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<P>ARTICLES, To be enquired of vvith|in the Dioces of London, in the third generall Vi&s;itation of the reuerend Father in God, <HI>Richard</HI> Bi&s;hop of London.</P>
<P>HOLDEN In the yeere of our Lord God 1604. In the &s;econd yeere of the raigne of our mo&s;t gratious Soueraigne Lord <HI>IAMES,</HI> by the grace of God of <HI>England, Fraunce, and Ireland, King,</HI> defender of the fayth; and of Scotland the thirtie eight, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Imprinted at London for Clement Knight. 1604.</P>
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<HEAD>A Branch of the Statute made in the fir&s;t yeere of the raigne of our late Soueraigne Lady Queene <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> intituled, <HI>An Act for the vniformitie of Common Prayer and &s;eruice in the Church.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THat from and after the fea&s;t of the Natiuitie of <HI>St. Iohn Bapti&s;t</HI> next comming, all and euery per&s;on &amp; per&s;ons inhabiting within this Realme, or any other the Queenes maie&s;ties dominions, &s;hall diligently and faythfully (hauing no law|full or rea&s;onable excu&s;e to be ab&s;ent) indeuour them&s;elues to re&s;ort to their pari&s;h Church or Chappell accu&s;tomed, or vppon rea&s;onable let thereof to &s;ome v&s;uall place where common prayer and &s;uch like &s;er|uice of God &s;hall be v&s;ed in &s;uch time of let, vpon euery Sunday and other dayes, ordayned and v&s;ed to be kept as Holy dayes, and then and there to abide orderly and &s;oberly during the time of common prayer, preach|ing, or other &s;eruice of God there to be v&s;ed and mini&s;tred, vpon paine of puni&s;hment by the Cen&s;ures of the Church. And al&s;o vpon paine that euery per&s;on &s;o offending, &s;hall forfeite for euery &s;uch offence twelue pence, to be leuied by the Church-wardens of the parish where &s;uch offence shall be done, to the v&s;e of the poore of the &s;ame parish, of the goodes, landes, and tenementes of &s;uch offender by way of di&s;tre&s;se. And for due executi|on heereof, the Queenes mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie, the Lordes temparall, and all the commons in this pre&s;ent Parliament a&s;&s;embled, doth in Gods name earne&s;tly require and charge all the Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries, that they shall indeuour them&s;elues to the vttirmo&s;t of their knowledge, that the true and due execution hereof may be had throughout their Dioce&s;&s;e and charges, as they will an&s;were before God for &s;uch euils and plagues, wherewith almightie God may iu&s;tly puni&s;h his people for neglecting this good and hol&s;ome Lawe.</P>
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<HEAD>The tenour of the Othe mini&s;tred to the <HI>Churchwardens and Swornemen.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOu wall &s;weare, that all affection, fauour, hatred, hope of rewarde and gaine, or feare of di&s;plea&s;ure, or mallice &s;et a&s;ide, you &s;hall vpon due con&s;ideration of the Articles giuen you in charge, pre&s;ent all and euery &s;uch per&s;on of or within your pari&s;h, as hath committed any offence or fault, or made any default mentioned in the&s;e, or any of the&s;e Articles, or which are vehemently &s;u&s;pected, or otherwi&s;e defamed of any &s;uch offence, fault, or default: wherein you &s;hall deale vprightly and according to trueth: neither of malice pre&s;enting any contrary to trueth, nor of corrupt affection &s;paring to pre&s;ent any, and &s;o conceale the trueth, hauing in this action God before your eyes, with an earne&s;t zeale to maintaine trueth, and to &s;uppre&s;&s;e vice. So helpe you God and the contentes of this Booke.</P>
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<HEAD>The Charge of the Churchwardens and Swornemen, &s;et downe for the better performance of their dueties, <HI>and di&s;charge of their Othes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey are &s;traightly charged to heare all the&s;e Articles read ouer to them, and diligently to con&s;ider and inquire thereof, and for that the time is &s;o &s;hort in this Vi&s;itation, that they &s;hall not be able to make a perfect an&s;were vnto all them; and that notwith&s;tanding there are many notorious faultes pre&s;ently worthy of pre&s;entment and re|formation, they are charged after their returne home, that together with their Mini&s;ter they do read ouer all the&s;e Articles di&s;tinctly and lea&s;urely, to the end they may con&s;ider of euery perticuler Article, and of the offen|ces in them conteined, as of &s;uch per&s;ons in their pari&s;h as &s;halbe noted to offende in any of them: and after that, to a&s;&s;emble them&s;elues in &s;ome conuenient time together and to make their Bill, an&s;wering euery Arti|cle by it &s;elfe, before the fea&s;t of <HI>St. Martin</HI> next en&s;uing, being the 10 day of Nouember: which Bill &s;hall be &s;igned with the hand of the Mini&s;ter and of all the Church-wardens and Side-men, and &s;hall for their better ea&s;e be brought by one of the Church-wardens vpon the <GAP DESC="blank"> day of Nouember next, vnto the Church of <GAP DESC="blank"> where for the &s;auing of their trauell and charges vp to London, the Iudge and the Regi&s;ter will be readie to receiue them.</P>
