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B02176	Articles to be enquired of in the primary visitation of the right reverend father in God John Lord Bishop of Rochester and exhibited to the church-wardens and side-men of every parish within the diocese of Rochester, in September, 1668.	Church of England. Diocese of Rochester. Bishop (1666-1683 : Dolben); Dolben, John, 1625-1686.	1668 (1668)	Wing C4097DA; ESTC R173899	5,726	15

ARTICLES To be Enquired of IN THE Primary Visitation OF THE Right Reverend Father in God JOHN Lord Bishop of ROCHESTER AND EXHIBITED To the Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish within the DIOCESE of ROCHESTER In September 1668. LONDON Printed for T. Garthwait 1668. The Oath of the Church-wardens and Side-men YOu shall Swear that you and every one of you will diligently enquire and true Presentment make of all such Persons within your Parish as have offended against the Tenour of any of these Articles collected out of His Majesties Ecclesiastical Laws and given you in Charge You shall not Present any Person out of Malice or Ill-will nor spare any out of Fear Favour or Affection So help you God and by the Contents of this holy Book ARTICLES OF VISITATION and ENQUIRY Within the DIOCESE of ROCHESTER TITUL. I. Enquiries concerning the Church its Possessions Ornaments c. IS your Church or Chappel with the Chancels thereof in sufficient repair as becomes the house of God Are the Roofs well covered the Windows well glazed the Floors well paved and is your Stéeple in good repair and the Bells kept in good order II. ARE the Ten Commandments the Lords Prayer the Créed and certain choice Sentences of Scripture as also the Kings Arms set up in convenient Places in your Church And are there any that refuse to pay their Proportion of the Levies made for the repair of the Church and other uses requisite and accustomed III. HAVE you a Font of stone for Baptism and is it set in the usual place anciently appointed for it Have you a handsome Communion-Table conveniently placed for the Celebration of the Lords Supper Have you a Carpet of Silk or other decent Stuffe to cover it withal in time of Divine Service and a fair Linnen Cloth to be layd upon the same when the Holy Communion is administred And doth your Serton or Clark remove such careless and irreverent people as are apt to sit upon the Holy Table or otherwise abuse it in time of Divine Service Have you a Cup and a Cover of silver for the Consecrated Bread and Wine And have you a decent Flagon of Pewter or purer Metal and are they kept always very clean for that holy use IV. ARE your Reading-pew and Pulpit well maintained and placed with the best conveniency for publick Prayer and Sermons V. HAVE you a fair Bible of the largest Volume and the last Translation allowed by Authority Have you a Book of common-Common-Prayer according to the last Act of Parliament for Vnisormity of publick Prayers Have you the Book of Homilies allowed by Authority the Book of Canons made in the Synod held in the Year of our Lord 1603. and the printed Table of the Degrées prohibited in Marriage VI. HAVE you a Parchment register-Register-Book to register the several Christenings Marriages and Burials which happen within your Parish Are they registred therein fairly and distinctly assoon as conveniently can be after the respective Offices performed by your Minister and is there a Transcript thereof returned once at least every year into the Ordinary's Publick Registry Have you a Book to set down the Names of such Strangers as preach in your Parish Have you a strong Chest with three Locks wherein to preserve your Church-Furniture and the like Alms-Box for the Poor Have you also a large and decent Surplice for your Minister to wear in his publick Ministrations VII IS your Church-yard sufficiently and well fenced Are there any encroachments or Nusances upon it Or have there any Trées belonging to it been cut down and by whom VIII IS your Parsonage or Vicarage-House and the Out-houses as also the Gardens Orchards and Fences belonging to the same in good sufficient repair Have you a true Terrar of all the Glebe-Lands Tenements and other Revenue whatsoever belonging to your Church and is there a true Copy of it brought into the Bishops Registry Have any of the ancient Glebe-Lands belonging to your Church béen encroached upon taken away or else exchanged without such consent of Parties and License as is required by the Law TIT. II. Enquiries concerning the Ministers of the Respective Parishes IS your Parson Vicar or Curate a Priest ordained according to the Laws of the Church and Kingdom Hath he béen legally instituted and inducted into his Benefice Did he within two Moneths after his Induction read the XXXIX Articles in time of Divine Service in your Church and publickly declare his Assent thereunto II. HATH he read the Book of common-Common-Prayer and declared publickly his Assent and Consent to the use of all things in that Book contained within the time limited and in the manner prescribed in the Act of Parliament last made for the Vniformity of Publick Prayer and Printed in the beginning of the Book of common-Common-Prayer And hath he publickly read in your Church a Certificate of his having subscribed a Declaration of the Vnlawfulness of taking up Arms against the King of his Conforming to the Liturgy of the Church and of his Disavowing the unlawful Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant within such time and in such manner as is further required by the said Act III. HATH he obtained or is he vehemently suspected to have obtained