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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32949	Articles of visitation and enquiry, concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the arch-deaconry of Gloucester, in the first visitation of the Arch-Deacon	Church of England. Diocese of Gloucester. Bishop (1660-1672 : Nicholson); Nicholson, William, 1591-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing C4045; ESTC R40823	9,808	16

to the Form and Order of the Church of England and are there any Wills and Testaments of persons dead in your Parish that are not yet proved by lawful Authority or are any Goods of persons dying Intestate administred without a due Grant from the Ordinary did any dying in your Parish or elsewhere 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 ban bestowed or in whose hands are they detained XV. DO you know or have 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 or Reserve of Tythes or Glebe or any part thereof or upon any other Simoniacal Compact whatsoever XVI IS there any strife and contention among any of your Parish for their Pews or Seats in your Church have any new Monuments or Pews béen erected in your Chancel or in the Body of your Church or Chappel without leave from the Ordinary have any late Combe-stones been erected in your Church-yard whereby the Parishioners are prejudiced and the Ground set apart for Burials is incumbred and lessened know you any person or persons that have presumed to Brawle Fight Quarrel or strike one another in your Church Chappel or Church-yard if such what are their Names XVII DO you know any person who hath concealed the last Will and Testament of the dead or administred such goods without Order or having administred yet do neglect to perform such Wills or to pay Legacies given to the Church Poor or other Charitable uses SECT 5. Concerning Parish-Clerks and Sextons I. HAVE you belonging to your Church or Chappel a Parish-Clerk aged Twentie one Years at the least is he of honest Life and Conversation and sufficient or able to perform his Duty in Reading Writing and Singing hath he taken his Oath is he chosen by your Minister and doth he duly attend him in all Divine Services are his Wages justly paid unto him or who with-holdeth the same from him II. DOTH he or your Sexton if you have any such with diligence and care lock and open the doors of your Church at due times is any thing by his Default lost or spoiled in the Church and doth he kéep your Church or Chappel clean from Dust Cobwebs or other Annoyance doth he toll or ring the Bells at the due accustomed houres 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 SECT 6. Concerning Hospitals Schools School-Masters Physitians Chyrurgions and Midwives I. IS there any Hospital Almeshouse or Frée-School founded in your Parish who was the Founder or is now the Patron or Visitor 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 béen made concerning the same II. DOTH any man kéep a publick or private School in your Parish who is not allowed thereunto by the Bishop or his Chancellor is your School-master of sound Religion and good Life doth he teach his Scholars in the Catechism of Religion comprised in the Common-Prayer-Book doth he cause them upon Sundayes and Holydayes orderly to repair to your Church or Chappel and sée 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 Chyrurgery or any woman take upon her to exercise the Office of Mid-wife without Approbation and Licence from the Ordinary or other Licence equivolent SECT 7. Concerning Church-Wardens and Sidemen I. ARE the Church-Wardens of your Parish yearly duly chosen by the joint consent of your Minister and Parishoners or one of them by your Minister and the other by the Parishoners in defect of their joint consent II. HAVE the former and last Church-Wardens given up their just Accounts to the Parish and delivered up also to the succéeding Church-Wardens the monies 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 sée who of your Parishoners be absent from the Divine Service 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 Twelve 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 other alms given to the poor of the said Parish according to the Act of Parliament IV. DO you note them that come late to Church after Divine Service is begun or without lawful cause 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 to the disturbance of the Minister and Congregation V. DO you take care to hinder and not to suffer any misbehaviors or disorders to be done by men women 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 are you diligent to restrain all such things as may tend to the disturbance of Divine Service or the Congregation VI. DO you against every Communion provide a sufficient quantity of fine white Bread and of good Wine according to the advice and direction given you by your Minister for the number of Communicants VII DO you cause all Strangers that Preach in your Church or Chappel to subscribe their Names in a Book provided for that purpose VIII HAVE any in your Parish given the Church-Wardens or Sidemen or either of them evil words for doing their Duty according to their Oath and Conscience in making Presentment for any default IX DO you know any matter or cause which is a breach of the Laws Ecclesiastical not here expressed present the names of such as are faulty ADVERTISEMENTS THE Church-Wardens are required and charged conscionably to perform their Office and duly to consider the obligation of their Oath and the danger of Perjury For as the true discharging of their Office is the chief means whereby publick disorders sins and offences in their Parish may be reformed and punished So if they wilfully refuse or omit to present such crimes or faults as either they know to have been committed or otherwise have heard of by publick Fame then in such Cases the Bishop and his Officers are to proceed against them as in Cases of wilful Omission and Perjury When you have seriously considered of these Articles you are to write an Answer or Presentment particularly and truly according to your Consciences and to bring your Presentments to the Visitation subscribed with your hands FINIS