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Enormytees vsyd by the clergy here floweth dyuers enormytees vsyd by the clergy, and by some wryters theyr adherentis, and specyally agaynst the heresy of symony vsyd by the clergy : how some of the clergy and theyr adherentis causeles haue skla[n]derously spoken agayns this noble realme of Englande and agayns dyuers of the kynges lay subiectes, and haue prechyd & wrytyn agaynst small offe[n]sys, leuyng ye greter offensys in the law of God vntouhcyd [sic].
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the gretest and moste abhomynable heresye or ells tyll they can proue by good auctoryte that symony is none heresye / for it semyth to be agreat abuse that where a prelates dewtye is to fede Chrystes flocke that is put to his kepyng with holsom doctryne / yea and to anoynte and to he le them that be infected or scabbed / louyngly with softe salnys / and nat to bete them / nether to shere or poll them / nether to slee theym in there good name / ne other wyse / but louyngly and secretely to reforme them that be in errours / lyke a good shepherd and nat to be amonge them lyke awolfe or lyke a bere / that all weyes fedyth hymselfe on the flocke / and neuer cheressheth them / for to suche one it may wel be sayde ye Ipocryte and archeherytyke / yf ye lust to pyke a strawe or mote out of myne eye / furste it wylbe myche necessary / that ye drawe out the greate poste or beame from your owne eye / and so shall ye the better see to pyke the strawe or more out of myne eye ¶ And yf the Clergye wyll nat be therew t contented / then it is to be thought that the kynges hyghnes hathe good cause to say to them / as Chryst sayd to the scrybys and pharyseys Ipocrytes as is before sayd Math. .xxiii. ye be wyttenessys to your owne selfys for ye haue wryten in your byll of answere / to the byll of complaynte that my lay subiectes hath put to me in theyr supplycacyon agaynst you the spuÌ„all ordynaryes of this my realme / called the byll ex officio / that ye were neuer greuous to your bretherne / and gostly chylderne but onely to suche as were infected with the pestelent poyson of heresye / with whom ye saye that ye are coÌ„maunded by Chrystes gospell to haue no peace sayenge Math. x. Non veni mittere pacem sed gladiuÌ„ / And although yet as it semyth by the prosese of that chapyter / it is nat in tended nether mente as ye haue applyed yt / for in foure or fyue hundered placys of scrypture / god hath comaunded loue peace / and nat stryfe warre / nether blod shedyÌ„g / And therfor it aperyth that it may be Iustely sayd to you as Chryst sayd to the pharyseis Ipocrytes in the foresayd gospell Math. xxiii ye be the sonnes of them that slewe the prophetys / ye wyll say seyth Chryst that yf ye hadd byn offycers in that tyme wheÌ„ your fathers slew the prohetê that ye wolde nat haue byn theyr felowes in blode shedyng / but it is nat so / for at this day ye say ye loue your brothers / and yet ye wyll kyll them / but ye caÌ„ nat do both / and therfore Chryst calleth you in that sayde gospell / the spawne or seede of venemous Adders and ye wolde blynde the people and say that therin ye esteme that ye do acceptable seruyce to god in all suche your craftye cruelte / but ye know the contrarye / though ye lust to applye and to expounde holye scrypture at your pleasure and to your wretched and synfull appetytis / to colour and to hyde your cruelty and your Ipocrysye / And yf any of my lay subietê shew to you holy scrypture suffycyent to confouÌ„de your wrong applynge of scrypture / and your Iwysh fables / Anon ye say that no lay man shulde medell with holy scrypture / but therin Chryst coÌ„foundeth you / Luc. .xi. sayeng to you of the clergy wo be to you that be lerned in the