[1] [2] For the proofe whereof was alleaged, that if there were in England but tw [...]ntie thousand parishes, and euerie parish should gi [...] an hundred markes, that were but fiftéene hundr [...] thousand markes, which is but an hundred thousand pounds; and there be not ve|rie manie parishes in England one with another, a|ble to spare an hundred markes,There are no [...] 10000 pari|shes in Eng|land as Stow hath trulie noted. out of cities and townes. And where it is written, that in England there be fortie thousand parish churches, it was proo|ued that there were not thirtéene thousand at this daie. Hard hold there was about this demand, and certeine wise and discréet persons were sent to the cardinall, to mooue him to be a meane to the king,The obstinate answer of the cardinall to the motion of the common house in the parlement. that a lesse summe might be accepted: but he answe|red that he would rather haue his toong plucked out of his head with a paire of pinsers, than to mooue the king to take anie lesse summe: and so with that an|swer they departed, reporting to the house the cardi|nals words. Then euerie daie was reasoning, but nothing concluded.