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A00214	Articles to be enquired of vvithin the diocesse of London In the third trienniall visitation of the Right Honourable, and Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of London, Lord High Treasurer of England. Holden in the yeare of our Lord God, 1640; Visitation articles. 1640	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1633-1660 : Juxon); Juxon, William, 1582-1663.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1640 (1640)	STC 10267; ESTC S101627	23,004	28

ARTICLES TO BE ENQUIRED OF Within the Diocesse of LONDON In the third Trienniall Visitation Of the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in GOD WILLIAM Lord Bishop of LONDON Lord High Treasurer of ENGLAND Holden in the Yeare of our LORD GOD 1640 LONDON Printed by RICHARD BADGER M.DC.XL The Oath to be administred to the Church-wardens and Sworn-men YOu shall sweare that you and every of you shall diligently enquire of the Articles given you in charge and without any affection favour 〈◊〉 hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice of any person you shall present all and every such person and persons that now is or ●f late was within your Parish as hath committed any incest adultery fornication or simony and any misdemeanour or disturbances committed or made in any Church or Ch●ppell in time of Common Prayer Preaching or Divine Service there used to the disturbance thereof and also that have committed or done any other offence fault or default presentable in the E●clesiasticall Court according to the Articles now delivered to you Wherein you shall deale uprightly and according to truth neither of malice presenting any contrary to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and ●o conceale the truth having in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine the truth and suppresse vice So helpe you God and the Contents of this Booke Articles to be enquired of within the Diocesse of LONDON in the Visitation to be holden in the Yeare of our LORD 1640. Concerning Religion and the true worship of God In This Realme established IS there any who doth affirme teach that the 39 Articles agréed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops in b●th Provinces and the whole Clergie in the Convocation h●lden at London Anno 1562. are in any part superstitio●s or 〈◊〉 or such as hée may not with a good conscience subscribe unto Who is that so teacheth or affirmeth and what is his name 2 Is there any who doth affirme and ●ea●h that the forme of Gods worship in the Church of ●●gland established by the Law and contai●●d in the booke of Common ●rayer and administration of Sacraments is a corrupt superstitio●s 〈◊〉 unlawfull worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is rep●g●●nt to the Scriptures Who is it that so teacheth c. 3 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that the Rites and Ceremo●ies of the Church of England by Law established are wicked antichristian or superstitious or such as being commanded by lawfull Authoritie ●ay not with good cons●ience ●ee approved used or subscribed unto by men who are zealously and godly affected who is it c 4 Is there any that separateth himselfe from the Communion of Saints as it is approved by the Apostles Rules in the Church of England and c●mbine themselves together in a new brother-hood accounting the Christians who are conformable to the Doctrine Governement ●ites and Ceremonies of the Church of England to be prophane or unmeet for him to ioyne within Christian profession who are they that so separa●e ●●mselves and what are their names Concerning the Church the Governement Authoritie and Discipline thereof 1 IS there any who doth affirme or teach that the Church of England by Law established under the Kings Maiestie is not a true and Apostolicall Church teaching and maintaining the Doctrine of the Apostles Who is it that doth so affirme and teach c 2 Is there any who doth affirme and teach that the Governement of the Church of England under his Maiestie by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and the rest that beare office in the same is antichristian and repugnant to the Word of God Who is it that doth c. 3 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that the formes or manner of making and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Word of God or that they who are made Bishops Priests and Deacons in that forme are not lawfully made nor ought to be accounted either by themselves or others to be truly either Bishops Priests or Deacons untill they have some other calling unto those Divine Offices Who is it c. 4 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that the Church hath no power to decree Rites or Ceremonies nor any authoritie in Controversies of Faith or in the changing abolishing of Ceremonies and R●tes of the Church ordained only by mans authority contrary to the 20. and 34. Articles of the Church of England Who is it c. 5 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that the Kings Maiestie hath not the same Authoritie in causes Ecclesiasticall that the godly Kings had among the Iewes and Christian Emperours in the Primitive Church Or that the Kings Maiestie within his Realmes of England Scotland and Ireland and all other his Dominions and Countries is not the highest Power under God to whom all men as well Inhabitants as bor●e within the same doe by Gods law owe most loyaltie and obedience Or that impeach any part his Royall Supremacie in the said causes restored to the Crowne and by the Lawes of the Realme therein established Who is it c 6 Is there any who doth affirme or teach that no manner of person eith●r of the Clergie or Laitie are to be subiect to the Decrees and Constitutions of the Church in causes Ecclesiasticall made and ratified by the Kings Maiesties Supreme authoritie other then such as are particularly assembled in the sacred Synods of the Church for the making of the said Decrees and Constitutions and have given their voices to the same Who is it c 7 Is there any that doth affirme or teach that it is lawfull for any sort of Ministers and lay persons or either of them to ioyne together and make rules orders and Constitutions in Causes Ecclesiasticall without the Kings Authority or any that submit themselves to be ruled and Governed by the same Who is it c 8 Is there any who doth affirme teach maintaine or publish that such Ministers who refuse to subscribe to the forme and manner of Gods worship in the Church of England and their adherents may truly take unto them the name of another Church or that there are within this Realme other meetings assemblies or congregations of the Kings borne Subiects then such as by the lawes of this Land are held and allowed which may rightly chalenge to themselves the name of true and lawfull Churches Who is it that doth so affirme c 9 Doth any Minister or Ministers without the Licence and direction of the Bishop of the Diocesse first obtained appoint or keep any solemne Fasts publikely or in any private houses other then such as are or shall be appointed by lawfull authoritie or not being Licensed as afore is said presumes to appoint or hold any meeting for Sermons Sermon Lectures

