XVII. That temporal lords can at their will take away temporal goods from ecclesiastics habitually sinful, or that the public may at their will correct sinful lords.
XVIII. That tithes are pure alms, and that the parishioners may detain them on account of the sins of their curates and confer them at pleasure on others.
XIX. That special prayers restricted to one person by prelates or religious do no more avail the same person, other things being equal, than general prayers.
XX. That the fact of anyone entering into any private religion makes him more unfit and unable to perform God's commandment.
XXI. That holy men who endow private religions either of possessioners or mendicants had sinned in so endowing.
XXII. That the religious living in private religions are not of the Christian religion.
XXIII. That friars are bound to get their living by the labour of their hands and not by begging.
XXIV. That anyone conferring alms on friars or preaching friars is excommunicate; as is the one who receives.
THE FOLLOWERS OF THIS MASTER JOHN (1382).
Source.—Chronicle of Adam of Usk (translated and edited by Sir E. Maunde Thompson, 1904), 140, 141.