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<P>ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF WITHIN THE DIO|CES OF <HI>NORWICH, in the ordinary vi&s;itation of the</HI> reuerend Father in God, SA|MVEL, <HI>Lord Bi&s;hop</HI> of NORVVICH.</P>
<P><HI>Anno Domini</HI> 1620. <HI>&amp; Tran&s;la|tionis &s;uae, primo.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>ANCHORA FIDEI SICELEVABITVR FILIVS HOMINIS&middot; Io 3</HEAD>
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<P>Imprinted at London 1620.</P>
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<HEAD>The forme of the Oath to be mini&s;tred <HI>vnto the Churchwardens and Sidemen.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOu &s;hall &s;weare to make diligent inquirie and true pre|&s;entment of all and euery the offences mentioned in the &s;ub&s;equent Articles in this booke, which be known to you either by notoriety of the fact, confe&s;&s;ion of any par|ty, or by any publike &s;peech and common fame, or by other proofe had &amp; made, without affection of loue or hatred to any per&s;on; So helpe you God, and the Contents of this Booke.</P>
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<HEAD>ARTICLES TO BE IN|QVIRED OF IN THE DIOCES OF <HI>NORWICH.</HI> ANNO <HI>DOMINI.</HI> 1620.</HEAD>
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<HEAD><HI>TIT.</HI> 1. Articles concerning religion, pray|er, and Sacraments</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. _FIr&s;t, whether be there any per&s;on or per|&s;ons abiding in your pari&s;h or re&s;orting thereunto, aboue the age of &s;ixt&eacute;ene yeares, that wilfully, and ob&s;tinately, refu&s;e to re|paire to their pari&s;h Church Chappell or o|ratorie, vpon &s;abboth daies and Holidaies&punc; and be thereby taken to be Popi&s;h or &s;ecta|ry recu&s;ants.</P>
<P N="2">2. Item, whether be there any that be knowne to haue defen|ded or maintayned any hereticall opinions, contrary to the holy &s;criptures of God, and fir&s;t foure generall coun&s;ells or any of them, and what be tho&s;e opinions, and who be the authors thereof.</P>
<P N="3">3. Item, whether be there any in your pari&s;h, that hath bene or is vehemently &s;u&s;pected, to haue bene pre&s;ent at any vnlawful a&s;&s;emblies, or priuate conuenticles, vnder colour or pretence of any exerci&s;e of religion: or doth affirme and maintaine &s;uch mee|tings to be lawfull.</P>
<P N="4">4. Item, whether doth any per&s;on within your Pari&s;h, de|praue the forme of common praier, and admini&s;tration of the Sa|craments, rites and ceremonies, &s;et forth and pre&s;cribed in the booke of common praier of this realme.</P>
<P N="5">5. Item whether is there any doctrine taught, publi&s;hed, or preached, by any per&s;on or per&s;ons directly or indirectly again&s;t the &s;tate ecle&s;ia&s;ticall, and lawfull gouernment of the Church of England, and the con&s;ecrating of Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops, and the ordering of Deacons and Mini&s;ters, after &s;uch manner and forme as is now v&s;ed and pre&s;cribed by his Maie&s;ties lawes within this Realme of England.</P>
<P N="6"><PB REF="3">6. Item, whether be there any within your pari&s;h, that deny or per&s;wade any to deny, with&s;tand, and impugne the kings Ma|ie&s;ties authority and &s;upremacie, in cau&s;es ecle&s;ia&s;ticall within this realme.</P>
<P N="7">7. Item, whether doth any per&s;on within your pari&s;h, aboue the age of 16. yeeres, refu&s;e or forbeare thrice in euery yeare, &amp; at Ea&s;ter e&s;pecially, to communicate and receiue the ble&s;&s;ed Sa|crament of the Lords &s;upper: And what reuerence doe the people within your Pari&s;h v&s;e by outward ge&s;tures of their bodies, when they be partakers of that ble&s;&s;ed Sacrament: and whether doe they reuerently kneele vpon their kn&eacute;es when the mini&s;ter de|liuereth the &s;ame to them.</P>
<P N="8">8. Item, whether doth any per&s;on within your Pari&s;h deferre the bapti&s;me of his child, longer then vntill the next Sabboth day or holiday, after the birth thereof.</P>
<P N="9">9. Item, whether hath any child died vnbapti&s;ed within your Pari&s;h, and by who&s;e default.</P>
<P N="10">10. Item, whether be the parents of any childe to be Bapti|&s;ed, admitted to be godfathers or godmothers to the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="11">11. Item, whether haue the children of popi&s;h recu&s;ants, or wilfull &s;ectaries borne within your Pari&s;h, bene priuately bap|ti&s;ed by any lay man not in holy orders.</P>
