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A00167	Articles to be enquired of in the diocesse of Carlile, in the visitation of the reuerend father in God, Francis, Lord Bishop of Carlile	Church of England. Diocese of Carlisle. Bishop (1626-1629 : White); White, Francis, 1564?-1638.	1627 (1627)	STC 10172.5; ESTC S2634	11,300	16

ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF IN THE DIOCESSE OF CARLILE in the Visitation of the Reuerend Father in God Francis Lord Bishop of Carlile Anno Dom. Consecrationis suae ❧ Imprinted at London 1627. The forme of the Oath to be ministred vnto the Church-wardens and Side-men YOu shall sweare that you and euery of you shall duely consider and diligently enquire of all and euery of these Articles giuen you in charge and that all affection fauour hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set aside you shall present all and euery such person of or within your Parish as hath committed any offence or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected or defamed of any such offence or default Wherein you shal deale vprightly and fully neither presenting nor sparing to present any contrarie to truth hauing in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine truth and vertue and to suppresse vice So helpe you God and the holy contents of this Booke ARTICLES TO BE ENquired of in the Diocesse of Carlile ANNO DOM. Articles concerning Religion and Doctrine 1 WHether bee there any abiding in Hereticall opinions or resorting to your Parish that haue wilfully maintained and defended any heresies errors or false opinions contrary to the faith of Christ and holy Scripture 2 Jtem Whether doth any in your Parish Absence from Church being 16. yeers of age or vpwards or others lodging or commonly resorting to any house in your parish wilfully absent themselues from your parish Church Chappell or Oratorie vpon Sundayes and holidaies and other daies appointed at Morning and Euening prayers Or who come late to Church and depart from Church before diuine Seruice and Sermon be ended Or whether be there any that perswade others to forbeare or abstaine comming to Church to heare diuine Seruice and receiue the holy Communion according to his Maiesties lawes in that behalfe enacted 3 Jtem Whether be there any in your parish that hath beene Vnlawfull conuenticles or is vehemently suspected to haue beene present at any vnlawfull assemblies conuenticles or meetings vnder colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion or doth any affirme and maintaine such meetings to be lawfull contrarie to his Maiesties statutes in that behalfe 4 Item Whether be there any within your parish that deny Impugners of the Kings Supremacie or perswade any to deny withstand and impugne the Kings Maiesties authority and Supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall within his Realme 5 Jtem Whether be there any abiding in Popish Recusants or resorting to your parish that be or are commonly reputed or taken to bee Recusant Papists refusing to repaire to the Church to heare diuine Seruice and receiue the holy Communion and being disobedient to his Highnesse Lawes in that behalfe prouided Or doe any publish fell or disperse any superstitious books or writings or other books libels or writings of any lectuaries touching the Religion State or Ecclesiasticall gouermnent of this Kingdome of England Present their names qualities and conditions Doth any Papist keepe a Schoolemaster in his house which commeth not to Church as is required What is his name and how long hath he taught there or else-where Articles concerning Publique Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments deprauing the Booke of common Prayer Ceremonies FIrst Whether hath any of your parish spoken or declared any thing in the derogation or deprauing of the forme of Gods Worship in the Church of England Administration of the Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies set forth and prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer by the Kings Maiestie authorised and confirmed Doe any preach speake or declare that it containeth any thing which is not agreeable to the holy Scriptures Perswading any Minister to alter the form of common Prayer 2 Item Whether hath any in your parish caused procured or maintained any Minister to say any common or publike prayer or to administer either of the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper otherwise or in any other manner and forme then is mentioned in the said book of Common Prayer Or whether hath any interrupted hindred let or disturbed the Minister to reade diuine Seruice and administer the Sacraments in such manner and forme as is mentioned in the said booke or interrupted him in his preaching and Sermons Obseruation of the forme of Baptisme and Crosse 3 Item Whether is the Sacrament of Baptisme rightly and duly administred according to the prescript Forme expressed in the booke of Common Prayer with due obseruations of all Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the administration of the same without adding or altering any part or parcell of any prayers interrogatories or not vsing the signe of the Crosse in the administration of the same Children refused to be baptized or dying without Baptisme Parents of children admitted Godfathers 4 Item Whether is the Sacrament of Baptisme refused to bee administred to any children borne in or out of wedlocke their birth being made knowne vnto the Minister of the parish and offered to him to be baptized or haue any such children dyed vn-baptized 5 Jtem Whether be the Parents of any child to bee baptized admitted to be Godfathers and Godmothers to the same 6 Item Priuate Ba●tisme Whether haue there any children beene baptized in priuate houses by