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lord_n	church_n	day_n	holy_a	18,897	5	5.6068	4	false

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A00222	Articles to be enquired of, by the Church Wardens and Swornemen within the Archdeaconrie of Middlesex And the trueth thereof to be by them vpon their oathes certainely presented to M. Doctor Squier Archdeacon there or to his officialles, with particular aunsweare to euerie article. 1582.; Visitation articles. 1582	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Middlesex. Archdeacon (1557-1588 : Squier); Squier, Adam, d. 1588.	1582 (1582)	STC 10275; ESTC S111858	6,198	16

youth as in teaching of the Catechisme lastlye setfoorth by authoritie and other godlye exercises from time to time 12 Whether your Minister do at the least euery Sonday and Holy day openly in the Church cal for heare and instruct all the Children Apprentises and seruantes of both the sexes that be of conuenient age within your Parish or at the least so many of them as the time will serue and as he may well heare and instruct for halfe an houre at the least before or at the Eueninge Prayer in the X. Commaundementes the Articles of the beleefe and the Lordes Prayer and diligently examine and teach them the saide Catechisme 13 Whether all Fathers Mothers Maisters and Dames of your Parishe cause their Children Seruauntes and Apprentises both mankinde and womankinde beinge aboue sixe yeares of age to come to the Churche on the Sondayes and Holye dayes at the time to them appoynted or at the least such and so many of them as your Minister shall appoint and obediently to heare and be ordered by the Minister vntill suche tyme as they haue learned the same Catechisme And what be the names of these that doe not cause their Children Seruauntes and Apprentises so to come to the Churche to bee instructed and examined And how many of the said Children Seruants and Apprentises be in your Parish which being aboue seauen yeares olde doe not aunsweare to the sayde Catechisme and what bee their names and age and wyth whom they dwell And whether do you which are the Church Wardens diligentlye obserue the offenders in the premisses that you may quarterly make true presentment of them 14 Whether your Minister or any man or woman in your Parish doe willfully mainetaine or defende any Heresie false opinions Popishe errours contrarye to the lawes of Almightie God and true doctrine by publike authoritie in thys Realme now setfoorth And whether any keepe any 〈◊〉 secret Conuenticles contrarye to the Lawes or anye within your Parish be suspected to bee Papistes Anabaptistes Libertines or of the detestable secte of the Familie of Loue or of any other notable heresie and what be their names 15 Whether doth your Parson Vicar Curate or Minister keepe any suspected woman in hys house or bee an incontinent person geuen to dronkennes idlenes or be a haunter of Tauernes Ale-houses or suspected places or be a Hunter Hawker Dicer Carder Tabler Swearer False dissembler or otherwise suspected of any notorious crime or giue any euill example of life 16 Whether your Churche bee voide of an Incumbent how long it hath bene so voide by whome and at whose order the fruites are gathered and bestowed by whome and at whose appointmente the cure is serued 17 Whether your Minister vse to praye for the Quéenes moste excellente Maiestie Quéene Elizabeth in your Church and whether hee exhorte the people to obedience of her Highnes and other Magistrates béeing in authoritie vnder her or no 18 Whether your Parson or Vicar hath preached or caused to bee preached in your Churche his quarterly or monethly Sermons as by the Quéenes Iniunctions hee is bounde and what bée the names of him or them that so did preache and whether hée admitted any to preach not béeing lawfully licenced or haue letted or inhibited those that were licenced and whether if there be no Sermon your Minister doe reade euery Sonday distinctly and plainely some part of the Homelies appointed by the Quéenes authoritie to be read And whether doth he Quarterly read the Iniunctions 19 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate haue publikely or secreatly taught any doctrine tendinge to the discredite of the receiued order for gouernemente or publike Prayer in the Churche or make anye innouation and whether they haue permitted any man so teaching or making any such innouation who they bée and what bée their names that so did teach 20 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate after the Gospell haue read openly in your Churche twise this yeare plainely without addition or change the declaration of certain principall Articles of Religion setforth by both the Archbishops the Bishops of this Realme for vnitie of doctrine being appointed to bee read vpon some Sonday within one moneth next after Michaelmas and Easter