❧: ❧: ARTICLES to be inquired of, in the Kings majesties Visitation.  
FIrst, whether that the Bishop, archdeacons, and other, having jurisdiction Ecclesiastical, have caused only to be song or said the English Procession in their Cathedral church, & other churches of their Diocese.  
Item, whether your Bishop, Chancellor, commissary, archdeacon, or Official be propences and light in excommunicating of men, for a little Lucre.  
Item, whether they or any of them, for one man's trespass, have taken away from the people, and the whole parishioners, their divine service, as for violating & suspending the church yards and such like.  
Item, whether they do take excessive sums of money for consecrating again either of the church yards, or of any other ornaments for the use of altars, or of bells, where is no need of consecration, but is superstitious and lucrative.  
Item, whether that they or any of them take any great exactions, for institutions, inductions assignations of pensions, or for any other matter Ecclesiastical.  
Item, whether they do lightly call any Persons before them, ex officio, and put them to their purgation, without urgent suspicion or infamy proved.  
Item, whether the Bishop have not preached without dissimulation, against the usurped power of the Bishop of Rome, and set furth the kings majesties jurisdiction to be the only supreme power in all his realms and dominions.  
Whether the Bishop have personally preached in any of your churches, or any where with in this diocese, and how oft in the year.  
Item, whether he and his officers have diligently executed for their part, our late Kings Injunctions and his letters missives, for a due order in the religion of Christ, and caused the said Injunctions and letters, to be diligently put in execution through his Diocese.  
Item, whether he hath learned and discrete officers under him, that do without any respect of persons punish such crimes, as appertaineth to Ecclesiastical jurisdiction.  
Item, whether he or any of his officers, do take any money or other gift, to hide & cloak adultery, or any other notorious vice, that aught by them to be punished.  
Item, if any commutation of penance have been made to a pecuniary some, to what purpose the same hath been converted, and what good deeds hath been done with the same, and specify the same deeds.  
Item whether the bishop hath such chaplains about him, as been able to preach the word of God, and do the same purely and sincerely, and how oft in the year, how many they be, and what be their names.  
ITem whether persons, Vicars and Curates, and every of them, have justly and truly without dissimulation, preached against the usurped power, and pretenced authority & iurisoiction of the bishop of Rome.  
Item whether they have preached and declared, that the Kings majesties power, authority, and pre-eminence, is within this Realm and the dominions of the same, the most supreme and highest under God.  
Item, whether any person hath by writing, Cyphring, Printing, preaching, or teaching, deed, or act, obstinately holden and stand with, to extol, set forth, maintain or defend, the authority, jurisdiction or power of the bishop of Rome, or of his Sea, heretofore claimed and usurped: or by any pretence, obstinately or maliciously invented any thing for the extolling of the same, or any part thereof.  
Item, whether they have declared to their Parishioners the articles concerning the abrogation of certain superfluous holy days, and done their endeavour, to persuade their said Parishioners to keep and observe the same articles inviolably, and whether any of those abrogated days hath sithence the said abrogation, been kept as holy days, contrary to the said articles, and by whose occasion they were so kept.  
Whether there do remain not taken down in your Churches, Chapelles, or else where, any misused Images, with Pilgrimages, clothes, stones, shoes, offerings, kissings, candlesticks, trindilles of wax, and such other like, and whether there do remain not delayed and destroyed, any Shrines, covering of Shrines, or any other monument of Idolatry, Superstition and Hypocrysy.  
Whether they have not diligently taught upon the Sundays and holy days, their Parishioners, and specially the youth, their Pater noster, the Articles of our faith, and the Ten commaundemetes in English, and whether they have expounded and declared the understanding of the same.  
Whether they have diligently, duly & reverently, ministered the sacraments in their cures.  
Whether such beneficed men, as be lawfully absent from their benefices, do leave their cure to a rude and unlearned person, and not to an honest, well learned and expert Curate.  
Whether they have provided & laid in some convenient place of the church where they have cure, a bible of the largest volume in English.  
