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The April 1538 entry was typical: "Itm geuen to a prieste of Windesor who teacheth a Childe of Dauid ap Rice."
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Of the whiche, vi. are commune to euery inferiour prieste: the Amice, the Albe, the girdle, the stole, the
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With the whiche aftre he hath rauisshed him selfe in the vestrie, vppon solempne feastes, when he entendeth to do masse: he commeth forth to the aultare, hauing on the right side a prieste, on the lefte side a
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For the fourthe Sacramente it is holden, that euery prieste rightly priested, acordyng to the keies of the Churche, hauing an entente to consecrate, and obseruynge the fourme of the woordes: hathe power, of wheaten breade to make the very bodie of Christe, and of wine to make his very bloude.
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And let him assuredly beleue that the same prieste, hath power giuen him of Christe (as beinge his vienre, or deputie on earthe) to absolue him of all his sinnes.
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Furthermore thei woulde that ther should be a pulpite in the middes of the churche, wherein the prieste maye stonde vpon Sondaies and holidayes, to teache the people those thinges that it behoueth them to knowe.
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And let him humbly, and truly with his owne mouthe, confesse to a wise prieste, in the steade of God: all those offences wherwith he knoweth him selfe to haue loste his innocencie and clennesse, and to haue prouoked the wrathe of GOD againste him selfe.
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"There is a boke printed at Franker in Friseland, in English, entitled _The Finding of the Rayned Deer_, but it bears title to be printed in Antwerp, it should say to be done by som prieste in defence of the late Essex's tumult."
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Faste reyneynge oer the plaine a prieste was seen;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Notte, whanne the hallie prieste dyd make me knyghte,
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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