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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79647	Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the Diocess of VVorchester, in the episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God VValter by divine permission Lord Bishop of Worcester.	Church of England. Diocese of Worcester. Bishop (1671-1675 : Blandford); Blandford, Walter, 1619-1675.	1674 (1674)	Wing C4091bA; ESTC R173916	6,977	12

refuse to pay their Eastter Offerings and other Duties to your Minister or to pay the Rates assessed on them for the repair and Provisions of the Church 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 bin bestowed XIV Do you know or have you heard of any in your Parish who having the Presentation of an Ecclesiastical Living hath made any Simoniacal compact or gain thereby either in Money or by reserve of any part of the Tithes or Glebe belonging to that Benefice XV. Have any Pewes or Seats been erected in your Church or Chappel without leave from the Ordinary Is there any strife or contention about seats in the Church Have any occasioned Riot Clamour or Fighting in the Church at any time TIT. V. Concerning Parish Clerks and Sextons I. HAve you belonging to your Church or Chappellry a Parssh Clerk of honest life and conversation And doth he 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 your Church And are his wages duely paid unto him II. Doth he or your Sexton take care of the Church to keep it lockt and clean to open the doores and to ring the Bells in due time to call the Living to the worship of God Also to admonish them by tolling of a Passing-bell of any that are Dying thereby to meditate of their own death and to commend the others weak condition to the mercy of God TIT. VI. Concerning Hospitals and Alms-houses Schooles School-masters Physitians Chirurgions and Midwives I. WHat Hospital Alms-house or Free-school hath been founded in your Parish Are they so ordered in the Revenue and Use as the Founders appointed and the Law of the Land allowes II. What School-master private or publick is there in your Parish Is he Licenced by the Bishop Doth he teach his Scholars in the Catechism of Religion set forth by Authority Doth he cause them upon Sundaies and Holydaies orderly to repair to your Church or Chappel And see that they behave themselves there quietly and reverently during the time of divine Service Sermon III. Do any in your Parish practice Physick Chirurgery or Midwifery without Licence from the Ordinary TIT. VII Queries to be put to the Minister concerning the Church-wardens and Side-men 1. ARe the Church-wardens of your Parish yearly and duly chosen by the joint consent of the Minister and Parishioners or one of them by the Minister and the other by the Parishioners 2. Have the former and last Church-wardens given up their Accompts duly to the Parish and delivered up to the succeeding Church-wardens the money remaining in their hands together with all other things belonging to your Church or Chappel 3. Do your Church-wardens and Side-men diligently take notice of their names who without a sufficient cause are absent from Divine Service and Sermons on the Lords daies and other Holydaies Do they by Warrant from the next Justices Levy Twelve-pence by way of Distress according to Law upon their Goods in case they refuse to pay it for their wilful and causeless absence And is the money so Levyed distributed to the Poor of your Parish and kept upon account in a book 4. Do they present them that come late to Church after Divine Service is begun or depart before it be ended Do they suffer any to stand idle or talk together in the Church Porch or walk in the Church or Church-yard during the time of Prayer Preaching or other Sacred Offices 5. 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 6. 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 Diocess And do they permit no other to Preach 7. Have they the Church-wardens and Side-men who are to give in a true answer upon their Oathes unto all these Articles of Enquiry in their several Titles taken sufficient time to draw up their Presentments at home before they come to the Visitation And have they therein consulted with you their Minister for your faithful assistance FOR both you and they are seriously to consider that as the faithful discharge of your Trusts according to your Duties or Oathes is a special meanes to repress and reform all sins and disorders in your Parishes and so to preserve the honour of Religion and the peace of this Church to the glory of our God and Saviour which are the great uses and ends of all Church Government and Visitations So if you neglect your duties therein by refusing to present such crimes and faults as either you know to have been committed or otherwise have heard of by publick Fame you will not only sin against God your Consciences and the Churches Prosperity and consequently draw upon your selves the guilt of being accessary to the sad decay of Religion but also become liable to those punishments which in case of wilful omission and Perjury are by the Law to be inflicted on you for your defaults and must expect that the Bishop and his Officers will proceed against you accordingly WALTER WIGORN THe Ministers of every Parish are desired to give in the Names of such of the younger sort in their several Parishes as they shall think fit to receive Confirmation from the Bishop and to present them to him to be Confirmed Especially such as having competently learned their Catechism have not yet received the Holy Communion And every person that is to be Confirmed is to have a God-father or God-mother as a witness at their Confirmation as is appointed by the Book of Common Prayer FINIS