administer the Communion unto such as be dangerously sicke and not able to come unto the Church and yet are desirous to receive the same in their houses and are unquiet for he lack thereof Or doth hee obstinately and wilfully refuse so to doe being thereunto required and finding all things necessary for the doing of it 27 Doth your minister refuse or delay to bury any corps that is brought into the Church or Church-yard convenient warning being given him before except the partie deceased were denounced excommunicate for some grievous crime Majori Excommunicatione and no man able to testifie of his repentance And doth he do it decently and gravely not swerving from the forme prescribed by the Church in the Common prayer booke 28 Doth any woman in your parish after her delivery from the paines and perill of Childbirth refuse to come into the Church to render thanks to God for so great a mercy Doth she goe thither covered with a decent veil according to the laudable and ancient custome And being come doth she goe n●ere unto the place where the Table standeth and offereth her accustomed offerings And doth your Minister doe his dutie in churching the said women according to the forme prescribed And doth the woman that commeth to give her tha●kes receive the holy Communion if there by any 29 Doth your Minister at and upon seasonable times especially on the first day of Lent cause the people to bee called together and assembled in the Church by the ringing of a Bell And being drawne together doth hee read unto them the commination against sinners with the other prayers appointed Concerning the Clergie their Duty Carriage c. DOth your Parson Uicar Curate or Lecturer if you have any purely and syncerely teach manifest and declare foure times every yeare at the least in his Sermons and other Collations and Lectures that all usurped and forraigne power is for most iust cau●es taken away and abolished and that therefore no obedience or subiection within his Maiesties Realmes and Dominions is due unto any such forraigne power And doth he preach the Doctrine of obedience and the Kings authority according to the Canons published and set out by the late holy Synod Anno 1640. 2 Doth your Minister declare to the parishioners every Sunday at the time appointed in the Communion booke whether there be any Holy-dayes or fasting-dayes in the following weeke And doth hee call upon them to observe the same according to the Lawes of the Land and of holy Church 3 Doth your Minister or Curate in the Rogation dayes goe in perambulation about your parish saying and using the Psalmes and suffrages by Law appointed as viz. Psalme 103. 104. the Letany and suffrages together with the Homily set out for that end and purpose Doth hee admonish the people to give thankes to God if they see any likely hopes of plenty and to call upon him for his mercy if there be any feare of scarcitie And doe you the Churchwardens assist him in it 4 Doth your Curate serve more then one Church or Chappell upon one day except the said Chappell be a member of the parish Church or united thereto How farre distant are the said Churches or Chappels which he serveth from one another What wages hath he for his paines 5 Doth your Minister if he be commanded by the Ordinary openly on some Sunday denounce and declare for excommunicate all those who either for refusing to frequent the divine service of the Church or for notorious contumacie or other notable crimes stand lawfully excommunicated by the lawes of the Church that others thereby may bee admonished to refraine their Companies And doth your Minister himselfe refraine the company of persons excommunicated and so denounced 6 Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate usually weare such apparell as is prescribed by the Canon that is to say a gowne with standing colla● and wide sleeves straite at the hands and a square cap Or doth hee go● at any time abroade in his dublet and ho●e without coat or cassock or doth he use to weare any light coloured stockings doth he weare any ●oi●e and wrought nightcaps or only plaine night-caps of silke sattin or velvet And in his iourneying doth he usually weare a cloake with sleeves commonly called the Priests cloak without guards we●ts long buttons or cuts 7 Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate resort at any time other then for his honest necessities to any Tavernes or Ale●ouses or doth your Curate lodge or board in any such places Doe they or either of them give themselves to any base or servile labour or to drinking or Riot or to playing at di●e cards or tables or to an● other unlawfull game or games or doe they otherwise spend their time idly by day or by night 8 Is there any in your Parish who having beene a Deacon or Minister hath voluntaryly relinquished his calling and doth u●e himselfe in the course of his li●e as a lay man what are their names that have forsaken their said callinge 9 Doth your Minister if he be a Preacher and thought fit by your Bishop having any popish Recusant or Recusants in his parish labour diligently with them from time to time thereby to reclaime them from their errours And if he be n● Preacher or not such a Preacher doth hee procure some that are Preachers so qualified to take paines with them to that purpose 10 Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate carefully informe himselfe every yeare how many popish Recusants men woemen and children above the age of thirteene yeares or being otherwise popishly given are inhabitants within their parish or parishes or make their abode there either as soiourners or common guests 11 Doth your Minister every Sunday weekly if there be occasion in the presence of you the Churchwardens write and record in the Register-booke the names of all persons christened together with the names and surnames of their parents as also the names and surnames of all persons married and buried in that parish the weeke before and the day and ●eare of every such Christening Marriage and Burial and unto every page therof when it is fild do you and your said Minister subscribe your names And is a true coppie of the said Christnings Marriages and Burials subscribed with the names of your Minister and you the Churchwardens transmit●ed yearely within one moneth after the 25 of March unto the Bishop of the Dio●esse to be preserved in his Registry 12 Doth your Minister in the parish Church or Chappell where ●ee hath charge reade the Canons Orders and Constitutions agreed on in the Synod held at London Anno 1603. once every yeare upon some Sundayes or Holydayes in the afternoone before Divine Service and doth he so divide the same as the one halfe may be read one day and the other halfe the other day Whether hath your Minister Churchwardens and Sidemen presented unto the