lord the king, his law, and all his realm, if remedy be not provided. And also it is said and a common clamor is made that the said holy father, the Pope, hath ordained and purposed to translate some prelates of the same realm, some out of the realm, and some from one bishopric into another within the same realm, without the king's assent and knowledge, and without the assent of the prelates which are to be so translated, which prelates be much profitable and necessary to our said lord the king, and to all his realm; by which translations, if they should be suffered, the statutes of the realm should be defeated and made void; and his said liege sages of his council, without his assent and against his will carried away and gotten out of his realm and the substance and treasure of the realm should be carried away, and so the realm destitute as well of council as of substance, to the final destruction of the same realm. So the crown of England which hath been so free at all times that it hath had no earthly sovereign, but is immediately subject to God in all things touching the regalty of the same crown, and to none other, would be submitted to the Pope, and the laws and statutes of the realm by him defeated and avoided at his will, in perpetual destruction of the sovereignty of the king our lord, his crown, his regalty, and of all his realm, which God forbid.

And moreover, the Commons aforesaid say, that the things so attempted be clearly against the king's crown and his regalty, used and approved in the time of all his progenitors; wherefore, they and all the liege commons of the same realm will stand with our said lord the king. and his said crown and his regalty, in the cases aforesaid, and in all other cases attempted against him his crown and his regalty in all points, to live and to die; and moreover, they pray the king and require him, by way of justice, that he would examine all the lords in the Parliament, as well spiritual as temporal severally, and all the estates of the Parliament, how they think of the cases aforesaid, which be so openly against the king's crown, and in derogation of his regalty, and how they will stand in the same cases with our lord the king in upholding the rights of the said crown and regalty.

Wherefore, the lords temporal so demanded have answered every one by himself, that the cases aforesaid be clearly in derogation of the king's crown and of his regalty, as is well known, and hath been of a long time known, and that they will be with the same crown and regalty, in these cases specially, and in all other cases which shall be attempted against the same crown and regalty in all points, with all their power.

And, moreover, there was demanded of the lords spiritual being there and the procurators of others, being absent, their advice and will in all these cases; which lords, that is to say, the archbishops, bishops, and other prelates, being in the said Parliament severally examined, (making protestations that it is not their intention to say nor to affirm that our holy father the Pope may not excommunicate bishops and that he may not make translations of prelates according to the law of holy church;) answered and said, that if any executions of processes made in the king's court, as before, be made by any, and censures of excommunications be made against any bishops of England, or any other of the king's liege people, for that they have made execution of such commandments, and that if any executions of such translations be made of any prelates of the same realm, which lords be very profitable and necessary to our said lord the king, and to his said realm, or that his sage lieges of his council, without his assent and against his will, be removed and carried out of the realm, so that the substance and treasure of the realm may be consumed, that the same is against the king and his crown, as is contained in the petition before named. And likewise the same procurators, every one by himself examined upon the said matters, have answered and said, in the name and for their lords, as the said bishops have said and answered; and that the said lords spiritual will and ought to stand with the king in these cases loyally in maintenance of his crown, and in all other cases touching his crown and regalty, as they are bound by their allegiance.

Whereupon, our said lord the king, by the assent aforesaid, and at the request of his said Commons, hath ordained and established; that if anyone purchases or pursues or causes to be purchased or pursued in the court of Rome or elsewhere any such translations, processes, and sentences of excommunications, bills, instruments, or any other thing whatsoever which touches the king our lord, against him, his crown and regalty, or his realm, as before is said, and those who bring them within the realm, or receive them, or make thereof notification, or any other execution whatsoever, within the same realm or without; that they, their notaries, procurators, maintainers, abettors, favorers, and counsellors, shall be put out of the protection of our said lord the king, and their lands and tenements, goods and chattels, shall be forfeited to our lord the king; and that they shall be attached by their bodies, if they may be found, and brought before the king and his council, there to answer to the cases aforesaid, or that process be made against them

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IX. That since Urban the Sixth, no one is to be acknowledged as pope; but all are to live, in the way of the Greeks, under their own laws. X.-To assert that it is against sacred scripture that men of the church should have temporal possessions.

XI.-That no prelate ought to excommunicate any one unless he first knows that the man is excommunicated by God.

XII.-That a person thus excommunicating is thereby a heretic or excommunicate.

XIII.—That a prelate excommunicating a clerk who has appealed to the king, or to a council of the kingdom, on that very account is a traitor to God, the king and the kingdom.

XIV. That those who neglect to preach, or to hear the word of God, or the gospel that is preached, because of the excommunication of men, are excommunicate, and in the day of judgment will be considered as traitors to God.

XV. To assert that it is allowed to any one, whether a deacon or a priest, to preach the word of God, without the authority of the apostolic see, or of a catholic bishop, or some other which is sufficiently acknowledged.

XVI. To assert that no one is a civil lord, no one is a bishop, no one is a prelate, so long as he is in mortal sin.

XVII. That temporal lords may, at their own judgment, take away temporal goods from churchmen who are habitually delinquent; or that the people may, at their own judgment, correct delinquent lords. XVIII. That tithes are purely charity, and that parishioners may, on account of the sins of their curates, detain these and confer them on others at their will.

XIX. That special prayers applied to one person by prelates or religious persons, are of no more value to the same person than general prayers for others in a like positien are to him.

XX.-That the very fact that any one enters upon any private religion whatever, renders him more unfitted and more incapable of observing the commandments of God.

XXI. That saints who have instituted any private religions whatever, as well of those having possessions as of mendicants, have sinned in thus instituting them.

XXII. That religious persons living in private religions are not of the Christian religion.