upon those dayes 13. Whether the fif●h day of November be kept holy and thanksgiving made to God for his Majesties and this States happy deliverance according to the Ordinance in that behalf And the 30th of January be kept as a day of humiliation for the murthering of King Charles the Martyr 14. Whether any of your Parish hold or frequent any Conventicles or private Congregations or make or maintain any constitutions agréed upon in any such Assemblies Or any that do write or publickly or privately speak against the Book of Common-Prayer or any thing therein contained or against any of the Articles of Religion agréed upon in Anno 1562. or against the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical or against the Oath of Supremacy or of Allegiance pretending the same to be unlawful and not warrantable by the Word of God Or against any of the Rites or Ceremonies of the Church of England now established Or against the Government of the Church of England under the Kings most Excellent Majesty by Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans Arch-Deacons and other Officers of the same affirming that the same is repugnant to the Word of God and that the said Ecclesiastical Officers are not lawfully ordained Or whether there be any Authors Maintainers or Favourers of Heresie or Schism or that be suspected to be Anabaptists Libertines Brownists of the Family of Love or any other Heresie or Schism present their names 15. Whether any in your Parish have married within the degrées 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 béen divorced which kéep company with any other at Bed or at Boord 16. Whether do any persons administer the goods of the dead without lawful authority or suppress the last Will of the dead Or are there in your Parish any Wills not yet proved or goods of the dead dying intestate left unadministred by authority in that behalf You shall not fail to present the Executors and all other faulty therein 17. Whether any with-hold the Stock of the Church or any goods or other things given to good and charitable uses 18. Whether your Hospitals and Alms-houses and other such houses and Corporations founded to good and charitable uses and the Lands Possessions and Goods of the same be ordered and disposed of as they should be And do the Masters Governours Fellows and others of the said Houses and Corporations behave and demean themselves according to the Ordinances and Statutes of their several foundations 19. 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 hath impudently bragged or boasted that he or they have lived incontinently with any person or persons whatsoever or any have attempted the chastitie of any Woman or solicited any Woman to have the carnal knowledge of her body or which are commonly reputed to be common Drunkards Blasphemers of Gods holy Name common Swearers common Slanderers of their Neighbors and sowers of Discord filthy and lascivious Talkers Vsurpers Symonical Persons Bawds 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 any that have heretofore béen presented or suspected of any the aforesaid crimes have for that cause departed the Parish and are not returned again or any which have used any Inchantments Sorceries Incantations or Witchcrafts which are not made Felony by the Statutes of this Realm or any which have committed any perjury in any Ecclesiastical Court in an Ecclesiastical cause or which have committed any forgery punishable by the Ecclesiastical Laws and the procurors and abettors of the said offences you shall truly present the names of all and singular the said offendors and with whom they have committed the said offences in case they have not béen publickly punished to your knowledge for the said crimes Physitians Chirurgions and Midwives HOw many Physitians Chirurgions or Midwives have you in your Parish How long have they used their several Sciences or Offices and by what authority And how have they demeaned themselves therein and of what skill are they accounted to be in their profession And whether have they license from the Ordinary or Chancellor for to practice 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 hear Divine Service or to depart and not disturb such as be hearers there And whether they have and you do diligently sée the Parishoners duly resort to the Church every Sunday and Holiday and there to remain during Divine Service and Sermon And whether you or your predecessors Church-wardens there suffer any playes feasts drinkings or any other prophane usages to be kept in your Church Chappel or Church-yards or have suffered to your and their uttermost power and endeavour any person or persons to lie tipling or drinking in any Inn or Victualling-house in your Parish during the time of Divine Service or Sermon on Sundayes and Holydaies 2. Whether and how often have you admitted any to preach within your Church or Chappel which was not sufficiently licensed And whether you together with your Minister have not taken diligent héed and care that every Parishioner being of sixtéen years of age or upwards have received thrice every year as aforesaid and also that no stranger have usually come to your Church from their own Parish-Church 3. Whether have there béen 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 clean and swéet standing pot of pewter or of other purer mettal 4. Whether were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and the Parishioners And have the late Church-wardens given up a just account for their time and delivered to their successors by Bill indented 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 use of the poor 5. Whether do you sée the names of all Preachers which are strangers and preach in your Parish-Churches to be noted in a book for that purpose and whether every Preacher do subscribe his name and of whom he had his License 6. Whether any man do trouble or molest you for doing your duties 7. Whether there be any Legacies withholden given to the Church or poor people or to the mending of High-waies or otherwise by the Testators In whose hands it is by whom it was given and by whom it is withholden 8. Do you know any thing that hath béen complained of that is not redressed FINIS