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ARTICLES
to
be
enquired
of
,
in
the
Kynges
Maiesties
Visitacion
.
FIrst
,
whether
that
the
Bishop
,
Archedeacons
,
and
other
,
hauynge
iurisdiccion
Ecclesiasticall
,
haue
caused
onely
to
be
song
or
sayde
the
English
Procession
in
their
Cathedrall
churche
,
&
other
churches
of
their
Diocesse
.
Item
,
whether
your
Bishop
,
Chauncelor
,
Commissarie
,
Archedeacon
,
or
Officiall
be
propense
and
light
in
excommunicating
of
men
,
for
a
litle
Lucre.
Item
,
whether
they
or
any
of
them
,
for
one
mans
trespasse
,
haue
taken
away
from
the
people
,
and
the
whole
parishioners
,
their
diuine
seruice
,
as
for
violatyng
&
suspending
the
churche
yeardes
and
suche
lyke
.
Item
,
whether
thei
do
take
excessiue
somes
of
money
for
consecratinge
agayne
either
of
the
church
yeardes
,
or
of
any
other
ornamentes
for
the
vse
of
alters
,
or
of
belles
,
where
is
no
nede
of
consecracion
,
but
is
supersticiouse
and
lucratiue
.
Item
,
whether
that
they
or
any
of
them
take
any
great
exactions
,
for
institucions
,
induccions
assignations
of
pencions
,
or
for
any
other
mater
Ecclesiasticall
.
Item
,
whether
they
do
lightly
call
any
Persons
before
them
,
ex
officio
,
and
put
them
to
their
purgacion
,
without
vrgent
suspicion
or
infamy
proued
,
Item
,
whether
the
Bishop
haue
not
preached
without
dissimulacion
,
agaynste
the
vsurped
power
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
and
set
furth
the
kynges
of
Maiesties
Iurisdiction
to
bee
the
onely
supreme
power
in
all
his
realmes
and
dominions
.
Whether
the
Bishop
haue
personally
preached
in
any
of
your
churches
,
or
any
wher
with
in
this
diocesse
,
and
how
ofte
in
the
yere
.
Item
,
whether
he
and
hys
officers
haue
diligently
executed
for
their
part
,
our
late
Kynges
Iniunctions
and
his
letters
missiues
,
for
a
due
order
in
the
religion
of
Christe
,
and
caused
the
sayde
Iniunctions
and
letters
,
to
be
diligently
put
in
execution
thorough
his
Diocesse
.
Item
,
whether
he
hath
learned
and
discrete
officers
vnder
him
,
that
do
without
any
respect
of
persones
punyshe
suche
crymes
,
as
apperteyneth
to
Ecclesiasticall
iurisdiction
.
Item
,
whether
he
or
any
of
his
officers
,
do
take
any
money
or
other
gifte
,
to
hyde
&
cloke
adultery
,
or
any
other
notorious
vyce
,
that
ought
by
them
to
be
punished
.
Item
,
if
any
commutacion
of
penaunce
haue
ben
made
to
a
pecuniary
some
,
to
what
purpose
the
same
hathe
bene
conuerted
,
and
what
good
dedes
hathe
bene
done
with
the
same
,
and
specify
the
same
deedes
.
Item
whether
the
bishop
hath
suche
chaplaines
aboute
hym
,
as
been
hable
to
preache
thee
woorde
of
God
,
and
do
the
same
purely
and
sincerely
,
and
howe
ofte
in
the
yere
,
how
many
they
be
,
and
what
be
their
names
.
ITem
whether
Persones
,
Vicars
&
Curates
,
and
euery
of
them
,
haue
iustly
and
truely
without
dissimulacion
,
preached
against
the
vsurped
power
,
and
pretensed
aucthoritie
&
iurisdiccion
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
.
Item
,
whether
thei
haue
preached
and
declared
,
that
the
Kynges
Maiesties
power
,
aucthoritie
,
and
preeminence
,
is
wythin
thys
Realme
and
the
dominions
of
the
same
,
the
moste
supreme
and
highest
vnder
God
.