any Lay person or Midwife or Popish Priest or by any other Minister but vpon vrgent occasion when the child was in danger of death 7 Jtem Baptizing Papists chi●dren Whether haue the children which haue beene borne to any Popish Recusants or begotten by them in your parish beene publikely baptized in your parish Church by your Parson Vicar or Curate or by whom were they baptized or where to your knowledge 8 Jtem Receiuing the Lords S●per thrice a yeere Whether hath the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper beene duely and reuerently administred euery moneth or thrice euery yeere at least whereof once at Easter within your parish Church to euery parishioner being of sixteene yeeres of age or vpwards 9 Item Whether is the said holy Sacrament deliuered vnto Kneeling a● the Comm●nion or receiued by any of the Communicants within your parish that vnreuerently sit or stand or doe not deuoutly and humbly kneele vpon their knees 10 Item Whether hath any of your parish Notorious ●fenders admitted to th● Communio● which bee openly knowne to liue in notorious sinne without repentance or excommunicate persons or Schismaticks common and notorious deprauers of the Religion and gouernment of this Realme without vnfaigned sorrow showne for their impiety and wickednesse beene admitted to be partaker of the said holy Communion 11 Jtem Debarring ●thers with cause Whether hath any of your parish beene debarred from the said holy Communion without iust cause and without intimation first giuen to the Ordinary or Bishop of the Diocesse and by whose default Articles concerning

in the Church haue beene married without licence who were present at such marriages and what Minister married them 5 Jtem Whether any persons by licence or without Persons married out of their Parishes haue bin married in your parish Church neither of them at that time dwelling in your said parish 6 Item Recusants marriage What Popish Recusants or their children haue beene married in your Parish in what sort was that matrimonie solemnized when and by whom 7 Item Is there any in your Parish that is voyced noted Bigamy and credibly reported and accused to haue two wiues liuing or two husbands Articles concerning the Churchwardens FIrst Whether be the Churchwardens chosen by the Minister and Parishioners according to the 89. Canon Election of Churchwardens and whether hath any taken vpon him to be Church-warden being not so chosen or hath any continued aboue one yeere in his office without a new choice 2 Jtem Churchwardens due account Whether haue any Churchwardens deteined any of the Church goods and not made a iust account of what they haue receiued and expended 3 Item Haue they beene and are they diligent in their office Churchwardens diligent in the Church to see decencie kept in the Church and order in the time of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments and that there bee no disturbance but sobernesse and quietnesse in the Church Articles concerning the Parishioners FIrst Whether doe any in your Parish prophane the Sunday by vnlawfull games drinking or tippling Prophaning the Lords day especially in the time of common prayer or Sermon or by working and doing the ordinary workes of their vocations and trades 2 Item Is there any in your Parish Impugne the Rites and gouernment of the Church that do impugne or speake against the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England or the lawfull vse of them and the gouernment of this Church vnder his Maiestie by Archbishops Bishops and other Ecclesiasticall Officers 3 Item Reuerent behauiour at diuine Seruice Who in your parish doe come to the Sermon only and not to diuine Seruice and who do not reuerently behaue themselues during the time of diuine Seruice deuoutly kneeling when the generall Confession of sinnes the Letany the tenne Commandements and all Prayers and Collects are read and vsing all duly and lowly reuerence when the blessed Name of the Lord Iesus is mentioned and standing vp when the Articles of the Beliefe the Magnificat Nunc dimittis the Te Deum Benedictus and Gloria Patri c. are read or who doe couer their heads in the Church during the whole time of diuine Seruice vnlesse it be in case of necessity in which case they may weare a nightcap Or who do giue themselues to babbling talking or walking and are not attentiue to heare the Word read and preached ●eauing their ●wn Churches ●o goe to o●hers 4 Item Is there any of your Parish hauing a Preacher to their Minister that doe absent themselues from his Sermons and resort to other places to heare other Preachers or doe any in your Parish communicate or baptize their children in any other Parish Exception against the Minister Churching of Women 5 Item Is there any in your parish that refuse to haue their children baptized or themselues to receiue the Communion of your Minister taking exception against him or haue any wiues refused to come to Church according to the Booke of Common Prayer to giue thanks to God for their safe deliuerance in a decent habit as hath beene anciently accustomed Disgracing of Ministers 6 Item Hath any in your parish spoken slanderous and reproachfull words against your Minister to the scandall of his vocation or against their marriage or wiues against his neighbour defaming them touching any crime of Ecclesiasticall cognizance Opening of ●hops vpon ●olidaies 7 Jtem Whether doe any in your Parish exercise any trade or labour buy or sell or keepe open shops or set out any wares to be sold vpon Sundaies and Holidayes by themselues their seruants or apprentices or haue otherwise prophaned the said dayes Keeping holy of the 5. of August and the 5. of Nouember 8 Item Whether is the 5. of August and the 5. of Nouember kept holy and thanksgiuing made to God according