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<HEAD>Articles to be enqired of vvithin the Dioces of London in this Vi&s;itation holden in the yeere of our Lord God. 1604.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Articles concerning the Clergie.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 _WHether is Common prayer read by your Mini&s;ter in your Church or Chappel di&s;tinctly and reuerently vp|pon all Sundayes and Holy dayes, and in &s;uch order as is &s;et foorth by the Lawes of this Realme in the booke of Common prayer, without any kind of alte|ration, omitting or adding any thing, and at due and conuenient houres?</P>
<P N="2">2 Whether doth your Mini&s;ter vpon Wedne&s;dayes &amp; Frydayes (not be|ing Holy dayes) read in your Church or Chappell, publikely the Letanie and other prayers appoynted in the &s;aid booke for tho&s;e dayes: and whether doth he read the Commination again&s;t &s;inners, in &s;uch order and forme as it is there al&s;o pre&s;cribed?</P>
<P N="3">3 Whether doth your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, in the admini&s;tration of the Lordes Supper, or of Bapti&s;me, when he &s;olemnizeth Matrimonie, bu|rieth the dead, churcheth women, &amp;c. v&s;e the formes and prayers pre&s;cribed in the Communion booke, without omitting or altering any part of them, and without any of his owne additions?</P>
<P N="4">4 Whether doth your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, read publike prayer &amp; ad|mini&s;ter the Sacramentes ordinarily him&s;elfe, v&s;ing &s;uch rites and ceremo|nies as are pre&s;cribed in the booke of Common prayer: as namely whether doth he kneele at the receiuing of the holy Communion, and admini&s;ter the &s;ame to none but to &s;uch as do kneele at the receiuing therof: make the &s;igne of the Cro&s;&s;e vpon the childes forehead in the admini&s;tration of Bapti&s;me: Bapti&s;e any without Godfathers and Godmothers: v&s;e the Ring in mar|riage: and generally whether doth he in the di&s;charging of al the&s;e dueties, and when he readeth Common prayer eyther vpon Sundayes, Holy dayes, Wedne&s;dayes and Frydayes weare a Surplice?</P>
<P N="5">5 Whether doth your Mini&s;ter vpon Sundayes at morning prayer de|clare vnto the pari&s;hioners what Holydayes and Fa&s;ting dayes are appoyn|ted to be kept the weeke following; whereby they may be put in minde to prepare them&s;elues, and to repaire to the Church to publike prayer, accor|ding to the lawes of the Realme?</P>
<P N="6"><PB REF="3">6 Whether doth your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, or either of them reiect at any time tho&s;e women (being married) which do come to church to giue God thankes after their childbirth, or refu&s;e or neglect to vi&s;it y^e &s;icke, or to burie the dead, according to their duties pre&s;cribed in the booke of common prayer?</P>
<P N="7">7 Whether doth your mini&s;ter in the Rogation dayes of proce&s;&s;ion v&s;e the perambulation of the circuite of your pari&s;h, appoynted by Law: and whe|ther doth he in the &s;ayd perambulation moone the people to giue thankes to God in the beholding of his benefites, for the increa&s;e and aboundance of his fruites vpon the face of the earth: and &s;ing or &s;ay the two P&s;almes, begin|ning, <HI>Pray&s;e the Lord O my &s;oule. &amp;c.</HI> with the Letanie &amp; &s;uffrages there|vnto belonging: and at certaine conuenient places reade the Homily of thank&s;giuing to God, alreadie deui&s;ed, and diuided into foure partes, with|out addition of any &s;uper&s;titious ceremonie heretofore v&s;ed?</P>
<P N="8">8 Whether doth any man, being neither Mini&s;ter nor Deacon, read com|mon prayer openly in your Church or Chappel, or admini&s;ter the &s;acrament of bapti&s;me, or &s;olemnize matrimony, or take vpon him to practi&s;e any other mini&s;teriall dutie in the church, that is pre&s;cribed to be executed particularly by &s;uch as are either mini&s;ters or Deacons; &amp; what is his name that &s;o doth?</P>
<P N="9">9 Whether is your Par&s;on or Vicar a Preacher, licen&s;ed to preach by lawfull authoritie according to Law? if he be, how many Sermons doth he preach yeerely: if he be not, how many doth he procure to be preached by others: who hath preached them, and whether were they Preachers lycen|&s;ed, as is before expre&s;&s;ed?</P>
<P N="10">10 Whether doth your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, euery Sunday &amp; Holy day when there is no Sermon, read di&s;tinctly and plainely &s;ome part of the Homilies pre&s;cribed and &s;et foorth by Law.</P>
<P N="11">11 Whether doth the Par&s;on, Vicar, or Farmour of the Benefice in your pari&s;h cau&s;e or &s;uffer any Curate or Mini&s;ter, either to read &s;eruice, &amp;c. or to preach, before he the &s;aid Curate (being no preacher) be examined &amp; admitted by the Ordinarie in writing: and before he the &s;aid Curate being a preacher be thereunto admitted according to Law, and before they &s;hew their &s;ayd &s;e|uerall licences vnto the Churchwardens?</P>
