Wherfore as Paule, for the SajTites and brethren at
Hierulalem, fo I for your brethren and Saynctes at
Cambrydge moofle humblye befeche you make yoore
coUecdons amongeil you lych Marchauntes of this
citye, and fend them your oblacions ^-nto the vnyiier-
fy^e, fo (hall ye be fure to pieafe God, to comfoit
tiieim, and prouyde learned men to do muche good
thronghoat all thys realme. Yea and truly ye be
detteis vnto theim : For they haue fowen amongefle
you the fpirituall treafures of goddes worde, for the
whyche they oughte to repe of you agayne corporall
necellaries. But to retume vnto them that (boidde
itettei haue prouyded for leamynge and pouertye in aH
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Loke whether that there was not a greate mimber of
both lemeil and pore that myght haue ben kepte,
mayntayned, and relyeued in the vniueriities : whych
lackyng all healpe or comforte, were compelled to for-
fake the vniueriitye, leue their bokes, and feke theyr
lyuynge abrodc in the country? Yea and in the
cuntrey manye Grammer Scholes founded of a godly
intent to brynge vp poore mennes fonnes in leatnynge
and vertue, nowe be taken aw[a]>-e by reafon of the
piedye couetoulhes of you that were put in truft by
God, and the kynge to erecte and make giammer fcholes
in majiye places : And had neyther commaundenient
nor permiflion to take away the fcholmallers lyuyng in
anye place, moreouer muche charitable almes was there
in manye places yerely to be beilowed in pore townes
and parilhes vpon goddes people, the kynges fubiectes :
whiche almes to ye great dyfpleafure of god and dys-
honoure of the kynge, yea and contrarye to goddes
worde and the kynges lawes, ye haue taken away. I
Icnowe what ye do iaye and bragge in fome places : that
yc haue doen as ye were commaunded wyth as muche
chatytye and lyberalitye towardes both pouertye and
leamynge, as your commiflion woulde beare and fuffer.
