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B02165	Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and sidemen of every parish within the diocese of Exeter. In the second episcopal visitation of the right reverend father in God Seth, by divine permission Lord Bishop of Exeter.	Church of England. Diocese of Exeter. Bishop (1662-1667 : Ward); Ward, Seth, 1617-1689.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4041B; ESTC R173877	7,384	15

ARTICLES OF VISITATION ENQUIRY Concerning MATTERS Ecclesiastical EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish within the DIOCESE of EXETER In the Second EPISCOPAL VISITATION OF THE Right Reverend Father in God SETH By Divine Permission Lord Bishop of EXETER LONDON Printed for T. Garthwait at the Kings-Head in S. Pauls Church-yard M.DC.LXV The Tenour of the Oath to be Administred to the Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish YOu shall Swear diligently to enquire and to make a true Answer unto every Article in this Book now given you in Charge and to Present every Person that now is or of late was inhabiting within your Parish that hath done any Offence or omitted any Duty therein mentioned And this you shall do uprightly and truly without Favour or Malice Hope of Reward or Fear of Displeasure so far as by the Laws you are bound So help you God ARTICLES OF VISITATION and ENQUIRY Within the DIOCESE of EXETER TITUL. I. Concerning Churches and Chappels with the Ornaments and Furniture thereunto belonging IS your Parish Church or Chappel kept in good and sufficient repair Are the Roofs thereof well covered with Lead Tile or Slate the Windows well Glazed the Floors well paved the Seats well fastned and conveniently placed and all things so decently ordered as becometh the House of God II. HATH the Steeple or Tower of your Church or Chappel or any part thereof been pulled down or any of the Lead or Bells formerly belonging thereunto been imbezelled sold or made away In whose hands or custody doth the same or any part thereof remain Declare what you know or have heard therein III. 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 with a Carpet of Silk Stuff or fine Woollen-Cloath and another Covering of white and pure Linnen to spread thereupon And have you a fair Communion-Cup or Chalice with a Cover of Silver and one or more Flagons of Silver or Pewter thereunto belonging IV. 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 the Book of common-Common-Prayer both well and substantially bound Have you likewise the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority A Book of Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical And a Printed Table of the Degrées wherein Marriage is prohibited V. HAVE you a comely large Surplice for the Minister to wear at all times of his Publick Ministration in the Church provided and to be duly washed at the Charge of your Parish VI. HAVE you a Register-Book of Parchment wherein to Register 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 moneth and year of all such Christenings Marriages and Burials And is the transcript thereof yearly within one Moneth next after the 25 of March brought into the Bishops Registry VII HAVE you likewise another Book of Paper wherein to record the Names and Licenses of all such Strangers as are admitted at any time to Preach in your Church or Chappel As also a third Book wherein to write down the Church-wardens Accounts together with a strong Chest with Locks and Keys wherein to kéep the aforesaid Books and all other the afore-mentioned Furniture in safe Custody And lastly have you a Bier with a black Hearse-cloth for the Burial of the Dead TIT. II. Concerning the Church-yard the Houses Glebes and Tithes belonging to the Church I. IS your Church-yard sufficiently fenced with Walls Rails or Pales and decently kept from the annoyance of Swine Horses and other Cattel Hath any person encroached upon the same or made any door into it out of his own ground or habitation without allowance from the Ordinary Have any Trees there growing been cut down how long since by whom and to whose use and benefit II. IS the house of your Parson Vicar or Curate with all the out-houses thereunto belonging kept in good and sufficient repair Or have any of the said Houses or Out-houses been defaced or pulled down without license from the Ordinary and by whom Hath any person encroached upon any Garden Yard or Close belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage house or cut up any Trees growing thereon or changed or removed the ancient Marks and Bounds of the same III. HAVE you a true and perfect Terrier of all the Glebe-lands Gardens Orchards Tenements or Cottages belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage As also a note of such Pensions Rate-tithes and Portions of Tithes or other yearly Profits either within or without your Parish as belong thereunto Have any of the same been withheld from your Minister and by whom as you know or have heard IV. HAVE any of the ancient Glebe-lands belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage been taken away or exchanged for other without the free consent of the Incumbent and license from the Ordinary 〈◊〉 by whom hath the same been made and how many years since and how much is your Parsonage or Vicarage damnified thereby in the yearly value thereof as you know believe or have heard TIT. III. Concerning Ministers I. IS your Minister defamed or suspected to have obtained either his Benefice or Orders by any Simonaical compact II. HATH he been legally Inducted into his Benefice III. DID he within two months after his Induction publickly in the Church upon some Sunday or Holy-day in the time of Divine Service read the 39 Articles of the Church of England established by Authority and there publickly declare his assent thereunto IV. HATH he any other Ecclesiastical Benefice Is he constantly resident upon his Benefice among you How many weeks in any one year hath he been absent from it V. HATH your Minister a Curate to assist him Who is that Curate Is he conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England and doth he serve in any other Church beside and what yearly stipend doth your Minister allow him VI. DOTH your Parson Vicar or Curate in reading the daily Morning and Evening Service Administration of the holy Sacraments celebration of Marriage Churching of Women after Child-birth Visitation of the Sick Burial of the Dead and pronouncing ●ods Commination against impenitent Sinners use the form and ●ords prescribed in the Book of common-Common-Prayer without any addition omission or alteration of the same And doth he use all such Rites and Ceremonies in all parts of Divine Service as are appointed 〈◊〉 the said Book so far as you have observed VII DOTH your Minister at the Reading or Celebrating the Divine Offices in your Church or Chappel wear the Surplice VIII DOTH he

