Some of them are nothing nice

Both at hazard and momchance;

They drink in golden bowls

The blood of poor simple souls

Perishing for lack of sustenance.

Their hungry cures they never teach,

Nor will suffer none other to preach," etc.

[98] LATIMER'S Sermons, pp. 70, 71.

[99] A peculiarly hateful form of clerical impost, the priests claiming the last dress worn in life by persons brought to them for burial.

[100] Fitz James to Wolsey, FOXE, vol. iv. p. 196.