¶ Articles to be inquired of, in visitations to be had, within the Diocese of Cantorbury: in the second year of the reign of our most dread sovereign Lord Edward the . VI by the grace of God, King of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith and in earth of the Church of England and also of Ireland, the supreme head.  
FIrst, whether persons, Vicars, and Curates, and every of them have purely and sincerely, without colour or dissimulation, four times in the year at the least, preached against the usurped power, pretenced authority and jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome.  
Iten, whether they have preached and declared likewise iiii times of the year at the least, that the kings majesties power, authority, and pre-eminence, within his Realms and dominions, is the highest power under God.  
Item, whether any person hath by writing, Cyphring, preaching, or teaching, deed or act obstinately holden, and stand with to extol, setfurthe, 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 in their common prayers, they use not the collets made for the King, and make not special mention of his majesties name in the same.  
Item, whether they do not every sunday and holy day, with the collects of the English procession, say the prayer set forth by the Kings majesty for peace between England & Scotland  
Item, whether they have not removed, taken away, & utterly extincted and destroyed, in their Churches, Chapelles, and houses, all Images, all shrines, coverings of shrines, all Tables, candlesticks, trindels, or rolls of wax, pictures, Paintynges, and all other monuments of feigned miracles, Pilgrimages, Idolatry and Superstition, so that there remain no memory of the same, in walls, glasewindowes, or else where.  
Item, whether they have exhorted moved and stirred their parishioners, to do the like in every of their houses.  
Item, whether they have declared to their parishioners, the articles concerning the abrogation of certain superfluous holy days, and done their endeavour to persuade the said parishioners to keep and observe the same articles inviolably and whether any of those abrogate days, hath been kept as holy days, and by whose occasion they were so kept.  
Item, whether they have diligently, duly, and reverently, ministered the Sacraments in their Cures.  
Item, whether they have preached, or caused to be preached, purely and sincerely the word of god, in every of their Cures, every quarter of the year, once at the least, exhorting their parishioners, to the works commanded by scriptures, and not to works devised by men's fantasies besides scripture, as wearing or praying upon beads, or such like.  
Item whether they suffer any torches, candles, Tapers, or any other lights to be in your Churches, but only two lights upon the high Aultare.  
Item, whether they have not every holy day when they have no sermon, immediately after the Gospel, openly, plainly, and distinctly, recited to their parishioners in the pulpit, the Paternoster the creed, and the ten Commandments in English.  
Item, whether every Lent, they examine such persons as cometh to Confession to them, whether they can recite the Pater noster the Articles of our faith, & the ten Commandments in English.  
Item, whether they have charged fathers and mothers, masters and governors of youth to bring them up in some virtuous study or occupation.  
Item, 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 which can and will teach you wholesome doctrine.  
Item, whether in every Cure ●, they have provided one book of the whole Bible of the largest volume in English, and the Paraphrasis of Erasmus also in English upon the Gospels, and set up the same in some convenient place in the Church, where their parishioners may moste commodiously resort to the same.  
Item, whether they have discouraged any person, from reading of any part of the Bible, either in Latin or in English, but rather comforted and exhorted every person to read the same, as the very lively word of God, and the special food of man's soul  
Item, whether persons, Vicars, Curates, and other priests, be common haunters and resorters to Taverns, or Alehouses, giving themselves to drinking, rioting, or playing at unlawful games, and do not occupy themselves in the reading or hearing, of some part of holy scripture, or in some other Godly exercise.  
Item, whether they have admitted any man to preach in their cures, not being lawfully licenced thereunto, or have refused or denied such to preach, as have been licenced accordingly.  
Item, whether they which have heretofore declared to their parishioners, any thing to the extolling or setting forth of pilgrimages relics or Images, or lighting of candles, kissing, kneeling, decking of the same Images, or any such superstition, have not openly recanted and reproved the same.  
Item, whether they have one book or register safely kept, wherein they writ the day of every Wedding, Christening, and burying,  
Item, whether they have exhorted the people to obedience, to the kings majesty and his ministers, and Charity and love, one to another.  
Iten, whether they have admonished their parishioners, that they ought not to presume, to receive the Sacrament, of the body and blood of Christ, before they can perfectly the pater noster the Articles of the faith, and the ten commandments in English.  
Item, whether they have declared, and to their wits and power have persuaded the people, that the manner and kind of fasting in Lent, and other days in the year, is but a mere positive law, and that therefore all persons, having just cause of sickness, or other necessity, or being licenced by the kings majesty, may moderately eat all kind of meats, without grudge or scruple of conscience.  
