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A32947 Articles of visitation and enquiry within the diocess of Ely in the second episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God Peter by divine permission Lord Bishop of Ely in the fifth year of his translation. Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1675-1684 : Turner); Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684. 1679 (1679) Wing C4037; ESTC R27643 17,261 26

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take diligent notice of the absent And if upon your Complaint you receive Warrant from some of the Iustices of Peace and any sums of money be thereupon levied according as by law it is directed do you distribute the several sums so levied to the poor of your Parish according to the law in that case provided and before you at any time present any for such default in the Spiritual Court do you first seriously admonish them once and again VI. Do you suffer none in time of Divine Service to stand idle or talk together in the Church-porch or to walk in the Church or Church-yard nor children playing or crying in or about the Church nor suffer any to bring Dogs Hawks or Hounds into the Church to the disturbance of the Congregation VII Are the Side-men duly chosen do they assist the Church-wardens in the executing their Office and do they joyn with them in framing Presentments VIII Have you a Parish-Clerk aged 20 years at the least chosen by your Minister of honest life and conversation and sufficiently able to perform his duty in reading writing and singing and doth he duly attend the Minister in all Divine Offices at the Church doth he keep clean the Church and carefully look to it and to the Books and is he payed the ancient and usual wages as hath been accustomed IX Doth your Clerk or your Sexton if there be any such in your Parish diligently look to the doors of the Church that they be locked and opened at due times and that the Bells be toll'd and rung at the due and accustomed hours before the begining of Morning and Evening Service that the People may he warned and invited to come to the Church and when any person is passing out of this life doth he upon notice given thereof coll a Bell as hath been accustomed that devout and charitable persons may thereby be warned to recommend the Soul of the dying person to the grace mercy and peace of God Almighty X. Do they at the instance of any make any grave in any part of the Church except in such Isles where some person hath propriety without the express consent of your Minister Concerning Churches and their Possessions Ornaments Vtensils and other Necessaries to the same belonging I. IS your Church or Chappel in good repair are the Roofs the Walls the Floors Windows Seats if you have them and Doors well maintained and all things there in such a decent sort without dust or any thing that may be either noisom or unseemly as becometh the House of God And is your Porch and Steeple in good repair and Bells kept in good order by the care and oversight of the Church-wardens at the charge of all persons occupying any Lands or Tenements within your Parish as well out-dwellers as inhabitants rating all proportionably for the Lands and Tenements they occupy therein And is your Church or Chappel-yard sufficiently fenced with walls rails or pales as hath been accustomed and that by the moneys cessed upon Lands and Tenements in your Parish as aforesaid except you have a special custom otherwise directing you II. Are there any Isles adjoyning to your Church or Chancel which time out of mind have been repaired by the owners of any Messuage in your Parish if so do the owners thereof repair the same III. Is the Chancel of the Church sufficiently repaired and beautified by the Minister or other person to whom that doth belong IV. Is there any in your Parish that hath converted to his own or to any common secular use any Lead Timber Wood Stone or other Materials belonging to any Church or Chappel Parsonage or Vicarage-house or out-houses thereof Have any of your Church or Chappel Bells been taken down sold or lessened And by whom V. Have you in your Church a decent Font of Stone with a cover for the Administration of holy Baptism and the same set in the ancient and usual place appointed for it and have you in the Chancel a decent Table for the Celebration of the holy Communion and for the Communion-Service and a Carpet of Silk or other decent Stuff to lie continually upon the Table during the time of Divine Service and a fair Linnen cloth to lay on the same at the time of the Holy Communion and have you a fair Chalice or Communion Cup of Silver with a cover a Plate and a Flagon of Pewter or purer Metal the one to place the Bread on the other to bring the Wine unto the holy Table or have they been prafaned by any common use Have you a Basin or some other decent Vessel for receiving the offerings at the Communion Service and have you a fair Linnen cloth for covering the consecrated Elements Have you in your Church or Chappel a convenient reading Seat or Pew erected for your Minister wherein to read the daily Morning and Evening Service as also a decent Pulpit set in a convenient place for the preaching of God's Word VI. Have you belonging to the Church or Chappel a perfect Bible of the largest Volumn of the last Translation allowed by Authority Have you two Books of Common-Prayer set forth according to the last Act of Parliament for the Uniformity of publick Prayers And are they both of the largest Volumn fairly bound one for the Minister and another for the Clerk to use at the celebration of all Divine Offices the Book of Homilies the Book of Canons and Constitutions made in the Synod held at London 1603. Have you hanging up in your Church a Table of Degrees in marriage prohibited set forth by Authority A.D. 1563. a Parchment Register-book to Register the several Christnings Marriages and Buryings within the Parish Have you a Book to set down the names of such Strangers as preach in your Church and another Book wherein to write down and keep the Accounts of the Church-wardens and an Inventory of all things provided and belonging to your Church Have any other Books as the Works of Bishop Jewel Erasmus his Paraphrase upon the Gospel or any other good Books been carried out of the Church into any man's private House or been lost VII Are the ten Commandments or the Lords Prayer and other chosen Sentences of holy Scripture set up in your Church or Chappel as the Canon does require VIII Have you a large and decent Surplice one or more for the Minister to wear at all times of his publick Ministration And have you a Hood or Tippet for your Minister to wear over his Surplice IX Have you in your Church or Chappel a strong Chest with three Locks or Keys for the Alms of the poor and a hole therefore in the upper part thereof and is one of those Keys in the custody of the Parson Vicar or Curate And have you one other convenient Chest for keeping the Books and Furniture belonging to the Church and a Bier for the carrying of the dead to Burial X.
