So decays sound learning.

They present aliens who neither see nor care to see their parishioners, despise God's services, convey away the treasure of the realm, and are worse than Jews or Saracens.
The Pope's revenue from England alone is larger than that of any prince in Christendom.

God gave his sheep to be pastured, not to be shaven and shorn." At the close of this reign indeed the deaneries of Lichfield, Salisbury, and York, the archdeaconry of Canterbury, which was reputed the wealthiest English benefice, together with a host of prebends and preferments, were held by Italian cardinals and priests, while the Pope's collector from his office in London sent twenty thousand marks a year to the Papal treasury.
[Sidenote: Protest of the Parliament] But the greed of the Popes was no new grievance, though the increase of these exactions since the removal to Avignon gave it a new force.

What alienated England most was their connexion with and dependence on France.
From the first outset of the troubles in the North their attitude had been one of hostility to the English projects.

France was too useful a supporter of the Papal court to find much difficulty in inducing it to aid in hampering the growth of English greatness.