but he ought to cōmit himself to the gouernment of Gods holy spirit, and his owne conscience.

Marginalia Possessions of the Church. For the possessions of the Churche: In another treatise it is declared, how the king, the Lordes and commōs may without any charge at all, kepe 15. garrisons, & finde 15000. souldiours, (hauiug sufficient landes and reuenues to liue vpon) out of the temporalties gotten into the hands of the clergy & fained religious men: which neuer do that, which pertayneth to the office of curates to doe, not yet to secular lords. And moreouer, the king may haue euery yere 20000 pound to come freely into his cofers and aboue. Also, may find or sustaine 15. Colledges more: and 15000. priestes and clerkes, with sufficient liuing: and a 100. hospitals for the sicke & euery house to haue one hundreth marks in lands. And all this may they take of the foresayde temporaltyes, without any charge to the realme: wherunto, the king, the Lords, and the commons are to be inuited. For otherwise there seemeth to hang ouer our heads, a great and maruelous alteratiō of this realme, vnlesse the same be put in execution. Also, if the secular Priestes and fayned religious, whiche be simoniackes and heretiques, which fayne themselues to say masse, and yet say none at all, according to the Canons, which to their purpose the bring and alledge. Marginalia 1. q. 3. 24. q. 1. Cap pudenda. 1.q. 3. Audiuimus. & cap. Pudenda. & cap. Schisma: By which chap. such priestes and religious do not make the Sacrament of the aultar: That then all Christians, especially all the foūders of such Abbeyes and indowers of bishoprickes, priories, and chaunteries: ought to amend this fault and treason committed agaynst their predecessors, by taking from them such secular dominiōs which are the mayntenance of all their sinnes. And also, that Christian Lords & princes are bound to take away from the clergy, such secular dominion as noseleth & nourisheth them in heresies: & ought to reduce them vnto the simple and poore life of Christ Iesus and his Apostles.

And further, that all Christian Princes (if they will amend the maledictiō and blasphemy of the name of God) ought to take away their temporalties frō that shauen generation, which most of all doth nourish them in such malediction: Marginalia Belly cheare of yl disposed prelats, and of Monasteries not to be nourished with temporalties and appropriations. And so in likewise, the fat tithes from Churches appropriat to rich monks & other religions fained by manifest lying, & other vnlawfull meanes; likewise ought to debar their golde to the proud Priest of Rome, which doth poyson all Christendome with Simony and heresy. Further, that it is a great abhomination that Bishops, mōks, and other prelates, be so great Lords in this world, whereas Christ with his Apostles, and disciples, neuer took vpon thē secular dominion, neither did they appropriat vnto them churches as these men do: but led a poore life, & gaue a good testimony of theyr priesthood. And therfore, all Christians ought to the vttermost of theyr power and strength to sweare that they will reduce such shauelings, to the humility and pouerty of Christ and his Apostles: And whoseoeuer thus doth not, consenteth to theyr heresy. Also, that these two chapiters of the immunitye of Churches, are to be comdemned, that is, cap. Non minus, and cap. Aduersus. Because they doe decree, that temporall Lordes may neyther require tallages nor tenthes, of any Ecclesiasticall persons.

Marginalia Correction of the clergie. Now to the correction of the clergy: By the law of god and by reason, the king and all other Christians may take reuenge of Italye, and of all the false Priests and Clerkes within the same, and to reduce them vnto the humble ordinaunce of Iesus Christ. Also, that the law of Siluester the Pope, which is declared in Marginalia 2 q. 5. Præsul. Ibid Nullam. 2. q. 5. cap. Præsul, and cap. Nullam, is cōtrary to the law of Christ & either testament. And that proud and ambitious Siluester by this lawe, so defended two Cardinals which were not to be defended by the law of Christ: that by no meanes they might be conuinced, although they were both vicious & euil. And although christ susteined and suffered the iudgemēt of vniust temporal iudges: Our mitred prelates in these dayes, so magnify them selues beyond christ and his Apostles, that they refuse and will none of such iudgements. Also, that those decretals of accusations cap. Qūdo & Qualiter. Which do prohibite that any clerkes should be brought before a secular iudge to receiue iudgement: do contayne both heresy, blasphemy, and error, and bringeth great gayne and commodity to Antechristes cofers.

Furthermore, that all Christian kinges and Lordes, ought to exclayme agaynst the Pope and those that be hys fautors, and banish them out of theyr landes, till such time as they will obey God, and his Gospell, Kings and other ministers of Gods iustice. Also, that bishops and theyr fauourers, that say it appertayneth not to kings and secular Lordes (but vnto them and theyr Officials) to punish adultery and fornicatiō: do fall into manifest treason agaynstthe king, and heresy agaynst the scripture. Marginalia Punishing of adultery belongeth to secular magistrates rather then to prelates. Also, that it appertayneth to the king, to haue the order both of priestes & bishops, as these kings Salomon and Iosaphat had.

