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B08752	Articles of enquiry given by [his Right Reverend Father in God James Lord Bishop of Wort.] and delivered to the church- wardens, and side-men, to be considered and answered in his visitation, holden in the year of our Lord God.	Church of England. Diocese of Worcester. Bishop (1675-1683 : Fleetwood); Fleetwood, James, 1603-1683.	1680 (1680)	Wing C4009AC; ESTC R175783	5,097	18

Harvard College Library VERITAS FROM THE BEQUEST OF JOHN HARVEY TREAT OF LAWRENCE MASS CLASS OF 1862 ARTICLES OF ENQUIRY Given by the Right Reverend Father Fleetwodd in God famos Lord Bishop of Wort Worcester and delivered to the Church-Wardens and Side-men to be considered and answered in his Visitation holden in the Year of our Lord God 16●● C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE London Printed see a different Copy of A … y used by him at his visitation in 1676. The Oath to be Ministred to the Church-Wardens and Side-men YOU shall swear truly and faithfully to execute the Office of Church-warden within your Parish for the Year ensuing according to the best of your Skill and Knowledg and also present such things and persons as to your Knowledg are Presentable by the Laws Eccesiastical of this Realm So help you God ARTICLES OF ENQUIRY About the CHVRCHES and CHAPPELS And all things thereto pertaining IS your Parish Church or Chappel kept in good and sufficient Repair Are the Roofs Walls Pavements and Windows well Repaired And is the Church decently kept as befitteth the House of God Is your Church-Yard sufficiently fenced and maintained with Walls Rails or Pales as hath béen accustomed Or by whose fault are they decayed Hath any thing belonging to your Church been aliened embezelled or sold 2. Is there a Font of Stone for the Administration of Baptism in the usual place appointed for it And doth your Minister publickly Baptize in the same Font only Is there a convenient Table for the use of the Lords Supper Is there a Carpet of Silk or decent Stuff to lay upon the Table in time of Divine Service and a fair Linen Cloth to lay upon the same in the time of the Communion according to the eighty second Canon Have you a Communion Cup with a Paten for the Bread and is the Wine brought to the Communion Table in a clear standing Pot or Flagon of Pewter or of purer Metal 3. Have you a Reading Desk and Pulpit conveniently set up and placed for the use of publick Prayer and Sermons 4. Is there in your Church or Chappel the Common Prayer Book of the largest Volume according to the Act of Vniformity 1662. The Bible in Folio of the last Translation the Book of Homilies the Book of Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical made in the Synod 1603. And a Table of Degrees wherein Marriage is prohibited publickly set up in your Church And is there a decent Surplice for the Minister to wear at all times of his publick Ministration in the Church 5. Have you a Register Book in Parchment wherein to Register the Christenings Marriages and Burials in your Parish Is there a Book wherein to write down the Church-Wardens Accompts and a strong Chest with Locks and Keys wherein to preserve your Church Furniture and also for the Parishioners to put in their Alms for the relief of the Poor 6. 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 embezelling changing or any way damnifying the same Inquiries about the Clergy 1. IS your Parson or Vicar Ordained Priest according to the Order of the Church of England Or doth your Minister or his Curate not being so Ordained Priest consecrate the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper 2. Is your Minister legally Instituted and Inducted into his Benefice Did he within two Months after his Induction publickly in the Church upon some Sunday or Holy-day read the thirty nine Articles of the Church of England and declare his assent thereunto And also on some Lords-day read both Morning and Evening Prayer and after his reading publickly declare his unfeigned Assent and Consent to the use of the things contained in the Book of Common-Prayer And within three Months after his Induction on some Lords-day in your Parish Church read a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Arch-Bishop or Bishop of the Diocess of his Subscription to the Declaration required in the Act of Vniformity 3. Doth your Minister read the full Service according to the direction of the common-Common-Prayer Book on Sundays and Holy-days at Morning and Evening Prayer and in ministring the Sacraments solemnizing Matrimony burying the Dead and Churching of Women use all the Rites and the whole Forms of Prayers according as they are prescribed in the Common Prayer Book without omission alteration or addition Or doth he negligently or in contempt of the Order of the Church omit or add to the same 4. Doth he usually read the Book of Cannos once every