First, [we] do offer and promise, in verbo sacerdotal here unto your highness, submitting ourselves most humbly to the same, that we will never from henceforth enact, put in ure, promulge, or execute any new canons or constitutions provincial, or any other new ordinance, provincial or synodal, in our convocation or synod in time coming, which convocation is, always has been, and must be assembled only by your highness's commandment or writ, unless your highness by your royal assent shall license us to assemble our convocation and to make, promulge and execute such constitutions and ordinances as shall be made in the same; and thereto give your royal assent and authority.

Secondly, that whereas divers of the constitutions, ordinances and canons provincial or synodal, which have been heretofore enacted, be thought to be not only much prejudicial to your prerogative royal, but also overmuch onerous to your highness's subjects, your clergy aforesaid is contented, if it may stand so with your highness's pleasure, that it be committed to the examination and judgment of your grace, and of thirtytwo persons, whereof sixteen to be of the upper and nether house of the temporalty, and other sixteen of the clergy, all to be chosen and appointed by your most noble grace.