Atque ita ordine perverso innumeri sint inventi, qui se abbates pariter et praefectos sive ministros aut famulos regis appellant, qui etsi aliquid vitae monasterialis ediscere laici non experiendo sed audiendo potuerint, a persona tamen illa ac professione quae hanc docere debeat, sunt funditus exsortes.
And so from a corruption of due order very many have been found, which call themselves alike abbots, reeves, and thanes or servants of the king, and which, albeit being laymen they might have learned something of the monastical life by hearsay if not of experience, yet are utterly without part in the character or profession whose duty is to teach it.
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