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A32941	Articles of visitation and enquiry within the diocess of Chichester, in the first episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Peter, by divine permission, Lord Bishop of Chichester in the second year of his consecration.	Church of England. Diocese of Chichester. Bishop (1669-1675 : Gunning); Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.	1670 (1670)	Wing C4027; ESTC R40820	16,328	25

ARTICLES OF VISITATION and ENQUIRY Within the Diocess of CHICHESTER In the First Episcopal Visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God PETER by Divine Permission Lord Bishop of Chichester In the Second Year of his Consecration LONDON Printed by A. Maxwell 1670. The Tenour of the Oath to be administred to the Church-Wardens and Side-men YOU shall Swear diligently to Enquire and true Presentment make of every person now or lately of your Parish which hath made any default or offence enquirable by the King's Laws Ecclesiastical and become known unto you For your direction wherein you shall duly consider all and every of these Articles given you in charge and neither present nor spare to present any for favour or malice hope of reward or fear of displeasure So help you God Concerning Religion and the Government of the Church established in this Realm IMprimis Is there any in your Parish who are guilty of Atheistical or blasphemous Speeches against the Majesty of Almighty God or Scoffers of Religion ●n the Soul 's future Immortal state Is there any guilty of Speeches of Infidelity against the faith of our Lord Iesus Christ Any who in their communication or otherwise defend the Sociman or Arrian Heresie denying the Eternal Godhead of the Lord Iesus or Pelagian denying the nece●sity of Grace and of Baptism for the washing away of Original Sin II. Is there any one that doth affirm or teach and who is he that the Holy Scripture doth not contain all things necessary to Salvation or that what is contain'd in the thrée Créeds ought not throughly to be receiv'd and believed or that the Church hath not Authority in Controversies of faith III. Is there any in your Parish that doth affirm and teach that the Church of England by law established is not a true and Apostolical Church and a true member of the Catholick Church having in her ●ll things necessary to Salvation Or is there any that d●th ●ffirm and teach that the xxxix Articles agreed upon by the Arch B●shops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London A D. 1562 are in any part erroneous or superstitious or such as may not with a good conscience be subscribed unto IV. Is there any in your P●rish that doth affirm and teach that the form of God's W●rship in the Church of England established by law and contain'd in the book of Common-Prayer and Administration of Sacraments is a corrupt Popish or any way superstitious or unlawful Worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to Scripture or to the Doctrine and Worship in the Catholick or Primitiv● Church V. Is there any that doth affirm or teach and who is he that Baptism of Infants according to the Church of England is unlawful or unnecessary or better to be delayed or not appointed for the Remission of Sins or that it may be repeated or that Infants duly baptized according to the ●hurch's Order and dying before they commit ●ctual st●●●re not saved everlastingly through God's grace given th●m in Baptis● VI. Is there any who doth affirm or teach that the K●ng's Majesty hath not the same Preroga●ive in C●uses E●●●●si●st●cal which we see hath been given ●lwaies to ●ll god●y Princes by God himself both among the Iews and in the Christian Church Or that doth any way deny or impugn the King's Majesty's Royal Authority or Supremacy in C●use● Ecclesiastical in this Realm Or who denies that within his Maiestie's Realms of England Scotland and 〈◊〉 and all other his Dominions and Countries our Lord the King is the highest Power under God to whom the chief G●vernment of all Estates whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in ●ll Causes doth appertain without any subjection due from Him or his Subjects to any foreign Iurisdiction VII Is there any who doth affirm and teach and who is he that the Government of the Church of 〈◊〉 under his Majesty by arch-Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans Arch-De●cons or other chief Ministers bearing office in the same or that the forms or manner of Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons established by law contains any thing that is Antichristi●n or repugnant to the ●ord of God or to the practice of the Catholick Church Or th●t pers●●s so ordained Bishops Priests or De●cons h●●e not s●ffic●ent external calling or that they ought not to be 〈◊〉 truly Bishops Priests or Deacons till they h●ve some other external calling unto those divine Offices or 〈◊〉 teaches that those three Holy Orders above●●●● have not b●en ever in Christ's Church even from the Apostles time VIII Is there any in your P●●i●h ●nd who is h● that by separation of himself from the Church or by joyning himself to Convonticles breaks the Communion of