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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00190	Articles to be enquired of, in the ordinarie visitation of the most reuerend father in God, George by Gods providence, Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury ... holden in the yeere of our Lord God, 1632, and in the two and twenty yeere of His Graces translation.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1611-1633 : Abbot); Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1632 (1632)	STC 10227.3; ESTC S422	11,637	16

Ecclesiasticall or against the Oath of Supremacy or of Allegiance as pretending the same to be vnlawful 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 gouernment of the Church of England vnder the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and other Officers of the same affirming that the same is repugnant to the Word of God that the sayd Ecclesiastical Officers are not lawfully ordained Or whether be there any Authors maintainers or fauourers of Heresie or Schisme or that be suspected to be Anabaptists Libertines Brownists of the Familie of Loue or of any other Heresie or Schisme present their names 59 Item whether haue any in your Parish married within the degrées by law prohibited or any couple in your Parish being lawfully married liue apart one from the other without due separation of the Law or any that haue bin diuorced which keepe company with any other at Bed or at Bord and when and where they married 58 Item whether doe any persons administer the goods of the dead without lawfull authoritie or suppresse the last will of the dead Or are there in your Parish any wils not yet proued 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 dyed within your Parish since the yéere 1617. 59 Item whether doth any with-hold the stocke of the Church or any goods or other things giuen to good and charitable vses 60 Item whether are your Hospitalls and Almes-houses and other such houses and Corporations founded to good and charitable vses and the lands possessions and goods of the same ordered and disposed of as they should bee And doe the Masters Gouernours Fellowes and others of the said Houses and Corporations behaue and demeane themselues according to the godly Ordinances and Statutes of their seuerall Foundations 61 Item whether haue you any in your parish to your knowledge or by common fame report which haue committed Adultery Fornication or Incest or any which haue impudētly bragged or boasted that he or she haue liued incontinently with any person or persons whatsoeuer or any that hath attempted the chastity of any woman or solicited any woman to haue the carnall knowledge of her body or which are commonly reputed to bee common Drunkards Blasphemers of Gods holy Name common Swearers common Slanderers of their Neighbours sowers of discord filthy and laciuious talkers Usurers Symonaicall persons Bawds or harbourers of women with child which be vnmarried or conueying or suffering them to goe away before they haue made satisfaction to the congregation or any that hauing heretofore bene presented or suspected of any the aforesaid crimes haue for that cause departed your parish and are now returned again Or any which haue vsed any inchantments sorceries incantations or witchcrafts which are not made fellony by the statutes of this Realme or any which haue cōmitted any periury in any Ecclesiasticall Court in an Ecclesiasticall cause or which haue committed any forgery punishable by the Ecclesiasticall lawes and the procurers and abettors of the sayd offences You shall truely present the names of all and singular the sayd offendors and with whom they haue committed the said offences in case they haue not bin publikely punished to your knowledge for the same crimes 62 Item whether was the publike prayers and fast lately enioyned by authority for the pacifying of Gods wrath and for asswaging the late fearefull Plague béen duely and solemnely performed both by your Minister and Parishioners on the dayes and times appointed as also The day of thankesgiuing for Gods mercy in asswaging that fearefull sicknesse being Religiously obserued according to those publike formes set foorth by authority and whether haue you the sayd Bookes so published as by the same authority you were commanded VIII Concerning Ecclesiasticall Magistrates and Officers 63 WHether doe you know or haue heard of any payment composition or agreement to or with any Ecclesiasticall Magistrate Iudge or Officer for winking at or sparing to punish any person for any offence of Ecclesiastical conusance or for suppressing or concealing of any Recusant or any other offendour in the cases afore-sayd What sum of money or other consideration hath bin receiued or promised by or to any of them in that respect by whom and with whom 64 Item whether hath any person within your parish payd or promised any sum of mony or other reward for communication of penance for any crime of Ecclesiastical conusance If so then with whom when and for what and how hath the same bene imployed 65 Item whether are your Ecclesiasticall Iudges and their Substitutes Masters of Arts or Bachelours of the Law at the least learned and practised in the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall Lawes Men of good life and fame zealously affected in Religion and iust vpright in executing their offices Haue they heard any matter of Office priuately in their chambers without their sworne Registers or their Deputies presence 66 Item whether doe you know or haue you heard that any Ecclesiasticall Iudge Offcer or Minister hath receiued or taken any extraordinary fees or other rewards or promises by any wayes or meanes directly or indirectly of any person or persons whatsoeuer either for the granting of the administration of the goods and chattells of those that haue died intestate to one before another or for allotting of larger portions of the goods and chattells 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 defraud Creditors Legataries or those who are to haue portions And what summes of money do you know or haue you heard that any Ecclesiastical Iudge or Officer hath taken out of the state of any dying intestate vpon pretence

