The Bishop's Letter and Queries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2023
Summary
Reverend Sir,
INTENDING, by God's Assistance, to hold my Primary Visitation in the Summer of the present Year, I submit the following QUERIES to your Consideration, desiring you, after due Inquiry, to give PLAIN and DISTINCT ANSWERS to them, that I may become better acquainted with the present State of my Diocese, and, consequently, be thi better enabled to provide for the due Administration of it.
I request you to return the Answers, signed with your Name and Direction, at length, to the Register of your Archdeaconry at the ensuing Archidiaconal Visitation, who will forward them to my Secretary, at Exeter. I heartily commend you to the Blessing of Almighty God, and remain,
N.B. It is desired that these Queries may be understood as addressed to the Incumbent of the Living, and not to the Curate, who should forward them to the Incumbent, in case he is not resident, accompanied by such Information as the Curate may think necessary, to enablelhe Incumbent to answer the several Enquiries; but, if it should happen that the Curate be uninformed of the Incumbent's Residence, or if he should, by Age or Infirmity, be disabled from giving the necessary Answers: in eithir of these Cases, they may be given by the Curate.
I. What Number of Families have you in your Parish?
II. Have you any Papists or Dissenters? if the latter, of what Kind or Denomination? What Teachers of each are there resident in your Parish, or occasionally visiting it ? Are they licensed ? Wiat Places have they of public Meeting, licensed, or others ?
III. Do you reside on your Benefice, and in the ProPer House of Residence ? If not, assign the Reason.
IV. If you do not reside, Have you a Curate resident, And is he licinsed ? What is his Salary ? If you have any Lecturer, What is his Name?
V. If you have any more Benefices than one, What is it ? By whom is it served ? Ii the Curate thereof resident, And is he licensed ? And if Non Resident, what is the reason thereof, and where does he reside ? And what is his Stipend ?
VI. Do you perform Divine Service at any Church besides your own ? And where?
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- The Diocese of Exeter in 1821Bishop Carey's Replies to Queries before Visitation, pp. 1 - 2Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 1958