<P N="12">12. Item, whether hath any per&s;on not lawfully confirmed according to the forme of confirmation, pre&s;cribed in the booke of common Prayer of this realme, b&eacute;ene admitted to receiue the ho|ly communion.</P>
<P N="13">13 Item, whether hath any Popi&s;h recu&s;ant, after he or &s;he hath b&eacute;ene conformed, repaired to Church and receiued the ble&s;|&s;ed &s;acrament of the Lords &s;upper, once a yeare at the lea&s;t, in that pari&s;h Church where he or &s;he doe mo&s;t v&s;ually abide.</P>
<P N="14">14. Item, whether doe any within your pari&s;h vpon Sabboth daies and holy daies, negligently and carele&s;ly repaire to your pari&s;h Church, &s;o that halfe or the mo&s;t part of diuine &s;eruice is ended before they come, and vpon light occa&s;ion depart out of the Church before prayers be done.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>TIT.</HI> 2. Articles Concerning the Mini&s;ters and Prea|chers of Gods holy word.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 FIr&s;t, whether doth the mini&s;ter of your pari&s;h Church, read the forme of common praier, in &s;uch &s;ort as is &s;et forth in the booke of common praier, confirmed by his Maie&s;ties authori|ty, and admini&s;ter the Sacraments with due ob&s;eruation of all rites and ceremonies pre&s;cribed to be v&s;ed in the admini&s;tration thereof, without adding altering or omitting any part or parcell of the &s;aid praiers, or innouating any other matter in the admini|&s;tration of either of the Sacraments.</P>
<P N="2">2. Item, whether is the &s;aid forme of common praier duly and orderly red in your Church, Chappell, or oratorie, vpon &s;abboth daies, holy daies, wedn&s;daies, and fridaies, and vpon holy eues and Sabboth eues.</P>
<P N="3">3. Item, whether be the words of in&s;titution of the Sacra|ment of the Lords &s;upper, v&s;ed by the mini&s;ter in deliuery of the bread and wine to euery communicant.</P>
<P N="4">4. Item, whether be the words in the admini&s;tration of the &s;acrament of bapti&s;me, <HI>I &s;igne thee with the &s;igne of the Cro&s;&s;e,</HI> onely v&s;ed, and noe vi&s;ible or formall cro&s;&s;e made in the forehead of the child &s;o baptized.</P>
<P N="5">5. Item, whether is the &s;acrament of bapti&s;me denied to any children borne out of wedlock, and by whom.</P>
<P N="6">6. Item, whether is the forme of common prayer red vpon the 24. of March, the fifth of nouember, and the fifth of Augu&s;t, yearely in your pari&s;h Church: and publique thank&s;giuing v&s;ed vpon tho&s;e daies to almighty God, for his Maie&s;ties gratious &s;ucce&s;&s;ion to the royall crowne of this realme, the deliuerance of his highne&s;&s;e, and the whole &s;tate from the damnable gunpowder trea&s;on, and for his Maie&s;ties pre&s;eruation from the con&s;piracy of <HI>Gowry.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. Item, whether is the &s;tatute intituled <HI>An act for a publique thank&s;giuing to almightie God, &amp;c.</HI> euery yeare di&s;tinctly red in your pari&s;h Church at morning praier, vpon the fifth day of No|uember,</P>
<P N="8">8. Item, whether doth your Mini&s;ter alwaies and at euery time, both morning and euening, reading diuine &s;eruice, and ad|mini&s;tring the &s;acraments, weare the &s;urplice, and doth he neuer
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omit the wearing of the &s;ame, at &s;uch times or at any of them.</P>
<P N="9">9, Item, whether doth he catechi&s;e the youth of his pari&s;h vp|on &s;undaies and holidaies before euening prayer, for halfe an howre or more, in the catechi&s;me &s;et forth in the booke of common Prayer, and in none other: And whether doe all the pari&s;hioners attend his catechi&s;ing: And whether doe any of them neglect or refu&s;e to &s;end their children to be catechized by him.</P>
<P N="10">10. Item, whether doth your mini&s;ter once euery yeare in your pari&s;h church read the booke of canons publi&s;hed <HI>Anno Do|mini.</HI> 1603. and whether doth he vi&s;it the &s;icke as by law is re|quired.</P>
<P N="11">11 Item, whether doth he giue thanks for women after their child-birth in &s;uch manner as is pre&s;cribed in the booke of com|mon praier of this realme: And doth he admit any to the perfor|mance of that holy action, that doe not come hauing a decent vaile vpon their heads Matron like as hath b&eacute;ene accu&s;tomed heereto|fore: And whether doth any woman refu&s;e to giue thanks in that manner after her childbirth.</P>
