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A32947	Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1675-1684 : Turner)	Articles of visitation and enquiry within the diocess of Ely in the second episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God Peter by divine permission Lord Bishop of Ely in the fifth year of his translation.	1679		.xml	application/xml	9449	357	64	Have you any in your Parish who wilfully absent themselves from your Church or Chappel either at Morning or Evening Prayer upon Sundays and other days appointed by law to be used and kept as Holy-days , or who come late to Church or depart from thence before Service be done , and the blessing given ? Or hate you any that upon any Holy-days keep open shops or sell wares , or follow their bodily and ordinary labour or trade , or permit their Servants so to do in time of Divine Service ? Or have you any Dintners , Inn-keepers , or other Victualiers , or sellers of Beer or Ale , that permit any on such times to tipple or game in their houses , or upon any pretence whatsoever , ( except in some necessity as of sickness ) to remain in their houses in the time of Divine Service or Sermon , Forenoon or Afternoon , upon those days ? or any that will come to hear Sermons but will not come to the Common-Prayer and Worship of God appointed in this Church ? III. Are there any in your Parish of years of understanding that remain unbaptized , or any that refuse to send their Infants to be baptized publickly in the Church in due time ( except in cases of necessity ) or in such cases do they procure them to be baptized at home in due manner according to the order of the Church of England ? Or are there any that send their Children away from their own Minister ( present among them ) to be baptized in other Churches ? Or any persons that being unconfirmed are not instructed in their Catechism , or not Religiously brought up , or not brought to confirmation , or being of years , neglect themselves to seek it upon pretence of elder age , or of having received the Communion , or Orders , or upon any other pretence whatsoever ? Or are there any that being Sixteen years of Age , do not receive the holy Sacrament of the Eucharist three times in the year , ( whereof Easter to be one ? ) Or that doth forsake their own Parish-Church to receive elsewhere ? Or are there any married Women , who after their delivery from the pain and peril of Child-bearing refuse in convenient time to return a publick Thanksgiving to God , according to the Order of the Church ? Or are there any that neglect to obtain the Christian burial of their dead according to the Rites of the Church of England ? IV. Do any Housholders , Fathers , Masters , Mothers , Mistresses in your Parish neglect to cause their Children and Servants , Apprentices , or other Persons living in their House , which have not yet learnt the Churches Catechism , to learn the same , and to come to Church on Sundays and Holy-days in the Afternoon , there to be examined by their Minister , and instructed therein ?	cache/A32947.xml	txt/A32947.txt
