Aȝens this now rehercid mys bering of tho men and aȝens this her foul faring with hem silf and her vniust bering an hond is maad a book bi him silf clepid The book of feith and an other Of sacramentis; and also ij. othere bokis, of whiche oon is clepid The book of baptym, the other The book of eukarist, in which book sufficientli and cleerli al this now re|hercid foule and mys bering and vniust chalenging and blamyng is reproued and vnproued. And ther|fore, sithen so long a werk is seid and doon there, it is no nede forto seie ther of eny thing vnperfitli and vnfully and therfore vnsauorili here; lest perauenture for the lak and the noun hauyng at hond here of al that ouȝte be seid to gidere for strengthing of the treuthe, enemyes myȝten and wolden take colour that her parti is not so miche confoundid as it is, and that the contrarie partie to hem is not so weel proued as it is.
The xe. principal gouernaunce aȝens which summe of the comoun peple erren is this: That the clergie in certein causis and maters swerith and makith othere persoones forto swere, and allowith weel that princis and her officers being vndir hem bothe swere and make othere men of the layfe forto swere. Certis summe of the lay peple holden this gouernaunce to be vnleeful, and aȝens the comaundement of God; and that it is vttirli vnleeful eny man forto swere. Neuertheles for as miche as this vnwijs holding is sufficientli proued to be vntrewe in The book filling the iiij. tablis, in the secunde parti, bi manye chapi|tris, therfore no thing therof here.
The xje. principal gouernaunce, aȝens which summe of the lay peple erren, is vsid in the lay partie and not in the clergie and is this: That men for her trespacis ben doon into her deeth. For summe of the lay partie holden that no man schulde be slein of eny other man for eny trespace, cause, or
