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A treatise co[n]cernynge impropriations of benefices. Cum priuilegio regali
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Bigod, Francis, Sir, 1508-1537.
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nat preche he is worthye to haue no penye of suche fruites / albeit he mumble vp neuer so many mateÌ„ses / Dauid psalters / trentals / diryges / and suche lyke longe prayers / as we proued before whaÌ„ we spake of loÌ„ge prayers For this is a good argument He preacheth dilygently and trewly Ergo / he is worthy to haue therefore a lyuynge / and euen so is this He doth neither of theÌ„ / ergo / he can chalenge no lyuyng and this is Paules mynde / whan he sayth He that minystreth the worde of god / must lyue therby excepte peraduenture ye can proue that to muÌ„ble vp a longe payre of mattens be to preche the worde of god / whiche if ye can bringe to conclusyon / by my trouthe ye haue wonne the maistrye for me / for I truste than / that whan I saye my mattens / that my mattens maye stande for a symple collation as wel as your mattens and than I se nat but that an impropriation were as holsome for my bodye as for yours And where it maye be obiected that ouer that / that the prestes kepe none hospytalytie / they neither preache at their benefyces / nether come at them neither yet euer loke thytherwarde some of them yea / and if it chaunce some of them to preache / it is suche geare / that it were more for the helth of his parisshens soules that he wer tonge tyed Forsoth that is euen as trewe as the gospell yea / so trewe that it maketh myne herte wepe to thynke vpon it I beseche god ones to amende it whan his wyll is Is it nat great pitye to se a man to haue thre or foure benefyces yea / paraduenture halfe a score or a dosyn / whiche he neuer cometh at / but setteth in euery one of them a syr IohnÌ„ lacke laten / that can scarce rede his porteus / orels suche a rauenynge wolfe as canne do nothynge but deuoure thesely shepe with his false doctryne / and sucke their substaunce from them Lorde / if it be thy pleasure / ones haue mercye vpon vs / and gyue grace that we may haue some remedye founde for thys myschiefe / bothe of impropriatyons / and also of them that minister nat the worde of god faythfully vpon theire benefyces as they ought to do for I haue knowen suche / that whan they haue ryddeÌ„ by a benefyce wherof they haue ben persone / they coulde natte tell that is was their benefyce This is a wonderfull blyndnesse And yet I thynke / suche or the same benefyced man wyll natte stycke to ryde an hundreth myles / to prycke a brouche vpon an ymage cote / and thynke it a righte hyghe merytoriouse dede But to suche tyme as it shall please the kinges most honourable maiestye / of his benygne mercy and pytie / with his most honourable counsel to se a reformation / as well for thabuse of impropriatyons as for the incharytable demeanoure of all benefyced men / that be nat resydent abydynge vpon their benefices / there to do their boundeÌ„ duty It shall neuer be wel in this church of Christ in Englande / wherof his grace is the supreme heed / nor yet the truthe of goddes holye worde shall euer go forwarde in his righte trade and kynde They haue yet an other abiectyon / and this is it If impropriatyons be taken from monasteryes / say they / than coulde they kepe no houses nor hospytalyte / but shulde be compelled to lyue all in pouertye Where vnto I answere / that as for pouertye it is their professyon / and standeth with their own monastycall rules for they all professe the same at their fyrste enterynge into relygyon yea / and it must be wylfull pouerty also / wherfore I can nat se by their professyoÌ„ but that they ben bounde to helpe to all thinges that standeth with pouertye And as for kepiÌ„ge hospitalyte with stollen goodes of impropriatyons / I thinke it can nat vayle theym but lytell to allege it / wherefore this obiectyon is nat worthe a strawe / and maye better be called an abiectyon / than an obiectyon Besydes this I knowe very fewe or none / but and if these impropriatyons were clene taken awaye frome theym yea / and a gret dele more / yet shulde they haue more lefte in their handes than euer had Benedict / Bernard / Dominik / or Fraunces / or yet Brimo ye / more than many men thinke or can thinke well bestowed vpon them But a man might