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A32949	Articles of visitation and enquiry, concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the arch-deaconry of Gloucester, in the first visitation of the Arch-Deacon	Church of England. Diocese of Gloucester. Bishop (1660-1672 : Nicholson); Nicholson, William, 1591-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing C4045; ESTC R40823	9,808	16

ARTICLES OF VISITATION and ENQVIRY Concerning Matters Ecclesiastical EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-men of every Parish within the Arch-deaconry of Gloucester In the First VISITATION OF THE ARCH-DEACON LONDON Printed for William Leak at the Sign of the Crown in Fleet street near the two Temple-Gates 1663. The Form of the Oath to be administred to the Church-Wardens and Side-men of every Parish YOU shall swear That upon due and faithful enquiry you will make a true answer unto every Article in this Book now given you in charge all affection favor hatred hope of reward gain fear of displeasure laid aside And present every person that now is or of late was inhabiting within your Parish that hath committed any offence or omitted any duty therein mentioned neither presenting or sparing to present any person contrary to truth And this you shall do as in the sight of God uprightly truly and impartially So help you God Articles of Visitation and Enquiry within the Archdeaconry of GLOUCESTER SECT 1. Concerning MINISTERS I. IS your Parsonage or Vicarage void and destitute of a Minister or Curate how long hath it béen void and who is known or accounted to be the rightful Patron thereof II. IS your Minister a Priest or Deacon Ordained by some Bishop according to the known Lawes of the Church of England III. IS he Defamed or suspected to have obtained either Holy Orders or his Benefice by Contract or Simony And HATH he béen lawfully instituted and inducted into his Benefice as you know or believe and did he within Two Months after his Induction openly on some Sunday in the time of Divine Service in the Parish Church of his Benefice read the 39. Articles of Religion of the Church of England established by Authority and there Publickly declare his Assent to every one of them and did he openly and publickly before the Congregation according to the Act of Parliament declare his unfeigned Assent and Consent to all things in the Book of Common-Prayer contained and prescribed in these words and no other I A. B. do hereby declare my unfeigned Assent and Consent to all and every thing contained in and by the Book intituled The Book of Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form or Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons IV. HATH he any other Ecclesiastical Benefice Prehend or Dignity is he constantly Resident upon his Benefice amongst you how many wéeks in any one year hath he béen absent from it without urgent Necessity allowed by the Bishop of the Diocess V. IF your Minister hath a Curate to assist him is the said Curate in Holy Orders an able Or hodor and Discréet Person and Conformable to the Lawes and Orders of the Church of England is he Licensed by the Bishop to serve in your Church or Chappel and doth be serve in any Church beside VI. DOTH your Minister read the whole Common-Prayer distinctly and reverently every Sunday and Holyday and observe the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in that Book of Common-Prayer at Morning and Evening Service Administration of the Holy Sacraments Celebration of Marriage Churching of Women after Childbirth Visitation of the Sick Burial of the Dead and pronouncing Gods Commination against Sinners use the Form and Words prescribed in the Book of Common-Prayer without any Addition Diminution or Alteration of the same and doth he use all such Rites and Ceremonies in all parts of Divine Service as are appointed in the said Book VII WHETHER your Minister after he hath Consecrated the Bread and Wine at the Communion Table doth first receive it himself and deliver both the Bread and Wine to every Communicant severally and give Notice publickly in the Church at Morning Prayer the Sunday before for the better preparation of the Parishoners and doth he admit to the Communion any notorious Sinner before Repentance or such as refuse to knéel or deny to be present at publick Prayers VIII DOTH your Minister at the Reading or Celebrating any Solemn or Divine Office in your Church or Chappel wear the Surplice or being a Graduate doth he wear a Hood according to the Order of the Vniversities agréeable to his Degrée IX DOTH he also observe the Holydayes and Fasting-dayes and also the Ember Weeks and the yearly Perambulation in Rogation Week and doth he give Notice to his Parishoners of every the same Duties in the Church in the time of Divine Service upon the Sunday next before X. HATH your Minister béen Licensed to Preach by the Bishop or either of the Two Vniversities or by any other lawful Authority doth he then constantly unless in Case of Sickness necessary Absence or other reasonable Impediment himself Preach in your Church or Chappel one Sermon every Sunday XI DOTH he in his Sermons four times in the Year at least Declare the Kings Majesties Power within His Realms to be the Highest Power under God to whom all People within the same owe Loyalty and Obedience and that all Forrain Power is justly taken away XII DOTH you Minister every Lords Day and Holyday before Evening Prayers for the space of half an houre at least hear the Youth and ignorant People of your Parish repeat the Catechism set down in the Book of Common-Prayer and in the time of Evening Prayer after the Second Lesson Instruct them and Expound to them some part of the said Catechism and doth he prepare and at fitting times Present them being so Instructed to be Confirmed by the Bishop and doth he endeavour to Reclaim all Popish Recusants and other Sectaries if any such inhabit in your Parish to the true Religion established in the Church of England and to their bounden Duty in obeying the Lawes and submitting to the Government thereof XIII DOTH your Minister or Curate neglect to Visit the Sick or delay the Baptism of any Infant that is in danger of death is there in your Parish any Child past Infancy or other person of more years through your Ministers default or otherwise yet remaining unbaptized in your Parish doth he Baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers who have not first received the Communion or admit either of the Parents to be Godfather or Godmother to their own Children XIV DOTH he in his Sermons Preach sound Doctrine tending to the Edification of the People in the Knowledge and Faith of Jesus Christ and in Obedience to Gods Holy Commandment or hath he at any time as you know or have heard held Conventicles or secret Méetings tending to the Depraving of the Common-Prayer and established Government of the Church or Preached any False Heretical Seditious or Schismatical Doctrine tending to the Breach of the Unity of the Church and with intent thereby to draw the People into Parties and Factions to

