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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Fond wor|shipping of men.23 That no man should vpon some new rash de|uotion giue reuerence or honour to any dead bodies, fountaines of water, or other things, without the bi|shops authoritie, which hath béene well knowne to haue chanced heretofore.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 24 That there should be no more buieng and sel|ling of men vsed in England, which was hitherto ac|customed, as if they had béene kine or oxen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 25 That all such as committed the filthie sinne of Sodomitrie should be accurssed by the decrée of this councell, till by penance & confession they should ob|teine absolution. Prouided that if he were a pr [...]est or any religious person, he should lose his benefice, and be made vncapeable of any other ecclesiasticall pre|ferment if: he were a laie man, he should lose the pre|rogatiue of his estate. Prouided also that no religi|ous man might be absolued of this crime, but at the bishops hands.

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