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B12434	The lyfe of prestes This present treatyse concernynge thestate and lyfe of chanons, prestes, clerkes, and minystres of the church, was fyrst co[m]pyled in Latyne by the reuerend and deuoute father Dyonisius, sometyme one of the Charterhouse in Ruremond, and taken and exemplifyed with great diligence out of an originall copy, ye which he wrote with his owne hande, and nowe agayne beynge diligently corrected, is tra[n]slated into the Englyshe tonge, vnto the honour of god, and for the vtilitie [and] soule helth of clerkes, [and] other studentes of the same.	Denis, the Carthusian, 1402-1471.	1533 (1533)	STC 6894; ESTC S109804	70,091	178

spirite of discresion wherby he meanyth that they oughte to abhorre auoyde the settynge of theyr bushes the comlynes of theyr locks the trymmyng of theyr here And chefely the roughnes of theyr berdes / in so much that it is prohibyte that women shulde be attyryd in here / and as Albertus wrote vpon Iob / sayeng thus Such thynges do prouoke concupyscence / for clerkes are commaūded to be garnyshed both inwardly and outwardly with a vestiment of vertue / and also they shuld be inwardly resplendent and shynynge in good maners / so that they myght procede honestly / being gouernyd in all theyr syght sensys / Besydes this vsurie is most straitly prohiby●● not onely to them / but also to the vniuersall kynd of faythful people / in so muche that as the philosophour grauntyth Vsurie is a thyng moste principall agaynste nature And as the prophete Dauyd describeth a iuste man / thus he sayth He lent not his money to vsurie And as Clymatꝰ shewyth A nygard is a mokker of the gospell / muche more an vsurer / especially a clerke whom it behouyth to be more spirituall vertuous than a lay mā / for as S. Ierome satyh / it is the moste vehement destruccion of the church / whan lay men be better disposed then clerkes And vsurie truely with symonye be two the most myscheuous braunches of auaryce / wherupon S. Isidore wrytyh ī this maner of wyse It is cōtayned ī the law of holy fathers that prestes / clerkes / or regulars shulde seuer thēself frō al vulgare secular lyf / absteynyng always frō the voluptuous desyres of the worlde eke of the fleshe / they may in no wyse gyue thēself to vsurie / they must hate abhorre the occasiō of all suche fowle lucre fraude / ye they must auoyde eshewe the affecciō of money as though it were a kendlyng of all other vyces ¶ For what cause regulars are bound especially to folow chastyte of body and clennes of mynd / therfore they ought not to haunt the cloystres of nōnes / nor to entre into theyr houses The .vi. article THis thyng hath byn by many holy and hyghe byshops / many generall counsayles / and many prouincyall constitucyons moste especially / moste strongly / and moste oftentymes / enioyned and commaunded vnto ministres of the churche / to all regulars and men constitute and appoynted to holy ordres that they shuld absteyne from all vnclennes / incontinence / and detestable fornicaciō For in the synne of the fleshe is the moste great manifest turpitude bestlynes / dishonestie / and fylthynes And also suche maner of vyces in the clergie / be moste vehemently rebukyd of the people / many great vices be to them annexed and ensuynge of them ●or fyrste they acquyre the hate and dysdayne of god / than they procure the ignoraunce of all spirituall thynges / they engendre also a peynfull sufferaunce of vertuouse excercyse / they blynd a mans mynde / and in conclusion they plucke a man clene away from the loue and contemplacion bothe of godly and heuenly thynges Therfore in so much that the holy misterye of the altare is most pure / and the sacramentes of the churche be most clene and ghostly especially the sacrament of the blessyd body of our lord it is most vicyous and inconueniēt that the minysters of the church and altare / shulde so precyous sacramentes defyle corrupte / with that moste fowle fylthye and abhominable synne of the flesh and bestly concupiscence / ye and to presume to serue And to receyue so depe a fountayne of purite clennes / with so fowle and corrupt a mouth And furthermore syns the tyme of the blessyd Apostles / this moste vyle and abhominable vyces haue byn prohybyte vnto clerkes and minystres of the churche vpon moste strayte greuous paynes The whiche thynge to the entent it may be the better knowen I wyll somewhat therof declare And although that strayte