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Articles to bee enquired of by the minister, church-wardens, and sidemen of euery parish and chapelry within the deanry of [blank] in the yeare of our Lord God [blank] and presentment to be made by them conteining a particular answer to euery article
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Church of England. Province of Canterbury.
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1624
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STC 10147.9; ESTC S856
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exhorting the people to obedience to his Maiestie and other Magistrates in authority vnder him 9 Whether doth your Minister on Sundaies and Holidaies Catechize the Youth and ignorant persons in your Parish 59. And whether doth hee admit any women to bee churched who were begotten with childe in adultery or fornication without licence from the Ordinarie And whether doth hee in the Rogation dayes vse the perambulation of the circuite of the Parish 10 Whether doth he euery sixe moneths denounce in his Parish Church all such o 〈…〉 rish as doe perseuer in the sentence of excommunication not seeking to bee absolued And whether hath hee admitted any such excommunicate person to the communion 〈…〉 Church without certificate of his absolution And whether doth hee or any of your Parish familiarly frequent the company of any such excommunicate person 11 WHether any of your Parishioners doe not cause their 〈…〉 〈…〉 rs and Apprentiâ—es to come to 〈…〉 vpon Sundaies and Holidaies to bee instructed in the Catechisme by them 59. or whether any of them refuse to come or if they come refuse to be instructed And what bee the names of them so not causing or refusing 12 Whether any of your Parishioners 13. 14. 18. or other strangers soiourning lodging or commonly resorting to any house within your Parish aboue 16. yeares of age doe wilfully or negligently absent themselues from your parish Church vpon Sundayes or Holidayes at Morning or Euening prayer or who come very late to Church vpon the said dayes or who depart from Church before seruice bee finished or who doe not reuerently behaue themselues during the time of diuine Seruice deuoutly kneeling at such times as the generall Confession of sinnes the Letanie the ten Commandements and all prayers and Collects are read or who doe vse any gameing or pastime abroad or in any house or doe sit in the street or Church-yard or in any Tauerne or Victualing-house vpon any of those dayes in time of diuine Seruice or who haue quarrelled brawled or vsed violence to any person within your Church or Church-yard or who hath vsed filthy or prophane talke or other rude and in modest behauiour there 13 Whether there be any of 21. 22 28. or within your parish being sixteene yeeres of age and vpwards that doe not receiue the holy Communion in your Church thrice in this yeare at the least and chiefly once at Easter And whether any of your parish doth not deuoutly kneele at the receiuing thereof And whether doth not your Minister receiue it himselfe on euery day that he administreth it to others and vse the words of institution at euery time that the bread and wine is administred And whether doe your selues diligently obserue your office in marking what persons of or within your parish offend against this or the next precedent Article and in due presenting their names 14 Whether any in your parish haue a Preacher to your Parson 46. 10. 57. 9. 10. 100. Vicar or Curate doe absent themselues from his Sermons and resort to other places to heare other Preacher And whether any hauing beene ordeyned Priest or Deacon hath relinquished the same and be â—…en him to a course of life as a lay man Or whether any not being in Orders doth openly read Common prayer or execute any ministeriall dutie in your Church and what be their names 15 Whether there be any that doe publiquely or priuately speake against the Booke of Common prayer deprauing the same or any thing therein contained or against any of the said Articles of Religion agreed vpon in Anno 1562 Or against the Kings Royall Supremacie iâ—… causes Ecclesiasticall Or against any of the rites or ceremonies of the Church of England Or against the gouernment of the said Church of England vnder the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Bishops Archbishops Deanes Archdeacons other Officers in the same affirming that the same is repugnant to the word of God and that the said Ecclesiasticall Officers are not lawfully ordeyned Or whether there by any that be Authors or maintainers of Scisme or frequenters of any priuate conuenticles or meetings or that be or are suspected to be Anabaptists Libertines Brownists of the Familie of Loue other herefie orschisme And what be their names 16 Whether doe you know any Schoolemaster that doth teach 77. 48. 