Year and wear a Surplice in the time of his Ministration 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 And doth he diligently instruct the Youth of your Parish in the Church Catechism And doth he endeavour to prepare them to be Confirmed by the Bishop 6. Is your Minister constantly resident upon his Benefice Or how long hath he been absent And in case he be licensed to be absent whether doth he cause his Cure to be supplied by a sufficient and licensed Preacher And is your Curate conformable to the Ecclesiastical Laws 7. Doth your Minister or Curate read the Service appointed for the Fifth of November the Thirtieth of January and the Twenty ninth of May And doth he give notice upon the Sunday of the Holy-days and Fasting-days which will be the Week following and observe the yearly perambulation in Rogation Week 8. Doth your Minister or Curate celebrate the Lords Supper in the Church so often that every Parishioner may receive the same at least thrice in the year Doth he give warning of it and read the Exhortation the Sunday before that thereby the Parishioners may be stirr'd up to the worthy Receiving thereof Doth he deliver severally the Bread and Wine to every Communicant kneeling Doth he admit them to the Communion which be openly known to live in sin notorious without repentance or to have maliciously and openly contended with their Neighbours before they be reconciled And if he hath repelled any person from the Communion doth he give account to the Ordinary within fourtéen days after 9. Doth he Baptise such Infants of his Parish according to the Order of the Common Prayer as upon warning given before are brought upon Sundays or Holy-days to the Church And upon lawful summons doth he Baptize Infants at home in case of danger and necessity Or through his fault doth the Infant die unbaptized 10. Doth he neglect to visit the Sick at their Houses when he is required Doth he pray with them and exhort them to Faith and Repentance forgiveness of Injuries and liberality to the Poor and comfort them in their distress And doth he give them that profess sorrow for their sins the Holy Communion if they desire it 11. Doth he marry any

within the Degrées prohibited Or without Licence or Banes published thrée several Sundays or Holy-days in the Parishes where the Parties dwell Doth he Marry in any other place than in the Church Or not betwixt the lawful Hours of eight and twelve And doth he if the Banes have béen thrice asked Marry any under the age of twenty one years without their Parents or Guardians consent 12. Hath he taken upon him to appoint any publick or private Fasts Prophesyings or Exercises not appointed by Authority without Licence from the Bishop under his Hand and Seal first obtained Or doth he or any other person hold any Conventicles or Méetings in private Houses or elsewhere within your Parish for people of several Families to resort unto under pretence of Preaching or Praying 13. Doth your Minister write and record in your Register Book the Names of all persons Christned Married and Buried within your Parish with the day and year of such Christning Marringe and Burial And doth he with the Church-Wardens take care duly to send in a Transcript of the Register every year to be kept in the Bishops Registry 14. Is your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer a man of a sober unblameable and exemplary life and spares not to present him or them that are not every way examples of godliness If you have a Curate is he allowed by the Bishop under his Hand and Seal If you have a Lecturer is he licensed by the Bishop according to the Act of Vniformity And doth he read the full Divine Service of Common-Prayer once a month at the least And doth your Parson Vicar Curate and Lecturer to your best understanding preach sound Doctrine tending to the Edification of the people in knowledg and faith of Iesus Christ and obedience to Gods Command Or doth be Preach any heretical seditious or schismatical Doctrine derogating from the Glory of God and prejudicial to a pious life or tending to the disturbance of the publick peace and unity of Church or State If there be any such present them Inquiries concerning the Parishioners 1. IF there be any Persons that have offended by Fornication Adultery Incest Drunkenness or by common Swearing Ribaldry filthy Speaking or any other uncleanness and wickedness of life Sorcerers or resorters to Sorcerers you shall present all and every such Offenders 2. If there be any known to be hinderers of the Word of God to be read and sincerely Preached or of the Exeution of the Ecclesiastical Canons in force any Fautors of any Vsurped and Forein Power-taken away by the Laws of this Realm any Defenders of Popish Doctrine they are to be presented 3. Are there any Disturbers of Divine Service or Sermon by walking talking or otherwise Are there any that have stricken and quarrelled