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A00187	Articles to be inquired of in the Arch-deaconrie of Salop within the diocesse of Hereford, in the year 163[9?] at the visitation of Morgan Godwyn, Doctor of Lawes, Arch-deacon of Salop.	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Salop.; Godwyn, Morgan. fl. 1685	1639 (1639)	STC 10217.5; ESTC S1243	12,815	15

ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF IN THE ARCH-DEACONRIE of Salop within the Diocesse of Hereford in the yeare 163● At the Visitation of Morgan Godwyn Doctor of Lawes Arch-deacon of Salop. LONDON Printed by IOHN NORTON 163● The Tenor of the Oath to bee Ministred to the Church-wardens and Side-men YOu shall sweare that you and every of you shall duly consider and diligently inquire of all and every these Articles given you in charge and that all affection favor hatred malice hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure set aside you shall present all and every such person or persons that now is or are or of late hath or have bee● within your Parish as hath or have committed any offence or made any default mentioned in these or any of these Articles or which are vehemently suspected or defamed of any such offence or default wherein you shall deale uprightly and fully neyther presenting nor sparing to present any contrary to truth having in this action God before your eyes with an ernest zeale to maintaine truth and to suppresse vice So helpe you God and the holy contents of this Booke First concerning the Church the Furniture and Ornaments thereof and the Church Possessions INprimis Whether have you in your severall Churches and Chappell 's the whole Bible of the largest Volume and the last Translation the Booke of Common Prayer the two Bookes of Homilies Bishop Jewell his apology and the forme of Prayer for the 5. of November set forth by authority all well and fairely bound as also the Booke of Canons or Constitutions Ecclesiasticall as is commanded 2 Whether have you in your Church or Chappell a Font of stone whole and cleane with a cover set up in the ancient usuall place a convenient and decent cōmunion Table with a Carpet of Silke or some other decent stuffe continually layd upon the same at the time of Divine Service and a faire linnen cloth thereon at the time of the receiving of the holy Communion And whether is the same Table placed in such convenient sort as that the Minister may be best heard in his Prayer and Administration and that the greatest number may Communicate And whether is it so used out of time of Divine Service as is not agreeable to the holy use of it as by sitting on it throwing Hats on it writing on it or is it abused to other prophane uses And are the Ten Commandements set up at the East end of your Church or Chappell where the people may best see and read them and other sentences of holy Scripture written on the walls likewise for that purpose 3 Whether are the afternoones Sermons in the severall Parishes turned into Catechizing by Question and Answer according to the forme prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer and whether doth every Lecturer reade Divine Service according to the liturgy Printed by authority in his Surplice and Hood before the Lecture And whether are his Majesties instructions in all things duly observed 4 Whether have you in your said Church or Chappell a convenient seate for your Minister to reade Service in together with a comely Pulpet set up in a convenient place with a decent Cloth or Cushion for the same a comely large Surplice a faire Communion Cup of Silver with a cover agreeable a Flagon of Silver Tyn or Pewter to put the Wine in whereby it may be put or set on the Communion Table at the time of the consecrating or blessing thereof with all other things and Ornaments necessary for the celebration of Divine Service and the Administration of the Sacraments And whether have you a strong Chest for the ●…s for the poore with three Locks and Keyes and another Chest for keeping the ●ookes and Orn●ments of the Church and the register Booke And whether have you a register Booke in parchment for Christnings Weddings and Burialls and the same kept in all points according to the Canon in that behalfe provided And is the Mothers Christian name therein registred as well as the Fathers and a transcript thereof brought in yearely within one moneth after the 25. of March in to the Lord Bishops principall Register And whether have you in your said Church or Chancell a Table set of the degres wherein by Law are prohibited to marry 5. Whether is your Church or Chappell with the Chancell thereof and your Parsonage or Vicaridge house your Parish Almes-house and Church-house in good reparation are they imployed to godly and their right holy uses Is your Church Chancell and Chappell decently and comely kept as well within as without well tyled well glazed well paved and the seates well mainteined according to the 85. Canon in that behalfe provided Or have any Patrons or others decayed the Parsonage Houses and kept a stipendiarie Preist or Curate in place where an Incumbent should bee possessed Whether is your Church-yard well fenced with Walls Rayles or Pales and by whom and if not in whose default the same is and what the defect or fault is And whether any person have incroached on the ground of the Church-yard or whether any person or persons have used any thing or place consecrated to holy use prophanely or wickedly Is your Church-yard well and orderly kept without abuse And is the whole consecrated ground kept as becommeth the place so dedicated free from soile and all other nastines as pissing against the Church and defiling the Church-yard with their excrements and the like And are the Bones of the dead decently interred or layd up in some fit place as beseemeth Christians 6. Whether have any ancient Monuments or glasse windowes béen defaced or any brasse Inscriptions Lead Stones Bells or any thing els belonging to your Church or Chappell been at any time purloyned and by whom 7. What Legacies have been given to the use and benefit of your Church and how have they been bestowed Who hath received and detaineth them without due imployment and whether doth any with-hold the stocke of the Church or any goods or things given to good and charitable uses 8 It there any in the Parish that hath or doth refuse to contribute towards the reparation of your Church and toward the provision of such things as belong thereunto 9 Whether doth any private man or men of his or their owne authority erect any Pewes or built any seates in your Church and what Pewes or seates have been so built by whose procurement and by whose authority 10 Whether hath any Popish Recusant being lawfully excommunicate or any other excommunicated person been interred or buried in your Church or Church-yard before absolution from that censure and excommunication obteined if yea then by whom and when 11 Whether have you a true Terrier of all that Glebe-lands Medowes Gardens Orchards Houses Stockes Implements Tenements and Portions of Tythes whether within your Parish or without belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage taken by the view of honest men in the said Parish and whether is it safely kept