<P N="12">12 Whether doth your Preacher in his prayer which he maketh at the en|traunce into his Sermon, v&s;e at all times the prayer for his Maie&s;tie, for our geacious Queene, the Prince, and all the re&s;t of the royall progenie, with his whole title; as, King of England, Scotland, Fraunce, and Ireland, de|fender of the fayth, &amp;c. and of all cau&s;es, and ouer all per&s;ons within his high|ne&s;&s;e dominions, as well eccle&s;ia&s;ticall as temporall, next and immediatly
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vnder God, &s;upreme gouernor. And whether doth he in like manner then pray for the Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops, as by law is al&s;o appoynted?</P>
<P N="13">13 Whether your Mini&s;ter doth &s;erue two Cures in one day?</P>
<P N="14">14 Whether doth your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, euery Sunday and Holy day openly in the Church earne&s;tly call for, heare, and in&s;truct all the Children, Apprenti&s;es, and Seruants of both &s;exes, that be of conuenient age within your Pari&s;h, or at the lea&s;t &s;o many of them by cour&s;e as the time will &s;erue, and as he may well heare &amp; in&s;truct one houre at the lea&s;t, before or after euening prayer, in the ten Commandements, the Articles of the be|liefe, and the Lords prayer: and diligently examine &amp; teach them the Cate|chi&s;me, as it is now allowed and &s;et foorth in the booke of Common prayer?</P>
<P N="15">15 Whether is there any man in your pari&s;h, being neither your Par&s;on, Vicar, nor Curate, that taketh vpon him to preach or read Lectures eyther in priuate hou&s;es, or publikely in your church or chappell, who is not licen|&s;ed to preach or read there: or who doth not once a yeere at the lea&s;t admi|ni&s;ter the Sacraments in your &s;ayd Church or Chappell, where he &s;o prea|cheth or readeth, according to the booke.</P>
<P N="16">16 Whether your Mini&s;ter hath or doth receiue to the holy Communion any per&s;ons which be not of his owne pari&s;h, without te&s;timonie from the Mini&s;ter of the place where they dwell, what they be, that it may appeare that they be not per&s;ons excommunicate, or otherwi&s;e infamous.</P>
<P N="17">17 Whether doth your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, reiect any from the holy Communion, who is not by publique fame, or by pre&s;entment of the Church-wardens detected for a notorious Fornicator, Adulterer, or other wicked lyuer, or di&s;turber of his neighbours by whom publique offence is giuen: and whether he receiue any &s;uch per&s;on &s;o infamed or pre&s;ented, to the holy Communion before publique penaunce inioyned by his Ordinarie be by him fir&s;t performed, to the &s;atisfaction of the Congregation according to the Law in that ca&s;e prouided?</P>
<P N="18">18 Whether doth your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, or any other Mini&s;ter or Preacher, bapti&s;e in your Pari&s;h-church or Chappell, any Infants, not in the Font according to the antient cu&s;tome, but in a Ba&s;on, and vrge the parentes of the &s;ayd Infant to be pre&s;ent, in place of Godfathers for their children?</P>
<P N="19">19 Whether doth your Par&s;on Vicar, or Curate, once euery quarter of the yeere read his Maie&s;ties Iniunctions openly and deliberately before his pari&s;hioners at one time or at two &s;euerall times in one day, according as in the &s;ayd Iniunctions it is pre&s;cribed?</P>
<P N="20"><PB REF="4">20 Whether hath your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, or any other Mini&s;ter, publiquely or priuately preached, declared, or &s;poken any thing in your pa|ri&s;h in derogation of the booke of Common-prayer, which is &s;et foorth by the lawes of this Realme, di&s;pray&s;ing, or deprauing the &s;ame, or any thing therein contayned; or again&s;t the pre&s;ent e&s;tate of the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall go|uernement, e&s;tabli&s;hed by the &s;ame authoritie, or agayn&s;t any office, function, or part thereof, affirming the &s;ame to be vnlawfull?</P>
<P N="21">21 Whether hath your Par&s;on or Vicar, more Benefices then one? yf he hath not, whether is he re&s;ident vpon that one? yf he be not re&s;ident, where doth he remayne? and whether doth he leaue a &s;ufficient Mini&s;ter and Prea|cher to &s;upply his ab&s;ence, allowyng &s;omething yeerely towardes the reliefe of the poore? and what doth he &s;o allow?</P>
<P N="22">22 Whether is your Par&s;on or Vicar, who hath two Benefices within this Dioces; or one Benefice in this Dioces, &amp; an other foorth of the &s;ame, re&s;ident one halfe of the yeere on one of them, and the other halfe yeere, or the greater part thereof vpon his other Benefice: and whether doth he leaue the Benefice in your pary&s;h prouided of a &s;ufficient Preacher to &s;erue it: and hath an e&s;pecial care of &s;ome conuenient ho&s;pitality to be kept in his ab&s;ence according to his ability, and the proportion of that lyuing?</P>
