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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69746	Articles of inquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the Diocesse of Lichfield and Coventry, in the first episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, John, by divine providence Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, in the first year of his consecration, An. Dom. 1662.	Church of England. Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry. Bishop (1661-1670 : Hacket); Hacket, John, 1592-1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing C4052; ESTC R6535	4,684	12

of Common-Prayer XIII IS your Minister Lecturer Curate a man of sober chast just unblameable Life and spare not to present him or them that are not every way examples of Godliness XIV DOTH your Minister with the Church-wardens take care duely every year to send in the names of all such in his Parish as have been Baptized Married Buried Excommunicated that they may be enrolled in the Bishops Registry XV. DOTH your Minister maintain peace with his Neighbours and study to keep them in peace as much as in him lies Doth he take diligent care to reduce all Sectaries Separatists and Refractory persons to the o●edience of the Doctrine and Government of this Church And doth he offer himself being an able Learned man to confer with Popish Recusants to convert them and to bring them into the bosom of this Church Inquiries about the Parishioners I. DO all your Parishioners of due Age resort to the Divine Service and Sermons in your Church on Sundays and Holy-days and on Wednesday and Friday mornings if conveniently they can II. DO they or any of their servants occupy themselves in bodily Labours on Sundays or Holy-days do they open their Shops and sell Wares on those daies or do Vintners Victuallers Inn-keepers or others receive any into their Houses to tipple and waste time idlely on those daies except they be Travellers that are upon a Iourney in necessary occasions III. DO your Parishioners in the time of Divine Service Sermon or Homily behave themselves reverently Men and Youths with their Hats of both Sexes giving due attention none disturbing holy Duties by talking walking removing going out or using any other offence and do they all kneel stand up make answers in time of Divine Service as you find it appointed in the Rubricks of the Common-Prayer-Book IV. SUCH as may be discerned to be Papists Hereticks Scismaticks Anabaptists Separatists Quakers and the like are not only to be presented but twelve pence is to be Leavied on every such person and so many of them for every Sunday as absent themselves from the Church and to be employed to the maintenance of the Poor whereof account is to be made to the Iustices of the Peace V. SUCH are to be presented as are known and much suspected to be Incestuous or to be Married in Incestuous or unlawfull degrees of Blood likewise you ought to present known Adulterers Fornicators Blasphemers common Swearers Drunkards Sorcerers or Resorters to Sorcerers VI. ARE there any above the Age of sixteen years in your Parish and especially that have been examined by your Minister in the Catechism before that do not come to the Lords Supper to partake it reverently upon their knees three times every year at the least the Feast of Easter or the time thereabout being one VII ARE there any in your Parish that keep their Children unbaptized enquire diligently and return the Parents or Governors names and the list of those Children by such names as you can learn VIII DO all Women that have been safely delivered come to the Church in due time to partake of the Office of Thanksgiving after the Orders of the Common-Prayer and do such Women pay their accustomed Duties IX DO your Parishioners bring their Dead to be decently Buried after the Service of the Church in their own Parish grounds or if they carry the Dead away to be Buried in some other place whether they be Lodgers or other Strangers do they first obtain leave of the Minister of the Parish and have his Certificate X. DO any of your Parish usually frequent other Parish Churches and absent themselves from their own XI ARE there any that keep private Conventicles in their Houses or abroad which are resorted to by those that are known or suspected for Sectaries or any way disaffected to the present Church of England XII DO your Parishioners pay their Easter Offerings and accustomed Duties called Vicarage Tithes or by any other name to their Minister XIII ARE there any Wills or Testaments of persons dead in your Parish that are not proved by a lawfull Iudge or do you know or hear of any goods administred without due grant from the Ordinary XIV WHAT Legacies have been given to pious uses in your Parish which are utterly defrauded or not imployed to the right use according to the Will of the Doner XV. ARE your Seats and Pews in the Church decently kept And are the Parishioners placed in them without offence and contention Inquiries about Church-Officers and other Persons I. IF any Stranger come to Preach in your Parish Church or Chapel on Sundays and Holy-days at Christnings Funerals Marriages or any other occasion do the Church-wardens demand to see his Orders and Licence to Preach which he had from the Bishop and if he can shew none do you inhibit him from Preaching II. DO you suffer excommunicated Persons to be Buried in any part of your Church Chancel or Church-yard III. DOTH your Parish Clark and Sexton if you have any such do their Duties obediently and diligently Are they of honest Life and Conversation Is your Parish Clark duely chosen by the Minister And is he allowed by the Ordinary Can he write and read Doth he make Responsions to the Hymns and other Suffrages of the Liturgy IV. IS there a School publick or private in your Parish Is the School-Master and Vsher if he have one allowed by the Bishop or his Chancellour Doth he breed his Scholars Religiously and doth he teach them the Church Catechism V. HAVE you any Physician Chirurgion or Midwife in your Parish that practise without Licence VI. ARE your Church-wardens duely chosen in the week after Easter day and after the custom and manner of the Parish VII HAVE the Church-wardens who are to surrender their places upon the Election of new ones given up their accounts to the Parishioners and are their accounts allowed or have they falsified their trust wherein and how much VIII ALSO have your Church-wardens been diligent to repair the Church to keep it decent and comely Have they preserved the Font for Baptism fit and handsome for that use likewise have they look'd carefully to the Communion Table to the Plate and all Vtensills pertaining to it And have they provided such fine white Bread and good Wine as was fit for the Sacrament according to advice taken with the Minister LEt the Church-wardens and Side-men inquire Diligently what answers they will and can give to all these particulars upon Oath setting the fear of God and the good of his Church before their Eyes FINIS