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<P>ARTICLES TO BE ENQVIRED OF IN THE ORDINARY Vi&s;itation of the Right WORSHIPFULL, IAMES MARSH, D^r. of Divinity, Arch-Deacon of <HI>Chiche&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>Holden Anno Dom. 1640</P>
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<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>B. A.</HI> for RICHARD MEIGHEN. 1640</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="form of the oath for churchwardens and sidesmen">
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<HEAD>The forme of the Oath to be mini&s;tred to the Church-wardens and Side-men.</HEAD>
<P>YOu &s;hall &s;weare, that you and every of you, &s;hall du|ly con&s;ider and diligently inquire of all and every of the&s;e Articles given you in charge, and that with|out affection, malice, favour, feare of di&s;plea&s;ure, or hope of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">aine or reward, you &s;hall pre&s;ent all and every &s;uch per&s;on <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hat now is, or of late was abiding or inhabiting within your Pari&s;h, who hath committed, or is &s;u&s;pected to have com|mitted any offence, or made any default mentioned in the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r any of the&s;e Articles, wherein you &s;hall deale uprightly, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ully, plainely and truely, neither pre&s;enting, nor &s;paring to re&s;ent any contrary to truth, having GOD before our eyes, with an earne&s;t zeale to maintaine truth, and to &s;uppre&s;&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">nne and errour: So God you helpe, and the holy Contents <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">f this Booke.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="articles of visitation">
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Articles concerning Con&s;ecrated places, Churches, Church-yards, Chappels of Ea&s;e.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 _WHat Church haue you for Divine Ser|vine Service? what Chappels of ea&s;e belonging to them? is any part of &s;uch Church or Chappell demoli&s;hed or put to any prophane v&s;e?</P>
<P N="2">2 In what repaire is your Church and Chappels, and every part of them? are the walls and roofe firme, the windowes fairely glazed and vn|broken? the floores decently paved?</P>
<P N="3">3 What kind of covering hath the Church or Chappell, is it of lead or tiles? or how el&s;e defended from the weather? Hath lead b&eacute;ene taken from any part of it, and &s;lats, Tiles, or &s;omething el&s;e v&s;ed in the place of it: if &s;o, by whom?</P>
<P N="4">4 Is your Steeple furni&s;hed with Bels, or haue any of them b&eacute;ene taken downe, or &s;old away?</P>
<P N="5">5 Is your Church &s;wept and clean&s;ed, at lea&s;t once a weeke? the walls whited&punc; the windowes and roofe kept cleane from Cobwebs, the doores kept locked, the Portall not made a Lodging for Beg|gers?</P>
<P N="6">6 What Galleries or Scaffolds haue you in your Church or to what v&s;e? whether there be not conveniency of roome for the Pari|&s;hioners
<PB REF="3">to be pre&s;ent at Sermons, or diuine Seruice without them?</P>
<P N="7">7 In what manner are your Pewes built? are they decent and vniforme? are not &s;ome &s;o much higher then others, as may hinder their neighbours in hearing diuine Service without them?</P>
<P N="8">8 Is your Chancell &s;euered with a Partition from the body of the Church, is it decently kept, not encombred with Pewes or any other lumber?</P>
<P N="9">9 What quantity of ground haue you con&s;ecrated for a place of Buriall? how is it fenced or mounded? hath there b&eacute;en encrochment made upon any part of it?</P>
<P N="10">10 Is the Church yard kept cleane from f&eacute;eding and dunging of cattell? e&s;pecially from &s;wine rooting vp the graues of dead bo|dies? or what other nu&s;ances are there from any hou&s;es that abutt vpon it?</P>
