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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	book_n	pay_v	rate_n	983	5	9.9083	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32937	Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens & side-men of every parish within the diocess of Canterbury, in the ordinary visitation of the Most Reverend Father in God, William, by divine providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury His Grace, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1678-1690 : Sancroft); Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.	1682 (1682)	Wing C4021; ESTC R40818	9,366	18

man Or any stranger or unlicens'd Minister or Preacher that hath been deprived ejected or suspended for false Doctrine Inconformity or other evil Manners If so how do they now behave themselves and what profession or course of Life do they follow TIT. IV. Concerning the Parishioners I. IS there in your Parish any known or reputed Heretick Schismatick or Separatist Any person notoriously known or vehemently suspected to be of Atheistical Principles or Opinions Any Libertine or profane person Any Depravers Disturbers or Contemners of the publick Service of God and the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England by Law established Any Papist Presbyterian Familist Anabaptist Quaker or other Sectary that refuse or neglect to come unto the publick Assemblies and to joyn in the prayers and Service of God in the Church or that makes profession of any other Religion or Way of Worship than what is established in the Church of England II. IS there any person in your Parish that lieth under a common Fame or vehement suspition of Adultery Fornication or Incest Any Common Drunkards or Comon Swearers or Blasphemers of God's Holy Name or any that are noted to be Railers unclean or filthy Talkers Sowers or Maintainers of Sedition Faction or Discord among their Neighbours Or in sum any whose Life and Manners are contrary to Godliness Peace and Honesty III. DO any of your Parish upon the Sunday-days or Holy-days follow their bodily or ordinary Labour or compel or permit their Servants so to do Are any Shops kept open or Wares sold at such times Or do any Uintners Inn-keepers or other Uictuallers and Sellers of Beer and Ale suffer any persons to Tipple or Game in their Houses upon those days IV. DOTH every person inhabiting or sojourning within your Parish duly resort unto your Church or Chappel upon every Sunday and Holyday appointed for Divine Service Do they then and there abide quietly with Reverence Order and Decency during the whole time of Common prayer Preaching or other Service of God there used Or are there any among you that come only to the Preaching and not to the Common-prayers of the Church V. ARE there any in your Parish that refuse to send their Infant-Children to be Baptized publickly in the Church unless in case of urgent danger Or do they send them from their own Minister to be Baptized in any other place or after other form than is appointed Or do they keep them unbaptized any longer time than the Church alloweth And are there any Infants or persons of riper years in your Parish who as yet remain unbaptized VI. DO all the House-holders in your Parish cause their Children and Servants to Learn their Catechism and to give an accompt thereof unto your Minister when he doth require it of them openly in the Church upon Sundaies and Holy-days as in the Book of Common-prayer is appointed that when they are well instructed in the same they may be confirm'd by the Bishop VII IS there in your Parish any person who being 16 years of age doth not receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at least three times in the year of which Easter is always to be one Doth any in your Parish refuse to receive the same kneeling or from the hands of your own Minister repairing for it to other Parishes and Ministers abroad Or are there any Strangers not of your Parish that forsake their own Churches and usually repair to yours for it VIII HAVE you any among you that be denounced and declared Excommunicate for any crime committed How long have they been so And do any of your Parish keep society with them before they be reconciled to the Church and absolved IX ARE there any living in your Parish as Man and Wife who are within the Degrees prohibited Or any that being lawfully Divorced have Married again Or any that being lawfully Married and not separated or Divorced by course of Law do not cohabit together X. ARE there any Married Women in your Parish who after their delivery from the peril of Child-birth refuse to make their publick Thanksgiving to God in the Church And when they come so to do do they come decently apparelled and make their Offerings according to Custom XI ARE there any belonging to your Parish who refuse to pay their Easter-Offerings or Duties to your Minister Or any that refuse to contribute and pay the Rate assessed upon them for the repair of your Church or Chappel and for the providing of such Books Furniture and Ornaments as be requisite for the performance of all Divine Offices there XII DO any refuse to Bury their Dead according to the Rites of the Church of England Are there any Wills or Testaments of persons dead in your Parish that be yet unproved Or any Goods Administred without a due grant from the Ordinary XIII IS there any Strife or Contention among any of your Parish for their Pews or Seats in your Church Or have any of them erected new Pews in your Chancel or in the Body of your Church or Chappel without leave from the Ordinary TIT. V. Concerning Parish Clerks and Sextons I. HAVE you belonging to your Church or Chappel a fit Parish Clerk aged 21 years at the least of honest Life and Conversation and sufficiently able to perform his duty in Reading Writing and Singing Is he duly chosen by your Minister and doth he diligently attend him in all Divine Offices audibly making and repeating the Responses and Suffrages as in the Liturgy he is directed Are his Wages duly paid unto him Or who with-holdeth the same II. DOTH he or your Sexton if there be any such appointed in your Parish diligently look to the Doors of your Church that they be Locked and Opened at due times Doth he keep your Church or Chappel clean from Dust Cobwebs and other Annoyance Doth he Ring and Toll the Bells at the due accustomed hours before Morning and Evening Service that the people may be warned to come unto the Church And when any person is passing out of this Life doth he upon notice given him thereof Toll a Bell as hath been accustomed that the Neighbours may thereby be put in mind to recommend the dying person to the Grace and Favour of God and to meditate upon their own Death TIT. VI. Concerning Hospitals Schools School-masters Physitians Chirurgeons and Midwives I. IS there in your Parish any Hospital Alms-house or Free-school Who was the Founder Who is now the Patron thereof And what is the yearly Revenue what Stipends belong to the Governors or Masters of the same Is the same ordered and governed in every respect as it ought to be And are the Revenues thereof rightly employed according to the intention of the Founder and the tenour of such Statutes and Ordinances as have been made in pursuance of the same II. HAVE any living or dying in your Parish or elsewhere given any Gift or Legacy by Will or otherwise to the use of your Church or Poor or