79. or Curate that doth reade diuine Seruice within your parish without licence of his Ordinary vnder his Scale And whether doth not such Schoolemaster instruct his schollers in the Catechisme and teach them he grounds of Religion and bring them to Church to heare diuine Seruice and Sermons And whether is he a common officer or artificer or any wayes reprooueable in life And whether is your Clarke also allowed by the Ordinary And whether doth your clarke serue more cures than one And whether doe they demeane themselues according to their seâ—rall duties 17 How many Midwiues haue you in your Parish which doe exercise that office how long â—ue they so done and by what authoritie Also how many in your Parish doe practise as Physitions or Chirurgions how long haue they so done and of what skill are they reputed their profession 18 Whether doe you know any persons that doe administer the goods of the dead without laâ—full authoritie 86. or suppresse the last will of the dead or with-hold any stocke of the Church or any Legacies giuen to godly and charitable vses and whether is the almes of the Church faithfully distributed to the vse of the poore And whether the late Church-wardens haue giuen a iust accompt before the Minister and Parishoners at the end of their yeere according to the Canon 19 Whether doe you know in your parish any common swearers drunkards blasphemers any â—…oniacal persons or vsuerers contrary to the Statute 37. of Henry the eight any sooth-sayers charmers fornicators adulterers incestious persons brawlers common slanderers of the neighbours raylers scoulds silthy and lasciuious talkers sowers of discord between neighbors or any that receiue or lodge incontinent persons or harbour women with childe whiâ—… be vnmarried conueying or suffering them to goe away before they haue made satisfaction to the congregation or any persons that are by common fame noted or vehemently â—…ected of any of these crimes or that being heretofore suspected or presented for any of these faults haue for that cause departed out of your Parish and are now returned againe 20 Whether there bee any persons within your Parish that be married within the prohibited â—…grees of consanguinitie or affininitie or their old wiues or husbands being yet aliue albeit diuorced from them 99. 57. or that being lawfully married doe liue scandalously apart 〈…〉 married in times prohibited or without banes three seuerall Sundayes or Holy-daies published hauing no sufficient licence or dispensation for the same And whether there â—…ar doe communicate or cause their children to be baptized in other Parishes abroad or keepe their children vnbaptized longer then is conuenient 21 Whether any woman deliured of childe in your Parish in time conuenient after child-bâ—…th doe not come to the vsuall place in the Church to giue God thanks And whether doth your Clarke lap a Cushion at the said vsuall place 117. whether any inhabitant within your Parish doth detaine the Clarkes wages dueties for bread and wine or any other Church dueties present particularly what be their names and what and how much those dueties be 22 Whether any person in your Parish doe exercise any Trade Handicraft or bodily labour or doe buy and sell or keepe open Shops or warehouses vpon any Sunday or Holiday by themselues their seruants or Apprentizes or haue otherwise prophaned the sayd daies contrary to the order of the Church of England And whether there bee any Inne-keepers Alehouse-keepers or Victualers that permit any persons in their houses to eat drinke or play at any games during the time of diuine Seruice or Sermon in the forenoone or afternoone vpon those dayes 23 Whether doe any in your Parish familiarly frequent the company of excommunicate persons And whether doeth your Minister or any of your Parish without consent of the Ordinarie cause any to doe penance or to be censured or punished by any Vestry meetings or otherwise by their owne anthoritie or doe or haue taken any money for any crime or matter punishable by the Ecclesiasticall Law who haue beene so punished in what manner anâ—… vpon what cause 24 If any one or more of you doe know 113. or haue heard of any fault inquired of in these Articles or of any other crime the reformation whereof belongeth to the spirituall iurisdicton happening from the _____ day of _____ that then you doe informe one another thereof and you shall likewise present the same by vertue of your oathes 25 The Minister of euery Parish may ioyne in euery presentment with the Churchwardens and Sidemen 118. 118. who if they will not present the Minister may himselfe present to the said Commissary or his Surrogat such faults or crimes abouesaid as shall be thought to require due reformation You are charged to specifie the fault or crime proper name and surname trade or addition and place of dwelling of euery person presented And to bring your first generall presentment vpon all these Articles into Bowe Church in Cheapeside in the forenoone between the houres of viij and xi of the clocks the 28. day of _____ next comming And your last generall presentment on the _____ day of _____ then next following or else they and there to appeare personally to shew the cause of your default therein Intimating further that you may besides those generall dayes present offenders as oft as you shall thinke meete as by the Canonis prescribed Vnto the sayd Deane Commissary or his deputy sitting at any time in the open court