<P N="11">11 Haue there b&eacute;ene kept in the Church or Chappell, or Church-yard, any Playes, Fea&s;tes, Suppers, Church ales, tem|porall Courte, or L&eacute;et Lay, Iuries, Mu&s;ters m&eacute;eting, for rates, taxations, levies, e&s;pecially at the Communion Table by the Pari|&s;hioners?</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Of Church Ornaments, Vten&s;ils, Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 HAue you a &s;trong Che&s;t or boxe for almes for the poore, with thr&eacute;e lockes and keyes, one for the Rector, or Vicar, the other for the Church-wardens?</P>
<P N="2">2 What Font haue you for the Sacrament of Bapti&s;me, of what materials is it made, where placed, whether towards the en|trance of the Church or no, is it fixt or moueable, is it decently co|uered, cleanely kept, or is there any Ba&s;on, or ve&s;&s;ell v&s;ed in&s;tead of it?</P>
<P N="3">3 Haue you a conuenient pew for him that officiates to read di|uine &s;eruice in a Bible of the large&s;t Volume, a Common Prayer Booke in folio, the Bookes of Homilies allowed by Authority? a faire Surplice or two to be v&s;ed by the Mini&s;ter and him that &s;hall a&s;&s;i&s;t him in the admini&s;tration of the Sacrament?</P>
<P N="4"><PB REF="3">
4 Haue you a Pulpit &s;o conueniently placed, as the Auditory may be&s;t heare: is it decently made and accomodated with a faire cloth and Cu&s;hion?</P>
<P N="5">5 Haue you a Regi&s;ter Booke in Parchment for Chri&s;tnings, Weddings, Burials, is the &s;ame kept in all points according to the Canons, is a true tran&s;cript thereof brought in yearely to the Bi|&s;hops Regi&s;try within a Moneth after our Lady day in <HI>March?</HI></P>
<P N="6">6 Is your Communion Table, or Altar, &s;trong, faire, and decent: is it &s;et according to the practi&s;e of the ancient Church, vpon an a&s;cent at the Ea&s;t end of the Chancell, with the ends of it North and South: is it compa&s;&s;ed in with an han&s;ome Raile to k&eacute;epe it from profanation, according to the Order made in the Metropoliti|call Vi&s;itation?</P>
<P N="7">7 What Coverings haue you for the holy Table? haue you one of &s;ilke or &s;ome good &s;tuffe to cover it at all times, another of faire cleane linnen for the time of celebration of the Sacrament?</P>
<P N="8">8 Haue you a faire Communion Cup and Flagon, with a di&s;h for the Bread, of what met all are they, pewter, tin, or &s;ilver?</P>
<P N="9">9 Are the ten Commandements &s;et vpon the Ea&s;t end of your Church or Chappell, where the people may be&s;t &s;&eacute;e to reade them, with other well cho&s;en &s;entences of Scripture vpon the wals?</P>
<P N="10">10 Haue any ancient monuments in your Church b&eacute;ene defaced, the Bra&s;&s;e pull's off, the &s;tones taken away, or the In&s;criptions rai&s;ed, as al&s;o what Hi&s;toricall repre&s;entations in windowes haue b&eacute;ene defaced or broken?</P>
<P N="12">12 Is there adwelling hou&s;e and Glebe belonging to the Par|&s;onage or Vicarage? Is the Hou&s;e kept in good repaire, with all Barnes, &s;tables, out-hou&s;es belonging to it? Is there an exact Ter|rier made of all the Glebe Lands, Meadowes, Gardens, Orchards, hou&s;es, &s;tockes, Tenements, pen&s;ions or portion of Tithes belong|ing to it? Is this Terrier made in Parchment, and returned into the Bi&s;hops Regi&s;try?</P>
<P N="13">13 What timber tr&eacute;es grow in the Church-yard, or vpon the Glebe? Hath any boone fell'd, or by whom?</P>
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<HEAD>Concerning the Clergie.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 IS your Mini&s;ter a Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate: or haue you be|&s;ides him any Preacher or Lecturer? and how authoriz'd?</P>
<P N="2">2 If Par&s;on or Vicar, doth he re&s;ide vpon his Benefice? If not, what reliefe doth he giue to the poore: how long in the yeare is he ab&s;ent: how di&s;pen&s;ed withall: by whom is the place &s;upplyed?</P>
<P N="3">3 If he be a Curate, is he allowed by the Bi&s;hop vnder his hand and &s;eale? hath he an hone&s;t and &s;ufficient &s;alary? or doth he &s;erue more then one Church or Chappell in one day?</P>
<P N="4">4 Is your Mini&s;ter of hone&s;t, &s;ober, exemplary life: a maintainer and procurer of peace among tho&s;e that are committed to his charge: or doth he giue any ju&s;t &s;candall or offence by haunting of Taverus, Innes, Ale hou&s;es, by v&s;ing going any other irregular way which may be a &s;taine to his profe&s;&s;ion, and is puni&s;hable by the cen&s;ures of the Church?</P>