sauyng their pacyence be so bolde with them / what mater were it vnder correction I speke if all these improfytable sectes / and stronge sturdye route of idle paunches were a lytell poorer / to th ende that the trew relygion of christ miÈt thereby somthynge be sette vp and a vaunsed / and syffycient company of the ministers of goddes true worde prouyded for in all parttes I praye you / what an idle sorte be fouÌ„de and brought vp in Abbeyes / that neuer wyll laboure whyles they ben there / nor yet whan they come thence to other mens scruyce / in so moche that there goth a comen prouerbe That he which hath ones ben in an abbey wyll euer more after be slouthefull / for the whiche cause they ben called of many men / Abbey loutes or lubbers And some saye that many of our holye fathers spende nat a lytell vpon my cosyn Iane / Elsabeth and Marget ye knowe what I meane insomoche that / that eueÌ„ they which be most popysshe of all / knowe none other god almost than the gret drafsacke of Rome / can nat deny this to be trew Which popysshe ê‘sons nat withstandynge wyll nat ones open their lyppê to sue for a reformatioÌ„ to the kinge our most soueraine lorde And the cause why / as it is noysed / as good sygnifycatioÌ„s ben therof giuen / is for that / that some such abbot or priour wyll nat stycke to gyue an hundreth pouÌ„des at a clappe to such a chaÌ„pyon to speke in his fauour in tyme of nede And I can beleue it well for I se no meÌ„ in the world haue mo sure stakes to stande with theÌ„ whan they haue any vrgent busines than the monkes haue euen of them that knowe their noughty coÌ„uersatyon / as well as I knowe my right haÌ„de froÌ„ my lyfte Now what shuld cause men to be so vntrusty in a matter of vntruth / let other men iuge I can gesse no mater or cause more lykely / than Huri sarra fames as Vergyll calleth it that is the myscheuouse insacyable hunger couetousnesse of golde And I fere me that euen at this day / money passeth fast from marchant to marchant A thynge there is in the wynde / what soeuer it be / that euery maÌ„ knoweth nat of / which I trust in god wyl one day come to lyght / as well as other thiÌ„gê haue for I dout nat but christ is true / which sayth Qihil est
A treatise coÌ„cernynge impropriations of benefices Cum priuilegio regali The preface ¶ To the kyng our most gracyous souerayne lorde Frauncys By god knyght / his humble and true faythfull subiect / and dayly oratour / wissheth dayly augmentatyon and encrease of grace and honoure I Dyd nat perfytly know most gracyouse / moste christen / and most vyctorious priÌ„ce how that amonge all other vertues / that the vertuous gyftes gyueÌ„ by grace onely / throughe the goodnesse of almighty god / of the incomparable gyfte of gentelnesse and humanyte / dyd so habundantly / accumulately / and so manifestly possesse and reygne in your noble and princely herte / tyll that nowe it appereth manifestly by your exteryour noble actes and dedes / for els vndoutedly I wold nat only haue ben a shamed so to attempte rudely / folysshly / and rather presumptuouslye to trouble disquyet such an imperyall maiesty with this my rude barbarouse writynge / in the hynderaunce of youre godly spirituall studies / with whiche your highnesse taketh such intollerable payne as well to set forth the mere / syncere / trewe glorie of god / as also thestablysshment / quietnesse and vnyte of this youre christen comen welth But also in myne owne conceyte opinyon / callynge to remembrance my greate manyfolde in suffycyency in lernynge / to write vnto so mighty famouse a prince / I shulde euen by by haue dysalowed myne owne behauyoure in that behalfe / iuged my selfe worthye of blame But nowe consyderiÌ„ge most benigne souereygne lorde / how moche all your subiectes be imperpetually bouÌ„de to laude / praise / glorify almightye god / to sende vnto vs so christen a kiÌ„ge to haue rule gouernauÌ„ce ouer vs yor subiectes / by whose great inestymable dilygente labour / charge / studye payne / we be delyuered froÌ„ the harde / sharpe / .x. M. tymes more thaÌ„ iudicyall captiuytie of that babylonycall man of Rome / to that swete softe seruyce / ye / rather lyberty of the gospel / I can for my part no lesse do / thaÌ„ to present to your grace some thinge therby to declare how gladly I wolde gyue thaÌ„kes to your hyghnesse / for such ê“fet as I amoÌ„ge others haue receiued by this sayd