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A00256	Articles to be enquired of, vvithin the Diocesse of Sarisbury, in the first visitation of the right reuerend father in God, Martin, by the prouidence of God, Lord Bishoppe of Sarum holden in the yeere of our Lord God, 1619.	Church of England. Diocese of Salisbury. Bishop (1618-1619 : Fotherby); Fotherby, Martin, Bishop of Salisbury, 1559-1619.	1619 (1619)	STC 10329.3; ESTC S2106	13,680	20

au●…ing of offence and 〈◊〉 that may gr●…w thereby you are diligently to obserue the directions of the 53. 〈◊〉 and so to present it 40 Item whether hath your Minister taken especiall care to prepare the children and youth of his p●…sh not being as yet confirmed to be made ●…itte for confirmation against this next visitation or in wh●…m is the fault Articles concerning the Church 1 VVHether haue you in your seuerall Churches Chappels the booke of constitutions or Canons ecclesiasticall ready to be read by y●…ur Minister according to his Maiesties pleasure published by his highnesse authoriti●… vnder the great seale of England 2 Whether is there in your Church or Chappell one parchment Register booke prouided for christ●…ings mariages and burials And whether is the same duely and exactly kept according to the constitutions in that behalfe prouided and a transcript therof brought in y●…rely within one moneth after Easter into my Lord Bishops Registers office And whether doth your Minister vpon euery Sonday read the ●…ames of all such as haue béene maried christ●…ed or buried the wéeke before 3 Whether haue you prouided the booke of common-prayer lately commanded by his Maiesties authoritie onely to be vsed together with a Bible of the largest volume and last translation the two bookes of thanks giuing for his Maiesties deliuerance vpon the 5. of August and fifte of Nouember and the booke of Homilies and two Psalters and whether haue you in your Church or Chappel a Font of stone set vp in the auncient vsuall place a conuenient and decent Communion Table standing vpon a frame with a carpet of ●…ke or some other decent stuffe and a ●…aire 〈◊〉 ●…ath to lay thereon at the Communion time And whether is the same table then placed in such conuenient sort within the Chancell or Church as that the Minister may be best heard in his prayer and administration and that the greater number may communicate And whether are the ten Commādements set vp on the East end of your Church or Chappell where the people may best sé●… and reade them and other Sentences of holy Scripture written on the walles likewise for the same purpose 4 Whether haue you a conuenient seate for your Minister to reade Seruice 〈◊〉 together with a comely Pulpit set vp in a conuenient place with a decent cloth or cushion for the same a comely large Surplesse a faire Communion Cup of ●…uer and aco●…er agréeable for the same a standing 〈◊〉 of pewter or purer mettall to put the wine in whereby it may be set vpon the Communion table at the time of the blessing thereof with all o●…er things and ornaments necessary for the celebration of Diuine Seruice and administration of the Sacraments and a strong chest for the almes of the poore with thrée lockes and keyes and another chest for the kéeping of the Ornaments of the Church and Register Booke 5 Whether are your Church or Chappels with the Chauncels thereof and your Parsonage or Uicaredge house and all other housing thereto belonging in good reparations and decently and comely kept aswell within as without the seates well maintained your Churchyards wel fenced and kept without abuse according to the 85. Canon If not then through whose default what defects are All these things in these Articles to be prepared according to the Canons vnder the title appertaining to Churches 6 Item whether haue you a terrier of the gléebe-lands and other rights duties and possessions belonging to your Parsonage and Uicaradge if no then to enquire thereof vpon the view and knowledge of honest substantiall men within your parish together with the aduice of your Person and Uicar and the same so made to certifie and bring vnto vs that it may be safely kept in our Registrie ad perpetuam rei memoriam at this our first episcopall visitation Articles concerning Ecclesiasticall Officers 1 VVHether do you know or haue heard of any payment composition or agréement to or with any exercising ecclesiasticall iurisdictiō within this Dioces or any their Registers or officers Ecclesiasticall for suppressing or concealing of excomunication or other Ecclesiasticall censure of or against any Recusant what summe of money or other consideration hath béene receiued or promised by or to any of them for concealing of them by whom and with whom 2 Whether any vsing Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction in this Dioces their Registers Actuaries Apparitors or Summoners haue at any time winked at and suffered any adulterers fornicators ince●…s or other faults or offences presented vnto them to passe and remaine vnpunished and vncorrected for money rewards bribes pleasure friendship or any other partiall respect 3 Whether hath any exercising ecclesiasticall