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A32960	Articles of visitation & enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and sidemen, of every parish within the diocess of Lincoln, at the primary visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of that diocess	Church of England. Diocese of Lincoln. Bishop (1675-1691 : Barlow); Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing C4062; ESTC R41982	5,763	11

ARTICLES OF VISITATION ENQVIRY Concerning Matters ECCLESIASTICAL Exhibited to the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-men Of every Parish within the Diocess of LINCOLN At the Primary Visitation of the Right Reverend Father in GOD THOMAS Lord Bishop of that Diocess LONDON Printed in the Year 1679. The Tenor of the Oath to be Administred to the Church-wardens and Sides-men of every Parish YOU shall swear in Truth Judgement and Righteousness faithfully to execute the Office of a Church-Warden within your Parish and according to the best of your S●●ll and Knowledge Present such Things and Persons as by these Articles and the Ecclesiastical Laws of this Realm you know to be Presentable So help you GOD. ARTICLES OF VISITATION ENQUIRY Within the DIOCESS of LINCOLN TIT. I. Concerning Churches and Chappels with the Ornaments and Furniture thereunto belonging IS your Church or Chappel kept in good and sufficient repair and all things so decently ordered and kept clean as becometh the House of God II. Is there in the Church or Chappel a Font of Stone standing in the usual ancient place with a Cover to it for the Administration of Baptism Is there also a convenient Communion-Table covered with a fair Carpet of Silk or other decent Stuff in time of Divine Service and with a fair Linnen Cloath at the time of Administring the Sacrament What Cup Chalice Paten or Flagons have you belonging to that Service III. Have you in your Church or Chappel a convenient Seat for your Minister to read Divine Service in and a Pulpit with a decent Cloth or Cussion for the same Have any Pews or Seats been erected by any private person of his own authority without leave from the Ordinary IV. Have you a large Folio Bible of the last Translation with two Books of Common Prayer well bound one for the Minister the other for the Clerk Have you the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority the Book of Canons and the Table of Degrees allowed and prohibited in Marriage V. Have you a Register Book of Parchment for all who are Christned Married and Buried in the Parish in which are set down the Names of the Parties with the Day Month and Year of each Christning Marriage and Burial Is the Transcript thereof every year within one month after the 25 of March carried into the Bishops Registry VI. Have you a Paper Book in which the Names of Strangers who Preach or Officiate in the Church or Chappel are set down And another Book for the Church-Wardens Accounts VII Have you a fair Surplice for the Minister to wear at all times of his publick Ministration provided at the charge of the Parish VIII Have you a Chest for Alms with three Locks and Keys and another Chest to keep the Books and Ornaments of the Church Have you a Bier with a black Herse-cloth for the Burial of the dead IX Is the Church-yard sufficiently fenced with Walls Pales or Rails and decently kept from all annoyance or Incroachments Are the Trees therein preserved X. Is the Mansion House of your Minister with all other Houses thereto belonging kept in good repair Have any of them been pulled down or defaced Hath any incroached upon the Land thereto belonging or felled the Trees thereon growing XI Have you a perfect Terrier of all Glebe-lands Gardens Orchards and Tenements belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage also a particular Lift of such Pensions Tithes or other yearly profits either within or without the Parish as belong thereunto Are any of them with-held from your Minister as you know or have heard and by whom XII Have any of the ancient Glebe-lands belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage been taken away or alienated by Sale or Exchange without Licence from the Ordinary and free consent of the Incumbent TIT. II. Concerning Ministers I. IS your Minister Episcopally ordained Deacon or Priest according to the Laws of the Realm of England Is he defamed or suspected to have obtained his Orders or Benefice by any Simoniacal compact Hath he been legally Instituted and Inducted into his Benefice and did he within two Months after his Induction publickly read in the Church in the time of Divine Service the 39 Articles of Religion established in the Church of England And did he then and there declare his assent thereunto II. Hath your Minister been Licenced to Preach by the Archbishop Bishop of this Diocess or either of the two Universities Doth he diligently read Divine Service and Preach every Lords Day in the Church unless hindred by Sickness or reasonable absence And in such cases doth he procure some lawful Minister to read Prayers to Preach and perform other Ministerial Duties III. Hath your Minister or any other who Preached in your Church published in his Sermons any Doctrine which is new strange and disagreeing from the Word of God and the Articles of the Christian Faith or any thing against the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England as they are now established IV. Doth your Minister in the Morning and Evening Service in the Administration of the Sacraments and in performing other Religious Offices appointed by the Church of England use the respective Forms in the Book of Common Prayer which are