is also so open that he nedith no proof, but if it be this: Ech gouernaunce is doable ynouȝ aȝens which is no lett founde, neither bi resoun, neither bi Holi Scripture, neither bi eny other allowable wey.
The iiije. trouthe is this: Whanne money or other temporal good mouable or vnmovable is to be paied in the ije. maner of the ije. trouthe, it may iustli be restreyned and aȝen holde fro paiyng, in caas that the deede be not do for whos performyng the same money is to be paied and ȝouun. Forwhi thilk monei is to be paied as reward and meede to the receyuer for the doing or laboring aboute the same deede, and a reward or meede folewith aftir the deede for which he is reward or meede.
The ve. trouthe is this: Whanne eny such temporal good movable or vnmouable is ȝouun in the first maner of the ije. trouthe to eny oon persoon and not to hise successouris, and is to be paied in the same first maner to the same oon persoon as bi vertu and strengthe of the same now seid ȝeuyng maad in the first maner of the ije. trouthe, thilk good mai not iustli be restreyned and be aȝen holde fro payment to the same persoon, thouȝ the deede schal not be doon and performed into which deede to be doon the same good was to the same persoon so in the first maner of the ije. trouthe ȝouun; namelich if it be not vttirli certein that the receyuer schal not performe the same seid deede. Forwhi the ȝifte of the good to the receyuer gooth bifore the deede, into which deede the receyuer is therbi bounde; and in lijk maner the payment of the same good to the receyuer ouȝte go bifore the same seid deede therbi to be doon, bi as myche as thilk payment is the fynding and the help|ing in expensis and in othere necessaries geting to the receyuer into the same deede therbi folewingli to be doon or the better to be doon. And therfore, if the receyuer wole knouleche that he wole and schal per|forme
