Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	king_n	law_n	positive_a	3,676	5	11.2679	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00116	Articles to be enquired of, in the kynges maiesties visitacion; Visitation articles. 1547	England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII); Church of England.	1547 (1547)	STC 10115.5; ESTC S108733	4,812	14

Images whiche is onely to put theim in remembraunce of the Godly and verteous lifes of them that thei do represent and haue taught that if thesaied people vse the Images for any other purpose thei committe Idolatrie to the greate daunger of their soules Whether thei haue declared and to their wittes and power haue perswaded the people that the maner and kynde of fastyng in Lent other dayes in the yere is but a meere positiue lawe and that therfore all persons hauing iuste cause of sickenes or necessitie or beyng licenced by the kynges Maiestie may temperately eate all kyndes of meate without grudge or scruple of conscience Whether your Parsonnes Vicars and Curates haue shewed and declared vnto you the true vse of ceremonies that is to say That they be no workers nor woorkes of saluacion but onely outwarde signes and tookens to put vs in remembraunce of thynges of higher perfection Whether they haue admitted any maÌ„ to preache in their cures not beynge lawfully licenced thereunto or haue refused or repelled suche to preache as haue bene so licenced Whether they which haue spoken and declared any thyng for the settingfurth of pilgrimages fayned reliques images or any such supersticion haue not openly recanted thesame Whether they haue one boke or registre sauefely kept wherin they write the daye of euery wedding christening and buriyng Whether the kinges Iniunccions wer quarterly red or not Whether they haue declared to theyr paryshyoners that saincte Markes daye and the euens of the abrogated holy dayes should not be fasted Whether the knollynge at the Aues be vsed Whether they haue the procession boke in English in their processions vse none other Letany but that whiche is setfurthe in thesame boke And whether thei omitte thesame English Letany at any tyme in their processions whether they haue had thesame Letany as ofte as they were commaunded Whether they haue put out of their churche bokes this woorde Papa and the name and seriuce of Thomas Becket and prayers hauynge rubricies conteyning Pardons or indulgences and all other superlticious legeÌ„des prayers Whether they bid the beades accordynge to the ordre prescribed by our late souereigne lord kyng Henry the. VIII Whether they or any of them haue been admitted to their benefices by Simony or by any other vnlaufull meanes Whether in theyr masses they vse not the collectes made for the Kyng and make not speciall mencion of hys Maiesties name in thesame Whether they or any of them doo kepe mo benefices and other Ecclesiastical promocions then they ought to do not hauynge sufficient licences and dispensacioÌ„s therunto and howe many they kepe and theyr names WHether you knowe anye person that is a letter of the worde of God to be redde in English So that it bee mekely humbly reuerently done without disturbaunce of the people and by them that haue authoritie there to Whether you knowe any person spirituall or temporall which doeth let the woorde of God to be preached or that the Kinges Iniunctions should not be duely executed Whether any persone hath obstinately and maliciously without a iuste reasonable cause broken the laudable ceremonies of the Church commaunded to be obserued or supersticiously abused thesame as in castynge of holy Water vpon theyr beddes and other places and bearyng about them holy breade or makyng crosses of woodde vpon Palme Sundaye or blessyng with the holy Candell thinkyng therby to put awaye synnes dryue awaye deuilles dreames and phantasies or puttynge truste or confidence of saluacioÌ„ in thesame ceremonies whereas they be ordeined only to put vs in remembraunce of the benefites whiche we haue receyued by Christe Whether any person spirituall or temporall kepe the Church holy daye and the dedication day at any other tyme then is appointed by the ordinaunce made in that behalfe by the Kinges Maiestie Whether Matens Masse and Euensong be kept at due houres in the Churche Whether any bee braulers slaunderers chiders scolders and sowers of discorde betwene one persone and another Whether any bee common swearers or blasphemers of the name of God Whether any vse lewde vnchast vnhonest filthy communicacion songes or ballettes Whether any doo vse to common Iangle or talke in the Churche at the tyme of the diuine seruice Preachyng Readyng or declaryng the worde of God Whether any do obstinatly kepe and defend any erronious opinion contrary to the worde of God and faith of Christ Whether any commit adultery fornicacion or incest or bee common baudes and receiuors of suche naughtie persones Whether you knowe any that vse Charmes Sorrery