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A00206	Articles to be enquired of within the dioces of London, in the visitation of the reuerend father in God, Richard Bishop of London, in his first generall visitation, holden in the fortieth yeere 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.; Visitation articles. 1598	Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1597-1604 : Bancroft); Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.	1598 (1598)	STC 10253; ESTC S111851	12,656	18

ARTICLES To be enquired of within the Dioces of London in the Visitation of the Reuerend Father in God Richard Bishop of London in his generall Visitation Holden In the fortieth yeere 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. AT LONDON Printed by Valentine Simmes 1598. ¶ A Branch of the Statute made in the first yeere of the raigne of our Soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth intituled An Act for the vniformitie of Common prayer and seruice in the Church THat from and after the feast of the Natiuitie of Saint Iohn Baptist next comming all and euery person and persons inhabiting within this Realme or any other the Queenes maiesties dominions shal diligently and faithfully hauing no lawfull or reasonable excuse to be absent indeuour themselues to resort to their Parish Church or Chappell accustomed or vpon reasonable let therof to some vsuall place where common prayer and such like seruice of God shall be vsed in such time of let vppon euery Sunday and other dayes ordained and vsed to be kept as holidayes and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of commō prayer preaching or other seruice of God there to bee vsed and ministred vpon paine of punishment by the Censures of the Church And also vpon paine that euerye person so offending shall forfeit for euery such offence twelue pence to be leuied by the Churchwardens of the Parish where such offence shal be done to the vse of the poore of the same parish of the goods lands and tenements of such offender by way of distresse And for due execution heereof the Queenes most excellent Maiestie the Lords temporal and al the commons in this present Parliament assembled doth in Gods name earnestly require and charge all the Archbishops Bishops and other Ordinaries that they shall indeuour themselues to the vttermost of their knowledge that the true and due execution heereof may be had throughout their Diocesse and Charges as they will answer before God for such euills and plagues wherewith almighty God may iustly punish his people for neglecting this good and wholesome Lawe ❧ The Tenour of the Othe ministred to the Churchwardens and Swornemen YOu shall sweare that all affection fauour hatred hope of rewarde and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set aside you shal vpon due cōsideration of the articles giuen you in charge present all and euery such person of or within your parish as hath committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected or otherwise defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shall deale vprightly and according to trueth neither of malice presenting any contrary to trueth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and so conceale the trueth hauing in this action God before your eies with an earnest zeale to maintaine trueth and to suppresse vice So help you God and the contents of this Booke ¶ The charge of the Churchwardens and Swornemen set downe for the better performance of their dueties and discharge of their Othes THey are straitly charged to heare all these Articles read ouer to them diligently to consider and inquire therof And for that the time is so short in this Visitation that they shall not be able to make a perfect answer vnto all of them and that notwithstanding there are many notorious faults presently worthy of presentment and reformation they are charged to make their answers vnto them presently so farre foorth as their memorie shall now serue them And to present now such faults in their parish as at this time are worthie of presentment or reformation and that after their comming home betwixt this and Saint Martins day next they shall againe heare all the Articles read ouer vnto them and diligently consider and enquire thereof requiring the Minister to assist them for the better performance of their duetie to make a true and full answer in writing signed with their hands and markes wherein they shall present aswell all such faults or offences contrary to the Articles as they forgot or omitted to present at the time of the Visitation as also all such faults and offences contrarie to the Articles as shall happen and chaunce betwixt this and then Articles to be enquired of within the Diocs of London in this visitation holden in the yeare of our Lord God 1598. Articles concerning the Clergie 1 WHether is common prayer read by your minister in your Church or Chappell distinctly and reuerently vppon all Sundayes and holy daies and in such order as is set forth by the laws of this Realme in the booke of Common prayer without any kind of alteration omitting or adding any thing and at due and conuenient houres 2 Whether doth your minister vpon Wednesdayes and Fridaies not being holy daies reade in your church or chappel publikely the Letanie and other prayers appoynted in the sayd booke for those dayes and whether doth he reade the comination against sinners in such order and forme as it is there also prescribed 3 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate in the administration of the Lords Supper or of baptisme when he solemnizeth matrimonie burieth the dead churcheth women c. vse the formes and prayers prescribed in the Communion booke without omitting or altering any part of them and without any of his owne additions 4 Whether doth your parson or Vicar reade publike prayer and administer the Sacraments ordinarily himself vsing such rites and ceremonies as are prescribed in the booke of common prayer as namely whether doth he knéele at the receiuing of the holy communion make the signe of the Crosse vpon the childes forehead in the administration of baptisme baptise any without Godfathers and Godmothers vse the ring in marriage and generally whether doth he in the discharging of all these duties and when he readeth common prayer either vpon Sundaies holidaies Wednesdayes and Fridayes weare a surplice or if you be serued with a curate whether doth he the sayd curate obserue all the sayd particular rites and ceremonies mentioned in this article 5 Whether doth your minister vppon Sundayes at morning prayer declare vnto the parishioners what holyedaies and fasting dayes are appoynted to be kept the weeke following wherby they may be put in mind to prepare themselues and to repaire to the church to publike prayer according to the lawes of the Realme 6 Whether doth your parson vicar or curate or either of them reiect at any time those women being married which doo come to church to giue God thankes after their childbirth or refuse to visit the sicke or to burie the dead according to their duties prescribed in the booke of common prayer 7 Whether doth your minister in the Rogation dayes of procession vse the perambulation of the circuite of your parish appoynted by her maiesties Iniunctions and whether

