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A32954	Articles of inquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens and side-men of every parish within the diocess of Lichfield and Coventry, in the second triennial visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God John by divine providence Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in the seventh year of his consecration ... 1668.	Church of England. Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry. Bishop (1661-1670); Hacket, John, 1592-1670.	1668 (1668)	Wing C4052B; ESTC R40827	5,074	13

ARTICLES OF INQUIRY Concerning Matters ECCLESIASTICAL EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-men of every Parish within the Diocess OF LICHFIELD and COVENTRY In the SECOND Triennial Visitation OF THE Right Reverend Father in GOD JOHN By Divine Providence LORD BISHOP OF LICHFIELD and COVENTRY In the Seventh Year of his Consecration Anno Domini 1668. LONDON Printed for John Place 1668. The Oath to be Administred to the Church-Wardens and Sides-men of every Parish YOU shall Swear to enquire with the best diligence that you may And present every person of your Parish as far as you are bound by Law that hath done any offence in your Parish contrary to the known Ecclesiastical Laws of this Kingdom now in force or omitted any Duty therein required And this you shall do without favour or hatred So help you God and the Contents of this Book ARTICLES OF INQUIRY Within the DIOCESS OF LICHFIELD 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 Commandments Lords Prayer and the Creed drawn out in fair Letters in convenient Places and are the Kings Arms set up II. HAVE your late Church-Wardens made Leavies for the reparation of the Church and other holy uses And are there any that refuse to pay the proportion levied upon them III. IS there a Font of Stone decently covered standing towards the lower end of the Church for the Administration of Baptism Is there a comely Table placed conveniently in Church or Chappell for the use of the Lords Supper Is there 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 is there an handsome Cup of silver for the Wine and a Cover of silver to the same to put the Bread on And is there one or more Flaggons of Powter or better metal 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. IS there in your Church the common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book of the largest Volume set forth by Authority of this present Parliament And is there the Bible in Folio fairly bound of King James's Translation Is there a decent Surplice one or more for your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer to wear in the time of all publique 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 IS there a Book of Parchment wherein be Registred the Christnings Marriages and Burials in your Parish Is there 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 Poor 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 and the Trees growing in the said places without imbezelling 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 and Lecturer I. HAVE the above-named received Episcopal Ordination according to the Laws of the Kingdom II. CAN you tell who did present your Parson or Vicar to his Benefice Have you heard or known that he came in 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 Anno. 1662. And by the additoinal Act for such as were disabled before the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Anno. 1663. and did and doth he wear the Surplice while he performed that Office and other Offices mentioned in that Common prayer-Prayer-Book IV. HATH he publish'd his consent unto the said Book on some Sunday before the time above-mentioned 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 read the full Service according to the direction of the Common-prayer-book on every Sunday and Holy-day at Morning and Evening Prayer or doth he negligently omit any part of it VI. 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 in the Church VII 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 or at the Feast of our Lords Ascension VIII 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 IX 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 X. HAVE you a Parson Vicar or Curate in your Parish or Hamlet If not how long have you been without one and who is the Patron that should present one to the Ordinary XI 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 XII DOTH your Minister celebrate the Lords Supper in the Church according to the Service of the common-prayer-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 Sundaies or Holy-daies 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 XIII DOTH he visit the Sick at their Houses when he is required upon lawful Summons Doth he Pray with them Exhort them to faith and repentance and comfort them Doth he give them the Holy Communion that profess faith in Christ and sorrow

for their sins 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 XIV DOTH he prepare the young Men and Maidens of the Parish to be confirmed by the Bishop Doth he Marry any clandestinely and at due hours in the Church and that upon Banes thrice publish'd on Sundaies or Holy-daies or Licence obtained from the Spiritual Court And doth he bury the Dead according to the Book of Common-Prayer XV. IS your Minister Lecturer Curate a man of sober chast just unblameable Life and spare not to present him or them that are not every way examples of Godliness XVI DOTH your Minister with the Church-Wardens take care duely every year to send in the names of all such in his Parish as have been Baptized Married Buried Excommunicated that they may be enrolled in the Bishops Registry XVII DOTH your Minister maintain peace with his Neighbours and study to keep them in peace as much as in him lies Doth he take diligent care to reduce all Sectaries Seperatists and Refractory persons to the obedience of the Doctrine and Government of the Church And doth he offer himself being an able Learned man to confer with Popish recusants to convert them and to bring them into the Bosom of this Church Inquiries about the