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A14151
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The practyse of prelates. Compyled by the faythfull and godly learned man, Wyllyam Tyndale
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Tyndale, William, d. 1536.
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1548
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without office except it be that on some Holydaye in steade of ministringe the goodes of the church vnto the poore they syng a pistle or Gospell to begge more from the â—â—ore And as his 〈…〉 the â—oodes of the church 〈◊〉 the poore euen so doo hys pryesâ—es preacâ—â— Chrysts gospell vnto his flocke And the almesse that was geuen to the sustencacion of the poore which thou shalt reade in storieâ— that it was in some cities aboue xx.xxx.xl yea an hundred thousaÌ„d pounde How the pope diuydeth the poore people and all the landes geuen for the same purpose they haue sâ—olen from them haue diuyded it amonge them selues And ther with did they at the beginning corrupt the greate men of the woorlde and clam vp to this heigth were they now be And for that haue they strouen among them selues this viij hundred yeares And to mainteyne that which they haue falsely gotten hath the pope sturred vp aswerde of warre in all christendom this .viij. hundred yeares hath taken peace cleane out of the worlde When the bisshoppes preastes and deacons were fallen and had receaued of the pope the kingdom that parteyned vnto the poore people and had robbed them and parted their patrymony among them selues then sprange the orders of monkes Whose professyon was to abstayne froÌ„ flesh all theyr liues to were vyle raymeÌ„t to eate but once in the daye aÌ„d that but butter chese egges frutes rootes and suche thynges that weare not costly aÌ„d myght euery where be founde And they wrote bokes aÌ„d wrought diuerse thynges to get their lyuinge wyth all When the laye men sawe that the preastes were fallen in to suche couetuousnes that the Monkes were so holy they thought these be mete men to minister our almesse vnto the pore people For theyr profession is so holy that they can not deceauâ— vs as the preastes do aÌ„d made the moÌ„kes tutors and ministers vnto the pore aÌ„d gaue great Landes and rychesse in to theyr handes to deale it vnto the poore WheÌ„ the monkes sawe suche aboundaunce they fell after the ensample of the preastes and toke dispeÌ„sacyoÌ„s of the pope for their rules aÌ„d strait professioÌ„ whiche now is as wyde as their coules and deuided all amonge them â–ª and robbed the poore once moare And out of the abbayes toke he the most parte of his Bysshoprickes and cathedral churches and the moste parte of all the landes he hathe besydes that there Remayne yet so Many myghtye abbayes and nun ryes therâ—â— As sone as the monkes were fallen theÌ„ sprang these beggynge fryres out of Hell the last kind of kater pillars Beggyngâ— fryers in a more vile apparell and a more strate relygion that if ought of relefe were lefte amonge the laye men for the poore people these horseleches might sucke that also Which dranebees as sone as they had learned their crafte had bylt them goodly costly nâ—stes and their lymiters had diuided all contrees amonge them to begge in and had prepared lyuynges of a certayntie though which beggynge then they also toke dispeÌ„sacyons of the pope for to lyue as largely as lewdelye as the monkes And yet vnto the laye men whom they haue thus falselye robbed from whyche they haue deuyded them selues and made them a seuerall kyngdome amonge them selues The charge of the lay people they leaue the payenge of tolle custome and trybute for vnto all the Charges of the Royalmes they wyll not paye a myte and the finding of all the poore the fyndyng of scolars for the moste parte The fynding of these forsayde horseleches and carcepillers the beggynge fryers the reparyng of hye wayes and brydeges the buyldynge and recreacyons of they re abbayes and cathedrall churches chapelâ— coleges for which they send out theyr pardons dayly by heapes and gather a thousand pounde for euery hundred that they bestow truely If the laye people haue warre or what soeuer charge it be they wyll not beare a myte If the warre be theirs as the one parte almost of all warre is to defende them they wyl with falshed make theÌ„ beare the greatest parte besydes that they must leaue their wyues and children go fight for them and loose their liues And likewise iÌ„ al their charges they haue a cast to poll the laye people The Scottes cast downe a castell of the bysshop of dirams on the scottysh bancke called Noram castell And he gat a pardon from Rome for the buyldynge of it agayne wherwith I dout not buâ— he gat for euerye pennye that he bestowed thre Howe the spyritualtie bestowe theyr treasure And what do they with their store that they haue in so greate plenty every where so that the very beggyng fryers in short space to make a cardinal or a pope of their sect or to doo what feate it were for theyr proffytt wold not stycke to brynge aboue a Kyngs rauÌ„soÌ„ â–ª Uerely make goodly places and parkes of pleasure and gaye shrynes and paynte postes and purchese Pardons wherwyth they yet styll polle and plucke a waie that litle where wyth the pore which peryshe for neade and faulle in to greate in conâ—enyences myght be somwhat holpeÌ„ aÌ„d releued And laye vppe in stoare to haue alwaye to paye for the defeÌ„diÌ„g of their faith â—nd for to oppresse the truth ¶ How the pope made hym â— lawe and why AFter that the pope wythe tyrannye was clom vppe aboue hys brethren and had made all the Spyrytualtie hys subiectes and had made of them and hym a seuerall kyngdom among them selues and had seperated them from the laye in all thynges and had got pryuileges that what so euer they dyd no man shuld medle wyth them and after also he had receaued the kyngdoms of the earth of Sathan and was become hys vicare to dystrybut them and after that the Emperoure was fallen in lyke maner at hys fete and had worshypped hym as God to receaue hys empyre of him and all kings had done lyke wise to be anoynted of him and to be crouned of him and after that the worlde both greate and smale had submitted them selues to receaue the beastes bagge then because that christes doctryne was contrary vnto all such kingdomes and therfore had no law ther in howe to rule it he went and made him a seuerell lawe of hys owne makyng which passed in cruelty and tyranny the lawes of all hethen priestes And in his lawe he thrust in fayned gyftes of old emperours that were out of memory What subtiltâ— the pope vseth to stablysh hys kyngdome sayeng that the emperour Constantinus had geuen vp the empyre of Rome vnto S. Syluester which is proued a false lye for diuerse causes one that saiÌ„t siluester being so holy a man as he was wolde not haue receaued it contrarye to his masters coÌ„mauÌ„demeÌ„tes doctrine an other that the emperours raygned in Rome many yeares after and all bisshopes sued vnto the emperour and not to the pope which was but