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A79623	Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, according to the laws and canons of the Church of England Exhibited to the Church-wardens and sidemen of every parish within the diocess of Rochester. By the right reverend father in God, Iohn Lord Bishop of Rochester, at his visitation in the year of our Lord God, 1666.; Visitation articles. 1666	Church of England. Diocese of Rochester. Bishop (1637-1666 : Warner); Warner, John, 1581-1666.	1666 (1666)	Wing C4079D; ESTC R223897	5,055	11

ARTICLES OF VISITATION AND ENQUIRY Concerning Matters Ecclesiastical according to the Laws and Canons of the Church of ENGLAND EXHIBITED To the Church-wardens and Sidemen of every Parish within the Diocess of ROCHESTER By the Right Reverend Father in God IOHN Lord Bishop of ROCHESTER at his Visitation in the year of our Lord God 1666. LONDON Printed by Andrew Coe 1666. The Oath of the Church-wardens and Sidemen YOu shall swear that you shall diligently enquire and faithfully present all such persons that of late have been and now are within your Parish that have offended against any of these Articles given you in charge without favour or affection to any person whatsoever So help you God and the Contents of the holy Gospel Articles of Visitation and Enquiries exhibited to the Church wardens and Sidemen in the several Parishes of the Diocess of Rochester by the R●ght Reverend Father in God John Lord Bishop of Roches●er at his Visitation in the Year of our Lord 1666. Inquiries about the Church and Church-Yard 1. IS your Parish Church and Chancel decently kept for God honour Are the Roofs Walls Pavements and Windows well repaired Are the ten Commandements Lords Prayer and the Creed drawn out in fair Letters in convenient places and are the Kings Arms set up 2. Have you made levies for the reparation of the Church and other holy uses And are there any that refuse to pay the proportion layd upon them 3. Have you a Font of Stone decently covered standing towards the lower end of the Church for the Administration of Baptisme Have you a comely Table placed conveniently in Church or Chancel for the use of the Lords Supper Have you 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 have you a handsome Cup of Silver for your VVine and a cover of Silver to the same to put the Bread on And have you one or more Flaggons of Pewter or better mettal for that use 4. 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 5. Have you in your Church the common-Common-Prayer Books in folio last set forth by Authority and have you a Bible in folio fairly bound of King James's Translation Have you also a decent Surplice one or more for your Parson or Vicar Curate or Lecturer to wear in the time of all publick Ministrations and have you the Book of Homelies and a Table of Marriage 6. Are the Tombs Monuments Grave-stones of the Dead in your Church or Church-yard preserved and not suffered to be broken taken down or removed 7. Have you a Book of Parchment wherein be Registred the Christnings Marriages and Burials in your Parish Have you a strong Chest with three Locks wherein to preserve your Church Furniture and a Box for Almes placed in a fit place for the Relief of the Poor 8. 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 without imbezling changing or any way damnifying them 9. Is the Church-yard decently kept and well fenced to keep out Beasts 10. Have you a Terrier of your Glebe Lands belonging to your Minister Have any of the Glebe lands been changed for other lands Or by whom is the said Terrier brought into the Registry as the Law requires 11. Is your Church and Church-yard kept from profane or Lay use free from Meetings of people for having any civil Courts or Military Employments or keeping of VVakes about the same according as the Canon in that case prescribes Inquiries about the Parson Vicar Curate Lecturer 1. HAve the above-named received Episcopal Ordination according to the Laws of the Kingdome 2. Can you tell who did present your Parson or Vicar to his Benefice Have you heard or known that he came Symoniacally Was he iuducted 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 within one moneth after his Induction into the Benefice 3. Hath he read the Book of Common Prayer as it is enjoyned by the late Act of Uniformity for publick Prayer Administration of the Sacrament c. on some Sunday before the four and twentieth of August 1662 or in case of impediment allowed by the Ordinary hath he since performed the same And did and doth he wear the Surplice while he performed that Office other Offices mentioned in that common-prayer-Common-Prayer-book 4. Hath he published his consent unto the said book on some Sunday before the four and twentieth of August above named or within the time limited b● the said Act openly in time of Divine Service And hath he subscribed to the Decla●ation as it is exprest in the 77th page of the abovenamed Statute and manifested it to the Congregation openly 5. Doth he preach a Sermon on every Sunday or procure a Sermon then to be preached or else sometime read one of the Homilies which the Church hath appointed 6. Doth he read the Service appointed for the Fifth of November thirtieth of Ianuary twenty ninth of May and doth he keep the yearly Perambulation and Rogation days before the Feast of our Lords Ascension 7. If your Parson or Vicar keep a Curate Is he of a 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 8. Doth your Parish maintain a Lecturer Is he a virtuous and Orthodox Divine Is he Licensed by the Bishop Doth he read the full Divine Service of Common Prayer once a moneth as the least wearing a Surplioe 9. Doe you observe to your best understanding that your Parson Vicar Lecturer or Cure te do preach the true word of God or do they to their Judgment having consulted with other grave Parishoners 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 10. 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 the Infants of his Parish according to the Service of the common-Common-Prayer using the Cross and upon warning given before are they brought on Sundays or Holydays to the Church with Godfathers Godmothers and upon lawful Summons doth he Baptize them at home in case of danger and necessity 11. 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 professing faith in Christ and sorrow for their sins if they require it doth he exhort them to Brotherly love and works of Charity if they be able to bequeath a Portion to pious uses 12. Doth he prepare the young-men and Maidens of the Parish to be confirmed by the Bishops Doth he marry none clandestinely but at due hours in the Church and that upon Banes thrice published on Sundays and Holidays or License obtained from the Ordinary And doth he bury the dead according to the book of Common-Prayer 13. 