VNTO
NICOLAS
hys
lorde
and
father
,
and
moost
vygylaunt
Prouisor
of
the
holye
Church
of
Rome
,
Huldericus
by
name
onelye
a
Bysshoppe
,
oweth
Loue
as
his
sonne
or
chylde
,
and
feare
as
hys
seruaunt
.
WHer
as
I
haue
chaunced
of
late
dayes
to
fynde
your
decrees
,
sent
ouer
vnto
me
,
made
vppon
the
contynencye
of
Clerkes
or
Preestes
,
to
be
farre
aalyenate
from
dyscretion
:
a
certayne
feare
truelye
with
sorrowe
dyd
vexe
me
:
feare
,
because
of
that
,
where
it
is
sayd
that
the
sentence
of
a
Pastor
is
to
be
dredde
ande
feared
,
whether
it
be
Iust
or
vniust
.
Trulye
I
feared
the
weake
and
feble
hearers
of
the
scryptur
,
the
which
scant
whear
a
Iust
cause
is
,
do
obeye
that
Sentence
of
it
,
&
moch
mor
the
vniust
they
treade
vnder
fote
,
least
those
shulde
blinde
them selues
by
a
Precepte
of
theyr
owne
free
wyll
,
through
the
onerous
and
importable
transgresse
or
vsurping
of
theyr
Pastor
.
And
sorrowe
,
trulye
and
pytye
it
was
vnto
me
,
whyles
I
doubted
howe
the
membres
shulde
be
ware
of
them selues
,
theyre
heade
beyng
taken
in
so
greuous
a
syckenes
.
For
what
can
be
more
weightie
,
or
what
more
worthy
then
the
pitye
or
compassyon
of
the
whole
Churche
?
Ande
theryn
you
the
Bysshoppe
of
the
hyghest
seate
(
vnto
whome
apparteyneth
the
examynatyon
of
the
whole
Churche
)
to
straie
neuer
so
litell
oute
of
the
waye
,
from
the
holye
Discretion
?
Ande
truelye
you
haue
gone
not
a
lytell
out
of
the
waye
.
when
that
you
wylled
the
Clerckes
or
Priestes
(
whome
you
ought
to
moue
to
contynencye
of
wedlocke
)
to
be
compelled
vnto
the
same
by
a
certeyne
Imperious
violence
.
Why
is
not
thys
(
thynke
youe
)
iustly
by
the
common
Iudgement
of
all
wyse
men
a
violence
,
when
contrarye
to
the
institution
of
the
Gospell
,
and
against
the
decree
of
the
Holy
Goost
,
any
Man
is
compelled
to
execute
pryuate
decrees
?
Where
therfore
many
holye
exemples
are
of
the
Olde
ande
Newe
Testament
(
as
you
knowe
)
that
teach
Dyscretion
.
Lett
it
not
be
(
I
praye
youe
)
greuous
vnto
your
Fatherhod
,
a
fewe
of
them
,
amongest
many
,
to
be
graffed
&
intermixed
in
this
litell
boke
.
The
Lorde
of
truth
in
the
olde
lawe
hath
appoynted
vnto
a
Pryest
wedlocke
,
the
whych
is
not
redde
where
afterward
he
hath
forbydden
the
same
:
But
he
sayth
in
the
Gospell
.
Math.
xix
.
There
are
some
gelded
parsons
that
haue
chastysed
them selues
for
the
Kingdom
of
heauen
:
But
all
men
vnderstand
not
thys
sayinge
,
let
him
take
it
that
maye
take
it
.
Wherfore
the
Apostell
sayth
.
i.
Corin.
vii
.
I
haue
no
precept
of
the
Lord
for
vyrgynes
,
but
I
giue
them
my
counsell
.
Wherby
thou
doest
consyder
accordyng
to
the
former
saying
of
the
Lorde
,
that
all
can
not
take
thys
counsell
.
But
thou
seest
many
flaterers
of
the
said
counsell
,
that
are
willing
to
please
men
and
not
God
,
to
commytt
manny
greuous
thynges
vnder
theyr
colour
of
contynencye
,
to
vse
vnlaufullie
the
Fathers
wyues
,
and
not
to
abhorre
from
the
embrasyng
of
the
male
kinde
,
and
of
Beastes
.