ARTICLES OF VISITATION and ENQUIRY Within the Diocess of ELY IN THE Second Episcopal Visitation OF THE Right Reverend FATHER in GOD PETER By Divine Permission LORD BISHOP of ELY In the fifth Year of his Translation LONDON Printed by S. Roycroft 1679. The Tenour of the Oath to be administred to the Church-wardens and Side-men YOU shall Swear diligently to Enquire and true Presentment make of every person now or lately of your Parish which hath made any default or offence enquirable by the King's Laws Ecclesiastical and become known unto you So help you God and the Contents of his Holy Gospel Articles of Instruction and Direction to the Church-wardens and Side-men of what they are to take more especial Notice in their Presentments Concerning Religion and the Government of the Church Established in this Realm IMprimis Is there any in your Parish who are guilty of Atheistical or blasphemous Speeches against the Majesty of Almighty God or Scoffers at Religion and the Souls future immortal state Is there any guilty of Speeches of Infidelity against the faith of our Lord Iesus Christ Any who in their communication or otherwise defend the Socinian or Arrian Heresie denying the Eternal Godhead of the Lord Iesus or Pelagian denying the necessity of his Grace and of Baptism for the washing away of Original Sin II. Is there any one that doth affirm or teach and who is he that the holy Scripture doth not contain all things necessary to Salvation or that what is contained in the 3 Creeds ought not throughly to be received and believed or that the Church hath not Authority in Controversies of Faith III. Is there any that doth affirm and teach that the Church of England by law established is not a true and Apostolical Church and a true member of the Catholick Church having in her all things necessary to Salvation Or is there any that doth affirm and teach that the XXXIX Articles agreed upon by the Arch-bishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London A.D. 1562. are in any part erroneous or superstitious or such as may not with a good conscience be subscribed unto IV. Is there any in your Parish that doth affirm and teach that the Form of God's Worship in the Church of England established by law and contained in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments is a corrupt Popish or any way superstitious or unlawful Worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to Scripture or to the Doctrine and Worship in the Catholick or Primitive Church V. Is there any that doth affirm or teach and who is he that Baptism of Infants according as is practised in the Church of England is unlawful or unnecessary or better to be delayed or not appointed for the Remission of Sins or that it may be repeated or that Infants duly baptized according to the Churches Order and dying before they commit actual sin are not saved everlastingly through God's grace given them in Baptism VI. Is there any who doth affirm or teach that the king's Majesty hath not the same Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical which we see hath been given always to all godly Princes by God himself both among the Iews and in the Christian Church Or that doth any way deny or impugn the king's Majesties Royal Authority or Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiastical in this Realm Or who denies that within his Majesties Realms of England Scotland and Ireland and all other his Dominions and Countries our Lord the king is the highest Power under God to whom the chief Government of all Estates whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all Causes doth appertain without any subjection due from Him or his Subjects to any foreign Iurisdiction VII Is there any who doth affirm and teach and who is he that the Government of the Church of England under his Majesty by Arch-bishops Bishops Deans Arch-Deacons or other chief Ministers bearing office in the same or that the forms or manner of Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons established by law contains any thing that is Antichristian or repugnant to the word of God or to the practice of the Catholick Church Or that persons so ordained Bishops Priests or Deacons have not sufficient external calling or that they ought not to be accounted truly Bishops Priests or Deacons till they have some other external calling unto those divine Offices or that teaches that those three holy Orders abovesaid have not been ever in Christ's Church even from the Apostles time VIII Is there any in your Parish and who is he that separating himself from this Church and from the Communion of Saints therein joyning himself to Conventicles breaks the Communion of the Church of England and so the Communion of the Catholick Church of whose Communion hers is a part or accounts of others as prophane and none of the godly for their orderly conforming themselves to the Church of England as established by law Or that any combining themselves in Assemblies or Congregations of the king's born Subjects within this Land other then such as by the Laws of this Land are held and allowed may truly take unto themselves the name of another purer Church or of the Church of England IX Is there any who doth affirm and teach and who is he that the Rites and Ceremonies and the Rules of the Church of England by law established are Antichristian superstitious or frivolous or any way unlawful or such as may not be subscribed unto and practised with a good conscience or that the Church hath no power to decree any such Rites and Ceremonies Concerning the Clergy their Duty and Office I. IS your Parson Vicar or also Curate in holy Orders by Episcopal Ordination a Priest ordained according to the laws of the Church of England hath he been legally instituted and inducted into his Benefice or is he known or suspected to have obtained his Parsonage or Vicarage by any Symoniacal Contract II. Did he within two Months after his Induction publickly in your Church or Chappel upon some Sunday or Holy day in the time of Divine Service openly read the XXXIX Articles ' established by Authority in this Church A. D. 1562. and then profess and publish his assent and subscribe his name thereto in the presence of the Church-wardens Do you not know or have you not heard that in his reading or pretending to read those XXXIX Articles he passed over some one or more of them or some part of one or more and what part of the Articles was it that he left unread Did your Parson Vicar or Curate upon some Lord's-day within two Months after his Induction solemnly read in your Church or Chappel both the Morning and Evening Prayer as it is appointed in the Book of Common-Prayer by law established And did he after such reading