iurisdiction within this Dioces or any Register Apparitor or Minister belonging to the Ecclesiasticall courts exacted extraordinarie or greater fees then heretofore of late haue béene accustomed and whether is there a Table of the rates of al fées set vp in seuerall courts and offices or whether they or any of them haue taken vpon them the office of Informers or Promoters to the courtes or any other way abused themselues in their offices contrary to the law and canons in that case prouided 4 Item are your Ecclesiasticall Iudges and their substitutes masters of Arts or Batchellors of the Law at the least learned and practised in the ciuill and ecclesiasticall Lawes men of good ●…ife and fame zealouslie affected in Religion and iust and vpright in executing their offices haue they heard any matter of office priuately in their chambers without their sworne Registers or their Deputies presence do you know or haue you heard of any summes of money to be taken by them or any of their officers of any dying intestate vpon pretence to bestow the same in pios vsus and how hath the same béene bestowed 5 Item what number of Apparitors hath euery seuerall iudge Ecclesiastical and wherein and in what manner is the country ouer-burthened with them and whether haue they caused or summoned any to appeare in the said courts without a presentment or a citation first had or whether haue they threatned any to prosecute them in the said courts if they would not giue them some rewards and what bribes in that behalfe haue they taken 6 Whether hath there béene within your seuerall Parishes since the day of last past any wills proued or administrations graunted by the Archdeacon and his Official or any knowne incontinent persons or any suspected of that vice or any other offenders whatsoeuer hauing not before the said day of last past béene duly presented by their Churchwardens for the same béene called or cited by the Archdeacon or his Official If yea then you must present their names and their offences now at this visitation for that since the said day of last the Archdeacons authoritie was restrained and suspended by inhibition and al iurisdiction Ecclesiasticall euer since hath béene in the Lord Bishop Articles concerning Schoolemasters 1 VVHether the Schoolemaster or Schoolemasters

withinyour parish openly or priuately in any Noble or Gentlemans house or in any other place be of good sincere religion life and conuersation and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth whether they haue béene examined allowed and licencedfor Schoolmasters by the Ordinarie in that behalfe and how many seuerall Schoolemasters haue you and what be their names 2 Whether your Schoolemaster or Schoolemasters doe themselues receiue the holy Communion as often as they ought to doe and whether doe all their Schollers which be of age sufficient and of capacity by instruction to receiue the Lords Supper come to the Communion either in your Church or where their Parents dwel once euerie yeare and be diligent to heare common-praier 3 Whether the Schoolemaster or Schoolemasters either priuate or publicke do teach their schollers the Catechisme authorised by publicke authoritie at the least once euery week and do instruct examine them in the same or do teach any other Catechisme and what Catechisme it is that they do so teach 4 Whether your Schoolemaster or Schoolemasters or any of them bée knowne or suspected to reade vnto their schollers priuatelie any vn lawful books or priuatlie to instruct them in their yong yéeres either in Poperie superstition or disobedience or contempt to his Maiestie and his lawes Ecclesiasticall by publicke authoritie allowed 5 Whether your Schoolemaster or Schoolemasters or any of them vnder pretence of Catechising their schollers which is a most godly order carefully by them to be obserued do kéepe Lectures readings or exposition in diuinitie in their houses hauing repaire vnto them of people not being of their owne familie and houshold 6 What Reccusant Papists are there in your parish and whether doe they or any of them kéep any Schoolemaster in their house which commeth not to Church to heare Diuine Seruice receiue the Communion what is his name and how long hath he taught 7 Whether the Schoolemasters within your parish doe teach his or their schollers any other Grammar thenthat which is commonly called the Kings Grammar set forth by the authoritie of K. Henry the eight teaching the prescript forme thereof whereby their schollers may perfectly vnderstand their Grammer rules and constructions Articles concerning the Parishioners and other of the Laity 1 VVHether is there any in your parish that hath or dooth impugne the Kings Maiesties supremacy and authoritie in causes Ecclesiasticall or doe any way or in any part impeache the same being restored to the Crowne by the lawes of this Realme established in that behalfe 2 Whether is there any in your parish that de●…ieth the Church of England by law established vnder the Kings most excellent Maiestie to be a true and Apostolicall church teaching and maintaining the doctrine of the Apostles 3 Whether is there any in your