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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79594	Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens and side-men of every parish within the diocess of Ely by the Right Reverend Father in God Francis by divine permission Lord Bishop of Ely. In the second year of his translation for his first episcopal visitation; Visitation articles. 1686	Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1675-1684 : Turner); Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1686 (1686)	Wing C4037B; ESTC R231419	7,362	14

upon notice given visit the Sick doth he instruct comfort conferr and pray with them doth He upon their confession repentance and faith being thereunto desired absolve them doth He keep secret such their confession doth He when desir'd give them the Holy Sacrament of Christs Body and Blood and if they have ability move and stirr them up to pious and charitable deeds IX Doth He refuse Christian Burial to any except persons Unbaptized or Excommunicate or that have laid Violent hands upon themselves X. Hath He admitted any women begotten with child in adultery or fornication to be Churched without Licence from the Ordinary XI Doth He every Sunday preach himself or procure some Licens'd Preacher so to doe or read one of the Homilies set forth by Authority XII Doth He constantly at the beginning of Sermon move and exhort the People to joyn with him in Prayer in such manner and form as is appointed by the Church in the 55th Canon and no otherwise XIII Doth He in his Sermons four times every year teach and maintain the Kings Lawfull Authority over the State both Ecclesiasticall and Civil against the Pretences and Usurpations of all Foreign Power Has He been known or observ'd to teach Sedition or Faction directly against His Majesty His Laws and Government or indirectly to cast out Seditious Glances against the Civil State or Government Ecclesiastical XIV Does He preach and maintain as far as you know or hear any new and strange Doctrine contrary to Gods Word and the 39 Articles of this Church Doth He teach any thing to be religiously observ'd and believ'd that is not agreeable to the Scriptures and what the Catholick Fathers of the Ancient Church have gathered thence XV. Doth He diligently instruct and examine the Younger Sort in the Church Catechism and doth He take care to bring or send them so instructed to the Bishop for Confirmation XVI Doth he declare to the People every Sunday the Days of Fasting and Abstinence the Holy Days and other Solemn Days that have particular Services which if any such there be are in the Week ensuing to be religiously kept and observed XVII Doth He upon some Sundays or Holydays read publickly in the Church the Book of Canons once every Year and the 39 Articles twice to the end that the People being well acquainted with the Doctrine and Discipline of our Holy Mother the Church of England may continue stedfast and obedient in the Communion of the same XVIII Is He together with the Churchwardens carefull in Registring as the Law requires the Names and Sirnames of all such in your Parish as have been Baptized Married and Buried and the same transcribed to return every year into the Bishop's Registry XIX Is your Minister one that is studious of the holy Scriptures Does He keep to His calling abstaining from all Trades Occupations and Labours not befitting His Function from all apparell that is excessive or any way unseemly or unsuitable to His Calling either at home or abroad does He refrain from the acquaintance and company of persons that are Excommunicate or any way Scandalous Is He of a Chast and Sober a Peaceable and Exemplary Conversation Or is He noted or suspected for Incontinency Gaming Swearing Drinking for frequenting Inns or Taverns or any House of ill Report or Notoriously guilty of any other thing contrary to Godliness or particularly misbecoming His holy Calling XX. Doth He in His Sermons deliver such Doctrine as tends to Obedience and the Edisying of the Auditory in Faith and Religion without intermeddling with matters of State not fit to be handled in the Pulpit XXI Doth He Labour diligently to Reduce Popish Recusants if there be any in your Parish from their Errors And doth He every year present the Names of such as are not Reducible to His Ordinary if they be above Thirteen years of age TIT. III. Concerning the Parishioners I. ARE there any in your Parish that are blasphemers of the Majesty of God or scoffers at the Christian Religion or that derogate from the Authority or the Sufficiency of the Scriptures or deny any of the Articles of the Christian Faith II. Are there any that deny the Church of England to be a true and Apostolique Church and to have in Her all things necessary to Salvation Or that affirm the XXXIX Articles to be Erroneous in any part or such as cannot with a good conscience be subscribed to III. Do any in your Parish affirm or teach that the form of God's worship contained in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments is corrupt superstitious unlawfull or repugnant to Scripture Or that the form of Consecrating or Ordaining of Bishops Priests and Deacons is Antichristian or repugnant to the Scripture or to the practise of the Primitive Church IV. Do all your Parishioners having no Lawfull impediment duly resort to the Divine Service and Sermons in your Church on Sundays or other days and times appointed by Law Do they come in the beginning and not depart before the Blessing Do they demean themselves reverently there uncovering their Heads kneeling at the Prayers standing up at the Hymns at Glory be to the Father c. At the recitall of the Creed and reading of the Gospel and at what other parts of the Service it is requir'd V. Are there any in your Parish that resuse to send their Infant Children to be Baptized in the Church unless in case of urgent danger Or do they send them to be Baptized in other Parishes Or are they Baptized after other form then is appointed or are they kept unbaptized longer then is allowed Or are there any of riper years as yet unbaptized Or any that have been Baptized privately and not afterwards brought to the Church with Godfathers and Godmothers according to the Rubrick VI. Do any Parents or Masters of Families neglect or refuse to send their Children or Servants to Church to be instructed in the Catechism Or to have them being so instructed presented to the Bishop for Confirmation Are there any so instructed and confirmed and of due age that come not to the Lord's Supper Three times in the year at the least of which the Feast of Easter to be one Or any that forsake their own Parish to receive it elsewhere VII Do any refuse to bury their Dead according to the Rites of the Church of England Are there any Wills or Testaments of Persons dead within your Parish that be yet unproved Or any Goods Administred without a due grant from the Ordinary VIII Are there any in your Parish that are unlawfully married within the Degrees prohibited Or that being Lawfully married and not Lawfully Divorc't do yet separate one from the other or that being Lawfully Divorced have married any other IX Are there any married Women in your Parish who after their delivery from the perill of Childbirth refuse to make their publick thanksgiving to God in the Church in time of Divine Service upon some Sunday or