ENQUIRIES
FOR
A
PAROCHIAL
VISITATION
IN
LONDON
.
I.
IS
there
,
or
was
there
before
the
Fire
within
your
Parish
,
or
within
the
Parish
or
Parishes
since
annexed
to
it
a
Parsonage
or
Vicaridge
House
or
Houses
for
the
Dwelling
of
your
Minister
?
If
it
or
they
were
burn
down
,
are
they
since
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
Dimensions
of
them
?
Is
the
Lease
or
Leases
confirmed
in
due
Form
of
Law
?
And
where
are
they
registred
?
And
have
you
any
other
Houses
(
besides
your
Residence
House
or
Houses
)
or
any
other
Glebes
belonging
to
your
Benefice
;
and
what
are
they
?
II
.
IS
the
Annual
Revenue
(
or
Sum
of
Money
in
lieu
of
Tythes
)
which
was
settled
by
Act
of
Parliament
22
&
23
Car
.
II
.
cap
.
15.
for
the
certain
Annual
Maintenance
of
your
Minister
,
assessed
and
ascertain'd
,
in
such
manner
by
such
persons
,
and
within
such
time
as
the
said
Act
limits
and
appoints
?
And
if
not
,
thro
whose
default
was
it
?
If
the
Assessment
be
made
,
are
there
Three
Transcripts
of
it
in
Parchment
subscribed
by
the
Assessors
,
and
sent
to
be
laid
up
among
the
Records
of
the
City
,
in
the
Registry
of
the
Bishop
of
London
,
and
in
the
Vestry
of
your
Church
?
And
what
other
Perquisites
,
Gifts
,
or
Bequests
(
besides
the
said
settled
Maintenance
)
are
,
or
were
,
before
that
Settlement
,
due
to
your
Minister
and
his
Successors
,
from
the
Impropriator
or
any
other
persons
?
III
.
ARE
there
in
the
Re-building
of
the
City
,
or
otherwise
,
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
either
put
to
common
use
?
Or
any
part
of
them
,
or
of
the
Ministers
House
,
Houses
,
or
Glebes
,
taken
into
any
other
Persons
House
,
Yard
or
Passage
?
By
whom
,
and
by
what
Authority
was
it
done
?
IV
.
WHAT
Plate
,
Books
,
Bells
,
and
other
Furniture
or
Ornaments
,
have
you
belonging
to
your
Church
?
Have
you
all
such
(
at
least
)
as
the
Rubrick
and
Canon
expresly
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
present
Parish-Church
,
what
is
become
of
the
Plate
,
Books
,
Bells
,
and
other
Furniture
of
the
Churches
left
unbuilt
?
As
also
of
the
Lead
,
Glass
,
Stone
,
Iron
,
or
other
Materials
that
remain'd
after
the
Fire
?
And
to
what
use
is
the
Site
or
Soil
of
the
unbuilt
Churches
now
employ'd
?
V.
HATH
your
Minister
any
other
Benefice
,
with
Cure
of
Souls
,
besides
that
of
your
Parish
?
Where
and
at
what
distance
,
and
of
what
value
is
it
?
How
doth
he
divide
,
and
apportion
his
residence
to
his
several
Cures
?
And
when
he
is
Resident
hereabouts
,
doth
he
constantly
live
in
his
Incumbent
House
,
if
there
be
one
not
leas'd
out
(
or
if
he
can
conveniently
hire
it
of
the
Lessee
)
or
at
least
some
where
within
the
bounds
of
the
Parish
?
VI
.
IF
your
Minister
keeps
a
Curate
to
assist
him
,
whether
is
he
such
an
one
as
hath
no
Benefice
of
his
own
with
Cure
of
Souls
,
from
which
he
absents
himself
?
Is
he
duly
licens'd
by
the
Bishop
?
What
Salary
doth
your
Minister
allow
him
?
And
when
he
reads
Prayers
,
is
your
Minister
himself
constantly
present
at
them
?
VII
.
Have
you
a
Lecturer
in
your
Church
,
and
who
is
it
?
Was
he
before
he
entred
upon
his
Lecture
,
approv'd
and
licens'd
according
to
the
late
Act
of
Uniformity
?
Doth
he
upon
the
first
Sunday
in
every
Month
,
duly
perform
all
that
the
said
Act
requires
of
him
?
Hath
he
any
Benefice
of
his
own
with
Cure
of
Souls
elsewhere
?
What
Salary
doth
he
receive
from
your
Minister
or
Parish
?
VIII
.
Doth
your
Minister
or
his
Curate
(
diligently
and
openly
in
the
Church
)
catechise
the
Youth
of
your
Parish
on
every
Sunday
in
the
Afternoon
and
Holydays
,
as
the
Rubrick
and
Canon
require
?
IX
.
Is
the
different
Use
and
Ministration
of
Publick
and
Private
Baptisme
duly
observed
by
your
Minister
and
Curate
,
according
to
the
Directions
in
the
Liturgy
?
