FIrst if there be within their parish a Parson, Vicar or Curate, resident continually upon his benefice and cure, doing his duty there as he is bound to do in all things, especially in preaching, saying Matins, Mass, and evensong at due time, christening, visiting the sick, burying, and doing all other such like, and whether he hath solemnized Matrimony, the bannes not duly before asked, or have celebrated the same, or other divine service in any oratory or private chapel not allowed nor licensed so to do by th'ordinary or other sufficient authority in that behalf.  
Iten whether the said Parson, Vicar, or Cuirat, have been heretofore married or no, & if he continue with his woman or either of them suspiciouslye do resort to other.  
Item whether within the said parish there be openly or secretly any married priest, or any woman heretofore married to a priest, and whither they be suspected of any evil rule and evil conversation or no, and who be noted to be the supporters, maintainers, favourers or bearers of them in any wise.  
Item whither there be within the said parish any that doth maintain or uphold the opinion that priests and religious persons may lawfully be married and continue together.  
Iten whether there be within your parish any priest that taketh upon him to serve the cure, not being before examined and allowed thereto by th'ordinary, and whither the said priest hath in the time of the late schism here in the realm preached heresy or evil doctrine, and not recanted the same, or doth not now preach and set forth the true doctrine of the catholic church, and also pray for the three estates of the catholic church, and especially for the King and queens Majesties, and also whither praying for the third estate, they do name purgatory or no.  
Item whither there be within the said parish any that do obstinately persist and stand in any heresy or heretical opinion, or be suspected of erroneous and false doctrine or a favourer, maintainer or aider of any erroneous or heretical person or persons, or of any heresies or heretical opinions, or naughty doctrine.  
Item whether you know or have heard say of any person or persons within your said parish, that hath kept, or at this present doth keep any heretical, naughty, or seditious erroneous book or books, especially english testaments or Bible's falsely translated, secretly or otherwise, and whither ye have any suspects thereof.  
Item whither ye know or have heard of any printers or Bookesellers within your Parish that hath sold, or now doth sell or keep any the said heretical, nawghtye, or seditious book or books, letters or writings, and whither ye have any suspects thereof.  
Iten whither ye know or have heard say of any person or persons within your Parish that willingly or obstinately doth neglect or refuse to make their confession to the Priest, and to receive absolution and penance at his hand for his offences, or obstinately or willingly do refuse to receive the Sacrament of the Aultare, or extreme Unction, in extreme danger of sickness, or to hear Mass, or to come to his Paryshe Church, or refuse to go on Procession, or to take holy-water, or otherwise do misuse themselves in breaking the Rites and Ceremonies of the catholic Church, specially in fasting on the Ember days and other days by the Church specially appointed, or in praying, or other such like.  
Item whither ye know or have heard of any person or persons within your Paryshethat have murmured, grudged or spoken directly or indirectly against the Mass, or other ecclesiastical service, used or commanded in the Church, or against any Sacraments or sacramentals of the same, as holy bread, holy water, ashes, palms, creeping to the cross, holy Oil, and Chrism, bearing of Palms or candles, burying of the dead, or praying for them, specially in saying of Diriges and Commendations, or in using any other laudable or Godly ceremony or usage of the Church.  
Item whither there be within your Paryshe any that doth favour, or is suspected to receipt or receive any naughty person or persons. especially to read the english service, used in the time of king Edward the sixth, or the book of Communion, or any book prohibited or forbidden to be red or taught, or to set forth any naughty opinion or doctrine.  
Item whither there be within the said parish any privy lectures or sermons, or other devices, or any unlawful conventicles or assembles.  
Item whether there be within the said parish any, that at the sacring time of the Mass doth hang down their heads, or hide themselves behind pillars, or turneth away their faces, or departeth out of the church, because they would not look upon the blessed sacrament of the Aultare.  
Item whether ye know or have heard say of any person or persons within your parish that have committed Lollardie, as in eating of flesh at days and times forbidden or otherwise, practising or allowing any the opinions of the Lollards.  
Item whither there be within the said parish any person, man, woman, or child, being of sufficient age and discretion that can not say their Pater noster, ave Maria, and the Crede.  