and so litary lyfe is now the more pyte greatly decayed yet neuertheles I wyl touch a lytyl of the statutes and rulys of them that it may appere how vehemently holy fathers in whom the inspiracion of the holy ghoste / the zele of iustice / the loue of vertue / dyd excellently preu●yle dyd prohibite the vnclennes of clerkes regulars and prestes Accordyng verily to the rulys of the Apostles / euery man constitute in holy ordres / especyally a preste / fallyng into the synne of vnclennes / shulde be for euer more deposyd / which long tyme after was obserued for the synne of aduoutrie / as concernynge ponyshement / wherof it is conteyned in the seuenth synode holden at Aureliaunce That if a clerke hath ben conuycted of aduoutrye / or had confessed it / he shuld haue ben deposyd from his offyce / and so to haue ben commyttyd vnto a monastery duryng his lyfe And also the holy father Pope Clement as it is red made institucyons after the same maner of perpetuall deposynge and ponyshement of prestes doyng fornicaciō But after that / in the tyme of pope Siluester / that extreme correction was somwhat mitygate / as touchynge prestes / that were penitent and cōtryte of theyr owne propre and free wyll / and such as ceassed theyr synfull lyuynge for in the counsell of Gangara and also in the decree / the .xxviii. distinctiō it is read / that if a preste hath commytted fornicacion / although he oughte by the rulys of the Apostles / to be deposyd yet by the auctorite of that blessyd pope Siluester / if he dyd not contynue in vyce / but refusyd it and rose agayne of his owne frewyll / that then he shulde take repentaunce in this worlde for the space of ten yeres And beyng remouyd from the other bretherne by the space of thre monethes / he shulde be vsyd with bred and water / frō euenyng to euenyng / but in sondayes other principall feastes / he shuld be fedd with a lytyll drynke / fyshe or ryse / without fleshe or blood / without egges / orels chese / lyenge on the grounde nyght and day desyryng the mercy of god Than whan thre monethes were determyned / he shulde come forthe / but not abrode in to open places / for feare least / the multitude of good people myght be offendyd by his euyll example And it is in no wyse lawfull for a preste to be enioyned as a lay man to any open penaunce / but after that he hathe perusyd the space of a yere and an halfe lyuyng with bred and water / excepte in sondayes other principall feastes / in whom he myght vse wyne / fleshe / blood / egges / and chese / accordyng vnto theyr regular m●●●ure / but the fyrste yere and an halfe beynge fynyshed / he myght haue the sacrament minystred to hym to that intent that he shulde not dispayre in god / and that he shulde come to peace / that is to saye / he shuld be

the worlde that is to say bycause so many great and myscheuous actes be contynually done in the worlde / by cause our maker a myghtye of his creaturs at all tyme is hadde in small honour and reuerence / bycause contynually so many soulꝭ do eternally perysshe / bycause so many and great tribulac●●●● calamytes / penury discomfort / oppressions / do incessauntly chaūce our frendes / neibours / membris of Christ of whom yf we loue them we must haue compassyon / as we wolde that thy shulde haue compassyon of vs beynge in lyke case / surely who so doth this dewly ponder / he wyll say as Ieremye sayd Who wyll geue to my hed / water / and to myn eyes a fountayne of teres / I wyll wepe euermore And seynge Samuell so longe tyme and so sorowfull bewayled Saull / and Ieoronne the destruccyon of Ierusalē Paule also some of the Corinthis / howe much more is our forsets myschiefe to be bewaylyd Therfore let vs haue cōpassyon of our neibours beynge in great daunger and dyscomfort ¶ The .v. is the multitude and greatnes of harme and dyspleasure / that suche delectacions bryngyth vnto mā For they spoyle a man from all grace / whiche delectacyons also broght Salomon in to great foly And attēpted Eue to the trāsgressyon of goddes cōmaundment / they do vehemently blynd the mynd of man and harden and maynteyne hym in myschief ye they procure euerlastynge damnation For that thynge wherein a man delytyth is but of short tyme his vexacyon and troble therfore is perdurable What man for the plesure of one nyghte / wyl be glad euer after to lye ī a brēnyng fornace O wherfore presume we to commyt mortall synne where for one synne mortal we must be ponyssed with the feruent infernall paynes that