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A00241	Articles to be inquired of, in the first metropoliticall visitation, of the most reuerend father, Richard by Gods prouidence, Arch-bushop [sic] of Canterbury, and primat of all England in, and for the dioces of Peterborough, in the yeare of our Lord God 1607, and in the third yeare of His Graces translation.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1604-1610 : Bancroft); Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.	1607 (1607)	STC 10314.4; ESTC S2647	9,208	15

Articles to be inquired of in the first Metropoliticall Visitation of the most Reuerend Father Richard by Gods prouidence Arch-bushop of Canterbury and Primat of all ENGLAND in and for the Dioces of PETERBOROVGH in the yeare of our Lord God 1607. and in the third yeare of his Graces Translation IN DOMINO CONFIDO At London printed by Raph Blower ANNO DOMINI 1607. THE Tenor of the Oath to be ministred to the Churchwardens and Sworne-men YOV shall sweare that all affection fauor hatred hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or mallice set aside You shall vpon due consideration of the Articles giuen you in charge present all and euery such person of or within your Parish as hath committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in thiefe or any of thiefe Articles or which are vehemently suspected and defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shall deliuer vprightly and according to truth neyther of mallice presenting any contrary to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and so conceale the truth Hauing in this action God before your Eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine truth and so suppresse vice So helpe you God and the Contents of this booke God saue the King ❧ ARTICLES To be inquired of by the Churchwardens and Sworne-men in the Visitation of the Lord Arch-bushop of Canterbury within the Diocesse of PETERBOROVGH Anno Dom. 1607. INPRIMIS Whether haue you in your seuerall Churches and Chappels the booke of Constitutions or Cannons Ecclesiasticall ready to be reade by your Minister according to his Maiesties pleasure published by his Highnes Authoritie vnder the great Seale of England and whether hath your Minister reade the same or any part thereof vpon Sundaies and Holidaies in the afternoone before diuine seruice accordingly yea or no 2 Item Whether is there any within your parish that hath or doth impugne the Kings Maiesties supremacie and authoritie in causes Ecclesiasticall or doe any way or in any part impeach the same being restored to the Crowne by the Lawes of this Realme established in that behalfe 3 Item Whether is there any in your parish that denieth the Church of England by Lawe established vnder the Kings most excellent Maiestie to be a true and an Apostolicall church teaching and mainteyning the Doctrine of the Apostles 4 Item Whether is there any in your parish that doth impagne any of the Articles of Religion agréed vpon in Anno 1562 and established in the Church of England 5 Item Whether doth your minister vse to pray for the Kings Maiestie King Iames and for the Quéenes Maiestie the Prince and all their Royall Progeny with addition of such Stile and Titles as are due and appertaining to his Maiestie and exhort the people to obedience to his Highnes and other Maiestrates being in authoritie vnder him 6 Item Whether is there any in your parish that doe impugne or speake against the Rites and Ceremonies established in the Church of England or the lawful vse of them you shall present their names 7 Item Are there any in your parish that doe impugne the gouerment of the Church of England vnder the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Arch-bushops Bushops Deanes Arch-deacons and the rest that beare office in the same Affirming that the same is Ante-christian or repugnant to the worde of God 8 Item Is there any in your Parish that doth impugne the forme of consecrating and ordeining of Arch-bushops Bushops Priests or Deacons affirming that the same is repugnant to the worde of God or that they who are so ordered in that forme are not lawfully made 9 Item Is there any in your parish that doth holde or frequent any conuenticles or priuate congregations or any that doe eyther make or maintaine any Constitutions agréed vpon in any such priuate Conuenticles or assemblies 10. Item Whether any persons haue lurked and tippled in Tauernes or Ale-houses on sundaies or other holidaies or vsed his or their manuall craft or trade vpon the said daies or any of them and especially in the time of diuine seruice 11 Item Are there any in your parish that doe or haue prophaned since his Maiesties last generall pardon the Lords day called sunday or other holidaies contrarie to the orders of the Church of England prescribed in that behalfe 12 Item Whether is the prescript forme of diuine seruice vsed by your Minister vpon Sundaies and Holidaies according to the booke of common prayer And whether doth your Minister duely obserue all the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the