fraid to suffer death for the truth sake: but this I say to you, that God wil looke vpon your iniquities, and wyl be reuenged. You being ful of all vnpuritie, play þ^e blind gides to the people committed to you, leading them the way to hel. A God he is of reuengeaunce. MarginaliaArnulph⁹ martyr.Thus the hatred of the cleagry being incensed against him for preaching truth, conspired against him, and so laying priuye waite for him, toke hym, and drowned him: Sabellicus & Platina say, they hanged him.

MarginaliaEx Tritemio.
A boke called Tripartitum, written 400. yeares a go.In the second tome of the generall councels imprinted at Colen, is mentioned a certayne booke called Op⁹ tripartitum, written as the autor supposeth, aboue 400. yeares: eyther of this Arnulphus, or iust about the same tyme. In this boke the writer complayneth of many enormities and abuses in the church. MarginaliaNumber of holy daies.First of the number of holy dayes: declaring what occasion of vice groweth therby, accordyng to the common saying of whores and naughty women (which say) they vantage more in one holy day then in 50. other dayes besides.

MarginaliaCurious singing in cathedrall churches.Item, complayneth of the curious singing in cathedrall churches, wherby many bee occasioned to bestowe much good tyme, yea many yeares ahout þ^e same, which otherwyse they myghte geue to the learnyng of better sciences.

MarginaliaThe world ouercharged with begging religions.Likewyse, he complayneth of the rable & multitude of begging Friers and religious men, and professed women, shewyng what great occasion of idle and vncomly lyfe commeth therof.

MarginaliaPromotion of euill prelates.Also of the vnconsiderate promotion of euil prelates. And of their great negligence in correcting & reforming the euil demeaner of the people.

MarginaliaSuperfluitie of apparell in Byshops families.Item, of the great wantonnes and lasciuiousnes in their seruantes and families, concernyng their excessiue wearyng of apparel.

MarginaliaBishopes seales abused to get money.Item, complaineth also of the outragious and excessiue gaynes, that prelates and other vnder them take for their seale: especially of officials, scribes and suche lyke, which geue out the seale thei care not how nor wherfore so they may gayne money.

MarginaliaNon residentes in benefices.He complayneth in lyke manner, that prelates bee so slacke and negligent in lookyng to the residents in theyr benefices.

MarginaliaRashe bestowing of benefyces.Farther lamenteth, for the rashe geuyng of benefices to persons, vicars, and curates, not for any godlines or learning in them, but for fauour or frendship, or intercession, eyther els for hope of some gayne: wherof springeth this great ignorance in the church.

MarginaliaWastfull spending of the church goodes.After this he noteth in prelates, how they waste and expend the goodes of the church in superfluities or vpon their kinsfolke, or other worse wayes: which shoulde rather be spent vpon the poore.

MarginaliaOlde bokes of councels lost by the negligene of the clerkes.Nextly in þ^e x. chapter, he cōplaineth for that through the negligence of men of the churche (especiallye of the church of Rome) the bookes and monumentes of the olde councels and also of the new, are not to be found: which should be reserued and kept in all cathedral churches.

MarginaliaThe vnchast lyfe of priestes condemned by the nature of the storkes.Item, that many prelates be so cold in doyng theyr dueties Also reprocheth the vnchast and voluptuous demeaner of ecclesiastical persons by the exāple of storkes, whose nature is (saith he) that if any of their companye, leauyng hys owne mate, ioyneth with any other: all the rest flyeth vpon him (whether it be he or she) beateth him, and plucketh his fethers of: what then (sayth he) oughte good prelates to do to such a person of their companye, whose filthynes and corrupt life both defileth so many, & stinketh in the whole church.

MarginaliaAmendmēt of lyfe ought first to beginne with priestesAgayne, for asmuch as we reade in the boke of Esdras, lib. ij. chap. ix. that he purgyng Israell of straunge women, began first with the priestes: So nowe likewyse in the purging & correcting of all sortes of men, first the purgation ought to begin with these, accordyng as it is written by the prophet Ezechiel. Beginne first wyth mysanctuary, &c.

