The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.

obedience crist vsed & tauȝtte & comaundid it [MS. inserts to. Perhaps the sentence should be corrected by repeat|ing ".be magnyfied & prechid."] be magnyfied & prechid more þan ony newe feyned obedience founden of synful men, þe whiche obedience neiþer crist ne his [page 238] apostlis deden ne tauȝten ne comaunden ne conseileden opynly þer-to. ¶ Þat chepynge, & namely feiris, be not vsed on þe halidaies, & algatis on þe sunday & in holy chirche, for þat is expresly aȝenst goddis comaundement & comone lawe of holy chirche. ¶ Þat open lecherie & avoutrie be not suffrid in grete placis in oure rewme, ne meyntened for annual rente, for þat is vterly aȝenst goddis biddynge. ¶ Þat þefte & raueynen & mansleyng & robberie be not meyntened in seyntiwarye vnder colour of priuylegie; siþ kyng & cristene men ben sworen to meynten eche man in his riȝt & distroie wrong & falsenesse. ¶ Þat worldly clerkis & feyned religious vsurpen not þe kyngis regalie, ne stelle fro hym his holy power graunted of god for no criynge or ypocrisie; siþ þei ben sworn to be trewe to þe kyng & furþere his worschipe & profit of his lond. ¶ Þat þe kyng & lordis gouerne hem self in here astaat as god ordeyned it, in gret wisdom, myȝt of men & sufficient riches to aȝen|stonde wrong & mysdoeris, & helpe pore men, fadirles & modirles & widewes & aliens in here lordischipe & worschipe, & rewarde trewe men, to reule clerkis in mekenesse, wilful pouert & bisynesse of gostly traueile for helpe of mannys soule, as crist & his apostlis diden, and suffre hem not to haunten anticristis ypocrisie & tirauntrie of þe comones bi feyned censures, iurisdiction & power of prisonynge. & þat þei reule here seruauntis & tenauntis in riȝt mercy, pees & charite, & suffre no man hardy to breke goddis hestis in here [herte MS.] presence, ne ony man don wrong or dispit to oþere, but in alle in worschipe of eche oþere in vnyte, pees & charite.