Furthermore, although many of the Lollardi Lollards are strong and useful for labor, they still strive to live from alms rather than eat from the labor of their own hands, the sacred scripture reproving this. We exhort and require all Christ’s faithful subject to us in the Lord that they withdraw themselves from feeding such strong Lollards who are fit for labor with their alms, lest they be called abettors of evil. We shall also take care to restrain the Lollards themselves with ecclesiastical censure if, being strong, they do not cease to demand alms, justice mediating.

Concerning the custody of the Eucaristia Eucharist and reverence for the sacraments.

Lest the wrath of God rage against the ministers on account of irreverence for the sacraments, we decree that the Eucharist, chrism, and holy oil be kept under diligent custody. When, however, the priest carries the Eucharist or the oil of the sick to a bedridden person, let him see that he is dressed in a surplice and stole or orarium, with a clean covering placed over the container, with a light manifestly and honestly borne before him, and also with a bell preceding the sacrament of the Eucharist. He shall do this for all who are truly penitent and confessed, who have accompanied or followed the priest as he goes or returns while he is carrying the Eucharist or the oil of the sick in this way. And if they do this by day, we grant ten days of the enjoined penances; if by night, with one’s own or another’s light, twenty days of the enjoined penances, beyond the indulgences granted by others and by apostolic authority, we mercifully relax in the Lord by our ordinary authority.

To the same concerning the custody of the Eucharist

Considering how gravely the glorious God is offended on account of the irreverence for the sacraments, and therefore although it is known to have been sufficiently sanctified by our predecessors regarding the custody and reverence of the sacraments, yet, as daily experience teaches, we observe that priests, when they carry the most divine sacraments of the Eucharist and extreme unction to the sick, proceed into the sight of the world with wooden shoes or clogs and scandalously and basely, with head bare or scarcely covered by a cap, with their hair adorned. Strictly, by this present statute which is to endure inviolably, we have sanctioned that the constitution inserted first must be firmly observed, and any priest approaching the sick with the sacraments of the Eucharist and extreme unction must proceed without wooden shoes and with the head covered by an almutium hood/amice (if at least in such a place amices are accustomed to be worn), otherwise with a clerical hood drawn over the neck so that only the face appears naked, proceeding with devotion and religion with light and bell according to the tenor of the same constitution, enlarging the indulgences expressed therein to the faithful of Christ in the Lord. But if any have contemned to keep this constitution of ours, let them know they will not escape our grave vengeance.

Concerning church procurators.

We have learned by the report of certain trustworthy men that, for the fabrics of many churches of our diocese, only lay procurators are appointed, who, at their own whim, seek their own comforts with the money and goods of such a fabric without the knowledge and consent of the parish priests, and sometimes exercise vicious trades and contracts with them