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A79594	Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens and side-men of every parish within the diocess of Ely by the Right Reverend Father in God Francis by divine permission Lord Bishop of Ely. In the second year of his translation for his first episcopal visitation; Visitation articles. 1686	Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1675-1684 : Turner); Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1686 (1686)	Wing C4037B; ESTC R231419	7,362	14

upon notice given visit the Sick doth he instruct comfort conferr and pray with them doth He upon their confession repentance and faith being thereunto desired absolve them doth He keep secret such their confession doth He when desir'd give them the Holy Sacrament of Christs Body and Blood and if they have ability move and stirr them up to pious and charitable deeds IX Doth He refuse Christian Burial to any except persons Unbaptized or Excommunicate or that have laid Violent hands upon themselves X. Hath He admitted any women begotten with child in adultery or fornication to be Churched without Licence from the Ordinary XI Doth He every Sunday preach himself or procure some Licens'd Preacher so to doe or read one of the Homilies set forth by Authority XII Doth He constantly at the beginning of Sermon move and exhort the People to joyn with him in Prayer in such manner and form as is appointed by the Church in the 55th Canon and no otherwise XIII Doth He in his Sermons four times every year teach and maintain the Kings Lawfull Authority over the State both Ecclesiasticall and Civil against the Pretences and Usurpations of all Foreign Power Has He been known or observ'd to teach Sedition or Faction directly against His Majesty His Laws and Government or indirectly to cast out Seditious Glances against the Civil State or Government Ecclesiastical XIV Does He preach and maintain as far as you know or hear any new and strange Doctrine contrary to Gods Word and the 39 Articles of this Church Doth He teach any thing to be religiously observ'd and believ'd that is not agreeable to the Scriptures and what the Catholick Fathers of the Ancient Church have gathered thence XV. Doth He diligently instruct and examine the Younger Sort in the Church Catechism and doth He take care to bring or send them so instructed to the Bishop for Confirmation XVI Doth he declare to the People every Sunday the Days of Fasting and Abstinence the Holy Days and other Solemn Days that have particular Services which if any such there be are in the Week ensuing to be religiously kept and observed XVII Doth He upon some Sundays or Holydays read publickly in the Church the Book of Canons once every Year and the 39 Articles twice to the end that the People being well acquainted with the Doctrine and Discipline of our Holy Mother the Church of England may continue stedfast and obedient in the Communion of the same XVIII Is He together with the Churchwardens carefull in Registring as the Law requires the Names and Sirnames of all such in your Parish as have been Baptized Married and Buried and the same transcribed to return every year into the Bishop's Registry XIX Is your Minister one that is studious of the holy Scriptures Does He keep to His calling abstaining from all Trades Occupations and Labours not befitting His Function from all apparell that is excessive or any way unseemly or unsuitable to His Calling either at home or abroad does He refrain from the acquaintance and company of persons that are Excommunicate or any way Scandalous Is He of a Chast and Sober a Peaceable and Exemplary Conversation Or is He noted or suspected for Incontinency Gaming Swearing Drinking for frequenting Inns or Taverns or any House of ill Report or Notoriously guilty of any other thing contrary to Godliness or particularly misbecoming His holy Calling XX. Doth He in His Sermons deliver such Doctrine as tends to Obedience and the Edisying of the Auditory in Faith and Religion without intermeddling with matters of State not fit to be handled in the Pulpit XXI Doth He Labour diligently to Reduce Popish Recusants if there be any in your Parish from their Errors And doth He every year present the Names of such as are not Reducible to His Ordinary if they be above Thirteen years of age TIT. III. Concerning the Parishioners I. ARE there any in your Parish that are blasphemers of the Majesty of God or scoffers at the Christian Religion or that derogate from the Authority or the Sufficiency of the Scriptures or deny any of the Articles of the Christian Faith II. Are there any that deny the Church of England to be a true and Apostolique Church and to have in Her all things