[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.