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A00263	Articles to be enquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men, within the diocesse of Winchester in the visitation of the Reuerend Father in God, Thomas Bishop of Winton, in his triennall visitation, holden 1603 in the first yeere of the raigne of Our Most Gracious Soueraigne Lord, Iames by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.	Church of England. Diocese of Winchester. Bishop (1597-1616 : Bilson); Bilson, Thomas, 1546 or 7-1616.	1603 (1603)	STC 10356.5; ESTC S874	8,425	17

whether any of your Parishioners hauing a preacher to their Minister doe absent themselues from his sermons and resort to other places to heare other Preachers 11 Item whether the people of your Parish especially housholders hauing not lawfull excuse to be absent doe diligently themselues resort with their children and seruants to the Parish Church or Chappell on holydaies and cheefely on the sundaies to Morning and Euening prayer or vppon reasonable let thereof to some vsuall place where common praier is vsed and then and there abide orderly and soberly during the time of common praier Homilies Sermons and other seruice of God there vsed reuerently and deuoutly giuing themselues to the hearing therof and who they be that negligently absent themselues or come verie late to the Church or vse any gaming or pastime abroad or in any house or sit in the street Churchyard or in any tauerne or alehouse vpon the Saboth or holiday in the time of common prayer Sermon or reading of the Homilies either before or after noone 12 Item whether there be within your Parish any Inkeepers ale-wiues victuallers or tiplers that suffer or doe admit any person or persons in their houses to eate drinke or play at cards tables or such like games in the time of common praier or Sermon on the Sundaies or Holydaies and whether any Butchers or others that commonly vse to sell meat or other things doe make sale in the time of common praier preaching or reading of Homilies and whether in any Faires or common Markets falling vpon the Sunday there be any shewing of any wares before Morning prayer be done and whether any Markets and selling of wares be vsed or suffered in any churchyards by common packemen or pedlers going about or any such people either of your parish or not 13 Item whether the Church-wardens of the last yeere haue giuen to the Parish a iust account of the Church goods and rents that were committed to their charge according to the custome that hath been afore time vsed and what Church goods they or any other haue sould and to whom and whether to the profit of your Church or no and what hath been done with the monney thereof comming 14 Item whether any of your parish being of conuenient age haue not receiued the holy communion thrice in euarie yeere at the least and namely at Easter or thereabouts for once and what their names are or which at their receiuing haue not signified the same before to your Parson Uicar or Curate that he might conueniently examine them and who haue refused to come to him to be examined 15 Item Whether there be any in your Parish that administer the goods of those that be dead without lawfull authoritie or any that suppresse the last will of the dead or any Executors that haue not fulfilled their Testators Will especially in paying of Legacies giuen to the Church or to other good and godly vses as to the rel●ef● of pouertie to helplesse Orphanes poore Schollers poore Maidens mariages high waies and such like and by whom they are so detained 16 Item whether there be any in your parish that hath or doth offend contrarie to the Statute made in the 37. yeere of the Raigne of King Henrie the eight for the reformation of Usurie and reuiued by an Act made the thirteenth yeere of the raigne of the late Queene Elizabeth taking aboue the rate of ten pounds for the lending of an hundred pounds by the yeere and what be the names of such offendours 17 Item whether your Minister or any of the Parish without the consent of the Ordinarie haue caused any to do penance or bee punished either openly or otherwise for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiasticall lawes onely and what be the names of the parties that haue been so punished and in what manner 18 Item whether there bee amongst you any that vse sorcery or witchcraft punishable by the Ecclesiasticall laws or that bee suspected of the same and whether any vse any charmes or vnlawfull praiers and whether any doe resort to any such for helpe and counsaile and what bee the names both of such as vse it and of such as resort vnto them for help 19 Item whether there bee among you any blasphemer of the name of God great or often swearers adulterers fornicators incestuous persons bawdes or receiuers of incontinent persons or harbourers of women with child which be vnmarried conueving or suffering them to goe away before they doe any penance or make satisfaction to the congregation or any that be vehemently suspected of any such fault any drunkards or ribawdes or any that be malitious contentious or vncharitable persons common slaunderers of their neighbours raylers scolders or sowers of discord between neighbours and especially raylers against Ministers and against their mariage 20 Item whether there bee any in these parts that haue married within the degrees of affinitie or consanguinitie by the lawes of God forbidden or any that being diuorsed or separated for the same do yet notwithstanding cohabite and keepe company still together or any that being maried without those degrees haue vnlawfully forsaken their wiues or husbands and maried others any man that hath two wiues or woman that hath two husbands any that being diuorced or separated asunder haue maried againe any that haue maried and contracted themselues without the consent of their parents tutors and gouernours any that haue maried without banes thrice solemnly asked any couples married that liue not together but slaunderously liue apart 21 Item whether your Minister and Church-wardens haue suffered any lord of misrule or summer Lords or ladies or any disguised persons or May-games or morice dancers at any time to come vnreuerently into the church or churchyard and there to daunce or pl●y in the time of common Praier Seruice or Sermon vppon the Saboath day 22 Item whether any within your Parishes doe resort vnto barnes fields woo●● or priuate houses for any extraordinary expositions of scriptures or conferences together and so doe as it were ●make a seuerall Church or sect vnto themselves or be drawers or perswaders of others to any such schismaticall sect and in whose houses or in what places haue you heard of any such meetings 23 Item whethe● there be any of your parish known or suspected to conc●●le o● keep hiddē in their house any Masse books or other books of Popery superstision or any chalices copes vestiments or other like superstitious ornamentes in their forme and fashion vndefacet for some exercise of their superstition as may be suspected if they may haue time or opportunitie theretoo or whether any be known or suspected to receiue any such bookes or like trumperie from beyond the seas and so disperse and carrie them abroad to others 24 Itē whether any in your parish maried in any priuat houses since the last visitation haue bin knowne or suspected to haue bin maried by any popish priest or in any other order then is appointed by

