1. That no bishop henceforth shall make any ministers but such as shall be of age full twenty-four years and a graduate of the university, or at the least able in the Latin tongue to yield an account of his faith according to the articles of religion agreed upon in the convocation, and that in such sort that he can note the sentences of Scripture whereupon the truth of the said articles is grounded. And if any patron shall present any minister to any benefice which shall not be in this sort qualified, that it shall be lawful for the bishop to refuse such presentee and shall not be constrained either by double quarrel or Quare impedit to institute any such. The bishop that shall do contrary to this order, upon proof thereof, to be suspended by the archbishop from making of ministers for the space of two years.

2. That there shall not henceforth be used any commutation of penance but in rare respects, that is to say, either for some great value or dignity of the person or for fear of some desperate event that will follow in the party that should be put to open shame. And at such time his penalty of money to be large, according to the ability of that person, and by the ordinary with good witnesses, to be employed either to the relief of the poor or other necessary and godly uses, and yet even in this respect the party offending, beside such pain of money, shall ever make in his parish church some satisfaction to the congregation by declaring openly his repentant and sorrowful mind for such offence committed. And here is earnestly to be desired that in all other respects and towards all other persons there may be some more strait punishment to be assigned by ecclesiastical judges for adultery, whoredom and incest than now by ecclesiastical laws they can do, whether it be by imprisonment joined with open penance, or otherwise.