Furthermore, that chapter Nullus iudicium de foro conpetenti, by the which secular iudges are forbidden without the Bishops commaundement to condemne any Clerk to death: Is manifestly agaynst the holy scripture, declaryng that kinges haue power ouer clerkes & priestes to punish thē for their deserued crimes. Also that the decree of Boniface de pœnis in 6. cap. fœlicis, made agaynst the persecutors, strikers, and imprisoners of Cardinals, as contrary both to the holy scripture & to all reason. Also, that by the law of God and reason a secular Lord may lawfully take a Cardinal & put him in prison for committing the crime of open simony, adultery, & manifest blasphemy. Also þ^t the chapter Si Papa dist. 40. which sayth that the Pope ought to be iudged of none, vnles he be deuius a fide, is cōtrary to þ^e gospell which sayth: If they brother sinne agaynst thee correct him. Also where as S. Gregory and S. Augustine called themselues the seruaunts of Gods seruants: this proud bishop of Rome which will not be iudged by his subiects (which be in very deed his Lordes, if they be iust & good men) doth destroy the order of Gods law, and all humility, and doth extoll himself aboue God and his Apostles. Marginalia Good kings ought to depose wicked Popes. Also, that christian kings ought, not onely to iudge this proud bishop of Rome, but also to depose him, by the example that Cestrensis lib. 6. cap. 8. declareth, of Otho the Emperour, which deposed Iohn the xij. and did institute Leo in his place. And further, he maketh an exhortation to the Princes to iudge the Church of Rome, which he calleth the great and cursed strompet, of whom S. Iohn writeth in the Apocalips, chap. 17.

Lastly, touching the lawes and determinations of the church: Christians haue reasonable excuses and causes to repell the statutes of the pope and of his shauelings, which be not expresly grounded in the holy scriptures, or els vpon reason ineuitable. Also he sayth that the law whiche is set forth of consecration Marginalia De consecratione, id est. 2. cap. Seculares. distinctione. 2. cap. Seculares & cap. Omnis homo, & cap. Et si non frequentiius, & cap. In cœna domini: That such secular men as do not receiue the sacrament ot the aultar at Christmas, Easter, and Whitsontide, are not to be counted amongest the number of Christians, nor are to be estemed as christiās: wherby it followeth, that all Clerkes and lay men that obserue not the same, it seemeth they go strait to hell. But if this law be of no force, for that the custome and vse in receiuing is contrary to the same: then may we blesse such rebellion & disobediēce to the pope and his law, for otherwise we should flee to hel without any stay or let. Wherby we may conclude, that all Christiās ought well to practise this schoole of disobedience against þ^e Pope and all his lawes (not founded vpon the holy scripture) which do let men to clime to heauen by the keping of charity, and the liberty of the Gospell. Also, that Christian men haue great cause to refuse the lawes and statutes of these worldly clerkes, which þ^e people call the papal lawes and bishoplike statutes, for the couetousnesse and voluptuousnesse of them: without the which, the church & congregation of God might safely run towards heauē by þ^e sweet yoke of the Lord, as it did 1000. yeres before the sayd lawes were prescribed and sēt to the Vniuersities, and withdrew mē from studiyng of þ^e holy scripture, for the desire of benefices and worldly goods. Also, that simple men do reuerētly receiue the sentence of the Doctors and other lawes, so farre forth as they be expresly groūded vpon the holy scripture or good reason. Marginalia The Popes lawes contrarye to themselues. Also, that where as the Popes lawes, & lawes of his ministers & clerks be both cōtrary to themselues, and haue not theyr foūdation neither vpon þ^e scripture, nor yet vpon reason: simple mē ought to bid thē farewell. Also, that when all the apostles faith fayled thē in the time of the Lords passiō, fayth thē rested in the blessed virgin: much more might that proud priest of Rome with all his rabble easily erre in the fayth, and yet is the Christian fayth preserued whole and safe, in the faythful members of Christ, which are his true Church: But the Pope and all his rablement, cannot proue that they be any part of thys Church. Marginalia The pope & his Cardinals no part of the true Church. Also, that the Pope with all his fautours, may as well be deceiued by a lying spirite, as was Achab and all his prophetes: and that one true prophet, as was Micheas may haue the verity shewed vnto him contra concilium, Also, that all good Christians ought to cast from them the Popes lawes, saying: Let vs breake their bandes in sonder, and let vs cast from our neckes those heauy yoakes of theyrs. Also, that where these prelates doe burne one good booke, for one errour perhaps conteyned in the same: Marginalia The Canon lawe full of heresie. they ought to burne all the books of the Canon law, for the manifold heresies contayned in them.

¶ And thus muche out of a certaine old written booke