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A79592	Articles for visitation concerning certain matters ecclesiastical exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the Diocess of Ely. In the primory episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God Benjamin by divine permission Lord Bishop of Ely.	Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1667-1675 : Laney); Laney, Benjamin, 1591-1675.	1668 (1668)	Wing C4035A; ESTC R173874	5,430	10

ARTICLES FOR VISITATION Concerning certain MATTERS ECCLESIASTICAL EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-men of every Parish within the DIOCESS of ELY In the primory EPISCOPAL VISITATION OF THE Right Reverend Father in God BENJAMIN By Divine Permission Lord Bishop of ELY CAMBRIDGE Printed by John Field Printer to the Universitie MDCLXVIII The Tenor of the Oath of the Church-Wardens and Sworn-men YOu shall Swear that you and every of you shall faithfully execute your several Offices of Church-wardens and Side-men according to the Kings Ecclesiastical Laws So help you God and the Contents of his Holy Gospel Articles of Instruction to the Church-wardens and Side-men in some more special matters to direct them in their Presentments Anno Domini 1668. TIT. I. Concerning Churches Chappels with the Ornaments and Furniture thereunto belonging 1_IS your Parish Church or Chappel in good and sufficient repair both for the Roof Can. 85. Windows Floor and Seats 2 Hath any part of your Church Chappel or Steeple been demolished or pulled down what part and how long since or any of the Lead Timber or Bells thereunto formerly belonging any way imbezelled or sold and by whom 3 Is there a decent Font of stone with a cover and doth the same stand at or near the nether end of your Church Can. 81. in such manner as anciently and usually Fonts have stood for the baptizing of children Doth the Minister baptize publickly onely in the Font Is there a decent Communion-table in your Chancel 82 with a decent Carpet and another Covering of white Linen to be spread thereon at the time of the Administration of the Lords Supper and have you a fair Chalice or Communion-cup with a Cover and one or more Flagons have they been profaned by common use 20 4 Have you a convenient Seat or Pew wherein to read Divine Service 82 a Pulpit with a decent Cloth or Cushion 83 a large Bible of the last Translation 80 and a Book of common-Common-prayer lately published Anno 1662. the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority Stat. and a Printed Table of the degrees wherein Marriages are prohibited 99 and a Book of Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical and a Decent Surplice and Hood 58 5 Have ye a Register-book in Parchment of Christenings 87 Burials and Marriages 70 and is the same kept in all points according to the ancient use 6 Have you a Book of Paper 52 to record the names and Licenses of such Strangers as are admitted to Preach in your Church or Chappel and do such Strangers subscribe their Names As Also a third Book for the Church-wardens Accounts as also a Chest with Locks and Keys 70 wherein to keep the said Books and the aforementioned Furniture TIT. II. Concerning the Church-yard the Houses Glebes and Tythes belonging to the Church 1 IS your Church-yard sufficiently fenced and decently kept Hath any person enchroached upon the same or made any door into it and how long since 2 Is the House of your Parson Vicar or Curate and the Out-houses in good repair have any of them been defaced or pulled down without license have there been any enchroachments made upon the same or any of the ancient marks or bounds removed or changed and by whom 3 Have you a true and perfect Terrier of all the Glebe-lands Gardens Orchards Tenements or Cottages belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage C. 87. As also a note of such Pensions Rate-tythes and portions of Tythes 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 head TIT. III. Concerning Ministers 1 IS your Minister a Priest or Deacon Episcopally ordained according to the Laws of the Church of England 2 Hath he been legally instituted and inducted into his Benefice And did he within two moneths after his induction publickly in the Church upon some Sunday or Holiday 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 3 Is he resident among you how many weeks hath he been absent from you without urgent necessity 4 Hath your Minister a Curate Is he in Holy Orders Can. 47. and conformable to the Laws of the Church Is he allowed by the Ordinary 5 Doth your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer if you have any perform his Office in all things according to the Rubrick of the Book of common-Common-Prayer lately established and the Act of Uniformity published therewith 14 without either diminishing in regard of Preaching or in any other respect or adding any thing in the Matter or Form 6 Doth your Minister at the Reading Divine Service 58 wear a Surplice and Hood 7 Doth he observe