yearely 21 Whether your Minister hath admitted to the receiuing of the holy Communion any open and notorious sinner or euill liuer by whome the Congregation is offended or anye malicious person that is out of charitie or that hath done any open wrong to his neighbors by woord or déede without due pennance first done or reconciliation had to the satisfaction of the congregation 22 Whether your Minister hath admitted to the holy Communion any of his Parish either mankinde or womankinde that cannot say by hart the X. Commaundementes the Articles of the Faith and the Lordes Prayer and that cannot say by hart the Catechisme authorized or are not diligente to learne to render a reason of their Faith and whether he marry any persons which were single before that cannot say the sayde Cathechisme and whether he vseth to examine hys Parishners at conueniente times to the entent he may know whether they can say the same which is required and whether there be any that do refuse so to be examined or no 23 Whether there bee any in your Parish man or woman beinge of conueniente age that hath not receiued the holy Communion thrise at the least this last yeare and namely at Easter last or there about and what their names are And whether yearelye before Easter or at such conueniente times as your Minister shall thinke méete and require hys Parishioners to recite vnto hym the Catechisme by harte in Englishe if any doe willfully and stubbernely refuse to recite the same the Church Wardens and Swornemen or any of them doe assiste and aide the Minister therein that suche stubberne persons maye bee rebuked and repelled from the Communion at that time 24 Whether there bee in your Parish any that are known or suspected to be malicious contentious or vncharitable persons anye swearer or blasphemers of the name of God anye fornicators adulterers incestuous persons baudes or anye that receiue such incontinente persons or anye that harbor women with child which be vnmaried conueying or sufferinge them to goe awaye before they haue done anye pennance or make satisfaction to the Congregation or any persons that are vehemently suspected of any of these or suche like faultes or that bee not of good name and fame touching such crimes whether there bee in your Parish any dronkardes common slaunderers of their neighbors raylers skoldes or sowers of discorde betwene neighbors either baudes or any other euill or suspected liuers of incontinente life who they be 25 Whether the Schoolemasters or Schoolemistresses that teach in your Parishe either openly or priuately in anye gentlemans house or others bée of good and sincere Religion and conuersation and bée diligent in the teachinge of youth in the Catechisme lastly setfoorth by authoritie as also in other

ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF BY THE Church Wardens and Swornemen within the Archdeaconrie of Middlesex And the trueth thereof to be by them vpon their oathes certainely presented to M. Doctor Squier Archdeacon there or to his Officialles with particular aunsweare to euerie Article 1582. ¶ VBIQVE FLORESCIT LONDON Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe dwelling at the Signe of the Fox in Old Fishstreate néere the Signe of the Swanne ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF BY THE CHVRCHWARDENS and Swornemen within the Archdeaconrie of Middlesex and the trueth therof to be by them vpon their oathes certainely presented to M. Doctor SQVIER Archdeacon there or to his Officials with particular aunsweare to euerie Article Anno Domini 1582. FIRST whether Common Prayer be said in your Church or Chappell vpon the Sondayes and Holye dayes at conuenient houres reuerently and distinctly in suche order without anye kinde of alteration as is appoynted by the Booke of Common Prayer and the Lawes of this Realme and whether your Minister so tourne himselfe and stand in such place of your Church or Chauncell as the people may best heare the same Whether the Holy Sacramentes be likewise ministred reuerently in such manner as by the Lawes of this Realme is appoynted And whether vpon Wednisdayes and Fridayes not being Holy dayes the Letanye and other Prayers appointed for the daye be sayde accordingly and the Excommunication against sinners read thrise yearely 2 Whether you haue in your Church or Chappell all thinges necessary and requisite for common prayer and administration of the Sacramentes specially the booke of Common Prayer with the new Kalender two Psalters the Englishe Bible in the largest volume the two Tomes of the Homelies the Paraphrasis of Erasmus translated into English the Table of the Tenne Commaundementes the Table for the degrees of Matrimonie a conuenient Pulpit well placed a comely and decent Table standing on a frame for the Holy Communion with a fayre linnen cloth to laye vpon the same and some coueringe of Silke