Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	church_n	doctrine_n	homily_n	2,580	5	12.0475	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00176	Articles to be inquired of, by the reuerende father in God, Richarde by Gods prouidence Bishop of Elye for the churchwardens and inquirers of euery seuerall parishe vvithin his diocesse, in his visitation, holden in the yeare of our Lord God, 1573.	Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1559-1581 : Cox); Cox, Richard, 1500-1581.	1573 (1573)	STC 10194.5; ESTC S2097	4,798	14

and prouided at the charges of the Parishe and Parson or Proprietarie equally borne betwene them 28 Itē whether the Quire be cumly orderly kept ▪ whether they haue a fayre cumly Table of two yeardes and a halfe if the Quire wyll serue for the Communion with a faire linnen cloth to lay vpon the same and some couering of Silke Buckram or such lyke for the cleane keeping thereof 29 Item whether there bee any within your Parishe that dothe administer vpon the goodes of any deceased without authoritie from the Ordinarie whereby the Infantes and Creditors commonly be defrauded of their dueties 30 Item whether the Person Vicar or Curate doth vse any other seruice than by publique authoritie is sette forth or alter or chaunge the seruice of the booke of Common prayer or any parte thereof otherwise than it is sette forthe 31 Item whether the Person or Vicar hath made a terrey of their glebe Landes Pastures Medowes Closes or Gardens belonging vnto their benefice by the chiefe of their Parishe and whether they haue presented the sayde terrey accordingly vnto their Ordiuarie 32 Item whether the Parson Vicar or Curate hath yerely before the .xx. day after Easter exhibited to the Bishop or his officers the names and surnames of suche persons in their Parishe beeing .xiiij. yeares of age and vpwarde whiche receyue not the holie Communion And such also as refuse to be examined by the Minister of the Church in the Cathechisme 33 Item whether any be admitted by his person vicar or Curate to be godfathers and godmothers vnlesse they haue receiued the communion or can say the Cathechisme 34 Item whether you knowe any person by preaching or in worde by talke maynteyning any doctrine against the worde of God or against the godly articles or against the booke of seruice confirmed by full authoritie of the Churche of England and of the whole Realme 35 Item whether any thing which hath bene complayned of is not yet redressed 36 Item whether any in your Paryshe do depraue or disprayse the boke of Cōmon prayer in any part set forth by authritie of Parliament or speake against the Homelies or do mayntaine or holde any erronious opinions contrarie to the worde of God and the Lawes of the Realme 37 Item whether there hath beene any fraye made in your Churches or Churchyards to the disturbance of Gods seruice or to the euill example of the rest of the Paryshe and if there hath ben thē you shal present by whom it was made when and after what sort 38 Item whether there be any Scholemaster within your paryshe that doth teach any Grammer schole either priuately or openly whether they be licenced so to teach howe long they haue taught and what their names bee 39 Item whether there bee any Legacies withholden giuen to the Churche or poore people or mending of high wayes or otherwise by the Testators In whose handes it is by whom it is giuen and by whome it is withholden 40 Item whether your Churchwardens doe truely Administer the goodes of the Church and in the presence of the Minister make a true account of their office yerely and at the end of their accounte delyuer vp the money and choose newe Churchwardens once euery yeare 41 Item whether any man haue put awaye his wife or any wife absente hirselfe from hir husbande without iust cause or without authoritie from their Ordinarie or any that hath maried within the degrees prohibited by the Leuiticall and other Lawes within this Realme set forth in that behalfe 42 Item whether there be any conuenient strong Chest for the poore mans Boxe 43 Itē whether your Person or Vicar or Curate do minister the holy cōmunion to any foreiner or straunger cōming out of any other Diocesse without the special Licence of the Byshop or his officers or the minister of that place from whence the said Foreiner or stranger doth come 44 Item whether euery Moneth your Person Vicar or Curate doe reade openly in the Churcht the Proclamation set out of late by the Queenes Maiestie for the calling in of seditious Bookes as Hardings Saunders and such like to bee deliuered to the Ordinarie according to the tenor and meaning of the sayde Proclamation which Proclamation is to bee hadde at the costes and charges of the paryshe 45 Item whether they do exercise themselues in godly studie of holy Scriptures and in vertuous bringing vp of youthe as in teaching of them their Cathechisme and other Godly exercises from time to time 46 Item whether decently and orderly they goe in their apparell according to the Booke of Aduertisements lately set forth in that behalfe 47 Item whether they be resident vpon their Benefices and maintayne Hospitalitie to their habilitie And whether their Personage houses and Vicarage houses with other the edifices and houses of easements thervnto belonging appertayning be in good and sufficient reparations and if they be not resident whether they let their Benefices to ferme to their Curates according to the Statute 48 Item whether they vse to praye for the Queene hir Maiestie in their Churches and exhorte the people to obedience of hir grace and other Magistrates being in authoritie vnder hir 49 Item whether your Persons Vicars or Curates be maried or no and if they be not whether they kepe in their houses any suspected women vnder the name and coloure of their Butlers kinswomen or otherwise 50 Item whether they obserue and keepe the order for the bringing of the Corse to the buriall according to the Booke 51 Item whether they doe visite the sicke and impotent persons to comfort them in the time of their sicknesse with necessarie doctrine out of holy Scriptures necessarie for that purpose in exhorting them also to cōsider the poore and other charitable deedes 52 Item whether your Person or Vicar bought his benefice or else came to the same and obtayned it by fraude guile Simonie or by any other vnlawful meanes 53 Item whether your Person Vicar or Curate doe expounde the Scriptures as the Lessons Epistle and Gospell after they haue read them in the Churche or Homelies in reading of them without especiall Licence 54 Item whether the boke or Register wherin the Daye Moneth and Yeare of euery wedding Christening and Burying is or ought to bee written and noted bee well and diligently kept 55 Item whether you haue at the common charge of the Paryshioners a cumly and conuenient Pulpit sette and placed in a fit place within your Church and the same cleanly and semely kept for the preaching of Gods worde 56 Item whether your Person Vicar or Curate were made Priestes in the Reigne of King Henrie the eyght or Queene Marie And if hee were then whether he hath read openly in your Paryshe Churche the Articles of Religion accordying too the Statute in that behalfe lately made 57 Item to inquire of what value the Vicarage is if there be any Vicarage in your Parish and who is the Patron and giuer thereof And if there bee a Curate what wages hee hath and who doth pay it FINIS