said booke of common prayer as well in reading puplique prayers the Letany as also in administring the Sacraments in such manner and forme as in the booke of common prayer is inioyned 13 Item Whether hath any person in your parish quarrelled or fricken or vsed any violence vnto or with your Minister or any other in the church or church-yard or vsed himselfe disorderly in the church by filthy and prophane talke or any other rude and immodest behauiour 14 Item Whether is that due reuerence and humble submission vsed within your Church or Chappell in the time of Diuine seruice as by the 18. constitution is prescribed whether each one in the Church or Chappell do apply and order himselfe there in time of diuine Seruice as by the latter part of the same Constitution is most commendably enioyned 15 Item Whether the Church-wardens and Questmen from time to time doe their dilligence in not suffring any idle persons or loyterers to abide either in the Church-yard or Church-porch in Seruice or Sermon time but causing them either to come into the Church to heare Diuine seruice or to depart and not to disturbe such as are hearers there 16 Item Whether the Church-wardens doe prouide against euery Communion with the aduice of the Minister a sufficient quantity of fine white Bread and of good and wholesome Wine for the number of the Communicants that shall receiue and that to be brought in a cleane and sweet standing pot of pewter or of other pure mettle 17 Item Whether doth your Minister administer the holy Communion so often and at such times as that euery parishioner may receiue the same at least thrice in euery yéere wherof once at Easter as by the booke of common prayer is appointed And whether doth your Minister receiue the same himselfe on euery day that he administreth it to others and vse the words of the Institution according to the booke at euery time that the Bread or Wine is turned in such manner and forme as by the Proviso of the 21. Common is directed or wherein is he faultie and whether is warning giuen by him before hand for the Communion as the 22. Cannon requireth 18 Item Whether hath your Minister admitted any Notorious ●●●●dors or Skismatickes to the Communion contrary to the 26. and 27. constitutions 19 Item Whether the Minister together with the Churchwardens Questmen doe take diligent héede and care

thrice this last yéere chiefely once at Easter in your parish church knéeling if no then you shall present their names which haue not so done 60 Item Whether haue you a fit parish Clarke aged twenty yeeres at least of honest conuersation and sufficent for reading and writing and whether he be paide his wages without frauds according to the most auncient custome of your parish if not then by whom is be so defrauded and denied and whether he be chosen by the parson or vicar or by whom 61 Item Whether haue any in your parish béene maried within the prohibited degrées forbidden by the Lawe of God and expressed in a certaine table published by authoritie in Anno 1563 if yea then you shall present their names and whether haue you the said Table publiquely set vp in your church and fastened to some conuenient place there 62 Item Whether doth any heretofore diuorced kéepe company with any other at bed and at boord what be their names When and where were they maried 63 Item Doth your minister vse the forme of thankes-giuing to women after Childe-birth and whether hath he admitted any therevnto that was begotten with child in adultery or fornication without licence of his ordinarie and whether haue any maried wiues refused to come to church according to the booke of common prayer to giue God thankes after child-birth if any be faulty herein you shall present their names 64 Item Whether haue you any in your parish which heretofore being popish recusants or sectuaries haue since conformed themselues and come to church to heare diuine seruice and receiue the Sacraments if yea then who they are and how long si'thence haue they so conformed themselues and whether doe they still remaine and abide in that conformitie 65 Item What recusant papists are there in your parish and whether doe they or any of them kéepe any Schoole-maister in their house which commeth not to church to heare diuine seruice and receiue the Communion what is his name and how long hath be taught 66 Item Whether haue you any in your parish to your knowledge or by common fame and report any which haue committed adulterie fornication or incest which haue not bin publiquely punished to your knowledge if yea then with whom Are there any which are or by common fame and report are reputed and taken to be common drunkards blasphemers of Gods holy name common and vsuall swearers filthy speakers Vsurers symoniicall persons Fighters Brawlers or Quarellers in church or churchyard you shall not faile to present their names 67 Item Whether haue any in your parish receiued or harbored any woman gotten with childe out of Wedlocke and suffered them to depart againe without punishment first inflicted on them by their ordinary you shall