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Of sectes and orders.
¶ A treatyse of all sectes and orders where, whan & by whom they are begōne, stablyshed and confirmed.
¶ Of the Byshop of Rome, Car∣dinals and other of hys spiritualty in generall.
IN thys register or rehearsall of sectes is the Byshop of Rome (that vsurpatly called hymselfe Pope) the fyrst in ordre, as an heade & father of hys whole body, accom∣panyed wyth hys members, chylderen and creatures as a henne wyth hyr chekens, na∣mely: Cardinals, Patriarkes, Byshops, Curtisans, Prestes, Monkes, Freres, & hys whole spiritualty. Whose holynesse and lyfe (God be thanked) is so come to lyght, yt euen the chylderen vpon ye strete do speake and synge of it. And the deuell also doth shewe hym as though he were wery of hym