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of Can terbury, primate of all England, and Legate of the Apostolic Sea, do denounce thee William Sawtry, otherwise called Chawtris, Chaplain feigned, in the habit and apparel of a Priest, as an heretic, and as one refallen into heresy, by this our sentence definitive, by counsel, consent, & authority to be condemned, and by conclusion also of all our fellow brethren, fellow Bishops, Prelates, Council provincial, and of the whole Clergy, do degrade and deprive ⟨p. 298⟩thee of all thy priestly orders, and in sign of degradation, and actual deposition from thy priestly dignity, for thine incorrigibility, and want of amendment, we take from thee the Patent and Chalice, and do deprive thee of all power of celebrating mass, and also we pull of thy back, the casule, and take from thee the vestiment, and deprive thee of all priestly honour, and so proceeded they in taking away the vestiment, and stool of a Deacon, and and the albe of a subdeacon, and maniple, and candlestick, taper and cruet of an Acolouth, the holy water bucket of an exorcist, the Legend book of a Reader in the Church, the Surplice of a Sexton,¹ the crown of Ecclesiastical dignity to be shaven, and the Priests cap taken away, and a Lay mans cap put on, that they might favourably receive the said William thus unto them committed. This done, by their soliciting, the king directed a terrible decree against him for his speedy execution to the Mayor and sheriffs of London: which was performed accordingly. Anno 1400.

of Cā terbury, primate of all England, and Legate of the Apostolike Sea, doe denounce thée William Sawtry, otherwise called Chawtris, Chaplaine fained, in the habite and apparell of a Priest, as an heretike, and as one refallen into heresie, by this our sentence definitiue, by counsell, consent, & autoritie to be condemned, and by conclusion also of all our fellow brethren, fellow Bishops, Prelates, Councell prouinciall, and of the whole Cleargie, doe degrade and depriue ⟨p. 298⟩thée of all thy priestly orders, and in signe of degradation, and actuall deposition from thy priestly dignitie, for thine incorrigibility, and want of amendement, wee take from thée the Patent and Chalice, and doe depriue thée of all power of celebrating masse, and also wée pull of thy backe, the casule, and take from thée the vestiment, and depriue thée of all priestly honour, and so procéeded they in taking away the vestiment, and stoole of a Deacon, and and the albe of a subdeacon, and maniple, and candlesticke, taper and cruet of an Acolouth, the holy water bucket of an exorcist, the Legend booke of a Reader in the Church, the Surplise of a Sexton,