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A00267	Iniunctions giuen by the most reuerende father in Christ, Edmonde by the prouidence of God, Archbishop of Yorke primate of England, and Metropolitane, in his Metropoliticall visitation of the prouince of Yorke, aswell to the clergie, as to the laytie of the same prouince. Anno do. 1571.; Visitation articles. 1571	Church of England. Province of York. Archbishop (1570-1576 : Grindal); Grindal, Edmund, 1519?-1583.	1571 (1571)	STC 10375; ESTC S111863	27,196	46

same the English Bible in the largest volume the two Tomes of the Homelies with the Homelies lately written against Rebellion the table of the tenne Commaundementes a conuenient Pulpitte well placed a comely and decent table standing on a framefor the holy Communion with a faire linnen clothe to lay vpon the same and some couering of Silke Buckram or other such like for the cleane kéeping thereof a fayre and comely Communion cuppe of siluer and a couer of siluer for the same which may serue also for the ministration of the Communion bread a decent large Surplesse with sléeues a sure Coffer with two lockes and keyes for kéeping of the Register booke and a strong chest or Boxe for the almose of the paire with thrée lockes and keyes to the same and all other things necessarie in and to the premisses And shall also prouide before the sayde day the Paraphrases of Erasmus in English vpon the Gospels and the same set vp in some conuenient place within their church or chappell the charges whereof the person or proprietarie and Parishioners shall by equall portions beare according to the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions all which bookes must be whole and not torne or vnperfit in any wise And the Churchwardens also shal from time to time at the charges of the Parish prouide bread and wine for the Communion And for that purpose shal take some order among the Parishioners that euery one may pay such a reasonable summe towards the same as may suffice for the finding of breade and wine for the Communion throughout the whole yeare so as no Communion at any tyme be disappoynted for want of bread and wine 5 Item that the Churchwardens shall sée that in theyr churches and chappels all Aultars be vtterly taken downe and cléere remooued euen vnto the foundation and the place where they stoode paued and the wall wherevnto they ioyned whited ouer and made vniforme with the reast so as no breach or rupture appeare And that the Aulterstones be broken defaced and bestewed to some common vse And that the Roode loftes be taken downe and altered so that the vpper bordes and timber thereof both behinde and aboue where the Rood lately did hang and also the soller or loft be quite taken downe vnto the crosse beame wherevnto the particion betwéene the Quéere and the bodie of the church is fastened and that the sayde beame haue some conuenient creast put vpon the same And that all the bordes beames and other stuffe of the Roode loftes be solde by the churchwardens to the vse of the church so as no part thereof be kept and reserued 6 Item that the churchwardens shall from time to time sée that their churches and chappels and the stéeples thereof be diligently and well repayred with leade tyle slate or shingle lyme stone tymber glasse and all other necessaries and that their churches and chappels be kept cleane and decently that they be not lothsome to any eyther by dust sande grauell or anye filth and that there bée no feastes dinners or common drinkings kept in the church and that the churchyardes be well fenced and clenly kept and that no folkes be suffered to daunce in the same 7 Item that the Churchwardens and Minister shall sée that Antiphoners Masse bookes Grayles Portesses Processionals Manualles Legendaries and all other bookes of late belonging to their church or chappell which serued for the supersticious latine seruice be vtterly defaced rent abolished And that all Uestments Albes Tunicles Stoles Phanons Pixes Paxes Handbelles Sacringbelles Senscers Crismatories Crosses Candlestickes Holy water stocks or Fattes Images and all other reliques and monuments of superstition ydolatrie be vtterly defaced broken destroyed if they cannot come by any of the same they shall present to the Ordinary what they cannot come by and in whose custodie the same is to the intent further order may bée taken for the defacing therof 8 Item when anye man or woman dwelling néere to the church in any Citie Borough or great towne is in passing out of this life the Parishe clarke or Sextan shall knoll the bell to mooue the people to pray for the sicke person And after the time of