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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

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

Clarke or Sexton when any is passing out of this life neglect to toll a bell having notice thereof or the party being dead doth he suffer any more Ringing than one short peale before his buriall one and after the same another 5 Whether doth any of your Parish refuse to pay unto the parish Clarke or Sexton such wages as are unto them due have beene accustomably payd Touching Parishioners FIrst whether hath any in your Parish spoken against or any way impugned the Kings Majesties supremacy in Causes Ecclesiasticall the Truth and Doctrine of the Church of England the forme of Gods worship contained in the booke of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments 2 Whether there be any person or persons knowne or vehemently suspected to have written printed or by any meanes published and dispersed or otherwise to have or to have had in his or their use or keeping any Popish bookes or libels or any of those slanderous or schismaticall seditious libels or other books that impeach the booke of common Prayer or the Religion Ecclesiasticall government or any other part thereof established by Law in this Realme or doth impeach the credit or estate of any Ecclesiasticall person or governour within the same 3 Whether hath any in your Parish spoken against or impugned the Articles of Religion agreede upon in Anno. Do. 1562. the rites and ceremonies established in the Church the government by Arch-bishops Bishops Deanes Arch-deacons and others that beare office in the same 4 Whether hath any in your Parish spoken against or impugned the forme of making and consecrating Bishops Priests or Deacons or have any separated themselves from the society of the Congregation and combined in a new Brother-hood or depraved the Synods of the Church of England held by the Kings Authority 5 Whether hath any in your Parish maintained or defended any such Ministers or Schoole-masters as refuse to subscribe to the order of the Church have they affirmed that such Ministers and adherents may make Rules Orders in causes Ecclesiasticall without the Kings Authority 6 Whether doth any in your Parish prophane violate or mis-spend the Lords day commonly called Sunday or Holidaies appoynted in the Church of England using any offensive conversation or worldly labour in those dayes or any of them or is there any that wilfully refuse or negligently hath absented himselfe from Divine Prayers on Sundayes or Holidayes 7 Whether doth any in your Parish in the time of Divine Service use to sit with his hat on his head or is there any who hath not reverently kneeled when the generall Confession Letany and other prayers are read which have not stood up at the saying of the Beleefe 8 Whether hath any in your Parish disturbed the Service or Sermon by walking talking or any other way or departed out of the Church during the Service or Sermon without some urgent cause or loytered about the Church or Church-porch 9 Whether there be any in your Parish man or woman being about fifteene yeere of age that hath not received the Holy Communion thrice at the least every yeere namely at Easter las● or thereabouts for once whether any abandoning his or th●●r Parish Church have received the Holy Communion in any ●ther Parish Church or Chappell or private place 10 Whether hath any parent beene urged to be presented or admitted to answere as Godfathers for his owne child or hath any God father or Godmother made any other answer or speech than is prescribed by the Booke or have any bin admitted for Godfathers fathers or God-mothers at Baptisme who have not first received the Communion 11 Whether doe all Fathers Mothers Masters Mistresses come cause their children servants and Apprentices to come duely to the Church and according to the Ministers direction to be instructed and catechized or who be they that have not obeyed the Minister herein 12 Whether have any persons married together within the Degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity prohibited set forth in a Table appoynted to be placed in every Church or have any married or contracted themselves under the age of one and twenty yeeres without the consent of their Parents or Governours if their parents be dead 13 Whether have any persons once lawfully married forsaken each other or doe live asunder otherwise than by law is permitted or doe any being divorced or separated marry againe the former Wife or Husband yet living 14 Whether hath any of your Parish unreverently used your Minister or have any layd violent Hands upon him or disgraced his office and calling by word or deede 15 Whether have you in your Parish any Popish Recusant or maintayner of popish doctrine or suspected to keepe or disperse Schismaticall bookes or to favour any Hereste