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A00149	Articles to be inquired of, in the first metropoliticall visitation, of the most reuerend father, George, by Gods prouidence, Arch- bishop of Canterbury, and primate of all England in and for the dioces of [blank], in the yeare of our Lord God [blank], and in the fifth yeare of His Graces translation.	Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1611-1633 : Abbot); Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1615 (1615)	STC 10147.4; ESTC S2091	10,328	16

ARTICLES To be inquired of in the first Metropoliticall visitation of the most Reuerend Father GEORGE by Gods prouidence Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England in and for the Dioces of _____ in the yeare of our Lord God _____ and in the fifth yeare of his Graces Translation HEB DDIEV HEB DDIM LONDON Printed by William Iaggard The Tenor of the Oath to be Ministred to the Church-wardens and Side-men YOu shall sweare that you and euery of you shall duly consider and diligently enquire of all and euery of these Articles giuen you in charge and that all affection fauour hatred hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set aside you shal present all and euerie such person of or within your Parish as hath committed anie offence or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected or defamed of any such offence or default Wherein you shal deale vprightly and fully neither presenting nor sparing to present any contrary to trueth hauing in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine trueth and to suppresse vice So helpe you God and the holy Contents of this Booke ¶ Concerning the Church the Ornaments thereof and the Churches possessions 1 IMprimis whether haue you in your seuerall Churches and Chappels the whole Bible of the largest volume and the Booke of Common Prayer lately set forth by his Maiesties authoritie both fairely and substantiallie bound a Font of Stone set vp in the auncient vsuall place a conuenient and decent Communion Table with a Carpet of Silke or some other decent stuffe continuallie laide vpon the Table at time of Diuine seruice and a faire Linnen cloath vpon the same at the time of the receiuing of the holy Communion And whether is the same table placed in such conuenient sort within the chancell or church as that the Minister may be best heard in his Prayer and administration and that the greatest number may communicate And whether is it so vsed out of time of Diuine seruice as is not agréeable to the holy vse of it and by sitting on it throwing Hats on it writing on it or is it abused to other prophaner vses and are the Ten Commaundements set vpon the East-end of your church or chappell where the people may best sée and reade them and other sentences of holy Scripture written on the walles likewise for that purpose 2 Item whether haue you in your said church or chappell a conuenient seat for your Minister to read seruice in together with a comely pulpet set vp in a conuenient place with a decent cloath or cushion for tho same a comely large Surplice a faire Communion cup with a couer of Siluer a Flaggon of Siluer Tinne or Pewter to put the Wine in whereby it may be set vpon the Communion Table at the time of the blessing thereof with all other things and ornaments necessarie for the celebration of Diuine Seruice and administration of the Sacraments And whether haue you a strong Chest for Almes for the poore with thrée Lockes and Keies and another chest for kéeping the Bookes and Ornaments of the Church and the Register Booke And whether haue you a Register Booke in Parchment for Christnings Weddings and Burials and whether the same be kept in all pointes according to the Cannons in that behalfe prouided And whether haue you in your saide Church or Chancell a Table set of the degrees wherein by Law Men are prohibited to marry 3 Whether are your Church and Chappels with the Chancels thereof and your parsonage or vicarage house your Parish Almes-house and Church-house in good reparations and are they imployed to godly and their right holy vses Is your Church Chancell and Chappell decently and comely kept as well within as without and the seats well maintained according to the 85. Cannon in that behalfe prouided Whether your Church-yard be well fenced and kept without abuse and if not in whose default the same is and what the defect or fault is And whether any person haue incroached vpon the ground of the Church-yard or whether any person or persons haue vsed any thing or place consecated to holy vse prophanely or wickedly 4 Whether haue you the Terrier of all the Gleabe Lands Medowes Gardens Orchards Houses Stockes Implements Tenements and portions of Tiths whether within your Parish or without belonging vnto your parsonage or vicarage taken by the view of honest men in your said Parish And whether the same Terrier be laid vp in the Bishops Registery and in whose hands any of them are now And if you haue no Terrier already made in Parchment you the Church-wardens Side-men together with your Parson or Vicar or in his absence with your Minister are to make diligent inquiry and presentment of the premises and make subscribe and signe the said Terrier as aforesaid Concerning the Ministers 1 VVHether doth your Minister distinctly and reuerently say Diuine seruice vpon Sundaies and Holidaies and other daies appointed to be obserued by the booke of Common Prayer as Wednesdaies and Fridaies and the eeues of euery Sunday and Holiday at fit and vsuall times And doth