the departing of any christian bodie out of this life the churchwardens shall sée that neyther there be any more ringing but one short peale before the buriall and another short peale after the buriall without ringing of any handbels or other superfluous or supersticious ringing eyther before or at the time of the buriall or at any time after the same nor any other forme of seruicesayde or song or other ceremonies vsed at any buriall than are appointed by the booke of common prayer And also that neyther on all Saints day after Euening prayer nor the day next after of late called all Soules day there be any ringing at all other then to common prayer when the same shall happen to fall vpon the Sunday And that no Moneth myndes or yearely commemorations of the dead nor any other supersticious ceremonies be obserued or vsed which tende to the maintenaunce eyther of prayer for the deade or of the Popishe Purgatorie 9 Item that the Churchwardens shall not suffer any ringing or tolling of Belles to be on Sundayes or holydayes vsed betwéene the morning prayer Letanie and Communion nor in any other tyme of common prayer reading of the Homelies or of preaching except it be one Bell in conuenient time to bée rong or knolled before a Sermon nor shall suffer any other ringing to be vsed vpon Saintes euens or festiuall dayes sauing to common prayer and that moderately and without excesse nor the Minister shall pawse or stay betweene the morning prayer Letanie and Communion but shall continue and saye the morning prayer Letanie and communion or the seruice appoynted to be sayde when there is no Communion togither without any intermission to the intent the people may continue togither in prayer and hearing the worde of God and not depart out of the church during all the time of the whole diuine seruice 10 Item that all fathers mothers maysters and other gouerners of youth shall in euery parish cause their children and seruaunts both menkinde and womenkinde being aboue seuen yeares of age and vnder twentie yeares which haue not learned the Catechisme or at the least such and so many of them as the Minister shall appoynt diligently to come to the church euery Sunday and euery holy day at the time appoynted and there diligently obediently to heare learne and be ordered by the Minister vntill such time as they haue learned all the sayde Catechisme by heart and shall giue to the Minister the names of all their children and seruauntes both men kinde and women kinde being aboue seuen yeares and vnder twentie yeares of age to the intent he may call for them to be examined and instructed in the sayde Cathechisme And if any of the sayde fathers mothers maysters or other gouernours of youth shall refuse or

neglect so to sende their children or seruauntes vnto the Minister to be examined and instructed at the tymes appoynted or to giue theyr names as is aforesayd or if any of the sayd yong folkes shall refuse to be examined and instructed that then the Minister and Churchwardens shall present such negligent persons and refusers to the Ordinarie to be by him punished accordingly 11 Item that all men and women of fourtene yeares of age and vpwardes shall as by the lawes of this realme they are bounde receyue in their owne parishe Churches or Chappels the holy communion thrise at the least euery yeare and namely at Easter or there aboutes for once and yearely before Easter at conuenient times and namely on Sundaies in Lent at after noone or in some of the workedayes next before Easter as the person vicare or curate shall appoynt they shall before they receyue come to the Minister and recite to him such of them as be of fouretene yeares or aboue and vnder .xxiiij. yeares of age the whole Catechisme by heart and such of them as be of .xxiiij. yeares of age and vpwardes the Catechisme or at the least the Lordes prayer the articles of the fayth and the tenne commaundements likewise by heart in Englishe and whosoeuer eyther cannot or wilfully and stubburnely shall refuse to recite and say the same by heart before their Minister shall be repelled and put back from the Communion Table And the churchwardens and Minister shall present all such refusers and all others that shall not receyue thrise a yeare the holy Communion vnto the Ordinarie yearely at the next visitation after Easter 12 Item the Churchwardens shall not suffer any Pedler or others whatsoeuer to set out any wares so sale eyther in the Porches of Churches or in the Churchyardes nor any where else on holy dayes or Sundayes whiles any part of diuine seruice is in doyng or whiles any sermon is in preaching 13 Item that no Inkéeper Alehousekéeper