truely present as well the partie harboring as harbored and who is suspected to be father of her child 68 Item Whether hath any person within your parish promised or payed any summe of money or other reward directly or indirectly by himselfe or any other or committed his or her pennance for any incest adultery fornication or any other Ecclesiasticall crime if so then with whom when and for what and how hath the same béene imployed 69 Item Whether is your Chancelor and euery other inferior Ecclesiasticall iudge a maister of Artes or Batchelor of Lawes at the least and learned and practised in the ciuill and Ecclesiasticall Lawes a man of good life and conuersation and zealously affected in Religion 70 Item Whether any person or persons suspected or detected heretofore of incontinency and therefore departing out of your parish for a season is now returned againe or in what place else is he or she now abiding to your knowledge or as you haue heard you shall not faile to present the whole truth in that behalfe 71 Item Whether are there in your parish any Wills not yet proued or goods of the dead dying intestate left vn-administred by authoritie of the ordinarie in that behalfe you shal not faile to present the Executors and all other faulty and culpable therein 72 Item Hath any Chancellor Commissary Arch-deacon officiall or any other exercising Ecclesiasticall Iuris-diction within this your Diocesse or any Register Apparator or Minister belonging to the same Ecclesiasticall courts exacted extra-ordinary or greater sées then heretofore of late haue béene accustomed and whether is there a table of the rates of all fées set vp in their seuerall Courts and Offices or whether they or any of them haue taken vpon them th' office of Informers or Promotors to the courts or any other way abused themselues in their Offices contrary to the Lawe and Cannons in that case prouided 73 Item Doe any of or within your Parish affirme or haue any affirmed that the sacred synode of this nation assembled by the Kings authoritie is not the true church of England by representation or hath or doth any of your parish affirme that no persons eyther of the Clergie or Laitie that were not pertinently present in the said late Synode are subiect to the decrees thereof in causes Ecclesiasticall made and ratified by the Kings supreame authoritie because they gaue not vp their voices vnto them yée shall present their names 74 Item Is there any among you that haue or doe depraue the foresaid late Synode saying or affirming that the same was a company of such persons as did conspire togither against godly and religious professors of the Gospell and that therefore both they and their proceedings in that behalfe are and ought to be despised and contemned or words to the like effect you shall not faile to present their names 75 Item What number of Apparators hath euery seueral iudge Ecclesiasticall and wherein and in what manner is the countrey ouer-burthened and grieued by the said Apparators 76 Item Whether doe you know of any other matter of Ecclesiasticall cognisance worthy the presentment in your iudgement aboue not expressed which you holde fit to be reformed and if you doe you shall likewise present the same by vertue of your Oaths FINIS

prouided for Christnings Mariages and Burials and whether is the same duely and exactly kept according to the Constitutions in that behalfe prouided 41 Item whether hath your minister or any other preacher baptised children solemnized Mariage churched any woman or ministred the holy Communion in any priuate house or houses otherwise thē as by law is allowed yea or no if yea then where whom when and how often hath he offended in any of the Premisses 42 Item Whether hath your minister taken vpon him to appoint any publicque or priuate Fasts prophecies or exercises not approued and established by Law or publique authoritie or hath he attempted vpon any pretence eyther of possession or obsession by fasting and prayer to cast out deuils yea or no 43 Item Whether hath your minister or any other person or persons within your parish vsed to meete in any priuat house or other place there to consult togither how to impeach or depraue the booke of common prayer or the doctrine or discipline of the church of England if yea then you shall present them all 44 Item Whether doth your minister vse such decency and comlines in his apparell as by the 74 constitution is inioyned 45 Item Whether doe you know any in your parish that hauing heretofore taken vpon him or them the order of Priest-hood or of a Deacon hath since relinquished the same and betaken himselfe in the course of his life as a lay-man neglecting his vocation if yea then you shall present his name and the place of his abode 46 Item Doth any take vpon him to teach Schoole in your parish without speciall licence of his ordinary and whether doth your Schoolemaister bring his Schollers to the church to heare diuine seruice and sermons 47 Item Whether is your minister noted or defamed to haue obteined his benefice by symony or reputed to be an