<P N="23">23 Whether doth your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, keepe a iu&s;t and perfect note of all &s;uch as do communicate in your pari&s;h, and do not rather, regar|ding their priuate gayne, receiue their offeringes at Ea&s;ter, delyuer them Tokens, enter them into their booke, and &s;o certifie as communicantes tho&s;e who neuer receiued?</P>
<P N="24">24 Whether doth your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, keepe any man or wo|man in their hou&s;es, that are &s;u&s;pected to be eyther of euill religion, or of bad life: or whether be they or any of them incontinent per&s;ons them&s;elues, or giuen to drunkennes, or to be haunters of tauerns, alehou&s;es, or &s;u&s;pected places, common Dicers, Carders, Tableplayers, Swearers, Dauncers, or otherwi&s;e &s;u&s;pected per&s;ons of any notorious crime, or light and vn&s;eeme|ly behauiour, or giue euill example of lyfe, or v&s;e di&s;ordered or vn&s;eemely apparrell, eyther in cullours, guardes, or light fa&s;hion?</P>
<P N="25">25 Whether there be any Mini&s;ters or Prie&s;tes within your pari&s;h, which liue idlely without any care, neyther &s;eruing in any place, nor hauing any place of reading or preaching, and &s;o become offen&s;iue to their calling, and what be their names who &s;o lyue, and how long haue they been with you?</P>
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<HEAD>Articles concerning the Church.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 WHether haue you in your pari&s;h Churches and Chappels all things nece&s;&s;arie and requi&s;ite for Common prayer and admini&s;tration of the Sacramentes, e&s;pecially the booke of Common prayer with the new Kalender, two P&s;alters (all &s;et foorth by his Maie&s;ties e&s;peciall commaun|dement and Proclamation onely to be v&s;ed, printed by his Highne&s;&s;e Prin|ter, the which you were by your Archdeacons commaunded from mee, to haue bought before Whit&s;ontide la&s;t,) the Engli&s;h Bible in the large&s;t vo|lume of the edition &s;et foorth by the Bi&s;hops, and lately imprinted by the Kinges Printer; the Table of the ten Commaundements, a conuenient Pulpit well placed, a comely and decent Table &s;tanding vpon a frame for the holy Communion, with a faire Linnen cloth to lay vpon the &s;ame, and &s;ome couering of Silke, Buckram, or other &s;uch like for the cleane keeping thereof; a faire and comely communion Cuppe of Siluer, and a couer of Siluer for the &s;ame, which may &s;erue al&s;o for the mini&s;tration of the com|munion Bread, a decent large Surples with fleeues, and a &s;trong Che&s;t or Boxe for the almes of the poore, with three lockes and keyes to the &s;ame, and all other thinges nece&s;&s;arie in and to the premi&s;&s;es?</P>
<P N="2">2 Whether there haue growne in your Church &s;ince the la&s;t Vi&s;itation in the yeere 1601. any contention betwixt any of the pari&s;hioners, touching the placing or di&s;placing of any in any &s;eate or pew in the Church: and whe|ther there hath been any Pew buylded &s;ince the fore&s;ayd yeere 1601. in any your Churches, without the expre&s;&s;e leaue and con&s;ent fir&s;t had of the Ordi|narie of the Dioces, and by whom haue any &s;uch been built.</P>
<P N="3">3 Whether is your Church or Chappell, and the Chauncell well and &s;uf|ficiently repaired and kept without abu&s;e of any thing: whether doth your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, or the Proprietarie or Farmer of your Par&s;o|nage or Vicarage in your pari&s;h keepe the Par&s;onage or Vicarage hou&s;e with all other the edifices thereunto appertaining in good and &s;ufficient re|parations: and whether is your Church-yard well fenced and cleanly kept without any lap&s;tall or other annoyances,</P>
<P N="4">4 Whether your Church be a Par&s;onage or a Vicarage pre&s;entatiue or bonatiue, or otherwi&s;e &s;erued by a Curate: whether did they euer heereto|fore heare or know that it was a Par&s;onage or Vicarage, and how came it to be decayed from being pre&s;entatiue, to be in the &s;tate it now is, and when was it fir&s;t decayed, from being a benefice pre&s;entatiue, as you remember.</P>
<P N="5"><PB REF="5">5 Whether your Foules or Bapti&s;teries be remooued from the place where they were wont to &s;tand, towardes the lower end of the Church: or whether any per&s;ons, leauing the v&s;e of them, do chri&s;ten or bapti&s;e in Ba|&s;ons, or other ve&s;&s;els, not accu&s;tomably v&s;ed in the Church before time: or do v&s;e any kind of Lauor with a remooueable Ba&s;on, or haue taken downe the old and v&s;uall Font heretofore v&s;ed in your peri&s;h?</P>
<P N="6">6 Whether is there in your Pari&s;h a &s;ufficient Regi&s;ter booke of Parch|ment of marriages, chri&s;tnings, and burials, prouided at the charge of the Pari&s;h: whether are all the names of tho&s;e that haue been either chri&s;tened, married, or buried, &s;ince the beginning of her lace Maie&s;ties raigne newly written into the &s;ayd Parchment booke? Whether doth the Mini&s;ter euery Sunday read the names publikely of tho&s;e that were either chri&s;tned, mar|ried, or buried the weeke before? Whether haue you a publike Che&s;t with three lockes, for the Mini&s;ter and the two Church-wardens to keepe the &s;ayd Booke in: and whether haue you brought a tran&s;cript of all the names of &s;uch as haue been chri&s;tned, marryed, and buried this la&s;t yeere into <HI>M. Blackwell</HI> my Regi&s;ter his office, as you are bound to do euery yeere here|after, within a month after the Fea&s;t of Ea&s;ter, by the Con&s;titutions.</P>