Item, 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 distributions among the poor parishioners or not.  
Iten, whether persons, Vicars, Clerks, and other beneficed men, having yearly to dispend an hundred pound, do not find competently one scholar in the University, of Cambridge or Oxford or some Grammar school, and for as many hundred pounds, as every of them may dispend, so many schools likewise to be found by them, & what be their names, that they so find  
Item, whether Proprietaries, persons, Vicars, and Clerks, having Churches, Chapelles or Mansions, do keep their chancels. Rectories, Vicareges, and all other houses apparteigning to them, in due reperations.  
Item whether they have counseled, or moved their parishioners, rather to pray in a tongue not known, them in English, or to put their trust in any prescribed number of prayers, as in saying over a number of beads or other like.  
Item, whether they have read the kings majesties Injunctions, every quarter of the year, the first holy day of the same quarter.  
Item, whether the Persons, Vicar's Curates and other priests, being under the degree of a bachelor of divinity, have of their own the new Testament, both in Latin and in English and the paraphrase of Erasmus upon the same.  
Item, whether within every Church, he that ministereth have red or cause to be red, the Epistle or Gospel in English, and not in Latin, either in the Pulpit or some other meet place, so as the people may here the same.  
Item, whether every Sondaie and holy day at matins, they have read or cause to be read, plainly and distinctly in the said place, one Chapter of the new Testament in Engishe, immediately after the Lessons, and at Evensong after Magnificat, one Chapter of the old testament.  
Iten, whether they have not at Matins omitted three lessons, when, ix. should have been read in the Church, and at Evensong the Respondes with all the Memories.  
Item, whether they have declared to their parishioners, that saint Marks day, and the evens of the abrogate holy days should not be fasted.  
Item, whether they have the Procession book in English, and have said or sung the said Litany in any other place, but upon their knees in the midst of their Church, and whether they use any other procession, or omit the said Litany at any time, or say it or sing it in such sort as the people cannot understand the same.  
Iten, whether they have put out of their church books, this word Papa and the name and service of Thomas Bequet, and prayers having rubrices, containing pardons or indulgences, and all other superstitious legends and prayers.  
Item, whether they bid not the beads according to the order, appointed by the Kings Majesty.  
Item, whether they have opened 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 tokens, to put us in remembrance of things of higher perfection.  
Item, whether they have taught and declared to their parishioners, that they may with a safe & quiet confidence in the time of Harvest, labour upon the holy and festival days, and if superstitiously they abstain from working upon those days, that then they do grievously offend and displease God.  
Item, whether they have admitted any persons to the Communion, being openly known to be out of charity with their neighbours.  
Item, whether the Deans, archdeacons, Masters of Hospitals, and Prebendaries have peached by themselves personally, twice every year at the least.  
Item, whether they have provided, and have a strong chest for the poor men's Box, and set and fastened the same, near to the high altar.  
Item, whether they have diligently called upon, exhorted and moved their parishioners, and specially when they make their Testaments, to give to the said poor men's Box, and to bestow that upon the poor Chest, which they were wont to bestow upon pardons, pilgrimages, Trentals, Masses satisfactory, decking of Images, offering of candles, giving to Friars, and upon other like blind devotions.  
Item, whether they have denied to Visit the sick, or Bury the dead, being brought to the Church.  
Item, whether they have bought their benefices, or come to them by fraud or deceit.  
Item, whether they have every Sondaie, when the people be most gathered, red one of the Homilies, in order as they stand in the book, set forth by the kings majesty.  
Item, whether they do not omit prime and hours, when they have any sermon or Homely.  
Item, whether they have said or sung any Mass, in any Oratory, Chapel, or any man's house, not being hallowed.  
Item, whether they have given open monition to their Parishioners, that they should not wear beads, nor pray upon them.  
Item, whether they have moved their Parishioners, lying upon their death beds, or at any other time, to bestow any part of their substance, upon Trentals, Masses Satisfactory or any such blind devotions.  
Item, whether they take any Trentals, or other Masses Satisfactory to say or sing, for the quick or the dead.  
Item, whether they have given open monition to their parishioners, to detect and present to their Ordinary, all adulterers and fornicators, and such men as have two wives living, and such women as have two husbands living, within their parishes.  
Item, whether they have not monished their Parishioners openly, that they should not sell, give, nor otherwise alienate, any of their Church goods.  
Item, whether they or any of them, do keep more benefices, and other Ecclesiastical promotions, than they ought to do, not having sufficient licence, and dispensations thereunto, and how many they be, and their names.  
