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16 - Archdeacon Lionel Sharpe's articles for Berkshire archdeaconry, 1615. Collated with:

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2018

Kenneth Fincham
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University of Kent, Canterbury
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Articles ministred in the visitation of the right worshipfull Mr Doctor Sharpe Archdeacon of Barkeshire, in the yeare of our Lord God 1615.

The church or place of common prayer.

1. Whether your chancell, and church or chappell be sufficiently repaired, aswell in stone, timber, lead, tyle, glasse, as all other necessary things, and if they bee not, through whose default the same is omitted?

2. Whether your churchyard be sufficiently fenced and decently kept, and the trees therein growing not spoiled, if not in whose default?

3. Whether the wals of your church, bee within whited, and beautified with fruitfull sentences out of the holy scriptures, and paved comely in the body of the church and chauncell, and convenient seates placed in the church and chancell, for the necessary use of the parishioners in time of divine service?

4. Whether you have in your parish church and chappell, all things necessary for the setting forth of common prayer, and the administration of the sacraments: namely the book of common prayer lately set forth by his maiesties authority, the English bible in the largest volume, the two tomes of homilies; and whether are the ten commandements set upon the east ende of your church or chappell where the people may best see and reade them: a convenient pulpit well placed, a decent table standing on a frame, for the holy communion, with a faire linnen cloath to lay upon the same, and some covering of silke buckerome, or other such like, for the cleane keeping thereof, a comely communion cup of silver, with a cover of silver for the same, a decent surples with large sleeves, a register book of parchment of christnings, weddings and burials according to the 70 constitution, a font fastned in some convenient place of the church sweet and decently kept, a sure coffer with three locks and keyes for the keeping of the said register booke, and a strong chest or box with three locks and keys to put in the almes, and other things belonging to the premisses?

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