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A32950	Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and sidemen of every parish within the arch-deaconry of Gloucester, in the visitation of the Arch-Deacon	Church of England. Diocese of Gloucester. Bishop (1660-1672 : Nicholson); Nicholson, William, 1591-1672.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4047; ESTC R40824	4,806	11

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 VISITATION OF THE ARCH-DEACON London Printed 1665. The Form of the Oath to be administred to the Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish YOU shall Swear That you will faithfully present to all the Articles given you in charge at this VISITATION according to your best knowledge and ability So help you God Articles of Visitation within the Arch-deaconry of GLOUCESTER SECT 1. Concerning MINISTERS I. IS your Parsonage or Vicaridge void of a Minister or Curate II. IS your Minister a Priest or Deacon ordained by a Bishop III. HATH your Minister subscribed and declared publickly his unfeigned assent and consent to all things contained and prescribed in the Book of common-Common-Prayer according to the Act of Vniformity in the words there set down IV. IS your Minister constantly resident upon his Cure V. IF your Minister hath a Curate to assist him is the said Curate in Holy Orders and is he Licensed by the Bishop of the Diocess VI. DOTH your Minister and Curate when either of them do Officiate read the whole Common-Prayer distinctly and reverently appointed to be read on all Sundays and Holy-dayes at Morning and Evening Service and doth he observe the Orders Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in that Book of common-Common-Prayer in all Administrations of the Holy Sacraments Celebration of Marriage Churching of Women after Childbirth Visitation of the Sick Burial of the Dead and pronouncing of Gods commination against Sinners Doth he read the Letany without addition diminution or alteration of the same or in any part of Divine Service prescribed in the foresaid Book VII DOTH your Minister give notice of the Sacrament and read the Exhortation prescribed to be read on the Sunday before the day he shall appoint to administer the Sacrament as it is appointed by the Book of common-Common-prayer and doth he admit to the Sacrament any person that doth not kneel VIII DOTH your Minister or Curate wear a Surplice and being a Graduate wear a Hood agreeable to his degrée in the celebration of Divine Offices in the Church or Chappel IX DOTH your Minister preach one Sermon every Sunday or read an Homily X DOTH your Minister 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 obedience XI HATH your Minister preached any False Heretical or Seditious Doctrine XII HATH your Minister married any persons in private houses or any being under the age of twenty one years without the consent of Parents or without Banes first duly published on three Sundayes or Holy dayes in the Church unless he had a sufficient Licence or Dispensation so to do XIII DOTH your Minister upon every Sunday and Holyday for some good space before Evening Prayer hear the Youth and ignorant persons of your parish repeat the Catechism set down in the Book of common-Common-Prayer and after the second Lesson instruct them and expound to them some part of the same Catechism doth he labour to reduce Recusants and Sectaries to the Church XIV DOTH he Baptise any person without Godfathers and Godmothers or admit any to be Godfathers and Godmothers who cannot give an account of their Christian Religion according to the Church Catechism XV. DOTH any Minister preach in your parish as a Lecturer without License from the Bishop and 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 XVI DOTH your Minister or other Lay-person hold any Conventicles or private Meetings in any Houses or other places in your parish XVII IS your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer a man of a sober honest and exemplary life Is he vehemently suspected or guilty of any scandalous Vice Is he contentious and ready to set neighbours at variance and to encourage suits and contentions SECT 2. Concerning Churches and Chappels with the Ornaments thereto belonging and also Church yards I. IS your Parish Church or Chappel and Chancell kept in sufficient repair well covered and roofed and all things in it and about it so decently ordered as becomes the house of God Are your Steeple and Bells in such order as they ought to be Is no part of your Church or Chappell converted to prophane Vses II. HAVE you a Font of Stone with a convenient cover thereto standing in a convenient place in the lower part of the Church for the Administration of Baptism III. IS there in your Chancel a decent Communion Table covered with a Carpet of Silk Stuff or fine Woollen Cloth in time of Divine Service and another covering of fine white Linnen to spread on it at the administration of the Sacrament and have you a Plate or Paten and a fair Communion Cupp or Chalice with a Cover of Silver or one or more Flaggons of Silver or Pewter set apart for that purpose and are they used by any to any other common use IV. HAVE you in your Church or Chappell a convenient Pew and Desk for your Minister to read Divine Service in A Pulpit with a comely Cloth and Cushion for the same A Bible of the last Translation in a large Volume well bound Have you two Books of common-Common-prayer of the latest Edition set forth by Authority of this present Parliament 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 also the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority Have you a Book of Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical Have you a Printed Table of the Degrees of Consanguinity and Affinity wherein Marriage is prohibited and void in Law hang d in a convenient place in your Church V. HAVE you a fair large Surplice which is to be provided and washed at the charge of the Parish and which your Minister is to use and wear in the time of Divine Service and Administration of the Sacraments VI HAVE you a Register Book of Parchment and are therein Registred the Names and Sirnames of all such persons that are Married Christned or Buryed within your Parish together with the Names and Sirnames of both the Parents of the Children so Christned Are therein expressed the Day Moneth and Year of all such Marriages Christnings and Burials and is the Copy thereof written in parchment within one Moneth after the 〈◊〉 fifth of March yearly brought into the Bishops Registry VII H●VE you another Book of paper to write down the Church 〈◊〉 accounts and the names and Licenses of strangers as are admitted to preach in your Parish Church or Chappel VIII HAVE you a strong Chest with Locks and Keyes wherein to keep the foresaid Books with all other Vtensils and Furniture of your Church in safe custody And have you a convenient Bier for the Buriall of

