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<P>ARTICLES OF ENQUIRY CONCERNING MATTERS ECCLESIASTICAL Within the DIOCESS of LANDAFFE IN THE EPISCOPAL VISITATION Of the Right Reverend Father in God, FRANCIS, Lord Bi&s;hop of LANDAFFE.</P>
<P>Anno. Dom. 1671.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>James Collins</HI> in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall.</HI> M.DC.LXXI.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="instructions for oath-takers">
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<HEAD>The Tenor of the Oath to be Tendered to the Church-wardens and Side-men.</HEAD>
<P>YOu &s;hall Swear diligently to En|quire, and true Pre&s;entment make of all Defaults and Offences, as are Inquirable by the Laws Eccle&s;ia&s;tical of this Realm.
<HI>So God you help.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>ARTICLES OF ENQUIRY within the DIOCESS OF <HI>LANDAFFE.</HI></HEAD>
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<HEAD><HI>TIT. I.</HI> Concerning Churches or Chappels, with the Ornaments, Furniture and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions belonging to them.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1. IS</HI> the Fabrick of your Church (or Chappel) with all things apper|taining to it, kept in good repair within and without, in &s;uch order and decency, as becometh the Hou&s;e dedicated to the Publick Wor&s;hip of God?</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2. IS</HI> there any Chappel of Ea&s;e within your Pari&s;h? What Con|&s;ecration hath it had, or what In&s;truments of its Allowance to be &s;o: Can you produce?</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3. IS</HI> there in the Church (or Chappel) a Font of Stone &s;tanding in the u&s;ual, ancient place, with a Cover to it, for the Admini&s;tration of Bapti&s;m? Is there al&s;o a convenient Communion Table covered with a fair Carpet of Silk, or other decent Stuff, in time of Divine Service; and with a fair Linnen Cloth at the time of Admini&s;tring the Sacrament? What Cup, Chaiice, Paten, or Flagons, have you belonging to that Service?</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4. HAVE</HI> you in your Church (or Chappel) a convenient Seat for the Mini&s;ter to read <HI>Divine Service</HI> in? And a Pulpit, with a decent Cloth or Cu&s;hion for the &s;ame? Have any Pews or Seats been erected by any private per&s;on of his own authority without leave from the Ordinary?</P>
<P N="5"><HI>5. HAVE</HI> you a large Folio Bible of the la&s;t Tran&s;lation, with two Books of <HI>Common-Prayer</HI> well bound, one for the Mini&s;ter, the other for the Clerk? Have you the Book of Homiles &s;et forth by Authority, the Book of Canons, and the Table of Degrees allowed and prohibited in Marriage?</P>
<P N="6"><HI>6. HAVE</HI> you a Regi&s;ter Book of Parchment for all who are Chri&s;tned, married, and buried in the Pari&s;h, in which are &s;et down the names of the parties, with the day, month, and year of each Chri&s;tning, marriage and burial? Is the Tran&s;cri<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t thereof every year, within one month after the Twenty fifth of <HI>March,</HI> carried into the Bi&s;hops Regi&s;try?</P>
<P N="7"><HI>7. HAVE</HI> you a Paper book, in which the names of Strangers, who Preach or Officiate in the Church (or Chappel) are &s;et down; and another Book for the Church-wardens accompts?</P>
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<HI>8.</HI> HAVE you a fair Surplice for the Mini&s;ter to wear at all times of his publick Mini&s;tration, provided at the charge of the Pari&s;h?</P>
<P N="9"><HI>9. HAVE</HI> you a Che&s;t for Alms, with three Locks and Keys, and another Che&s;t to keep the Books and Ornaments of the Church? Have you a Bier with a black Her&s;e-cloth for the burial of the Dead?</P>
<P N="10"><HI>10. IS</HI> the Church-yard &s;ufficiently fenced with Walls, Pales, or Rails, and decently kept from all annoyance or incroachments? Are the Trees therein pre&s;erved?</P>
