this at the point of death, and the common reporte goeth on him thus in these thinges.

2. Also he beleueth not faithfully, that by the wordes ordained of Christ and spoken ouer the hoste after the fashion of the Church by a faythfull priest that is lawfully ordered, the body of Christ to be there: & 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 rises not to it, but turneth his backe to it, and makes himselfe and his seate to be honored where he sitteth, rather then the altare where the hoste is consecrate: and he is commonly reported to do this.

3. Also, he is reported to saye that whoredome is no sinne, no more than rubbyng of the handes together, and thus cōmonly runnes the voyce and brute.

4. Also he sayd often, that to thrust downe the kyng and Frenchmen (if it could not be otherwayes done) he would ouerthrow himselfe the whole world, & the whole Church. And whē he had sayd so, some þ^t stode by said, God forbid, he aunswered God graūt. And when good men that heard the wordes replyed agaynst him, that he should not say so, because the Church of God & all Christenmen should suffer great slaunder so: he aunswered, I care not what slaūders soeuer come, so that the Frenchmen and their pride be destroyed: for it is necessary that slaunders & offences come.

5. Item, he called agayne & allowed a booke made by M. Arnold of Newton, conteinyng and smelling of heresie, cōdemned by the Byshop of Paris and reproued by the maisters of Diuinitie, and burned openly by Boniface himselfe: and in the full consistorie of Cardinals beyng likewise reproued, condēned, and burned, yet he allowed it beyng written agayne, and conteyning the same fault.

6. Item, that he might make the moste damnable remembraunce of him perpetuall, he caused his Images of siluer to be set in the Church, by this meanes bryngyng men to Idolatrie.

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

8. Item, he sayd once that if all men were on one side and he on another, they could not deceaue him neither in law nor in deede, which thyng could not be done except he vsed a deuelish arte: and of this he is openly thus reported.

9. Item, he is a witch asking councel at soothsayers both men and wemen, and thus he is commonly iudged.

10. Item, he sayd openly that the Romish pope could not commit simonie, which is hereticall to say. This is a sinne reproued aswell in the old Testament, as in the new and generally in the holy Coūcels. Also he is wont to make marchaundise of Prelates liuynges, dignities, superiorities, and benefices, to the which holy orders be necessarely ioyned: & of absolutions & dispēsations, like as vsurers & marchaūtes vse to buy and sell common thynges in the market, and of this the common brute reportes him.

11. Item he letteth with all his might among 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 sayd afore him, that certain parties would frendly agree after a good sort, he letted þ^e peace: & when the other part did humbly besech him, that he would geue 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.

12. Item, because the French nation (being manifestly a most Christian nation) followeth not his errours in the fayth: he reckeneth and openly calleth all and euery of them, Paterniani.

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

14. Item, he hath caused many murthers of Clerkes to be done in his presence, and commended it reioysing at their death: and if they were not deadly wounded at the first by his seruants, as oft as he saw them smityng, he sayd, smite, smite: by which example many were slayne.

15. Itē, when he had condemned a certaine noble man, he forbad the Sacramēt to be geuen him at the point of death, desiryng it and beyng penitent: saying, that the Sacrament of penaunce was not necessary to saluation.

16. 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 Bishop of Spayne, for the faultes that he confessed to a certaine Cardinall, confessing vnto him a certaine priuy horrible fault vnder Benedicite, and compelled the Cardinall a-gaynst his will to declare his confession: and yet afterward he restored the same Byshop agayne to his place for a litle money. Wherfore he is thought to play the hereticke in the Sacrament of penaunce.

15. Item, he fasteth not on the fasting dayes, nor Lēt, but eateth flesh indifferētly, and without cause suffereth his houshold and frendes to eate, saying it is no sinne. Doing in this thing against the generall state of the holy church.

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

Item, of old tyme he goyng about to destroy the fayth, conceiued a hate agaynst the French king, euen to the abhorring of the fayth: because of the light of fayth which is there, and because of the great witnes and example of Christianitie, is & hath bene there. And before he had this seat he is proued to haue sayd, that if he were pope: he would rather ouerthrow all christendom, but he would ouerthrow & destroy the nation, which he calleth the pride of French.

Also he is reported, that when the Embassadours of the kyng of England, in the name of the sayd king did require and entreat for the tenth of the realme of England to be geuen hym: he aunswered, that he would not geue them the tenth, but on this condicion, that he would make warre with them agaynst the French kyng. And beside this, he is reported to haue giuen great sommes of money to certaine persons, to hinder that peace should not be betwixt the sayd kings. He hymself also with all hys myght hath letted it, by messengers, letters, and otherways that he could, yea by geuyng bribes.

19. Item, he is reported also to haue commaunded Friderike which kepeth the Ile of Cicill, that if he would betray Charles the kyng and breake the peace which he made, and sweare that he would kepe with him, and would sturre agaynst the king, and kill the Frenchmen: that thē he would geue him ayde, helpe, and counsaile, & for doing so he would geue and graunt hym the sayd kingdoms.

MarginaliaPope Boniface an enemy to the French men.20. He confirmed also the kyng of Almaine to be Emperor, and sayd openly that he did it to destroy the nation, which he calleth the pride of French men: which say, that they are subiect to none in temporall thinges. Wherin sayth he, they lyed on their heds, declaring moreouer, that whosoeuer (yea if it were an Aungel from heauen) would say that all kings of the world were not subiect to the same king of Almaine, he were accursed.

MarginaliaPope Boniface an enemy to peace.21. Further, he brake the agrements of peace, betwixt þ^e k. of Almaine, and the French king: in which, eyther of them should haue their owne saued. And what encrochynges so euer had bene on either side, should be brought to a due state, and vnder an othe orderly geuen and taken: he is reported to haue commaunded the same kyng of Almayne, that he should not kepe these conditions of peace, but be an enemy and go about to sow debate among christen men.

22. Item, he is openly reported, that the holy land was betrayed through his fault, & came to the enemies of God and of fayth: & that he suffred this for the nonst, & denied to geue ayde to the Christians which defended it: spending the treasures and mony of the church, (which should haue bene bestowed on that vse as the patrimony of Christ) in persecutyng of faythfull Christians & frendes of the church, & therwith would enrich hys friendes.

23. Item, he is openly reported to vse simony, not onely in bestowyng of benefices, but in geuyng of orders, and making dispensations. He hath set to sale all benefices of the church, and would bestow the church commonly on him that would offer most: and he made hys Seruauntes Prelates of the Church, not for wealth of the faith, nor to thrust down Infidels, but to oppresse the faythfull, and to enriche his kinred by the church goodes and of the patrimony of hym that was crucified and presumed to make them Marqueses, Erles, and Barons, and was not afraid to build thē strong holdes, rooting out & oppressing many noble men & other.

23. Item, it is cōmonly reported, that he hath deuorced many marriages lawfully made, to the contempt, hurt, & slaunder of many: and he did promote hys nephew to a Cardinalship, beyng maried, vnlearned, and all together vnworthy to liue: and openly maried one that was diuorced, and compelled hym to make a vowe of chastitie: and after that