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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

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

ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF IN THE ORDINARIE Visitation of the most Reuerend Father in God GEORGE by Gods Providence Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Primate of all England and Metropolitan in and for the Cities and Diocesse of COVENTRY and LICHFIELD the See there being voyd Holden in the yeere of our Lord God 1632. and in the two and twenty yeere of his Graces Translation Imprinted at London for Robert Milbourne 1632. The Tenor of the Oath to bee ministred to the Church-wardens and Side-men YOu shall sweare That you and every of you shall duely consider and diligently enquire of all and every of these Articles given you in charge and that all affection favour hatred hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set aside you shall present all and euery such person of or within your Parish as hath committed any offence or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected or defamed of any such offence or default wherein you shall deale vprightly and full neither presenting nor sparing to present any contrary to 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 holy Contents of this booke I. Concerning the Ministers INprimis Whether doeth your Minister distinctly and reuerendly say diuine Seruice vpon Sundayes and Holy-dayes and other dayes appoynted to be obserued by the Booke of Common Prayer Wednesdayes and Frydayes and the Eues of euery Sunday and Holy-day at fit and vsuall times And doth your Minister duly obserue the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the said Book of Common Prayer as well in reading pulibke Prayers and the Letany as also in administring the Sacraments solemnization of Matrimony Uisiting the sick Burying the dead Churching of women and all other like Rites and offices of the Church in such maner and forme as in the Book of Common prayer is enioyned And doth he reade the booke of the last Canons once yéerely and weare a Surplice according to the sayd Canons 2 Item whether doth your Minister bid Holydayes Fasting dayes as by the Booke of Common Prayer is appointed And doth hee giue warning beforehand to the parishoners for the receiuing of the holy Cōmunion as the 22. canon requireth And whether doth he administer the holy Cōmunion so often at such times as that euery parishioner may receiue the same at the least thrice in euery yere wherof once at Easter as by the Booke of Common Prayer is appointed And doeth your Minister receiue the same himselfe on euery day that hee administreth it to others and vse the words of Institution according to the Booke at euery time that the Bread and Wine is renewed accordingly as by the Prouiso of the 21 Canon is directed And doeth háe deliuer the Bread and Wine to euery Cōmunicant seuerally Whether hath he admitted to the holy Communion any offender or Schismaticke contrary to the 26. and 27. constitutions or receiued any to the Communion being not of his owne Cure or put any from the Communion not being publikely infamous for some notorious crime Doeth he vse the signe of the Crosse in Baptisme or Baptize in any Bason or other Uessell and not in the vsuall Font or admit any Father to be Godfather to his own child or such who haue not receiued the holy Cōmunion or Baptize any children that were not borne in the parish or wilfully refuse to Baptize any Infant in his Parish being in danger hauing bene enformed of the weakenesse of the sayd child and whether hath the child dyed through his default without Baptisme 3 Item whether hath your Minister married any without a Ring or without Banes published thrée seueral Sundayes or Holydayes in time of diuine Seruice in the seueral Churches or Chappels of their seuerall abode according to the book of Common Prayer or in times prohibited albeit the Banes were thrice published without a License or dispensation from the Archbishop the Bishop of the Diocesse or his Chancellor first obtained in that behalfe or not betwixt the houres of eight and twelue in the forenoone or married in any priuate house or if the parties be vnder the age of 21. yeres before their parents or gouernors haue signified their consent vnto him 4 Item whether doth he refuse to bury any which ought to be interred in Christian buriall or deferre the same longer then he should or bury any in Christian burial which by the Constitutions of the Church of England ought not to be so interred 5 Item whether the body of any excommunicate person dying within your parish hath bin buried by any of your parishioners disorderly your Minister iustly refusing to bury it within your Church or Churchyard or haue the body or bodies of any such excommunicate person or persons bin carried out of your Parish to be buried in another Parish without consent of your Minister or Ordinary first had and obtained and what are their seuerall names and sirnames 6 Item whether is your Minister a Preacher allowed If so then by whom If not whether doth he procure some who are lawfully licensed to preach amongst you monethly at the least 7 Item whether doth your Minister being licensed preach vsually according to the Canons either in his owne Cure or in some other Church or Chappell neere adioyning where no Preacher is and how often hath he bin negligent in that behalfe and doth he preach standing and with his hat off Or whether doth he or his Curate vpon euery Sunday when there is no Sermon reade an Homily or some part thereof according as he ought to doe or in case hee bee not licensed to Preach doth he take vpon him to preach or expound the Scriptures in his owne Cure or elsewhere If so then you are to present the same the time and place when and where he did it 8 Item whether doth your Minister in his Sermons Lectures and other exercises vse to pray for the Kings Maiesty King Charles and for our gracious Quéene Mary and all the Royal Progeny with addition of such Stile and Titles as are due to his Highnes and exhort the people to obedience to his Maiestie and all Magistrates in authority vnder him not omitting particular mencion of the Bishop of the Diocesse according to his Maiesties late direction in that behalfe 9 Item whether is your Minister continually resident vpon his Benifice and how long time hath he bin absent in case he be licensed to be absent whether doth he cause his Cure to be sufficiently supplyed according to the Canons or in case hee hath another Benefice whether doth he supply his absence by a Curate sufficiently licensed to preach in that Cure where he himselfe is not resident Or otherwise in case the smallnesse of the liuing cannot finde a preaching Minister doeth hee preach at both his Benefices vsually 10 Item whether doeth your Minister or Curate serue