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A69745	Articles of visitation & enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the Diocese of Landaffe, in the first episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Hugh, by divine providence Lord Bishop of Landaffe.	Church of England. Diocese of Llandaff. Bishop (1660-1667 : Lloyd); Lloyd, Hugh, 1586-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing C4051; ESTC R7865	7,942	13

reverently uncover his head and so continue all the time of Divine-Service and Sermon in the Church Do they all reverently kneel at the Prayers and stand up when the Créed and Gospel are read making due reverence when the Name of our Lord Iesus is mentioned Declare who do not if any such 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 danger in which case the child may be baptized at home by a lawfull Minister after the form and rites appointed in the Liturgy Or do they send them to be baptized in any other Parishes or after other form then the Church alloweth And are there any Infants or more aged persons in your Parish as yet unbaptized If so declare who VII DOTH every Houshoulder in your Parish cause their children and servants 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 Sundaies and Holy-daies as in the Book of Common-Prayer is appointed that when they are well instructed in the same they may be confirmed by the Bishop VIII IS there any person in your Parish who being 16 years of age and well instructed in Religion doth not receive the Sacrament of the Lords 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 knéeling 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 If there be any such express who they are 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 If so declare who they be X. ARE there any living in your Parish who have been unlawfully married contrary to the Laws of God 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 If so express their several names XI ARE there any married women in your Parish who after their delivery from the peril of Child-birth refuse to make their publick thanksgiving to God in the Church And when they come so to do do they come decently apparelled and make their offerings according to custome If there be any such present them XII ARE there any belonging to your Parish who refuse to pay their duty for Easter Offerings to your Minister Or any that refuse to contribute and 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 If so who are they XIII DO any refuse to bury their dead according to the Rites of the Church of England And are there any Wills or Testaments of persons d●●d 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 Leg●cy to your Church or Chappel or to the use of the poor or to any other pious and ch●ritable purposes What were those Legacies and how have they been bestowed XV. DO you know or have you heard of any Patron or other person in your Parish having the presentation or gift of any Ecclesiastical Benefice who hath made gain thereof by presenting a Clerk or Minister to it upon any bargain either for money or pension or lease reserve of Tithes or Glebe or any part thereof or upon other Simoniacal compact whatsoever XV. IS there any strife and contention among any of your Parish for their Pews or Seats in your Church Have anie new Pews béen erected in your Chancel or in the Bodie of your Church or Chappel without leave from the Ordinarie XVI IF anie brawl or fight one with another in your Church or Church-yard present them TIT. V. Concerning Parish-clerks and Sextons I. HAVE you belonging to your Church or Chappelrie a Parish-Clerk aged 21 years at the least Is he of honest life and convers●tion and sufficient or able to perform his dutie in reading writing and singing Is he chosen by your Minister and doth he duly attend him in all Divine Services at the Church Are his wages and customarie duties duly paid unto him or who with-holdeth the same from him II. DOTH he or your Sexton if there be anie 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 kéep your Church or Chappel clean from dust cobwebs and other annoiance Doth he toll or ring the Bels 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 anie person is passing out of this life doth he upon notice given him thereof toll a Bell as h●th been accustomed th●t the neighbors may thereby be warned to recommend the dying person to the grace and favor of God TIT. VI. Concerning Hospitals Schools School masters Physitians Chirurgeons and Midwives I. IS there anie Hospital Alms-house or Free-School founded in your Parish Who was the Founder or is now the Patron thereof and what is the yearly Revenue or Stipend belonging 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 Foundor and of such grants and ordinances as have been made concerning the same II. DOTH any man keep a publick or private School in your Parish who is not allowed thereunto by the Bishop Present such if there be anie in your Parish or Chappelrie Doth your School-master teach his Scholars the Catechism of Religion set forth by Authoritie Doth he cause them upon Sundaies and Holidaies 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 anie man in your Parish practise Phisick or Chirurgery or anie woman take upon her to exercise the office of a Midwife without approbation and license from the Ordinarie If so name them TIT. VII Concerning Church-wardens and Side-men I. ARE the Church-wardens of your Parish yearly and duly chosen by the joint consent of your Minister and Parishioners or one of them by your 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 moneys remaining in their hands together with all other things belonging to your Church or Chappel III. HATH there been diligent care to see who of your Parishioners be absent from the Divine Service and Sermon in your Church or Chappel upon Sundaies and Holy-daies and to find who have absented themselves without a sufficient cause Hath there b●en by Warrant or Warrants from some of the Iustices of the Peace levied of such offendors by way of Distress upon their goods the sum of 12 pence for every such day of their absence according to the Act of Parliament in that case provided And hath the same been distributed among the Poor of your Parish according to the Law IV. HAVE they been noted that come late to Church after Divine Service is begun or depart before it be ended Have anie been suffered to stand idle or talk together in the Church-porch or walk in the Church-yard during the time of Praiers Preaching or other Sacred Offices V. HATH no mis-behaviour or disorder been suffered to be done by men women servants or children in your Church or Chappel Hath care been taken that none of them sit lean or lay their H●ts upon the Communion Table Have no Minstrels no Morris dancers no Dogs Hawks or Hounds been suffered to be brought or come into your Church to the disturbance of the Congregation VI. HATH there been provided against everie Communion appointed in your Church or Chappel a sufficient quantitie of fine white Bread and of good Wine according to the number of Communicants VII HAVE all Strangers that preach in your Church or Chappel subscribed 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 Diocese and have none other preached THe Church-wardens and Sidemen are required to advise with their respective Parsons Vicars or Curates concerning their several Presentments that so they may be regular and direct in answer to the Articles given them in charge HUGH LANDAFFE

