Admonition.
The seuentéenth. We should be to long to tell your honours of Cathedrall Churches, the dennes aforesayde of all loytering lubbers, where maister Deane▪ maistr Uicedeane, maister Ca∣nons, or maister Prebendaries the greater, maister pecie Canons, or Canons the lesser, maister Chauncelor of the Church, master Treasurer, or otherwise called Iudas the purse bearer, the chief Chauncer, Singing men speciall fauourers of religion, squeaking Queristers, Organ players, Gospellers, Pistellers▪ Pentioners, Readers, Uergers. &c. liue in great idlenesse, and haue theyr abyding. If you woulde knowe whence all these came, we can easily answere you, that they came from the Pope, as out of the Troian horses bellie, to the destruction of Gods kingdome. The Church of God neuer knew them, neither doth any reformed Church in the world know them.
Here you speake both without the booke of common prayer and Scriptures also, for neyther are Cathedrall Churches conteyned in that booke, neither haue you any Scripture to proue that which you so impudently affirme.
God be thanked it is well knowne to those that be not with malice blinded, that Cathedrall Churches be furnished with godly, zealous* 1.1 and learned men. And that they be the chiefe and principall orna∣ments of this Realme, and next to the Uniuersities, chiefest main∣teyners of godlynesse, religion and learning: there be some desire the spoyle of them, whose instruments you be: But I hope both theyr mouthes and yours also shall be first stopped with earth. Maister Deane, maister Uicedeane, maister Canons, &c. as much as they loy∣ter, may thinke themselues fit to be compared with such as you are, in any respectes.