<P N="5">5 Doth your Mini&s;ter or Curate v&s;e &s;uch decent and comely ap|parell, as becommeth the gravity of his calling, and may di&s;tingui&s;h him from the Laity: or doth he weare long haire, d&eacute;epe ruffes, fal|ling bands downe to his &s;houlders, or any other vn&s;&eacute;emely gar|ments not proper to his Mini&s;tery?</P>
<P N="6">6 Doth your Mini&s;ter v&s;e &s;uch &s;ervile bodily labour as is not fit for one &s;et apart by Impo&s;ition of hands for Divine Imployments? Is he a defamed V&s;urer or Broker, a Chopper of Church-Liuings, a frader in Faires or Markets, doth he idely vague vp and downs, a fault &s;o often cen&s;ured in ancient Councels: or doth he any way el&s;e &s;o entangle him&s;elfe in &s;ecular affaires, as to neglect the duties of his calling?</P>
<P N="7">7 Is your Mini&s;ter &s;o zealous of the good of his Flock, as dili|gently to labour the reclaiming of Recu&s;ants of all &s;orts within their charge, whether they be &s;uch as with periil of their &s;oules &s;uper&s;titi|ou&s;ly adhere to the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> or &s;uch in the other extreame, who having perver&s;ly relinqui&s;h'd our Communion, find nothing to adhere to but their owne private fancies?</P>
<P N="8">8 Is Divine Service orderly perform'd in your Church by your
<PB REF="4">Mini&s;ter or Curate vpon appointed times as the Booke of Common Prayer pre&s;cribeth, without any kind of alteration, addition, or o|mi&s;&s;ion? particularly doth he read the Letany on Wedne&s;days and Fridayes?</P>
<P N="9">9 Is he entirely conformable to all Orders, Rites, Ceremonies of the Church, or v&s;ing them onely for a &s;hew, doth he privately or publikely &s;peake any thing in derogation of them?</P>
<P N="10">10 Doth he in celebration of divine Service v&s;e &s;uch ve&s;tments as are enjoyned by authority, doth he con&s;tantly in performing that Duty weare a Surplice, and an Hood (if he be a Graduate) &s;utable to his degr&eacute;e?</P>
<P N="11">11 Doth he before his Sermon v&s;e &s;uch forme of Prayers as is pre&s;cribed by the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Canon, for the prevention of the in|di&s;cr&eacute;et flying out of &s;ome in their extemporary Prayers?</P>
<P N="12">12 Doth he preach in &s;uch a &s;olemne habit as becomes him, in a long Gowne and Ca&s;&s;ocke, not in a riding or ambulatory Cloake?</P>
<P N="13">13 Doth he in his Sermons preach Chri&s;t, and him crucified, ab&s;taining from tho&s;e high points of &s;peculation which haue in &s;eve|rall ages rai&s;ed combu&s;tion in Chri&s;tian Churches; and therefore to pre&s;erue peace among vs, forbidden by his &s;acred Maje&s;ty in his late Declaration?</P>
<P N="14">14 Doth he &s;ometimes take occa&s;ion in his Sermons to teach obedience to the King as &s;upreme, to all Magi&s;trates &s;ub&s;tituted vn|der him, to all Lawes of the State, all Canons and Con&s;titutions of the Church, which being lawfully enioyn'd, we are to obey, not one|ly for feare, but for con&s;cience &s;ake?</P>
<P N="15">15 Hath your Mini&s;ter at any time reveal'd the Confe&s;&s;ion of any made to him in &s;ecret, contrary to the <HI>113.</HI> Canon, and &s;o hath brought a &s;candall vpon that ancient Remedy of &s;inne and &s;inners?</P>
<P N="16">16 Doth he at any time from the Pulpit point out particular men damning &s;ome and &s;aving others; and in his inuectiues again&s;t vice doth he fall from the generall, and particularly de&s;igne &s;uch as h&eacute;e thinkes delinquents?</P>
<P N="17">17 Doth your Preacher or Lecturer read divine Service before his Sermon or Lecture? doth he be&s;ides twice a yeare at lea&s;t ad|mini&s;ter the Sacraments in his owne per&s;on?</P>
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18 Doth he in Rogation w&eacute;eke yearely v&s;e the accu&s;tomed perambulation, informing his Pari&s;hioners not onely of the cill v&s;e of that cu&s;tome, but al&s;o of the religious, to pray to God for his ble&s;|&s;ing on the fruits of the earth, and to deprecate his anger?</P>