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<HEAD>Articles concerning Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Officers.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 WHether the Chancelor, Archdeacon, Commi&s;&s;arie, Officiall, or any other v&s;ing Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Iuri&s;diction in this Dioces, their Regi|&s;ters or Actuaries, Apparators, or Summoners, haue at any time winked at and &s;uffered any adulterers, fornicators, ince&s;ts, or other faultes or offences pre&s;ented vnto them, to pa&s;&s;e and remaine vnpuni&s;hed, and vncorrected for mony, rewardes, bribes, plea&s;ure, friend&s;hip, or any other partiall re&s;pect?</P>
<P N="2">2 Whether doth the Chancellor, Commi&s;&s;aries, Archdeacons, or any other Officials, heare any matters of office, or correction priuately in their cham|bers without the pre&s;ence of the &s;worne Regi&s;ter or his deputie&punc; or do di&s;|charge any mans penance, for money, without the con&s;ent of the L. Bi&s;hop, according to the con&s;titutions; or doe &s;ende any writing vnder their owne hands to your Church, without the Regi&s;ters pre&s;ence at the doing of it, eyther for marryage of any couples, or for ending or ordering of any matter or penance?</P>
<P N="3">3 Whether the Chauncelor, Officiall, or Commi&s;&s;arie, haue cau&s;ed for, or cau&s;ed the Church-wardens to make, bring, or to pay for any more Billes of pre&s;entment, then once in euery yeere; or do call for their quarter Billes, or make the Church-wardens pay for them?</P>
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<HEAD>Articles concerning Schoolemai&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 WWhether the Schoolemai&s;ter or Schoolemai&s;ters within your pa|ri&s;h openly or priuately in any Noble or Gentlemans hou&s;e, or in any other place, be of good and &s;inceere religion, life, and conuer&s;ation, and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth: and whether they haue been examined, allowed, and licen&s;ed for Schoolemai&s;ters by the Ordina|rie in that behalfe?</P>
<P N="2">2 Whether your Schoolemai&s;ter or Schoolemai&s;ters do them&s;elues re|ceiue the holy Communion as often as they ought to do: and whether do all their Schollers, which be of age &s;ufficient, and of copacitie by in&s;truction, to receiue the Lords Supper, come to the Communion either in your Church or where their Parents dwell once euery yeere, and be diligent to heare Common prayer?</P>
<P N="3">3 Whether your Schoolema&s;ter or Schoolema&s;ters do orderly on Sun|dayes with their Schollers, come to the Church of their pari&s;h where they teach, and there &s;ee their Schollers placed in &s;ome conuenient place, &s;o as they do not di&s;quiet the mini&s;ter or pari&s;h in time of diuine &s;eruice, but may exerci&s;e them&s;elues godly in reading and hearing the Seruice &amp; Sermons, and in an&s;wering with the congregation in reading of publike prayer?</P>
<P N="4">4 Whether the Schoolemai&s;ter or Schoolemai&s;ters either priuate or publike do teach their Schollers the Catechi&s;me authorized by publike au|thoritie, at the lea&s;t once euery weeke, and do in&s;truct and examine them in the &s;ame: or do teach any other Catechi&s;me, and what Catechi&s;me it is that they &s;o do teach?</P>
<P N="5">5 Whether your Schoolemai&s;ter or Schoolemai&s;ters, or any of them be knowne or &s;u&s;pected to read vnto their Schollers priuately any vnlawfull Bookes: or priuately to in&s;truct them in their young yeeres either in pope|rie, &s;uper&s;tition, or di&s;obedience, or contempt to his Maie&s;tie and his lawes Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall by publike authoritie allowed?</P>
<P N="6">6 Whether your Schoolemai&s;ter or Schoolemai&s;ters, or any of them vn|der pretence of Catechi&s;ing their Schollers, which is a mo&s;t godly order, carefully by them to be ob&s;erued, do keepe lectures, readinges, or expo&s;ition in diuinitie in their hou&s;es, hauing repaire vnto them of people not being of their owne family and hou&s;ehould?</P>
<P N="7">7 Whether the Schoolemai&s;ter or Schoolemai&s;ters within your pari&s;h, do teach his or their Schollers any other Grammer then that which is com|monly called the Kinges Grammer, &s;et foorth by the authoritie of King <HI>Henrie</HI> the eight?</P>
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<HEAD>Articles concerning the Pari&s;hioners and others of the Laitie.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 WHether all Hou&s;eholders in your pari&s;h cau&s;e their children, &s;er|uants, and apprenti&s;es, both mankind &amp; womankind, being aboue &s;euen yeeres of age, and vnder twentie, which haue not learned the Cate|chi&s;me, to come to the Church on Sundayes and Holy dayes at the time ap|poynted for Cetechi&s;ing, and there diligently and obediently to heare, and what be the names of tho&s;e that do not cau&s;e their children, &s;eruants, and ap|prenti&s;es &s;o to come to the Church to be in&s;tructed and examined?</P>