having taken holy Orders being now silenced or suspended or any other person of your knowledge or as you have heard hold any conventicles or doth preach in any place or doth use any other forme of Divine Service than is appointed in the Booke of Common Prayer If yea then you are to present their names and with whom 31 Whether is your Curate licenced to serve by the Bishop of this Dioces or by any other and by whom 32 Whether is there anie in your Parish who having beene admitted into holie Orders either Deacon or Minister doth voluntarily relinquish and forsake his calling and liveth in the course of his life as a meere Lay-man 33 Whether is your Minister studious in holy Scripture and abstaineth from mechanicall trades or labour not befitting his function and from apparrel unseemely for his calling using that decencie and gravity therein as is prescribed in the 47. Canon 34 Is your Minister noted or defamed to have obtained his Benefice or his Orders by simony or any other way defamed to be a simoniacall person or any way noted to be a Schismatique or schismatically affected or reputed to be an incontinent person or doth table or lodge any such in his house or is bee a frequenter of Tavernes Innes or Ale-houses or any place suspected for ill rule Or is hee a common Drunkard a common Gamester or player at Dice a Swearer or one that applieth himselfe not at his studies or is otherwise offensive and scandalous to his Function or Ministerie Third Concerning Schoole-Masters Physicians Chirurgians Mid-wives and Parish-Clerkes 1 DOth any in your Parish openly or privately take upon him to teach Schoole without Licence of the Ordinarie and is hee conformable to the Religion now established and doth hee bring his Schollars to the Church to heare Divine Service and Sermons and doth hee instruct his schollars in the grounds of the Religion now established in the Church of England and is hee carefull and diligent to benefit his schollers in learning 2 Doth your Schoole-master tea●h and instruct his youth in the Catechisme allowed by authority or in some other Catechisme if in some other what is that Catechisme that he so teacheth 3 Is any Living or Meanes given towards the erection or maintenance of any Schoole with-holden backe or otherwise imployed and by whom 4 Doth any keepe Schoole in the Chancell or Church by which meanes that holy place and the Communion Table are many waies profaned and the windowes broken 5 How many Physitians Chirurgians or Mid-wives have you in your Parish how long have they used their severall sciences or Offices and by what Authority and how have they demeaned themselves therein and of what skill are they accounted to be in their professions 6 Have you a fit Parish-Clerke aged twentie yeares at least of honest life able to reade and write are his and the Sextons wages duly paied without fraud or diminution according to the ancient custome of your Parish what is his wages by whom is he chosen whether is he approved by the Ordinarie Is hee diligent in his Office and serviceable to the Minister doth hee keepe the Church cleane and dores locked Is there any thing lost or spoyled through his default and doth hee execute his Office duly Fourth Concerning the Parishioners 1 VVHether any of your Parishioners being sixteen yeares of age or upwards or others lodging or commonly resorting to anie house within your Parish doe wilfullie absent themselves from your Parish Church upon Sundaies or Holi-daies at morning and evening praiers or who come late to Church and depart from Church before Service be done upon the said daies or who doe not reverently behave themselves during the time b● Divine Service devoutly kneeling when the generall Confession of sins the Letanie the tenne Commandements and all prayers and Collects are read and using due and lowly reverence when the blessed Name of the Lord Iesus Christ is mentioned and standing up at each Creed at the Gospell at each Glorie be to the Father c. and at the Te Deum according to the practise of his Maiesties Chappell Royall and of the Cathedrall Church of Hereford or who doe cover their heads in the Church during the time of Divine Service unlesse it be in case of necessitie in which case they may weare a night-cap or Coyf or who doe give themselves to babling talking or walking and are not attentive to heare the Word preached or read whether any of your Parish being of 16. yeares of age or upwards doe not receive the holy Communion thrice every yeare whereof once at Easter and whether they doe not devoutly kneele at the receiving thereof And whether any having divers houses of remove doe shift from place to place of purpose to defeate the performance of their Christian duties in that behalfe 2 Whether any of your Parishioners being admonished thereof doe not send their children servants and apprentises to the Minister to be catechised upon such Sundayes and Holy-dayes as are appointed or whether any of them doe refuse to come or if they come refuse to learne those instructions set forth in the Booke of Common Prayer 3 Whether doe any of your Parish entertaine within their house any soiourner common guests or other persons who refuse to frequent Divine Service or receave the holy Communion as aforesaid present their names qualities or conditions 4 Whether doth any in your Parish under the degree of a Nobleman or not thereto allowed by the Law keepe in his house any Chaplaine present their names 5 What Recusant Papists have yee in your Parish or other Sectaries present their names qualities or condition whether they keepe any Schoole-master in their house which commeth not to Church to heare Divine Service and receive the holy Communion what is his name and how long hath hee taught there or elsewhere 6 Whether any of the said Popish Recusants or other schismatiques doe labour to seduce and with-draw others from the Religion now established or instruct their families or children in Popish Religion or resuse to entertaine any especially in place of greatest service or trust but such as concurre with them in their opinions 7 How long have the said Popish Recusants abstained from Divine Service or from the Communion 8 Is there any in your Parish that reteine sell utter or disperse any Popish bookes or writings or other bookes Libraries or writings of any Sectaries touching the Religion State or Governement Ecclesiasticall of this Kingdome of England or keepe any Manuments of superstition uncancelled or undefaced 9 Whether have you any in your Parish which heretofore being Popish Recusants or Sectaries have since reformed themselves and come to Church to heare Divine Service and receive the Sacraments If yea then who are they and how long since have they so reformed themselves and whether they still remaine in their conformity 10 Are there any in your Parish that refuse to have their children baptized or themselves to receive the