the disturbance of the publick Peace and Unity either of Church or State XV. HATH your Minister presumed to Marry any persons in private Houses or elsewhere out of the Church or hath he Married any who being under the Age of Twenty one Years have not had the Consent of their Parents or without Banes first duly published on thrée Sundayes or Holy-dayes in the Church unless he had a sufficient Licence or Dispensation so to do or if he had hath he Married at any other houres than betwéen Eight and Twelve in the Morning or any times of the Year prohibited by the Law XVI DOTH any person Preach in your Parish as a Lecturer hath he Allowance from the Bishop for so doing doth he before his Lecture read Divine Service according to the Book of Common-Prayer and is he Conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England and in his Prayer before Sermon doth he observe that Order that is prescribed in the 55. Canon of Ecclesiastical Constitution XVII HATH your Minister taken upon him to appoint any publick or private Fasts Prophecyings or Exercises not appointed by Authority doth he or any other either Minister or Lay-person hold any Conventicles or Méetings in private Houses or other places within your Parish for people of several Families to resort unto under the pretence of Preaching Praying Thanksgiving or Humiliation contrary to the Lawes and Canons in that Case provided XVIII IS there any Curate or Minister imployed under the Parson or Vicar of your Parish is he Admitted and Licensed to serve in that Office by the Bishop of the Diocese and is your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer a man of a Sober Honest and Exemplary Life or doth he familiarly Converse with Vngodly Vitious or Excommunicate persons is he a Frequenter of Taverns or Alehouses a common Gamester at Cards Dice Tables or any other unlawful Games a profane or obscene Jester a Swearer Railer Scoffer or Quarreller doth he set Neighbours at variance one with another or incourage them to Sutes and Contentions is he noted to be an intemperate Drinker or vehemently suspected of Incontinency with any person either within your Parish or without or doth he follow any base or servile Labour whereby he is scandalous to his Function or Ministry XIX Lastly IS any such Ministers Apparrel grave and decent both for Fashion and Colour as the Canons of the Church do require or doth he wear his Hair of an immoderate or unbeséeming length or do you in any other kind whatsoever find and know his Carriage and Conversation to be disorderly or scandalous and unbeséeming a Minister of Jesus Christ SECT 2. Concerning as well Churches and Chappels with the Ornaments and Furniture thereunto belonging as also Church-yards or Grounds set apart for Burial I. IS your Parish-Church or Chappel or any part thereof converted and employed to profane secular or common uses and what are those uses and who they are that so employ them II. IS your Parish-Church or Chappel and Chancel kept in good and sufficient Repair are the Roofs thereof well covered with Lead Tile or Slate Windows well glazed well ●eised within the Floors well paved the Seats well fastned and conveniently well placed and all things so decently ordered as becometh the House of God without any thing noysome or unséemly and are the Seats of your Church in good Repair and the Parishoners orderly set or is there any contention or striving for any Seat or place among them what are their Names III. HATH the Stéeple or Towre of your Church or Chappel or any part thereof béen pulled down or have any of the Lead or Bells formerly belonging thereunto been imbezelled sold or made away or removed to some other Church in whose hands or custody doth the same or any part thereof remain Declare what you know or have heard herein IV. IS there a Font of Stone with a good Cover thereunto standing in a convenient place towards the lower part of your Church for the Administration of Baptism and is there in your Chancel a decent Communion Table for the Administration of the Lords Supper covered with a Carpet of Silk Stuffe or fine woollen Cloth in time of Divine Service and another Covering of white and pure linnen to spread thereupon at the Administration of the Sacrament and have you a Plate or Paten and a fair Communion-Cup or Chalice with a Cover of Silver and one or more Flagons of Silver or Pewter thereunto belonging have none of these things béen purloyned destroyed or made away or if they have who did it and what was the value V. WHETHER in your Church the partition between the Body of the Church and Chancel is taken away how long since or by whom VI. HAVE you in your said Church or Chappel a convenient Seat or Pew for your Minister to read Divine Service in a Pulpit with a comely Cloth or Cushion for the same a Bible of the last Translation in a large Volume and two Books of Common-Prayer of the latest Edition set forth by Authority of this present Parliament both of them well and substantially bound have you the Books and Forms of Divine Service set forth for the Fifth of November the Thirtieth of January and the Twenty ninth of May have you likewise the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority a Book of Canons and Conctitutions Ecclesiastical and a printed Table of the Degrées of Consanguinity and Affinity within which Marriage is prohibited and void in Law hanging in some convenient place in your Church VII HAVE you a comely large Surplice for the Minister to wear at the times of his Publick and Solemn Ministration in the Church provided and to be duly washed at the Charge of the Parish VIII HAVE you a Register-book of Parchment wherein ought to be Registred the Names and Sirnames of all such persons as are Married Christened or Buried within your Parish together with the Names and Sirnames of both the Parents of the Children so Christened expressing the Day Month and Year of all such Marriages Christenings and Burials and is the Transcript thereof yearly within one Month next after the Twenty fifth of March duly brought into the Bishops Registry IX HAVE you likewise another Book of Paper wherein to Record the Names and Licences of all such Strangers as are admitted at any time to Preach in your Church or Chappel as also a Third Book wherein to enter and write down the Church-wardens Accounts together with a strong Chest with Locks and Keyes wherein to keep the aforesaid Books and all other the aforementioned Vtensils and Furniture in safe Custody and have you a convenient Bier for the Burial of the Dead X. Lastly IS your Church-yard and Ground set apart for Burials sufficiently mounded and fenced with Walls Rails or Pales and decently kept from the Annoyance of Swine and other Cattel hath any person incroached upon the ground of the Church-yard or mifused it to profane or common uses