Churchwardens' Manual: their duties, powers, rights, and privilagesSumner, George Henry
Religion
Churchwardens' Manual: their duties, powers, rights, and privilages
Sumner, George Henry
Church maintenance and repair; Church of England
All Churchwardens or Questmen in every parish shall be chosen by the
joint consent of the Minister and parishioners, if it may be; but if they
cannot agree upon such a choice, then the Minister shall choose one, and
the parishioners another: and without such a joint or several choice none
shall take upon them to be Churchwardens: neither shall they continue any
longer than one year in that office, except perhaps they be chosen again
in like manner. And all Churchwardens at the end of their year, or
within a month after at the most, shall before the Minister and the
parishioners give up a just account of such money as they have received,
and also what particularly they have bestowed in reparations and
otherwise, for the use of the Church. And, last of all, going out of
their office, they shall truly deliver up to the parishioners whatsoever
money or other things of right belonging to the Church or parish, which
remaineth in their hands, that it may be delivered over by them to the
next Churchwardens by bill indented.
90. _The choice of Sidemen_, _and their joint office with
Churchwardens_.
The Churchwarden or Questmen of every parish, and two or three or more
discreet persons in every parish, to be chosen for Sidemen or Assistants
by the Minister and parishioners, if they can agree (otherwise to be
appointed by the Ordinary of the diocese), shall diligently see that all
the parishioners duly resort to their Church upon all Sundays and
Holy-days, and there continue the whole time of Divine Service; and none
to walk or to stand idle or talking in the Church, or in the Churchyard,
or in the Church-porch, during that time. And all such as shall be found
slack or negligent in resorting to the Church (having no great or urgent
cause of absence) they shall earnestly call upon them; and after due
monition (if they amend not) they shall present them to the Ordinary of
the place. The choice of which persons, _viz._, Churchwardens or
Questmen, Sidemen, or Assistants, shall be yearly made in Easter-week.
85. _Churches to be kept in sufficient Reparations_.
The Churchwarden or Questmen shall take care and provide that the
Churches be well and sufficiently repaired, and so from time to time kept
and maintained, that the windows be well glazed, and that the floors be
kept paved, plain and even, and all things there in such an orderly and
decent sort, without dust, or anything that may be either noisome or
unseemly, as best becometh the House of God, and is prescribed in an
Homily to that effect. The like care they shall take that the
Churchyards be well and sufficiently repaired, fenced and maintained with
walls, rails, or pales, as have been in each place accustomed, at their
charges unto whom by law the same appertaineth: but especially they shall
see that in every meeting of the congregation peace be well kept: and
that all persons excommunicated, and so denounced, be kept out of the
Church.
88. _Churches not to be profaned_.
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