<P N="19">19 Hath your Mini&s;ter taken vpon him to appoint any publike or private Fa&s;ts, Prophe&s;ies, or exerci&s;es not approved by Law or publike Authority: or hath he b&eacute;ene pre&s;ent at any Conventicle where either the Doctrine or Di&s;cipline of the Church hath b&eacute;ene traduced?</P>
<P N="20">20 Doth he in the time of divine Service v&s;e due and lowly re|verence at the mention of the ble&s;&s;ed name of <HI>JESUS,</HI> in&s;tructing others to doe the like, not as an adoration of the bare &s;ound of the word, but as an humble acknowledgement that there is not either in heauen or earth any name by which we &s;hall be &s;aved, but that alone?</P>
<P N="21">21 Is your Mini&s;ter a Preacher licenced by lawfull Authorityor not: if he be, having no lawfull impediment, doth he preach ordina|rily in his Cure? If he be not, doth he procure Sermons once a moneth at lea&s;t to be preached by &s;uch as are lawfully licen&s;ed?</P>
<P N="22">22 Doth your Mini&s;ter vpon every Sunday when there is no Sermon, read on Homily out of the Booke appointed?</P>
<P N="23">23 Doth he once in the yeare vpon &s;ome Sundayes or Holidayes read over the Booke of Canons before Evening Prayer, that euery one may the better know what the Church requires of them?</P>
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<HEAD>Of the Sacrament of Bapti&s;me.</HEAD>
<P>DOth your Mini&s;ter or Curate in their Sermons, or otherwi&s;e, or any other, teach or maintaine that Bapti&s;me, in Gods ordi|nary di&s;pen&s;ation with man is not the doore that lets vs into the Church, nor any way nece&s;&s;ary to &s;alvation? doth he not admoni&s;h you that are his Pari&s;hioners not to deferre it beyond the accu&s;to|med time, lea&s;t &s;ome &s;uddaine &s;ickne&s;&s;e &s;hould take away the infant without the &s;eale of the new couenant?</P>
<P N="2">2 Doth your Mini&s;ter baptize the child at the Font the place a&s;&s;ign'd for it, doth he doe it in cleane pure water? Doth he take it in his armes, &s;igne it with the &s;ign of the Cro&s;&s;e asking &s;uch Que|&s;tions,
<PB REF="5">and v&s;ing &s;uch Prayers as are enjoyned?</P>
<P N="3">3 Doth he baptize any without any Godfathers or Godmothers to an&s;wer for them: Or doth he not giue to them &s;uch directions as are pre&s;cribed in the Rituall for the education of the child in true Religion?</P>
<P N="4">4 In ca&s;e of nece&s;&s;ity where the child is in danger of death, doth the Mini&s;ter being &s;ent for, refu&s;e or delay to come to giue it private Bapti&s;me; or doth he privately baptize where there is no nece&s;&s;ity?</P>
<P N="5">5 Haue any children in your Pari&s;h died vnbaptized, how long remained they &s;o before they died, and by who&s;e default was it that they were deprived of that holy Sacrament?</P>
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<HEAD>Of Confirmation and Chatechi&s;me preparatory to it.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 IS your Mini&s;ter carefull in examining and in&s;tructing the youth and ignorant per&s;ons of the Pari&s;h, by teaching them Principles and grounds of Chri&s;tian Religion delivered in that &s;hort Catechi&s;me, approved by the Church, and in&s;orted in the Common Prayer Booke?</P>
<P N="2">2 Doth he, according to his Maje&s;ties In&s;tructions, convert the popular afternoone Sermons on the Sunday into catechizing by Que&s;tion and An&s;wer?</P>
<P N="3">3 When children by the benefit of thus catechizing are able to giue an account of their faith, doth he admoni&s;h their Parents to bring them to the Bi&s;hop to receiue by Prayer &s;uch confirmation as may &s;trengthen them in Capti&s;mall Grace received?</P>
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<HEAD>Of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 IS this ble&s;&s;ed Sacrament admini&s;tred in the Church every moneth vpon the fir&s;t Sunday, or at lea&s;t thrice in the yeare, whereof Ea&s;ter to be one?</P>
<P N="2">2 Is it admini&s;tred in that reverend and decent manner as be|comes &s;o high a my&s;tery: are the words of Con&s;ecration &s;olemnly pronounced: the Elements reverently touched and handled?</P>
<P N="3">3 Doth your Mini&s;ter deliver this Sacrament to any &s;tanding, or &s;itting, or in any other po&s;ture than vpon the kn&eacute;e: doth he fir&s;t re|ceiue it him&s;elfe, and after deliver it to the Communicants, not in gro&s;&s;e, but one by one, v&s;ing all the words enjoyned &s;euerally to each of them?</P>