necessary to Salvation Or that affirm the XXXIX Articles to be Erroneous in any part or such as cannot with a good conscience be subscribed to III. Do any in your Parish affirm or teach that the form of God's worship contained in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments is corrupt superstitious unlawfull or repugnant to Scripture Or that the form of Consecrating or Ordaining of Bishops Priests and Deacons is Antichristian or repugnant to the Scripture or to the practise of the Primitive Church IV. Do all your Parishioners having no Lawfull impediment duly resort to the Divine Service and Sermons in your Church on Sundays or other days and times appointed by Law Do they come in the beginning and not depart before the Blessing Do they demean themselves reverently there uncovering their Heads kneeling at the Prayers standing up at the Hymns at Glory be to the Father c. At the recitall of the Creed and reading of the Gospel and at what other parts of the Service it is requir'd V. Are there any in your Parish that resuse to send their Infant Children to be Baptized in the Church unless in case of urgent danger Or do they send them to be Baptized in other Parishes Or are they Baptized after other form then is appointed or are they kept unbaptized longer then is allowed Or are there any of riper years as yet unbaptized Or any that have been Baptized privately and not afterwards brought to the Church with Godfathers and Godmothers according to the Rubrick VI. Do any Parents or Masters of Families neglect or refuse to send their Children or Servants to Church to be instructed in the Catechism Or to have them being so instructed presented to the Bishop for Confirmation Are there any so instructed and confirmed and of due age that come not to the Lord's Supper Three times in the year at the least of which the Feast of Easter to be one Or any that forsake their own Parish to receive it elsewhere VII Do any refuse to bury their Dead according to the Rites of the Church of England Are there any Wills or Testaments of Persons dead within your Parish that be yet unproved Or any Goods Administred without a due grant from the Ordinary VIII Are there any in your Parish that are unlawfully married within the Degrees prohibited Or that being Lawfully married and not Lawfully Divorc't do yet separate one from the other or that being Lawfully Divorced have married any other IX Are there any married Women in your Parish who after their delivery from the perill of Childbirth refuse to make their publick thanksgiving to God in the Church in time of Divine Service upon some Sunday or

ARTICLES OF VISITATION and ENQUIRY CONCERNING MATTERS ECCLESIASTICAL EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish within the Diocess of ELY BY THE Right Reverend FATHER in GOD FRANCIS By Divine Permission LORD BISHOP of ELY In the Second Year of His Translation for His First Episcopal Visitation CAMBRIDGE Printed by J. Hayes M.DC.LXXXVI The Charge of the Church-wardens and Side-men HAving receiv'd a Copy of this Book you are requir'd to repair to your Minister to hear all these Articles deliberately read over to you duly and diligently to consider of them and by his Advice and if need be with his Concurrence to Present all and every such Person or Persons of your Parish as have committed any Offence or made any Default mention'd in these Articles or any of them or which are vehemently suspected for the same wherein You are to deal uprightly and impartially all Affection and Favour all Hatred and Malice all hope of Reward or Advantage and fear of Displeasure set aside signing such your Presentments with your Hands The Form of their Oath YOU shall Swear truly and faithfully according to the best of your Skill and Knowledge to Present such Things and Persons enquir'd of in these Articles as to your knowledge are Presentable by the Laws Ecclesiastical of this Realm So help you God and the Holy Contents of this Book ARTICLES OF Visitation and Enquiry c. TIT. I. Concerning Churches with the Ornaments Furniture Possessions and Revenues thereunto belonging I. IS your Parish Church and Chancel decently kept for God's honour Are the Roofs Walls Windows and Pavements well repaired are the Ten Commandments Lords Prayer and the Creed drawn out in fair Letters in convenient places and are the King's Arms set up II. Have you a Font of stone decently covered for Baptism a comely Communion Table at the East end of the Chancell a comely Carpet of silk or fine stuff with a fair Linnen Cloth to spread upon it a fine Napkin a Silver Cup for the Wine a Patin for the Bread and one or more Flagons of Pewter or richer Mettal for the Administration of the Lords most Holy Supper