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A00204	Articles to be enquired of within the dioces of London, in the visitation of the Reuerend Father in God, Ihon Bishop of London, 1589 in the xxxj. yeare of the raigne of Our Most Gratious Soueraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1577-1594 : Aylmer); Aylmer, John, 1521-1594.	1589 (1589)	STC 10252.5; ESTC S866	11,106	16

first made to the partie that is wronged 12 Whether in any of your Parishes your Minister bee brought in by popular election sent by some peculier election of ministerie confirmed by the Parish and so allowed priuatly of before the sayd Minister be presented to his Ordinarie 13 Whether your Parson or Vicar haue anie other benefice besides this if he so haue where lieth it how long in the yere is he absent frō this how doth he sée the cure of this serued and what hospitality keepeth he on this Benefice 14 Whether your Preachers or Minister be peace-makers and exhort their parishioners to obedience towards their Prince and all other that be in authoritie and to charitie and mutuall loue among thēselues whether they be diligent in visiting the sicke and in comforting them 15 Whether anie doo preach declare or speak anie thing in derogation of the booke of Common praier which is set forth by the lawes of this Realme dispraising or deprauing the same or anie thing therein contained or against the preachers or ministers of the word and sacraments by law authorized 16 Whether your Parsons Vicars Curates and Ministers keep well their Registers of all weddings burials and christinings within your parish according to the Order of the Quéenes Iniunctions and whether they read the Queeenes Maiesties Iniunctions euerie quarter of a yere once or no 17 Whether they or anie of them kéepe anie suspected woman in their houses or be incontinent persons giuen to drunkennes idlenes or be haunters of tauernes ale-houses or suspected places hunters hawkers dicers carders common table plaiers swearers dancers or otherwise suspected of anie notorious crime or light and vnséemelie behauior or giue anie euill example of life or vse disordered and unseemlie apparell either in colours gards or light fashion 18 Whether they or any of them do keep or suffer to be kept in their parsonage or vicaredge houses anie ale-houses tippling houses or tauernes or do selbale beere wine or anie other victuall 19 Whether for the receiuing of the perambulation of the circuite of your parish the Parson Vicar or Curate Churchwardens ●●●taine of the substantiall men of the parish in the daies of the Rogacions daies 〈◊〉 called Gang-daies walke the accustomed Boundes of your parish 20 Whether anie new Presbyteries or Eldership be latelie among you erected and by them anie Ministers appointed without Orders taking of the Bishops to baptise minister the communion or deale in anie function ecclesiasticall or contrarie to law gather anie priuate conuenticle whereby the people be drawne from the Church 21 Whether there be anie in your parish that readeth anie priuate lectures in the same or vseth expositiō of the scriptures in any priuate mans house whatsoeuer cōtrarie to the law And whether anie preacheth and dooth not at certaine times in the yeare minister the sacraments in their owne persons and in such Church where he readeth his lecture 22 Whether there be anie in your parish Ministers or Preachers that vse either priuate or other assemblies out of their Dioces with other preachees or other with them and doo in them vse to set down anie orders contrary to the orders obserued in the Queenes Booke or anie in your parish that doo contribute to anie such preachers and what be the names as well of the contributors as of them to whom they doo contribute and what seuerall summes do they contribute 23 Whether any Minister do reiect those women being maried which doo come to the Church to giue thankes after Child-birth according to the order set downe in the booke of common praier 24 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate haue maried anie person not being three seueral Sondaies or Festiuali daies lawfully asked in their parish Churches or not being sufficiently licensed therevnto and by whose license the same persons were so dispensed withall to be maried 25 Whether anie contention haue growen amongst the preachers in these parts for anie matter of doctrine or ceremonies and what who was the cause thereof and whether any strife hath grown about pewes or seates in the Church and betweene whom was it 26 Whether your Parsons Vicars or Curates doo keep a iust and perfect nose of all such as doo communicate in their seuerall parishes and doo not rather regard their priuate gain receiuing their offrings at Easter and deliuering them tokens and so enter them into their booke and certefie as Communicants those who neuer receiued 27 Whether there be anie Ministers or Priests within your parish which liue idlie without anie Cure neither seruing in anie place nor hauing anie place of reading or preaching 28 Whether anie Minister doo refuse to vse or neglect such godly exercises of prayer and preaching as be by publique authoritie appointed for preseruation of her Maiestie the Countrey and Church or for thanks-giuing for any victorie gotten ouer Gods enimies and the States of the Realme Articles