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A79596	Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical Exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens and side-men, of every parish, within the diocess of Exeter, at the primary visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Jonathan, by divine permission, Lord Bishop of Exeter, in the year of our Lord, 1689.; Visitation articles. 1689	Church of England. Diocese of Exeter. Bishop (1689-1707 : Trelawny); Trelawny, Jonathan, Sir, 1650-1721.	1689 (1689)	Wing C4043A; ESTC R225622	5,555	16

The Charge of the Church-wardens and Side-men HAving received a Copy of this Book you are required to repair to your Minister to hear all these Articles duly and deliberately read over to you duly and diligently to consider of them and by his Advice and if need be with his Concurrence to Present all and every such Person or Persons of your Parish as have committed any Offence or made any Default mentioned in these Articles or any of them or which are vehemently suspected for the same Wherein you are to deal uprightly and impartially all Affection and Favour all Hatred and Malice all hope of Reward or Advantage and fear of Displeasure set aside Signing such your Presentments with your Hands The Form of their Oath YOu shall Swear Truly and Faithfully to Execute the Office of Church-warden according to the best of your Skill and Knowledge So help you God. ARTICLES OF Visitation and Enquiry Concerning Matters ECCLESIASTICAL EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-Men of every Parish within the Diocess of Exeter At the Primary VISITATION OF THE Right Reverend Father in GOD JONATHAN By Divine Permission LORD Bishop of EXETER In the Year of our Lord 1689. LONDON Printed MDCLXXXIX ARTICLES OF Visitation and Enquiry Within the DIOCESS of EXETER TIT. I. Concerning Churches and Chappels the Fabrick Furniture and Ornaments thereof 1. IS your Parish-Church or Chappel kept in good and sufficient Repair Are the Utensiles and Ornaments fairly kept and preserved from Spoil Abuse and Prophanation And all things so decently ordered as becometh the House of God 2. Hath the Steeple or Tower or any other part of your Church or Chappel been pull'd or fallen down Or have any of the Bells Lead or other Materials or Utensiles formerly belonging thereunto been Imbezelled sold or made away And by whom 3. Is there a decent Font of Stone fixed in the Ancient and usual Place in the lower part of the Church for the Administration of Holy Baptism and a comely Table for the Holy Communion placed in the Chancel where it ought to be with a Carpet of some decent Stuff and a fair Linnen Cloath to cover it at the time of the Administration of the Holy Eucharist And have you a fair Chalice or Communion-Cup with a Coves and a Plate or Paten for the Bread and a Flaggon for the wine to be used in the Holy Communion And are they used in these Holy Services only 4. 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 Cloath and Cushion a Bible of the last Translation in a large Volume and a Book of Common-Prayer Established by the late Act of Vniformity Have you likewise the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority A Book of Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical first set forth in the Year of our Lord 1603. by the King's Authority And a Printed Table of the Degrees wherein Marriage is Prohibited 5. Have you a comely large Surplice for the Minister to wear at all times of his publick Ministration in the Church provided and Washed at the Charge of the Parish 6. Have you a Register-Book of Parchment wherein the Names and Sir-names of all Persons Married Christened or Buried within your Parish are duly Registered from time to time Have you likewise another Book of Paper wherein are duly Recorded the Names and Licenses of all such Strangers as are admitted at any time to Preach in your Church or Chappel As also a third Book wherein are Entred the Church-wardens Accompts for every Year 7. Have you a Chest or Coffer wherein to keep the aforesaid Books and all the aforesaid Furniture in safe Custody And another with a Hole in the upper part thereof placed in the most convenient part of the Church that the Parishioners may put their Alms into it And are both the said Chests secured with three several Locks and Keys one Key remaining with the Minister and the other two with the Church-wardens severally TIT. II. Concerning the Church-yard the Houses and Glebes the Tithes and other Dues belonging to the Church 1. IS your Church-yard sufficiently Fenced and Decently kept from all Prophanation and Encroachment Hath any Person made any Door into it out of his own House or Ground Who and how long since 2. Is there a House belonging to your Parson Vicar or Curate And is the same with all the Out-houses thereunto belonging kept in good and sufficient repair Hath any one Encroached upon any Garden Yard or Close belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage-House Or changed or removed the Ancient Marks and Bounds of the same 3. Have you a true and perfect Terrier of all the Glebe-Lands Gardens Orchards Tenements or Cottages belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage As Also a Note of such Pensions Rate-Tithes and Portions of Tithes or other yearly Profits either within or without your Parish as belong thereunto And is