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B02174	Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the diocess of Sarum. In the primary episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert by divine permission, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Church of England. Diocese of Salisbury. Bishop (1689-1715 : Burnet); Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing C4084C; ESTC R225625	5,967	15

ARTICLES OF VISITATION and ENQUIRY Concerning Matters Ecclesiastical EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-Men of every PARISH within the DIOCESS of SARVM IN THE Primary Episcopal Visitation OF THE Right Reverend Father in GOD GILBERT By Divine Permission Lord Bishop of SARVM LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCLXXXIX The Tenor of the Oath to be Administred to the Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish YOU shall Swear That you will well and truly execute the Office of Church-wardens and Sides-men in your several Parishes by Presenting such Things and Persons as you shall find or know to be Presentable by the Laws of this Realm So help you God. ARTICLES OF VISITATION and ENQUIRY Within the DIOCESS of SARVM TIT. I. Concerning Churches and Chappels with the Ornaments and Furniture thereunto belonging I. IS your Parish-Church or Chappel kept in good and and sufficient repair and all things so decently ordered as becometh the House of God II. Is there a Font of Stone for the Administration of Baptism And is there in your Chancel a decent Communion Table for the Administration of the Lords Supper with a Carpet of Silk Stuff or Cloth and another covering of Linnen to spread thereon And have you a Communion-Cup or Chalice with a Cover of Silver and one or more Flagons of Silver or Pewter thereunto belonging III. 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 the Book of Common-Prayer established by the late Act of Parliament both well and substantially bound Have you likewise the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority a Book of Canons and a printed Table of the Degrees wherein Marriage is prohibited IV. Have you a Surplice for the Minister to wear at all times of his publick Ministration in the Church provided and to be duly washed at the charge of your Parish V. Have you a Register-book of Parchment wherein to register the Names and Sirnames of all such persons as are married christned or buried within your Parish together with the Names and Sirnames of both the Parents of the Children so christned expressing the Day Month and Year of all such Christnings Marriages and Burials And is the Transcript thereof yearly within one Month next after the 25 of March brought into the Bishops Registry VI. Have you likewise another Book of Paper wherein to record the Names and Licenses of all such Strangers as are admitted at any time to preach in your Church or Chappel As also a Book wherein to write down the Churchwardens Account together with a strong Chest with Locks and Keys wherein to keep the aforesaid Book and all the forementioned Furniture in safe custody And lastly have you a Bier with a black Hearse-Cloth for the Burial of the Dead TIT. II. Concerning the Church yard the Houses Glebes and Tithes belonging to the Church I. IS your Church-yard sufficiently fenced with Walls Rails or Pales and decently kept from all annoyance or encroachments Have any Trees there growing been cut down how long since by whom and to whose use and benefit II. Is the house of your Parson Vicar or Curate 25 Ed. 1 with all the Out-houses thereunto belonging kept in good and sufficient repair Or have any of the said Houses or Out-houses been defaced or pulled down without license from the Ordinary and by whom Hath any person encroached upon any Garden Yard or Close belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage-house or cut up any Treees growing thereon or changed or removed the ancient Marks and Bounds of the same III. Have you a true and perfect Terrier of all the Glebe-lands Gardens Orchyards 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 Have any of the same been with-held from your Minister and by whom as you know or have heard IV. Have any of the ancient Glebe-lands belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage been taken away or exchanged for other without the free consent of the Incumbent and license from the Ordinary by whom hath the same been made and how many years since and how much is your Parsonage or Vicarage damnified thereby in the yearly value thereof as you know believe or have heard TIT. III. Concerning Ministers I. IS your Minister defamed or suspected to have obtained either his Benefice or Orders by any Simoniacal Compact II. Hath he been legally inducted into his Benefice III. Did he within two months after this Induction publickly in the Church upon some Sunday or Holiday in the time of Divine Service read the 39 Articles of the Church of England established by Authority and there publickly declare his assent thereunto IV. Hath he any other Ecclesiastical Benefice Is he constantly resident upon his Benefice among you How many weeks in any one year hath he been absent from it V. Hath your Minister a Curate to assist him who is that Curate is he conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England and doth he serve in any other Church beside and what yearly stipend doth your Minister allow him