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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	administration_n	book_n	sacrament_n	2,540	5	7.1824	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72036	Articles to be enqvired of in the ordinary visitation of the Right Worshipfvll Master Doctor Pearson, Archdeacon of Suffolke, Anno Domini 1637	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Suffolk. Archdeacon (1629-1639 : Pearson); Pearson, Robert, d. 1640.	1637 (1637)	STC 10343.5; ESTC S124524	10,017	14

bee there any that perswade others to forbeare and abstaine comming to their parish Church to heare Divine Service and to receive the holy Communion according to his Majesties Law in that behalfe enacted 3. Item whether be there any in your parish that hath beene or is vehemently suspected to have been present at any unlawfull assemblies conventicles or meetings under colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion or doth any affirme or maintaine such meetings to be lawfull 4. Item whether be there any within your parish that deny or perswade any to deny or impugne the Kings Majesties authority and supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall 5. Item whether be there any abiding or resorting to your parish that be or are commonly reputed or taken to be ill affected in matters of Religion professed in our Church or taken to be Recusant papists refusing to repaire to Church to heare Divine Service and receive the holy Communion and disobedient to his Highnesse lawes in that behalfe established present their names qualities and conditions Doth any papist keepe a Schoole-master in his house which repaireth not to your parish Church as is required what is his name and how long hath he so taught there or elsewhere 6. Item is there any in your parish who in the manner of preaching hath taken upon him to repeat any Sermon in any privat house in any assembling or meeting together of people Articles concerning publique Praier and administration of the Sacraments Tit. 4. FIrst whether any of your parish hath spoken or declared anything in derogation or depraving of the forme of Gods Worship in the Church of England and administration of the Sacraments rites ceremonies set forth and prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer by the Kings Majesty authorized and confirmed Do any preach speake or declare that it containeth any thing which is not agreeable to the holy Scriptures 2. Item whether hath any in your parish caused procured or maintained any Minister to say any common or publique prayer or to administer either of the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper otherwise or in any other manner and forme than is mentioned in the said Booke of Common prayer or whether hath any interrupted hindred let or disturbed the Minister to reade divine service administer the Sacraments in such maner and forme as is mentioned in the said booke or interrupted him in his sermons 3. Item whether is the Sacrament of Baptisme rightly and duely administred according to the prescript forme expressed in the Booke of Common Prayer with due observation of all rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the administration of the same without adding or altering any part or parcell of any prayers interrogatories or not using the signe of the Crosse in the administration of the same 4. Item whether is the administration of the Sacrament of Baptisme deferred longer than the next Sunday or Holy-day immediatly following the birth of the childe 5. Item whether is the Sacrament of Baptisme refused to be administred to any children borne in or out of Wedlock their birth being made known to the Minister of the parish and offered unto him to be baptized or have any such children dyed unbaptized 6. Item whether be the parents of any childe to be baptized admitted to be God-fathers and God-mothers to the same 7. Item whether have there any children been baptized in privat houses by any Lay person or Midwife or popish Priest or by any other Minister without urgent occasion when the childe was in danger of death 8. Item whether have the children which have been borne to any popish Recusants or begotten by them beene publiquely baptized in your Parish Church by your Parson Vicar or Curate or by whom were they so baptized or where to your knowledge 9. Item whether hath the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper beene duly and reverently administred every moneth or thrice every yeare at least whereof once at Easter within your Parish Church to every Parishioner being of the age of 16 yeares or upwards 10. Item whether is the said holy Sacrament delivered unto or received by any of the Communicants within your Parish that unreverently sit or stand and do not devoutly and humbly kneele upon their knees at the time of the administration of the same 11. Item whether have any excommunicate persons or Schismatickes common and notorious depravers of the Religion and government of this Realme without unfained sorrow shewn for their impiety and wickednesse been admitted to receive the holy Communion within your Parish present their names 12. Item whether hath any of your Parish been debarred from receiving the said holy Communion without just cause and without intimation first given to the Ordinary viz. the Bishop of the Diocese Chancellor or Commissary and by whose default 13. Item whether hath any affirmed that any of the 39. Articles agreed upon by the Archbishop and Bishops in the yeare of our Lord God 1562. for the avoiding of diversities of opinions are in any part superstitious or erroneous or such as he may not with a good conscience subscribe unto Articles concerning Ministers and Preachers Tit. ● FIrst whether doth your Minister distinctly and reverently say Divine service upon Sundaies and Holy-daies and other dayes appointed to bee observed by the Booke of Common Praiers at fit and usuall houres of the day and doth your Minister duly observe the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer as well in reading all publique Prayers the Letany as also in administring of the Sacraments solemnization of Matrimony visitation of the sick burying the dead churching of women and all other like Rites and Offices of the Church in such manner and forme as in the said Booke of Common Prayer is injoyned without any omission or addition of any thing 2. Item whether doth your Minister alwayes viz. every Sunday and Holy-day both Morning and Evening reading Divine Service administring the Sacraments and other Rites of the Church weare the Surplesse according to the Canons and doth he never omit the wearing thereof at the times aforesaid if at any time he have omitted specifie the times 3. Item whether doth your Minister bid Holy-dayes and fasting dayes as is appointed Doth he administer the holy communion every moneth or thrice in the yeare at least whereof once at Easter to every parishioner doth he receive the same himselfe on every day that he doth administer the same to others and doth he use the words of institution according to the Book of Common Prayer without alteration at every time that the Bread Wine is renewed doth he use and never omit the Signe of the Crosse in Baptisme or doth he ever baptize in any bason or any other thing but the usuall Font If yea then is the bason set within the Font and doth hee baptize out of the same bason standing in the Font Doth he marry any couple without a ring or in times prohibited or without