<P N="12">12. Item, whether is your mini&s;ter re&s;iant at and vpon his be|nefice or &s;pirituall promotion, and doth he preach euery &s;abboth day or monthly in his &s;aid cure, or read an homily when there is no &s;ermon there preached.</P>
<P N="13">13. Item whether is your Mini&s;ter a graduate and hath taken any &s;chola&s;ticall degr&eacute;e of bachelor or Ma&s;ter of arts, or batchelor or doctor in diuinity, either in Cambridge or Oxeford, and is he a preacher lawfully licen&s;ed, and by whom?</P>
<P N="14">14 Item whether doth your Mini&s;ter preach or teach any mat|ter publiquely in his pulpit within his pari&s;h Church, which is not agr&eacute;eable to the doctrine of the old and new te&s;tament, and which the learned Fathers, and aunceient Bi&s;hops haue not ta|ken and gathered out of the holy &s;criptures, for an vndoubted truth?</P>
<P N="15">15 Item&punc; whether doth your mini&s;ter &s;ide it in his preaching, by taking part with one of them that be at variance, and therevp|on preach doctrine tending to the breach of chri&s;tian loue and vni|ty, and &s;tirring vp of &s;chi&s;me and faction among&s;t his auditors, offen&s;iuely and &s;candalou&s;ly, and colour his &s;chi&s;maticall de&s;igne|ments by a &s;ecret per&s;wa&s;iue of his de&s;ire of peace and vnitie in the Church?</P>
<P N="16">16. Item, whether doth your Mini&s;ter v&s;e alwaies to pray
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for the Kings Maie&s;ty, the Prince, Clergie, and Coun&s;ell, in the forme of Prayer pre&s;cribed in the con&s;titutions publi&s;hed in that behalfe, in the yeace of our Lord 1603.</P>
<P N="17">17 Item, Whether doth your Mini&s;ter hold any more Bene|fices with cure of &s;oules then one, and by what di&s;pen&s;ation doth he &s;o retaine them?</P>
<P N="18">18 Item, Whether is your Mini&s;ter vehemently &s;u&s;pected by common voyce, publike fame, or credible report, to haue obtai|ned his &s;pirituall promotion or benefice with cure of &s;oules by a|ny &s;ymoniacall compact, directly or indirectly, or for any lucre or gaine to haue re&s;igned his &s;aid Benefice or &s;pirituall promotion&punc;</P>
<P N="19">19 Item, Whether doth your Mini&s;ter vpon light cau&s;e not warrantable by law, and vpon priuate di&s;plea&s;ure by him con|ceiued again&s;t any of his Pari&s;hioners, repell and debarre any of them from the receiuing of the holy Communion?</P>
<P N="20">20 Item, Whether hath any notorious or knowne fornicator, adulterer, &s;candalous per&s;on, or bla&s;phemer of Gods holy name, b&eacute;ene admitted to receiue the holy Communion without publique repentance?</P>
<P N="21">21 Item, Whether doth your Mini&s;ter reade publike pray|ers at m&eacute;ete and conuenient houres, and bid holidaies and fa&s;ting dayes?</P>
<P N="22">22 Item, Whether doth your Mini&s;ter euery &s;ixe moneths de|nounce in his Pari&s;h Church all &s;uch as doe per&s;euere and conti|nue in the &s;entence of excommunication, not &s;&eacute;eking to be ab&s;ol|ued: and whether hath hee admitted into the Church any excom|municate per&s;on without certificate of his ab&s;olution from the Ordinary, or other competent Iudge, vnder their authenticall &s;eale?</P>
<P N="23">23 Item, Whether doth your Mini&s;ter diligently labour and endeauour to reclaime the Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants in his Pari&s;h from their errours, if there be any &s;uch there-abiding?</P>
<P N="24">24 Item, Whether is your Mini&s;ter familier and conuer&s;ant with Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, or a fauourer of them, and thereby ta|ken not to be &s;ound and &s;incere in Religion?</P>
<P N="25">25. Item, Whether doth your Mini&s;ter publikely in the Church vpon the Sabboth day next before his admini&s;tration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, giue knowledge of it to all his Pari&s;hioners, that &s;uch as intend to communicate may pre|pare them&s;elues for the receiuing of that ble&s;&s;ed Sacrament.</P>
<P N="26"><PB REF="5">26. Item, Whether is your Mini&s;ter &s;tudious in the holy Scriptures, and ab&s;taineth from mechanicall trades, or labour, not befitting his function, and from gaming, &s;wearing, and drun|kenne&s;&s;e, or &s;uch notorious crimes?</P>
<P N="27">27. Item, Is there any in your Pari&s;h who (hauing b&eacute;en ad|mitted vnto holy Orders, either Deacon or Prie&s;t) doth relin|qui&s;h and for&s;ake his calling, and liueth in the cour&s;e of his life as a Laye man?</P>