Uictualer or Typler shall admit or suffer any person or persons in his house or backeside to eate drinke or play at cardes Tables Bowles or other games in tyme of common prayer preachings or reading of Homelyes on the Sundayes or holy dayes and that there be no shoppes set open on Sundayes or holydayes nor any Butchers or others suffered to sell meate or other thinges vppon the Sundayes or holy dayes in lyke time of common prayer preaching or reading of the Homelyes And that in any fayres or common Markets falling vpon the Sunday there be no shewing of any wares before all the Morning seruice and the Sermon if there be any be done And if any shall offend in this behalfe the Churchwardens and sworne men after once warning giuen vnto them shall present them by name vnto the Ordinarie 14 Item that the laye people of euery Parish as they bée bounde by the lawes of this Realme and especially housholders hauing no lawfull excuse to be absent shall faythfully and diligently endeuour themselues to resort with their children and seruaunts to their parishe Church or Chappell on the holye dayes chiefly vpon the Sundayes both to Morning and Euening prayer and other diuine seruice and vpon reasonable let therof to some other vsuall place where common praier is vsed and then and there abide orderly and soberly during all the time of common prayer Homelies Sermons and other seruice of God there vsed reuerently and deuoutly giuing themselues to prayer and hearing of the worde of god And that the churchwardens and sworne men aboue all others shall be diligent in frequenting and resorting to their parishe churches or chappels vpon Sundayes and holy dayes to the intent they maye note and marke all such persons as vpon any such dayes shall absent themselues from the Church and vppon such absence shall exami ne them of the cause thereof 15 Item that the churchwardens and sworne men shall not suffer any persons to walke talke or otherwise vnreuerently to behaue themselues in any church or chappell nor to vse any gaming or to sitt abrode in the stréetes or churchyardes or in any Tauerne or Alehouse vpon the Sundayes or other holy dayes in the time of diuine seruice or of any Sermon whether it bée before noone or after noone but after warning once giuen shall punishe both them and all others that negligently or wilfully shall absent themselues from diuine seruice or come very late to the church vpon Sundayes or holy dayes hauing no lawfull let or hinderaunce and those also that without any iust cause shall depart out of the Church before the diuine seruice or sermon be done according to a statute made in the first yeare of the Quéenes Maiesties reigne printed and set forth in the beginning of the booke of common prayer that is to saye the Churchwardens shall leuie and take of euery one that wilfully or negligently so shall offend the forteyfure of xij ▪ pence for euerie such offence and shall also present them to the Ordinarie which forfeytures they shall leuie according to the same statute by distrayning the goodes landes and tenements of such offenders and shall as by the same statute they are appoynted deliuer the money that commeth thereof to the Collectors for the vse of the poore people of the same parishe 16 Item that no person or persons whatsoeuer shall weare Beades or pray eyther in Latine or in English vpon Beades or knottes or any other like supersticious thing nor shall pray vpon any popish Latine or English Primer or other like booke nor shall burne any candels in the church superstitiously vpon the feast of the purification of the virgin Marie commonly called Candlemasse day nor shall resort to anye popishe priest for shrift or auriculer confession in Lent or at any other time nor shal worship any crosse or any Image or picture vpon the same nor giue any reuerence therevnto nor supersticiously shal make vpon themselues the signe of the crosse when they first enter into any church to pray nor shall say De profundis for the dead or rest at any crosse in carying any corps to burying nor shall leaue any little crosses of wood there 17 Item that yearely at Midsommer the person vicar or curate and churchwardens shall choose two Collectors or more for the reliefe of the poore of euery Parishe according to a statute made in that behalfe in the fift yeare of the Quéenes Maiesties reigne intituled an art for the reliefe of the poore and renewed in the last Parliament which collectors shall wéekely gather the charitable almose of the Parishioners and destribute the same to the poore where most néede shall be without fraude or partialitie and shall quarterly make vnto the person vicar or curate and churchwardens a iust account thereof in writing And if any person of habilitie shall obstinately or frowardly refuse to giue reasonably towardes the reliefe of the poore or shall wilfully discourage others from so charitable a déede or shall withdrawe his