<P N="4"><PB REF="6">
4 Doth he admit to this ble&s;&s;ed Sacrament any per&s;on excom|municated, or any publike, notorius, &s;candalous offender, without &s;a|tisfaction made vnto the Church, or doth he admit any vnder age who are not yet able to render an account of their faith?</P>
<P N="5">5 Are the names of &s;uch as intend to receive given in to the Mini|&s;ter ouer night, that he may before hand know who, and how many they are, &amp; that the bread and wine may be proportionably prepared?</P>
<P N="6">6 Is the Bread and Wine of the be&s;t &s;ort, is a &s;ufficient quan|tity of each provided: or if either faile, are the words of Con&s;ecra|tion renewed over them before they de di&s;tributed?</P>
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<HEAD>Of Marriage.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 ARe the Banes of Marriage asked thr&eacute;e &s;euerall times o|penly in the Church vpon thr&eacute;e &s;euerall Sundayes at &s;uch time when the Church is fulle&s;t? or if not, hath there b&eacute;en di&s;pen&s;ati|on not only obtained, but pre&s;ented to the Mini&s;ter before Marriage?</P>
<P N="2">2 Is Marriage &s;olemnized openly in the Church, not in private roomes, or chambers, at due times not prohibited, and due hours be|tw&eacute;ene eight and twelue in the fore noone?</P>
<P N="3">3 Doth your Mini&s;ter v&s;e in Marriage the ordinary Rites of the Church with the v&s;uall prayers, and ble&s;&s;ing: and doth he performe this &s;olemnity with a Ring, and joyning of hands?</P>
<P N="4">4 Haue you a Table &s;et vp in your Church or Chancell of the forbidden degr&eacute;es, that ince&s;tuous Marriages may not haue the plea of ignorance?</P>
<P N="5">5 Be there any in your Pari&s;h who are married within the de|gr&eacute;es of affinity, or con&s;anguinity by Law prohibited?</P>
<P N="6">6 Are there any in your Pari&s;h being lawfully married who liue apart one from another without due &s;eparation by law, or who being legally diuorced k&eacute;epe company with any other at bed or at boord?</P>
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<HEAD>Of Vi&s;itation of the Sicke.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 IS your Mini&s;ter diligent in vi&s;iting the &s;icke, e&s;pecially &s;uch as being vpon their death beds, &s;tand mo&s;t in n&eacute;ed of the work of his Mini&s;tery? Doth he pray with them the prayers of the Church, adding &s;uch devotions of his owne as the nece&s;&s;ity of the party doth require?</P>
<P N="2"><PB REF="6">
2 Doth he over-rigorou&s;ly and vn&s;ea&s;onably pre&s;&s;e to them at that time the heauy judgements of the Law, without intermingling &s;uch words of comfort as may &s;et forth the mercy of God to a depar|ting &s;oule?</P>
<P N="3">3 Doth he exhort them at that time not to let any bainous &s;inne lye heauy on their con&s;cience, but to disburthen them&s;elues of it? Doth he vpon confe&s;&s;ion made, and all the &s;ignes of true repentance &s;hown, pronounce the words of ab&s;olution pre&s;cribed by the Church?</P>
<P N="4">4 Doth he excite the &s;icke party to lay vp trea&s;ure for him&s;elfe in heaven, by doing here charitable workes, and di&s;po&s;ing &s;ome part of his goods to the honour of him who hath given him all?</P>
<P N="5">5 Doth he la&s;t of all &s;ea&s;onably admini&s;ter to him the holy Sacra|ment of the Body and Bloud of Chri&s;t, while he is yet &s;en&s;ible of the comforts of it, and before the extremity of his di&s;ea&s;e hath ren|dred him le&s;&s;e capable?</P>
<P N="6">6 In the meane time is there a pa&s;&s;ing bell tolled, that they who are within the hearing of it, may be moved in their private devotions to recommend the &s;tate of the departing &s;oule into the hands of their Red&eacute;emer, a duty which all Chri&s;tians are bound to, out of a fellow f&eacute;eling of their common Mortality?</P>
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<HEAD>Of Burials.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 HAth the Mini&s;ter refu&s;ed to bury any dying within the bo&s;ome of the Church, being required?</P>
