¶The .lx. chapiter treateth of seculer prestes that desyre to entre into religion in any monastery.

Page  [unnumbered]ALbeit that this .lx. chapiter nor no parte therof may touche or concerne the congregacion of Mynchins / yet for the cause aboue rehersed ī the other chapiters of this rule not towchynge them / and specyally for the instruction of som monkes meynly lettered / we haue trāslated the say∣de .lx. chapiter ī fourme folowing. ¶If any preeste desyre to be receyued & takyn into the monastery / it shal not be lyght∣ly at the firste desyre graunted to him. Howe be it if he cōti∣nually {per}siste in this his desyre & supplicaciō / let him knowe & be well assured / to be bounde to obserue all the strayctnes of the rule / and that no maner of thinge shalbe to him ther∣of released / according to the scripture. Frēde or broder wher¦fore cāme thou? Neuerthelesse: he may be licenced to stonde in order aftur the abbot / and to gyue benediction / & to synge masse / if so be that thabbot so cōmaunde. And elles beynge not cōmaunded / let him in no wyse presume any thynge a∣boue a nother brother. But let him euer remembre that he is subiect and bounde to reguler obseruance / and by the rea∣son of his ordre / let him the rather gyue all other example of all mekenes & humylite / and if he be the cause of any goode ordināce or order of any other good thynge in the monaste∣ry / let him euer regarde that place and degre that he entred into / whan he cāme firste into the monastery / and not that place nor degre whiche for the reuerence of presthod to him was graūted. And also if any clarke not preste of lyke desy∣re / couet to be accept & associat īto the monastery / let him be set in ameyne place / so that firste he promyse thobseruacion of the rule and his stabilite in the same.