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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02165	Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and sidemen of every parish within the diocese of Exeter. In the second episcopal visitation of the right reverend father in God Seth, by divine permission Lord Bishop of Exeter.	Church of England. Diocese of Exeter. Bishop (1662-1667 : Ward); Ward, Seth, 1617-1689.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4041B; ESTC R173877	7,384	15

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 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 custom XII ARE there any belonging to your Parish who refuse to pay their dutie 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 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 dead 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 Legary to your Church or Chappel what were those Legacies and how have they been bestowed XIV 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 and doth he duly attend him in all Divine Services at 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 and 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 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 Almes-house or Free-School not of the Kings Foundation or Patronage 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 Founder 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 Doth your Schoolmaster teach his Scholars the Catechism of Religion set forth by Authority Doth he cause them upon Sundays and Holy-days 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 practice Physick or Chirurgery or any Woman take upon her to exercise the Office of a Midwife without approbation and license from the Ordinary TIT. VII Quaeries to be put to the Minister concerning the Church-wardens and Side-men 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 moneys remaining in their hands together with all other things belonging to your Church or Chappel III. DO the Church-wardens and Side-men take diligent care and see who of the Parishioners be absent from the Divine Service and Sermon in your Church or Chappel upon Sundays and Holy-days And if they find any of them to have absented themselves without a sufficient cause do they by warrant from some of the Iustices of Peace levy of them 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 do they distribute the several sums so levied among the poor of your Parish according to the Law IV. DO they present them that come late to Church after Divine Service is begun or depart before it be ended Do they suffer none to stand idle or talk together in the Church-porch or to walk in the Church or Church-yard during the time of Prayers Preaching or other Sacred Offices V. DO they suffer no mis-behaviour or disorder to be done by men women or servants or children in your Church or Chappel Are they careful that none of them sit lean or lay their Hats upon the Communion-Table Do they permit no Minstrels no Morris-dancers no Dogs Hawks or Hounds to be brought or come into your Church to the disturbance of the Congregation VI. 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 Communicants VII DO they cause all Strangers that preach in your Church or Chappel to subscribe 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 do they permit no other to preach VIII HAVE they the Church-wardens and Side-men now sworn to give in a true Answer unto all these Articles of Enquiry in all their several Titles taken sufficient time to draw up their Presentments and therein consulted with you their Minister for your faithful assistance FOR know you assuredly That as the true discharging of your Office is the chief means whereby publick Disorders Sins and Offences in your Parish may be reformed and punished So if you wilfully refuse to present such crimes and faults as either you know to have been committed or otherwise have heard of by publick fame That in such cases the Bishop and his Officers are to proceed against you in their Ecclesiastical Courts as in Cases of wilful Omission and Perjury SETH EXON 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 and to present them to be confirmed especially such as having competently learned their Catechism have not yet received the Holy Communion and to present them to the Bishop to be confirm'd as there shall be opportunity