<P N="2">2 Whether the Churchwardens do delyuer to the Archdeacon at his Vi&s;itation, a note of all tho&s;e who do not &s;ende their children and &s;eruantes to be catechized?</P>
<P N="3">3 Whether any do worke, or keepe any &s;hoppe open vpon Saboth dayes, or vpon any Holy dayes appoynted by the lawes of this Realme to be kepe Holy day, or v&s;e any worke or labour, or open &s;hew of their wares in any of tho&s;e dayes?</P>
<P N="4">4 Whether you your &s;elues, or the Churchwardens in the yeeres before you, haue &s;uffered any vnmarryed women being begotten with child, to goe out of your pari&s;h before &s;he hath by you or them been pre&s;ented to your Ordinarie: or any man defamed of whoredome, to depart vnpuni&s;hed, vpon direction appoynted by the Ordinarie? And foorth of who&s;e hou&s;es haue they gone away with child vnpuni&s;hed, and what be the names of &s;uch vn|marryed women which haue been deliuered within your pari&s;h this three yeeres la&s;t pa&s;t, haue gone away without doing of penance?</P>
<P N="5">5 Whether the pari&s;h Clarke be appoynted according to the law, by the Par&s;on or Vicar of the pari&s;h, with the allowance of the Ordinarie: and whether he be not obedient to the Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate: and whether he be able to read, and whether he keepe the Bookes and Ornaments of the Church faire and cleane, and cau&s;e the Church, and Quire, the Communion Table and the Font, to be kept cleane and decent again&s;t the Seruice time, the Communion, Sermon, and Bapti&s;me?</P>
<P N="6">6 Whether there be any per&s;on or per&s;ons eccle&s;ia&s;ticall or temporall, within your pari&s;h or el&s;e whe&s;e within this Dioces, that haue retayned and kept in their cu&s;tody, or that read, &s;ell, vtter, di&s;per&s;e, carry, or deliuer to o|thers any Engli&s;h Bookes or Libels, &s;et forth either on this &s;ide or beyond the Seas, by Papi&s;tes or Sectaries again&s;t the Kings &s;upremacie in cau|&s;es eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, or again&s;t true Religon and Catholike doctrine now pub|liquely
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profe&s;&s;ed in this Church, or the gouernment or di&s;cipline of the Church of England, now within this Realme receiued and e&s;tabli&s;hed by common authoritie, and what their names and &s;urnames are?</P>
<P N="7">7 Whether there be any in your pari&s;h who are noted, knowne, or &s;u&s;|pected to conceale or keepe hidden in their hou&s;es any Ma&s;&s;e bookes, porte&s;|&s;es, breuiaries, or other bookes of popery and &s;uper&s;tition, or any Challices Copes, Ve&s;tments, Albs, or other ornaments of &s;uper&s;tition, vncancelled or vndefaced, which it is to be coniectured they do keep for a day, as they cal it?</P>
<P N="8">8 Whether there be in your pari&s;h any popi&s;h or &s;ectary recu&s;ant or recu|&s;ants, which for any cau&s;e what&s;oeuer, forbeare to come to Church to com|mon prayer, or to heare Gods word preached, pretending it vnlawfull to come to our a&s;&s;emblies, as the Church of England now &s;tandeth, e&s;tabli&s;hed by his Maie&s;ties authoritie, and what their &s;euerall name or names are, and how long they haue been recu&s;ants?</P>
<P N="9">9 Whether any do refu&s;e to receiue the holy Communion at their owne Mini&s;ters handes, either becau&s;e he is not a Preacher, or becau&s;e he duly ob|&s;erueth the order of mini&s;tration appoynted by the booke, and who they be that do go from their owne pari&s;h, to receiue at any other mini&s;ters hands?</P>
<P N="10">10 Whether any of your pari&s;hioners hauing a Preacher to their Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, do ab&s;ent them&s;elues from his Sermons, and re&s;ort to any other place to heare other preachers?</P>
<P N="11">11 Whether all the people of your pari&s;h aboue 16. yeeres of age, and e&s;pecially hou&s;eholders, hauing no lawfull excu&s;e to be ab&s;ent, doe re&s;ort with their &s;eruantes and children to their pari&s;h Church or Chappell on the Holy dayes, and on the Sundayes to morning and euening prayer, and who they be that either negligently or wilfully ab&s;ent them&s;elues, or do vnreue|rently behaue them&s;elues in the Church, or v&s;e any gaming or pa&s;time a|broade or in any hou&s;e, or &s;itte in the &s;treete or Church-yard, or in any ta|uerne, or alehou&s;e, vpon the Sunday, or Holyday, in the time of Common prayer, Sermon, or reading of the Homilies, or any of them, either before or after noone?</P>
<P N="12">12 Whether the forfeyture of xii. pence for euery time of ab&s;ence from the Church vpon euery Sunday and Holyday, appoynted by a Statute made in the fir&s;t yeere of the late Queene <HI>Elizabeths</HI> raigne, to be leuied and taken according to the &s;ame Statute (the tenor whereof is &s;ette downe in the beginning of this Booke) by the Churchwardens of euery per&s;on that offendeth, and by them be put to the v&s;e of the poore of the pari&s;h if it be not &s;o le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ed, by who&s;e fault it is?</P>
