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A00159	Articles to be enquired of within the prouince of Canterburie in the metropoliticall visitation of the most reuerend father in God, Edmond Archbishop of Canterburie, primate of all England and metropolitane in the xxii yeere of the reigne of our most gracious souereigne Ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queene of England, Fraunce and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1575-1583 : Grindal); Grindal, Edmund, 1519?-1583.	1580 (1580)	STC 10155.7; ESTC S2631	12,839	22

preach not hauing sufficient licence or hath inhibited or letted any from preaching hauing sufficient licence 11 Whether any person or persons not being ordred at the least for a Deacon or licenced by the ordinarie doe say common prayer openly in your Church or Chappell or any not being at the least a Deacon doe solemnize matrimonie or administer the Sacrament of Baptisme or deliuer vnto the Communicants the Lords Cup at the celebration of the holy Communion and what he or they be that so doe And whether the Person Uicar or Fermer of your benefice doe cause or suffer any Curate or Minister to serue your Church before he be examined and admitted by the Ordinarie or his Deputie in writing and do shewe his licence to the Churchwardens and whether any Curate doe serue two Cures at one time without the speciall licence of the Ordinarie or his Deputie in that behalfe in writing first had 12 Whether your Person Uicar or Curate do euery Sunday when there is no sermon reade distinctly plainly some part of the Homilies prescribed set forth by the Queenes authoritie to be read and euery holyday when there is no sermon immediately after the Gospell openly plainly and distinctly recite to his parishioners the Lordes prayer the Articles of the fayth and the ten Commandementes in English and whether any Minister not admitted by the Ordinarie or by other lawful authoritie doe expounde any Scripture or matter of doctrine by the way of exhortation or otherwise and thereby omit and leaue of the reading of the Homilies 13 Whether your Person Uicar or Curate do euery Sunday and holiday openly in the Church call for heare and instruct all the Children Apprentices and seruantes of both sexes that be of conuenient age within your parish or at the least so many of them by course as the tune will serue and as he may well heare and instruct for halfe an houre at the least before or at the euening praier in the ten Commandements the Articles of the beliefe the Lordes prayer and diligently examine and teach them the Catechisme as it is nowe allowed and set forth And whether for that purpose he doth take the names of them al and by course cal certaine of them by name euery Sunday and holiday to come to the teaching of the same Catechisme 14 Whether all fathers and mothers masters and dames of your parish cause their children seruants and apprentices both mankinde and womankinde being aboue seuen yeres of age and vnder twentie which haue not learned the Catechisme to come to the Church on Sundayes and holidayes at the times appoynted or at the least such and so many of them as your Minister shal appoint and there diligently and obediently to heare and to be ordered by the Minister vntill such time as they haue learned the same Catechisme and what be the names of those that doe not cause their children seruantes and apprentices so to come to the Church to be instructed and examined and how many of the said children seruants and apprentices be in your parish which being aboue seuen yeeres olde and vnder twentie yeeres of age can not say by heart the saide Catechisme and what be their names and age and with whom they dwell 15 Whether your Person Uicar Curate or other Minister in your Church or Chappell hath admitted to the receiuing of the holy Communion any open and notorious fornicatour adulterer or euil liuer by whom the congregation is offended without due penance first done to the satisfaction of the congregation or any malicious person y t is notoriously knowne to be out of charitie or that hath done any open wrong to his neighbour by worde or deede without due reconciliation first made to the partie that is wronged 16 Whether your Person Uicar Curate or Minister hath admitted to the holy Communion any of his Parishe being aboue twentie yeres of age either mankinde or womankinde that cannot say by heart the tenne Commaundements the Articles of the faith and the Lords praier in English and what be the names of such as can not say the same or being aboue fourteene yeeres and vnder twentie yeeres of age that cannot say the Catechisme allowed and set forth in the sayd booke of Common prayer And whether he marry any persons which were single before that cānot say the Catechisme And whether he vseth to examine his parishioners at conuenient times before he administer vnto them namely before Easter yeerely to the intent he may knowe whether they can say by heart the same which is required in this behalfe or no 17 Whether your Priests and Ministers be peacemakers and no brawlers or sowers of discorde and exhort their parishioners to obedience towardes their Prince and all other that be in authoritie and to charitie mutuall loue among themselues whether they be diligent in visiting the sick and comforting them and do moue them earnestly especially when they make their Testaments to consider the necessitie of the poore and to giue to their boxe or chest their charitable deuotion and almose 18 Whether they neglect the studie of the holie Scriptures and of the worde of God and whether such of them as be vnder the degree of a Master of Arte haue of their own at the least the newe Testament both in English and Latine and whether they do euery day with good aduisement conferre one Chapter of the Latine and English together at the least And whether they haue giuen due