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_.
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 un
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