To Be Inquired of in the Visitations to Be Had within the Diocese of Canterbury, in the Second Year of the Reign
Of Our Dread Sovereign Lord, Edward the Sixth, 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 parsons, vicars, and curates, and every of them, have purely and ῬΡ. sincerely, without colour or dissimulation, four times in the year at the least, preached against the usurped power, pretended authority and jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome. et Item, Whether they have preached and declared likewise four times in the year,.,.. LI LI e at the least, that the king’s majesty’s power, authority, and pre-eminence, within his realms and dominions, is the highest power under God.
Jtem, Whether any person hath by writing, cyphering, 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 see heretofore claimed and usurped, or by any pretence, obstinately or maliciously invented any thing for the extolling of the same, or any part thereof.
ltem, Whether in their common prayers they use not the collects made for the king, and make not special mention of his majesty’s name in the same.
Item, Whether they do not every Sunday and holyday, with the collects of the English procession, say the prayer set forth by the king’s majesty for peace between England and Scotland.
[[! These articles are printed from Wilkins’ counted as our neighbours, and commanded us to]
[Concilia, and have been collated with Sparrow’s love them as ourselves, and not to hate our enemies,]
[Collection of Articles, &c. Both Strype and Bur- butrather to wish them, yea, and also to do them,]
[net assert that they were issued at Cranmer’s Vi- good if we can: bow down thy holy and merciful]
[sitation, A.D. 1548. Vid. Strype Mem. of eyes upon us, and look upon the small portion of]
[Abp. Cranmer, Vol. I. p. 259, Ed. Oxon. 1840. earth, which professeth thy holy name and thy Son]
[Burnet’s Hist. of Reformat. Vol. II. p. 211. Ed. Jesu Christ. Give to all us desire of peace, unity,]
[Oxon. 1829. Cardwell’s Documentary Annals, Vol. and quietness, and & speedy wearisomeness of all]
[I. pp. 41—51. Vid. Injunctions to the Dean and war, hostility, and enmity to all them that be our]
[Chapter»of Canterbury, No. 2, p. 162. Yet Strype, enemies; that we and they may, in one heart and]
[(Vol. IL. p. 613, 14) also says, ‘T’hearticles whereof charitable agreement, praise thy most holy name,]
[(king Edward V Ith’s Visitation) were drawn up by and reform our lives to thy godly commandments.]
[the archbishop, and preserved to us in Bishop Spar- And especially have an eye to this small isle of]
[row’s Collections,” They were printed by Grafton, Britain. And that which was begun by thy great]
[Ed. Lond. 1548. Vid. Ames’ Typogr. Antiq. Ed. and infinite mercy and love to the unity and con-]
[Dibdin. Vol. III. p. 458, who mentions, (p. 467, cord of both the nations, that the Scottish men and]
[n.) Abp. Cranmer’s Articles of Visitation in the we might for ever live hereafter in one love and]
[Diocese of Norwich, a copy of which has not yet amity, knit into one nation, by the most happy]
[been discovered. and godly marriage of the king’s majesty our sove-]
[[? “A prayer for victory and peace was sent to reign lord, and the young Scottish queen; where-]
[the archbishop with an order from the privy council unto promises and agreements hath been heretofore]
[for its use, 6th May, 1548. Wilkins’ Concilia, Vol. most firmly made by human order: grant, O Lord,]
[IV. p.26. Strype’s Mem. of Abp. Cranmer, Vol. that the same might go forward, and that our sons’]
[I. p. 253, and Eccl. Mem. Vol. II. Part 1. p. 166. sons, and all our posterity hereafter, may feel the]
[Ed. Oxon. 1822. The following prayeris found inthe benefit and commodity of thy great gift of unity,]
[State Paper Office. DrJenkyns suggeststhatitmay granted in our days. Confound all those that work-]