account thereof and to whome 19 Whether any of your persons vicars curates or ministers be fauourers of the Romishe or forreyne power letters of true religion preachers of corrupt and Popishe doctrine or mainteiners of secraries or do set forth and extoll vaine and supersticious religion or be maintainers of the vnlearned people in ignorance and errour encouraging or mouing them rather to pray in an vnknowne tongue then in English or to put their trust in a certain number of praiers as in saying ouer a number of beades Ladie Psalters or other like 20 Whether any doe preach declare or speake any thing in derogation of the booke of common prayer which is set forth by the lawes of this Realme dispraysing the same or any thing therin contayned 21 Whether your Person Uicar or Curate hath or doth maintaine any doctrine contrary or repugnant to any of the Articles agreed vpon by the Clergie in the Connocation holdē at London Anno domini 1562. for the auoyding of diuersities of opinions for establishmēt of consent touching true religion set forth by the Queenes authoritie and whether any hauing bin admitted to his benefice since the thirtenth yere of the Queenes reigne hath not within two monethes after his induction publickly read the saide Articles in your Church in the time of Common prayer there with declaration of his vnfained assent thereunto 22 Whether your person vicar curate minister or reader doe church any vnmarried woman which hath bene gotten with childe

Scripture as be appointed by the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions with the Letanie and Suffrages following the same and reading one Homilie already deuised and set forth for that purpose without wearing any surplesses carying of banners or handbelles or staying at Crosses or any such like popish ceremonies 39 Whether the Parish clarke be appoynted according to the auncient custome of the parish and whether he bee not obedient to the Person Uicar or Curate especially in the time of celebration of diuine seruice or of the Sacraments or in any preparation thereunto And whether he be able and readie to reade y e first Lesson the Epistle and the Psalmes with answere to the Suffrages as is vsed and whether he keepe not the bookes and ornaments of the Church fayre and cleane and cause the Church and Queere the Communion Table the Pulpit and the Font to be made decent and cleane against seruice time the Communion Sermon and Baptisme 40 Whether there be any man or woman in your Parish that resorteth to any popish priest for shrift or auricular confession or any that within three yeeres nowe last past hath bene reconciled vnto the Pope or to the Church of Rome or any that is reputed or suspected so to be and whether there be any that refuse to come to the Church to heare diuine seruice or to communicate according to the order now established by publicke authoritie and what be their names 41 Whether there be any person or persons ecclesiasticall or temporall within your Parish or elsewhere within this Dioces that of late haue retayned or kept in their custodie or that reade sell vtter disperse carie or deliuer to others any English bookes set forth of late yeeres at Louaine or in any other place beyond y e seas by Harding Dorman Allen Saunders Stapleton Marshall Bristow or any of them or by any other English papist eyther against the Queenes Maiesties supremacie in matters ecclesiasticall or against true religion catholicke doctrine now receiued and established by common authoritie within this Realme and what their names and surnames are 42 Whether there be any in your parishe that vseth to praye in English or in Latine vpon Beades or other such like thing or vpon any supersticious popish primer or other like booke and what be their names 43 Whether the people of your parish especially housholders hauing no lawfull excuse to bee absent doe faithfully and diligently endeuour themselues to resort with their chyldren and seruantes to their parish Church or Chappel on the holy dayes and chiefly vpon the Sundayes to Morning Euening prayer and vpon reasonable let thereof to some vsuall place where common prayer is vsed and then and there abide orderly and soberly during the time of common prayer Homilies Sermons and other seruice of God there vsed reuerently and deuoutly giuing themselues to the hearing thereof and occupying themselues at times conuenient in priuate prayer and who they be that eyther negligently or wilfully absent themselues or come very late to the Church vpon the Sundayes especially or that walke talke or otherwise vnreuerently behaue themselues in the Church or vse any gaming or pastime abroade or in any house or sit in the Streetes or Churchyarde or in any Tauerne or Alehouse vpon the Sunday or other holyday in the time of common prayer Sermons or reading of the Homilies eyther before noone or after noone 44 Whether the forfeiture of twelue pence for euery such offence appointed by a statute made in y e first yeere of the Queenes Maiesties reigne beleuied and taken according to the same statute by the Churchwardens of euery person that so offendeth and by them be put to y e vse of the poore of the parish if it be not by whose default it is not leuied And what particular summes of money haue bene forfeyted that way and by whom since the feast of Easter in the yeere of our Lorde 1575. vntill the day of giuing vp the presentment concerning these Articles And so from time to time as the said Churchwardens and swornemen shalbe appointed to present in this behalfe and how much of such forfeitures haue bene deliuered to the vse of the poore of the parishe and to whom the same hath bene deliuered 45 Whether ye knowe any that in the time of the reading of the Letanie or of any other part of the common prayer or in the time of the Sermon or of reading the Homilies or any part of the Scriptures to the