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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32947	Articles of visitation and enquiry within the diocess of Ely in the second episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God Peter by divine permission Lord Bishop of Ely in the fifth year of his translation.	Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1675-1684 : Turner); Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.	1679 (1679)	Wing C4037; ESTC R27643	17,261	26

publickly before the Congregation declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said Book contained as is prescribed in the Act of Parliament made for the Uniformity of publick Prayers And did he within three Months after his Induction in your Church or Chappel in publick upon some Lord's day read a Certificate under the hand and seal of the Arch-bishop or Bishop Ordinary of the Diocess that he the said Parson Vicar or Curate did before his admission to be Incumbent subscribe a declaration of the unlawfulness to take up arms against the king and of his conforming to the Liturgy of this Church and of his disavowing the unlawful Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant according as is prescribed in the aforesaid Act for Uniformity III. Or after his lawful Entrance is your Parson or Vicar resident upon his benefice or if his residence be legally dispensed with is his place supplied by a Curate allowed by the Bishop and a licensed Preacher and constantly resident among you and what yearly stipend doth your Minister allow him And if your Parson or Vicar be both resident himself and keep a Curate also doth he notwithstanding himself at least once a Month openly read Common Prayer in your Church or Chappel and if there be occasion administer each Sacrament in such order manner and form as is prescribed in the Liturgy and Canons of this Church IV. Having both lawful Entrance and Residence among you is he your Parson Vicar or also Curate of blameless conversation the Husband of one Wife sober grave not double tongu'd not given to much wine not greedy of filthy lucre ruling his Children and his own house well sound in faith in charity in patience Or on the contrary is he a frequenter of Taverns or Ale-houses a common Gamester a prophane or obscene jester a swearer railer scoffer or quarreller Doth he set his Neighbours at variance one with another Doth he familiarly converse with persons Excommunicate ungodly or vicious Doth he resort to suspected and infamous houses Or is he himself vehemently suspected of Incontinency with any person within or without your Parish Or doth your Curate or Minister lodge or board at any Tavern Inn Ale-house or house of any ill report V. Doth your Minister or Curate plainly audibly distinctly and reverently read the Divine Service of Morning and Evening-Prayer without any diminution in regard of Preaching or any other respect addition or alteration upon all Sundays and Holy-days not omitting also other days appointed by the Book of Common-Prayer as fit and usual times as Wednesdays and Fridays with the Litanies added and the Eves of every Sunday and Holy day with Ember and Rogation days And moreover when he is at home and not otherwise reasonably hindred himself and able to get two or three gathered together doth he every day say Divine Service Morning and Evening in the Parish-Church where he ministers and cause a bell to be toll'd thereunto that the People may come to hear God's Word and to pray with him VI. Doth your Minister reverently and publickly at the Font only and that without the use of a Basin Administer the holy Sacrament of Baptism Or doth he refuse or delay to Christen any Child that is brought to him to Church on any Sunday or Holy-day knowledge thereof being given to him over Night or in the Morning before Morning Prayer or neglect to persuade all these who have the use of Reason and are still unbaptiz'd having been seduced by Anabaptists to come to holy Baptism and doth he take care for their Baptism as in the Common-Prayer-Book is prescribed In the solemn Publick Baptism doth he Baptize any without God-fathers or God-mothers Or doth he then refuse or neglect to sign the Child baptized with the sign of the Cross Or doth he admit such to be a God-father or God mother who are either one of the Parents of the Child or who have not themselves received the holy Communion VII Doth your Minister duly and reverently Administer the holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ our Lord so often at least and at such times as every Parishioner may communicate at the least three times in every year in publick whereof the Feast of Easter to be one And doth he reverently and carefully in all things observe all the Churches Order in the Celebration Doth he give warning publickly in the Church at Morning-Prayer the Sunday before for the better preparation of his Parishioners And do such as purpose to Communicate signifie their Names at least some time the day before and when he seeth the People negligent to come to the Communion doth he use the Churches second Exhortation and when there is no Communion doth your Minister every Sunday and Holy-day throughout the year read so much of the Communion Service as is appointed to be read by the Book of Common-Prayer and at the place appointed if he can thence be well heard of all thereby professing his and the Churches readiness to the more frequent Celebration of the Holy Eucharist if Communicants were not wanting VIII Doth your Minister wittingly admit to the receiving the Holy Communion any one such who is known to live in open and notorious sin without Repentance or that has wronged his Neighbour by word or deed so as that the Congregation is thereby offended or any such betwixt whom he perceives malice or hatred to reign and will not be reduced by him to a reconcilement or to any who refuse to be present at the other publick Prayers of the Church or to any that be common or notorious depravers of the Book of Common-Prayer or of any thing contained in the XXXIX Articles or in the Book of Ordaining Bishops Priests and Deacons or to any that has spoken against His Majesties Supreme Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical except such persons do first acknowledge to the Minister before you the Church-Wardens his Repentance for the same and promise under his hand if he can write or otherwise by word of mouth that he will do so no more Or lastly to any that refuse to receive the said Holy Communion kneeling And of all such persons by him put from the Communion doth he give an account to his Ordinary according to Law IX Doth he at the Celebration of the Holy Communion in the due places appointed by the Liturgy take the Paten into his hands and break the Bread and lay his hand upon all the Bread and after likewise take the Cup into his hand and lay his hand upon it and every Vessel in which there is any Wine to be Consecrated and when that which was Consecrated is spent doth he communicate to any persons without Consecrating more according to the form prescribed and doth he severally deliver the Bread and Wine to every Communicant and at his delivering the same

