Elizabeth I

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Articles to be enquired in the visitation, in the firste yere of the raigne of our moste dread Soveraigne Lady, Elizabeth by the grace of God, of Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande, Queene, defendour of the faith (London, 1559)
Newberry Library (Wing ZP 545 .J93)
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The Articles of Visitation laid out the questions to be asked by church officials as they visited each diocese to insure conformity to Elizabeth's new reformed Church.

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