observe the Holy-days and Fasting-days as also ●●e Ember-weeks and the yearly Perambulation in Rogation-week as 〈◊〉 the Common-Prayer-book is appointed giving notice to the Parishioners of every of the same in the Church in the time of Divine service upon the Sunday next before IX HATH your Minister been licensed to preach by the Bishop if so doth he then constantly unless in case of Sickness necessary ab●●nce or other reasonable impediment himself preach in your Church 〈◊〉 Chappel one Sermon every Sunday Or if he be not a Licensed ●reacher or being so Licensed be hindred by Sickness or otherwise as foresaid doth he procure a Sermon to be so preached by some other Minister a Licensed Preacher or one of the Homilies set forth by Authority to be there read by a Priest or Deacon X. DOTH your Minister diligently instruct the Youth of your Parish in the Church Catechism and doth he prepare and 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 be inhabiting within your Parish to the true Religion established in the Church of England and to their bounden dutie in obeying the Laws and submitting to the Government thereof XI DOTH he neglect or refuse to visit the Sick or delay the Baptism of any Infant that is in danger of death Is there any Child past Infancie or other person of more years through your Ministers default yet remaining unbaptized in your Parish Doth he use to baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers or admit either of the Parents to be Godfather or Godmother to their own Children XII HATH he at any time as you know or have heard preached any False Heretical Seditious or Schismatical Doctrine thereby to seduce the people into parties and factions to the disturbance of the publick peace and unity either of Church or State XIII HATH he presumed to Marrie any persons in private houses or such as being under age have not the consent of their Parents or without the Banes first published on three Sundays or Holy-days in the Church or at any other hours then betwéen Eight and Twelve in the Morning unless he had a License or Dispensation so to do XIV 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-Common-Prayer and is he in all respects conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England XV. HATH your Minister taken upon him to appoint any publick or private Fasts Prophecyings or Exercises not appointed by Authoritie or doth he or any other either Minister or Lay-person hold any Conventicles or Meetings in private houses within your Parish for people of several Families to resort unto under the pretence of Preaching Praying Thanksgiving or Humiliation contrary to the Laws and Canons in that case provided XVI IS your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer a man of a sober unblameable and exemplarie life Doth he familiarly converse with ungodlie vicious and excommunicate persons Is he a frequenter of Taverns or Ale-houses a common Gamester a Swearer Railer or Quarreller Doth he set Neighbours at variance one with another or encourage them to Suits and Contention Is he noted to be an intemperate Drinker or vehemently suspected of Incontinencie with any person either within your Parish or without Is his apparel grave and decent as the Canons of the Church require Or is his Carriage and Conversation in any kind whatsoever Disorderly or Scandalous and unbeséeming a Minister of Iesus Christ TIT. IV. Concerning the Parishioners I. IS there in your Parish any person a known or reputed Heretick or Schismatick any Papist Familist Anabaptist Quaker or other Sectarie that refuse to come unto the publick Assemblies Prayers or Services of the Church or that makes profession of any other Religion then what is established in the Church of England and if there be any such what are their Names II. IS there any person in your Parish that lieth under a common fame or vehement suspicion of Adultery Fornication or Incest Are there any common Drunkards within your Parish or common Swearers or blasphemers of Gods Name or any that are noted to be railers unclean or filthy talkers or sowers of sedition faction and discord amongst their neighbours III. DO any of your Parish upon Sundays or Holy-days follow their bodily or ordinary labour or permit their servants so to do Are any shops kept open or wares sold or do any Vinteners Inn-keepers or other Victualers and sellers of Beer or Ale suffer any persons to tipple or game in their houses upon those days IV. DOTH every person inhabiting and sofourning within your Parish duly resort unto your Church or Chappel upon every Sunday and Holy-day appointed for Divine Service Do they then and there abide quietly with reverence order and decency during all the whole time of Common-Prayer Preaching or other service of God there used and are there any among you that come onely to the Preaching and not to the Common-Prayers of the Church V. DOTH every person reverently uncover his head and so continue all the time of Divine Service in the Church Do they all reverently kneel at the Prayers and stand up when the Creed and Gospel are read making due reverence when the Name of our Lord Iesus is mentioned VI. ARE there any in your Parish that refuse to send their Infant-children to be baptized publickly in the Church unless in case of urgent danger in which case the child may be baptized at home by a lawful Minister after the form and rites appointed in the Liturgy Or do they send them from their own Minister to be baptized in any other Parishes or after other form then is appointed Or do they keep them unbaptized any longer time then the Church alloweth And are there any Infants or more aged persons in your Parish as yet unbaptized VII DOTH every Housholder in your Parish cause their children and servants to come to Church to learn their Catechism and to give an account thereof unto your Minister as he shall require it of them openly in the Church upon Sundays and Holy-days as in the Book of common-Common-Prayer is appointed that when they are well Instructed in the same they may be confirmed by the Bishop VIII IS there any person in your Parish who being 16 years of age doth not receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at least three times in the year of which Easter is always to be one Doth any in your Parish refuse to receive the same kneeling or from the hands of your own Minister repairing for it to other Parishes and Ministers abroad Or are there any strangers not of your Parish that forsake their own Churches and usually repair to yours for it IX HAVE you any among you that be denounced and declared excommunicate for any crime committed How long have they béen