1. We whose names are subscribed, each man for himself, do unfeignedly acknowledge and confess that all jurisdiction, privilege and superiority which by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority heretofore have been, or lawfully by the laws of this realm be exercised or used for the visitation, reformation and correction of the ecclesiastical state and persons within her majesty's dominions, and for the reformation and correction of all errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities within the same, are united to the imperial crown of England, and that her majesty hath the same power and authority so united to the crown, as weU by God's law as by the laws and statutes of this realm.

2. That by God's law and the laws of this realm there ought not to be any synods, conventicles or assemblies for the concluding or establishing of any laws, articles, ordinances or constitutions to be exercised, used or put in use within this realm in any spiritual or ecclesiastical matters or causes, or over any persons whatsoever, otherwise than by the queen's majesty's assent and by virtue of her highness's authority, and that all synods, conventicles, assemblies and attempts for any innovation or alteration to be made within this realm, without her majesty's authority and assent, of or for any ecclesiastical laws or government, are seditious and unlawful.

3. That the ecclesiastical government of archbishops, bishops and other ecclesiastical persons now received and established by her majesty s authority in the Church of England, is lawful and allowable by the Word of God, and that the government challenged, devised or attempted to be executed by any presbytery or church assembly consisting of doctors, pastors, elders and deacons, or of any of them, or any such like not warranted by the laws of this realm, is not only unlawful but also very dangerous for the state of this realm.