Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	christian_a	church_n	unity_n	1,522	5	9.2638	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00159	Articles to be enquired of within the prouince of Canterburie in the metropoliticall visitation of the most reuerend father in God, Edmond Archbishop of Canterburie, primate of all England and metropolitane in the xxii yeere of the reigne of our most gracious souereigne Ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queene of England, Fraunce and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1575-1583 : Grindal); Grindal, Edmund, 1519?-1583.	1580 (1580)	STC 10155.7; ESTC S2631	12,839	22

away thēselues at home or in some tauerne or Alehouse or els about some worldly businesse or at Bowles Cardes Tables or other gaming without regard of their office and duetie in that behalfe 50 Whether any man hath pulled downe or discouered any Church Chauncell or Chappell or any part of any of them any church porche Uestrie or Steeple almosehouse or such like or haue plucked downe y e Belles or haue felled or spoiled any wood or timber in any churchyarde 51 Whether your Hospitals Spittles and Almosehouses be well and godly vsed according to the foundation and auncient ordinances of the same whether there be any other placed in them then poore impotent needie persons that haue not wherewith or whereby to liue 52 Whether any of your parish being of conuenient age haue not receiued the holy communion thrise this last yere at the least and namely at Easter last or thereabouts for once and what their names are or receyuing haue not signified the same before to your person vicar or curate that he might conueniently examine them or that haue refused to come to him to be examined 53 Whether there be any in your parish that hath or doeth offende contrary to the statute made in the xxxvii yere of the reigne of King Henrie the eyght for reformation of vsurie reuiued by an Act made in the xiii yeere of the reigne of the Queenes Maiestie what bee the names of such offenders what is the maner of their vsurie 54 Whether there bee any in your parish that minister the goods of those that be dead without lawful authority or any that suppresse the last will of the dead or any executors that haue not fulfilled their testators will specially in paying of Legacies giuē to the Church or to other good and godly vses as to the reliefe of pouertie to Orphanes poore schollers poore maydes marriages high wayes schooles and such like 55 Whether there be any which of late haue bequeathed in their testaments any Iewels plate ornaments cattel or graine or other moueable stockes annuities or summes of money for the erection or finding of any obites diriges trentales torches lights tapers lampes or any such like vse now by lawe forbidden which are not payd out of any lands and whereunto the Queenes Maiestie is not entytled by any Act of Parliament and if there be any such Legacie or appointment what is the names of such testators and of the executors of their testaments what is the quantitie and qualitie of the gift and to what godly and lawfull vse is the same conuerted and employed 56 Whether there be any money or stocke appertayning to your parish Church or chappell or to the poore of your parish in any mans hands that refuseth or deferreth to pay the same or that vseth fraude deceit or delay to make any accompt in the presence of the honest of the parish for the same and whether any such stocke be decayed by whose negligence and in whose hands and whether the store of the poore mens boxe be openly and indifferently giuen where neede is without partiall affection 57 Whether the schoolemasters which teach within your parish either openly or priuately in any Noble or Gentlemans house or in any other place there be of good and syncere religion and conuersation and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth whether they be examined allowed and licenced by the ordinarie or his officer in that behalfe whether they teach y e Grammer set foorth by King Henrie the eight of Noble memorie and none other whether they teach any thing contrarie to the order of religion nowe established by publicke authoritie and whether they teach not their schollers the Catechisme in Latine lately set foorth and such sentences of Scripture as shalbe most expedient and meete to mooue them to the loue and due reuerence of Gods true religion now truely set forth by the Queenes Maiesties authoritie and to induce them to all godlynesse and honest conuersation and what be the names and surnames of all such schoolemasters and teachers of youth within your parish as well of such as teach publikely as those that teach in the houses of Noble men Gentlemen or other priuate men 58 Whether there bee anye among you that vse Sorcerie or Witchcraft or that be suspected of the same and whether any vse any charmes or vnlawfull prayers or inuocations in Latine or otherwise and namely Midwiues in the time of womens trauell of