<P N="28">28. Item, whether hath any Laye man (not in holy Orders) read publique prayers in your Church, or churched any women, or buried any dead per&s;on within your pari&s;h?</P>
<P N="29">29. Item, whether hath your Mini&s;ter buried any excommu|nicate per&s;on, not ab&s;olued from that cen&s;ure?</P>
<P N="30">30. Item, Whether hath your Mini&s;ter with any other per|&s;ons within your Pari&s;h, v&s;ed to m&eacute;ete in any priuate hou&s;e, or other place, there to conferre and con&s;ult together, how to im|peach or depraue the booke of Common Prayer, or the doctrine or di&s;cipline of the Church of <HI>England?</HI></P>
<P N="31">31. Item, Whether hath any per&s;on being m&eacute;erely ignorant in the holy Scriptures, not able to render a rea&s;on of his faith in Latine, nor hauing a &s;peciall guift of preaching, b&eacute;ene from a manuall trade or artificer, admitted to holy orders, and to admi|ni&s;ter the Sacraments, and preach the word of God?</P>
<P N="32">32 Item, Whether is there any oppo&s;ition among&s;t the prea|chers v&s;ed publikely in matters of faith and doctrine in their &s;er|mons preached: And what Mini&s;ters admitted to holy orders be within your Pari&s;h, and allowed Preachers, not hauing any pa|&s;torall charge or cure committed to them?</P>
<P N="33">33 Item, Whether doth your Mini&s;ter or Curate in Rogati|on w&eacute;eke, goe in perambulation of the circuite of the Pari&s;h, v|&s;ing thank&s;giuing to God for his ble&s;&s;ing according to law?</P>
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<HEAD><HI>TIT.</HI> 3. Articles concerning Lectures.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, Whether doth any per&s;on reade any publike Lecture, or expound the holy Scriptures in your Church, Chappell, or Oratorie, he being not in holy orders, and lawfully licen&s;ed for a publique Preacher according to the lawes of this Realme?</P>
<P N="2">2 Item, Whether doth euery &s;uch Lecturer before his Ser|mon, or expo&s;ition of the Scriptures, reade publique Prayers in
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his &s;urplice, according to the forme pre&s;cribed in the booke of common prayer of this realme, without omi&s;&s;ion of any part thereof.</P>
<P N="3">3 Item, whether doth your &s;aid lecturer before his &s;ermons, v&s;e any other forme of prayer for the whole &s;tate of this realme, then that which is pre&s;cribed in the con&s;titutions ecle&s;ia&s;ticall, publi&s;hed and confirmed by his Maie&s;ties authority, <HI>Anno Do|mini.</HI> 1603.</P>
<P N="4">4 Item, whether doth your &s;aid Lecturer maintaine any doc|trine directly contrary or repugnant to the articles of chri&s;tian faith and religion, publi&s;hed and ratefied, <HI>Anno Domini</HI> 1562.</P>
<P N="5">5 Item, whether is any lecturer admitted to preach in your Church, that is not conformable to the di&s;cipline and gouerne|ment ecle&s;ia&s;ticall within the church of England, but &s;chi&s;mati|cally and phanta&s;tically affected to nouelties and innouations.</P>
<P N="6">6 Item, whether doth your lecturer or &s;ole preacher, twice at the lea&s;t, euery yeare in his owne per&s;on, read both morning and euening prayer, two &s;euerall &s;undaies in the pari&s;h church where he preacheth, and at tho&s;e times weare the &s;urplice; ond twice e|uery yeare admini&s;ter the Sacraments, without omi&s;&s;ion of any rites or ceremonies, that are pre&s;cribed in the booke of common prayer of this realme to be v&s;ed at the admini&s;tration thereof?</P>
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<HEAD><HI>TIT.</HI> 4. Articles concerning Matrimony.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, whether hath any matrimonie b&eacute;ene contracted, and &s;o|lemnized within your pari&s;h, betwixt any per&s;ons being in con&s;anguinity or affinity within the leuiticall degr&eacute;es, and by the word of God prohibited.</P>
<P N="2">2 Item, whether hath any matrimony b&eacute;ene &s;olemnized, or rather prophaned, &s;ecretly in any priuate hou&s;e within your pari&s;h?</P>
<P N="3">3 Item, whether hath the vncle married his niece, by con&s;an|guinity, or affinitie; or hath any per&s;on &s;ucce&s;&s;iuely maried two &s;i&s;ters: and who be they that haue contracted &s;uch ince&s;tuous mariages.</P>
<P N="4">4. Item, whether hath any per&s;on two wiues now liuing, or any woman two hu&s;bands: and who are &s;o voiced, noted, and re|ported to be offenders in this behalfe.</P>
