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A17421
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A treatise co[n]cernynge impropriations of benefices. Cum priuilegio regali
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Bigod, Francis, Sir, 1508-1537.
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1535
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STC 4240; ESTC S110964
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the myddes of Poules churche before all meÌ„nes eyes Be nat you my maisters impropryatours / suppose ye euen the same persones If ye be and haue ben so / euer syns you stale vnto you these impropriatyons / what wolde you saye / or what shulde the gouernours say Shuld theft be let alone Shulde sacrylege be suffred shuld pykynge be paynted Yea / and at fewe wordes shuld murder be maintayned But me thynketh I here you whysper that ye be no murtherers / theues / pykers / sacrylegyans / nor yet none of all this geare / No ar nat Well / thaÌ„ I se well we must haue more to do with you For as moche as ye denye the cryme layde vnto youre charge Ye shall vnderstaÌ„de that good and vertuouse men before our dayes / whiche loued the wyll of god / whiche loued his holy pleasure / whiche regarded his commaundement / whose medytatyons and studye both daye nighte was / to set forth his glorie / to auauÌ„ce his blessed worde / and to maynteine the ministers of the same / dyd no dout of it with the consent of higher powers of kynges and of princes / and of their moste honourable counsels / folowynge in this behalfe the olde lawe / for the most easyest waye and spedyest prouisyoÌ„ / appoynt / assygne and ordeyne for the same ministers to be maynteyned decymations or tythes / wyllynge and myndynge by this good prouisyon / that within euery congregation or parysshe / the minister of goddê worde there / shulde be sure at all tymes of a lyuynge raysed and gathered of these sayde decymations / and therein to haue added a certayne name / callynge it a benefyce / personage or vycarage / and lykewyse turnynge the name of a minister or curate / to the name of a persone or vycare Furthermore orderynge that one man shall haue authorite / as patrone / to name this parsone / and so to gyue this same benefyce albet / peraduenture that other in the same parysshe gyue as moche to the annuall lyuynge of the parsone as the patrone doth Besydes this / they ordeyned him a mantion to dwel in among them / to then tente that for his dilygente administration / he shulde haue euery thiÌ„ge necessarye for him within his owne gouernance yea / haue it brought euen home vnto him / to dyspose at his pleasure / as it shall be most expedyent and necessary for him / that the more quyetly he mighte studye apply him selfe to minister vnto theÌ„ the pure worde of god / to be euer redy at haÌ„de to enstructe them of all thingê necessarye for the helth of their soules / and to be their trewe watch man and shepherde to take them froÌ„ the rauysshynge wolfe / and lyke a good trew herdesman / a pastoure to go afore them in spirytuall and vertuouse conuersation and euer whaÌ„ they be scabbed to anoynte theÌ„ gentely with the softe and swete salue of goddes worde / all rancoure stryfe layde a parte Nowe my maisters impropriated or improper maisters howe saye ye by youre fathers / haue nat you with your crafty collusyon / almooste throughe Englande / dystroyed these holy and godly prouysyons / made for the mayntenance of goddes holy word / and for thadministratyon of this most blessed sacramentes / for the helth / welth / and saluatyon of mans soule / for the vpholdynge of the trewe and catholyque fayth / for the supportacyon of vertue / and dystruction of vyce Haue nat you I saye by the glykynge gleynyng / snatchynge scratchiÌ„ge / tatchynge and patchynge / scrapiÌ„ge and rakynge togyther of almost all the fatte benefyces with in this realme and impropriatynge theÌ„ vnto youre selues / distroyed this most godlye holy ê“uisyon / bereyued the peple of the worde of god / of the trew knowlege of the blessed sacrameÌ„tê / of their trew beleue and faith in god the father / the blode of Iesu Christ For howe can the people haue any faith in god withoute preachinge Howe shulde they haue any preachynge whan ye haue robbed theÌ„ of their ministers How shulde the ministers serue theÌ„ whan ye haue robbed them of theirs lyuynge If the peple haue no faith how can they haue charyte If they haue no charytie / what merueyle is it / if they ronne hedlonge and be caryed from one vyce to another / from one mischefe to another Be nat ye thoccasyon of all this Who is elles I praye you Haue nat ye the impropriations Be the impropriacyons any thinge els sauynge benefyces as parsonages / and suche lyke Do we nat say such an abbot is parsone here / suche a priour is parsone here yea / suche a prioresse is parsone here How saye ye thinke ye that meÌ„ be foles thynke ye that they ben asses thiÌ„ke ye that they ben stockes and stones / blockes and bones Thynke ye that we vnderstande no more reason than a greate menye of you do Is nat this abhomination Is this tollerable Of all the premysses / I conclude / that if it be necessarye that the righte honoure and glorie of god be of all men and specyally by the ministers of the churche to be preferred / extolled / and exalted as most worthy is aboue all thinges and names bothe in heuen / hell / in erih if his glorie I saye is onely to be sought / if his doctryne coÌ„maundemente to be regarded if the faythe in his onely sonne to be estemed and valued / if his sacrameÌ„tes are to be reuerenced / if his shepe and lambes are to be fedde / and nat pyned / if the soule of a christen maÌ„ be any thynge worthe / if the holye ghost is any thynge to be desyred / if all vertue and goodnesse / if peace quyetnesse are to be wysshed of / if al good men / if murther / blodshedyng incest rauyne / with all other kyndes of inconuenyentes and myschef are to be abhorred of all men ThaÌ„ I saye / that my improper maisters and dames are to be dispysed of all men / to be aduoyded and fled of all men / to be shonned of all meÌ„ / for that that they haue ben the vndoynge of all men / in takynge awaye / adnullynge / abolysshynge of god and all vertues / of his blessed lawes gospell / of fayth baptyme / and all other holy sacramentes and that for as moche as by theire improper impropriations / the ministers of goddes holy worde and fayth / for lacke of lyuynge be taken from vs / which shulde enstructe vs in all truthe and verytie expedyent for vs. But here ye wyll saye that we haue teachinge inough / and that there is neuer the lesse preachynge for you Whervnto I answere that in dede / if the mater be expended after youre affectyons / I thinke we had inought / although we neuer had no preachynge at all / for your mynde paradueÌ„ture coulde serue you well inough / that we had as many prechynges as ther