[1] But the king and lords of
the land thought it a|gainst reason, that the pope should take and receiue
the profits of those abbeies and monasteries, which had beene founded by
their predecessors for the ser|uice of God, and the maintenance of
almesdeeds, and good hospitalitie to be kept: and so the pope chan|ged his
purpose, touching abbeies, but granting to the K. the tenth of the English
churches for two yéers, he obteined the first fruits of the same churches
for himselfe, as before he required.
A statute a|gainst the re|ligious per|sons.
N. Triuet.