one of them have, what be their names, and what their clear yearly value. 6. Item, Whether such distributions as should be made to the poor, either here, or at the benefices appropriated to this church, or elsewhere, by the appropriations, ordinances, and statutes of this church, have been done accordingly or no. 7. Item, Whether the grammar school be diligently and duly kept, and the Schoolmaster being learned in the Greek and Latin tongue, and Usher, do resort and continue at the same in due times and convenient hours, and whether the scholars do profit in learning or no. 8. Item, Whether the just number of scholars and ministers of this church be continually maintained in the same, as they ought to be by the foundation and statutes thereof, and whether any have been admitted to any scholarship, but such as have been destitute of all help of friends. 9. Item, Whether any of this church have taken any gifts in money or otherwise, for the preferment of any person to any petty-canonship, scholarship, or any other office or room within the said church. 10. Item, Whether there be any incorrigible, troublesome, makebates, or otherwise disobedient to the Dean of this church, or other their superiors. 11. Item, Whether any be more absent from the church, than by the ordinances and statutes of the same they may or ought to be. 12. Item, Whether the foundation of this church or statutes, or any portion of the same, be by any colourable ways or means wrested, or derogated, or made void and of no force. 13. Item, Where, when, and to whom the books of the Latin service were delivered, and how many, and whether any of them were sold, and by whom, or doth remain still in the hands and custody of any of this church. 14. Item, Whether any of the Petty-canons, Vicars, and ministers of this church, be a carder, dicer, rioter, fighter, brawler, swearer, or drunkard. 15. Item, Whether they do occupy themselves out of service-time and meals in some virtuous exercise and learning. 16. Item, Whether there be any strife, rancour, malice, or debate, between any of this church, and if any be, between whom it is, and for what cause. 17. Item, Whether any have committed adultery, fornication, or incest, or be vehemently suspected of the premises. 18. Item, Whether the Prebendaries and other of this church, which are bound to be resident, do keep hospitality, and specially for the poor, and the ministers of this church. 19. Item, Whether they do come to the church so much as they ought to do. 20. Item, Whether the correction of faults by clerks, choristers, vergers, ringers, and other ministers, be made and done accordingly. 21. Item, What are the whole and yearly revenues of this church, and what portion of the same is assigned for the poor, and mending of highways, or other deeds of charity, and on whom it hath been bestowed. 22. Item, Whether lands, goods, moveables, or chattels appertaining to this church, is sold or otherwise alienated; to whom, and for how much. 23. Item, What treasure they have in store to supply all necessaries and chances that may be incident unto this church. 24. Item, Whether the treasure of this church and jewels be well and diligently kept by just indented inventory. 25. Item, Whether this church, every Prebendary's house, and other buildings within the said church, and the lands, tenements, and rectories belonging to the said church, be duly surveyed and kept in good reparation. 26. Item, Whether the common seal of this church is safely kept, according to the foundation or other ordinances of the same. 27. Item, Whether there is a perfect register kept of all leases, fees, and offices, granted or confirmed by the church. 28. Item, Whether every year once there is a perfect and full account made of all and singular the revenues and other profits, in anywise to this church belonging. 29. Item, Whether any within this church have been or is a hinderer of the word of God, either for reading or preaching of the same, or a notorious slanderer of the preachers thereof. 30. Item, Whether those of this church, which may dispend in benefices and other promotions ecclesiastical an hundred pounds, do give competent exhibition to one scholar at one of the Universities of Cambridge or Oxford, and so for so many hundred pounds as he may dispend, do find so many scholars, and what be their namesc. 31. Item, Whether any use commonly to be absent from the sermons made within this church. 32. Item, Whether there be a library within this church, and in the same St. Augustine's works, Basyll, Gregory, Nazianzene, Hierome, Ambrose, Chrysostome, Cypriane, Theophilact, Erasmus, and other good authors and works. 33. Item, Whether you have every day some part of holy Scripture read in English at your table, at the time of your meals. 34. Item, Whether there be two Bibles of the largest volume in English, in some meet and convenient place in the body of this church. 35. Item, Whether there be any lecture of divinity within this said church. 36. Item, Whether ye know any other thing more than these worthy of reformation. 37. Item, Whether the Dean, Prebendaries, Preachers, Schoolmaster, Usher, Petty-canons, and other ministers of this church, have taken a corporal oath, to observe and keep all and singular the statutes of this church, so much as concerns them, or any of them. 38. Item, What was done with the images lately in this church, and whether any doth remain not defaced and utterly extincted, and in whose custody and keeping they be. [See the preceding Articles, No. 26, and Letter to Crumwell, 29 Nov. 1539.] C. C. C. C. MSS. cxx. [Injunctions to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, 1550.] Injunctions given by me Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, To the Dean, Prebendaries, Preachers, and other ministers and officers of the Metropolitan and Cathedral Church of Canterbury, the 29th day of October, in the fourth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord Edward the VIth, by the grace of God, King of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the faith, and in earth next under Christ of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, the Supreme Head. First, They and every of them shall inviolably obp. 68. Copy, serve, fulfil, and keep all and singular the King's Majesty's Injunctions, devised as well for the said church as for other metropolitical and cathedral churches of this realm. 2. Item, That they keep mine Injunctionsb given within my diocese of Canterbury and peculiars, in as much as they shall concern the clergy of the same, except such as can in no wise be executed within the said church. 3. Item, That the Prebendaries and other ministers of the said church, shall sit in the Chapter-house at the sermons made there and no where else. 4. Item, That every Prebendary of the said church shall preach, or cause to be preached, two sermons at the least yearly in the parish churches appropriated to the said church, being within my said diocese of Canterbury. 5. Item, That every Preacher of the said church, not being beneficed within my said diocese, and resident upon the same, shall be resident yearly in the said church by the a [See note p. 196.] b[It is clear from hence, that besides Edw. VI.'s Injunctions, Cranmer had issued some of his own. Articles of Inquiry at his Visitation 1548, are printed by Sparrow and Wilkins, and will be found above, p.185; but neither of these collectors makes any mention of his Injunctions.] space of six months at the least. And that always there be three of the said Preachers within my said diocese of Canterbury. 6. Items, That no inhabiter within my said diocese of Canterbury shall be admitted to the communion within the said church, without the expressed consent of the parson, vicar, or curate, where he or she dwelleth, first obtained and had; except wayfaring persons or necessity doth otherwise require. 7. Item, That hereafter there be no selling nor changing of prebendaries' houses, but that every one shall be contented with that house, which immediately before was his predecessor's. 8. Item, That the Schoolmaster of the grammar school do daily hear the scholars of the higher form to repeat their ordinary lessons. And the Usher of the same to hear daily the scholars of the lower form to parse their ordinary lessons. 9. Item, That no women do accustomably lie within the precinct of the said church, but such as have their husbands with them, or that be servants. 10. Item, That all back doors into the city out of any Prebendary's house or others shall be clearly shut up. 11. Item, That every Petty-canon and Vicar of this church do personally receive the communion in his own. course, except sickness or other necessity do let. 12. Item, That no sale be hereafter made of any goods belonging to the said church without the consent of the Dean and Chapter. |