now lyuyng, [lylyuing, MS.] whiche successouris not ȝit han so tres|pacid, that thei schulden be punyschid or vnpossessid in her procutour or attorney occupiyng now tho godis and the possessioun of tho godis in his and her names to gidere.
And therfore folewith her of the xje. trouthe: That the iugis of these now seid preestis and clerkis, thus trespacing and wronging, ouȝte punysche tho preestis and clerkis bi payment of money, or bi open schame and peyne, or bi remouyng hem fro her had dignitees and officis, so that othere persoones worthi therto be putt yn forto succede to hem and forto continue the riȝt and the possessioun in her owne names and in her successouris names, that the successouris be not oonys vnpossessid for the perel and the wrong bifore sett in the vje. trouthe; which perel and wrong schulde ellis bifalle to the seid successouris. And so bi al the processe bigunne bifore at the xvje. chapiter of this iije. partie and continued hidir to it is open that tho ij. opiniouns, conclusiouns, and holdingis there in the bigynnyng of the xvje. chapiter rehercid, ben errouris and vntreuthis, if it what is presupposid to the vje. trouthe be trewe.
xviij. CHAPITER.
FERTHERMORE, thouȝ this processe bifore mad fro the bigynnyng of the xvje. chapiter hidir to be sufficient forto schewe the ij. opiniouns there rehercid to be vntrewe, ȝit into the same purpos more mai be seid thus: In iiij. maners a man mai ȝeue to an othir man aloone, or to the othir man and to hise successouris,