parishioners any person haue departed out of the Church without iust necessarie cause or that disturbeth the Minister or preacher any maner of wayes in the time of diuine seruice or sermon and whether any in contempt of their parish Church or Minister doe resort to any other Church or no 46 Whether there be any Inkeepers Alewiues Uittaylers or Tiplers that suffer or doe admit any person or persons in their houses to eate drinke or play at Cardes Tables or such lyke games in the time of common prayer or sermon on the sundaies or holidayes and whether there be any shoppes set open on sundayes or holidayes or any Butchers or others that cōmonly vse to sell meate or other things in the time of common praier preaching or reading of the Homilies and whether in any Fayres or common Markets falling vpon the sunday there be any shewing of any wares before the Morning prayer be done and whether any Markets or selling of any wares bee vsed or suffered in any churchyardes 47 Whether for the putting of the Churchwardens and Swornemen the better in remembrance of their duetie in obseruing and noting such as offend in not comming to diuine seruice your Minister or reader do openly euery Sunday after hee haue read the second Lesson at morning and euening prayer monish and warne the Churchwardens and swornemen to looke to their charge in this behalfe and to obserue who contrarie to the sayde Statute offend in absenting themselues negligently or wilfully from their parish Church or Chappell or vnreuerently as is aforesayde vse themselues in the time of diuine seruice 48 Whether the Churchwardens of the last yeere haue giuen to the parishe a iust account of the Church goods and rentes that were committed to their charge according vnto the custome that hath bene aforetime vsed and what Church goods they or any other haue solde and to whom and whether to the profite of your Church or no and what hath bene done with the money thereof comming 49 Whether the Churchwardens and sworne men of the last yere haue of any priuate corrupt affection concealed any crime or other disorder in their time done in your parish and haue not presented the same to the Bishop Chancelour Archdeacon Commissary or such other as had authoritie to reforme the same and whether they or any of them at any such time as they should haue bene at diume seruice on sundayes or holidayes and should there haue obserued others that were absent haue bin

away thēselues at home or in some tauerne or Alehouse or els about some worldly businesse or at Bowles Cardes Tables or other gaming without regard of their office and duetie in that behalfe 50 Whether any man hath pulled downe or discouered any Church Chauncell or Chappell or any part of any of them any church porche Uestrie or Steeple almosehouse or such like or haue plucked downe y e Belles or haue felled or spoiled any wood or timber in any churchyarde 51 Whether your Hospitals Spittles and Almosehouses be well and godly vsed according to the foundation and auncient ordinances of the same whether there be any other placed in them then poore impotent needie persons that haue not wherewith or whereby to liue 52 Whether any of your parish being of conuenient age haue not receiued the holy communion thrise this last yere at the least and namely at Easter last or thereabouts for once and what their names are or receyuing haue not signified the same before to your person vicar or curate that he might conueniently examine them or that haue refused to come to him to be examined 53 Whether there be any in your parish that hath or doeth offende contrary to the statute made in the xxxvii yere of the reigne of King Henrie the eyght for reformation of vsurie reuiued by an Act made in the xiii yeere of the reigne of the Queenes Maiestie what bee the names of such offenders what is the maner of their vsurie 54 Whether there bee any in your parish that minister the goods of those that be dead without lawful authority or any that suppresse the last will of the dead or any executors that haue not fulfilled their testators will specially in paying of Legacies giuē to the Church or to other good and godly vses as to the reliefe of pouertie to Orphanes poore schollers poore maydes marriages high wayes schooles and such like 55 Whether there be any which of late haue bequeathed in their testaments any Iewels plate ornaments cattel or graine or other moueable stockes annuities or summes of money for the erection or finding of any obites diriges trentales torches lights tapers lampes or any such like vse now by lawe forbidden which are not payd out of any lands and whereunto the Queenes Maiestie is not entytled by any Act of Parliament and if there be any such Legacie or appointment what is the names of such testators and of the executors of their testaments what is the quantitie and qualitie of the gift and to what godly and lawfull vse is the same conuerted and employed 56 Whether there be any money or stocke appertayning to your parish Church or chappell or to the poore of your parish in any mans hands that refuseth or deferreth to pay the same or that vseth fraude deceit or delay to make any accompt in the presence of the honest of the parish for the same and whether any such stocke be decayed by whose negligence and in whose hands and whether the store of the poore mens boxe be openly and indifferently giuen where neede is without partiall affection 57 Whether the schoolemasters which teach within your parish either openly or priuately in any Noble or Gentlemans house or in any other place there be of good and syncere religion and conuersation and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth whether they be examined allowed and licenced by the ordinarie or his officer in that behalfe whether they teach y e Grammer set foorth by King Henrie the eight of Noble memorie and none other whether they teach