<P N="13"><PB REF="7">13 Whether there be any Inkeepers, Alewiues, Victuallers, or Tip|lers, that &s;uffer or do admitte any per&s;on or per&s;ons in their hou&s;es to eate, drinke, or play at Dice, Cardes, Tables, Bowles, or &s;uch like games, in the time of Common prayer or Sermon, on the Sundayes or Holydayes: or any Butchers, or other that commonly v&s;e to &s;ell meate or other thinges in the time of common prayer, preaching, or reading of Homilies? and whe|ther in any Faires or common Markets fallyng vpon the Sundayes, there be &s;hewing of any wares before morning prayer be done: and whether any markets and &s;elling of wares be v&s;ed or &s;uffered in any Church-yards on the Sabboth day by common Packmen or Pedlers going about, or any Butchers?</P>
<P N="14">14 Whether the Church-wardens of the la&s;t yeere, hath giuen to the Par&s;on or Vicar and the pari&s;h, a iu&s;t account of the Church goodes that were committed to their charge, according to the cu&s;tome that hath been afore time v&s;ed: and what Church goodes they or any other haue &s;old, and to whom, and whether to the profite of your Church or no: and what hath been done with the mony thereof comming?</P>
<P N="15">15 Whether the Church-wardens and Swornmen, &s;ince the fourth day of Augu&s;t 1601. haue of any priuate corrupt affection concealed any crime or other di&s;order in their time done in your pari&s;h, and haue not pre&s;ented the &s;ame to the Bi&s;hop, Chauncelor, Archdeacon, Commi&s;&s;arie, or &s;uch o|ther as had authoritie to reforme the &s;ame? and whether they or any of them, at any &s;uch time as they &s;hould haue been at diuine &s;eruice on Sundayes and Holy dayes, and &s;hould there haue ob&s;erued others that were ab&s;ent, haue beene away them&s;elues, at home, or in &s;ome Tauerne or Alehou&s;e, or el&s;e about &s;ome worldly bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, or at bowles, cardes, tables, dice, or other gaming, without regard of their office and duetie in that behalfe?</P>
<P N="16">16 Whether your Mini&s;ter and you the Church-wardens, or any other in your pari&s;h haue in your rege&s;tries made any orders, or do v&s;e to call any parties before you for any cau&s;e to be ordered by the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall lawes, and &s;o do v&s;e a kind of Pre&s;biterie or cen&s;uring ouer your neigh|boures, vnder pretence of your ve&s;trie meetings?</P>
<P N="17">17 Whether any of your pari&s;h, being of conuenient age, haue not recei|ued the holy Communion thrice this la&s;t yeere at the lea&s;t, and namely at Ea&s;ter la&s;t, or thereaboutes for once, and what their names are, or which at their receiuing haue not &s;ignified the &s;ame before to your Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, that he might conueniently examine them: and who haue refu&s;ed to come to him to be examined?</P>
<P N="18"><PB REF="8">18 Whether there be any in your pari&s;h that doth admini&s;ter the goodes of tho&s;e that be dead without lawfull authoritie; or any that &s;uppre&s;&s;e the la&s;t will of the dead, or any Executors that haue not fulfilled their te&s;tators la&s;t will, in paying of legacies giuen to the Church, or to other good and godly v&s;es; as to the reliefe of pouerty, to Orphanes, poore Schollers, poore Maydens marriages, High-wayes, and &s;uch like, and by whom are they &s;o deteyned?</P>
<P N="19">19 Whether there be any in your pari&s;h, that &s;ince the fourth of Augu&s;t 1601. hath or doth offend contrary to the Statute made in the &s;eauen and thirtieth yeere of the raigne of King <HI>Henrie</HI> the eight, for the reformation of V&s;urie, and reuiued by an Act made in the thirteenth yeere of the raigne of our late Queene <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> taking aboue the rate of ten poundes for the lending of an hundred poundes by the yeere: and what be the names of &s;uch offenders?</P>
<P N="20">20 Whether hath your Mini&s;ter, or any of the pari&s;h, without the con&s;ent or priuitie of the Ordinarie, cau&s;ed any to do penance, or be puni&s;hed eyther openly or otherwi&s;e, for any crime puni&s;hable by the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall lawes onely, and what be the names of the parties that haue been &s;o puni&s;hed, and in what manner?</P>
<P N="21">21 Whether there be any among&s;t you that do v&s;e Sorcerie or Witch|craft puni&s;hable by the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall lawes, or that be &s;u&s;pected of the &s;ame: and whether any v&s;e any Charmes or vnlawfull Prayers: and whether any do re&s;ort to any &s;uch for helpe and councell, and what be the names, both of &s;uch as v&s;e it, and of &s;uch as re&s;ort to them for helpe?</P>
<P N="22">22 Whether any couples that be marryed in priuate hou&s;es within the&s;e three yeeres la&s;t pa&s;t, haue been knowne, or &s;u&s;pected to haue been marryed by any popi&s;h Prie&s;t or otherwi&s;e, after any other order then is appoynted by the Church of England?</P>