<P N="2">2 Hath he buried any in con&s;ecrated ground who haue b&eacute;ene mur|therers of them&s;elues, or ca&s;t out of the Church by excommunication?</P>
<P N="3">3 Doth he m&eacute;et the corps at the Church-&s;tile, conduct it to the Church, go before it to the graue, and v&s;ing &s;uch prayers as are pre|&s;cribed, commit it to the ground as becommeth the body of a Chri|&s;tian?</P>
<P N="4">4 Are &s;o many buried in the Church or Chancell, as may occa&s;i|on digging vp of dead bodies not yet fully con&s;umed, or as may br&eacute;ed annoyance to the living?</P>
<P N="5">5 Are the graues digged d&eacute;epe enough, and is the ground broken vp covered againe with &s;tone or bricke?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Of Churching of women after Child bed.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 DOth your Mini&s;ter ob&s;erve the order of the Church in Churching of women? doth he do it in private hou&s;es when
<PB REF="7">there is no vrgent nece&s;&s;ity, or publikely in the Church?</P>
<P N="2">2 Doth he goe vp into the Chancell, the woman al&s;o repairing thi|ther, kn&eacute;eling as neare the Communion Table as may be, and if there be a Communion, doth &s;he communicate in acknowledgement of the great ble&s;&s;ing received by her &s;afe delivery?</P>
<P N="3">3 Doth the woman who is to be churched v&s;e the ancient accu|&s;tomed habit in &s;uch ca&s;es, with a white vaile or kerchiefe vpon her head?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Of Schoole-ma&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P>VVHat Schoole haue you in your Pari&s;h: is it a fr&eacute;e Schoole endowed: what maintenance hath it: is any part of the maintenance kept backe, or otherwi&s;e imployed: if &s;o, how, or by whom?</P>
<P N="2">2 Doth any openly or privately in your Pari&s;h, teach without Li|cence of the Ordinary: is he conformable to the Religion e&s;tabli|&s;hed in the Church of <HI>England:</HI> and doth he endeavour to render his Schollers &s;o?</P>
<P N="3">3 Doth he to this end teach and in&s;truct his youth in no other Catechi&s;me then &s;uch as is allowed by authority?</P>
<P N="4">4 Is there any who k&eacute;epe Schoole in the Chancell or Church, by which meanes that holy place is many wayes profaned?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Of Phy&s;itians and Chyrurgions.</HEAD>
<P>VVHat Phy&s;itians or Chyrurgions haue you in your Pari&s;h: haue they b&eacute;ene train'd vp in the &s;tudy of Phy&s;icke or Chy|rurgery: at home or abroad, and by what licen&s;ed doe they practi&s;e?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Of Pari&s;h Clarkes and Sextons.</HEAD>
<P>HAue you a fit Pari&s;h Clarke aged twenty yeares at lea&s;t, of hone&s;t conver&s;ation, able to read and write, diligent in his of|fice, &s;eruiceable to his Mini&s;ter: is he approued by the Ordinary: hath he taken his Oath as is required?</P>
<P N="2">2 What wages hath your Clarke and Sexton according to the ancient Cu&s;tome of the Pari&s;h: are the wages duly payed, or by whom kept backe?</P>
<P N="3">3 Doth your Clarke and Sexton doe their duty in k&eacute;eping the Church cleane, the doores locked, or is any thing lo&s;t of &s;poil'd in his
<PB REF="7">Church through his default: doth he &s;uffer any vn&s;ea&s;onable ring|ing, or any prophane exerci&s;e in your Church?</P>
<P N="4">4 Hath your Pari&s;h Clarke or Sexton taken vpon him to meddle with any thing aboue his office, as Churching of women, burying of the dead, or &s;uch like?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Of Church-wardens.</HEAD>
<P>ARe you the Church-wardens lawfully cho&s;en according to the Canon: haue you taken your Oath for performing the duties of your place?</P>
<P N="2">2 Haue any who haue borne the &s;ame office before you fail'd in exhibiting their pre&s;entments to the Ordinary at the times appoin|ted: haue they retained any of the Church goods without making a ju&s;t account: or haue they not faithfully di&s;tributed the Almes of the Church to the v&s;e of the poore?</P>
<P N="3">3 Is there decency and order kept in your Church in time of di|vine Service: doe you take notice of &s;uch as ab&s;ent them&s;elues on Sundayes, Holidayes, times of Letany? Doe you diligently en|quire of &s;uch as remaine in Tavernes, Innes, Ale hou&s;es in the time of Prayers or Sermons: as al&s;o &s;uch as forbeare comming to the holy Sacrament thrice in the yeare, being aboue &s;ixt&eacute;ene years of age?</P>
