IX. That after Urban VI. no one is to be received as Pope, but it is necessary for us to live, like the Greeks, under our own laws. X. To assert that it is contrary to Scripture that ecclesiastical men should have temporal possessions. Erroneous conclusions contrary to the determination of the Church: ... XI. That no prelate should excommunicate anyone unless he first knows he is excommunicated by God. XII. That if he excommunicates he is thereby a heretic or excommunicate. XIII. That a prelate excommunicating a clerk who has appealed to the King and the Council of the realm is thereby a traitor to God, King, and realm. XIV. That those who abstain from preaching or hearing the Word of God or the Gospel, preached, on account of the excommunication of men, are themselves excommunicate, and in the day of judgment shall be held to be traitors to God. XV. To assert that it is lawful to anyone, either deacon or priest, to preach the Word of God without the authority of the Apostolic See, or a Catholic bishop, or some other sufficiently authorized. XVI. To assert that no one is a civil lord, bishop, or prelate while he is in mortal sin. XVII. That temporal lords can at their will take away temporal goods from ecclesiastics habitually sinful, or that the public may at their will correct sinful lords. XVIII. That tithes are pure alms, and that the parishioners may detain them on account of the sins of their curates and confer them at pleasure on others. XIX. That special prayers restricted to one person by prelates or religious do no more avail the same person, other things being equal, than general prayers. XX. That the fact of anyone entering into any private religion makes him more unfit and unable to perform God's commandment. XXI. That holy men who endow private religions either of possessioners or mendicants had sinned in so endowing. XXII. That the religious living in private religions are not of the Christian religion. XXIII. That friars are bound to get their living by the labour of their hands and not by begging. XXIV. That anyone conferring alms on friars or preaching friars is excommunicate; as is the one who receives. THE FOLLOWERS OF THIS MASTER JOHN (1382). SOURCE.--_Chronicle of Adam of Usk_ (translated and edited by Sir E. Maunde Thompson, 1904), 140, 141.