being ordred at the least for a Deacon or licenced by the Ordinarie do say common prayer openly in your Church or Chappell or anye not being at the least a Deacon doe solemnise Matrimonie or administer the Sacrament of Baptisme or deliuer vnto the Communicants the Lordes Cup at the celebracion of the holye Communion and what he or they be that so doe And whether the Person Uicar or Fermer of your benefice do cause or suffer any Curat or Minister to serue your Church before he be examined and admitted by the ordinarie or his deputie in writing and doe shewe his licence to the Churchwardens and whether any Curat doe serue two Cures at one time without the speciall licence of the Ordinarie or his deputie in that behalfe in writing first had 12 Whether your Person Uicar or Curat doe euerie Sunday when there is no Sermon reade distinctly and playnly some parte of the Homilies prescribed and set forth by the Quéenes authoritie to be read and euery holy day when there is no Sermon immediatly after the Gospell openly plainely and distinctly recyte to his Parishioners the Lordes prayer the Articles of the fayth and the tenne Commaundements in english and whether anye Minister not admitted by the Ordinarie or by other lawfull authoritie doe erpounde any scripture or matter of doctrine by the way of exhortation or otherwyse and thereby omit and leaue of the reading of the Homelies 13 Whether your Person Uicar or Curat doe euery Sunday and holy day openly in the Church call for here and instruct all the Children Apprentises and seruaunts of both sexes that be of conuenient age within your Parish or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serue and as he may well heare and instruct for halfe an houre at the least before or at the euening prayer in the tenne Commaundementes the Articles of the beliefe and the Lords prayer and diligentlye examine and teach them the Catechisme set forth in the booke of common prayer And whether for that purpose he doth take the names of them all and by course call certaine of them by name euery sunday holy day to come to the teaching of the same Catechisme 14 Whether all fathers and mothers maysters and dames of your Parishe cause their children seruauntes and apprentises both mankinde and womankind being aboue seuen yeres of age and vnder twentie which haue not learned the Catechisme to come to the Church on Sundayes and holydayes at the tymes appointed or at the least such and so manye of them as your minister shall appoynt and there diligently and obediently to heare and to be ordered by the minister vntill such tyme as they haue learned the same Catechisme and what be the names of those that doe not cause their children seruaunts and apprentises so to come to the church to be instructed and examined and howe many of the sayde children sruaunts and apprentises be in your Parish which being aboue seuen yeares olde and vnder twentie yeares of age can not saye by heart the sayde Catechisme and what be their names and age and with whom they dwell 15 Whether your Person Uicar Curate or other Minister in your Church or Chappell hath admitted to the receyuing of the holy Communion any open and notorious sinner or euill liuer by whom the congregation is offended without due penance first done to the satisfaction of the congregation or any malicious person that is out of charitie or that hath done any open wrong to his neighbour by worde or déede without due reconciliation first made to the partie that is wronged 16 Whether your person vicar curate or minister hath admitted to the holy Communion any of his Parishe being aboue twentie yeares of age eyther mankind or womankind that cannot say by heart the ten Commaundements the Articles of the fayth and the Lordes prayer in English and what be the names of such as cannot say the same or being aboue fourtéene yeares and vnder twenty yeares of age that can not say the Catechisme set forth in the sayde booke of common prayer And whether he marry any persons which were single before that cannot say the Catechisme And whether he vseth to examine his Parishioners at conuenient tymes before he administer vnto them and namely before Easter yearely to the intent he maye knowe whether they can say by heart the same which is required in this behalfe or no 17 Whether your Priestes and Ministers be peacemakers and no brawlers or sowers of discorde