may weare a Night cap or Coyse Or who doe giue themselues to babling talking or walking and are not attentiue to the word preached or read or reading or praying during the time aforesaid Whether any of your Parish being of sixteene yeares of age and vpwards do not receiue the holy Communion in your Church thrice euery yéere wherof once at Easter and whether they doe not deuoutly kneele at the receiuing thereof 39 Item whether any of your Parishioners being admonished therof doe not send their children seruants and apprentises to the Minister to be catechised vpon such Sundayes and Holidayes as are appointed or whether any of them do refuse to come or if they come refuse to learne the Catechisme set foorth in the booke of Common Prayer 40 Item how many of the sayd Catechismes haue bin dispersed in your Parish or Chappell according to the number of such children and seruants as can reade and are to learne the same according to the late Iniunction of your Ordinary and who they bee that haue refused to obey that order so enioyned and what are their seuerall names 41 Item whether any of your Parish doe entertaine within their house any soiournier common guests or other persons who refuse to frequent diuine Seruice or receiue the holy Communion as aforesayd Present their names their qualities or conditions 42 Item what recusāt Papists are there in your parish or haue dwelt or made vsuall abode there within the space of two or thrée yéeres last past and whether they still dwell or remaine there or where doe they dwell or make their abode Present their names qualities or conditions And whether keepe they any Schoole-master in their house which commeth not to Church to heare Diuine Seruice and receiue the Communion What is his name and how long hath he taught there or else where 43 Item whether doe any of the sayd Popish Recusants labor to seduce and withdraw others from the Religion now established or instruct their Families or children in Popish Religion or refuse to entertaine any especially in place of greatest seruice or trust but such as concurre with them in their Papistry 44 Item whether the tuition of the children of any of your Parishioners dying within your Parish be committed to any Popish Recusants conuict contrary to the Stat. 3 I●● Cap. 5. and if so to present and certifie the names both of such children and of the Tutors or Guardians to whose tuition and education they are committed 45 Item how long haue the sayd Popish Recusants abstained from Diuine Seruice or from the Communion as aforesayd 46 Item whether 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 Seetaries touching the Religion State or Gouernment Ecclesiasticall of this Kingdome of England or kéepe any Ornaments of superstition vncancelled or vndefaced 48 Item whether haue you any in your parish which hertofore being Popish Recusants or Sectaries haue since reformed themselues and come to Church to heare Diuine Seruice and receiue the Sacraments If yea then who they are how long since haue they so reformed themselues And whether they still remaine and abide in that conformitie 49 Item whether is there any in your parish that refuse to haue their children baptized or themselues to receiue the Cōmunion at the hands of your Minister taking exception against him and what causes or exceptious doe they alledge Or haue any married wiues refused to come to Church according to the book of Common prayer to giue God thanks 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 cōmon prayer 50 Item whether any in your parish hauing a Preacher to your Parson Uicar or Curate 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 51 Item what persons within your parish for any offence contumacy or crime of Ecclesiasticall conusance doe stand Excommunicate Present their names and for what cause they are Excommunicated and how long they haue so stood and what person and persons doe wittingly and vsually kéepe them company 52 Item whether doe any not being in Orders execute any Priestly or Ministeriall office in your Church Chappell or Churchyard and what be their names 53 Item whether is there any in your parish that hauing hertofore taken vpon him the Order of Priesthood or Deacon hath since relinquished the same and liues a Lay-man neglecting his vocation 54 Item whether hath any person or persens in your parish quarrelled or stricken or vsed any violence to your Minister or hath strucken or quarreld with any other persō within your Church or Churchyard or demeaned himselfe disorderly in the Church by filthy or prophane talke or any other lewd or immodest behauior Or haue disturbed the Minister in time of diuine Seruice or Sermon or haue libelled or spoken slanderous words against your Minister to the scandall of his vocation or defamed any of his neighbours touching any crime of Ecclesiasticall conusance 55 Item whether haue any of or in your parish without consent of the Ordinary or other lawfull authoritie caused any to doe penance or to be censured or punished for any matter of Ecclesiastical conusance by any Uestry-meetings or otherwise by their own authority or haue takē any money or cōmutatiō for the same present their names that haue don it and who haue béen so punished in what manner and vpon what cause 56. Item whether any person in your parish do exercise any trade or labour buy or sell or keepe open shops or ware-houses vpon any Sunday or Holiday by thēselues their seruants or apprentices or haue otherwise profaned the said daies contrary to the orders of the Church of Englād And whether there be any Inne keepers Ale-house-kéepers Uictualers or other persons that permit 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 after-noone vpon these dayes 57 Item whether hath the fift day of Nouember bin kept holy and thanksgiuing made to God for his Maiesties this States happy deliuerance according to the Ordinance in that behalfe And whether haue you in your Parish Church or Chappell the bookes in this behalfe set foorth and commanded by publike authority 58 Item whether doth any of your parish hold or frequent any conuēticles or priuate congregations or make or maintain any constitutions agreed vpon in any such assemblies Or are there any that do write or publikely or priuately speake against the booke of Common prayer or any thing therein contained or against any of the Articles of Religion agréed vpon in Anno 1562. or against the Kings Supremacy in causes