schoolemaister or schoolemaisters or any of them bee known or suspected to reade vnto their schollers priuately any vnlawful books or priuately to instruct them in their yong yeares either in popery superstition or disobedience or contempt to hir Maiestie and hir lawes ecclesiasticall by publike authoritie allowed 6 Whether your schoolemaister or schoolemaisters or any of them vnder presence of Catechising their schollers which is a most godly order carefully by them to be obserued do keepe lectures readings or exposition in diuinitie in their houses hauing continuall repaire vnto them of people not being of their owne family and houshold 7 Whether the schoolemaister or schoolemaisters within your parish do teach his or their schollers any other grammer then that which is commōly called the kings grammer sette forth by the authoritie of King Henry the eight Articles concerning parishioners and others of the Laitie 1 VVhether all housholders in your parish cause their children seruants and apprentises both mankind and womankind being aboue seuen yeares of age and vnder twentie which haue not learned the catechisme to come to the church on sundaies and holidayes at the times appointed for catechising and there diligently and obediently to heare and what bee 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 the church wardens do quarterly deliuer to the Archdeacon a note of al those who do not send their children seruants to be catechised 3 VVhether any do worke or keepe any shoppe open vpon Saboth daies or vpon any holidaies appointed by the lawes of this realme to be kept holiday or vse any worke or labor or open shew of their wares in any of those daies 4 VVhether you your selues or the Churchwardens in the yeares before you haue suffered any vnmarried women being begotten with child to go out of your parish before she hath done penance or any man defamed of whoredome to depart vnpunished vppon direction appoynted by the ordinarie And forth of whose houses haue they gone away with child vnpunished and how many vnmarried women which haue béene deliuered within your parish these thrée years last past haue gone away without doing of penance 5 VVhether the parish Clarke be appoynted according to the law by the parson or vicar of the parish with the allowance of the Ordinarie and whether he be not obedient to the parson vicar or curate and whether hée be able to reade and whether hée kéepe the bookes and ornaments of the Church faire and cleane and cause the church and quire the communion table and the 〈◊〉 to bee kept cleane and decent against the seruice time the communion sermon and baptisme 6 Whether there bee any person or persons ecclesiasticall or temporall within your parish or elsewhere within this Dioces that haue retained and kept in their custodie or that reade sel vtter disperse carrie or deliuer to others any English bookes or libels sette forth either on this side or beyond the seas by papists or others against the Quéens supremacie in causes ecclesiasticall or against true religion and catholike doctrine or the gouernment or discipline of the church of England now within this realme reuiued and established by common authority and what theyr names and surnames are 7 Whether there be any in your parish who are noted knowne or suspected to conceale or kéepe hidden in their houses any masse bookes portesses breuiaries or other bookes of poperie superstition or any Chalices copes vestments albs or other ornaments of superstition vncancelled or vndefaced which it is to be coniectured they do kéep for a day as they cal it 8 Whether there be in your parish any popish or sectarie recusant or recusants which for any cause whatsoeuer forbeare or disswade and dehort others to come to Church to common prayer or to heare Gods word preached pretending it vnlawfull to come to our assemblies as the church of England now standeth established by her maiesties authoritie and what their seuerall name or names are and how long they haue béene recusants 9 Whether any do refuse to receiue the holy communion at their owne ministers hands either because he is not a preacher or because he duly obserueth the order of ministration appoynted by the booke and who they be that do go from their owne 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 heare other preachers 11 Whether all the people of your parish aboue 16. yeares of age and especially housholders hauing no lawfull excuse to be absent doo resort with their seruants and children to their parish Church or Chappel on the holy daies and on the Sundayes to morning and euening prayer and who they be that either negligently or wilfully absent themselues or come very late to the church vpon the Sundayes or holidaies or that walke talke or otherwise vnreuerently behaue themselues in the church or vse anie gaming or pastime abroade or in any house or sitte in the streete or churchyard or in any tauerne or alehouse vpon the Sunday or holiday in the time of common prayer sermon or reading of the homilies or any of them either before or after noone 12 Whether the forfeiture of xii pence for euerie time of absence from the church vpon euerie sunday and holiday appoynted by a statute made in the first yeare of the Queenes maiesties raigne to bee leuied and taken according to the same statute the tenor whereof is sette downe in the beginning of this booke by the churchwardens of euerie person that offendeth and by them be put to the vse of the poore of the parish if it bee not so leuied by whose fault it is 13 VVhether there be in your parish who doo receiue into their houses keepe harbour or releeue or which do resort to any popish priest or which be noted or suspected to be seducers and perswaders of others by their example or doctrine to poperie or superstitiō therby to alienate the Quéenes subiects from their due obedience and christian religion now by law established in England 14 VVhether there be any Inkéepers alewiues victuallers or tiplers that suffer or do admitte any person or persons in their houses to eate drinke or play at dice cards tables bowles or such like games in the time of common prayer or sermon on the sundayes or holidayes or any Butchers or other that commonly vse to sell meate or other things in the time of Common prayer preaching or reading of homilies and whether in any faires or common markets falling vpon the Sundayes there be shewing of any wares before morning prayer be done and whether any markets selling of wares be vsed or suffered in any churchyards on the Sabboth day by common packmen or pedlers going about or anie Butchers 15 Whether the Churchwardens of the