Compare 1577 edition: 1 To this the king (by the mouth of the lord chancel|lor) answered; that where he disabled himselfe in wit and learning, his owne ornate oration there made testified the contrarie. And as touching his discreti|on and other qualities, the king himselfe had well knowne him and his doings since he was in his ser|uice, to be both wise and discreet: and so for an able man he accepted him, and for the speaker he him ad|mitted. When the commons were assembled in the nether house,The commõs of the lower house com|plaine against the clergie. they began to commune of their griefes, wherewith the spiritualtie had before time greeuouslie oppressed them, both contrarie to the law of the realme, and contrarie to all right: and in spe|ciallie they were sore mooued with six great causes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The first for the excessiue fines, which the ordinaries tooke for probats of testaments, insomuch that sir Henrie Guilford knight of the garter, and control|lor of the kings house, declared in the open parle|ment on his fidelitie, that he and others being execu|tors to sir William Compton knight, paied for the probat of his will to the cardinall and the archbishop of Canturburie a thousand markes sterling. After this declaration were shewed so manie extortions doone by ordinaries for probats of willes, that it were too much to rehearse.

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.