or errour 16 Whether have you any common resorters to your Church which are not of your Parish abandoning their owne Parish Church or doe any such receive the communion amongst you what be their names and of what parishes are they 17 Whether hath any upon any Sunday or Holiday opened their shops exercised their trade or used any gaming bin in any Tavern or Ale-house or otherwise ill imploied in the time of Divine Service ●● Whether are there in your Parish any adulterers fornicat●rs incestuous persons bawds receivers of defamed persons close favourers conveyers away of such or which suffer to depart any incontinent person unpunished or are there in your Parish any blasphemers common swearers drunkards ribawds usurers malicious slanderers scolds or sowers of discord or any defamed of the same crune 19 Whether doe any in your Parish administer the goods of the dead without authority or supresse their Will or Testament have any Executors neglected to performe their Wils especially in paying of Legacies given to the Church to the poore or to any other charitable or godly uses 20 Whether doe any refuse to pay to the reparations ornaments other things by Law required to be in your Church as they are seased by Law or are any dwelling out of your Parish which hold land in your Parish that refuse the like payment or seasement 21 Whether have any not being of your Parish beene christned churched buried or received the Communion or beene married out of your Church both parties dwelling in your Parish 22 Whether have all women in your Parish delivered of child come at convenient time after to Church to give thanks have they beene Churched according to the forme of the Booke of common Prayer 23 Whether hath the Perambulation of the circuit of your Parish bin observed oncē every yeere if not by whose default is it 24 Whether hath any in your Parish given the Church-wardens or Side-men or any of them evill words for doing their duety according to their oath and conscience in making presentment for their default 25 Whether there beany man or woman in your Parish that useth witch-craft sorcery charmes or unlawfull prayer or invocations in Latine or English or otherwise upon any Christian body or beast or any that resorteth to the same for counsell or helpe and what be their names 26 Whether there be any that pretending themselves to be Physicians or Chirurgeons do take upon them to practise Physicke or Chirurgery not being lawfully licensed thereunto or which refuse to shew their sayd licence tō the Minister or Curate and Church-wardens of your Church or Chappell when they shall be hereunto required Touching Church-wardens and Sworne-men FIrst whether doe any in your Parish take upon them to be Church-warden or Side-man which is not lawfully chosen by the Minister Parishioners according to the Canon or do any continue the office longer than 〈◊〉 ye●re 〈…〉 chosen againe or that it be a custome 〈…〉 warden to continue two yeers a … all such ●fficers yerely in Easter weeke 2 Whether doe your Chu●●●-wardens with … 〈…〉 … th at the most after their yeere 〈…〉 before the Minis●●● Parishio●ers give up a iust acco●●● of all such money 〈…〉 they have received bes … ed have they 〈…〉 remaining in their hands belong●●● to their Church o●●●●ish by Bill indented to be delivere● 〈◊〉 the next Church 〈…〉 3 Whether have the Church-●●rdens with the 〈◊〉 Minister from time to time p●●●●ded a sufficient quanti●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 white bread who●esome w●●● for the number of co●●●●●cant● 4 Whether doe the Church-●●●rdens and Sworn●me● before every visitation and at oth●● times when there is 〈◊〉 … n meete and confer about th●●● presentments the 〈◊〉 … ring of their Articles who hath af●er notice given him of th● time and place carelesly absented himselfe 5 Whether the forfeitur● 〈◊〉 twelue pence for 〈…〉 from Church appoynted by St … to the use of the poore 〈◊〉 and levied by the Church-war●●●● imployed according 〈◊〉 the said Statute and whether i● … said forfeiture taken of all persons which stand wilfully susp●n●●d or excommunicated 6 Whether have any Church-wardens lost sold or detained any Goods Ornaments Bels Rents or Imp●e … t s of the Church 7 Whether doe you the Church wardenns and S 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about the middest of divine Service usually walke out the Church and see who are abroad in any Ale-house or elsewhere about or evilly imployed and have ●●u presented all such off●nders to the Ordinary 8 Whether doe you kno● or have heard a fame of any offence committed or duty omitt●● by any of your Parish before your time heretofore not preseared by the former Church-wardens to the Ordinary or as yet not reformed and have you presented the same 9 Finally doe you know of any matter or cause which is a breach of the lawes Eccl●●●icall here not expressed have you presented the same FINIS