Least
therfore
the
estate
of
the
whole
congregatyon
maye
chaunce
to
be
to
moch
weakened
,
by
the
callyng
aboute
of
thys
infyrmytye
,
growynge
euen
vnto
a
very
plage
:
Because
of
fornycatyon
(
sayde
he
)
let
euery
man
haue
his
owne
wyfe
.
The
whych
these
ypocrytes
faine
to
parteyne
specialie
vnto
laye
men
.
The
whych
albeyt
that
they
be
constytuted
in
neuer
so
holie
an
order
,
yet
doubte
they
not
in
dede
to
abuse
other
mennes
wyues
.
And
(
the
which
we
see
not
without
teares
)
all
men
rage
in
the
abouenamed
mischeues
.
Truelie
those
haue
not
vnderstand
the
scriptures
a
ryght
,
oute
of
whose
pappes
(
because
they
haue
pressed
them
to
harde
)
they
haue
dronken
bloude
in
the
steade
of
mylke
.
For
that
saynige
of
the
Apostell
,
let
euery
manne
haue
hys
owne
wyfe
,
doth
trulye
except
no
man
,
sauing
the
professour
of
contynencie
(
or
hym
that
hath
prescribed
in
the
lord
to
contynewe
in
hys
vyrgynytye
.
The
whyche
thyng
(
moost
reuerende
Father
)
doth
become
your
mighty
power
,
that
where
any
shal
be
,
that
shal
make
vnto
you
by
hand
or
by
mouth
,
anye
vowe
of
chastitie
,
and
afterwardes
wyll
forsake
it
,
to
bynde
the
same
of
duety
to
execute
the
same
vowe
,
or
to
depose
the
same
oute
of
all
orders
by
your
Canonycall
auctoritye
:
ande
that
you
maie
be
able
,
manly
to
fulfyll
the
same
,
you
shal
haue
me
and
all
other
men
of
my
callinge
to
be
vnto
you
dilygent
ayders
.
But
to
the
intent
that
you
may
knowe
that
soch
as
knowe
of
no
soche
vowe
,
are
not
to
be
compelled
:
heare
the
Apostell
speakyng
vnto
Tymothe
:
sayinge
,
It
becometh
a
Bisshoppe
to
be
irreprehensible
,
the
husband
of
one
wyfe
.
And
because
that
no
man
shulde
returne
the
same
sentence
to
the
Church
alone
,
he
added
vnto
it
.
He
truelye
that
can
not
gouuerne
his
owne
house
,
howe
shall
the
same
giue
diligence
vnto
the
Church
of
God
?
Lykewyse
he
sayth
,
let
Deacons
be
husbandes
of
one
wyfe
,
the
whych
can
well
gouuerne
their
chylderen
and
houses
.
And
verely
I
knowe
,
that
you
are
sufficyently
taught
,
by
the
holy
decrees
,
of
the
holie
Bisshoppe
Syluester
:
that
the
wyfe
is
blessed
by
the
Priest
.
Vnto
these
ande
soch
lyke
sentences
of
the
Scrypture
,
the
wryter
of
the
rule
of
Priestes
or
Clerkes
,
accordinge
,
not
whithout
cause
,
saythe
,
a
pryeste
oughte
to
be
chaste
,
or
at
the
least
fettered
wyth
the
bond
of
one
Matrymonye
.
Of
the
whych
thinges
,
he
doth
trulye
gather
,
that
a
Bysshop
and
deacon
,
are
noted
to
be
worthy
blame
,
yf
they
be
deuided
in
manye
women
.
Ande
yf
they
refuse
one
,
vnder
pretence
of
religion
:
Here
the
canonicall
sentence
doth
condempne
both
Bysshop
and
deacon
,
wythout
difference
of
degrees
.
A
Bisshop
or
Pryest
ought
not
to
cast
of
his
proper
wife
,
vnder
the
pretence
of
relygyon
:
for
yf
he
so
doo
,
he
ought
to
be
excommunycate
,
and
yf
he
continue
to
be
deposed
.
Saynt
Augustine
also
,
a
man
not
Ignoraunt
of
holye
dyscretyon
,
sayth
:
There
is
none
so
greuous
an
euel
but
it
is
to
be
admytted
to
eschewe
the
worse
.
We
reade
also
in
the
seconde
booke
of
Trypartita
historya
Canon
dyscuc
.
xvi
.