<P N="23">23 Whether there be among you any bla&s;phemers of the name of God, great or often &s;wearers, adulterers, fornicators, harlots, or whorema&s;ters, ince&s;tuous per&s;ons, bawdes, or receiuers of naughtie and incontinent per|&s;ons, or harborers of women with child which be vnmarryed, conueying or &s;uffering them to go away before they do any penance: or any that be vehe|mently &s;u&s;pected of any &s;uch faultes, or that be not of good name and fame touching &s;uch crimes and faultes of drunkards, or ribawdes: or any that be malitious, contentious, or vncharitable per&s;ons, raylers, &s;coulders, or &s;ow|ers of di&s;cord betweene nighbours, and e&s;pecially raylers again&s;t mini&s;ters and again&s;t their marryage, and what be all their &s;euerall names?</P>
<P N="24"><PB REF="8">24 Whether there be any in the&s;e partes, that haue been marryed within the degrees of affinitie or con&s;anguinitie, by the lawes of God forbidden: or any that being diuorced or &s;eperated for the &s;ame, do yet notwith&s;tanding cohabite and keepe company &s;till together: or any that being marryed with|out tho&s;e degrees, haue vnlawfully for&s;aken their wiues or hu&s;bandes, and marryed others: Any that being diuorced or &s;eparated a &s;under, haue mar|ryed againe: any that haue marryed without Banes three &s;euerall Sun|dayes or Holy dayes &s;olemnely a&s;ked, &amp; without lawfull licen&s;e thereunto: or any couples married that liue not together, but &s;launderou&s;ly liue apart?</P>
<P N="25">25 Whether there be any in your pari&s;h who will come to heare the Ser|mon, but will not come to the publike prayer appoynted by the booke of Common prayer, making a &s;chi&s;me or diui&s;ion (as it were) betweene the v&s;e of publike prayer and preaching? And whether there be any, who being pre|&s;ent at publike prayer, do not deuoutly and humbly kneele vpon their knees, at &s;uch times as by the Booke of common prayer they are appoynted; to wit, when they make a generall confe&s;&s;ion of their &s;innes: when all prayers and Collects are read: in the time of the Lettenie: when the tenne Com|maundements are read, and at their receiuing of the holy Communion, &amp;c. and what are their names that haue at any time &s;hewed them&s;elues vndueti|full and vnreuerent in this behalfe?</P>
<P N="26">26 Whether the Mini&s;ter and Church-wardens haue &s;uffered any Lord of Mi&s;-rule, or Summer lord or ladyes, or any di&s;gui&s;ed per&s;ons: any play|ers, or May-games, or any Moris-dauncers at any time to come vnreue|rently into the Church or Church yard, and there to daunce or play, or &s;hew them &s;elues di&s;gui&s;ed in the time of Common prayer, and what they be that commit &s;uch di&s;order, or that accompanied or maintayned them: or any Playes to be played in the Church?</P>
<P N="27">27 Whether there be any marryed women or others within your Pari&s;h, which after chyldbirth, refu&s;e or contemne to come to the Church to giue God thankes for their deliuery, and to haue the prayers publikely appoynted in that behalfe by the booke of common prayer?</P>
<P N="28">28 Whether any within your Pari&s;h do re&s;ort vnto Barnes, Fieldes, Woodes, priuate Hou&s;es, or to any extraordinay expo&s;ition of Scriptures, or conferences together, or that be drawers or per&s;waders of others to any &s;uch &s;ci&s;maticall conuenticles.</P>
<P N="29">29 Whether any do keepe their chyldren vnbaptized longer then is con|ueuient, vnle&s;&s;e it be for &s;ickne&s;&s;e of the child, or other vrgent occa&s;ion: And
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whether any doe carry their children from the Pari&s;h they are borne in, to other Pari&s;hes to be bapitzed, and &s;o refu&s;e their owne Pari&s;h: or do bring &s;trange mini&s;ters into their owne hou&s;es to baptize their children priuatly, according to their owne fanta&s;ies;</P>
<P N="30">30 Whether any notorious Recu&s;ant, who ob&s;tinately refu&s;eth to be par|taker with the Church of England in publike prayer, and hearing of the word of God preached, who is for his di&s;obedience and contempt excom|municated, and dyeth excommunicate, be buryed in Chri&s;tian buriall, not hauing before his death &s;ought to be ab&s;olued, and te&s;tified the &s;ame his &s;ub|mi&s;&s;ion to &s;ome hone&s;t and di&s;creete man, who &s;hall vpon his oath &s;ignifie to the Bi&s;hop of the Dioces, whereby his Lord&s;hip may giue order to the Or|dinarie, before whom he was excommunicate for his ab&s;olution.</P>
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<P>AT the deliuerie of your Bill of pre&s;entment, at the time and place aboue &s;et downe, you are likewi&s;e in the &s;ayd Bill, to &s;et downe the names of all &s;uch as haue been buried at any time &s;ince the &s;euenth of Augu&s;t 1604. being men, maydes, or widdowes: and likewi&s;e the names of &s;uch as haue been married by any Licen&s;e &s;ince that time, and out of what Court they haue been graunted, &s;ince the &s;ayd &s;euenth of Augu&s;t.</P>
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