>ecause,  '  I.  It  taketh  ,away
•owne  of  England,  25  4  en-
Edw.  VI.  and  continued  1


adding  a  few  characteristic  lines
He  opposes  the  Commons'  Bill,
the  prerogative  #nnexecl.\  to  the  c
VIII.  continued  in  the  time  of
Eliz.  II.  It  alkidgeth  the  revenues  of  the  crowne-;  for  the
one  half  of  such  laculties  [payniejnts  for  breaking  the  law
against  pluralties]  is  due  to  her  jd4jesty.  III.  It  deprivetli
learned  men  of  due  rewardej  aittd  is  the  next  way  to  an
unlearned  ministerie  and  to  the  taking  away  of  schoole
degrees  in  divinitie.  IV.  It_leojJJreth  an  impossibilitie,  for
of  eight  thousand  eight  hundr^dP  and  odd  benefices,  with
cure,  there  are  not  six  hundred  Sufficient  for  learned  men  ;
neither  (if  they  were  all  sufificiej^t)  could  there  be  found  the
third  part  of  learned  men  t^>-  supplie  that  number.  V.  It
taketh  away  grave  men  arf  apt  governors  from  the  Uni-
versities and  other  coljg^es ;  which  (being  but  of  verie
small  livings,  as  divers  of  the  mastershipps  but  fortie
shillings  a  yere  wages)  are  not  able  to  maintains  their
governors,  without  suche  helpe  of  benejiec.s.  Vl^fft
spoileth  cathedral  churches  of  house-keepinge :  for"  without
other  helpe  they  cannot  do  it ;  and  beinge  compelled  to  be
resident  at  their  benefices  continuallie,  they  cannot  keep

1    Works  (Park.  Soc.),  ii.  984,  999.