Capitulo
Si
quis
.
that
when
the
counsell
of
Nyce
,
wolde
haue
establysshede
the
selue
same
decrees
,
that
Bysshoppes
,
Pryestes
and
deacons
,
after
theyr
fyrst
consecratyon
shuld
vtterlie
abstaine
from
theyr
proper
wyues
,
or
shuld
put
of
theyr
degree
.
Paphnutius
rising
in
the
middest
of
them
,
(
one
of
those
martyrs
which
Maximus
the
Emperour
)
(
theyr
ryght
eies
being
plucked
oute
,
and
their
lyft
legges
cutt
of
)
did
condemne
,
spake
agaynst
it
:
confessyng
mariage
to
be
honourable
,
and
affyrming
chastitie
to
be
the
lyuing
with
a
mans
proper
wyfe
.
And
persuaded
the
counsell
,
that
they
shulde
make
no
soche
lawes
,
affyrming
the
cause
to
be
greuous
,
ande
myght
be
vnto
them
or
vnto
theyr
wyues
an
occasyon
of
fornication
.
And
this
did
Paphnutius
expresse
(
albeyt
he
was
vnmaryed
)
And
the
counsell
praysed
his
opinion
or
sentence
,
and
decreed
nothyng
of
that
parte
,
but
left
that
in
euerye
mannes
wyll
,
and
of
no
necessytye
.
There
are
somme
that
take
.
S.
Gregory
to
be
an
helpe
vnto
their
secte
.
At
whose
temeritie
I
laughe
,
ande
doo
lament
theyr
Ignoraunce
,
for
why
?
They
are
Ignoraunt
that
the
decree
of
this
so
perilous
Turrian
heresye
,
made
by
.
S.
Gregory
was
afterwarde
with
worthie
frute
of
repentaunce
,
purged
by
the
same
:
for
vppon
a
certeyne
daye
when
he
had
cast
his
net
into
hys
ponde
or
stewe
for
fish
,
and
sawe
aboue
syx
thousande
infauntes
heades
to
be
drawen
vp
,
he
(
taken
with
inwarde
repentaunce
)
lamented
,
and
confessyng
the
decree
that
was
made
by
hym self
,
for
absteynynge
from
matrymonye
to
be
a
cause
of
so
great
a
murther
:
purged
the
same
(
as
I
haue
sayde
)
wyth
the
frutes
of
worthy
repentaunce
.
And
hys
owne
decree
vtterlye
condempned
,
he
sayde
that
sayinge
of
the
Apostell
.
Better
it
is
to
Mary
,
therto
burne
.
Addynge
for
his
owne
parte
,
Better
it
is
to
Mary
then
to
gyue
an
occasyon
of
death
.
Thys
chaunce
,
peraduenture
if
they
had
redde
wyth
me
(
I
thynke
)
they
wolde
not
haue
Iudged
so
rashlye
:
at
the
least
fearynge
the
precept
of
GOD
.
Iudge
ye
not
,
that
you
be
not
Iudged
and
of
that
Paule
sayth
,
What
arte
thou
that
thou
doeste
Iudge
an
other
mannes
seruaunt
?
Vnto
hys
Lorde
he
standeth
or
falleth
:
&
truly
he
shall
stande
,
the
Lorde
is
myghtie
or
able
to
ordeyne
or
dyspose
hym
.
Let
therfore
your
holynes
cease
to
condempne
those
,
whome
you
ought
onelie
to
admonish
or
counsell
:
least
by
a
priuate
precept
(
which
God
forbydde
)
you
be
founde
contrarie
as
well
vnto
the
newe
Testament
,
as
vnto
the
olde
.
For
as
.
S.
Augustine
saith
vnto
Donatus
,
this
onelye
do
we
feare
in
your
Iustice
,
Least
not
for
the
consideration
of
Christyan
lenitie
or
gentelnes
:
But
for
the
greatnes
of
the
myschefe
it selfe
,
you
suppose
it
mete
to
be
restrained
:
the
which
thing
,
for
Chrystes
sake
,
we
desyre
you
hertelye
not
to
doo
:
for
why
?
Sinnes
are
to
be
suppressed
,
that
those
maye
remaine
,
that
may
be
repentaunt
.
And
the
saying
of
.
