The original [and] sprynge of all sectes [and] orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh.

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The original [and] sprynge of all sectes [and] orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh.
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[Printed in Southwarke :: By me James Nicolson for Jhon Gough],
1537.
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Monasticism and religious orders -- Early works to 1800.
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"The original [and] sprynge of all sectes [and] orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68520.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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xii. The fayth of the Bemes or order of the Hussites.

THough the Bemes haue ben vnder the B. of Romes iurisdiction and acco∣stumed wyth hys lawes and fayth, yet are they conuerted and seduced by Ihon Husse that was burnt in the councell of Constaunce. anno. M. cccc. xvi. so that they are deciuered and fallen from the sye Rome. They geue the sacramente of the altare vnto theyr laymē vnder both kyn¦des, agaynste the commaundement of the B. of Rome: yee and vnshryuen also. But in other thynges do they cleue to the Byshop of Rome: for they nother do eate

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flesh on wednisdayes, nor frydayes, they syng, hepe holy dayes and worshyp sayntes as in the byshopryke of Rome. They kepe theyr fastes very straytly. It is a fearce peo¦ple and enclyned to lyberte.

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