6 Whether doth your Parson , Vicar , or Curate , or either of them reiect at any time those women ( being married ) which do come to church to giue God thankes after their childbirth , or refuse or neglect to visit the sicke , or to burie the dead , according to their duties prescribed in the booke of common prayer ?

7 Whether doth your minister in the Rogation dayes of procession vse the perambulation of the circuite of your parish , appoynted by Law : and whether doth he in the sayd perambulation moone the people to giue thankes to God in the beholding of his benefites , for the increase and aboundance of his fruites vpon the face of the earth : and sing or say the two Psalmes , beginning , Prayse the Lord O my soule . &c. with the Letanie & suffrages therevnto belonging : and at certaine conuenient places reade the Homily of thanksgiuing to God , alreadie deuised , and diuided into foure partes , without addition of any superstitious ceremonie heretofore vsed ?

8 Whether doth any man , being neither Minister nor Deacon , read common prayer openly in your Church or Chappel , or administer the sacrament of baptisme , or solemnize matrimony , or take vpon him to practise any other ministeriall dutie in the church , that is prescribed to be executed particularly by such as are either ministers or Deacons ; & what is his name that so doth ?

9 Whether is your Parson or Vicar a Preacher , licensed to preach by lawfull authoritie according to Law ? if he be , how many Sermons doth he preach yeerely : if he be not , how many doth he procure to be preached by others : who hath preached them , and whether were they Preachers lycensed , as is before expressed ?

10 Whether doth your Parson , Vicar , or Curate , euery Sunday & Holy day when there is no Sermon , read distinctly and plainely some part of the Homilies prescribed and set foorth by Law .

11 Whether doth the Parson , Vicar , or Farmour of the Benefice in your parish cause or suffer any Curate or Minister , either to read seruice , &c. or to preach , before he the said Curate ( being no preacher ) be examined & admitted by the Ordinarie in writing : and before he the said Curate being a preacher be thereunto admitted according to Law , and before they shew their sayd seuerall licences vnto the Churchwardens ?

12 Whether doth your Preacher in his prayer which he maketh at the entraunce into his Sermon , vse at all times the prayer for his Maiestie , for our geacious Queene , the Prince , and all the rest of the royall progenie , with his whole title ; as , King of England , Scotland , Fraunce , and Ireland , defender of the fayth , &c. and of all causes , and ouer all persons within his highnesse dominions , as well ecclesiasticall as temporall , next and immediatly vnder God , supreme gouernor . And whether doth he in like manner then pray for the Archbishops and Bishops , as by law is also appoynted ?

13 Whether your Minister doth serue two Cures in one day ?

14 Whether doth your Parson , Vicar , or Curate , euery Sunday and Holy day openly in the Church earnestly call for , heare , and instruct all the Children , Apprentises , and Seruants of both sexes , that be of conuenient age within your Parish , or at the least so many of them by course as the time will serue , and as he may well heare & instruct one houre at the least , before or after euening prayer , in the ten Commandements , the Articles of the beliefe , and the Lords prayer : and diligently examine & teach them the Catechisme , as it is now allowed and set foorth in the booke of Common prayer ?

15 Whether is there any man in your parish , being neither your Parson , Vicar , nor Curate , that taketh vpon him to preach or read Lectures eyther in priuate houses , or publikely in your church or chappell , who is not licensed to preach or read there : or who doth not once a yeere at the least administer the Sacraments in your sayd Church or Chappell , where he so preacheth or readeth , according to the booke .

16 Whether your Minister hath or doth receiue to the holy Communion any persons which be not of his owne parish , without testimonie from the Minister of the place where they dwell , what they be , that it may appeare that they be not persons excommunicate , or otherwise infamous .

17 Whether doth your Parson , Vicar , or Curate , reiect any from the holy Communion , who is not by publique fame , or by presentment of the Church-wardens detected for a notorious Fornicator , Adulterer , or other wicked lyuer , or disturber of his neighbours by whom publique offence is giuen : and whether he receiue any such person so infamed or presented , to the holy Communion before publique penaunce inioyned by his Ordinarie be by him first performed , to the satisfaction of the Congregation according to the Law in that case prouided ?

18 Whether doth your Parson , Vicar , or Curate , or any other Minister or Preacher , baptise in your Parish-church or Chappell , any Infants , not in the Font according to the antient custome , but in a Bason , and vrge the parentes of the sayd Infant to be present , in place of Godfathers for their children ?

