stery
of Wigmore, in the county of Hereford, to be exhibited to the Right
Honourable Lord Thomas Cromwell, the Lord Privy Seal and Vice-gerent
to the King's Majesty.

1. The said abbot is to be accused of simony, as well for taking
money for advocation and putations of benefices, as for giving of
orders, or more truly, selling them, and that to such persons which
have been rejected elsewhere, and of little learning and light
consideration.

2. The said abbot hath promoted to orders many scholars when all
other bishops did refrain to give such orders on account of certain
ordinances devised by the King's Majesty and his Council for the
common weal of this realm. Then resorted to the said abbot scholars
out of all parts, whom he would promote to orders by sixty at a
time, and sometimes more, and otherwhiles less. And sometimes the
said abbot would give orders by night within his chamber, and
otherwise in the church early in the morning, and now and then at a
chapel out of the abbey. So that there be many unlearned and light
priests made by the said abbot, and in the diocese of Llandaff, and
in the places afore named--a thousand, as it is esteemed, by the
space of this seven years he hath made priests, and received not so
little money of them as a thousand pounds for their orders.

3. Item, that the said abbot now of late, when he could not be
suffered to give general orders, for the most part doth give orders
by pretence of dispensation; and by that colour he promoteth them to
orders by two and three, and takes much money of them, both for
their orders and for to purchase their dispensations after the time
he hath promoted them to their orders.

4. Item, the said abbot hath hurt and dismayed his tenants by
putting them from their leases, and by enclosing their commons from
them, and selling and utter wasting of the woods that were wont to
relieve and succour them.

5. Item, the said abbot hath sold corradyes, to the damage of the
said monastery.

6. Item, the said abbot hath alienate and sold the jewels and plate
of the monastery, to the value of five hundred marks, _to purchase
of the Bishop of Rome his bulls to be a bishop, and to annex the
said abbey to his bishopric, to that intent that he should not for
his misdeeds be punished, or deprived from his said abbey_