Whether persons, Vicars, Curates, Chauntery Priests, and other stipendaries be common haunters and resorters to Taverns and alehouses, giving themselves to excessive drinking rioting, and playing at vulawfull games, and apply not themselves chief to the study of scripture, teaching of youth, or some other honest and Godly exercise.  
Whether they be resident upon their benefices, and keep hospitality or no: and if they be absent or keep no hospitality, whether they do make due distribution amongs the poor Parishioners or no.  
Whether they having yearly to dispend in spiritual promotions an C. l. do not find competenly one scolar in any university, or at some grammet school, and for as many C. l. as every of them may dispend, so many scolars likewise be found by them, and what be their names that they so find.  
Whether they keep their chancels, Rectories, Vicarages, and all other houses appertaining to them, in due reparations.  
Whether they have every lent, required their Parishioners in their confession, to recite their Pater noster, th'articles of our faith, and the ten commandments in English.  
Whether they have counseled or moved their Parishioners, rather to pray in a tongue not known then in English, or to put their trust in any prescribed numbered of prayers, as in saying over a numbered of beads or other like.  
Whether they have preached, or caused to be preached purely and sincerely the word of God & the faith of christ in every of their cures, every quarter of the year once at the least: Exhorting their Parishioners to the works commanded by scripture, and not to works devised by man's fantasies.  
Whether in their sermons, their have exhorted the fathers and Mothers, Masters, and governors of youth, to bring them up in some virtuous study or occupation.  
Whether they have exhorted the people to obedience to the kings Majesty and his officers and to charity and love, one to another.  
Whether they have moved the people to read and hear the scripture in English, & have not discouraged them from reading and hearing of the same such as be not prohibited so to do.  
Whether they have declare to their parishioners, that they ought to know and understand the Pater noster, the articles of our faith, and ten commandments in English, before they should receive the blessed Sacrament of the altar.  
Whether they have taught the people the true use of Images, which is only to put them in remembrance of the Godly and virtuous lives of them that they do represent: and have taught that if the said people use the Images for any other purpose, they commit Idolatry, to the great danger of their souls.  
Whether they have declared, and to their wits and power have persuaded the people, that the manner and kind of fasting in Lent & other days in the year, is but a mere positive law, and that therefore all persons having just cause of sickness, or necessity, or being licensed by the kings Majesty, may temperately eat all kinds of meat without grudge or scruple of conscience.  
Whether your parsons, Vicars, and Curates have showed and declared unto you, the true use of ceremonies, that is to say: That they be no workers, nor works of salvation, but only outward signs and tookens to put us in remembrance of things, of higher perfection.  
Whether they have admitted any man to preach in their cures, not being lawfully licensed thereunto, or have refused or repelled such to preach, as have been so licensed.  
Whether they, which have spoken and declared any thing, for the settingfurth of pilgrimages; feigned relics, images, or any such superstition, have not openly recanted the same.  
Whether they have one book or register savefely kept, wherein they writ the day of every wedding, christening, and burying.  
Whether the kings Injunctions were quarterly red or not.  
Whether they have declared to their parishioners; that saint Marks day, and the evens of the abrogated holy days, should not be fasted.  
Whether the knolling at the Aves be used.  
Whether they have the procession book in English, & in their processions use none other Litany, but that, which is set furthe in the same book. And whether they omit the same English Litany at any time in their processions: & whether they have had the same Litany as oft as they were commanded.  
Whether they have put out of their church books, this word Papa, and the name and service of Thomas Becket, and prayers having rubricies, containing Pardons or indulgences and all other superlticious legends & prayers.  
Whether they bid the beads according to the order prescribed by our late sovereign lord king Henry the. VIII.  
Whether they or any of them, have been admitted to their benefices by Simony, or by any other unlawful means.  
Whether in their masses they use not the collects made for the King, and make not special mention of his majesties name in the same.  
