Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones,whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.
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But we meanwhensoever her majesty or any other patron do present any person unto abenefice, that the person presented shall be tried and examined by the judgment of learned men of the church;[…]