<P N="11"><HI>11. IS</HI> the Man&s;ion-hou&s;e of your Mini&s;ter, with all other hou&s;es thereto belonging, kept in good Repair? Have any of them been pulled down, or defaced? Have any incroached upon the Land thereto belonging, or felled the Trees thereon growing?</P>
<P N="12"><HI>12. HAVE</HI> you a perfect Terrier of all Glebe-lands, Gardens, Orchards and Tenements, belonging to your Par&s;onage or Vicarage; al&s;o a particular Li&s;t of &s;uch Pen&s;ions, Tythes, or other yearly profits (either within, or with|out the Pari&s;h) as belong thereunto? Are any of them withheld from your Mini&s;ter, as you know, or have heard, and by whom?</P>
<P N="13"><HI>13. HAVE</HI> any of the antient Glebe-lands belonging to your Par&s;onage or Vicarage, been taken away or alienated by Safe or Exchange, without Licence from the Ordinary, and free con&s;ent of the Incumbent?</P>
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<HEAD><HI>TIT. II.</HI> Concerning Mini&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1. IS</HI> your Mini&s;ter Epi&s;copally Ordained Deacon or Prie&s;t, according to the Laws of the Realm of <HI>England?</HI> Is he defamed, or &s;u&s;pected to have obtained his Orders or Benefice by any Simoniacal Compact? hath he been Legally In&s;tituted and Inducted unto his Benefice? and did he within two months after his Induction, publickly read in the Church, in the time of Di|vine Service, the thirty nine Articles of Religion, e&s;tabli&s;hed in the Church of <HI>England?</HI> And did he then and there declare his a&s;&s;ent thereunto?</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2. HATH</HI> your Mini&s;ter been Licenced to Preach by the Archbi&s;hop, Bi&s;hop of this Dioce&s;s, or either of the two Vniver&s;ities? Doth he diligently read Di|vine Service, and Preach every Lords day in the Church, unle&s;s hindered by &s;ickne&s;s, or rea&s;onable ab&s;ence? And in &s;uch ca&s;es, doth he procure &s;ome lawful Mini&s;ter to read Prayers to Preach and perform other Mini&s;terial Duties?</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3. HATH</HI> your Mini&s;ter (or any other who Preached in your Church) pub|li&s;hed in his Sermons any Doctrine which is new:, &s;trang, and di&s;agreeing from the Word of God, and the Articles of the Chri&s;tian Faith, or any thing again&s;t the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> or the Govern|ment of it, as it is now e&s;tabli&s;hed? Doth he u&s;e before his Sermon, the Form of Prayer pre&s;cribed by the Fifty fifth Canon?</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4. DOTH</HI> your Mini&s;ter in the morning and evening Service, in the Ad|mini&s;tration of the Sacraments, and in performing other Religious offices appointed by the Church of <HI>England,</HI> u&s;e the re&s;pective Forms in the Book of <HI>Common-Prayer,</HI> together with all tho&s;e Rites and Ceremonies which are en|joyned in this Church? And doth he make u&s;e of the Surplice and the Hood
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<P N="5"><HI>5. DOTH</HI> your Mini&s;ter diligently Catechize the Youth of his Pari&s;h every Sunday and Holyday before Evening Service? Doth he prepare and procure them (as occa&s;ion is offered) to come and be confirmed by the Bi&s;hop? And doth he endeavour to reclaim all Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, and all Sectaries in your Pari&s;h, to the true Religion?</P>
<P N="6"><HI>6. IS</HI> your Mini&s;ter a man of a &s;ober, unblameable, and exemplary life? Is he grave, mode&s;t, and regular in his outward demeanor and apparel, according to the Con&s;titutions of the Church? Or is his carriage, conver&s;ation, or com|pany in any kind what&s;oever, di&s;orderly or &s;candalous, and unbe&s;eeming his Calling and Charge?</P>
