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order_n	according_a	church_n	minister_n	2,280	5	6.4436	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07639	Certaine advertisements and articles, giuen by the Worshipfull Master Robert Iohnson Archdeacon of Leicester. In the visitation holden for the said archdeaconrie, at the feast of the Annunciation of our blessed lady the Virgine Marie in the yeare of our Lord God 1613. and the of reigne of our most gracious Lord King Iames, by the grace of God of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. the eleuenth, and of Scotland the fortie fiue..	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Leicester. Archdeacon (1591-1625 : Johnson); Johnson, Robert, 1540-1625.	1613 (1613)	STC 10222; ESTC S92356	8,242	20

the least whether he doth procure quarterly or Monthly Sermons according as by dutie he is bound especially vpon such daies as the holy Communion shall be ministred for the better instruction and preparation towards that occasion and whether he doth duly and orderly Catechize euery Sunday with exposition of the same for the better instruction of the youth of the Parish and Christian information of other the hearers and whether such as are to be Chatechized attend orderly at the time to be instructed or who they be that make default or shew themselues obstinate therein And whether your Minister doe carefully repaire to visite the sicke of your Parish for their spirituall comfort and willingly attend his charge in those extremities And further whether hee doth conferre with his Parishoners especially such as he knoweth not throughly grounded in the way and knowledge of their saluation for their better instruction before they repaire to the holy Communion And if any refuse this necessarie conference offered by the Minister not onely to stay them from receiuing but also present what be their names with their causes pretended 4 Whether your Minister doth admit any to the Communion or to bee married or to answere for Infants in Baptisme being not sufficiently Catechized and able to yéeld an account of their Christian faith Infants to contracts that whom conscience will not allure almost once to thinke seriously of the meanes of their saluation yet other extraordinarie occasions may driue for shame to some knowledge of Christianitie 5 Whether your Minister or any other of your Parish bée knowne or suspected as fauourers of the Romish Church Iesuites superioritie or Religion And whether any runnagate Iesuites or counterfeit Massing Priests going out according to the order of their professions are knowne or suspected to frequent or haūt to any person or persons within your Parish or sometime for a shift to lie or lurke with them and whether they or any Schoolemaster or any other pretending the name of a seruant are suspected to allure and perswade any within your Parish from the true sinceritie of the Gospell now by publike authoritie established to the vsing of Mattins Beads and such other vaine Popish trishtrash or of any vnlawfull Popish books And whether any be reputed or suspected to bee reaccounted to the Church of Rome within your Parish and what be their names And whether you know or haue heard of any sometime in orders that now doe liue as lay men 6 Whether any of your Parish doe altogether absent themselues from Diuine Seruice or doe seldome or negligently come to the Church or doe not continue there without disturbance of the Minister and congregation not departing thence but vpon some iust and lawfull cause And whether any of your Parishoners do not receiue the Communion at the least thrice in the yeare according to his Maiesties Lawes established and whether any hauing diuers houses of remoue do shift from place to place in colour to defeat the performance of their Christian duties in those behalfes what they be and the names of euery of the family that doth the like And whether the particular twelue pence be leuied according to the statute 7 Whether any within your Parish haue any of their kinred or kinsfolke beyond the Seas what be their names and how long they haue continued out of the Realme and what by heresay or in conscience you iudge their affection to be in Religion or whether any are knowne or suspected to relieue any such 8 Whether your Minister kéepe any suspected woman in his house or be giuen to drunkennesse idlenesse or be a hunter of Tauernes Ale-houses or other suspected places or be Hunters Hawkers Dicers Carders Tablers Swearers or any waies giue any euill example of life or vnséemely apparrell to the offence of others and discredit of their calling And whether they be reported or suspected to haue come by their benefice or other Ecclesiasticall promotions Simonically directly or indirectly 9 Whether there belong any glebe Lands to your Parsonage or Vicarage and how many seuerall parcels there bee and how much they containe by estimation whether any be alienated exchanged or incroched vpon to the decay of the liuing And whether your Chancell and Parsonage houses be in good and sufficient reparations and whether your Church be in euery part so maintained as were conuenient And whether your Church yards be throughly fenced about and cleanly kept and who is the cause of any of these defaults And whether any Patrons haue decayed the Parsonage-houses and kept a stipendarie Priest in place where an Incumbent should