28. Perhaps place the comma after sowed (sewn), not after sakke.
29. pannes, better spelt panes; see pane in Stratmann. From O.F. pan, panne, Lat. pannus, a cloth, garment, robe. mouled, become mouldy; the very form from which the mod. E. mould-y has been evolved; see muwlen in Stratmann, and mouldy in my Etym. Dict. (Supplement). whicche, chest, from A.S. hwæcca; see P. Plowm. A. iv. 102, where some copies have huche, a hutch, a word of French origin. Thus pannes mouled in a whicche signifies garments that have become mouldy in a chest. See note to C. T., C 734.
30. presse, a clothes-press; observe the context.
35. seventh; perhaps an error for thirde; cf. 'percussa est tertia pars solis'; Rev. viii. 12. He is referring to the primitive days of the Church, when 'the pope went afoot.'
40. defended, forbade (opposed) those taxations. See Taylage in Ch. Glossary.
42. maryed, caused to be married; cf. P. Plowman, B. vii. 29.
47. symonye, simony; cf. note to P. Plowman, C. iii. 63.
48. Observe the rimes: achates, debates; wronges, songes.
49. for his wronges, on account of the wrongs which he commits. personer, better parsoner or parcener, participant, sharer; i.e. the steward, courtier, escheator, and idle minstrel, all get something. See parcener in Stratmann.
50. 'And each one gets his prebend (or share) all for himself, with which many thrifty people ought to profit.'