euermore do endure The syxth is vylenes fylthynes and bestly pleasure of the flesshe / for the which / man is most despysed of god and made vnlyke to aungels / and conformable to bestes / wheruppon the sayenge of the Prophet Iohel concernyng carnall desire is expoundyd on this facyon The herdes of bestys dyd rotte and consume in theyr owne fylthynes and dunge And as the Prophet Dauid sayth in lyke maner A mā that perceuyth not whā he is in honour / may be compared vnto brute and rude bestes / furdermore moch bytternes is mengled with the plesure of the world and the flesshe / suche pleasure also is oftentymes acquisyte / and goten both with great expensys and daūgere / prepared with sore labor / and yet they repent at lenght Therfore Salomon sayeth youth and voluptuousnes be but vany●c●s And forther ●his he sayde I wyll go and swyme in delyte and walow in ryches / yet I perceuyd that all was but vany●e Therfore in this present lyf graunt to vs to take repentaunce / let vs endeuer our selfe vnto the ac●es of penaūce / let vs also euer absteigne frō wildnes of hart vanyte / obstynate lyberte ¶ Of cōuenyent apparayle of mynystrꝭ of the church / espcyally of regulars / of theyr manyfold excesse in garmētes of the desyre therof to be auoided ☞ The .xi. Article ☜ THE more vertuous that the mynystrꝭ of the church are boūd to be in respecte of the lay people / the more symple meke ful of good example they ought to be in theyr apparayle They ought in lyke maner to obserue the thyng that is red in the boke of Ecclesiasticꝰ that is to say Thou shall not reioyce at ony tyme in thyne apparayle especially in such maner of apparayle as may geue euyll occasyon or pleasaūtly intyse or moue the eyes or hartes of womē that behold it that is to say they be alwayes bound to beware of curiouse arayment ●ompous apparayle And where also holy fathers as Ierome Chrisostome other do not only testyfye this of thē but also of euery faythfull creature sayenge thus A man or a woman garnysshynge themself / by theyr deckyng trymmīg prouokyng the eyes of other vpon them although therof no myschyef doth ensue yet he or she so doyeng shal suffer eternal ponysshemēt / bycause they dyd put forth poyson / yf there had be any man that wold haue dronke it that is to say they dyd shewforth temptacyon yf any man wold haue be attempted If this abhomynacyon be so detestable among the lay people / it is much more mischeuous amōge the ministres of the churche / which princypally be boūd to edifie other creatures in vertue Therfor seing they go so gorgeously deckid as though it were a bride we may say as saīt Bernard said behold how they go garnyshyd lyke to a bryd that were cōmyng forth of her wedding chāber / insomych that yf ye se ony such ferre from you / ye wolde rather iudge it to be the bryde than the prest that shulde her marye Surely accordynge to the doctryne of holy fathers then be as well commaundyd to be contentyd with symple apparayle / as wyth symple fare Therof the holy Apostle sayth thus Be ye in no wyse conformable vnto this world / but be ye renewed in the spirite of your mynd Therfore a regular or a prest ought to beware of al curyosyte / pompe / superfluyte vanyte / and wantones of al worldly garmentes / as the holy Doctours and Prelates / Basilius / Isidorus other / haue vs enformed But now cōcernynge this matter / the rulys and estatutes whiche sprange by the diuyne inspiracyon shuld be consyderyd For why it is red in the seuenth synode / and also in the .xxi. decre as here folowyth All braggyng / rufflīg and garnysshynge is the thynge that is moste farre from holy ordre / and it behouyth such Bysshopes and Clerkes whiche dresse them selfe in bryght gloryous plesaūt apparayle / to amende it / for yf they remayn in weryng therof they shal be put to penaūce In semblable wyse al such maner of men that vse oyntemētes such cursyd people also whiche haue thē in derysyon that be clothed in pore and relygyous ornamentes / shal be correctyd by emprisonment In the olde tyme verily a holy man that is to say a man constytute in holy ordres dyd lede his lyfe beynge coueryd with a veray vyle and meane garmēt And truly euery garmēt that is not taken for necessyte / but for cōlynes as Basilius sayeth hath a spyce of pryde moreouer Pope zacharye dyd instytute this that folowyth Bysshops Prestes and Decanes may were no secular apparayle / but garmentes conuenyent for theyr ordre They may not presume to walke in ony cyte comyne way or strete without theyr cowlys or couerynges except it be in some long iornay / for lyke as a woman prayeng in the church bareheded / accordynge vnto the sayenge of thapostle doth dishonest her owne hed euen soo prestes or regulars wandrynge abrod without theyr cowles or other vpper garmētes dyshonest theyr Presthod and relygyon / wherfore it is ordeined that yf

