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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00190	Articles to be enquired of, in the ordinarie visitation of the most reuerend father in God, George by Gods providence, Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury ... holden in the yeere of our Lord God, 1632, and in the two and twenty yeere of His Graces translation.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1611-1633 : Abbot); Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1632 (1632)	STC 10227.3; ESTC S422	11,637	16

Ecclesiasticall or against the Oath of Supremacy or of Allegiance as pretending the same to be vnlawful not warrantable by the Word of God Or against any of the Rites or Ceremonies of the Church of England now established Or against the gouernment of the Church of England vnder the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and other Officers of the same affirming that the same is repugnant to the Word of God that the sayd Ecclesiastical Officers are not lawfully ordained Or whether be there any Authors maintainers or fauourers of Heresie or Schisme or that be suspected to be Anabaptists Libertines Brownists of the Familie of Loue or of any other Heresie or Schisme present their names 59 Item whether haue any in your Parish married within the degrées by law prohibited or any couple in your Parish being lawfully married liue apart one from the other without due separation of the Law or any that haue bin diuorced which keepe company with any other at Bed or at Bord and when and where they married 58 Item whether doe any persons administer the goods of the dead without lawfull authoritie or suppresse the last will of the dead Or are there in your Parish any wils not yet proued or goods of the dead dying intestate left vnadministred By authority in that behalfe you shall not faile to present the Executors and all others faulty therein and also how many persons being possessed of any goods and chattels haue dyed within your Parish since the yéere 1617. 59 Item whether doth any with-hold the stocke of the Church or any goods or other things giuen to good and charitable vses 60 Item whether are your Hospitalls and Almes-houses and other such houses and Corporations founded to good and charitable vses and the lands possessions and goods of the same ordered and disposed of as they should bee And doe the Masters Gouernours Fellowes and others of the said Houses and Corporations behaue and demeane themselues according to the godly Ordinances and Statutes of their seuerall Foundations 61 Item whether haue you any in your parish to your knowledge or by common fame report which haue committed Adultery Fornication or Incest or any which haue impudētly bragged or boasted that he or she haue liued incontinently with any person or persons whatsoeuer or any that hath attempted the chastity of any woman or solicited any woman to haue the carnall knowledge of her body or which are commonly reputed to bee common Drunkards Blasphemers of Gods holy Name common Swearers common Slanderers of their Neighbours sowers of discord filthy and laciuious talkers Usurers Symonaicall persons Bawds or harbourers of women with child which be vnmarried or conueying or suffering them to goe away before they haue made satisfaction to the congregation or any that hauing heretofore bene presented or suspected of any the aforesaid crimes haue for that cause departed your parish and are now returned again Or any which haue vsed any inchantments sorceries incantations or witchcrafts which are not made fellony by the statutes of this Realme or any which haue cōmitted any periury in any Ecclesiasticall Court in an Ecclesiasticall cause or which haue committed any forgery punishable by the Ecclesiasticall lawes and the procurers and abettors of the sayd offences You shall truely present the names of all and singular the sayd offendors and with whom they haue committed the said offences in case they haue not bin publikely punished to your knowledge for the same crimes 62 Item whether was the publike prayers and fast lately enioyned by authority for the pacifying of Gods wrath and for asswaging the late fearefull Plague béen duely and solemnely performed both by your Minister and Parishioners on the dayes and times appointed as also The day of thankesgiuing for Gods mercy in asswaging that fearefull sicknesse being Religiously obserued according to those publike formes set foorth by authority and whether haue you the sayd Bookes so published as by the same authority you were commanded VIII Concerning Ecclesiasticall Magistrates and Officers 63 WHether doe you know or haue heard of any payment composition or agreement to or with any Ecclesiasticall Magistrate Iudge or Officer for winking at or sparing to punish any person for any offence of Ecclesiastical conusance or for suppressing or concealing of any Recusant or any other offendour in the cases afore-sayd What sum of money or other consideration hath bin receiued or promised by or to any of them in that respect by whom and with whom 64 Item whether hath any person within your parish payd or promised any sum of mony or other reward for communication of penance for any crime of Ecclesiastical conusance If so then with whom when and for what and how hath the same bene imployed 65 Item whether are your Ecclesiasticall Iudges and their Substitutes Masters of Arts or Bachelours of the Law at the least learned and practised in the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall Lawes Men of good life and fame zealously affected in Religion and iust vpright in executing their offices Haue they heard any matter of Office priuately in their chambers without their sworne Registers or their Deputies presence 66 Item whether doe you know or haue you heard that any Ecclesiasticall Iudge Offcer or Minister hath receiued or taken any extraordinary fees or other rewards or promises by any wayes or meanes directly or indirectly of any person or persons whatsoeuer either for the granting of the administration of the goods and chattells of those that haue died intestate to one before another or for allotting of larger portions of the goods and chattells of those that haue dyed intestate to one more then to another or for allowing large and vnreasonable accounts made by Executors or administrators or for giuing them Quietus est or discharges without Inuentory or account to defraud Creditors Legataries or those who are to haue portions And what summes of money do you know or haue you heard that any Ecclesiastical Iudge or Officer hath taken out of the state of any dying intestate vpon pretence