the Church of England or accounts of others as prophane and none of the godly for their orderly conforming themselves to the Church of England as established by law Or that any combining themselves in Assemblies or Congreg●tions of the King 's born Subjects within this Land other then such as by the laws of this Land are held and allowed may truly take unto themselves the name of another purer Church or of the Church of England IX Is there any who doth affirm and teach and who is he that the Rites and Ceremonies and the Rules of the Chu●ch of England by law established are Antichristian supe●stitious or frivolous Or any way unlawful or burdensome or such as may not be subscrib'd unto and practis'd with a good consc●ence or that the Church hath no power to decrée any such Rites and Ceremonies Concerning the Clergy their Duty and Office I. IS the Parson Uicar or also Curate in holy Orders by Episcopal Ordination a Pri●st ordained according to the laws of the Church of England hath he béen legally instituted and inducted into his Benefice or is he known or suspected to have obtain●d his Parsonage or Uicaridge by any Symoniacal Contract II. Did he within two Months after his Induction publickly in your Church or Chappel upon som● Sunday or Holy-day in the time of D●vine S●rvice openly read the xxxix Articles established by Authorit● in this Church A.D. 1562 and then profess and publish his assent and subscribe his name thereto in the presence of the Church W●rdens Do you not know or have you not ●ear● that ●n his reading or pretending to read those xxxix Articles he p●ssed over some one or more of them or some part of one or more and what part of the Articles was it that he left u●read Di● your P●rson Uicar or Curate upon some Lord●-d●y before ●he Feast of St. ●●rtholomew A.D. 1662 or some Lord●-day within two Months after Sis Induction solemnly read in your Church or Chappel both Morning and Evening Prayer as it is appointed in the book Common-Prayer by law established And did he after such reading publickly before the

Congregation declare his un●eigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained as is prescribed in the Act of Parliament lately made for the Uniformity of publick Prayers And did he within thrée Months after the said Feast of St. Bartholomew 1662 or within three Months after his Induction into your Church or Chappel publickly upon some Lords-day in your Parish-Church read a Certificate under the hand and seal of the Arch-Bishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess That he the said Parson Uicar or Curate did before his admission to be incumbent subscribe a declaration of the unlawfulness to take up arms against the King of his conforming to the Liturgy of this Church and of his disavowing the unlawful Oath commonly call'd The Solemn League and Covenant according as is prescribed in the aforesaid Act for Uniformity III. Or after his lawful Entrance is your Pa●son or Uicar resident upon his benefice or if his residence be legally dispens●d with is his place supplied by a Curate allowed by the Bishops and a licensed Pre●c●er and const●ntly resident amongst you and what yearly Stipend doth your Minister allew him And if your P●rson or Uicar be both resident himself and keep a Curate doth he notwithstanding himself at least once a Month openly read Common-Prayer in your Church or Ch●ppel and if there be occ●sion administer each Sacrament in such order manner and form as is prescribed in the Liturgy and Canons of this Church IV. Having both lawful Entrance and Residence among you is he your Parson Uicar or also Curate of blameless Conversation the Husband of one Wife sober grave not double tongu'd not given to much wine not greedy of filthy lucre ruling his Children and his own house well sound in faith in chari●y in patience Or on the contrary is he a frequenter of T●verns or Ale-houses a common G●mester a prophane or obscene jester a swearer railer scoffer or qu●rreller Doth he set Neighbours at v●riance one with another Doth he f●miliarly converse with persons Excommunicate ungodly or vicious Doth he resort to suspected and infamous houses Or is he himself vehemently suspected of Incontinency with any person within or without your Parish Or doth your Curate or Minister lodg or board at any Tavern Inn Ale-house or house of any ill report V. Doth your Minister or Curate plainly audibly distinctly and reverently read the Divine Service of Morning and Evening-Prayer without any diminution addition or alteration upon all Sundays and Holy-days not omitting also other days appointed by the book of Common-Prayer as fit and usual times as Wednesdays and Fridays with the Litanies added and the Eves of every Sunday and Holy-day with Ember and Rogation days And moreover when he is at home and not otherwise reasonably hindred himself or not able to get two or three gathered together doth he every day say Divine Service Morning and Ebening in the Parish-Church where he ministers and cause a Bell to be toll'd thereunto that the People may come to hear Gods Word and to pray with him VI. Doth your Minister reverently and publickly at the Font only