MarginaliaThe realme of Fraunce interdited.>Moreouer, how that in the tyme of Phillip kyng of Fraunce, þ^e whole realme was interdited, for that þ^e king had but one womā in stede of his wife, which was not his wife by law. MarginaliaKing of Portingale deposed.And agayn, seing in these our daies, þ^e king of Portingale hath bene sequestred frō his dominiō, by þ^e authoritie of þ^e church (being thought not sufficient to gouerne) what then ought to be sayd to þ^e prelate: which abuseth other mens wiues, virgines, and nunnes, which also is found vnhable and insufficient to take vpon hym the charge of soules?

MarginaliaThe knightes of the Rodes and Templars.About the yeare of our Lord. 1128. the orders of the knightes of the Rodes, called Ioannites: also the order of Templars rose vp.

MarginaliaPope Innocentius the. ii.After Honorius, next in the same vsurpation succeded pope Innocentius, ij. an. 1130. But as it was wyth hys prodecessors before him, that at euery mutation of new popes, came new perturbatiōs: & cōmonly neuer a pope was elected, but some other was set vp agaīst him (some times, ij. sometimes iij. popes together) so likewise it happened w^t this Innocentius: for after he was chosē, þ^e Romains elected an other pope named Anacletus. MarginaliaHurly, burly betwene popes.Betwixt these two popes was much ado, & great cōflicts through the partakyng of Rogerius duke of Sicile taking Anacletus part against Innocentius, vntill Lotharius the Emperour came: who rescuyng Innocentius, droue Rogerius out of Italy. Our stories record, that king Hēry was one of the great helpes in settyng vp and maintayning this pope Innocentius against Anacletus, Gisbur.

MarginaliaThe popes curse proclaimed agaynst such that strike any priest.Amongst many other thinges this pope decreed, that whosoeuer did strike a priest or clearke being shauen, he should be excommunicate, and not to bee absolued, but onely on the pope himselfe.

MarginaliaThe death of kyng Henry.
An. 1135.About the tyme of doyng of these thinges (being the yeare of our Lord. 1135) kyng Henry beyng in Normandy (as some say) by takyng there a fall from his horse (as other say) by takyng a surfet in eatyng Lamprees: fell seke and dyed, after he had reigned ouer the realme of England. xxxv. yeares and odd monethes, leauyng for his heyres, Matilde Themprise hys daughter, with her yong sonne Henry to succede after him: to whom all the prelates and nobilitie of þ^e realme were sworne. But contrary to their othe made to Molde in the presence of her father before: William tharchbyshop of Cant. and the nobles of the realme, crowned Stephē earle of Boloine, and sisters sonne to king Henry, vpon S. Steuens day in Christenmas weeke. MarginaliaPeriurie iustlye punished.Whiche archbishop, the next yeare after dyed: being (as it was thought) iustly punished for hys periury. And many other Lordes whiche did accordingly, went not quite w^tout punishment. In like iustice of punishment is numbred also Roger bishop of Salesbury, who contrary to his othe (beyng a great doer in þ^e coronation of Stephen) was apprehēded of þ^e same king, and miserably (but iustly) extermined.

MarginaliaEx chronico Anglico, incerti autoris.A certaine writen Englishe story I haue, whiche addeth more and sayth, MarginaliaThe byshop of Sarum and of Lincolne taken prisoners of the K. & led with ropes about their neckes.that kyng Stephen (hauyng many foes in diuers quarters, kepyng there holdes and castels agaynst hym) went then to Oxford, and tooke the byshop of Salesbury: and put a rope about his necke, and so led hym to the castell of the Vice (that was his) and cōmaunded them to render vp the castell, or he would slay and hang their bishop. Which castle beyng geuē vp, the kyng toke the spoyle therof. The lyke also he did to þ^e bishop of Lyncolne named Alexander, whom in lyke maner he led in a rope to a castel of the bishops, þ^t was vpō Trent: and bad thē deliuer vp the castell, or els he would hang their Lord, before the gate. Long it was before the castell was geuen vp: yet at length the king obteining it, there entred and tooke all the treasure of the byshop. &c. Rog. Houed. MarginaliaRog. Houed. in vita Step.Fabiane alledgyng a certayne old autor, whō I can not finde: referreth a great cause of this per-