Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	ecclesiastical_a	person_n	supreme_a	2,944	5	8.9634	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00241	Articles to be inquired of, in the first metropoliticall visitation, of the most reuerend father, Richard by Gods prouidence, Arch-bushop [sic] of Canterbury, and primat of all England in, and for the dioces of Peterborough, in the yeare of our Lord God 1607, and in the third yeare of His Graces translation.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1604-1610 : Bancroft); Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.	1607 (1607)	STC 10314.4; ESTC S2647	9,208	15

thrice this last yéere chiefely once at Easter in your parish church knéeling if no then you shall present their names which haue not so done 60 Item Whether haue you a fit parish Clarke aged twenty yeeres at least of honest conuersation and sufficent for reading and writing and whether he be paide his wages without frauds according to the most auncient custome of your parish if not then by whom is be so defrauded and denied and whether he be chosen by the parson or vicar or by whom 61 Item Whether haue any in your parish béene maried within the prohibited degrées forbidden by the Lawe of God and expressed in a certaine table published by authoritie in Anno 1563 if yea then you shall present their names and whether haue you the said Table publiquely set vp in your church and fastened to some conuenient place there 62 Item Whether doth any heretofore diuorced kéepe company with any other at bed and at boord what be their names When and where were they maried 63 Item Doth your minister vse the forme of thankes-giuing to women after Childe-birth and whether hath he admitted any therevnto that was begotten with child in adultery or fornication without licence of his ordinarie and whether haue any maried wiues refused to come to church according to the booke of common prayer to giue God thankes after child-birth if any be faulty herein you shall present their names 64 Item Whether haue you any in your parish which heretofore being popish recusants or sectuaries haue since conformed themselues and come to church to heare diuine seruice and receiue the Sacraments if yea then who they are and how long si'thence haue they so conformed themselues and whether doe they still remaine and abide in that conformitie 65 Item What recusant papists are there in your parish and whether doe they or any of them kéepe any Schoole-maister in their house which commeth not to church to heare diuine seruice and receiue the Communion what is his name and how long hath be taught 66 Item Whether haue you any in your parish to your knowledge or by common fame and report any which haue committed adulterie fornication or incest which haue not bin publiquely punished to your knowledge if yea then with whom Are there any which are or by common fame and report are reputed and taken to be common drunkards blasphemers of Gods holy name common and vsuall swearers filthy speakers Vsurers symoniicall persons Fighters Brawlers or Quarellers in church or churchyard you shall not faile to present their names 67 Item Whether haue any in your parish receiued or harbored any woman gotten with childe out of Wedlocke and suffered them to depart againe without punishment first inflicted on them by their ordinary you shall truely present as well the partie harboring as harbored and who is suspected to be father of her child 68 Item Whether hath any person within your parish promised or payed any summe of money or other reward directly or indirectly by himselfe or any other or committed his or her pennance for any incest adultery fornication or any other Ecclesiasticall crime if so then with whom when and for what and how hath the same béene imployed 69 Item Whether is your Chancelor and euery other inferior Ecclesiasticall iudge a maister of Artes or Batchelor of Lawes at the least and learned and practised in the ciuill and Ecclesiasticall Lawes a man of good life and conuersation and zealously affected in Religion 70 Item Whether any person or persons suspected or detected heretofore of incontinency and therefore departing out of your parish for a season is now returned againe or in what place else is he or she now abiding to your knowledge or as you haue heard you shall not faile to present the whole truth in that behalfe 71 Item Whether are there in your parish any Wills not yet proued or goods of the dead dying intestate left vn-administred by authoritie of the ordinarie in that behalfe you shal not faile to present the Executors and all other faulty and culpable therein 72 Item Hath any Chancellor Commissary Arch-deacon officiall or any other exercising Ecclesiasticall Iuris-diction within this your Diocesse or any Register Apparator or Minister belonging to the same Ecclesiasticall courts exacted extra-ordinary or greater sées then heretofore of late haue béene accustomed and whether is there a table of the rates of all fées set vp in their seuerall Courts and Offices or whether they or any of them haue taken vpon them th' office of Informers or Promotors to the courts or any other way abused themselues in their Offices contrary to the Lawe and Cannons in that case prouided 73 Item Doe any of or within your Parish affirme or haue any affirmed that the sacred synode of this nation assembled by the Kings authoritie is not the true church of England by representation or hath or doth any of your parish affirme that no persons eyther of the Clergie or Laitie that were not pertinently present in the said late Synode are subiect to the decrees thereof in causes Ecclesiasticall made and ratified by the Kings supreame authoritie because they gaue not vp their voices vnto them yée shall present their names 74 Item Is there any among you that haue or doe depraue the foresaid late Synode saying or affirming that the same was a company of such persons as did conspire togither against godly and religious professors of the Gospell and that therefore both they and their proceedings in that behalfe are and ought to be despised and contemned or words to the like effect you shall not faile to present their names 75 Item What number of Apparators hath euery seueral iudge Ecclesiasticall and wherein and in what manner is the countrey ouer-burthened and grieued by the said Apparators 76 Item Whether doe you know of any other matter of Ecclesiasticall cognisance worthy the presentment in your iudgement aboue not expressed which you holde fit to be reformed and if you doe you shall likewise present the same by vertue of your Oaths FINIS