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.ÿþsame garb with tippets only was decreed for all others admitted to orders.Ministers were not to be seen in public in Doublet and Hose, without Coatsor Cassocks, nor were they to appear in any light coloured Stockings. In private Houses and in their Studies, clergy were allowed any comely andScholar-like Apparel, provided that it be not cut or pinkt. When traveling,they were also to have Cloaks with Sleeves, commonly called Priests Cloaks,with Guards, Welts, long Buttons or Cuts. And then there was an ominousinjunction against any Coife or wrought Night-Cap. Ecclesiastical persons,it seems, wore only plain Night-caps of black Silk, Satten or Velvet. 3Canon LXXV prescribed public conduct:No Ecclesiastical Person shall at any time, other than for their honestNecessities, resort to any Taverns or Ale-houses, neither shall they boardor lodge in any such Places.Furthermore, they shall not give themselvesto any base or servile Labour, or to Drinking, or riot, spending their timeidlely by Day or by Night, playing at dice, Cards or Tables, or any otherunlawful Game: But at all times convenient, they shall hear or read some-what of the Holy Scriptures, or shall occupy themselves with some otherhonest Study or Exercise, always doing the things which shall apper-tain to Honesty, and endeavouring to profit the Church of God, havingalways in mind that they ought to excel all others in Purity of Life, andshould be Examples to the People to live well and Christianly: under painof Ecclesiastical Censure to be inflicted with Severity, according to theQualities of their Offenses.4Parish clergy in the British Isles were kept mindful of their ordination vowsand the canonical prescriptions by diocesan visitations.Where there was scan-dal or neglect, the bishop would admonish, and, if that did not work, he mightpunish through suspension and removal.5 But Chesapeake clergy had no bishopto inspect them.Colonial commissaries who might have undertaken the taskgenerally reneged on grounds that they lacked legal authority.6 One notableand instructive exception occurred in neighboring Maryland when, in 1730,Maryland s two commissaries one for the Eastern Shore and one for theWestern boldly undertook a formal visitation of their parishes.Among the Articles of Enquiry directed to the churchwardens were questions regard-ing the minister s performance of his duties.These were specific and detailed( Doth he instruct the Children and Youth.? Dothhe give notice of Holy-days and fasting days? Doth he read Divine Service at all times appointed.? .146 parsons [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]