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A00233	Articles to be inquired of vvithin the dioces of Norwich in the first visitation of the R. Reverend Father in God, Matthevv, Lord Bishop of Norwich.; Visitation articles. 1636	Church of England. Diocese of Norwich. Bishop (1635-1638 : Wren); Wren, Matthew, 1585-1667.	1636 (1636)	STC 10298; ESTC S122526	22,475	20

to disharten and deter them from executing it as by oath and duty they are bound Chap. 8. Concerning Schoole-masters Physitians Chyrurgions Midwives and Parish-Clarkes HAue you any Schoole-master in your Parish that teacheth publikely or in priuate houses Is there any teaching of Schollars to reade or write in the Chancell or in any part of the Church Doth any Papist kéepe a Schoolemaster in his house who commeth not to Church to heare diuine Seruice and to receiue the holy Communion What is his name and how long hath he taught there or elsewhere Doth your Schoolemaster teach any Papists or Sectaries children that come not to Church Doth he bring his schollars to church and duely instruct them all to learne the Catechisme in the Booke of Common Prayer at the least once euery wéeke or what other Catechisme doth he teach Is he of honest and sincere life and religion and conuersation Is he a Graduate and sufficient to teach and diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth 2 Is any thing with-holden and otherwise imployed that hath béene giuen to the vse of a Schoole in your Parish What is it By whom is it imbezelled 3 What Physitian or Chyrurgion haue you in your Parish who not being a Doctor of Physick or otherwise sufficiently licensed in either of the Uniuersities doth notwithstanding practise physick What other persons haue you among you either male or female who take vpon them to professe physick or chyrurgery And who be Midwiues in your parish 4 Haue you a fit Parish-Clark aged 20. yéeres at least of honest life able to reade and write Are his and the Sextons wages duly paid without fraud or diminution according to the ancient custome of your Parish By whom is he chosen Is he diligent in his office and seruiceable to the Minister Doth hee keepe the Church cleane and the doores locked Is there any thing lost or spoyled by his default 5 Doth your Clarke or Sexton take vpon him to haue or suffer any superstitious or any vnseasonable ringing of the bels at any time or any ringing without good cause such as the Minister and Church-wardens haue not allowed When notice is giuen of any Christian passing out of this life within the Parish doth he neglect to toll a passing bell or to ring after the departure Chap. 9. Concerning Ecclesiasticall Officers WHat peculiar or exempt iurisdictions know you of within y e compasse of this parish 2 Are there any Ecclesiasticall Officers exercising Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction within this Diocesse or any Ministers or Clarkes vnder them who do take or exact any extraordinary fées for any cause that you know of 3 Haue any Church-wardens and Quest-men concealed and not presented any abuses or offences punishable in the Ecclesiasticall Court Or haue any such offences being by them presented to the Chancellor Archdeacon Commissary Officiall or any other vsing Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction within this Diocesse beene suppressed or left vnpunished for bribe reward pleasure friendship feare or any other partiall respect 4 Are any Assemblies called Uestry-méetings held in your Parish when and how often are they In what place and by whom Hath any thing that you haue heard of been proposed treated or concluded therein touching the diuine Seruice or the doctrine and discipline of the Church Or any thing medled with for the gouernment of the Church or Parish which belongs to the Ecclesiasticall cognition and Iurisdiction 5 Doth the Arch-deacon once in thrée yéeres visit and suruey your Church touching the repaires of the same and vpon any defect found hath he made certificate of it as far as you know or haue heard 6 Are there placed by the Registrar two Tables containing the seuerall rates and summes of all fées due to the Iudge and other officers of your Courts one in the vsuall place or consistory where the Court is kept the other in the Registry in such sort as euery man may come to view the same without difficulty And doth the Chancellor Arch-deacon Commissary or Officiall or any other Minister of the Court exact or extort any other greater fées or sums of money than in the said Tables are contained 7 Doth any Arch-deacon Officiall or Surrogate vnder him make commutation of any penance or doth the Chancellor or any Commissary or any Surrogate vnder any commute or change any penance or corporall punishment for any money without the consent of the Bishop And what money haue they or any of them receiued for such commutation and of whom when and what was the offence for which any such sum of money was receiued or appointed to be paid 8 Doth the Chancellor Arch-deacon Commissary or Officiall or any other person vsing Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction speed any act in any cause priuately of themselues and not in the presence of some publike Notary or Actuary 9 Is the number of Apparitors increased in this Diocesse And wherein and in what manner is the Countrey ouer-burthened or grieued by them Hath any of them vnder pretence of authority cited or summoned