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cause_n	good_a	just_a	law_n	2,761	5	4.7834	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00007	Articles to bee enquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men within the arch-deaconrie of Barnestaple, in the diocesse of Exeter, in the visitation there holden in the yeare of our lord God. 1617.	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Barnstaple.	1617 (1617)	STC 10137; ESTC S92272	9,185	14

whether there be any person or persons within your parish that hath refused to haue his or their children baptised with the signe of the crosse by your Minister because he is no preacher or to receiue the holy Communion at his hands in the same respect 6 Item whether there be prouided in your Church a parchment booke and therein haue béene and are written the names of all the children Men and women Baptised maried or buried within your parish contained in your former Register bookes and especially since the beginning of the Raigne of the late Quéene Elizabeth 7 Item whether you haue in your parish a sure Coffer with thrée lockes and keyes for the safe custodie of that booke And whether the day yeare of euery Christening Wedding and Buriall which hath béen in your parish hath béene wéekely written in the said booke 8 Item whether there be prouided in your Church the booke intituled Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastiall agréed vpon by the Cleargie of the prouince of Canterbury with the Kings Maiesties license in their Synod at London in the yeare of our Lord 1603. 9 Item whether there be prouided in your Church a faire Bible the book of Common praier lately ordained to be vsed a Font of stone within your Church or Chappell standing or set vp in the ancient vsuall place a conuenient and decent Table for the celebration of the holy Communion a carpet of silke or other decent stuffe with a faire linnen cloth at the time of the ministration of the Lords Supper for the same table and a faire and comely communion cup of siluer and a couer for the same the Ten Commandements set vpon the East end of your Church of Chappell where the people may best sée and read the same a conuenient seat for your Minister to read Seruice in and a comely and decent Pulpit set in a conuenient place and the same séemely kept for the preaching of Gods word a Pulpit cloath and cushion a strong Chest with a hole in the vpper part therof with thrée locks and keys set and fastned in some conuenient place of the Church for the Almes of the poore 10 Item whether your Church or Chappell be well and sufficiently repaired and so kept and maintained the windowes well glased the floares kept paued plaine and euen in decent sort without offence or lo thsownesse of dust or any other vnséemely thing as best becommeth the house of God your Church-yards well and sufficiently repaired fenced and maintained with Wals Railes or Pales as haue béen in your parish accustomed without encrochment vpon the same or any prophanation vsed in them 11 Item whether for the auoiding of incestuous and vngodly mariages you haue in your Church publikely set vp and fixed in some fit place a table expressing that no persons shall marrie within the degrées prohibited by the Lawes of God 12 Item whether you do know or by any common fame and report you haue heard of any person or persons who within these two yéers last past or at any time before being not presented and punished haue committed the grieuous sinnes of Incest Adultery or whoredome within your parish Or haue béen bawdes or receiuers of any such lewd incontinent persons or haue béen receiuers or harbourers of women with child who haue béene vnmaried or who haue conuaied any such out of your parish before they gaue notice therof to the Ordinary or before they did publicke penance for such offence Or whether any person within your parish in the time aforesaid hath béen vehemently suspected of any such crime Or hath béene a blaspheof the name of God or a great and often swearer and what is the name and surname of euery such offender 13 Item whether any offender in any of the crimes afore mentioned within your parish hath not yet béen presented and detected to the Ordinary for the same offence and what is the name of euery of them not yet so presented or not punished for the same 14 Item whether any of your Parishioners haue behaued themselues rudely and disorderly in the Church in time of diuine Seruice or Sermon or by vntimely ringing of Bells walking talking or any other disordered noise hath hindered the Minister or Preacher or frequent the company of excommunicate persons 15 Item whether any Church-ales Drinkings temporal Courts of léets Lay Iuries Musters or any other prophane vsage haue béene kept in your Church Chappell or Church-yard without good cause allowed by the Lawes and Canons Ecclesiastical 16 Item whether the Churchwardens of any of the former yeares did at or within a moneth after the end of euery yeare before the Minister and Parishioners giue vppe a iust account of such money as they in their yeare receiued and what particularly they bestowed in reparations or otherwise for the vse of your Church of Chappell and going out of their Office deliuered vp to the Parishioners whatsoeuer money or other things of right belonged to your Church or Parish which remained in their hands to bée deliued ouer vnto the Churchwardens of the yeare following 17 Item whether any man woman child or seruant or any other person or persons who haue dwelt remained or soiourned within your parish or haue often repaired thither and remained there by the space of any one Moneth being of the age of sixtéene yeeres or aboue hath willingly or purposedly forborne to come to your Church or Chappell and to be present at diuine Seruice and common prayer therein celebrated by the space of any one moneth together within one yeare last past and what bée their Christian names and Surnames 18 Item whether any of your parishioners haue within this yeare last past neglected to resort to your Church vpon any Sundaies of Holi-daies and to continue the whole time of diuine Seruice or haue vsed to walke vp and downe in the Church or to stand idle or talking in the Church-yard or Church porch during that time or haue vsed any gaming or pastime abroad or in any house or haue sitten idlely in the stréet or in any Tauerne or Ale-house vpon the Saboth or Holiday in the time of common praier Sermon or reading of the Homilies either before or afternoone or any brawlers or quarrellers in Church or Church-yard or vsers of filthy or prophane talke 19 Item whether the Almeshouses Hospitalls and Spittles for poore people that are in your Parish be well and godly vsed according to the foundation and ancient ordinances of the same and whether there be any other placed in them then poore impotent and néedy persons that haue not wherewith or whereby to liue 20 Item whether the Schoolemaisters within your Parish openly or priuately in any mans house be lawfully licensed and of good and sincere Religion life and conuersation and haue béene diligent in teaching bringing vp of their youth And whether with their Schollers they haue resorted orderly on Sundaies and Holidaies to Church and receiued the holy cōmunion so oft

