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<HEAD>ENQUIRIES FOR A PAROCHIAL VISITATION IN LONDON.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. _IS there, or was there before the Fire within your Pari&s;h, or within the Pari&s;h or Pari&s;hes &s;ince annexed to it a Par&s;o|nage or Vicaridge Hou&s;e or Hou&s;es for the Dwelling of your Mini&s;ter? If it or they were burn down, are they &s;ince leas'd out and rebuilt? To whom? At what Ground-Rent, and for what Term? Have you a Survey or Map of it or them, and of the Yards and Gardens (if any) containing the exact Dimen&s;ions of them? Is the Lea&s;e or Lea|&s;es confirmed in due Form of Law? And where
<PB N="2" REF="2"> are they regi&s;tred? And have you any other Hou&s;es (be&s;ides your Re&s;idence Hou&s;e or Hou&s;es) or any other Glebes belonging to your Benefice; and what are they?</P>
<P N="2">II. IS the Annual Revenue (or Sum of Mo|ney in lieu of Tythes) which was &s;ettled by Act of Parliament 22 &amp; 23 <HI>Car.</HI> II. <HI>cap.</HI> 15. for the cer|tain Annual Maintenance of your Mini&s;ter, a&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed and a&s;certain'd, in &s;uch manner by &s;uch per&s;ons, and within &s;uch time as the &s;aid Act li|mits and appoints? And if not, thro who&s;e de|fault was it? If the A&s;&s;e&s;sment be made, are there Three Tran&s;cripts of it in Parchment &s;ub&s;cribed by the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, and &s;ent to be laid up among the Records of the City, in the Regi&s;try of the Bi|&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> and in the Ve&s;try of your Church? And what other Perqui&s;ites, Gifts, or Beque&s;ts (be|&s;ides the &s;aid &s;ettled Maintenance) are, or were, be|fore that Settlement, due to your Mini&s;ter and his Succe&s;&s;ors, from the Impropriator or any other per&s;ons?</P>
<P N="3">III. ARE there in the Re-building of the Ci|ty, or otherwi&s;e, any Encroachment made upon your Church or Church-Yard, or upon the Soil of the Church or Churches left unbuilt, or the Church-yards belonging to them? Is any part of
<PB N="3" REF="2"> either put to common u&s;e? Or any part of them, or of the Mini&s;ters Hou&s;e, Hou&s;es, or Glebes, taken into any other Per&s;ons Hou&s;e, Yard or Pa&s;&s;age? By whom, and by what Authority was it done?</P>
<P N="4">IV. WHAT Plate, Books, Bells, and other Furniture or Ornaments, have you belonging to your Church? Have you all &s;uch (at lea&s;t) as the Rubrick and Canon expre&s;ly require? Are there true Inventaries of them kept, and from time to time duly examin'd? If any Church or Churches have been lately united to your pre&s;ent Pari&s;h-Church, what is become of the Plate, Books, Bells, and other Furniture of the Churches left unbuilt? As al&s;o of the Lead, Gla&s;s, Stone, Iron, or other Materials that remain'd after the Fire? And to what u&s;e is the Site or Soil of the unbuilt Churches now employ'd?</P>
<P N="5">V. HATH your Mini&s;ter any other Benefice, with Cure of Souls, be&s;ides that of your Pari&s;h? Where and at what di&s;tance, and of what value is it? How doth he divide, and apportion his re&s;i|dence to his &s;everal Cures? And when he is Re&s;i|dent hereabouts, doth he con&s;tantly live in his Incumbent Hou&s;e, if there be one not leas'd out (or if he can conveniently hire it of the Le&s;&s;ee) or at lea&s;t &s;ome where within the bounds of the Pari&s;h?</P>
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<P N="6">VI. IF your Mini&s;ter keeps a Curate to a&s;&s;i&s;t him, whether is he &s;uch an one as hath no Benefice of his own with Cure of Souls, from which he ab|&s;ents him&s;elf? Is he duly licens'd by the Bi&s;hop? What Salary doth your Mini&s;ter allow him? And when he reads Prayers, is your Mini&s;ter him&s;elf con&s;tantly pre&s;ent at them?</P>
<P N="7">VII. Have you a Lecturer in your Church, and who is it? Was he before he entred upon his Le|cture, approv'd and licens'd according to the late Act of Uniformity? Doth he upon the fir&s;t Sun|day in every Month, duly perform all that the &s;aid Act requires of him? Hath he any Benefice of his own with Cure of Souls el&s;ewhere? What Sa|lary doth he receive from your Mini&s;ter or Pari&s;h?</P>
<P N="8">VIII. Doth your Mini&s;ter or his Curate (di|ligently and openly in the Church) catechi&s;e the Youth of your Pari&s;h on every Sunday in the Af|ternoon and Holydays, as the Rubrick and Canon require?</P>