administer the Holy Sacrament of Baptism Or doth he refuse or delay to Christen any child that is brought to him to Church on any Sunday or Holy-day knowledg thereof being given to him over Night or in the Morning before Morning-Prayer or neglect to perswade all those who have the use of Reason and are still unbaptiz'd having been seduced by An●b●p●ists to come to Holy Baptism and doth he take care for their Baptism as in the Common-Prayer-book is prescribed Or doth he refuse or neglect at any time to sign the child baptized with the sign of the Cross or doth he admit such to be God-fathers or God-mothers who are either the Parents or who have not themselves receiv'd the Holy Communion VII Doth your Minister duly and reverently administer the Holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ our Lord so often at least and at such times as every Parishioner may Commu●icate at the least three times in every year in publick whereof the Feast of Easter to be one And doth he reverently and carefully in all things obse●ve all the Churches Order in the Celebration D●th he give warning publickly in the Church at Morning-Prayer the Sunday before for the better preparation of his Parishioners And do such as purpose to Communicate signifie their Names at least some time the day before and when he seeth the People negligent to come to the Communion doth he use the Churches second Exhortation and when there is no Communion doth your Minister every Sunday and Holy-day through●ut the year re●d the Communion Service so much of it as is appointed to be read by the Book of 〈◊〉 Prayer and a● the place app●●n●e● the●eb● profess●ng his and the Churches re●diness to the ●ore frequent Celebr●tion of th● Holy Eucharist if Communi●●●●s 〈◊〉 of wanting V●II Doth your Minister wittingly admit to the receiving the Holy Communion any one such who is known to live in open and notorious sin without repentance or that h●s wronged his Neighbour by word or deed so as th●t the Congregation is thereby offended or such betwixt whom he perceives malice or hatred to reign and will not be reduc'd by him to a reconcilement or to any who refuse to be present at the other publick Prayers of the Church or to any th●t be common or notorious depravers of the Book of Common-Prayer or of any thing contained in the xxxix Articles or in the Book of Ordaining Bishops Priests and Deacons or to any that has spoken against his Majesties Supream Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical except such persons do acknowledg to the Minister before you the Church-Wardens that he is sorry for the same and promise under his hand if he can write or otherwise by word of mouth that he will do so no more Or lastly to any that refuse to receive the said Holy Communion knéeling and of all such persons by him put from the communion doth he give an account to his Ordinary according to Law IX Doth he at the Celebration of the Holy Communion in the due places appointed by the Liturgy take the Paten into his hands and break the bread and lay his hand upon all the bread and take the cup into his hand and lay his hand upon every Uessel in which there is any Wine to be consecrated and when that which is consecrated is spent doth he communicate any persons without consecrating more according to the form prescribed and doth he severally deliver the Bread and Wine to every Communicant and at his delivering the same doth he rehearse the whole form prescribed in the Communion-book saying The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ c. And The Blood o● ou● Lord Jesus Christ which wa●shed c Or doth he use only some part thereof

and Governours if their Parents be de●d signified unto him XXII Or have any any such Licenses as above mention'd that you know of been granted by any under the Iurisdiction of this Dioc●ss for the Celebr●tion of Matrimony until it do appear to the person himself who is judg in these cases by the O●ths of two sufficient witnesses one of them known to the Iudg or to some person whom the Iudg dares trust in this particular That the express consent of the Parents or Parent if one be dead or Guardian or Guardi●ns of the Parties is thereunto had and obtain'● and until one of the Parties to be married have pesonally sworn that he believeth there is no let or impediment of Pre-contract Kindred or Alliance nor any other lawful cause nor any suit commenced in any Ecclesiastical Court to bar or hinder the proceeding of the said Matrimony XXIII Hath your Minister admitted any Women begotten withChi●d in Adultery or Fornication to be churched without license from the Ordinary XXIV Doth your Minister serve more than one Church or Chappel in distinct Parishes on one day if so how f●r distant are those Churches or Chappels which he so serveth XXV Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate if commanded by the Ordinary openly some Sunday denounce and declare for to Excommunicate all such as stand Excommunicate by the Law of the Church that others may be admonished to refrain their Company hath he s●id Divine Service whilst he knew such Excommunicate persons to have been in the Church or admitted such