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B02158	Articles of inquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the Arch-Deaconry of Durham. Anno Dom. MDCLXIII.	Church of England.	1663 (1663)	Wing C4033AA; ESTC R173871	10,443	18

ARTICLES OF INQUIRY CONCERNING Matters Ecclesiastical EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-men of every Parish within the Arch-Deaconry of DURHAM Anno Dom. MDCLXIII LONDON Printed for T. Garthwait 1663. The Oath to be given unto the Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish YOV 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 this Gospel Directions to the Clergy YOU are desired by your Ordinary to read these Articles distinctly unto the Churchwardens and to warn them of their Duty so often as you shall see occasion but especially to meet together some day before they are to give in their presentments and that then you confer with them in directing them about their said Presentments for the better preventing of perjury on their part ARTICLES OF VISITATION and INQUIRY EXHIBITED To the Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish in the Arch-Deaconary of DURHAM Anno MDCLXIII TITUL. I. Concerning the Fabrick Repairing Keeping clean and Furnishing of Churches and Chapels 1. IS there in your Parish a Church or Chapel with a Tower or Steeple adjoyned to it and a Chancel at the East all well and fairly built duly kept and maintained for the honour of God and for the performance of Religious duties 2. ARE the Roofs thereof well leaded or slated without well cieled within the windows well glazed the walls well plaistered the Tables of the Ten Commandments and other sentences of Scripture well placed the floors well paved the seats well framed and all things so decently ordered as may best beseem the house of God 3. HOW many Bells are there in the Tower or Steeple of your Church or Chapel have any of them that formerly belonged to it or any lead of the roofs of the Church or Chancel been imbezelled and sold away and if any such thing hath been done who did it and who consented to it and what was the value of the thing so sold or imbezelled 4. IS there a Font of Marble or other stone decently wrought and covered set up at the lower part of your Church for the administration of the Sacrament of Baptism Is there a partition between your Church and your Chancel a comely fair Table there placed at the upper part of it for the administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Are there two fair and large Coverings for it one of silk-stuff or fine cloth another of fine linen with a Plate or Paten and a Cup or Chalice of silver and two fair flagons of pewter or purer metal belonging to it Have none of all these things been purloined destroyed or made away by any person whom you can name and if they have been taken away are they again restored or other such provided in their place 5. HAVE you in your Church or in your Chancel a convenient seat erected for your Minister wherein to read the dayly Morning and Evening Service a Desk whereat to say the Letany in the midst of the Church according to the Injunctions set forth in the time of Q. Eliz. and a Pulpit for Sermons with a comely cloth before it Are you provided of a Bible in the largest volume and of the last approved Translation and in what year was it printed have you two books of Common-Prayer set forth by publick authority according to the late Act of Vniformity and are they both also of the largest volume one for the Minister and another for the Clerk to use at the celebration of all divine offices Have you likewise a book of Sermons or Homilies that were set forth in the time of King Edward the sixth and in the Reign of Queen Eliz. together with the works of Bishop Jewel in defence of the Church of England which King James commanded to be had in all Churches and a book of the Constitutions or Canons Ecclesiastical and a Table of marriages prohibited by the Law of God 6. HAVE you a large and decent Surplice one or more for the Minister to wear at all times of his publick ministration in the Church and another for the Clerk if he hath heretofore been accustomed to wear it when he assisteth the Minister Are not either of their Surplices now grown old and torn and what are they at this time worth or if new have been lately bought how much did they cost by the yard 7. HAVE you in your Vestry a Hood or Tippet for the Minister to wear over his Surplice if he be a Graduate a book of Parchment wherein to register the Christnings Marriages and Burials of your Parish another book of paper wherein to record the licences of strange Ministers that are admitted at any time to preach in your Church or Chapel and a third book wherein to write down the accompts of the Church-wardens and to keep an Inventory of all things provided and belonging to your Church Have you a strong Chest with Locks and Keys wherein to keep all these Books and other Furniture for divine services in safe custody And lastly have you a Box wherein to put and keep Alms for the poor and a Bier with a black Herse-cloth for the burial of the Dead TITUL. II. Concerning the Church-yard Parsonage-house Alms-house Glebe and Tithes 1. IS your Churchyard well and sufficiently fenced Is it decently kept without sufferance of any beasts to enter in and annoy it Hath any person incroached upon it or made a new door into it out of their own habitation or ground about it 2. IS The House of your Parson Vicar or Curate well built and kept up with all out-houses thereunto belonging in good and sufficient Repair 3. HAVE you a true note or Terrer of all the Glebe-lands Gardens Orchards Tenements and portion of Tithes appertaining to your Parsonage or Vicaridge Is it kept in your Vestry and a Copy of it delivered into the Bishops Registry 4. IS there any Alms-house Hospital or Free-School in your Parish Who was the Founder or is now the Patron thereof TITUL. III. Concerning Ministers Preachers and Lecturers 1. IS your Minister Parson or V icar a Deacon or a Priest ordained by a Bishop according to the Laws of the Church of England 2. WAS he without any Simoniacal Compact promise or payment freely presented instituted and inducted into his benefice and did he within two moneths after his Induction publickly read in your Church upon some Sunday or Holy-day in the time of Divine Service and in the Audience of his Parishioners all the 39 Articles of Religion set forth and established in the Church of England by Authority And did he then profess and publish his assent unto them all subscribing his name thereunto in the presence of the Church wardens and other