his Benefice by Money or other Simoniacal Compact Is he a man of sober chaste honest and peaceable Life Spare not to present him if he be in any way scandalous or of a Conversation not becoming a Minister of the Gospel IV. Doth he endeavour to keep and maintain Peace and Love among his Neighbors as much as in him lies Doth he also by discreet Applications according to his opportunities and Talent endeavour to reduce Popish Recusants Sectaries Separatists and refractory persons from their Errors offering himself or if he find not himself so able using the assistance of some Grave and Learned Divine of the Neighbourhood to conser with such in order to bring them into the bosom of the Church V. DOTH he in the Celebration of Divine Service Ministring the one and the other Sacrament Visiting the sick Burying the dead and in all other Rites and Offices of the Chureh use the whole Forms of Prayer prescribed by Authority without Omission Addition or Alteration More especially doth he read the Litany on every Sunday throughout the year at the Morning-Service Doth he read the Litany likewise on every Wednesday and Friday throughout the Year publickly in his Parish-Church Doth he perform all his Ministrations with Decency Gravity and Reverence wearing his Surplice with a Hood if he be a Graduate in the Vniversity as he is directed by Authority and the laudable Customes of the Church VI. DOTH he administer the Communion at least give notice of his readiness and desire to do it so often in the year that Devout people may not want opportunities to receive it at other times besides the usual solemn Festivals And doth he when he warnes a Communion on the Sunday or Holiday before read one of those

Exhortations as he sees cause which are fitted for that occasion in the last Edition of the common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book VII DOTH he administer Holy Baptism in publick and private as occasion requires with due Reverence observing in all Circumstances the Forms and Directions prescribed by the Church Is he watchful that no Infant in danger want it by his absence or delay Doth he earnestly exhort that Infants where weakness doth not hinder be brought to publick Baptism in the Church Doth he baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers Or doth he admit any person to answer as such that have not received the holy Communion VIII IS he ready and watchful to visit the sick upon all occasions of what Condition or Perswasion soever they be Doth he Pray with Comfort and Exhort them in such manner as best suits with their capacities and needs And does he offer them and give them his a ssistance as frequently as the weakness of their Condition will admit of him making up as much as lies in him all their breaches of Charity with others and exhorting such as are able to works of Piety and Relief for the Poor IX IS he sober painful and frequent in his Preaching And doth he being Licensed and having no Impediment preach one Sermon every Sunday in the Year in his own Cure or in some other near adjoyning not venting any thing in his Sermons that is new-fangled or seditious Doth he read some one of the Homilies appointed when there happens to be no Sermon And doth he read the Canons once a Year as is directed X. DOTH he teach the Church-Catechisme to the younger sort of his Parish upon each Lords Day in the Afternoon immediately after the Second Lesson in the Evening-Service causing some Children of both Seres especially those of his own Family if he have any such to answer audibly and to attend diligently such parts of the said Catechisme as he in his discretion shall see cause to inculcate to them or others Doth he give notice of all Fasting-days and Holidays on the Sunday before they happen And doth he go in Perambulation about your Parish using the Prayers and Thanksgiving accustomed in the Rogation-Week XI IS your Parson or Vicar Restdent upon his Benefice or if his Residence be Legally dispenced with is the Cure supplyed by a Curate that is approved of and licensed by the Bishop And hath such Curate a sufficient plentiful Allowance in proportion to the value of the Living And if he be Resident and keep a Curate doth he notwithstanding himself at least once a Moneth read Common-Prayer openly in your Church and take occasion himself to administer both the one and the other Sacrament not unfrequently among you XII HATH your Parson Vicar or Curate joyned any Couple in Marriage in any private house at an hour not Canonical or within the prohibited times But most especially hath he married any without having their Banns published thrée several Sundays or Holidays not having special License or Dispensation so to do XIII DOTH your Parish maintain a Lecturer Is he Licensed by the Bishop Hath he done in all things as is required by the Act of Parliament for Vniformity of Publick Prayers Doth he read the whole Service appointed for the Time of the Day upon the first Lecture-day of every Moneth wearing a Surplice Doth he teach any thing that is new-fangled or seditious tending to beget in the People a Di ike of the Government established or of those who are set over us either in Church or State TIT. III. Enquiries concerning the Parishioners HAve you any in your Parish who wilfully and without lawful Impediment absent themselves from your Church or Chappel not resorting to Divine Service and Sermons on every Lords Day and other Holidays appointed by Authority II. ARE there any that occupy themselves in their usual Trades or daily Labours on those days especially Vintners Victuallers and Alehouse-kéepers