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A00272 Ar[c?]ticles to be inquired of, in the visitation of the most reverend father in God, Richard, by the providence of God, Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke, primate of England, and metropolitane had in the yeere of our Lord God 1636. Church of England. Province of York. Archbishop (1631-1640 : Neile); Neile, Richard, 1562-1640. 1636 (1636) STC 10380.5; ESTC S2656 10,484 18

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your Minister as oft as he administreth the communion first receive it himselfe in both kinds and whether doth he use in the administration any bread and wine newly brought before it be set upon the Communion Table and the words of consecration be rehearsed doth he deliver the bread and wine to every communicant severally in such sort as is prescribed 7 Whether doth your Minister give warning publikely in the Church at Morning prayer the Sunday before he administreth the communion for the better preparation of the parishioners and whether doth he administer the Sacraments so often as that every parishioner may receive thrice in the yeere at the least whereof Easter to be one 8 Whether hath your Minister administred the Communion to any but such as kneele or doe you know any that refuse to kneele hath he administred to any that are under Ecclesiasticall censure as for refusing to bee present at publike Prayer or who hath depraved the booke of common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments or the Rites Ceremonies prescribed or the Articles of Religion agreed upon or the Booke of ordering Deacons Priests Bishops or against his Majesties Supremacy or hath committed other the like enormities and what be their names 9 Whether hath your Minister more Benefices than one if he have how far distant are they how often is he absent in the yeere when he is absent from your parsonage or vicaradge hath he a licensed Preacher for his Curate 10 Whether your Churches or Chappels be or have beene destitute of a Curate And how long and by whose default And whether any Curate have served or doe serve without license of the Ordinary or doe any officiate in any cure that is not in holy orders 11 Whether doe youknow any Popish Priests Seminary Jesuite or runnagate persons that doe preach say Masse or minister any Popish Sacrament or ceremonies or else doe resort secretly or openly into your Parish And whose house doe they resort unto and of whom are they harboured and what be the names of such Popish Priests Seminaries Iesuites or Runnagates and such as so harbour and releeve them 12 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate or any other person in your parish be a favourer of the Romish Church or Religion or any other Sect or Schismaticall opiniō or hath or doth maintaine or teach any doctrine contrary or repugnant to Gods Word or to any of the Articles agreed upon by the Clergy in the Convocation holden at London An. Dom. 1562. And whether they have taught publiquely or secretly any doctrine tending to the discredit and disprayse either of the Booke of Common Prayer or of the Preachers and Ministers of the Word and Sacraments or of the received order for government by Arch-bishops Bishops Deanes Arch-deacons and other officers in the Church of England or make any other innovation And whether have they permitted any man so teaching or making such innovation and not made the same knowne 13 Whether is your Minister an allowed Preacher if he be doth he every Sunday in your Church or some other next adioyning where no Preacher is preach 14 Whether doth your Minister being no Preacher allowed presume to expound the Scripture in his owne Cure or elsewhere doth he procure every month a Sermon to be preached in his cure by preachers lawfully licenced and on every Sunday when there is no Sermon doth he or his Curate reade some one of the Homilies prescribed 15 Whether your Minister doe openly every Sunday after he have read the second Lesson at Morning Evening praier admonish warne the Church-wardens Sworne men to looke to their charge to observe who offend in absenting themselves negligently or wilfully from their Parish-church or Chappell or unreverently use themselves in time of divine Service 16 Whether is your Curate allowed by the Ordinary under his hand seale to serve for your cure and whether doth he serve two Churches or Chappell 's in one day whether is he Deacon at the least what stipend hath he for serving the cure 17 Whether doth your Minister alwaies in saying publike prayer administring the Sacraments weare a decent surplesse with sleeves being a graduate doth he alwayes weare therewith a hood by the order of the Vniversity agreeable to his degree 18 Whether hath your Minister or any other Preacher in your church preached any thing to confute or impugne any doctrine delivered by any other Preacher hath he they prayed for Christs Catholike Church the Kings Majesty the Lords Arch-bishops and Bishops c. as is prescribed Canon 55. 19 Whether hath or doth any preach in your Church which refuseth to conforme himselfe to the Lawes Rites Ordinances established or which hath not first shewed a sufficient license 20 Whether doth your Minister in his sermons foure times in the yeere at the least teach and declare the Kings Majesties power within his realmes to be the highest power under God to whom all within the same owe most loyalty and obedience and that all forraine power is iustly abolished 21 Whether doth your Minister every Sunday and Holiday halfe an houre before Eevening prayer or more or at some other convenient time at Eevening prayer examine and instruct the youth in the ten Commandements the Beleefe the Lords Prayer the Catechisme set forth in the Booke of Common prayer and whether doe the Church-wardens assist the Minister herein 22 Whether hath your Minister married any which have not beene three severall Sundaies or Holydaies asked in your Church in the time of divine service without licence or without a ring or hath he with licence or without married any whereof neyther dwelt in your Parish 23 Whether hath your Minister with licence or without married any at any other times than betweene the houres of eight and twelve in the Forenoone or in any private house or when there is no licence before the Parents and Governours the parties being under the age of 22. yeeres have testified their consents 24 Whether hath your Minister declared to the people every Sunday at the time appointed what Holidaies and Fasting-daies be that weeke following doth he being a Preacher confer with all recusants and persons excommunicate or suspended being no Preacher doth he procure a sufficient Preacher to reclaime them thereby 25 Whether doth your Minister keepe a note of all persons excommunicated and declared so to be and once every sixe moneths doth he denounce them which have not obtained their absolution on some Sunday in service time that others may be admonished to refraine their company 26 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate be diligent in disiting the sicke and comforting them and whether they bury their dead in such christian and comely manner as is prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer and whether any Lay man other than a lawfull Minister hath taken upon him to bury the dead contrary to Order 27 Whether hath your Minister refused to