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 14. Doth your Minister with the Church-wardens take care duly every year to send in the names of all such in his Parish as have been Baptized Married Buried Excommunicated that they may be inrolled in the Bishops Registry 15. 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 Separatists and Refractory persons to the obedience of the Doctrine and Government of this 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 16. Doth your Minister Catechise young people each Sunday in the afternoon as the Canon requires Doth the Parents and Masters of Families within your Parish send their Children and Servants to be Catechised by him Present those that refuse to do the same 17. Doth your Minister give notice each Sunday before what holiday doth ensue the week after that the Parishioners having notice may resort to Church upon those dayes Doth he also Read the book of Canons twice every year openly in the Church upon Sundayes as the Law requires 18. Is your Minister a non-Resident in his Benefice and how long hath he been so hath he more Benefices than one And doth he maintain an able Curate Licensed in the one as the Law prescribes Inquiries about the Parishioners DO all your Parishioners of due age resort the Divine Service and Sermons in your Church on Sundays and Holidays and on Wednesdays and Fridays in Lent according to Law 2. Do they or any of their Servants occupy them in bodily labours on Sundays or Holidays Do they open their Shops and sell Wares on those dayes Or do Vintners Victuallers Inn-keepers or others receive any into their houses to tipple and waste time idely on those dayes except they be travellers that are upon a journey in necessary occasions 3. Do your Parishioners in time of Divine Service Sermon or Homilies 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 kneel stand up make answers in time of Divine Service as you find it appointed in the Rubricks of the Common-Prayer-book 4. Are there any above the age of sixteen years in your Parish and especially that have been examined by your Master in the Catechisme before that do not come to the Lords Supper to partake it reverently upon their knees three times in the year at the least the Feast of Easter or the time thereabouts being one 5. Are there any in your Parish that keep their Children unbaptized Inquire diligently and return the Parents or Governours names the list of those Children by such names as you can learn 6. Do all Women as have been safely deliver'd come to the Church in due time to partake of the office of Thanksgiving after the Orders of the Common-Prayer and do such women pay their accustomed Duries 7. 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 buried in some other place whethat they be Lodgers or other strangers Do they first obtain leave of the Minister of the Parish usually frequent other Parish-Churches and absent themselves from their own 9. Are there any that keep private Conventicles in their houses or abroad which are resorted to by those that are known or suspected for Sectaries or any way disaffected to the present Government of the Church of England 10. Do your Parishioners pay their Tythes Easter-Offerings and accustomed duties called Vicarage-Tythes or by any other name to their Minister 11. Are there any Wills or Testaments of parsons dead in your Parish that are not provided by a lawful Judge Or do you know or hear of any goods administred without due grant from the Ordinary 12. VVhat Legacies have been given to Pious uses in your Parish wh●ch are utterly defrauded or not imployed to the right use according to the VVill of the Donor 13. Are your Seats and Pews in the Church decently kept And are the Parishioners placed in them without offence and contention have any built any Seat within the Church without licence of the Ordinary Present their names 14 Are there any incestuous persons or married persons within the degrees prohibited by Law Are any Adulteres Fornicators either in Fact or by common fame or report within your Parish Any blasphemers common swearers Drunkards or Sorcerers or Resorters to Witches or Sorcerers Present the same Inquiries about Church-Officers and other Persons 1. IF any Stranger come to preach in your Parish-Church or Chappel on Sundays or Holidays at Christnings Funerals Marriages or any other occasion Do the Church-wardens demand to see his Orders and License to preach which he had from the Bishop and if he can ●hew none do you inhabit him from preaching and enter the said ●●cense into the Registry as the Law requires 2. Do you suffer Excommunicated persons to be buried in any part of your Church or Church-yard 3. Doth your Parish-Clerk or Sexton if you have any such do their Duties obediently and dilige●tly Are they of honest life and conve●sation Is your Parish-Clerk duely chosen by the Minister And is he allowed by the Ordinary Can he write and read Doth he make Responsions to the Hymnes and other Suffrages of the Liturgy 4. Is there a School Publick or private in your Parish Is the Schoolmaster and Usher if he have one allowed by the Bishop of his Chancellor Doth he breed his Schoolars Religiously and doth he teach them the Church Carechisme 5. Have you any Physitian Chirurgeon or Midwise in your Parish that practise without Lycense 6. Are your Church-wardens duly chosen in the week after Easter-day and after the custom and manner of the Parish Do they take upon them the execution of their Office without being first sworn by the Ordinary as the Law requires 7. Have the Church wardens who are to surrender their places upon the Election of New ones given up their Accompts to the Parishioners and aae their Accompts allowed by the ordinary Or have they salsifyed their trust wherein and how much present the same 8. Also have your Church-wardens been diligent to repair the Church to keep it decent and comely Have they preserved the Font for Baptisme sit and handsome for that use Likewise have they looked carefully to the Cummunion-Table to the Plates and all Utensils belonging to it And have they provided such sine whit● Bread good VVine as was fit for the Sacrament according ●y advice taken with the Minister Let the Church-wardens and Sidemen diligently with the advice of their Minister what answers they will and can give to all these particulars setting the fear of God and the good of his Church before their eyes FINIS