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B07647	Articles, to be enquired of vvithin the dioces of London, in the third generall visitation of the reuerend Father in God, Richard, Bishop of London. Holden in the yeere of our Lord God 1604. In the second yeere of the raigne of our most gratious Soueraigne Lord Iames, by the grace of God of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, king, defender of the fayth; and of Scotland the thirtie eight, &c..	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1597-1604 : Bancroft); Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.	1604 (1604)	STC 10255; ESTC S92374	12,178	17

ARTICLES To be enquired of vvithin the Dioces of London in the third generall Visitation of the reuerend Father in God Richard Bishop of London HOLDEN In the yeere of our Lord God 1604. In the second yeere of the raigne of our most gratious Soueraigne Lord IAMES by the grace of God of England Fraunce and Ireland King defender of the fayth and of Scotland the thirtie eight c. Imprinted at London for Clement Knight 1604. A Branch of the Statute made in the first yeere of the raigne of our late Soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth intituled An Act for the vniformitie of Common Prayer and seruice in the Church THat from and after the feast of the Natiuitie of St. Iohn Baptist next comming all and euery person persons inhabiting within this Realme or any other the Queenes maiesties dominions shall diligently and faythfully hauing no lawfull or reasonable excuse to be absent indeuour themselues to resort to their parish Church or Chappell accustomed or vppon reasonable let thereof to some vsuall place where common prayer and such like seruice of God shall be vsed in such time of let vpon euery Sunday and other dayes ordayned and vsed to be kept as Holy dayes and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of common prayer preaching or other seruice of God there to be vsed and ministred vpon paine of punishment by the Censures of the Church And also vpon paine that euery person so offending shall forfeite for euery such offence twelue pence to be leuied by the Church-wardens of the parish where such offence shall be done to the vse of the poore of the same parish of the goodes landes and tenementes of such offender by way of distresse And for due execution heereof the Queenes most excellent Maiestie the Lordes temparall and all the commons in this present Parliament assembled doth in Gods name earnestly require and charge all the Archbishops Bishops and other Ordinaries that they shall indeuour themselues to the vttirmost of their knowledge that the true and due execution hereof may be had throughout their Diocesse and charges as they will answere before God for such euils and plagues wherewith almightie God may iustly punish his people for neglecting this good and holsome Lawe The tenour of the Othe ministred to the Churchwardens and Swornemen YOu wall sweare that all affection fauour hatred hope of rewarde and gaine or feare of displeasure or mallice set aside you shall vpon due consideration of the Articles giuen you in charge present all and euery such person of or within your parish as hath committed 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 shall deale vprightly and according to trueth neither of malice presenting any contrary to trueth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and so conceale the trueth hauing in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine trueth and to suppresse vice So helpe you God and the contentes of this Booke The Charge of the Churchwardens and Swornemen set downe for the better performance of their dueties and discharge of their Othes THey are straightly charged to heare all these Articles read ouer to them and diligently to consider and inquire thereof and for that the time is so short in this Visitation that they shall not be able to make a perfect answere vnto all them and that notwithstanding there are many notorious faultes presently worthy of presentment and reformation they are charged after their returne home that together with their Minister they do read ouer all these Articles distinctly and leasurely to the end they may consider of euery perticuler Article and of the offences in them conteined as of such persons in their parish as shal be noted to offende in any of them and after that to assemble themselues in some conuenient time together and to make their Bill answering euery Article by it selfe before the feast of St. Martin next ensuing being the 10 day of Nouember which Bill shall be signed with the hand of the Minister and of all the Church-wardens and Side-men and shall for their better ease be brought by one of the Church-wardens vpon the _____ day of Nouember next vnto the Church of _____ where for the sauing of their trauell and charges vp to London the Iudge and the Register will be readie to receiue them Articles to be enqired of vvithin the