that minister to Tipling and Gaming in time of Divine Service to the great reproach of our Christian Profession III. DO your Parishioners behave themselves reverently Men and Youths being uncovered and giving due attention to all the parts of Divine Service and Sermon Are there any that do disturb Holy duties by talking walking going out of the Church or otherwise behaving themselves rudely and offensively IV. ARE there any above the age of sixtéen years in your Parish and especially such as have béen instructed in the Church Catechisme and confirmed by the Bishop that do not come to the Lords Supper partaking of it reverently thrée times in the Year at the least the Feast of Easter or the time thereabouts being one V. ARE there any in your Parish that kéep their Children unbaptized Are there any Parents or Masters of Families that resuse to send their Children or Servants to be instructed by your Minister in the Church-Catechisme every Sunday in the Afternoon Are there any Popish Recusants or Sectaries that kéep private Conventicles in their own Houses or elsewhere What are their Names that do offend in any of these Particulars VI. DO all Women that are safely delivered in Child-birth come to the Church in due time to partake in the Office of Thanksgiving appointed for such Occasions Do any in your Parish refuse to bury their dead according to the Rites of the Church of England Or have they carried them away to some other Place without Certificate from your Minister Present their Names that have offended herein VII ARE there any Wills or Testaments of Persons deceased in your Parish not proved or any Goods of Persons dying intestate administred without Lawful Authority Are there any Legacies given to your Church or other pious uses perverted or concealed What are those Legacies and by whom abused VIII ARE there any in your Parish that live in Adultery or Fornication Are there any Blasphemers of Gods Holy Name Depravers and Impugners of the Christian Religion or the publick Worship established by Law among us Common Swearers Common Drunkards Incestuous Persons Persons joyned in Marriage within the degrees prohibited Sorcerers or Resorters to Witches or Sorcerers TIT. IV. Enquiries concerning Church-Officers and other Persons I. HATH there any Stranger not Licensed to preach preached in your Church upon any occasion Have there any persons excommunicated béen buried in your Church or Church-Yard II. DOTH your Parish-Clerk or Sexton do his Duties diligently Is he of an honest Life and Conversation Is he full 21 years of Age Can he write and read Doth he bear his part in answering at the Hymns the Litany and other Responses in the Liturgy Hath he béen chosen by your Minister and is he paid the accustomed Wages and Dues of his Place III. DO any in your Parish teach any publick or private School or instruct the Child or Children of any Person in any Family not being duly Licensed thereunto Or being so Licensed doth he bréed up his Scholars religiously teaching them the Catechismes allowed by Authority IV. DO any in your Parish practise Physick or Chirurgery or the Office of a Midwife without the approbation and License of the Ordinary V. ARE you the Church-wardens chosen by the Consent of your Minister and Parishioners according to the use and custom of the Parish Have the last Church-wardens given up their Accompts and the Money if any remaining in their hands And are those Accompts allowed of and passed according to the custom and manner of the Parish VI. HAVE you or any of your Parish béen cited vexatiously or upon frivolous pretences into any Ecclesiastical Court or Consistory in this Diocese Have you or any other being to be examined as Witnesses in any Cause depending in the said Court and having Day set and assigned by the Iudge of the said Court for your Examination béen delaied or put off by the Examiner Have you or any your Parish paid any other or greater Fées at any time to any person belonging to the said Court then such as are allowed of by the Table of Fées ratified in the Year of our Lord 1597 Is the said Table set up in a convenient place for publick view in the Consistory-Court and in the Registers Office of this Diocese And have you or any other béen refused the Perusal or a Copy of the said Table Do you know of any Officer belonging to the said Court that does abuse his Place by Corruption Extortion by demanding Gratuities or Fées for Expedition or by any other way aggrieve and give just cause of complaint to his Majesties Subjects Present their Names and the Particulars wherein they have offended The Minister of the Parish may joyn with the Church-wardens and Side-men in the Presentment And if they omit or refuse to Present such Offenders as come within the Duty of their Enquiry the Minister himself may do it And know you all that as the free and zealous discharging your Consciences in this Duty will be a great means whereby Publick Disorders Sins and Offences may be reformed and punished so if you wilfully refuse to Present such Crimes and Faults as either you know or justly presume to have been committed the Guilt of that Refusal and its Consequences will lie upon your Souls and the Bishop and his Officers will be obliged to proceed against you according to Law Joh. Roffen THe Ministers of every Parish are defired to give in the Names of such of the younger Sort in their several Parishes as they judge fit to receive Confirmation from the Bishop and to Present them to be Confirmed especially such as having competently learned the Catechisme have not yet received the Holy Communion