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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

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Holyday Or do they come decently apparell'd and make their Offerings according to custom X. Are any in your Parish known or reputed to be common Swearers Drunkards Adulterers Fornicatours Incestuous persons concealers or harbourers of the same Are any noted to be Railers unclean or filthy Talkers sowers or maintainers of Sedition Faction or Discord among their Neighbours Do any use Inchantments Sorcerys or Witchcrafts Have any been detected of such Notorious crimes Have they done Penance for the same or Commuted for it What summs of Money have been received upon such Commutations and how have they been bestowed XI Do any stand Excommunicate for any such crimes How long have they stood so and do any converse with them familiarly before they are reconciled to the Church XII Have any in your Parish quarrell'd stricken or done any violence to your Minister Have they disturb'd or molested Him in His Ministeriall Office Have they Libell'd or spoke any slanderous words against Him to the scandall of his vocation have they reproach'd or menac'd or any way wrong'd and abus'd the Church-wardens for doing of their duty XIII Do any refuse to pay their Easter Offerings or other dues to your Minister or to contribute to the Rates assess'd for the repair of your Church or Chappell or any thing thereunto belonging XIV What Gifts or Legacies have been given to Pious uses in your Parish which in whole or in part are either utterly defrauded or not imployed to the right use according to the Will of the donour XV. Are your Seats and Pews in the Church decently kept and are the Parishioners placed in them without offence and contention XVI Doth every one abide in his own calling whereunto he is call'd viz. Doth any Lay-man that is not duely Ordained openly read Common-Prayer or execute any Ministeriall Duty in your Church Or is there any Clergyman viz. any in holy Orders who doth voluntarily throw off the habit and desert the profession of a Clergyman and use himself as a Lay-man only without taking any care of the Church of God TIT. IV. Concerning the Parish-Clerks and Sextons I. HAve you a Parish-Clerk duly chosen by the Minister of the age of Twenty years at least of a sober and honest behaviour and sufficiently qualified in Reading Writing and Singing and making the severall Responses and Suffrages in the Liturgy Doth he duly attend Him in all Divine Offices Doth he or the Sexton open and lock the Church-doors at due times keep the Church clean and caresully look after all things committed to his charge Doth he ring or toll the Bells at the accustomed hours that the people may have sufficient warning to come to Church Doth he upon notice given toll the passing Bell that the Neighbours may thereby be put in mind to recommend the soul of the dying person to the grace and mercy and peace of God Doth he diligently attend the duty of his place in every respect Are his wages duly paid him or who withholdeth the same from him II. Doth he meddle with any thing not appertaining to his Office as Churching of Women Burying of the Dead and such like TIT. V. Concerning Hospitalls Schools School-Masters Physitians Chirurgeons and Midwives I. IS there in your Parish any Hospitall Alms-house or Free-School Is the Revenue thereof rightly employed and do the Masters and Governours and Members of the same behave and demean themselves according to the Godly Ordinances and Statutes of their severall Foundations II. Doth any man keep a Publick or Private School in your Parish that is not Licens'd by the Ordinary so to doe Is He a Man of a good Life Doth He come to the Church Himself and cause His Scholars so to doe and there to behave themselves orderly and reverently Doth He diligently instruct them in the Church Catechism and teach them good manners modesty sobriety and obedience as well as other good Learning III. Have you any Physitian Chirurgeon or Midwife in your Parish that practise without License TIT. VI. Concerning Ecclesiasticall Officers I. HAve any Ecclesiasticall Judges or Officers within this Diocess upon any payment or composition that you know or have heard of suppress'd or let go unpunished any fault or offence presented to them by the Church-wardens or any others II. Have any of them received or exacted any extraordinary Fees or other Rewards or promises directly or indirectly for Granting Letters of Administration to one before another or for allowing large and unreasonable Accounts of Executors or Administrators or for discharging them without Inventary or Account to the defrauding of Creditors Legataries or those who are to have Portions III. Is there a Table of Fees hung up every Court-day in some publick place of the Court or Registry are any larger Fees taken and exacted for Wills Administrations or any other things then are set down in the said Table IV. Doth any Judge or Officer in the said Courts vexatiously Cite any person protract any Causes or any way pervert Justice for gain or reward V. Doth any Ecclesiasticall Judge speed any Act in any Cause privately of Himself and not in presence of some publick Notary or Actuary VI. Is there any excessive number of Apparitors in this Diocess Have any of them under pretence of Authority Cited or summoned any person unlawfully or have they taken any reward for the concealing of any offence or fault or avoiding of the punishment of the offenders Do they take or require any unaccustomed Fees Have they threatned any to prosecute them if they had no reward and do they Summon any without a Citation first had VII Hath any Ecclesiasticall Judge or Officer Advocate Register Proctor Clerk or any other Minister to the said Courts belonging any way in their respective Offices abused themselves or oppressed and agriev'd His Majesties Subjects contrary to the Law and Canons in that behalf provided TIT. VII Queries to be answered by the Ministers concerning the Church-Wardens and Side-Men I. ARE your Church-Wardens every year chosen in Easter-Week and after the custom and manner of the Parish II. Have the last and former Church-Wardens given up their Accounts before the Minister and Parishioners Are their Accounts allowed or have they falsify'd their trust Wherein And how much III. Do the Church-Wardens diligently observe who are absent from Church Do they take all possible care that such Absenters of themselves do not profanely spend the Lord's day and other holy Times in Taverns Inns Tipling and Victualing-houses especially in the time of Divine Service Do they in the Church during all the said time see that the Parishioners present behave themselves peaceably and reverently and that all things be done decently and according to order That the Font the Communion Table the Reading Desk and the Pulpit with all the Furniture and Utensils thereunto belonging be kept in such good order and beauty as best becometh God's House and His Holy Ordinances therein Administred That the severall Books Registers and Chests required by Law be at the charge of the Parish provided and from time to time renewed and supply'd as there is occasion IV. Have they the Church-Wardens and Side-Men now Sworn to give in a true answer unto all these Articles of Enquiry in all their several Titles taken sufficient time to draw up their Presentments and therein consulted with You their Minister for your faithfull Assistance FINIS