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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
A32955	Articles to be enquired of within the diocese of Lincoln in the generall and trienniall visitation of the right Reverend Father in God, John, by Gods providence, Lord Bishop of Lincoln, to be held in the year of our Lord God 1641.	Church of England. Diocese of Lincoln. Bishop (1621-1641 : Williams); England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1641 (1641)	Wing C4053; ESTC R11624	7,832	15

Holiday by themselves their servants or apprentises or have otherwise profaned the said dayes contrary to the Orders of the Church of England And whether be there any Inne-keepers Alehouse-keepers Victuallers or other persons that permit any persons in their houses to eat drink or play during the time of Divine Service or Sermon in the forenoon or afternoon upon those dayes 14 Whether is the fifth day of November kept holy and thanksgiving made to God for his Majesties and this States happy deliverance according to the Ordinance in that behalf 15 Whether do any of your Parish otherwise then fathers and mothers in their own families hold or frequent any conventicles or private congregations or make or maintain any Constitutions agreed upon in any such Assemblies Or be there any that do write or publikely or privately speak against the Book of Common Prayer or any thing therein contained or against any of the Articles of Religion agreed upon Anno 1562. or against the Kings Supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall or against the oath of Supremacie or of Allegeance as pretending the same to be unlawfull 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 Majestie by Bishops affirming that the same is repugnant to the word of God and that the said Ecclesiasticall Officers are not lawfully ordained Or whether be there any Authours Maintainers or Favourers of Heresie or Schisme or that be suspected to be Anabaptists Libertines Brownists of the Family of Love or of any other Heresie or Schisme Present their names 16 Whether do any withhold the stock of the church or any goods or things given to good and charitable uses 17 Whether your Hospitalls Almes-houses and other such houses and Corporations founded to good and charitable uses and the lands possessions and goods of the same 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 godly ordinances and statutes of their severall foundations 18 Whether have any Inne-Keepers Ale-wives Victuallers or Tiplers received harboured or suffered any person to eat drink stay or play in their houses in time of Common prayer or Sermon on Sundayes or Holidayes And what persons were so received harboured or suffered And have they sold forth any drink or victualls at the like time And have any of your parish loytered or been gaming abroad at the same time 19 Whether have any laboured wrought or gone to cart on the Sunday or Holiday And have any artificers shoe-makers chandlers mercers butchers and the like set open their shop-windows or doors or used their trade or any manuall occupation upon any of those dayes or sold any wares or goods belonging to their trade in the time of prayer sermon or homilie upon any Sunday or Holiday and who were the same that did so Physicians Chirurgians and Midwives HOw many Physicians Chirurgians and Midwives have you in your parish How long have they used their severall sciences or offices and by what authoritie and how have they demeaned themselves therein and of what skill are they accounted to be in their profession Touching the Churchwardens and Sidemen VVHether you and the Churchwardens Questmen or Sidemen from time to time do and have done your diligence in not suffering any idle person to abide either in the churchyard or churchporch in service or sermon-time but causing them either to come into the church to hear diuine service or to depart and not disturb such as be hearers there And whether they have and you do diligently see the parishisoners duly resort to the church every Sunday and Holiday and there remain during Divine Service and Sermon And whether you or your predecessours Churchwardens there suffer any playes feasts drinkings or any other profane usages to be kept in your Church Chappell or Churchyards or have suffered to your and their uttermost power and endeavour any person or persons to be tipling or drinking in any Inne or victualling-house in your parish during the time of Divine Service or Sermon on Sundayes and Holidayes 2 Whether doth any man trouble or molest you for doing your duties or are any of the Ecclesiasticall Judges or their Surrogates over-easie to receive frivolous complaints against you for doing your duties and to hold you in long and tedious suits concerning the same If so you must present and by what Judge Surrogate Proctour or Apparitour you have been troubled 3 Whether is there any Legacie withholden given to the Church or poor people or to the mending of high wayes or otherwise by the Testatours In whose hands is it by whom was it given and by whom is it withholden Concerning Ecclesiasticall Magistrates and Officers VVHether do you know or have heard of any payment composition or agreement to or with any Ecclesiasticall Magistrate Judge or Officer for winking at or fearing to punish any person for any offence of Ecclesiasticall cognisance 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 sum of money or other consideration hath been received or promised by or to any of them in that respect by whom and with whom 2 Hath any person within your parish paid or promised any summe of money or other reward either of late or heretofore for commutation of penance for any crime of Ecclesiasticall cognisance If so then with whom when and for what summe of money and how hath the same been imployed You are to present these particularly 3 Are your Ecclesiasticall Judges and their Substitutes Batchelours of the Laws or Masters of Arts at the least learned and practised in the civile and Ecclesiasticall Laws men of good life and fame zealously affected in religion and just upright and diligent in executing their offices Have they heard any matter of office privately in their chambers without their sworn registers or their deputies presence 4 Do you know or have you heard that any Ecclesiasticall Judge officer or minister hath received or taken any extraordinarie fees or other rewards or promises by any wayes or means directly or indirectly of any person or persons whatsoever either for the granting of the administration of the goods and chattels of those that have died intestate to one before another or for allotting of larger portions of the goods and chattels of those that have died intestate to one more then to another or for allowing larger and unreasonable accounts made by Executours or Administratours or for giving them Quictus est or discharges without inventorie or account to defraud Creditours Legataries or those who are to have portions And what summes of money do you know or have you heard that any Ecclesiasticall Judge or Officer hath taken out of the estate of any dying intestate upon pretence to bestow the same in pious uses either of late or heretofore and how have the same been bestowed 5 Hath any Ecclesiasticall Magistrate Judge Officer or any other exercising Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction within this Diocese or any Advocate Register Proctour Clerks Apparitours or other ministers belonging to the same Ecclesiasticall Courts exacted or taken by any wayes or means directly or indirectly extraordinary or greater fees then are due and accustomed And whether is there a Table for the rates of all fees set up in their several Courts and Offices And whether have they sent or suffered any Processe to go out of the Ecclesiasticall Courts otherwise then by law they ought Or have they taken upon them the offices of Informers or Promotours to the said Courts or any other way abused themselves in their places You are by your office to present the same 6 Whether hath any Ecclesiasticall Judge or his Surrogates without the allowance of the Bishop lately taken upon them to set up any new consistories or courts and to keep courts of concurrencie in Peculiars and other and more places then heretofore hath been accustomed and to call the people to those concurrent courts unduly without presentments or other just cause but onely to trouble the countrey and to get unjust fees to their own purses And have they in those new concurrent courts cited the people into Peculiars and out of the jurisdiction and for matters whereof they were dismissed by their ordinary Judge before so that they have been troubled in severall places for one and the same thing contrary to the Law And whether are the same late-erected consistories to the grievance of the people and by whom have the said new courts been lately set up and by what authority and where and in what places Declare the same particularly