Category: History - British

The Age of Elizabeth (1547-1603)

to prescribe for the teacher the manner in which he shall exercise his craft, but simply to provide him and his pupils with materials hitherto not readily accessible for school purposes. The very moderate price of the books in this series should bring them within the reach of...

Chapters

1. Part I., by Keatinge and Frazer, pp. 377-381. However, we have no wish

to prescribe for the teacher the manner in which he shall exercise his craft, but simply to provide him and his pupils with materials hitherto not readily accessible for school...

2. ii. Item whether the said Parson, Vicar, or Curat, have been heretofore

3. iii. Item whether within the said parish there be openly or secretly any

4. iv. Item whether there be within the said parish any that doth maintayne

5. v. Item whether there be within your parish any prieste that taketh upon

hym to serve the cure, not being before examined and allowed thereto by th’ordinary, and whether the said priest hath in the tyme of the late scisme here in the realme preached...

6. vi. Item whether there be within the sayde parishe any that do

obstinately persist and stande in any heresie or hereticall opinion, or be suspected of erronious and false doctrine, or a favorer, mainteiner or aider of any erronious or heret...

7. vii. Item whether you know or have heard say of any person or persones

within your said parish that hath kept, or at this present doth kepe, any hereticall, noughtye, or sedicious erronious booke or bookes, especially english testamentes or Bibles...

8. viii. Item whether ye knowe or have hearde of anye Prynters or

Bookesellers wythin youre Parishe that hath solde, or now doth sell or keepe anye the sayde hereticall, nawghtye, or sedicious booke or bookes, letters or wrytynges, and whether...

9. ix. Item whether ye knowe or have hearde saye of anye person or

persones within your Parishe, that wyllynglye or obstinatelye dothe neglecte or refuse to make theyr confession to the Priest, and to receyve absolution and penaunce at hys hand...

10. x. Item whether ye knowe or have hearde of anye person or persones

wythin your Paryshe that have murmured, grudged, or spoken directlye or indirectlye agaynste the Masse, or ... holye breade, holy water, ashes, palmes, creping to the crosse, ho...

11. xi. Item whether there be within your Paryshe anye that dothe favoure,

or is suspected to ... receyve any noughty person or persones, especiallye to rede the english service used in the time of King Edwarde the sixte, or the booke of Communion, or...

12. xii. Item whether there be within the sayde parish any privie lectures

13. xiii. Item whether there be within the sayde parishe any that at the

sacring time of the Masse dothe hange downe theyr heades, or hyde them selves behinde pillers, or turneth away their faces, or departeth out of the church, because they woulde n...

14. xiv. Item whether ye knowe or have hearde saye of any person or

15. xv. Item whether there be within the sayde parish any person, man, woman

16. xvi. Item whether there be within your parish any schole master or

scolemastresse ... not beyng first examined and admitted thereunto by th’ordinarie or his sufficiet deputie, and whether the said scolemaster and scolemaistresse be sound in rel...

17. xviii. Item whether you knowe or have hearde of any in your parishe,

18. xx. Item whether ye knowe or have heard saye of any concelementes,

contempts, conspiracies, false rumors, tales, sedicions, misbehaviours, slaunderous woordes, bruited or spred by anye person or persones against the King and Quenes Majesties, o...

19. xxii. Item whether you know of anye Patrones or other having advowsons,

20. xxiii. Item whether ye know any Patrones or other having such advowsons,

or any other persone that of his owne private authoritie and pleasure have pulled downe any church, chappel, or other ecclesiastical buildinge, or have taken away the lead, bell...

21. xxvi. Item whether within the saide parishe there be any woman that doth

22. xxvii. Item whether the said Midwife have heretofore bene, and now is,

23. xxix. Item whether the said midwife or other woman denieth or letteth

24. xxxii. Item whether within your said parishe there be a roode and a

roode loft, having the images of Mary and John, and lightes before the same, and whether in the Lente season there be a covering for the saide Crucifixe[13] decentlye provided,...

25. xxxiii. Item whether there be any inventory made and kept of the church

26. xxxiv. Item whether the vestimentes for the priests and other ministers,

and al the ornamentes for and about the altar, be kept clene and sufficiently repayred and maintained ... and whether there be a comely pixe to kepe the blessed sacrament in and...

27. xxxvi. Item whether there have bene or be anye legacies or gyftes made

for the repayringe and mayntenaunce of your church, or of highwaies, finding of the poore, marying of poore Maydens, or anye suche like, and the same not payde and aunswered acc...

28. xxxviii. Item whether ye knowe of anye man that hath two wives living,

29. xlii. Item whether suche as can not reade upon the booke have everye one

30. xliii. Item whether anye Minstrels or anye other persons do use to syng

or say any songes or ditties that be uncleane or vile, especiallye against any of the vii Sacraments, or against any the rites and ceremonies of this Churche of Englande, whyche...

31. xliv. Item whether any do deprave or contempne the auctoritie or

32. xlv. Item whether any playes or interludes not beyng first examined,

33. xlvii. Item whether ye have procured or consented in any wyse that

duryng anye part of the Sermon made at Paules Crosse there shoulde be ryngyng of belles, playing of Children, cryinge or making lowde noyse, ryding of horses, or otherwyse, so t...

34. xlviii. Item whether ye do know, or crediblye have heard that within any

part of the citye of London there hath bene any set tables kept for such as woulde thyther resorte to eate and drynke, and whether it be not used at the said tables to have Dine...