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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	worthy_a	write_v	writer_n	18	3	7.3992	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00299	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].		1532 (1532)	STC 10421.5; ESTC S2110	14,743	50

¶ But yet percase it may be sayd to suche wryters of those thynges which be but tryfles in comparyson of other great matters that they neuer lust to speke ne to wryte of / yet they be greate errours comōly vsed / as Chryst sayd to the pharyseys Ipocrytys / Math. xxiij Luc. xi Woo be to you scrybys and pharyseys Ipocrytys / that teche to pay tythȳges of Myntys / Rwe / Annes / Cūmyn / suche other potteherbys / and ye leue vntaught gretter thynges of more grauyte in the lawe Iugment / mercy / charyte / and feyth / These thynges sayth Chryst must be done / and the other nat lefte vndone / suche blynde guydes spytt out a flee or gnatt / and swalow the greate Camell / and outwardely shew them self ys lyke to be Iust men / but inwardly they be full of Ipocryse and of inyquyte / Trewly ye be witnessys to your self ys seyth Chryst for ye be the sonnys of them that haue kylled the prophettys / and ye be sayth Chryst serpentes and the broode or spawne of venemous adders / ¶ And These wordes be now here spoken and also rehersed for causes folowyng / for there be farre greater vycys and more detestable synnys / customably vsed / contrarye to the law of god / than these thynges before rehersyd / which of necessite ought to be wryten and prechyd of / And as yet belefte vnspoken / vnprechyd / and vnwryten of / as of late season / As of Irregularyte of dyuerse of the clergy / sacrylege by them vsually comytted in mysependynge the tythynges oblacions of Chrystes churche / on fresshe apparell on them selfes / theyr seruantes / theyr horsys / mulys / and wenches / And in theyr costely byldynges and repayryng of theyr housys and the superfluous apparell of the same / with Arras and other thynges theyr wyne pompous plate / The great expencys and coste in dayntye vytells / The vnlaufull coniuracyons vsed by frerys and other clerkes / The vsuall bre-Kyng of the .iij. essencyall vowes of relygyon The dylygent study of dyuerse of the clergye in the sleyght of craftye handlyng and settynge of dyse and cardes to theintent to begyle all men that playeth with them as doctor dewys ase / byshope prymero / and such other The felonyes and murders oftyntymes conmytted by clerkys Theyr conuicciō therof / and theyr acquitall from the conuycte prysone by wylfull periury of .xii. forsworne clerkys / The hauyng mysusyng of tēporall possessions of the clergy / contrary to the comaundement of god in the olde lawe / and contrarye to the example and techyng of Chryst in the newe lawe of his gospell / and cōtrary to the ordynaūce of many holy canōs ī the decrees / cōtrary to the wrytȳgꝭ of diuers holy doctors now saȳtes ī heuē / ¶ The vsuall symonye of dyuerse of the clergy / which is moost greate and moost detestable heresy / as partly shal be sayde hereafter / These and suche other be the greate offensys agaynst the law of god / and yet fewe or none of the comoun prechers / do speke agaynst any of them / nether yet he nor any of them which hath taken vpon thē to wryte agaynst the sayde tryfels beyng worthy to be called but trysyls in comparyson of the sayd more greuos offencys wryte no thyng of the foresayd greate and greuous offencys in the lawe / nether on s sterr theyr pennes therto ¶ Wherfore it semyth that it maybe sayd to dyuerse of the prechers and to other of the clergy to such wryters of such lesse offencys / as Chryst sayd to the pharyseys Ipocrytys Mat. xxiii woo be to you scrybys pharyseys Ipocrytys which theche / preche or wryte / of / or agaynst the smaller offēcys in goddes lawe / vse your selfes to cōmytt the greater offēcys / ye neyther vse to teche / to preche neyther to wryte agaynst them / which if the great mercye of god / were nat ouer vs / were myche lyke to be the cause of subuersion of this noble Realme / and of all other Regiōs where they be vsed / without correccyon God and oure noble Kyng defēsor of the fayth a mende it amen ¶ Of the kynges grete benyngnyte and fauor vsyd alwey toward the clergy And of theyr grete presumpcyon and cruelte shewed agaynst his grace and his lay subiectys Ca. ij ¶ It is wryten in the holy decrees that yf any man at any tyme after his baptysme / happen to slee a pagaue / although it were in his defence / he shall neuer be Receyued into holy orders / yf he happē to take any holye orders / he shal be put from them as it aperyth Distinci .l. de hiis clericis / yet that natwithstādyng / it hath oftyntymes beseen that one prest hath Robbed / and wylfully murdered a good cristen man / yea and somtime one preste hath wylfully Robbed and murdered an other preste / and theruppon he hath byn attached / indyted / arayned / and conuicted / wheruppō / his ordynary hath byn redye at the barre and there hath alowed and Receyuyed him for his clerke / contrary to the sayd canons / and thereuppon / he hath byn cōueyed to the conuycte preson / and in short tyme therafter / he hath byn acquytt by a quest of xij Forsworne clerkes / and after that he hath song and sayde masse at his pleasure and hathe seruyd a cure / and hathe songe trentalles for soulis / contrary to the ordyuauncis of the sayd canons / And also in the sayd / .l. Dystincion / Cap. i. expremissis secūdo / Si lapsus / and other canons there / as Qui igitur / and Si quis Ep̄us / And si post ordinacionē / and other / ¶ It is also there ordeyned that if any clerke at any tyme after the Receyuyng of holye orders happen to fall in synne of the flesshe / thā he shal be put frome all holy orders / and from mynystryng at the Aulter / that same is affermed by saynt Gregory xi q̄ iii. Ip̄e ligādi / there p̄uilegni oino / ther by saynt Austyn Rediclin est / And suche a clerke ons deposed or disgradyd shall neuer be admytted ageyne to any holye orders / as it aperith Dist l. Si / quis / and / qui semell / and presbiterū de quo / Suche prestis haue hadde to myche fauoure here / in this lande / of the Kyng / of his lordys tēporall / and of all his laye subiectis / for godis sake / and yet they be none of goddis seruaūtes / as it aperyth in dyuers holy canons Dist l. As is beforesaid / And also it aperyth by / christꝭ gospell Math. vij that god vtterly Refusyth all suche clerkys / To be any of his seruauntis / where it aperyth that suche clerkys presomtuously shall saye to god / Lorde Lorde haue nat we prophesied preched in thy name