<P N="5">5. Item, whether be there any per&s;ons coupled together, in
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matrimony, that liue a part without lawfull diuorce?</P>
<P N="6">6. Item, whether hath any per&s;on lawfully diuorced, b&eacute;ene coupled in matrimony with any other man or woman, during the life of the other per&s;on &s;o diuorced?</P>
<P N="7">7. Item, whether haue any matrimonies b&eacute;ene &s;olemnized be|twixt any per&s;ons being vnder the age of xxi. yeares without their parents or gouernors con&s;ent fir&s;t had and obtained?</P>
<P N="8">8 Item, whether hath any per&s;on by licen&s;e or without, b&eacute;ene maried in your Church, neither of them at that time dwelling in your pari&s;h?</P>
<P N="9">9 Item, whether haue any Popi&s;h recu&s;ants or their children b&eacute;ene married within your pari&s;h; and in what &s;ort were tho&s;e matrimonies &s;olemni&s;ed, when, and by whom?</P>
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<HEAD><HI>TIT.</HI> 5. Articles concerning the pari&s;hioners and others of the Laiety.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, whether be there any per&s;on or per&s;ons within your pa|ri&s;h, who in your hearing or to your knowledge, haue at any time depraued by word or d&eacute;ede, the forme of common prayer, &amp; admini&s;tration of the Sacraments of Bapti&s;me and the Lords Supper?</P>
<P N="2">2 Item, whether haue any dwelling within your pari&s;h re|viled and abu&s;ed the Mini&s;ters of Gods holy word by contume|lious words, and di&s;graced their lawfull mariages.</P>
<P N="3">3 Item, whether haue any per&s;on or per&s;ons di&s;orderly beha|ued them&s;elues, in the Church or Church-yard, by brawling, quarrelling or fighting?</P>
<P N="4">4 Item, whether be there any abiding within your pari&s;h, or re&s;orting thereunto as an v&s;uall pari&s;hioner thereof, that refu&s;e to receiue the Sacrament of the Lords &s;upper admini&s;tred by an vnpreaching mini&s;ter, and who be they that &s;o doe?</P>
<P N="5">5 Item, whether doe any in your pari&s;h prophane the &s;abboth day by vnlawfull games, drinking or tippling in the time of com|man prayer or &s;ermon, or by doing the ordinary workes of their vocations and trades?</P>
<P N="6">6 Item, whether is there any within your pari&s;h, that denieth the church of England by law e&s;tabli&s;hed vnder the kings mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;ty to be a true and apo&s;tolicall church.</P>
<P N="7">7 Item, whether doe any of the inhabitants within your pa|ri&s;h,
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entertain in their how&s;es any &s;oiourners or common gue&s;ts (other then his or her father or mother wanting other habitation or &s;ufficient maintenance, or the ward of any &s;uch per&s;on, or any per&s;on that &s;hall be committed by authority to the cu&s;tody of any of them) that be Popi&s;h recu&s;ants, and refu&s;e to frequent diuine &s;eruice, or receiue the holy communion &amp; what be their names?</P>
<P N="8">8 Item, how long haue the &s;aid Popi&s;h recu&s;ants ob&s;tinately ab&s;tained, either from hearing diuine &s;eruice red, or receiuing the ble&s;&s;ed &s;acrament of the Lords &s;upper, admini&s;tred in the pa|ri&s;h Church?</P>
<P N="9">9 Item, whether is there due reuerence and humble &s;ubmi&s;&s;i|on v&s;ed within your church or chappell, in the time of diuine &s;er|uice as by the xviii. con&s;titution ecle&s;ia&s;tical of this realme <HI>Anno Domini,</HI> 1603. is pre&s;cribed; whether each one in the church or chappell doe apply and order him&s;elfe there in time of diuine &s;er|uice, as by the latter part of the &s;ame con&s;titution is mo&s;t com|mendably enioyned; namely that no man doe couer his head in the time of diuine &s;eruice, except he haue &s;ome infirmity, that all doe kn&eacute;ele vpon their kn&eacute;es, when the confe&s;&s;ion and other pray|ers are read; &s;tand vp at the reading of the beleife, and bow their bodies reuerently when <HI>Ie&s;us</HI> &s;hall be named?</P>
<P N="10">10 Item, whether be there any within your pari&s;h that come vpon &s;abboth daies and holy dayes, and at other times of prayer, to the &s;ermon only, and not to heare diuine &s;eruice; And be there any that do not reuerently &s;tand vp, when <HI>Gloria Patri &amp;c.</HI> is read, and at the reading of the Go&s;pell?</P>
<P N="11">11 Item, whether be there any within your pari&s;h, that by walking or talking, di&s;quiet your mini&s;ter in reading of praiers, or in his &s;ermon?</P>