concerning the Church WHether haue you in your Parish Churches and Chappels all thinges necessarie and requisite for Common praier and administration of the Sacraments especially the Booke of Common praier with the newe Kalender two Psalters the English Bible in the largest volume of the edition set forth by the Bishops and lately imprinted by the Quéenes Printer the Table of the tenne Commandements a conuenient Pulpet well placed a comely and decent Table standing on a frame for the holie Communion with a fayre linnen cloath to lay vpon the same and some couering of silke buckeram or other such like for the cleane kéeping thereof a fayre and comely Communion cup of siluer and a couer of siluer for the same which may serue also for the ministration of the Communion bread a decent large Surplesse with sléeues a sure Cofer with two lockes and keyes for kéeping of the Register booke and a strong chest or boxe for the almes of the poore with thrée lockes and keyes to the same and all other things necessarie in and to the premisses 2 Whether any do make any laystals or vse to lay any filthinesse against the Church walles to the anoyance of the Church or of the people assembling themselues to heare Gods word and publique exercise of praier 3 Whether your Churches and Chappels with the Chauncell be wel and sufficiently repaired and kept without abuse of any thing and whether your Church-yards bee well fenced and cleanly kept and if any part thereof be in decay through whose default it is so 4 Whether the Church of your Parish be now vacant or destitute of an incumbent or no and if it be how long it hath béen so and who is the Patron and whether he suffereth the Benefice to lye vacant and occupieth the glebe land and taketh the tithes and other fruite to himselfe during the time of the vacation or who els occupieth and taketh the same and by what authoritie 5 Whether your Church be a Parsonage or Vicaredge presentatiue a donatiue or otherwise serued by a Cure Whether did

you euer heretofore heare or knowe that it was a Parsonage or Vicaredge and how came it to be decayed from being a presentatiue to be in the state it nowe is and when was it first decayed from being a benefice presentatiue as you remember 6 Whether your Fonts or Baptisteries be remoued from the place where they were wout to stand or whether any persons leauing the vse of them doe Christen or Baptize in Basons or other prophane vessells not customably vsed in the Church before time or whether any Christen without eyther Godfather and Godmothers and the signe of the Crosse appoynted by the booke of common prayer Articles concerning Ecclesiasticall officers WHether the Chancellor Archdeacon Commissary officiall or any other vsing Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction in this Dioces their Registers or Actuaries Apparitors or Sumners haue at any time winked at and suffered any Adulterers Fornicators incests or other faults or offences presented vnto them to passe and remayne vnpunished and vncorrected for Money Rewards Bribes Pleasure Frendship or any other partiall or affectionate respect 2 Whether at the Archdeacons visitations which haue bin sithence 1586. the Archdeacon of your Archdeaconrie or his officers hath called to the Church wardens for a Certificate from the Parson Vicar or Curate of your Parish thereby to vnderstand whether the Iniunctions of the saide Bishop giuen in his visitation held in that yeare 1586. haue bin duely and precisely obserued or not according to the Tenor and effect of one of those Iniunctions 3 Whether any haue beene lawfullie presented to the Chancelor Archdeacō Commissarie or Official within these three yeres passed for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiasticall Courts who neither haue made their purgation for the infamie of the same offence nor haue receaued pennance whereby the parish hath béen satisfied Articles concerning Schoolemaisters WHether the Schoolemaisters within your parish openly or priuatly in any Noble or Gentlemans house or in any other place be of good and sincere Religion life and Conuersation and bée diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth and whether they haue bin examined allowed and licensed for Schoolemaisters by the ordinary or his officer in that behalfe 2 Whether your Schoolemaisters doe themselues receiue the holy Communion as often as they ought to doe whether they bring with them so many of their Schollers as be of age sufficient and of capacity by instructions to receiue the Lordes Supper 3 Whether your Schoolemaysters doe orderly on Sondaies with their Schollers come to the Church of their Parish where they teach and there see their Schollers placed in some conuenient place so as they doe not disquiet the Minister or parish in time of deuine seruice but may exercise themselues godly in reading and hearing the seruice and Sermons and in answering with the Congregation in reading of publique prayers 4 Whether the Schoolemaisters eyther priuate or publique doe teache their Schollers the Catechisme aucthorised by publique aucthoritie at the least once euery weeke and doe instruct and examine them in the same or doe teache any other Catechisme and what Catechisme is it that they so teach 5 Whether any of your Schoolemaisters be knowne or suspected to reade vnto their