the Dead IX IS your Churchyard set apart for Buriall of the Dead sufficiently mounded and fenced with Walls Rails or Pales and decently kept from Annoyance of Swine and other Cattle and are your Dead buryed there or within the Church SETC. 3. Concerning the Houses Gleabs and Tythes belonging to Churches and Ministers I. IS the House of your Parson or Vicar with all Out-houses belonging to it kept in sufficient reparation or hath any part thereof been pulled down by any private person Hath any man encroached upon any Garden Orchard Yard Close belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarige cut any Trees growing thereon II. HAVE you a true Terrier of all the Glebe Lands Gardens Orchards or Tenements belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarige and is this Terrier kept in your common Chest and a copy of it delivered into the Bishops Registry III. HAVE any of the antient Glebe Lands belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarige been taken away or exchanged for others without the free consent and license of the Ordinary if so declare when and by whom as also what Tythes Rates portions of Tythes Pensions or yearly profits are detained from your Minister SECT 4. Concerning the Parishioners I. IS there in your Parish any person known or reputed to be an Heretick or Schismatick Any Papish Familist Anabaptist Quaker or other Sectary that refuse to come to Divine Service established in the Church of England Is there any that impugn the kings Supremay in Causes Ecclesiastical or the Book of common-Common-prayer II. IS there in your Parish any that lyes under a faine or vehement suspicion of Adultery Incest or Fornication Any that harbour such incontinent persons Are there any common Drunkards common Swearers any Blasphemers of Gods Word or his holy Name Any Deboist persons any Sowers of Rebellion Sedition Faction and Discord among Neighbours within your parish III. HAVE you any in your parish that prophane and mispend the Lords Day by opening their Shops trading buying or selling Do ●ny Vintners Victuallers Alehouse-keepers suffer any persons to tipple or game in their houses on that Day Declare the names of the Offendors herein IV. DO all the persons of your parish having no lawful impediment duely resort to your Church or Chappel upon Sundayes and Holy dayes Do they there abide quietly with Reverence Order and Decency during all the time of Divine Service Or is there any in your parish that forbear to partake of the Common-Prayer present the names of the faulty V. DOTH every person coming to Church reverently uncover his head and so continue all the time of Divine Service knéel at the receiving the Communion and at prayers stand up at the Créed and when the Gospel is read VI. ARE there any in your parish that refuse or wilfully neglect to send their Infant-children to be baptized in the Church unless in case of necessity or urgent danger or do they send them to be baptized in other parishes or after other form then is appointed Or are there any Infants or more aged persons in your parish Vnbaptized VII ARE there any in your parish that on Sundayes or Holy-dayes do not send their children and servants to the Church to be Catechized by the Minister VIII ARE there any in your parish who being fiftéen years of age and well instructed and prepared do not receive the Lords Supper frequently knéeling from the hand of the Minister Or is there any that repair for it to other parishes Or do any of other parishes forsaking their own Church repair to yours for that end IX ARE there any in your parish that being lawfully married and not separated or divorced by due course of Law do not dwell together as Man and Wife ought X. ARE there any married Women in your parish who after their delivery from the peril of Child-birth refuse to make their publick Thanksgiving in the Church and when they repair to Church so to do do they then and there offer their accustomed Offerings XI ARE there any in your parish that refuse to pay their Easter-offerings to the Minister or that refuse to pay the rate assessed upon them for the repair of your Church or Chappell or for Bread and Wine used in the Holy Communion or for such Books Ornaments and Vtensils as are requisite for the performance of Divine Offices there XII Do any of your parish refuse to bury their Dead according to the Form and Order of the Church of England XIII ARE there any Wills or Testaments of persons dead in your parish concealed or not yet proved or my goods of persons dying Intestate administred without due grant from the Ordinary XIV DID any dying in your parish or elsewhere leave any Legacy to your Church or to the poor or to any other pious and charitable use Declare what those Legacies were and how they have been bestowed or in whose hands they are detained XV. DO you know any persons that have presumed to brawle fight quarrell or strike one the other in your Church Chappel or Church-yard if such present their Names SECT 5. Concerning Church-wardens and Sidemen I. ARE the Church wardens of your parish yearly and duly chosen by the consent of your Minister and Parishioners or one of them by your Minister and the other by the Parishioners in defect of their joint consent II. HAVE the former and last Church-wardens given up their just accompts to the parish and delivered up to the succeeding Church-wardens the moneys remaining in their hands together with all other things belonging to your Church or Chappell III. DO you against every Communion provide a sufficient quantity of fine white Bread and of good Wine according to the advice and direction given you by your Minister for the number of Communicants SECT 6. Concerning Parish Clerks and Sextons I. HAVE you a sufficient Parish Clerk that can perform his duty in Reading and Answering and Singing and doth attend in all Divine Services and is his wages duly paid him II. DOTH he or the Sexton if you have one diligently lock and open your Church doors at due times Doth he keep your Church or Chappel clean Doth he toll and ring the Bells at the accustomed hours before Divine Service SECT 7. Concerning Hospitals Schools and Schoolmasters I. IS there any Hospital School or Almshouse founded in your Parish if so who was the Founder and what is the yearly Revenue and whether is the yearly Stipend paid to the Schoolmaster II. DOTH any man keep a publick or private School in your Parish Is he licensed and allowed thereto by the Bishop or Chancellor Is your Schoolmaster of sound Religion and good Life Doth he teach his Schollars the Catechism set forth in the Common-Prayer Book Doth he cause his Schollars upon Sundayes and Holydayes orderly to repair to your Church or Chappel and see that they behave themselves quietly and reverently all the time of Divine Service and Sermon FINIS