<P N="7"><HI>7. IS</HI> your Mini&s;ter ready to vi&s;it the Sick, and to baptize Infants in danger of death, being &s;o de&s;ired? Is any Infant or more aged per&s;on in the Pari&s;h yet unbaptized by his default? Have tho&s;e Children which have been baptized in-private Hou&s;es by the Mini&s;ter of the Pari&s;h, afterward been brought into the Church; and did the Mini&s;ter there certifie the Congregation, That the true Form of Bapti&s;m was by him privately before u&s;ed? Or if any children in the Pari&s;h have been baptized privately by any other lawful Mini&s;ter, have tho&s;e Children been brought to your Church? and hath the Mini&s;ter of the Pari&s;h there examined, whether &s;uch children were lawfully baptized or not? Doth your Mini&s;ter refu&s;e to give the Sacrament to any in the Pari&s;h, and for what cau&s;e? Or doth he give it to &s;uch as are &s;candalous, or notorious &s;inners, or to any Excommunicated per&s;ons? Doth he duly admini&s;ter the ble&s;&s;ed Sa|crament three times every year at the lea&s;t, whereof <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> to be one?</P>
<P N="8"><HI>8. DOTH</HI> your Mini&s;ter, or any other Mini&s;ter, Marry any per&s;ons within your Pari&s;h, in private Hou&s;es, or &s;uch as are under age, not having the con|&s;ent of their Parents and Guardians? Doth he, or any other Mini&s;ter, marry any within your Pari&s;h without Banes fir&s;t publi&s;hed three Sundays or Holy|days in the Church? or Banes being not &s;o publi&s;hed, without Licence? or at prohibited times or hours, without Licence &s;o to do?</P>
<P N="9"><HI>9. DOTH</HI> your Mini&s;ter duly bid and ob&s;erve Holydays and Fa&s;ting days as is appointed? and doth he then u&s;e the Form of Prayer pre&s;cribed by the Church? Hath he taken upon him to appoint any private Fa&s;ts, or Religious Exerci&s;es, without lawful Authority? Doth he, or any other (Mini&s;ter, or Lay per&s;on) in your Pari&s;h, hold any Conventicles, or Religious Meetings for people of &s;e|veral Families to re&s;ort unto, contrary to the Laws in that ca&s;e provided?</P>
<P N="10"><HI>10. IS</HI> your Mini&s;ter con&s;tantly re&s;ident among you, and how many weeks in the year hath he been ab&s;ent from his Benefice? Hath he a Curate to a&s;&s;i&s;t him in his ab&s;ence or pre&s;ence? Is that Curate in holy Orders and hath he a Li|cence from the Bi&s;hop to &s;erve the &s;aid Cure? Doth he carry him&s;elf in all things, as an able and di&s;creet Mini&s;ter, and Conformable to the Church of <HI>England?</HI> Doth he &s;erve any more Cures be&s;ides that of your Pari&s;h, and at what di&s;tance? and doth any Laymen, not being in Holy Orders, pre&s;ume to read Publick Prayers in the Church?</P>
<P N="11"><HI>11. IS</HI> there in your Pari&s;h any Lecturer? Is he in Orders, and du|ly
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<P N="2"><HI>2. DOTH</HI> your Mini&s;ter every &s;ix Months publickly denounce all &s;uch as per|&s;evere in the Sentence of Excommunication, not &s;eeking to be ab&s;olved? Have any excommunicate per&s;on been received into the Church, without a Certifi|cate from the Ordinary of their Ab&s;olution? Or any &s;o dying, buried with Chri&s;tian Burial?</P>
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<HEAD><HI>TIT. III.</HI> Concerning Pari&s;hioners.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1. ARE</HI> there any in your Pari&s;h who are reputed Hereticks, or Schi&s;ma|ticks refu&s;ing Communion with the Church of <HI>England?</HI> Any Impug|ners of the Religion e&s;tabli&s;hed; of his Maje&s;ties Supremacy, or of any of the Laws, Rites and Ceremonies Eccle&s;ia&s;tical? Have any &s;poken or declared any thing in derogation, or to the depraving of the Form of Gods Wor&s;hip in the Church of <HI>England,</HI> and admini&s;tration of the Sacraments, Rites and Cere|monies pre&s;cribed in the Book of Common-prayer, as it is now e&s;tabli&s;hed by Law? are there any Convicted Papi&s;ts, known Anabapti&s;ts, or Quakers in the Pari&s;h?</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2. ARE</HI> there any in your Pari&s;h, who lye under a common Fame, or vehe|ment &s;u&s;pition of Adultery, Fornication, or Ince&s;t? are there any common Drunkards, Swearers, or Bla&s;phemers of Gods holy Name and Word? are there any Excommunicate per&s;ons, or any who countenance or keep com|pany with them?