19 Whether doth your Parson Vicar , or Curate , once euery quarter of the yeere read his Maiesties Iniunctions openly and deliberately before his parishioners at one time or at two seuerall times in one day , according as in the sayd Iniunctions it is prescribed ?

1 WHether haue you in your parish Churches and Chappels all things necessarie and requisite for Common prayer and administration of the Sacramentes , especially the booke of Common prayer with the new Kalender , two Psalters ( all set foorth by his Maiesties especiall commaundement and Proclamation onely to be vsed , printed by his Highnesse Printer , the which you were by your Archdeacons commaunded from mee , to haue bought before Whitsontide last , ) the English Bible in the largest volume of the edition set foorth by the Bishops , and lately imprinted by the Kinges Printer ; the Table of the ten Commaundements , a conuenient Pulpit well placed , a comely and decent Table standing vpon a frame for the holy Communion , with a faire Linnen cloth to lay vpon the same , and some couering of Silke , Buckram , or other such like for the cleane keeping thereof ; a faire and comely communion Cuppe of Siluer , and a couer of Siluer for the same , which may serue also for the ministration of the communion Bread , a decent large Surples with fleeues , and a strong Chest or Boxe for the almes of the poore , with three lockes and keyes to the same , and all other thinges necessarie in and to the premisses ?

2 Whether there haue growne in your Church since the last Visitation in the yeere 1601. any contention betwixt any of the parishioners , touching the placing or displacing of any in any seate or pew in the Church : and whether there hath been any Pew buylded since the foresayd yeere 1601. in any your Churches , without the expresse leaue and consent first had of the Ordinarie of the Dioces , and by whom haue any such been built .

3 Whether is your Church or Chappell , and the Chauncell well and sufficiently repaired and kept without abuse of any thing : whether doth your Parson , Vicar , or Curate , or the Proprietarie or Farmer of your Parsonage or Vicarage in your parish keepe the Parsonage or Vicarage house with all other the edifices thereunto appertaining in good and sufficient reparations : and whether is your Church-yard well fenced and cleanly kept without any lapstall or other annoyances ,

4 Whether your Church be a Parsonage or a Vicarage presentatiue or bonatiue , or otherwise serued by a Curate : whether did they euer heeretofore heare or know that it was a Parsonage or Vicarage , and how came it to be decayed from being presentatiue , to be in the state it now is , and when was it first decayed , from being a benefice presentatiue , as you remember .

1 WWhether the Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters within your parish openly or priuately in any Noble or Gentlemans house , or in any other place , be of good and sinceere religion , life , and conuersation , and be diligent in teaching and bringing vp of youth : and whether they haue been examined , allowed , and licensed for Schoolemaisters by the Ordinarie in that behalfe ?

2 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters do themselues receiue the holy Communion as often as they ought to do : and whether do all their Schollers , which be of age sufficient , and of copacitie by instruction , to receiue the Lords Supper , come to the Communion either in your Church or where their Parents dwell once euery yeere , and be diligent to heare Common prayer ?

3 Whether your Schoolemaster or Schoolemasters do orderly on Sundayes with their Schollers , come to the Church of their parish where they teach , and there see their Schollers placed in some conuenient place , so as they do not disquiet the minister or parish in time of diuine seruice , but may exercise themselues godly in reading and hearing the Seruice & Sermons , and in answering with the congregation in reading of publike prayer ?

4 Whether the Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters either priuate or publike do teach their Schollers the Catechisme authorized by publike authoritie , at the least once euery weeke , and do instruct and examine them in the same : or do teach any other Catechisme , and what Catechisme it is that they so do teach ?

5 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters , or any of them be knowne or suspected to read vnto their Schollers priuately any vnlawfull Bookes : or priuately to instruct them in their young yeeres either in poperie , superstition , or disobedience , or contempt to his Maiestie and his lawes Ecclesiasticall by publike authoritie allowed ?

6 Whether your Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters , or any of them vnder pretence of Catechising their Schollers , which is a most godly order , carefully by them to be obserued , do keepe lectures , readinges , or exposition in diuinitie in their houses , hauing repaire vnto them of people not being of their owne family and househould ?

7 Whether the Schoolemaister or Schoolemaisters within your parish , do teach his or their Schollers any other Grammer then that which is commonly called the Kinges Grammer , set foorth by the authoritie of King Henrie the eight ?

