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saint_n	church_n	day_n	festival_n	1,263	5	11.0355	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68020	Articles to be enquired of within the dioces of Winchester, in the Metropoliticall visitation of the most reuerend father in Christ, Matthew by the providence of God, Archbyshop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan; Visitation articles. 1575	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1559-1575 : Parker); Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.; Church of England. Diocese of Winchester.	1575 (1575)	STC 10352.5; ESTC S111796	7,865	22

aduertismentes the admonition for degrees of matrimony à conuenient pulpit well placed à comely and decent Communion Table stāding vpon a frame wyth à faire couering of some carpet silke or linnen cloth to lay vpon it a Communion cuppe wyth à couer of siluer and such lyke 40 Item whether any sale of your church goods haue bene made by whom and to whom whether an Inuentory be kept of all such goods as haue from tyme to tyme bene purchased geuen or bequeathed to the Church whether an accompt be therof yearly made whether the sayd goods be encreased or decayed and by whose default or negligence In whose handes the sayd Church goodes or any of them remayne 41 Item whether you see that on Sondayes holydayes Innes tauernes victualling houses be not frequented at seruice tyme and shoppes also shut vp your Parishioners cease from worldly busines whether any other holydayes be kept then such as be appointed in the booke of Commō prayer whether any heresies false opinions Popish and superstitious doctrine be mainteined in your Parishes and by whom 42 Item whether there be any in these partes that haue maried within degrees of affinitie or consanguinitie by the lawes of God forbidden so set out in a table for an admonitiō Any man that hath two wiues or any woman that hath two husbandes Any that beyng diuorced or separated aside hath maried agayne Any maried that haue made precontractes Any that haue made priuy or secret contractes And that haue maried without banes thrise solemnely asked Any couples maried that liue not together but slaunderously liue a part Any that haue maried out of the Parishe Churche where they ought to haue the same solemnised 43 Item whether therebe any secret or priuy cōuenticles or exercises in disputations for matters of Religion in any of your Parishes whether any superstitious and superfluous ringyng at burials Saintes euēs or festiuall dayes be suffered Whether any Lordes of misrules Sommer Lordes or Ladyes disguised persons come vnreuerently into the Church and specially in the seruice tyme to play any games who they be that cōmit such disorders or accompany and mainteyne them 44 Item whether any patrones haue by thē selues or by other directly or vndirectly practised for the presentyng of any Clarke to any spirituall lyuyng before the sayd presentation or after to haue money or money worth or any other commoditie Whether the Churche of your Parishe be voyde how long it hath so bene who receiueth the tithes and profites therof and by what authoritie whether the patrone or any other haue pulled downe any Church chaūcell or mansion house taking away the lead belles ornamentes goodes or glebe landes or conuerted the tithes reuenues or possessions of the sayd Church to his owne priuate vse 45 Item whether any conceale the will and testamēt of any departed or fulfill not the same chiefly in Legacies bequethed to good and godly vses whether any executor haue defrauded any widow fatherles child or any other in their minoritie of their legacies or any administrator appointed to administer to the vse of any in their minoritie haue beguiled them and not geuen accompt of their sayd administration Whether any administer without probate of the Testament or takyng authoritie from the ordinary and whether any legacies heretofore giuen to vses now forbidden be not conuerted to some godly and lawfull vse 46 Item whether midwiues be of sober life and vncorrupt religiō not suspected of Papistry whether any of them vse in the tyme of womens trauell any witchcraft charmes Latine prayers or inuocations or take vpon them to Baptise whether when they be present at the deliuerie of any child knowne or suspected to be begotten in vnlawfull matrimony do not streightly charge the mother to declare who is the father and where it was begotten and immediatly certifie the ordinarie or at the least the Curate Churchwardens of the Parish therof ❧ Articles of enquirie for the exercise of spirituall iurisdiction within this Dioces 47 IN primis whether the Ecclesiastical iurisdiction in this Dioces haue bene exercised by expert and hable men such as the law requireth Whether the Chaūcellor Archdeacons or any vnder them haue at any tyme suffered faultes trāsgressions to remaine vnpunished for mony gaine pleasure frēdship or any other affectionat respect whether in matters of instaunce betwixt partie partie they haue denyed audience specially at the complaint of the poore frēdles and