S.
Augustyne
,
we
wyll
you
also
to
remembre
,
where
he
sayth
:
Let
nothyng
be
done
for
the
desyre
to
do
harme
:
and
all
thynges
wyth
Charytie
to
geue
Consell
,
lett
nothinge
be
done
cruellye
,
nothing
vngentlie
.
Also
of
the
same
I
doo
exhort
you
in
the
feare
of
Chryste
,
all
you
that
haue
not
Temporall
thinges
,
couet
not
to
haue
them
.
Ande
all
youe
that
haue
them
,
presume
not
in
them
.
I
saye
not
,
yf
you
haue
them
that
you
are
condempned
:
but
if
you
presume
in
them
,
you
are
condempned
.
Yf
you
seme
vnto
your
selues
for
soche
thinges
to
be
menne
of
great
aucthoritie
.
Yf
for
youre
exellent
vnytie
,
you
forgett
the
commune
condycion
of
mankinde
.
The
which
cuppe
of
discretion
truelye
,
ye
maye
drawe
oute
of
that
Apostolyke
fountayne
.
Arte
thou
vnlosed
from
a
wyfe
,
will
not
to
seke
for
a
wife
.
Arte
thou
bounde
vnto
a
wife
,
will
not
to
seke
to
be
vnlosed
.
Where
afterwarde
it
followeth
.
Those
that
haue
wyues
ought
to
be
as
though
they
had
none
.
Ande
those
that
vse
the
woorld
,
as
though
they
vsed
it
not
.
Also
he
speaketh
of
the
wyddowe
:
Let
hyr
mary
Whome
she
wyll
,
onelye
in
the
LORDE
.
For
truely
to
mary
in
the
Lord
,
is
to
attempt
nothinge
in
the
makyng
of
the
Maryage
,
that
the
Lord
doth
forbydde
.
Hiremye
also
sayth
:
Trust
youe
not
in
Wordes
of
lyinge
:
Sayinge
,
the
Temple
of
the
LORDE
,
the
Temple
of
the
Lorde
,
the
Temple
of
the
LOGDE
is
,
the
which
thing
,
Hierome
expoundynge
,
sayth
:
The
same
also
maye
agree
vnto
these
Virgynes
,
the
crake
of
theyr
Virginytye
,
wyth
an
vnshamfaste
countenaunce
,
they
sett
forth
theyr
Chastity
,
when
theyr
Conscyence
meaneth
an
other
thyng
.
And
they
forgett
the
Diffinition
of
the
Apostell
of
a
Virgin
:
That
she
ought
to
be
Holy
in
Body
and
Spirite
.
What
proffyteth
the
chastnes
of
the
Bodye
,
when
the
mynde
is
oppressed
wyth
whoredome
?
And
if
she
haue
not
other
Vertues
,
that
the
Wordes
of
the
Prophet
doth
descrybe
?
The
whyche
truelye
because
we
see
you
partly
to
haue
,
and
because
it
is
not
vnknowen
vnto
vs
,
that
your
Dyscretion
(
albeyt
in
this
it
be
negligent
)
in
other
Institutions
of
youre
lyfe
,
the
same
is
preserued
.
We
dispayr
not
,
but
that
you
will
sone
correct
the
euell
faulte
of
this
intent
.
And
therfor
we
do
not
taunte
this
youre
negligence
(
albeit
it
be
very
greuous
)
with
so
great
a
grauity
,
as
we
may
do
.
And
(
al
though
truly
vnto
the
termes
that
are
vsed
)
a
bisshop
shuld
appere
to
be
greter
then
a
priest
:
yet
suppose
we
not
,
Augustyne
to
be
lesse
then
Hierome
.
And
a
correccion
or
a
checke
is
not
to
be
refused
or
disdained
of
eueri
īferyoure
,
specially
wheare
as
he
that
is
checked
,
is
founde
to
trauayle
agaynste
the
trouth
,
ande
to
please
men
.
Nor
yet
we
ought
to
take
the
Dysputacions
of
euery
Parson
(
as
S.
Augustyne
sayth
to
Bonifacius
)
although
they
be
neuer
so
CATHOLYKE
,
ande
well
praysed
menne
.