parish that doth impugne any of the Articles of Religion agréed vpon in Anno 1562. and established in the Church of England 4 Whether is there any in your parish that doth impugne or speak against the rites and ceremonies established in the Church of England or the lawfull vse of them you shall present their names 5 Whether are there any in your parish that do impugne the gouernment of the Church of England vnder the Kings most excellent Maiesty by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and the rest that beare office in the same affirming that the same is Antichristian or repugnant to the word of God 6 Whether is there any in your parish that doe impugne the forme of consecrating ordaining of Archbishops Bishops Priests or Deacons affirming that the same is repugnant to the word of God or that they who are so ordered in that forme are not lawfully made 7 Whether is th●…re any in your parish that doth hold or frequent any conu●…nticles or priuate méetings and there do conferre or agrée vpon any priuate orders other then such as are by the Canons set forth by publique authoritie to be by them or any others in Church gouernment obserued 8 Whether any person haue lurked and tippled in Tauernes or Ale-houses on Sondaies or other holidaies or vsed his or their manuall craft or trade or kéepe their shops open vpon the said daies or any of them and espectally in the time of Diuine seruice 9 Whether are there any in your Parish that doe or haue profaned the Lords day called Sonday or other Holidaies contrarie to the orders of the church of England prescribed in that behalfe 10 Whether hath any person in your Parish quarrelled or stricken or vsed any violence vnto or with your Minister or any other in the Church or Churchyard or vsed himselfe disorderlie in the Church by ●…lthy and profane talke or any other rude and immodest behauiour 11 Whether is that due reuerence and humble submission vsed within your chur●… chapple in the time of Diuine seruice as by the 18. constitution is prescribed and whether each one in the Church or chappell doe apply and order himselfe there in time of Diuine 〈◊〉 as by the letter part of the same constitution is most commendably enioyned 12 Whether the Churchwardens and Questmen from time to time do their diligence in not suffering any idle persons or loiterers to abide either in the Churchyard or Church porch in seruice or Sermon time but causing them either to come into the Church to heare diuine seruice or to depart and not to disturb●… such as are hearers there 13 Whether the Churchwardens doe prouide against euery Communion with the aduice of the Minister a sufficient quantitie of fine white bread and of good and wholsome wine for the number of the communicants that shall receiue and that to be brought in a cleane and swéet standing pot of pewter or other pure metall 14 Whether haue any in your Parish béene Godfathers or Godmothers to their owne children Or whether your Minister or any Godfathers or Godmothers haue vsed or doe vse any other forme answere or speach in Baptisme then is in the booke of common praier appointed or whether any which haue not communicated be admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers contrarie to the twentie ninth Canon 15 Whether is there any in your parish that doth refuse to haue their children baptized or themselues to receiue the communion at the hands of your Minister because hee is no Preacher you shall present their names And if your Minister since 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 the Fathers Mothers Masters Mistresses cause their children seruants and apprentices to come to the catechisme vpon the Sondaies and Holidaies before euening prayer to heare and to be instructed and taught therein and those that ●…e not their duties herein you present their names 17 Whether haue you or your Predecessors Church-wardens suffered any playes feasts banquets church-ales drinkings or any other

doctrine now publikely professed in this Church or the gouernment or Discipline of the Church of England now within this Realm receiued and established by common authoritie and what their names and surnames are 35 Whether there bée any in your parish who are noted knowne or suspected to conceale or kéep hiddē in their houses any Masse books portesses br●…iaries or other bookes of Popery and super●…ition or any Challices Copes Uestments Albes or other ornaments of superstition vncancelled or vndefaced which it is to be coniectured they doe kéepe for a day as they call it 38 Whether any of your Parishioners hauing a Preacher to their Parson Uicar or Curate doe absent themselues from his Sermons and resort to any other place to heare other Preachers 39 Whether there be any Inkéepers Alewiues Uictualers or ●…iplers that suffer or doe admit any person or persons in their houses to eate drink or play at dice cards tables bowles or such like games in the time of common-prayer or sermon on the Sondaies or Holidaies or any Butchers or other that commonly vse to sell meat or other things in the time of common prayer preaching or reading of Homilies and whether in Faires or common Markets