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A75668And are the said Books carefully looked to, and made use of?
A75668Are any of your Parish known or suspected to be guilty of Incest, Adultery, Fornication, or any other enormous Crimes?
A75668HAVE you belonging to your Church or Chappelry a sufficient Clerk, or Sexton, and doth he faithfully and diligently execute his Office?
A75668Has any Mony belonging to the Fabrick of your Church, or other charitable purposes, been employed to other uses?
A75668Have any Lands, Legacies, or charitable Gifts bestowed on your Parish, or any other good uses, been embezled, or unduly bestowed?
A75668Have you also a Registry of such Strangers as are admitted to Preach, and a Book for the Entry of the Church- Wardens Accounts?
A75668IS your Church or Chappel, with the Chancel, in good Repair, and decently kept, as becomes the House of God?
A75668Is the Church- Yard sufficiently fenced and preserved from Anoyance, Encroachments, and Waste?
A75668V. Are the Wills and Testaments of the Dead in your Parish, or the Administration of their Goods duly taken out and executed?
A0412210 Item, whether doth your Parson, Vicar or Curate( being no Preacher allowed) presume to expound the Scriptures, in his owne Cure, or elsewhere?
A0412213 Item, whether be there in your Parish any persons that contemne or abuse, by word or dee ● e, the Ministers of the Church?
A0412216 Item, whether there be any in your Parish that be common Drunkards, swearers, or blasphemers of the name of God?
A0412221 Item, whether there be in your Parish any that( in contempt of their owne Parish Church) doe resort to any other Church or Chappell?
A0412224 Item, whether such Persons, or other in your Parish, haue married the Banes not first solemnely asked, or at vnseasonable houres?
A0412231 Item, Is there in your Parish any other matter or cause of the Cognizance of the Church aboue not expressed, worthy presentment in your iudgement?
A041228 Item, how many Benefices or Ecclesiasticall promotions hath your Parson or Vicar, and how farre distant are they the one from the other?
A04122And vpon euery Sunday, when there is no Sermon, doth hee or his Cure reade some one of the Homilies prescribed?
A04122By whose sentence were they diuorced, and by whose licence, and by whome were they so married?
A04122Declare your knowledge in the premisses, and what you haue credibly heard?
A04122by what names are they called, and how and by whom are they serued?
A04122or doth hee procure( once in a Moneth at the least) a Sermon to be preached in his Cure, by Preachers lawfully licensed?
A04122what Chappels hath hee to his Cures belonging?
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A32969ARE there in your Parish any persons known or reputed to be Jews, Heretics, or Schismatics, whether Papists, or Fanatics?
A32969And are the said books carefully lookt to, and constantly emploied?
A32969And have you a perfect Terror of such Glebe- lands, Orchards,& c. and also of Pensions, Tiths, and compositions as belong unto them?
A32969And is he diligent in visiting the sick, and satisfying the doubts of troubled consciences?
A32969Are any of your Parish known or suspected to be guilty of Incest, Adultery, Fornication, or any other enormous crimes?
A32969Are the Wills and Testaments of the dead in your Parish, or the administration of their Goods duly taken out and executed?
A32969Do''s any in your Parish practice Physic, or Chirurgery, or do the Office of a Midwife, without approbation and licence from the Ordinary?
A32969Do''s your Minister diligently instruct the youth of your Parish in the Church Catechism?
A32969During his absence, what care is taken for hospitality, and charity to the poor?
A32969HAve you a Parson, Vicar, or Curate legally setled among you?
A32969HAve you belonging to your Parish or Chapelry a sufficient Clerk or Sexton, and do''s he faithfully and diligently execute his office?
A32969Have any Lands, Legacies, or charitable gifts bestowed on your Parish, or any other good uses; bin embezled, or unduly dispos''d of?
A32969Have you also a Register of such Strangers as are admitted to Preach; and a book for the entry of the Church- wardens accounts?
A32969How are they endowed, ordered, and governed?
A32969IS your Church or Chapel in good and sufficient repare, and so decently and cleanly kept as becomes the house of God?
A32969IS your Church- yard sufficiently fenced and preserved from anoiance, encrochments, and wast?
A32969Is he constantly resident?
A32969JS there in your Parish any Hospital, Almes- house, or Free- schole?
A32969Lastly, is he peaceable, sober, and exemplary in his conversation, and grave in his demeanor, company, hair, and apparel?
A32969What number of Persons is there in common estimation in your Parish?
A32969What number of Popish Recusants, or persons thereof suspected, is there?
A32969What number of other Dissenters is there, who relinquish the Communion of the Church?
A32969and are they studious to pervert the Orthodox; or insolent towards them for doing their duty?
A32969has he a Curate?
A32969how is he licensed, and how maintain''d?
A32969or how long, and on what occasion is he absent?
A32969s.n.,[ Oxford?
A32969what are the numbers of each particular Sect of them?
A41029ARE there in your Parish any persons known or reputed to be Jews, Heretics, or Sohismatics, whether Papists, or Fanatics?
A41029And are the said books carefully lookt to, and constantly emploied?
A41029And have you a perfect Terror of such Glebe- lands, Orchards,& c. and also of Pensions, Tiths, and compositions as belong unto them?
A41029And is he diligent in visiting the sick, and satisfying the doubts of troubled consciences?
A41029Are any of your Parish known or suspected to be guilty of Incest, Adultery, Fornication, or any other enormous crimes?
A41029Are the Wills and Testaments of the dead in your Parish, or the administration of their Goods duly taken out and executed?
A41029Do''s any in your Parish practice Physic, or Chirurgery, or do the Office of a Midwife, without approbation and licence from the Ordinary?
A41029Do''s your Minister diligently instruct the youth of your Parish in the Church Catechism?
A41029During his absence, what care is taken for hospitality, and charity to the poor?
A41029HAve you a Parson, Vicar, or Curate legally setled among you?
A41029HAve you belonging to your Parish or Chapelry a sufficient Clerk or Sexton, and do''s he faithfully and diligently execute his office?
A41029Have any Lands, Legacies, or charitable gifts bestowed on your Parish, or any other good uses; bin embezled, or unduly dispos''d of?
A41029Have you also a Register of such Strangers as are admitted to Preach; and a book for the entry of the Church- wardens accounts?
A41029How are they endowed, ordered, and governed?
A41029IS your Church or Chapel in good and sufficient repare, and so decently and cleanly kept as becomes the house of God?
A41029IS your Church- yard sufficiently fenced and preserved from anoiance, encrochments, and wast?
A41029Is he constantly resident?
A41029JS there in your Parish any Hospital, Almes- house, or Free- schole?
A41029Lastly, is he peaceable, sober, and exemplary in his conversation, and grave in his demeanor, company, hair, and apparel?
A41029What number of Persons is there in common estimation in your Parish?
A41029What number of Popish Recusants, or persons thereof suspected, is there?
A41029What number of other Dissenters is there, who relinquish the Communion of the Church?
A41029and are they studious to pervert the Orthodox; or insolent towards them for doing their duty?
A41029has he a Curate?
A41029how is he licensed, and how maintain''d?
A41029or how long, and on what occasion is he absent?
A41029s.n.,[ Oxford?]
A41029what are the numbers of each particular Sect of them?
A61530And what now is there in all this, which is not very agreeable to the Faith, Hope, and Charity of Christians?
A61530And what was this Power of Ordination and Jurisdiction, but the very same which the Bishops have exercised ever since the Apostles Times?
A61530As a Pilot to a Ship needs no Command to be in his Ship; for how can he do the Office of a Pilot out of it?
A61530As, How to satisfie a doubting Conscience, as to its own Sincerity, when so many Infirmities are mixed with our best Actions?
A61530But at last you are sent for; and what a melancholy Work are you then to go about?
A61530But suppose the Ecclesiastical Law before makes him liable to Deprivation; doth the Statute alter the Law without any Words to that purpose?
A61530But what Preparation was required?
A61530But what Remedy was found by this Provincial Council?
A61530But what if you find the Persons so ignorant, as not to understand what Faith and Repentance mean?
A61530Can we imagine the Holy Spirit is gi ven to dictate new Expressions in Prayers?
A61530Did not they promise in their Ordination, To teach the People committed to their Care and Charge?
A61530For if it were a Law of God, how could any man dispense with it?
A61530For what is it they are admitted to?
A61530How can he be satisfied, unless the other produce them?
A61530How can he produce them, when it may be they are lost?
A61530How can it be tryed, when they are going out of the State of Tryal?
A61530How then shall they know their own Sincerity till it be tryed?
A61530How, he shall know what Failings are consistent with the State of Grace, and the Hopes of Heaven, and what not?
A61530In utroque simul?
A61530Is God pleased with the Change of our Words and Phrases?
A61530Is it not ad Curam Animarum?
A61530Is nothing to be done but to come and pray by them, and so dismiss them into their Eternal State?
A61530Is this all the good you can, or are bound to do them?
A61530Nay, what Duty is there, which so much expresses all these together, as this doth?
A61530Nor, whereby we may more reasonably expect greater Supplies of Divine Grace to be bestowed upon us?
A61530Shall he lose it or not?
A61530That by your warm and serious Discourse, you throughly awaken the Conscience of a long and habitual Sinner; what are you then to do?
A61530The Bishop had a Power before to deprive, where is it taken away?
A61530The Patron had a Right to present upon such Deprivation; how comes he to lose it?
A61530What Measure of Conviction and Power of Resistance is necessary to make Sins to be Wilful and Presumptuous?
A61530What if they have led such careless and secure Lives in this World, as hardly ever to have had one serious Thought of another?
A61530What is this receiving Catechism by Children, before they are eight days old?
A61530What is to be done in this Case?
A61530What the just Measures of Restitution are in order to true Repentance, in all such Injuries which are capable of it?
A61530What then makes so many to be so backward in this Duty, which profess a Zeal and Forwardness in many others?
A61530without Qualification, shall lose his legal Title to the first; but what if it be under?
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A79599ARe the Church- wardens of your Parish yearly and duly chosen?
A79599And are they and their endowments preserved and employed to their right use?
A79599And is a copy thereof delivered into the Bishops Registry?
A79599Are all things therein kept orderly and in decent sort, free from any thing that may be either noisome or unseemly?
A79599Are his accustomed Wages duly paid unto him?
A79599Are there any living in your Parish, who have been unlawfully married contrary to the laws of God?
A79599By whom are the fruits received, and how are they disposed of?
A79599DO any of your Parish make profession of any other Religion than what is professed and established in the Church of England?
A79599Do any of your Parish repair to other Parishes or Ministers, of them to receive the Sacrament of the Lord''s Supper?
A79599Do any profane the Lord''s day, by working in their ordinary callings, by tipling, gaming, or any unlawful exercises or pastimes?
A79599Do any refuse to send their Infant- children to be Baptized in your Church or Chappel, unless in case of extreme danger?
A79599Do any reproach the same Religion, or seduce others from it?
A79599Doth he administer the Sacraments in private houses otherwise than is by law allowed?
A79599Doth he diligently instruct the Youth of your Parish in the Church- Catechism?
A79599Doth he give himself to any base or servile labour, or secular trade, unbefitting the duty and Dignity of his Office?
A79599Doth he permit any strange Minister to Preach in your Church or Chappel who is not sufficiently authorized thereunto?
A79599Doth he serve more than one Church or Chappel in distinct Parishes upon one day?
A79599HAve you a Parish- Clerk chosen by your Minister aged twenty years at least?
A79599HAve you a setled Minister in your Parish?
A79599Hath any part thereof been demolished or pulled down?
A79599Have any dying in your Parish given any Legacy to the Church or Poor, which hath been mis- impolyed, and disposed of to other uses?
A79599Have any encroached upon the Ground thereof, or cut down any Trees growing therein, unless for necessary reparation of the Church or Chancel?
A79599Have any of them been defaced or pulled down without License?
A79599Have you a Font of stone standing in the usual place for publick Baptism?
A79599Have you in your Church a Box for the Alms for the poor, a strong chest with locks and keys?
A79599Have you in your Parish a house for your Minister to dwell in?
A79599IS your Church or Chappel, with the Chancel and Steeple thereof, in good and sufficient repair both within and without?
A79599If not, how long have you been destitute?
A79599If so, how far distant are those Churches or Chappels which he so serveth, and what Wages and Salary hath he for his pains?
A79599Is he a common Gamester, a profane Swearer, an obscene Jester, or an intemperate Drinker?
A79599Is he a fomenter of suits and contention among Neighbours?
A79599Is he of ability to perform his duty?
A79599Is he vehemently suspected of Incontinency?
A79599Is his apparel grave and decent, both for fashion and colour, as the Canons of the Church require?
A79599Is the same, with the out- houses thereunto belonging, in good and sufficient repair?
A79599Is there any Alms- house, Hospital, or Free- School,( being not of the Kings foundation) in your Parish?
A79599Is your Church- yard well and sufficiently fenced, and decently kept?
A79599Is your Minister a man of a godly, sober and peaceable conversation?
A79599Or are any children kept unbaptized longer than is allowed?
A79599Or are any children not Communicants admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers in Baptism?
A79599Or are there any more aged persons yet unbaptized?
A79599Or are there any strangers, not of your Parish, who forsake their own Churches, and usually repair to yours for it?
A79599Or endeavour to alienate the hearts of the people from their Loyalty and Obedience to the King?
A79599Or is his carriage and conversation in any kind disorderly, scandalous, or unbeseeming a Minister of Jesus Christ?
A79599What cup, chalice, patten or flagons have you belonging to that Service?
A79599What is the living yearly worth, and who is the Patron thereof?
A79599and are the Plate, Vessels, Carpets, Vestments and Books belonging to the Church safely kept therein?
A79599and are the same kept in all points as is required?
A79599and do such signifie their names and purpose to Communicate unto the Minister at least the day before the celebration thereof?
A79599and doth he perform the same in all respects as is required of him?
A79599and doth your Minister therein onely Baptize Publickly?
A79599and have you a Bier with a Herse- cloth for the decent Burial of the Dead?
A79599and in Preaching doth he wear a Gown?
A79599have you also a decent and comely Surplice for the use of the Minister in his publick administrations?
A79599or any who being lawfully divorced have married again?
A79599or any who being lawfully married, and not separated or divorced by due course of law, do not cohabit together?
A79599or do any withhold the same from him?
A79599or on the contrary, Is he a frequenter of Taverns or Alehouses, or doth he board therein?
A0017114 Hath any man residing in your Parish being a Deacon, or Priest, relinquished his Function, and betaken himselfe to a Lai- mans life, or vocation?
A0017114 Whether haue any within your Parish harboured any woman vnlawfully begotten with childe, and haue suffered her to depart away vnpunished?
A001712 Are there any in your parish that doe impugne or speake against the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, or the lawfull vse of them?
A001712 Haue any Church- wardens retained any of the Church goods, and not made a iust account of what they haue receiued, and expended?
A001713 Doe any persons lawfully married, liue asunder, vnlawfully, and in whom is the default?
