The governance of England: otherwise called The difference between an absolute and a limited monarchy. A rev. text edited with introd., notes, and appendices by Charles Plummer.

and delybered with his fforsaid counsell, and þat his hyghnes haue vnderstond þer openyon in þe same; than shall men off his howsold be rewarded with corodyes, and haue honeste sustenance in þer olde dayis when thai mey no longer serue; and þe clarkes off is chapell þat haue wyfes, or be not avaunsed, be rewarded with pencions with owt grete abatynge off þe kynges revenues, ffor þer rewardes or sustenance. Ffor such corodes and pencions were ffirst geven to þe kyng ffor the same entent. But nowe off late tyme, oþer men then þe kynges servauntes haue askyd þem, and be importune sute haue geyten gret parte off thaym, to þe kynges gret harme and hurt off his said seruantes; wich be þe cause þeroff lyuen in þe gretter penurie, and in non suyrte off þer sustenance in tyme comyng, when thai shall not mowe do þe kyng seruice.

AND when þe kyng, be þe meanes afor said or oþer wyse, hath gotyn ayen his lyuelod, yff then it wolde lyke is most noble grace to establysh, and as who sayth, amortyse þe same lyuelod to is crowne, so as it mey neuer be alyened þerfro, with owt þe assent off his parlement, wych than wold be as a newe ffundacion of is crowne, he shall be þerby the