and exhort their Parishioners to obedience towardes their Prince and all other that be in authoritie and to charitie and mutuall loue among themselues whether they be diligent in visiting the sick and comforting them and doe mooue them earnestly especially when they make theyr Testaments to consider the necessitie of the poore and to giue to their boxe or chest their charitable deuotion and almose 18 Whether they neglect the studie of the holye Scriptures and of the worde of God and whether such of them as be vnder the degrée of a mayster of Arte haue of their owne at the least the newe Testament both in English and Latine and whether they doe euery day with good aduisement conferre one Chapter of the Latine and English togither at the least And whether they haue giuen due accompt thereof and to whome 19 Whether anye of your persons vicars curates or ministers be fauourers of the Romishe or forreyne power letters of true religion preachers of corrupt and Popishe doctrine or mainteyners of sectaryes or doe set forth and extoll vaine and supersticious religion or be mainteyners of the vnlearned people in ignoraunce and errour encouraging or moouing them rather to pray in an vnknowne tongue than in Englishe or to put their trust in a certain number of prayers as in saying ouer a number of beades Ladie Psalters or other like 20 Whether any doe preach declare or speake any thing in derogation of the booke of common prayer which is set forth by the lawes of this Realme dispraysing the same or any thing therin contained 21 Whether your persons vicars curates haue twise in the yere vpon some Sundaye within one Moneth next after Easter and Michaelmasse read openly in the church after the gospell be said plainly without addition or chaunge a declaratiō of certaine principall articles of religion set forth by both the Archbishops and the reast of the Bishops of this realme for vnity of doctrine 22 Whether your person vicare curate minister or reader doe church any vnmaried woman which hath bene gotten wyth childe out of lawfull mariage say for hir the forme of thankesgiuing of women after childbirth except such an vnmaried woman haue either before hir childbirth done due penaunce for hir fault to the satisfaction of the congregation or at hir comming to giue hankes doe openly acknowledge hir fault before the congregaion at the appoyntment of the Minister according to order prescribed to the sayde

raigne of our most gracious soueraigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God Quéene of England Fraunce and Irelande defender of the fayth c. ¶ Imprinted at London by William Seres Anno. 1571. Articles to be enquired of within the prouince of Yorke in the Metropoliticall visitation of the most reuerent father in God Edmond Archebishop of Yorke Primate and Metropolitane of England WHether common prayer be song or sayde by your person Uicar or Curate in your seuerall Churches or Chappels distinctly and reuerently in such order as it is set forth by the lawes of this Realme without any kinde of alteration and at due and conuenient houres And whether your Minister so turne himselfe and stande in such place of your Church or Chauncell as the people may best here the same And whether the holye Sacraments be likewyse ministred reuerently in such maner as by the lawes of this realme is appoynted And whether vpon Wednesdayes and Fridayes not béeing holydayes the Letanie and other prayers appoynted for the day be sayde accordingly 2 Whether you haue in your parish Churches and Chappels all things necessary and requisite for common prayer ▪ and administration of the Sacraments specially the Booke of common prayer with the newe kalender a Psalter the Englishe Bible in the largiest volume the two Tomes of the Homelyes the Paraphrases of Erasmus translated into Englishe the table of the ten cōmaundements a conuenient Pulpit well placed a comely and decent table standing on a frame for the holy Communion with a fayre lynnen cloth to lay vpon the same and some couering of silke Buckram or other such like for the cleane kéeping thereof a fayre and comely Communion cup of siluer and a couer of siluer for the same which may serue also for the ministration of the communion bread a decent large surplesse with sléeues a sure Coffer with two locks keies for the kéeping of the Register booke and a strong chest or boxe for the almose of the poore with thrée locks and keyes to the same and all other things necessary in and to the premisses 3 Whether the forme of commination agaynst sinners with certaine prayers following the same set forth in the latter ende of the booke of common prayer to