A001714 Is it prophaned at any time, by sitting on it, casting hats or cloakes vpon it, writing, or casting vp accounts, or any other indecent vsage?
A001715 What Popish Recusants, or their children haue béene married in your Parish, in what sort was that Matrimonie solemnized, when, and by whom?
A001716 Whether is the number of apparitours increased in this diocesse; and wherein, and in what manner is the countrey over- burdened, or grieved by them?
A001717 Whether is your Church- yard well mounded, and fenced, kept cleane without Nusance, or soyle cast into it: is it incroached vpon, and by whom?
A001718 Is the fift of Nouember kept holy, and thansgiuing made to God, according to the order set forth in that behalfe?
A00171And the gouernment of this Church vnder his Maiestie by Archbishops, Bishops and other ecclesiasticall officers?
A00171And what ignorant persons haue left their trade, and taken vpon them to professe physicke, or Chirurgery; and who be they that so abuse the people?
A00171Canon, and whether hath any taken vpon him to be Church- warden, being not chosen, or hath any continued one yeare in his office without a new choyse?
A00171Canon?
A00171Canon?
A00171Canon?
A00171Canon?
A00171Canon?
A00171Is any thing lost or spoyled by his default, and doth he execute his Office duly?
A00171Is he a graduate, and sufficient to teach?
A00171Whether is the Bread wholsome and swéet?
A00171haue any persons béene married in prohibited times without licence?
A00171have they threatned any to prosecute them, if they had no reward given them?
A00171once euery Moneth, or thrice at the least in the yeare?
A00171or do any of them take any fees that are not usuall?
A00171who be they that have so done?
B00011Finally, doe you know of any matter or cause which is a breach of the lawes Ecclesiasticall here not expressed, and haue you presented the same?
B00011Whether doth any of your Parish, refuse to pay vnto the Parish Clarke or Sexton such wages as are vnto them due, and haue been accustomably paid?
B00011Whether doth your Clarke meddle with any thing aboue his Office, as churching of women, burying of the dead, reading of Prayers, or such like?
B00011Whether doth your Minister declare to the people euery Sunday at the time appointed, what Holydaies and fasting- dayes be the weeke following?
B00011Whether doth your Minister in his iourney, weare a cloake with sleeues called a preists cloake, without gards, welts, long buttons, or cuts?
B00011Whether hath the preambulation of the circuit of your Parish beene obserued once euery yeare, if not, whose default is it?
B00011Whether haue any churchwardens lost, sold or detained any 〈 ◊ 〉 ornaments, Bels, Rents, or implements of the Church?
B00011Whether is your Churchyard well fenced with walles, rayles, pales, as hath beene accustomed: if not, whose default is it?
B00011beeing no Preacher, doth he procure a sufficient Preacher to reclaime them thereby?
B00011doth he beeing a Preacher, conferre with all Recusants and persons Excommunicate or suspended?
B00011is he contentious, a hunter, hawker, swearer, dauncer, suspected of incontinencie, or giue euill example of life?
A32965ARE such as dye in your Parish decently buried according to the order of this Church?
A32965And hav ● ● ou a ● ● te of such Pensions, Rate- Tythes, and portions of Tythes as 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 thereunto?
A32965And have they truly delivered up to the Parishioners whatsoever money or other things are of right belonging to the Church or Parish?
A32965And is he allowed by the Bishop or his Chancellor?
A32965Are any of these taken away, or with- held from your Minister?
A32965Are there any other Houses belonging to the Church; and are they likewise kept in good repair?
A32965DO any in your Parish profane the Lords day by working in their ordinary callings, by loytring, tipling, or any other unlawful practices?
A32965DOTH he rightly and duly administer the holy Sacraments, of Baptism and the Supper of the Lord?
A32965Do any lawfully married and not separated by due course of Law, yet live asunder, and not co- habit together?
A32965Doth he exercise himself in any such secular Imployments, or sordid Labour, as is unbe ● ● tting the Duty and Dignity of his Office?
A32965Doth he frequently, or at the least thrice every year whereof Easter to be one, administer the Lords Supper?
A32965Doth he so frame his own Life, and the Lives of such as are of his Family, that he and they may be Examples to the Flock of Christ?
A32965Doth he take care that Godfathers and Godmothers present Infants unto Baptism, and undertake for them?
A32965HATH your Minister a Curate to assist hi ●?
A32965HAVE you a Box wherein to keep the Alms for the poor?
A32965HAVE you a convenient Seat for the Minister to read divine service in?
A32965HAVE you a large Surplice for the use of the Minister in his publick Administrations?
A32965HAVE you a weekly Lecture in your Parish?
A32965Hath any person encroached upon the same?
A32965Have any Trees there growing been cut down, by whom, and for what use?
A32965Have any encroached upon the Gardens, Orchards, ● or ● ● ● ses belonging to the same?
A32965Have any left Legacies to pious uses in your Parish, and how are those Legacies bestowed?
A32965Have you any Publick or Private School in your Parish, is your School- master of sober, honest, and religious conversation?
A32965How many weeks in a year hath he béen Absent without urgent necessity?
A32965IS he a Licensed Preacher?
A32965IS there a Font of Stone standing in the ancient usual place for the Administration of Baptism?
A32965IS there any Hospital, Al ● ● s- House or 〈 ◊ 〉 School( being not of the Kings foundation) in your Parish?
A32965IS your Minister constantly Resident upon his Bene ● ● ce?
A32965Is he grave and comely in his Hair and Apparrel?
A32965Is his carriage and course of Life in any kind scandalous, and such as becometh not a Minister of Iesus Christ?
A32965Is there a Book wherein to keep the Church- Wardens Accompts?
A32965Or, doth he Marry them in any private place, and not in the Church or Chappel?
A32965V. ARE there any in your Parish that kéep their Infant- children unbaptised or are there any persons of riper years in your Parish unbaptised?
A32965V. DOTH he with all diligence attend upon his Ministry, and discharge all the duties belonging thereunto?
A32965V. IS your Minister a person of a Godly, sober, and peaceable conversation?
A32965What Cup, Chalice, Pa ● ● en, or Fl ● gons, have you belonging to that service?
A32965and a C ● ● y thereof delivered 〈 ◊ 〉 the 〈 ◊ 〉 Register?
A32965and are they and their G ● dowments preserved and employed to their right use?
A32965and do they observe all the holy days appointed by the Church, according to the orders of the Church prescribed in that behalf?
A32965and doth he give warning therof the Lords day before at Morning- prayer, and exhort the people duly to prepare for the same?
A32965and doth he in all his behaviour, so carry himself, as that he may adorn the Gospel, whereof he is a Minister?
A32965and have you a Bier with a Herse- cloth for the decent burial of the dead?
A32965and have you a strong Chest with locks and keys, wherein may be safely kept the plate, vessels, books, carpets, vestmen ● s belonging to the Church?
A32965and is he a Man of able parts, and of a pious and discreet conversation, and allowed by the Bishop to serve in your Church?
A32965and who are they?
A32965if so, is he in holy Orders, of good learning, of a godly and peaceable life?
A32965is he Licensed to preach your Lecture, and doth he therein behave himself as by the Lawes and Constitutions of this Church is required?
A32965is it preached by the Parson or Uicar himself, or by a combination of neighbour- Ministers?
A32965of May?
A32965or by one single Lecturer?
A32965or cut up any trees growing thereon?
A32965or do any interrupt the Minister in any of his Administrations?
A32965or doth he Marry Persons, ● hough Licensed, at any unseason ● ble times, and not between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon?
A32965or hath he any other Benefice or Dignity, and is he qualified to hold the same?
A32965or hath the ● ust value of your Parsonage or Uicaridge by any undue means been diminished?
A32965or is suspected thereof?
A32965〈 ◊ 〉 〈 … 〉 belonging to your Minister kept in good and sufficient repair?
A32972Also a Pulpit, with a decent Cloth and Cushion?
A32972Also a particular List of such Pensions, Tithes, Rents, Customs, and other yearly Profits within or without your Parish, as belong thereto?
A32972And doth he carry himself also as an able and discréet Minister, and conformable to the Church of England?
A32972And how many wéeks in a year hath he been absent from his Benefice?
A32972Are any noted for railers, unclean and filthy talkers, or sowers of sedition, or living in discord and contention?
A32972Are any of them withheld from your Minister?
A32972Are his wages duly paid him?
A32972Are the trées therein preserved?
A32972Are there any Infants or more aged persons in your Parish not yet Baptized?
A32972Are there any Wills or Testaments of persons dead in your Parish yet unproved, or any Goods Administred without a legal grant from the Ordinary?
A32972Are there any common Drunkards, Swearers, or Blasphemers of Gods Name, and his Holy Word?
A32972Are there any convicted Papists, known Anabaptists, Familists, Quakers, and other Separatists in your Parish?
A32972Are there any excommunicated by the censures of the Church, and not yet reconciled?
A32972Are there any of your Parish who are known or suspected to be unlawfully marryed, contrary to the Laws of God and this Church?
A32972Are there any who having béen lawfully divorced do live together again; or who being lawfully marryed and not divorced, do yet live asunder?
A32972Are they so ordered in the Revenue and Vse as the Founders appointed, and the Law of the Land allows?
A32972Articles of Religion established in the Church of England?
A32972Did he then and there publickly declare his assent thereunto?
A32972Do any in your Parish practise Physick, Chirurgery or Midwifery, without Licence from the Ordinary?
A32972Do they duly observe other Holy- dayes, Festivals, or Fasts appointed by Authority, for the advancement of piety, charity, and devotion?
A32972Do you cause all strangers who preach in your Church to enter their names in a Book, and by what Bishop they are Licenced to Preach?
A32972Do you know of any Legacies given to your Church, or the poor, or other pious and charitable uses, not yet received by you, or detained from you?
A32972Doth he also instruct others that are ignorant in the Fundamental points of Christian Religion?
A32972Doth he alwayes conclude with the Lords Prayer?
A32972Doth he endeavour to reclaim all Popish Recusants, and other Sectaries in your Parish, to the true Religion established in the Church of England?
A32972Doth he in his Prayer or Sermon affect any odde or Fanatick expressions, or excessive length?
A32972Doth he in those that are duly appointed use the Forms prescribed by Authority?
A32972Doth he marry any without Bannes first published three Sundayes or Holy- dayes in the Church?
A32972Doth he marry at other Houres than betweene eight and twelve in the Forenoone, without having any Licence so to do?
A32972Doth he praise God for the faithful, who have overcome this World, and are at rest from their labours?
A32972Doth he read Divine Service before his Lecture, and in all things demean himself as is most for the Peace of the Church of England and of your Parish?
A32972Doth he refuse to give the Sacrament to any in your Parish, and for what Cause?
A32972Doth your Minister Marry any persons in private Houses, or such as are under Age, not having the consent of their Parents or Guardians?
A32972Doth your Minister diligently examine in the Church- Catechisme the Youth of your Parish every Lords- day in the afternoon?
A32972HAve you a Parish- Clerk, who is of a sober life and good report?
A32972Hath any encroached upon the Land thereto belonging, or felled the Trées there on growing?
A32972Hath any part of them, or any thing belonging to them, béen sold or embezelled?
A32972Hath he a Licence from his Bishop to serve the Cure?
A32972Hath he any Curate to assist him in his absence or presence?
A32972Hath he béen legally Instituted and Inducted into his Benefice?
A32972Hath your Minister béen Licenced to officiate by the Bishop of this Diocese, or either of the two Universities?
A32972Hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint any publick or private Fasts, Prophecyings, or Religious exercises, without lawfull Authority?
A32972Have any Inclosures béen made in your Parish to the detriment of the Church?
A32972Have any Pews or Seats been erécted in your Church or Chappel without leave from the Ordinary?
A32972Have any occasioned Riot, Clamor, or Fighting in the Church at any time?
A32972Have any of them béen pulled down or defaced?
A32972Have you a Bier with a black Herse- cloth for the decent interment of the dead?
A32972Have you a large Folio Bible of the last Translation, with two Books of Common- Prayer well bound, one for the Minister, the other for the Clark?
A32972Have you a perfect Terrier of all Glebe- lands, Gardens, Orchards, and Tenements belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage?
A32972Have you in your Church( or Chappel) a convenient Pew for your Minister to read Divine Service in?
A32972Have you the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority; also the Book of Canons, and a Table of allowed deg ● ée ● in Marriage?
A32972IS your Church- yard sufficiently senced with Walls, Rails, or Pales, and decently kept from all annoyance and encroachment?
A32972Is any Infant or other by his default yet unbaptized in your Parish?
A32972Is he Grave, Modest, and Regular in his outward demeanor, for Haire and Clothes, according to the Constitutions and Customes of the Church of England?
A32972Is he a man of a studious, sober, peaceable, unblameable and exemplary life, for Piety, Sanctity, Charity, and Industry in his calling?
A32972Is he able for Reading, Writing, and Singing as a Clerk?
A32972Is he chosen by your Minister and approved by the Parish?
A32972Is he defamed or suspected to have obtained his Orders or Benefice by any Simoniacal compact?
A32972Is he in Holy Orders, and conformable to the Church of England, and Licenced by the Bishop of this Diocese?
A32972Is he( or they) Licenced by the Bishop or his Chancellor?
A32972Is that Curate in Holy Orders according to the Church of England?
A32972Is the Mansion- house of your Minister, with all other houses thereto belonging, kept in good repair?
A32972Is the transcript of these every year within one moneth after March 25. brought in to the Bishops Registry?
A32972Is there any person in your Parish that lyeth under any common fame or vehement suspicion of Adultery, Fornication, or Incest?
A32972Is there any strife or contention about Seats in the Church?
A32972Is there in your Parish beside the Parson, or Vicar and Curate, any that Preacheth onely as a Lecturer?
A32972Is your Minister constantly Resident among you?
A32972Is your Minister, whether Parson, Vicar, or Curate, conformable in his Doctrine and Life to the holy Rule and great example of the Lord Jesus Christ?
A32972V. Are there in your Parish any that refuse to have their Infant Children Baptized by your Minister?
A32972V. Do you provide fine White- Bread and good Wine against every Communion, according to the number of Communicants?
A32972WHat Hospital, Almes- house, or Free- school hath béen Founded in your Parish?
A32972What Cup, Chalice, Patin, or Flagons have you belonging to that Service?
A32972What School- master private or publick is there in your Parish?
A32972What yearly stipend hath he?
A32972and by whom?
A32972and by whom?
A32972and in such cases doth he procure some lawfull Minister to read Prayers, to Preach, and perform other Ministerial duties?
A32972and is the money so levyed distributed to the poor of your Parish, and kept upon account in a Book?
A32972or do they keep them unbaptized longer than this Church alloweth?
A32972or doth he give it to such as are scandalous notorious sinners, or such as are excommunicate, or refuse to be reconciled to their Neighbou ● s?
A32972when?
A329551 Doth any in your Parish openly or privately take upon him to teach School without licence of the Ordinary?
