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.

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