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The Lay Folks' Catechism, or the English and Latin versions of Archbishop Thoresby's Instruction for the People

Together with a Wycliffite adaptation of the same, and the corresponding canons of the council of Lambeth. With introduction, notes, glossary, and index, by the late Thomas Frederick Simmons ... and Henry Edward Nolloth

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The sexte sacrame[n]t of holy chirche is. ordyr
þat geuys power to hem þat ryȝtfully takyn hit
for to serue in holy chirche aftyr her stat ys.
and to hem þat takyn þe ordyr of prest
for to synge messis. and for to mynystre þe sacramentes of holy chirche
þat to hem fallyn aftyr þe stat þat þei han and here degre askyþ.