We pray that copyhold land that is unreasonably rented may go as it did in the first year of King Henry VII, and that at the death of a tenant or at a sale the same lands to be charged with an easy fine as a capon or a reasonable [sum] of money for a remembrance. We pray that no priest [shall be chaplain] nor no other officer to any man of honour or worship, but only to be resident upon their benefices whereby their parishioners may be instructed with the laws of God. We pray that all bond men may be made free, for God made all free with his precious blood-shedding. We pray that rivers may be free and common to all men for fishing and passage. We pray that no man shall be put by your escheator and feodary to find any office unless he holdeth of your Grace in chief or capite above xl._l_ by year. We pray that the poor mariners or fishermen may have the whole profits of their fishings as porpoises, grampuses, whales or any great fish, so it be not prejudicial to your Grace. We pray that every proprietary parson or vicar having a benefice of xv._l_ or more by year shall either by themselves or by some other person teach poor men's children of their parish the book called the catechism and the primer. We pray that it be not lawful to the lords of any manor to purchase lands freely and to let them out again by copy of court roll to their great advancement and to the undoing of your poor subjects. We pray that no proprietary parson or vicar, in consideration of avoiding trouble and suit between them and their poor parishioners which they daily do precede and attempt, shall from henceforth take for the full contentation [_i.e._ satisfaction] of all the tenths which now they do receive but viiid of the noble in the full discharge of all other tithes. We pray that no man under the degree of [_blank_] shall keep any conies upon any of their own freehold or copyhold unless he pale them in so that it shall not be to the commons' nuisance. We pray that no person, of what estate, degree or condition he be, shall from henceforth sell the wardship of any child, but that the same child if he live to his full age shall be at his own chosen concerning his marriage, the King's wards only except. We pray that no manner of person having a manor of his own shall be no other lord's bailiff but only his own. We pray that no lord knight nor gentleman shall have or take in farm any spiritual promotion. We pray that your Grace to give license and authority by your gracious commission under your great seal to such commissioners as your poor commons hath chosen, or as many of them as your Majesty and your council shall appoint and think meet, for to redress and reform all such good laws, statutes, proclamations, and all other your proceedings, which hath been hidden by your justices of your peace, sheriffs, escheators, and other your officers from your poor commons, since the first year of the reign of your noble grandfather King Henry VII.