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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69746	Articles of inquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the Diocesse of Lichfield and Coventry, in the first episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, John, by divine providence Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, in the first year of his consecration, An. Dom. 1662.	Church of England. Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry. Bishop (1661-1670 : Hacket); Hacket, John, 1592-1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing C4052; ESTC R6535	4,684	12

ARTICLES OF INQVIRY Concerning MATTERS Ecclesiastical EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-men of every Parish within the Diocesse of LICHFIELD and COVENTRY In the first EPISCOPAL VISITATION OF THE Right Reverend Father in God JOHN By Divine Providence Lord Bishop of LICHFIELD and COVENTRY In the first year of his Consecration An. Dom. 1662. LONDON Printed for John Place 1662. The Oath to be given unto the Church-wardens and Sidemen of every Parish YOu shall Swear to inquire with the best diligence that you may and to make a true Answer unto every Article of this Book now given you in Charge Presenting every Person of your Parish that hath done any Offence or omitted any Duty therein mentioned And this you shall do without any Favour or hatred or fear of Displeasure So help you God and the contents of his Holy Gospel ARTICLES OF INQUIRY Within the DIOCESS of LITCHFIELD and COVENTRY Inquiries about the Church and Church-yard I. IS your Parish-Church and Chancel decently kept for Gods Honour Are the Roofs Walls Pavements and Windows well repaired are the Ten Commandements Lords Prayer and the Creed drawn out in fair Letters in convenient places and are the Kings Arms set up II. HAVE you made Leavies for the reparation of the Church and other holy uses And are there any that refuse to pay the proportion leavied upon them III. HAVE you a Font of Stone decently covered standing towards the lower end of the Church for the Administration of Baptism Have you a comely Table placed conveniently in Church or Chancel for the use of the Lords Supper Have you a comely Carpet of Silk or good Stuff for that holy Table with a fair Linnen Cloth to spread upon it in the time of Administration And have you an handsome Cup of silver for the Wine and a Cover of silver to the same to put the Bread on And have you one or more Flaggons of Pewter or better metall for that use IV. ARE your reading Desk and Pulpit conveniently set up and placed for the use of publick Prayer and Sermons And hath your Pulpit a Cushion and comely covering before it V. HAVE you in your Church the common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book of the largest Volume set forth by Authority with the Books of Divine Service for the fifth of November the thirtieth of January and the nine and twentieth of May And have you the Bible in Folio fairly bound of King James's Translation Have you also a decent Surplice one or more for your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer to wear in the time of all publick Ministrations VI. ARE the Tombs Monuments Gravestones of the Dead in your Church or Church-yard preserved and not suffered to be broken taken down or removed VII HAVE you a Book of Parchment wherein be Registred the Christnings Marriages and Burials in your Parish Have you a strong Chest with three Locks wherein to preserve your Church Furniture and a Box for Alms placed in a fit place for the Relief of the P●or VIII IS the House and Out-houses of your Minister in good and sufficient repair Doth he preserve the Gardens Orchards and Glebe belonging to him without embezeling changing or any way damnifying them IX IS the Church-yard decently kept and well fenced to keep out Beasts Inquiries about the Parson Vicar Curate Lecturer I. HAVE the above-named received Episcopal Ordination according to the Laws of the Kingdome II. CAN you tell who did present your Parson or Vicar to his Benefice Have you heard or known that he came Simoniacally Was he inducted into his Benefice before sufficient witness And did he read the nine and thirty Articles before or at Morning or Evening Prayer And did he give his consent to them III. HATH he read the Book of Common-Prayer as it is injoyned by the late Act of Vniformity for publick Prayer Administration of the Sacraments c. on some Sunday before the four and twentieth of August last past and did and doth he wear the Surplice while he perform'd that Office and other Offices mentioned in that common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book IV. HATH he publish'd his consent unto the said Book on some Sunday before the 24th of August above-named openly in time of Divine Service and hath he subscribed to the Declaration as it is exprest in the 77. page of the above-named Statute and manifested it to the Congregation openly V. DOTH he Preach a Sermon on every Sunday or procure a Sermon then to be Preach'd Or else sometimes read one of the Homilies which the Church hath appointed And doth he often on Sundays and Holy-days before Divine Service instruct his Parishioners in the Catechism of the Church VI. DOTH he read the Service appointed for the fifth of November thirtieth of January twenty ninth of May and doth he keep the yearly Perambulation and Rogation daies before the Feast of our Lords Ascension VII IF your Parson or Vicar keep a Curate is he of godly Life and sufficient Learning Is he allowed by the Bishop and can you tell whether the said Curate have a competent allowance according to the value of the Living VIII DOTH your Parish maintain a Lecturer Is he a Vertuous and Orthodox Divine Is he Licensed by the Bishop Doth he read the full Divine Service of Common-Prayer once a Moneth at the least wearing a Surplice IX DO you observe to your best understanding that your Parson Vicar Lecturer or Curate do Preach the true Word of God Or do they to your judgment having consulted with other grave Parishioners vent dangerous Opinions derogating to the Glory of God and a pious Life Do they teach Sedition directly against his Majesty his Laws and Government or do you note that indirectly they cast out Seditious glances against the Civil State or Government Ecclesiastical X. DOTH your Minister celebrate the Lords Supper in the Church according to the Service of the Common-Prayer-Book often every year Doth he repulse them from it that are scandalous by the sentence of the Laws Doth he Baptize such Infants of his Parish according to the Service of the Common-Prayer as upon warning given before are brought on Sundays or Holy-days to the Church with God-fathers and God-mothers and upon lawfull Summons doth he Baptize Infants at home in case of danger and necessity XI DOTH he visit the Sick at their Houses when he is required upon lawfull Summons Doth he Pray with them Exhort them to faith and repentance and comfort them Doth he give them the Holy Communion professing faith in Christ and sorrow for their sinns if they require it and doth he Exhort them to Brotherly Love and works of Charity if they be able to bequeath a portion to pious uses XII DOTH he prepare the young Men and Maidens of the Parish to be confirmed by the Bishop Doth he Marry none clandestinely but at due hours in the Church and that upon Banes thrice publish'd on Sundays or Holy-days or Licence obtained from the Spiritual Court And doth he bury the Dead according to the Book