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<P>ARTICLES TO BE ENQUIRED of AND ANSWERED unto BY THE Church-Wardens and Side-Men, IN THE PRIMARY VISITATION OF THE Right Reverend Father in God, <HI>NICOLAS</HI> Lord Bi&s;hop of
<HI>Che&s;ter.</HI> M.DC.XCI.</P>
<P><HI>Che&s;ter,</HI> Printed in the Year, MDCXCI.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="oath">
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<HEAD>The Oath to be admini&s;tred to the Church-wardens and Side-men of each Pari&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>YOU &s;hall Swear truly and faithfully to execute the Office of Church-war|dens and Side-men within your Pari&s;h, and &s;hall diligently enquire, and make true Pre|&s;entment of &s;uch Things and Per&s;ons, as you know to be pre&s;entable, by the Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Laws of this Realm.</P>
<CLOSER>So help you God.</CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="articles">
<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD>ARTICLES TO BE ENQUIRED of AND ANSWERED unto BY THE Church-Wardens or Side-Men, in the DIOCESS of <HI>CHESTER.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>TIT. I.</HI> Concerning Churches, and Chappels, with the things thereunto belonging.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><LABEL>I.</LABEL> IS your Pari&s;h-Church or Chappel,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 85.</NOTE> in good and &s;ufficient repair, both for the Roof, Win|dows, Floor and Seats; and are all things therein kept in &s;uch decent &s;ort as becometh the Hou&s;e of God?</P>
<P N="2"><LABEL>II.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 81.</NOTE> Is there a Font of Stone in your Church or Chappel, &s;tanding in the ancient u&s;ual place? Doth your Mini&s;ter Baptize publickly in the Font?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 82.</NOTE> Is there a decent Communion-Table in your Chancel,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rubrick before y^e Commu|nion.</NOTE> covered in time of Divine Service with a decent Carpet; and when the Lord's Supper is admini&s;ter|ed, with a fair white Linnen Cloath? Have you a
<PB N="2" REF="3"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rubr. be|fore the Prayer for the whole &s;tate of Chri&s;t's Church. Can. 82. Can. 83. Can. 80. Can. 99. Can. 58. Can. 70.</NOTE>decent Ba&s;on to receive the Alms for the Poor? And have you a Chalice or Communion-Cup, with a Cover; and one or more Flaggons?</P>
<P N="3"><LABEL>III.</LABEL> Have you a convenient Seat or Pew, where|in to read Divine Service; a comly and decent Pul|pit &s;et in a convenient place; a large Bible of the la&s;t Tran&s;lation; a Book of Common-prayer lately publi&s;hed, <HI>Anno 1662.</HI> the Book of Homilies &s;et forth by Authority; a Printed Table of the Degrees wherein Marriages are prohibited; a Book of Ca|nons and Con&s;titutions Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, and a decent Surplice?</P>
<P N="4"><LABEL>IV.</LABEL> Have you a Regi&s;ter Book in Parchment, for all who are Chri&s;tened, Married, or Buried in your Pari&s;h? And is the &s;ame kept in all points ac|cording to the Canon in that behalf? And is the Tran&s;cript thereof yearly; within one month next after the
<HI>25th</HI> of <HI>March,</HI> brought into the Bi&s;hop's Regi&s;try?</P>
<P N="5"><LABEL>V.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 52.</NOTE> Have you a Paper Book, in which the names of Strangers who preach in your Church or Chap|pel are &s;et down? And another Book for the Church-wardens Accounts?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 70.</NOTE> As al&s;o a Che&s;t with three Locks and Keys wherein to keep the &s;aid Books, and the fore-mentioned Furniture?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Can.