as they ought to do and so many of their Schollers as bée of sufficient age and capacity haue receiued the holy communion 21 Item whether all housholders in your Parish haue caused their children seruants and Apprentices both mankind and womankind which haue not learned the Catechisme to come to the Church on Sundaies and Holidaies at the times appointed for Catechizing and there diligently and obediently to heare and what be the names of those that haue not caused their Children seruants and apprentices so to come to the Church to bée instructed and examined being thereto appointed by the Minster 22 Item whether haue any of your parish wrought or kept any shop or any part of their Shop open vpon the Sabboth daies or vpon any Holidaies appointed by the Lawes of the Realme to be kept holiday or haue vsed to doe any vnnecessary worke or labor vpon those daies especially in time of diuine Seruice 23 Item whether there be within your parish any Inkéepers Alewiues Victuallers or Tiplers that haue suffered or admitted any person or persons in their house to eate drinke or play at Cards Tables or such like games in the time of common praier or Sermon on the Sundaies or Holidaies And whether any Butchers or others that cōmonly vse to sell meat or other things haue made sale therof in the time of Common prayer preaching or reading of Homilies And whether in any Faires or common Markets falling vpon the Sunday there haue béene any shewing of any wares before Morning praier were done And whether any Markets and selling of wares haue béen vsed or suffered in your Church-yard by any common packmen or Pedlers going about or any such people either of your Parish or not 24 Item whether there be any in your Parish that take vpon them to administer the goods of those that be dead without lawful authority Or any that haue supressed the last Will of the dead Or any Executors that haue not fulfilled the Testators will especially in paying of Legacies giuen to the Church or to other good and godly vses as the reliefe of pouerty helples Orphanes poore Schollers poore maidens mariages high-waies and such like and by whom they are so withdrawen 25 Item whether there bee any in your Parish noted to bee common drunkards swearers suspected persons of bad life contentious with their neighbors slacke commers to Church haunters of Alehouses or any that hath taken vnlawfull vsury against the lawes of God and of this Realme since the last visitation And what be the names of such offenders 26 Item whether your Minister or any of the Parish without the consent of the Ordinary haue in their vestries or méetings or otherwise caused any to do penance or pay any money or be punished either openly or otherwise for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiasticall Lawes onely and what be the names of the parties that haue so béene punished and in what manner and for what cause 27 Item whether there bée any in your Parish that haue vsed sorcerie or witch-craft punishable by the Ecclesiasticall Lawes of this Realme or that bée suspected of the same And vsed any charmes or vnlawfull prayers or haue resorted to any forcerers or witches for helpe and counsaile and what bée the names both of such as vse it and of such as resort vnto them for helpe 28 Item whether any Inhabitant doe detaine the Clarks wages or liue apart from husband or wife without order of Lawe or carry their children out of the Parish to be christened 29 Item whether any within your Parish haue resorted vnto barnes fields woods or priuate houses for any extraordinary expositions of the Scriptures or conferences together and so haue as it were made a seuerall Church or Sect vnto themselues to bée drawers or perswaders of others to any such schismaticall Sects and in whose houses or in what places haue you heard of any such méetings 30 Item whether there bée any of your Parish knowne or suspected to conceale or to kéepe hidden in their house any Masse-books or other books of Popery and superstition or any chalices copes vestiments or other like superstitious ornaments in their forme and fashion vndefaced for some exercise of their superstition or whether any bee knowne or suspected to receiue any such books or like trumperie from beyond the Seas and to diperse and carry them abroad to others 31 Item whether there be any in your Parish married in any priuate houses since the last Visitation or be knowne or suspected to haue béene married by any Popish Priest or in any other order then is appointed by the Church of England 32 Item whether any Children borne in your Parish doe remaine vnbaptized or be suspected to bée baptied by any Popish Priest Seminary or Iesuit and whether any Recusant liue together as man and wife who are not knowne to bee married accord to the Lawes of this Reame what Phisitions or Chyrurgions haue you of what skill ar they reputed in their profession 33 Item whether any of the Stocks appertaing to the Church bée subtracted by any person and to what value and by whom and whether your Parish Clarke and other Church-officer demeane themselues according to their seuerall duties Generally what faults soeuer 〈◊〉 know to bée within your Parishes not specified or mentioned in these ●rticles and punishable by the Kings Maiesties Ecclesiasticall Lawes of this Reamle you shall by vertue of your Oath aforesaid duely and truely present them to your Ordinary when and as often as occasion is offered that reformation may bee had accordingly wherein your Minister may ioyne in Patent And to all and euery of these Articles you shall present expresly and articulately the full truth of your knowledges or what by common fame you haue heard therein * ⁎ * FINIS