[1] [2] [3] In this yéere Reginald Peacoke bishop of Chiche|ster, abiured at Paules crosse, all his bookes burnt, and he himselfe commanded to keepe his owne house during his naturall life: Anno Reg 36. 1458 The bishop abiured for moouing a|gainst the popes extor|tion. because that he (verie well learned, and better stomached) began to mooue que|stions, not priuilie but op [...]nlie, in the vniuersities, concerning the annates, Peter pence, and other iu|risdictions & authorities, which the pope vsurped; and not onelie put foorth such questions, but declared his mind and opinion in the same. Some saie he held that spirituall persons by Gods law ought to haue no temporall possessions, nor that personall tithes by Gods law were due [nor that christian men were to beléeue in the catholike church, W. P. nor in the communi|on of saints, but to beleeue that a catholike church and a communion of saints there is] and that he held how the vniuersall church might erre in matters of faith; and that it is not of necessitie to beléeue all that which is ordeined by generall councels, nor all that which they call the vniuersall church ought to be allowed and holden of all christian people.