Item, whether they minister the Communion, any otherwise then only after such form and manner, as is set forth by the Kings Majesty, in the book of the Communion,  
Item, whether they hallowed and delivered to the people, any candles upon Candelmas day any ashes upon ash Wednesdai, or any Palms upon Palm sunday last passed.  
Item, whether they had upon Good friday last passed, the Sepulchres with their lights, having the Sacrament therein.  
Item, whether they upon Easter even last passed, hallowed the Font, Fire, or paschal, or had any paschal set up or burning in their Churches,  
Item, whether your persons and Vicars, have admitted any curates to serve their Cures which were not first examined and allowed, either by my lord of Cantorbury, Master archdeacon, or their officers.  
Item, whether you know any person within your parish, or else where, that is a letter of the word of God, to be red in English, or sincerely preached, or of the execution of the kings majesties Injunctions, or other his majesties proceedings, in matters of religion.  
Item, whether every parish have provided a chest with two locks and keys, for the book of Wedding, Christening, and burying.  
Item, whether in the time of the Litany, or any other common prayer, in the time of the sermon or Homely, and when the priest readeth the scripture to the parishioners, any person have departed out of the church, without a just and necessary cause.  
Item, whether any bells have be knolled or rung at the time of the premises.  
Item, whether any person hath abused the Ceremonies, as in casting holy Water upon his bed, or bearing about him, holy Bread, saint Ihons' Gospel, ringing of holy Bells, or keeping of private holy days, as Tailors, Bakers, Brewers, Smiths, Shoemakers, and such other.  
Item, whether the money coming and rising of any cattle, or other movable stocks of the Church, and money given or bequeathed, to the finding of Torches, lights, tapers, or lamps, (not paid out of any lands) have not been employed to the poor men's Chest.  
Item, who hath the said stocks, and money in their hands, and what be their names.  
Item, whether any undiscrete persons do uncharitably contemn, and abuse priests and ministers of the church.  
Item, whether they that understand not the Latin, do pray upon any primer, but the English Primer, set forth by the kings majesties authority, and whether they that understand Latin, do use any other than the Latin Primer, set forth by like authority.  
Item, whether there be any other Grammar taught in any school within this Diocese, then that which is set forth by the kings majesty.  
Item, whether any person keep their church holy day, and the dedication day, any otherwise or at any other time, then is appointed by the kings majesty.  
Item, whether the service in the Church, be done at due and convenient hours.  
Item, whether any have used to common, jangle, and talk in the Church, in the time of the common prayer, Reading of the Homely, Preaching, Reading or declaring of the scripture.  
Item, whether any have wilfully maintained and defended, any Heresies, Errors, or false opinions, contrary to the faith of Christ, and holy scripture.  
Item, whether any be common drunkards, swearers, or blasphemers of the name of God.  
Item, whether any have committed adultery, fornication or incest, or be common bawds, and receivers of such evil persons, or vehemently suspected of any of the premises.  
Item, whether any be brawlers, slanderers, chiders, skolders, & sowers of discord, between one person and another.  
Item, whether you know any that use charms, Sorcery, enchantments, Witchecraft, Sothesaiing, or any like craft invented by the Devil.  
Item, whether the Churches, pulpits, and other necessaries apparteigning to the same, be sufficiently repaired.  
Item, whether you know any, that in contempt of their own parish Church, do resort to any other Church.  
Iten, whether any Inholders, or Alehousekepers, do use commonly to sell meat and drink, in the time of the common Prayer, Preaching, Reading of the Homilies, or scripture.  
Item, whether you know any to be married, within the degrees prohibited by the Laws of God, or that be separated or divorced, without a just cause, allowed by the law of God, and whether any such have married again.  
Item, whether you know any, to have made privy contracts of Matrimony, not calling two or more thereunto.  
Item, whether they have married solemnly, the bannes not first lawfully asked.  
Item, whether you know any Executors, or Administrators of dead men's goods, which do not duly bestow such of the said goods, as were given and bequeathed, or appointed to be distributed among the poor people, repairing of high ways, finding of poor scholars, or marrying of poor maids, or such other like charitable deeds.  
Item, whether any do contemn married priests, and for that they be married, will not receive the communion, or other Sacraments at their hands.  
Item, whether you know any that keep in their houses undefaced, any abused or feigned Images,   

IMPRINTED IN LONDON the last day of August, M.D, xlviii: in the second year of the reign of our most dread & sovereign lord King Edward the, VI: By Richard Grafton Printer to his highness: 1548.  
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