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A00272	Ar[c?]ticles to be inquired of, in the visitation of the most reverend father in God, Richard, by the providence of God, Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke, primate of England, and metropolitane had in the yeere of our Lord God 1636.	Church of England. Province of York. Archbishop (1631-1640 : Neile); Neile, Richard, 1562-1640.	1636 (1636)	STC 10380.5; ESTC S2656	10,484	18

your Minister as oft as he administreth the communion first receive it himselfe in both kinds and whether doth he use in the administration any bread and wine newly brought before it be set upon the Communion Table and the words of consecration be rehearsed doth he deliver the bread and wine to every communicant severally in such sort as is prescribed 7 Whether doth your Minister give warning publikely in the Church at Morning prayer the Sunday before he administreth the communion for the better preparation of the parishioners and whether doth he administer the Sacraments so often as that every parishioner may receive thrice in the yeere at the least whereof Easter to be one 8 Whether hath your Minister administred the Communion to any but such as kneele or doe you know any that refuse to kneele hath he administred to any that are under Ecclesiasticall censure as for refusing to bee present at publike Prayer or who hath depraved the booke of common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments or the Rites Ceremonies prescribed or the Articles of Religion agreed upon or the Booke of ordering Deacons Priests Bishops or against his Majesties Supremacy or hath committed other the like enormities and what be their names 9 Whether hath your Minister more Benefices than one if he have how far distant are they how often is he absent in the yeere when he is absent from your parsonage or vicaradge hath he a licensed Preacher for his Curate 10 Whether your Churches or Chappels be or have beene destitute of a Curate And how long and by whose default And whether any Curate have served or doe serve without license of the Ordinary or doe any officiate in any cure that is not in holy orders 11 Whether doe youknow any Popish Priests Seminary Jesuite or runnagate persons that doe preach say Masse or minister any Popish Sacrament or ceremonies or else doe resort secretly or openly into your Parish And whose house doe they resort unto and of whom are they harboured and what be the names of such Popish Priests Seminaries Iesuites or Runnagates and such as so harbour and releeve them 12 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate or any other person in your parish be a favourer of the Romish Church or Religion or any other Sect or Schismaticall opiniō or hath or doth maintaine or teach any doctrine contrary or repugnant to Gods Word or to any of the Articles agreed upon by the Clergy in the Convocation holden at London An. Dom. 1562. And whether they have taught publiquely or secretly any doctrine tending to the discredit and disprayse either of the Booke of Common Prayer or of the Preachers and Ministers of the Word and Sacraments or of the received order for government by Arch-bishops Bishops Deanes Arch-deacons and other officers in the Church of England or make any other innovation And whether have they permitted any man so teaching or making such innovation and not made the same knowne 13 Whether is your Minister an allowed Preacher if he be doth he every Sunday in your Church or some other next adioyning where no Preacher is preach 14 Whether doth your Minister being no Preacher allowed presume to expound the Scripture in his owne Cure or elsewhere doth he procure every month a Sermon to be preached in his cure by preachers lawfully licenced and on every Sunday when there is no Sermon doth he or his Curate reade some one of the Homilies prescribed 15 Whether your Minister doe openly every Sunday after he have read the second Lesson at Morning Evening praier admonish warne the Church-wardens Sworne men to looke to their charge to observe who offend in absenting themselves negligently or wilfully from their Parish-church or Chappell or unreverently use themselves in time of divine Service 16 Whether is your Curate allowed by the Ordinary under his hand seale to serve for your cure and whether doth he serve two Churches or Chappell 's in one day whether is he Deacon at the least what stipend hath he for serving the cure 17 Whether doth your Minister alwaies in saying publike prayer administring the Sacraments weare a decent surplesse with sleeves being a graduate doth he alwayes weare therewith a hood by the order of the Vniversity agreeable to his degree 18 Whether hath your Minister or any other Preacher in your church preached any thing to confute or impugne any doctrine delivered by any other Preacher hath he they prayed for Christs Catholike Church the Kings Majesty the Lords Arch-bishops and Bishops c. as is prescribed Canon 55. 19 Whether hath or doth any preach in your Church which refuseth to conforme himselfe to the Lawes Rites Ordinances established or which hath not first shewed a sufficient license 20 Whether doth your Minister in his sermons foure times in the yeere at the least teach and declare the Kings Majesties power within his realmes to be the highest power under God to whom all within the same owe most loyalty and obedience and that all forraine power is iustly abolished 21 Whether doth your Minister every Sunday and Holiday halfe an houre before Eevening prayer or more or at some other convenient time at Eevening prayer examine and instruct the youth in the ten Commandements the Beleefe the Lords Prayer the Catechisme set forth in the Booke of Common prayer and whether doe the Church-wardens assist the Minister herein 22 Whether hath your Minister married any which have not beene three severall Sundaies or Holydaies asked in your Church in the time of divine service without licence or without a ring or hath he with licence or without married any whereof neyther dwelt in your Parish 23 Whether hath your Minister with licence or without married any at any other times than betweene the houres of eight and twelve in the Forenoone or in any private house or when there is no licence before the Parents and Governours the parties being under the age of 22. yeeres have testified their consents 24 Whether hath your Minister declared to the people every Sunday at the time appointed what Holidaies and Fasting-daies be that weeke following doth he being a Preacher confer with all recusants and persons excommunicate or suspended being no Preacher doth he procure a sufficient Preacher to reclaime them thereby 25 Whether doth your Minister keepe a note of all persons excommunicated and declared so to be and once every sixe moneths doth he denounce them which have not obtained their absolution on some Sunday in service time that others may be admonished to refraine their company 26 Whether your Parson Vicar or Curate be diligent in disiting the sicke and comforting them and whether they bury their dead in such christian and comely manner as is prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer and whether any Lay man other than a lawfull Minister hath taken upon him to bury the dead contrary to Order 27 Whether hath your Minister refused to

ARCTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF IN THE VISITATION OF the most Reverend Father in God RICHARD by the Providence of GOD Lord Arch-bishop of York● Primate of England and Metropolitane Had in the Yeere of our Lord God 1636. LONDON Printed by JOHN NORTON 1636. The Advertisem●nt THe Minister and Church-wardens are to call unto them the Neyghboures of the Parish and out of them to make choyce according to the custome of the place of two of the discreetest parishioners to be Side-men and they altogether are to reade over these Articles divers times Then after they have duely considered of them they are to write their answere or presentment unto every Article particularly and truely according to their consciences Lastly they are all of them to bring their presentments to the Visitation and there the Church-wardens and Side-men upon their oathes but the Minister according to the Canon in that behalfe are to deliver them up under their handes The oath to bee ministred to the Church-wardens Sworne men YOu shall sweare that all affection favour hatred hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set aside you shall upon due consideration of the Articles given you in charge present all and every 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 and defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shall deliver uprightly and according to truth neyther of malice presenting any contrary to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and so conceale the truth having in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to mayntaine truth to suppresse Vice so helpe you God and the contents of this Booke Touching the Church Church-yard Parsonage and Vicarage-house FIrst whether your Church Chappell and Chancell be well and sufficiently repaired in the walls and roofe the Seats convenient the floore paved the windowes glazed your Bells in tune and all these cleanely kept and the mansion-house of your Parson or Vicar with the building thereunto belonging be likewise well and sufficiently repayred and your Church-yard well fenced with walls rayles or payles and cleanely kept 2 Whether hath your Church or Church-yard beene abused and prophaned by any fighting chiding brawling or quarrelling any playes Lords of misrule summer Lords morris dancers pedlers bowlers bearewards butchers feasts schooles temporall courts o● Leets Lay Iuries musters or other prophane usage in your Church or Church-yard any hells superstitiously rung on Holidayes or their eeves or at any other time without good cause allowed by the Minister and Church-wardens have any Trees beene felled in your Church-yard and by whom 3 Whether are your Almes-houses and Church-House if you have any sufficently repayred mayntained and to godly and their right use imployed 4 Whether have you in your Church all things necessary for common prayer as the Bible in the largest volume the books of common Prayer the booke of Homilies allowed two bookes of common Prayer a convenient Pulpit for the preaching a decent seat for the Minister to reade Service in conveniently placed a strong chest with three lockes and keyes one for the Minister the other for the Church-wardens for the keéping of the Register booke of the Christnings Marriages and Burials and a poore mans boxe with three locks conveniently placed neere the Church doore 5 Whether have you in your Church a font of stone for baptisme set in the ancient usuall place a decent table for the communion conveniently placed covered with silke or other decent stuffe in time of Divine Service and with a faire linnen cloth over that at the administration of the Communion 6 Whether have you all such bells ornaments and other utensils as have anciently belonged to your Church a communion-cup of silver with a cover a faire standing pot or two of pewter or purer metall for the wine upon the communion table a comely Surplesse with sleeves a Register booke of parchment for christnings marriages burials a booke for the names of all strange preachers subscribed with their names and the name of the Bishop or other by whom they had license to preach 7 Whether is the Almes for the poore duely distributed and are the names surnames of all persons married christened and buried and of their parents with the day and yeere entred in your parchment Register booke 8 Whether are the ten Commandements set up in your Church or Chappell and other chosen sentences of holy Scripture upon the walls in convenient places and the Table of the degrees prohibited in marriage set forth 1563 9 Whether have you in your Church or Chappell the booke of the Canons agreed upon in the convocation holden at London Anno. Dom. 1603. and confirmed by his Maiesties royall authority and whether your Minister have read the same in your Church or Chappell once every yeere according to his Maiesties Iniunctions in that behalfe Touching the Ministery Service and Sacraments VVHether is the common prayer said or sung by your Minister both morning evening distinctly reverently every Sunday and Holiday and on their eeves and at convenient and usuall times of those dayes and in most convenient place of the Church for the edifying of the people 2 Whether doth your Minister observe the orders rites ceremonies prescribed in the booke of common prayer in reading holy Scriptures prayers administration of the Sacraments without diminishing in regard of preaching or any other respect or adding any thing in the manner or forme thereof 3 Whether doth your Minister on wednesdaies and fridaies not being holidaies at the accustomed houres of service resort to the Church and say the ordinary prayers and Letany prescribed And doth your Clarke or Sexton give warning before by tolling of a bell on those daies 4 Whether any Minister leaving the use of the Font doe in your Church or Chappell christen or baptize in any basons or other profane vessells or whether your Minister do baptize or christen any out of the face of the Church Congregation without speciall cause or without Godfathers or Godmothers And whether any person or persons be admitted to answere as Godfather Godmother at the christening of any child except he or sh● have before received the holy Communion and whether doth your Minister in the baptizing of children observe the orders rites ceremonies appointed prescribed in the booke of common prayer without addition omission or other innovation 5 Whether doe you know any Parents that keepe children unchristened or that were not christened at their owne Parish Church or Chappell for what cause they remaine yet unchristened or have not beene christened at their Parish Church or Chappell or doe you know have heard or vehemently suspect any parents whose children have beene christened by any Popish Priest or otherwise than by the lawes of the Church of England is allowed 6 Whether doth