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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.
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Church of England.
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1663
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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
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 LONDON Printed for T. Garthwait 1663. The Oath to be given unto the Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish YOV shall Swear to inquire with the best diligence that you may and to make a true answer unto every Article of this Book now given you in charge presenting every Person of your Parish that hath done any offence or omitted any duty therein mentioned And this you shall do without any favour or hatred or fear of displeasure So help you God and the contents of this Gospel Directions to the Clergy YOU are desired by your Ordinary to read these Articles distinctly unto the Churchwardens and to warn them of their Duty so often as you shall see occasion but especially to meet together some day before they are to give in their presentments and that then you confer with them in directing them about their said Presentments for the better preventing of perjury on their part ARTICLES OF VISITATION and INQUIRY EXHIBITED To the Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish in the Arch-Deaconary of DURHAM Anno MDCLXIII TITUL. I. Concerning the Fabrick Repairing Keeping clean and Furnishing of Churches and Chapels 1. IS there in your Parish a Church or Chapel with a Tower or Steeple adjoyned to it and a Chancel at the East all well and fairly built duly kept and maintained for the honour of God and for the performance of Religious duties 2. ARE the Roofs thereof well leaded or slated without well cieled within the windows well glazed the walls well plaistered the Tables of the Ten Commandments and other sentences of Scripture well placed the floors well paved the seats well framed and all things so decently ordered as may best beseem the house of God 3. HOW many Bells are there in the Tower or Steeple of your Church or Chapel have any of them that formerly belonged to it or any lead of the roofs of the Church or Chancel been imbezelled and sold away and if any such thing hath been done who did it and who consented to it and what was the value of the thing so sold or imbezelled 4. IS there a Font of Marble or other stone decently wrought and covered set up at the lower part of your Church for the administration of the Sacrament of Baptism Is there a partition between your Church and your Chancel a comely fair Table there placed at the upper part of it for the administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Are there two fair and large Coverings for it one of silk-stuff or fine cloth another of fine linen with a Plate or Paten and a Cup or Chalice of silver and two fair flagons of pewter or purer metal belonging to it Have none of all these things been purloined destroyed or made away by any person whom you can name and if they have been taken away are they again restored or other such provided in their place 5. HAVE you in your Church or in your Chancel a convenient seat erected for your Minister wherein to read the dayly Morning and Evening Service a Desk whereat to say the Letany in the midst of the Church according to the Injunctions set forth in the time of Q. Eliz. and a Pulpit for Sermons with a comely cloth before it Are you provided of a Bible in the largest volume and of the last approved Translation and in what year was it printed have you two books of Common-Prayer set forth by publick authority according to the late Act of Vniformity and are they both also of the largest volume one for the Minister and another for the Clerk to use at the celebration of all divine offices Have you likewise a book of Sermons or Homilies that were set forth in the time of King Edward the sixth and in the Reign of Queen Eliz. together with the works of Bishop Jewel in defence of the Church of England which King James commanded to be had in all Churches and a book of the Constitutions or Canons Ecclesiastical and a Table of marriages prohibited by the Law of God 6. HAVE you a large and decent Surplice one or more for the Minister to wear at all times of his publick ministration in the Church and another for the Clerk if he hath heretofore been accustomed to wear it when he assisteth the Minister Are not either of their Surplices now grown old and torn and what are they at this time worth or if new have been lately bought how much did they cost by the yard 7. HAVE you in your Vestry a Hood or Tippet for the Minister to wear over his Surplice if he be a Graduate a book of Parchment wherein to register the Christnings Marriages and Burials of your Parish another book of paper wherein to record the licences of strange Ministers that are admitted at any time to preach in your Church or Chapel and a third book wherein to write down the accompts of the Church-wardens and to keep an Inventory of all things provided and belonging to your Church Have you a strong Chest with Locks and Keys wherein to keep all these Books and other Furniture for divine services in safe custody And lastly have you a Box wherein to put and keep Alms for the poor and a Bier with a black Herse-cloth for the burial of the Dead TITUL. II. Concerning the Church-yard Parsonage-house Alms-house Glebe and Tithes 1. IS your Churchyard well and sufficiently fenced Is it decently kept without sufferance of any beasts to enter in and annoy it Hath any person incroached upon it or made a new door into it out of their own habitation or ground about it 2. IS The House of your Parson Vicar or Curate well built and kept up with all out-houses thereunto belonging in good and sufficient Repair 3. HAVE you a true note or Terrer of all the Glebe-lands Gardens Orchards Tenements and portion of Tithes appertaining to your Parsonage or Vicaridge Is it kept in your Vestry and a Copy of it delivered into the Bishops Registry 4. IS there any Alms-house Hospital or Free-School in your Parish Who was the Founder or is now the Patron thereof TITUL. III. Concerning Ministers Preachers and Lecturers 1. IS your Minister Parson or V icar a Deacon or a Priest ordained by a Bishop according to the Laws of the Church of England 2. WAS he without any Simoniacal Compact promise or payment freely presented instituted and inducted into his benefice and did he within two moneths after his Induction publickly read in your Church upon some Sunday or Holy-day in the time of Divine Service and in the Audience of his Parishioners all the 39 Articles of Religion set forth and established in the Church of England by Authority And did he then profess and publish his assent unto them all subscribing his name thereunto in the presence of the Church wardens and other