</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3. DO</HI> any of your Pari&s;h prophane the Lords day by neglecting of publick holy duties, or by doing the works of their ordinary Calling, or u&s;ing unlaw|ful Recreations, or permitting their Children and Servants &s;o to do? Do they duly ob&s;erve other Holy dayes, Fe&s;tivals and Fa&s;ts appointed by Authority?</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4. DO</HI> all tho&s;e who inhabit in your Pari&s;h, duly re&s;ort to your Church (or Chappel) and continue there during Divine Service, Sermon, and other holy Duties, with that Reverence, Order and Decency, as befits devout Chri&s;ti|ans? Or have any occa&s;ioned Ryot, Clamor, or fighting in the Church at any time? Is there any Recu&s;ant, Papi&s;ts, or Sectaries in your Pari&s;h? Do they, or any of them keep any School-ma&s;ter in their hou&s;e, which cometh not to Church to hear Divine Service, and receive the Holy Communion?</P>
<P N="5"><HI>5. ARE</HI> there any in your Pari&s;h, who refu&s;e to have their Infant children baptized by your Mini&s;ter? Or do they keep them unbaptized longer than the Church allows? And what Infants, or more aged per&s;ons are there in your Pari&s;h unbaptized?</P>
<P N="6"><HI>6. DO</HI> all your Hou&s;holders duly &s;end their Children, Apprentices and Ser|vants to be Catechized? And do they take care (when occa&s;ion is offered) they &s;hould be Confirmed by the Bi&s;hop?</P>
<P N="7"><HI>7. IS</HI> there any per&s;on in your Pari&s;h &s;o confirmed and in&s;tructed, and being Sixteen years of age, who refu&s;ed to receive the ble&s;&s;ed Sacrament of the Lords Supper, at lea&s;t three times every year, whereof <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> to be one? And
<PB N="5" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 5 -->do all receive this Sacred My&s;tery with that outward ge&s;ture of humility and reverence, as becomes them, meekly kneeling upon their knees, according to the order and cu&s;tom of the Church?</P>
<P N="8"><HI>8. ARE</HI> there any in your Pari&s;h, who are known or &s;u&s;pected to be unlaw|fully married, contrary to the Laws of God and this Church? Are there any who being lawfully married (and never Divorced) do yet live a&s;under? Or any, who being lawfully Divorced, do live together again? Or being &s;epa|rated for Adultery, have afterwards Entermarried with any other, during the life of their fir&s;t Con&s;ort?</P>
<P N="9"><HI>9. ARE</HI> there any married Women in your Pari&s;h, who after their &s;afe De|livery from Childbirth, refu&s;e to make their humble and publick Thank&s;gi|vings to God, according to the appointment of the Church?</P>
<P N="10"><HI>10. ARE</HI> there any of your Church, who refu&s;e to pay their <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI>-Offerings, and other Duties to your Mini&s;ter? Or to pay the rates a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed on them, for the repair and provi&s;ions of the Church?</P>
<P N="11"><HI>11. DO</HI> you know, or have you heard of any Patron, or other per&s;on in your Pari&s;h, who having the gift of an Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Benefice, hath made gain thereby upon any bargain, either for Money, Pen&s;ion, Lea&s;e, Re&s;erve of Tythes, or Glebe, or other Simoniacal Compact what&s;oever?</P>
<P N="12"><HI>12. DO</HI> any among you refu&s;e to Bury their Dead, according to the Rites of the Church of <HI>England?</HI> Are there any Wills of decea&s;ed per&s;ons unproved, or Goods not admini&s;tred? Do you know of any Legacies given to your Church, or the Cathedral Church of <HI>Landaffe,</HI> or to the Poor, or to other cha|ritable V&s;es, not yet received by you, or detained from you, or not applied to the charitable V&s;es appointed:</P>