Schollers priuately any bookes or priuately to instruct them in theyr yong yeares eyther in Poperie Superstition or disobedience or contempte to her Maiestie and her Lawes Ecclesiasticall by publique authoritie allowed 6 Whether any Schoolemaisters vnder pretence of Catechising their Schollers which is a most godly order carefully by them to be obserued do keepe Lectures reading or expositions in diuinitie in their houses hauing continuall repayre vnto them of such people as seeke after innouations and refuse their owne Parish Churches and their Minister Articles concerning the Parishioners and others of the Laity Whether all Housholders in your Parish cause their Children Seruants and Apprentices both mankinde and womankinde being aboue seauen yeares of age and vnder twenty which haue not learned the Catechisme to come to the Church on Sondayes and holy-daies at the times appoynted for Catechising there diligently and obediently to heare And what be the names of those that do not cause their Children Seruants and Apprentises so to come to the Church to be instructed and examined 2 Whether any doe worke or kéepe any Shop or any parte of their shop open vpon the Sabaoth dayes or vpon any holy-daies appointed by the Lawes of the Realme to be kept holyday 3 Whether you your selues or the Churchwardens in the yeares before you haue suffered any vnmaried women being begotten with Childe to goe out of the Parish before she hath done pennance or any man defamed of whoredom to departe vnpunished vpon direction appointed by the ordinary and forth of whose houses haue they gone away with Childe vnpunished and how many vnmaried women which haue bin deliuered within your parish these three yeres last past haue gone away without doing of penance 4 Whether there bee any in your Parish that doe themselues forbeare or dehort others from comming to publique prayer and hearing the word Preached condemning all forme of praier which they cal stinted prayer calling our Churches the Temples of Idols and our Preachers false teachers sent in the Lordes wrath which leude opinions some Sectaries haue lately broched 5 Whether any man keepeth or readeth any seditious and Schismaticall bookes or pamphlets written by any which enuaieth against the Religion now receaued or the order and gouernement of the Church now publiquelie established or that stirreth vp the hearers to innouation or altring of the Churches gouernement by Lawe now established 6 Whether the Parish Clarke be appointed according to the auntient custome of the Parish with the allowance of the ordinarie and whether he be not obedient to the Parson Vicar or Curate and whether he be able to reade and whether he keepe the bookes and ornaments of the Church fayre and cleane and cause the Churche and Quier the Communion table and the fonte to bee kepte cleane and decent against the seruice time the Communion Sermon and Baptisme 7 Whether there be any person or persons Ecclesiastical or Temporall within your Parish or elsewhere within this Dioces that haue reteyned or kept in their custodie or that reade sell vtter disperse carrie or deliuer to others any English bookes or Libels set forth either on this side or beyond the Seas by Papistes or others against the Quéenes Supremacie in causes Ecclesiastical or against true Religion and Catholique doctrine or the gouernment and discipline of the Church of England now within this Realme receiued and established by common authoritie and what their names and surnames are 8 Whether there be any in your Parish which for any cause whatsoeuer forbeare to come to Church to publique praier or to heare Gods word preached pretending it vnlawfull to come to our assemblies as the Church of England now standeth 9 Whether any do refuse to receiue the holy Communion at their owne Ministers handes either

❀ ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF within the Dioces of London in the visitation of the Reuerend Father in God Ihon Bishop of London 1589. In the xxxj yeare of the raigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady ELIZABETH by the grace of GOD Queene of England Fraunce and Ireland defender of the faith c. Imprinted at London 1589. The tenor of the othe ministred to the Church-wardens and sworn-men YEe shall sweare that all affection fauour hatred hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set a side you shall vpon due consideration of the Articles geuen you in charge present all and euery such person of or within your parish as hath cōmitted any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected or otherwise defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shal deale vprightly and according to equitie neither of malice presenting any contrarie to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present anie and so conceale the truth hauing in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine truth and to suppresse vice So helpe you God and his faithfull promises contained in these his holie bookes The charge of the Church-wardens and swornemen set downe for the better performance of their duties and discharge of their oathes THey are straightly charged to heare all these articles read ouer vnto them and diligently to consider and enquire thereof And for that the time is so short in this the visitation that they shall