In England from Wicliffe to Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

Such were the terms in which Pope Martin
deemed it becoming to speak of the Act by which
the Parliament prohibited foreigners–many of
whom did not know our tongue, and some of
whom, too lazy to come in person, sent their cooks
or butlers to do duty for them–holding livings in
England. He rates the Senate of a great nation as if
it were a chapter of friars or a corps of Papal
pensioners, who dared not meet till he had given
them leave, nor transact the least piece of business
till they had first ascertained whether it was
agreeable to his Pontifical pleasure. And the
primate, the very man who at that moment was
enacting new edicts against heresy, deeming the
old not severe enough, and was burning Lollards
for the "greater glory" of the Church, he indecently
scolds as: grossly and traitorously negligent of the
interests of the Papal See. This sharp reprimand
was followed by an order to the archbishop, under
pain of excommunication, instantly to repair to the
Privy Council, and exert his utmost influence to
have the statute repealed; and he was further
enjoined, as soon as Parliament should sit, to apply
to it for the same purpose, and to tell the Lords and
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