Item whither there be within your parish any school master or scolemastresse that do teach Children to read, writ, sing, or play, not being first examined and admitted thereunto by thordinary or his sufficient deputy, and whither the said schoolmaster and scolemaistresse be sound in religion, and of honest living and discrete behaviour, causing their scholars to fast, to pray, to come to the church, and to do their duties there, specially in hearing Mass and other divine service, and whither they teach them to help the Priest to Mass, and to say their Pater noster, the ave Maria, and the Crede with De profundis for all Christian souls, and whither the schools, especially being comen be faithfully and diligently kept or no.  
Item whither there be within the said parish any that do absent themselves willingly from the church, losing Matins, Mass, or Evensong, or any part thereof, and whither there be any suspects upon Sundays or holidays colourable to absent themselves from their own parish church, and to go into the country under pretence to see their house and the state of their things there, hearing divine service in no place.  
Item whether you know or have heard of any in your parish, that have been, or is a scold or a slanderous person of his neighbours, or a sour of discord and debate between party and party, especially between man and wife, or the parents and their children, or any such like, or that hath invented, bruited, or set forth any rumours, false or seditious tales, or slanders, or of any makers, bringers in, buyers, sellers, readers, keepers, or conveyors of any unlawful letters, books, or writings, stirring or provoking sedition within this realm, or of any their aiders, counsellors, abettors, procurers or maintainers therein.  
Item whither ye know or have heard of any within the said parish that have given occasion to move or stir up any division, strife, contention or sedition, especially between the king and queens majesties and their Subjects.  
Item whether ye know or have heard say of any concelementes, contempts, conspiracies, false rumours, tales, seditious, misbehaviours, slanderous words, bruited or spread by any person or persons against the King and queens Majesties, or either of them, or against the quiet rule and governance of their subjects or realms.  
Item whither the patrons and other having advowsons of benefices have sincerely, truly, and justly presented in due time, and in good order an able Clerk to the benefice vacant, not suffering the said benefice long to remain without a Pastor or Curate.  
Iten whither you know of any patrons or other, having advowsons that have directly or indirectly practised, covenanted or agreed with any person or persons before the presentation or after, to have any sum of money for the same, or any other profit, commodity or pleasure in any wise under any colour or conveyance, what so ever it be.  
Item whither ye know any patrons or other, having such advowsons or any other person that of his own private authority and pleasure have pulled down any Church, chapel, or other ecclesiastical building, or have taken away the lead, bells, ornaments, goods, or lands of the said places, or any of them, or spoiled any of the same, or have converted the tithes, profits, commodities, revenues, and possessions of any of the same to his own private and profane use.  
Item whether ye know or have heard of any Parson, Vicar, or other, having ecclesiastical promotion, that hath made alienation of such things as pertained to his Parsonage, Vicarage, or spiritual promotion, or let the same to farm, without licence of his Ordinary, and if he so in any the premises have done, what it was, when it was, and by what authority or warrant it was done.  
Item whither the church of your parish be now vacant or no, who is the patron thereof, how long it hath been vacant, who doth receive the tithes, oblations, and other commodities thereof, during the said vacation, and by what authority, and in what estate the said church as in.  
Item whither within the said parish there be any woman that doth exercise th'office or room of a Midwife, not being before examined and admitted thereto by th'ordinary or his sufficient deputy, or whither there be any woman, having been a priest's wife or suspect of heresy, that is a common keeper of women lying in childbed or no.  
Item whither the said Midwife have heretofore been, and now is catholic, faithful, discrete, sober, and diligent, ready to help every woman traveling with child, aswell the poor as the rich.  
Item whither the said woman or any other coming to such traveling do use any Witchecraft, charms, or unlawful prayers or invocations, or do omit or alter the laudable rites and ceremonies accustomed and used of antiquity.  
Item whither the said midwife or other woman denieth or letteth the new borne child to be brought to the church, and to be duly, reverently and orderly baptized, and the mother to be duly and accustomably purified.  
Item whither any woman by themselves or by the smistre counsel of other, have after their own fantasies purified themselves or done any thing therein contrary to the law, ordinance, and custom of the catholic church.  
