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A32934	Articles of visitation & enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens and side-men, of the diocess of Bath and Wells, at the triennial visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Peter, Lord Bishop of the that diocess	Church of England. Diocese of Bath and Wells. Bishop (1672-1684 : Mews); Mews, Peter, 1619-1706.	1679 (1679)	Wing C4015A; ESTC R40816	8,825	15

days follow their bodily and ordinary labour or permit their Servants so to do Are any Shops kept open or Wares sold Or do any Vintners Inn keepers or other Victuallers and sellers of Beer Ale or Sider suffer any person to tipple or game in their houses on those daies IV. Injunct Eliz. 33. 1 Eliz. 12. Injunct Eliz 46. Injunct Eliz 52. Doth every person inhabiting or sojourning within your Parish duly resort unto your Church or Chappel upon every Sunday and Holiday to Divine Service Do they then and there abide quietly with reverence order and decency during all the whole time of Common-Prayer or Preaching And are there any among you that come only to the Sermon and not to the Common Prayers of the Church V. Rub. Ba. Are there any in your Parish that refuse to send their Infant-Children to be baptized publickly in the Church unless in case of urgent danger in which case the Child may be baptized at home by a lawful Minister after the form and rites appointed in the Liturgy Or do they send them to be baptized in any other Parishes or after other form than is appointed Or do they keep them unbaptized any longer time than the Church alloweth And are there any Infants or more aged persons in your Parish yet unbaptized or any that have been privately baptized that are not afterward brought to the Church as is appointed VI. Do all Housholders in your Parish Can. 50. cause their children and servants to learn their Catechisme and to give an account thereof unto your Minister as he shall require it of them openly in Church upon Sundays and Holidays as in the Book of Common-Prayer is appointed that when they are well instructed in the same they may be confirmed by the Bishop VII Is there any person in your Parish who being sixteen years of age Can. 1.21 Rub. Can. Rub. Fra. and well instructed in Religion doth not receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at least three times in the year of which Easter is always to be one Doth any in your Parish refuse to receive the same kneeling or from the hands of your own Minister repairing for it to other Parishes and Ministers abroad Or are there any strangers not of your parish that forsake their own Churches and usually repair to yours for it VIII Have you any among you that be denounced and declared excommunicated for any crime committed Can. 65. How long have they been so excommunicated And do any of your parish keep society with them before they be reconciled to the Church and absolved IX Are there any living in your parish as Man and Wife Can. 99. who are 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 X. Are there any married Women in your Parish Rub. who after their Delivery from the peril of Child-birth refuse to make their publick Thanksgiving to God in the Church in such manner as by the Law and Book of Common-Prayer is required XI Are there any belonging to your Parish Rub. Com. Act Unifor who refuse to pay their Duty for Easter Offerings to your Minister or any that refuse to pay the Rate Assessed upon them for the repair of your Church or Chappel and for the providing of Bread and Wine for the Communion and such Books Furniture and Ornaments as be requisite for the performance of all Divine Offices there Can. 81.82 And what is each persons particular Rate who refuseth so to pay XII Do any refuse to bury their Dead according to the Rites of the Church of England Rub. Com. And are there any Wills or Testaments of Persons dead in your Parish that yet be unproved or any Goods Administred without a due Grant from the Ordinary Can. 92. Did any dying in your parish or elsewhere leave any legacie to your Church or Chappel or to the use of the Poor or to any other Pious and Charitable purposes what were those Legacies and how have they been bestowed XIII Is there any strife and contention among any of your Parish for their Pews or Seats in your Church Have any new Pews been erected in your Chancel or in the Body of your Church or Chappel without leave from the Ordinary XIV Is the Fifth Day of November observed and kept in your Parish and also the Thirtieth of January and the Nine and Twentieth day of May every of them yearly according to the several Acts of Parliament and in such form as by publick Authority is appointed for the same XV. Are there any in your Parish who have depraved Can. 4.6 vilisied or spoken against the Book of Common-Prayer now established in the Church of England or any part thereof or against the Government of the Church under His Majesty by Archbishops Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Officers or have spoken disgracefully of the Courts Ecclesiastical XVI Do you know of any that have abused the Church-Wardens of your Parish or given them evil words for executing their Office or to dishearten and deterr them from executing it as by Oath and Duty they are bound TIT. V. Concerning Parish Clarks and Sextons I. HAve you belonging to your Church or Chappel a Parish Clark Can. 91. aged one and twenty years at the least Is he of honest Life and Conversation and sufficient and able to perform his duty in Reading Writing and Singing Is he chosen by your Minister and doth he duly attend him in all Divine Offices Are his due Wages justly paid unto him Or who withholdeth the same from him II. 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 Can. 97. And doth he keep your Church or Chappel clean from Dust Cobwebs and other annoyance Doth he Toll or Ring 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 Toll a Bell as hath been accustomed that the Neighbours may thereby be warned to recommend the dying person to the grace and favour of Almighty God TIT. VI. Concerning Hospitals Schools School-Masters Physitians Chyrurgions and Midwifes I. IS there in your Parish any Hospital Alms-house or Free-School not of the Kings Foundation or Patronage Who was the Founder or is now the Patron thereof And what is the yearly Revenue or Stipend belonging to the Governors or Masters of the same Is the same ordered and governed in every respect as it ought to be And are the Revenues thereof rightly employed according to the intention of the Founder and of such Grants and Ordinances as have been made concerning the same II. Doth any man