As
we
do
the
Canonicall
Scryptures
:
Albeit
,
it
be
not
laufull
(
sauynge
the
Honor
that
is
due
vnto
them
)
to
dysproue
ande
refuse
anye
thynge
in
theyr
wrytynge
:
If
perchance
we
fynde
that
they
Iudge
othere
wyse
then
the
trueth
is
:
The
whyche
by
the
healpe
of
GOD
,
is
eyther
parceyued
by
other
,
or
by
vs
.
And
truelye
what
can
be
more
contrarye
vnto
the
Verytye
,
than
thys
?
When
the
Verity
itselfe
speakynge
of
the
contynenye
,
not
of
one
man
,
but
playnelye
of
all
(
except
the
nombre
of
soche
as
are
professed
to
continency
)
sayth
:
He
that
can
take
it
,
take
yt
,
the
whyche
thynge
these
menne
(
wherof
no
Man
knoweth
)
beynge
Prouoked
or
prycked
to
it
,
maye
chaunce
to
saye
,
he
that
can
take
it
,
let
hym
be
stryken
wyth
a
curse
.
What
trulye
can
be
done
by
men
more
Foolyhe
?
What
can
be
more
bound
vnto
the
curse
of
GOD
?
Than
where
as
some
,
that
is
to
saye
:
Eyther
Bysshoppes
or
DEACONS
,
are
ronning
so
headlonge
into
the
Lustes
of
the
Bodye
:
That
they
can
neyther
abhorre
Adulterye
,
nor
inceste
frome
the
mooste
Shamefulle
Embracynge
of
the
male
kynde
(
the
moore
shame
)
and
yet
they
saye
,
the
chaste
Maryage
of
Pryestes
stynke
vnto
them
:
and
wyll
not
desyre
the
Pryestes
as
fellow
seruauntes
to
absteyne
from
soche
thynges
,
by
the
compassyon
of
ryght
Iustyce
,
or
at
the
leaste
monysh
them
to
be
contynent
:
but
commande
them
,
as
though
they
were
seruauntes
,
ande
compell
them
to
abstayne
.
Vnto
the
whych
so
foolysh
ande
shamefull
suggestyons
of
soche
Imperie
(
I
will
not
saye
counsell
)
they
adde
,
it
is
more
honestye
to
be
intrycate
secretlye
wyth
many
women
,
then
openlye
in
the
face
of
men
and
in
conscyence
to
be
bound
wyth
one
.
Ande
what
trulye
wolde
they
not
saye
?
yf
they
were
of
hym
ande
in
hym
that
sayth
,
woo
be
vnto
yowe
Pharyseys
,
the
whych
do
all
thynges
for
men
.
Ande
by
the
Psalmyst
,
because
they
please
menne
,
they
are
confounded
:
for
as
moche
as
the
Lord
hath
dyspysed
them
.
These
be
the
men
whych
shuld
fyrst
persuade
vs
,
that
in
hys
syght
(
vnto
whome
all
thynges
are
naked
and
open
)
we
ought
to
be
a
shamed
to
be
synners
,
rather
then
in
the
syght
of
menne
,
to
appere
to
be
without
spotte
.
Albeit
therfore
that
soche
through
the
desertes
of
theyr
noughtynes
,
deserue
counsell
of
no
pitie
.
we
notwithstandyng
remembring
our
humanitie
,
do
minister
vnto
them
,
the
counsell
of
Goddes
Auctoritie
,
that
neuer
wanteth
pitie
,
from
the
bowelles
of
Charytie
.
For
trulye
this
we
saie
:
O
the
ypocrit
,
cast
oute
first
a
block
oute
of
thin
owne
eie
,
&
then
shalt
thou
see
,
to
cast
out
a
moate
oute
of
thy
brothers
eie
.
And
we
desyre
them
also
to
note
,
the
thinge
that
the
Lorde
sayth
of
the
commone
woman
.
Looke
which
of
you
is
without
synne
,
let
hym
cast
fyrst
the
stone
vppon
hyr
.
As
who
wolde
saye
,
yf
the
lawe
doth
commaunde
it
?
Yf
Moises
do
commaunde
it
?
I
commaunde
it
also
.
But
I
requyre
mete
or
competent
mynysters
of
the
lawe
.
Note
well
what
you
adde
:
ande
marke
well
(
I
praye
you
)
what
you
are
:
for
if
thou
loke
well
vppon
thy selfe
(
as
scrypture
sayth
)
thou
wylt
neuer
sclaunder
any
man
.