incontinent person a common drunkard a common gamster or player at dice or faulty in any other crime punishable by the Ecclesiastical censures whereby he is offensiue and scandalous to his function or ministery 48 Item Whether haue you prouided the booke of common prayer lately set forth by his Maiesties authoritie and the booke of Homilies and whether haue you in your Church or chappell a Fonts of stone set vp in the ancient vsuall place a conuenient and decent Communion table with a carpet of silke or some other decents stuffe and a taire linnen cloth to lay thereon at the Communion time and whether is the same Table then placed in such conuenient sort within the Chauncell or church as that the minister may be best heard in his prayer and administration and that the greater number may communicate And whether are the x. commandements set vpon the East ende of your Church or Chappell where the people may best sée and read them and other sentences of holy scripture written on the walls likewise for that purpose 49 Item Whether haue you a conuenient seate for your minister to reade seruice in together with a comely Pulpit set vp in a conuenient place with a decent cloth or cushion for the same a comely large surplice a faire Communion cup of gold siluer or other pure mettle and a couer agreeable for the same with all other things and ornaments necessarie for the celebration of Diuine seruice and administration of the Sacraments 50 Item Whether are your church or chappels with the Chancels thereof and your parsonage or vickeredge house and all other housing thereto belonging in good reparations and decent and comely kept as well within as without the seates well mainteined a sure coffer with thrée lockes and keyes for the safe kéeping of your Register booke your churchyards wel fenced kept without abuse if not then through whose default and what defects are 51 Item Whether haue you or your predecessors Church-wardens there suffered since the last pardon any plaies feasts banquets churchales drinkings or any other prophane vsages to be kept in your church chappels or church-yard or bels to be rung superstitiously vpon hollidaies or dayes abrogated by Lawe 52 Item How many inhabitants within your parish men or women aboue th'age of 16 yéeres do refuse to frequent diuine seruice established by publique authoritie of this realme or to receiue the holy Communion what be their names and of what degrée state or trade of life are they you are to present then all of both sorts 53 Item Whether doe any of the inhabitants of your said parish entertaine within their house any soiorners lodgers or any common resorters and guests who refuse to frequent diuine seruice or receiue the holy Communion as aforesaid what be their names of what qualitie or condition they are 54 Item Whether are any of the said popish recusants of insolent behauiour not without publique offence or doe boldly buisy themselues in seducing withdrawing others either abroad or in their owne families by instructing their children in popish religion or by refusing to entertaine any especially in place of greatest seruice or trust but such as concurre with them in opinion of religion 55 Item How long the said popish Recusants haue obstinately abstained eyther from diuine seruice or from the Communion as is aforesaid Whether of any long time or onely since his Maiesties raigne 56 Item Whether is your Minister a preacher sufficiently qualified and if he be whether doth he from time to time offer quiet and temperate conference to reclaime the said popish Recusants from their errors and whether they or any of them doe refuse such conference with your Minister or any other Preacher who shall present vnto them his dilligence in that behalfe 57 Item What persons aforesaid within your parish either for th' offence aforesaid or for any other Contumacy or crime doe remaine excommunicat what be their names and for what cause and how long they haue so stood excommunicate 58 Item Whether were you the Churchwardens and Questmen chosen by the consent of the Minister and parishioners and whether haue the churchwardens before you giuen vp a iust accompt for their time and deliuered to you their successors whatsoeuer money or other things of right belonging to the Church which was in their hands and whether doe you and euery of you diligently sée that all the Parishioners doe duely resort to their church euery sunday and holiday and there continue the whole time of diuine seruice and none to walke or stand idle or talking in church or churchportch or churchyard during that time and whether doe all the parishioners and their families accordingly frequent their parish church and there behaue themselues soberly attentiuely and decently all the time of diuine seruice yea or no if no then you shall present their names 59 Item Whether doe all persons aboue th'age of 16 yéeres vsually resort to heare diuine seruice vpon sundayes and hollidayes approued and whether hath each one of your parishioners being aboue th'age of 16. yéeres aforesaid receiued the holy Communion