brend that land &robbed it / and queld men women and children that leynein cradells / and brend also holy church and destroied cristendome &toke & bare englisshmennys goodes as they had bene sarazenes orpaynyms & of the wykkedesse that
vneth the creature to gode / And that is the most certeyn wele that is.¶Now askyth the sixte mayster wherfore we suffre soo enuyously trybulacyon / And it is answerde for thre causes / The fyrst is for we
to presumeAgeyne his church to do offencionFor god of righ all tyrauntis wyll consumeIn full short tyme for their presumpcionWhich will nat suffre their domynacionTo enterupt for all their greate myghtNor breke the fraunchise of holy church rightTo prudent princes
correcke and amendeAnd of entente these cardynalles twoThe church esclaundred cast theym to redresseMade lettres sent them to ochoDuke of Saxon that he shulde him dresseTowarde rome and of hye noblesseOn holy church to haue compassionMake of this mischeef iust
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by the kynge shulde gyue hyr attendaunce vpon the saide princesse at the litel dore against the concistorie in the church that ledith into the bishop of Londons palys and so from that dore to conduyte the pryncesse into hir
deuised to be at the south dore next west warde to our lady of grace in the body of the church and with the pryncez householde seruaūtis to gyue their attendaūce and conuey hym to the haute pla∣ce to be
for the sauoure was so great and greuous holy faders ordeyned church yerdes to bury the peple. for ii. causes One is to be praied for as holy church vseth And another is for the body shal lye there withoute
hated folke of his owne land & loued& honoured straunge men And sette litell by holy churche & betokeof holy church all the tresour that he myʒt haue that was grete sha¦me& vlanye to hym selfe & {per}ill to his
sacramēt as he stode & herd his msse Ca.C.xxv.ijIT befel von whitsonday as kyng edward herde his mas¦sein he grete church of westmestre right at y• leuacion of cristes body / & as all men were gadred in to the
of Carnariuan and therfor he wastake at Oxenford / and ther he chalenged the frere carmes church y•kyng Edward had yeue hem the which church some tyme was thekynges halle ¶Aud afterward was this Iohan lad to northam¦ptonand drawe and
counceilled the kyng that he cō∣maūdedto closse the church dores of pountfrete in the which chirchthe holy martir seint Thomas was entered / and thus they didenayene all fraunchises of holy church / so that iiij. yere after myʒt nopilgryme
holy church and holy churche alsowith all hir ministres rightes and libertees to defende from all hiremies and all euelles ¶And all that were ther ayen bitterlyto punyssh & destourble / And all the rightes libertees priuelegesof holy church encrese
ofthe lay fee ¶And in this {per}lement at the request & askyng of thelordes in haterede of men of holy church / the Chaunceler & the treso∣rerthat were bisshoppes & the clerke of the priue seal were remeuedand put out
holy church̄. And also he counceylled ye king & his coūceill that he shold axke more of men of holy church thā of othir {per}sones of the lay fee / And for that the kyng & othir of his coūceil
to his dede He taketh saith he no grete bede howe moche man or womā yeueth or offreth in ho¦ly church / but he taketh hede of howe moche deuocion & of what herte he yeueth and offreth And so
Ester. Cristmasse / epiphany / as¦cencton / penticoste / seynt Iohn baptyst & other such / they shuld go to church. and no prest shuld thanne synge in suche oratories or chapelles withouten speciall leue of the busshop / and
of wateryng and take away the stakes and the poles. Right so whan holy church and cristendome was in the begyn∣nyng / criste watryd holy church with greate yiftes of grace / & of deuocion / & vnderset it wt
his wyf or his lēman the churche and the church yerde also ben pollute And if it might be preuyd ther shulde no preeste synge ne say no messe therin / ne body be buryed tyl it were recoū¦seiled ayen
nede / they synne greuously al though they here their seruice er they wende / and namely men of holy church. that shulde in ha¦lidayes moste occupie hem ī god¦des seruice / and deuocion and te¦chynge of goddes lawe /