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B02167	Articles of enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical. Exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the [archdeaconry] of [Hereford] in the visitation of the Reverend [Dr. Wm. Johnson Archdeacon there]	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Hereford.; Johnson, William, D.D.	1691 (1691)	Wing C4048A; ESTC R175790	6,474	18

ARTICLES OF ENQUIRY Concerning Matters Ecclesiastical EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-Men of every Parish within the Arch Deaconry OF Hereford In the VISITATION of the Reverend Dr W m Johnson Arch Deacon 〈◊〉 Anno Domini 1691. The Church-Wardens Oath You shall Swear truly and faithfully to Execute the Office of a Church-Warden within your Parish according to the best of your Skill and Knowledg And also truly to Present all such Things and Persons as to your Knowledg are Presentable by the Laws Ecclesiastical of this Realm So help you God c. The Side-Mens Oath You shall Swear that you will be Assistant to the Church-Wardens of your Parish in the due Execution of their Office so far as you are bound by Law So help you God c. ARTICLES Of Enquiry within the Arch Deaconry of Hereford TITUL. I. Concerning Churches and Chappels with the Ornaments and Furniture thereunto belonging I. IS Your Parish Church or Chappel with the Chancels kept in good and sufficient Repair Are the Roofs thereof well covered with Lead Tile or Slate the Windows well glazed the Floors well paved the Seats well fastned repaired and conveniently placed and all things so decently ordered as becometh the House of God How many Bells have you in your Church Chappel or Steeple Are the same whole and in good order to ring with the Wheels Ropes and other things thereunto belonging II. HATH the Steeple or Tower of your Church or Chappel or any part thereof been pulled down or any of the Lead or Bells formerly belonging thereunto been imbezelled sold or made away In whose Hands or Custody doth the same or any part thereof remain Declare what you know or have heard therein III. IS there a Font or Stone with a good Cover thereunto standing in a convenient place towards the lower part of your Church for the Administration of Baptism And is there in your Chancel a decent Communion-Table for the Administration of the Lord's Supper with a Carpet of Silk Stuff or fine Woollen Cloth and another Covering of white and pure Linnen to spread thereupon And have you a fair Communion-Cup or Chalice with a cover of Silver and one or more Flagons of Silver or Pewter thereunto belonging VI. HAVE you in your said Church or Chappel a convenient Seat or Pew for your Minister to read Divine Service in A Pulpit with a comely Cloth or Cushion for the same A Bible of the last Translation in a large Volume and two Books of Common-Prayer one for the Minister and another for the Clerk according to the last Act of Vniformity 1662. both well and substantially bound Have you likewise the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority A Book of Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical And a printed Table of the Degrees wherein Marriage is prohibited Have you also His Majesties Proclamation commanded to be Read yearly on the Sunday before the thirtieth day of January V. HAVE you a comely large Surplice for the Minister to wear at all times of his publick Ministration in the Church provided and to be duly washed at the Charge of the Parish VI. HAVE you a Register-Book of Parchment wherein to Register the Names and Sur-Names of all such Persons as are Married Christned or Buried within your Parish together with the Names and Surnames of both the Parents of the Children so Christened expressing the Day Month and Year of all such Christnings Marriages and Burials And is the Transcript thereof yearly within one Month next after the 25 of March brought into the Bishop's Register VII HAVE you likewise another Book of Paper wherein to Record the Names and Licences of all such Strangers as are admitted at any time to Preach in your Church or Chappel As also a third Book wherein to Write down the Church-Wardens Accounts and such Sums of Money as have been collected within your Parish upon any Briefs that have come unto it together with a strong Chest with Locks and Keys wherein to keep the aforesaid Books and all other the aforementioned Furniture in safe custody And lastly have you a Bier and a black Herse-cloth for the Burial of the Dead TIT. II. Concerning the Church-yard the Houses Glebe and Tithes belonging to the Church I. IS your Church-yard sufficiently fenced with Walls Rails or