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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00204	Articles to be enquired of within the dioces of London, in the visitation of the Reuerend Father in God, Ihon Bishop of London, 1589 in the xxxj. yeare of the raigne of Our Most Gratious Soueraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1577-1594 : Aylmer); Aylmer, John, 1521-1594.	1589 (1589)	STC 10252.5; ESTC S866	11,106	16

you euer heretofore heare or knowe that it was a Parsonage or Vicaredge and how came it to be decayed from being a presentatiue to be in the state it nowe is and when was it first decayed from being a benefice presentatiue as you remember 6 Whether your Fonts or Baptisteries be remoued from the place where they were wout to stand or whether any persons leauing the vse of them doe Christen or Baptize in Basons or other prophane vessells not customably vsed in the Church before time or whether any Christen without eyther Godfather and Godmothers and the signe of the Crosse appoynted by the booke of common prayer Articles concerning Ecclesiasticall officers WHether the Chancellor Archdeacon Commissary officiall or any other vsing Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction in this Dioces their Registers or Actuaries Apparitors or Sumners haue at any time winked at and suffered any Adulterers Fornicators incests or other faults or offences presented vnto them to passe and remayne vnpunished and vncorrected for Money Rewards Bribes Pleasure Frendship or any other partiall or affectionate respect 2 Whether at the Archdeacons visitations which haue bin sithence 1586. the Archdeacon of your Archdeaconrie or his officers hath called to the Church wardens for a Certificate from the Parson Vicar or Curate of your Parish thereby to vnderstand whether the Iniunctions of the saide Bishop giuen in his visitation held in that yeare 1586. haue bin duely and precisely obserued or not according to the Tenor and effect of one of those Iniunctions 3 Whether any haue beene lawfullie presented to the Chancelor Archdeacō Commissarie or Official within these three yeres passed for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiasticall Courts who neither haue made their purgation for the infamie of the same offence nor haue receaued pennance whereby the parish hath béen satisfied Articles concerning Schoolemaisters WHether the Schoolemaisters within your parish openly or priuatly in any Noble or Gentlemans house or in any other place be of good and sincere Religion life and Conuersation and bée diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth and whether they haue bin examined allowed and licensed for Schoolemaisters by the ordinary or his officer in that behalfe 2 Whether your Schoolemaisters doe themselues receiue the holy Communion as often as they ought to doe whether they bring with them so many of their Schollers as be of age sufficient and of capacity by instructions to receiue the Lordes Supper 3 Whether your Schoolemaysters doe orderly on Sondaies with their Schollers come to the Church of their Parish where they teach and there see their Schollers placed in some conuenient place so as they doe not disquiet the Minister or parish in time of deuine seruice but may exercise themselues godly in reading and hearing the seruice and Sermons and in answering with the Congregation in reading of publique prayers 4 Whether the Schoolemaisters eyther priuate or publique doe teache their Schollers the Catechisme aucthorised by publique aucthoritie at the least once euery weeke and doe instruct and examine them in the same or doe teache any other Catechisme and what Catechisme is it that they so teach 5 Whether any of your Schoolemaisters be knowne or suspected to reade vnto their Schollers priuately any bookes or priuately to instruct them in theyr yong yeares eyther in Poperie Superstition or disobedience or contempte to her Maiestie and her Lawes Ecclesiasticall by publique authoritie allowed 6 Whether any Schoolemaisters vnder pretence of Catechising their Schollers which is a most godly order carefully by them to be obserued do keepe Lectures reading or expositions in diuinitie in their houses hauing continuall repayre vnto them of such people as seeke after innouations and refuse their owne Parish Churches and their Minister Articles concerning the Parishioners and others of the Laity Whether all Housholders in your Parish cause their Children Seruants and Apprentices both mankinde and womankinde being aboue seauen yeares of age and vnder twenty which haue not learned the Catechisme to come to the Church on Sondayes and holy-daies at the times appoynted for Catechising there