to geue him (to that end) þ^e hundreth part of their goodes, would neuer condescend therunto, but alwayes dissuaded them therefroe: and finally by his autoritie, sealed & confirmed these liberties of the churche. Consider here your maiestie, how that pope Innocentius at that tyme proceded agaynst those barons. &c. I dare be bold to say, that if there should be now dissention betwene the Prelates and Barons: it would not be long, before the comminalty woulde vsurpe to rule and beare domination. As by experience it hath bene sene in manye places, and likewise by practise, we of late might haue sene: at what tyme, the people stomaking the spiritualty in the parties of Campania and Burgundy, at last rose and made in euery towne a king: and therwithall caused the officers which brough Citations and absolutions from the pope and other, to be well hanged: and not long after, made insurrection agaynst the Lordes temporall, and serued them with the like sauce: vntill that by the kings power they were susppressed, and many of them hanged. And this doubtles was in the dayes of Lewys last kyng of that name. MarginaliaArg. by the possessions of the churche, many brethren & kinsmen of the nobles be maintayned.
Ergo, such possessions are not to be grudged at.Truly the noble men ought not to be greued with that, that the church is possessed withall. For that there be fewe of them, who haue not their brothers and kynsfolkes, whych lyueth and are mayntayned by the goods and reuenues of the church. Amongest whom if they should deuide their inheritance, perhaps they wold bring a litle to nothing at all. Let the Barons also consider, howe that there is but fewe whiche beleue not in the church. For the church is one, as in the sixt of Canticum: My Doue and dearling is one. Wherefore wythout great peril of transgression, can they not perswade and counsel such liberties of the church to be abrogated and taken away.

MarginaliaTo beleue in the churche, is not in our faithThat therefore your maiesties conscience maye remayne pure and immaculate: pleaseth it your highnes by your autoritie, to seale and confirme this good, auncient, and canonicall priuiledge. And contrary attempts (if any be made by waye of proclamation or otherwyse) to reuoke & call them in. And further, to keepe your mother the Churche of Fraunce in her auncient francke choyce, libertie, and customes. And then by you in all thinges God shall be glorified and honoured: to whom be honour and glory for euer and euer. Amen. Who thē will honour you, as is said 1. Reg. 21. who so euer shal honour me, I wyll crowne him with that glory, in whych consisteth the true honour, and is graunted to none vnworthy. Marginalia1. Reg. 21.Whereunto also none is admitted but worthy, as blessed saint Austen sayth: which honour, graunt hee vnto you & vs, who is blessed world without end. Amen MarginaliaTo the byl of articles exhibited.And because a byl of many articles was exhibited, wher of part did infringe þ^e whole ecclesiastical iurisdiction: to the defence thereof, wee wyll according to the fourth chapter of Ecclesiasticus stād euen vnto the death, wher it is sayd: For the truth, striue thou vnto the death, and God shall fight for thee agaynst thine enemies. Some other of them conteine onelye abuse, which we beleue none such to be. But if there be, we wyll see redresse therin. Therefore, for the honour of God, for the vnburdening of our consciences, for the kynges maiesties reuerence, and for the peoples profit and peace: all wee here assembled, haue concluded to see remedye, that the foresayde abuses, if any suche be, shall be left to the quietnes of the people, and prayse of almighty God. To whom be honour and glory world without end. Amen.