Pales and decently kept from the annoyance of Swine Horses and other Cattel Hath any Person encroached upon the same or made any Door into it out of his own Ground or Habitation without allowance from the Ordinary How long since By whom And to whose use and benefit Have any Crees growing in the Church-yard been cut down by whom and when II. IS the House of your Parson Vicar or Curate with all the Out-houses thereunto belonging kept in good and sufficient Repair Or have any of the said Houses or Out-houses been defaced or pulled down without License from the Ordinary And by whom Hath any Person encroached upon any Garden Yard or Close belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage-house Or cut up any Trees growing thereon Or changed or removed the ancient Marks and Bounds of the same III. HAVE you a true and perfect Terrier of all the Tithes Glebe-Lands Gardens Orchards Tenements or Cottages belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage As also a Note of such Pensions Rate-Tithes and Portions of Tithes or other yearly Profits or Customs either within or without your Parish as belong thereunto Have any of the same been withheld from your Minister and by whom as you know or have heard IV. HAVE any of the ancient Glebe-Lands belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage been taken away or alienated by Lease Sale or Exchange without License from the Ordinary and the free consent of the Incumbent Have any Inclosures been made in the Parish to the detriment of the Church TIT. III. Concerning Ministers I. IS your Minister a Priest or Deacon Episcopally Ordained according to the Laws of the Church of England II. IS he defamed or suspected to have obtained either his Benefice or Orders by any Simoniacal Compact III. HATH he been Legally Instituted and Inducted into his Benefice And did he within two Months after his Induction publickly in the Church upon some Sunday or Holyday in the time of Diwine Service read the 39 Articles of the Church of England established by Authority and there publickly declare his Assent thereto IV. HATH he any other Ecclesiastical Benefice Prebend or Dignity Is he constantly Resident upon his Benefice among you How many Weeks in any one Year hath he been absent from it without urgent necessity V. HATH your Minister a Curate to assist him Is the said Curate in Holy Orders an able and discreet Person and conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England Is he allowed by the Bishop to serve in your Church or Chappel And doth he serve in any other Church beside And what yearly Stipend doth your Minister allow him VI. DOTH you Parson Vicar or Curate in Reading the daily

Morning and Evening Service Administration of the holy Sacraments Celebration of Marriage Churching of Women after Childbirth Visitatation of the Sick Burial of the Dead and pronouncing God's Commination against Impenitent Sinners use the Form and Words prescribed in the Book of Common-Prayer without any Addition Omission or Alteration of the same And doth he use all such Rites and Ceremonies in all Parts of Divine Service as are appointed in the said Book VII DOTH your Minister at the Reading or Celebrating any Divine Office in your Church or Chappel wear the Surplice together with such other Scholastical Habit as is sutable to his Degree VIII DOTH he observe the Holidays and Fasting-days as also the Ember-Weeks and the yearly Perambulation in Rogation-Week as in the Common-Prayer-Book or by the Ecclesiastical Canons is appointed giving notice to the Parishioners of every of the same in the Church in the time of Divine Service upon the Sunday next before IX HATH your Minister been Licensed to Preach by the Bishop or either of the two Vniversities If so doth he then constantly unless in case of Sickness necessary absence or other reasonable impediment himself preach in your Church or Chappel one Sermon every Sunday Or if he be not a Licensed Preacher or being so Licensed be hindred by Sickness or otherwise as aforesaid doth he procure a Sermon to be so preached by some other Minister being a Licensed Preacher Or is one of the Homilies set forth by Authority there read by some Priest or Deacon lawfully Ordained X. DOTH your Minister diligently instruct the Youth of your Parish in the Church-Catechism And doth he prepare and present them being to instructed to be Confirmed by the Bishop And doth he endeavour to reclaim all Popish Recusants and other persons inhabiting within your Parish to their bounden Duty in obeying the Laws and submitting to the Government XI DOTH he neglect to visit the Sick or delay the Baptism of any Infant that is