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&quot; answer.&quot; And then, as to this Prince s manners, thus he CHAP, 

 exposed them ; (both his and his brother s, now King of IV 

 France ;) &quot; They speak in all languages of a marvellous, 

 &quot; licentious, and dissolute youth passed by this brother- 

 &quot; hood ; and of as strange incredible parts of intemperance 

 &quot; played by them, as those were of Heliogabalus. Yet I 

 &quot; will not rest upon conjecturals. For if but the fourth part 

 &quot; of the misrule bruited should be true, it must needs draw 

 &quot; such punishments from God, who for the most part pu- 

 &quot; nisheth these vile sins of the body, even in the body and 

 &quot; bones of the offender, besides other plagues to a third and 

 &quot; fourth generation ; as I would my poor life might redeem 

 &quot; the joining of Queen Elizabeth to such an one in that near 

 &quot; knot, which must needs make her half in the punishment 

 &quot; of those sins. 11 This bold book, therefore, and clamours 

 of the people, (London being in a dangerous ferment,) espe 

 cially those that were of the Puritan party, made a consider- 

 able shock at Court. It was therefore thought convenient Occasions 

 to send a hasty despatch to London, to the Bishop there, and ^j^y ^ 

 presently to summon the Clergy for the better pacifying summon the 

 these matters. And on a sudden, September 27, 1579, on ctegy&quot; 

 Sunday, at one of the clock, the Clergy of the city were 

 called unto the Bishop s palace ; where forty of them ap 

 peared. Then the Bishop, the Dean of Paul s being pre 

 sent and assistant, told them the occasion of his sudden 

 calling for them was, to admonish them of two things chiefly. 

 The former was of one Andreas Jacobus, a Dutchman, and, Andreas 

 as it seems, a Minister of the strangers church in London ; 

 who was a Lutheran, or an ubiquitary, as they now styled The ubiqui- 



&quot;arian co~ 

 roversy. 



them who were for the real presence ; and had caused great f 1 



quarrels among the strangers preachers. He warned them 

 to take heed how they gave ear to the sophistical arguments 

 of him, or any such like. That this ubiquitarian contro 

 versy had caused great heats and differences among the Pro 

 testants of Germany, and that the Divines had a Diet at 

 Smalcald on that occasion; and that God be thanked it 

 was appeased, arid all at quiet among them. 



He proceeded to the other reason, (and which was the 