A3295512 Hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint any publike or private fasts, prophesies, or exercises, not approved by Law, or publike Authority?
A3295516 When any person hath been dangerously sick in your Parish, hath your Minister neglected to visit him?
A3295516 Whether do any withhold the stock of the church, or any goods or things given to good and charitable uses?
A3295518 Whether doth your Minister misbehave himself in preaching or praying, so that the congregation are offended thereat?
A3295519 Whether hath the form of Commination against impenitent sinners, been read in your Church to the people, according to the book of Common Prayer?
A3295519 Whether have any laboured, wrought, or gone to cart on the Sunday or Holiday?
A329552 Doth your Clerk or Sexton keep the Church clean, the doors locked at fit times?
A329552 Doth your Minister bid Holydayes and Fasting- Dayes, as by the book of Common Prayer is appointed?
A329552 Doth your schoolmaster teach and instruct his youth in the Catechisme or grounds of Religion?
A329552 Whether doth any man trouble or molest you for doing your duties?
A329553 Whether is there any Legacie withholden, given to the Church or poor people, or to the mending of high wayes, or otherwise by the Testatours?
A329554 Doth he refuse to bury any which ought to be interred in Christian buriall, or defer the same longer then he should?
A329554 Is your Church or Chappell decently paved, and is your Church- yard well and orderly kept without abuse?
A329556 Is your Minister a Preacher allowed?
A329557 Doth your Minister( being licensed) preach usually, either in his own Cure, or in some other Church or Chappell neer adjoyning where no Preacher is?
A329558 Is your Minister continually resident upon his Benefice?
A329559 Doth your Minister or Curate serve any more Cures then one?
A32955And do you know of any that hath or doth disturb that wholsom Order so appointed by the Law to be observed in Divine service?
A32955And doth he bring his scholars to the Church to hear Divine service and sermons?
A32955And doth he deliver the Bread and Wine to every Communicant severally, and kneeling?
A32955And doth he expound and shew forth the meaning and sense of the said Catechisme?
A32955And doth he give warning before- hand to the Parishioners for the receiving of the holy Communion?
A32955And doth he instruct his scholars in the grounds of the religion now established in this Church of England?
A32955And doth your Minister use the words of Institution according to the Book?
A32955And have any of your parish loytered or been gaming abroad at the same time?
A32955And have they sold forth any drink or victualls at the like time?
A32955And if he be most- while absent, what order doth he take for hospitality or relief of the poor?
A32955And if he do not, where is the fault, either in the parents and masters of the children, or in the Curate neglecting his dutie?
A32955And is he conformable to the religion now established?
A32955And what persons were so received, harboured, or suffered?
A32955And whether doth he give the fourtieth part of the profits of his Benefice to the poor, during his absence?
A32955And whether doth he teach publickly opposite doctrine against the Articles and Homilies prescribed by Law in the Church of England?
A32955And whether have they sent or suffered any Processe to go out of the Ecclesiasticall Courts, otherwise then by law they ought?
A32955And whether have you a Register- book in parchment for Christnings, Weddings, and Burials, according to the former custome and practise?
A32955And whether is there a Table for the rates of all fees set up in their several Courts and Offices?
A32955Are the Communion- table, Font, Books, and other Ornaments of the Church kept fair and lean?
A32955Are the bones of the dead decently interred, or laid up in some fit place, as beseemeth Christians?
A32955Doth he preach and maintain, or palliate with distinctions and limitations, any points of Poperie?
A32955Doth he suffer any unseasonable ringing, or any proane exercise in your Church?
A32955Doth he use the signe of the Crosse in Baptisme?
A32955HAve you a fit Parish- Clerk, aged twenty yeers at the least, of honest conversation, able to read and write?
A32955HOw many Physicians, Chirurgians, and Midwives have you in your parish?
A32955Have they heard any matter of office privately in their chambers, without their sworn registers or their deputies presence?
A32955How long have they used their severall sciences or offices, and by what authoritie?
A32955If not, whether doth he procure some who are lawfully licenced, to preach monethly among you at least?
A32955If so, then with whom, when, and for what summe of money?
A32955If yea, then by whom?
A32955If yea, then what other Cure doth he serve, and how far are they distant?
A32955In whose hands is it, by whom was it given, and by whom is it withholden?
A32955Is any thing lost or spoiled in the Church through his default?
A32955Or doth he make any personall invectives in the Pulpit, to the offence of particular men, and the scandall of the Parish?
A32955Or doth he table or lodge any such in his house?
A32955Or have they taken upon them the offices of Informers or Promotours to the said Courts, or any other way abused themselves in their places?
A32955Or is he a frequenter of taverns, innes or ale- houses, or any place suspected for ill rule?
A32955Or otherwise in case the smalnesse of the living can not finde a preaching Minister, doth he preach at both his Benefices usually?
A32955Or whether is your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, over- conversant with, or a favourer of Recusants, whereby he is suspected not to be sincere in Religion?
A32955What sum of money or other consideration hath been received or promised, by or to any of them, in that respect, by whom, and with whom?
A32955Whether are his and the Sextons wages paid without fraud, according to the ancient custome of your Parish?
A32955and doth he instruct them in any other Grammar, Accidence, or any other Catechisme then is allowed by publick Authority?
A32955and how hath the same been imployed?
A32955and how have the same been bestowed?
A32955and how have they demeaned themselves therein?
A32955and how often hath he been negligent in that behalf?
A32955and in case he be licenced to be absent, whether doth he cause his Cure to be sufficiently supplied with a preaching Minister?
A32955and is he carefull and diligent to benefit his scholars in learning?
A32955and of what skill are they accounted to be in their profession?
A32955and what Grammar, Accidence, or Catechisme is it that he so teacheth?
A32955and what doth he allow unto him?
A32955and when any have been parting out of this life, hath he omitted to do his last dutie in that behalf, being sent for and desired?
A32955and who were the same that did so?
A32955especially is he one that useth uncharitably to curse, scandal and revile his own parishioners, in his heats and choler?
A32955if not, then by whom are they so defrauded or denied?
A32955or bury any in Christian buriall, which by the Constitutions of the Church of England, or Laws of the Land, ought not to be so interred?
A32955or how long time hath he been absent?
A32955or what provision doth he make otherwise for them?
A001902 Item whether doth your Minister bid Holydayes& Fasting dayes, as by the Booke of Common Prayer is appointed?
A0019020 Item, whether is your Curate licensed to serue, by the Bishop of this Diocesse or by any other, and by whom?
A0019023 Item, whether are there any Lectures, or exercises vsed within your parish Church?
A0019031 WHether haue you a fit Parish- Clerke, aged twenty yéeres at least, of honest conuersation, able to reade and write?
A0019032 Item, whether doeth your Clerke or Sexton kéepe the Church cleane, the doores locked?
A0019034 HOw many Physicians, Chirurgions, or Mid- wiues haue you in your Parish?
A0019035 Item, whether, and how often haue you admitted any to preach within your Church or Chappell which was not sufficiently Licensed?
A0019037 Item, whether were you chosen by the consent of the Minister and the parishioners?
A0019042 Item, what recusāt Papists are there in your parish?
A0019043 Item, whether doe any of the sayd Popish Recusants labor to seduce and withdraw others from the Religion now established?
A0019045 Item, how long haue the sayd Popish Recusants abstained from Diuine Seruice or from the Communion as aforesayd?
A0019051 Item, what persons within your parish, for any offence, contumacy or crime of Ecclesiasticall conusance, doe stand Excommunicate?
A0019058 Item, whether doe any persons administer the goods of the dead without lawfull authoritie, or suppresse the last will of the dead?
A0019059 Item, whether doth any with- hold the stocke of the Church, or any goods or other things, giuen to good and charitable vses?
A001906 Item, whether is your Minister a Preacher allowed?
A0019067 Item, whether hath your Minister stayed the publication of any excommunications, or suspensions?
A00190And are the Almes of the Church faithfully distributed to the vse of the poore?
A00190And doeth he instruct his Schollers in the grounds of Religion now established in this Church of England?
A00190And doeth háe deliuer the Bread and Wine to euery Cōmunicant seuerally?
A00190And doth he bring his Schollers to the Church to heare Diuine Seruice and Sermons?
A00190And doth he reade the booke of the last Canons once yéerely, and weare a Surplice according to the sayd Canons?
A00190And doth hee giue warning beforehand to the parishoners, for the receiuing of the holy Cōmunion as the 22. canon requireth?
A00190And how haue they demeaned themselues therein, and of what skill are they accounted to bee in their profession?
A00190And whether haue you in your said Church or Chancell a Table set, of the degrées, wherein by Law men are prohibited to marry?
A00190And whether keepe they any Schoole- master in their house, which commeth not to Church to heare Diuine Seruice and receiue the Communion?
A00190And whether that wine be brought in a cleane and swéete standing pot of pewter, or of other purer mettall?
A00190And whether the sayd Terrier bée layd vp in the Bishops Registry, and in whose hands any of them are now?
A00190And whether they still remaine and abide in that conformitie?
A00190By whom are they chosen?
A00190Canon is enioyned: and is he of sober behauiour and one that doth not vse such bodily labor, as is not séemely for his function and calling?
A00190Haue they heard any matter of Office priuately in their chambers, without their sworne Registers, or their Deputies presence?
A00190How long haue they vsed their seuerall Sciences or Offices, and by what authority?
A00190If not, whether doth he procure some who are lawfully licensed, to preach amongst you monethly at the least?
A00190If so, then by whom?
A00190If so, then with whom, when, and for what and how hath the same bene imployed?
A00190If yea ▪ then who they are:& how long since haue they so reformed themselues?
A00190Is any thing lost or spoyled in the Church through his default?
A00190Or against any of the Rites or Ceremonies of the Church of England now established?
A00190Or are there in your Parish any wils not yet proued, or goods of the dead dying intestate left vnadministred?
A00190Or otherwise, in case the smallnesse of the liuing can not finde a preaching Minister, doeth hee preach at both his Benefices vsually?
A00190What is his name, and how long hath he taught there, or else where?
A00190What sum of money, or other consideration hath bin receiued or promised, by, or to any of them in that respect, by whom and with whom?
A00190Whether your Church- yard be well fenced& kept without abuse: and if not, in whose default the same is, and what the defect or fault is?
A00190and doth he preach standing and with his hat off?
A00190and is hee carefull and diligent to benefit his Schollers in learning?
A00190and what are their seuerall names?
A00190or haue takē any money or cōmutatiō for the same present their names that haue don it?
A00190or instruct their Families or children in Popish Religion?
A00190or refuse to entertaine any, especially in place of greatest seruice or trust, but such as concurre with them in their Papistry?
A00190or whether any of them do refuse to come: or if they come, refuse to learne the Catechisme set foorth in the booke of Common Prayer?
A32956A Bible, of the last Translation, in a large Uolum, and the Book of Common Prayer; both well and substantially bound?
A32956A Book of Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical?
A32956A Pulpit, with a comely Cloth or Cushion for the same?
A32956ARE there any belonging to your Parish, who refuse to pay their duty for Easter offerings to your Minister?
A32956ARE there any living in your Parish who have been unlawfully married contrary to the laws of God?
A32956And a Printed Table of the Degrees wherein Marriage is prohibited?
A32956And are there any Infants or more aged persons in your Parish as yet unbaptized?
A32956And are there any Wills or Testaments, of persons dead in your Parish, that be yet unproved?
A32956And do any of your Parish keep society with them before they he reconciled to the Church, and absolved?
A32956And doth he keep your Church or Chappel clean from dust, cobwebs, and other annoyance?
A32956And doth he use all such Rites and Ceremonies in all parts of Divine Service, as are appointed in the said Book?
A32956And have you a fair Communion- Cup, or Chalice, with a Cover of silver, and one or more Flagons of silver, or pewter, thereunto belonging?
A32956And is the transcript thereof yearly, within one Month next after the 25 of March, brought into the Bishops Registry?
A32956And lastly, have you a Bier, with a black Hears- cloth, for the Burial of the Dead?
A32956And what is the yearly Revenue, or Stipend, belonging to the Governours, or Masters, of the same?
A32956And when they come so to do, do they come decently apparelled, and make their offerings according to custom?
A32956Are his wages duly paid unto him?
A32956Are you careful that none of them sit, lean, or lay their Hats upon the Communion- Table?
A32956DO any of your Parish upon the Sundays or Holy- dayes, follow their bodily and ordinary labour?
A32956DO any refuse to bury their dead according to the Rites of the Church of England?
A32956DO you note them that come late to Church after Divine Service is begun, or depart before it be ended?
A32956DOTH any man keep a publick or private School in your Parish, who is not allowed thereunto by the Bishop or his Chancellor?
A32956DOTH any person preach in your Parish as a Lecturer?
A32956DOTH he neglect to visit the Sick, or delay the Baptism of any Infant that is in danger of death?
A32956Doth any in your Parish refuse to receive the same kneeling?
A32956Doth he baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers, or admit either of the Parents to be Godfather or Godmother to their own Children?
A32956Doth he before his Lecture, read Divine Service, according to the Book pf Common Prayer?
A32956Doth he cause them upon Sundayes and Holy- dayes, orderly to repair to your Church or Chappel?
A32956Doth he familiarly converse with ungodly, vicious, and excommunicate persons?
A32956Doth he set Neighbours at variance one with another?
A32956Doth he wear his hair of an immoderate or uncomely length?
A32956Doth your School- master teach his Scholars the Catechism of Religion, set forth by Authority?
A32956HATH he any other Ecclesiastical Benefice, Prebend, or Dignity?
A32956HATH he been legally Instituted and Inducted into his Benefice?
A32956HATH he presumed to Marry any persons in private houses?
A32956HATH your Minister been licenced to preach by the Bishop, or either of the two Universities?
A32956HAVE you any among you that be denounced and declared excommunicate for any crime committed?
A32956HAVE you belonging to your Church or Chappelry a Parish Clerk, aged 21 years ar the least?
A32956HAVE you in your said Church, or Chappel, a convenient Seat, or Pew, for your Minister to read Divine Service in?
A32956Hath any person encroached upon any Garden, Yard, or Close, belonging to your Parsonage or Uicarage house?
A32956Hath any person encroached upon the same?
A32956Hath he allowance from the Bishop for so doing?
A32956Hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint any publick or private Fasts, Prophecyings or Exercises, not appointed by Authority?
A32956Have any Inclosures been made in your Parish, to the detriment of the Church, by the decay of Tillage, and converting Arable- Land into Pasture?
A32956Have any Trees there growing been cut down?
A32956Have any new Pews been erected in your Chancel, or in the Body of your Church or Chappel without leave from the Ordinary?
A32956Have any of the same been withheld from your Minister?
A32956Have you likewise the Book of Homilies, set forth by Authority?
A32956How long have they been so excommunicated?
A32956How many weeks in any one year hath he been absent from it, without urgent necessity?