persons of your Parish who can bear witness of the same Do you not know or have you not heard that in his reading or pretending to read these 39 Articles of Religion be omitted or skipped over some one or more of them what Article was it or what part thereof that he left unread 3. DOTH he use any other words or form than what is prescribed in the Book of Common prayer in the publick reading of the dayly Morning any Evening Service and in the Letany which is to be added to the Morning Service upon Sundays Wednesdays and Frydays weekly and at all other times when it is appointed by the Bishop as likewise at the reading of the Communion-Service and the Administration of the two Sacrament Baptism and the Lords Supper at the Celebration of Matrimony Churching of Women after Child-birth burying the Dead and pronouncing Gods Commination against impenitent Sinners And doth he all their without omission addition or alteration of any of them using all the Rites and Ceremonies appointed in that Book And particularly doth he give due warning before the celebrating of the holy Communion that the people may come better prepared And whether doth he in particular according to the tenor of the exhortation before the Communion seriously admonish the people committed to his charge not to presume to come to that holy Sacrament before they have sincerely endeavoured to be reconciled as to God by true repentance and humble confession of their sins to God and if need be for the quiet of their own Conscience to Gods Priest also So in case of offence to be reconciled to their neighbour both by acknowledgment and likewise farther to their power by making restitution and satisfaction for any wrong by them done or for other mens ill-gotten goods heretofore at any time usurped under whatsoever publick or private pretence that so they may come to the Lords Table as they ought with clear and a quiet Conscience And whether if any persons sick or in health having confessed their sins privately unto him for the unburthening of their conscience and receiving of spiritual comfort by the ministerial absolution the said Minister hath revealed to any person whatsoever such crimes and offences so committed to his trust and secrecy contrary to 113 Canon 4. DOTH he alwayes at the reading or Celebrating and divine Office in your Church or Chapel constantly wear the Surplice and other his Ecclesiastical habit according to his Degree And doth he never omit it 5. DOTH he diligently instruct the youth of your Parish in their Catechism and visit the sick as he is directed for the performance of both those Offices in the Book of Common-Prayer 6. DOTH he bid and observe the Holy-days and Fasting day appointed by the Book of Common prayer as they occurr from time to time in the whole year together with the 5 of Nov. Jan. 30. and May 20 7. IS he a Graduate in either of the Vniversities of this Realm and to what degree hath he been there admitted 8 HATH he been Licenced by the Bishop to preach And doth he constantly preach in your Church or Chapel or when he is hindred by sickness or by some other urgent cause doth he procure a Sermon to be preached by a discreet able and approved Substitute every Sunday besides the Anniversary days of Christs Nativity and his Passion at the least And if there be no such Sermons preach'd both he his Substitute or Curate read one of the Sermons or Homilies appointed by publick authority for such several times and occasions 9. DOTH he or his Curate observe the Three Rogation days before the Feast of our Lords Ascension saying the Letany the Ciii and the Ciiii. Psalm with the Church-Wardens and other that accompany him in the perambulation of your Parish and when the perambulation is ended doth he go into the Church with them and read unto them divine Service and one of the Sermons set forth and appointed for that purpose 10 WHETHER doth your Preacher before his Sermon use a Prayer of his own private intention or doth he only exhort the people so pray for Christs holy Catholick Church the Kings Majesty c. as is prescribed in the 55 Canon And doth he once every month at least on the Lords day read divine service both morning and evening and likewise administer the holy Sacraments publickly in his Surplice and Habit with other Rifes of the Church in manner as is prescribed by the Book of Common prayer according to the late Act of Vniformity 11. DOTH he preach unfeigned faith and obedience to Gods holy Commandments Submission and Loyalty to the King and his Laws together with true Christian Plety and Charity among the people And hath he not at any time to your knowledge or as you have been sold by others that do know it preached any false heretical seditions or schismatical Doctrine in his Sermons whereby the people may be led into any Sect or Faction against the peace and unity of the Church or Realm 12. IS there any Lecture preached in your Parish Is he who preacheth it one or more allowed so to do by the Bishop Doth he before his Lecture read the publick Service of the Church appointed for that day by the Book of Common Prayer At the reading whereof doth he wear a Surplice when he Lectureth doth he use the Ecclesiastical habit appointed for all Ministers of the Church Doth he administer the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lords Supper twice in the year at the least according to the prescript form of the publick Liturgy And lastly doth he before the preaching of his Lecture constantly observe the Form of Prayer which is enjoyned him in the 55 Canon of the Ecclesiastical Constitutions 13. DOTH your Minister endeavour to reclaim all Popish Recusants and other Sectaries if there be any such inhabiting within your Parish to the unity obedience and true Religion established in the Church of England Doth he prepare and present the youth of your Parish to be confirmed by the Bishop Doth he admit any of them to the holy Communion or to be Contracted in Marriage or to be Godfather or Godmother in the administration of Baptism before they can give an Accompt of their Faith and Religion according to the Questions and Answers contained in the Church Catechism Hath he admitted any woman to her Thanksgiving after Child-birth before she hath done her Penance if her Child was born or begotten out of lawfull Matrimony Doth he presume to marry any persons in private houses or such as being under the age of 21 years having not the consent of their Parents or without the Banes first published on three several Sundays or Holydays in your Church or at any other hours than between 8 12 in the forenoone unless he hath a licence or dispensation to the contrary 14. HATH your Parson or Vicar any other Ecclesiastical Benefice Prehend or Dignity Doth he reside upon his Living among you or