Item
,
whether
any
persone
hath
by
writyng
,
Cyphryng
,
Printyng
,
preachyng
,
or
teachynge
,
dede
,
or
acte
,
obstinately
holden
and
stand
with
,
to
extoll
,
set
furthe
,
maintein
or
defende
,
the
aucthoritie
,
iurisdiccion
or
power
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
or
of
his
Sea
,
heretofore
claimed
and
vsurped
:
or
by
any
pretense
,
obstinatly
or
maliciously
inuented
any
thyng
for
the
extollyng
of
the
same
,
or
any
parte
therof
.
Item
,
whether
they
haue
declared
to
theyr
Parishioners
the
articles
concernyng
the
abrogacion
of
certayn
superfluous
holy
dayes
,
and
dooen
their
indeuoure
,
to
perswade
their
sayed
Parishioners
to
kepe
and
obserue
the
same
articles
inuiolably
,
and
whether
any
of
those
abrogated
daies
hath
sithens
the
sayed
abrogacion
,
been
kept
as
holy
dayes
,
contrary
to
the
said
articles
,
and
by
whose
occasion
they
were
so
kept
.
Whether
there
do
remayne
not
taken
doune
in
your
Churches
,
Chapelles
,
or
els
where
,
any
misused
Images
,
with
Pilgrimages
,
clothes
,
stones
,
shoes
,
offerynges
,
kissynges
,
Candelstickes
,
trindilles
of
waxe
,
and
suche
other
like
,
and
whether
there
do
remayne
not
delayed
and
destroyed
,
any
Shrines
,
coueryng
of
Shrines
,
or
any
other
monuments
of
Idolatrie
,
Supersticion
and
Hypocrysy
.
Whether
thei
haue
not
diligently
taught
vpon
the
Sondaies
and
holy
daies
,
their
Parishioners
,
and
specially
the
youth
,
their
Pater
noster
,
the
Articles
of
oure
faythe
,
and
the
Tenne
commaundementes
in
English
,
and
whether
thei
haue
expounded
and
declared
the
vnderstandyng
of
the
same
.
Whether
thei
haue
diligently
,
duely
&
reuerently
,
ministered
the
sacramentes
in
their
cures
.
Whether
such
beneficed
men
,
as
be
lawfully
absent
from
their
benefices
,
doo
leaue
their
cure
to
a
rude
and
vnlearned
persone
,
and
not
to
an
honest
,
well
learned
and
expert
Curate
.
Whether
thei
haue
prouided
&
laied
in
some
conuenient
place
of
the
churche
where
thei
haue
cure
,
a
bible
of
the
largest
volume
in
Englishe
.
Whether
Persones
,
Vicars
,
Curates
,
Chauntery
Priestes
,
and
other
stipendaries
be
common
haunters
and
resorters
to
Tauernes
and
Ale-houses
,
geuing
themselfes
to
excessiue
drinkyng
riotyng
,
and
plaiyng
at
vnlawfull
games
,
and
apply
not
themselfes
chiefly
to
the
study
of
scripture
,
teachyng
of
youthe
,
or
some
other
honest
and
Godly
exercise
.
Whether
thei
be
resident
vpon
their
benefices
,
and
kepe
hospitalitie
or
no
:
and
if
thei
be
absent
or
kepe
no
hospitalitie
,
whether
thei
do
make
due
distribucion
emonges
the
poore
Parishioners
or
no.
Whether
they
hauing
yerely
to
dispend
in
spirituall
promocions
an
.
C.
l.
do
not
find
competenly
one
scolar
in
any
vniuersitie
,
or
at
some
grammer
scole
,
and
for
as
many
.
C.
l.
as
euery
of
them
may
dispend
,
so
many
scolars
likewise
be
founde
by
them
,
and
what
be
their
names
that
thei
so
find
.
Whether
thei
kepe
their
Chauncelles
,
Rectories
,
Vicarages
,
and
all
other
houses
apperteynyng
to
them
,
in
due
reparacions
.
Whether
thei
haue
euery
lent
,
required
their
Parishioners
in
their
confession
,
to
recite
their
Pater
noster
,
th
articles
of
our
faith
,
&
the
Tenne
commaundementes
in
Englishe
.