the Holidays and Fasting-days the Ember-weeks and the yearly Preambulation of Rogation-week as is appointed by the Rubrick 8 Is your Minister licensed to Preach if so 45 46 47. doth he constantly not having a reasonable impediment Preach one sermon in your Church or Chappel every Sunday or if he be not licensed or be hindred doth he procure one to supply his Office by preaching or Reading one of the Homilies 9 Doth your Minister instruct the youth in your Parish in the Church Catechism Can. 59. and prepare and present them to be confirmed by the Bishop Rubr. before Confirm 10 Doth he neglect or delay to visit the Sick 67 or to Baptize any Infant that is in danger of death 69 Doth he baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers or admit either of the Parents to be Godfather or Godmother to their own Children 11. Hath your Minister married any persons without publishing the Banns on three Sundays or Holidays 62 or hath he married any in private houses 101 or not between the hours of eight and twelve in the morning unless he had a licence or dispensation from the Arch-Bishop or Bishop of this Diocess or from their Chancellors or Vicars General or from the Commissary for faculties so to do Name who were the parties so married and who were present at such marriages and what Minister married them as far as you know or have head 12 Hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint any publick or private Fasts 72 Prophesyings or Exercises not appointed by Authority Or doth he or any other 73 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 13 Is your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer a man of a sober life and conversation or is his carriage in any kinde disorderly or scandalous and unbeseeming a Minister 14 Hath the Sacrament of the Lords Supper been duly Administred in your Church or Chappel

so often and at such convenient times that at least thrice every year whereof once at Easter every Parishioner within your Parish being of the age of sixteen years or upwards might receive the same 15 Hath any Childe been Baptized within your Parish in any private House except upon great necessity and if so what was the same 3. Jac. 5. or by any Lay-Person or Midwife or Popish Priest or by any other then your own Minister and hath such Childe which was privately baptized Rubr. of private Bapt. if he lived been afterwards brought to your Church that the Congregation and the Minister of the Parish in case such Childe was not Baptized by him might be certified whether such Childe was lawfully Baptized or no 16 Doth your Minister publickly in your Parish Church or Chappel Ratif Can. once every year read over the Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical agreed upon by the Clergy of both Provinces An. Dom. 1603. in such manner as is commanded to be done 17 Doth your Minister every six moneths in your Parish Church C. 65. openly in the time of Divine Service upon some Sunday denounce and declare Excommunicate by name all such of your Parish as do persevere in the sentence of Excommunication not seeking to be absolved 18 Hath your Minister said Divine Service while any Excommunicate person hath been present in the Church or hath he delayed to denounce any Excommunication Suspension or Absolution that hath been sent unto him from his Ordinary further then the next Sunday or Holiday after the receipt thereof under Seal 19 Doth your Minister Rubr. after Nic. Creed upon Sundays at Morning Prayer declare unto the Parishioners what Fasting-days and Holidays are to be kept the week following C. 64. 20 Hath any strange Minister been admitted to preach in your Church C. 50.52 who did not before the Church-wardens subscribe his name in your Book provided for that purpose and the day when he Preached and the name of the Bishop or Bishops of whom he had licence to Preach TIT. IV. Concerning the Parishioners 1 IS there any in your Parish that make profession of any other Religion then what is established in the Church of England And that refuse to come to the publick Assemblies Prayers Act for Uniformity 1 Q. Eliz. or Service of the Church If there be any what are their names 2 Is there any person in your Parish C. 109. that lieth under a common fame or 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 3 Do any of your Parish upon Sundays or Holidays follow their bodily and ordinary labour or permit their servants so to do Are any Shops kept open or wares sold or do any Vintners Inn-keepers or other Victuallers or sellers of Beer or Ale suffer any persons to tipple or game in their houses upon those days 4 Doth every person in your Parish duly resort to your Church or Chappel upon Sundays and Holidays Can. 13. and as well during Divine Service 18 as preaching the Word of God demean themselves reverently uncovering their heads Rubr. kneeling at Prayers standing up when the Creed and Gospel are read 5 Is there any in your Parish that refuse to send their Infant-children to be Baptized in the