[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.

In the same parle|ment were statutes made concerning religious men, which had their head and chéefest houses in for|ren regions.