any person vnlawfully or hath any of them taken any reward for the concealing of any offence or sin or that the offenders might escape punishment Who be they that haue so done Or doe any of them take any fées that are not vsuall Haue they threatned any to prosecute them if they had no reward giuen them Or do any of them cause any party to appeare in any Ecclesiasticall Court within this Diocesse without a citation first obtained from the Iudge of the Court 10 Hath any Ecclesiasticall Iudge or Officer whatsoeuer Aduocate Registrer Procter Clerke or other such Ministers any way abused themselues in their Offices contrary to the Lawes and Canons in that behalfe prouided 11 Were there any particular or speciall iniunctions giuen as you know or haue heard by the Uicar generall or any other Commissioner at the last Metropoliticall Uisitation of the most Reuerend the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury his Grace And how haue the same béene performed or obserued by the Minister or any other of the Parish whom they concerne 12 Lastly haue you and euery of you by your selues read or haue caused to be read to you all these Articles Haue you well examined and inquired into euery particular therein intended Haue you sincerely vprightly without any partiall affection or concealement presented and made knowne all and euery of the offenders in any of the particulars either as they are taken in truth to be or by common fame reported If you know any other matter of Ecclesiasticall cognisance worthy the presentment in your iudgement and fit to be reformed by Ecclesiasticall censure though it be not expressed in these Articles yet you shall likewise present the same by vertue of your oaths The Minister also of euery Parish may and ought to ioyne with the Church-wardens or other Sworne-men for the presenting of offences and if they be so irreligious as not to do it the Minister of himselfe may ought to present the offences or the Church-wardens and Quest-men for not presenting and is required in his Canonicall obedience so to doe There must be distinct answer made to euery Article and to euery branch thereof as far as they know or haue heard of any offence And if their Oath and all this aduertisement notwithstanding any Church-wardens or other Sworne-men shall follow the customary manner and be carelesse in inquiring and presenting as they ought then shall they not be able hereafter to say that they had not faire warning to the contrary giuen them in the spirit of meeknesse or to complaine that they are hardly dealt with if vpon information and proofe otherwise had they be called to answer their willfull periury in some other course of iustice for neglecting to inquire and present to all the particulars herein proposed And to the intent that all things aboue mentioned may by the helpe of God as well be kept as set in good order the Chancellor of the Diocesse and all the Commissaries are hereby required that so far as to them in their seuerall places it shall appertaine when the Synods and Generals are holden respectiuely they do faithfuly inquire after all these things in all places of their Iurisdictions exact a due obseruance of the same The Parson Uicar or Curate of this Parish is required to receiue this Booke and vpon the Sunday next after the receipt hereof immediatly after the Morning Seruice to publish the contents of the Process which is sent forth That all Preachers and Lecturers if there be any in the Parish together with the Church-wardens both of this present yeere and of the last yeere and two or three of the chiefest parishioners beside as also all Physitians Schoole-masters Chyrurgions Midwiues and Sequestrators may take notice of the day place specified in the said Processe for appearance at the Lord Bishops Uisitation and after publication so made this book of Articles is to be presently deliuered to some of the said Church-wardens for the vse of themselues and the rest that are to make Presentments Ma. 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he said diuine Seruice whiles any excommunicate person hath beene present in the Church Or hath he admitted any person that hath beene excommunicate into the Church without a Certificate of his absolution from his Ordinary Or hath be staied or forborne to denounce any excommunication or suspension or absolution that hath beene sent him from his Ordinary 33 Hath your Minister béene at any priuate mé etings or conuenticles to consult there about the impeachment or deprauing of the Doctrine of the Church of England or of the Booke of Common Prayer or of any part of the gouernement and discipline of the Church or to practise any forme of their owne either for worship or discipline 34 Doth your Minister vpon Sundayes at Morning Prayer declare vnto the parishioners what Fasting-dayes and Holy-dayes are to be kept the wéeke following 35 Doth your Minister in the Rogation-dayes go the perambulation of the circuit of your Parish saying and vsing the Prayers Suffrages and Thanksgiuing vnto God appointed by Law according to his dutie thanking God for his blessings and praying for his grace and fauour 36 Doth your Parson or Uicar maintaine and kéepe in due reparation the Mansion-house and all other edifices belonging to his Parsonage or Uicarage without suffering them to grow into ruine or decay 37 Hath your Minister taken vpon him to appoint or to hold or continue any