Church Rubr. of Bapt. unless in case of urgent danger or do they send them to be Baptized in other Parishes or are they Baptized after other Form then is appointed or are they kept unbaptized longer then is allowed or is there any Infants or more aged persons as yet unbaptized 6 Is there any person in your Parish of 16 years of age who doth not receive the Sacrament three times in the year of which Easter is always to be one 112 Doth any refuse to receive it kneeling or resort to other Parishes Rubr. after Commun 27,28 or do any Strangers come to your Parish-Church to receive it 7 Are there any in your Parish that be denounced and declared excommunicate for any crime committed 63 How long have they been so excommunicated and do any of your Parish keep society with them before they be reconciled to the Church and absolved Exprest in a table set forth by Authority Anno Dom. 1563. 8 Are there any living in your Parish who have been unlawfully married contrary to the Laws of God or any that being lawfully Divorced have Married again or any that being lawfully Married and not Separated or Divorced by course of Law do not cohabit together 9 Are there any Married Women in your Parish 99 who after their Delivery from the Peril of Childe-birth 107 refuse to make their publick Thanksgiving to God in the Church And when they come so to do do they come decently Apparelled and make their offerings according to Custom 10 Are there any that refuse to pay their duty for Easter Offerings Rubr. Can. 85. or refuse to contribute to the Rates made for the repair of your Church or Chappel or any thing thereunto belonging 11 Do any refuse to bury their dead according to the Rites of the Church of England Rubr. b. and are there any Wills or Testaments of persons dead in your Parish that be yet unproved or any Goods administred without a due grant from the Ordinary did any dying in your Parish or elsewhere leave any Legacy to your Church or Chappel or to the use of the poor or to any other pious and charitable purposes What were those Legacies and how have they been bestowed 12 Is there any Strife and Contention among any of your Parish for their Pews or Seats in your Church Have any new Pews been erected in your Chancel or in the body of your Church or Chappel without leave from the Ordinary 13 Do all and every housholder of your Parish Father Can. 59. Masters Mothers and Mistresses cause their Children Servants and Apprentices which have not learn'd their Catechism to come unto Church on Sundays and Holidays in the afternoon obediently to hear and to be ordered by the Minister till they have learned the same TIT. V. Concerning Parish-Clerks and Sextons 1 HAve you belonging to your Church or Chappel a Parish-Clerk Can. 91. aged 21 years at the least Is he of honest life and conversation and sufficient or able to perform his duty in Reading Writing and Singing Is he chosen by your Minister and doth he duly-attend him in all Divine Services at the Church are his Wages duly paid unto him or who withholdeth the same from him 2 Doth he diligently do his duty in keeping the Church clean and decent in tolling and ringing the Bells before Divine Service and when any person is passing out of this life doth he upon notice toll a Bell that the neighbours may thereby be warned to recommend the dying person to the grace and favour of God TIT. VI. Concerning School-masters Schools Physicians Chirurgeons and Midwives 1 DOth any man keep a publick or private School in your Parish Can. 77. who is not allowed thereunto by his Ordinary 79. doth he teach his Scholars the Catechism of Religion set forth by Authority doth he cause his Scholars upon Sundays and Holidays orderly to repair to your Church or Chappel and see that they behave themselves quietly and reverently during the time of Divine Service and Sermon 2 Doth any in your Parish practise Physick or Chyrurgery or any woman take upon her to exercise the office of Midwife without license from the Ordinary TIT. VII Concerning Church-wardens and Side-men 1 ARe the Church-wardens of your Parish yearly and duly chosen by the joynt consent of your Minister and Parishioners Can. 89. or one of them by your Minister and the other by the Parishioners 2 Have the former and last Church-wardens given up their Accounts to the Parish and delivered up to the succeeding Churchwardens the moneys remaining in their hands together with all other things belonging to your Church or Chappel 3 You are further to understand That according to your Office you are to provide against every Communion appointed in your Church or Chappel Rubr. at Commun a sufficient quantity of fine white Bread and of good Wine according to the number of Communicants YOu also are to exhibit a Bill of Presentments to this Court of all Ecclesiastical offences committed by any that now is or of late was inhabiting within your Parish especially concerning the matters mentioned in the precedent Articles and therein to take the assistance of your Minister FINIS