Selected quad for the lemma: prayer_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	cast_v	devil_n	fast_v	3,166	5	10.2336	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00241	Articles to be inquired of, in the first metropoliticall visitation, of the most reuerend father, Richard by Gods prouidence, Arch-bushop [sic] of Canterbury, and primat of all England in, and for the dioces of Peterborough, in the yeare of our Lord God 1607, and in the third yeare of His Graces translation.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1604-1610 : Bancroft); Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.	1607 (1607)	STC 10314.4; ESTC S2647	9,208	15

prouided for Christnings Mariages and Burials and whether is the same duely and exactly kept according to the Constitutions in that behalfe prouided 41 Item whether hath your minister or any other preacher baptised children solemnized Mariage churched any woman or ministred the holy Communion in any priuate house or houses otherwise thē as by law is allowed yea or no if yea then where whom when and how often hath he offended in any of the Premisses 42 Item Whether hath your minister taken vpon him to appoint any publicque or priuate Fasts prophecies or exercises not approued and established by Law or publique authoritie or hath he attempted vpon any pretence eyther of possession or obsession by fasting and prayer to cast out deuils yea or no 43 Item Whether hath your minister or any other person or persons within your parish vsed to meete in any priuat house or other place there to consult togither how to impeach or depraue the booke of common prayer or the doctrine or discipline of the church of England if yea then you shall present them all 44 Item Whether doth your minister vse such decency and comlines in his apparell as by the 74 constitution is inioyned 45 Item Whether doe you know any in your parish that hauing heretofore taken vpon him or them the order of Priest-hood or of a Deacon hath since relinquished the same and betaken himselfe in the course of his life as a lay-man neglecting his vocation if yea then you shall present his name and the place of his abode 46 Item Doth any take vpon him to teach Schoole in your parish without speciall licence of his ordinary and whether doth your Schoolemaister bring his Schollers to the church to heare diuine seruice and sermons 47 Item Whether is your minister noted or defamed to haue obteined his benefice by symony or reputed to be an incontinent person a common drunkard a common gamster or player at dice or faulty in any other crime punishable by the Ecclesiastical censures whereby he is offensiue and scandalous to his function or ministery 48 Item Whether haue you prouided the booke of common prayer lately set forth by his Maiesties authoritie and the booke of Homilies and whether haue you in your Church or chappell a Fonts of stone set vp in the ancient vsuall place a conuenient and decent Communion table with a carpet of silke or some other decents stuffe and a taire linnen cloth to lay thereon at the Communion time and whether is the same Table then placed in such conuenient sort within the Chauncell or church as that the minister may be best heard in his prayer and administration and that the greater number may communicate And whether are the x. commandements set vpon the East ende of your Church or Chappell where the people may best sée and read them and other sentences of holy scripture written on the walls likewise for that purpose 49 Item Whether haue you a conuenient seate for your minister to reade seruice in together with a comely Pulpit set vp in a conuenient place with a decent cloth or cushion for the same a comely large surplice a faire Communion cup of gold siluer or other pure mettle and a couer agreeable for the same with all other things and ornaments necessarie for the celebration of Diuine seruice and administration of the Sacraments 50 Item Whether are your church or chappels with the Chancels thereof and your parsonage or vickeredge house and all other housing thereto belonging in good reparations and decent and comely kept as well within as without the seates well mainteined a sure coffer with thrée lockes and keyes for the safe kéeping of your Register booke your churchyards wel fenced kept without abuse if not then through whose default and what defects are 51 Item Whether haue you or your predecessors Church-wardens there suffered since the last pardon any plaies feasts banquets churchales drinkings or any other prophane vsages to be kept in your church chappels or church-yard or bels to be rung superstitiously vpon hollidaies or dayes abrogated by Lawe 52 Item How many inhabitants within your parish men or women aboue th'age of 16 yéeres do refuse to frequent diuine seruice established by publique authoritie of this realme or to receiue the holy Communion what be their names and of what degrée state or trade of life are they you are to present then all of both sorts 53 Item Whether doe any of the inhabitants of your said parish entertaine within their house any soiorners lodgers or any common resorters and guests who refuse to frequent diuine seruice or receiue the holy Communion as aforesaid what be their names of what qualitie or condition they are 54 Item Whether are any of the said popish recusants of insolent behauiour not without publique offence or doe boldly buisy themselues in seducing withdrawing others either abroad or in their owne families by instructing their children in popish religion or by refusing to entertaine any especially in place of greatest seruice or trust but such as concurre with them in opinion of religion 55 Item How long the said popish Recusants haue obstinately abstained eyther from diuine seruice or from the Communion as is aforesaid Whether of any long time or onely since his Maiesties raigne 56 Item Whether is your Minister a preacher sufficiently qualified and if he be whether doth he from time to time offer quiet and temperate conference to reclaime the said popish Recusants from their errors and whether they or any of them doe refuse such conference with your Minister or any other Preacher who shall present vnto them his dilligence in that behalfe 57 Item What persons aforesaid within your parish either for th' offence aforesaid or for any other Contumacy or crime doe remaine excommunicat what be their names and for what cause and how long they haue so stood excommunicate 58 Item Whether were you the Churchwardens and Questmen chosen by the consent of the Minister and parishioners and whether haue the churchwardens before you giuen vp a iust accompt for their time and deliuered to you their successors whatsoeuer money or other things of right belonging to the Church which was in their hands and whether doe you and euery of you diligently sée that all the Parishioners doe duely resort to their church euery sunday and holiday and there continue the whole time of diuine seruice and none to walke or stand idle or talking in church or churchportch or churchyard during that time and whether doe all the parishioners and their families accordingly frequent their parish church and there behaue themselues soberly attentiuely and decently all the time of diuine seruice yea or no if no then you shall present their names 59 Item Whether doe all persons aboue th'age of 16 yéeres vsually resort to heare diuine seruice vpon sundayes and hollidayes approued and whether hath each one of your parishioners being aboue th'age of 16. yéeres aforesaid receiued the holy Communion