Parishioners I. DO all your Parishioners of due Age resort to the Divine Service and Sermons in your Church on Sundays and Holydays and on Wednesday and Friday mornings if conveniently they can II. DO they or any of their servants occupy themselves in bodily Labours on Sundays or Holy-days do they open their Shops and sell Wares on those days or do Vintners Victualers Inn-keepers or others receive any into their Houses to tipple and wast time idly on those days only they may receive Travellers that are upon a Iourney in necessary occasions III. DO your Parishioners in the time of Divine Service Sermon or Homily behave themselves reverently Men and Youths with their Hats off both Sexes giving due attention none disturbing holy Duties by talking walking removing going out or using any other offence and do they all kneel stand up make answers in time of Divine Service as you find it appointed in the Rubricks of the Common-Prayer-Book IV. SUCH as may be discerned to be Papists Hereticks Schismaticks Anabaptists Seperatists Quakers and the like are not only to be presented but twelve pence is to be levied on every such person and so many of them for every Sunday as absent themselves from the Church and to be imployed to the maintenance of the Poor whereof account is to be made to the Iustices of the Peace V. SUCH are to be presented as are known or much suspected to be Incestuous or to be married in Incestuous or unlawful degrees of Blood likewise you ought to present known Adulterers Fornicators Blasphemers common Swearers Drunkards Sorcerers or resorters to Sorcerers VI. ARE there any above the Age of sixteen years in your Parish and especially that have been examined by your Minister in the Catechism before that do not come to the Lords Supper to partake it reverently upon their knees three times every year at the least the Feast of Easter or the time thereabout being one VII ARE there any in your Parish that keep their Children unbaptized enquire diligently and return the Parents or Governors names and the list of those Children by such names as you can learn And are there any that cause their Children to be baptized privately by any whom your Minister doth not allow and whose name they will not declare nor bring those Children baptized in that private sort to the Church in time of publick Service that their baptism may be known to the Congregation that it was compleat and lawfull VIII DO all Women that have been safely delivered come to the Church in due time to partake of the Common-Prayer and do such Women pay their accustomed Duties IX DO your Parishioners bring their dead to be decently Buried after the Service of the Church in their own Parish grounds or if they carry the Dead away to be Buryed in some other place whether they be Lodgers or other Strangers do they first obtain leave of the Minister of the Parish and have his certificate X. DO any of your Parish usually frequent other Parish Churches and absent themselves from their own XI ARE there any that keep private Conventicles contrary to the Statute of this present Parliament in their Houses or abroad which are resorted to by those especially that are known or suspected for Sectaries or any way disaffected to the present Church of England XII DO your Parishioners pay their Easter Offerings and accustomed duties called Vicarage Tithes or by any other name to their Minister XIII ARE there any Wills or Testaments of persons dead in your Parish that are not proved by a lawfull Iudge or do you know or hear of any goods administred without due grant from the Ordinary XIV WHAT Legacies have been given to pious uses in your Parish which are utterly defrauded or not imployed to the Right use according to the Will of the Donor XV. ARE your Seats and Pews in the Church decently kept And are the Parishioners placed in them without offence and contention Inquiries about Church-Officers and other Persons I. IF any Stranger come to Preach in your Parish Church or Chapel on Sundays and Holy-days at Christnings Funerals Marriages or any other occasion let the Church-Wardens demand to see his Orders and Licence to preach which he had from the Bishop and if he can shew none let them inhibit him from Preaching II. DID your late Church-wardens suffer excommunicated Persons to be Buried in any part of your Church Chancel or Church-yard III. DOTH your Parish Clark and Sexton if you have any such do their duties obediently and diligently Are they of honest Life and Conversation Is your Parish Clark duly chosen by the Minister And is he allowed by the Ordinary Can he write and read Doth he make Responsions to the Hymns and other Suffrages to the Liturgy IV. IS there a School publick or private in your Parish Is the School-Master and Vsher if he have one allowed by the Bishop or his Chancellour Doth he breed his Scholars Religiously and doth he teach them the Church Catechism Is there any who pretend to be a Minister and is a Non-conformist who doth keep a School for young Scholars in his House in the name of some other person V. HAVE you any Physician Chirurgion or Midwife in your Parish that practise without Licence VI. ARE your Church-wardens duely chosen in the week after Easter day and after the custome and manner of the Parish ●●● HAVE your late Churchwardens having surrender●d their places upon the Election of new ones given up their accounts to the Parishioners and are their accounts allowed or have they falsified their trust wherein and how much VIII ALSO have the said Church-wardens been diligent to repair the Church to keep it decent and comely Hade they preserved the Font for Baptism fit and handsome for that use likewise have they look'd carefully to the Communion Table to the Plate and all Vtensils pertaining to it And have they provided such fine white Bread and good Wine as was fit for the Sacrament according to advice taken with the Minister LEt the Church-Wardens and Side-men inquire Diligently what Answers they will and can give according to the Ecclesiastical Law ●ow established to all these particulars upon Oath as far as they are bound by Law setting the feat of God and the good of his Church before their Eyes FINIS