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A00225 Articles to be enquired of in the generall visitation of the right vvorshipfull M. Robert White, Bachelour in Divinity, Arch-deacon of Norfolke, anno Domini 163[3?] Church of England. Archdeaconry of Norfolk.; White, Robert, Archdeacon of Norfolk. 1633 (1633) STC 10280.3; ESTC S2642 8,422 10

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parson in your parish a fauourer of the Romish Church or Religion or of any other sect or Schismaticall opinion or hath he or doth he maintaine or teach any doctrine contrary or repugnant to any of the Articles agréed vpon by the Clergie in the Conuocation holden at London Anno Dom. 1562 haue they taught publikly or secretly any doctrine tending to the discredit and dispraise either of the Booke of Common prayer or of the Preachers and Ministers of the word and Sacraments or of the receiued order for gouernment by Arch-Bishops Bishops Deanes Arch-deacons and other Officers in the Church of England or make any other innouation Or haue they permitted any man so teaching or making innouation in such manner 14 Is your Minister an allowed Preacher if he be not doth he procure euery moneth a Sermon to be Preached in his Cure by Preachers lawfully licenced And on euery Sunday when there is no Sermon doth he or his Curate reade some one of the homilies prescribed 15 Doth your Minister alwaies in saying the publike prayers and administring the Sacraments weare a decent Surplice with sleeues and being a Graduate doth he weare alwaies there-with an Hoode by the order of the Vniuersities agréeable to his degrée 16 Hath your Minister or any other Preacher in your Church Preached any thing to confute or impugne any doctrine deliuered by any other Preacher and doth he alwaies before the Sermon Lecture and homilie pray for Christs Catholike Church The Kings Majesty and our Gracious Queene Mary the Noble Prince Charles the Lady Mary the Lady Elizabeth and Her Princely Issue The Ministers of Gods Holy word as well Arch-Bishops and Bishops as other Pastours and Curats for the Kings most Honourable Councell the Nobility and Magistrates of this Realme and the Commons And doth he alwaies conclude his prayer with the Lords prayer According to the Cannon 55 17 Hath or doth any strange Preacher preach in your Church which refuseth to conforme himselfe to the Lawes rites and Ordinances established or which hath not first shewed a sufficient licence 18 Doth your Minister in his Sermons 4 times in the yeare at least teach and declare the Kings Maiesties power within his Realmes to be the highest power vnder God to whom all within the same owe iust loyalty obedience and that all forraine power is iustly taken away 19 Doth your Minister euery Sunday halfe an hower before euening prayer or more examine and instruct the youth of the parish in the Catechisme set forth in the Booke of Common prayer And doe the Church-wardens assist the Minister héerein and who be they that refuse to be Catechized and what Parents haue not diligently sent their Children and seruants to be Catechized 20 Hath your Minister Married any without licence in the times prohibited and hath he married any without licence whose banes haue not béene openly published in the Church 3 seuerall sundayes or holydayes if any of the parties dwell out of the parish hath he married them without Certificate vnder the Ministers hand of the other parish that the banes of matrimony haue béene lawfully asked and published without contradiction hath he married any at any other times of the day then betwéene the howers of 8 and 12 in the forenoone or in any priuate house or when there is no licence before the Parents and Gouerners the parties being vnder the age of 21 yeares haue testified their consent 21 Hath your Minister declared euery sunday to the people at the time appointed what holy-dayes and fasting dayes be the weeke following doth he being a Preacher conferre with all Recusants and persons Excommunicated and suspected to reduce them to the vnity of the Church 22 Doth your Minister kéepe a note of all Excommunicated persons within your Parish and once euery six months doth he denounce them which haue not obtained their absolution on some sunday in seruice time that others may be admonished to refraine their company 23 Is your Parson Vicar or Curate dilligent in visiting the sicke and comforting them doe they bury your dead in such Christian and comely manner as is prescribed in the booke of Common prayer hath any layman other then a lawfull Minister taken vpon him to bury the dead contrary to order 24 Hath your Minister refused to baptize any child brought to the Church or to bury any Corps brought to the Church or Churchyard or to Church any woman hauing had conuenient warning thereof 25 Hath your Minister being truly informed of the danger of death of any Child vnbaptized and being desired to goe to the place where the Childe is to Baptize it neglected to goe by meanes whereof the Child dyed vnbaptized 26 Haue you any Lecture in your Parish continued without lawfull licence of the Bishop doth your Lecturer obserue all the rites specified in the 56 Canon 27 Doth your Minister at any time preach or administer the Communion in any priuate house except when any are so impotent that they cānot go to Church or are very dangerously sicke 28 Doe any Chaplaines in your parish preach or administer the Communion in any Chappell not consecrated or in any house hauing no Chappell allowed by law doe the Lords and Masters that haue priuate Chappels of their owne resort often to the parish Church and there receiue the Communion at the least once euery yeare 29 Doth your Minister reside vpon his Parsonage or Vicarage house 30 Hath there béene any secret Conuenticles or méetings in your parish by any Priests Ministers or others tending to the deprauation of the forme of prayer doctrine or gouerment of this Church of England Concerning the Church Church-yard Parsonage and Vicarage house 1 WHether is your Church Chappell and Chancell well and sufficiently repaired in the walls and roofe the seates conuenient the floore paued the windowes glazed and all these cleanely kept Is the Mansion house of your Parson or Vicar with the buildings thereunto belonging well and sufficiently repaired and your Church-yard walls Railes or pales kept in good repare 2 Hath your Church or Church-yard béene abused prophaned by any fighting chiding brawling or quarelling any playes lords of mis-rule Summer lords Morris-dauncers Pedlers Bowlers Bearewards Butchers Feasts Schooles Temporall Courts or Léets Lay Iuries Musters or other prophane vsage Haue any Bells béene superstitiously rung on holy-dayes or their Eues or at any other times without good cause allowed by the Minister and Church-wardens haue any trées béene fell'd in the Church-yard and by whom 3 Are your Almes-houses Church-houses schoole-houses or other houses and buildings set vpon the soile of the Church or Church-yard sufficiently repaired maintained and to godly and right vse imployed 4 Haue you in your Church or Chappell all things necessary for Common prayer and other Rites of the Church as the Bible in the largest volume the Booke of Comon Prayer lately authorized by his Maiesty the Bookes of homilies allowed a conuenient Pulpit for preaching a decent seate for