84.</NOTE> And have you a Che&s;t with three Keys for Alms?</P>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>TIT. II.</HI> Concerning the Church-yard, Hou&s;es, Glebes, and Tithes belonging to the Church.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><LABEL>I.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 85.1.</NOTE> IS your Church-yard &s;ufficiently fenced, and de|cently kept? Hath any per&s;on encroached upon the &s;ame, or made any door into it? And how long &s;ince?</P>
<P N="2"><LABEL>II.</LABEL> Is the Hou&s;e of your Par&s;on, Vicar or Curate, and the Out-hou&s;es in good repair? Have any of them been defaced or pulied down without Licence? Have there been any encroachments made upon the &s;ame? Or any of the Ancient marks or bounds removed or changed? And by whom?</P>
<PB N="3" REF="3">
<P N="3"><LABEL>III.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 87.</NOTE> Have you a true and perfect Terrier of all the Glebe-lands, Gardens, Orchards, Tenements or Cot|tages belonging to your Par&s;onage or Vicarage? As al&s;o a note of &s;uch Pen&s;ions, Rate-Tithes, &amp; Por|tions of Tithes, or other yearly profits (either with|in or without your Pari&s;h) as belong thereunto? Have any of the &s;ame been with-held from your Mi|ni&s;ter? And by whom as you know, or have heard? And is your Terrier laid up in the Bi&s;hops Regi|&s;try?</P>
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<HEAD><HI>TIT. III.</HI> Concerning Mini&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><LABEL>I.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Act of Unifor|mity. Can. 48.</NOTE> IS your Mini&s;ter Vicar or Curate Epi&s;copally ordained, and duly qualified according to the Laws of this Realm? Hath your Mini&s;ter been le|gally inducted? Hath he read the <HI>39</HI> Articles within two Months after his Induction upon &s;ome Sun|day or Holy-day in the time of Divine Service,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stat. 13. Eliz. c. 12.</NOTE> and declared his A&s;&s;ent thereto? Is he defamed, or &s;u&s;|pected to have obtained either his Benefice or Or|ders by any Simoniacal Compact?</P>
<P N="2"><LABEL>II.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 45. Can. 47. Can An. 1571.</NOTE> Hath your Mini&s;ter any other Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Benefice? Is he con&s;tantly re&s;ident among you, and doth he preach every Lord's day, having no lawful impediment? How long in one year hath he been ab&s;ent from his Cure?</P>
<P N="3"><LABEL>III.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 47. Can. 48.</NOTE> Hath your Mini&s;ter a Curate to a&s;&s;i&s;t him? Is the &s;aid Curate a man of able parts, of a pious and di&s;creet Conver&s;ation and Conformable to the Laws of the Church of <HI>England?</HI> Doth he &s;erve any other Cure be&s;ides? What yearly Stipend doth your Mini&s;ter allow him?</P>
<P N="4"><LABEL>IV.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Act of Unifor mity.</NOTE> Doth your Per&s;on, Vicar or Curate, in read|ing the Morning and Evening Service, Admini&s;tra|tion of the Holy Sacraments, and other Religious Offices, u&s;e y^e Forms pre&s;crib'd in y^e book of Common prayer, &amp; all &s;uch Rites and Ceremonies as are ap|pointed
<PB N="4" REF="4"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 58.</NOTE>in that Book, &s;o far as you have ob&s;erved? Doth he wear the Surplice, together with &s;uch other Ha|bit as is &s;utable to his Degree?</P>
<P N="5"><LABEL>V.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rubr. af|ter Com|munion Can. 21. Rubr. be|fore com|munion. Can. 26. Can. 22. Rubrick Com, Can. 59 Rubr. af|ter Cate|chi&s;m. Can. 61. Can.
