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 them to be of the most importance to us, and entreated that they might be most particularly received by them all.


 * "Chapter I. That we all in common keep the holy day of Easter on the Sunday after the fourteenth moon of the first month.


 * "II. That no bishop intrude into the diocese of another, but be satisfied with the government of the people committed to him.


 * "III. That it shall not be lawful for any bishop to trouble monasteries dedicated to God, nor to take anything forcibly from them.


 * "IV. That monks do not remove from one place to another, that is, from monastery to monastery, unless with the consent of their own abbot; but that they continue in the obedience which they promised at the time of their conversion.


 * "V. That no clergyman, forsaking his own bishop, shall wander about, or be anywhere entertained without letters of recommendation from his own prelate. But if he shall be once received, and will not return when invited, both the receiver, and the person received, be under excommunication.


 * "VI. That bishops and clergymen, when travelling, shall be content with the hospitality that is afforded them; and that it be not lawful for them to exercise any priestly function without leave of the bishop in whose diocese they are.


 * "VII. That a synod be assembled twice a year; but in regard that several causes obstruct the same, it was approved by all. that we should meet on the 1st of August once a year, at the place called Clofeshoch.


 * "VIII. That no bishop, through ambition, shall set himself before another; but that they shall all observe the time and order of their consecration.


 * "IX. It was generally set forth, that more bishops should be made, as the number of believers increased; but this matter for the present was passed over.


 * "X. Of marriages; that nothing be allowed but lawful wedlock; that none commit incest; no man quit his true wife, unless, as the gospel teaches, on account of fornication. And if any man shall put away his own wife, lawfully joined to him in matrimony, that he take no other, if he wishes to be a good Christian, but continue as he is, or else be reconciled to his own wife.