be vsed at diuers tymes in the yeare be by your Minister plainely and distinctly red in your Church or Chappel vnto the people betwéene the Letany and the cōmemoration or ministration of the holy cōmunion thrée times at the least in the yeare that is to say for order sake yearely vpon one of the thrée Sundayes next before Easter for the first tyme vpon one of the two Sundayes next before the feast of Pentecost for the seconde tyme And for the thirde tyme vpon one of the two Sundayes next before the feast of the birth of our Lord ouer and besides the accustomed reading therof vpon the first day of Lent 4 Whether in your churches and chappels all Aulters be vtterly taken downe and cleane remooued euen vnto the foundation and the place where they stoode paued and the wall wherevnto they ioyned whited ouer and made vniforme with the reast so as no breach or rupture appeare And whether your Roodlofts be taken downe and altered so that the vpper partes thereof with the soller or loft be quite taken downe vnto the crosse beame and that the sayde beame haue some conuenient creast put vpon the same 5 Whether your Churches and Chappels with the chauncels thereof be well and sufficiently repayred and kept without abuse of any thing And whether your churchyardes be well fensed and clenly kept And if any part thereof be in decay through whose default it is so 6 Whether all and euery Antiphonars Masse bookes Grailes Portesses Processionals Manualles Legendaryes and all other bookes of late belonging to your Church or Chappell which serued for the supersticious Latine seruice be vtterly defaced rent and abholished and if they be not through whose default that is and in whose kéeping they remaine And whether all Uestments Albes Tunicles Stoles Phanons Pixes Paxes Handbelles Sacringbelles Senseres Crismatories Crosses Candlestickes Holy water stocks Images and such other reliques and monuments of superstition and Idolatrie be vtterly defaced broken and destroied And if not where in whose custodie they remaine 7 Whether your person vicar curate or minister doe weare any cope in your Parish church or chappell or minister the holy Communion in any Chalice heretofore vsed at Masse or in anye prophane cuppe or glasse or vse at the ministration thereof anye gestures rites or ceremonies not appoynted by the booke of common prayer as crossing or breathing ouer the sacramentall bread and wine or shewing the same to the people to be worshipped and adored or any such lyke of vse any Oyle and Chrisme Tapers spattle or any other Popish ceremonie in the ministration of the Sacrament of Baptisme 8 Whether any holy dayes or fasting dayes heretofore abrogated or not appoynted to be vsed as holy daies or fasting daies by the newe Kalender of the booke of common prayer be eyther proclaymed and bidden by your Person Uicar or Curate or be superstitiously obserued by any of your parish and what be their names that so doe obserue the same and whether there be anye ringing or tolling of Belles to call the people togither vsed in any of those dayes more or otherwise then commonly is vsed vpon other dayes that be kept as workedayes 9 Whether when anye man or woman is in passing out of this lyfe the Bell be tolled to mooue the people to pray for the sicke person especially in all places where the sicke person dwelleth néere vnto the Church and whether after the time of his or hir passing out of this worlde there be any more ringing but one short peale before the buriall and another short peale after the buriall without any other superfluous or supersticious ringing And whether on all Saintes daye after Euening praier there be any ringing at all or any other supersticious ceremonie vsed tending to the maintenaunce of Popishe purgatorie or of prayer for the deade and who they be that vse the same And whether there be any ringing or knolling of belles on sundayes or holy dayes betwene morning prayer and the Letanie or in any time of the common prayer reading of the Homelies or of preaching except one Bell in conuenient time to be rong or tolled before the Sermon or any other ringing vsed vpon Saintes éeues or festiuall dayes sauing to common prayer and that without excesse and who doth ring or knolle otherwise 10 Whether your Person or Uicar haue preached or cause to be duely preached in your Church his quarterly or monethly Sermons as by the Quéenes Iniunctions he is bounde and what be the names of such as haue preached for him and whether he hath admitted any man to preach not hauing sufficient licence or hath inhibited or letted anye from preaching hauing sufficient licence 11 Whether any Person or Persons not