66.</NOTE> Doth your Mini&s;ter celebrate the Lord's Sup|per &s;o often in every Year, that every Pari&s;hioner may receive thrice at lea&s;t? And doth he keep back tho&s;e who (according to the Rubrick and Canons) ought not to be admitted, giving an Account of them to the Bi&s;hop? And doth he on the Sunday or Holy-day before the Communion, give notice thereof in the Church, and read one of the Exhor|tations fitted for that purpo&s;e in the Common-Pray|er Book?</P>
<P N="6"><LABEL>VI.</LABEL> Doth your Mini&s;ter diligently in&s;truct the Youth of your Pari&s;h in the Church Catechi&s;m? And doth he prepare and pre&s;ent them, being &s;o in|&s;tructed, to be contirmed by the Bi&s;hop? And doth he endeavour to reclaim all Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants (if any &s;uch be inhabiting within your Pari&s;h) to the true Religion e&s;tabli&s;hed in the Church of
<HI>England?</HI></P>
<P N="7"><LABEL>VII.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 67. Can. 68. Can. 69.</NOTE> Doth he neglect or refu&s;e to vi&s;it the Sick, or bury the Dead, or delay the Bapti&s;m of any Infant in danger of Death? Is there any Child pa&s;t In|fancy, or other Per&s;on grown up through your Mi|ni&s;ters default, yet remaining un-baptized in your Pari&s;h?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rubr. be|fore Pub. Bapti&s;m. Can. 62, 63. Can An. 1397.</NOTE> Doth he u&s;e to Baptize any without God|fathers or God-mothers.</P>
<P N="8"><LABEL>VIII.</LABEL> Hath he pre&s;umed to marry any Per&s;ons in private Hou&s;es; or &s;uch as being under age have not the con&s;ent of their Parents or Guardians; or with|out Banns fir&s;t publi&s;hed on three Sundays or Ho|ly-days in the Church, unle&s;s he had a Licence &s;o to do; or at any other hours, than between Eight and Twelve in the Morning?</P>
<P N="9"><LABEL>IX.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 64.</NOTE> Doth your Mini&s;ter declare to the People eve|ry Sunday at the time appointed in the Communion Book, the &s;everal Holy-days and Fa&s;ting days in the Week following? And is he an Example to o|thers in ob&s;erving them?</P>
<PB N="5" REF="4" MS="y">
<P N="10"><LABEL>X.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 75.</NOTE> Is your Mini&s;ter or Curate, a man of a &s;tu|dious, unblamable and exemplary Life? Or is he a frequenter of Taverns, or Ale-Hou&s;es, a common Game&s;ter, a Swearer, Railer or Quarreller? Is he noted to be an intemperate Drinker, or vehe|mently &s;u&s;pected of Incontinency with any Per&s;on? Is his Apparel grave and decent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 74.</NOTE> as the Canons of the Church require? And doth he in all his be|haviour &s;o carry him&s;elf, as that he may adorn the Go&s;pel, whereof he is a Mini&s;ter?</P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>TIT. IV.</HI> Concerning the Pari&s;hioners.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><LABEL>I.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 109.</NOTE> IS there any Per&s;on in your Pari&s;h, that liveth under a Common fame, or &s;u&s;pition of Adulte|ry, Fornication, or Ince&s;t? Are there any com|mon Drunkards within your Pari&s;h, or common Swearers, or Bla&s;phemers of God's name, or any that are noted to be Railers, Vnclean or Filthy Talkers; or &s;owers of Sedition, Faction and Di&s;|cord among&s;t their Neighbours?</P>
<P N="2"><LABEL>II.</LABEL> Do any of your Pari&s;h profane the Lords-day;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stat.
