Saducies did beleue, that there is no euerlasting lyfe, and that men can not get at the length ioye, but all the lotte and parte of comfort & gladnes to be in this world: and by thys meanes he affirmeth, that it is no sinne for the bodie to liue daintely in all dainties. MarginaliaPope Boniface had rather be a dogge then a French man.And out of the aboundance of thys leuen, he was not ashamed to saye and openlye to confesse, that he had rather be an asse or a dogge or any other brute beast, rather than a Frenchman: which thyng he woulde not haue sayd, if he beleued a Frenchman had a soule that could enioye euerlasting lyfe. Thys thyng he taught many men, which knowledged this at the point of death, and the common reporte goeth on him thus in these thynges.

Marginalia2Also he beleueth not faythfully, that by the words ordayned of Christ and spoken ouer the oste after the fashion of the church by a faythfull priest that is lawfully ordered, the bodye of Christ to be there: and therfore it cōmeth to passe, that he geueth no reuerence to it (no not a litle) when it is lifted vp of the priest, yea he ryses not to it, but turneth hys back to it, and makes himself and his seate to be honoured where he sitteth, rather then the altare where the hoste is consecrate: and he is commonlye reported to do this.

Marginalia3Also he is reported to saye that whoredome is no sinne, no more than rubbing of the handes together, and thus commonly runnes the voyce and brute.

Marginalia4Also he sayd often, that to thrust downe the king and Frenchmē (if it could not be otherwayes done) he would ouerthrowe hymselfe the whole worlde, and the whole church. And when he sayd so, some that stoode by sayd, God forbyd, he answered God graunt. And when good men that heard the wordes replyed agaynst him, that he should not say so, because the church of God & all christē men should suffer great slaunder so: he aunswered, I care not what slaunders so euer come, so þ^t the French men and their pryde be destroyed: for it is necessary that slaunders and offences come.

Marginalia5Item, he called agayn and allowed a booke made by M. Arnolde of Newton, conteyning and smelling of heresie, condemned by the bishop of Paris and reproued by the maisters of diuinitie, and burned openlye by Boniface hymselfe: and in the full consistorie of Cardinals being likewise reproued, condemned, and burned, yet he allowed it being written agayne, and conteyning the same faulte.

Marginalia6Item, that he mighte make the moste damnable remembraunce of hym perpetuall, he caused hys images of siluer to be set in the churches, by this meanes bringing men to idolatrie.

Marginalia7Item, he hath a priuate deuill, whose counsell he vseth in all thinges and through all thinges.

Item, he sayd once that if all men were on one syde and he on a nother, they coulde not deceaue hym neither in lawe nor in deede, which thing coulde not be done excepte he vsed a deuelishe arte: and of thys he is openlye thus reported.

Marginalia9Item, he is a witche asking councell at soothsayers both men and wemen, and thus he is cōmonly iudged.

Marginalia10Item he said openly that the Romishe pope could not commit simonie, whiche is hereticall to say. This is a sinne reproued aswell in the olde Testament, as in the new and generally in the holy councels. Also he is wont to make marchaundise of prelates liuinges, dignities, superiorities, and benefices, to the whiche holy orders be necessarely ioyned: and of absolutions and dispensatiōs, like as vsurers and marchaunts vse to bye and sell common thinges in the market, and of this the commō brute reportes him.

Marginalia11Item he letteth with all his might along Christian men the speciall embassade of Christ, made to his owne sonnes, saying: peace I leaue to you, and soweth discord and warres: Wherfore ones it was said afore him, thatcerteine parties would friendly agree after a good sort, he letted the peace, when the other parte did humbly besech him, that he would giue him licence to agree (he sayd) he would not: Yea if the sonne of God or Peter the Apostle would come downe into the earth and commaund him: he would say, I will not beleue thee.

Marginalia12Item, bicause the French nation (being manifestly a most Christiā nation) followeth not his errors in þ^e faith: he reckeneth & opēly calleth all & euery of thē, Paterniani.

Item, he is infect with sodomiticall sinne, kepyng with him boyes for concubines, and of this faute he is most commonly and openly reported.

Marginalia13Item, he hath caused many murthers of clerkes to be done in his presence, and commēded it reioysing at their death: and if they were not deadly wounded at the firste by his seruants, as oft as he saw them smiting, he sayd, smite, smite: by whiche example many were slayne.

Marginalia14Item when he had condemned a certeine noble man, he forbad the Sacrament to be geuen him at the pointe of death, desiryng it and beyng penitent: saying, that the Sacrament of penaunce was not necessarie to saluatiō.

Item,he compelled certein priestes to shew vnto him the confessions of men, and he published them openly afterward contrary to the will of them, that were confessed to their shame and confusion, and compelled them to redeme their sinnes. In so much that ones he deposed a certaine byshop of Spaine, for the faultes that he confessed to a certeyne cardinall, confessing vnto him a certein priuy horrible faute vnder Benedicite, and compelled the cardinall against his will to declare his confession: & yet afterward he restored the same bishop again to his place for a litle money. Wherfore he is thought to play the hereticke in the Sacrament of penaunce.

Marginalia15Item, he fasteth not on the fasting dayes, nor Lent, but eateth flesh indifferētly, and without cause suffereth his houshold and frendes to eate, saying it is no sinne. Doyng in this thing agaynst the generall state of the holy churche.

Marginalia16Item, he oppressed the order of the cardinals and hath oppressed the order of blacke and white monkes, of gray friers and preachers: and sayd oft, that the world was destroyed by them, and that they were false hipocrites, and that neuer good could chaunce to any that would be confessed to thē, or would be familiar with them, or would kepe them in their house, and he neuer sayd good worde of any prelate, religious man, or clarke: but euer rebuketh and slaundereth thē, taking away their good name, and to compell them to redeeme their faultes, he is glad of their accusations: and this is the common voyce and reporte of him.

Marginalia17Item, of old time he goyng about to destroye the faith, conceiued a hate against the Frēch kyng, euen to the abhorring of the faith: bicause of the light of faithe whiche is there, and bicause of the great witnes and example of Christianitie, is and hath been there. And before he had this seate he is proued to haue sayd, that if he were pope: he would rather ouerthrow all christēdom, but he would ouerthrow and destroy the nation, whiche he calleth the pride of French.

Marginalia18Also he is reported, that when the embassadours of þ^e kyng of England, in the name of the sayd kyng did require and entreate for the tenth of the realme of Englād to be geuen hym: he aunswered, that he would not giue them the tenth,but on this condiciō, that he would make warre with them agaynst the French kyng. And beside this, he is reported to haue giuē great sommes of mony to certeine persons that to hinder, that peace should not be betwixt the sayd kinges. He him selfe also withall his might hath letted it, by messēgers, letters, & otherwayes that he could, yea by giuing bribes.

Marginalia19Itē, he is reported also to haue commaunded Friderike which kepeth the Ile of Cicill, þ^t if he would betray