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A32956	Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the Diocess of Lincoln, in the first episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Robert ... Lord Bishop of Lincoln.	Church of England. Diocese of Lincoln. Bishop (1660-1663 : Sanderson); Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.	1662 (1662)	Wing C4054; ESTC R6104	7,869	15

and Holydayes 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 alwayes to be one Doth any in your Parish refuse to receive the same kneeling 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 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 he reconciled to the Church and absolved 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 marryed again Or any that being lawfully marryed and not separated or divorced by course of law do not cohabit together XI ARE there any marryed-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 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 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 else where leave any Legacy to your Church or Chappel or to the use of the poor or to any other pious and charitable purposes What were those Legacies and how have they been bestowed XIV 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 Elebe 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 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 ar 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 with-holdeth 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 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 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 Physitians Chirurgeons and Midwives I. IS there any Hospital Almes 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 Governours 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 or his Chancellor Doth your School-master teach his Scholars the Catechism of Religion set forth by Authority Doth he cause them upon Sundayes and Holy-dayes 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 practise Physick or Chirurgery or any Woman take upon her to exercise the Office of Midwife without approbation and license from the Ordinary TIT. VII Concerning Church-wardens and Side-men I. ARE the Church-wardens of your Parish yearly and duly chosen by the joynt 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. DO you the Church-wardens and Side-men take diligent care and see who of your Parishioners be absent from the Divine Service and Sermon in your Church or Chappel upon Sundayes and Holydayes And if you find any to have absented themselves without a sufficient cause do you 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 you distribute the several sums so levied among the poor of your Parish according to the law IV. DO you note them that come late to Church after Divine Service is begun or depart before it be ended Do you 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 you suffer no mis-behaviour or disorder to be done by men women or servants or children in your Church or Chappel Are you careful that none of them sit lean or lay their Hats upon the Communion-Table Do you permit no Minstrels no Moris-dancers no Dogs Hawks or Hounds to be brought or come into your Church to the disturbance of the Congregation VI. DO you 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 you 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 Diocess and do you permit no other to preach VIII Have you the Church-wardens and Side-men now sworn to give in a true answer unto all these Articles of Inquiry in all their several Titles taken sufficient time to draw up your presentments and therein consulted with your Minister for his 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 ROB. LINCOLN THE Ministers of every Parish are desired to give in the Names of such of the younger sort in their several Parishes as they judge 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 Also the Clergy within the County of Lincoln are desired to bring with them in writing a note of all such Coats of Armes as are in the Church windows and of all such Monuments Gravestones and Inscriptions whether of ancient or later times as are yet remaining in their several respective Churches or Chappels or the Chancels thereof