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35 - Archdeacon Hugh Robinson's articles for Gloucester archdeaconry, 1641

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2018

Kenneth Fincham
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University of Kent, Canterbury
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Articles to be enquired of, in the generali visitation of the archdeacon of Glocester. Holden in the yeere of our Lord, 1641.

Concerning the church, and all things necessary for divine service.

  • Is your parish church or chapell well and sufficiently repaired every way, and decently kept?

  • Is the chancell of your church or chapell well and sufficiently repaired, within and without, and decently kept?

  • Is your churchyard, well and sufficiently fenced?

  • Have you a decent communion table, and all things belonging necessarily thereunto for the celebrating of the holy communion?

  • Have you a decent font for the administring of baptisme?

  • Have you a comely and convenient pulpit for the preaching of Gods word?

  • Have you a convenient and comely seat for the minister to read the publike prayers in?

  • Have you a bible of the largest volume, and last English translation, with the common-prayer-book well bound and kept?

  • Have you a parchment register book, to keep on record the severall christenings, weddings and burials within your parish, so kept that there may be no danger of falsifying or corrupting it?

  • Concerning the clergy, and celebration of divine service, etc.

  • Whether doth your minister distinctly and reverently reade divine service at due times and houres?

  • Doth your minister preach one sermon at least every Lords day?

  • Doth your minister administer the holy communion so often, and at such times, as that every parishioner may receive the same at the least thrice in the yeer, whereof once at Easter?

  • Doth your minister give warning of the communion at morning prayer the Sunday before, for the better preparation thereunto?

  • Doth your minister refuse or delay to christen any childe that is brought to him in the church, knowledge thereof being given to him over night, or in the morning before prayers?

  • Doth your minister on the Lords day catechise the youth and ignorant persons of your parish by hearing, examining and instructing of them in the principles of Christian religion?

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