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A00244	Articles to be inquired of, in the [f]irst metropoliticall visitation, of the most reuerend father, George, by Gods pro[v]idence, Arch- bishop of Canterbury, and primate of all England in, and for the dioces of Peterbury, in the yeare of our Lord God, 1613 and in the third yeare of His Graces translation.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1611-1633 : Abbot); Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1613 (1613)	STC 10314.7; ESTC S2101	11,036	19

Whether any person in your parish doe exercise any Trade or ●●bour buy or sell or keepe open Shoppes or Ware-houses vppon any Sunday or Holliday by themselues their Seruants or Apprentizes ●r haue otherwise prophaned the said daies contrary to the orders of the ●hurch of England And whether there bée any Inne-kéepers Ale-house-kéepers Victulers 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 afternoone ●pon those daies 17 Whether the fift day of August and the fift day of Nouember b●eacute e kept holie and thanksgiuing made to God for his Maiesties and this States happy deliueraunce according to the ordinance in that behalfe 18 Whether any of your parish hold or frequent any conuenticles or priuate congregations or make or maintaine any constitutions agréed vppon in any such assemblies Or any that doe write or publiquelie or priuately speake against the Booke of common praier or any ●hing therein contained or against any of the Articles of Religion agréed vpon in Anno 1562. or against the Kinges Supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall or against the Oath of Supremacy or of Alleagiance as pretending the same to be vnlawfull 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 gouernment of the church of England vnder the Kinges most excellent Maiestie by Arch-Bishops Byshoppes Deanes Arch-Deacons and other Officers of the same affirming that the same is repugnant to the Word of God and that the saide Ecclesiasticall Officers are not lawfully ordained Or whether there be any Authours Maintainours or Fauourers of Heresie or Scisme or that be suspected to be Annabaptists Libertines Brownists of the Familie of Loue or of any other Heresie or Scisme present their ●●mes 19 Whether any in your Parish haue 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 beene diuorced which keepe company with any other at Bed● and 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 science or offices and by what authority And how haue they demeaned them selues therein and of what skill are they accounted to be in their 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 behal●e you shal not faile to present the Executors and all others faulty therein and also how many persons beeing possessed of any Goods and Chattels haue dyed w thin your parish since the xvij day of Aprill 1613. 22 Whether any with-hold the stocke of the Church or any goods or other thinges 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 and disposed of as they should be And doe the Maisters Gouernours Fellowes and others of the said Houses and Corporations behaue and demeane themselues according to the godlie Ordinances and Statutes of their seueral Foundations 24 Whether haue you any in your Parish to your knowledge or by common fame or report which haue committed Adultry Fornication or Incest or any which haue impudentlie 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 sollicited any Woman to haue the carnall knowledge of her bodie or which are commonly reputed to be common Drunkards Blasphemers of Gods holy Name common Swearers common Slanderers of their Neighbours and owers of discord filthy and lasciuious Talkers Vsurers sc●monicall persons Bawds or Harborers of Women with Childe which be vnmarried or conueying or suffering them to goe away before they haue made satisfaction to the Congregation or any that hauing heretofore béene presented or suspected of any the foresaid crimes haue or that cause departed your Parish and are now returned againe Or any which haue vsed any inchantments sorceries incantations or witch ●asts which are not made fellony by the statutes of this Realme or any which haue committed any periury in any Ecclesiasticall Court in an Ecclesiasticall cause or which haue committed any lorgerie punishable by the Ecclesiasticall Lawes and the procurors and abettors of the saide ●fences You shall truely present the names of all and singuler the said Offendors and with whom they haue committed the saide offences in ●ase they haue not beene publikely punnished to your knowledge for the ●●me crimes Tou●hing the Church-wardens and Side-men ● VVHether you and the Church-wardens Quest-men or Side-men from time to time doe and haue done their diligences 〈◊〉 not suffering any role person to abide eyther in the Church-yard or Church-porch in Seruice or Sermon time but causing them either to ●●me into the Church to heare Diuine Seruice or to depart and not di●●urbe such as be hearers there And whether haue they and do you di●●gentlie see the Parishioners duely resort to the Church euery Sundaie and Holidaie and there to remaine during Diuine seruice and sermon ●nd whether you or your predecessors Churchwardens there suffer any places Feasts Drinkings or any other prophane vsages to be kept in ●ur Church Chappeil or Church-yards or haue suffered to your and ●●●ir vttermost power and indeuour any person or persons to bée tip●ng or drinking in any Inne or Victuling House in your Parish du●●g the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon on Sundaies and Holie●ies 2 Whether and how often haue you admitted any to Preach ●●thin your Church or chappell which was not sufficientlie licensed ●nd whether you together with your Minister haue not taken diligent ●●e and care that euery of your Parishioners being of sixteene yeares ●●ge or vpwards haue receiued thrice euery yeare as aforesaide and 〈◊〉 that no stranger haue vsually come to your church from their owne ●ish-church 3 Whether haue there béene prouided against euerie communion sufficient quantity of fine Wh te Bread and of good and wholesome ●me for the Communicants that shall receiu● And whether that wine brought in a cleane and swéete standing Pot of Pewter or of other ●●r 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