Buckerame or other such like for the cleane keeping therof a fayre and comely Communion Cup of Siluer and a couer of siluer for the same a sure Cofer wyth two lockes for the keeping of the Register Booke and a strong Chest or box for the Almes of the poore 3 Whether any person or persons bee admitted to aunsweare as Godfathers or Godmothers at the Christening of any Childe except he or she haue before receiued the Holy Communion and can geue accompte of their Faith and will recite the same before the Minister if he or she be thereunto required 4 Whether any person or persons not beinge ordered at the least for a Deacon do either say Common Prayer openly in your church solemnize Matrimony or administer the Sacrament of Baptisme or deliuer to the Communicantes the Lordes Cup at the celebration of the Holye Communion or doe burie the deade or geue Thankes for Women after their Childbirth and what he or they be that so doe 5 Whether your Parson Vicar or Farmer of your Benefice do cause any Curate to serue in your Church before hee be examined and admitted by the Ordinarie or his Deputie in writing and your Minister haue his sufficient letter of Orders or no 6 Whether your Minister or you haue suffred any Interludes to bee played in your Churche or Chappell where Gods Word and Prayer are to be vsed or there be any in your Parish that doth violate or breake the Lordes Day by any kinde of worke or pastime whatsoeuer or any Minstrels that vse anye playinge vpon their Instrumentes in your Churche or Chappell or your Churchyard or other that hath made any fray or vsed any brawlinge or vnseemely noyse there or any that vse any Dauncinge or other kinde of vayne pastime in the foresaide places at any time And whether ther be any Dauncing Rifling or gameplaying or any bodily labour as ploughing carting or any handie crafte vsed in your Parish vpon the solemne Feastes or Festiuall dayes 7 Whether the people of your Parish especially housholders hauing no lawfull excuse to bee absente do faithfullye and diligentlye endeuor themselues to resort with their children and seruantes to their Parishe Churche or Chappell on the Holy dayes and chiefly vpon the Sondayes to Morninge and Eueninge Prayer and vpon reasonable let thereof to some vsuall place where Common Prayer is vsed and then and there abide orderlye and soberlye during the time of Common Prayer Homelies Preachinges and other Seruice of Gods word there vsed reuerently and deuoutly giuinge themselues to the hearing thereof and who they be that either negligentlye or willfully absente themselues or come very late to Church vpon the Sondayes especiallye or that walke talke or otherwise vnreuerentlye behaue themselues in the Church or vse any gaminge abroade or in anye house or sitte in the streates or churchyarde or in anie Tauerne or Alehouse vpon the Sonday or other Holy day in the time of Common Prayer Sermons or reading of the Homilies either before noone or after noone or els resorte to Faires Playes or games in the same time 8 Whether the forfaiture of twelue pence for euery suche offence appoynted by a Statute made in the first yeare of the Queenes Maiesties raigne be leuied and taken by the Church Wardens of euerye person that offendeth and by them bee put to the vse of the poore of the Parish and if it bee not by whose default it is not leuied and what particular sommes of mony haue bene forfayted that way by whome since the Annuntiatiō of our Lady in the year of our Lord 1581. vntill the day of geuing vp the presentment concerninge these articles and to whome such forfaitures haue beene deliuered 9 Whether there bee anye Innekeepers Alewiues Vittaylers or Tiplers that suffer or admit anye person or persons in their houses to eate or drinke or play at Cards Tables or such like games in time of Common Prayer or Sermon on Sondayes or Holy dayes and whether there bee anye shoppes open on Sondayes or Holy dayes or anye Butchers or others that commonly vse to sell meate or other thinges in the tyme of Common Prayer Preaching or readinge of the Homilies And whether in any Faires or common markets falling vpon the Holy dayes there be any shewing of any wares before the deuine seruice be done 10 Whether for the putting of the Churchwardens and swornemen the better in remembrance of their duetie in obseruing and noting such as offende in not comming to diuine seruice your Minister doe openly euerie Sonday after he haue read the second Lesson at Morning and Euening Prayer monishe and warne the Churchwardens and Swornemen to looke to their charge in this behalfe and to obserue who contrarie to the saide Statute offende in absenting themselues from their Parish Church or vnreuerently as is aforesaide vse themselues in the tyme of diuine seruice 11 Whether your Minister do exercise himselfe in godlye studie of Holy Scriptures and vertuous bringing vp of