29. Car. 2. c 7. Can. 1571</NOTE> by working in their ordinary Callings; by &s;etting forth, and expo&s;ing to &s;ale any Wares, Fruits, Herbs, or Goods on that day, or by Loitering, Tipling, or any other practices.</P>
<P N="3"><LABEL>III.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 18.</NOTE> Doth every Pari&s;hioner in your Church or Chappel, as well during Divine Service, as preach|ing the Word of God; behave him&s;elf with &s;uch Re|verence, Decency and Attention, as the nature of &s;uch Holy Duties, and the Order of the Church doth require?</P>
<P N="4"><LABEL>IV.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 85.</NOTE> Are there any in your Pari&s;h, that refu&s;e to pay their duty for <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> Offerings; or refu&s;e to con|tribute to the Rates made for the Repair of your Church or Chappel, or any thing thereunto belong|ing?</P>
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<P N="5"><LABEL>V.</LABEL> Did any by their la&s;t Wills or Te&s;taments, leave any Legacy to your Church or Chappel, or to the u&s;e of the Poor, or to any other pious and cha|ritable purpo&s;es? Which hath been mi&s;pent and im|bezzelled, and by whom?</P>
<P N="6"><LABEL>VI.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Act for Exempt|ing their Maje&s;ties Prote|&s;tant Sub|jects from the Penalty, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> Ace there any Per&s;ons living in your Pari&s;h, who under pretence of Liberty of Con&s;cience, whol|ly neglect all publick Wor&s;hip of God; neither go|ing to the Church, nor to any A&s;&s;embly that meet to|gether, according to the late Act?</P>
<P N="7"><LABEL>VII.</LABEL> Have you any &s;uch A&s;&s;embly of Di&s;&s;enters in your Pari&s;h? Have they certified their place of meeting to the Bi&s;hop, or &s;uch others as that Act appoints? Have their Preachers &s;ub&s;cribed the Ar|ticles of Religion, except tho&s;e excepted in the Act, and taken the Oaths, and &s;ub&s;cribed the Declaration therein required?</P>
<P N="8"><LABEL>VIII.</LABEL> Is there any publick Chappel in your Pari&s;h, for which your Mini&s;ter hath provided no &s;upply? Hath any &s;uch publick Chappel been lately V&s;urped by and &s;ort of Di&s;&s;enters?</P>
<P N="9"><LABEL>IX.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 112.</NOTE> Are there any who profe&s;s to live in the Com|munion of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> who neglect to come to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, being of age fit to receive it?</P>
<P N="10"><LABEL>X.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rubr. af|ter Ca|techi&s;m. Can. 59. Can. An. 1571. Can. 99.</NOTE> Doth every Hou&s;houlder who lives in Com|munion with the Church of
<HI>England,</HI> cau&s;e their Chil|dren and Servants to come to the Church to learn their Catechi&s;m, and to give an account thereof to their Mini&s;ter?</P>
<P N="11"><LABEL>XI.</LABEL> Are there any living in your Pari&s;h, as Man and Wife, who are within the Degrees prohibited?</P>
<P N="12"><LABEL>XII.</LABEL> Do you know, or have you heard of any in your Pari&s;h, who having the pre&s;entation of an Ec|cle&s;ia&s;tical Living, hath made any Simoniacal com|pact or gain thereby; either in Mony, or by re&s;erve of any part of the Tithes, or Glebe belonging to the Benefice?</P>
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<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="article">
<PB N="7" REF="6">
<HEAD><HI>TIT. V.</HI> Concerning Pari&s;h-Clerks, and Sextons.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><LABEL>I.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can 91.</NOTE> HAve you belonging to your Church or Chap|pel, a Pari&s;h-Clerk, aged twenty years at the lea&s;t? Is he of hone&s;t Life and Conver&s;ation? And &s;ufficient or able to perform his Duty, in Read|ing, Writing and Singing? Doth he duly attend your Mini&s;ter in all Divine Services in the Church? Are his Wages duly paid unto him? Or who with|holdeth the &s;ame from him?</P>
