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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Frier Pate|shull forsa|king his pro|fes [...]on prea|cheth openlie against his owne order.Now bicause such as obteined this fauour, inioied great liberties, manie were glad to bestow largelie, to be so preferred, the frier being redie to admit those that offered most. Among other, one Peter Pate|shull, a frier of the Augustines order, was made by him the popes chapleine, a man not vnlearned, and one that fauoured Wicliffes doctrine, and there vp|on forsaking his priuate profession, gaue himselfe to a publike trade of life, which might séeme to him more holie, commendable, and sure. Héerevpon, he tooke vpon him to preach against his owne order, namelie in a sermon which he made in saint Christo|phers church in London. He inueied so earnestlie a|gainst the abuses and heinous crimes which the fri|ers, sometimes his brethren, vsed to put in practise, that it was an horror to heare.Wickleuists. There were present an hundred at the least of Wicliffes opinion at his ser|mon. Now in the meane while that he so laid foorth what he knew against his late brethren, some per|sons there were that ran to the Augustine friers, and declared the whole matter; wherevpon a dozen of the hardiest and lustiest fellowes among them came to the church, where this Pateshull was preaching, and hearing what was said, they began to be sore moo|ued, insomuch that one of them more zealous in his religion than the other, stepped foorth, and gainesaid those things which the preacher proponed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When the Wicleuists perceiued this, they set vp|on him that so disquieted the congregation, and lai|eng hands on him, threw him downe, trode him vn|der their féet, and lent him manie a good buffet: and chasing all the other friers awaie, they were fullie bent to haue killed them, and set their house on fier, crieng out with lowd voices;

Let vs destroie these murtherers, let vs burne these Sodomits, and hang vp such traitors of the king and realme. And run|ning thus with such a furious noise and outrage, they purposed verelie to haue set fire on the friers lod|gi [...]s, but that through the humble praier of frier Thomas Ashborne, and one that was his fellow, be|ing reputed for two good men, and doctors of diuini|tie, they were staied.
The comming also of one of the shirifes of London holpe much to appease them, so that by his persuasion, they returned home to their houses. But Peter Pateshull, being mainteined a|mong them, was counselled, sith he was interrupted in his sermon, to set downe in writing all such mat|ters as he was about to intreat of,A libell by fri|er Pateshull against his brethren. & what he knew further. He therefore deuised a libell, in which he accu|sed diuerse of his brethren, of murthering sundrie of their fellowes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And for more proofe to be giuen to his saiengs, he told the names of them that were made awaie, and the names also of the murtherers, and shewed where those that were murthered were buried. He affirmed further, that the said friers his brethren of late, were Sodomits and traitors, both to the king and realme, and manie other things he declared (too too bad) in that his writing or libell which he fastned vpon the church doore of S. Paule in London, that the more confusi|on might thereby redound vnto his late brethren, the friers aforesaid. In the beginning of the same libell [...]e protested, that he was got foorth of the diuels dun|geon, and through the grace of God escaped from a|mongst wicked and filthie persons; by reason where|of, and for that he was an auoucher of the veritie, he said, he was sure to suffer great aduersities at the friers hands, if they might laie hold on him. But he thanked pope Urbane, for that through his grant he had obteined such libertie, that by help of his fréends, he might lawfullie withdrawe himselfe from the hands of his enimies.

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