Help deciphering a recovered Tudor document? - History Forum ~ All Empires

Originally posted by like_paper_cuts

Hello, I am a amateur historian and have recieved the following document which was recently recovered from the binding of a book. I am trying to transribe it and make sense of its content, and am very interested in ascertaining what events the pictures and text may relate to.

However I am having some difficulty in deciphering the text, and am getting rather stuck. I really need some help in understanding it, so if anyone can help I would be extremely grateful, thankyou very much in advance.

Here is the text and link to the picture

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i94/ray-von1/TudorDocument.jpg

The Hallowing of the Papistical fare of Rome

1.
The hunt is up, the hunt is up
It is now parfite daye Jesus
Our king is gone a huntynge
Who lyst to spede he may

2.
To chase and to be the simple prize
That had not to flye the paine paid
But what he had paid he might not be
He must be assoyled again

3.
Kinsfolk to marry and home for to tarry
Such was his power and might
Who that had gold with him that might
Hold though it were against all right

4.
To some, God what? he gave a thought? not?
and to some a pluralytte?
But first with pence, they must dispense
or else it would not be

4.a
Therefore, so wily, with Scala? ce..
Played many a juggling cast
Converying them, our money to him
And commanded us to fast

5.
To fast and pray to matins of the daye
a pilgrimage from place to place
Thus went we still his coffers to fill
To deliver a soul to grace

6.
Great was his pride, annuls to provide
All men would he promote.
Both King and Duke to their rebuke
Should bow to kysse his fete

7.
If he had holden on as he began
And suffer as he was want to be
He was so wise, within a while
He should have kyssed his breach?

8.
He kept his holte, with the thunderb(olte)?
of excommunication
With cuts upon cuts, to pike each man
This was a fatherly fashion

9.
Therefor so -- had climbed so high
He thought beneath mortal
Till at the last he was down cast
His peltynge pardons and all

10.
But first he had nayn, syth he dyd
And infinite sight of laws
with allmo-- he -------
But bull(e) and skynnes of rams.

Edited by Nick1986 - 08-Jun-2012 at 19:53