Item, from his first comming into the dyocesse, hee hath hadde and yet hathe hys onelye studye, laboure, [ 25] and practise, to suruey landes, and to looke for mines &c. neglecting his owne bounden duety to applye his booke and preaching.
Item, he keepeth no maner hospitalitie, but hath hys seruaunts table in one parlour with him, least any stran∣ger [ 26] shoulde approche, hys seruauntes being at theyr meate.
Item, he is commonly talking, not of any godlynes but of worldlye matters, as baking brewing, enclosing, [ 27] plowing, mining of milstones, discharging of tenaunts, and suche like, not onely at his table, but also most com∣monly at other places.
Item, he hath warned diuers tenauntes out of theyr landes, whiche they and theyr elders haue enioyed for [ 28] their rentes, these hundred yeares, and more: and occu∣pyed with tillage, whiche he sayth he will enclose, and beyng sued to, of poore men, because of quietnes, he an∣swered: the crowes shall eate the corne, rather then ye shal haue any profite thereof.
Item, when the Uicars Chorall of S. Dauids for re∣liefe of their hospitalitie, had an Iland of hys, called the bi∣shops [ 29] Isle, for xl. s. rent: he hath set it to a chapleyn of his for v.li. by yeare. And wher at the sute of the sayd Uicars, it was graunted by the bishop in the whole chapiter, that the Uicares should haue it for yeares at xl. s. rent, and pay xx.li. entrie: he now couetously and agaynst his promyse openly made, denyeth the same, except the Uicars would geue l.li.
Item, he caused the Curate of S. Dauids, to warne their tenauntes out of theyr sayde landes in the pulpit, to [ 30] the great offence of the people, which were wont to haue Gods word preached there: and so they sayd to the Curate at that tyme.
Item, to the plowing of a pasture not aboue x. dayes worke, in Lent. An. 1549. he had 32. ploughes in one day, [ 31] and those ploughes the priest bad in the Church, contrary to the statute of Gomortha in that behalfe prouided, and to the euill example of gentlemen in that country.
Item, where the kinges maiesties of godly remem∣braunce, [ 32] Henry theight, appointed at Brekenock a schole∣maister, vssher, Reader of diuinitie, a Minister, & certain scholers, and for the mayntenaunce thereof, appoynted lx. and xij.li. of the pensions and reuenues of Brekenocke: the Bishop finding it so furnished, hath neither Reader nor Minister there, couetously conuerting their stipends to his owne vse.
Item, the Bish. was twise in one day presented in the great court holden in the towne of Carmarthen, for en∣closing [ 33] and couetous encroching of the kinges hye way.
Item, he couetously occupyeth purchasing of landes, bying of cattell, marchaundise, and other thinges beyng [ 34] indetted a notable summe to the kinges Maiestie, as may by his accomptes in the courte of tenthes, and first fruites appeare.
Item, wheras one Lewis Iohn Thomas boole, put∣ting from hym hys lawfull wedded wife, vppon Christ∣mas [ 35] euen last past, without banes had mariage solemni∣zate with a concubine of hys in a Churche within 3. myles of the Byshoppes abode at that time: The Bishop since knowing the premisses hath not onely of a couetous mind entred familiaritye with the sayde Lewis, and bought a peece of land of him, but also euer since hath (for to haue hys landes good chepe) left both the parties and priest vn∣punished, vsing hym to familiarly, that whereas a Som∣ner cited the parties to appeare among other criminals for the same facte: the Byshoppe commaunded the sayde