any thing contrarie to the order of religion nowe established by publicke authoritie and whether they teach not their schollers the Catechisme in Latine lately set foorth and such sentences of Scripture as shalbe most expedient and meete to mooue them to the loue and due reuerence of Gods true religion now truely set forth by the Queenes Maiesties authoritie and to induce them to all godlynesse and honest conuersation and what be the names and surnames of all such schoolemasters and teachers of youth within your parish as well of such as teach publikely as those that teach in the houses of Noble men Gentlemen or other priuate men 58 Whether there bee anye among you that vse Sorcerie or Witchcraft or that be suspected of the same and whether any vse any charmes or vnlawfull prayers or inuocations in Latine or otherwise and namely Midwiues in the time of womens trauell of childe and whether any doe resort to any such for helpe or counsell and what be their names 59 Whether there be among you any blasphemers of y e name of God great or often swearers adulterers fornicators incestuous persons Bawdes or receiuers of naughtie and incontinent persons or harborers of women with childe which be vnmaried conueying or suffering them to goe away before they doe any penance or make satisfaction to the congregation or any that be vehemently suspected of such faults or that be not of good name fame touching such crimes and faults any drunkards or ribalds or any that be malicious contentious or vncharitable persons common slaunderers of their neighbors railers scolders or sowers of discord betweene neyghbours 60 Whether there be any in these parts that haue maried within the degrees of affinitie or consanguinitie by the lawes of God forbydden so set out for an admonition in a table now appointed to be affyxed in euery parish church within this Dioces or any that being diuorced or separated for the same do yet notwithstanding cohabite and keepe company still together or any that being maried without those degrees haue vnlawfully forsaken their wiues or husbands and married others Any man that hath two wiues or any woman that hath two husbands any that being diuorced or separated a sunder haue married againe Any married that haue made precontracts Any that haue made priuie or secret contracts Any that haue married or contracted themselues without the consent of their parents tutors or gouernours Any that haue married without banes thrise solemnely asked Any couples married that liue not together but slaunderously liue apart Any that haue married out of the parish Church where they ought to haue solemnized their marriage 61 Whether the Minister and Churchwardens haue suffered any lordes of Misserule or Summer Lordes or Ladyes or any disguised persons or others in Christmas or at Maygames or any Morrice dauncers or at any other times to come vnreuerently into the Church or Churchyarde and there to daunce or play any vnseemely partes with scoffes ieastes wanton gestures or ribalde talke namely in the time of common prayer And what they be that commit such disorder or accompanie or maintaine them 62 Whether the Archdeacon Chauncelour Commissarie Officiall or any other vsing Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction in this Dioces their Registrares or Arctuaries Apparitors or Summoners haue at any time wincked at and suffered any adulteries fornications incests or other faultes and offences to passe remaine vnpunished and vncorrected for money rewardes bribes pleasure friendship or any other partiall or affectionate respect or any of them haue bene burdensome to any in this Dioces by exacting or taking excessiue fees excessiue procurations any rewardes or commodities by the way of promotion gift contribution helpe redemption of penance omission of quarter Sermons obtayning of any benefices or office or any other like wayes or meanes 63 How many Adulteries Incests and Fornications are notoriously knowne to haue bene committed in your parish since Easter 1579. Howe many offendours in any such faults haue bene put to open penance and openly corrected and howe many haue bene winked at and borne withall or haue fined and payed money to the Archdeacon Chauncelour Commissarie Official or their deputies or to the Deanes Registrares or Summers or any of them for to escape open punishment correction and what their names and surnames be 64 Whether the Deanes Rurals and Sumners or any of them doe pay any annual rent fee or pension for their offices and what they pay and to whom 65 Generally whether there bee among you any notorious euill liuers or any suspected of any notorious sinne fault or crime to the offence of Christian people committed any that stubburnly refuse to conforme themselues to vnitie and godly religion now established by publike authoritie or any that bruteth abroade rumors of the alteration of the same or otherwise that disturbeth good orders and the quietnes of Christs Church and the christian congregation The tenor of the othe ministred to the Churchwardens and swornemen YE shall sweare by Almightie God that ye shall diligently consider all and euery the Articles giuen to you in charge and make a true answere vnto the same in writing presenting all and euery such person and persons dwelling within your Parish as haue committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in any of the same Articles or which are vehemētly suspected or defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein ye shall not present any person or persons of any euill will malice or hatred contrary to the trueth nor shall for loue fauour meede dreade or any corrupt affection spare to present any that be offendours suspected or defamed in any of these cases but shall doe vprightly as men hauing the feare of God before your eyes and desirous to maintaine vertue and suppresse vice So God helpe you