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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

Schoole-Maisters 23 DOth any in your Parish take vppon him to teach Schoole without License of the Ordinary and is he conformable to the Religion now established And doeth hee bring his Schollers to the Church to heare Diuine seruice and Sermons And doth he instruct his Schollers in the groundes of the Religion nowe established in this Church of England and is he carefull and diligent to benefit his Schollers in learning Parish Clearkes and Sextons 24 HAue you a fit Parish Clearke aged twenty yeares at least of honest conuersation able to read and write Whether are his and the Sextons wages paid without fraud according to the ancient custome of your Parish if not then by whome are they so defrauded or denyed By whome are they chosen and whether the said Clearke bee approued by the Ordinarie and hath he taken an Oath as in such cases is fit and required and is he diligent in his Office and seruiceable to the Minister and doth he take vpon him to meddle with any thing aboue his Office as Churching of women burying the dead or such like 25 Doth your Clarke or Sexton kéepe the Church cleane the doores locked Is any thing lost or spoyled in the Church through his default doth he suffer any vnseasonable ringing or any prophane exercise in your Church Or doth he when any is passing out of this life neglect to tole a Bell hauing notice thereof Concerning the Parishoners 1 VVHether any of your Parishioners béeing sixetéene yeares of age or vpwards or others lodging or commonly resorting to any House within your Parish do wilfully absent themselues from your Parish-church vpon Sondayes or Holidaies at Morning and Euening Prayers Or who come late to Church and depart from Church before seruice be done vpon the said daies Or who doe not reuerently behaue themselues during the time of Diuine seruice deuoutly kneeling when the generall confession of sins the Letany the ten Commandements and al Prayers and Collects are read and vsing al due and lowly reuerence when the blessed Name of the Lord Iesus Christ is mentioned standing vp when the Articles of the Beleefe are read or who doe couer their head in the Church during the time of Diuine seruice vnlesse it be in case of necessity in which case they may weare a Night-cap or coyfe Or who do giue themselues to babling talking or walking and are not attentiue to heare the word preached or read or reading or praying during the time afore-said Whether any of your parish being of sixteen yeares of age or vpwards doe not receiue the holy communion in your Church thrice euery yeare whereof once of Easter and whether they do not deuoutly kneele at the receiuing thereof 2 Whether any of your Parishioners being admonished thereof do not send their Children Seruants and Apprentizes to the Minister to be Catechized vpon such Sundaies and Holidaies as are appointed Or whether any of them doe refuse to come or if they come refuse to learne those instructions set forth in the Booke of common prayer 3 Whether any of your parish doe entertaine within their house any soiourner common guests or other persons who refuse to frequent Diuine seruice or receiue the holy communion as afore-said Present their names their qualities or conditions 4 What Recusant Papists are there in your parish present their names qualities or conditions whether keepe they any Schoolemaister in their house which commeth not to church to heare Diuine seruice and receiue the Communion What is his Name and how long hath hee taught there or else where 5 Whether any of the saide Popish Recusants do labour to seduce and with-draw others from the Religion now established Or instruct their Families or children in popish Religion or refuse to entertain any especially in place of greatest seruice or trust but such as concurre with them in their papistry 6 Now long haue the said Popish Recusants abstained from diuine seruice or from the communion as aforesaid 7 Is there any in your parish that retaine vndefaced or sell vtter or disperse any popish Bookes or Writings or other Bookes Libels or writings of any Sectuaries touching the Religion State or Gouernment Ecclesiasticall of this Kingdome of England or keepe any Ornaments of superstition vncancelled or defaced 8 Whether haue you any in your Parish which héeretofore being Popish Recusants or Sectuaries haue since reformed themselues and come to Church to heart Diuine Seruice and receiue the Sacraments If yea then who they are And how long since haue they so reformed themselues And whether they still remaine and abide in that conformitie 9 Is there any in your Parish that refuse to haue their Children Baptized or themselues to receiue the Communion at the hands of your Minister taking exception against him and what causes or exceptions doe they alledge or haue any married Wines refused to come to church according to the Booke of common Prayer to giue God thankes after their Child-birth for their safe deliuerance And whether doe any of or in your Parish refuse to haue their children Baptized in your parish-church according to the forme prescribed in the Booke of common Prayer 10 Whether any of your Parish hauing a Preacher to their parson Vicar or Cudite doe absent themselues from his Sermons and resort to other places to heare other Preachers Or whether any of your parish doe communicate or baptize their Children in any other parish 11 What persons within your parish for any offence contumacy or crime of Ecclesiasticall Conusance do stand excommunicate present their names and for what cause they are excommunicated and how long they haue so stood and what parson or persons doe writingly and vsuallie kéepe them company 12 Whether any not being in orders doe execute any priestlie or ministeriall office in your Church Chappell or Church-yard and what be their names 13 Whether any in your parish that hauing héeretofore taken vpon him the order of Priest-hoode or Deacon hath since relinquished the same and liues a Lay-man neglecting his vocation 14 Haue any person in your Parish quarrelled or stricken or vsed any violence to your Minister or haue strucken or quarrelled with any other person within your Church or Church-yard or demeaned himselfe disorderedly in the Church by filthy or prophane talke or any other lend or immodest behauiour Or haue disturbed the Minister in time of Diuine seruice or Sermon or haue libelled or spoken slanderous wordes against your Minister to the scandall of his vocation or diffamed any of his Neighbours touching any crime of Ecclesiasticall conusance 15 Whether any of or in your Parish without consent of the Ordinary or other lawfull authority haue caused any to doe pennance or to be censured or punished for any matter of Ecclesiasticall conusance by any Vestry méetings or otherwise by their owne authoritie Or haue taken any money or commutation for the same Present their names that haue done it And who haue been so punished In what manner and vpon what