IN this lyttell Treatyle here folowyng y u mayste beholde moste Christen rea [...]r (as in a glas most clere and bryght) y e very vysnomy, Image, Figure, Shape, and fassiō, of our Popyshe popettes whiche hathe named them selue Popes (whiche y e truthe to saye are Byshoppes of Rome) how & in what thyng theyr great labors and paynes cōsysteth Only in makynge of lawes to stabilyshe theyr owne auctoryties, And in settynge vp longe Matyns and Masses, with Diriges & other patrynges, That at no tyme ther shulde be any place gyuē that Goddes worde shulde be preached to the comfort of them that are derelye bought with the bloude of our mercifull sauiour Christ. These are the mysty aungelles of Satan (y t Paule warneth vs of (whiche transfygureth them selues in to the symilitude & Image of the aungelles [Page] of lyght. ¶ Here in mayste thou also beholde nowe that all Ceremonies that at this day is vsed in the church, Are the Institucions and ordinaunces of Men, and therfore not to be estemed of no such valour, that Godes worde shulde gyue place to let these dom paterynges be ministred. But that all these ought to gyue place and clerely to be put awaye, when godes worde cōmeth to be lyuely and clerely preached, which the Lorde of Glory graunt to be, Amen
¶ In the yere of our lorde god .C.x
EVaristus Byshop of Rome ordey [...]d that if a Byshop were accused by the comen people, it shulde not be receaued. ¶Item that a Byshop whan he preacheth, shulde haue .viii. Deacons to wayght vpon hym.
¶ In the yere of oure Lorde god .C.xix.
¶ Alexander bysshop of Rome ordeyned that they shulde be accursed that dyd let any y t were sent from y e See apostolicall [Page] ¶And y t a lay man shuld not sewe none of the Clergye at the tēporall lawe vpō payne of excommunication. ☞ Item y t ones a day the Preste shulde sacrifyce the bodye of Christ. &c. ¶Item he added to y e Sacrifyce and memory, of the passion of Christ (Qui pridie ꝙ paterecur. &c.) to be sayd vnto these wordes (Thys is my bodye. &c.) ¶Item he ordeyned that water shuld be myngled with y e wyne, & that it shuld be vnleuioned brede that was occupyed in y e oblation & not leuende bred as was afore. Also he ordeyned holy water to be made to fere dyuels a way w t al.
¶In the yere of our lorde .C.xxix.
¶Syxtus bysshop of Rome, ordeyned y t no prophane creature or lay man shulde lay hondes on holy thynges. ¶ Also that y e corporas clothe shuld be of fyne lynyn. ¶And that the Masse shuld be celebrate vpon the auter, & that in it shuld be sayd thryse Sanctus.
☞In the yere of our lorde .C.xxxix.
[Page]☞Tellesphorus bysshop of Rome, ordeyned the .xl. Dayes afore Ester called lent to be fasted. Also y t a Preest vpō Cristmas daye might cōsecrate thryse, or thry masses. Also that Gloria in exelsis shuld be songe in the masse.
¶In the yere of our lorde .C.xl.
¶ Higinius Byshop of Rome ordeyned that Solempne churches shulde be halowed w tout sacrifice or without a masse. And y t the materiall thynges of the churche sholde not be turned in Prophayne vses. And y t a infant shule be presented at Baptyme or confirmacion, or Bishopynge be one man or one woman.
☞ In the yere of our lorde .C.xliiii.
☞ Pius Byshop of Rome Ordeyned Easter daye to be celebrate vpon the sonday. Also the payne that prestes shuld haue if they neglected or let passe any parte of the Celebration. Also that none shuld swere nether by the here nor hed of god. Also maydens before. xxv. yere of age & [Page] after the .xii. daye shulde not be consecrated into religion. ¶And y t is sacrilege rashely to cause the profettes of the churche to be minished nor the religious mē to be put out of fauor.
¶ In the Iere of our lorde .C.lxvi.
¶ Sater Bysshop of Rome ordeyned y e a preeste shuld not say masse or sacrifyce except ii. Folkes at the leaste were present. And that nūnes shuld not coche the corporas clothe the Chalyce nor the kyuerynge of the chalys. And that Nūnes shall not Sacrifice in the tyme of seruice. Item that a blessynge Preste be present, at the tyme of matrymony, Item that a mayde be gyuen to her husbande solempni of her father or mother or other frendes. Item y t a vnlawful othe is to be broken. Item y e vpon Mawndy, thuesday men shuld receaue the sacrament.
¶ In the yere of our lorde .C.lxivii.
¶ Eleuterius byshop of Rome ordened y t no meate shuld be forsaken thorown a [Page] supersticious name. That no mā shuld be purdowne from theyr, dygnyte. But if they be fyrst accused and then conuicted. He that is gyltye & absent shall not be condempned though hys acccusor cal vpon hym. Vnder this byshop y e Brytaynes receyued the fayth of Christ.
¶ In the yere of our lorde .C.lxxxxii.
¶ Victor byshop of Rome ordeyned that Ester day shuld be Celebrate on the sonday after the .xiiii daye of the mone of the .i. Moneth. Also y t euery mā of necessite requyred myght be baptysed whē he please. And that those y t wolde not be recō syled from theyr olde malyce, they shuld be excōmunicate from the seruyce of god.
¶ In the yere of our lorde .CC.iii.
¶ Seuerinus ordeyned y t the sacrament shuld be cōsecrate in a chalyce of Glasse & not of tre, as a fore. ☞ Also that Christē people shuld rescyue the sacramēt on Ester day at y e laest. And y t prestes shuld be w t the Byshop when he saythe masse
☞In the yere of our lorde .CC.xii.
☞ Calixtus ordeyned, that the ymbryng dayes shulde be fasted that whete, wyne & oyle myght be encrease. ☞ And that those whiche shuld take orders shuld abstayne from wyues for euer, Item that a byshop shuld not be cōsecrated but yf he were lawfully chose. That prestes shold not be accused by defamed ꝑsons. That accusars of clarckes, yf they be suspecte enemies, they shal not be admitted in the courte or lawe. ☞ Also that the hurters of pylgryms shulde be accursed.
☞ In the yere of our lorde .CC.lii.
☞ Fabian ordeyned the holy oyle shulde be reuyued euery yere. And y t the olde shulde be brēt on maūdy thursday. That crysten people shulde receyue the sacrament thryse a yere. Also that no man shulde loke to y e prestes lyuing but shuld herken to his doctryne & those thynges that he mynystrythe. In that clarkes that are gylte shulde be punyshed by the [Page] lawe of the chyrche. Item that those y t reproueth wrōgfully and clark, shulde be a cursed. That no man shulde take a wyfe within .v. degre of bloude.
☞In the yere of our lorde .CC.lv.
☞ Cornelius ordeyned y t no man shuld constrayne a preste to swere but in a matter Of the fayth. That those which are put vnto theyr others, by the order of the lawe shuld be fastynge.
☞In the yere of our lorde .CC.lxi.
☞Stephanus ordeyned y e clarkes shuld not were the vestamentes of the churche but in the ministracion of holy thynges. Item those y t take away y e goodes of the church shalbe cōdempned as mēslayers. Those that haue lefte the fayth, and are penytēt shal not be baptysed agayne.
☞In the yere of our lord .CC.lxiiii.
☞ Sixtus ordeyned y t a preest shulde sacrifyse vpon a halowed altare & he gaue vnto saynt Laurence the treasure of the churche to dystrybute.
In the yere of our lord .CC.lxxiii.
Helix ordeyned holy dayes yerely in remēbraunce of martyrs. He renewed consecraciōs & halowynges of chyrches that prestes shulde not saye masse but in holy place onely.
In the yere of our lord .CC.lxxvii.
EVticianus ordeyned that those y t geld thēselues, & those y t are buggerers & abbates y t presume to defyle virgyns shuld be excōmunicat. That newe frutes shuld be blessed vpon y e auter Itē y t a marter shuld be beryed in a cope.
In the yere of our lorde .CC.lxxxv.
Catus ordeyned that they shuld assend by vii. distynet orders to be a byshop. Itē y t no lay man nether heretycke nor vnbaptysed mā shal cal a clarck to y e lawe.
In the yere of our lorde .CC.lxxxxvii.
Marcellinus for feare of payne cōmitted Idolatrye & afterwarde dyd penaūce and y e time ther was xvii.M.i.xxx. dais marterd by Dyoclesyan the Emperour.
☞In the yere of our lorde .CCC.vi.
Marcellus was y e fyrst that gaue tytles to paryshes and dyoces in Rome.
In the yere of our lord .CCC.xi.
Eusebius ardeyned y t those that takyth away any thynge praynyng to y e church shall restore .x. tymes asmoche agayne, Itē that prestes shuld not be accused but of men of gret grauyte. The workers of witchcraft & defamed persons shall not be receaued as witnesses. Also a woman y t is spoused to her husband may departe from hym & go into Religion.
In the yere of our lorde .CCC.xiii.
Melacides y e last marter from Peter ordeyned y t no man shuld fast on sonday or thursdaye. That no man shuld be condempned of suspicion before the dede be proued. That a clarck shuld abstayne frō seculer busines.
In the yere of our lorde .CCC.xvii.
Syluester Ordeyned y t the holy oyle shuld be consecrated by a byshop. And y e [Page] chyldren beyng baptysed shuld be confyrmed by a byshop. Item y t prestes shulde a noynt syk folkꝭ. Item y t wensday fryday and saterday shuld be fasted. Item y t prestes may not be called of a lay man into no law. Item y t a prest shuld not be aturne in y e temporall lawe. Itē y t prestes shuld were no sylk in clothꝭ. Itē y t he shall haue no dyed corporas cloth. Also he was y e fyrst y t caused a deacon to put a cope on hym in tyme of masse and a fanon on hys left hande
¶ In the yere of our lord .CCC.xxxviii.
☞Marcus ordeyned y t the crede shuld be long a loft after y e gospel. That a clark shuld not be brought to the tēporal law.
¶ In the yere of our lorde .CCC.lxxiii.
¶Damasus ordeyned that the confite or shuld be sayd at y e beginnyng of y e masse. Also he caused fyrst y e deuision of y e quere y e one shuld syng on verse on y e one syde and y e other on y e other syde. And y t gloria patti shuld be songe at the ende of euery [Page] psalme. Also y t those y e brek his canon lawe shulde be counted as blasphemers of y e spirit. He gaue autorite to .s. Ieromꝭ wrytyngꝭ He ordeyned y e gospel & pistle to be red in y e masse He wryt y e lyues of his p̄decessors & many lawes. In hys tyme y e counsel of Constantinople was
☞In the yere of our lorde .CCC.xC.
¶ Siricius ordeyned y t orders shuld be gyuen dyuerse tymes of the yere. And y t Prystes shuld be made by the bysshoppꝭ only. And y t prystes shuld not dwell w t no womē, But they were nye kynne to them. Also y t no man Maryinge a wydowe shulde not be preste.
¶ In the yere of our lorde .CCCC.v.
¶Anastasius, ordeyned y t men shuld stā de vp at y e readyng of the gospel & here it in remembraunce. Item that those y t lacked any of theyr members, or partꝭ of theyr bodyes shuld not be made prystꝭ.
Also he ordeyned fyrste the Order of saynct Hierome.
¶In the yere of our lord iiii.C.viii.
Innocentius ordeyned y e Saterdayes shuld be fasted. A church ons halowed shuld not be halowed agayn. Item that a statute made of the clargy without the cōsent of the byshop shulde be as voyde. Item that it shalbe counted Simonye to them that solde Prebendes, dignityes or of holy Oyle. Itē on Solempne feastes those that are Christen people shuld afore that they receyue the sacramēt gyue eche other a kysse of peace.
In the yere of our lorde .iiii.C.xxiiii.
Sozinus ordeyned y t the paschall taper shulde be halowed in euery paryshe on Ester euen. Item that clarkes shulde not drynke in tauernes. Item y t prē tyses shuld not take orders.
In the yere of our lord .iiii.C.xxxiii.
Bonefacius ordeined y t no man shuld be made a preste before .xxx. yere & that y e seruaunte that ranne awaye from hys master shuld not be receyued to a pryste.
In the yere of our lorde .iiii.C.xliii.
[Page]Leo ordeyned that in baptyme and cō fyrmacyon we shuld haue one god father Item y t in septuagesime & quadragesyme and aduente, Alleluya shuld not be song nor gloria in excelsis. He ordeyned hanc igitur to be sayd, in the canō of the masse Item y t a Byshop of Viā called Mamarcus instituted the Latony to be songe.
In the yere of our lord .iiii.C.lxiii.
Hilarius ordeyned y t byshopes shuld not chose thē successors This byshop gathered al y e decrees of his p̄decessors into one boke & publyshed thē to all y e world.
In the yere of our lord .v.C.xxv.
Iohn y e .i. ordeyned y t the Emperours shuld be subiectꝭ vnto y e byshopes & not to bere rule ouer thē. In y t tyme the holynes of Bn̄d [...]e was ī y e exstemaciō which ordeined the Relion of monkes. Whiche thenseforth was deuyded in many housholdes.
In the yere of our lorde .v.C.xxxii.
Bonyface y e .ii. ordeyned that the lay [Page] people shuld here theyr diuine seruice in a seuerall place from the clergye.
¶ In the yere of our lorde .v.C.lvi.
☞Pelagius .i. ordeyned y t prestes shuld say theyr canonicall houres dayly. And that ī the tyme of lent they shulde not celebrate before they had sayd y e last hour. And y t ther shal not be admitted ī the spirituall courte no lybell of accusation on lesse the party accused be present. Also y t seismatykes & heretikes shuld be oppressed with the seculer power.
¶In the yere of our lord .v.C.xCii.
¶Gregory y e great wrote fyrst himselfe in his letter ī these wordes seruus seruerum y t is the seruaūt of al seruaūtes. In y e sinode of y e .xxiiii. fathers he confyrmed opēly .iiii. general coūcellꝭ. He brought into the church ornamentes & syngyng. He ordeyned that the masse shuld begin w t a verse of y e spalter. And that kyrieleyson shuld be repeted .ix. tymes. He ordeyned Alleluya to be sayd also y e offertorye [Page] he ordeyned & in y e canon of y e masse to be sayd. Deꝰ q nr̄os. &c. & after y e canō of y e d [...]ical oraciō to be sayed ouer y e hoste. at y e houres he ordeyned Deꝰ ī adiutoriū to be sayd w t gloria pr̄i. And y t the last wyll of thē y t died shuld be kept & ratified. And y t the .iiii. dayes before the fyrst sonday intent shuld be fasted, Also y t mē maryed to ii. wiues & vserers shuld not be admitted to be prestꝭ. Itē y t mē leuing theyr wiuꝭ w t cōsent y t their wiues ought thē to enter īto religiō, And also wemē leuīg their husbāde with cōsent their husbādꝭ ought also to enter īto religiō. Also y t their shal not be ii. metropolitās ī one ꝓuēce, This mā cōmaūdeth to prechers y t they shuld vse descressiō both ī speking & in keping of silēs. ¶And he belded .vi. monasteries our of y e groūde of his owne cost And he mayd his owne house a Religious house And like him shal ye skan [...] fynde any.✚
¶ In the yere of our lorde .vi.C.v.
Sabinus ordeined y t the houres of y e day [Page] shuld be made knowē vnto y e church bi y e distinctiō of y e ryngīg of bellꝭ And y t thee shuld lāpes cōtinually burne ī y e church.
☞In the yere of our lorde .vi.C.vii.
Boniface y e .iii. ordeyned y t the corporas cloth at y e cōsecratiō shuld belayde abrode by y e prest & that none shuld be elected ī y e place of the dede byshop, But y e .iii. day after hys deth, And y t nether for fauor nor for no mony. And y t the electiō shulde be made bothe of y e clargy & lay people, and y t it shuld be ratyfyed by chassent of y e byshop. This man by y e cōsent of Focas obtayned agaīst y e patriarke of cōstātinople That y e see of Peter shulde be the hede of the churche.
¶In the yere of our Lorde .vi.C.viii.
Boniface y e .iiii. he dedicated y e tēpyl of Gybel & of y e gentyles vnto our lady & al sayntes. ¶He made his fathers howse a monastery, and the londes of his auncetry he gaue vnto the vse of the Mōkes. And than gaue vnto them auctorite to [Page] preache, to baptyse and to absoyle.
¶In the yere of our Lorde .vi.C.xv.
Theodatꝰ y e .i. ordeyned y t no mā shulde mary that Mayde that his father had bē god father to. ¶This man loued y e clargye and pore people ardently.
¶In the yere of our lorde .vi.C.xviii.
Boniface the .v. ordeyned that those the came to the church for socor, shuld not be taken from them with violēce. And that those y e cōmitted Sacrilege shuld in euery place be cōuicted & accursed. And y e testamentes made by y e Princes shuld by all maner of wayes stāde in ful strength.
¶In the yere of our lorde .vi.C.xxiii.
Honoriꝰ y e .i. ordeyned y t the names of y e excomūicat shuld be opēly denoūsed, this mā did restore many churchꝭ & church yerdes. And he apointed lawes to y e sarasēs.
¶In y e yere of our lord .vi.C.xxxviii.
Iohn̄ the .iiii. ordeyned that any inuaded or toke away the godes of the church He shuld restore .iiii. folde.
☞ In the yere of our lorde .vi.C.xl.
Theodorus Ordeyned the halowynge of waxe as Sozinus writyth of hym, & bylded vp .ii. Celles in Rome.
¶ In the yere of our lorde .vi.C.xlvi.
Martyne y e .i. ordeyned y t they shuld not haue no lōg here. And y t y e mā & his wyfe shulde be blest before they laye together. And y t the byshop euery yere shuld make creme & send it to euer [...] parishe of y e diocꝭ.
☞In the yere of our lorde .vi.C.liii.
Egenius the .ii. ordeyned that the Byshop shuld haue prysons, to ponyshe y e of fenders of the Clarge. Also that y e prestꝭ howses shulde be bylded nere y e churche.
¶In the yere of our lorde .vi.C.lvi.
Vitilianus made y e order of y e churches He ordeyned songe & added to y e organs.
¶In the yere of our lorde .vi.C.lxv.
Theodarus y e .ii. bylded churches. He ordeined many suffrages to put away many wonders y t hapened ī those dayes.
☞In the yere of our lorde .vi.C.lxxi.
[Page]Donus y e .i. ordeyned y e clergye into diuerse degrees. He made y e church of Rauē na to be obediēt vnto y e church of Rome.
☞In the yere of our lord .vi.C.lxxx.
Agatho in counsell of .ii.C.lxxxix. byshopꝭ vnied & accorded y e latyns & the grekes in y e Ecclesiasticall Ceremoniꝭ & maner of sacrifices. He cōdempned for an he re [...]ke Marcharius y e byshop of Antioche This was the .vi. generall counsell.
☞In the yere of our lord .vi.C.lxxxiiii.
Leo y e .ii. ordeyned Baptyme to be done in vrgent necessite. He ordeyned y e Pax to be borne about to the people beyng present a Masse. Also that the eleccion of y e clergy of Rauēna which made hymselfe Equall w t Rome shuld not be in strēgth but yf y e byshop of Rome, dyd a proue in Thys man ordeyned the psalmody, and he brought y e hymmꝭ īto aswere tewne.
☞In the yere of our lorde .vi.C.lxxxv.
Benedicte y e .ii. a mā of moost hye holynes, whose holines moued Cōstātyne to [Page] make him to be y e very vyear of Christ in erth, whō y e clargy & the people of Rome did make byshop, by y e autorite of y e comō hawse w tout any cōfyrmaciō of y e prince.
☞In y e yere our Lorde. vi.C.lxxxvi.
Iohn̄ y e .v. was cōsecrated of .iii. byshopes & so made a decre that the same maner of consecracion shuld be obserued of his successours.
☞In y e yere of our lorde .vi.C.lxxxviii.
Sergius y e .i. ordeyned Agnus dei to be sayd of y e preste in y e Masse before y e breakyng of y e hoste, which peeꝭ of y e hoste He declared y e significatiō ī a certayne canō. This mā brought y e church of Aquila to his dutie, which did lytel alowe y e .v. coū sell.
☞In y e yere of our lord .vii.C.i.
Iohn̄ the .vi. redemed many y t were in captiuite, & garnyshed y e church. And in tyme was Bede and Heymo.
☞In the yere of our Lorde .vii.C.iiii.
Iohn̄ y e .vii. garnyshed many churches with pycrueres and Images of sayntes.
¶ In the yere of our lorde .vii.C.vi.
Sizimus hauynge the gowte bothe in handes and feete, dyed sodeynly.
¶ In the yere of our lorde .vii.C.vii.
Constantyne y e .i. ordeyned y t the Images of saynctes whiche we rased oute by Philyp in the tempyll of Sophye shulde agayne be paynted in the porche of saynt Peter, And he ordyned that y e name of thy Heretyke Emperour shuld not be receyued nother in open nor pryuate wrytinges nether in Brasse, Syluer or lead,
¶ In the yere of our lorde .vii.C.xiiii.
Gregory y e .ii. cōuerted y e germaynes to y e fayth by his diligēce. He excōmūicated Leo y e Emperour to be an heretike. Here payred y e churchꝭ & the wallꝭ of y e Citie.
In the yere of our lorde .vii.C.xxxi.
Gregory y e .iii. ordeyned the Images of saynctes to be worshypped. And them to be Excōmunicated y t dyd violate theym. This man w t a counsell of a. M Byshopes, & with thassent of the clargye, & also of the [Page] people dyd depryue Leo bothe of his Impery and also of the company of good mē Because Leo had rased out of y e chuches the forsayde Images and broke thē downe. He decked y e churches & restored monasteries. And he added to the Canon of the masse these wordes (Quorū hodie solemnitas. &c.) But they do not vse those wordes now in y e Secretes of the masse.
¶ In the yere of our lorde .vii.C.xlii.
Sacharias ordeyned y e men of y e clarge shuld were no seculer habytes.
¶In the yere of our lorde .vii.C.lxviii.
Steuen y e .iii. ordeyned y t no man shuld be made a bishop excepte he were w tin orders before. And y t ymages which were taken away by y e coūsell of Cōstantyne: shulde be restored to the church agayne-
¶In the yere of our Lorde .viii.C.xvii.
Pascalis the .i. ordeyned that no seculer man shulde presume to take a benefice.
¶In the yere of our lorde .viii.C.xxvii.
Gregory the forth ordeyned the feeste of [Page] all Halowes.
¶In the yere of our lorde .viii.C.xliii.
Sergius the .ii. (whiche was called the mouth of a Swyne) for y e vnclene soūde of his voyce. He toke to hym this name Sergius, And of this mā al other byshopes of Rome hath taken occasion to chaū ge their name. Thys man ordeyned that all sayntes and holy mē shuld be buryed Soūteously with Tombes and shrines.
¶In the yere of our lorde .viii.C.xlvi.
Leo the .iiii. ordeyned y t a byshop shuld not be accused w t lesse thā .lxxii. witnessꝭ
¶In the yere of our Lorde .viii.C.liiii.
Iohn̄ the .viii. a woman (as they say) very well lerned. She shewed herselfe outwardly to be a man, And she being great with chylde was delyuered in profession in the rogation dayes, and strayght way she dyed: and her chylde with her.
¶In the yere of our lord .viii.C.lvi.
Benedicte the .iii. ordeyned y t the clarge shuld synge Dirige for theyr superiours [Page] and agayne the superiours to synge dirī ge for the clargye.
☞In the yere of our lorde .ix.C.xiiii.
Anastasius the thyrde affyrmed the order of the Rule of Benet,
☞In the yere of our lorde .ix.C.xCv.
Gregory the fyfte ordeyned that only y e Germaynes shulde chose the Emperour for he was a Saxon borne.
¶ In y e yere of our lord .ix.C.lxxxxviii.
Syluester the second was made byshop of Rome by Dyuelyshe congeringe and He asked the deuyll how longe he shuld lyue and he shewed hym so longe as he came not to Hierusalem. And Syluester saying masse in a chapell of y e holy crosse called Hierusalem, dyd perseaue his laste day was come, and than he shewed how he was made byshop by congeracion.
¶In the yere of our lorde .M.ii.
Iohn̄ the .xix. ordeyned all Sollen day to be next after all halon daye.
¶In the yere of our lorde .M.xlviii.
[Page]Damasius the second poysond Clemēt the seconde, & strayght w tout any electiō toke vpon hym to be in the Se of Rome
¶In the yere of our lorde .M.lxiii
Gregorye the seuenthe Ordeyned that Monkes shulde eate no flesh.
¶In the yere of our lorde .M.lxxxviii.
Vrban the second ordeyned that Clarkes shuld saye our Lady matyns euerye daye and that her seruice shuld be on the Saterday and y t no prestes sonne shuld haue no offyce in the churche.
¶In the yere of our lorde .M.c.xcix.
Innocentius the thyrde ordeyned that they that take theyr rightes shuld be cō fessed, euery yere ons at the lest at Ester
¶In the yere of our lorde .M.CC.xvi.
Honorius the thyrde dyd confyrme the orders of Dominike and Fransis.
¶In the yere of our Lorde .M.cc.xxvii.
Gregory y e .ix. made Dominike & Frā cis & one of his kynsmē Antony & Elizabeth sayntes, He set fourthe also the [Page] Decritalles cōpyled by one Raimundꝰ.
¶In the yere of our lord .M.iiC.xliii.
Innocencius the fourthe ordeyned that the Natyuite of our lady shuld be kepte. viii. dayes, and that Cardynalles whan they ryde on horsbacke sholde were a red hat. He gaue religeous men priuileges and wrote the rule of saynt Clare.
¶In the yere of our lorde .M.iiC.lvi.
Alexander the fourthe Ordeyned that seculer power to requyre of no Chyrche nether of man of the churche any taskes or deme, and that lay men shulde not dyspute of fayth. He made Clare a Saynte, & gaue lycens to the Hermytes to dwell in the Cytyes.
¶In the yere of our lorde .M.cc.lxii.
Vrbanus the fourthe ordeyned the reste of corpus Christ: the wh [...]che Tomas of Aquyne dyd make and compyle.
¶In the yere of our lorde .M cc.lxxxvi.
Honorius the forthe approued the order of whyte freers, the whiche at that tyme [Page] was not approued by any coūsayle and chaunged ther vttermost blacke cope into whyte.
¶In the yere of our lorde .M.cc.xcv.
Bonifacius the Eyght ordeyned permutacions of Benefytes, And the maner of dysgrading of clarkes. And that clarkes shulde haue wyues, and they to kepte theyr gownes and heddes to be shauen as was before, and they to haue al priuileges as they hath before, and he made all the clargy free from all maner of Exactyons of the Temporalte. And he ordeyned the disgradynge of clarkes, and perpetuall prisonment.
¶In the yere of our Lorde .M.ccc.xvii.
Iohn̄ the .xxiii. Dyd declare the Order of the Graye freers, and made Thomas Aquyne, and Thomas the byshop of Herten Saynctes:
¶ In the yere of our lorde .M.ccc.lxxx.
Vrbanus the .vi. Made on one daye. xxix. Cardinalles, ☞ And he made Visitacion [Page] of our lady holy daye.
¶In the yere of our lord .M.iiii.xlviii,
Nycholas the fyfte made amonge diuerse other Bernardyne a Saynt.
¶ In the yere of our lorde .M.iiii.c.lvi.
Calixtus dyd ordeyne the feaste y e transfiguracion of our lord, And he made Vincent a Saynt.
☞In the yere of our lorde .cccc.C.lix.
☞Pius the seconde made Katherine a saynt.
¶ In the yere of our lorde .M.cccc.lxv.
Paule the seconde ordeyned that they y t dyd allyenat, or withdrawe any thynge from y e church shuld be excōmunicated.
☞In the yere of our lord .M.cccc.lxxii.
Sixtus the fourthe ordeyned the feestes of y e Conception and presentation of our lady and the feastes of Anne Fransis, & Iosephe, And brought backe the yere of Iubilee to the yere of, xxv: And he dyd make Bonauenture a Saynt.
☞In y e yere of our lord .M.cccc.lxxxvi
[Page]Innocentius the .viii. made Heliopolde a Saynt.
☞The lorde of glory) hath sent his ministers to plage the best, with her adherē tes whiche hath her marke, and vpon al [Page] them which worshypped her ymage that she nor her chyldrē shuld no more shedde the bloude of the chyldrē of saluacion w t her gret burdyns of tradiciōs.