there a Copy of the said Terrier and Note deliver'd in to be laid up in the Register Office Have any of these been with-held from your Minister And when or by whom 4. Have any of the Ancient Glebe-lands belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage been alienated taken away or Exchanged for others and by whom and when hath the same been done And how much is your Parsonage or Vicarage damnified thereby in the the yearly value thereof as you know believe or have heard TIT. III. Concerning the Clergy 1. IS your Minister so far as you know or believe in Holy Orders according to the Rules of the Church of England Is he Lawfully admitted to the Cure of Souls in your Parish as you believe or have heard Or is he reported or suspected to have obtained either his Orders by any undue Practices or Benefice by any Simoniacal Contract 2. Did he within two Months after his Induction publickly in the Church upon some Sunday or Holy-day in the time of Divine Service Read the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England Established by Authority and there publickly declare his Assent thereunto Did he within the same time upon some Lord's-day publickly read the appointed Morning and Evening-Prayers and thereafter declare his unfeigned Assent and Consent to the use of all things in the Book of common-Common-Prayer contained in the Form prescribed by the late Act of Vniformity 3. Is there any Chappel or Chappels of Ease or Parochial belonging to your Mother Church If so at what distance are they and how are they ferv'd and provided for 4 Hath your Minister any other Ecclesiastical Benefice with Cure And how far distant from you and in what Diocess Is he generally Resident among you And when he is Resident doth he constantly live in his incumbent House Hath he any Curate usually to assist him when Resident And when Absent on due Occasions doth he provide one able sufficient and Conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England and duly Licensed by the

Bishop 5. Doth your Parson Vicar or Curate read Divine Service on all Sundays and Holy-days and the Litany at least on every Wednesday and Friday and publickly Administer the Holy Sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist at least three times a Year at the three Great Festivals and perform all other Ministerial Offices and Duties in such manner and form as is directed by the Book of Common-Prayer lately Established and the Act of Vniformity therewith Published 6. Doth he on the Lord's-day give notice of the Holy-days and Fasting-days in the Week following that the People may be put in mind and incited to resort to publick Prayers in the Church upon those Solemn Occasions And doth your Minister and Parishoners observe the Yearly Prayers and Perambulation in Rogation Week for preserving the Bounds of the Parish and desiring God's Blessing upon the Fruits of the Earth 7. Doth he himself constantly every Sunday unless in case of sickness or other reasonable impediment Preach in your Church or Chappel or procure a Sermon to be so Preached by some other Licens'd Preacher or one of the Homilies set forth by Authority to be there read by a Priest or Deacon 8. Doth your Minister diligently examine and instruct the Youth of your Parish in the Church Catechism as in the Rubrick at the end of the said Catechism is Directed And being thus prepared and of convenient Age doth he take care to Present them to a Bishop to be Confirmed 9. Doth he refuse or neglect to Visit Comfort and Pray with the Sick or to Bury the Dead Doth he delay the Baptism of any Infant that is in real danger of Death or Baptize them in any other Place than the Church when there is no such danger And when they are in case of necessity thus privately Baptized doth he cause them afterwards if they live to be brought into the Church and certifie the Congregation of the Form of Baptism used in Private and proceed thereupon in all Points as in the Office of Private Baptism is directed 10. Hath he presumed to Marry any Persons in Private Houses Or such as being under Age have not the consent of their Parents or without the Banes first Published on three Sundays or Holy-days in the Church Or at any other Hours than between Eight and Twelve in the Morning unless he had a License or Dispensation so to do granted by such Authority and in such Form as the Canons direct 11. Is your Parson Vicar or Curate of a sober unblameable and exemplary Life given to Hospitality and Alms-deeds Is he in his Apparrel and in his whole outward gard and Dress grave and decent as the Canons of the Church require Or on the other side is his Carriage and Conversation in any kind whatsoever disorderty or scandalous and unbeseeming a Minister of Jesus Christ TIT. IV. Concerning the Parishioners 1. IS there any Person in your Parish that lieth under a common Fame or vehement suspicion of Adultery Fornication or Incest Any common Drunkards or common Swearers or Blasphemers of God's Holy Name Or any that are noted to be Railers unclean or filthy Talkers sowers or maintainers of Sedition Faction or Discord among their Neighbours Or in sum any whose Life and Manners are contrary to Godliness Peace and Honesty 2. Do any of your Parish upon the Sundays or Holy-days follow their Bodily or ordinary Labour Or compel or permit their Servants so to do Are any Shops kept open or Wares sold at such times Or