<P N="4">4 Haue you &s;uffered any &s;trange Preacher to preach in your Church, without &s;&eacute;eing his licence, by which you might know how he is authorized: doe you note the names of &s;uch &s;trangers as doe preach in a Booke for that purpo&s;e, and by whom they are licen&s;ed?</P>
<P N="5">5 Is any Legacy withholden being given to the Church or the poore, for the mending of high-wayes, or otherwi&s;e by the Te&s;tators?</P>
<P N="6">6 Doth any man trouble, threaten, or revile you for doing your duty? Hath any gone about to tempt you to leaue vnpre&s;ented any offences committed contrary to the Articles given you in charge, or to per&s;wade you that you may di&s;pen&s;e with your oathes by v&s;ing equivocation, mentall re&s;ervation, or double meaning in making your pre&s;entments?</P>
<P N="7">7 Doe you know of any thing complained of that is not yet re|dre&s;&s;ed?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>Concerning the Pari&s;hioners.</HEAD>
<P>DOe your Pari&s;hioners frequent the Church in all times of di|vine Service? doe they behaue them&s;elues reverently in that holy place, doe they k&eacute;epe their Hats off: doe they devoutely kn&eacute;ele, when the Confe&s;&s;ion, the ten Commandements, and all Prayers and Collects are read? doe they &s;tand vp at the reading of the Cr&eacute;eds and the holy Go&s;pell? and doe they v&s;e due, and lowly reve|rence, when they heare the ble&s;&s;ed name of <HI>JESUS?</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 Doe all the Pari&s;hioners aboue &s;ixt&eacute;ene yeares of age receiue the ble&s;&s;ed Sacrament of the Lords Supper in your Church thrice every yeare, whereof once at <HI>Ea&s;ter,</HI> and doe they all (none expected) devoutly kn&eacute;ele at the receiving thereof?</P>
<P N="3">3 Doe any of the Pari&s;hioners, being admoni&s;hed thereof, ne|glect, or refu&s;e to &s;end their Children, Servants, Apprenti&s;es to the Mini&s;ter to be catechized on Sundayes and Holidays at &s;uch times as are appointed? Doe any &s;o &s;ent refu&s;s to come, or being come, refu&s;e to be catechized?</P>
<P N="4">4 Doe any of your Pari&s;h entertaine within their hou&s;e any &s;o|journer, common gue&s;t, or other per&s;ons who refu&s;e to frequent di|vine Service, or receiue the holy Communion as afore&s;aid: pre&s;ent their names, their quality, or condition?</P>
<P N="5">5 What Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants are there in your Pari&s;h, or other Sectaries? how long haue they ab&s;tain'd from the divine Service or Communion? pre&s;ent their names and their quality, and whe|ther they be excommunicate, or not?</P>
<P N="6">6 Whether any of the &s;aid Recu&s;ants doe labour to &s;educe, or withdraw others from the Religion profe&s;&s;ed in the Church of <HI>England:</HI> doe they in&s;truct their families or children in their owne errours: or haue any of them at any time being called to it, refu&s;ed to take the Oath of Allegiance?</P>
<P N="7">7 Are there any in your Pari&s;h who hold or frequent private conventicles? or who publikely or privately &s;peake again&s;t the Book of Common Prayer, again&s;t the Rites and Ceremonies, again&s;t the Articles publi&s;hed and maintained by the Church of <HI>England:</HI> again&s;t the Church government vnder his Maje&s;ty by the Hierar|chy of Bi&s;hops? Are there any Authors, maintainers, or favourers
<PB REF="8">of here&s;ie or &s;chi&s;me, or that be &s;u&s;pected probably to be Anabapti&s;ts, Libertines, Browni&s;ts, of the Family of Loue, or of any other he|re&s;ie or &s;chi&s;me: pre&s;ent their names?</P>
<P N="8">8 Are there any in your Pari&s;h who retaine, &s;ell vtter or di&s;per&s;e any Popi&s;h bookes or writings, or other bookes, writings, defama|tory Libels of any Sectaries touching the Religion, State and Go|vernment either Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall or Ciuill of this Kingdome of <HI>Eng|land?</HI></P>
