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Instructions for Parish Priests

By John Myrc [i.e. Mirk]. Edited from Cotton MS. Claudius A. II, by Edward Peacock

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De modo absoluendi penitentem.

Now take hede how þow schalt done
Of thyn absolucyone;
When schryfte ys herde þen ȝeue penaunce,
And bydde hym say wyth fulle creawnce: