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 eng Church of England -- Pastoral letters and charges. Visitations, Ecclesiastical -- England. eebo Articles to be inquired of vvithin the Arch-deaconry of Chichester in the ordinary visitation of the right worshipfull, D. Andrewes, Arch-deacon of Ch Church of England. Archdeaconry of Chichester. 1634 11 2067 0 0 0 0 0 1 1451.38 F The rate of 1451.38 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2009-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-06 Sampled and proofread 2014-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF WITHIN THE ARCH-DEACONRY OF CHICHESTER . IN THE ORDINARY VISItation of the Right Worshipfull , D. ANDREWES , Arch-deacon of Chichester .

Anno Domini , 1634.

LONDON , Printed by Richard Badger .

The forme of the Oath to be ministred to all and every the Church-wardens and Quest-men .

YOu shall sweare , that all affection , fauour , hatred , hope of reward and gaine , or feare of displeasure , or malice set aside , you shall upon due consideration of the Articles giuen you in charge , present all and euery such person of , or within your Parish , as hath committed any offence mentioned in these or any of these Articles , or which are vehemently suspected , and defamed of any such offence : wherein you shall discharge your consciences uprightly , and according to truth ; neither of malice presenting any contrary to truth , nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any , and so conceale the truth , hauing in this action God before your eyes , with an earnest zeale to maintaine truth , and to suppresse vice : So helpe you God , and his faithfull promise contained in his holy Bookes .

God saue the King .
Articles concerning RELIGION , PRAYER and SACRAMENTS .

Hereticall and Schismaticall opinion . FIrst , Whether there be any abiding in or resorting to your parish , that be knowne to defend or maintaine any Hereticall or Schismaticall opinions , contrary to the holy Scriptures of God , or doe openly or secretly impugne , or dislike the publike worship of God , or the Rites or Ceremonies now established in the Church of England ?

Absent from the Church . 2 Item , Whether all and singular the inhabitants or dwellers within your parish , doe diligently repaire to your parish Church euery Sabbath-day and Holi-day , to morning and euening prayers , according to the orders of the Church of England prescribed in that behalfe ?

Labourers on Sundayes or Holidayes . 3 Item , Whether any person or persons within your parish haue laboured or wrought , or gone to plow or cart vpon any Sabbath-day , or Holiday : or haue prophaned any Sabbath or Holiday by vnlawful games , drinking and tipling , especially in the time of common prayer ?

4 Item , Whether all and euery one in your parish being of the age of 16. yeares , and of discretion , haue receiued the holy Communion , thrice at the least this last yeare , whereof once at Easter or thereabouts ?

Outward behauiour at Prayers and Sacraments . 5 Item , Whether all and euery one within your parish doe vse due reuerence in the time of Diuine seruice by the outward gesture of their bodies , in kéeping their heads vncouered , in knéeling , standing , and other decent behauiour , as they are enioyned by the 18. Constitution , and Canon Ecclesiasticall ?

Children not baptized . 6 Item , Whether any children died within your parish vnbaptised and by whose default was not the Sacrament of Baptisme administred ?

Prophanation of Churches . 7 Item , Whether haue you in your Church or Chappell , or Church , or Chappell-yard , any Plaies , Feasts , Banquets , Suppers , Church-ales , Drinkings , Temporall Courts , or Léets , Lay-iuries , Musters , or any other prophane vsage , and who are the offendors , or by whom are such abuses suffered ?

Articles concerning Ministers and Preachers of Gods holy Word . Titul . 2. Obseruation of the forme of Common Prayer .

FIrst , whether doth your Minister say or sing diuine seruice ( according to the prescript forme confirmed by his Maiesties Authority ) distinctly and reuerently on Sundayes and Holi-dayes , Wednesdayes , and Fridayes , and the Eues of euery Sunday and Holiday , and at conuenient and vsuall times of those dayes , and in such place as is meetest for the hearing of the people ? and whether your Minister doe obserue the Orders , Rites , and Ceremonies , prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer , as well in reading of the holy Scripture , and Praiers , as in administration of the Sacraments , without either adding or diminishing to or from the Booke of Common Praier ?

Diligent in execution of his office . 2 Item , Whether he be diligent and carefull , faithfully to execute his Pastorall Office and Function , by reading of the holy Scriptures : and ( in case he be an allowed Preacher ) whether hauing no lawfull impediment , he doth preach ordinarily : and being not allowed , doth procure Sermons in his Cure , once in euery moneth at the least ?

Residence of the Minister . 3 Item , Is he a licensed Preacher , and by whom , is he resident vpon his Benefice or not ? if not , then by whom is the Cure serued ; is your Curate licensed to serue the said Cure , if yea , then by whom : doth your Curate preach , if yea , then by whom is he licensed so to preach ?

Prayer for his Majesty . 4 Item , Doth your Minister before his Sermon , Lecture , or Homily , pray for his Maiesty , giuing him his lawfull title , as in his iust stile , and commend his Highnesse , and our Royall Quéene , the Prince , and Princesse , in his prayers to Almighty GOD ?

