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A32949	Articles of visitation and enquiry, concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the arch-deaconry of Gloucester, in the first visitation of the Arch-Deacon	Church of England. Diocese of Gloucester. Bishop (1660-1672 : Nicholson); Nicholson, William, 1591-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing C4045; ESTC R40823	9,808	16

ARTICLES OF VISITATION and ENQVIRY Concerning Matters Ecclesiastical EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-men of every Parish within the Arch-deaconry of Gloucester In the First VISITATION OF THE ARCH-DEACON LONDON Printed for William Leak at the Sign of the Crown in Fleet street near the two Temple-Gates 1663. The Form of the Oath to be administred to the Church-Wardens and Side-men of every Parish YOU shall swear That upon due and faithful enquiry you will make a true answer unto every Article in this Book now given you in charge all affection favor hatred hope of reward gain fear of displeasure laid aside And present every person that now is or of late was inhabiting within your Parish that hath committed any offence or omitted any duty therein mentioned neither presenting or sparing to present any person contrary to truth And this you shall do as in the sight of God uprightly truly and impartially So help you God Articles of Visitation and Enquiry within the Archdeaconry of GLOUCESTER SECT 1. Concerning MINISTERS I. IS your Parsonage or Vicarage void and destitute of a Minister or Curate how long hath it béen void and who is known or accounted to be the rightful Patron thereof II. IS your Minister a Priest or Deacon Ordained by some Bishop according to the known Lawes of the Church of England III. IS he Defamed or suspected to have obtained either Holy Orders or his Benefice by Contract or Simony And HATH he béen lawfully instituted and inducted into his Benefice as you know or believe and did he within Two Months after his Induction openly on some Sunday in the time of Divine Service in the Parish Church of his Benefice read the 39. Articles of Religion of the Church of England established by Authority and there Publickly declare his Assent to every one of them and did he openly and publickly before the Congregation according to the Act of Parliament declare his unfeigned Assent and Consent to all things in the Book of common-Common-Prayer contained and prescribed in these words and no other I A. B. do hereby declare my unfeigned Assent and Consent to all and every thing contained in and by the Book intituled The Book of common-Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form or Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons IV. HATH he any other Ecclesiastical Benefice Prehend or Dignity is he constantly Resident upon his Benefice amongst you how many wéeks in any one year hath he béen absent from it without urgent Necessity allowed by the Bishop of the Diocess V. IF your Minister hath a Curate to assist him is the said Curate in Holy Orders an able Or hodor and Discréet Person and Conformable to the Lawes and Orders of the Church of England is he Licensed by the Bishop to serve in your Church or Chappel and doth be serve in any Church beside VI. DOTH your Minister read the whole Common-Prayer distinctly and reverently every Sunday and Holyday and observe the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in that Book of common-Common-Prayer at Morning and Evening Service Administration of the Holy Sacraments Celebration of Marriage Churching of Women after Childbirth Visitation of the Sick Burial of the Dead and pronouncing Gods Commination against Sinners use the Form and Words prescribed in the Book of common-Common-Prayer without any Addition Diminution or Alteration of the same and doth he use all such Rites and Ceremonies in all parts of Divine Service as are appointed in the said Book VII WHETHER your Minister after he hath Consecrated the Bread and Wine at the Communion Table doth first receive it himself and deliver both the Bread and Wine to every Communicant severally and give Notice publickly in the Church at Morning Prayer the Sunday before for the better preparation of the Parishoners and doth he admit to the Communion any notorious Sinner before Repentance or such as refuse to knéel or deny to be present at publick Prayers VIII DOTH your Minister at the Reading or Celebrating any Solemn or Divine Office in your Church or Chappel wear the Surplice or being a Graduate doth he wear a Hood according to the Order of the Vniversities agréeable to his Degrée IX DOTH he also observe the Holydayes and Fasting-dayes and also the Ember Weeks and the yearly Perambulation in Rogation Week and doth he give Notice to his Parishoners of every the same Duties in the Church in the time of Divine Service upon the Sunday next before X. HATH your Minister béen Licensed to Preach by the Bishop or either of the Two Vniversities or by any other lawful Authority doth he then constantly unless in Case of Sickness necessary Absence or other reasonable Impediment himself Preach in your Church or Chappel one Sermon every Sunday XI DOTH he in