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A79591 Articles to be considered of by the churchwardens and others within the archdeaconry of Derby. In the visitation archdiaconall [sic] of Derbyshire, Anno S[anc]tis. 1641 ... Church of England. Archdeaconry of Derby. 1641 (1641) Wing C4031A; ESTC R173870 7,565 15

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Have any out of corrupt affection smothered any publique and scandalous crimes what were they and who have done so in their Office 11 Are your Overseers Sides men Clerke and others diligent in their Offices and is the Clerkes wages rightly payed Schoolemasters 1 HAve you any frée Schoolemasters and Vshers any that teach otherwise openly or privately are they licenced painfull profitable as well in nurtering youth in good manners as learning sound Protestants good livers frequenters of the Church for Service and Sacraments bring they their Scholiers with them having borders or leave they any behinde at their houses and that usually 2 Are there any that teach privately in Recusants houses or Recusants children in their owne name them all 3 Is the Curate contented if any besides himselfe doe teach Schoole 4 Doth your Schoolemaster teach Master Lillies Grammer and other warranted Authours And for grounds of Religion the Gréeke and Latine Catechismes in that respect provided according to the childrens severall capacities 5 Are any houses Schoole-lands or repts derayed concealed misemployed or diverted to other uses how and by whom Is the number of your Feoffées full and doe they diligently performe their trust Is the Schoolehouse in good repaire within and without or in what convenient place are your children taught Parishioners 1 DOe they live in the feare of God exercising all piety and charity do they observe holydayes and fasting-dayes without servile labours buying or selling in Church time do they continue the perambulations in Ember wéek doe they without wandring abroad kéepe to their owne Church and chappell encouraging their Minister and giving a good example and doe they abide there untill the end 2 Are there any that disallow and seperate from your Prayers and resort to sermons only or comply in all things except the Sacrament and what are their names are Wednesdayes and Frydayes and holiday Eeves observed for devotion 3 Doe every Parishioner receive thrice yéerely and is Easter one time and doe all above 16. yeares old receive and do all knéele and use other Canonicall reverences especially in the holy Sacrament 4 Doe Masters Dames Parents cause their servants and children to submit obediently to catechizing till that be well learned which is appointed 5 Doth every Parishioner living or being landed within the P●rish pay his reasonable Lunes and taxes to Church and Chappell and the poore and who refuseth 6 Doth every Parishioner make a cleare reckoning yéerely at Easter with the Parson Vicar or their Deputy and also pay Clerkes wages 7 Doe Communicants signifie their names to the Minister over night or before or after morning Prayer 8 Are Parents carefull to baptize their children on the next Sunday or Holyday after birth and give the Minister canonicall notice that he may appoint accordingly and are the Godfathers Godmothers people and children ready at the Font at the time appointed 9 Doth the Parish stay at the Church stile untill the Minister can méet the Coarse 10 Doe women resort to Church for thankesgiving after Childbirth doe they knéele néere the holy table and doe they offer then the accustomed offerings and on Communion dayes Communicate 11 Doe the Parishioners on the first day of Lent come to the Commination 12 Are there any unlawfull méetings for common actions of Religion as is pretended in any place but the Church or Chappell 13 Are there any that have dyed intestate doth any Executor neglect to prove the Will pay legacies c. or any administrators faulty in their administrations 14 Are there any that disturbe the Minister and godly peoples attentions in time of Gods service by quarrells for seates or such like scorners pratlers murmurers sléepe in Church loyterers in néere high wayes houses especially Alehouses Church yard or Church porch what their names that accustome so to doe 15 Are there any that prophane the Christian Sabboth or Lords day and holy dayes appointed by worldly affaires or vitious actions any that prophane Churches or Church yards with brawling fighting secular pleas and Courts eating drinking playes or other unfit actions or behavior 16 Are there any Churches or Chappels where divine service hath béen formerly used let fall and by whose defauit or any Church lands goods plate bels clocks stockes of money and implements c. sacrilegiously or uniustly taken away concealed and misemployed 17 Have any at any time laid violent hands upon your Minister or defamed him or used any irreverent language towards him 18 Are there any noted for periury blasphemy vaine and idle swearing and who and of what condition 19 Any any wayes inconformable and refractary to his Maiesties Ecclesiasticall Laws established by high Court of Parliament especially Recusants and Seperatists and who are they 20 Have any béen married by other Minister or forme then the Church of England doth allow or so baptized any children kept unbaptized by the space of a moneth or longer any children conveyed beyond the seas for Popish bréeding any buryed otherwise than the statute hath commanded not being excommunicate with the great excommunication 21 Do recusants refuse to submit to godly conference have they any busie seducers about them as Iesuites Seminaries c. declare the whole matter and the names of all parties as also all misleaders of his Maiesties good subiects in any other by wayes 22 Are there any that maintaine any doctrines against the Catholique Faith in obstinate and hereticall manner any falne away from the faith to popish faction or from all religion any that use witchcrast sorcery charmes unlawfull invocations in Latine upon man or beast or suspected so to doe cunning men or women or resorters to them or any other addicted to superstitious observations spreaders of the same 23 Have any in your Parish not hitherto questioned lived in any kind of incontinency as incest adultery fornication any bawdes ayders instruments entertainers of unchaste persons have any strangers delivered in your Parish béen after Churched and departed without pennance who are they and who hath béene affirmed or suspected to be the Father of the Child 24 Are there any supposed not to be truly marryed that converse as man and wife Any having or déeming to have two or more wives or husbands doth any man or woman marryed live apart without a lawfull sentence of divorse hath either party during the others life marryed again have any persons marryed to one party béene precontracted to another and what clandestine marriages have béen in your Church made with out consent of parents guardians publication of banes or licences and no satisfaction rendred to the Church 25 Are there any in your Parish that sow discord and debate amongst neighbo●s man and wife c. any ribalds malitious persons scolds slanderers defamers depravers of the lyturgy in word writing or otherwise 26 Have you any Almeshouses and Hospitals and whether of the Kings or other pious benefactors foundation are the buildings in good repaire the poore iustly dealt with the feoffées or Overseers carefull and entite in their number and who is the visitor as you have knowne and heard thereof Excommunicate Persons 1 VVHat persons in your Parish and for what causes stand excommunicate neither desiring nor endevouring absolution and how long have they stood so are such denounced in your Church every ●ixe moneths 2 Have any béene admitted to the rights and priviledges of the Church without repentance and absolution 3 Hath the sentence of excommunication béene delayed or neglected to be divulged longer than the next Sunday or Holiday after the receipt 4 Are there any that favour and cherish such persons as being so cut off care not to be restored nor to satisfy the Church Apparitors 1 CAn your Apparitors read and write competently 2 Is there any excesse in their number and more then former times have knowne 3 Doe they dispatch their mandates in their owne persons faithfully and not by others 4 Doe they behave themselves as promotors or informers vexing some wrongfully ex●using others for lucre sake and know you any that have so prevented the repentance of delinquents and the Churches satisfaction 5 Doth any of them exact more or greater fées than the table ratified doth allow FINIS