your Minister duely obserue the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the said Booke of common Prayer as well in reading publike prayers and the Letany as also in administring the Sacraments solemnization of Matrimony visiting the sick burying the dead Churching of Women and all other like Rites and Offices of the Church in such manner and forme as in the said Booke of Common prayer hee is inioyned without any omission or addition And doth hee reade the Booke of the last Cannons once yearely and weare a Surplice according to the said Cannons 2 Doth your Minister bid Holidaies and Fasting-daies as by the Booke of Common Prayer is appointed And doth hee giue warning before hand to the Parishioners for the receiuing of the holy Communion as the two and twentith Canon requireth and whether hee doth administer the holy Communion so often and at such times as that euery Parishioner may receyue the same at the least thrice in euery yeare whereof once at Easter as by the Booke of Common Prayer is appointed And doth your Minister receyue the same himselfe on euery day that hee administreth it to others and vse the words of Institution according to the Booke at euery time that the Bread and Wine is renewed accordingly as by the prouiso of the 21. Canon is directed And doth he deliuer the Bread and Wine to euery Communicant seuerally Whether hee hath admitted to the holy Communion any Offender or Schismaticke contrary to the 26. and 27. constitutions or receyued any to the communion being not of his owne Cure or put any from the communion who are not publickly infamous for any notorious crime Doth he vse the sign of the crosse in Baptisme or baptize in any Bazon or other vessell and not in the vsuall font Or admit any

cause 16 Whether any person in your Parish doe exercise any Trade or labor buy or sell or keepe open Shoppes or Ware-houses vppon anie Sunday or Hollidaie by themselues their Seruants or Apprentices or haue otherwise prophaned the saide daies contrarie to the orders of the Church of England And whether there bee any Inne-kéepers Ale-house-kéepers Victualers or other persons that permitte any persons in their Houses to eate drinke or play during the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon or reading the Homilies in the forenoone or afternoone vpon those daies 17 Whether the fift daie of August and the fift daie of Nouember be kept holie and thanks-giuing made to God for his Maiesties and this States happie deliueraunce according to the Ordinance in that behalfe 18 Whether anie of your Parish hold or frequent anie conuenticles or priuate Congregations or make or maintaine anie constitutions agreed vppon in anie such assemblies Or anie that doe write or publiquelie or priuatelie speake against the Booke of Common prayer or any thing therein contained or against anie of the articles of Religion agréed vppon in Anno 1562. or against the Kinges Supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall or against the Oath of Supremacie or of Allegiance as pretending the same to bee vnlawfull and not warrantable by the worde of GOD Or against anie of the Rites or Ceremonies of the Church of England now established Or against the gouernment of the Church of England vnder the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Arch-Bishops Bishoppes Deanes Arch-Deanes and other Officers of the same affirming that the same is repugnant to the Worde of GOD and that the saide Ecclesiasticall Officers are not lawfully ordained Or whether there bee anie Authours Maintainers or Fauourers of Heresie or Scisme or that be suspected to be Annabaptists Libertines Brownistes of the Familie of Loue or of anie other Heresie or Scisme present their names 19 Whether any in your parish haue ●arried within the de●rées by Law prohibited or any couple in your parish being lawfully married liue apart one from the other without our separation of the Law or any that haue beene diuorced which kéepe company with any other at B●ode or at Boord and when and where were they married Phisitions Surgeons and Mid-wiues 20 HOw many Phisitions Chirurgions or Mid-wiues haue you in your parish How long haue they vsed their seuerall Sciences or Offices and by what authority And how haue they demeaned themselues therein and of what skill are they accounted to be in theyr profession 21 Whether do any persons administer the goods of the dead without lawfull authority or suppresse the last will of the dead Or are there in your parish any wils not yet prooued or goods of the dead dying intestate left vnadministred By authority in that behalfe you shall not faile to present the Executors and all others faulty therein and also how many persons being possessed of any Goods and chattels haue died within your parish since the xvii day of Aprill 1613. 