admitted freely tenants into certain alms-houses
belonging to the said monastery; but of them he hath taken large
fines, and some of them he hath put away that would not give him
fines: whither poor, aged, and impotent people were wont to be
freely admitted, and [to] receive the founder's alms that of the old
customs [were] limited to the same--which alms is also diminished by
the said abbot.

24. Item, that the said abbot did not deliver the bulls of his
bishopric, that he purchased from Rome, to our sovereign lord the
king's council till long after the time he had delivered and
exhibited the bulls of his monastery to them.

25. Item, that the said abbot hath detained and yet doth detain
servants' wages; and often when the said servants hath asked their
wages, the said abbot hath put them into the stocks, and beat them.

26. Item, the said abbot, in times past, hath had a great devotion
to ride to Llangarvan, in Wales, upon Lammas-day, to receive pardon
there; and on the even he would visit one Mary Hawle, an old
acquaintance of his, at the Welsh Poole, and on the morrow ride to
the foresaid Llangarvan, to be confessed and absolved, and the same
night return to company with the said Mary Hawle, at the Welsh Poole
aforesaid, and Kateryn, the said Mary Hawle her first daughter, whom
the said abbot long hath kept to concubine, and had children by her,
that he lately married at Ludlow. And [there be] others that have
been taken out of his chamber and put in the stocks within the said
abbey, and others that have complained upon him to the king's
council of the Marches of Wales; and the woman that dashed out his
teeth, that he would have had by violence, I will not name now, nor
other men's wives, lest it would offend your good lordship to read
or hear the same.

27. Item, the said abbot doth daily embezzle, sell, and convey the
goods and chattels, and jewels of the said monastery, having no need
so to do: for it is thought that he hath a thousand marks or two
thousand lying by him that he hath gotten by selling of orders, and
the jewels and plate of the monastery and corradyes; and it is to be
feared that he will alienate all the rest, unless your good lordship
speedily make redress and provision to let the same.

28. Item, the said abbot was accustomed yearly to preach at