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england_n	book_n	church_n	minister_n	2,564	5	6.5894	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00263	Articles to be enquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men, within the diocesse of Winchester in the visitation of the Reuerend Father in God, Thomas Bishop of Winton, in his triennall visitation, holden 1603 in the first yeere of the raigne of Our Most Gracious Soueraigne Lord, Iames by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.	Church of England. Diocese of Winchester. Bishop (1597-1616 : Bilson); Bilson, Thomas, 1546 or 7-1616.	1603 (1603)	STC 10356.5; ESTC S874	8,425	17

saide names whether the Minister hath openly and distinctly read in the Church all the said names of that precedent weeke and the day and moneth of the christening marriage or buriall of euerie such person And whether there bee prouided in the Church a conuenient coffer with three locks and keyes for the sure keeping of that Register parchment booke And whether the Minister and both the Church-wardens hauing euerie of them one of the sayd keyes in their custodie doe safely keepe the said Register Booke in the sayd coffer according as hath been by the Canons of this Church of England prouided 15 Item whether your Ministers doe keepe any man or woman in their houses suspected to be incontinent persons or bee themselues giuen to drunkennesse haunters of Tauernes ale-houses or suspected places or otherwise suspected of any notorious crime or light disordered behauiour or haue giuen any euill example of life or vse vnseemely apparell in colours guards or light fashions 16 Item whether for the retaining of the perambulation of the circuit of your Parish the Minister Churchwardens and certain substantiall men of the Parish in the dates of the Rogations commonly called Gang-daies walke the accustomed bounds of your parish whether in the same they vse any superstitious or popish ceremonie but onely meditate of Gods mercie giue him thankes for blessing of the earth as is by the law of the Church set downe 17 Item whether there be any in your Parish that readeth any priuate lectures or vseth expositions of the Scriptures in any priuate mans house whatsoeuer contrarie to law and whether any preach and doe not at certaine times in the yeere minister the Sacraments in their owne persons and in such Church where he readeth his Lecture 18 Item whether any Parson Uicar or Minister hath procured himselfe to bee admitted into sacred orders by any corrupt meanes of money reward guift or promise of reward or by any symonicall compact hath procured his benefice directly or indirectly or be thereof by common same suspected or defamed 19 Item whether your Minister doe reiect those women being married which do come to the Church to giue thanks after child birth according to the order set down in the booke of common prayer 20 Item whether your Minister haue married any person not being three seuer all sundaies lawfully asked in their Parish churches according to the book of common prayer or not being sufficiently licensed thereunto by license from the L. Bishop of Winchester his officers 21 Item whether your Parsons and Uicars doe maintaine and keep in due reparations their mansion houses and other edifices belonging to their ecclesiasticall liuings and not suffer them to fall into ruine and decay and whether your almeshouses hospitals and spittles be well and godly vsed according to the foundation and auncient ordinances of the same and whether there be any other placed in them than poore impotent and needie persons that haue not wherewith or whereby to liue Articles concerning the Churchwardens and their assistants ITem whether you haue in your Parish Churches and Chappels all things necessarie and requisite for common praier and administration of the Sacraments specially the booke of common praier with the new Kalender two Psalters the English Bible in the largest volume the Table of the ten commaundements a conuenient Pulpit well placed a comely and decent Table standing on a frame for the holy communion with a faire linnen cloath to lay vppon the same and some couering of silke buckeram or other such like for the cleane keeping thereof a faire and comely communion cup of siluer and a couer of siluer for the same which may serue also for the ministration of the communion bread and a decent large surplesse with sleeues 2 Item whether your Churches and Chappels with the chancell be well and sufficiently repaired and kept without abuse of any thing and whether your churchyards be well fenced and cleanly kept and if any part thereof be in decay through whose default it is so and whether any strife hath growne amongst your neighbours about pewes or seats in the Church 3 Item whether those decayes of your Chauncels and Churches which were lately vppon speciall inquisition presented haue been and are sufficiently repaired sithence that time according to former commandement giuen to that purpose or how much thereof doe yet remaine vndecent ruinous or in any decay and to what value by whose fault 4 Item whether your Font or Baptisteries be remooued from the place where they were woont to stand or whether any persons leauing the vse of them doe christen or baptize in basons or other prophane vessels not accustomably used in the Church before time 5 Item whether the Schoolemasters within your Parish openly or priuately in any mans house be of good and sincere religion life and conuersation and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth and whether with their Schollers they do resort orderly on Sundaies and Holidaies to church and whether your Schoolemasters doe receiue the holy communion so oft as they ought to do and so many of their schollers as be of sufficient age and capacitie to receiue and whether they haue ben examined allowed and licensed for schoolmaisters by the Ordinarie or his officers in that behalfe 6 Item whether all Houshoulders in your Parish haue caused their children seruants and apprentices both mankind and womankind being aboue seauen yeeres of age which haue not learned the Catechisme to come to the church on Sundaies and Holydaies at the times appointed for catechizing and there diligently and obediently to heare and what be the names of those that haue not caused their children seruants and apprentices so to come to the Church to be instructed and examined 7 Item whether doe any worke or keepe any shop or any part of their shop open vpon the Saboath daies or vpon any Holydaies appointed by the lawes of the Realme to be kept holyday or doe vse any worke or labour vpon those daies 8 Item whether you your selues or the Churchwardens in the yeeres before haue suffered any vnmarried woman being begotten with child to go out of the Parish before she hath done penance or any man defamed of whoredom to depart vnpunished and forth of whose houses they haue gone away with vnpunished 9 Item whether there be any in your Parish which for any cause whatsoeuer wilfully forbeare to come to Church to publique praier or to heare Gods word preached pretending it vnlawfull to come to our assemblies as the church of England now standeth and how many moneths they and euerie of them haue so absented themselues by the space of one yeere last past 10 Item whether any doe refuse to receiue the holy communion at their owne Ministers hand either because he is not a preacher or because he duely obserueth y● order of ministration appointed by the booke and who they be that doe go from their owne Parish to receiue at any other Ministers hands and