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Wronging the see by felling the wood. Charged for his licences 

 for marriage. Faculties. Old Sir Roger. Charged again for 

 disorders in Essex. Desires to be heard by the Queen. Mar- 

 prelate s slanders of the Bishop. Detaining stolen goods. 

 Wronging his grocer. Keeping one in the Clink. Ordaining 

 his porter. These calumnies wiped off. The business between 

 the Bishop and the diers ; and the executors of Allen his grocer. 

 Benison s business. His charge of making his porter a Min 

 ister,, cleared. Other calumnies. Bowling on the sabbath. His 

 friends. Lord Treasurer Burghley. 



CHAP. XII. 



His great abilities in learning. His disputation. Writings. 

 A logician : an historian : an hebrician : a civilian. 



P. 145. 



His debates in Queen Mary s Convocation : concerning the 

 sense of ova-ia. His free speech to the Prolocutor. He takes 

 up the Prolocutor again. His book called The Harborough. 

 Dedicates it to the Earl of Bedford and Lord Dudley. Some 

 character of the book. A specimen of it. The arguments of 

 Knox s book reduced to six. Aylmer s book of the supremacy. 

 He was a logician, an historian, a good hebrician. His 

 sense of the descent of Christ into hell. Bishop Aylmer favours 

 Hugh Broughton. His opinion of the LXX. Greek. Skilled 

 in the civil law. Shews the difference between the law of Eng 

 land and the civil law. 



CHAP. XIII. 



A great Divine. Well skilled in Hebrew learning. A good 

 textuary and preacher. His judgment. Some of his 

 sayings. P. 168. 



Well seen in all divine learning. A good interpreter of the 

 Scripture. Several places by him explained. Conversant in 

 the ancient Church writers. An excellent preacher. A preacher, 

 how to be qualified, in his judgment. Curious in books. A 

 good judge of learning. Some of his thoughts concerning va 

 rious matters. Quakers. His opinion of Bishops lands. His 

 opinion of the English government. Compares the two Queens, 

 Mary and Elizabeth. His judgment of the Queen s marriage. 



