meanes did admonishe the sayde byshop of the vnlawfulnesse and fautes of the sayd commissiō and of the danger that he had incurred for graūting and executing the same: opening also vnto him the effecte of the statute made in the. xxviii. yere of our late souereign Lord Henry theight: Which monitions notwithstanding, the said byshop neglecting the same, and continuing in his malicious doing or inexcusable ignorāce, about the xx. day of Auguste in the fourthe yeare of the the reigne of our souereigne Lord that now is dyd conferre vnto one Iohn Euans the Vicarage of Pembrin, instituting him by autority of the old forreyn vsurped law, making no mention of the kings highnes authority, in cōtempt and derogation of the same.

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wheras the chauncelor and vicar general to the said bishop, did vpon a lawfull title, & by the kinges highnes supreame authority admit and institute one Iohn Gough into the rectory of Haskard with thappurtenances, & gaue out in the kinges name vnder his highnes seale ecclesiasticall appointed for that office with the (teste) of the sayde bishop and subscriptiō of the sayd chauncellor, a mandate to induct accordingly: by vertue wherof the sayd Ihō Gough was inducted by the officiall there, into reall possession of the same rectory, with the rightes and appurtenances to the same belonging: wherupon the register of the sayd diocesse, at the request of the foresayd Chauncelour did signifye the premisses, with all the circumstances, before diuers persons to the forenamed bishop, Who that not withstāding, did institute and cause to be inducted one Harry Goddart vnto the same personage, making no mētiō of the kinges maiesties authority nor supremacy, in contempt and derogation of the same his highnes crowne and dignity, and in extolling the forrein vsurped authority, contrary to the forme of the statute &c.

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Marginalia4.Item, 

the sayd bishop immediatly after the vnlawful institution and induction of Goddart aforesayd, molested the sayd Iohn Gough lawfullye instituted and inducted as before, citinge him from place to place, obiectinge no matter vnto him of long season, til at the length he articled. Emonge whiche articles was conteyned. Item interrogatur quo titulo tenet rectoria de Haskard. so taking vpon him the cognition of the title of the hole fruites and patronage, in contempt of the kinges highnes regal crowne and dignitie, and in derogation of the lawes and statutes of this Realme.

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Marginalia5.Item, he hath cōmonly made his collations, and institutions, as he dyd his first commission in his own name and autoritie, without expressing of the kynges supremacie.

Marginalia6.Item, he hath made vnder his seale one collation, two institutions, and three mandates, inducte in one vacation of one benefice, to three seuerall persones, without order of lawe, or reuocation of anye of them, geuynge to euery one lyke authoritie, tytle, and ryghte Wherby, except good forsyght aswell of Iustices of the peace, as of the frendes had not been, there had ensued muche incōuenience amonges the partakers of the intytuled incumbentes in that behalfe.

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Marginalia7.Item,  

the sayde Byshop decreyng Caueats to be made in benefices, thereby knowyng the titles litigious, instituteth, and causeth to be in-

ducted wythout triall of any tytle or due order of lawe.

Marginalia8.Item, he directeth his mandates of inductiō vnto pryuate menne, and not to Tharchdeacō nor theyr Officials, contrary to the lawe and custome vsed in that behalfe. Notwithstanding he hath beene counsayled to the contrary, of menne that be learned.

Marginalia9.Item, hauing no maner of knowledge nor practise in the lawe, he sytteth euerye daye, in haruest and other tymes, vpon causes without assistaunce of learned in the lawe, hauyng with hym onely an vnlearned boye, which is no Notary, to his scrybe, neyther obseruing the lawe, nor yet reasonable order. And therfore doth no good, but tryfeleth the tyme, as may appeare by his actes, if he haue them to be shewed.

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Marginalia10.Item, he and his officers, by his knowlege, vseth to dispense with mariages, to be solemnized without banes, contrary to the lawes and ordynaunce in that behalfe.

Marginalia11.Item, where as one Thomas Pricharde a Chapleyn of his, solempnized matrymony in a pryuate house without banes, and that betwixt a priest, & a syster of her, that was appoynted to be maried with the sayd priest that day: he also being a parsō, & leauing his cure vnserued that daye beyng Sonday: notwithstāding, that one of the kynges counsel in the marches of Wales, enformed the said byshop of the same misdemeanours, requiring due reformation thereof, he hath done nothyng therein, but putte the same Chaplein in office, and made him his Commissary generall since that time, bearing a speciall fauour to the rest of the offendours.

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Marginalia12.Item, where as one Meredith ap Thomas, his housholde seruaunt, was accused of one Sage Hugh, for to haue beene father of her chylde, the sayde byshop without purgation 

of his seruaunt, caused him to sue the parentes of the sayde Sage of infamie, first in his principal consistorie, and from thence before a Commissary of his, being his houshold Chaplaine, and at the last tooke the matter before hym selfe, so rayling agaynst all his Officers, because they proceaded not after his parcial affection, & against the lawe, that honest menne of Carmarthen, where he then satte vpon the cause, iudged him to be, or at the least to haue been distract of his wytte: and by his partiall handelyng, the cause remayneth vnfinyshed, and the chylde without father.

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Marginalia13.Item, where as one Ienkyn Ph. accused william Chambers a seruaunt of the Byshoppes, that found this Wylliam in adulterouse maner with his wyfe, by reason whereof the Byshop expelled the wyfe out of his house and the sayd infamie not purged, 

the parties haue been both agayne in the Byshoppes house, and seruice, synce that tyme, to the euyll example of other.

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Marginalia14.Item, 

by his vnlawfull sequestration of the fruictes of the benefyces of Langattocke, and Lamyhangell, by the vndiscrete handelynge of the same, there were raysed the nomber of foure hundred people or more, whyche byckered sundry tymes together, to the great daunger of thinhabitaūtes therabout, had it not ben pacified by the discrete meanes of Syr Roger Vaughan Knyght.

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Marginalia15.Item, 

by his lyke vnlawfull collation of the Prebende of Lambister, to one Stephen Gre-