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Articuli in quilz sentio mrm Chroseam Nevenson meret reformandum
Orphen
Commissary
Ab excommunicatione absoluende mi^stem usurpat qu non heater potestates clavem
Devotum inter Christianos eitum nititur abrogare quo vult populum admoneri / ne quam bembam heanter in donulz sius aspergant
Precepit quoq ne quis morientem, certo benedicto (ut appellitant) consignent
Ignorante siiam intulit, nulla suspen ne preina
Complures in visitacione libellos perspexi illi pro & reformatione tradites (permia vero ; per dimissione curie exacta) nullam prorsus reformationem adhibint, quo inhil zele ad eclesiam se a habere comprobat
Ignorantilz recensere in anglices orationem divicam cum symbolo. interdixit dari absolutione ; Si vero propter serium aut distende in ydnertatem merito excusenter absoluantur in latinis. Ita ut st & absolutes esse non agnostant
Per me william Orphen curantus
- The vicar of boughton subtus blean
- The Curat of new and old Romney
- The Curat of hernehill
Against the Commissary by Wm. Orphen, curate of Lydd :"Articuli in quibus sentio M'rum Christoferum Nevenson merito reformandum." 1. He usurps the office of absolving, not having the power of the keys (potestatis clavem qu. for potestatem clavium?). 2. He tries to abrogate a devout Christian rite, warning people not to take holy water to sprinkle their houses. 3. "Precepit quoque ne quis morientem cereo benedicto (ut appellitant) consignet." 4. "Ignoranti sententiam intulit, nulla suspensione previa." 5. "Complures in visitatione libellos perspexi illi pro reformatione traditos : pecunia vero pro dimissione curi exacta, nullam prorsus reformationem adhibuit; quo nihil zeli ad ecclesiam se habere comprobat." 6. He forbade absolution to be given to persons unable to repeat the Lord's Prayer and creed in English. "Si vero propter senium aut discendi in ydoneitatem merito excusentur, absolvantur in Latinis, ita ut se absolutos esse non agnoscant." Underneath is written : The Vicar of Boughton subtus Blean. The Curat of New and Old Romney. The Curat of Hernehill.