Notorious offendors not to be communicants . 5 Item , Doth your Minister admit any to the holy Communion , that are knowne to be notorious offendors , or any malicious , or openly contentious persons , vntill they be reconciled ?

Sober conuersation in Ministers . 6 Item , Doth your Parson , Vicar , or Curate , kéepe any suspected woman in his house , is he an incontinent person , giuen to drunkennesse or idlenesse , a haunter of Tauernes , Ale-houses , or suspected places , or one that doth board or lodge in any such place ; a dicer , carder , tabler , swearer , or giuen to base or seruile labour , or otherwise doth giue any euill example of life , and whether his apparell be comely and graue , as becommeth his function and calling ?

A Register of Christnings , Weddings , and Burials . 7 Item , Doe your Minister and Church-wardens keep a Register of the Christnings , weddings , and burials , according to the prescript forme ?

Ministers habites . 8 Item , Doth your Minister in time of Diuine seruice and ministring the Sacraments ( being a Graduate ) weare a decent and comely surplice with large sléeues , and vpon it a Hood sutable to his Degrée in the Vniuersity : and if he be no Graduate , then doth he weare at such times such a surplice , as is aboue mentioned ?

Perambulation of the bounds of the Parish . 9 Whether doth your Minister and parishioners yearely in Rogation wéeke , walke the bounds of your parish , according to the ancient custome ?

10 Doth your Minister catechise duely , Catechizing . according to the order set downe in the 59. Canon , and whether your parishioners doe duly send their children and seruants ( especially such as be no Communicants ) to the catechizing : if not , then certifie the Parents and Masters names of such children and seruants not sent , that a reformation may be had of the great defect in that Religious exercise ?

11 Whether al houses , out-houses , barnes , stables , and other buildings belonging to your Parson , Vicar , or Curate , be kept in sufficient reparations , or no : if not , what are the decayes and defects thereof , present the same and euery part thereof ?

Articles concerning the Church .

FIrst , haue you in your Church or Chappell , Titul . 3. Bookes and other implements of the Church . the booke of common prayer , by the Kings Maiesty confirmed , according to the Lawes of this Realme ; a Bible of the largest Volume and last translation ; the book of Homilies allowed by authority ; a decent Communion Table , with a decent cloth and couer for the same , a comely Pulpit , a cloth and cushion for the same : a faire Communion Cup , a decent font-stone , wherein Baptisme onely is administred ; a fine large surplice , a coffer with thrée lockes and keyes , for the Register booke to be safely kept : is it there kept , and whether one key be kept by the Minister , and the other two by the Church-wardens each of them one , certify the truth hereof ?

2 Item , Is your Church-yard kept swéet and cleane , and are swine and all other cattell kept out of the same , and is it well and sufficiently repaired , fenced and maintained with walles , Railes , or Pales , as hath béene in each place accustomed ?

Church to be repaired . 3 Item , Is your Church or Chappell , with all parts belonging thereunto decently kept in good and sufficient Reparation as becommeth the house of God : if not , what are the decayes , and are the decayes thereof preuented , so much as may be : if not , by whose default is the same hindred or not done ?

Minister , that doe absent themselues from his sermons and resort to other places , to heare other Preachers , or doe any dwelling in your parish communicate or baptize their children in any other parish ?

7 Haue any in your parish administred the goods of any person dying intestate , without lawfull authority to them granted by the Ordinary , or before they haue proued the Will or Testament of any person deceased that made any Will or Testament ? Are there any Wils vnproued , or goods not administred in your parish ?

8 What persons be excommunicate in your parish , for what cause were they so excommunicate , how long haue they so stood excommunicate : and doe any of them repaire to your parish Church , or to any other parish Church ( to your knowledge ) in time of prayer vnabsolued ?

9 Haue any excommunicate person or persons béene buried in your Church or Chappell , or Church-yard , if yea , what were their names so buried , by whom were they so buried , and who were present at the same burials ?

10 Doe you know of any other matter worthy of presentment , or any person or persons that haue committed any fault or offence contrary to any other his Maiesties Ecclesiasticall Lawes , not set downe or expressed in these Articles ? or doe you know of any person or persons that are vehemently suspected for committing any such fault or offence : by vertue of your oathes present the said faults , and the names of the persons that haue committed , or are vehemently suspected for committing the same offences ?

There must bee a full and seuerall answer made to euery particular Article and branch thereof . Note . Or else the Church-wardens will be called to the Court , and enioyned to make a full answer to the same Articles , wherein any omission shall bée found .

MEmorandum , it is lawfull for euery Minister ( be he Parson , Vicar , or Curate ) to present any enormity , or common fame of any enormous crime that shall arise within his Parish . And it is lawfull and meet for euery Minister or Church-wardens , and Side-men , to make notorious offendors knowne to their Ordinaries , as often as occasion is offered , to the end that such offences may in due time be punished and reformed .