nd chaplain to the said
abbot; which canon is and ever hath been since that time chief of
the said abbot's council; and is supported to carry crossbowes, and
to go whither he lusteth at any time, to fishing and hunting in the
king's forests, parks, and chases; but little or nothing serving the
quire, as other brethren do, neither corrected of the abbot for any
trespass he doth commit.

16. Item, that the said abbot hath been perjured oft, as is to be
proved and is proved; and as it is supposed, did not make a true
inventory of the goods, chattels, and jewels of his monastery to the
King's Majesty and his Council.

17. Item, that the said abbot hath infringed all the king's
injunctions which were given him by Doctor Cave to observe and keep;
and when he was denounced _in pleno capitulo_ to have broken the
same, he would have put in prison the brother as did denounce him to
have broken the same injunctions, save that he was let by the
convent there.

18. Item, that the said abbot hath openly preached against the
doctrine of Christ, saying he ought not to love his enemy, but as he
loves the devil; and that he should love his enemy's soul, but not
his body.

19. Item, that the said abbot hath taken but small regard to the
good-living of his household.

20. Item, that the said abbot hath had and hath yet a special favour
to misdoers and manquellers, thieves, deceivers of their neighbours,
and by them [is] most ruled and counselled.

21. Item, that the said abbot hath granted leases of farms and
advocations first to one man, and took his fine, and also hath
granted the same lease to another man for more money; and then would
make to the last taker a lease or writing, with an antedate of the
first lease, which hath bred great dissension among gentlemen--as
Master Blunt and Master Moysey, and other takers of such leases--and
that often.

22. Item, the said abbot having the contrepaynes of leases in his
keeping, hath, for money, rased out the number of years mentioned in
the said leases, and writ a fresh number in the former taker's
lease, and in the contrepayne thereof, to the intent to defraud the
taker or buyer of the residue of such leases, of whom he hath
received the money.

23. Item, the said abbot hath not, according to the foundation of
his monastery,