fatherles or by admitting friuolous and vnfit matters or excludyng and barring reasonable and necessary defences haue delayed or peruerred iustice or the execution therof Whether they haue impeached or manaced parties in iudgemēt so that they haue bene stayed or cōpelled to desiste from persecuting their Appeales or complaints to the Queenes maiestic or the Archbishop for iust griefes and wronges to them procured 48 Itē whether any of them haue bene burdensome to any in this Dioces by exacting takyng excessiue fees rewardes or cōmodities by the way of promotion gift contribution redemption of penaunce to their owne vse obteining of any benefice or office or any other like wayes whether in their visitatiōs and Sinodes they spend the time any otherwise then in diligēt Inquisition and reformation of disorders or suffer the Clarkes or seruaūtes of their retinue riotousely to behaue them selues 49 Item whether Archdeacons in their visitations see that all necessary bookes and ornamētes for diuine seruice be had in euery parish and whether Church goodes and stockes be augmented or empayred whether Churches Churchyardes māsion houses be well repaired and fenced Whether in their Synodes they take accōpt of the Clargy how they profite in the study of holy Scripture whether they graunt any licence to celebrate matrimony the banes not thrise solēnely asked either for prohibition of tyme or any other such cause 50 Item whether they haue vprightly vnfeynedly both obserued in their own persons and towardes all other put in due executiō the Ecclesiasticall lawes of this Realme the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions other her highnes cōmaundementes orders decrees and aduertisementes set forth for the publike administration of Gods holy word and Sacramētes Whether they haue commēded and fauored all those that sought the same and condignely punished all those that sought the contrarie 51 Item whether the Deanes of your Deanries be of the best learned sort and best conuersation and least suspected for superstitious or schismaticall doctrine opinions whether they doe marke the lyfe and study of the clargie and enforme the Ordinary or Archdeacons therof whether they be negligent in executing mandates or precepts sent vnto them frō any Ecclesiasticall court whether they enquire of lyght womē which come into their Deanries to be brought a bed of Curates and scholemasters not licensed of priuy cōtractes and mariages of concealed Images and monuments of superstition and of other close disorders vsed within their Deanries certifying the Ordinary therof for due and spedy reformation 52 Item whether your peculiar Judges exercise their Jurisdiction by themselues or by learned deputies and not by vnable men as their farmers such lyke whether they haue skilfull registers and perfect record of their actes and procedings whether they winke at such as be harboured in their peculiers for auoyding of processe and correction in thys or any other Dioces and detect them not to the Ordinary 53 Item whether your apparitors haue taken money or money worth for concealing or cloking of any vice or haue conueyed any offenders from one place to an other to escape punishment or cited any body without due processe or delay the execution and seruyng of their processe or geue warnyng to the party cited to keepe him out of the way or dispitefully serue their processe in time of diuine seruice to the disturbance of the parishe whether they appointe vndersomners or substitutes to doe their office or threaten any with processe or without for bribes in corne woll chese or any thyng els whether any of them be ouerchargeable to the Clargie or Layty in trauailyng about the executing of their sayd processes 54 Item whether the Registers and Notaries within this Dioces make iust true recordes of actes done passed in their presentes and deliuer at the parties request true copyes of the same without excessiue taking whether they or any of them take annuall fees of any of the clergy or their farmers for exhibiting proxies in visitations or synodes or excusing their absence and sauing theyr apperance when they should iudicially come in or any other respect whereby parcialitie myght grow and equity be excluded out of iudgement 55 Item whether the Proctors of the Ecclesiasticall court be cōtēted with their ordinary fees whether any of them incourage their clyentes to persist in euyll and wrongfull causes or bargayne with them before hand for the gayne of any sute after the euictiō whether any of them deuise and obiect friuolous impertinēt and dilatory matters or allegations to the intent to prolong sutes and hinder the expedition of Justice and specially in causes of Matrimony alementation of fatherles children and such lyke summary matters 56. And generally you shall enquire and present all euill lyuers or offenders of Gods most holy lawes and specially such as stubburnely refuse to conforme themselues to vnitie and good Religion or that disturbe the same by brutyng abroade rumors of the alteration therof or seeke new deuises and innouations