Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	master_n	servant_n	6,433	5	6.5164	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00220	Articles to be enquired of, within the Archdeaconry of Midlesex, by the church-wardens & swornemen in euery parish and presentment to be made thereof to the arch-deacon, with partciular [sic] answeres vnto euery article.	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Middlesex.	1615 (1615)	STC 10275.3; ESTC S2098	13,178	18

prescribed in that behalfe 10 Whether hath any person in your parish quarrelled stricken or vsed any violence vnto or with your Minister or any other in the Church or Church yard or vsed himselfe disorderly in the Church by filthie and prophane talke or any other rude and immodest behauiour 11 Whether is that due reuerence and humble submission vsed within your Church or Chappel in the time of diuine Seruice as by the eightéenth Constitution is prescribed and whether each one in the Church or Chappell doe apply and order himselfe there in the time of diuine Seruice as by the latter part of the same Constitution is most commendably enioyned 12 Whether the Church-wardens and Quest-men doe euery Sunday and Holy-day diligently search who absenteth himselfe or her selfe from Church and whether doe they suffer any to abide in the Church-porch or Church-yard in the time of Common prayer or Sermon 13 Whether the Church-wardens doe prouide against euery Communion with the aduice of the Minister a sufficient quantitie of fine white bread and of good wholsome wine for the number of the Communicants that shall receiue that to be brought in a cleane and swéete standing Pot of Pewter or other pure Mettall 14 Whether haue any in your parish béene God fathers or God-mothers to their owne children Or whether your Minister or any God-fathers or God-mothers haue vsed or doe vse any other forme answere or spéech in Baptisme then is in the Booke of Common prayer appoynted Or whether any which haue not Communicated be admitted to be God-fathers or God-mothers contrarie to the 29. Canone 15 Whether is there any in your parish that doe refuse to haue their children baptized or themselues to receiue the Communion at the hands of your Minister because he is no Preacher you shall present their names And if your Minister sithence the publishing of the said Booke of Canons haue receiued any such persons being not of his owne Cure to the Communion or baptized any of their children you shall likewise present him 16 Whether doe all Fathers Mothers Masters and Mistresses cause their Children Seruants and Apprentises to come to the Catechisme vpon the Sundayes and Holy-dayes before euening prayer to heare and to be instructed and taught therein and those that doe not their duties herein you shall present their names 17 Whether haue you or your Predecessors Church-wardens there suffered since the last pardon any Playes Feasts Banquets Church-ales Drinkings or any other prophane vsages to be kept in your Church Chappels or Church yard or Bels to be rung superstitiously vpon Holy-dayes or Eues abrogated by the Booke of Common Prayer contrarie to the 68. Canon 18 How many Inhabitants within your Parish Men or Women aboue the age of sixtéene yéeres doe refuse to frequent diuine seruice established by publike authoritie of this Realme or to receiue the holy Communion or are negligent therein what be their names and of what degrée state or trade of life are they you are to present them all of each sort 19 Whether doe any of the Inhabitants within your saide Parish entertaine within their house any soiourners ledgers or any common resorters and guests who refuse to frequent diuine Seruice or receiue the holy Communion as aforesaid what be their names and of what qualitie or condition are they 20 whether any of the said Popish Recusants be of insolent behauiour not without publike offence or doe boldly busie themselues in seducing or withdrawing others either abroad or in their owne families by instructing their children in Popish religiō or by refusing to entertaine any especially in place of greatest seruice or trust but such as concur with them in opinion of Religion and what be their names that so doe 21 How long the said Popish Recusants haue obstinately abstained eyther from diuine Seruice or from the Communion as is aforesayd whether of any long time or onely since his Maiesties raigne and how long 22 What persons aforesaid within your Parish either for the offence aforesaid or for any other contumacie or crime doe remaine excommunicated what be their names and for what cause and how long haue they so stood excommunicated 23 Whether were you the Church wardens and Quest-men chosen by the consent of the Minister and Parishioners in Easter wéeke according vnto the 89. and 90. Canon And whether haue the Church-wardens before you giuen vp a iust account for their time and deliuered to you their successors whatsoeuer money or other thing of right belonging to the Church which was in their hands according to the 89. Canon 24 Whether doe all persons aboue the age of sixetéene yoores vsually resort to heare diuine Seruice vpon Sundaies and Holy-daies approoued and whether hath each one of your Parishioners being aboue the age of sixtéene yéeres as aforesaid receiued the holy Communion thrice this last yéere chiefely once at Easter in your Parish Church knéeling If no then you shall present their name which haue not so done 25 Whether haue you a fit Parish Clarke aged twentie yéeres at the least of honest conuersation and sufficient for reading and writing and whether he be paide his wages without fraude according to the most ancient custome of your Parish if not then by whom is he so defrauded and denyed and whether he be chosen by the Parson or Vicar or by whom according to the 91. Canon 26 Whether haue any in your Parish béene marryed within the prohibited degrées forbidden by the law and expressed in a certaine Table published by authority in Anno. 1563. If yea then you shall present their names and whether haue you the saide Table publikely set vp in your Church and fastned to some conuenient place 27 Whether doth any heretofore diuorced or married and not diuorced kéepe company at bed and boord as man and wife with any other man or woman then with the person that he or she was married vnto and what be their names If the parties now so liuing together say that they be marryed when and where were they marryed and how long haue they so continued together 28 Whether haue you in your Parish to your knowledge or by common fame and report any which haue committed Adultery Fornication or Incest or any Bawdes harborers or receiuers of such persons or publikely suspected thereof which haue not béene publikely punished to your knowledge if yea then with whome And whether are there any which are by common fame and report reputed and taken to be common Drunkards Blasphemers of Gods holy Name common and vsuall swearers filthy speakers raylers sowers of discord among their Neighbours or speakers against Ministers marriages Vsurers contrarie to the Statute made in the seauen and thirtieth yéere of King Henry the eight Symonicall persons fighters brawlers or quarrellers in Church or Church-yard you shall not faile to present their names 29 Whether haue any in your Parish receiued or harboured any woman gotten with childe out of wedlock and suffered them againe