Dioces of London in this Visitation holden in the yeere of our Lord God 1604. Articles concerning the Clergie 1 WHether is Common prayer read by your Minister in your Church or Chappel distinctly and reuerently vppon all Sundayes and Holy dayes and in such order as is set foorth by the Lawes of this Realme in the booke of Common prayer without any kind of alteration omitting or adding any thing and at due and conuenient houres 2 Whether doth your Minister vpon Wednesdayes Frydayes not being Holy dayes read in your Church or Chappell publikely the Letanie and other prayers appoynted in the said booke for those dayes and whether doth he read the Commination against sinners in such order and forme as it is there also prescribed 3 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate in the administration of the Lordes Supper or of Baptisme when he solemnizeth Matrimonie burieth the dead churcheth women c. vse the formes and prayers prescribed in the Communion booke without omitting or altering any part of them and without any of his owne additions 4 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate read publike prayer administer the Sacramentes ordinarily himselfe vsing such rites and ceremonies as are prescribed in the booke of Common prayer as namely whether doth he kneele at the receiuing of the holy Communion and administer the same to none but to such as do kneele at the receiuing therof make the signe of the Crosse vpon the childes forehead in the administration of Baptisme Baptise any without Godfathers and Godmothers vse the Ring in marriage and generally whether doth he in the discharging of al these dueties and when he readeth Common prayer eyther vpon Sundayes Holy dayes Wednesdayes and Frydayes weare a Surplice 5 Whether doth your Minister vpon Sundayes at morning prayer declare vnto the parishioners what Holydayes and Fasting dayes are appoynted to be kept the weeke following whereby they may be put in minde to prepare themselues and to repaire to the Church to publike prayer according to the lawes of the Realme 6 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate or either of them reiect at any time those women being married which do come to church to giue God thankes after their childbirth or refuse or neglect to visit the sicke or to burie the dead according to their duties prescribed in the booke of common prayer 7 Whether doth your minister in the Rogation dayes of procession vse the

or other disorder in their time done in your parish and haue not presented the same to the Bishop Chauncelor Archdeacon Commissarie or such other as had authoritie to reforme the same and whether they or any of them at any such time as they should haue been at diuine seruice on Sundayes and Holy dayes and should there haue obserued others that were absent haue beene away themselues at home or in some Tauerne or Alehouse or else about some worldly businesse or at bowles cardes tables dice or other gaming without regard of their office and duetie in that behalfe 16 Whether your Minister and you the Church-wardens or any other in your parish haue in your regestries made any orders or do vse to call any parties before you for any cause to be ordered by the Ecclesiasticall lawes and so do vse a kind of Presbiterie or censuring ouer your neighboures vnder pretence of your vestrie meetings 17 Whether any of your parish being of conuenient age haue not receiued the holy Communion thrice this last yeere at the least and namely at Easter last or thereaboutes for once and what their names are or which at their receiuing haue not signified the same before to your Parson Vicar or Curate that he might conueniently examine them and who haue refused to come to him to be examined 18 Whether there be any in your parish that doth administer the goodes of those that be dead without lawfull authoritie or any that suppresse the last will of the dead or any Executors that haue not fulfilled their testators last will in paying of legacies giuen to the Church or to other good and godly vses as to the reliefe of pouerty to Orphanes poore Schollers poore Maydens marriages High-wayes and such like and by whom are they so deteyned 19 Whether there be any in your parish that since the fourth of August 1601. hath or doth offend contrary to the Statute made in the seauen and thirtieth yeere of the raigne of King Henrie the eight for the reformation of Vsurie and reuiued by an Act made in the thirteenth yeere of the raigne of our late Queene Elizabeth taking aboue the rate of ten poundes for the lending of an hundred poundes by the yeere and what be the names of such offenders 20 Whether hath your Minister or any of the parish without the consent or priuitie of the Ordinarie caused any to do penance or be punished eyther openly or otherwise for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiasticall lawes onely and what be the names of the parties that haue been so punished and in what manner 21 Whether there