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CHAP, fuse the wearing of the sUrplice. 3. That there be no di- 

 minishing or altering the service. 4. Inquiry to be made 



who did not celebrate the Sacraments together with their 

 preaching ; doing the one, but wholly omitting the other. 

 5. Also, who made alteration in the rites required to be 

 used in Baptism. 6. Who did not catechize the youth. 

 7. The seventh article related to contentious preachers, who 

 scandalously gave others the name of dumb dogs. 8. The 

 last related to such as utterly refused to read the Homilies. 

 The Bishop at this assembly shewed himself somewhat ear 

 nest, and said, he would surely and severely punish the of 

 fenders in these points, or / will lie, said he, in the dust 

 for it. 



Contends He had a long and troublesome business with a certain 

 Lord iiTch, nobleman, a great favourer of the Puritans. It was the 

 a Puritan. L or( j Rich, who about the years 1580 and 1581, had ex 

 ercises of religion after their way in his house in Essex, one 

 Wright being the preacher ; who seems to have been the 

 same Wright with him of Trinity College in Cambridge, 

 and tutor to the Earl of Essex, both before and at his being 

 at the University ; a sister of which Earl the said Lord 

 Rich had married. These meetings in this Lord s house 

 the Bishop being informed of, opposed and forbade, and by 

 the power he had endeavoured to stop. In his father s 

 time, the former Lord Rich, the Bishop had many storms 

 from him upon the same account : and now his son conti 

 nued the same practices in his house. This was come by 

 this time to the Queen s ear ; that is, that there were dis 

 orders practised in Essex, and particularly in that Peer s 

 house ; which she angrily took notice of to the Lord Trea 

 surer : of which he acquainted the Bishop, and withal, that 

 it was her order and command to him, to take notice of those 

 unlawful exercises, and forbid them. The Bishop took this 

 opportunity, that the Queen might know what troubles he 

 underwent in this her service, by the answer he made to the 

 Treasurer s letters ; therein desiring and entreating that 

 Lord to signify to her Majesty, that he had many great 

 storms with the late Lord Rich ; and that now lately the 



