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B00010 Articles to be inquired of by the church-wardens and sworne-men, in the ordinarie visitation of Lancelot Lord Bishop of Elie, within the Diocesse of Elie, Ann. 1610. Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1609-1619 : Andrewes).; Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626. 1610 (1610) STC 10195; ESTC S92329 7,548 14

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Touching Parishioners WHether hath any in your Parish spoken against or any way impugned the Kings Maiesties supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall the Truth and Doctrine of the Church of England the forme of Gods worship contained in the booke of common prayer and administration of the Sacraments 2. Whether hath any in your Parish spoken against or impugned the Articles of religion agreed vpon in An. 1602. the Rites and ceremonies establisned in the Church the gouernment by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and others that beare office in the same 3. Whether hath any in your parish spoken against or impugned the forme of making and consecrating Bishops Priests or Deacons or haue any separated themselues from the societie of the congregation and combined in a newe Brotherhood or depraued the Synod lately held by the Kings authoritie 4. Whether hath any in your Parish maintained or defended any such Ministers or Schoolemasters as refuse to subscribe to the order of the Church haue they affirmed that such Ministers and their adherents may make rules and orders in causes Ecclesiasticall without the Kings authoritie 5. Whether doth any in your parish prophane violate or mispend the Sabbath or holy day or any part of them vsing any offensiue conuersation or worldly labour in those dayes or any of them 6. Whether hath any in your Parish in the time of diuine seruice couered his head albeit he hath an infirmitie in which case a cap or night-quoife is allowed or is there any who hath not reuerently kneeled when the generall confession Letanie and other prayers are read and which haue not stood vp at the saying of the beleefe 7. Whether hath any in your Parish disturbed the seruice or Sermon by walking talking or any other way or departed out of the Church during the seruice or Sermon without some vrgent cause or loitered about the church or church porch 8. Whether doe all parishioners receiue the holy Communion thrise euerie yeare at the least whereof the feast of Easter to be one and haue all beeing of the age of 16. yeares dulie receiued or not 9. Whether hath any Parent beene vrged to be present or admitted to answeare as God father for his owne child or hath any Godfather or Godmother made any other answer or speech then is prescribed by the Booke or haue any beene admitted for such at Baptisme who haue not first receiued the Communion 10. Whether doe all Fathers Mothers Masters Mistrisses come and cause their children seruants and apprentises to come duly to the church and according to the Ministers direction to be instructed and catechised or who be they that haue not obayed the Minister herein 11. Whether haue any persons married together within the degrees of consanguinitie or affinitie prohibited set forth in a table appointed to be placed in euerie Church or haue any maried or contracted themselues vnder the age of 21. yeares without the consent of their Parents or Gouernours if their Parents be dead 12. Whether haue any persons once lawfully married forsaken each other or doe lie asunder without the authoritie of the Ordinarie or doe any beeing diuorsed or separated marry againe the former wife or husband yet liuing 13. Whether haue any beene maried in the times wherein mariage is by lawe restrained without lawfull licence viz. From the Saturday next before Advent Sunday vntill the Fourteenth of Ianuarie and from the Saturday next before Septuages●ma Sunday vntill the Monday next after low Sunday and from the Sunday before the Rogation weeke vntil Trinitie Sunday 14. Whether hath any of your Parish vnreuerently vsed your Minister or haue any laid violent hands vpon him or disgraced his Office and calling by word or deede 15. Whether haue you in your Parish any dweller or soiournour a maintainer of Popish Doctrine or suspected to keepe scismaticall Books or to fauour any heresie or errour 16. Whether haue you any common resorters to your Church which are not of your Paeish or doe any such receiue the Communion amongst you what be their names and of what parishes are they 17. Whether haue any in the time of seruice opened their shops exercised their trade vsed any gaming beene in any Tauerne or Alehouse or otherwise ill employed 18. Whether are there in your parish any Adulterers Fornicators incestuous persons bawdes receiuers close fauourers conueyers away or which suffer to depart any incontinent person vnpunished any blasphemers common swearers drunkards ribauds vsurers malicious slanderers scolds or sowers of discord or any defamed of the said crimes 19. Whether doe any in your parish administer the goods of the dead without authoritie or suppresse their will or Testament haue any Executors neglected to performe their Wills especially in paying of Legacies giuen to the church to the poore or to any other charitable or godly vses 20. Whether doe any refuse to pay to the reparations ornaments and other things required in your church as they are ceassed by a lawfull vestrie or any dwelling out of your Parish which hold land in your Parish 21. Whether hath any person suspended or excommunicated beene suffred to heare diuine seruice or the Sermon to teceiue the Sacraments ments to be matied or churched or haue any Excommunicants beene buried in christian buriall 22. Whether haue any in your Parish beene christened churched buried or receiued the communion or beene maried out of your church both parties dwelling in your parish 23. Whether haue all women in your Parish deliuered of child come at conuenient time after to Church to giue thanks and haue they beene churched according to the forme of the Booke of common prayer 24. Whether hath the preambulation of the circuit of your Parish beene obserued once euery yeare if not whose default is it 25. Whether haue any in your parish giuen the Churchwardens or Sidemen or any of them euill words for doing their dutie according to their oath and conscience in making presentment for any fault Touching Churchwardens and Swornemen WHether doe any in your Parish take vpon them to be churchwarden or side-man which is not lawfully chosen by the Minister and Parishioners according to the canon or doe any continue that 〈…〉 ●●●ger then one yeare except they be chosen againe and are all su●● 〈…〉 chosen yearely in Easter weeke 2. Whether doe your churchwardens within one Mon● 〈…〉 most after their yeere ended before the Minister and Parishio●●● 〈…〉 a iust account of all such money and other things as they haue receiued and bestowed haue they deliuered all remaining in their hands belonging to their Church or Parish by bill intended to be deliuered to the next churchwarden 3. Whether haue the Church-wardens with the aduise of the Minister from time to time prouided a sufficient quantitie of fine white bread and wholesome wine for the number of Communicants 4. Whether doe the Churchwardens and Swornemem before euerie Visitation and at other times when there is iust occasion meete and conferre about their presentments and the answering of these Articles and who hath after notice giuen him of the time and place carelesly absentted himselfe 5. Whether the forfeiture of twelue pence for absence from Church appointed by statute for the vse of the poore be taken and leuied by the Church-wardens and employed according to the said Statute and whether is the same forfeiture taken of al persons which 〈◊〉 and wilfully suspended or Excommunicated 6. Whether haue any Churchwardens have sold or detained any goods ornaments Bels Rents or implements of the Church 7. Whether doe you the Churchwardens and Sidesmen about the middest of Diuine Seruice vsually walke out of the church and see who are abroad in any alehouse or elsewhere absent or euill employed and haue you presented all such to the Ordinance 8. Whether doe you knowe or haue heard a fame of any offence cōmitted or dutie omitted by any of your Parish before your time and heretofore not presented to the Ordinarie or as yet not reformed and haue you presented the same 9. Finally doe you know of any matter or cause which is a breach of the lawes Ecclesiasticall here not expressed and haue you presented the same FINIS