do any Vintners Inn-keepers or other Victuallers and fellers of Beer and Ale suffer any Persons to Tipple or Game in their Houses upon those days 3. Have you any among you that be denounced and declared Excommunicate How long have they been so And do any of your Parish keep society with them before they be reconciled to the Church and Absolved 4. Are there any living in your Parish as Man and Wife who are within the Degrees Prohibited Or any that being lawfully Divorced have Married again Or any that being lawfully Married and not separated or Divorced by Course of Law do not co-habit together 5. Are there any belonging to your Parish who refuse to pay the just dues to your Minister Or any that refuse to contribute or pay the Rate Assessed upon them for the Repair of your Church or Chappel and for the providing of such Books Furniture and Ornaments as be requisite for the Performance of all Divine Offices there 6. Are there any Wills or Testaments of Persons Dead in your Parish that be yet Unproved Or any Goods Administred without a due Grant from the Ordinary 7. Is there any strife or contention among any of your Parish for their Pews or Seats in your Church Or have any of them erected new Pews in your Chancel or in the Body of your Church or Chappel without leave from the Ordinary 8. Do you know of any that have Abused the Church-wardens of your Parish by giving them evil Words for Executing their Office or to dishearten and deter them from it as by Oath and Duty they are bound TIT. V. Concerning Parish-Clerks and Sextons 1. HAve you belonging to your Church or Chappel a fit Parish-Clerk Aged 21. years at least of Honest Life and Conversation and sufficiently able to perform his duty in Reading Writing and Singing Is he duly chosen by your Minister and Licensed by the Ordinary And doth he diligently attend your Minister in all Divine Offices audibly makeing and repeating the Responses and Suffrages as in the Liturgy he is directed 2. Doth he or your Sexton if there be any such appointed in your Parish diligently look to the Doors of your Church that they be Locked and opened at due times Doth he keep your Church or Chappel clean from Dirt Dust Cobwebs and other Annoyance Doth he Ring and Toll the Bells at the due and accustomed hours before Morning and Evening Service that the People may be warned to come unto the Church TIT. VI. Concerning Hospitals Schools School-masters Physicians Chirurgeons and Midwives 1. IS there in your Parish any Hospital Alms-house or Free-Shool Who was the Founder Who is now the Patron thereof And what is the yearly Revenue What Stipends belong to the Governors or Masters of the same Is the same Ordered and Governed in every respect as it ought to be And are the Revenues thereof rightly employed according to the intention of the Founder and the Tenour of such Statutes and Ordinances as have been made in pursuance of the same 2. Have any Living or Dying in your Parish or elsewhere given any Gift or Legacy by Will or otherwise to the use of your Church or Poor or of the Parishioners in general How is it setled and in whose hands And is it or hath it been misimployed or disposed of to other Uses 3. Doth any Man keep a publick or private School in your Parish Is he allowed so to do by the Ordinary Is he of sober Life and honest Conversation and. conformable to the Doctrine and Discipline Established And doth he teach his Scholars good Manners Sobriety Modesty and Obedience as well as other Learning 4. Doth any Man or Woman in your Parish take upon them to practice Physick or Chyrurgery Or any Woman to exercise the Office of a Midwife without being first Examined and approved and thereupon Licensed by the Ordinary Or doth any Woman take upon her to keep a School and teach Girls or young Women not being duly allowed so to do TIT. VII Queries to be put to the Minister concerning the Church-wardens and Side-men 1. ARe the Church-wardens of your Parish duly chosen by the joynt consent of the Minister and Parishioners Or one of them by the Minister and the other by the Parishioners Or as the custom of the Parish is 2. Have the former and last Church-wardens given up their due Accounts to the Parish and delivered up to the succeeding Church-wardens the Monies remaining in their hands together with all other things belonging to your Church or Chappel 3. Do they take care that no misbehaviour or disorder be done by Men Women Servants or Children in your Church or Chappel during the time of Divine Service 4. Do they against every Communion appointed in your Church or Chappel provide a sufficient quantity of Bread and of Wine according to the number of Communicants at the Parish Charge 5. Do they cause all Strangers that Preach in your Church or Chappel to enter their Names the same day in a Book provided for that purpose together with the Name of the Bishop that Licensed them to Preach in this Diocess And do they permit no other to Preach 6. Have they the Church-wardens and Side-men taken sufficient time to draw up their Presentments and therein consulted with you their Minister for your faithful Assistance THE Ministers of the respective Parishes are required to give in a List of the Names of all such as they have Catechised and Prepar'd and do judge fit to receive Confirmation and to present it to the Bishop together with the Persons to be Confirmed before the Visitation begins FINIS