ARTICLES OF VISITATION ENQVIRY Concerning Matters ECCLESIASTICAL Exhibited to the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-men Of the DIOCESS of Bath and Wells At the Triennial Visitation of the Right Reverend Father in GOD PETER Lord Bishop of that Diocess Anno Dom. 16 Printed in the Year 1679. YOU shall swear That you shall well and truly execute the Office of a Church-Warden And that upon due Consideration had of these Articles given you in charge you shall diligenty Enquire and make true Presentment so far as by Law you ought of every Person inhabiting or resident within your Parish who hath committed any Offence or omitted any Duty therein mentioned enquirable into or punishable by the Ecclesiastical Laws of this Kingdom And this you shall do as in the sight of God uprightly and truly without favour or malice hope of reward or fear of displeasure So help you God ARTICLES OF VISITATION ENQUIRY Within the DIOCESS of BATH and WELLS TIT. I. Concerning Churches and Chappels with the Ornaments and Furniture thereunto belonging IS your Parish Church or Chappel kept in good and sufficient repair Canon 85. Are the Roofs thereof well covered with Lead Tile or Slat the Windows well glazed the Floors well payed the Seats well fastened and conveniently placed and all things so decently ordered as becometh the House of God 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 part thereof remain Declare what you know or have heard herein III. Is there a Font of Stone Injunct Eliz with a good Cover thereunto standing in a convenient place toward 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 Lords Supper with a Carpet of Silk Can. 81. Can. 82. Stuff or fine Woollen Cloth and another covering of white and pure Linnen to spread thereupon Rub. Com. Can. 20. 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 IV. Can. 82. Have you in your Church or Chappel a convenient Seat or Pew for your Minister to read Divine Service in a Pulpit with a comely Cloth or Cussion for the same a Bible of the last Translation in a large Volume Can. 83. and two Books of Common Prayer established by Act of Parliament Anno 1662. Can. 8● 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 such Degrees wherein Marriage is prohibited V. Can. ●● 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. Can. 72. Have you a Register Book of Parchment wherein to Register the Names and Sirnames of all such Persons as are Married Christned or Buried within your Parish together with the Names and Sirnames of both the Parents of the Children that are Christned 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 23 of March brought into the Bishops Registry VII Can. 52. Can. 85. Have you likewise another Book of Paper wherein to record the Names and Licences of all such Strangers as are at any time admitted to Preach in your Church or Chappel As also a third Book wherein to write down the Church-Wardens Accounts together with a strong Chest with Locks and Keys Can. 89. wherein to keep the aforesaid Books and all other the aforementioned Furniture in safe custody And lastly have you a Bier with a black Herse cloth for the Burial of the dead TIT. II. Concerning the Church-yard the Houses Glebe and Tythes belonging to the Church I. Can. 83. IS your Church-yard sufficiently fenced with Walls Rails or Pales and decently kept from the annoyance of Swine Horses and other Cattle or any other abuse whatsoever 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 Have any Trees there growing been cut down how long since by whom to whose use and benefit 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 Licence from the Ordinary and by whom Hath any Person incroached 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 Declare what you know or have credibly heard thereof III. Have you a true and perfect Terrier of all the Glebe-lands Gardens Orchards Can. 87. Tenements or Cottages belonging to your Parsonage or Vicarage as also a note of such Pensions Rate-tithes or portions of tithes or other yearly profits either within or without your Parishes as belong thereunto Hath any of the same been with-held 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 exchanged for other without the free consent of the Incumbent and Patron and Licence from the Ordinary TIT. III. Concerning Ministers I. IS your Minister a Priest Act Unifor Injunct Episcopally ordained according to the Laws of England II. Is he defamed or suspected to have obtained either his Benefice or Orders by any Simoniacal compact Eliz. 26. III. Hath he been legally Instituted and Inducted into his Benefice 13 Eliz. cap. 12. and did he within two Months after his Induction publickly in the Church upon some Sunday or Holiday in the time of Divine Service read the 39 Articles of the Church of England established by Authority Act Unifor and there publickly declare his assent thereunto And hath he likewise read the Declaration enjoin'd by the Act of Uniformity IV. Hath he any other Ecclesiastical Benefice 14 Caroli 2. Prebend or Dignity Is he constantly resident upon his Benefice amongst you How many weeks in one year hath he been absent from you 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 besides And what yearly Stipend doth your Minister allow him VI. Can. 14.21.68 Rub. Matr. Visitat Burial Comminat Doth your Parson Vicar or Curate