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A00260 Articles to be enquired of, by the church-vvardens, and sworne-men, in the visitation of the right worshipfull, the Archdeacon of Surrey Church of England. Archdeaconry of Surrey. 1626 (1626) STC 10349.5; ESTC S2651 7,119 12

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ARTICLES To be enquired of by the Church-VVardens and Sworne-men in the Visitation of the Right Worshipfull the Archdeacon of SVRREY Printed at London by Miles Flesher Anno Dom. 1626. The tenour of the Oath of the Church-wardens and Sworne-men YOu shall sweare that vpon due consideration of these Articles giuen you in charge you shall present euery such person of or within your Parish as you shall know to haue committed any offence or omitted any duty mentioned in any of these Articles or which are publikely defamed or vehemently suspected of any such offence or negligence So helpe you God by contents of his holy Gospell ARTICLES Touching the Church WHether is your Church or Chappell with the Chancell thereof and euery part of either of them well and sufficiently repaired glased paued or any thing noysome or vnséemely 2 Whether is your Church-yard well fenced as hath béene accustomed if not whose default is it 3 Whether hath there béene any fighting chiding brawling or quarelling in your Church or Church-yard and by whom 4 Whether is the mansion house of your Parson Vicar or Curate with all the building thereunto belonging and Church-house sufficiently repaired maintained and to their right vses imployed 5 Whether haue you in your Church the Bible in the largest Volume the booke of common prayer lately authorized by his maiestie the bookes of Homilies allowed the two Psalters a conuenient Pulpit for the Preaching a decent seat for the Minister to say Seruice in conueniently placed a strong chest with an hole in the lid three lockes and keyes one for the Minister the other for the Church-wardens for the Almes of the poore the kéeping the Register Booke of the Christenings Mariages and burials 6 Whether haue you in your Church a Font of stone for Baptisme set in the ancient vsuall place a decent Table for the Communion conueniently placed couered with silke or other decent stuffe in time of diuine Seruice and with a faire Linnen cloth ouer that at the administration of the Communion 7 Whether haue you all such Bels ornaments and other vtensils as haue anciently belōged vnto your Church a Communion cup of siluer with a couer a faire standing pot or stoope of siluer or pewter for the Wine vpon the Communion Table a comely surplesse with large sléeues a Register booke of parchment for Christenings Mariages Burials a booke for the names of all strange Preachers subscribed with their names the names of the Bishop or others by whom they had Licence 8 Whether are wéekly the names and surnames of all persons maried christened and buried and of their parents with the day and yeare entred into your said parchment booke and euery leafe being full subscribed by you the Ministers and Church-wardens 9 Whether are all your seats in your Church in good repaire cleanly kept conueniently placed the parishioners in them or else-where orderly set is ther any contention or striuing for any seat or place amongst them 10 Whether in any of your Churches the partition betwéene the Chancell and the body of the Church be taken away And how long since and by whom haue you a Terrier of all the gleab-land and other appurtinancies belonging to your Church Touching the Ministrie seruice and Sacraments WHether is the whole Common praier said or sung by your Minister both morning and euening distinctly and reuerently euery Sunday and holyday and on their Eues and at conuenient vsuall times of those dayes and in most conuenient place of the Church for the edifying of the people 2 Whether doth your Minister obserue the orders rytes and ceremonies prescribed in the booke of Common prayer in reading the holy Scriptures prayers and administration of the Sacraments without diminishing in regard of preaching or any other respect or adding any thing in the matter or forme thereof doth he baptize in any basin or other vessel and not in the ordinary Font 3 Whether doth your Minister on Wednesdayes and Frydayes not being holydayes at the accustomed houres of seruice resort to the Church and say the Letany prescribed doth your Clarke or Sexton giue warning before by foulling of a bell on those dayes 4 Whether doth your Minister as oft as he administreth the Communion weare the Surplesse first receiue it himselfe Whether doth he vse any bread or wine newly brought before the words of institution be rehearsed and the bread and wine present on the table whether doth he deliuer the bread and wine to euery communicant seuerally 5 Whether doth your Minister giue warning publikely in the Church at morning prayer the Sunday before hée administreth the Communion for the better preparation of the Parishioners 6 Whether hath your Minister admitted to the Communion any notorious sinner openly knowne or defamed or any who hath openly and maliciously contended with his neighbor before repentance and reconciliation made and done by appoyntment of the Ordinary 7 Whether hath your Minister admitted to the Cōmunion any Church-warden or Sideman who hath wittingly and willingly neglected contrary to his oth to present any publike offence or scandall being moued to present either by some of his neighbours the Minister or his Ordinary 8 Whether hath your Minister administred the Communion to any but such as knéele or doe any refuse to kneele hath he administred to any who refuse to be present at publike Prayer or is there any who hath depraued the Book of common Prayer administration of the Sacraments or the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed or the Articles of Religion agréed vpon anno Dom. 1562. or the booke of ordering Priests and Bishops or spoken against his Maiesties Supremacie or haue any béene for these causes repelled and what be their names 9 Whether hath your Minister more Benefices then one if he haue how farre distant are they how often is he absent in the yeare when he is absent hath he an allowed Preacher for his Curate 10 Whether is your Minister and allowed Preacher if he be doth he euery Sunday in your Church or some other néer adioyning where no Preacher is preach one Sermon euery Sunday 11 Whether doth your Minister being no Preacher allowed presume to expound the Scripture in his owne Cure or elsewhere doth he procure euery Moneth a Sermon to be preached in his Cure by preachers lawfully licensed and on euery Sunday when there is no Sermon doth he or his Curate read some one of the Homilies prescribed 12 Whether is your Curate allowed by the Ordinary vnder his hand and seale to serue in your Cure and whether doth he serue two Churches or Chappels in one day 13 Whether doth your Minister in saying the publike prayers vsually administring the Sacraments weare a decent Surplesse with sléeues and being Graduate doth hee weare therewith a hood by the order of the Uniuersities agréeable to his degree 14 Whether hath your Minister or any other Preacher in your Church preached any thing to confute or impugne any doctrine