any more Cures then one If so then what other Cure doth he serue and how farre are they distant 11 Item whether doth your Minister euery Sunday and Holyday before Euening Prayer for halfe an houre or more examine and instruct the Youth and ignorant persons of his Parish in the Ten Commandements Articles of the Beliefe and in the Lords prayer and the Sacraments according as it is prescribed in the Catechisme and set foorth in the Book of Common Prayer and also strictly enioyned by our late Soueraigne King Iames of blessed memory in his directions to the Bishops of each Diocesse 12 Item whether doth your Minister in the Rogation dayes goe in perambulation of the circuit of the parish saying and vsing the prayers and thanksgiuing to God appointed by law according to his duty thanking God for his blessings if there be plenty on the earth Or otherwise to pray for his grace and fauour if there be a feare of scarcity 13 Item whether hath your Minister admitted any woman begotten with child in adultery or fornication to be churched without license of the Ordinary 14 Item whether hath your Minister or any other Preacher Baptized children churched any woman or ministred the holy Communion in any priuate house otherwise then by Law is allowed 15 Item whether doth your Minister being a Preacher endeauour labor diligently to reclaime the Popish Recusants in his parish from their errors if there be any such abiding in your Parish Or whether is your Parson Uicar or Curate ouerconuersant with or a fauourer of Recusants whereby he is suspected not to be sincere in Religion 16 Item whether hath your Minister taken vpon him to appoint any Publike or priuate Fasts Prophecies or exercises not approued by Law or publike authority or hath vsed to méete in any priuate house or place with any person or persons there to consult how to impeach or depraue the book of Common prayer or the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England If so then you shall present them all 67 Item whether hath your Minister stayed the publication of any excommunications or suspensions or doth he euery halfe yere denounce in his parish Church all such of his parish as are excommunicated perseuere therin without séeking to be absolued or doth he wittingly willingly keep company with such as are excommunicate And hath he admitted into your Church any person excommunicate without a Certificate of his absolution from the Ordinary or other competent Iudge 18 Item whether doth your Minister carefully looke to the reliefe of the poore and from time to time call vpon his Parishioners to giue somewhat as they can spare to godly and charitable vses especially when they make their Testaments 19 Item whether doth your Minister or any hauing taken the holy Orders being now silenced or suspended or any other person of your knowledge or as you haue heard hold any conuenticles or preach in any place or vse any other forme of Diuine Seruice then is appointed in the Booke of Common Prayer If so then you are to present their names and with whom 20 Item whether is your Curate licensed to serue by the Bishop of this Diocesse or by any other and by whom 21 Item whether doth your Minister vse such decencie and comelinesse in his apparell as by the 47. Canon is enioyned and is he of sober behauiour and one that doth not vse such bodily labor as is not séemely for his function and calling 22 Item whether is your Minister noted or defamed to haue obtained his Benefice or his Orders by Simony or any other way defamed to be a Symoniacall person or any way noted to be a Schismaticke or Schismatically affected or reputed to be an incontinent person or to table or lodge any such in his house or is he a frequenter of Tauernes Innes Alehouses or any place suspected for ill rule or is he a common Drunkard a common Gamester or a player at Dice a Swearer or one that applieth not his Studie or is otherwise offensiue and scandalous to his function or Ministery 23 Item whether are there any Lectures or exercises vsed within your parish Church If so then whether do the sayd Lecturer or Lecturers refuse to conforme themselues to the Lawes and Ordinances of the Church of England and especially to the late instructions for Lectures published by his Sacred Maiesty King Charles and directed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace and accordingly by his Grace sent to euery Diocesse of his Graces Prouince Anno Dom. 1629. And so by the Lord Bishop of this Diocesse commanded to bee published thorow this Diocesse by his Lordships Arch-deacous at their seuerall visitations after Easter Anno Dom. 1630. And doth your Lecturer or Lecturers and euery of them obserue that Article and instruction of his Maiestie wherein it is prouided precisely that euery Lecturer shall before his Lecture or Sermon reade Diuine Seruice in his Surplice and Hood according to his Degrée If you know of any default or neglect hereof in not obseruing this instruction of his Maiesties or other the Lawes Ecclesiasticall of this Kingdome you are to present it otherwise you are likely to answere for this your contempt 24 Item whether do any Knight or Gentlemen within your Parish maintaine or keepe any Chaplaine contrary to the Lawes of the Land not being thereunto Licensed by the Bishop of this Diocesse 25 Item whether doth your Preacher or Lecturer reade Diuine Seruice and Minister the Sacraments twice a yeere at least in his owne person according to the Canons II. Concerning the Church the Ornaments thereof and the Churches possessions 26 WHether haue you in your seuerall Churches and Chappels the whole Bible of the largest volume and the book of Common Prayer as also the book of Homilies set forth by his Maiesties authority all fairely and substantially bound a Font of stone set vp in the ancient vsuall place a conuenient decent Communion Table with a Carpet of silke or some other decent Stuffe continually layd vpon the Table at the time of Diuine Seruice and a faire linnen cloth vpon the same at the time of the receiuing of the holy Communion And whether is the same Table placed in such conuenient sort within the Chancel or Church as that the Minister may be best heard in his prayer administration and that the greatest number may communicate And whether is it so vsed out of time of diuine Seruice as is not agréeable to the holy vse of it and as by sitting on it throwing hats on it writing on it or is it abused to other prophane vses And are the Ten Commandements set vpon the East end of your Church or Chappell where the people may best see and reade them and other Sentences of holy Scripture written on the walles likewise for that purpose 27 Item whether haue you in your said Church or Chappell a conuenient seate for your Minister to read Seruice in together with