.

7. Item, that the said abbot, long after that other bishops had
renounced the Bishop of Rome, and professed them to the King's
Majesty, did use, but more verily usurped, the office of a bishop by
virtue of his first bulls purchased from Rome, till now of late, as
it will appear by the date of his confirmation, if he have any.

8. Item, that he the said abbot hath lived viciously, and kept to
concubines divers and many women that is openly known.

9. Item, that the said abbot doth yet continue his vicious living,
as it is known, openly.

10. Item, that the said abbot hath spent and wasted much of the
goods of the said monastery upon the foresaid women.

11. Item, that the said abbot is malicious and very wrathful, not
regarding what he saith or doeth in his fury or anger.

12. Item, that one Richard Gyles bought of the abbot and convent of
Wigmore a corradye, and a chamber for him and his wife for term of
their lives; and when the said Richard Gyles was aged and was very
weak, he disposed his goods, and made executors to execute his will.
And when the said abbot now being ---- perceived that the said
Richard Gyles was rich, and had not bequested so much of his goods
to him as he would have had, the said abbot then came to the chamber
of the said Richard Gyles, and put out thence all his friends and
kinsfolk that kept him in his sickness; and then the said abbot set
his brother and other of his servants to keep the sick man; and the
night next coming after the said Richard Gyles's coffer was broken,
and thence taken all that was in the same, to the value of forty
marks; and long after the said abbot confessed, before the executors
of the said Richard Gyles, that it was his deed.

13. Item, that the said abbot, after he had taken away the goods of
the said Richard Gyles, used daily to reprove and check the said
Richard Gyles, and inquire of him where was more of his coin and
money; and at the last the said abbot thought he lived too long, and
made the sick man, after much sorry keeping, to be taken from his
feather-bed, and laid upon a cold mattress, and kept his friends
from him to his death.

15. Item, that the said abbot consented to the death and murdering
of one John Tichkill, that was slain at his procuring, at the said
monastery, by Sir Richard Cubley, canon a