in danger of Death Is there any Child past Infancy or other person of more Years through your Ministers default or otherwise yet remaining unbaptized in your Parish Doth he Baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers or admit either of the Parents to be Godfather or Godmother to their own Children Or doth he Baptize any at home except in case of imminent danger XII DOTH your Minister celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper so often every year that every Parishioner may receive thrice at the least And doth he expel those that live scandalous Lives or are guilty of any notorious Crime and give an account thereof unto the Bishops XIII DOTH he in his Sermons preach sound Doctrine tending to the Edification of the People in the Knowledg and Faith of Iesus Christ and Obedience to God's Holy Commandments Or hath he at any time as you know or have heard preached any False Heretical Seditious or Schismatical Doctrine thereby to seduce the People into Parties and Factions to the disturbance of the publick Peace and Vnity either of the Church or State XIV HATH he presumed to marry any Persons in private Houses Or such as being under Age have not the Consent of their Parents or without the Banes first published on three Sundays or Holy-Days in the Church Or at any other hours than between Eight and Twelve in the Morning unless he had a License or Dispensation so to do XV. DOTH any Person preach in your Parish as a Lecture Hath he allowance from the Bishop for so doing Doth he before his Lecture read Divine Service according to the Book of Common-Prayer And is he in all Respects comformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England XVI HATH your Minister taken upon him to appoint any publick or private Fasts Prophecyings or Exercises not appointed by Authority XVI IS your Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer a Man of sober unblameable and exemplary Life Doth he familiarly converse with ungodly vicious and excommunicated Persons Is he a Frequenter of Taverns or Ale-houses A common Gamester A profane or obscene Iester A Swearer Railer Scoffer or Quarreller Doth he set Neighbours at Variance one with another or encourage them to Suits and Contention Is he noted to be an intemperate Drinker or vehemently suspected of Incontinency with any Person either within your Parish or without Doth he wear his Hair of an immoderate or uncomely length Is his Apparel grave and decent both for Fashion and Colour as the Canons of the Church require Or is his Carriage and Conversation in any kind whatsoever disorderly and scandalous and unbeseeming a Minister of Iesus Christ TIT. IV. Concerning the Parishioners I. IS there any Person in your Parish a known or reputed Papist or that lieth under a common Fame or vehement Suspicion of Adultery Fornication or Incest Are there any common Drunkards within your Parish or common Swearers or Blasphemers of God's Name or any that are noted to be Railers unclean or filthy Talkers Sowers of Sedition Faction and Discord among their Neighbours II. DO any of your Parish upon the Sundays or Holidays follow their bodily and ordinary Labours or permit their Servants so to do Are any Shops kept open or Wares sold Or do any Vintners Inn-keepers or other Victualers and Sellers of Bear or Ale suffer any Persons to tipple or game in their Houses upon those days And do you sometimes during Divine Service and Sermon look into their Houses and present those Persons you there find Tippling and also the Master or Mistress of the said Houses where they are found III. DOTH every Person reverently uncover his Head and so continue all the time of Divine Service and Sermon in the Church Do they all reverently kneel at the Prayers and stand tip when the Creed and Gospel are Read making due Reverence when the Name of our Lord JESUS is mentioned IV. ARE there any living in your Parish who have been unlawfully Married within the Degrees prohibited Or any that being lawfully Divorced have Married again Or any that being lawfully Married and not separated or divorced by course of Law do not cohabit together V. ARE there any belonging to your Parish 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 as be requisite for the performance of all Divine Offices there VI. 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 Did any dying in your Parish or elsewhere leave any Legacy to your Church or Chappel or to the use of the Poor or to any other pious or charitable Purposes What were their Legacies and how have they been bestowed And if there be any Stock of Money left in your Parish for the benefit of the Poor whether that be