Whether
thei
haue
counsailed
or
moued
theyr
Parishioners
,
rather
to
praye
in
a
toungue
not
knowen
,
then
in
Englishe
,
or
to
put
their
truste
in
any
prescribed
numbre
of
prayers
,
as
in
saiyng
ouer
a
numbre
of
beades
or
other
like
.
Whether
thei
haue
preached
,
or
caused
to
bee
preached
purely
and
syncerely
the
word
of
God
&
the
faith
of
christ
in
euery
of
their
cures
,
euery
quarter
of
the
yere
once
at
the
least
:
Exhortyng
their
Parishioners
to
the
workes
commaunded
by
scripture
,
and
not
to
workes
diuised
by
mannes
phantasies
.
Whether
in
their
sermons
,
they
haue
exhorted
the
fathers
and
Mothers
,
Masters
,
and
gouernors
of
youth
,
to
bryng
theim
vp
in
some
verteous
study
or
occupacion
.
Whether
thei
haue
exhorted
the
people
to
obedience
to
the
kynges
Maiestie
and
his
officers
and
to
charitie
and
loue
,
one
to
another
.
Whether
thei
haue
moued
the
people
to
read
and
heare
the
scripture
in
Englishe
,
&
haue
not
discoraged
theim
from
readyng
and
hearyng
of
the
same
,
suche
as
be
not
prohibited
so
to
do
.
Whether
thei
haue
declared
to
their
parishioners
,
that
thei
ought
to
knowe
and
vnderstande
the
Pater
noster
,
the
Articles
of
our
faith
,
&
ten
commaundementes
in
Englishe
,
before
thei
should
receiue
the
blessed
Sacrament
of
the
aulter
.
Whether
thei
haue
taught
the
people
the
true
vse
of
Images
,
whiche
is
onely
to
put
theim
in
remembraunce
of
the
Godly
and
vertoous
lifes
of
them
that
thei
do
represent
:
and
haue
taught
that
if
thesayed
people
vse
the
Images
for
any
other
purpose
,
thei
committe
Idolatrie
,
to
the
greate
daunger
of
their
soules
.
Whether
they
haue
declared
,
and
to
theyr
wittes
and
power
haue
perswaded
the
people
,
that
the
maner
and
kynde
of
fastynge
in
Lent
&
other
dayes
in
the
yere
,
is
but
a
meere
posytyue
lawe
,
and
that
therfore
all
persons
hauing
iusie
cause
of
sickenes
,
or
necessitie
,
or
beyng
licenced
by
the
kynges
Maiestie
,
maye
temperately
eate
all
kyndes
of
meate
without
grudge
or
scruple
of
conscience
.
Whether
your
Parsonnes
,
Vicars
,
and
Curates
haue
shewed
and
declared
vnto
you
,
thee
true
vse
of
ceremonies
,
that
is
to
say
:
That
they
be
no
workers
,
nor
woorkes
of
saluacyon
,
but
onely
outwarde
signes
and
tookens
to
put
vs
in
remembraunce
of
thynges
,
of
higher
perfection
.
Whether
thei
haue
admitted
any
man
to
preache
in
their
cures
,
not
beynge
lawfully
licenced
thereunto
,
or
haue
refused
or
repelled
suche
too
preache
,
as
haue
bene
so
licenced
.
Whether
they
,
which
haue
spoken
and
declared
any
thyng
for
the
settingfurth
of
pilgrimages
,
fayned
reliques
,
images
,
or
any
such
supersticion
,
haue
not
openly
recanted
the
same
.
Whether
they
haue
one
boke
or
registre
sauefely
kept
,
wherin
they
write
the
daye
of
euery
weddynge
,
christeninge
,
and
buriynge
.
Whether
the
kinges
Iniunccions
wer
quarterly
red
or
not
.
Whether
they
haue
declared
to
theyr
paryshyoners
,
that
sayncte
Markes
daye
,
and
the
euens
of
the
abrogated
holy
dayes
,
should
not
be
fasted
.
Whether
the
knollynge
at
the
Aues
bee
vsed
.
Whether
they
haue
the
procession
boke
in
Englishe
,
&
in
their
processions
vse
none
other
Letany
,
but
that
,
whiche
is
set
furthe
in
the
same
boke
.
And
whether
thei
omitte
the
same
English
Letany
at
any
tyme
in
their
processions
:
&
whether
they
haue
had
the
same
Letanye
as
ofte
as
they
were
commaunded
.
Whether
they
haue
put
out
of
their
churche
bokes
,
this
woorde
Papa
,
and
the
name
and
seruice
of
Thomas
Becket
,
and
prayers
hauynge
rubricies
,
conteyning
Pardons
or
indulgences
and
all
other
supersticious
legendes
&
prayers
.
Whether
they
bid
the
beades
accordynge
to
the
ordre
prescribed
by
our
late
souereigne
lord
kyng
Henry
the
.viij.
Whether
they
or
any
of
them
,
haue
been
admitted
to
their
benefices
by
Simony
,
or
by
any
other
vnlaufull
meanes
.
Whether
in
theyr
masses
they
vse
not
the
collectes
made
for
the
Kyng
,
and
make
not
speciall
mencyon
of
hys
Maiesties
name
in
the
same
.
Whether
they
or
any
of
theim
,
doo
kepe
mo
benefices
,
and
other
Ecclesiasticall
promocions
then
they
ought
to
doo
,
not
hauynge
sufficient
licences
and
dispensacions
therunto
,
and
howe
many
they
kepe
,
and
theyr
names
.
,
:
,
❧
(
◆
'
◆
)
❧
WHether
you
knowe
anye
person
,
that
is
a
letter
of
the
worde
of
God
,
to
be
redde
in
English
:
So
that
it
bee
mekely
,
humbly
,
&
reuerently
done
,
&
without
disturbaunce
of
the
people
,
and
by
them
that
haue
authoritie
thereto
.
Whether
you
knowe
any
person
spirituall
or
temporall
,
which
doeth
let
the
woorde
of
God
,
to
be
preached
,
or
that
the
Kinges
Iniunctions
should
not
be
duely
executed
.
Whether
any
persone
hath
obstinately
and
maliciously
,
without
a
iuste
&
reasonable
cause
,
broken
the
laudable
ceremonies
of
the
Church
,
commaunded
to
be
obserued
,
or
supersticiously
abused
the
same
:
as
in
castynge
of
holy
Water
vpon
theyr
beddes
and
other
places
,
and
bearyng
about
them
holy
breade
,
or
makyng
crosses
of
woodde
vpon
Palme
Sundaye
,
or
blessyng
with
the
holy
Candell
,
thinkyng
therby
to
put
awaye
synnes
,
dryue
awaye
deuilles
,
dreames
,
and
phantasies
,
or
puttynge
truste
or
confidence
of
saluacion
in
the
same
ceremonies
,
whereas
they
be
ordeined
only
to
put
vs
in
remembraunce
of
the
benefites
,
whiche
we
haue
receyued
by
Christe
.
Whether
any
person
spirituall
or
temporall
,
kepe
the
Church
holy
daye
,
and
the
dedication
day
,
at
any
other
tyme
,
then
is
appointed
by
the
ordinaunce
made
in
that
behalfe
by
the
Kinges
Maiestie
.
Whether
Matens
,
Masse
,
and
Euensong
,
be
kept
at
due
houres
in
the
Churche
.
Whether
any
bee
braulers
,
slaunderers
,
chiders
,
scolders
,
and
sowers
of
discorde
,
betwene
one
persone
and
another
.
Whether
any
bee
common
swearars
,
or
blasphemers
of
the
name
of
God
.
Whether
any
vse
,
lewde
,
vnchast
,
vnhonest
,
&
filthy
communicacion
,
songes
or
ballettes
.
Whether
any
doo
vse
to
common
,
Iangle
or
talke
in
the
Churche
,
at
the
tyme
of
the
diuine
seruice
,
Preachyng
,
Readyng
,
or
declaryng
the
worde
of
God
.
Whether
any
do
obstinatly
kepe
and
defend
any
erronious
opinion
,
contrary
to
the
worde
of
God
,
and
faith
of
Christ
.
Whether
any
commit
adultery
,
fornicacion
,
or
incest
,
or
bee
common
baudes
,
and
receiuors
of
suche
naughtie
persones
.
