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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2018
Articles to be enquired of within the dioces of Oxford, in the first visitation of the right reverend father in God, lohn Bishop of Oxford, held in the yeare of our Lord God 1619.
Articles concerning the clergie.
1. Whether your church be voyd of an incumbent, how long it hath been voide, by whom, and at whose order the fruits are gathered and bestowed?
2. Whether is the whole service or common prayer, read in your church or chappell distinctly and reverently upon all Sundaies and holydaies, in such order as is set downe in the booke of common prayer beginning at the confession, absolution, the psalmes, and chapters appointed for the dayes, the hymnes, of Te Deum, Benedictus, Magnificat, and Nunc dimittis, the creede, the versicles, the collects, the whole letany, the prayers for the king, the prince, the byshopps, the ten commaundements, and the epistle and gospell, without any kind of alteration, or omission, and at due and convenient howres? And whether doth your minister omit any part of the service, and make long sermons or prayers of his owne?
3. Whether doth your minister upon Wednesdaies and Fridaies (not being holydaies) reade in your church or chappell, the letany and other prayers appointed in the said booke for those dayes? And whether doth he sometime reade the commination against sinners, in such order and forme as is there prescribed?
4. Whether doth your parson, vicar, or curat, in the administration of the Lords supper, of baptisme, in the solemnization of marriage, buriall of the dead, churching of women, etc use the formes, prayers, and ceremonies prescribed in the communion booke? As namely, whether doth he administer the communion to himselfe kneeling and to none other but to such as do kneele at the receiving thereof: make the signe of the crosse upon the childs fore-head in the administration of baptisme: baptise any without godfathers and godmothers: doth he use the ring in marriage: and generally, doth he in the discharging of all these duties, (and when he readeth common prayer upon Sundaies and holy dayes,) weare a surplesse?
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