<P N="9">9 Doe any of your Pari&s;hioners v&s;ually goe to any other Chur|ches to heare divine Service or Sermons, or to receiue the holy Communion: doe any of them procure their children to be baptized in another Pari&s;h: or doe any &s;trangers re&s;ort to your Church in divine Service, to heare Sermons, or to receiue the holy Commu|nion?</P>
<P N="10">10 Are there any in your Pari&s;h who will come to Church to heare the Sermon, but will not heare the publike Service appointed in the Booke of Common Prayer, making a &s;chi&s;me or divi&s;ion be|tw&eacute;ene the v&s;e of publike Prayer and Preaching?</P>
<P N="11">11 What per&s;ons within your Pari&s;h for any offence, contuma|cy, or crime of Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall cogni&s;ance to &s;tand excommunicate? how long haue they &s;o &s;tood: doe they pre&s;ume not with&s;tanding that cen&s;ure to be pre&s;ent with you in time of diuine Seruice: and what per&s;ons doe wittingly and v&s;ually k&eacute;epe them company?</P>
<P N="12">12 Hath any in your Pari&s;h exerci&s;ed any trade, or labor, bought or &s;old, or kept open &s;hops vpon any Sunday or Holiday, by them|&s;elues or their &s;ervants, or haue otherwi&s;e profaned the &s;aid day by gaming, drinking or dancing in time of divine Service: you are to pre&s;ent the names of &s;uch delinquents, with the names of the par|ties in who&s;e hou&s;e the offence hath b&eacute;ene committed?</P>
<P N="13">13 Is the fift of <HI>November</HI> kept holy according to the ordinance in that behalfe, that the memory may never dye of the great mercy &s;hewed to this State and Church in that wonderfull deliverance?</P>
<P N="14">14 Hath any of your Pari&s;h &s;trucken or laid violent hands either vpon your Mini&s;ter or vpon any other in your Church or Church-yard: Hath any quarrelled or given oppobrious &s;p&eacute;eches within tho&s;e precincts: hath any &s;landered your Mini&s;ter to the &s;candall of
<PB REF="9">his vocation&punc; or defamed any of his neighbours touching any crime of Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall cogni&s;ance?</P>
<P N="15">15 Are there any who not being in Orders doe exerci&s;e any Prie&s;tly or Mini&s;teriall Office in the Church, Chappell, or Church-yard: or on the other &s;ide are there any who having taken vpon them the order of Prie&s;thood, or Deacon, haue &s;ince relinqui&s;hed the &s;ame, v&s;ing any other kind of life?</P>
<P N="16">16 Haue any of your Pari&s;h &s;uppre&s;&s;ed the lo&s;t will of the dead, or admini&s;tred the goods of the dead without lawfull authority? Are there any goods not admini&s;tred, or any Wils vnproved? Faile not to pre&s;ent the Executors, with all others faulty therein?</P>
<P N="17">17 Haue any in your Pari&s;h harboured any woman vnlawfully begotten with child, and &s;uffered her to depart away before &s;he hath b&eacute;ene puni&s;hed for her offence.</P>
<P N="18">18 Are there any in your Pari&s;h to your knowledge, or by com|mon fame or report, which haue committed ince&s;t, adultery, or forni|cation, or that haue attempted or &s;ollicited the cha&s;tity of any wo|man, or which are reputed to be common Drunkards, Swearers, Bla&s;phemers, Bawdes: or are there any in your Pari&s;h vehement|ly &s;u&s;pected for any of the&s;e crimes?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="conclusion">
<P>There mu&s;t be a full and &s;everall an&s;wer made to every one of the&s;e Articles, el&s;e the pre&s;entment will be returned backe againe and the Church-wardens compelled to make a better.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="memorandum">
<P><HI>Memorandum,</HI> It is lawfull for every Mini&s;ter, be hee Par&s;on Vicar or Curate, to pre&s;entany enormity or com|mon fame of any enormous crime that &s;hall ari&s;e within his Pari&s;h: And whereas it &s;eemeth by the Canon that the Church officers are not to pre&s;ent oftner then twi&s;e a yeere, It is to be under&s;tood as in that Canon Appeareth of pre|&s;entments in generall. But it is lawfull and meet for every Mini&s;ter, Church-wardens, and Sidemen to make notori|ous offenders knowne to their Ordinaries as often as occa|&s;ion is offered, to the end that &s;uch offences may be puni|&s;hed and reformed.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="9">
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