with any person in your Church or Church-Yard Do you Parishioners in time of Divine Service and Sermon behave themselves reverently Men and Youth uncovering their Heads do all kneel stand up make Answers in time of Divine Service as is appointed in the Rubricks of the Common Prayer Book Or are they publick Depravers of the Common Prayer and the Orders and Rites of the Church of England 4. Do all your Parishioners resort diligently to Service and Sermons in the Church on Sundays and other days appointed to be kept or Holy-days Do any commonly come but to some part or near or at the latter end of Divine Service or to the Sermon only Do they continue tipling and drinking during the Service and Sermon prophanely neglecting or despising the Duties of Religion Or do any separate from the publick Worship of God in their Parish Church and frequent unlawful Conventicles 5. Do any occupy themselves in their ordinary labour or permit their Servants so to do do they keep open their Shops and sell Wares on Sundays or otherwise prophane the said dayes contrary to the Orders of the Church of England Or do any Victuallers Inn-keepers Ale-house-keepers or others permit any to lie tipling in their Houses on those days 6. Are there any in your Parish being above sixteen years of Age and well instructed in Religion who do not receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at least thrée times in the Year of which Easter or thereabouts to be one Or is there any who refuse it Knéeling and from the Hand of their own Minister repairing for it to other Parishes and Ministers abroad 7. Are there any in your Parish who keep their Children unbaptized Are there any who cause them to be Baptized privately by any whom your Minister doth not allow or after any other Form and Manner than is prescribed by the L●turgy Or any that procure themselves to be Married privately or after any other manner than the Church prescribes Or any who being admonished refuse to send their Children and Servants to be Catechised or any who refuse to be Catechised 8. Are there any Women in your Parish who after their delivery from Child-birth have refused to make publick Thanksgiving to God according as is prescribed in the Common Prayer Book 9. Do your Parishioners bring their Dead to be buried according to the Order of the Church Or have any been carried away to some other place to be buried without the Ministers leave 10. Are there any who refuse to pay their Easter Offerings and Ecclesiastical Duties accustomed then to be paid Or that refuse to pay the Rates assessed on them for the repair of Your Church or Chappel or for the providing of Books Vtensils or necessary Ornaments or defraying such Charges as are by Law or Custom required 11. Are there any in Your Parish Married within the Degrées prohibited by the Laws of God Or any that being lawfully Married and not separated by course of Law do not co-habit together And do any with-hold the Stock of the Church or any Goods or Things given to Charitable Vses Inquiries concerning Church Officers and other Persons 1. DOth any kéep a publick or private School in Your Parish who is not licensed by the Bishop of the Diocess And doth he breed his Scholars religiously and teach them the Church Catechism 2. Have You a Parish Clerk of twenty Years of Age at the least Is he of honest life and conversation Is he chosen by Your Minister and sufficient for Reading and Singing Is he allowed by the Ordinary Are his and the Sextons Wages paid without fraud according to the Custom of your Parish or who with-holds them 3. Have you any Physician Chirurgion or Midwife that practise without Licence 4. Are the Church-Wardens of your Parish Yearly chosen according to the Canon or Custom of the Parish Have the late Church-Wardens given up a just Account delivering up to the Parishioners the Money remaining in their hands and other things of right belonging to your Church or Chappel Are the Alms of the Church faithfully distributed to the use of the Poor If any be faulty present them 5. If any Stranger come to preach in Your Church on any occasion you must demand to see his Licence to Preach and if he have none you must inhibit him from Preaching and if he has a Licence cause him to subscribe his Name in Your Book with the Name of the Bishop who licensed him 6. Is there provided against every Communion a sufficient quantity of fine white Bread and wholesome Wine according to the number of the Communicants by the Advice of your Minister And is the Wine brought to the Communion Table in a swéet standing Pot or Flaggon 7. Do you know or have you heard that the Church-Wardens or Side-men which were your immediate Predecessors have refused or neglected to do the duty of their Office during their time and wherein are they faulty 8. Do any persons trouble you for presenting any that offend in the Premises and who they are FINIS