<P N="12">12 Item, Whether be there any in your pari&s;h, that doe one|ly come once a month to their pari&s;h church, to heare diuine pray|ers red, &amp; neuer receiue the &s;acrament of the Lords &s;upper?</P>
<P N="13">13 Item, Whether doth any within your pari&s;h, in contempt of his owne mini&s;ter, repaire to any other Church in time of com|mon prayer to heare the &s;ame red, and to receiue the &s;acrament; and what be there names that be &s;o affected, and the names of the mini&s;ters of other churches, that admit tho&s;e that be not their own pari&s;hioners to prayers and &s;acraments by him or them read and admini&s;tred?</P>
<P N="14">14. Item, is there any in your pari&s;h that be commonly
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knowne or reputed to be bla&s;phemers of Gods holy name, drun|kards, adulterers, fornicators, ince&s;tuous per&s;ons, or concealers or harbourers of fornicators or adulterers: Haue any b&eacute;en dete|cted for any &s;uch notorious crimes, or of the common &amp; publique fame of them, and neuer performed any penance, nor giuen &s;ati&s;|faction to the congregation for the &s;aid offences?</P>
<P N="15">15 Item, what per&s;ons te&s;tate haue died within your Pari&s;h &s;ince the fir&s;t of February 1619. and whether be their la&s;t wills and Te&s;taments proued, and who be executors of the &s;ame?</P>
<P N="16">16 Item, what per&s;ons haue died inte&s;tate &s;ince the time be|fore expre&s;&s;ed, and who doe admini&s;ter the goods of the per&s;ons &s;o decea&s;ed?</P>
<P N="17">17 Item, whether haue any per&s;on or per&s;ons being dulie ra|ted in equall proportion, for the repairing of your pari&s;h Church, or for proui&s;ion of bread and wine, for the admini&s;tration of the ble&s;&s;ed Sacrament of the Lords Supper, or for any other nece&s;|&s;ary ornaments &amp; vten&s;ils belonging to your Church, that haue or doe refu&s;e to paye that rate, or to giue &s;atisfaction to the Churchwardens in that behalfe, and who bee they that haue of|fended herein?</P>
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<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>TIT. 6.</HI> Articles concerning the Church and Church-yard.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, Whether haue you in your Church, Chappell or Ora|torie, the Booke of Common Prayer by the Kings Maie&s;tie confirmed, a Bible of the large&s;t volume, and the la&s;t tran&s;lati|on, <HI>Iewels</HI> Apologie of the la&s;t edition, with the re&s;t of his Works adioyned, the Bookes of Homilies, <HI>Era&s;mus</HI> paraphra&s;e, and the Booke for &s;peciall thank&s;giuing with the Statute in that behalfe, for the gracious deliuerance of the whole &s;tate of this Realme, from the Gunpowder trea&s;on; and haue you the Booke of Ca|nons eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, publi&s;hed <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1603. and all other bookes by Law or Cu&s;tome v&s;ually to bee had within your &s;aid Churches?</P>
<P N="2">2 Item, whether are the Ten Commandements religiou&s;ly hung vp in a faire Table within your Pari&s;h Church, and the Table of the degrees of Matrimony prohibited?</P>
<P N="3">3 Item, whether haue you in your Pari&s;h Church one or two Surpli&s;&s;es, and a Hoode faced with Taffaty or Sattin, if your
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Mini&s;ter be a Graduate, a Ma&s;ter of Arts, a Batchelor or Doctor in Diuinity?</P>
<P N="4">4 Item, whether haue you a decent &s;eat for your Mini&s;ter to reade publike prayers in, a &s;eat nigh vnto him for his Clarke, and a &s;eat for the women that come to giue thankes after their Childebirth, a comely Pulpit, with a Cu&s;hion and a Cloth for it, a decent Communion Table, with a Carpet of broad cloth, and a faire linnen cloth, a Communion cup of Siluer, and a flagon of &s;iluer or Pewter, to be v&s;ed at the Communion?</P>
<P N="5">5, Item, whether haue you a Beare for the carriage of dead bodies to their buriall, a conuenient and decent Font with a co|uer &s;tanding in the accu&s;tomed place, &amp; a Regi&s;ter booke in parch|ment, wherein be duly entred the names of all &s;uch as bee bapti|&s;ed, married, and buried?</P>
<P N="6">6 Item, whether haue you one Che&s;t, with thr&eacute;e lockes and keyes, wherein the Regi&s;ter booke, and other vten&s;ils belonging to your Church be duely kept: And whether haue you one booke in Parchment or Paper, wherin be entred the names of all &s;tran|gers that come to preach within your Pari&s;h, and their licen&s;es therein recorded?</P>