enjoyned in this Church And doth he make use of the Surplice when he reads Divine Service or Administers the Sacraments V. Doth your Minister diligently Catechize the Youth of his Parish every Sunday and Holyday before Evening Service Doth he prepare and procure them as occasion is offered to come and be confirmed by the Bishop And doth he endeavour to reclaim all Popish Recusants and all Sectaries in your Parish to the true Religion VI. Is your Minister a Man of sober unblamable and exemplary life Is he grave modest and regular in his outward demeanor and Apparel according to the Constitutions of the Church Or is his carriage conversation or company in any kind whatsoever disorderly or scandalous and unbeseeming his Calling and Charge VII Is your Minister ready to visit the Sick and to Baptize Infants in danger of death being so desired Is any Infant or more aged Person in the Parish yet unbaptized by his default Have those Children which have been Baptized in private Houses by the Minister of the Parish afterward been brought into the Church and did the Minister there certifie the Congregation That the true Form of Baptism was by him privately before used Or if any Children in the Parish have been Baptized privately by any other lawful Minister have those Children been brought to your Church And hath the Minister of the Parish there examined whether such Children were lawfully Baptized or not Doth your Minister refuse to give the Sacrament to any in the Parish and for what cause Or doth he give it to such as are scandalous or notorious sinners or to any Excommunicate persons Doth he duly Administer the Blessed Sacrament three times every year at the least whereof Easter to be one VIII Doth your Minister Marry any

Persons in Private Houses or such as are under age not having the content of their Parents and Guardians Doth he Marry any without Banes first published three Sundays or Holydays in the Church or at prohibited times or hours without Licence so to do Or with the Licence of any other than the Archbishop Bishop of this Diocess or his Chancellor IX Doth your Minister duly bid and observe Holy-days and Fasting-days as is appointed And doth he then use the Forms of Prayer prescribed by the Church Hath he taken upon him to appoint any private Fasts or Religious Exercises without Lawful Authority Doth he or any other Minister or Lay person in your Parish hold any Conventicles or Religious meetings for people of several Families to resort unto contrary to the Laws in that case provided X. Is your Minister constantly resident among you and how many weeks in the year hath he been absent from his Benefice Hath he a Curate to assist him in his absence or presence Is that Curate in Holy Orders and hath he a Licence from the Bishop to serve the said Cure Doth he carry himself in all things as an able and discreet Minister and conformable to the Church of England Doth he serve any more Cures beside that of your Parish and at what distance And doth any Lay-man not being in Holy Orders presume to read Publick Prayers in the Church XI Is there in your Parish any Lecturer Is he in Orders and duly Licenced Doth he read Divine Service before his Lecture And is he conformable to the Discipline of the Church of England XII Doth your Minister every six months publickly denounce all such as persevere in the Sentence of Excommunication not seeking to be Absolved Have any Excommunicate Persons been received into the Church without a Certificate from the Ordinary of their Absolution Or any so dying buried with Christian Burial TIT. III. Concerning Parishioners I. ARE there any in your Parish who are reputed Hereticks or Schismaticks refusing Communion with the Church of England Any Impugners of the Religion established of his Majesties Supremacy or of any of the Laws Rites and Ceremonies Ecclesiastical Have any spoken or declared any thing in derogation or to the depraving of the Form of Gods Worship in the Church of England and Administration of the Sacraments prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer as it is now Established by Law Are there any convicted Papists known Anabaptists or Quakers in the Parish II. Are there any in your Parish who lie under a common fame or vehement suspition of Adultery Fornication or Incest Are there any common Drankards Swearers or Blasphemers of Gods Holy Name and Word Are there any Excommunicate persons or any who countenance or keep company with them What punishment for any such offences have been commuted and exchanged into a Pecuniary Mulct or Sum of Money by any Ecclesiastical Judge exercising Jurisdiction within this Diocess by virtue of any Grant or Commission What was the Sum of Money by them or any of them so received and taken and to what uses was the same bestowed III. Do any of your Parish prophane the Lords Day by neglecting of publick holy Duties or by doing the works of their ordinary Calling or using unlawful Recreations or permitting their Children and Servants so to do Do they duly observe other Holidays Festivals and Fasts appointed by Authority IV. Do all those who inhabit in your Parish duly resort to your Church or Chappel and continue there during Divine Service Sermon and other Holy Duties with that reverence order and decency as befits devout Christians Or have any occasioned riot clamour or fighting in the Church at any time Is there any Recusant Papists or Sectaries in your Parish Do they or any of them keep any School-master in their House which cometh not to Church to hear Divine Service and receive the Holy Communion V. Are there any in your Parish who refuse to have their