Item whither the Churchwardens of your parish have and do provide all things necessary and requisite to be had in your church, according as hath been accustomed within this realm of England, before the time of the late schism in the same.  
Item whither within your said parish there be a rood and a rood fit, having the Images of Mary and john, & lights before the same, and whither in the Lent season there be a covering for the said Crucifix decently provided, and whither there be any lights upon the high Aultare, and whither there be an Image of the patron of the church or no.  
Item whither there be any Inventory made and kept of the church goods, and a book concerning the regestringe of those that are baptised, married, or buried.  
Item whither the bestimentes for the priests and other ministers, and all the ornaments for and about the altar, be kept clean and sufficiently repaired and maintained, and whither there be any thing lacking or no, and whither there be a comely pyx to keep the blessed sacrament in & upon the high Altar, and whither there be any light burning before it, especially in the time of divine service, and whither the blessed Sacrament be carried decently and devoutly to the sick, the Clerk going before the Priest in a surplice with light in his hand, and a little sacring bell ringing.  
Item whither the church or chancel of your parish be in ruin or decay, and in whose default or negligence the same is.  
Item whither there have been or be any legacies or gifts made for the repairing and maintenance of your church, or of high ways, finding of the poor, marrying of poor Maidens, or any such like, and the same not paid and answered accordingly.  
Item whither there be any man within your parish, that besides his wife keepeth incontinently any other woman, or any woman which besides her husband taketh or useth with any other man, or whither any man doth put away his wife, or any wife doth withdraw herself from her husband, not being lawfully before divorced, and being lawfully divorced, whither any of the parties during the life of the other do marry or no.  
Item whither ye know of any man that hath two wives living, or of any woman that hath two husbands living, no lawful divorce being made between them.  
Item whither you know of any usurers, or of any bawds, man or woman, or of any other vicious and notable offenders and breakers of Gods holy commandments, and of the godly orders, laws, and laudable customs of the holy catholic church in any wise, especially upon Embring or fasting days, or upon Sundays or holidays.  
Item whither the church or churchyard have been violated, polluted, or suspended in any manner of ways, especially by effusion of blood, violently made or done in the same.  
Item whither any doth take upon him to minister the goods of any that is dead before the Testament be proved, or administration to him by th'ordinary duly committed, or doth let the Testament or last will in any wise to be fulfilled.  
Item whither such as can not read upon the book, have every one of them a pair of beads, and do use the same devoutly and accordingly.  
Item whither any Minstrels or any other persons do use to sing or say any songs or ditties that be unclean or vile, especially against any of the. seven. Sacraments, or against any the rites and ceremonies of this Church of England, which is a notable member of Christ's catholic church.  
Item whither any do deprave or contemn the authority or jurisdiction of the Pope's holiness, or the sea of Rome, or do let the process of any archbishop or bishop, or of any of their deputies.  
Item whither any plays or Interludes not being first examined, allowed, and approved by th'ordinary, are used at any time, especially in the Lent, or upon Sundays or holidays, especially at the time of divine service, and whither any other vile or lewd pastimes at any of the said times, are in any wise used or accustomed.  
Item whither there be any that doth use to buy & sell upon the sundays or holidays, or do upon those days keep open their shops, Taverns, Alehouses, or victualling houses, especially in the time of divine service,  
Item whither ye have procured or consented in any wise, that during any part of the Sermon made at Paul's Cross, there should be ●rynging of bells, playing of Children, crying or making loud noise, riding of horses, or otherwise, so that the Preacher there, or his audience was troubled thereby, and if ye have not so procured or consented, whither have you yet to the best and uttermost of your power endevowred yourself to let such ringing, playing, crying, and noise, that the said Preacher might the better do his duty, and the audience be the better instructed and edified.  
Item whither ye do know, or credibly have heard that within any part of the city of London there hath been any set tables kept for such as would thither resort to eat and drink, and whither it be not used at the said tables to have Dinner and Supper upon the Friday and Embring days, and all other days, aswell within the Lent time as without, or whither there be at the said tables any flesh eaten at times prohibited.  
FINIS.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Robart Caly, within the precinct of Christ's Hospital. The vi day of April. M.D.LVIII.  
Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum.