ABSTRACT
Then as they passed thorow the streates ledainge everye one a gentell woman uppon ther armes, they saw a man which solde dishoneste Images, and pictures, wythe rimes and ballets of like estate, to move and sturre up the people to hordome, and knavery, all these goodly pictures were bought up by the bishopes, which were as many as a mule could cary, and if ther were any hard sentence difficile to understand, in ther rimes or balets annexed to the said imagery, the same these lerned prelates did redely expounde . . . these bishoppes did mainteyn and uphold abominal bookes and dishonest pictures rejectinge and refusinge the holy bookes of god and therfore he judge them rather the priestes of bacchus and Venus, then the true pastors of the churche of Christ.