<P N="9">IX. Is the different U&s;e and Mini&s;tration of Publick and Private Bapti&s;me duly ob&s;erved by your Mini&s;ter and Curate, according to the Dire|ctions in the Liturgy? Or do they make a com|mon practice of bapti&s;ing Children in private
<PB N="5" REF="3"> Hou&s;es? Or do it at any time without great cau&s;e and nece&s;&s;ity, as the Rubrick limits it, that is (as the 69th Canon explains it) when they are duly without any manner of Collu&s;ion, informed of the weakne&s;s and danger of Death, of any Infant to be baptized? And when &s;uch need compels them to perform this great and &s;olemn Office in private, do they u&s;e only the Form of Private Bapti&s;me pre&s;cribed by the Liturgy? And as &s;oon as the &s;aid nece&s;&s;ity cea&s;eth, and it may &s;afely be done, do they cau&s;e the Child &s;o baptized, to be brought to Church, that the Congregation may be certified what Form of Bapti&s;me was privately u&s;ed, and that &s;uch &s;upply may be made to the Office as is needful and appointed?</P>
<P N="10">X. Is the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Sup|per duly admini&s;tred in your Church on the Fir&s;t Sunday in every Month, and e&s;pecially at <HI>Ea&s;ter, Whit&s;ontide,</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;tma&s;s?</HI> And do your Church-wardens, or (in ca&s;e they refu&s;e or neg|lect) your Mini&s;ter, pre&s;ent to the Ordinary faith|fully and impartially all &s;uch of your Pari&s;h as be|ing above the age of 16 years, do not receive that Holy Sacrament in your Pari&s;h Church, as is by Law directed?</P>
<P N="11">XI. When the Holy Communion is admini|&s;tred, are the Alms and Oblations of Devout Per|&s;ons
<PB N="6" REF="4"> duly collected or received? Are they con|&s;tantly di&s;po&s;ed of to Pious and Charitable U&s;es, by the con&s;ent of the Mini&s;ter and Churchward|ens; or if they di&s;agree, by the appointment of the Ordinary? Is there an exact Account taken and kept in Writing of all &s;uch Sums as are given and received at the Offertory, or upon other Occa&s;i|ons, put into the Che&s;t for Alms? And how much hath been the la&s;t Year &s;o given and received, and how is it di&s;po&s;ed of?</P>
<P N="12">XII. What Beque&s;ts and Legacies, or other Charitable Gifts, have been by Will or otherwi&s;e, given to your Church or Poor, or to any Publick U&s;e, within your Pari&s;h? How are they &s;ettled, and in who&s;e hands? Is there a Memorial or Regi&s;ter kept of the Names of &s;uch Benefactors, and a par|ticular of the Sums by them given? And hath not their Charity been mi&s;-imploy'd and diverted to other U&s;es?</P>
<P N="13">XIII. Have you a Regi&s;ter Book of Parch|ment, wherein the Names and Surnames of all Per&s;ons Chri&s;tned, Married, or Buried, within your Pari&s;h; together with the Names and Surnames of both the Parents of the Children &s;o Chri&s;tned, and the Day, Month, and Year, of all &s;uch Chri&s;tnings, Marriages, and Burials, are from time to time, du|ly
<PB N="7" REF="4"> regi&s;tred every Sunday, as the 70th Canon en|joyns? Have your Mini&s;ter and Churchwardens &s;ub&s;cribed their Names unto every Page of the &s;aid Book? Is it &s;afely kept in a &s;ure Coffer with Three Locks and Keys, &s;o that neither the Mini|&s;ter without the Churchwardens, nor the Church|wardens without the Mini&s;ter, may at any time take it out of the &s;aid Coffer? And hath the Tran|&s;cript or true Copy thereof (&s;ub&s;cribed as before) once every Year within One Month after the 25th of <HI>March,</HI> been tran&s;mitted unto the Ordinary to be faithfully pre&s;erved in the Regi&s;try of the Bi&s;hop?</P>
<P N="14">XIV. Doth your Mini&s;ter or Curate pre&s;ume to Marry any Per&s;ons in private Hou&s;es, or at un|due or uncanonical Hours? Or any who&s;e Banns have not been fir&s;t publi&s;h'd on Three Sundays or Holydays in the Church, unle&s;s he hath a Licence or Di&s;pen&s;ation &s;o to do? How many &s;uch Li|cences have they or either of them received and made u&s;e of within the Year la&s;t pa&s;t? And (to &s;u|per&s;ede all farther Que&s;tions about the regularity and validity of &s;uch Licences) let them be all pro|duced, that they may be view'd and examin'd by the Canons.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Tho. James</HI> at the <HI>Printing-Pre&s;s</HI> in <HI>Mincing-Lane.</HI> 1685.</P>
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