If there is a dispute about parish boundaries which forms part of a controversy to be heard in an ecclesiastical court, it shall be decided by an ecclesiastical judge, using witnesses and other lawful proofs. And in order that the parish boundaries shall become ever more familiar to everyone, we decree that every year the minister of the church, with the wardens and four other men to be named by the wardens, shall go about the entire parish in the week of Pentecost, and inspect the boundaries and markers, and observe the present ancient limits of individual parishes, and have them written in a book which they shall deposit safely in the church chest. And if the minister or another of the aforesaid persons shall ever be found to be contumacious and disobedient to this our decree, as soon as the visitor or any other suitable ecclesiastical judge finds out about it, he shall be fined ten pounds to be paid to the common fund of the church.

We allow churches which cannot sustain a suitable minister because of the smallness of their fruits to be united and annexed by the local bishops to some neighbouring churches, with the consent of the patrons (saving to us the tithes which by his estimation should be paid every year through the church to which it has been joined). But if the patron of the aforesaid church to be annexed does not want to agree to the union, then he shall contribute from his own resources to the impoverished church as much as is needed to sustain a suitable rector, or an amount sufficient for a vicar, and he shall be compelled to do this by the local ordinary.

Moreover, it is our will that broad and large parishes, [where the majority or at least in which] a large percentage of the parishioners is known to live more than four miles away from the parish church, shall be divided and separated by the local ordinaries, and distributed among different rectors and vicars, as appears to be most expedient, saving always to us the tithes already assessed, and retaining the patron's right to the church.