benefite iÌ„ our delyuerauÌ„ce which acte is of it selfe so hyghly to the gret peace / vnyte / welth of this most noble empyre of EnglaÌ„de / that if there wer non other cause but that onely / we were bouÌ„de to / with all our dilygence industry / to studye / labour / deuyse howe this benefyte excedynge all other / mighte worlde without ende be extolled / praised / made immortall / and to receyte how moch the furtherauÌ„ce of goddê glori is by the same acte set forth aduauÌ„ced / my lernynge ne yet wytte wyll nat serue me Yet I dare boldly afferme / pondering consydering depely theffecte cyrcumstance of this mater This acte is no lesse worthe than wel worthy to be sette in the boke of kinges of the olde testamente / as a thinge souÌ„dynge to goddes honoure / as moch as any other history therin conteyned But what shulde I attempte or go about to expresse the condygne euerlastynge prayses thaÌ„kes / which your maiesty hath deserued of all your hole cominalte for the benefytes before named / onlesse I wolde take in haÌ„de lyke an euyll workeman / whiche by reason of his vnperfeytnesse in his scyence / shuld vtterly stayne deface the thinge / he wold most ernestly dilygeÌ„tly shew and set fo th I wyll therefore most exellent emperour of this realme / set all this asyde shewe to your grace the cause of my enterprise / for somoche as I ê‘ceyue that all your gracyouse ê“cedyngê ar only driuen conueyed to the most high / iust / syncere honour of almighty god / the publyke welth vnity of all christendome most specially of this yor most noble realme of Englande / it hath animated encouraged me / accordiÌ„ge to the small talent of lerniÌ„ge that the lorde hath lent to me / to put your grace in remeÌ„brane of the intollerable pestileÌ„ce of imê“priations of benefices to relygyouse ê‘sones as they wyll be called some to men some to womeÌ„ whiche in myne opinion is a thinge playnly repugnant to the most holy blessed decrees ordynaunces of all mighty god / highly to the extolliÌ„ge supportiÌ„ge / mayntenance of the vsurped power of the bysshop of Rome / as your maiesty shall ê‘ceyue in reding of this lytell treatyse / whiche your grace nat beynge offended / I shall euer god wylliÌ„ge be able iustly to defende / also stop the mouthes of theÌ„ that shall say abyde by the coÌ„trary and that nat with myne owne wordes but with auctorities of holy scrypture And further I do moste huÌ„bly vpon both my knees beseche yor imperyal maiesty / that vnto such tyme as this my lytel boke be clerely coÌ„futed bi lyke holy scrypture auctorities / as I haue approued the same / that it may safely go abrode vnder protection of your moste gracyouse and redouted name And for the prosperouse preseruation of your most royall estate of your mooste noble and vertuouse Quene / of your dere doughter lady princesse / doughter and heyre to you both accordyng to my most bounde dutye I shall dayly pray / my lyfe endurynge ¶ Finis A treatyse concernynge c. TO recyte in one volume good christen reder / all the papisticall captiuite seductyon / and disceyte / wherwith manye yeres the kynges trewe and louynge subiectes of this his most noble realme of Englande / pytuousely haue ben deluded / begyled / and blynded It shulde I thynke nat onely euen abhorre the eares of all them that ben good and vertuouse / but also be a laboure and burdeyne to great and strange / for the lernynge of him that hath no more than I. Yea / though my lerninge were a great dele more passynge than it is / and myne eloqueÌ„ce as good as euer was Demosthenes / yet all were one Excepte it be possyble / and any thinge lykely for a thinge that is infynite to be coÌ„prehended of that that is fynite Therfore for this tyme ouerpassiÌ„ge so many thinges withoute ende and reason / that is / to detecte the fraudes and gyles of the foresayde pastystes / both all and some / which is nat possyble I shall be content at this tyme to saye my mynde in one thynge partyculer / wherof hytherto no maÌ„ that I knowe hath any thinge sayde or written / for a reformatyon to be had in the abuse therof My meniÌ„ge is of the craftye iuggelynge / cleane conueyaunce / lewde legerdemayn vsed amongest some men ye knowe whome I meane concernynge the impropriatyons of benefyces Of all pestylent infections that euer inuaded outher realme or regyon / the moost pernycyouse and dyemeterly repugnaunte agaynst the