Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	ceremony_n	church_n	rite_n	3,560	5	9.9325	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00151	Articles to be enquired of in the metropoliticall visitation of the most reverend father, VVilliam, by Gods providence, Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury, primate of all England, and metropolitan in and for the dioces of [blank], in the yeere of our Lord God 163[blank], and in the first yeere of His Graces translation.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1633-1645 : Laud); Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1633 (1633)	STC 10147.7; ESTC S2092	12,555	18

Popish Recusants or other Schismaticks doe labour to seduce and withdraw others from the Religion now established Or instruct their families or children in Popish religion or refuse to entertaine any especially in place of greatest seruice or trust but such as concurre with them in their opinions 6 How long haue the said popish Recusants abstained from Diuine Seruice or from the Communion as aforesaid 7 Is there any in your Parish that retaine sell vtter or disperse any Popish bookes or Writings or other Bookes Libraries or writings of any Sectaries touching the Religion State or Gouernement Ecclesiasticall of this Kingdome of England or kéepe any Monuments of Superstition vncancelled or vndefaced 8 Whether haue you any in your Parish which heretofore being popish Recusants or Sectaries haue since reformed themselues and come to Church to heare Diuine Seruice and receiue the Sacraments If yea then who are they And how long since haue they so reformed themselues And whether they still remaine and abide in that conformitie 9 Is there any in your Parish that refuse to haue their Children Baptised or themselues to receiue the Communion at the hands of your Minister taking exception against him and what causes or exceptions doe they alleage or haue any maried Wiues refused to come to Church according to the Booke of Common Prayer to giue God thankes after their Child-birth for their safe deliuerance And whether doe any of or in your Parish refuse to haue their Children Baptized in your parish Church according to the forme prescribed in the booke of common Prayer 10 Doe any of your Parish vsually goe to other Parish Churches to heare Diuine Seruice or Sermons Or doe they communicate or Baptize their Children in any other Parish 11 Whether there be any in your Parish who will come to heare the Sermon but will not come to publike prayers appointed by the Booke of Common Prayer making a Schisme or diuision as it were betweene the vse of publike prayer and preaching 12 What persons within your Parish for any offence contumacy or crime of Ecclesiasticall 〈…〉 excommunicate present their names and for what cause they are excommunicated and how long they haue so stood and what person or persons doe wittingly and vsually keepe them company 13 Whether any not being in Orders doe execute any Priestly or Ministeriall office in your Church Chappell or Church-yard and what be their names 14 Whether any in your Parish that hauing heretofore taken vpon him the order of Priest-hood or Deacon hath since relinquished the same and liues as a Lay-man neglecting his vocation 15 Haue any person in your Parish quarrelled or stricken or vsed any violence to your Minister or haue stricken or quarrelled with any other person within your Church or Church-yard or demeaned himselfe disorderly in the Church by filthy or prophane talke or any other base or immodest behauiour Or haue disturbed the Minister in time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon or haue libelled or spoken slanderous words against your Minister to the scandall of his vocation or defamed any of his Neighbours touching any crime of Ecclesiasticall Conusance 16 Whether any of or in your Parish without consent of the Ordinarie or other lawfull authority haue caused any to doe pennance or to be censured or punished for any matter of Ecclesiasticall Conusance by any Vestry méetings or otherwise by their owne authority Or haue taken any money or commutation for the same Present their names that haue done it And who haue beene so punished In what manner and vpon what cause 17 Whether any person in your Parish doe exercise any Trade or labour buy or sell or kéep open Shops or Ware-houses vpon any Sunday or Holyday by themselues their Seruants or Apprentices or haue otherwise prophaned the said dayes contrary to the orders of the Church of England And whether there be any Inne-kéepers Alehouse-keepers Victualiers or other persons that permit any persons in their houses to eate drinke or play during the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon or reading the Homilies in the forenoone or afternoone vpon those dayes 18 Whether the fifth day of Nouember be kept holy and thankes-giuing made to God for his Maiesties and this States happie deliuerance according to the Ordinance in that behalfe 19 Whether any of your parish hold or frequent any conuenticles or priuate Congregations or make or maintaine any constitutions agréed vpon in any such assemblies Or any that doe write or publikely or priuately speake against the Booke of Common prayer or anything therein contained or against any of the Articles of Religion agreed vpon in Anno 1562. or against the Kings Supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall or against the Oath of Supremacie or of Allegiance as pretending the same to be vnlawfull and not warrantable by the Word of GOD Or against any of the Rites or Ceremonies of the Church of England now established Or against the Gouernement of the Church of England vnder the Kings most excellent Maiesty by Arch-Bishops Bishops Deanes Arch-Deacons and other Officers of the same affirming that the same is repugnant to the Word of GOD and that the said Ecclesiasticall Officers are not lawfully ordained Or whether there be any Authors Maintainers or Fauourers of Heresie or Schisme or that be suspected to be Anabaptists Libertines Brownists of the Family of Loue or of any other Heresie or Schisme 〈◊〉 present their names 20 Whether any in your Parish haue maried within the degrées by Law prohibited and where and by whom And whether any couple in your Parish being lawfully maried liue apart one from the other without due separation by the Law or any that haue beene diuorced which kéepe company with any other at Bedde or at Boord 21 Whether doe any persons administer the goods of the dead without lawfull authority or suppresse the last will of the dead Or are there in your Parish any wils not yet proued or goods of the dead dying intestate left vnto administred By authority in that behalfe you shall not faile to present the Executors and all others faulty therein and also how many persons being possessed of any goods and chattels haue died within your Parish since ther day of February 1632. 22 Whether any with-hold the Stocke of the Church or any goods or other things giuen to good and charitable vses 23 Whether your Hospitals and Almes-houses and other such houses and corporations founded to good and charitable vses and the lands possession and goods of the same be ordered and disposed of as they should be And doe the Masters Gouernours Fellowes and others of the said Houses and Corporations behaue and demeane themselues according to the godly Ordinances and Statutes of their seuerall Foundations 24 Whether haue you any in your Parish to your knowledge or by common same or report which haue committed Adultery Fornication or Incest or any which haue impudently bragged or boasted that he or she haue liued incontinently with any person or persons whatsoeuer or