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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The fift cause was, bicause that spirituall persons promoted to great benefices, and hauing their li|uings of their flocke, were lieng in the court in lords houses, and tooke all of the parishioners, and no|thing spent on them at all: so that for lacke of resi|dence both the poore of the parish lacked refreshing, and vniuersallie all the parishioners lacked preach|ing and true instruction of Gods word, to the great perill of their soules.