[Sidenote: Abbats.] 14 That abbats should not be made knights or men of war, but should sléepe & eat within the precinct of their owne houses, except some necessitie mooued them to the contrarie. [Sidenote: Moonks.] 15 That no moonks should inioyne penance to any man without licence of their abbat, and that abbats might not grant licence, but for those of whose soules they had cure. 16 That no moonks should be godfathers, nor nuns godmothers to any mans child. [Sidenote: Farmes.] 17 That moonks should not hold and occupie any farmes in their hands. [Sidenote: Parsonages.] 18 That no moonks should receiue any parsonages, but at the bishops hands, nor should spoile those which they did receiue in such wise of the profits and reuenues, that curats which should serue the cures might thereby want necessarie prouision for themselues and the same churches. [Sidenote: Contracts.] 19 That contracts made betwéene man and woman without witnesses concerning mariage should be void, if either of them denied it. [Sidenote: Wearing of haire] 20 That such as did weare their heare long should be neuerthelesse so rounded, that part of their eares might appéere. 21 That kinsfolke might not contract matrimonie within the seuenth degrée of consanguinitie. [Sidenote: Buriall] 22 That the bodies of the dead should not be buried but within their parishes, least the préest might lose his dutie. [Sidenote: Fond worshipping of men.] 23 That no man should vpon some new rash deuotion giue reuerence or honour to any dead bodies, fountaines of water, or other things, without the bishops authoritie, which hath béene well knowne to haue chanced heretofore. 24 That there should be no more buieng and selling of men vsed in England, which was hitherto accustomed, as if they had béene kine or oxen. 25 That all such as committed the filthie sinne of Sodomitrie should be accursed by the decrée of this councell, till by penance & confession they should obteine absolution. Prouided that if he were a preest or any religious person, he should lose his benefice, and be made vncapeable of any other ecclesiasticall preferment: if he were a laie man, he should lose the prerogatiue of his estate. Prouided also that no religious man might be absolued of this crime, but at the bishops hands. [Sidenote: The cursse to be read euerie sundaie] 26 That euerie sundaie this cursse should be read in euerie church. The king also caused some necessarie ordinances to be deuised at this councell, to mooue men to the leading of a good and vpright life.