falling vpon Holidaies there be shewing of any wares before morning prayer be 〈◊〉 and whether any Markets and selling of wares be vsed or su●… in any Churchyards on the Sabboth day by common packmen and pedlers going about or any Butchers 40 Whether hath your Minister or any of the parish without the consent or priuitie of the Ordinarie caused any to doe penance or bee punished either openly or otherwise for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiastical lawes onely and what be the names of the parties that haue béene so punished and in what manner 41 Whether there be any in your Parish who will come to heare the sermon but will not come to the publique praier appointed by the booke of common-praier making a schisme or diuision as it were betwéene the vse of publike praier preaching and whether there be any who being present at publick praier do not deuoutly and humbly knéele vpon their knées at such times as by the booke of common prayer they are appointed to wit when they make a generall confession of their sinnes when all prayers and collects are read in the time of the Letanie when the ten Commandements are read and at the receiuing of the holy communion and what are their names that haue at any time shewed themselues vndutifull and vnreuerent in that behalfe 42 Whether there be any maried woman or others within your Parish which after childbirth refuse or contemne to come to the Church to giue God thankes for their diliuerie and to haue the praiers publikely appointed on that behalfe by the booke of common prayer 43 Whether any within your parish doe resort vnto Farnes fieldes woods priuate houses or to any extraordinarie exposition of scriptures or conferences together or that be drawers or perswaders of others to any such schismaticall conuenticles 44 Whether any doe kéepe their children vnbaptized longer then is conuenient vnlesse that it be for sicknesse of the child or other vrgent occasion And whether any doe carrie their children from the Parish they are borne in to other Parishes to be baptized and so refuse their owne Parish or doe bring strange Ministers into their owne houses to baptize their children priuately according to their owne fantasies 45 Item whether haue you any Coniurers Charmers ●…lcours Witches or Fortune-tellers within your Parish who are they and who doe resort to them for counsell 46 Item haue you the Church wardens exhibited into the Bishoppes Registrie a true copie of the names of all such as haue béene christened married or buried within your parish this last yéere according to the 70. Canon 47 Item whether hath the fift of August and the fifth of Nouember béene kept holy and thanksgiuings made to God for his Maiesties and the States happy del●…rance according to the Ordinance in that behalfe 48 Item whether haue you or your Predecessors Churchwardens according to the branch of a Statute mentioned in the latter end of this booke leuied twelue pence for euery Sondaies absence to the vse of the poore of your parish of the lands goods and tenemen●…s of euery one that hath without lawful execuse absented himselfe from his parish church if not you are to present it your selues by vertue of your oaths If yea then hath the money béene imploied to that vse and distributed accordingly 49 Whether do you know of any other matter of Ecclesiasticall cognizance worthy the presentment in your iudgement aboue not expressed which you hold fit to be reformed and if you doe you shall likewise present the same by vertue of your Oaths FINIS

profane vsages to be kept in your church chappels or churchyard or ●…els to ●…rung superstitio●…e vpon holidaies or Eues abrogated by the booke of common-prayer contrary to the 88. canon 12 How many inhabitants within your Parish men or women aboue the age of sixtéene yéeres do refuse to frequent Diuine seruice established by publike authority 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 ●…hey you are to present them all ●…f both forts 19 Whether haue you or your Predecessors brought vnto my Lord Bishop or his Chauncellour within fortie daies next after Easter the names of all such as haue not communicated that Easter before contrary to the 11. 2. Canon 20 Whether do any of the Inhabitants of your said parish entertaine within their house any soiurners lodgers or any common resorters and guests who refuse to frequent Diuine seruice or receiue the holic Communion as aforesaid what be their names of what quality or condition are they 21 Whether are any of the said Popish Recusants of insolent behauiour not without publike offence or doe boldly busie themselues in seducing and withdrawing others either abroad or in their owne families by instructing their children in Popish Religion or by refusing ●…o 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 do 22 How long the said Popish Recusants haue obstinately abstained either from Diuine seruice or from the Communion as is aforesaid whether of any long time or only since his Maiesties raigne and how long 23 What persons aforesaid within your parish either for the offence aforesaid or for any other contumacy or crime doe remaine