Or
do
they
make
a
common
practice
of
baptising
Children
in
private
Houses
?
Or
do
it
at
any
time
without
great
cause
and
necessity
,
as
the
Rubrick
limits
it
,
that
is
(
as
the
69th
Canon
explains
it
)
when
they
are
duly
without
any
manner
of
Collusion
,
informed
of
the
weakness
and
danger
of
Death
,
of
any
Infant
to
be
baptized
?
And
when
such
need
compels
them
to
perform
this
great
and
solemn
Office
in
private
,
do
they
use
only
the
Form
of
Private
Baptisme
prescribed
by
the
Liturgy
?
And
as
soon
as
the
said
necessity
ceaseth
,
and
it
may
safely
be
done
,
do
they
cause
the
Child
so
baptized
,
to
be
brought
to
Church
,
that
the
Congregation
may
be
certified
what
Form
of
Baptisme
was
privately
used
,
and
that
such
supply
may
be
made
to
the
Office
as
is
needful
and
appointed
?
X.
Is
the
Holy
Sacrament
of
the
Lords
Supper
duly
administred
in
your
Church
on
the
First
Sunday
in
every
Month
,
and
especially
at
Easter
,
Whitsontide
,
and
Christmass
?
And
do
your
Church-wardens
,
or
(
in
case
they
refuse
or
neglect
)
your
Minister
,
present
to
the
Ordinary
faithfully
and
impartially
all
such
of
your
Parish
as
being
above
the
age
of
16
years
,
do
not
receive
that
Holy
Sacrament
in
your
Parish
Church
,
as
is
by
Law
directed
?
XI
.
When
the
Holy
Communion
is
administred
,
are
the
Alms
and
Oblations
of
Devout
Persons
duly
collected
or
received
?
Are
they
constantly
disposed
of
to
Pious
and
Charitable
Uses
,
by
the
consent
of
the
Minister
and
Churchwardens
;
or
if
they
disagree
,
by
the
appointment
of
the
Ordinary
?
Is
there
an
exact
Account
taken
and
kept
in
Writing
of
all
such
Sums
as
are
given
and
received
at
the
Offertory
,
or
upon
other
Occasions
,
put
into
the
Chest
for
Alms
?
And
how
much
hath
been
the
last
Year
so
given
and
received
,
and
how
is
it
disposed
of
?
XII
.
What
Bequests
and
Legacies
,
or
other
Charitable
Gifts
,
have
been
by
Will
or
otherwise
,
given
to
your
Church
or
Poor
,
or
to
any
Publick
Use
,
within
your
Parish
?
How
are
they
settled
,
and
in
whose
hands
?
Is
there
a
Memorial
or
Register
kept
of
the
Names
of
such
Benefactors
,
and
a
particular
of
the
Sums
by
them
given
?
And
hath
not
their
Charity
been
mis-imploy'd
and
diverted
to
other
Uses
?
XIII
.
Have
you
a
Register
Book
of
Parchment
,
wherein
the
Names
and
Surnames
of
all
Persons
Christned
,
Married
,
or
Buried
,
within
your
Parish
;
together
with
the
Names
and
Surnames
of
both
the
Parents
of
the
Children
so
Christned
,
and
the
Day
,
Month
,
and
Year
,
of
all
such
Christnings
,
Marriages
,
and
Burials
,
are
from
time
to
time
,
duly
registred
every
Sunday
,
as
the
70th
Canon
enjoyns
?
Have
your
Minister
and
Churchwardens
subscribed
their
Names
unto
every
Page
of
the
said
Book
?
Is
it
safely
kept
in
a
sure
Coffer
with
Three
Locks
and
Keys
,
so
that
neither
the
Minister
without
the
Churchwardens
,
nor
the
Churchwardens
without
the
Minister
,
may
at
any
time
take
it
out
of
the
said
Coffer
?
And
hath
the
Transcript
or
true
Copy
thereof
(
subscribed
as
before
)
once
every
Year
within
One
Month
after
the
25th
of
March
,
been
transmitted
unto
the
Ordinary
to
be
faithfully
preserved
in
the
Registry
of
the
Bishop
?
XIV
.
Doth
your
Minister
or
Curate
presume
to
Marry
any
Persons
in
private
Houses
,
or
at
undue
or
uncanonical
Hours
?
Or
any
whose
Banns
have
not
been
first
publish'd
on
Three
Sundays
or
Holydays
in
the
Church
,
unless
he
hath
a
Licence
or
Dispensation
so
to
do
?
How
many
such
Licences
have
they
or
either
of
them
received
and
made
use
of
within
the
Year
last
past
?
And
(
to
supersede
all
farther
Questions
about
the
regularity
and
validity
of
such
Licences
)
let
them
be
all
produced
,
that
they
may
be
view'd
and
examin'd
by
the
Canons
.