lawe / that haue taken or borne away the kaye of cuÌ„nynge / your selfe haue nat eÌ„tred or gone iÌ„ / ye haue forboden those that eÌ„tred / hereby ye thynke to coloure to hyde your greate cruell Ipocrysy / but it is wryteÌ„ by a famous doctor in a boke called DestructoriuÌ„ victoruÌ„ / That by dyuers wayes a maÌ„ may know an Ipocrite / wherof one now folowyth / ¶ Ccognoseuntur ipocrite ex oppÌ„ssione bonorum / Opprimunt enim bonos ê‘sequeÌ„ do factis / detraheÌ„do verbis / cuiusmodi uideÌ„tur esse hoeÌ„s multi suê‘iores eccle taÌ„seclares quam regulares / qui fideles humiles seruos xpÌ„i persequÌ„tur / id est eos incarceraÌ„do aliquaÌ„do combureÌ„do occiduÌ„t / sed quare hoc faciunt / Certe experientia do cente / pro eo ê™ eorum vitam reê“bant voluptuosam / negligenciam reprehendunt / Sêª o miser qui taliter agis / quare respiciendo scripturas sacras / specialiter euangelia / non consideras / ê™ iÌ„ aug mentacionem sue proprie dampnacionis ita fecerunt predecessores tui pontifices falsi / scribe pharesei / qui de bonis ecclesie voluptuose vixeruÌ„t / sicut tu nunc Nonne epÌ„i occiderunt rpÌ„m / aplos scoÌ„s martires / reputando eos hereticos ê“eo ê™ eorum peccaÌ„ reê“bauerunt / sic tu reputas eos hereticos qui tuam vitam reprobant voluptuosam .c. ¶ Now sythens it is suffycyently layde and prouyd to you by dyuerse greate auctorytees of the holy lawe canon / that clerkes symonytes be grettest heretykes / yea and archeheretykes in coÌ„paryson of a lay man that is an heretyke / and sythens also that the same holy law canon affermyth and declareth euery man of auctoryte that is nat vehemently chafyd and dysplesed with you for that same your symony / and heresye / to be cursed with Symon Magus which all ye wyll graÌ„te and afferme to be dampned in to hell perpetually / And also sythens it is sufficieÌ„tly prouyd by holy scrypture and also it is decreed by dyuers of the sayd holy canons before alleged / that the punysshmeÌ„t therof belongyth to me that am your kynge gouernour / as to our seculer power / what caÌ„ ye now say but that of very Iustice in goddys cause and in eschewyng / and avoydyng of that terryble curse that fell on Symon magus / from which almyghtye god of his great mercy saue and defende vs / wee muste be vehementley sterede and chaufed agaynste you / and accordyng to your demeritis / and to your for sayd aunswere to the sayd byll ex officio / to haue no peace with you / and to say to you with criste / Math. x. Non venimittere pacem sed Gladium / for heryn ye be wyttenessis to your owne selfis / And so of necessite we must se you punysshed with the sworde of sharpe execucioÌ„ / as ye haue caused other small heretykys beyng but small in coÌ„paryson of them that be gretter heretykes of late tyme to be punysshed / as with cruell arestyng you / harde impresonyng opynlye abiuryng you / and greuously amersyng you with great fynys / and with takyng from you / all that ye haue here / before symonytely and heretycally goten / and longe receyued / or elles with fyer consume you / yf ye luste nat to abiure / for in this case ye be wyttnessys to your self ys as before is sayd ¶ And it is congruent / and well consonant and agreable to good reasoÌ„ / and to all lawes of god and of man / furst to punysshe / and to confownde the greatter offenders / and archeretykys / and afterwarde the lesse / for euery bysshop and preest heretyk maye trewly be called an Archeherytyke in comparyson of a laye heretyke / aswell for the qualytees and dyfference of theyr spuÌ„all dygnyte / as of theyr offensys / and therfore it ought aswell to be furst punysshed / as also most greuously / and most openly punysshed / wytnes of saynt Bar. sayyng / Non enim par debet esse pena / vbi disparest causa ¶ Nowe yf any clerke lust