childe and whether any doe resort to any such for helpe or counsell and what be their names 59 Whether there be among you any blasphemers of y e name of God great or often swearers adulterers fornicators incestuous persons Bawdes or receiuers of naughtie and incontinent persons or harborers of women with childe which be vnmaried conueying or suffering them to goe away before they doe any penance or make satisfaction to the congregation or any that be vehemently suspected of such faults or that be not of good name fame touching such crimes and faults any drunkards or ribalds or any that be malicious contentious or vncharitable persons common slaunderers of their neighbors railers scolders or sowers of discord betweene neyghbours 60 Whether there be any in these parts that haue maried within the degrees of affinitie or consanguinitie by the lawes of God forbydden so set out for an admonition in a table now appointed to be affyxed in euery parish church within this Dioces or any that being diuorced or separated for the same do yet notwithstanding cohabite and keepe company still together or any that being maried without those degrees haue vnlawfully forsaken their wiues or husbands and married others Any man that hath two wiues or any woman that hath two husbands any that being diuorced or separated a sunder haue married againe Any married that haue made precontracts Any that haue made priuie or secret contracts Any that haue married or contracted themselues without the consent of their parents tutors or gouernours Any that haue married without banes thrise solemnely asked Any couples married that liue not together but slaunderously liue apart Any that haue married out of the parish Church where they ought to haue solemnized their marriage 61 Whether the Minister and Churchwardens haue suffered any lordes of Misserule or Summer Lordes or Ladyes or any disguised persons or others in Christmas or at Maygames or any Morrice dauncers or at any other times to come vnreuerently into the Church or Churchyarde and there to daunce or play any vnseemely partes with scoffes ieastes wanton gestures or ribalde talke namely in the time of common prayer And what they be that commit such disorder or accompanie or maintaine them 62 Whether the Archdeacon Chauncelour Commissarie Officiall or any other vsing Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction in this Dioces their Registrares or Arctuaries Apparitors or Summoners haue at any time wincked at and suffered any adulteries fornications incests or other faultes and offences to passe remaine vnpunished and vncorrected for money rewardes bribes pleasure friendship or any other partiall or affectionate respect or any of them haue bene burdensome to any in this Dioces by exacting or taking excessiue fees excessiue procurations any rewardes or commodities by the way of promotion gift contribution helpe redemption of penance omission of quarter Sermons obtayning of any benefices or office or any other like wayes or meanes 63 How many Adulteries Incests and Fornications are notoriously knowne to haue bene committed in your parish since Easter 1579. Howe many offendours in any such faults haue bene put to open penance and openly corrected and howe many haue bene winked at and borne withall or haue fined and payed money to the Archdeacon Chauncelour Commissarie Official or their deputies or to the Deanes Registrares or Summers or any of them for to escape open punishment correction and what their names and surnames be 64 Whether the Deanes Rurals and Sumners or any of them doe pay any annual rent fee or pension for their offices and what they pay and to whom 65 Generally whether there bee among you any notorious euill liuers or any suspected of any notorious sinne fault or crime to the offence of Christian people committed any that stubburnly refuse to conforme themselues to vnitie and godly religion now established by publike authoritie or any that bruteth abroade rumors of the alteration of the same or otherwise that disturbeth good orders and the quietnes of Christs Church and the christian congregation The tenor of the othe ministred to the Churchwardens and swornemen YE shall sweare by Almightie God that ye shall diligently consider all and euery the Articles giuen to you in charge and make a true answere vnto the same in writing presenting all and euery such person and persons dwelling within your Parish as haue committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in any of the same Articles or which are vehemētly suspected or defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein ye shall not present any person or persons of any euill will malice or hatred contrary to the trueth nor shall for loue fauour meede dreade or any corrupt affection spare to present any that be offendours suspected or defamed in any of these cases but shall doe vprightly as men hauing the feare of God before your eyes and desirous to maintaine vertue and suppresse vice So God helpe you