the Banes three times published without a speciall licence from the Archbishop or the Bishop of the Diocesse or his Chancellour or Commissary first had and attained 4. Item whether doth your Minister being learned sufficient confer with the popish Recusants of your parish if any there be endevour to reclaime them from their errors and present them being obstinat for their recusancy 5. Item whether doth your Minister in the Rogation weeke goe the perambulation of the circuit and bounds of your Parish saying and using the praiers and suffrages thanksgiving to God appointed by law according to his duty And did he give warning the Sunday before when the Parishioners should meet to go 6. Item hath your Minister or any other Preacher within your parish made any Sermons in any private house administred the Sacraments or churched women in any private houses otherwise than by law is allowed 7. Item what Preachers and Curates do reade prayers or administer the Sacraments within your parish without lawfull licence from the Bishop of the diocese his chancellor or commissary or doth any Lay man not having holy Orders presume to reade publique prayers in the Church 8. Item whether have you any Preacher or Lecturer in your parish If yea whether doth he twice at the least every yeare reade himselfe Divine Service both Morning and Evening two severall Sundaies publiquely in his Surplesse and also twice in every yeare administer both the Sacraments with such rites and ceremonies as are prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer according to the 46. Canon 9. Item whether is your Parson Vicar Curate or Preacher given to drunkennesse or idlenesse of life a hunter of Tavernes Alehouses or suspected places a Dicer Carder Tabler Swearer given to base and servile labour or otherwise giveth any ill example of life 10. Item whether is the Parson Vicar Curate or Preacher of any other Parish knowne to be a frequenter of Tavernes Innes Alehouses which are situated within your own or any other Parish Or is he publiquely defamed of such resorting and frequenting as is aforesaid 11. Item whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate upon every Sunday and Holy day before Evening Prayer halfe an houre or more examine and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of his parish in the Commandements the Articles of Beliefe and in the Lords prayer And doth he usually upon the said daies diligently heare instruct teach them the Catechisme set forth in the Booke of Common prayer and none other 12. Item whether have your Preachers Readers of Divinity Lectures declared foure times at the least every yeare in their Sermons or other collations and Lectures that all usurped and forreigne power is for most just causes taken away and abolished that therefore no manner of obedience or subjection within his Majesties Realms is due unto any forreigne power 13. Item whether have your Ministers used continually before their Sermons and Lectures the forme of prayer prescribed in the 55. Canon especially in praying for the Kings Majesty and the Archbishops and Bishops and in ending with the Lords prayer 14. Item whether hath your Minister after that he had received any letters of Excommunication under the seale of an Ecclesiasticall Iudge suffered the party excommunicated to abide in the Church or Chancell in the time of Divine Service or Sermon 15. Item whether hath your Minister in any of his sermons or Lectures preached against any of the ceremonies cōmanded to be used by the Church of England or hath so preached against ceremonies in generall that by common acceptation at the least of the weaker his words might be taken to tend to the depraving of the ceremonies established by the Church of England 16. Item whether hath any one in his Sermon or Lecture declared limited or bounded out by way of positive Doctrine the power prerogative authority and duties of Soveraigne princes or otherwise intermedled with matters of State 17. Item whether hath any Preacher in his Sermon used any undecent rayling speeches or bitter invectives against the person of either Papist or Puritanes 18. Item whether hath your Minister when a dead body is brought to be buried met the corps at the Church doore and when the corps was making ready to be laid into the earth Hath he stood by the grave or hath he read the Praiers or Psalmes appointed to be read by the Booke of Common prayer standing or sitting in his Deske 19. Item whether hath your Minister churched any woman but when he himselfe stood by the Communion Table and she kneeled downe by the said Table or neere unto it Articles concerning Matrimony Tit. 6. FIrst whether be there any in your Parish that have married within the degrees of Consanguinity or Affinity by the Law of God forbidden and what be their names 2. Item whether have any within your Parish beene married secretly in private houses or without their parents or governors consent signified being under the age of 21. yeares 3. Item whether do any married Couples live asunder unlawfully and do not cohabit together as becommeth Man and wife And if yea what bee their names and in whom is the default 4. Item whether any persons the banes not thrice published in the Church have been married without licence who were present at such Marriage and what Minister married them 5. Item what popish Recusants or their children have bin married within your parish in what sort was their matrimony solemnized whē by whom 6. Item whether have there been any persons married in your Church in the times prohibited by the Lawes viz. from Advent Sunday untill eight dayes after the Epiphany from Septuagesima untill eight dayes after Easter day from three dayes before the Ascension untill Trinity Sunday without a lawfull licence or dispensation first obtained from the Bishop of the diocese his Chancellor or Commissary 7. Item whether hath the Minister said all the Praiers Psalmes appointed to be said by the Booke of Common Praier at the time of the solemnization of Marriage and hath the Minister standing by the Lords Table the married couple kneeling before the same said those praiers which follow next after the Psalm Deus miserere and hath he omitted any part of them if yea then specifie the parties betweene whom marriage was solemnized and the time when the minister did omit any part of his said duty therein Articles concerning the keeping of Christenings Weddings and Burials Tit 7. FIrst is there in your parish Church or Chappell a parchment Booke for the Registring of Christenings Weddings and Burials 2. Item hath the said booke been kept in your parish Church or Chappell in a Coffer with three lockes and keies and hath one of the said keies beene kept by the Minister and the other two with the Church-wardens severally 3. Item hath the Minister without the Church-wardens or have the Church-wardens without the Minister at any time taken out the said Book out of the