VI. Doth your Parson Vicar or Curate in reading the daily Morning and Evening Service Administration of the holy Sacraments celebration of Marriage Churching of Women after Child-birth Visitation of the sick Burial of the Dead and pronouncing Gods Commination against impenitent Sinners use the form and words prescribed in the Book of common-Common-Prayer without any addition omission 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 so far as you have observed VII Doth your Minister at the reading or celebrating the Divine Offices in your Church or Chappel wear the Surplice VIII Doth he observe the Holidays and Fasting-days as also the Ember-weeks and the yearly perambulation in Rogation-week as in the common-Common-Prayer Book is appointed giving notice to the Parishioners of every of the same in the Church in the time of Divine Service upon the Sunday next before IX Hath your Minister or Curate been licensed to Preach by the Bishop If so 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 Or if he be not a licensed Preacher or being so licensed be hindred by Sickness or otherwise as aforesaid doth he procure a Sermon to be so preached by some other Minister and licensed Preacher or one of the Homilies set forth by Authority to be there read by a Priest or Deacon X. Doth your Minister diligently instruct the Youth of your Parish in the Church-Catechism and doth he prepare and present

them being so instructed to be confirmed by the Bishop and doth he endeavour to reclaim all Popish Recusants if any such be inhabiting within your Parish to the true Religion established in the Church of England XI Doth he neglect or refuse to visit the Sick or delay the Baptism of any Infant that is in danger of Death is there any Child past Infancy or other Person of more Years through your Ministers default yet remaining unbaptized in your Parish Doth he use to baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers XII Hath he at any time as you know or have heard preached any False Heretical Seditious or Schismatical Doctrine thereby to seduce the People into Parties and Factions to the disturbance of the publick Peace and Vnity either of Church or State XIII 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 Banns first published on three Sundays or Holidays in the Church or at any other hours than between eight and twelve in the Morning imless he had a License or Dispensation so to do XIV 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-Prayer and is he in all respects conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England XV. Is your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer a Man of a sober unblamable and exemplary Life Doth he familiarly converse with ungodly vicious and excommunicate Persons Is he a frequenter of Taverns or Ale-houses a common Gamester a Swearer Railer or Quarreller Doth he set Neighbours at variance one with another or encourage them to Suits and Contentions Is he noted to be an intemperate Drinker or vehemently suspected of Adultery or other sort of Incontinency with any Person either within your Parish or without Is his Apparel grave and decent as the Canons of the Church require Or is his Carriage and Conversation in any kind whatsoever disorderly or scandalous and unbeseeming a Minister of Iesus Christ TIT. IV. Concerning the Parishioners I. IS there in your Parish any Person that is a known or a reputed Atheist or Blasphemer and mocker of Religion or any Papist or any professing any other form of Religion different from the Church of England who hath not rendred himself capable of the benefit of the late Act for Liberty to Men of tender Consciences in the way prescribed by the said Act II. Is there any Person in your Parish that lieth under a common fame of vehement suspicion of Adultery Fornication or Incest Are there any common Drunkards within your Parish or common Swearers or Blasphemers of God's Name or any that are noted to be Railers unclean or filthy talkers or sowers of Sedition Faction and Discord among their Neighbours III. Do any of your Parish upon Sundays or Holidays follow their bodily or ordinary Labour or permit their Servants so to do Are any Shops kept open or Wares sold or do any Vintners Inn-keepers or other Victuallers and Sellers of Beer and Ale suffer any Persons to tipple or game in their Houses upon those days IV. Do the Inhabitants and Sojourners within your Parish duly resort unto your Church or Chappel upon Sundays and Holidays appointed for Divine Service Do they then and there abide quietly with Reverence Order and Decency during all the whole time of Common-Prayer Preaching or other Service of God there used V. Doth every Person reverently uncover his Head and so continue all the time of Divine Service in the Church Do they all reverently kneel at the Prayers and stand up when the Creed and Gospel are read VI. Are there any in your Parish that refuse to send their Infant-Children to be baptized publickly in the Church unless in case of urgent necessity Are all surviving Children who were privately baptized brought after Baptism into the publick Congregation and is the Congregation certified of the true Form of their Baptism according to the Rubrick of the Book of common-Common-Prayer VII Doth every Housholder in your Parish cause their Children and Servants to come to Church to learn their Catechism and to give an account thereof unto your Minister as