reconsylyd vnto his bretherne / and synge psalmes in the quere amonge them agayne / yet shulde he not come to the ende of the alter / but accordynge to the sayeng of blessyd Clement / he shulde ministre inferior offyces Than vnto the ende of the seuenthe yere / at all tymes / except the thre Ester holy dayes / he shuld fast brede water thre certayn dayes in euery weke But the space of seuē yeres beyng fulfyllyd / if the bretherne among whom he repentyd / do comende his penaunce as worthy and acceptable in the syght of god / than the byshop according to the auctorite of blessyd pope Calyxt / maye hym reuoke vnto his pristine and former honoure And surely it is to be knowen / that by syngynge one psalter / in the secoūd ferye / or gyueng one peny to pore folke if nede be he may be redemyd after seuen yeres ended Than vnto the ende of the tenth yere there is no redempcion / but the syxth ferye muste nedes be obserued with brede and water But for all this in proces of tyme this foresayd correction vanyshed And was / but meanely obseruyd / as in the thyrde boke of Decretalles is notifyed / where amonges all other it is reportyd that pope Alexander the thyrd wrote vnto a certayn bishop in maner folowyng you ought straytly by interdiction and suspension to correcte clerkes cōstitute in holy ordres / that kepe concubynes / that they maye remoue suche maner of women out of theyr company / because no sinystre and froward suspicion maye be had of them And if any of them resort to suche women / or presume to receyue them / that then they maye be accursyd with perpetuall sentence of excōmunicacion that other may refrayne from lyke offences by example of them Also the same pope wrote vnto an archbyshop of Canterbury on this fashyon ensuyng We cōmaunde you dilygently to exhorte the clerkes of your iurisdictions that kepe any harlottes within theyr subdeanryes / that they doo them remoue in nowyse to vse them agayn And if they refuse to forsake them / than to be suspēdyd from all benefyces ●he churche vnto the tyme that they make conuenient satisfaction And if they beynge suspendyd / wyll presume to kepe retayne suche maner of women / then loke that you remoue them from all maner of benefyces of the churche for euermore He speketh agayne in another decretall on this wyse For bycause that clerkes can not intēd both to theyr pleasure and carnall desyres / and also to the diuine seruyce of the church / therfore for theyr vnclēnes they ought to be discharged of al the benefytes of the church Of this matter in many decretalles of popes as of Gregorius / Siricius / Lucius Innocentius / and other it is euidently declared Where also this is addyd Prelates that presume to suffer such maner of clerkes / especially beynge intreatyd with money and other temporall commodite / shall incurre the same penaltye Here of an ordinaūce in the decree the fourscore and thyrde distinction / is rade on this fashion If any byshop cōsent to the fornicacion of prestes / deanes / or clerkes in his diocyse other for affection / prayer / or rewarde / or els if he wyll not ponyshe and correcte offenders by the auctorite of his offyce he shal be from his office suspendyd Of the which sayenge it is also concludyd that a bysshop that correctyth not the transgressions of such men is more worthy to be callyd a sawltye dogge than a byshope I pray you what meanyth this worde consent Gratianus expoundyth it in this maner of wyse He that withstandyth not vyce and errour consentyth therto Innocentius the pope to the same sayth Errour that is not resystyd is alowyd and trewthe that is not defendyd is oppressyd and that man is worthy to be suspectyd of secrete mayntenaunce that wyll not withstand open synne All which thynge may be principally supposed of prelates that are boūd to resyst vyce by very duetye of theyr of fyce But now seyng it standyth in such mysordre / howe greatly ought we to bewayle the abhominacion of the worlde that now is Howe much is this miserable deformyd estate of the church to be lamentyd in whome other no ponysshement at all or els the ponyshement of