be any amongst you that do vse Sorcerie or Witchcraft punishable by the Ecclesiasticall lawes or that be suspected of the same and whether any vse any Charmes or vnlawfull Prayers and whether any do resort to any such for helpe and councell and what be the names both of such as vse it and of such as resort to them for helpe 22 Whether any couples that be marryed in priuate houses within these three yeeres last past haue been knowne or suspected to haue been marryed by any popish Priest or otherwise after any other order then is appoynted by the Church of England 23 Whether there be among you any blasphemers of the name of God great or often swearers adulterers fornicators harlots or whoremasters incestuous persons bawdes or receiuers of naughtie and incontinent persons or harborers of women with child which be vnmarryed conueying or suffering them to go away before they do any penance or any that be vehemently suspected of any such faultes or that be not of good name and fame touching such crimes and faultes of drunkards or ribawdes or any that be malitious contentious or vncharitable persons raylers scoulders or sowers of discord betweene nighbours and especially raylers against ministers and against their marryage and what be all their seuerall names 24 Whether there be any in these partes that haue been marryed within the degrees of affinitie or consanguinitie by the lawes of God forbidden or any that being diuorced or seperated for the same do yet notwithstanding cohabite and keepe company still together or any that being marryed without those degrees haue vnlawfully forsaken their wiues or husbandes and marryed others Any that being diuorced or separated a sunder haue marryed againe any that haue marryed without Banes three seuerall Sundayes or Holy dayes solemnely asked without lawfull license thereunto or any couples married that liue not together but slaunderously liue apart 25 Whether there be any in your parish who will come to heare the Sermon but will not come to the publike prayer appoynted by the booke of Common prayer making a schisme or diuision as it were betweene the vse of publike prayer and preaching And whether there be any who being present at publike prayer do not deuoutly and humbly kneele vpon their knees at such times as by the Booke of common prayer they are appoynted to wit when they make a generall confession of their sinnes when all prayers and Collects are read in the time of the Lettenie when the tenne Commaundements are read and at their receiuing of the holy Communion c. and what are their names that haue at any time shewed themselues vnduetifull and vnreuerent in this behalfe 26 Whether the Minister and Church-wardens haue suffered any Lord of Mis-rule or Summer lord or ladyes or any disguised persons any players or May-games or any Moris-dauncers at any time to come vnreuerently into the Church or Church yard and there to daunce or play or shew them selues disguised in the time of Common prayer and what they be that commit such disorder or that accompanied or maintayned them or any Playes to be played in the Church 27 Whether there be any marryed women or others within your Parish which after chyldbirth refuse or contemne to come to the Church to giue God thankes for their deliuery and to haue the prayers publikely appoynted in that behalfe by the booke of common prayer 28 Whether any within your Parish do resort vnto Barnes Fieldes Woodes priuate Houses or to any extraordinay exposition of Scriptures or conferences together or that be drawers or perswaders of others to any such scismaticall conuenticles 29 Whether any do keepe their chyldren vnbaptized longer then is conueuient vnlesse it be for sicknesse of the child or other vrgent occasion And whether any doe carry their children from the Parish they are borne in to other Parishes to be bapitzed and so refuse their owne Parish or do bring strange ministers into their owne houses to baptize their children priuatly according to their owne fantasies 30 Whether any notorious Recusant who obstinately refuseth to be partaker with the Church of England in publike prayer and hearing of the word of God preached who is for his disobedience and contempt excommunicated and dyeth excommunicate be buryed in Christian buriall not hauing before his death sought to be absolued and testified the same his submission to some honest and discreete man who shall vpon his oath signifie to the Bishop of the Dioces whereby his Lordship may giue order to the Ordinarie before whom he was excommunicate for his absolution AT the deliuerie of your Bill of presentment at the time and place aboue set downe you are likewise in the sayd Bill to set downe the names of all such as haue been buried at any time since the seuenth of August 1604. being men maydes or widdowes and likewise the names of such as haue been married by any License since that time and out of what Court they haue been graunted since the sayd seuenth of August FINIS