of her riȝtis, and upon knyȝtis and squyers and othere louȝer [louȝe, MS. (first hand).] comuneris into her honest chering and weel fare and into nurisching of frendschip and of loue, and miche therof gooth into almes of poor men. Where aȝenward, if all this same receit schulde come into the hondis of grete lordis or of knyȝtis, it schulde not be so weel spend; but it schulde be spend in werre or fiȝting or in reueling, as sopers in nyȝtis at tauernes, and in costiose horsis, and in wantowne and nyse disgisingis of araies, (and so forth of manye othere staryng [staryng is added by a later hand.] gouernauncis, semyng summe wijlde woode,) as othere men therto taking heed mowen weel ynouȝ aspie. Wherfore ech weel avisid man, consider|ing bi lenger consideracioun what is now here in this schort rehercel spokun, schulde and ouȝte bi resoun take riȝt weel aworth and be plesid, (whether he be knyȝt, squyer, gentilman, ȝoman, or louȝer,) that the clergie (bothe religiose and othere not religiose) reioice her seid endewing vnmouable, rather than the seid endewing were had in the lay mennys hondis, and bi proces of tyme schulde come into the hondis of tem|poral lordis. And here yn y eende the proof of the ije. principal conclusioun of this present iije. partie.
The iije. principal conclusioun of this present iije. partie is this: The iije. principal gouernaunce sett in the first chapiter of this present iije. partie is leeful. That this conclusioun is trewe, y proue thus: Ech persoonis gouernaunce, which Holi Scripture forbedith not, doom of resoun forbedith not, mannis lawe for|bedith not, is leeful and not worthi be vndirnome and blamed. But so it is, that neither Holi Scripture, neither doom of resoun, neither mannis lawe forbedith preestis of the Newe Testament forto haue in her pro|pre lordschip and in comoun lordschip to gidere with