Infant-children Baptized by your Minister or do they keep them unbaptized longer than the Church allows and what Infants or more aged persons are there in your Parish unbaptized VI. Do all your Housholders duly send their Children Apprentions and Servants to be Catechized And do they take care when occasion is offered they should be Confirmed by the Bishop VII Is there any person in your Parish so confirmed and instructed and being sixteen years of age who refuseth to receive the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper at least three times every year whereof Easter to be one And do all receive this Sacred Mystery with that outward gesture of humility and reverence as becomes them meekly kneeling upon their knees according to the order and custom of the Church VIII Are there any in your Parish who are known or suspected to be unlawfully Married contrary to the Laws of God and this Church Are there any who being lawfully Married and never Divorced do yet live asunder Or any who being lawfully Divorced do live together again Or being separated for Adultery have afterwards enter married with any other during the life of their first Consort IX Are there any married Women in your Parish who after their safe delivery from Childbirth refuse to make their humble and publick Thanksgivings to God according to the appointment of the Church X. Are there any of your Church who refuse to pay their Easter Offerings and other Duties to your Minister Or to pay the Rates assessed on them for the repair and provisions of the Church XI Do you know or have you heard of any Patron or other person in your Parish who having the Gift of an Ecclesiastical Benefice hath made gain thereby upon any Bargain either for Money Pension Lease Reserve of Tithes or Gle●e or other Simoniacal Compact whatsoever XII Do any among you refuse to bury their Dead according to the Rites of the Church of England Are there any Wills of deceased persons unproved or Goods not administred Do you know of any Legacies given to your Church on the Cathedral Curch of St. Paul in London or to the Poor or to other charitable uses not yet received by you or detained from you or not applied to the charitable uses appointed TIT. IV. Concerning the Officers belonging to the Church I. ARe the Church-Wardens of your Parish yearly chosen according to Law And are there Sidemen appointed to assist them for the due ordering of the Church II. Have the former and last Church Wardens given up their Accounts to those that succeed them together with all Moneys and other things belonging to your Church or Chappel III. Have you a Parish Clark aged twenty years at least who is of sober Life and good report Is he chosen by your Minister and approved by the Parish And is he able for Reading Writing and Singing as a Clerk And his Wages duly paid him IV. Doth he or your Sexton take care of your Church to keep it lockt and clean to open the doors and 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 for any that are dying thereby to meditate of their own death and to commend the others weak condition to the mercy of God TIT. V. Concerning Alms-houses Schools and School-Masters Physicians Chyrurgions and Midwifes I IS there any Hospital Alms-house or Free-School Founded in your Parish Are they so governed and ordered in the use and revenue as the Founders appointed according to the Ordinances and Statutes which have been made concerning the same II. Doth any man keep a publick or private School in your Parish Is he or they licenced and allowed thereunto by the Bishop or his Chancellor Doth he instruct his Scholars in the Catechism and Religion of the Church of England Is there any Woman that taketh upon her to instruct and educate any young Maidens Doth she resort duly and bring with her to Divine Service upon the Lords Day and Holidays all such young Maidens as are committed to her care III. Do any in your Parish practice Physick Chyrurgery or Midwifery without Licence from the Ordinary TIT. VI. Touching Ecclesiastical Officers I. ARE there any Ecclesiastical Officers that exercise Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction within this Diocess that take and receive any extraordinary Fees for any Cause Have abuses or offences been presented by Church-wardens and Quest-men And are such offences being presented suppressed or left unpunished II. Have any Apparitors taken any reward for the concoaling of any offence or the avoiding of the punishment of the Offenders And do they summon any without a Citation first had IF you know of any other Default or Crime of Ecclesiastical Cognizance you are to present the same Advertisements I. EVery Parson and Vicar and in their lawful absence the Curate of any Parish may join in Presentments with the Church-wardens and Side-men and if they will not Present then the Ministers themselves being the Persons that have the chief care of suppressing Sin and Impiety in their Parishes may Present such Crimes as are against the Ecclesiastical Laws and want due Reformation Can. 113. II. THe Ministers are to take notice that the Bishop at his Visitation will be ready to Confirm the Youth who shall be fitted and brought before him and therefore they are desired by diligent Catechizing in the Grounds of Religion to prepare those under their charge and bring them at the time appointed to the Bishop For as de Jure he cannot so de Facto he will not Confirm any save such who have been duly Catechiz'd and by their Pastors Testimony have attain'd such a measure of Knowledge of the Principles of Christian Religion as may render them capable of Confirmation T. LINCOLN