And as for there raylynge loke in
their excomunicacion /
and se whether they spare kinge or emproure or
the testament of
god. And as for obedience to father and mother /
Nay / they be immediatly vnder god and his holy vicar the
pope / he is their father
and on his ceremonies they must wayte. And as
for vnthankefull / they be so kynde / that if they haue
receaued a thousand pound londe of a man / yet for all that
they wold not receaue one of his offspringe
vn to a nightes herber at his nede / for their
founders sake. And
whether they be vngodly or no I reporte me vn
to the parchment.
And as for churlishnesse / se whether they will
not haue their causes venged / though it shuld cost hole
regions / ye and al christendome /
as ye shall se and as it hath cost halfe
christendome all redie. And as
for their promise or trucebreakynge / se whether
any appoyntement maye endure for their dispensacions / be it
neuer so lawfull / though
the sacrament were receaued for the
confirmacion. And se whether
they haue not broken all the appoyntementes made
betwene them
and their founders. And se whether they be not
accusers and traytours al so of all men / and that secretly
and of their very awne
kynges and of their awne nacion. And as for
their heedinesse / se
whether they be not prone / bold and runne
hedelonge vn to all mischeue / with out pitie and
compassion or caringe what misery and
destruccion shuld fall on other men / so they
maye haue their present
pleasure fulfilled. And se whether they loue
not their lustes / that they will not be refrayned from
them ether by any law of god or
man. And as for their apperaunce of godlynesse
/ se whether all be not gods seruice that they fayne / and
se whether not
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