the purse is extendyd vpon wanton prestes clerkes and regulars whyche daylye are permytted to walowe in theyr myscheuous liuynge to ●●●●icious occasion and euyll example of the lay people The regular visitaciō of clerkes is to none effecte / for many of them do so reioyce that they be so exemptyd / that they may not be correctyd nother of the deane / nor yet of the byshoppe / the which is euyn a lyke matter as though a monke shuld be exemptyd from the correction of his abbot or priour O what maner of thyng is such exemption / whā agaynst an exemption moch lesse vnreasonable then this the most holy and illuminate father saynte Bernard in his boke de Consideracionibus wrote sharply and discretely to pope Eugenius and the same exemption manye maner of wyse dyd reproue And for the same exemption he greatly rebukyd and controllyd the foresayde pope Eugenius sayng thus wo be to fylthy wrechyd synners vnponyshyd / which had leuer to be reseruyd vnto the most strayt and terrible iudgemente of god / and also to fall into power of god euerlastyng / than in this present lyfe to be duely correctyd of theyr prelates / and to obey the rulys and decrees of holy fathers / do not such men seme to be of the nombre of them that shall be reprouyd / and moste ferre from eternall blys Seme they not also to be the chyldren of infernall torment / whom god sufferyth to lyue accordynge to the desyre of theyr hartes / and truste in theyr owne fantazyes Furthermore for bycause regulars and all other constitute in holy ordres / be consecrate to diuyne seruyce / me thynketh that theyr fornicacion is sacrylege And it is callyd sacrylege / for that it corruptyth holy ordre / by vnworthy handelynge and myscheuous abusynge that thynge that to god is consecrate Therfore they are especyally prohibyte to haunte the cloystres of nonnes / that vnder the payne of excōmunicaciō they come not within theyr houses to the entent that all euyll occasion of sacrilege and vicious meddelynge with them shulde be auoyded / the which beyng commytted shuld be double sacrylege / and also a certayne abhominable and enorme aduoutrye / bothe with persones that haue offeryd themselfe vnto the heuenly spouse beyng professyd and consecrate / and also to enduce thē vnto the transgression of so solemne a vowe of chastyte which they haue promysed vnto almighty god to be continently obseruyd and kept ¶ Of sobrenes to be obseruyd b● regulars and of all surfet ryot and dronkenes to be of them auoyded The .vii. article IT is euyn as our lord spake / by the ꝓphete Ozeas

enformynge the / sayeng thus O thou preste thy mouth is dayly made the receuer / and as ye wold say the sepulture of the blessyd body of Chryst Therfore why doth that mouth euer lye / why doth it euer speke lecherously why is that soule and mynd of thyne made vytious Wherfore do thynyes behold vanytees / whiche euery day on the altare hath before them / Christe hym selfe the hyghe euerlastynge trewth / why puttyst thou forth thy handes vnto thynges vnlawfull and vnclene / which do handell most precyous and immaculate sacramētes / why swymmyst thou in the dronken stremys of wyne / whiche drynkyst the blod of our sauyour / euer oughtyst to be full of spiritual refresshyng Is it not a fowle and myscheuous acre for thē / to handell the shameles bodyes of harlotes with such handes as be geuen / and dedycate vnto god ye consecrate also with holy anoyntment / and with the same handes to touch the holy body of our lord Iesus Chrste O how wycked presumptuous it is to handell the sonne of the Virgyne Mary / ye the only begoten sonne of god the father / and hym to receue with so fylthy a mouth whiche excellyth and ouer cummyth all vnderstandyng What man wolde not be abasshyd to se the most precyous treasour in the worlde to be cast in to a dounghyll For truly a Lecherous prest is more fylthy than any durt / or clay / and more stynkynge and corrupt than any synke / or drawght furdermore as saynt Ierome sayeth / and as it is red in the decree / no man ought for to eate of the easter lambe / or to be receuyd to the communyon at such tyme as he knowith his wyfe ¶ The cause wherof saynt Thomas other vpon the fourth boke of sentence / haue notyd saieng thus / that althowgh the carnall acte in wedlocke may be done without synne / yet by the plesure and voluptuosnes therūto annexed / it plockyth and withdrawith a mans mynd frō deuocyon Therfor yf it be not laful for maryed folke / whiche may vse the