not be able to make a perfect answere vnto all of them and that notwithstanding there are manie notorious faultes presently worthy of presentment and reformation they are charged to make their answere vnto them presently so farre forth as their memory shall now serue them And to present now such faultes in their Parish as at this time are worthie of presentment and reformation And that after their comming home betwixt this and Michaelmas next they shall agayne heare all the Articles read ouer vnto them and diligently consider and enquire thereof with the Minister of the Parish who shall if he know any thing in the Parish to be reformed together with them make a due presentment and a true and full aunswere in wryting signed with their handes and markes wherein they shall present aswell all such faultes or offences contrarie to the Articles as they forgot or omitted to present at the time of the visitation as also all such faultes and offences contrarie to the Articles as shall happen and chaunce betwixt this and then ¶ Articles to be inquired of within the Dioces of London in this Visitation holden in the yeare of our Lord God 1589. Articles concerning the Cleargie WHether Common praier bée read by your Minister in your seuerall Churches or Chappels distinctly and reuerently and in such order as it is set foorth by the lawes of this Realme without any kind of alteration omitting or adding to any thing and at due and conuenient houres the Minister wearing a Surples And whether the holie Sacraments be likewise ministred reuerently in such manner as by the booke of Common praier is appoynted And whether vpon Wednesdaies and Fridaies not being holi-daies the Letanie and other praiers appoynted for the day be sayd accordingly 2. Item whether the forme of Comination against sinners bée by your Minister plainlie and distinctly read in your Church or Chappell vnto the people according to the Booke 3 Whether any Parson or Parsons not being ordered at the least be a Deacon do say Common praier openlie in your Church or Chappell or do solemnize matrimonie or administer the Sacraments of Baptisme and what be their names that do so 4 Whether the Parson Vicar or Farmer of your Benefice do cause or suffer any Curate or Minister to serue your Church before he bee examined and admitted by the Ordinarie in writing and do shewe his license to the Church-wardens 5 Whether your Minister doo serue two Cures in one daie whereby he must néedes be driuen to serue the one of them at inconuenient houses 6 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate doo euerie Sonday whē there is no Sermon read distinctlie and plainlie some part of the Homilies prescribed and set foorth by the Quéenes authoritie to be read and whether any Minister not admitted by the Ordinarie or by other lawfull authoritie doe expound anie scripture or matter of doctrine by the waie of exhortation or otherwise and thereby omit and leaue off the reading of the Homilies Or be there any in your Parish that do depraue or speake against the Homilies and the vse of them in the Church 7 Whether any Lectures Conuenticles or priuate méetings bée read or vsed within your Parishes either publique in the Church or priuate in the house by any not sufficiently licensed thereunto by the Ordinarie or whether any such Reader do teach any Doctrine of Innouation to withdrawe the people from due obedience to the Ordinances of the Church set forth by publique authoritie or to cause them to forbeare participating in praier and Sacraments with our Church 8 How many Sermons doth your Parson or Vicar preach in his owne Church yearely and if he be no Preacher himselfe how many doth he yearely procure to be preached there and who haue preached them and whether bee they that do preach them licensed or no and by whom were they licensed 9 Whether your Minister haue or do receiue to the holie Communion any persons which be not of his owne Parish without testimonie from the Minister of the place where they dwell what they be that it may appeare that they be not persons excommunicate 10 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate do euery Sonday and Holi-day openly in the Church call for heare and instruct all the children apprentises and seruants of both sexes that bee of conuenient age within your Parish or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serue and as he may well heare or instruct for one houre at the least before or after Euening praier in the tenne Commandements the Articles of the beléefe and the Lords praier and diligently examine and teach them the Catechisme as it is now allowed and set forth in the Booke of Common praier And whether for that purpose he doth take the names of them all and by course call certaine of them euery Sonday and Holi-day to come to the teaching of this Catechisme 11 Whether your Parson Vicar Curate or other Minister in your Church or Chappell hath admitted to the holie Communion any open and notorious fornicator adulterer or euill liuer by whom publique offence is giuen without due penaunce first done to the satisfaction of the Congregation enioyned him by his Ordinarie Or any malicious person that is notoriously knowne and detected to bée out of charitie or detected to haue done any open wrong to his neighbour by word or déede without due reconciliation