22 Whether any with-hold the stocke of the church or any goods or other things giuen to good and charitable vses 23 Whether your Hospitals and Almes-houses and other such houses and corporations founded to good and charitable vses and the lands possessions and goods of the same be ordered disposed of as they should be And do the Maisters Gouernours Fellowes and others of the saide Houses and corporations behaue and demeane themselues according to the godly Ordinances and Statutes of their seuerall Foundations 24 Whether haue you any in your parish to your knowledge or by common fame or report which haue committed Adultery Fornication or Incest or any which haue impudently bragged or boasted that he or she haue liued incontinently with any person or persons whatsoeuer or any that hath attempted the chastitie of anie woman or solicited anie woman to haue the carnall knowledge of her bodie or which are commonly reputed to be common Drunkards Blasphemers of Gods holie Name common Sweaters common Slanderers of their Neighbours and sowers of discord filthy and lasciuious Talkers Vsurers fr●monicall persons Bawdes or Harborers of women with childe which bée vnmarried or conueying or suffering them to goe awaie before they haue made satisfaction to the congregation or any that hauing héeretofore béene presented or suspected of any the foresaid crimes haue for that cause departed your Parish and are now returned againe Or any which haue vsed any inchantments sorceries incan●ation● or witchcrafts which are not made fellony by the statutes of this Realme or am which haue committed any periuty in any Ecclesiasticall Court in an Ecclesiasticall cause or which haue committed any forgery punnishable by the Ecclesiasticall Lawes and the procurors and abeitors of the said offences You shall truely present the names of all and singuler the said Offendors and with whome they haue committed the laide offences in case they haue not béene publikely punnished to your knowledge for the same cr●mes Touching the Church-wardens and Side-men 1 WHether you and the Church-wardens Quest-men or Side-men from time to time doe and haue done their diligences in not suffering any idle person to abide eyther in the Church yard or Church-porch in Seruice or Sermon time but causing them eyther to come into the church to heare diuine Seruice or to depart and not disturbe such as be hearers there And whether haue they and do you diligently see the parishioners duely resort to the Church euery Sunday and Holliday and there to remaine during Diuine Seruice and Sermon And whether you or your predecessors Church-wardens there suffer any Plaies Feasts Drinkings or any other prophane vsages to be kept in your church chappell or church-yards or haue suffered to your and their vttermost power and endeuour any person or persons to be tipling or drinking in any Inne or Victuling House in your parish during the time of Diuine Seruice or Sermon on Sundaies and Hollidaies 2 Whether and how often haue you admitted any to preach within your church or chappell which was not sufficiently licensed And whether you together with your Minister haue not taken diligent héed and care that euery of your parishioners béeing of sixtéene yeares of age o●vowards haue receiued thrice euery yeare as aforesaid and also th●t no stranger haue vsually come to your church from their owne parish church 3 Whether haue there béene prouided against euery communion a sufficient quantity of fiue white bread and of good and wholesom wine forthe communicants that shall receiue And whether that wine bée brought in a cleane and swéete standing pot of pewter or of other purer Mettall 4 Whether were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and the parishioners And haue the late Churchwardens giuen vp a iust account for their time and deliuered to their Successors the Money and other things belonging to the Church which was in their hands And are the Almes of the Church faithfully distributed to the vse of the poore Concerning Ecclesiasticall Magistrates and Officers 1 VVHether doe you know or haue heard of any payment composition or agréement to or with any Ecclesiastical M●gi●trate Iudge or Officer for winking at or sparing to punish any person for any offence of Ecclesiasticall Conusance or for suppressing or concealing of any excommunication or any other Ecclesiasticall Censure of or against any Recusant or any other offender in the cases aforesaid what summe of Money or other consideration hath beene receiued or promised by or to any of them in that respect by whom and with whom 2 Hath any person within your parish paide or promised any sum of Money or other reward for comutation of pennance for any crime of Ecclesiasticall Conusance If so then with whom When and for what and how hath the same beene imployed 3 Are your Ecclesiasticall Iudges and their substitutes Maisters of Artes or Batchellors of the Lawes at the least learned and practised in the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall Lawes Men of good Life and Fame zealously affected in Religion iust and vpright in executing their offices Haue they heard any matter of office priuately in their Chambers without their sworne Registers or their Deputies presence 4 Doe you know or haue you heard that any Ecclesiasticall Iudge Officer or Minister hath receiued or taken any extraordinary Fées 〈◊〉 other rewards or promises by any wayes or meanes directly or indirectly of any person or persons whatsoeuer either for the graunting of the administration of the Goods and Chattelles of those that haue died intestate to one before another or for allotting of larger portions of the goods and chattels of those that haue dyed intestate to one more then to another or for allowing large and vnreasonable accounts made by Executors or Administrators or for giuing them Quietus est or discharges without Inuentory or account to defraude Creditors Legataries or those who are to haue portions And what summes of Money doe you know or haue you heard that any Ecclesiasticall Iudge or Officer hath taken out of the state of any dying intestate vpon pretence to bestow the same in pios vsus and how haue the same béene bestowed 5 Hath any Ecclesiasticall Magistrate Iudge Officer or any other exercising