his Sermons four times in the Year at least Declare the Kings Majesties Power within His Realms to be the Highest Power under God to whom all People within the same owe Loyalty and Obedience and that all Forrain Power is justly taken away XII DOTH you Minister every Lords Day and Holyday before Evening Prayers for the space of half an houre at least hear the Youth and ignorant People of your Parish repeat the Catechism set down in the Book of common-Common-Prayer and in the time of Evening Prayer after the Second Lesson Instruct them and Expound to them some part of the said Catechism and doth he prepare and at fitting times Present them being so Instructed to be Confirmed by the Bishop and doth he endeavour to Reclaim all Popish Recusants and other Sectaries if any such inhabit in your Parish to the true Religion established in the Church of England and to their bounden Duty in obeying the Lawes and submitting to the Government thereof XIII DOTH your Minister or Curate neglect to Visit the Sick or delay the Baptism of any Infant that is in danger of death is there in your Parish any Child past Infancy or other person of more years through your Ministers default or otherwise yet remaining unbaptized in your Parish doth he Baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers who have not first received the Communion or admit either of the Parents to be Godfather or Godmother to their own Children XIV DOTH he in his Sermons Preach sound Doctrine tending to the Edification of the People in the Knowledge and Faith of Jesus Christ and in Obedience to Gods Holy Commandment or hath he at any time as you know or have heard held Conventicles or secret Méetings tending to the Depraving of the Common-Prayer and established Government of the Church or Preached any False Heretical Seditious or Schismatical Doctrine tending to the Breach of the Unity of the Church and with intent thereby to draw the People into Parties and Factions to

the disturbance of the publick Peace and Unity either of Church or State XV. HATH your Minister presumed to Marry any persons in private Houses or elsewhere out of the Church or hath he Married any who being under the Age of Twenty one Years have not had the Consent of their Parents or without Banes first duly published on thrée Sundayes or Holy-dayes in the Church unless he had a sufficient Licence or Dispensation so to do or if he had hath he Married at any other houres than betwéen Eight and Twelve in the Morning or any times of the Year prohibited by the Law XVI DOTH any person Preach in your Parish as a Lecturer hath he Allowance from the Bishop for so doing doth he before his Lecture read Divine Service according to the Book of common-Common-Prayer and is he Conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England and in his Prayer before Sermon doth he observe that Order that is prescribed in the 55. Canon of Ecclesiastical Constitution XVII HATH your Minister taken upon him to appoint any publick or private Fasts Prophecyings or Exercises not appointed by Authority doth he or any other either Minister or Lay-person hold any Conventicles or Méetings in private Houses or other places within your Parish for people of several Families to resort unto under the pretence of Preaching Praying Thanksgiving or Humiliation contrary to the Lawes and Canons in that Case provided XVIII IS there any Curate or Minister imployed under the Parson or Vicar of your Parish is he Admitted and Licensed to serve in that Office by the Bishop of the Diocese and is your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer a man of a Sober Honest and Exemplary Life or doth he familiarly Converse with Vngodly Vitious or Excommunicate persons is he a Frequenter of Taverns or Alehouses a common Gamester at Cards Dice Tables or any other unlawful Games a profane or obscene Jester a Swearer Railer Scoffer or Quarreller doth he set Neighbours at variance one with another or incourage them to Sutes and Contentions is he noted to be an intemperate Drinker or vehemently suspected of Incontinency with any person either within your Parish or without or doth he follow any base or servile Labour whereby he is scandalous to his Function or Ministry XIX Lastly IS any such Ministers Apparrel grave and decent both for Fashion and Colour as the Canons of the Church do require or doth he wear his Hair of an immoderate or unbeséeming length or do you in any other kind whatsoever find and know his Carriage and Conversation to be disorderly or scandalous and unbeséeming a Minister of Jesus Christ SECT 2. Concerning as well Churches and Chappels with the Ornaments and Furniture thereunto belonging as also Church-yards or Grounds set apart for Burial I. IS your Parish-Church or Chappel or any part thereof converted and employed to profane secular or common uses and what are those uses and who they are that so employ them II. IS your Parish-Church or Chappel and Chancel kept in good and sufficient Repair are the Roofs thereof well covered with Lead Tile or Slate Windows well glazed well ●eised within the Floors well paved the Seats well fastned and conveniently well placed and all things