diligently and obediently to heare And what be the names of those that do not cause their Children Seruants and Apprentises so to come to the Church to be instructed and examined 2 Whether any doe worke or kéepe any Shop or any parte of their shop open vpon the Sabaoth dayes or vpon any holy-daies appointed by the Lawes of the Realme to be kept holyday 3 Whether you your selues or the Churchwardens in the yeares before you haue suffered any vnmaried women being begotten with Childe to goe out of the Parish before she hath done pennance or any man defamed of whoredom to departe vnpunished vpon direction appointed by the ordinary and forth of whose houses haue they gone away with Childe vnpunished and how many vnmaried women which haue bin deliuered within your parish these three yeres last past haue gone away without doing of penance 4 Whether there bee any in your Parish that doe themselues forbeare or dehort others from comming to publique prayer and hearing the word Preached condemning all forme of praier which they cal stinted prayer calling our Churches the Temples of Idols and our Preachers false teachers sent in the Lordes wrath which leude opinions some Sectaries haue lately broched 5 Whether any man keepeth or readeth any seditious and Schismaticall bookes or pamphlets written by any which enuaieth against the Religion now receaued or the order and gouernement of the Church now publiquelie established or that stirreth vp the hearers to innouation or altring of the Churches gouernement by Lawe now established 6 Whether the Parish Clarke be appointed according to the auntient custome of the Parish with the allowance of the ordinarie and whether he be not obedient to the Parson Vicar or Curate and whether he be able to reade and whether he keepe the bookes and ornaments of the Church fayre and cleane and cause the Churche and Quier the Communion table and the fonte to bee kepte cleane and decent against the seruice time the Communion Sermon and Baptisme 7 Whether there be any person or persons Ecclesiastical or Temporall within your Parish or elsewhere within this Dioces that haue reteyned or kept in their custodie or that reade sell vtter disperse carrie or deliuer to others any English bookes or Libels set forth either on this side or beyond the Seas by Papistes or others against the Quéenes Supremacie in causes Ecclesiastical or against true Religion and Catholique doctrine or the gouernment and discipline of the Church of England now within this Realme receiued and established by common authoritie and what their names and surnames are 8 Whether there be any in your Parish which for any cause whatsoeuer forbeare to come to Church to publique praier or to heare Gods word preached pretending it vnlawfull to come to our assemblies as the Church of England now standeth 9 Whether any do refuse to receiue the holy Communion at their owne Ministers handes either

because he is not a Preacher or because he duely obserueth the order of ministration appoynted by the Booke and who they be that do go from their own Parish to receiue at any other Ministers hands 10 Whether any of your Parishioners hauing a Preacher to their Parson Vicar or Curate do absent themselues from his Sermons and resort to any other place to learne or followe after such innouations as are there taught 11 Whether the people of your Parish especially householders hauing no lawfull excuse to bee absent do resort with their children and seruants to their Parish Church or Chappell on the Holi-daies and on the Sondaies to morning and euening praier And who they be that either negligently or wilfully absent themselues or come verie late to the Church vpon the Sondaies 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 stréete or Church-yarde or in any Tauerne or Alehouse vpon the Sonday or other holi-day in the time of Common praier or reading of the Homilies either before or after noone 12 Whether the forfeiture of twelue pence for euery time of absence from Church appoynted by a Statute made in the first yeare of the Quéenes Maiesties raigne bée leuied and taken according to the same Statute by the Church-wardens of euery person that offendeth and by them be put to the vse of the poore of the Parish if it be not so leuied by whose default is it 13 Whether there be any Inne-keepers Alewiues Victualers or Tiplers that suffer or do admit any person or persons in their houses to eate or drinke or play at Dice Cardes Tables Boules or such like games in the time of Common praier or Sermon on the Sondaies or Holi-daies or any Butchers or other that commonlie vse to sell meate or other thinges in the time of Common praier Preachings or reading of Homilies And whether in