se with nuns, &c. &c.

You yourself, moreover, among other grave enormities and abominable
crimes whereof you are guilty, and for which you are noted and
diffamed, have, in the first place, admitted a certain married
woman, named Elena Germyn, who has separated herself without just
cause from her husband, and for some time past has lived in adultery
with another man, to be a nun or sister in the house or Priory of
Bray, lying, as you pretend, within your jurisdiction. You have next
appointed the same woman to be prioress of the said house,
notwithstanding that her said husband was living at the time, and is
still alive. And finally, Father Thomas Sudbury, one of your brother
monks, publicly, notoriously, and without interference or punishment
from you, has associated, and still associates, with this woman as
an adulterer with his harlot.

Moreover, divers other of your brethren and fellow-monks have
resorted, and do resort, continually to her and other women at the
same place, as to a public brothel or receiving house, and have
received no correction therefor.

Nor is Bray the only house into which you have introduced disorder.
At the nunnery of Sapwell, which you also contend to be under your
jurisdiction, you change the prioresses and superiors again and
again at your own will and caprice. Here, as well as at Bray, you
depose those who are good and religious; you promote to the highest
dignities the worthless and the vicious. The duties of the order are
cast aside; virtue is neglected; and by these means so much cost and
extravagance has been caused, that to provide means for your
indulgence you have introduced certain of your brethren to preside
in their houses under the name of guardians, when in fact they are
no guardians, but thieves and notorious villains; and with their
help you have caused and permitted the goods of the same priories to
be dispensed, or to speak more truly to be dissipated, in the
above-described corruptions and other enormous and accursed
offences. Those places once religious are rendered and reputed as it
were profane and impious; and by your own and your creatures'
conduct, are so impoverished as to be reduced to the verge of ruin.

In like manner, also, you have dealt with certain other cells of
monks, which you say are subject to you, even withi