he shall require it of them openly in the Church upon Sundays and Holidays as in the Book of common-Common-Prayer is appointed that when they are well instructed in the same they may be confirmed by the Bishop VIII Do the Inhabitants of your Parish above sixteen Years of Age receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper at least three times in the Year of which Easter is always to be one Doth any in your Parish refuse to receive the same kneeling or from the hands of your own Minister repairing for it to other Parishes and Ministers abroad Or are there any Strangers not of your Parish that forsake their own Churches and usually repair to yours for it IX Have you any among you that be denounced and declared excommunicate for any Crime committed how long have they been so excommunicated and do any of your Parish keep Society with them before they be reconciled to the Church and absolved X. 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 cohabit together XI Are there any Wills or Testaments of Persons in your Parish that be yet unproved or any Goods administred without a due Grant from the Ordinary Did any dying in your Parish or elsewhere leave any Legacy to your Church or Chappel what were those Legacies and how have they been bestowed XII Is there any Strife and Contention among any of your Parish for their Pews or Seats in your Church Have any new Pews been erected in your Chancel or in the Body of your Church or Chappel without leave from the Ordinary TIT. V. Concerning Parish-Clerks and Sextons I. HAve you belonging to your Church or Chappelry a Parish-Clerk aged 21 Years at the least Is he of honest Life and Conversation and sufficient or able to perform his Duty in reading writing and singing Is he chosen by your Minister or according to the Right or Custom of your Parish and doth he duly attend him in all Divine Services of the Church Are his Wages duly paid unto him or who withholdeth the same from him II. 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 time And doth he keep your Church or Chappel clean from Dust Cobwebs or other Annoyance Doth he toll or ring the Bells at the due accustomed hours before the beginning of Divine Service Morning and Evening that the People may be warned to come unto the Church And when any Person is passing out of this Life doth he upon notice given him thereof toll a Bell as hath been accustomed that the Neighbours may thereby be warned to meditate upon their own Death and to recommend the dying Person to the Grace and Favour of God TIT. VI. Concerning Hospitals Schools School-Masters Physicians Chirurgeons and Midwives I. IS there in your Parish any Hospital Alms-house or Free-School not of the King's Foundation or Patronage Who was the Founder or is now the Patron thereof And what is the yearly Revenue or Stipend belonging to the Governours 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 of such Grants and Ordinances as have been made concerning the same II. Doth any Man keep a publick School in your Parish who is not allowed thereunto by the Ordinary Doth your School-Master teach his Scholars the Catechism of Religion set forth by Authority Doth he cause them upon Sundays and Holidays orderly to repair to your Church or Chappel and see that they behave themselves there quietly and reverently during the time of Divine Service and Sermon III. Doth any Man in your Parish practise Physick or Chirurgery or any Woman take upon her to exercise the Office of a Midwife without approbation and licence from the Ordinary TIT. VII Querie to put to the Minister concerning the Church-Wardens and Sidesmen and Ecclesiastical Officers I. ARE the Church-Wardens of your Parish yearly and duly chosen by the joynt consent of the Minister and Parishioners or one of them by the Minister and the other by the Parishioners II. Have the former and last Church-Wardens given up their due Accompts 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 III. Do they suffer no Misbehaviour or Disorder to be done by Men Women or Servants or Children in your Church or Chappel or upon the Communion-Table IV. Do they against every Communion appointed in your Church or Chappel provide a sufficient quantity of fine white Bread and of good Wine according to the number of the Communicants V. Are there any Ecclesiastical Officers that exercise Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction within this Diocess that take and receive any extraordinary Fees for any Thing or Cause Have Abuses or Offences been presented by Church-Wardens and Sidesmen and are such Offences being presented supprest or left unpunished VI. Have any Apparitors taken any Reward for the concealing of any Offence or the avoiding of the Punishment of the Offenders And do they summon any without a Citation first had If you know of any other Default or Crime of Ecclesiastical Cognizance you are to present the same THe Ministers of every Parish may joyn in Presentments with the Church-Wardens and Sidesmen and if they will not present then the Ministers themselves being the Persons that have the chief care of the suppressing of Sin and Impiety in their Parishes may present the Crimes aforesaid and all such things as shall want a Reformation Gilbert Sarum THE Ministers of every Parish are desired to give in the Names of such of the younger sort in their several Parishes as they judg fit to receive Confirmation from the Bishop FINIS