to make answer here to / then for the loue of god lett theyr aunswere be put in wrytyng charytably / that it may be Replyed to / yf nede be / Or elles lett theym yelde theym selfys gyltye therin / and put theym self ys holye to the mercye grace of the Kynges hyghnes / whiche is / and hath alweys ben / mercyfull and gracyous / ¶ Viuat Rex Gaudeat grex Luceat lex In Regno maiestatis ¶ Salus senioribus Concors coiÌ„bus Et pax hoiÌ„bus Bone voluÌ„tatis ¶ Amen amen sey euery man ¶ Impressum / Cum priuilegio regali ¶ Tabula ¶ How some of the Clergy and theyr adherentis causeles haue sklaÌ„derousely spoken agayns this noble realme of Englande and agayns dyuers of the Kynges lay subiectes / and haue prechyd wryten agaynst small offeÌ„sys / leuyÌ„g the greter offensys agaynst the law of god vntouched Ca. .i. ¶ Of the kynges grete benyngnyte and fauor vsyd alwy to ward the clergy And of theyr grete presumpcyon and cruelte shewed agaynst his grace and his lay subiectys Ca. .ij. ¶ Of the most detestable heresy of symony vsyd customably by them of the clergy and the most coÌ„uenyeÌ„t order for the punyshment of the same Ca. iij. ¶ Finis ALAVENTVRE · TOVT VIENT APONIT QVI PEVT · ATENORE IOHN SKOT · I S S K
of theyr lyues / to retayne and enioye the benefycys and all the frutys and profytes of the same symonytly and heretycally gotten / without scrupulosyte of conscyence ¶ And yet the pope and the clergye wyll nat be contented / that the Kyngys hyghnes shall at any tyme perdone the lyfe of any lay heretycall persone / that they haue onys Iuged to the fyer or haue put from them to the lay handes / although it be euydently knowen / that the kyng hath more power ouer the bodyes of his subiectes / than the pope and all his clergye hath / where by it shulde seme that the pope is nat only an heretyke hym selfe / but also a customable maynteyner and vpholder of heretykes and heresies And yet herof we can here no prechyng nether see no wrytyng of late seson / but some one hath scornefully sayd / I pray you be good to the clergye / wherefore it may be sayde to many of the prechers / and to such wryters and confuters of the smaller heresyes / that leuyth the greter offencys in goddys lawe as the sayde symonycall heresyes and other be / to be vnprechyd / vnwrytyn and nat coÌ„futed / as Christ sayd to the phareseys Ipocrytê Math. xxiii as before is wryten / wo be to you .c. ¶ The correccion of all suche enormytes in the clergye of this realme be longyth to the kynges hyghnes as to his seculer-power / as it aperyth by dyuerse holy canons that is .xxiii. qÌ„ i. Si apud carnales xxiii qÌ„ iii. Qui poÌ„t xxiii qÌ„ v. Sunt que daÌ„ enormia / and there de lyguribus vene ticis / and there Regum officium est ther / Qui malos ê‘cutit / and there Si ê“pterea / and in manye other dyuerse placis of the holy decrees ¶ And euery man both temporall and spuÌ„all is bownde to be obedyent and to beleue in all the holye canons / and to maynteyn / nothing contrary to any of theym vppon payne of heresye as it is sayd and coÌ„maunded in the sayd coÌ„stitucions ê“uyncyall / Titulo de hereticê Ca. Nullus quoque and also .xxv. qÌ„ i. violatores canonum / ¶ And in coÌ„fyrmacioÌ„ of the Kynges Auctoryte for correccion of all enormytees in the Clergye / ye may harkyn what is sayd therof Ioh. xix Whan Christ stode before Pylate and was there vntrewly accused of treson agaynst Cesar / there Pylate sayd to Christ / knowest nat thou that I haue power to crucyfye the / and also to dyscharge and to forgyue the / Chryst denayed it nat / but affermed it / saying / Thou shuldest haue no power vppon me but yf it had be geuyn the from aboue / as from god / Harkyn also saynt Paule Ro. xiii Wher he wylleth euery man to be obedient to the hygh power of the Kyng