be possessed 10 Whether your Minister kéepe well your Registers of all Weddings Burials and Christnings within your Parish according to his Maiesties lawes established and doe present a copie of them once euery yeare by Indenture to the Chancellor or his Deputie to remaine of record in the principall Office 11 Whether any within your Parish administer the goods of those that be dead without lawfull authoritie or any are suspected to haue suppressed or altered the last wil of the dead or any Executors that haue not fulfilled the testators wil especially in performing of the Legacies giuen to other good vses or maintenance of the poore 12 Whether you haue a Schoolemaster within your Parish and whether your Schoolemaster teaching publikely or priuately be of good and sincere Religion and conuersation and whether they be examined and allowed by the Ordinary or his Officer according to the late Canons in that behalfe And whether any liuing giuen towards the erection or maintenance of any Schoole bee with holden backe or otherwise any wayes imployed 13 Whether any haue pulled downe or discouered any Church Chauncell or Chappell Porch Vestry Stéeple Bells or any part of them or felled Wood or Timber in the Church-yard And whether your Hospitals or Spittels be well and godly vsed and maintained according to the foundation and ancient Ordinances of the same 14 Whether any entertainment be giuen or gaming vsed in any Innes or Alehouses or other Victualers in time of Diuine Seruice or Sermons Or whether any Butchers Victualers Pedlers or other Artificers in time of common Prayer or Sermon open their shops or wares and whether your Minister customably remembreth your Church-Wardens and Swornemen to attend their charge in such behalfe 15 Whether your Church goods Stocks or Rents be let to the best commoditie and for such vses as they were first meant or now are to be imployed and conuerted no other waies Or whether the same be increased or decayed by what meanes who being Church-Wardens whether any are behinde with making their accounts or be thought not to haue made the true perfect and sufficient account what Lands or Stockes should be or yet remaine 16 Whether any within your Parish be suspected to vse sorcerie wichcraft charmes vnlawfull prayers or innouations in Latine or English namely Midwiues in the time of Womens trauaile with child and who resort to such for helpe or Counsell 17 Whether the Minister or Church-wardens haue suffered any Lords of mis-rule or Summer Lords or Ladies or any disguised persons as Morris dancers to come vnreuerently piping dancing or playing in the Church or Church-yard with vnséemely scoffes iests or ribauldrie in time of Diuine seruice or Sermons and what they bée that commit such disorders and the company that maintained them 18 Whether any of your Parish haue beene married within the degrées of affinitie and consanguinitie forbidden by the Lawes of God and whether for the better knowledge and direction of those degrées you haue the table of degrées publikely affixed in your Parish Church and whether any diuorced or separated for marrying within those degrées be notwithstāding conuersant and kéepe companie together whether any man bee suspected to haue two wiues or any woman two husbands or any married without banes thrice solemnly asked or out of the Parish where one of them at least doe inhabit and whether any married liue a part and not continue together according to the Lawes of God and this Realme 19 Whether any of your Parish be knowne defamed or vehemently suspected of any notorious sinne fault or crime as of vsury swearing adultery fornication incest baudery drunkennes ribauldry slander contention sowing of discord betwéene neighbours priuie receiuing women vnlawfully begotten with child or suffering them to depart before publike satisfaction made to the congregation Or whether there bee any fighters quarrellers brawlers or chiders in Church or Churchyard any scoffers rimers or derides of Ministers or any that lay violent hande on them or any of them or otherwise abuse them 20 All and euery the particulars of the premisses you are diligently to enquire of and as well the Ministers seuerally as the Church-wardens and Sidemen ioyntly to present the defaults of euery of them in writing subscribed by their names and generally whatsoeuer breaches and offences else they shall know or heare committed against any of the Kings Maiesties Iniunctions or any Ecclesiasticall Lawes of this Realme The Oath of the Church-wardens YOV shall faithfully administer all such Church-goods as are or shal come to your hands to the vse of your Church and therof make a true and faithfull account at the end of your Office deliuering all that remaineth therupon to your next successors Also you shall diligently enquire of and faithfully present all such persons as you shall either vpon your owne knowledge or by publike fame vnderstand to be guiltie of any offence or fault mentioned in any of these Articles aforesaid or any other fault which is to be punished by the lawes Ecclesiasticall of this Realme wherein you shall not present any person for malice hatred or euill will nor spare any for fauour feare or any corrupt affection but you shall faithfully discharge your consciences as men hauing the feare of God before your eyes and seeking the reformation of his Church So God helpe you in Christ our Sauiour