Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	let_v	lord_n	2,934	5	3.6705	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00184	Articles to be enquired of in the generall visitation of the Archdeacon of the diocesse of Glocester holden in the yeare of our Lord, 1635.	Church of England. Diocese of Gloucester.	1635 (1635)	STC 10214.5; ESTC S4280	9,685	14

holy Communion Or hath he baptized any children that were not borne in the Parish or buryed any in Christian buriall that dyed excommunicate or wilfully destroyed himselfe 22. Hath your Minister admitted any woman to be Churched that was begotten with childe in adultery or fornication without licence of his Ordinary 23. Whether doth your Minister use such decency and comlinesse in his apparell as by the 74 Can. is enioyned him as well at home as abroad And is he of sober behaviour and one that doth not use such bodily labour as is not séemely for his Function and calling 24. Is your Minister noted or defamed to have obtained his Benefice or his Orders by Simonye or otherwise to be Simoniacall or scismaticall or reputed to be an incontinent person or doth he kéepe any man or woman in his house that are suspected to be either of evill Religion or bad life Or is he a common drunkard or a common haunter of Tavernes Alehouses or other suspected places a common gamester or player at dice or other unlawfull game a common swearer or one that neglecteth his study or is any other way notorious whereby he is offensive and scandalous to his Function or Ministry 25. Doe you know in your Parish any that having heretofore taken upon him the Order of Priesthood or Deacon hath since relinquished the same living as a Lay man and neglecting his Vocation 26. Whether hath your Minister Curate and Lecturer duly observed the Kings Maiesties Instructions and his Declaration for setling of Questions in difference set before the Articles of Religion Printed 1629 And hath your Minister read the Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall once every yeare upon some Sundayes or Holidaies in the afternoone before divine Service Concerning Schoolemasters 1 HOw many Schoolemasters or Teachers of Youth have you in your Parish either publicke or private and what be their severall names Whether be they of good and sincere Religion life and conversation and diligent in teaching and bringing up of Youth Have they béene licensed for Schoolemasters by the Ordinary 2. Whether your Schoolemasters doe come themselves and bring their Scholers to the Church to heare divine Service and Sermons and such as are of age to receive the Communion Doe they instruct their Scholers in the grounds of the Religion now established in this Church of England and no other or doe they teach them any other Catechisme than is authorized by publicke authority or not examine them therein once every wéeke at the least And what Catechisme is it they doe so teach 3. Whether your Schoolemaster or Schoolemasters doe teach his or their Scholers any other Grammer than that which is called the Kings Grammer set forth by the authority of King Henry the eighth teaching the Prescript forme thereof whereby the Scholers may perfectly understand their Grammar rules and constructions Parish Clarkes and Sextons 1 VVHether have you a fit Parish Clarke aged twenty yeares at least of honest conversation able to reade and write And whether he and the Sexton be payd their wages without fraud according to the ancient custome of your Parish if not then by whom is it so defrauded and denied by whom are they chosen Is the Clarke approved by the Ordinary diligent in his Office and serviceable to the Minister And doth he meddle with nothing above his place as Reading of Prayers Churching of women burying the dead or such like 2 Doth your Clarke or Sexton kéepe the Church cleane the doores lock't at fit times Is any thing lost or spoyled in the Church through his default Are the Communion Table Font Bookes and other Ornaments of the Church kept faire and cleane Doth he suffer any unseasonable ringing or any profane exercise in your Church or Chancell or doth he when any is passing out of this life neglect to toll a hell having notice thereof Concerning the Parishoners 1 VVHether is there any within your Parish that hath or doth impugne or impeach any way the Kings Maiesties Supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall or the oath of Supremacy or of Allegiance or that denieth the Church of England by law established under the Kings most excellent Majesty to be a true Apostolicall Church teaching and maintaining the doctrine of the Apostles or that impugneth and speaketh against the Booke of Common Prayer any of the Articles of Religion agreed upon in Anno 1562 or the Rites and ceremonies established in the Church of England or the lawfull use of them or the government of the Church of England by Arch-bishops Bishops Archdeacons and the rest that beare office in the same affirming the same to be Antichristian or repugnant to Gods Word or lastly that doth impugne the forme of consecrating and ordaining of Archbishops Bishops Priests and Deacons affirming that the same is repugnant to the Word of God or that they who are so ordered are not lawfully made 2 Is there any in your parish that doth hold or frequent any Conventicles or private congregations or make or maintaine any private orders or constitutions agreed upon in any such private assemblies other than are in the Cannons set forth by publicke authority Or have you any Schismatickes that separate themselves from the Church of England or any that maintaine Scismatickes 3. Whether any of your Parish have profaned the Lords day commonly called Sunday or other Holydayes by working or labouring in their manuall trades by selling or buying or kéeping open their shops for sale of wares by lurking and tippling in Tavernes or Alehouses especially in the time of Divine Service And whether any Inne-kéepers Alehouse-kéepers Victualers or others permit any person or persons in their houses to eate drinke or play in the time of Common Prayer or Sermon on Sundayes or Holydaies 4 Whether any of your Parish disturbe let or discourage others from lawfull sports and recreations upon the Lords day so farre as they are allowed by the Kings declaration in that behalfe Or doe any of your Parish abuse that liberty allowed them by using unlawfull sports as Beare-bayting Bull-bayting Interludes or Bowling upon the Lords day or by using lawfull recreations before the end of all Divine Services for that day or having absented themselves from the same 5 Whether any of your Parish being sixtéene yéeres of age or upwards or others lodging or commonly resorting to any house within your Parish have wilfully absented themselves from your Parish Church upon Sundayes or Holidayes at Morning or Evening prayers or came late to Church or departed out of Church before the end of Service and Sermon without some great cause Or have any behaved themselves irreverently during the time of divine Service covering their heads or not knéeling when the generall confession Let any and other Prayers are read and standing up at the Beleefe or not doing lowly reverence at the name of our Lord Iesus or talking walking sléeping or any other way busying themselves in the Church then in quiet attendance unto Gods Service Or have