<P N="2"><LABEL>II.</LABEL> Doth your Sexton diligently do his Duty, in opening and locking the Doors of the Church at due times; in keeping the Church clean and decent; in Tolling and Ringing the Bells before Divine Service?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>TIT. VI.</HI> Concerning Ho&s;pitals, School-ma&s;ters, and Schools.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><LABEL>I.</LABEL> WHat Ho&s;pital, Alms-hou&s;es, or Free-&s;chool hath been founded in your Pari&s;h? Are they &s;o ordered in their Revenue and V&s;e, as the Foun|ders appointed, and the Law of the Land allows?</P>
<P N="2"><LABEL>II.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 77, 78, 79.</NOTE> What School-ma&s;ter private or publick, is there in your Pari&s;h? Is he Licen&s;ed by the Bi&s;hop? Is he of &s;ober and hone&s;t Conver&s;ation? Doth he teach his Scholars the Church Catechi&s;m?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. An. 1571.</NOTE> And doth he cau&s;e them upon Sundays and Holy-days, to repair orderly to the Church; and there &s;ee that they quietly and reverently behave them&s;elves dur|ing the time of Divine Service and Sermon? And doth he at other times train them up with &s;uch Sen|tences of Holy Scriptures, as &s;hall be mo&s;t expedi|ent to induce them to all Godline&s;s?</P>
<PB N="8" REF="7">
<P N="3"><LABEL>III.</LABEL> Do any in your Pari&s;h practice Phy&s;ick, Chy|turgery or Mid-wifery, without Licen&s;e from the Ordinary?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>TIT. VII.</HI> Concerning Church-wardens, and Side-men.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><LABEL>I.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 89.</NOTE> ARe the Church-wardens of your Pari&s;h year|ly and duly cho&s;en by the joint con&s;ent of your Mini&s;ter and Pari&s;hioners? Or one of them by your Mini&s;ter, and the other by the Pari&s;hioners?</P>
<P N="2"><LABEL>II.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> Have the former and la&s;t Church-wardens giv|en up their Accounts to the Pari&s;h, &amp; delivered up to the &s;ucceeding Church-wardens the money remain|ing in their hands; together with all other things belonging to your Church or Chappel?</P>
<P N="3"><LABEL>III.</LABEL> You are further to under&s;tand; that according to your Office, you are to provide again&s;t every Communion appointed in your Church or Chappel, a &s;ufficient quantity of fine white Bread, and good Wine, according to the number of Communicants, at the Charges of the Pari&s;h.</P>
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<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="article">
<HEAD><HI>TIT. VIII.</HI> Concerning the Officers in the Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Courts.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><LABEL>I</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 178</NOTE> DOth the Chancellor or Commi&s;&s;ary, &s;ub&s;titute any per&s;on in his ab&s;ence to keep Courts for him, who is not either a grave Mini&s;ter, and a Gra|duate, or a Licen&s;ed publick Preacher, and a Bene|ficed man near the place where the Courts are kept; or a Batchelor of Law, or a Ma&s;ter of Arts at the lea&s;t?</P>
<P N="2"><LABEL>II.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. An. 1571.</NOTE> Doth the Chancellor or Commi&s;&s;ary (not be|ing in Holy Orders) pronounce the Sentence of Ex|communication? Or is the &s;ame pronounced only by the Bi&s;hop, or by &s;ome grave man of his appoint|ment, which is in the Mini&s;try?</P>
<PB N="9" REF="7">
<P N="3"><LABEL>III.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 134</NOTE> Do you know, or have you heard of any Pay|ment, Compo&s;ition or Promi&s;e, made to any Ec|cle&s;ia&s;tical Officer for conmving at any Foult com|mited? Hath the Regi&s;ter received any Reward in any Cau&s;e what&s;oever, in favour of any party? Or hath he been of Coun&s;el directly or indirectly, with either of the parties in Suit?</P>
<P N="4"><LABEL>IV.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 135</NOTE> Hath any Regi&s;ter, or any other Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Officer, or any Clerk under them, exacted, or ta|ken extraordinary, or greater Fees, than tho&s;e con|tained in the Table of Fees, for that purpo&s;e made?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Can.
