INprimis , whether is your Parson , Vicar or Curate resident continually in , at , and upon his Benefice , doing his duetie in reading distinctly the divine Service , preaching the word , and duly administring the holy Sacraments , according to the booke of Common Prayer ?

2 Item , whether doth your Parson or Vicar ( being lawfully absent from his Cure at any time ) leave in his place a sufficient and conformable Curat , to celebrate divine Service , administer the Sacraments , and teach and preach the Scriptures ?

3 Item , whether is your Parson , Vicar , or Curate a common resorter to Tavernes or Alchouses , giving himselfe to drinking , ryoting , & playing at Cards , dyce , or other unlawfull games : or is he a Striker , dueller , dancer or hunter ; or so reported ?

4 Item , whether is your Parson or Vicar , or anie other of or in your parish , an Usurer , or lender of his money for unlawfull gaine , or whether is he , or are they taken or reputed so to be ?

5 Item , whether do the Proprietaries , Parsons , vicars & other possessors of the Churches , Chappells and their mansions within your parish , keep the chancels of their rectories & vicarages , & other their houses & buildings belonging to the same , in due reparations ?

6 Item , whether hath your Parson , Vicar or Curate received anie persons to the holy communion , being openly knowne to be at debate and out of charitie with their neighbours , or defamed with anie notorious crime and not reformed ?

7 Item , whether hath your Parson , Vicar or Curate denied or neglected to visite the sicke , or burie the dead , being brought to the Church , and having thereof notice ?

8 Item , how many Benefices or ecclesiasticall promotions hath your Parson or vicar , and how farre distant are they the one from thother ? what chappels hath he to his Cures belonging ? by what names are they called , and how and by whom are they served ?

9 Item , whether doth your parson , vicar or curate minister the holy communion anie otherwise then onely after such forme and maner as is set forth in the booke of common prayer ?

10 Item , whether doth your Parson , Vicar or Curate ( being no Preacher allowed ) presume to expound the Scriptures , in his owne Cure , or elsewhere ? or doth hee procure ( once in a moneth at the least ) a Sermon to be preached in his Cure , by Preachers lawfully licensed ? and upon everie Sunday , when there is no Sermon , doth he or his Curate reade some one of the Homilies prescribed ?

11 Item , whether doth your Minister every Sunday and Holy-day , halfe an houre at the least , before Evening prayer , examine and instruct the youth of your parish in the Catechisme , set forth by Authoritie in the booke of common prayer ; and whether doth he call them thereunto in course , and whether do the Churchwardens of the parish assist him therein ?

12 Item , what Schoolemasters have you in your parish , that eyther teach privatly or publickly , and not licensed thereunto , and by whom be they harboured ?

13 Item , whether be there in your parish anie persons that contemne or abuse , by word or deed , the Ministers of the Church ?

14 Item , whether the Service of your Church be begun and ended at due and convenient houres , and whether the same be celebrated by your Parson , Vicar or Curate according to the booke of common prayer ?

15 Item , whether any person within your parish doe wilfully maintaine and defend anie heresie , error , or opinion contrary or repugnant to the Scriptures and doctrine of the Church ?

16 Item , whether there be anie in your parish that be common drunkards , swearers , or blasphemers of the name of God ?

17 Item , whether be there anie in your parish who have committed adulterie , fornication or incest , or be common baudes or receivers of such lewd and evill persons , or that be vehemently suspected thereof , or of anie of the like crimes ?

18 Item , who they be ( if any such there be in your parish ) that be braulers , slanderers , chiders , scholders , make-bates , and sowets of discords betweene one person and another , and especially betweene man and wife , parents and their children , masters & their servants ?

19 Item , whether be there anie in your parish that doe use and exercise charmes , sorceries , inchantments , invocations , circles , witchcrafts , soothsayings , or anie like arts invented by the divell , and especially in or at the time of womens travaile ?

20 Item , whether is your Church sufficiently repaired , & therein your Pulpit and Communion-table decently furnished and appointed ; if not , whose default the same is ?

21 Item , whether there be in your parish any that ( in contempt of their own parish church ) do resort to any other church or chappell ?

22 Item , whether any In holders or Alchouse-keepers within your parish do commonly use to sell meat & drink within the time of common prayer , preaching or reading of the Homilies aforesaid ?

23 Item , whether any in your parish under government of their parents or others , have made privie contracts of matrimonie , not calling thereunto two or mo witnesses , nor having the consent of their parents , or such others under whose government they are ?

24 Item , whether such persons , or other in your parish , have married the banes not first solemnly asked , or at unseasonable houres ?

25 Item , whether you know in your parish any executors of dead mens goods , which doe not bestow or have not bestowed the same , especially such of the said goods as were bequeathed or appointed to be distributed among the poore , repayring of high-waies , finding of poore schollers , or marrying of poore maydens , or such other charitable deeds accordingly ?

26 Item , whether any in your parish do use to keep abrogate holy-dayes , or other then by order of the Churches of England and Ireland are appointed for holy-daies by the book of common praier ?