MarginaliaAn other sitting in the Parlament.The next Friday following, being the. xxix. of December: the prelates assembled themselues agayne together at the kings palace in Parris: Wher, the reuerend father the lord Peter Bertrand, by gods permission byshop of Eduen spake openly ther before the king, sitting with his Councellours and Barons about him: taking to his theame þ^t which is written in the. xviij. of Genesis O Lord bee not angrye, that I speake yet more. &c. TheMarginaliaBishop of Eduen agayne speaketh.which he applyed to this end: that for the maiesty of the king, the prudencie of his councell, and insufficiencie of himselfe (considering the wayghtines of þ^e cause) he trembled and was afeard to speake: yet neuertheles, trusting vpon his accustomed clemency, tooke to him audacitie, and presumed that which was appoynted to him by the prelates. Beginning with. 89. Psalme: Lorde thou art our refuge. &c. Which he prosecuted in extolling þ^e kyng his person, and his miraculous attayning to the crown of Fraunce: preaching further, how he ought to bee the champion and defēder of the fayth: all which, he proued in few wordes by many reasons and authorities. Afterward, he touched those propositions which were propoūded by the foresayd Lorde Peter of Cugner: and for no other onely cause as he protested, but to informe the conscience of his soueraign Lord & kyng, & to aduise his grace cōcerning þ^e same: Not going about to make any finall iudgemēt, determinatiō, or answer, wherby either Sentēce, Order, Statute, right to any mā, or other processe, might therof ensue or be grounded. And namely he first beginning w^t þ^e theame of þ^e L. Peter: first affirmed (render vnto þ^e emperor, which is þ^e Emperours, & vnto God which is his: Mark. 12) MarginaliaMath. 22. Marke 12.By which wordes was signified þ^e obediēce & subiectiō to þ^e king, with the differēce of the spiritualtie frō the tēporaltie, wherof þ^e first mēber is proued by þ^e 1. Pet. 2. Where is said: be ye subiect to euery humain creature, &c. Also by þ^e Cap. folite, extra, de maio. & ob. And by þ^e c. nouit extra. de iudicijs cap. de sacerdotibus. 10. q. 1. w^t the notes about the same. Moreouer, as touching the distinctiō of both iurisdictions: wherof þ^e L. Peter proued þ^e temporal iurisdictiō to pertaine to seculare mē, þ^e spiritual to þ^e clergy, by þ^e wordes of our sauior christ. Luke 22. where he said: Behold two swords. Also for þ^t Christ did pay tribute: Teachyng therby, how þ^t the tēporalties were to be reserued to the tēporal men: Math. 17. 11. q. ca. Si tribut. ca. Magnū. In like maner by þ^e law of Iustiniā: where it is writtē, þ^t ij. great gifts wer ordained & graūted of god: a bishoprike, & a kingdō: The first to beare rule ouer gods maters, þ^e other ouer worldly things, &c. And said moreouer, þ^t these two be þ^e cases which in no wyse could be altered or chaūged. Prou. xx. de Tiō. mo. lib. 1. et vlt. And affirmed also þ^t of such princely right, þ^e king could not abrogate & depriue himself. For þ^t it was imprescriptible, apperteinyng to þ^e crowne and his regal seat, (cōsidering how he toke his othe at þ^e tyme of his coronatiō) not onely not to breake or alienate the lawes of his realme, but also to restore and reuoke such as were brokē & alienated. To which these his reasons it was answered, þ^t the iurisdiction and determinatiō of ciuill causes (where about the controuersie now standeth) belongeth to the church, both by Gods law & mans law. By Gods law it proued was, euē from Adams tyme to christes cōmyng: per. Innoc. ca. licet extra de foro, compe. And from Christes commyng, to Peters tyme and hys successors xxii. di. c. omnes patrache. Math. cap. xvi. But how the church in the realmes of Catholike princes, attained vnto this right and interest which at this presēce it doth inioy, the law proueth 2. q. ca. 5. Si quis presbiter. xi q. 1. Relacum 25. dist. Ecce. Which also is cōfirmed by the emperours in the body of the law. ff. 3. ¶ si. causam. col. 9. 23. q. vlt. c. his et a quibus. The Canon furthermore teacheth, how that S. Peter commaunded all the princes of the earth and others, to obey and gyue place to the Byshops. c. omnes, extra. de maior. et ob. 16. dist. duo sunt: Wherfore it was concluded, that in no wise this righte is to be separated and taken away from the church. And albeit in þ^e realmes of tyranous princes, this state of the churche is violated and not kept: yet in thys blessed realme of Fraūce, it hath been alwaies euen to these dayes duely obserued: c. nouit. extra. de iudiciis. This iurisdiction, the lawes of Theodosius the Emperor, & Carolus þ^e great, hath also confirmed, extra. de iudicijs. c. nonue. all.