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<HEAD><HI>TIT. IV.</HI> Concerning the Officers belonging to the Church.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1. ARE</HI> the Church-wardens of your Pari&s;h, yearly cho&s;en according to Law? and are there Side-men appointed to a&s;&s;i&s;t them, for the due ordering of the Church?</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2. HAVE</HI> the former and la&s;t Church-wardens given up their accompts to tho&s;e that &s;ucceed them, together with all monies, and other things belonging to your Church or Chappel?</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3. HAVE</HI> you a Pari&s;h Clerk aged Twenty years at lea&s;t, who is of &s;ober life and good Report? Is he cho&s;en by your Mini&s;ter, and approved by the Pari&s;h? and is he able for Reading, Writing, and Singing, as a Clerk? are his wages duly paid him?</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4. DOTH</HI> he or your Sexton take care of your Church, to keep it lockt and clean: to open the doors, and Ring the Bells in due time, to call the Living to the Wor&s;hip of God; al&s;o to admoni&s;h them by Tolling of a Pa&s;&s;ing-bell for any that are dying, thereby to meditate of their own death and to com|mend the others weak condition to the mercy of God?</P>
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<HEAD><HI>TIT. V.</HI> Concerning Alms-hou&s;es, Schools and School-Ma&s;ters, Phy&s;itians, Chirurgeons and Midwives.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1. IS</HI> there any Ho&s;pital, Alms-hou&s;e, or Free-School, founded in your Pa|ri&s;h? are they &s;o governed and ordered in the u&s;e and Revenue as the Founders appointed, according to the Ordinances and Statutes which have been made concerning the &s;ame?</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2. DOTH</HI> any man keep a publick or private School in your Pari&s;h? Is he or they licenced and allowed thereunto by the Bi&s;hop? Doth he-in&s;truct his Scholars in the Catechi&s;m and Religion of the Church of <HI>England?</HI> Is there any Woman that taketh upon her to in&s;truct and educate any young Maidens? doth &s;he re&s;ort duly, and bring with her to Divine Service, upon the Lords day and Holy dayes, all &s;uch young Maidens as are committed to her care?</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3. DO</HI> any in your Pari&s;h practi&s;e Phy&s;ick, Chirurgery, or Midwifery, without Licence?</P>
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<HEAD><HI>TIT. VI.</HI> Touching Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Officers.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1. ARE</HI> there any Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Officers that exerci&s;e Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Iuri&s;|diction within this Dioce&s;s, that take and receive any extraordinary Fees for any Cau&s;e? have abu&s;es or offences been pre&s;ented by Church-war|dens and Que&s;t-men? And are &s;uch offences being pre&s;ented, &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, or left unpuni&s;hed?</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2. HAVE</HI> any Apparitors taken any Reward for the concealing of any Offence, or the avoiding of the puni&s;hment of the Offendors? And do they &s;ummon any without a Citation fir&s;t had? <HI>IF you know of any other Default, or Crime of Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Cognizance, you are to pre&s;ent the &s;ame.</HI></P>
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<P>THE Mini&s;ter of every Pari&s;h may joyn in pre&s;entments with the Church-wardens and Side-men; and if they will not Pre&s;ent, then the Mini&s;ters them&s;elves (being the per&s;ons that have the chief care of the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of &s;in and Impiety in their Pari&s;hes) may pre&s;ent the Crimes afore&s;aid, and &s;uch things as &s;hall want due Reformation, <HI>Can. 113.</HI></P>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>FRANCIS C. LANDAVEN.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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