Sicque usurpatis sibi agellulis sive vicis, liberi exinde a divino simul et humano servitio, suis tantum inibi desideriis laici monachis imperantes deserviunt: imo non monachos ibi congregant, sed quoscunque ob culpam inobedientiae veris expulsos monasteriis alicubi forte oberrantes invenerint, aut evocare monasteriis ipsi valuerint; vel certe quos ipsi de suis satellitibus ad suscipiendam tonsuram promissa sibi obedientia monachica invitare quiverint.
And thus they take possession of plots of land or villages, and henceforth are quit of service to God as well as man, and being laymen exercise lordship over monks therein, and are obedient only to their own lusts: nay, rather, it is not monks that they assemble there, but either any such as having been driven out of true monasteries for the sin of disobedience, they chance to find wandering to and fro, or those whom they themselves have power to entice from their houses; or else at any rate those of their own following whom they may bring to receive the tonsure with promise of monastical obedience to themselves.
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