priuate or publike Fasts or meetings for preaching or lecturing on any working-day in his owne Parish or elsewhere or prophesies or exercises or any other such thing not approued by his Ordinary for the time being 38 Is your Minister studious in holy Scripture and abstaineth from mechanicall trades bodily labour soliciting of causes in Law common buying and selling of Horses or other Cattell and all other imployments not befitting his calling and holy Function Doth he vsually weare a Gowne with a standing collar and sléeues strait at the hands and a square Cap Doth he in iourneying vse a cloake with sléeues commonly called a Priests-clerke without guards buttons or cuts Doth he at any time in publike weare any coife or wrought night-cap but only a plaine cap of black silk satten or vel●et Doth he at any time goe abroad in his doublet and hose without a coat or cassock or weare any light coloured stockings Or is he any way excessie in apparell either himselfe or his wife 39 Is your Minister suspected or knowne to haue obtained his Benefice by any Simonai●●ll compact directly or indirectly Or is he reputed to be an incontinent person a frequenter of Tauernes Innes or Ale-houses a common gamester or player at dice or cards a common swearer or drunkard or otherwise faulty in any o●her kinde that is scandalous to his function 40 Hath your Minister publikly in your Parish Church or Chappell once euery yeere read ouer the Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall agreed vpon by the Clergie of both Prouinces An●o Dom 1603. in such manner as the same is commanded to bée done 41 Is there any in your Parish or resorting thereunto who hauing taken holy Orders of Priest or Deacon doth voluntarily relinquish and forsake●h h●s calling and liues in the course of his life as a Lay-man Or any that hauing beene sil●nced or suspended by authority so remaineth without conforming himselfe in due obedience to the Church And how doth he imploy his time and where or whence hath he his maintenance as you know or haue heard 42 Are any admitted to preach in your Church who doe not before the Churchwardens subscribe their na●●s in your book prouided for that purpose and the day when he or they preached and the name of the Bishop or Bishops of whom they had license to preach 43 Doth any Preacher particularly impugne and confute any doctrine deliuered by any o●her Preacher in the same Church or in any Church neere adioyning before he hath acquainted the Bishop of the Dioces therewith and receiued order from him what to do in that ease 44 Haue you any Lecturer in your Parish and on what day is your Lecture If any such be doth he twice at the least euery yéere reade diuine Seruice both morning and euening two seuerall Sundayes publikely in his Surplice and Hood And also twice in the yéere administer both Sacraments with such Rites and Ceremonies as are prescribed by the Booke of Common Prayer 45 Doth the Lecturer whosoeuer he be reade the diuine Seruice according to the Liturgie printed by authority in his Surplice and Hood before euery Lecture 46 Doth your Preacher or Lecturer behaue himselfe in his Lectures and Sermons as he ought to doe teaching obedience and edifying his auditory in matters of faith and good life without intermedling with matters of State or newes or other discourses not fit for the Pulpit and also without fauouring or abetting Schismaticks or Separatists that are at home or are gone abroad either by speciall prayer for them or by any other approbation of them 47 Haue you any Lecture of Combination set up in your Parish And if so is it read by a companie of graue and orthodox Diuines néere adioyning and in the same Dioces And doth euery one of them preach in a Gowne and not in a Cloake And when and by whom were they appointed And what be their names 48 Is any single Lecturer maintained by your Towne or otherwise suffered to preach he not first pro●essing his willingnesse to take vpon him the cure of soules nor actually taking a Benefice or Cure so soone as it may be fairely procured for him What is his name and what license hath he And hath he a setled contribution affixed to the Lecturers place or is it arbitrary and for this Lecturer only What sum doth it amount to ordinarily By whom is it vsually paid or collected or of late yéeres hath béene 49 If any Psalmes be vsed to be sung in your Church before or after the morning and euening prayer or before or after the Sermons vpon which occasions only they are allowed to bee sung in Churches is it done according to that graue maner which first was in vse that such doe sing as can reade the Psalmes or haue learned them by heart and not after that vncough and vndecent custome of late taken vp to haue euery line first read and then sung by the people Chap. 5. Concerning Matrimony BE there any in your Parish that haue maried within the degrées of affinity or consanguinity by the Law of God forbidden as is expressed in a certaine Table published by authority in Anno 1563. And if any haue so maried what be their names and where were they maried and by whom 2 Hath any béene maried secretly in priuate houses or without their Parents or Gouernours consent signified being vnder the age of 21. yéeres 3 Haue any persons beene maried in your Parish the Banes hauing not been thrice published three seuerall Sundayes or Holydayes in time of diuine Seruice Who were the parties and who were present