LXXXV. Churches to be kept in sufficient Reparations*

The Church- wardens or quest-men 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
glased* and that the floors be kept paved, plain, and even, and



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a]l things there ia such an orderly and decent sort, withovt dwt
or anythlog that may be either noisome or unseemly, as best
becometh the house of Grod, and is prescribed in an homily to
that e^ct The like care they shall take, that the church-yaids
be well and sufficiently repaired, fenced, and maintained with
walls, rails, or pales, as have been in each place accustomed, at
their chaiges unto whom by law the same appertaineth : but
especially they shall see that in every meeting of the congrega-
tion peace be well kept ; and that all persons excommumcated»
and so denounced, be kept out of the church.
LXXXVI. Churchts to be surveyed^ tmd the Decays certi"
fied to the high Commissioners.