<P N="7">7 Item, whether is your Pari&s;h Church, Chappell or Orato|ry in good and &s;ufficient reparations, not prophaned, comely and decently kept and the &s;eates therein well maintained?</P>
<P N="8">8 Item, whether be there any Pues lately built within your Pari&s;h Church, without the authority, con&s;ent and approbation of the Ordinary, and who haue &s;o built them?</P>
<P N="9">9 Item, whether haue any Pues b&eacute;ene taken vp which were formerly &s;et in any other Church, and bee transferred to your Church, and there &s;et vp, and by whom, and by what authority?</P>
<P N="10">10 Item, whether is there any Church or Chappell (wherein there be a competent number of people, to the number of ten or aboue dwelling and abiding) prophaned and conuerted to any irreligious v&s;e, by making of it a Barne, Stable, or Granary, &amp; the Pari&s;hioners thereof not knowen to re&s;ort to any other Church, Chappell, or Oratorie, by lawfull a&s;&s;ignation of the Ordinarie?</P>
<P N="11">11 Item, whether be there in your St&eacute;eple the v&s;uall and an|cient number of Bells &s;till remaining and hanging; &amp; by whom haue any Bells b&eacute;ene taken out of your St&eacute;eple, and to what v&s;e haue they b&eacute;ene conuerted?</P>
<P N="12"><PB REF="8">12 Item, whether haue there b&eacute;ene kept in your Church any Playes, Fea&s;ts, Banquets, Church-ales, drinkings, or any other prophane v&s;ages by laying of Drums or Guns in your Church or St&eacute;eple, and di&s;charging them there, and by who&s;e comman|dement and appointment?</P>
<P N="13">13. Item, whether is your Church-yard well and &s;ufficiently repaired by a comely wall of Stone or Pale: and whether haue you a grate at the entrance into the &s;aid Church-yard, to k&eacute;epe out Swine, and other noi&s;ome bea&s;ts?</P>
<P N="14">14 Item, whether be not the Graues and Monuments of the dead broken, and rooted vp by Swine in your &s;aid Church-yard: and whether be not noi&s;ome draines and priuies made and &s;uf|fered within the &s;aid Church yard, and vnv&s;uall dores and pa&s;&s;a|ges made into the &s;ame?</P>
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<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>TIT. 7.</HI> Articles concerning Par&s;onage and Vicaridge-hou&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, Whether be the Hou&s;es, Edifices, and Buildings be|longing to your Par&s;onage or Vicaridge well and &s;ufficient|ly repaired; and whether be any of them ruinated, wa&s;ted, and dilapidated, and by who&s;e default?</P>
<P N="2">2 Item, whether is the Chancell of your Pari&s;h Church rui|nated, and by who&s;e default is it &s;o decaied?</P>
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<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>TIT. 8.</HI> Articles concerning Legacies and Be|que&s;ts giuen to godly v&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, Whether be there any Legacies giuen in the la&s;t Will and Te&s;tament of any per&s;on decea&s;ed, out of his moueable goods, for the reliefe of the poore, or to the reparations of the Church, or to either of the Vniuer&s;ities, <HI>Cambridge,</HI> or <HI>Oxford,</HI> or to any Schoole of Learning or Colledge, for the increa&s;e of ver|tue and knowledge, or to any other charitable v&s;e; what be tho&s;e beque&s;ts, and by whom were they giuen.</P>
<P N="2">2 Item, what Legacies giuen to the v&s;es afore&s;aid, haue bin detained by the executor of any per&s;on decea&s;ed; and who be they that doe &s;o detaine them?</P>
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<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>TIT. 9.</HI> Articles concerning Churchwardens.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, Whether be the Church-wardens of your Pari&s;h cho&s;en by the Mini&s;ter and Pari&s;hioners, according to the 89. Ca|non;
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and whether hath any taken vpon him to b&eacute;e Church-war|den being not &s;o cho&s;en?</P>
<P N="2">2 Item, whether haue the Church-wardens b&eacute;ene diligent in the execution of their office, to &s;&eacute;e decency and comeline&s;&s;e kept in the Church, in the time of diuine &s;eruice, and at the admini&s;tra|tion of the Sacraments?</P>
<P N="3">3 Item, whether haue any Church-wardens detained any of the Church goods in their hands, and not made a iu&s;t account of what they haue receiued and expended?</P>