any Fayres or common Markets falling vpon the Sonday there bee any shewing of any wares before Morning praier bee done And whether any markets or selling of wares be vsed or suffered in any Church-yards on the Sabboth day by common Packmen or Pedlers going about 14 Whether the Church-wardens of the last yeare haue giuen to the Parish a iust accompt of the Church goods and rents that were committed to their charge according vnto the custome that hath bin aforetime vsed and what Church goods they or any other haue sold and to whom and whether to the profite of your Church or no and what hath béen done with the money thereof comming 15 Whether the Church-wardens and Sworne-men since the visitation holden 1586. 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 Chauncellor Archdeacon Cōmissarie 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 béen at deuine Seruice on Sondaies or Holi-daies and should there haue obserued others that were absent haue béen away themselues at home or in some Tauerne or Alehouse or els about some worldly busines or at Boules Cardes Tables Dice or other gaming without regarde of their office and duetie in that behalfe 16 Whether your Minister and you the Church-wardens or any other of your Parish haue on your reuesterie made any orders or do vse to call any parties before you for any cause to bee ordered by the Ecclesiasticall lawes and so do vse a kind of presbiterie or censuring ouer your neighbours 17 Whether any of your Parish being of conuenient age haue not receiued the holie Communion thrice this last yeare at the least and namely at Easter last or thereabouts for once and what their names are or which at their receiuing haue not signified the same before to your Parson Vicar or Curate that he might conueniently examine them and who haue refused to come to him to bee examined 18 Whether there bee any in your Parish that administer the goods of those that bee dead without lawfull authoritie or any that suppresse the last Will of the dead or any Executors that haue not fulfilled their Testators will especially in paying of Legacies giuen to the Church or to other good and godlie vses as to the releefe of pouertie to Orphanes poore Schollers poore maydens marriages high waies Schooles and such like and by whom are they so detayned 19 Whether there be any in your Parish that hath or doth offend contrarie to the Statute made in the xxvii yeare of the raigne of King Henry the viii for the reformation of Vsurie and reuiued by an Act made in the xiii yeare of the raigne of the Quéenes Maiestie that now is and what be the names of such offenders 20 Whether hath your Minister or any of the Parish not being Iustices of Peace without the consent or priuitie of the Ordinarie caused any to do penaunce or be punished either openly or otherwise for any crime punishable by the Ecclesiasticall lawes and what bée the names of the parties who haue béen so punished and in what manner 21 Whether the Iniunction sent from my L. Grace of Canterburie and the High Commissioners in Nouember 1587. directed to your Minister and Churchwardens not to receiue strange preachers not licensed be obserued and whether the said Iniunction remaine in your Church or no 22 Whether there be any among you that do vse sorcerie or witchcrafte or that bee suspected of the same and whether anie vse anie charmes or vnlawfull praiers and whether anie doo resort to anie such for helpe and counsell and what be the names both of such as vse it and of such as resort to them for helpe 23 Whether anie couples that be maried in priuate houses within these thrée yéeres last haue béen knowen or suspected to haue béen married after anie other order than is appointed by the Church of England by reason that the one partie or the other are noted to bee such as refuse to come to the Church or dislike of the orders of the Church of England 24 Whether there be among you any Blasphemers of the name of GOD great or often Swearers Adulterers fornicatours incestuous persons bawds or receiuers of naughtie and incontinent persons or harbourers of women with childe which be vnmaried cōueying or suffering them to goe away before they do anie penance or make satisfaction to the Congregation or anie that be vehementlie suspected of anie such faults or that be not of good name fame touching anie such crime and fault anie dronkardes or ribaldes or anie that be malicious contentious or vncharitable persons railers scolders or sowers of discord betweene neighbors and speciallie railers against Ministers and against their marriage 25 Whether there be anie in these parts that haue married within the degrees of affinitie or consanguinitie by the Lawes of God forbidden or