usually stood at or near the west end of the

9. Have you in your chancel a communion table, with suitable furniture?

10. What several vessels have you for the administration of the Lord's Supper, and of what materials? 11. Are your bells, bell-frames, &c. in thorough repair? 12. Are the doors of your church opened, and the bells rung and tolled, a reasonable time before service?

13. Are the bells rung at any other times without the leave of the minister and one churchwarden? 14. Is your church regularly swept, and kept free from dust and dirt?

15. Is your churchyard well fenced, its doors and gates in good repair, and its churchways well kept up? 16. Are any encroachments made on it? Are any cattle allowed to depasture to the injury of the churchyard and graves therein?

17. Are the houses and out-houses of your incumbent in good repair?

18. Have you a terrier of all lands, tenements, pensions, rate-tithes, or portions of tithes, and other dues and customs payable to your incumbent ?

III.

1. Are your churchwardens chosen every year, according to the custom of your parish, and what is that custom?

2. Are your rates for the repair of your church regu-
larly made, and your accounts passed in vestry?
3. Do you attend divine service regularly, and keep
order in the church during its celebration?
4. Do you prevent idle persons from abiding in the
church porch, or churchyard, during service?
5. Are there any persons in your parish known or
openly suspected of any crime presentable by the
ecclesiastical laws of this realm ?
6. Are there any who profane the Lord's day by fol-
lowing their worldly callings, or who keep open
shops, or suffer persons to tipple in their houses

Presentment.

Appendix.

7. Is your parish clerk competent to his duties, and of honest life and conversation?

8. Is psalmody duly encouraged under the direction of the minister?.

9. Do you provide bread and wine for the communion, at the charge of your parish?

10. Are there any funds left for the repairs of your

11. Is there, or has there been, any free-school, hospital, almshouse, parochial library, or donation to charitable uses within your parish?

12. Do you know of any abuse in the management of these charities?

13. Is the key of the church kept where the minister

directs?

14. Are such repairs and improvements made, or in progress, as have been ordered, at the last gene

ral visitation?

15. Hath any officer of the archdeacon's court demanded or taken undue and unreasonable fees for any cause or matter transacted by him?

Signed,

lxi

Presentment.

Churchwardens.

INDEX.

ACCOUNTS,

Churchwardens'-See CHURCHWARDENS.

ACTIONS,

PAGE

in respect of church goods, may be brought by and
against churchwardens

-

touching the freehold of the church, must be brought in
the name of the parson

cannot be commenced by churchwardens after their year

-

of office
but may be continued by them if commenced before
ADJOURNMENT OF VESTRY,

-

45

-

51

325

112

for the mere purpose of evading a necessary church rate
illegal

ALMS,

at offertory; churchwardens to collect; at disposal of
churchwardens and minister of the parish, whether
collected at the parish church or not

ALTAR.-See COMMUNION TABLE.

if taken down, re-consecration necessary
ARCHDEACON.-See ORDINARY.

against convictions under 48 Geo. 3, c. 75, the act for
providing for the burial of bodies cast on shore by

in suits for subtraction of church-rates.-See Ec-
CLESIASTICAL COURTS.

ASSESSMENT,

to a church rate to be made on the parishioners accord-
ing to their rateable properties, and by themselves in
vestry assembled.

306

113

BALLOT,

PAGE

vote by, at vestry meetings illegal

BAPTISM,

79

font in church for, to be furnished by churchwardens 47

registry book for, to be furnished by churchwardens
minister bound to baptize

when and where

-

49

- 291
- 307

-

by a layman an irregularity only, and not a nullity
no distinction in this respect between ordinary lay bap-
tism and lay baptism by heretics or schismatics
regeneration by, a doctrine of our Church

301

302

- 294, 312

copy of registry book to be forwarded by churchwardens
to bishop's registry

314

314

there must be one to ring to church and toll at

€ 100

49, 210
210
- 272

283

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.

a greater latitude of expression, &c. allowed at vestry
meetings than in the church

BURIAL,

registry book for, to be supplied by churchwardens
every person dying in parish has a right to, in church-

what consent necessary for burial in church or chancel -
of non-parishioners dying out of the parish