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 ) leaue 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 Curat a common resorter to Tavernes or Alchouses , giving himselfe to drinking , ryoting , and playing at Cards , Dice , 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 any other of or in your parish , an Vsurer , or lender of his money for unlawfull gaine , or whether is he , or are they taken or reputed so to be ?

5 Item , whether doe the Proprietaries , Parsons , Vicars & other possessors of the Churches , Chappels 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 any persons to the holy Communion , being openly knowne to be at debate and out of charitie with their neighbours , or defamed with any 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 , & how farre distant are they the one from the other ? 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 any 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 he procure ( once in a moneth at the least ) a Sermon to be preached in his Cure , by Preachers lawfully licensed ? and upon euery 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 least , before Euening 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 doe the Churchwardens of the parish assist him therein ?

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

13 Item , whether be there in your parish any persons that contemne or abuse , by word or deede , 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 any heresie , error , or opinion contrarie or repugnant to the Scriptures and doctrine of the Church ?

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

17 Item , whether there be any 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 any of the like crimes ?

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

19 Item , whether be there any in your parish that doe use & exercise charmes , forceries , inchantments , inuocations , circles , witch-crafts , soothsayings , or any like arts invented by the divell , and especially in or at the time of womens travaile ?

20 Item , whether is your Church sufficiently repayred , & 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 Inne-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 gouernment of their parents or others , have made privie contractes of Matrimonie , not calling thereunto two or moe witnesses , nor having the consent of their parents , or such others under whose gouernment they are ?

24 Item , whether such persons , or other in your parish , have married the banes not first solemnely 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 highwaies , finding of poore schollers , or marrying of poore maydens , or such other charitable deedes accordingly ?

26 Item , whether any in your parish do use to keepe abrogate holy dayes , or other then by order of the Churches of England & Ireland are appointed for holy dayes by the book of Common praier ?