Compare 1577 edition: 1 The second was the great polling and extreame eraction, which the spirituall men vsed in taking of corps, presents, or mortuaries. For the children of the defunct should all die for hunger, and go a beg|ging, rather than they would of charitie giue to them the séelie cow which the dead man owght, if he had but onelie one; such was the charitie then.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The third cause was, that priests being surueiors, stewards and officers to bishops, abbats, and other spirituall heads, had and occupied farmes, gran|ges, and grasing in euerie countrie, so that the poore husbandmen could haue nothing but of them; and yet for that they should paie déerlie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The fourth cause was, that abbats, priors, and spi|rituall men kept tan-houses, and bought and sold wooll, cloth, and all maner of merchandize, as other temporall merchants did.