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B02158 Articles of inquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the Arch-Deaconry of Durham. Anno Dom. MDCLXIII. Church of England. 1663 (1663) Wing C4033AA; ESTC R173871 10,443 18

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ARTICLES OF INQUIRY CONCERNING Matters Ecclesiastical EXHIBITED To the Ministers Church-Wardens and Side-men of every Parish within the Arch-Deaconry of DURHAM Anno Dom. MDCLXIII LONDON Printed for T. Garthwait 1663. The Oath to be given unto the Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish YOV shall Swear to inquire with the best diligence that you may and to make a true answer unto every Article of this Book now given you in charge presenting every Person of your Parish that hath done any offence or omitted any duty therein mentioned And this you shall do without any favour or hatred or fear of displeasure So help you God and the contents of this Gospel Directions to the Clergy YOU are desired by your Ordinary to read these Articles distinctly unto the Churchwardens and to warn them of their Duty so often as you shall see occasion but especially to meet together some day before they are to give in their presentments and that then you confer with them in directing them about their said Presentments for the better preventing of perjury on their part ARTICLES OF VISITATION and INQUIRY EXHIBITED To the Church-wardens and Side-men of every Parish in the Arch-Deaconary of DURHAM Anno MDCLXIII TITUL. I. Concerning the Fabrick Repairing Keeping clean and Furnishing of Churches and Chapels 1. IS there in your Parish a Church or Chapel with a Tower or Steeple adjoyned to it and a Chancel at the East all well and fairly built duly kept and maintained for the honour of God and for the performance of Religious duties 2. ARE the Roofs thereof well leaded or slated without well cieled within the windows well glazed the walls well plaistered the Tables of the Ten Commandments and other sentences of Scripture well placed the floors well paved the seats well framed and all things so decently ordered as may best beseem the house of God 3. HOW many Bells are there in the Tower or Steeple of your Church or Chapel have any of them that formerly belonged to it or any lead of the roofs of the Church or Chancel been imbezelled and sold away and if any such thing hath been done who did it and who consented to it and what was the value of the thing so sold or imbezelled 4. IS there a Font of Marble or other stone decently wrought and covered set up at the lower part of your Church for the administration of the Sacrament of Baptism Is there a partition between your Church and your Chancel a comely fair Table there placed at the upper part of it for the administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Are there two fair and large Coverings for it one of silk-stuff or fine cloth another of fine linen with a Plate or Paten and a Cup or Chalice of silver and two fair flagons of pewter or purer metal belonging to it Have none of all these things been purloined destroyed or made away by any person whom you can name and if they have been taken away are they again restored or other such provided in their place 5. HAVE you in your Church or in your Chancel a convenient seat erected for your Minister wherein to read the dayly Morning and Evening Service a Desk whereat to say the Letany in the midst of the Church according to the Injunctions set forth in the time of Q. Eliz. and a Pulpit for Sermons with a comely cloth before it Are you provided of a Bible in the largest volume and of the last approved Translation and in what year was it printed have you two books of Common-Prayer set forth by publick authority according to the late Act of Vniformity and are they both also of the largest volume one for the Minister and another for the Clerk to use at the celebration of all divine offices Have you likewise a book of Sermons or Homilies that were set forth in the time of King Edward the sixth and in the Reign of Queen Eliz. together with the works of Bishop Jewel in defence of the Church of England which King James commanded to be had in all Churches and a book of the Constitutions or Canons Ecclesiastical and a Table of marriages prohibited by the Law of God 6. HAVE you a large and decent Surplice one or more for the Minister to wear at all times of his publick ministration in the Church and another for the Clerk if he hath heretofore been accustomed to wear it when he assisteth the Minister Are not either of their Surplices now grown old and torn and what are they at this time worth or if new have been lately bought how much did they cost by the yard 7. HAVE you in your Vestry a Hood or Tippet for the Minister to wear over his Surplice if he be a Graduate a book of Parchment wherein to register the Christnings Marriages and Burials of your Parish another book of paper wherein to record the licences of strange Ministers that are admitted at any time to preach in your Church or Chapel and a third book wherein to write down the accompts of the Church-wardens and to keep an Inventory of all things provided and belonging to your Church Have you a strong Chest with Locks and Keys wherein to keep all these Books and other Furniture for divine services in safe custody And lastly have you a Box wherein to put and keep Alms for the poor and a Bier with a black Herse-cloth for the burial of the Dead TITUL. II. Concerning the Church-yard Parsonage-house Alms-house Glebe and Tithes 1. IS your Churchyard well and sufficiently fenced Is it decently kept without sufferance of any beasts to enter in and annoy it Hath any person incroached upon it or made a new door into it out of their own habitation or ground about it 2. IS The House of your Parson Vicar or Curate well built and kept up with all out-houses thereunto belonging in good and sufficient Repair 3. HAVE you a true note or Terrer of all the Glebe-lands Gardens Orchards Tenements and portion of Tithes appertaining to your Parsonage or Vicaridge Is it kept in your Vestry and a Copy of it delivered into the Bishops Registry 4. IS there any Alms-house Hospital or Free-School in your Parish Who was the Founder or is now the Patron thereof TITUL. III. Concerning Ministers Preachers and Lecturers 1. IS your Minister Parson or V icar a Deacon or a Priest ordained by a Bishop according to the Laws of the Church of England 2. WAS he without any Simoniacal Compact promise or payment freely presented instituted and inducted into his benefice and did he within two moneths after his Induction publickly read in your Church upon some Sunday or Holy-day in the time of Divine Service and in the Audience of his Parishioners all the 39 Articles of Religion set forth and established in the Church of England by Authority And did he then profess and publish his assent unto them all subscribing his name thereunto in the presence of the Church wardens and other