[The principal points which are at this day in controversy, concerning the holly supper…[The principal points which are at this daye in controuersie, concerning the holly supper…

And in the mean time their deacons, Subdeacons & Archdeacons, are occupied but in foolish & vain ceremonies, as it appeareth aswell by the charge which is given unto them, when they are appointed to their ministry, by their Bishops or suffragans, as by the also which is written of their office in their books, & by the execution of the same. There are in their mass prayers, to wit,¹ those which go before the reading or the singing of the Epistle, that which they do call Collects. But in the mean time there is no collection made for the poor. And the Deacons and Subdeacons which should gather the same, & should distribute them after ward to the poor, do there none other thing, but that the one singeth the Epistle & the other the Gospel, which is to say, some piece aswell of the one as of the other, yea often times very evil & unaptly shaped. And as for the rest they do serve the priest which doth administer the mass, Note. in the ceremonies which he hath to do, & chiefly to gather the offerings of the offertory, that which as I have already said, come not so far as to the poor. And yet they do not