| CHAP. XIX. | Avarice of prelates, their litigiousness, oppression; their pomp and war|like ways. |
| CHAP. XX. | Prelates teach other men to maintain them in their sins and to persecute poor priests. |
| CHAP. XXI. | Prelates set more store by their own laws than by the gospel. |
| CHAP. XXII. | Prelates teach that nothing in the church is lawful that is not confirmed by the pope, who is commonly the worst of prelates and antichrist. |
| CHAP. XXIII. | Prelates are enemies of peace, counselling war to divert attention from their own sins. Besides advising it, they take part in it. |
| CHAP. XXIV. | The worldly and pompous life of prelates an ill example. |
| CHAP. XXV. | Money sent out of the realm to bring preferment and to maintain suits at Rome. |
| CHAP. XXVI. | Prelates by their invention of new laws declare Christ's laws to be in|sufficient, and so slander Christ. |
| CHAP. XXVII. | Prelates make men assent to their false teaching, and deceive lords so as to make them imprison true men. |
| CHAP. XXVIII. | Prelates make men study new laws, and keep them from studying Holy Writ. |
| CHAP. XXIX. | Prelates make lords imprison any one who has been under curse for forty days. Lords should make sure that the curse is rightful. |
| CHAP. XXX. | Prelates' arguments for their claims to obedience and power are like the arguments of apes and gluttons. |
| CHAP. XXXI. | Prelates despoil all classes of men in different ways. |
| CHAP. XXXII. | Prelates think more of their parks being broken than of breaking of God's laws. |
| CHAP. XXXIII. | Prelates take upon them the state of the apostles, and live contrary to it, so deceiving men like enemies who mount false arms. |
| CHAP. XXXIV. | Prelates compel priests to fight in person. |
| CHAP. XXXV. | Evils caused by celibacy of priests. |
| CHAP. XXXVI. | Prelates silence those who would rebuke them, lest their hypocrisy be known, and they lose their endowments. |
| CHAP. XXXVII. | Prelates maintain vicious men in their retinue. |
| CHAP. XXXVIII. | Prelates deceive men as to pilgrimages and pardons, and teach them to care more for vows than for God's laws. |
| CHAP. XXXIX. | Prelates rob the lower clergy in assessment of taxes. |
| CHAP. XL. | Prelates are dumb dogs, who do not warn the flock committed to them, but give it to Satan in exchange for wealth. |
| CHAP. XLI. | Prelates crucify Christ and slay his apostles spiritually, and so are worse than Jews. |
| CHAP. XLII. | Prelates blaspheme the Holy Ghost by preventing true preaching. |
| CHAP. XLIII. | Prelates claim the power of absolution, which God has reserved to himself. They have only power to act as messengers. Yet they lay more stress on their absolution than on God's forgiveness. |
