1. In the name of eternal God. These are the statutes of ordination of the Beata Francesca to her daughters in Christ, present and future, who will be in the congregation.

2. First, it is decreed and ordained that they will studiously love God above all creatures and will be united together of one heart in charity, and together in their will, which corresponds to the will of obedience.

3. Item – when [the oblates] meet one another, they will greet one another with reverence; whoever fails to do so, will admit her guilt in front of the others.

4. Item – that no one will keep anything without permission of the superior, otherwise she must give up that which she has and will fast on bread and water for one day, on the floor, having tied that which she has around her neck.

5. Item – that nothing is lent or given without permission of the superior, otherwise for every time she will eat for two days without a tablecloth and without wine.

6. Item – that no one presumes to eat or drink without the permission of she who is superior in the house, otherwise the following day she will eat on the floor without cooked food.

7. Item – that no one eats or drinks outside of the house without permission from the superior, otherwise she will be punished by always eating without a tablecloth and after the congregation.

8. Item – that no one will speak of the things of the house, nor speak in secret with people outside, without permission of the president; otherwise for each thing and for each time, she will fast for two days on bread and water on the floor.

9. Item – that no one will state some need or secret with another [oblate], but will only speak of them with the obedientia; and for every time someone does this, she will eat on the floor for two days and will receive two scourgings from the superior for the space of one Miserere.

10. Item – that no one presumes to quarrel with another, otherwise if she does not quietly tell the obedientia [of the quarrel], she will fast for one day with bread and water, on the floor.