¶ Questions worthy to be consulted on/ for the weal public.  
FIrst whether hypocrisy/ feigned religion called/ and wicked laws called Cacanomia, might be put out of this Realm without counsel of Auaricia.  
¶ Whether evil order long abused might be redressed by good laws well observed.  
¶ Whether the laws of the kings of England made before the conquest, be the common laws of this Realm, and might be revived again.  
¶ Whether the process at the common law is grounded on any law positive.  
¶ Whether the said process is daily abused as well in court, as at the sheriff his hands by manifest collusion or not.  
¶ Whether manifest calumny to sue false pleas be suffered at the common law.  
¶ Whether by justice a man may let fall his action and not answer costs.  
¶ Whether process of outlawry, made upon feigned contumacy doth give the party plaintiff better remedy up on a decree, than season on his goods unto the party will appear in court.  
¶ Whether good and equity called, Stet, may be pleaded in every the Kings Majesties courts as well as in the chancery, the Star Chamber and the white Hale, in case not ruled.  
¶ Whether Sergiantes and men at law ought rather to pleede upon bene et equo, then upon similitudes of judgements in every the Kings Majesties courts where there is no law certain for the case.  
¶ Whether the judgement given upon the verdict of xii men, is rather in opinion, than in verity.  
¶ Whether any corruption may ensue upon evidence given by witness to the jury openly when as the second witness hath herd the first witness deposition.  
¶ Whether the juries doth understand more of the pleading in Nisi prius and such like, than the judges.  
¶ Whether a. M. pound gotten yearly by one man at law, was truly deserved at all men's hands.  
¶ Whether the Salary of men at law might be taxed to any certain sum for every term and for every plea.  
¶ Whether the number of retaining learned counsel might so be abridged that but only one man in one cause should be admitted to plead.  
¶ Whether there be more Studientes and men at law, in this Realm of England then be laws positive.  
¶ Whether that it were necessary that the Salary for men at laws Clerks should be taxed by the line for writing or not.  
¶ Whether certain laws would better be practised in this realm by sum inducement to honesty and worship than by laws penal.  
¶ Whether Actions Popular and Statutes Penal may be sued to forfetture without breach of christian charity.  
¶ Whether jurisdiction ecclesiastical and temporal may concur in the kings majesties Courts only to be determinable.  
¶ Whether the probates of testaments and causes testamentary be ecclesiastical or temporal and when it was changed with iure patronatus.  
¶ Whether the lack of good laws hath been more the decay of this realm than the negligence of princes.  
¶ Whether it be more for a common wealth justice to be ministered in every city and shear Town in all matters then in one place only.  
¶ Whether apples upon wrong judgements and errors in pleas may be determined in place certain.  
¶ Whether any archdeacon having jurisdiction for probates of testaments whose Seal is not allowable at the common law deceiveth the people and is answerable of extortion for the money he taketh therefore.  
¶ Whether the Ecclesiastical causes united to his majesties Courts in every shear will bear the kings charges for the exercise of his imperial jurisdictions towards the judges fees.  
¶ Whether it be for the public wealth to have many City's Towns and ports well maintained repaired and inhabited then for the maintaining of one to decay the hole realm.  
¶ Whether princely buildings of goodly houses doth more bewtyfye a realm than repairing decayed Towns doth beawtifye the same.  
¶ Whether if every sheep master should sell his will in yearn, not other to pass the sees might a void the great occasion of the idleness and poverty of this Realm and all such charge of common pasture.  
¶ Whether every encloser compelled to have in tillage the third Acre so enclosed were more profitable for the common wealth then to pull down encloses.  
¶ Whether the land water and the See hath wasted more good grounded in England then hath been gotten in foreign Realms.  
¶ Whether the degrees of all States and personages to be known & dysevered by apparel or otherwise doth keep good order in the realm.  
¶ Whether merchants leving their course of merchandise and following the idle trade of usury is worthy to be put out of any city.  
¶ Whether Magistrates reformers of the manners of men is as meet to be had in every body politic as the civil judges.  
¶ Whether those Magistrates might have by cohection, power to repair high ways, walls of Towns decayed, Havensstopped, or noyed, tillage laid down, enclosers reryd.  
¶ Whether good laws, can be ordained and made where evil men of law shall be chief of counsel.  
¶ Whether any profit hath ensued of the last Statute made for beggars and vagabonds.  
¶ Whether justice and equity and bonum publicum should be the ground of every law positive.  
¶ Whether the body politic of this Realm would be directed in like order without confusion of Magistrates and degrees as the body material the king and this counsel super intendant the judges and magistrates their laws exequete, nobility, & men of lands to be the Realm defendante, merchants, & negociators, the wealth public practisant, husbandmen and crafts men laborant, the other membres to be obedient.  
¶ Whether the Spiritualte, the Bishops, and the clergy, be within the same body politic or they be a body of themselves.  
¶ Whether justices of Sewers in places surundered keeping the quarter Sessions four times by year in circuit might save the lower parts of Norfolk, Southfolke, cambridge shear, Huntingdon shear, Northampton shear, Linconshere from drowning conteming in circuit. Clxxx. miles by estimation.  
¶ Whether it were better for the husbandman, noble men and gentlemen to ride post on other men's Sadils, on their own horses then to ride post on other men's horses in their own sadilles.  
¶ Whether temporal possessions and godly Religion may consist in any spiritual person.  
¶ Whether every bishop and priest not called of god as Aaron nor elected of the people hath the spiritual charter of priesthood.  
¶ Whether the priests that sue for pluralities of benefices doth more offend before God than the powers which dyspence for lucre.  
¶ Whether any man by dispensation may have as well sunderye wives as priests may have sundry benefices.  
¶ Whether the divines and learned in god's laws setting forth god's word after their own fantasies ought all to be believed.