69. Churches patrimonie.
Why pretend yee to haue the benefices and patrimonie of the Church, seeing yee cannot shew your selues to be lawfull heires and successours to them, who were the true and right posessors
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Why pretend yee to haue the benefices and patrimonie of the Church, seeing yee cannot shew your selues to be lawfull heires and successours to them, who were the true and right posessors
therof before you? And why haue yee reiected as Idolatrie, all that which appertayneth to them whom yee cal papistes, excepting only the patrimonie & liuing of the Church? Or if there were no Churchin the contry before your coming, why pretend yee as pa∣trimony, any other thing thē hath already bene giuen to your con∣gregation by those of your owne coate?