That suitable persons be admitted to holy orders and ecclesiastical benefices (as they are called).

1 [33]. First, care must be taken that henceforth no-one be ordained who has not also, at the same time as his own presentation to some benefice within the diocese or jurisdiction of the same bishop from whom he seeks holy orders, shown that the benefice is then vacant, or who has not given the same bishop a certain, true and indubitable certificate concerning some church within the diocese or jurisdiction of the said bishop, in which he may minister to the cure of souls, or who has not been enrolled in some cathedral or collegiate church, or college in Cambridge or Oxford, or at least, who is not soon to be admitted by the same bishop to some benefice with the intention of serving the cure (as it is called) then being vacant.

2 [34]. Finally, no bishop shall henceforth ordain anyone who is not from his own diocese unless he has graduated from either of our universities, or unless he brings letters dimissory (as they are known) from his own diocesan bishop, has already attained the age of twenty-four years and has also received some academic degree