It
is
also
sygnyfyed
vnto
vs
,
of
certein
,
of
those
,
the
which
swell
wyth
so
moche
pryde
in
theyr
owne
conceyte
,
that
they
presume
to
pyll
the
flocke
of
the
lorde
,
(
for
whome
Gods
shepheardes
doubte
not
to
mynyster
or
gyue
theyr
soules
)
wyth
strypes
wythout
reason
.
Whose
sentence
.
S.
Gregory
lamenting
,
saith
:
What
shall
become
of
the
shepe
,
when
the
Shepheardes
are
made
wolues
?
But
who
is
soner
ouercome
,
them
he
that
rageth
?
Who
shall
Iudge
the
persecuter
,
but
he
that
doth
minister
pacyentlie
hys
backe
to
the
whippes
?
Trulie
it
weare
well
done
,
that
it
myght
be
hearde
,
for
what
frute
the
Churche
of
GOD
shulde
suffer
so
great
a
sclaunder
,
&
the
clergie
so
great
a
despyte
of
the
Bysshoppes
,
and
of
theyr
infidelles
.
And
verelie
I
doubte
not
,
to
call
those
infidelles
,
of
whome
the
Apostell
Paul
sayth
vnto
Timothe
,
that
in
the
latter
dayes
,
some
shall
go
awaye
from
the
faith
,
geuing
care
vnto
the
spyrytes
of
errour
,
and
vnto
the
doctryne
of
Deuelles
,
speaking
lies
in
ypocrysye
,
hauyng
a
fyred
conscience
,
forbyddyng
to
marry
.
Thys
trulye
if
it
be
throughly
and
dyligently
seen
,
is
the
handfull
of
all
theyr
cockell
,
and
the
content
of
all
theyr
madnes
,
that
whyles
clerkes
or
Pryestes
,
(
beyng
ouercome
wyth
a
Pharisaycall
furour
)
are
compelled
to
forsake
the
laufull
companye
of
one
woman
,
fornycatours
,
adulterers
&
the
shamefull
mynisters
of
other
Prauities
,
are
made
lyke
wyth
them
.
These
be
they
that
doo
bryng
into
the
Church
(
lyke
the
blynde
that
leadeth
the
blynde
)
this
heresye
,
that
the
saying
of
the
Psalmyst
maye
be
fulfylled
:
Where
lyke
one
for
knowyng
of
theyr
errour
,
he
curseth
them
after
this
sorte
.
Let
theyr
eies
be
dīmed
or
bleared
that
they
see
not
,
and
theyr
backe
alwayes
bowed
downe
.
For
as
moche
therfore
as
no
man
(
O
Apostolyke
Father
)
that
knoweth
you
,
is
so
Ignoraunt
,
but
yf
you
had
foreseen
,
by
the
clearenes
of
your
substancyall
dyscretion
,
so
great
a
plage
to
be
lyke
to
growe
,
through
the
sentence
of
your
decree
:
you
would
neuer
haue
consented
vnto
so
euell
suggestyons
of
any
maner
of
parsons
.
Wherfore
by
the
fydelytye
of
pure
due
subiection
,
we
counsell
you
:
that
nowe
at
the
least
you
laye
watche
,
to
putte
awaie
so
great
a
sclaunder
from
the
Church
of
God
.
And
by
your
learnyng
(
as
you
knowe
howe
)
to
plucke
vp
by
the
rootes
oute
of
the
hearde
of
God
:
the
doctryne
of
the
Phariseys
:
Least
the
onelye
dearling
of
the
lorde
(
yf
she
vse
any
longer
vntrue
husbandes
)
plucke
awaye
the
holie
nation
,
the
pryncelye
pryesthoade
by
a
deuorse
,
that
can
not
be
recouered
againe
,
from
hyr
dere
spouse
:
that
is
to
saye
CHRIST
.
For
as
moch
as
no
man
without
chastytye
(
not
onelye
in
the
flower
of
vyrgynytye
,
but
also
in
the
knot
of
Matrymony
)
can
see
the
Lorde
,
the
whych
lyueth
and
reygneth
,
wyth
God
the
father
,
and
the
holyghoost
worlde
wythout
ende
Amen
.