seying lett euery man be subiect to the powers / There is no power but of god / he that resysteth power / doth resyst the ordynaunce of god / And they that so resyste gere dampnacion to theym selfys / for pryncis be nat sett here in drede of anye good warke / but of euyll .c. He berith the sword nat without cause / he is goddys mynystre and auenger wrathfullye to hym that euyll doth c. And saynt Peter i. Petri. ii sayth Be ye subiect to euery humayne creature for god .c. to the vengeaunce of euyll doers and to the laude and prayse of good men .c. ¶ The prechyng / wrytyng / shewyng of theyse forsayd and other great and greuous offeÌ„sys agaynst the lawe of god / And the declaracioÌ„ of the Kynges power in punysshyng therof / had byn and yet wylbe moche plesant to god / And also it shuld haue bene good acceptable seruice to the Kynges hyghnes / for it shulde haue put / and yet may put his grace in good perfyte knowledge / what beloÌ„gyth for a Kyng or prynce to do herafter in all suche outrageous offeÌ„sis / yf the Clergye / do nat cease ther of / And so the correcion thereof had byn / and yet may be a helpe furtheraunce to the mayneteynauÌ„ce of the Kynges honour / and of his prerogatyfe reyall / For by estymacioÌ„ the knowlege therof hathe byn longe tyme kepte from his grace / and from his noble progenytours / and from the temperall lordes peeris of this Realme / wherfore in the honoure of god and for the dewtye that ye owe to the Kyng / ye prechers wryters that haue herto fore prechyd / and wryten / of suche tryfyls and smaller of fensys in godys lawe as is before rehersed / Now preche ye and wryte ye furste in reprouyng and oppressyng of these for sayde greate and detestable vycys / and that done than may ye preche and wryte of other smaller offencys at your pleasure quia ipsa oportet facere illa non omittere And so ye maye also a voyde froÌ„ your self ys the greate perelous curse that is fallen on Symon Magus / or els the foresayde holy canon i. qÌ„ i. quisquis per pecuniam / reporteth that ye be in greate daunger therof / And in so doyng / the tyme shal be well spente / and god and the Kynge shal be well seruyd / and the comynaltye of this realme may be therby sett at moche rest and peace / ¶ For the clergye in theyr cruell persecucyon of the kynges laye subiectes do all contrarye to Chrystes doynges and to his comaundementes and also contrary to the holy canon xxiiij qÌ„ iii. Cap. vltimo in which holy canoÌ„ is rehersed Chrystes acte and comaundement Math. xiij Seyeng / suffyr ye as well the cokell as the good corne to growe bothe to gether tyll haruyst tyme / for drede that when ye wolde wede and plucke vp the cokell ye shall also therwith plucke vp the goode corne by the rote / And there the sayde holy canon seyth It is necessarye that some heresyes heretykes be / And also Math. xv where Chrystis appostolys sayd to hym / Thou knowyst that in this thy worde the pharyseys be sklanderyd / And there Chryst bade comaunded those pharyseys to be suffred / seyyng they were blynde and leders of blynde men or of blynde thynges / And no clerk dowtyth but knowyth those pharysees to be heretykes / and yet Chryst bade suffer them / But the sayd cruell sorte of the Clergye hath nat of late season done so / But some tyme it hath ben thought that they wold abiure a good crystyan man causeles / as yt semyth by some persons lately beyng in theyr daunger prison / wherefore these premyssys well consydered it shulde seme to be very necessarye counsell to the ordynaryes spuÌ„all and to other the Clergye / to aduyse theÌ„ / to leue they re cruell handelyng of the kynges lay subiectes for such heresyes as be but small heresyes in comparysoÌ„ of greter / tyl they may clere and clense theym self ys from symonye that is