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But he reserved to him self alone to remit and pardon the whole penance or satisfaction. This thing when it began to smack well and to bring lucre to the purse / and again for as much as the merchandise and selling of bulls did prosper and proceed well and luckily / he imagined a Golden year or a year of grace which he would have no where but at Rome / and this year full remission of all penalties / punishments / penance and all manner of sins / and thither ran all men from all parts of the world to fetch pardon of the golden year. But who would not have desired to have been delivered from such an heavy & untollerable burden? This was even as much as to find & exalt all the treasures of the earth. But the pope continued daily in heaping many golden ⟨image 24⟩years together one up on another. And the more money he devoured / the greater waxed his throat. And thus at length he sent his golden year in to other nations by his legates even till all churches & houses were filled & satisfied with golden years finally he burst into purgatory at length also to the dead souls first through Masses / Commendations / foundations & at last through his pardons & his golden year. What need I to make many words? Souls were so good cheap that a man might bye as many as he would for ij. pens or a groat the piece. And yet all this was not sufficient neither for the pope although he taught & commanded men to put all their trust of salvation in his pardons / yet not with standing he made this way doubt full & uncertain also. for he wrote thus in his bulls that who so ever would be partaker of his pardon & of his golden year he must both do penance for all his sins and confess them & also pay some money. But we have said before that the popish contrition and confession also is both doubtful / uncertain and also very hypocrisy. And beside this / no man did know what soul was in purgatory / and if there were any yet it was unknown which had true contrition & was rightly confessed & which not. Here the pope toke money & bad them trust in his penance & pardons & yet not with ⟨image 25⟩standing he sent them again to their own doubtful & uncertain works.

But he reserued to him self alone to remitt and pardon the whole penance or satisfaccyon. This thing whan it began to smack wel and to bring lucre to the purse / and again for as moch as the marchandise and selling of bullys did prospere and procede wel and luckyly / he imagyned a Goldyn yeare or a yeare of gre which he wold haue no where but at Rome / and this yeare ful remissyon of all penaltys / pomisshments / penance and all maner of sinnes / and thether ran all men from all partes of the world to fet pardō of the goldyn yeare. But who wold not haue desyered to haue bene deliuered from such an heuy & vntollerable burden? This was euen as moch as to find & exalt all the tresures of the erth. But the pope continewed daily in heaping many goldyn