<P N="4">4 Item, whether haue the Church-wardens at euery Com|munion prouided &s;ufficient Bread and Wine for the Communi|cants, and &s;et the &s;ame vpon the Communion Table, in the pre|&s;ence of the Mini&s;ter, before he beginne the admini&s;tration of the &s;aid Sacrament?</P>
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<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>TIT.</HI> 10. Articles concerning Schoole-ma&s;ters, Phy&s;i|tions and Chyrurgions.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, Is there any Schoolema&s;ter within your Pari&s;h that tea|cheth publikely or priuately, not licen&s;ed by the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;&s;e, or his Chancellour, and that &s;o teacheth and commeth not to Church to heare diuine &s;eruice, vpon daies appointed for reading of the &s;ame, and receiue the Communion thrice in the yeare at the lea&s;t: Or doth hee teach any Papi&s;ts or Sectaries children, that come not to Church in time of publike prayer read?</P>
<P N="2">2 Item, whether doth he in&s;truct his Schollers in the Cate|chi&s;me &s;et forth in the Booke of Common Prayer of this Realme, and in no other?</P>
<P N="3">3 Item, whether doth any practi&s;e Phy&s;icke or Chyrurgerie, being not lawfully licen&s;ed thereunto, or created Doctor of Phy|&s;icke, in either of the Vniuer&s;ities of this Realme?</P>
<P N="4">4 Item, what ignorant per&s;ons haue left their manuell trades, and taken vpon them to profe&s;&s;e Phy&s;icke or Chyrurgerie, and who be they that &s;o abu&s;e the people?</P>
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<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>TIT.</HI> 11. Articles concerning Ecle&s;ia&s;ticall Officers.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, What corporall puni&s;hment inioyned for any offence of ecle&s;ia&s;ticall cognizance hath b&eacute;ene commuted by any eccle&s;i|a&s;ticall Iudge within this dioces into a pecuniary mulct, or &s;um of money and how was the &s;ame money imployed?</P>
<P N="2">2 Item, Whether is there not a table of f&eacute;es in euery of the
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courts ecle&s;ia&s;ticall within this dioces hung vp in &s;ome publique place in the court &amp; Regi&s;try, and no other f&eacute;es taken &amp; receiued by any eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Iudge more or greater then in the &s;aid table are expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P N="3">3 Item, Whether doth any eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Iudge &s;peed any iu|diciall acts priuately him&s;elfe, and not in the pre&s;ence of &s;ome publique notary or actuary?</P>
<P N="4">4 Item, What pre&s;entments haue b&eacute;ene made for any of|fence cognizable &amp; puni&s;hable in the eccle&s;ia&s;ticall courts within this dioces, &amp; haue b&eacute;ene &s;uppre&s;&s;ed by any iudge or regi&s;ter, &amp; by them with-drawne and not effectually proc&eacute;eded in, according to the lawes eccle&s;ia&s;ticall of this realme?</P>
<P N="5">5 Item, whether doe you know any per&s;on inioyned by iudi|ciall decr&eacute;e or &s;entence in court to doe publique penance for his &s;inne, or excommunicate for not doing the &s;ame, that doth &s;till by conniuencie or fauour of the Iudge, or Regi&s;ter of that court, where the &s;aid penance was inioyned, &s;till continue winked at &amp; vnreformed?</P>
<P N="6">6 Item, What numbers of apparitors be there to your know|ledge within the Arch-deaconry wherein you liue; and whether haue any of them vnder colour &amp; pretence of their office and au|thority committed vnto them, cited or &s;ummoned any per&s;on vn|lawfully; and wrongfully troubled him, or for the concealing of a|ny offence or &s;inne, and for the auoiding of puni&s;hment in the of|fenders, haue taken any rewarde or guift, or otherwi&s;e delt cor|ruptly, and who be they that haue &s;o offended?</P>
<P N="7">7 La&s;tly whether haue you without affection of loue or hatred to any per&s;on, pre&s;ented and detected all offenders mentioned in the precedent articles, knowne to be delinquents either in truth, or by their owne confe&s;&s;ion, or by lawfull proofe, or by common fame, and report: And whether doe you know any other matter of eccle&s;ia&s;ticall cognizance, worthy the pre&s;enting in your iudge|ment, which is not h&eacute;eretofore by you pre&s;ented?</P>
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