Enchauntmentes Witchecraft sothesaiyng or any other like crafte inuented by the deuill Whether you knowe any to be maried within the degrees prohibited by the lawe of God or that bee seperated and diuorced without a iuste cause approued by the law of God and whether any suche haue maried again Whether the Churche Pulpit and other necessary thinges apperteinyng to thesame he sufficiently repaired Whether you know any to haue made priuie contractes of Matrimony not callyng twoo or more thereunto Whether any haue maried solempnely without bannes askyng Whether you knowe any that haue taken vpon theim the execucion of any mannes testament or be admitted to the administracioÌ„ of the goodes of the dedde whiche do not duely distribute thesame goodes accordyng to the trust coÌ„mitted vnto theim and specially suche goodes as wer geuen and bequethed or appointed to be distributed emong the poore people repairyng of high waies finding of poore scholars or mariage of poore maides To what vses and intentes all suche gyftes and bequestes of cattail money and other thynges as in tymes past wer made for the findyng of tapers candelles or lampes in the Churche be now employed and whether thei be embecilled and withholden and by whom Whether there bee any persones commonly enfamed of adultrie fornicacion common swearyng blasphemyng the name of God dronckennesse Simony or other notorious crime whom the bishop Archedeacon or other his ordinary for fauor or feare haue not corrected accordyngly although thei haue been sundery tymes presented and detected in visitacion or otherwyse lawfully accused Whether there be any other primars vsed by them that doo not vnderstande Latyn then the Englysh Pryme rsethfurth by the kynges Maiestie And whither they that vnderstand Latin do vse any other then the latin primar settfurth by lyke authoritie Whether there be any other GraÌ„mer taught in any schole within the realme then that which is setfurth by the kynges Maiestie Whether they knowe any alienacion of landes tenementes iewelles or goodes perteyning to the Churche For chauntry Priestes WHether they be residente on their Chauntries Whether they be aydinge and assistynge the persone or Vicar of the Churche that they be of in the ministracion of the Sacramentes and diuine seruice accordingly Whether they kepe and perfourme all suche dooles and distribucions to the pore and other dedes of Charitie as they are bounde by theyr foundacions to do Whether thei be of euil name fame or vnhonest conuersacion fighters swerers dronckardes or incontinent lyuers Item what benefices and how many they haue besides their Chauntryes and by what title they do kepe thesame Â¶ Richardus Grafton Regis Impressor excudebat Cum Priuilegio ad imprimeudum solum

â§ â§ ARTICLES to be enquired of in the Kynges Maiesties Visitacion FIrst whether that the Bishop Archedeacons and other hauynge iurisdiccion Ecclesiasticall haue caused onely to be song or sayde the English Procession in their Cathedrall churche other churches of their Diocesse Item whether your Bishop Chauncelor Commissarie Archedeacon or Officiall be propence and light in excommunicating of men for a litle Lucre. Item whether they or any of them for one mans trespace haue taken awaye from the people and the whole parishioners their diuine seruice as for violatyng suspendyng the churche yeardes and such lyke Item whether they do take excessiue somes of money for consecrating agayne either of the church yeardes or of any other ornamentes for the vse of alters or of belles where is no nede of consecracion but is supersticiouse and lucratiue Item whether that they or any of them take any great exactions for institucions induccioÌ„s assignations of pencions or for any other mater Ecclesiasticall Item whether they do lightly call any Persons before them ex officio and put theÌ„ to their purgacion without vrgent suspicion or infamy proued Item whether the Bishop haue not preached without dissimulacion agaynst the vsurped power of the Bishop of Rome and setfurth the kynges Maiesties Iurisdiction to be the onely supreme power in al his realmes and dominions Whether the Bishop haue personally preachede in any of your churches or any wher with in this diocesse and how ofte in the yere Item whether he and hys officers haue diligeÌ„tly executed for their part our late Kynges Iniunctions and his letters missiues for a due order in the religion of Christe and caused the sayde Iniunctions and letters to be diligently put in execution thorough his Diocesse Item whether he hath learned and discrete officers vnder him that do without any respect of persones punyshe such crymes as apperteyneth to Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction Item whether he or any of his officers do take any money or other gifte to hyde cloke adultery or any other notorious vyce that ought by them to be punished Item if any commutacion of penaunce haue ben made to a pecuniary some to what purpose