Churchwardens' Manual: their duties, powers, rights, and privilages — John Shaqi
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
The Churchwardens, or Questmen, and their Assistants, shall suffer no
plays, feasts, banquets, suppers, church-ales, drinkings, temporal
courts, or leets, lay juries, musters, or any other profane usage, to be
kept in the Church, Chapel, or Churchyard, neither the bells to be rung
superstitiously upon holy days, or eves abrogated by the Book of Common
Prayer, nor at any other times without good cause to be allowed by the
Minister of the place, and by themselves.
52. _The names of strange Preachers to be noted in a book_.
That the Bishop may understand (if occasion so require) what sermons are
made in every Church of his diocese and who presume to preach without
licence, the Churchwardens and Sidemen shall see that the names of all
Preachers, which come to their Church from any other place, be noted in a
book which they shall have ready for that purpose; wherein every Preacher
shall subscribe his name, the day when he preached, and the name of the
Bishop of whom he had license to preach.
111. _Disturbers of Divine Service to be presented_.
In all visitations of Bishops and Archdeacons the Churchwardens, or
Questmen, and Sidemen shall truly and personally present the names of all
those which behave themselves rudely and disorderly in the Church, or
which by untimely ringing of bells, by walking, talking, or other noise,
shall hinder the Minister or Preacher.
118. _The old Churchwardens to make their presentments before the new be
sworn_.
The office of all Churchwardens and Sidemen shall be reputed ever
hereafter to continue until the new Churchwardens that shall succeed them
be sworn, which shall be the first week after Easter or some week
following, according to the direction of the Ordinary, which time so
appointed shall always be one of the two times in every year, when the
Minister, and Churchwardens, and Sidemen of every parish shall exhibit to
their several Ordinaries the presentments of such enormities as have
happened in their parishes since their last presentments. And this duty
they shall perform before the newly-chosen Churchwardens and Sidemen be
sworn, and shall not be suffered to pass over the said presentments to
those that are newly come into office and are by intendment ignorant of
such crimes, under pain of those censures which are appointed for the
reformation of such dalliers and dispensers with their own consciences
and oaths.
APPENDIX VII.
18 and 19 Vict., cap. 128, sec. 18.
_Burial Board to keep in order closed burial grounds_, _etc._
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