doth he rehearse the whole form prescribed in the Communion-Book saying The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ c. And The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed c. Or doth he use only some part thereof as he listeth himself And when all have communicated doth he cover what remaineth of the consecrated Elements with a fair Linnen-cloth and what remains is it reverently eaten and drunken by some of the Communicants within your Church X. If any person sick or in health especially before the Receiving the holyCommunion finding his conscience troubled with any weighty matters doth for the quieting thereof and for further comfort and counsel unburden his conscience to his Priest or Minister doth then the said Priest or Minister upon special confession of his sins made together with fruits meet for repentance having been perform'd to both which also he is by the Minister to be moved upon his Repentance administer unto him Absolution together with Ghostly counsel and advice and have you ever heard that the said Priest or Minister hath revealed or made known at any time to any person whatsoever directly or indirectly any crime or offence confessed to him in secret by any such Penitents whatsoever except they be such crimes as by the Laws of this Realm for the publick concern the Life of the said Priest may and ought to be called in question for concealing of them XI Is your Minister a licensed Preacher by the Bishop or either of the two Universities and if so doth he then constantly unless in case of sickness necessary absence or other reasonable impediment himself preach in your Church or Chappel or in some other near adjoyning where no Preacher is one Sermon every Lords-day or in such cases of impediment or himself not being licensed doth he procure some lawful Minister and licensed Preacher to preach one Sermon and to perform other Ministerial Duties each such day besides the days of Christ's Nativity Passion and Ascension at the least or if no Sermon be take care that one of the Homilies set forth by Authority be there read by a Priest or Deacon lawfully ordained on every Sunday and Holy-day in the Year hath he in his own Sermons at any time or in other Discourse as you know or have heard of preached or maintained any unsound Heretical Seditious or Schismatical Doctrine so far as you can judge or spoken ought privately in contempt of Religion or that Religion or any part of it which he by his office in this Church professeth XII Doth he or any other admitted to preach in your Church omit before his Sermon or Homily briefly to move and exhort the people in the form laid down in the 55. Canon or to the same effect declaring for whom and for what mercies they are to pray and to give God thanks to joyn with him finally in Prayer for all those mercies in that most holy and comprehensive Prayer of our Lord XIII Doth your Minister diligently Catechize the Youth of your Parish every Sunday and Holy-day by way of Question and Answer accordingto the Churches publick Catechism or also further instruct them in the sense thereof as he shall think fit and this after the second Lesson at Evening Service openly in the Church Doth he by this and all other good means and admonitions prepare and procure them as occasion is offered devoutly to come and seek to be confirmed by the Bishop and himself either bring or send in writing under his hand the names of all such persons in his Parish as he shall find by his Examination fit to be presented to the Bishop humbly to seek and ask that benefit of Confirmation XIV Doth your Minister if he be thought fit by his Ordinary endeavour privately to reclaim and reduce all Popish Recusants and all Sectaries in your Parish to the Communion in the publick and established worship of God in this Church Is he also ready without delay to visit the sick And doth he call upon them to receive the holy Sacrament in their sickness And doth he administer it to them And is he also ready being called without delay to baptize Infants in danger of death Is any Infant or more aged person in the Parish yet unbaptized by his default And those Children that have been baptized in private houses have they been so baptized by any Popish Priest on pretended necessity or if at home for true cause of necessity have they been by your Minister or other lawful Minister baptized and afterward brought into the Church and the Order of the Church concerning them there duly observed XV. Hath your Minister or any other baptized Children churched any Women or ministred the holy Communion in any private house where they have any Church or Chappel in the Parish otherwise then by Law is allowed in cases of necessity XVI Doth your Minister on the three Rogation days before the Feast of the holy Ascension go in perambulation of the Circuit of the Parish And when he so goeth doth he exhort the people to give thanks to God in the beholding of his benefits for the increase and abundance of his fruits upon the face of the Earth And when there appears any fear of scarcity doth he move them to pray unto God for his mercy and favour unto the Land going into the Church with them and reading the Litany and one part of the Homily set forth and appointed for that purpose of the Rogations XVII Doth he bid and observe the Holy-days and Fasting-days and days of Abstinence and other solemn days for which particular Services are appointed as they occur or return from time to time giving notice to the Parishioners of every of the same in the Church in the time of the Morning Service the Sunday next before XVIII Doth your Minister always at the reading or celebrating any Divine Office constantly wear the Surplice and other Scholastical Habit according to his degree if he be a Graduate and without a Hood only instead thereof a Tipet of black Stuff not Silk being permitted him if he be no Graduate And doth he wear his hair of a moderate and comly length Is his usual Apparel decent in fashion and in colour such as is enjoyned him by the Canons of the Church XIX Doth he in the presence of the Church-wardens write and record in your Register Book the Names and Surnames of all persons baptized married and buried in your Parish from time to time yearly transmitting a Copy of those Christnings Marryings and Buryings subscribed with his own the Church-wardens or Overseers hands into the Bishops Registry XX. Doth your Minister permit any strange Minister to preach in your Church who is not sufficiently licensed and Authorized thereto or that doth not subscribe his name in your book provided for that purpose and by whom he was so licensed to Preach and the day of his Preaching XXI