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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02158	Articles of inquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the Arch-Deaconry of Durham. Anno Dom. MDCLXIII.	Church of England.	1663 (1663)	Wing C4033AA; ESTC R173871	10,443	18

long have they been so excommunicated And do any others of your Parish keep society with them before they be reconciled to God and the Church 11. ARE there any living in your Parish who have been unlawfully married contrary to the laws of God or any that being lawfully separated and divorced have been married again the former husband or wife still living Or any that being lawfully married and not separated or divorced by course of law do yet live a sunder and cohabit not together 12. ARE there any married-women in your Parish who refuse after their safe delivery from the peril of Child-birth to come and make their publick thanksgiving to God in your Church as they are required to do by the Book of Common Prayer And when they come so to do do they come decentlie veiled and make their offerings according to custome 13. 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 Chapel and for the providing of such books furniture and ornaments as be requisite for the performance of all divine offices there 14. 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 before lawfull authority Or any Goods administred without a due grant from the Ordinary Did any dying in your Parish or elsewhere leave any legacy to your Church or Chapel or to the use of poor and needy persons among you or to any other pious and charitable put poses What were those legacies and how have they been bestowed 15. IS there any Cospital Almshouse or Free-School founded in your parish And is the same well governed and used according to the foundation and Ordinances thereof 16. 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 17. IS there no strife and contention among any of your Parish for their Pews or Seats in your Church And whether have they erected any Pews in your Chancel or elswhere in the body of your Church or Chapel without leave and licence from the Ordinary 18. KNOW you any person or persons that have presumed to brawl fight or strike one another in your Church or in your Church-yard And if any such be what are there names 19. Whether have you any prophane persons who shewing thereby the little regard they have to the house of God make water against the Church walls or use other unseemliness about the same 20. Whether have you any Inn-keeper Vintner or Alehouse-keeper who in time of divine Service entertain any one either drinking or gaming TITUL. V. Concerning Parish-Clerks and Sextons 1. HAVE you belonging to your Church or Chapelry 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 or singing Is he chosen by your Minister and doth he duly attend him in all divine Services at the Church Doth he wear a Gown when he so attendeth and a Surplice over it if heretofore the Custome hath been such among you Are his wages duly paid unto him or who with-holdeth the same from him 2. 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 you Church or Chapel clean from noysome dust cobwebs litter straw or any other annoyance Doth be toul or ving 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 go and toul 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 TITUL. VI. Concerning Curates School-masters Physicians Chirurgeons and Midwives 1 IS there any Curate or Minister imployed under the Parson or Vicar of your Parish Is he admitted and licensed to serve in that office by the Bishop of the Diocess Doth he demean himself soberly gravely and religiously in his place Doth he instruct the Youth of your Parish in the Catechism appointed them Is he diligent in visiting sick persons examining them in their Christian faith exhorting them to works of Charity if they be able to do them to make restitution where they have done any wrong to remit all injuries that they have received and to ask forgiveness of God and all others whom they have offended 2. DOTH any man in your parish practise Physick or Chirurgerie or any woman the office of a Midwife without approbation and lawfull License of the Ordinary 3. DOTH any man keep a publick or private School in your parish but such as be allowed thereunto by the Bishop or his Chancellor Doth he teach his Scholars the Catechism of Religion set forth by Authoritie Doth he cause them upon Sundaies and Holi-daies orderly to repair to your Church or Chapel and see that they behave themselves there quietly and humblie during the time of divine Service and Sermon TITUL. VII Concerning Church-Wardens and Sidemen 1 ARE the Church-werdens 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 2. HAVE the former and last Churchwardens 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 Chapel by Bill indented 3. 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 Chapel upon Sundaies and Holidaies 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 4 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 5. DO you suffer no misbehaviour or disorder to be done by men women or servants or children in your Church or Chapel Are you carefull that none of them sit lean or lay their Hats upon the Communion Table Do you permit no Minstrels no Morisdancers no dogs hawks or hounds to be brought or come into your Church but set your Sexton to keep them out that the Congregation and the Minister performing divine Service or preaching his Sermon may not be disturbed by them 6. DO you against the time of every holy Communion apppointed in your Church or Chapel provide a sufficient quantitie of fine white bread and of good Wine according to the advice and direction given you by your Minister for the number of Communicants 7 DO you cause all Preachers coming from other places to make Sermons in your Church or Chapel to subscribe their names the same day they preach 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 8. HAVE you the Churchwardens and Sidemen now sworn to give in a true answer unto all these Articles of Inquirie in all their several Titles had a sufficient time to draw up your presentments and therein consulted or intreated your Minister for his faithfull 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 them 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 wilfull omission and Perjury THe Minister of every Parish may joyn in Presentment with the Church-wardens and Side-men and if they will not present then the Ministers themselves being the persons that should have the chief care for the suppressing of sin and impiety in their parishes may present the crimes aforesaid and such things as shall be thought to require due reformation Can. 113. There must be several presentments made to every several Article FINIS