A32956III HAVE you a true and perfect Terrier of all the Glebe- lands, Gardens, Orchards, Tenements, or Cottages, belonging to your Parsonage or Uicarage?
A32956IS he defamed or suspected to have obtained either his Benefice or Orders, by any Simonaical compact?
A32956IS the House of your Parson, Uicar, or Curate,( with all the out- houses thereunto belonging) kept in good and sufficient repair?
A32956IS there any Hospital, Almes house, or Free- School founded in your Parish?
A32956IS there any person in your Parish, that lyeth under a common fame, or vehement suspicion of Adultery, Fornication or Incest?
A32956IS there any strife and contention among any of your Parish for their Pews or Seats in your Church?
A32956IS there in your Parish any person a known or reputed Heretick or Schismatick?
A32956IS your Church- yard sufficiently fenced with Walls, Rails, or Pales; and decently kept from the annoyance of Swine, Horses, and other Cattel?
A32956IS your Minister a Priest or Deacon, Episcopally Ordained, according to the Laws of the Church of England?
A32956IS your Parish Church or Chappel kept in good and sufficient repair?
A32956IS your Parson, Uicar, Curate or Lecturer, a man of a sober, unblamable, and exemplary life?
A32956In whose hands or Custody doth the same, or any part thereof remain?
A32956Is he a frequenter of Taverns, or Ale- houses?
A32956Is he allowed by the Bishop to serve in your Church or Chappel?
A32956Is he chosen by your Minister, and doth he duly attend him in all Divine Services at the Church?
A32956Is he constantly resident upon his Benefice amongst you?
A32956Is he noted to be an intemperate Drinker?
A32956Is he of honest life and conversation?
A32956Is his apparel grave and decent, both for fashion and colour, as the Canons of the Church require?
A32956Is the said Curate in Holy Orders?
A32956Is the same ordered and governed in every respect as it ought to be?
A32956Is there any Child past Infancy, or other person of more years, through your Ministers default, yet remaining unbaptized in your Parish?
A32956Or any goods administred, without a due grant from the Ordinary?
A32956Or any that being lawfully divorced have marryed again?
A32956Or any that being lawfully marryed, and not separated or divorced by course of law, do not cohabit together?
A32956Or are there any strangers not of your Parish, that forsake their own Churches, and usually repair to yours for it?
A32956Or do they keep them unbaptized any longer time then the Church alloweth?
A32956Or do they send them to be baptized in any other Parishes, or after other form than is appointed?
A32956Or is his Carriage and Conversation, in any kind whatsoever, Disorderly or Scandalous, and unbeseeming a Minister of Iesus Christ?
A32956Or, have any of the said Houses, or Out- houses, been defaced or pulled down without licence from the Ordinary?
A32956V. DO you suffer no mis- behaviour or disorder to be done by men, women, or servants, or children in your Church or Chappel?
A32956V. DOTH every person reverently uncover his head, and so continue all the time of Divine Service and Sermon in the Church?
A32956V. HATH your Minister a Curate to assist him?
A32956What were those Legacies, and how have they been bestowed?
A32956Who was the Founder, or is now the Patron thereof?
A32956X. DOTH your Minister diligently instruct the youth of your Parish, in the Church Catechism?
A32956a Swearer, Railer, Scoffer, or Quarreller?
A32956a common Gamester?
A32956a prophane or obscene Iester?
A32956an able and discreet person, and conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England?
A32956and are there any among you that come only to the Preaching, and not to the Common- Prayers of the Church?
A32956and by whom; as you know or have heard?
A32956and by whom?
A32956and do you permit no other to preach?
A32956and doth he prepare and present them, being so instructed, to be Confirmed by the Bishop?
A32956and doth he serve in any other Church beside?
A32956and how many years since?
A32956and how much is your Parsonage or Uicarage damnified thereby in the yearly value thereof; as you know, believe, or have heard?
A32956and if there be any such, what are their Names?
A32956and is he in all respects conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England?
A32956and see that they behave themselves there quietly and reverently, during the time of Divine Service and Sermon?
A32956and sufficient or able to perform his duty in reading, writing, and singing?
A32956and to whose use and benefit?
A32956and what yearly Stipend doth your Minister allow him?
A32956are any shops kept open or wares sold?
A32956by whom hath the same been made?
A32956by whom?
A32956giving notice to the Parishioners of every of the same in the Church, in the time of Divine Service upon the Sunday next before?
A32956how long since?
A32956or at any other hours then between Eight and Twelve in the Morning; unless he had a License or Dispensation so to do?
A32956or changed or removed the ancient Marks and Bounds of the same?
A32956or cut up any Trees growing thereon?
A32956or encourage them to Suits and Contention?
A32956or from the hands of your own Minister, repairing for it to other Parishes and Ministers abroad?
A32956or made any dore into it, out of his own ground or habitation, without allowance from the Ordinary?
A32956or one of the Homilies set forth by Authority to be there read by a Priest or Deacon lawfully Ordained?
A32956or permit their servants so to do?
A32956or such as, being under age, have not the consent of their Parents, or without the Banes first published on three Sundays or Holy- days in the Church?
A32956or vehemently suspected of Incontinency with any person, either within your Parish, or without?
A32956or who with- holdeth the same from him?
A69744A Bible, of the last Translation, in a large Volumn, and the Book of Common- Prayer; both well and substantially bound?
A69744A Book of Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical?
A69744A Pulyit, with a comely Cloth or Cushion for the same?
A69744ARE there any belonging to your Parish, who refuse to pay their Duty for Easter- Offerings to your Minister?
A69744ARE there any living in your Parish, who have béen unlawfully Married, contrary to the Lawes of God?
A69744And a printed Table of the Degrées wherein Marriage is prohibited?
A69744And are there any Infants, or more aged persons in your Parish, as yet unbaptized?
A69744And are there any Wills or Testaments of persons dead in your Parish, that be yet unproved?
A69744And are there any among you that come only to the Preaching, and not to the Common- Prayers of the Church?
A69744And by whom?
A69744And do any of your Parish kéep Society with them before they be reconciled to the Church, and absolved?
A69744And do you permit no other to Preach?
A69744And doth he keep your Church or Chappel clean from Dust, Cobwebs, and other Annoyance?
A69744And doth he prepare and present them, being so instructed, to be Confirmed by the Bishop?
A69744And doth he serve in any other Church beside?
A69744And doth he use all such Rites and Ceremonies in all parts of Divine Service, as are appointed in the said Book?
A69744And have you a fair Communion- Cup, or Chalice, with a Cover of silver, and one or more Flagons of silver, or pewter, thereunto belonging?
A69744And if there be any such, what are their Names?
A69744And is he in all respects conformable to the Lawes and Orders of the Church of England?
A69744And is the Transcript thereof Yearly, within one Month next after the 25. of March, brought into the Bishops Registry?
A69744And lastly, Have you a Bier, with a black Hears- Cloth, for the Burial of the Dead?
A69744And what is the Yearly Revenue, or Stipend, belonging to the Governors, or Masters of the same?
A69744And what yearly Stipend doth your Minister allow him?
A69744And when they come so to do, Do they come decently Apparrelled, and make their Off ● rings according to Custom?
A69744Are any Shops kept open, or Wares sold?
A69744Are his Wages duly paid unto him?
A69744Are you careful that none of them sit, lean, or lay their Hats upon the Communion Table?
A69744Articies of the Church of England; established by Authority, and there publickly Declare his Assent thereunto?
A69744DO any of your Parish upon the Sundayes or Holy- dayes, follow their bodily and ordinary Labour?
A69744DO any refuse to bury their Dead according to the Rites of the Church of England?
A69744DO you Note them that come late to Church after Divine Service is begun, or depart before it be ended?
A69744DOTH any man kéep a publick or private School in your Parish, who is not allowed thereunto by the Bishop or his Chancellor?
A69744DOTH any person Preach in your Parish as a Lecturer?
A69744DOTH he neglect to visit the Sick, or delay the Baptism of any Infant that is in danger of death?
A69744Declare what you know, or have heard therein?
A69744Doth he Baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers, or admit either of the Parents to be Godfather or Godmother to their own Children?
A69744Doth he before his Lecture, read Divine Service according to the Book of Common- Prayer?
A69744Doth he familiarly converse with ungodly, vitious, and excommunicate persons?
A69744Doth he set Neighbours at variance one with another?
A69744Doth he wear his hair of an immoderate or uncomely length?
A69744Doth your School- master teach his Scholars the Catechism of Religion set forth by Authority?
A69744HATH he any other Ecclesiastical Benefice, Prebend, or Dignity?
A69744HATH he béen legally Instituted and Inducted into his Benefice?
A69744HATH he presumed to Marry any persons in private Houses?
A69744HATH your Minister béen Licensed to Preach by the Bishop, or either of the two Vniversities?
A69744HATH your Minister taken upon him to appoint any Publick or Private Fasts, Prophecyings or Exercises, not appointed by Authority?
A69744HAVE you a true and perfect Terrier of all the Glebe- lands, Gardens, Orchards, Tenements, or Cottages, belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage?
A69744HAVE you any among you that be denounced and declared Excommunicate for any Crime committed?
A69744HAVE you belonging to your Church or Chappelry, a Parish- Clerk aged Twenty one Years at the least?
A69744HAVE you in your said Church or Chappel, a convenient Seat, or Pew, for your Minister to read Divine Service in?
A69744Hath any Person encroached upon any Garden, Yard, or Close, belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage- house?
A69744Hath any person encroached upon the same?
A69744Hath he allowance from the Bishop for so doing?
A69744Have any Inclosures béen made in your Parish, to the detriment of the Church, by the decay of Tillage, and converting Arable Land into Pasture?
A69744Have any Trées there growing béen cut down?
A69744Have any new Pews béen erected in your Chancel, or in the Body of your Church or Chappel, without leave from the Ordinary?
A69744Have you likewise the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority?
A69744How long have they béen so Excommunicated?
A69744How many wéeks in any one Year hath he béen absent from it, without urgent Necessity?
A69744IS the House of your Parson, Vicar, or Curate,( with all the Out- houses thereunto belonging) kept in good and sufficient repair?
A69744IS there any Hospital, Almes- house, or Frée- School founded in your Parish?
A69744IS there any Strife and Contention among any of your Parish, for their Pews or Seats in your Church?
A69744IS there any person in your Parish, that lieth under a common Fame, or vehement suspition of Adultery, Fornication, or Incest?
A69744IS your Church- yard sufficiently fenced with Walls, Rails, or Pales; and decently kept from the annoyance of Swine, Horses, and other Cattel?
A69744IS your Minister a Priest or Deacon, Episcopally Ordained, according to the Lawes of the Church of England?
A69744IS your Parish- Church or Chappel kept in good and sufficient repair?
A69744IS your Parson, Vicar, Curate, or Lecturer, a man of a sober, unblameable, and exemplary life?
A69744In whose hands or custody doth the same, or any part thereof remain?
A69744Is he a Frequenter of Taverns, or Ale- houses?
A69744Is he allowed by the Bishop to serve in your Church or Chappel?
A69744Is he chosen by your Minister, and doth he duly attend him in all Divine Services at the Church?
A69744Is he constantly resident upon his Benefice amongst you?
A69744Is he noted to be an intemperate Drinker?
A69744Is he of honest Life and Conversation, and sufficient or able to perform his Duty in Reading, Writing, and Singing?
A69744Is his Apparrel grave and decent, both for Fashion and Colour, as the Canons of the Church require?
A69744Is the said Curate in holy Orders, an able and discréet Person, and conformable to the Lawes and Orders of the Church of England?
A69744Is the same Ordered and Governed in every Respect as it ought to be?
A69744Is there any Chillde past Infancy, or other person of more Years, through your Ministers default, yet remaining unbaptized in your Parish?
A69744Is there in your Parish, any person, a known or reputed Heretick or Schismatick?
A69744Or any Goods Administred, without a due Grant from the Ordinary?
A69744Or any that being lawfully Divorced, have Married again?
A69744Or any that being lawfully Married, and not Separated or Divorced by course of Law, do not Cohabit together?
A69744Or are there any strangers not of your Parish, that forsake their own Churches, and usually repair to yours for it?
A69744Or at any other houres than betwéen Eight and Twelve in the Morning; unless he had a License or Dispensation so to do?
A69744Or changed, or removed the Ancient Marks and Bounds of the same?
A69744Or cut up any Trées growing thereon?
A69744Or do they kéep them unbaptiz ● d any longer time than the Church alloweth?
A69744Or do they send them to be bap ● ized in any other Parishes, or after other Form than is appointed?
A69744Or encourage them to Suits and Contention?
A69744Or is his Carriage and Conversation in any kind whatsoover, Disorderly or Scandalous, and unbeséeming a Minister of Iesus Christ?
A69744Or permit their Servants so to do?
A69744Or vehemently suspected of Incontinency with any Person, either within your Parish, or without?
A69744Or who with- holdeth the same from him?
A69744Or, have any of the said Houses, or Out- houses, béen defaced, or pulled down, without License from the Ordinary?
A69744V. DO you suffer no Misbehaviour or Disorder to be done by Men, Women, or Servants, or Children in your Church or Chappel?
A69744V. DOTH every Person reverently uncover his Head, and so continue all the time of Divine Service, and Sermon in the Church?
A69744V. HATH your Minister a Curate to assist him?
A69744What were those Legacies, and how have they béen bestowed?
A69744Who was the Founder, or is now the Patron thereof?
A69744X. DOTH your Minister diligently instruct the Youth of your Parish, in the Church- Catechism?
A69744a Swearer, Railer, Scoffer, or Quarreller?
A69744a common Gamester?
A69744a profane or obscene Iester?
A69744and how many years since?
A69744and how much is your Parsonage or Vicarage damnified thereby in the yearly value thereof, as you know, believe, or have heard?
A69744and to whose use and benefit?
A69744by whom hath the same béen made?
A69744by whom?
A69744how long since?
A69744or made any door into it, out of his own Ground or Habitation, without allowance from the Ordinary?
A69744or one of the Homilies, set forth by Authority, to be there read by a Priest or Deacon lawfully Ordained?
A002111 HAue you a fit Parish Clarke, aged twentie yeeres at least, of honest conuersati ● ●, able to reade and write?
A002111 Whether, and how often haue you admitted any to preach within your Churh or Chappell, which was not sufficientlie licensed?
A0021110 Doe any of your Parish usually goe to other Parish Churches to heare Diuine Seruice or Sermons?
A0021110 Doth your Minister or Curate, serue any more cures than one: If yea, then what oth ● r Cure doth he serue, and how farre are they distant?
A0021112 What persons within your Parish, for any offence, contumacy, or crime, 〈 ◊ 〉 Ecclesiasticall Conusance doe stand excommunicate?
A0021113 Hath your Minister admitted any Woman, begotten with childe in adultery or for ● ication, to be Churched without licence of the Ordinary?
A002112 Doth your Schoole master teach and instruct his youth in any other Catechisme than is allowed by publike authoritie?
