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An apology for Lollard doctrines, attributed to Wicliffe. Now first printed from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. With an introduction and notes by James Henthorn Todd.

ordeynid þis capitul, vnder þe peyn; seying: If ani of prestis, dekunis, or sodekunis, after þe ordinaunce of þe good memorie of our predecessor seynt Leoun, and pope Nicol, of þe chastite of clerk, hold concubyn opunly, or leuiþ not heer þat he holdiþ; vpon almiȝti Goddis half, and bi autorite of Peter and Poule, princis of postlis, we bid him, and aȝen sey him, þat [he] syng no messe, ne rede no gospel, ne pistil, at þe messe, ne dwel not wiþ prestis, ne tak no part of þe kirk. And as þe decretals declarun, in þre maneris [Decretals.] is þis callid notory; Oiþer wat it is lawfuly conuictid bi witnesses, or bi his oune cnowleching, or ellis bi þe dede þat mai not be weypid a wey, as þe dwelling to gidre of þe man and þe womman, and þe bringing forþ of barnis. And eft þe decre seiþ, If ani bischop, or [Decre.] ani of prestis, or dekunis, consent to fornicacoun, or to crime of incest in his parische, for price or prayour, or amendiþ not þat is done bi þe autorite of his office, be he suspendid. And eft writiþ [Decretal.] þe pope to þe bischop, We bid to þi broþerhed, þat þu steer bisili þe clerkis of þi jurisdiccoun, þat are wiþ in þe ordre of sodeken, or a boue, þat han concubins, þat þei moue hem fro hem, and reseyue hem no more aȝen; and if þei wernid hold hem stille, suspend hem fro office; and þei suspendid if þei wel dwel stille in þer iuel, do þey bisines to moue hem fro office for euer. And as þe doctor seiþ, [Doctor.] Þis schal be heuen wiþ deposing. And forsoþ seiþ the pope, We wel þat þe bischops þat are necligent in þis, vndir go þe same peyn. And eft þe decre biddiþ, Receyuiþ no wey þe office of him þat ȝee [Decre.] wot lieþ in synne of fornicacoun, and of symonye, and als mikil as ȝee mai, forbediþ swilk fro holi ministres; for it is nedeful, for þow þe sacraments han þe dignite of þer vertu, neuerþeles þey noy þus mikil boþ to þe ministring, and to þe receyuing hem, aȝen þe ordi|naunce, þat boþ þe ministring and to [? þe] receyuer vnworþily are wiþ hem verrey idolatrers; þer for sacraments are forbidun to be reyciuid of þe handis of such prestis, þat wan such prestis see hem dispicid of þe peple, þei be þe licliare callid to penaunce, and þus
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An apology for Lollard doctrines, attributed to Wicliffe. Now first printed from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. With an introduction and notes by James Henthorn Todd.
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Wycliffe, John, supposed author. d. 1384.
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London,: Printed for the Camden Society, by J.B. Nichols,
1842.
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Lollards

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