so decently ordered as becometh the House of God without any thing noysome or unséemly and are the Seats of your Church in good Repair and the Parishoners orderly set or is there any contention or striving for any Seat or place among them what are their Names III. HATH the Stéeple or Towre of your Church or Chappel or any part thereof béen pulled down or have any of the Lead or Bells formerly belonging thereunto been imbezelled sold or made away or removed to some other Church in whose hands or custody doth the same or any part thereof remain Declare what you know or have heard herein IV. IS there a Font of Stone with a good Cover thereunto standing in a convenient place towards the lower part of your Church for the Administration of Baptism and is there in your Chancel a decent Communion Table for the Administration of the Lords Supper covered with a Carpet of Silk Stuffe or fine woollen Cloth in time of Divine Service and another Covering of white and pure linnen to spread thereupon at the Administration of the Sacrament and have you a Plate or Paten and a fair Communion-Cup or Chalice with a Cover of Silver and one or more Flagons of Silver or Pewter thereunto belonging have none of these things béen purloyned destroyed or made away or if they have who did it and what was the value V. WHETHER in your Church the partition between the Body of the Church and Chancel is taken away how long since or by whom VI. HAVE you in your said Church or Chappel a convenient Seat or Pew for your Minister to read Divine Service in a Pulpit with a comely Cloth or Cushion for the same a Bible of the last Translation in a large Volume and two Books of common-Common-Prayer of the latest Edition set forth by Authority of this present Parliament both of them well and substantially bound have you the Books and Forms of Divine Service set forth for the Fifth of November the Thirtieth of January and the Twenty ninth of May have you likewise the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority a Book of Canons and Conctitutions Ecclesiastical and a printed Table of the Degrées of Consanguinity and Affinity within which Marriage is prohibited and void in Law hanging in some convenient place in your Church VII HAVE you a comely large Surplice for the Minister to wear at the times of his Publick and Solemn Ministration in the Church provided and to be duly washed at the Charge of the Parish VIII HAVE you a Register-book of Parchment wherein ought to be Registred the Names and Sirnames of all such persons as are Married Christened or Buried within your Parish together with the Names and Sirnames of both the Parents of the Children so Christened expressing the Day Month and Year of all such Marriages Christenings and Burials and is the Transcript thereof yearly within one Month next after the Twenty fifth of March duly brought into the Bishops Registry IX HAVE you likewise another Book of Paper wherein to Record the Names and Licences of all such Strangers as are admitted at any time to Preach in your Church or Chappel as also a Third Book wherein to enter and write down the Church-wardens Accounts together with a strong Chest with Locks and Keyes wherein to keep the aforesaid Books and all other the aforementioned Vtensils and Furniture in safe Custody and have you a convenient Bier for the Burial of the Dead X. Lastly IS your Church-yard and Ground set apart for Burials sufficiently mounded and fenced with Walls Rails or Pales and decently kept from the Annoyance of Swine and other Cattel hath any person incroached upon the ground of the Church-yard or mifused it to profane or common uses

or made any Door into it out of his own Ground or Habitation without Allowance from the Ordinary have any Trees there growing been cut down how long since by whom and to whose use and benefit SECT 3. Concerning the House Gleabs and Tythes belonging to Churches and Ministers I. IS the House of your Parson Vicar or Curate with all the Out-houses thereto belonging kept in good and sufficient Repair or have any of the said Houses béen defaced or pulled down by any private person and by whom what is the value as you think in your Consciences hath any person incroached upon any Garden Yard or Close belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage-house or cut up any Trées growing thereon or changed or removed the ancient Marks and Bounds of the same II. HAVE you a true and perfect Terrier of all the Glebe-lands Gardens Orchards Tenements or Cottages belonging to Parsonage or Vicarage as also a Note of such Pensions Rates Tythes and portions of Tythes or other yearly profits either within or without your Parish as belong thereunto have any of the same béen with-held from your Minister and by whom as you know or have heard is this Terrier kept in your Vestry and a Copy of it delivered into the Bishops Registry III. HAVE any of the Ancient Glebe-lands belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage been taken away or exchanged for others without the frée Consent of the Incumbent and License from the Ordinary when and by whom were they so taken away or exchanged and not imployed to the right uses SECT 