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A32959	Articles to be enquired of within the diocese of Lincolne, in the general and triennial visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, William, by divine permission Lord Bishop of that diocese, anno Dom. 1671 et translationis suæ anno quarto.	Church of England. Diocese of Lincoln. Bishop (1667-1675 : Fuller); Fuller, William, 1608-1675.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4060; ESTC R41981	12,436	17

of God and his Church Or any living as Man and Wife who are within the Degrees prohibited Or any who being lawfully married and never divorced do yet live asunder Or any who being lawfully divorced Can. 107. do live together again Or being separated for Adultery have afterwards entermarried with any other during the life of their first Consort 11. Are there any Married-Women in your Parish who Rubrick Com. Pray 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 12. Are there any belonging to your Parish 27 Hen. 8.20 Rubrick Com. Pray 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 Can. 85. as be requisite for the performance of all Divine Offices there Present the Names of such as do refuse 13. Do any refuse to bury their Dead according to the Rites of the Church of England Rubr. Do any bury their Dead in unconsecrated places Can. 92. Name them 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 Lind. lib. 3. de Test Did any dying in your Parish or elsewhere leave any Legacy to your Church or Chappel to the use of the Poor or any other Charitable Purposes What were those Legacies and how have they been bestowed 14. Is there any strife and contention among any of your Parish for their Pews or Seats in the Church Have any new Pews been erected in the Chancel or in the Body of the Church or Chappel without leave from the Ordinary 15. Do you know Act Parl. 1671. or have heard of any Person or Persons who detain in their hands any Money collected for the Poor afflicted by the late Plague or Burning of the City of London what is the sum and by whom is it detained TIT. V. Concerning Ecclesiastical Officers 1. DO you know that any Ecclesiastical Judge Vide Oath Can. 127. or any of the Registrars or Apparators or other Officer belonging to the Ecclesiastical Courts hath taken Rewards or Gifts for perverting Justice or denied Justice to any man who lawfully required the same 2. Do you know or have heard that any of the said Judges or Registrars or any belonging to the said Courts do favour any Popish or other Recusants or do forbear to enquire cite denounce and censure them 3. Have the said Ecclesiastical Judges appointed and constituted certain and determined Surrogates and Substitutes Can. 128. such as are Persons of Gravity Favourers of true Religion and men of modest and honest Conversation Or otherwise have they appointed persons scandalous for being addicted to Intemperance Incontinence or any kind of vice or Persons that are Favorers Promoters or Assisters of Clandestine Marriages or such as care not to preserve the necessary Discipline and honour of the Church 4. Whether hath the Chancellor Commissaries or any using Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction upon the Presentment or Information given unto him of any foul Offences or Scandals in your Parish not punished the Persons detected so that the Congregation hath not been satisfied both of Justice done and of the amendment of the Party and who were the Parties committing the said Offences as Incest Adultery Fornication Drunkenness Blasphemy Heresie Clandestine Marriage Profaning of the Church or such like 5. Whether hath any Ordinary in the Diocess commuted the Pennance of any Delinquent convicted Vide Can. An. 1571. Tit. Cancellarii Can. 1597 C. nequa c. Can. 115. What persons have so commuted and how hath the Money been disposed of to Charitable Uses as far as you know or have heard 6. Whether do the Ecclesiastical Judges suffer any persons detected for Crimes to sue and molest Churchwardens who detected them for the same 7. Whether do you know or have heard that any of the said Judges when the deceased died without a Will Plowden An. 7 Eliz. fol. 278. hath assigned any part of the Goods to Charitable Uses and how have you known them to have been employed 8. Whether in such Cases of dying without a Will doth the Ecclesiastical Judge send out Intimation to summon the Creditors Wife Stat. 21 H. 8. Children and Kindred to come and take Administration and commit the same as far as the Law permits not to needy persons but to able men and such as enter sufficient Bond to preserve the Estate and to answer all that is due and save the Lord Bishop harmless 9. Whether doth the said Judge Ecclesiastical when a Benefice is vacant commit Sequestration to able men that do answer and account truly for the mean profits And whether are the Parishes during the vacancy well served with able Ministers 10. Whether do you know or have credibly heard that the said Judges Ecclesiastical Registers or Apparators do take any extraordinary or more Fees for Probate of Wills Administrations Accounts Can. 135. Assignations of Portions or Citations or for any other Act or thing done or sped by them then are allowed by the Statutes of the Land or any Fees greater then heretofore have been accustomed in other Businesses belonging to their Courts 11. Whether do you know or have heard Can. 134. that any Registrar of the said Courts hath sped any Act or dismissed any Person detected without the knowledg and actual consent of the Judge 12. Doth the Chancellor Commissary or Official Can. 103. Constit 1597. Tit de moderandis Indulgentiis or any of their Surrogates carelesly or for hope of gain disperse or grant Licenses for the Celebration of Matrimony until it do appear to the person himself who is Judge in these Cases by the Oaths of two sufficient Witnesses one of them known to the Judge or to some person whom the Judge dares trust in this particular That the express consent of the Parents or Parent if one be dead or Guardians or Guardian of the Parties is thereunto had and obtained and until one of the Parties to be married have personally sworn that he believeth there is no let or impediment of Precontract 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 13. Whether is there in every place where Ecclesiastical Courts are Can. 136. kept and also in the Registry of every such Office or Court a Table of Fees set up that every one may read the same containing all the Fees that every Officer of the Court ought to take according to the Canon made at the Convocation under Archbishop Whitguift An. Dom. 1597. 14. Whether are