136</NOTE></P>
<P N="5"><LABEL>V.</LABEL> Are there two Tables containing the &s;everal rates of Fees due to each Officer; the one publickly propo&s;ed in the Con&s;i&s;tory, the other in the Regi&s;try, that every Per&s;on whom it concerneth may without difficulty come to the view and peru&s;al thereof?</P>
<P N="6"><LABEL>VI.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can An. 1571. &amp; 1597. Can. 133</NOTE> What money hath been given for commutati|on of Penance? By whom? To whom? For what Offence? How hath it been employed?</P>
<P N="7"><LABEL>VII.</LABEL> Is there any Proctor who doth not behave him&s;elf mode&s;tly in the Court, and is not pre&s;ently &s;ilent when the Iudge or Advocate &s;peaks?</P>
<P N="8"><LABEL>VIII.</LABEL><NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. An. 1597. Can. 138</NOTE> Is there any Apparitor who executes his Office by a Deputy? Doth any Apparitor exact more or greater Fees then are pre&s;cribed?</P>
<P>Let the&s;e, and all other Abu&s;es and Offences, which any Officer belenging to the Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Courts is chargable with, &s;ince the <HI>16th</HI> day of <HI>May, 1690.</HI> be carefully pre&s;ented to the Bi&s;hop.</P>
<P><HI>The Church-wardens and Side-men, are required to ad|vi&s;e with their Mini&s;ters, concerning their Pre&s;entments; and con&s;cionably to di&s;charge their Office, duly con&s;ider|ing the Obligation of their Oath, and the danger of Perju|ry; and that tho&s;e Sins and Offences will lie at their Doors, which through their unfaithfulne&s;s in not Pre&s;enting them, remain un-reformed in their Pari&s;hes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>If any Mini&s;ter thing fit to Pre&s;ent, let his Pre&s;entment be di&s;tinct from that of the Church-wardens.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the clergy">
<PB N="10" REF="8">
<HEAD>TO MY BRETHREN OF THE CLERGY.</HEAD>
<P>YOU are de&s;ired to prepare the Young people of your Pari&s;hes for Confirmation. And to the end it may be Admini&s;tered to the greater Edi|fication of tho&s;e who &s;hall receive it. I de&s;ire you to take notice, that I intend to Confirm none but tho&s;e who are of the age of Fourteen Years at the lea&s;t, and who&s;e Names &s;hall be delivered to me, by the Mini&s;ters of the re&s;pective Pari&s;hes from which they come, with a Certifi|cate under their Hands that they have Examined them (unle&s;s they be Per&s;ons of Ripe age) and find them not only capable of repeating the words of the Catechi&s;m, but that they under&s;tand the meaning of that Solemn Vow, that was made in their Name at their Bapti&s;m, and declare them&s;elves re&s;olved, by the Grace of God, to live an&s;wer|able to it.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="ordinations">
<HEAD>For the better regulateing of Ordinations, I de&s;ire you to ob&s;erve.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> That I will admit none to Holy Orders, but &s;uch as be pre&s;ented to &s;ome Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Preferment in this Dio|ce&s;s, or have &s;ome other Title &s;pecified and allowed in the 33 Canon; among&s;t which a Curacy under a Par&s;on or Vicar is not to be accounted as one, unle&s;s &s;uch Par&s;on or
<PB N="11" REF="8">Vicar doth under his Hand and Seal, oblige him&s;elf to the Bi&s;hop, both to accept that Per&s;on <HI>bona fide</HI> (when he &s;hall be Ordained and Licen&s;ed by the Bi&s;hop) to &s;erve under him, and allow him &s;uch a Sallary as the Bi&s;hop &s;hall ap|prove of, &s;o long as he &s;hall continue to do his Duty there.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> I de&s;ire you to &s;ignifie to all &s;uch as you find de|&s;irous to enter into Holy Orders; that I expect they &s;end to me in writing, a Month at lea&s;t before Ordination-Sunday, their Names and the places of their abode, that I may order Notice to be given of their intentions at the Pari&s;h-Churches where they live; that &s;o any who have any impediment to object, why they &s;hould not be admitted, may &s;ignifie it to me. And I expect, that they all per&s;onally repaire to me, and bring with them &s;uch Te&s;timonial of their Behaviour for the three years la&s;t pa&s;t, as the Canon requires; on Wed|ne&s;day in Ember-week, or on Thur&s;day morning at the late&s;t; that I may have &s;ufficient time for the &s;trict and care|ful examination of every one of them; remembering tho&s;e dreadful words of St. <HI><HI>Paul,</HI> Lay hands &s;uddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other mens Sins, keep thy &s;elf pure.</HI></P>
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