Compare 1577 edition: 1 4 That if any of them chanced to be accused of breaking this ordinance, he should be driuen to purge himselfe with six sufficient witnesses of his owne or|der, if he were a préest: if a deacon, with foure: and if a subdeacon, with two.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 5 That such preests as would forgo seruing at the altar, and holie order (to remaine with their wiues) should be depriued of their benefices, and not suffered to come within the quire.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 6 That such as contemptuouslie kept still their wiues, and presumed to say masse, if being called to satisfaction, they should neglect it, they should then be excommunicated.Archdeacons and canons. Within compasse of which sen|tence all archdeacons and prebendarie canons were comprised, both touching the forgoing of their wo|men, and auoiding of their companie, and also the punishment by the censures of the church, if they transgressed the ordinance.