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england_n	church_n	king_n	religion_n	6,583	5	5.6955	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00170	Articles ministred by the reuerend father in God. Anthony by the grace of God Bishop of Chichester to the churchwardens throughout the whole diocesse of Chichester, at the visitation begun there the 6 of September 1600, and to bee enquired of quarterly within the saide diocesse; Visitation articles. 1600	Church of England. Diocese of Chichester. Bishop (1596-1605 : Watson); Watson, Anthony, d. 1605.	1600 (1600)	STC 10180; ESTC S111833	8,612	16

any day not appoynted by publique authoritie and who were at the sayde feast or exercise 44. Item whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curat or any other preach expound interpret exercise or Catechise in any priuat méetings or conuenticles within your parish wher are the same held and who resort thereto 45. Whether doth your Parson Vicar Curate at their Sermons Lectures or exercises pronounce all that forme of prayer for hir Maiestie and the whole Realme set foorth in the end of the Quéenes Iniunctions 46. Whether doth your Minister bid all such holydayes and fasting dayes as are appointed by the booke of common prayer and say seruice vpon the same holidayes and vpon euery Wednesday and Friday and doth any of your parishioners worke vpon any of the sayd holidayes 47. Whether your Parson Vicar or Curat doe Preach expound the Scriptures in his owne cure or in any other place not being lycenced so to doe by the Ordinarie 48. Whether any Curat or Minister bée suffered to serue in the Church before hée bée examined and admitted by the ordinary in writing vnder the seale of his office and before he shew his lycence vnto the Churchwardens 49. Whether the Register of all weddings burialls and christnings within your parish be well kept and a coppie of them once euery yéere within one moneth after Easter transmitted to the register and whether the Quéenes Maiesties Iniunctions be quarterly read 50. Whether yéerely in the Rogation wéeke for the better knowing and retayning of the circuite of your parish for the obtayning of gods blessing vpon the fruits of the ground the Parson Vicar or Curat the Churchwardens and certaine other of the substantiall of the parish with other of the younger sort walk the accustomed bounds of the parish saying or singing in English the hundred and third the hundred and fourth psalmes the Letanie with an homily deuised for that purpose and other deuout prayers Beehauiour of Ministers 51. Whether your Parson or Vicar be resident vpon his benefice and kéepe hospitalitie according to his abilitie 52. Whether they kéepe their mansion houses and chauncels in good sufficient reparations 53. Whether they kéepe in their houses any persons men or women suspected of euill life or of euill religion 54. Whether your Minister or Curat be suspected of any notorious crime as of filthie lucre couetousnesse adulterie blasphemie periurie drunkennesse idlenesse filthie and vaine talke or else is flaunderous in any part of his conuersation thorow brawling fighting quarrell picking peace breaking 55. Whether they haunt ale-houses tauerns Innes or any suspected place or vse any vnlawfull gaming as dauncing carding dicing hawking and hunting 56. Whether your Minister and Curate doe vse at home and abroad such apparell as publick order appoynteth to bée decent for them to weare and that their wiues children and families bée appareled handsomly without vanity and great charges fit for the calling of their husbands and doe vse the Surples at the time of common prayer 57. Whether your Parson or Vicar hath at any time since the thirtéenth yéere of the Quéenes Maiesties raigne made any manner of lease or graunt of his Parsonage or Vicaridge or any part thereof he being absent and not risident vpon the same to any other then to his Curat that dyd or doth serue his cure in his absence Schooles 58. Whether the Schoolemaisters Teachers within your parish be examined allowed or licensed by the Ordinarie vnder his seale whether they teach the Grammer set foorth by King Henry the eyght and no other whether they teach any thing contrarie or repugnant to the order Doctrine and ceremonies of this church of England by publique authoritie established and whether they teach the Catechisme in Latin set foorth Anno. 1570. and allowed and such other Godly learning as may induce them to godlinesse true religion and good conuersation 59 Whether they doe encourage the youth committed to their charge to the loue of true religion and godlines causing them daily comming and departing from the schole to pray vnto God for increase of learning godly life and also teaching them such sentences of the holy scriptures as may frame them to feare God liue vertuously and also causing them to say grace in English before meat after and to giue thanks to God for all his benefites that they at any time receiue of his mercy and not of their deserts 60 Whether your Scholemaisters be negligent in teaching or else be common officers farmers artificers or otherwise intangled in other affaires that they cannot benefit their scholers in learning and what schoolemaisters be in any priuate house 61 Whether aswell the Schoolemaister as the scholers doe come to schoole and leaue it in due time and houres Hospitalls 62 Whether your Hospitals spittles and Almes houses be well repaired and godly vsed according to the foundation auncient ordinaunces of the same and whether there bée any other placed in them then poore impotent and néedy persons that haue not wherewith or whereby to liue Churchwardens 63 Whether your Churchwardens be chosen yéerely one by the parish or the maior part thereof and the other by the Minister vpon the day accustomed 64 Whether at any time héeretofore the Churchwardens or the Minister or the parishioners or any of them to your knowledge or as you haue heard haue with-held or detained in their custody or haue sold wasted spent or otherwise alienated any of the Church goods or stocke 65 Whether the Churchwardens yéerely in writing make their accounts to the parish as well of all receipts as of their necessary expences 66 Whether they doe leuy for not comming to the Church to heare deuine seruice vpon sundaies holidaies xii pence for euery person absent without lawfull cause or present euery such person 67 Whether they doe wast or spoile any part of the church goods whether they call for all manner of legaces giuen to the poore of the parish to the reparations of the Church and such other good vses whether they call for the mony due to be paid for those that are buried in the Church 68 Whether the Minister of the Church the Churchwardens doe certifie in writing vnder their hands and seales to the Ordinary at least wise 14. daies before the Assises or quarter Sessions throughout all the whole yéere all such persons as be absent from hearing diuine and publique seruice in the Church the space of a moneth together at any time that the same certificat may be deliuered to the Iustices and the offenders therin indited according to a statute what lands tenements anuities or goods or chattels are belonging to any vse about the Church and in whose hands the euidences thereof remaine Midwiues 69 Whether your Midwiues be honest sober and skilfull void of supersticion drunkennesse vnséemely behauiour Of the Parishioners 70 Whether the Parishioners and euery of them doe come dayly vpon the sundaies and holydaies to church or kept