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present Lord Rich, and his bastard uncle, and another, CHAP, 

 came into his house at Fulham, to solicit him to licence the 

 aforesaid Wright to preach in his diocese ; but this the Bi 

 shop utterly denied to do, unless he would subscribe to the 

 orders of this Church. But that Lord s aforesaid uncle did 

 hereupon so shake him up, that he said he was never so 

 abused at any man s hands since he was born. For which 

 he was minded to commit him, as great a person as he was, 

 but that there were not three Commissioners together to do 

 it according to the authority of the Commission : but deter 

 mined that he [the Bishop] and some of the rest would call 

 him at their first sitting in the term ; for he considered, the 

 Queen s chief Commissioner was not so contemptuously to 

 be treated for saving the honour of the Princess herself ; 

 and our Prelate s spirit was as great as the greatest. 



He then gave the Lord Rich warning, that he followed 

 not his uncle s counsel in those matters ; and that if he did, 

 he must needs make her Majesty acquainted with it ; and 

 so he meant to do. 



His endeavour next was to get Wright their preacher. Wright his 

 But him he could not come by, unless he sent a power of pl 

 men to fetch him out of a nobleman s house ; for he had 

 charged both father and son to send him unto him ; and 

 they promised they would, but never did. Therefore, seeing 

 they of the Commission had done as far as their said Com 

 mission gave them leave, he hoped her Majesty would think 

 the best of their doings, and not suffer them to be defaced 

 by such busy-bodies ; or be grieved with them, the Com 

 missioners, for not doing that which their authority reached 

 not unto. Two years he had been thus struggling with 

 them : but he told the Treasurer, that unless they should 

 pull Wright out by the ears, he knew not how they should 

 come by him. These things were by the said Treasurer 

 communicated to the Queen; and so the Bishop desired they 

 might in his own vindication. 



This business made such a noise, and the Queen so irri- 

 tated, that it seems Mr. Rich and Mr. Wright aforesaid, 

 and the other, were had in examination before the Commis- 



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