excommunicated what bee their names and for what cause and how long haue they so stood excommunicate 24 Whether were you the Churchwardens and Questmen chosen by the consent of the Minister and parishioners in Easter●…ke according vnto the 89. and 90. canons and whether haue the churchwardens before you giuen vp a iust accompt for their time and deliuered to you their Successors whatsoeuer money or other things of right belonging to the church which was in their hands according to the 89. Canon 25 Whether doe all persons aboue the age of sixtéene yéeres vsualie reso●…t to hears Diuine seruice vpon sondaies and holidaies approued and whether hath each one of your Parishioners being aboue the age of sixtéene yeares as aforesaide receiued the holy communion thrice this last yeare chiefely once at Easter in your Parish Church knéeling If no then you shall present their names which haue not so done 26 Whether haue you a fit Parish Clerke aged 20. y●…res atleast of honest conuersation sufficient for reading and writting and whether he be payed his wages without fraud●… according to the most auncient customs of your Parish If not then by whom is he so defrauded and denied and whether he be chosen by the Parson or Uicar or by whom according to the 91. Canon 27 Whether haue any in your Parish béene maried within the prohibite degrées forbidden by the Lawe and expressed in a certaine Table published by authority in Anno 1563 If yea then your shall present their names and whether haue you the said Table publikely set vp in your Church and fastened to some conuenient place 28 Whether doth any heretofore diuorced kéepe company with any other at bed and at boord as man wife what be their names when and where they maried and how long haue they so continued 29 Whether haue you any in your Parish which heretofore being popish Recusants or Sectaries haue since conformed themselues come to Church to heare Diuine seruice and receiue the Sacraments If yea then who they are And how long since haue they so conformed themselues and whether doe they still remaine and abide in that conformity 30 Whether haue you any in your parish to your knowledg or by common fame and report which haue committed adulterie fornication or incest or any bawdes harborers or receiuers of such persons or publikely suspected thereof which haue not béen publikely punished to your knowledge If yea then with whom and whether are there anie which are by common fame and report reputed taken to be common drunkards blasphemers of Gods holy name common and vsual swearers filthic speakers raylers sowers of discord amongst their neighbours or speakers against Ministers marriages Usurers contrarie to the statute made in the 37. yeare of K. Henry the eight Symonicall persons fighters brawlers or quarrellers in Church or Churchyard you shall not faile to present their names 31 Whether haue any in your parish receiued or harboured any woman gotten with childe out of wedlock and suffered them againe to depart without pennance first inflicted vpon them by their ordinary You shall truelie present aswel the partie harbouring as harboured and who is suspected to haue committed incontinencie with her 32 Whether anie person or persons suspected or detected heretofore of Incontinency and therfore departing out of your parish for a season is now returned againe or in what place else is he or she now abiding to your knowledge or as you haue heard you shal not faile to present the whole truth in that behalfe 33 Whether are there in your parish anie wils not yet prooued or goods of the dead dying intestate left vnadministred by the authority of the Ordinarie in that behalfe you shall not faile to present the Executors and all others faulty and culpable therein 34 Whether 〈◊〉 any of or within your parish affirme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the sacred Synode of this nation assembled by the 〈◊〉 authority is not the true Church of England by representati●… or hath or dooth any of your parish affirme th●… no persons either of the Clergie or La tie that were not personally present in the said la●… Synode are 〈◊〉 to the decrées thereof in causes Ecclesiasticall made and ratified by the Kings supreame authority because they gaue not vp their voices vnto them you shall present their names 35 Whether is there any among you that ha●… or do●… 〈◊〉 the aforesaid late Synod saying or affirming that the same was a company o●… such persons as did conspire together against godly and religious Professors of the Gospell and that therefore both they and their procéedings in that behalfe are and ought to be dispised and contemned or words to the like effect you shall not faile to present their names 36 Whether there bee any person or persons Ecclesiasticall or temporall within your Parish or else where within this Dioces that haue retained and kept in their custodie or that read sell vtter disperse cary or deliuer to others any English books or Libels set forth either on this side or beyond the seas by Papists or Sectaries against the ●…ings supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall or against true Religion and Catholik