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.

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.