sentences:  The clergy's resulting largess provides them with the requisite power to oppose the king, which Fish dubs the clergy's “treason fund.”
  
  This charge of treason against the clergy, according to the pamphlet, is rooted in fact that the clergy have “placed themselves above the law of the realm.” The mere existence of ecclesiastical courts is another sign of this treason.Hunne was murdered, Fish maintains, because he properly recognise the king's authority as existing above that of the clergy.As for the clergy's corruption, Fish launches an assault against the clergy based upon their inability to marry.