thesame hathe bene conuerted and what good dedes hath bene done with thesame and specify thesame deedes Item whether the bishop hath suche chaplaines aboute hym as been hable to preache the woorde of God and do thesame purely and syncerely and how ofte in the yere how many thei be and what be their names ITem whether Persones Vicars and Curates and euery of them haue iustly and truely without dissimulacioÌ„ preached against the vsurped power and pretensed aucthoritie iurisoiccioÌ„ of the bishop of Rome Item whether thei haue preached and declared that the Kynges Maiesties power aucthoritie and preeminence is within this Realme and the dominioÌ„s of thesame the moste supreme and highest vnder God Item whether any persone hath by writyng Cyphryng Printyng preachyng or teachyng deede or acte obstinatly holden and stand with to extoll set furthe maintein or defende the aucthoritie iurisdiccion or power of the bishopp of Rome or of his Sea heretofore claimed and vsurped or by any pretense obstinatly or maliciously inueÌ„ted any thyng for the extollyng of the same or any parte therof Item whether thei haue declared to their Parishioners the articles concernyng the abrogacion of certain superfluous holy daies and dooen their indeuoure to perswade their saied Parishioners to kepe and obserue thesame articles inuiolably and whether any of those abrogated daies hath sithens thesaied abrogacion been kept as holy daies contrary to thesaid articles and by whose occasion thei wer so kept Whether there doo remain not taken doune in your Churches Chapelles or els where any misused Images with Pilgrimages clothes stones shoes offerynges kissynges Candelstickes trindilles of waxe and suche other like and whether there doo remain not delaied and destroyed any Shrines coueryng of Shrines or any other monument of Idolatrie SupersticioÌ„ and Hypocrysy Whether thei haue not diligently taught vpon the Sondaies and holy daies their Parishioners and specially the youth their Pater noster the Articles of our faithe and the Tenne commaundemetes in English and whether thei haue expounded and declared the vnderstandyng of thesame Whether thei haue diligently duely reuerently ministered the sacrameÌ„tes in their cures Whether such beneficed men as be lawfully absent from their benefices doo leaue their cure to a rude and vnlearned persone and not to an honest well learned and expert Curate Whether thei haue prouided laied in some conuenient place of the churche where thei haue cure a bible of the largest volume in Englishe Whether Persones Vicars Curates ChauÌ„tery Priestes and other stipendaries be commoÌ„ haunters and resorters to Tauernes and alehouses geuing themselfes to excessiue drinkyng riotyng and plaiyng at vulawfull games and apply not themselfes chiefly to the study of scripture teachyng of youthe or some other honest and Godly exercise Whether thei be resident vpon their benefices and kepe hospitalitie or no and if thei be abseÌ„t or kepe no hospitalitie whether thei do make due distribucion emonges the poore Parishioners or no. Whether thei hauyng yerely to dispeÌ„d in spirituall promocioÌ„s an C. l. do not find coÌ„petenly one scolar in any vniuersitie or at some graÌ„met scole and for asmany C. l. as euery of them may dispend so many scolars likewise be founde by them and what be their names that thei so find Whether thei kepe their Chauncelles Rectories Vicarages and all other houses apperteynyng to them in due reparacions Whether thei haue euery lent required their Parishioners in their confession to recite their Pater noster tharticles of our faith and the tenne commaundementes in Englishe Whether thei haue couÌ„sailed or moued their Parishioners rather to praie in a toungue not knowen then in Englishe or to put their truste in any prescribed numbre of praiers as in saiyng ouer a numbre of beades or other like Whether thei haue preached or caused to bee preached purely and syncerely the word of God the faith of christ in euery of their cures euery quarter of the yere once at the least Exhortyng their Parishioners to the workes commaunded by scripture and not to workes diuised by mannes phantasies Whether in their sermoÌ„s their haue exhorted the fathers and Mothers Masters and gouernors of youth to bryng theim vp in some verteous study or occupacion Whether thei haue exhorted the people to obedieÌ„ce to the kynges Maiestie and his officers and to charitie and loue one to another Whether thei haue moued the people to read and heare the scripture in Englishe haue not discoraged theim from readyng and hearyng of thesame suche as be not prohibited so to do Whether thei haue declare to their parishioners that thei ought to knowe and vnderstand the Pater noster the articles of our faith and ten coÌ„maundemeÌ„tes in Englishe before thei should receiue the blessed Sacrament of the aulter Whether thei haue taught the people the true vse of

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