1 WHether all Householders in your parish cause their children , seruants , and apprentises , both mankind & womankind , being aboue seuen yeeres of age , and vnder twentie , which haue not learned the Catechisme , to come to the Church on Sundayes and Holy dayes at the time appoynted for Cetechising , and there diligently and obediently to heare , and what be the names of those that do not cause their children , seruants , and apprentises so to come to the Church to be instructed and examined ?

2 Whether the Churchwardens do delyuer to the Archdeacon at his Visitation , a note of all those who do not sende their children and seruantes to be catechized ?

3 Whether any do worke , or keepe any shoppe open vpon Saboth dayes , or vpon any Holy dayes appoynted by the lawes of this Realme to be kepe Holy day , or vse any worke or labour , or open shew of their wares in any of those dayes ?

4 Whether you your selues , or the Churchwardens in the yeeres before you , haue suffered any vnmarryed women being begotten with child , to goe out of your parish before she hath by you or them been presented to your Ordinarie : or any man defamed of whoredome , to depart vnpunished , vpon direction appoynted by the Ordinarie ? And foorth of whose houses haue they gone away with child vnpunished , and what be the names of such vnmarryed women which haue been deliuered within your parish this three yeeres last past , haue gone away without doing of penance ?

5 Whether the parish Clarke be appoynted according to the law , by the Parson or Vicar of the parish , with the allowance of the Ordinarie : and whether he be not obedient to the Parson , Vicar , or Curate : and whether he be able to read , and whether he keepe the Bookes and Ornaments of the Church faire and cleane , and cause the Church , and Quire , the Communion Table and the Font , to be kept cleane and decent against the Seruice time , the Communion , Sermon , and Baptisme ?

6 Whether there be any person or persons ecclesiasticall or temporall , within your parish or else whese within this Dioces , that haue retayned and kept in their custody , or that read , sell , vtter , disperse , carry , or deliuer to others any English Bookes or Libels , set forth either on this side or beyond the Seas , by Papistes or Sectaries against the Kings supremacie in causes ecclesiasticall , or against true Religon and Catholike doctrine now publiquely professed in this Church , or the gouernment or discipline of the Church of England , now within this Realme receiued and established by common authoritie , and what their names and surnames are ?

7 Whether there be any in your parish who are noted , knowne , or suspected to conceale or keepe hidden in their houses any Masse bookes , portesses , breuiaries , or other bookes of popery and superstition , or any Challices Copes , Vestments , Albs , or other ornaments of superstition , vncancelled or vndefaced , which it is to be coniectured they do keep for a day , as they cal it ?

8 Whether there be in your parish any popish or sectary recusant or recusants , which for any cause whatsoeuer , forbeare to come to Church to common prayer , or to heare Gods word preached , pretending it vnlawfull to come to our assemblies , as the Church of England now standeth , established by his Maiesties authoritie , and what their seuerall name or names are , and how long they haue been recusants ?

9 Whether any do refuse to receiue the holy Communion at their owne Ministers handes , either because he is not a Preacher , or because he duly obserueth the order of ministration appoynted by the booke , and who they be that do go from their owne parish , to receiue at any other ministers hands ?

10 Whether any of your parishioners hauing a Preacher to their Parson , Vicar , or Curate , do absent themselues from his Sermons , and resort to any other place to heare other preachers ?

11 Whether all the people of your parish aboue 16. yeeres of age , and especially householders , hauing no lawfull excuse to be absent , doe resort with their seruantes and children to their parish Church or Chappell on the Holy dayes , and on the Sundayes to morning and euening prayer , and who they be that either negligently or wilfully absent themselues , or do vnreuerently behaue themselues in the Church , or vse any gaming or pastime abroade or in any house , or sitte in the streete or Church-yard , or in any tauerne , or alehouse , vpon the Sunday , or Holyday , in the time of Common prayer , Sermon , or reading of the Homilies , or any of them , either before or after noone ?

12 Whether the forfeyture of xii . pence for euery time of absence from the Church vpon euery Sunday and Holyday , appoynted by a Statute made in the first yeere of the late Queene Elizabeths raigne , to be leuied and taken according to the same Statute ( the tenor whereof is sette downe in the beginning of this Booke ) by the Churchwardens of euery person that offendeth , and by them be put to the vse of the poore of the parish if it be not so le●●ed , by whose fault it is ?