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>First conclusion: state of the Church
The first conclusion asserts that the English Church has become too involved in affairs of temporal power, led by the bad example of the Church of Rome, its stepmother, deadly sins that remove its legitimacy (see the portions of the translation with the phrasing "to dote in temperalte, and "challengith the title of heritage").
>Second conclusion: the priesthood
The second conclusion asserts that the ceremonies used for the ordination of priests and bishops are without scriptural basis and not the priesthood into which Christ ordained the apostles. ("For the presthood of Rome is mad (made) with signis, rytis, and bisschopis blissingis." Holy orders are "the leveree (livery) of antecryst.")
>Third conclusion: clerical celibacy
The third conclusion asserts that the practice of clerical celibacy has encouraged sodomy among the clergy and monks, such that churchmen need purgation or worse from their lifestyles—i.e., of decadent "delicious metis and drinkis"; men who like these "like non wymmen".
>Fourth conclusion: transubstantiation
The fourth conclusion asserts that the doctrine of transubstantiation induces idolatry (of the communion bread), suggesting that "Frere Thomas" (Aquinas)' Feast of Corpus Christi service is "untrewe".
>Fifth conclusion: exorcisms and hallowings
The fifth conclusion asserts that the exorcisms and hallowings of substances, objects and pilgrims' staves carried out by priests are a practice of necromancy (shamanism) rather than of Christian theology, asserting that nothing can be changed to be of higher virtue than its kind.