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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The sixt cause was, to sée one priest little learned, to haue ten or twelue benefices, & to be resident vp|on none; and to know manie well learned scholars in the vniuersities, which were able to preach & teach, to haue neither benefice nor exhibition.