bodyly occupacyon without synne / to receyue thyr maker / where the nyght before they haue carnally knowen yche other Howe abhomynable do these prestes which cōmyttyng fornycacyon in the nyght / presume to celebrate in the day Surely it may be conceuyd by no vnderstandynge nor by any tong it may be expressed how in ordynatly such do offend which beyng polluted with so fowle vyce / do presume to handel and recyeue the most pure and heuenly mysteryes of Christ / and to pronoūce the most holy wordꝭ of the masse canon therof with so corrupt a mouth Therfore of suche thynges spekyth the hygh iudge Christ hymself by the mouth of the ꝓphet Ozeas sayeng thus I wyl correcte thē at my pleasure / and thus be holde I wyll mete thē as it were a bere lyones that had lost theyr whelpes and wyll destroye the inward parte of them also wyll cōsume thē as it were a lyon Than as the Prophet Dauid this psalmes sayth He wyll speke vnto them in his angre / and wyl vexe and troble them in his furor He wyll thrust them in to a fornace of fyre in tyme of his wrathe they shall haue no rest in theyr mysery And as the Prophet Ezechiell spekyth Beholde I haue clappyd my handes at theyr malyce Can your hart susteigne or your handes preuayle in the tyme of my punysshemēt And thus I wyll blow you and brenne you in the fyre of furor / and you shal be blowen in the myddis o a fornace than I wyll ceasse / of whom also god by the Prophet Amos god spekyth in this wyse Beholde I wyll grate vpon you / as a wayne wyl grate that is laden with hey And nowe by the Prophet Malachias the word of god is spoken vnto prestes that polute and corrupt his name in this wyse I wyll cast vpon you the fyltes of your ceremonies / and it shall take you with it that is to say I wyll impute vnto you / your owne fylthy fleshly werkes / you shall fall together with your myschyef into the depe flod of Acheon in hell And the more intenty fly ye were geuen vnto voluptuousnes and carnal desyre / the more peynfully ye shal be bornyd in most hote and wyld fyre for euermore / in lyke maner as I haue spoken in the Apocalypsis / that is to say The more they haue gloryfyed thē selfe in delyte and plesure / geue vnto them so much the more payn and torment ¶ Of the same matter it apperyth in the reuelacyons of saynt Kateryne the virgin of zenis And also of the holy wydowe saynt brygyde ❧ The .xv. Article ❧ IT is red in the boke of the doctryne reuelacyons of saynt Kateryne of zenis that the euerlastyng father spake vnto her in a vysyon in this wyse The soule of wrechyd and carnall prestes / takyth great corruption of vyce by theyr sensualyte And furder thus I haue anoynted and consecrate them to the entent that they shuld serue me in holynes iustice / and mynystre sacramētes vnto beleuers and wottyst thou my welbelouyd doughter howe they reward me for my benefycyall goodnes I wyll tell the howe They do dayly persecute me with so many myscheuous actes / that it is impossible for thy tonge to expresse it And yf thou dydyst here them all rehersed / thou woldyst dye for veray sorow / yet I wyll shewe the some of them that thou mayst haue the more compassyon For veryly they oughte to stand at the fable of the moste holy crosse there incessauntly beynge in medytacyon / of the bytter passyon of Christ / and there them selfe to fede with the foode of soules / labourynge contynually for the helth of them / euermore reioysynge in the spyrytuall profet of them But they go into tauerns / and there they swere / and stare / tellynge wanton tales / seruynge Glotony / and Dronkenes / forgetynge theyr dyuyne seruyce / but yf they chaunce to say it / theyr hartes notwithstandyng be farre from me They be full of myserable vyce / as it were men blyndyd in synne / ye theyr wordes and dedes standyth alwayes of wantones / they be not ashamyd to offende openly / they be veray rybaldes / players / and mockers But after they haue played away theyr soules / so that it perteyneth to the bodye of the dyuell / than they play away the goodes of the churche / and to expende the substaunce whiche they take in the name and vertue of the blod of our sauyour Christe in theyr owne pleasurys so that the pore people be nothynge holpen therwith Nother the churche hath necessarye ornamentes / for they beynge the temple of the dyuell / care not for my temple and suche ornamentes as they shuld make in the churche / they make in theyr owne houses / ye and do worse with it then that / for loke howe