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to subvert and weaken the state of the whole church, and even the secular administration. Some of these, though with certain changes in terminology, seem to follow the perverse opinions and ignorant doctrine of Marsilius of Padua and John of Jandun, of accursed memory, whose book was rejected and condemned by Pope John XXII, our predecessor. 2 In the kingdom of England, made glorious by its power and abundant wealth, but still more glorious by the gleaming piety of its faith and the brilliance of the sacred page, there are produced enlightened men with a true
ingested in sufficiently large quantities, obstructs the noxious humour of pleasure before it flows down from the faculty of reason or the mind into the vital organs. Likewise, it blocks lubricous consent before it runs from the nostrils of discretion, and it prevents any erratic loss of confidence in God, silencing hoarse murmurs against him before they emerge from the throat of human memory. 93 Fourth, hyssop offers itself as a special cure against wind, swelling of the spleen and other internal organs, but not against dropsy. Thus, in fact, humility of the heart
tithes and gifts, which is part of what satisfies the Lord; for the Lord says this in Numbers 18, Deuteronomy 18 and Ezechiel 44. Faithful glosses fail to silence what heretics preach in respect of this. This same priest says secondly that bulls, charters and letters cannot be fully legalised in the absence of the ruler’s agreement. Since God’s law lasts eternally, it is not believed that God gives his agreement to this. 87 The same priest said thirdly that it can probably be assumed, in memory of the death of those earlier saints who accepted such a donation, that