Schoole-Maisters 23 DOth any in your Parish take vpon him to teach Schoole without License of the Ordinary and is he conformable to the Religion now established And doth he bring his Schollers to the Church to heare Diuine seruice and Sermons And doth he instruct his Shollers in the groundes of the Religion now established in this Church of England and is he carefall and diligent to benefit his Schollers in learning Parish Clearkes and Sextons 24 HAue you a fit Parish Clark 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 whom are they so defrauded or denyed By whom are they chosen And whether the said Clarke be approued by the Ordinary 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 cleaue 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 Parishoners béeing sixtéene yeares of age or vpwards or others lodging or commonly resorting to any House within your Parish do wil●ullie absent themselues from your Parish-church vpon Sondaies or Holidaies at Morning and Euening Prayers Or who come late to Church and depart from church before ●●ruice be done vpon the said daies Or who doe not reuerently behaue ●●emselues during the time of Diuine Seruice deuoutly knéeling when ●e generall confession of sinnes the Letany the ten Commandements and all Prayers and Collects are read and vsing all due and lowly reue●●nce when the blessed name of the Lord Iesus Christ is mentioned and ●tanding vp when the Articles of the Beleefe are read or who doe couer ●heir heads in the Church during the time of Diuine seruice vnlesse it be a case of necessity in which case they may weare a Night-cap or coy●e Or who doe giue themselues to babling talking or walking and are ●ot attentiue to heare the word preached or read or reading or praying ●●ring the time aforesaid Whether any of your Parish being of sixtéen yeares of age or vpwards doe not receiue the holie communion in your ●hurch thrice euery yeare whereof once at Easter and whether they ●●e not deuoutly kneele at the receiuing thereof 2 Whether any of your Parishioners being admonished thereof ●●e not send their Children Seruants and Apprentizes to the Minister 〈◊〉 be catechized vppon such Sondaies and Holidaies as are appointed Or whether any of them doe refuse to come or if they come refuse to ●●ne those instructions set forth in the Booke of common prayer 3 Whether any of your parish doe entertaine within their house ●●y soiourner common guests or other persons who refuse to frequent ●iuine seruice or receiue the holie communion as aforesaide present ●●eir names their qualities or conditions 4 What Recusant Papists are there in your parish present their ●●nes qualities or conditions whether kéepe they any Schoolemaister 〈◊〉 their house which commeth not to church to heare Diuine seruice and ●●trine the Communion What is his Name and how long hath hée ●●ght there or else-where 5 Whether any of the said popish Recusants doe labour to seduce 〈◊〉 withdraw others from the Religion now established Or instruct 〈◊〉 Families or children in popish Religion or refuse to entertain any ●●●cially in place of greatest seruice or trust but such as concurre with 〈◊〉 in their papistry 6 How long haue the said Popish Recusants abstained from diuine ●●●uice or from the communion as aforesaid 7 Is there any in your parish that retaine vndefaced or sell vtter 〈◊〉 verse any popish Bookes or writings or any Bookes Libels or ●●●ings of any Secturies touching the Religion State or Gouern●●nt Ecclesiasticall of this Kingdome of England or kéepe 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 heare 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 Wiues 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 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 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 wittingly and vsualli● keepe them company 12 Whether any not being in orders doe execute any priestlie o● ministeriall office in your Church Chappell or Church-yard and wha● be their names 13 Whether any in your parish that hauing héeretofore taken vpon him the order of Priest-hood or Deacon hath since relinguished th● 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 him selfe disorderedly in the Church by filthy or prophane talke or any othe● leud or immodest behauiour Or haue disturbed the Minister in time o● Diuine seruice or Sermon or haue libelled or spoken slanderous worde against your Minister to the scandall of his vocation or diffamed an● of his Neighbours touching any crime o● 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 〈◊〉 be censured or punished for any matter of Ecclesiasticall conusance by any Vestry meetings or otherwise by their own authoritie Or haue ta●en any Money or commutation for the same Present their names that ●●ue done it And who haue beene so punished In what manner and vpon what cause 16