ARTICLES OF VISITATION ENQUIRY Concerning MATTERS Ecclesiastical EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-men of every Parish within the DIOECESE of LANDAFFE In the First EPISCOPAL VISITATION OF THE Right Reverend Father in God HUGH By Divine Providence Lord Bishop of LANDAFFE LONDON Printed for T. Garthwait at the Kings-Head in S. Pauls Church-yard M.DC.LXII The Oath to be Administred to the Church-wardens and Sworn-men YOu shall swear That you and every of you shall diligently enquire of the Articles given you in charge and without any affection favour hatred hope of reward and gain or fear of displeasure or malice of any person you shall present all and every such person and persons that now is or of late was in your Parish as hath committed any Incest Adultery Fornication or Simony and any misdemeanour or disturbances committed or made in any Church or Chappel in time of Common P●ayer Preaching or Divine Service there used to the disturbance thereof and also that have committed or done any other offence fault or default presentable in the Ecclesiastical Court according to the Articles now delivered to you Wherein you shall deal uprightly fully and according to truth neither of malice presenting any contrary to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to present any and so conceal the truth having in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeal to maintain the truth and suppress vice So help you God and the Contents of this Book ARTICLES OF VISITATION and ENQUIRY Within the DIOCESE of LANDAFFE TITUL. I. Concerning Churches and Chappels with the Ornaments and Furniture thereunto belonging I. ARE your Parish Church Chappel or Chappels kept in good and sufficient rep●i● Are the Roofs thereof well covered with Lead Tile or State the Windows well glazed the Floors well paved the Seats well fastned and conveniently placed and all things so decently ordered as becometh the House of God II. HATH the Steeple or Tower of your Church or Chappel or any part thereof been pulled down or any of the Lead or Bells formerly belonging thereunto been imbezelled sold or made away In whose hands or custody doth the same or any part thereof remain Declare what you know or have heard herein III. IS there a Font of stone with a good Cover thereunto standing in a convenient place towards the lower part of your Church or Chappel 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 fine Woollen-cloath and another Covering of white and pure Linnen to spread thereupon And have you a fair Communion-Cup or Chalice of silver with a Cover of silver and one or more Flagons of silver or pewter thereunto belonging IV. 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 or Cushion for the same A Bible of the last Translation in a large Volume and the Book of Common-Prayer both well and substantially bound Have you likewise the Book of H●milies set forth by A●thority A Book of Canons and Constitutious Ecclesiastical And a Printed Table of the Degrées wherein Marriage is prohibited V. HAVE you a comely large Surplice for the Minister to wear at all times of his Publick Ministration in the Church provided and to be duely washed at the Charge of the Parish VI 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 Sirna●es of both the Parents of the Children so Christened expressing the day month and year of all such Christenings Marriages and Burials And is the transcript thereof yearly within one Month next after the 25 of March brought into the Bishops Registry VII HAVE you likewise another Book of Paper wherein to record the Names and Licences of all such Strangers as are admitted at any time to Preach in your Church or Chappel As also a third Book wherein to write down the Churchwardens Accompts together with a strong Chest with Locks and Keys wherein to kéep the aforesaid Books and all other the aforementioned Furniture in safe Custody And lastly have you a Bier with a black Hears-cloath for the Burial of the Dead VIII HAVE you a Box with a lock and key fit to receive and kéep the Alms of charitable men given to your poor according to the 84 Canon TIT. II. Concerning the Church-yard the Houses Glebes and Tithes belonging to the Church I. IS your Church-yard sufficiently senced with Walls Rails or Pales and decently kept from the annoyance of Swine Horses and other Ca●tel Hath any person encroached upon the same or made any door into it out of his own ground or habitation without allowance from the Ordinar● Have any Crée● there growing béen cut down how long since by whom and to whose use and benefit II. IS the House of your Parson Vicar or Curate with all the out-houses thereunto belonging kept in good and sufficient repair Or have any of the said Houses or Out houses béen defaced or pulled down without licence from the Ordinary and by whom Hath any person encroached upon any Garden Yard or Clo●e belonging to your Parson●ge or Vicarage house or cut up any Trees growing thereon or changed or removed the ancient Parks and Bounds of the same III 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-tythes and Portions of Tythes or other yearly Profits either within or without your Parish as belong thereunto Have any of the same béen withhold from your Minister or by whom as you know or have heard IV. HAVE any of the Ancient Gleb-lands belonging to your Parsosonage or Vicarage béen taken away or exchanged for other without the frée consent of the Incumbent and licence from the Ordinary Have any Inclosures béen made in your Parish to the detriment of the Church by the decay of Tillage and converting Arable-land into Pasture by whom hath the same béen 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 a Priest or Deacon Episcopally Ordained according to the Laws of the Church of England If so let him produce his Orders II. IS he defamed or suspected to have obtained either his Benefice or Orders by any Simoniacal compact III. HATH he béen legally Iustituted and Inducted into his Benefice and 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 39 Articles of the Church of England established by Authority without omitting any one and there publickly declare his assent thereunto