ARTICLES To be enquired of by the Church-wardens and Sworne-men within the Diocesse of Winchester in the Visitation of the reuerend Father in God Thomas Bishop of Winton in his Triennall Visitation holden 1603. In the first yeere of the raigne of our most gracious Soueraigne Lord Iames by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Faith c. Printed at London by Thomas Purfoot 1603. THe Church-wardens and their assistants are straightly required to read or heare all these Articles read ouer vnto them and diligently to consider and enquire thereof betweene the time of the deliuery hereof vnto them and the making of their presentments Articles to bee enquired of by the Church-wardens and Sworne-men within the Diocesse of Winchester and the trueth thereof to be by them vpon their oathes certainely presented to the Bishop or his Deputie with perticular answere to euerie Article Articles concerning the Cleargie WHether your common prayer be read by your Minister in your Churches or Chappels plainly and reuerently vpon all Sundayes and Holydaies and other daies prescribed in such order as is set foorth in the Booke of common praier authorized by the Lawes of this Realme without any innouation or change of any part thereof at due and conuenient houres And whether the holy Sacraments be likewise ministred reuerently in such manner as by the Booke of common praier is appointed 2 Item whether any person not being ordered at the least a Deacon hath attempted to say common praier openly in your Church or Chappell or to solemnize matrimonie or administer the Sacrament of Baptisme 3 Item whether the Church-wardens haue permitted or do suffer any Curator Minister to serue your Church before he be admitted and examined by the Ordinarie in writing and doe shew his licence vnder seale vnto the Church-wardens and whether any Curate doe serue two Cures in one day 4 Item whether your Minister not being a Preacher do euerie Sunday when there is no Sermon read distinctly and plainely some part of the Homilies prescribed and set forth by the Queens authoritie to be read and whether any Minister not admitted by the Ordinarie or by other lawfull authoritie doe expound any scripture or manner of doctrine and thereby omit and leaue off the reading of Homilies or whether any in your Parish doe depraue or speake against the Homilies and the vse of them in the Church 5 Item whether your Minister doe at the administration of the Lords Supper reuerently kneele when himselfe receiueth it according to the Booke of common praier and whether the communicants themselues in like sort doe reuerently kneele vppon their knees at the time of the receiuing thereof or whether he doe administer it confusedly to some kneeling to some sitting and to some standing 6 Item whether your preacher in his praier made in his Sermon whether it be at the beginning middle or end therof doe vse or omit at any time the praier for his Maiestie with his whole title giuen him as King of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland desender of the faith c. of all causes and ouer all persons within his Maiesties Dominion as well ecclesiasticall as temporall next and immediatly vnder God supreame Gouernour and for our most gracious Queene the Prince of Wales their eldest Sonne and all their royall Progenie 7 Item whether any Lectures Cenuenticles or priuate meetings be read or vsed within your Parishes either publique in the Church or priuately in any house by any not licenced thereto by the Ordinary Or whether any such Reader do teach any doctrine of innouation to withdraw the people from due obedience to the ordinances of the Church set foorth by publique authoritie or to cause them to forbeare participating in prayer and sacraments with our Church 8 Item how many sermons hath your Parson or Uicar preached in his owne Church within this yeere past And if your Parson or Uicar be not a preacher how many sermons hath he procured to be preached there in this yeere past and who hath preached them and whether were they that did preach them licensed or no and by whom 9 Item whether your Minister hath receiued to the holy communion any persons which be not of his owne Parish without testimony from the minister of the place where they dwell what they be that it may appeare they be not persons excommunicate or otherwise notorious offenders 10 Item whether your Minister doe euerie Sunday or holiday openly in the Church call for heare and instruct all the children apprentices and seruants that be of conuenient age within your Parish or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serue and as he may well heare and instruct for one halfe houre at the least before or after Euening praier in the ten commandements the articles of the beleefe the Lords praier and the sacraments and diligently examine and teach them the Catechisme as it is now allowed and set forth in the Booke of common prayer and whether to that purpose he hath taken the names of them all and by course call certaine of them by name euery Sunday and Holiday to come to the teaching of this Catechisme and if the Parents Master be slacke in sending them whether he hath called vpon the churchwardens to present them 11 Item whether your Parson Uicar or Curate or other Minister in your Church or Chappell hath admitted to the holy communion any publicke excommunicate person or any open or notorious fornicator adulterer or euill liuer by whom publicke offence is giuen without due pennance first done to the satisfaction of the congregation enioyned him by his Ordinarie 12 Item whether your Preachers or Ministers be peace-makers and exhort their Parishioners to obedience towards their Prince and all other that be in authoritie and to the gouernement ecclesiasticall now established and to charitie and mutuall loue among themselues whether they be diligent in visiting the sicke and comforting them 13 Item whether any person hath preached declared or spoken any thing in derogation of the Book of cōmon praier which is set forth by the Lawes of this Realme dispraising or deprauing the same or any thing therein contained or against the Preachers or Ministers of the word and sacraments 14 Item whether there be prouided in your Parish one conuenient parchment Book And whether therin are written the names of all persons which haue beene christened married or buried in that Parish since the beginning of the raigne of our late most gracious Soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth And whether euerie page of that Booke being filled with the inscription of those names be subscribed by the Minister and Church-wardens And whether euerie Sunday after morning or euening praier the Minister in the presence of the Churchwardens doe write into that parchment booke the names of all persons that haue been christeneed married or buried in the Parish the weeke before And immediatly after the wr●ting of all the