to the Communion whilst they stood so excommunicate XXVI Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate having convenient notice given delay or refuse to bury any that are brought to the Church or Church-yard according to the form prescrib'd in the Book of Common-Prayer except such as die unbaptized Excommunicate 〈◊〉 Excommunicationepunc and no man able to testifie their Repentance or have l●id violent hands upon themselves XXVII Doth your Minister in the Parish Church or Chappel where he hath charge read the Book of Can●ns and Constitutions agréed on at the Synod holden at London A.D. 1603 once every year upon some Sundays or Holy-days in the afternoon before Divine Service and doth he so divide the same as the one half may be read one day and the other half the other day XXVIII Is any Lecture preach●d in your Church is he or are they who preach it Licensed so to do by the Bishop Doth every such one before his Lecture either read the whole publick Service himself appointed for that day by the Church in his Surplice or at least be present at the whole reading thereof and is he in all respects conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England Or doth he any way ende●vour to bring the Parson or Uicar of the place into disrepute with his Parishioners XXIX Doth every one abide in his own calling whereunto he is called viz. Doth any Lay-man that is not duly ordain'd openly read Common-Prayer or execute any Ministerial duty in your Church Or is there any Clergy-man viz. in Holy Orders who doth voluntarily relinquish those his Orders and use himself as a Lay-man only without taking any care of the Church of God Concerning the Pari●hioners I HAve you any 〈◊〉 or person living in your Parish tha● to you● 〈◊〉 live not as becomes a Christian according to his 〈◊〉 and vow made in his Baptism viz. de 〈…〉 world●y 〈◊〉 living sob●●●y j●stly and god 〈…〉 II. 〈…〉 in your Parish who wilfully absent themselves 〈…〉 Chu●ch or Ch●●pel either at Morning or 〈…〉 up●n S●ndays and other days ●ppointed by 〈…〉 Or who come late to the Ch●rch or 〈…〉 b●fore Service be done and the blessing 〈…〉 up●n ●ny Holy-days imploy themselves in thei 〈…〉 labour or apply or permit their servants so to 〈…〉 in 〈◊〉 of u●ge●t necessity as may be in Ha●vest have you any that upon such days kéep open shops or sell wares especially in time of Divine Service Or have you any Uintuers Inn-keep●rs or other Uictuallers or sel●ers of Bée● or Ale that permit any on such days to tipple or game in their houses or upon any pretence whatsoever except in some necessity as of sickness to remain in their houses in the time of Divi●e Service or Sermon forenoon or afternoon upon those d●ys or any th●t will come to hear S●●mons but will not come to Common-Prayer and Worship of G●● appointed in this Church III A●● there any in your Parish of years of unde●standing that remain unbaptiz'd or any that refuse to send their Infants to be b●p●iz●d publickly in the Church except in cases of necessi●y or in such cases do they procure them to be b●ptiz'd at home in due manner according to the order of the Church of England Or any persons that being unconfirmed are not brough●●o confirmation or being of years neglect themselves to seek it upon pretence of having receiv'd the Communion or Orders or upon any other pretence whats●ever Or are there any that being Sixteen years of Age do not receive the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist three times in the year whereof E●ster to be one Or that doth forsake their own Parish-Church to receive elsewhere Or are there any marryed Women who after their delivery from the Pai● and Peril of Child-bearing refuse in convenient time to return a pubblick Thansgiving to God according to the Order o● the Church Or are there any that refuse to bury their d●●d according to the Rites of the Church IV. Do any in your Parish entertain in their house any Sojou●n●● common Guests or other persons who ●e●use to ●requent Divine Service or receive the Holy Communion as aforesaid and what are the names qualities and conditions of such S●journ●rs V. Do any refuse to be uncovered during the ●i●e of Divine Service or dev●utly to kneel w●en by the Common-Prayer-book they are comm●nded so to do or to stand up at the Glory be to the Father c. and at the C●●●ds and Holy G●sp●l and to make answer at all the 〈…〉 appointed by the the said Book and due reverence when the N●me of ou● Lord Jesus is mentioned And say the Cre●d and the Lor●'s 〈◊〉 in a loud voyce with the Minister 〈…〉 in the time of Divine Service behave themselves 〈…〉 walking talking whispering laughing or sleepi●● VI. Do any persons 〈…〉 into your Church in time of Divine 〈…〉 or d●th any other person disturb your Ministe● doing 〈◊〉 part of his Ministerial Office or 〈…〉 challenge one another or fight in the Church or 〈…〉 Or are any Plays Feasts Drinkings 〈…〉 in your Church or Church-yard VII Do an● 〈◊〉 ●n you● P●rish ●egles to ●●use 〈…〉 or other Persons living in their 〈…〉 yet learn't the Church's Catechism to 〈…〉 come to Church on Sundays Holy-days 〈…〉 by their Minister and instru●te● therein 〈…〉 any in your Parish Master or S●●v●nt 〈◊〉