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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

and preserved and in whose hands and whether hath there a true Copy thereof under the hands of the Minister and Church-wardens been transmitted and layd up in the Bishops Registry there to continue for a perpetuall memory thereof And if you have no such Terrier yet made you the Church-wardens and Side-men together with your Parson or Vicar or in his absence your Curate are to make diligent enquiry of the Premises and to make subscribe and signe the said Terrier and to bring in a true copy of it into the Byshops Restistry as is afore sayd Second Concerning the Clergy 1. VVHether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate distinctly and reverently say Divine Service upon Sundayes and Holy-dayes and other days appointed to be observed by the Booke of Common Prayer as the Conversion of S. Paul S. Barnabas day Wednesdayes and Frydayes the Eves of every Sunday and Holy-day at fit and usuall times And doth he duly observe the Orders rits and ceremonies prescribed in the said Booke of Common Prayer as will in rea ding publique Prayers and the Litanie as also in administring the Sacraments-Solemnization of Matrimony visiting the sicke burying the dead Churching of we●men and other the like Rits and Offices of the Church in such manner and forme as in the said Booke of Common Prayer he is injoyned without any omission or addition And doth he read the Booke of the last Canons yearely and weare a Surplice according to the sayd Canons And if he be a graduate whether doth he also weare upon his Surplice such a hood as by the order of the Vniversity is sutable to his degree 2 whether have you any Lecture in your Parish If yea whether doth he twise at the lest every yeere read himselfe Divine Service both Morning and Evening two severall Sundayes publiquely in his Surplice with an Hood theron answerable to his degree of schoole and also twise in the yeere administer both Sacraments with such Rites and Ceremonies as are prescribed by the Booke of Common Prayer Also whether doth he read Divine Service according to the Liturgy Printed by authority in his Surplice and Hood before his Lecture according to his Maiestyes late directions whether doth he at any time preach in his Cloke and not in his Gowne whether doth your Preacher or Lecturer behave himselfe in his Sermons and Lectures as he ought to doe teaching obedience and edifiing his auditorie in matters of Faith and good life without intermedling with matters of State or other discourse not fit for the Pulpit 3 Whether have you any Lecture of Combination set up in your Parish if yea whether is it read by a company of grave and Orthodox Divines neer adioyning and in the same Diocesse and whether doe they preach in Gownes and not in Clokes 4 Doth your Parson Vicar or Curate bid Holy-dayes and fasting-dayes as by the Booke of Common prayer is appoynted And doth he give wa●…gs before hand to he Parishoners for the receiving the Holy Communion as the 22 Canon requireth And whether doth he administer the Holy Communion as often and at such times as that every Parishioner may receive the same at the least thrice in every yeare whereof once at Easter And whether doth your Minister receive the same himselfe on every day that he Administers it to others and use the words of institution according to the Booke at every time the Bread and Wine is renued according to the Proviso of the 21. Canon And doth he deliver the Bread and Wine to every Communicant severally and kneeling 5 Whether doth your Parson Vicar or Curate before the severall times of the Administration of the Lord's Supper admonish and exhort his Parishioners if any of them have their consciences troubled and disquieted to resort to him or to some other learned Minister and open their greife that they may receive such Ghostly counsell and comfort as their conscience may be releived and by the Minister they may have the benefit of absolution to the quiet of their conscience and avoidance of Scruple And if any man confesse his secret or hidden sinnes being sicke or whole to the Minister for the unbarthening of his conscience and receiving of spirituall consolation of minde from him doth he the said Priest or Minister or hath hee at any time revealed and made knowne to any person whatsoever any crime or offence so committed to his trust and secrecie contrarie to the 113. Canon 6 Whether hath your Minister admitted to the holy Communion any notorious offender or Schismatick contrary to the 26. and 27. Canon or hath he received any to the Communion being not of his owne cure or hath he put any from the Communion who are not publikely infamous for any notorious crime doth he alway use and never omit the signe of the Crosse in Baptisme or doth he Baptise in any Bason or other Vessell and not in the usuall Font or admit any Father to be God-father or Mother to be God-mother to their owne children or such to be God-fathers and God-mothers who have not received the holy Communion or Baptise any children that were not borne in the Parish or wilfully refuse to Baptise any Infant in his Parish being in danger having beene informed of the weaknes of the said child and whether the child dieth without Baptisme through his default 7 Doth he refuse to interre any which ought to bee interred in Christian buriall or defer the same longer then he should or bury any in Christian buriall which by the Constitutions of the Church of England or Law of the Land ought not to be so interred 8 Whether hath your Minister Married any without a King or without Banes published three severall Sundayes or holy-dayes in time of Divine Service in the severall Churches or Chappell 's of their severall above according to the Booke of Common Prayer or in times prohibited albeit the Banes were thrice published without a Licence or dispensation from the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Lord Bishop of Herford or his Chancellor first obteined in that behalfe Or not betweene the houres of 8. and 12. in the Fore-noone or have Married any in private houses or if the parties or eyther of them be under the age of 21. yeeres before their Parents or Governours have signified their consent unto him 9. Is your Minister a Preacher allowed If yea then by whom If not whether doth hee procure some who are lawfully licensed to preach monthly amongst you at the least 10. Doth your Minister being licensed preach usually according to the Canons either in his own Cure or in some other Church or Chappel neer adjoyning where no other Preacher is and how often hath he been negligent in that behalf doth he preach standing and with his hat off Or whether doth he or his Curate upon every Sunday when there is no Sermon read an Homily or some part therof according as he ought to doe or in case he be not licensed to preach doth