A002112 HOw many Physitions, Chirurgions or Mid- Wiues, haue you in your Parish?
A0021120 Whether any in your Parish haue maried within the degrées by Law prohibited, ● ● d where, and by whom?
A0021120 Whether is your Curate licensed to serue, by the Bishop of this Diocesse, or b ● any other, and by whom?
A0021121 Whether doe any persons administer the goods of the dead without lawfull autho ● ty, or suppresse the last will of the dead?
A0021122 Whether any with- hold the Stocke of the Church, or any goods or other things, euen to good and charitable vses?
A002113 Doth your Minister bid Holidayes and Fasting- dayes, as by the Booke of Common prayer is appointed?
A002113 Is any Living or meanes giuen towards the erection or maintenance of any Schoole withholden backe or otherwise imployed, and by whom?
A002114 What Recusant Papists are there in your Parish, or other Sectaries?
A002115 Is your Church or Chappell decently paued, and is your Church- yard well and orderly kept without abuse?
A002115 Whether any of the said Popish Recusants, or other Schismaticks, doe labour to ● ouce and with- draw others from the Religion now established?
A002116 How long haue the said popish Recusants abstained from Diuine Seruice; or from the Communion, as aforesaid?
A002116 Is your Minister a Preacher allowed?
A002116 What number of Apparators haue euery seuerall Iudge Ecclesiasticall?
A002116 Whether any man doe trouble or molest you for doing your duties?
A002117 Whether there be any Legacies witholden giuen to the Church or poore people o ● to the mending of Highwayes, or otherwise by the Testators?
A002118 Do you know of any thing that hath béene complained of, that is not yet redresse?
A00211And are the Almes of the Church faithfullie distributed to the vse of the poore?
A00211And doth he bring his Schollers to the Church, to heare diuine Seruice and Sermons?
A00211And doth he reade the Book of the last Canons yearely, and weare a Surplice according to the said Canons?
A00211And how haue they demeaned themselues therein, and of what skil are they accountd to be in their profession?
A00211And how long since haue they so reformed themselues?
A00211And if he doe not, where is the fault, either in he Parents and Masters of the children, or in the Curate neglecting his duty?
A00211And if you find any faulte herein, you shall present them?
A00211And is the whole consecrated ground kept free from Swine and all other nastinesse, as becommeth the place so dedicated?
A00211And what Catechisme it is that he so teacheth?
A00211And whe ● ein, and in what manner is the Countrey ouerburthened by them?
A00211And wherein hau ● they caused or summoned any to appeare in the said Courts, without a presentme ● t or Citation first had?
A00211And whether are his Maiesties Instructions in all things duly obserued?
A00211And whether haue you in your said Church or Chancell, a Table set, of the degrées wherein by Law men are prohibited to marry?
A00211And whether is there a Table for the rates of all Fée ●, set vp in their seuerall Courts and Offices?
A00211And whether that wine be brought in a cleane and swéet standing pot of pewter, or of other purer mettall?
A00211And whether the same Terrier be laid vp in the Bishops Registery, and in whose hands any of them are now?
A00211And whether they haue sent or suffered my Processe to goe out of the Ecclesiasticall Courts otherwise than by Law they oug ● t?
A00211And whether they still remaine and abide in that conformitie?
A00211And who haue beene so punished?
A00211And who is to repaire the Fences on each side thereof?
A00211Are the bones of the dead decently interred, or laid vp in ● ome fit place as beseemeth Christians?
A00211Cannon is enjoyned: is he of sober behauiour, and one that doth not vse such bodlie labour, as is not seemelie for his function and calling?
A00211Canon, in that behalfe provided?
A00211Canon, is directed: And doth he deliuer the Bread and Wine to euery Communicant seuerally, and knéeli ● g?
A00211How is each parcell Butted, on eu ● ry parte?
A00211How long haue they vsed their seuerall Sciences or Offices, and by what authorite?
A00211How much doth each pa ● cell conteyne by measure of the 16. foote Poale?
A00211I ● you know of any other default or crime of Ecclesiasticall Conusance, you are to ● ● ● ent the same by vertue of your Oathes?
A00211If not, whether d ● th he procure some who are lawfully licensed, to preach monethly amongst you at the least?
A00211If so, then with whom?
A00211If so, then you ● e to present the same, the time and place, when, and where he did it?
A00211If yea, then by whom?
A00211In what manner, and vpo ● what cause?
A00211In whose hands it is, by whom it was giuen, and by whom it is with- holden?
A00211Is any thing lost or spoiled in the Church, through his default?
A00211Or against any of the ● ites or Ceremonies of the Church of England, now established?
A00211Or are there in your Parish any wils not yet ● oued, or goods of the dead( dying intestate) left vnadministred?
A00211Or doe they communicate, or Baptize their Children in any ● ther Parish?
A00211Or doth he( wen any is passing out of this life) neglect to toll a bell, hauing notice thereof?
A00211Or haue any Patrons or others decayed the Parsonage, houses, and keepe a stipendary Priest or Curate, in place where an incumbent should be possessed?
A00211Or haue taken any mony or commutation for the same?
A00211Or otherwise, in case the smalnesse of the liuing can ● ot find a preaching Minister, doth he preach at both his benefices vsually?
A00211Or whether any of them do refuse to come; or if they cme, refuse to learne those instructions set forth in the Book of Common prayer?
A00211Or who come late to Church, and depart from Church before seruice be done vpon the said dayes?
A00211Or who ● ● e giue themselues to babbling, talking, or walking, and are not attentiue to heare the word preached, or read?
A00211Present thei ● names that haue done it?
A00211Wh ● t summe of money, or other consideration hath béene receiued or promised, by, or to any ● f them, in that respect, by whom, and with whom?
A00211What is his Name, and how long hath he taught there, or elsewhere?
A00211When, and for what, and how hath the same beéne impl ● yed?
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A00211and whether doth euery Lecturer reade diuine Seruice, according to the Liturgy printed by authority, in his Surplice and Hood before the Lecture?
A00211and whether the said Clarke bee approued by the Ordinarie?
A00211are the Communion Tble, Font, Books, and other Ornaments of the Church kept faire and cleane?
A00211by whom are they chosen?
A00211d ● e wilfully absent themselues from your parish Church, vpon Sundayes or Holidayes a ● Morning and Euening prayers?
A00211doth he suffer any unseasonable ringing, or any prophane exercise in your Church?
A00211present t ● eir names, qualities, or conditions?
A00211present their ● m ● s?
A00211whether they keep any Schoole master in their h ● use, which commeth not to Church to heare Diuine Seruice and receiue the Com ● uni ● n?
A00211● Doth your Clark or Sexton kéep the Church cleane, the doores locked at fit times?
A00211● In Whose occupation, are the said parcells at this present?
A32941ARe the Church- Wardens of your Parish yearly and duly chosen, and sworn?
A32941And do such as purpose to Communicate, signifie their Names at least some time the day before?
A32941And doth he administer it to them?
A32941And doth he call upon them to receive the holy Sacrament in their sickness?
A32941And doth he reverently and carefully in all things obse ● ve all the Churches Order in the Celebration?
A32941And doth he wear his Hair of a moderate and comely length?
A32941And have you a Ho ● d or Typet for your Minister to wear over his Surplice, if he be a Graduate?
A32941And is he also ready to baptize Infants in danger of death ▪ Is any Infant or more aged person in the Parish yet unbaptized by his default?
A32941Are the Side- men duly chosen?
A32941Are there any T ● st ● ments or Wills by any conce ● l''d or improv''d, or any Goods unadministred by lawful Authority?
A32941Are your Midwives also licensed by the Ordinary?
A32941D ● th he give warning publickly in the Church at Morning- Prayer the Sunday before for the better preparation of his Parishioners?
A32941DO any in your Parish teach or instruct Youth in any publick School, or private House, without License from his Ordinary?
A32941Doth any Lay- man that is not duly ordain''d openly read Common- Prayer, or execute any Ministerial duty in your Church?
A32941Doth every one abide in his own calling whereunto he is called?
A32941Doth he f ● miliarly converse with persons Excommunicate, ungodly or vicious?
A32941Doth he resort to suspected and infamous houses?
A32941Doth he set Neighbours at v ● riance one with another?
A32941Doth your Minister on the three R ● gation days before the Feast of the holy Ascension, go in pe ● ● m ● ulation of the Circuit of the Parish?
A32941Doth your Minister permit any strange Ministers to preach in your Church who is not sufficiently licensed and Authoriz ● d thereto?
A32941Doth your Minister reverently and publickly, at the Font only, administer the Holy Sacrament of Baptism?
A32941Doth your Minister serve more than one Church or Chappel in distinct Parishes on one day?
A32941Hath any Apparitor taken Reward or Fee to excuse any appearance before the Ecclesiastical Court?
A32941Hath your Minister admitted any Women begotten withChi ● d in Adultery or Fornication, to be churched without license from the Ordinary?
A32941Have any trees been cut down, growing in the Church- yard or fences thereof, and by whom, and for what use was it done?
A32941Have you a Book to set down the names of such Strangers as preach in your Church?
A32941Have you a large and decent Surplice, one, or more, for the Minist ● r to wear at all times of his publick Ministrati ● n?
A32941Have you any Lands or Tenements given or belonging to the repairing of your Church?
A32941Have you belonging to the Church or Chappel a perfect Bible of the largest Uolumn, of the last Translation allowed by Authority?
A32941Have you two Books of Common- Prayer set forth according to the last Act of Parliament for the Uniformity of publick Prayers?
A32941IS your Church or Chappel kept in good repair?
A32941If so, how hath the same been disposed of, to pious and charitable uses( as far as you know?)
A32941Is any Encroachment made upon that ground?
A32941Is any Lecture preach ● d in your Church?
A32941Is he also ready to visit the sick?
A32941Is his usual Apparel decent in fashion and in colour, such as in enjoyn''d him by the Canons of the Church?
A32941Is the Chancel of the Church sufficiently repair''d and beautifi ● d by the Minister or other person to whom that doth belong?
A32941Is the House of your Parson Uicar, or Curate, with all the out ● houses thereto belonging, kept in good and sufficient repair?
A32941Is there any guilty of Speeches of Infidelity against the faith of our Lord Iesus Christ?
A32941Is there any one that doth affirm or teach( and who is he) that the Holy Scripture doth not contain all things necessary to Salvation?
A32941Is you ● Minister ● li ● ensed Preacher, by the Bishop, or either of the two Universities?
A32941Or any that being lawfully Married do yet live asunder wi ● hou ● separation in due form of Law?
A32941Or are there any that refuse to bury their d ● ● d according to the Rites of the Church?
A32941Or doth h ● celebrate the same in any other place than in the Church?
A32941Or doth he any way ende ● vour to bring the Parson or Uicar of the place into disrepute with his Parishioners?
A32941Or doth your Curate or Minister lodg or board at any Tavern, Inn, Ale- house, or house of any ill report?
A32941Or is he himself vehemently suspected of Incontinency, with any person within or without your Parish?
A32941Or that doth any way deny or impugn the King''s Majesty''s Royal Authority or Supremacy in C ● use ● Ecclesiastical in this Realm?
A32941Or that doth forsake their own Parish- Church to receive elsewhere?
A32941V. Do you the Church- Wardens note them that come late to Church after Divine Service is begun, or depart before it be ended?
A32941and before you present any for such default, do you first seriously admonish them?
A32941and by whom?
A32941and do they joyn with them in framing Presentments?
A32941and do you distribute the several summs so levied to the poor of your Parish according to the law in that case provided?
A32941and does he see that they behave themselves there orderly and reverently?
A32941and doth he cause his Scholars on Sund ● ys and Holy- days to resort to Church, to hear Divine Service, Sermons and Catechize?
A32941and doth he duly attend the Minister in all Divine Offices at the Church?
A32941and doth he himself teach them the Catechism set forth by Authority?
A32941and is he deligent to bring them up in the fear of God, in good learning, and manners?
A32941and is he in all respects conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England?
A32941and is he pay''d the ancient and usual wages as hath been accustomed?
A32941and is one of those Keys in the custody of the Parson, Uicar, or Curate?
A32941and is the s ● me delivered to you by bill indented?
A32941and is the whole consecrated ground kept free from Swine and other filth and annoyance, as becomes a place so dedicated?
A32941and what remains is it reverently eaten and drunken by some of the Communicants within your C ● urch?
A32941and what yearly Stipend doth your Minister allew him?
A32941and when all h ● ve communicated doth he cover wh ● t rem ● ineth of the Consecrated Elements wi ● h a fair Linnen- cloth?
A32941and when he seeth the People negligent to come to the Communion, doth he use the Churches second Exhortation?
A32941are the roofs, the walls, the floors, windows, seats and doors, well maintained?
A32941do they assist the Church- Wardens in the executing their Office?
A32941doth be kéep clean the Church, and carefully look to it, and to the Books?
A32941hath he s ● id Divine Service whilst he knew such Excommunicate persons to have been in the Church?
A32941have you any that upon such days kéep open shops or sell wares especially in time of Divine Service?
A32941if so do the owners thereof repair the same?
A32941if so, how f ● r distant are those Churches or Chappels which he so serveth?
A32941in Holy Orders who doth voluntarily relinquish those his Orders, and use himself as a Lay- man only without taking any care of the Church of God?
A32941is he or are they who preach it, Licensed so to do by the Bishop?
A32941nor suffer any to bring Dogs, Hawks, or Hounds into the Church to the disturbance of the Congregation?
A32941or any th ● t will come to hear S ● ● mons but will not come to Common- Prayer and Worship of G ● ● appointed in this Church?
A32941or hath the Register- sped any Act, or dismissed any person detected without the knowledg and actual consent of the Iudg?
A32941or have any of the said houses or out- houses been pull''d down without License from the Ordinary?
A32941or in the Church at any other time, then between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon?
A32941or spoken ought privately in contempt of Religion, or that Religion or any part of it, which he by his office in this Church professeth?
A32941or w ● ich h ● ve committed perjury in any Ecclesi ● stical C ● urt 〈 … 〉?
A32941or 〈 ◊ 〉 teaches that those three Holy Orders above ● ● ● ● have not b ● en ever in Christ''s Church even from the Apostles time?
A32941that the Objectio ● s of any may be heard, before they be by the Ordinary ratified?
A32941what is the quantity and value thereof, and in whose possession are they?
A32941what private doors are made into the Church- yard, whereby Nusances are committed, and by whom were those doors made?
A32937A Book of Canons, and Constitutions Ecclesiastical, set forth in the year of our Lord 1603, by the King''s Authority?
A32937A Swearer, Railer, or Quarreller?
A32937A common Gamester, or User of unlawful, or undecent Sports?
A32937ARE the Church- wardens of your Parish duly chosen by the joynt consent of the Minister, and Parishioners?
A32937ARE there any belonging to your Parish, who refuse to pay their Easter- Offerings, or Duties to your Minister?
