e: whereby the said ordinaries do keep and
detain the fruits and profits of the same benefices in their own hands, and
thereby accumulate to themselves right great and large sums of money and
yearly profits, to the most pernicious example of your said lay
subjects--and so the cures and promotions given unto such infants be only
employed to the enriching of the said ordinaries; and the poor silly souls
of your people, which should be taught in the parishes given as aforesaid,
for lack of good curates [be left] to perish without doctrine or any good
teaching.

"IX. Also, a great number of holydays now at this present time, with very
small devotion, be solemnised and kept throughout this your Realm, upon the
which many great, abominable, and execrable vices, idle and wanton sports,
be used and exercised, which holydays, if it may stand with your Grace's
pleasure, and specially such as fall in the harvest, might, by your
Majesty, with the advice of your most honourable council, prelates, and
ordinaries, be made fewer in number; and those that shall be hereafter
ordained to stand and continue, might and may be the more devoutly,
religiously, and reverendly observed, to the laud of Almighty God, and to
the increase of your high honour and favour.

"X. And furthermore the said spiritual ordinaries, their commissaries and
substitutes, sometimes for their own pleasure, sometimes by the sinister
procurement of other spiritual persons, use to make out process against
divers of your said subjects, and thereby compel them to appear before
themselves, to answer at a certain day and place to such articles as by
them shall be, _ex officio_, then proposed; and that secretly and not in
open places;[223] and forthwith upon their appearance, without any
declaration made or showed, commit and send them to ward, sometimes for
[half] a year, sometimes for a whole year or more, before they may in
anywise know either the cause of their imprisonment or the name of their
accuser;[224] and finally after their great costs and charges therein, when
all is examined and nothing can be proved against them, but they clearly
innocent for any fault or crime that can be laid unto them, they be again
set at large without any recompence or amends in that behalf to be towards
them adjudged.

"XI. And also if percase upon the said process and appearance any party be
upon the said matter, cause, or examination, brought forth and named,
either as party or witn