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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	ecclesiastical_a	person_n	supremacy_n	1,601	5	10.6973	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00136	Articles ecclesiastical to be enquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men within the [blank] in the visitation of the [blank] and in the ([blank] yeere of the reigne of our most dread soueraigne lord King Iames)	Church of England.	1621 (1621)	STC 10133.9; ESTC S421	7,466	15

ARTICLES ECCLESIASTICAL TO be enquired of by the Church-wardens and Sworne-men within the _____ In the Visitation of the _____ And in the _____ yeere of the Reigne of our most dread Soueraigne Lord King IAMES LONDON Printed by IOHN BILL 1621. ❧ The Oath YOu shall sweare by the Name of Almighty God well and truely to execute the Office of Churchwardens and Sidemen c. That you shall diligently consider and enquire of all and euery the Articles following and make a true answere to euery of the same seuerally and distinctly in writing presenting euery person of your Parish who hath or shall in your Parish or elsewhere and euery person of any other Parish who hath or shall in your Parish commit any offence or fault mentioned in any of the said Articles or which are publikely and credibly defamed for any such offence or fault wherein you shall not vnduely present any person or persons of euill will malice or any corrupt affection nor shall for loue fauour dread or any other indirect affection spare to present any that bee offenders in any of those cases but shall doe vprightly as men hauing the feare of God before your eyes and desirous to maintaine vertue and suppresse vice So helpe you God by Christ Iesus ¶ Note you are by your said Oath to present truely what you either know of your owne knowledge or what is publikely or credibly famed and spoken touching any matter or thing contained in any Article following FIrst whether any person whatsoeuer of your Parish doth maintaine or defend any Heresies false opinions or Popish errors contrary to the word of God and the Articles of Religion established in this Realme 2 Whether any person bee an impugner or deprauer either in word or writing the of forme of Ecclesiasticall gouernement of the Church of England or of the Booke of Common prayer or the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed therein or of the Kings supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall or of the Oath of Supremacie or Allegeance 3 Whether any Parson doth reade publique Seruice in any Church or Chappell not beeing lawfully ordered Deacon at the least and licensed by the Lord Bishop or his Chauncellor 4 Whether any Parson Vicar or Curate presume to preach in their Cures or elsewhere not being licenced by the Bishop or Ordinarie 5 Whether is your Parson or Vicar knowen or probably and publikely famed or reported to haue obtained his Benefice by Simony or to let out his Liuing to farme or any part thereof to any person in consideration of any such Simoniacall compact 6 Whether haue you had a Sermon preached euery Sabbath day this last yeere in your Church if not yet how many haue you had and vpon those Sundaies that you had not a Sermon haue you had an Homely read 7 Whether hath any stranger been suffered to preach in your Church or Chappell without hauing first shewed his licence to preach vnto the Minister and Churchwardens according to the 50. Canon 8 Whether doth your Minister vpon euery Sunday and Holy day in the afternoone before euening prayer call for and instruct all the youth and ignorant persons of your Parish of both Sexes in the Catechisme and grounds of Christian Religion for halfe an houre or more 9 Whether bee there any Parents Masters or gouernours who send not their children or seruants to bee chatechized on euery Sabbath day and Holy day or any children or seruants that refuse to bee instructed or examined 10 Whether doth your Minister neglect or forsake his calling and betake himselfe to worldly affaires mercenary or manuell Trades haunt markets or intermeddle with or solicite matters of Law for other men 11 Whether doth your Minister haunt or frequent Ale-houses or Tauernes or is hee probably or publikely famed or any notorious crime or any euill example of life to the offence and scandall of his vocation 12 Whether doth your Minister vse or weare any kind of apparell which is vnseeming his calling for colour or fashion of the same or otherwise then according to the 74. Canon 13 Whether doeth your Minister at all times weare the Surplesse in the time of Diuine Seruice and administration of the Sacraments And if hee bee a Graduate whether doeth hee also vpon his Surplesse weare a hood incident to his degree 14 Whether doe you know or haue credibly and publikely heard of any within your Parish that are procurers of Schismes or maintainers of Schismatikes or which are resorters to conuenticles or congregations of the Kings Subiects other then such as by the Lawes Ecclesiasticall of this Realme are allowed 15 Whether doeth your Minister vse any other forme of Common prayer then is prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer and whether doth hee vse such directions rites and ceremonies in Seruice and the administration of the Sacraments as by the said booke are required and none other 16 Whether doeth your minister admit to the Communion any notorious adulterer fornicator or incestuous person or other great offender which hath not first done his penance or any stranger of another Parish contrary to the 28. Canon 17 Whether haue any been married within your Parish that haue not vpon the day of their marriage receiued the holy Communion or any been married in times prohibited or without banes solemnely asked three seuerall Sundayes otherwise then by licence of the Ordinary as you know or credibly and publikely haue heard 18 Whether hath your Minister vsed the forme of thanksgiuing prescribed for women after childbirth for any woman vnlawfully begotten with childe otherwise then in the habite of a penitent sinner or before sufficient caution be taken for her not departing the Parish vntill shee hath done penance for her offence 19 Whether doth your Parson Preacher Lecturer and Vicar in his owne person at the leastwise in euery yeere vpon two Sundayes publikely both in the forenoone and afternoone in your Church or Chappell reade Diuine Seruice and administer both the Sacraments in such manner and forme as is prescribed by the Booke of Common prayer according to the 56. Canon 20 Whether doth your Minister dayly visite the sicke and exhort them truely to beleeue in Christ and repent therof their sinnes and comfort and pray for them as is prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer 21 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Farmor of the Tithes suffer either the Parsonage or Vicarage-house or other buildings thereto belonging or the Chancell to fall to ruine or decay and doth not presently repaire them 22 Whether hath any person taken away or vncouered any Church Chappell or Chancell or any part of them or any Church porch or Vestrie or hath pulled downe the belles or made any other spoile or waste vpon his Benefice either in timber or woods 23 Whether is your Church euery way sufficiently and well repayred and no defect in glazing tiling sieling pauing or in any thing else belonging to the same and whether the Church bee beautified and adorned with Scripture