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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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And all those ye maliciously distrouble or let the right presentment of holy Church, there the very Patron should present and all that thereto procure with word or deed, or with false inquest, or with other power. And all that maliciously despisen the maundement of the king to take a cursed man fro the time, that he hath lien in cursing. lx. days, & no remedy will seek. And all those that their liveraunce purchase against ⟨image 268⟩the right of holy Church. And that meed take for to distrouble peace, there love should be, or charity: or strife maintain with word or deed: and till they have yielded again their meed that they toke of them, they may never be assoiled. And all those that hold houses, manners, granges of parsons, vicars, or any other man of holy Church against their will, or their attorney's will. And all those that any manner good moveable or unmoveable away bear with strength, or wrongfully away draw, or waste: of the which cursing they may not be assoiled, till they have made satisfaction, to whom the wrong is done. And all those that any manner of goods with violence or malice bear out of holy Church, stead or Abbey, or house of Religion, which that therein is laid or done for warrandise or succour, or for to be kept. And all those that thereto procure or assent and all those that them maintain or sustain: and all those that have laid hand on priest or clerk with malice, but it be himself defending. And all those, that Saracens Counce• or help against Christendom. ⟨p. 240⟩And all those that their children wrongfully father wittingly, or their children written any other man with malice. And all those that weary or slay their generations, or their children destroy with drinks, or with any other craft. And all those, that false money, clip or sheer them to advantage, to deceive any man with. And all those that false the Popes Bull, or counterfeit the Kings seal. And all those, that bye or sell with false measures, or false weights, that is to say, to bye with one, & sell with an other. And all those, that false the kings standard, themselves witting. And all those, that any testament distrouble, or thereto procure with word, or with deed, wherefore the deeds will is not fulfilled. And all those that forswear them upon the holydome willing or witting for meed, or for hate for to do any man or woman to lose their worldly goods or honour.