At alii graviore adhuc flagitio, quum sint ipsi laici et nullius vitae regularis vel usu exerciti, vel amore praediti, data regibus pecunia, emunt sibi sub praetextu monasteriorum construendorum territoria in quibus suae liberius vacent libidini, et haec insuper in ius sibi haereditarium edictis regalibus faciunt ascribi, ipsas quoque literas privilegiorum suorum quasi veraciter Deo dignas, pontificum, abbatum et potestatum seculi obtinent subscriptione confirmari.
But there are others guilty of yet more grievous sin; which, albeit themselves laymen and neither accustomed to any rule of religious life nor having any love thereof, give money to kings and, under pretence of founding monasteries, buy for themselves lands where they may more freely have opportunity for their lust, and these beside they get assigned unto them by royal edicts for an hereditary possession, and procure too even letters of their privileges (as if such were truly worthy of God) with confirmation of the hands of pontiffs, abbots and the powers of the world.
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