A32937ARE there any living in your Parish, as Man and Wife, who are within the Degrees prohibited?
A32937And a printed Table of the Degrees, wherein Mariage is prohibited?
A32937And all things so decently ordered, as becometh the House of God?
A32937And also a Hood, agreeable to his Degree, or a Tippet, to be used or worn over the Surplice?
A32937And are there any Infants or persons of riper years in your Parish, who as yet remain unbaptized?
A32937And being thus prepared, and of convenient age, doth he take care to present them to the Bishop to be confirmed?
A32937And by whom, and when hath the same been done?
A32937And do any of your Parish keep society with them before they be reconciled to the Church, and absolved?
A32937And do they distribute the several Sums so levied among the Poor of your Parish, according to Law?
A32937And do they summon any to appear at the Consistory without Citation first had, and granted from the Ecclesiastical Iudge?
A32937And doth he endeavour to his utmost doth in his publick Sermons, and private Conferences to prevail with his Parishioners to receive it oftner?
A32937And doth he in those his Ministrations wear the Surplice, with a Hood befitting his Degree?
A32937And have you a strong Chest, or Coffer, wherein to keep the aforesaid Books, and all the aforementioned Furniture in safe custody?
A32937And have your Minister, and Church- wardens subscrib''d their Names unto every Page of that Book?
A32937And how much is your Parsonage, or Uicarage damnified thereby in the yearly value thereof, as you know, believe, or have heard?
A32937And is he a Licens''d Preacher, and by whom?
A32937And is he in all respects conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England?
A32937And is the same, with all the Out- houses thereunto belonging, kept in good, and sufficient repair?
A32937And is there a Copy of the said Terrier, and Note deliver''d in, to be laid up in the Registers Office?
A32937And lastly, Have you a Bier, and a Black Hearse- Cloth for the more decent Burial of the Dead?
A32937And what is the yearly Revenue?
A32937And when they come so to do, do they come decently apparelled, and make their Offerings according to Custom?
A32937Any Common Drunkards, or Comon Swearers, or Blasphemers of God''s Holy Name?
A32937Any Depravers, Disturbers, or Contemners of the publick Service of God, and the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England by Law established?
A32937Any Libertine, or profane person?
A32937Any person notoriously known, or vehemently suspected to be of Atheistical Principles, or Opinions?
A32937Are any Shops kept open, or Wares sold at such times?
A32937Are his Wages duly paid unto him?
A32937Are the Roofs thereof well covered with Lead, Tile, or Slate?
A32937Are there any Wills or Testaments of persons dead in your Parish, that be yet unproved?
A32937As also a third Book, wherein are Entred the Church- wardens Accompts for every year?
A32937By whom?
A32937DO any of your Parish upon the Sunday- days, or Holy- days follow their bodily, or ordinary Labour?
A32937DO any refuse to Bury their Dead according to the Rites of the Church of England?
A32937DO they present all them that come late to Church, after Divine Service is begun, or depart before it be ended?
A32937DOTH any Man keep a publick or private School in your Parish?
A32937DOTH any person preach in your parish as a Lecturer?
A32937DOTH he refuse, or neglect to visit, comfort, and pray with the Sick, or to bury the Dead?
A32937Do they demand, exact, or take unlawful or extraordinary Fees?
A32937Do they unnecessarily delay, or protract any causes brought before them?
A32937Do they vexatiously cite any into their Courts for greediness of Gain, or other undue Ends?
A32937Doth any Man or Woman in your Parish take upon them to practise Physick, or Chirurgery?
A32937Doth he before his Lecture read the Divine Service, as the late Act of Uniformity requires?
A32937Doth he delay the Baptism of any Infant that is in danger of death?
A32937Doth he familiarly converse with vitious, ungodly, or excommunicate persons?
A32937Doth he keep your Church or Chappel clean from Dust, Cobwebs, and other Annoyance?
A32937Doth he set Neighbours at variance one with another?
A32937Doth he teach his Scholars the Catechism of Religion set forth by Authority?
A32937Doth he use any Trade, Occupation, Traffique, or Merchandizing for Filthy Lucre sake?
A32937Doth he use to Baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers, or admit either of the parents to be Godfather or Godmother to their own Children?
A32937Doth he, or his Curate serve in any other Church beside?
A32937HATH any Sum of Money been lately, or heretofore paid to any Ecclesiastical Officer for Commutation of Pennance?
A32937HATH he any other Ecclesiastical Benefice with Cure, or without?
A32937HATH he presumed to Marry any persons in private Houses?
A32937HATH the Steeple, or Tower, or any other part of your Church, or Chappel, been pulled, or fallen down?
A32937HAVE any Apparitors taken any Reward for the concealing any Offence, or the avoiding the Punishment or Reformation of Offenders?
A32937HAVE you any among you, that be denounced, and declared Excommunicate for any crime committed?
A32937HAVE you in your said Church, or Chappel, a convenient Seat or Pew for your Minister to read Divine Service in?
A32937Hath any encroached upon any Garden, Yard, or Close belonging to your Parsonage, or Uicarage- House?
A32937Hath any person made any Door into it out of his own House, or Ground?
A32937Hath he License from the Bishop so to do?
A32937Have any Trees there growing been cut down?
A32937Have any of the said Houses, or Out- houses been pull''d down, or defaced?
A32937Have any of these been with- held from your Minister?
A32937Have you likewise the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority?
A32937How is it setled, and in whose hands?
A32937How long have they been so?
A32937How long since?
A32937IS there a Decent Font of Stone, fixed in the Ancient, and usual place in the lower part of the Church, for the Administration of Holy Baptism?
A32937IS there a House belonging to your Parson, Uicar, or Curate?
A32937IS there any Strife or Contention among any of your Parish for their Pews, or Seats in your Church?
A32937IS there any person in your Parish, that lieth under a common Fame, or vehement suspition of Adultery, Fornication, or Incest?
A32937IS there in your Parish any Hospital, Alms- house, or Free- school?
A32937IS there in your Parish any known or reputed Heretick, Schismatick or Separatist?
A32937IS there within your parish dwelling or residing any one, who being in Holy Orders hath quitted his profession, and turn''d Lay ▪ man?
A32937IS your Church- yard sufficiently Fenced, and decently kept from all Profanation, and Encroachment?
A32937IS your Minister( so far as you know, or believe) in Holy Orders according to the Rules of the Church of England?
A32937IS your Parish- Church( or Chappel) kept in good, and sufficient repair?
A32937If so, how do they now behave themselves?
A32937In his Apparel grave and decent, as the Canons of the Church require?
A32937Is he a frequenter of Taverns, Ale- houses, or other Houses of ill fame?
A32937Is he allowed so to do by the Ordinary?
A32937Is he constantly Resident among you?
A32937Is he duly chosen by your Minister?
A32937Is he lawfully admitted to the Cure of Souls in your Parish, as you believe, or have heard?
A32937Is he noted to be an intemperate Drinker?
A32937Is he of sober Life, and honest Conversation, and conformable to the Doctrine and Discipline Established?
A32937Is the same ordered, and governed in every respect, as it ought to be?
A32937Or Baptize them in any other place than the Church, when there is no such danger?
A32937Or any Goods Administred, without a due grant from the Ordinary?
A32937Or any Woman to exercise the Office of a Midwife, without being first examined, and approved, and thereupon Licensed by the Ordinary?
A32937Or any that being lawfully Divorced have Married again?
A32937Or any that being lawfully Married, and not separated, or Divorced by course of Law, do not cohabit together?
A32937Or are there any Strangers not of your Parish, that forsake their own Churches, and usually repair to yours for it?
A32937Or are there any among you that come only to the Preaching, and not to the Common- prayers of the Church?
A32937Or as the custom of the Parish is?
A32937Or at any other hours, than between eight and twelve in the Morning, unless he had a License or Dispensation so to do?
A32937Or cut up any Trees growing thereon?
A32937Or do they keep them unbaptized any longer time, than the Church alloweth?
A32937Or do they send them from their own Minister, to be Baptized in any other place, or after other form, than is appointed?
A32937Or encourage them to Suits and contentions?
A32937Or have any of the Bells, Lead, or other Materials, or Utensils, formerly belonging thereunto, been imbezelled, sold, or made away?
A32937Or have any of them erected new Pews in your Chancel, or in the Body of your Church or Chappel, without leave from the Ordinary?
A32937Or how many weeks in any one year hath he been absent from you?
A32937Or in any kind grieve, or oppress His Maiesties good Subjects?
A32937Or in sum, any whose Life and Manners are contrary to Godliness, Peace, and Honesty?
A32937Or is he reported, or suspected to have obtained either his Orders, or Benefice by any Simoniacal, or undue practise?
A32937Or on the other side, is his carriage and conversation in any kind whatsoever disorderly, or scandalous, and unbeseeming a Minister of Iesus Christ?
A32937Or one of the Homilies set forth by Authority to be there read by a Priest, or Deacon?
A32937Or one of them by the Minister, and the other by the Parishioners?
A32937Or such, as being under age, have not the consent of their parents, or without the Banes first published on three Sundays or Holydays in the Church?
A32937Or vehemently suspected of Incontinency with any person, either within your parish, or without?
A32937Or who with- holdeth the same?
A32937Unto whom was it paid, and to what Use appointed, or employed?
A32937V. ARE there any in your Parish that refuse to send their Infant- Children to be Baptized publickly in the Church, unless in case of urgent danger?
A32937V. DO they take care, that no Misbehaviour or Disorder be done by Men, Women, Servants, or Children in your Church or Chappel?
A32937V. HATH he a Curate to assist him, able, and sufficient, and conformable to the Laws, and Orders of the Church of England?
A32937What was the Sum?
A32937What yearly Stipend doth your Minister allow his Curate?
A32937Who is now the Patron thereof?
A32937Who was the Founder?
A32937and by whom?
A32937and by whom?
A32937and do they permit no other to preach?
A32937and doth he diligently attend him in all Divine Offices; audibly making, and repeating the Responses and Suffrages, as in the Liturgy he is directed?
A32937and doth he teach them good Manners, Sobriety, Modesty, and Obedience, as well as other Learning?
A32937and how far distant from you, and in what Diocess?
A32937and is it, or hath it been misemployed, or disposed of to other Uses?
A32937and to whose Use, and Benefit?
A32937and what profession, or course of Life do they follow?
A32937and when, or by whom?
A32937or any that are noted to be Railers, unclean or filthy Talkers, Sowers or Maintainers of Sedition, Faction, or Discord among their Neighbours?
A32937or changed, or removed the antient Marks, and Bounds of the same?
A32937or compel, or permit their Servants so to do?
A32937that none of them sit, lean, or lay their Hats upon the Communion- Table?
A32937the Floors well paved?
A32937the Seats well fastned, and conveniently placed?
A32937the Utensils, and Ornaments fairly kept, and preserved from spoil, abuse, and profanation?
A32937the Windows well glazed?
A32937what Stipends belong to the Governors, or Masters of the same?
A002141 IS your Parish Church or Chappell well and sufficiently repaired, and so from time to time maintained and kept?
A0021410 Doth your Lecturer conforme himselfe to the Lawes, Ordinances, and Rites Ecclesiasticall established in the Church of England?
A0021410 Have you in your Church or Chappell a strong Chest with an hole in the upper part thereof, 〈 ◊ 〉 the Almes of the poore?
A0021412 How many Apparatours have you in your Dioc ● sse or Archdeaconrie, as you either know or doe conjecture?
A0021414 Have you any that keepe company and hold society with suc ● as are denounced and declared Excommunicate?
A0021414 Is the bread provided for the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper, of the best and purest white- bread that may conveniently be gotten?
A0021417 Are there in your Parish any Wills unproved, or any goods unadministred by lawfull Authority?
A002142 Doth the Minister reade the Psalmes, and Lessons appointed in the Kalendar for Morning and Evening Prayer?
A0021420 Doth your Minister having Cure and charge of ● oules, doe his best endeavour to prepare children, and make them ready for confirmation?
A002146 Have you any that upon the Sundayes or Holydaies, imploy themselves in their bodily and ordinary labour, or that permit their servants so to doe?
A002146 Have you in the Chancell of your Church or Chappell a decent and convenient Table for the celebration of the Holy Comm ● ● ion?
A002147 Have you in your Parish, besides your Parson, Uicar, and Curate, any Lecturer or Lecturers not having cure of soules therein?
A002148 Have you had time sufficient for drawing up of your presentments?
A002148 Have you in your Church or Chappell a Font of stone, where Baptisme is to be administred, decently made, and kept as it ought to be?
A002149 Is your Lecturer licensed by the Bishop of the Diocesse?
A00214A booke of prayers for the 5. of November, and for the 27. of March being the day of his Maiesties most happy Inauguration?
A00214And doe any under Noble men, and men qualified by law keepe any private Chaplaine in their house or houses?
A00214And doe such as purpose to communicat ● signifie their minds unto the ● urate over night or the morning early?
A00214And doe the new married persons the same day of their marriage receive the holy Communion, as by Law they ought?
A00214And doe they end in their Courts in such convenient time or times, as every man may returne homewards in as due season as may be?
A00214And doe you dist ● ibute the severall summes so levied as before is said, among the poore of the parish, according to the Law in that case provided?
A00214And doe you doe the same with the advice and direction of your Minister?
A00214And doth euery house- holder dwelling within halfe a mile of the Church, come, or send one at the least of his houshold to ioyne with the Minister?
A00214And doth he actually take such Cure or Benef ● ce if any hath beene offered to him?
A00214And doth he admit any person or persons to y ● holy Comm ● nion, untill such time as he or they can orderly say the catechisme and be confirmed?
A00214And doth he give warning to his parishioners publikely in the Church at Morning prayer the Sunday before, for the better preparation of themselves?
A00214And doth one of your keyes remaine alwayes in the hands of your Minister?
A00214And doth the said Seale remaine in the custodie of the Iudge himselfe, or of the lawfull substitute by him appointed?
A00214And have they otherwise beene disposed of, then to the said pious and charitable uses?
A00214And if any bread or wine bee newly brought, doth he first use the words of the Institution before it be distributed to the Communicants?
A00214And if by their Deputies, then is the cause of such their deputation and employment made knowne and approved of by the Ordinary of the place?
A00214And is the said Carpet and linnen cloth laid constantly upon the Table, at the times aforesaid?
A00214And is the said Table publikely set up and fix ● d in your Church or Chappell at the Charge of the Parish?
A00214And is the same kept in the Citie or principall Towne in the ● ountie, as the Law requireth?
A00214And is the same, or a true Coppie of the same layed up in the Bishops Registry for a perpetuall Memory thereof?
A00214And on what pious uses, as you have beene credibly informed, wa ● the samebestowed?
A00214And the wine so provided, do you bring to the Communion Table in a cleane and sweet standing pot or flaggon?
A00214And when and as often as in the time of divine Seruice the Lord Iesus shall be mentioned, is due and lowly reverence done by all persons present?
A00214As also a booke of the Canons And Constitutions, made in the Synod held at London, Anno 1603. and ratified by the Kings Authority?
A00214Canon?
A00214Did any dying in your Parish give any legacy unto your Church or Chappell, or to the use of the ▪ poore and needy?
A00214Doe they or any of them execute their Office by themselves or by their Deputies?
A00214Doth any Chaplaine living within your parish, preach or administer the Communion in any other place then in the Chappell of the said houses?
A00214Doth he administer the same to any strangers, which come often and commonly from their owne Parish Churches?
A00214Doth he so likewise with the wine provided?
A00214Doth hee say the same at the accustomed houres of Service, and is there warning giuen to the people by the tolling of a Bell?
A00214Doth the Minister take the same into his hands to blesse and consecrate it to that holy use as oft as he administreth the Communion?
A00214Doth your Lecturer use before his Lectures, the forme of prayer before remembred, and no other forme?
A00214Especially, Is the Common Prayer said or sung distinctly and rev ● rently upon such dayes as are appointed to be kept holy, and upon their E ● es?
A00214Hath the same chest three severall keyes, and is the one of them in the castodie of the Parson, Uicar, or Curat?
A00214Have they or either or any of them, comm ● ted any penan ● ● with any dwelling in your Parish?
A00214Have you also a Register booke wherein to write the names of all Preachers, which come and Preach in your Church from other places?
A00214If you know any such present him, that so he may be punished as the law provides?
A00214In what convenient place of your Church or Chappell doth hee say the same, and by whom was that place appointed?
A00214Is he or they so substituted, a favourer of true Religion, and a man of modest and honest conversation?
A00214Is the same set in the Ancient usuall place appointed for it, and doth your Minister publikely baptize, in the same Font only?
A00214Or any that being lawfully married, doe yet live asunder, without a separation in due course of law?
A00214Or doth any Proctor ● ake the oath in Animam Domini, in any cause what ever, contrary to the ordinance of holy Church?
A00214Or doth your Archdeacon cite any dwelling in your Parish, to appeare before him for any ● rime presented to the Chancellor in his Uisitation?
A00214Or doth your Minister baptize any children presented unto him out of other Parishes?
A00214Or that being there doe rudely and disorderly behave themselves, or which by walking, talking, or any other noise doe hinder the Minister or Preacher?
A00214Or that hath set downe or enacted any thing false, or conceited by himselfe, as decreed by the Iudge, or not as so ordered or decreed by the Iudge?
A00214Or that hath unduely put off, and deferred the Examination of witnesses to be examined by a day, set and assigned by the Iudge?
A00214Or that keepe open Shops in time of divine Service?
A00214Or willingly omitted to call any persons cited to appeare upon any Court day?
A00214That is to say, one of them in the usuall place or Consistorie where the Court is kept, and the other of them in the Registry, or Registers Office?
A00214What other abuses and aggrievances can you complaine of justly in the said Apparators?
A00214What summe of monie hath beene taken for the said commutation?
A00214What wages hath he for his paines?
A00214Who is it that doth so affirme and teach,& c?
A00214Who is it that doth so affirme,& c?
A00214Who is it,& c?
A00214Who is it,& c?
A00214Who is it,& c?
A00214Who is that so teacheth or affirmeth, and what is his name?
A00214You must present the names of such as offend herein?
A00214an ● hath since conti ● ued ▪ 3 Have you belonging to your Church or Chappell a Parish Clark ● aged: 21. yeares at the least?
A00214by which of the two aforesaid Iuris ● ictions was the partie offending cited last?
A00214have you any that offend in the neglect of these particulars ▪ and what are there names?
A00214pence, for every Sunday or Holydaie that he is so absent?
A00214● ow long is it since this booke of Articles was sent unto you?
A00214〈 ◊ 〉 how have the said legacies so given beene disposed of by whom and by whose Authority?
A32947ARe the Church- wardens of your Parish yearly and duly chosen by the joint consent of your Minister and Parishioners?
A32947And do such as purpose to Communicate, signifie their Names at least some time the day before?
A32947And doth he administer it to them?
A32947And doth he call upon them to receive the holy Sacrament in their sickness?
A32947And doth he reverently and carefully in all things observe all the Churches Order in the Celebration?
A32947And doth he wear his hair of a moderate and comly length?
A32947And have you a Hood or Tippet for your Minister to wear over his Surplice?
A32947And have you one other convenient Chest, for keeping the Books and Furniture belonging to the Church?
A32947And is he also ready being called, without delay to baptize Infants in danger of death?
A32947And of all such persons by him put from the Communion, doth he give an account to his Ordinary according to Law?
A32947And those Children that have been baptized in private houses, have they been so baptized by any Popish Priest on pretended necessity?
A32947And when all have communicated, doth he cover what remaineth of the consecrated Elements with a fair Linnen- cloth?
A32947Are the Side- men duly chosen?
A32947Are the ten Commandments or the Lords Prayer and other chosen Sentences of holy Scripture set up in your Church or Chappel, as the Canon does require?
A32947Are there any Isles adjoyning to your Church or Chancel which time out of mind have been repaired by the owners of any Messuage in your Parish?
A32947Are there any Testaments or Wills by any concealed or unproved, or any Goods unadministred or administred without a due grant from the Ordinary?
A32947Are your Midwives also licensed by the Ordinary?
A32947DO any in your Parish teach or instruct Youth in any publick School, or private House, without License from his Ordinary?
A32947Did any dying in your Parish or elsewhere, leave any Legacy to your Church or Chappel, or to the Poor, or to any other pious or charitable purposes?
A32947Doth any Lay- man that is not duly ordained openly read Common- Prayer, or execute any Ministerial duty in your Church?
A32947Doth every one abide in his own Calling whereunto he is called?
A32947Doth he familiarly converse with persons Excommunicate, ungodly or vicious?
A32947Doth he give warning publickly in the Church at Morning- Prayer, the Sunday before, for the better preparation of his Parishioners?
A32947Doth he resort to suspected and infamous houses?
A32947Doth he set his Neighbours at variance one with another?
A32947Doth your Minister on the three Rogation days before the Feast of the holy Ascension, go in perambulation of the Circuit of the Parish?
A32947Doth your Minister reverently and publickly, at the Font only, and that without the use of a Basin, Administer the holy Sacrament of Baptism?
A32947Doth your Minister serve more than one Church or Chappel in distinct Parishes on one day?
A32947Hath any Apparitor taken Reward or Fee to excuse any appearance before the Ecclesiastical Court?
A32947Hath your Minister admitted any Women delivered of any Child begotten in Adultery or Fornication, to be churched without License from the Ordinary?
A32947Have any Trees been cut down, growing in the Church- yard or fences thereof, and by whom, and for what use was it done?
A32947Have any of your Church or Chappel Bells been taken down, sold, or lessened; And by whom?
A32947Have you a Basin or some other decent Vessel for receiving the offerings at the Communion Service?
A32947Have you a Book to set down the names of such Strangers as preach in your Church?
A32947Have you a large and decent Surplice, one, or more, for the Minister to wear at all times of his publick Ministration?
A32947Have you any Lands or Tenements given or belonging to the repairing of your Church?
A32947Have you belonging to the Church or Chappel a perfect Bible of the largest Volumn, of the last Translation allowed by Authority?
A32947Have you in your Church or Chappel a strong Chest with three Locks or Keys for the Alms of the poor, and a hole therefore in the upper part thereof?
A32947Have you two Books of Common- Prayer set forth according to the last Act of Parliament for the Uniformity of publick Prayers?
A32947IS your Church or Chappel in good repair?
A32947IS your Parson, Vicar,( or also Curate) in holy Orders by Episcopal Ordination, a Priest ordained according to the laws of the Church of England?
A32947If so, how hath the same been disposed of, to what pious and charitable uses( as far as you know?)
A32947In the solemn Publick Baptism doth he Baptize any without God- fathers or God- mothers?
A32947Is any Encroachment made upon that ground?
A32947Is any Infant or more aged person in the Parish yet unbaptized by his default?
A32947Is any Lecture preached in your Church?
A32947Is he also ready without delay to visit the sick?
A32947Is his usual Apparel decent in fashion and in colour, such as is enjoyned him by the Canons of the Church?
A32947Is the Chancel of the Church sufficiently repaired and beautified by the Minister or other person to whom that doth belong?
A32947Is there any guilty of Speeches of Infidelity against the faith of our Lord Iesus Christ?
A32947Is there any one that doth affirm or teach( and who is he) that the holy Scripture doth not contain all things necessary to Salvation?
A32947Is your Church- yard well and sufficiently fenced, and kept with walls or pales?
A32947Is your Minister a licensed Preacher, by the Bishop, or either of the two Universities?
A32947Or after his lawful Entrance, is your Parson or Vicar resident upon his benefice?
A32947Or any that being lawfully married do yet live asunder without separation in due form of Law?
A32947Or are any Plays, Feasts, Drinkings, or Church- Ales kept in your Church or Church- yard?
A32947Or are there any that neglect to obtain the Christian burial of their dead according to the Rites of the Church of England?
A32947Or are there any that send their Children away from their own Minister( present among them) to be baptized in other Churches?
A32947Or do any in time of Divine Service, or Sermon, or Homily, behave themselves rudely by walking, talking, whispering, laughing, or sleeping?
A32947Or doth he any way endeavour to bring the Parson or Vicar of the place into disrepute with his Parishioners?
A32947Or doth he celebrate the same in any other place than in the Church?
A32947Or doth he then refuse or neglect to sign the Child baptized with the sign of the Cross?
A32947Or doth your Curate or Minister lodge or board at any Tavern, Inn, Ale- house, or house of any ill report?
A32947Or have you any that live together in your Parish as a man and wife, who refuse to make known, when, where, or by whom they were married?
A32947Or is he himself vehemently suspected of Incontinency with any person within or without your Parish?
A32947Or lastly, to any that refuse to receive the said Holy Communion kneeling?
A32947Or that doth any way deny or impugn the king''s Majesties Royal Authority or Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiastical in this Realm?
A32947Or that doth forsake their own Parish- Church to receive elsewhere?
A32947V. Do you the Church- wardens note them that come late to Church after Divine Service is begun, or depart before it be ended?
A32947What were the Legacies, and how have they been bestowed?
A32947XIII Is the House of your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, with all the out- houses thereto belonging, kept in good and sufficient repair?
A32947and a Bier for the carrying of the dead to Burial?
A32947and all things there in such a decent sort, without dust or any thing that may be either noisom or unseemly, as becometh the House of God?
A32947and are they sworn?
A32947and before you at any time present any for such default in the Spiritual Court, do you first seriously admonish them once and again?
A32947and by whom?
A32947and do they joyn with them in framing Presentments?
A32947and do you bring the Wine so provided in a clean and sweet standing Flagon of Pewter, or other purer Metal, kept for that use?
A32947and do you take diligent notice of the absent?
A32947and does he see that they behave themselves there orderly and reverently?
A32947and doth he cause his Scholars on Sundays and Holy- days to resort to Church to hear Divine Service, Sermons and Catechize?
A32947and doth he duly attend the Minister in all Divine Offices at the Church?
A32947and doth he himself teach them the Catechism set forth by Authority?
A32947and have you a fair Linnen cloth for covering the consecrated Elements?
A32947and is he diligent to bring them up in the fear of God, in good learning, and manners?
A32947and is he in all respects conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England?
A32947and is he payed the ancient and usual wages as hath been accustomed?
A32947and is one of those Keys in the custody of the Parson, Vicar, or Curate?
A32947and is the same delivered to you by bill indented?
A32947and is the whole consecrated ground kept free from Swine and other filth and annoyance, as becomes a place so dedicated?
A32947and what remains is it reverently eaten and drunken by some of the Communicants within your Church?
A32947and what yearly stipend doth your Minister allow him?
A32947and when he seeth the People negligent to come to the Communion, doth he use the Churches second Exhortation?
A32947any in Holy Orders, who doth voluntarily relinquish those his Orders, and use himself as a Lay man only without taking any care of the Church of God?
A32947are the Roofs, the Walls, the Floors, Windows, Seats( if you have them) and Doors well maintained?
A32947denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, living soberly, justly and godly?
A32947do they assist the Church- wardens in the executing their Office?
A32947doth he keep clean the Church, and carefully look to it, and to the Books?
A32947hath he been legally instituted and inducted into his Benefice?
A32947hath he said Divine Service whilst he knew such Excommunicate persons to have been in the Church?
A32947have any gifts or rewards been taken by any for the perverting of Iustice?
A32947if so, do the owners thereof repair the same?
A32947if so, how far distant are those Churches or Chappels which he so serveth?
A32947is he or are they who preach it, Licensed so to do by the Bishop?
A32947nor suffer any to bring Dogs, Hawks, or Hounds into the Church to the disturbance of the Congregation?
A32947or admitted such to the Communion whilst they stood so excommunicate?
A32947or any that will come to hear Sermons but will not come to the Common- Prayer and Worship of God appointed in this Church?
A32947or do any brawl, quarrel, challenge one another, fight or strike in the Church or Church- yard?
A32947or hath the Register sped any Act, or dismissed any person detected without the knowledge and actual consent of the Iudge?
A32947or have any of the said- house or out- houses been pulled down without License from the Ordinary?
A32947or is he known or suspected to have obtained his Parsonage or Vicarage by any Symoniacal Contract?
A32947or one of them by your Minister, and the other by the Parishioners?
A32947or spoken ought privately in contempt of Religion, or that Religion, or any part of it, which he by his office in this Church professeth?
A32947or that labour to seduce and withdraw others within or without the Family, from the Religion in this Church established?
A32947or that teaches that those three holy Orders abovesaid have not been ever in Christ''s Church even from the Apostles time?
A32947or to say the Creed and the Lord''s Prayer in a loud voice with the Minister?
A32947that the Objections of any may be heard, before they be by the Ordinary ratified?
A32947what is the quantity and value thereof, and in whose possession are they?
A32947what private doors are made into the Church- yard, whereby Nusances are committed, and by whom were those doors made?
A0023310 Is your Church full, or vacant of an incumbent?
A0023312 Doth your Minister go to the administration of holy Baptisme, euer immediately after the second Lesson?
A0023312 Hath any private man, or men, of his or their owne authority( for ought you know) erected any Pewes, or builded any new Seats in your Church?
A0023312 Lastly, haue you and euery of you, by your selues, read, or haue caused to be read to you, all these Articles?
A0023313 Are there any priuie Closets, or close Pewes in your Church?
A002331562. and stablished in the Church of England?
A0023317 Is there any other Cure annexed to your Parish, or any Chappell of ease belonging to the same?
A0023318 Are there any lately deceased in your Parish, whose last Wils and Testaments haue not yet béene proued?
A0023319 What persons be excommunicated in your Parish, and for what cause to your knowledge?
A002332 Hath any béene maried secretly in priuate houses, or without their Parents or Gouernours consent signified, being vnder the age of 21. yéeres?