Whether
you
knowe
any
that
vse
Charmes
,
Sorcery
,
Enchauntmentes
,
Witchecraft
,
sothe
saiyng
,
or
any
other
like
crafte
inuented
by
the
deuill
.
Whether
you
knowe
any
to
be
maried
within
the
degrees
prohibited
by
the
lawe
of
God
,
or
that
bee
separated
and
diuorced
without
a
iuste
cause
,
approued
by
the
law
of
God
,
and
whether
any
suche
haue
maried
again
.
Whether
the
Churche
,
Pulpit
,
and
other
necessary
thinges
apperteinyng
to
the
same
,
be
sufficiently
repaired
.
Whether
you
know
any
to
haue
made
priuie
contractes
of
Matrimony
,
not
callyng
twoo
or
moo
thereunto
.
Whether
any
haue
maried
solempnely
without
bannes
askyng
.
Whether
you
knowe
any
that
haue
taken
vpon
theim
,
the
execution
of
any
mannes
testament
,
or
be
admitted
to
the
administracion
of
the
goodes
of
the
dedde
,
whiche
do
not
duely
distribute
the
same
goodes
,
accordyng
to
the
trust
committed
vnto
theim
,
and
specially
suche
goodes
,
as
wer
geuen
and
bequethed
,
or
appointed
to
be
distributed
emong
the
poore
people
,
repairyng
of
high
waies
,
finding
of
poore
scholars
,
or
mariage
of
poore
maides
.
To
what
vses
and
intentes
,
all
suche
gyftes
and
bequestes
,
of
cattail
,
money
,
and
other
thynges
,
as
in
tymes
past
wer
made
,
for
the
findyng
of
tapers
,
candelles
,
or
lampes
,
in
the
Churche
,
be
now
employed
,
and
whether
thei
be
embecilled
and
withholden
,
and
by
whom
.
Whether
there
bee
any
persones
,
commonly
enfamed
of
adultrie
,
fornicacion
,
common
swearyng
,
blasphemyng
the
name
of
God
,
dronckennesse
,
Simony
,
or
other
notorious
crime
,
whom
the
bishop
,
Archedeacon
,
or
other
his
ordinary
,
for
fauor
or
feare
,
haue
not
corrected
accordyngly
,
although
thei
haue
been
sundery
tymes
presented
,
and
detected
in
visitacion
,
or
otherwyse
lawfully
accused
.
Whether
there
be
any
other
primars
,
vsed
by
them
that
doo
not
vnderstande
Latyn
,
then
the
Englysh
Prymar
,
sethfurth
by
the
kynges
Maiestie
:
And
whither
they
that
vnderstand
Latin
,
do
vse
any
other
then
the
latin
primar
sett
furth
by
lyke
aucthoritie
.
Whether
there
be
any
other
Grammer
taught
in
any
schole
,
within
the
realme
,
then
that
which
is
set
furth
by
the
kynges
Maiestie
.
Whether
they
knowe
any
alienacion
of
landes
,
tenementes
,
iewelles
or
goodes
,
perteyning
to
the
Churche
.
For
chauntry
Priestes
.
WHether
they
be
residente
on
their
Chauntries
.
Whether
they
be
aydinge
and
assistynge
the
persone
or
Vicar
of
the
Churche
,
that
they
be
of
in
the
ministracion
of
the
Sacramentes
,
and
diuine
seruice
accordingly
.
Whether
they
kepe
and
perfourme
all
suche
dooles
and
distribucions
to
the
pore
,
and
other
dedes
of
Charitie
,
as
they
are
bounde
by
theyr
foundacions
to
do
.
Whether
thei
be
of
euil
name
,
fame
,
or
vnhonest
conuersacion
,
fighters
,
swearars
,
dronckardes
,
or
incontinent
lyuers
.
Item
,
what
benefices
and
how
many
they
haue
,
besides
their
Chauntryes
,
and
by
what
title
they
do
kepe
the
same
.
¶
Richardus
Grafton
Regius
Impressor
excudebat
.
Cum
Priuilegio
ad
imprimendum
solum
.