Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	church_n	day_n	holy_a	18,897	5	5.6068	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00126	Articles to be enquired in the visitation, in the first yere of the raigne of our most dread soueraine lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God, of Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande, Queene, defendour of the faith, &c., anno 1559	Church of England.	1568 (1568)	STC 10121.5; ESTC S2086	4,270	16

Articles to be enquired in the visitation in the first yere of the raigne of our most dread Soueraine Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of Englande Fraunce and Irelande Queene defendour of the faith c. Anno. 1559. R. I. OMNIA DESVPER Articles FIrst whether any Parson Vicar Residencie or Curate be resident continually vppon his benefice doyng his duetie in preaching readyng duely ministring the holye Sacramentes Item whether in their Churches and Chappels all Images False miracles Shrynes all Tables Candelstickes Trindelles or roles of waxe pictures payntinges and all other monumentes of fayned and false miracles pylgrimages Idolatrie and superstition be remoued abolished and destroyed Item whether they do not euery Holy day when they haue no Sermon Lordes prayer immediatly after the Gospell openly playnely and distinctly resite to their parishioners in the Pulpit the Lordes prayer the beliefe and the ten Commaundementes in Englishe Item whether they do charge fathers and mothers maisters and gouernours of youth To bryng vp youth to bryng them vp in some vertuous studye and occupation Item whether suche beneficed men as be lawfully absent from their benefices Curates do leaue their cures to a rude and vnlearned Parson and not to an honest wel learned and expert Curate whiche can and wyll teache you holsome doctrine Item whether they do discourage any person from reading of any part of the Bible Readyng the scriptures eyther in Latin or Englishe and do not rather comfort and exhort euery person to reade the same at conuenient tymes as the very lyuely worde of God and the speciall foode of mans soule Item whether Parsons Vicars Curates and other ministers Tauernes and games be common haunters and resorters to Tauernes or Alehouses geuing them selues to drynkyng rioting and playing at vnlawful games and do not occupie them selues in the reading or hearing of some part of holy scripture or in some other godly exercise Item whether they haue admitted any man to preache in their cures Preachers not beyng lawfully licenced thereunto or haue ben licenced accordyngly Item whether they vse to declare to their parishioners any thing to the extollyng or setting foorth of vayne and superstitious religion Superstitiō pilgrimages reliques or images or lyghtyng of candels kyssyng kneelyng or deckyng of the same images Item whether they haue one booke or register kept Register wherein they wryte the day of euery weddyng christening and burying Item whether they haue exhorted the people to obedience to the Queenes Maiestie Obedience and ministers and to charitie and loue one to another Item whether they haue admonished their parishioners The Sacrament that they ought not to presume to receaue the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christe before they can say perfectly the Lordes prayer the articles of the fayth and the ten commaundementes in Englishe Item whether they be resident vppon their benefices and kepe hospitalitie or no. Hospitalitie And yf they be absent and kepe no hospitalitie whether they do relieue their parishioners and what they geue them Item whether Proprietaries Parsons Vicars Reparations and Clarkes hauing Churches Chappels and Mansions do kepe their Chauncels Rectories Vicarages and all other houses appertaynyng to them in due reparations Item Prayer in Englishe whether they do counsayle or moue their parishioners rather to pray in a tongue not knowen then in Englyshe or put their trust in any certayne number of prayers Beades as in saying ouer a number of Beades or other lyke Item whether they haue receaued any persons to the Communion Diffamed persons beyng openly knowen to be out of charitie with their neighbours or diffamed with any notorious cryme and not refourmed Item whether they haue prouided and haue a strong Chest for the poore mens bore Poore mens bore and set and fastened the same in a place of the Churche most conuenient Item whether they haue diligently called vppon Testamentes exhorted and moued their parishioners and especially when they make their testamentes to geue to the saide poore mens boxe and to bestow that vpon the poore whiche they were wont to bestowe vpon pylgrimages pardons trentalles and vpon other lyke blynde deuotions Item whether they haue denyed to visite the sicke Sicke Buriall or burye the dead beyng brought to the Churche Item whether they haue bought their benefices Symonie or come to them by fraude guyle deceipt or symonie Item whether they haue geuen open monition to their parishioners Adulterers to detect and present to their Ordinarie all adulterers and fornicatours and such men as haue two wyues liuing within their parishes Item whether they haue monished their parishioners openly that they shoulde not sell geue Churche goodes nor otherwyse alienate any of their Churche goodes Item whether they or any of them do keepe mo benefices and other Ecclesiasticall promotions then they ought to do Many benefices not hauing sufficient licences and dispensations thereunto and howe many they be and their names Item Communiō whether they minister the holy Communion any other wyse then onlye after suche fourme and maner as it is set foorth by the common aucthoritie of the Queenes Maiestie and the Parliament Item whether you knowe any person within your parishe or els where Letters of the worde or preaching that is a letter of the worde of God to be read in Englishe or sincerely preached in place and times conuenient Item whether in the tyme of the Letanie or any other common prayer Goers out of the Churche in the tyme of the Sermon or Homyly and when the Priest readeth the scriptures to the parishioners any person haue departed out of the Churche without iuste and necessarie cause or disturbe the Minister otherwyse Item whether the money commyng and rysing of any cattell or other moueable stockes of the Church Churche money and money geuen and bequeathed to the finding of torches lightes tapers or lampes not payde out of any landes haue not ben employed to the poore mens cheste Item who hath the sayde stockes and money in their handes Kepers of the Church money and what be their names Item whether any indiscrete person do vncharitably contempne and abuse Priestes Ministers of the Churche Contempt of Prieste Item whether there be any other Grammer taught in any schoole within this Diocesse The kinges Grammer then that which is set forth by the aucthoritie of king Henry the eyght Item whether the seruice of the Churche be done at due and conuenient houres The tyme of seruice Item whether any haue vsed to commune iangle Talkers in the Church and talke in the Churche in the tyme of the prayer readyng of the Homylye preachyng readyng or declaring of the Scripture Item whether any haue wylfully mayntayned and defended any heresies Heresies errours or false opinions contrary to the fayth of Christe and holy Scripture