A002332 Haue you in your Church or Chappell, a Font of stone set in the ancient vsuall place, whole, and cleane, and fit to hold water?
A002332 Is any thing with- holden and otherwise imployed, that hath béene giuen to the vse of a Schoole in your Parish?
A002332 Is your Minister a licensed Preacher, yea or no?
A0023320 Doth your Minister or Curate admit any to the Communion, before they can say their Catechisme, and be confirmed?
A0023324 Doth your Minister vse the forme of thanksgiuing for women after childe- birth immediately before the Communion Seruice?
A0023328 Hath your Minister euer refused to bury any which ought to be interred with Christian buriall?
A002333 Haue any Church- wardens and Quest- men, concealed and not presented any abuses or offences punishable in the Ecclesiasticall Court?
A002333 Haue you in your said Church or Chappell a conuenient seat for your Minister to reade diuine Seruice in?
A002333 Is your Minister resident with you vpon his benefice?
A0023339 Is your Minister suspected, or knowne to haue obtained his Benefice by any Simonai ● ● ll compact, directly or indirectly?
A002334 Are any Assemblies called Uestry- méetings, held in your Parish?
A002334 Haue any persons by license or without, beene maried in your Parish Church, neither of them at that time dwelling in your towne?
A002334 Haue you a fit Parish- Clark( aged 20. yéeres at least) of honest life, able to reade and write?
A002334 In the said Chest, haue you a Register- booke in Parchment, wherin to register the Christnings, Weddings, and Burials?
A002334 Is your Curate licensed by the Bishop of the Dioces?
A002334 What rates or leuies( as you know or haue heard) are yéerely or commonly made in your parish for Church- uses?
A0023344 Haue you any Lecturer in your Parish, and on what day is your Lecture?
A0023347 Haue you any Lecture of Combination set up in your Parish?
A002335 What popish Recusants, or their children haue béene maried in your parish?
A002336 Doe any persons being lawfully maried, liue asunder?
A002336 Haue the Parents of the childe baptized, beene at any time admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers to the same?
A002337 Haue any children been baptized in priuate houses, or by any Lay- person, or Midwife, or popish Priest; or by any other than your owne Minister?
A002337 Is your Church- yard, or Chappell- yard well fenced, and kept without abuse?
A002338 Haue you any in your Parish, which liue together as man and wife, and yet not knowne, by whom, where, or when they were maried?
A002339 Haue all new- maried persons( the same day of their mariage) duly receiued the holy Communion?
A002339 Is the number of Apparitors increased in this Diocesse?
A002339 What Legacies haue beene giuen to the vse and benefit of your Church, and how haue they béen bestowed?
A00233After the Lessons, doth he vse any other Psalme, or Hymne, but those which the Booke of Common Prayer hath appointed?
A00233Also doth your Minister, so oft as there is any mariage, appoint to haue a Communion?
A00233And also twice in the yéere administer both Sacraments, with such Rites and Ceremonies as are prescribed by the Booke of Common Prayer?
A00233And doe any familiarly vse the company of such as do obstinately stand excommunicate, knowing the same; and what be their names?
A00233And doe any of them, not being absolued, presume to be present in the Church at diuine Seruice?
A00233And doth euery one of them preach in a Gowne and not in a Cloake?
A00233And doth he alwayes conclude it with the Lords Prayer?
A00233And doth he in his absence make allowance to the poore, and what allowance doth he make?
A00233And doth hee begin in the body of the Church, and then goe vp to the Table, as is appointed?
A00233And doth she then knéele in some conuenient place nigh to the Communion Table, w ● ile the Priest( standing by her) giueth thankes for her?
A00233And doth your Minister or Curate serue any more Cures than one?
A00233And hath any License beene granted by any to such persons as were not of good state and quality?
A00233And hath any childe died without baptisme, by his default?
A00233And hath any taken vpon him to be Church- warden, not being so chosen?
A00233And hath he a setled contribution affixed to the Lecturers place; or is it arbitrary, and for this Lecturer only?
A00233And hath he said diuine Seruice, whiles any excommunicate person hath beene present in the Church?
A00233And hath the Kings Declaration concerning the lawfull sports and recreations béene published among you, yea or no?
A00233And haue you also a Table set vp in your Church, of the Degrées, wherein by Law men are prohibited to marry?
A00233And haue you, this last yeere exhibited a bill of them?
A00233And how doth he imploy his time; and where or whence hath he his maintenance, as you know or haue heard?
A00233And how haue the same béene performed or obserued by the Minister or any other of the Parish, whom they concerne?
A00233And how long haue the said popish or puritanicall Recusants obstinately abstained, either from diuine Seruice, or from the Communion?
A00233And how long haue they beene so?
A00233And how often hath he béene negligent in so doing?
A00233And if any haue so maried, what be their names, and where were they maried, and by whom?
A00233And if any of them be ruinated and wasted, in whom is the default?
A00233And if he be a Graduate, then of what degrée is hee?
A00233And if he be licensed, then by whom?
A00233And if so, is it read by a companie of graue and orthodox Diuines, néere adioyning, and in the same Dioces?
A00233And if so, who hath taken vpon him the administration of their goods, and whether by lawfull authority from the Ordinary, or without?
A00233And if there be a Communion, doth she then offer her accustomed offerings and receiue the holy Communion?
A00233And if vacant, who receiueth the fruits thereof, and who serueth the Cure, and by what authority?
A00233And if yea, then by whom, and when?
A00233And is it a Parsonage, Uicarage, or Donatiue?
A00233And is it safely kept and preserued, and in whose hands?
A00233And is the Christian name of the mother, as well as of the father, therein duly registred?
A00233And is the same booke written and kept in all points according to the Canon?
A00233And is the whole consecrate ground kept frée from swine, and all other nastinesse?
A00233And is the wine brought in a cleane& swéet standing Pot of Pewter, or of other finer metall?
A00233And is there a transcript thereof transmitted euery yéere into the Bishops principall Registry?
A00233And is this truly and sincerely performed, without mockery, or in shew only?
A00233And is your Church, Chancell, and Chappell, decently and comely kept, as well within as without?
A00233And those that do not their duties herein, in not sending them to it, or not comming, or not learning and answering, you shall present their names?
A00233And vpon such Commutations, was the vnfained repentance of the delinquent published in the Church?
A00233And what Pewes or Seats haue been of late yéeres new built, by whose procurement, and by whose authority?
A00233And what be their names?
A00233And what money haue they or any of them receiued for such commutation, and of whom?
A00233And when and by whom were they appointed?
A00233And wherein, and in what manner is the Countrey ouer- burthened or grieued by them?
A00233And who be Midwiues in your parish?
A00233Are his and the Sextons wages duly paid without fraud or diminution, according to the ancient custome of your Parish?
A00233Are there also any kind of Seats at the East end of the Chancell, aboue the Communion Table, or on either side vp euen with it?
A00233At the end of euery Psalme, doe they stand and say, Glory be to the Father,& c. and doth he leaue out the Contents of the Chapters?
A00233By whom is he chosen?
A00233By whom is it imbezelled?
A00233By whom is it vsually paid or collected, or of late yéeres hath béene?
A00233Canon?
A00233Doe all vse due and lowlie reuerence, when the blessed Name of the Lord IESUS is mentioned: and stand vp when the Articles of the Creed are read?
A00233Doth any Papist kéepe a Schoolemaster in his house, who commeth not to Church to heare diuine Seruice and to receiue the holy Communion?
A00233Doth any detaine or imbezell, or hath sold and made away any of the Church- goods, or vsed or imployed them otherwise, then by law they ought to doe?
A00233Doth he also reade all those Psalmes and Lessons, and no other, with the Collect, Epistle, and Gospell, which are appointed for the day?
A00233Doth he alwayes( at first) aske, whether for childe be baptized or no?
A00233Doth he at any time baptize but in the Font, or with any Bason or Paile, or other Uessell set into the Font?
A00233Doth he deuoutly kneele, when hee saith the prayers and the Collect at buriall?
A00233Doth he preach vsually in his owne Cure, or in some other Church or Chappell neere adioyning, where there is no Preacher, once euery Sunday?
A00233Doth hee goe before the Corps to the graue, and there say the whole seruice appointed, not omitting the Lesson or any other part?
A00233Doth hee keepe the Church cleane and the doores locked?
A00233Doth your Curate say the same daily in your Church or Chappell, with the tolling of a Bell before he begin?
A00233Doth your Schoolemaster teach any Papists or Sectaries children, that come not to Church?
A00233HAue you any Schoole- master in your Parish, that teacheth publikely or in priuate houses?
A00233Hath any person behaued himselfe rudely and disorderly in either; or vsed any filthy or prophane talke, or any other rude& immodest behauiour in them?
A00233Hath any quarrelled or stricken one another, either in the Church or Church- yard?
A00233Hath any vsed that place( consecrated to an holy vse) prophanely or wickedly?
A00233Hath he any other Benefice, and doth he supply his absence by a Curate that is licensed to preach, and what allowance doth he make to his Curate?
A00233Haue any in your Parish beene detected of such notorious crimes, and what penance haue they done for the same?
A00233Haue they threatned any to prosecute them, if they had no reward giuen them?
A00233Haue you well examined and inquired into euery particular therein intended?
A00233How are they placed, and in what part of the Church?
A00233How are they serued, by whom, and vpon what allowance?
A00233IS your Minister, Parson, Uicar, or Curate, a Graduate in either of the Uniuersities, yea, or no?
A00233If not, by whose default was it, as you conceiue?
A00233If so, when was it done, in what manner, and by whom?
A00233If yea, then what other Cure doth he serue, and how far are his Cures distant one from the other?
A00233If yea, then where, when, and how often hath he done it?
A00233In what place, and by whom?
A00233In what sort was the matrimony solemnized?
A00233Is any part of the Church hidden or darkned thereby, or any of the Parish anoyed or offended by them?
A00233Is he a Graduate and sufficient to teach, and diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth?
A00233Is he diligent in his office, and seruiceable to the Minister?
A00233Is he of honest and sincere life, and religion, and conuersation?
A00233Is not the Church large enough without them to receiue all your owne parishioners?
A00233Is the signe of the Crosse euery time vsed, and the Surplice neuer but worne in the administring of it?
A00233Is there any teaching of Schollars to reade or write in the Chancell, or in any part of the Church?
A00233Is there any thing lost or spoyled, by his default?
A00233Name the persons and all particulars, as far as you know, or can remember?
A00233Or any that hauing beene sil ● nced, or suspended by authority, so remaineth without conforming himselfe in due obedience to the Church?
A00233Or any that liueth there in imployment as a scholler?
A00233Or any thing medled with, for the gouernment of the Church or Parish, which belongs to the Ecclesiasticall cognition and Iurisdiction?
A00233Or are there any in your Parish, that doe communicate, or that do baptise their children in any other Parish?
A00233Or by whom else were they baptized, or where, to your knowledge, or as you haue heard?
A00233Or do any affirme and maintaine such meetings to be lawfull?
A00233Or do vse any scornefull words against those godly Sermons, called, The Homilies of the Church?
A00233Or doe any of them take any fées that are not vsuall?
A00233Or hath any Deacon not hauing receiued the full order of Priesthood, taken vpon him alone to administer the Communion in your Church or Chappell?
A00233Or hath any continued aboue one yeere in his office, without a new choise?
A00233Or hath any interrupted him in his preaching, or reading the Homilies?
A00233Or hath be staied or forborne to denounce any excommunication, or suspension or absolution that hath beene sent him from his Ordinary?
A00233Or hath he admitted any person, that hath beene excommunicate, into the Church, without a Certificate of his absolution from his Ordinary?
A00233Or hath he admitted thereunto any women begotten with- childe in adultery or fornication, without license of his Ordinary?
A00233Or hath hee deferred the same longer than hee should?
A00233Or hath spoken reproachfully, or disgracefully of the Kings Maiesties Courts Ecclesiasticall, or of the procéedings thereof?
A00233Or haue any Godfathers or Godmothers vsed any other answers or speech in Baptisme, then is by the Book of Common Prayer appointed?
A00233Or haue any been admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers to any child, before they haue receiued the holy Communion?
A00233Or haue any such children died vnbaptized?
A00233Or haue they giuen to the children baptized any name that is absurd, or inconuenient for so holy an action?
A00233Or in what place else is he or she now abiding to your knowledge, or as you haue heard?
A00233Or is he any way excessie in apparell, either himselfe or his wife?
A00233Or otherwise is he ouer- conuersant with them, or suspected to fauour them?
A00233Or that do not reuerently behaue themselues, entring into the Church, and during the time of Diuine Seruice?
A00233Or what other Catechisme doth he vse either in publike or priuate?
A00233Or where are they kept?
A00233Present their names if there be any such, and how long they haue béene there?
A00233WHat peculiar or exempt iurisdictions know you of, within y e compasse of this parish?
A00233What Galleries also haue you in your Church?
A00233What be the names of such deceased, and of their executors and administrators?
A00233What is his name, and how long hath he taught there or elsewhere?
A00233What is his name, and what license hath he?
A00233What is it?
A00233What is the yeerely summe thereof ordinarily?
A00233What other persons haue you among you, either male or female, who take vpon them to professe physick or chyrurgery?
A00233What sum doth it amount to ordinarily?
A00233What was the sum of money by any of them so receiued and taken, and to what vses was the same imployed?
A00233When Graues are digged, are the bones of the dead piously vsed, and decently interred againe, or laide vp in some fit place as beséemeth Christians?
A00233When was it done, and by whom?
A00233When were they built, and by what authority?
A00233Where doth it stand?
A00233Whether of any long time, or of late only?
A00233Who be they that haue so done?
A00233Who hath receiued and detained them without due imployment?
A00233Who were the parties, and who were present at such mariages; and what Minister maried them?
A00233You shall name the persons, times, and places, as far as you know, or haue heard, and can remember?
A00233You shall not faile to present the whole truth in that behalfe?
A00233You shall truly present as well the party harbouring, as harboured; and who is suspected to be the father of the childe?
A00233and are they imployed to godly and their right holy vses?
A00233and by whom?
A00233and how long haue they stood excommunicate?
A00233and if not, whose is the default?
A00233and in whom is the default?
A00233and what are the particular vses, or where are they written downe, to which the same are for the most part imployed?
A00233and what kinde of Hood doth he vse to weare in the Church?
A00233and where is he resident for the most part?
A00233and which way doth the standing thereof cause the Minister to turne his face, when he knéeleth therein at prayer?
A00233how farre from the Chancell?
A00233or are you ready now so to doe?
A00233or did they dye intestate?
A00233or hath he admitted any to Christian buriall, which by the Lawes of the holy Church, or of this Realme, ought not to bee so interred?
A00233or if absent, how long time hath he béene so?
A00233what bee their names?
A00233when and where were they maried, and how long haue they continued so together?
A00233when, and how often are they?
A00233when, and what was the offence, for which any such sum of money was receiued, or appointed to be paid?
A00233when?