III. Are your Reading Desk and Pulpit conveniently set up and placed for the use of Publick Prayer and Sermons Have you two Common Prayer Books in Folio last set forth by Authority your Bible in Folio of King James's Translation and a decent Surplice for your Minister to wear in the time of all publick Ministrations IV. Have you a Parchment Register for Christnings Marriages and Burials and another of Paper for the Names and Licences of such Strangers as at any time preach in your Church or Chappel and a Book wherein are entred the Churchwardens Accounts every Year Have you a Chest with 3 Locks for the said Books and the Keys kept by the Minister and Churchwardens and other Church Furniture and a Box for the Poors Alms V. Have you a Table of the Prohibited Degrees of Marriage hanging up in your Church and a Bier with a decent Herse-cloth for the Burial of the Dead VI. Is your Church-Yard well Kept and Fenced to keep out beasts Are any Doors made into it any Trees cut down or encroachments made upon it VII Have you a true and perfect Terrier of all the Glebe Lands Gardens Orchards Tenements or Cottages belonging to your Parsonage or Vicaridge and is a Copy of the same delivered into the Bishops Registry VIII Is the House and Out-houses of your Minister in good and sufficient Repair Doth he preserve the Gardens Orchards and Glebe belonging to him without Embezelling Changing or any way Damnifying them IX But especially whereas in Our late Parochial Visitation We took particular notice of several Defects Neglects and Disorders relating to the Premises and soon after issued out an Injunction for the speedy Repairing Redressing and right Ordering of the same You are hereby required to produce at our Visitation the said Injunction and there to certifie the Particular Amendments that have been made in obedience to the said Injunction or the Names of such Persons through whose default it hath not yet been fully and duly observed TIT. II. Concerning the Clergy I. IS your Minister so far as you know or believe in Holy Orders according to the Rule and Form of the Church of England Hath he been legally Admitted to the Cure of Souls in your Parish or is He known or suspected to have obtained his Orders or Benefice by any Simoniacal or Undue practice II. Did He within two months after his Induction upon some Sunday or Holyday publickly and openly read the 39 Articles as also the Morning and Evening Prayer according to the Act of Uniformity Car. 2.14 and did He within the time there limited make the Declaration required by the said Act and read the Ordinary's Certificate of his Subscription to the same III. Is your Minister constantly resident upon his Benefice and doth he live in his Parsonage or Vicaridge House or his Residence being legally dispensed with doth he provide a sufficient Curate licensed by the Bishop and doth he allow him a competent Stipend IV. Doth your Minister or his Curate in Reading the Morning and Evening Prayer and the Litany on all Sundays and Holydays and all other Days appointed by the Church in Administring the Holy Sacraments Solemnization of Matrimony Burying of the Dead Churching of Women and all other Offices of the Church duly observe such Order Manner and Form as is prescribed in the Liturgy and Canons of the Church without omission alteration or addition of any thing And doth He in performing all and every of these wear the Surplice constantly with a Hood or Tippet befitting his Degree V. Doth He administer publick Baptism at the Font without a Bason doth He sign the Infant baptized with the sign of the Cross doth he Baptize any at Home but in case of real necessity and that without Godfathers and Godmothers requiring moreover that the Child if it live be afterwards brought to the Church to have the said Baptism there solemnly certified in such manner and form as the Church appoints in the Office of Private Baptism doth He baptize publickly without Godfathers and Godmothers or doth he admit Parents for such to their own children And are there in your Parish any Persons of riper years yet unbaptiz'd through his default VI. Doth He administer the Lords Supper so often and at such convenient times that the Parishioners may communicate Thrice at least every Year whereof Easter to be one doth He exhort them diligently to the frequent Receiving of the same doth He warn the Negligent doth He admit any scandalous and profane Persons or give it to any that refuse to receive it Kneeling VII Doth He marry any persons under age without consent of Parents or any others without Banns or Licence or in any other place then the Church or at any other time then between the hours of Eight and Twelve in the Forenoon VIII Doth He