Whether they or any of them, do keep more benefices, and other Ecclesiastical promotions than they ought to do, not having sufficient licences and dispensations thereunto, and how many they keep, and their names.,:,  
WHether you know any person, that is a letter of the word of God, to be red in English: So that it be meekly, humbly, & reverently done, & without disturbance of the people, and by them that have authority there to.  
Whether you know any person spiritual or temporal, which doth let the word of God, to be preached, or that the kings Injunctions should not be duly executed.  
Whether any person hath obstinately and maliciously, without a just & reasonable cause, broken the laudable ceremonies of the Church, commanded to be observed, or superstitiously abused the same: as in casting of holy Water upon their beds and other places, and bearing about them holy bread, or making crosses of wood upon Palm sunday, or blessing with the holy Candle, thinking thereby to put away sins, drive away devils, dreams, and fantasies, or putting trust or confidence of salvation in the same ceremonies, whereas they be ordained only to put us in remembrance of the benefits, which we have received by Christ.  
Whether any person spiritual or temporal, keep the Church holy day, and the dedication day, at any other time, then is appointed by the ordinance made in that behalf by the kings Majesty.  
Whether matins, Mass, and Evensong, be kept at due hours in the Church.  
Whether any be brawlers, slanderers, chiders, scolders, and sowers of discord, between one person and another.  
Whether any be common swearers, or blasphemers of the name of God.  
Whether any use, lewd, unchaste, unhonest, & filthy communication, songs or ballets.  
Whether any do use to common, jangle or talk in the Church, at the time of the divine service, Preaching, Reading, or declaring the word of God.  
Whether any do obstinately keep and defend any erroneous opinion, contrary to the word of God, and faith of Christ.  
Whether any commit adultery, fornication, or incest, or be common bawds, and receivers of such naughty persons.  
Whether you know any that use Charms. Sorrery, enchantments, Witchecraft, sothesaiing, or any other like craft invented by the devil.  
Whether you know any to be married within the degrees prohibited by the law of God, or that be separated and divorced without a just cause, approved by the law of God, and whether any such have married again.  
Whether the Church, Pulpit, and other necessary things appertaining to the same, he sufficiently repaired.  
Whether you know any to have made privy contracts of Matrimony, not calling two or more thereunto.  
Whether any have married solemnly without bannes asking.  
Whether you know any that have taken upon them, the execution of any man's testament, or be admitted to the administration of the goods of the dead, which do not duly distribute the same goods, according to the trust committed unto them, and specially such goods, as were given and bequeathed, or appointed to be distributed among the poor people, repairing of high ways, finding of poor scholars, or marriage of poor maids.  
To what uses and intentes, all such gifts and bequests, of cattle, money, and other things, as in times past were made, for the finding of tapers, candles, or lamps, in the Church, be now employed, and whether they be embecilled and withholden, and by whom.  
Whether there be any persons, commonly enfamed of adultery, fornication, common swearing, blaspheming the name of God, drunkenness. Simony, or other notorious crime, whom the bishop, archdeacon, or other his ordinary, for favour or fear, have not corrected accordingly, although they have been sundry times presented, and detected in visitation, or otherwise lawfully accused.  
Whether there be any other primars, used by them that do not understand Latyn, than the English Prime, rsethfurth by the kings Majesty: And whither they that understand Latin, do use any other than the latin primar set furth by like authority.  
Whether there be any other Grammar taught in any school, within the realm, then that which is set furth by the kings Majesty.  
Whether they know any alienation of lands, tenements, jewels or goods, pertaining to the Church.  

For chantry Priests.  
WHether they be resident on their chantries.  
Whether they be aiding and assisting the person or Vicar of the Church, that they be of in the ministration of the Sacraments, and divine service accordingly.  
Whether they keep and perform all such doles and distributions to the poor, and other deeds of Charity, as they are bound by their foundations to do.  
Whether they be of evil name, fame, or unhonest conversation, fighters, swearers, drunkards, or incontinent livers.  
Item, what benefices and how many they have, besides their chantries, and by what title they do keep the same.    

¶ Richardus Grafton Regis Impressor excudebat.   

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