Visitations Held in the Archdeaconry of Essex in 1683 (Part 3): Stanford Rivers

Stanford Rivers Church Visitation, 22 September 1683

Extract from Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, New Series, Volume 19 (1929), page 272.

Stanford Rivers

8 & 9 matutinas.

Date: Die Saturni 22^o Septembris 1683
Rector: Mr. Stephanus Upman
Churchwardens (Gards): Johannes Heard and Carolus Hutton

Visitation Record

There wants a book of homilys: Acts and proclamacons &c.

The Register book to be kept in ye Chest.

The Comunion table to be railed in.

The Chests and foarms to be removed out of ye Chancell.

3 familys of ye parish papists vizt:¹⁴⁰

• Mr Wm Gretry
• Mr Hen Todd
• Thomas South his wife formerly presented.

The Bells want stocking.

Both ye Church pourches to be mended, and seeled, and ye Crack on ye north side of ye steeple to (be) viewed and amended.

The Churchwardens to mend ye Churchyard pales.

Tyling toward ye lower end of ye Church to be amended.

There is a table for ye degrees of marriage.

Source

Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, New Series, Volume 19 (1929), p. 272.

Transcription note: Original spelling and abbreviations have been retained. The superscript reference 140 appears in the supplied extract, but its corresponding editorial note was not included.