to the order set forth in that behalfe 9 Jtem Is there any in your Parish that bee ●dultery for●ication in●est c. or are commonly knowne or reputed to bee blasphemers of Gods holy Name drunkards adulterers fornicators incestuous persons concealers or harbourers of fornicators or adulterers haue any beene detected of such notorious crimes and what penance haue they done for the same Commutation ●f penance 10 Jtem What corporall punishments for any such offences haue beene commuted and changed into a pecuniary mulct or summe of money by any Ecclesiasticall Iudge exercising iurisdiction within this Diocesse by vertue of any graunt or Commission or what was the summe of money by them or any of them so receiued and taken and to what vses was the same bestowed or whether vpon some commutations was the vnfaigned repentance of the delinquent published in the Church Persons dying ●nce the 2. of ●ebr 1626. 11 Item What person or persons haue died departed this mortall life since the 2. day of February last past and whether did they make any last wills or Testaments and who were their executors or whether died they intestate and who hath the administration of their goods and what be the names of such deceased and executors and administrators 12 Item Administring of goods without authoritie Whether haue any in your parish administred the goods of any person deceased without lawfull authoritie and before he or they haue proued the wil or Testament of the party deceased or haue obtained Cōmission from the Ordinary to dispose the said mouable goods or are there any wills vnproued or goods not administred 13 Item What persons be excommunicate within your Parish Excommunicate persons and for what cause to your knowledge and whether do any of them repaire to the Church in time of Prayer vnabsolued Articles concerning Schoolemasters Physicians and Chyrurgions and Parish Clarks FIrst Schoolemasters not licenced is there any Schoolemaster in your Parish that teacheth publikely or priuately not licensed by the Ordinarie or the Bishop of the Diocesse Doth hee teach any Papists or Sectaries children that come not to Church Duty of all Schoolemasters And doth he instruct all his schollers to learne the shorter Catechisme by the lawe estabished contained in the booke of common Prayer Is he a graduate sufficient to teach 2 Item What Physician or Chyrurgion is in your parish vnlicensed Physicians no● licenced and beeing not a Doctor of Physicke in either of the Vniuersities doth practise physike And what ignorant persons haue left their trade and taken vpon them to professe Physicke or Chyrurgery and who be they that so abuse the people 3 Item Haue you a fit parish-Clarke aged 20. yeeres at least Parish Clarks of honest life able to reade and write Are his and the Sextons wages paid without fraud if not then whose default is it by whom is hee chosen is he diligent in his office and seruiceable to the Minister doth he meddle with any thing aboue his Office doth he keepe the Church cleane the doores locked Is any thing lost and spoiled by his default and doth he execute his office dulie Articles concerning Ecclesiasticall offices FIrst Excessiue fees Whether be there any ecclesiasticall officers that exercise ecclesiastical iurisdiction within this Diocesse that take and receiue or exact any extraordinary and excessiue fees for any cause Whether haue your Churchwardens and Questmen concealed any abuses or offences punishable in the Ecclesiasticall Court and whether such offences being presented are suppressed and vnpunished 2 Item Table of fees in Courts Whether is there not a Table of Fees in euery Court of the Consistorie Archdeacons and Commissaries allowed and subscribed by the Iudge and Register of the Court of Consistory Ann. Dom. 1597. and the same euery Court day hung vp in some publike place of the Court and Registry ●eeding of ●cts without Notarie 3 Item Doth any Ecclesiasticall Iudge speed any act in any cause priuately of himselfe and not in presence of some publike Notarie or Actuarie ●buses in Ap●aritors and ●umners 4 Item Whether is there any excessiue number of Apparitors and Sumners in this Diocesse or haue any of them vnder pretence of authoritie cited and summoned any person vnlawfully or hath taken any reward for the concealing of any offence or sinne or the auoyding of punishment of the offenders and who be they that haue done so or do they take any fees not accustomable haue they threatned any to prosecute them if they had no reward and do they summon any without a Citation first had Abuses in Ecclesiasticall offices 5 Jtem Hath any Ecclesiasticall Iudge or Officer Aduocate Register Procter Clarks or other such ministers any way abused themselues in their offices contrary to the Law and Canons in that behalfe prouided Sincerity and ●mpartiality ●n the Inquisitors 6 Item Lastly Whether haue you and euery of you sincerely vprightly and without any impartiall affection and concealing presented and made knowne all and euery the offenders in any of the matters mentioned in the precedent Articles exhibited vnto you either as they are taken in truth to be or by common fame reported If you know of any other default or crime of Ecclesiasticall cognizance you are to present the same The Ministers of euery parish may ioyne in presentment with the Churchwardens and Side-men and if they will not present then the Ministers themselues being the persons that should haue the chiefe care for the suppressing of sinne and impiety in their parishes may present the crimes aforesaid and such things as shall be thought to require due reformation Can. 113. There must be seuerall presentments made to euery seuerall Article FINIS Hos Articulos sub hisce Titulis in hac visitatione proponit inquirendos FRANCIS CARLIL