4. Concerning the Parishoners I. IS there in your Parish any person a known or reputed Heretick or Schismatick any Papist Familist Anabaptist Quaker or other Sectary that refuse to come unto the publick Assemblies Prayers or Services of the Church or that make Profession of any other Religion than what is established in the Church of England impugning the Kings Majesties Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiastical the Form of Gods Worship contained in the Book of common-Common-Prayer and Administration of the Holy Sacraments II. IS there any person in your Parish that lieth under the accusation of a common fame or vehement suspition of adultery fornication or incest or that harbor such incont●nent lewd persons in their houses 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 Neighbours III. WHETHER any in your Parish have irreverently abused your Minister or have laid any violent hands upon him or disgraced his Office and Ministry by words or déeds IV. HAVE you any in your Parish that profane or mispend the Lords day or any part of that day by an offensive Conversation or by following their servile Trades or Imployments or appoint or permit their servants or children so to do are upon those dayes any shops kept open or wares sold or do then any Vintners Inne-kéepers or other Victuallers and Sellers of Beer or Ale suffer any persons to Tipple or Game in their Houses Declare the names of the Offendors herein V. DOTH every person inhabiting or sojourning within your Parish having no lawful Lett duly Resort unto your Church or Chappel upon every Sunday and Holyday appointed for Divine Service do they then and there abide quietly with Reverence Order and Decency during the time of Common-Prayer Prayer Preaching or other Service of God there used and are there any among you that forbear to partake of the Common-Prayers of the Church and forbear to come upon His Majesties Proclamation and come only to the Preaching Specifie the Names of those that you know to be faulty herein VI. DOTH every person coming to Church Reverently uncover his Head and so continue all the time of Divine Service in the Church do they all Reverently knéel at the Prayers and stand up when the Créed and Gospel are read VII ARE there any in your Parish that refuse or wilfully neglect to send their Infant-children to be Baptized publickly in the Church unless in tase of urgent Danger in which case the Child may be Baptized at home by a lawful Minister according to the Form and Rites appointed in the Liturgy or do they send them to be Baptized in any other Parishes or after other Form than is appointed and are there any Infants or more aged persons in your Parish as yet unbaptized VIII DOTH every Housholder in your Parish cause their Children and Servants ignorant in the Principles of Religion to learn the Catechism set forth in the Common-Prayer-Book and upon notice from the Minister send them to him to give an Account thereof when be shall require it of them openly in the Church upon Sundayes and Holydayes as in the Rubrick of the Common-Prayer-Book is appointed to the intent that being well instructed in the same they may be capable to be Confirmed by the Bishop and are they sent and brought to the Bishop for that end IX IS there any person in your Parish who being Sixteen years of Age and well instructed in Religion doth not receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at least three times in the Year of which Easter is alwayes to be one and do any of your Parish refuse to receive the same kneeling or from the hand of your Minister repairing for it to other Parishes and Ministers abroad or are there any Strangers not of your Parish that forsake their own Church and usually Repair to yours for it X. HAVE you any among you that he denounced and declared Excommunicate for any crime committed for how long time have they continued so Excommunicated and do any of your Parish not being of the same Family usually kéep society with them before they be reconciled to the Church Absolved XI ARE there any living in your Parish who have béen Married together contrary to the Lawes of God and within the Degrées forbidden or any persons that being lawfully divorced or rather separated from Bed and Board have both parties being living one or both Married to some other or be there any that being lawfully Married not separated or divorced by course of Law do not dwell together as man and wife XII ARE there any Married Women in your Parish who after their delivery from the peril of Child birth refuse or omit to make their publick Thanksgiving in the Church and when they repair to Church so to do do they then and there offer the accustomed Offerings XIII ARE there any belonging to your Parish who refuse to pay their Duty for Easter-Offerings to your Minister or any that refuse to contribute and pay the Rate assessed upon them for the Repair of your Church or Chappel for Bread and Wine used in the Holy Communion and for such Books Furniture and Ornaments provided and bought as be requisite for the performance of all Divine Offices there XIV DO any of your Parishoners refuse to Bury their Dead according