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CHAP. &quot; continue to taste of the wonted blessings which God hath 

 &quot; poured upon us by her Majesty s ministry, and your 

 &quot; Christian vigilancy. 



&quot; Your good Lordship s humbly to command, 



&quot; JOHN LONDON.&quot; 



&quot; From my house by Paul s, 



&quot; November 28, 1581. 



But all this good plot of the Bishop came to nothing : 

 and notwithstanding this serious incitement, this bishopric 

 laid vacant for almost three years after, (a thing sometimes 

 practised in this Queen s reign, I will not say for the sake 

 of the temporalities,) and then Dr. Goodwin, Dean of Can 

 terbury, was preferred to it. 



CHAP. VI. 



The Bishop s care about the Commission. Labours a re 

 move to Ely. 



Several pu- -A.T the commitment of Rich, Wright, and Dix, before 

 fnconfomi- mentioned, were present the Bishop, Sir Owen Hopton, 

 ty- Dr. Clark, Dean of the Arches, Dr. Walker, and Dr. 



Lewen; Dr. Lewis, Dr. Hammond, Mr. Mullins, Arch 

 deacon of London, and other Commissioners, which ought 

 to have assisted, withdrew themselves ; which weakened 

 their proceedings. But at this sitting, some they had ad 

 monished, and some suspended, (but not many,) till they 

 should shew themselves conformable in allowing the book. 

 Complains The Bishop observed how in these things, and such other 

 Commis- as ne j u % e d of importance, but odious, their colleagues did 

 sioners that shrink from them ; whereby those few that did assist grew 

 discouraged. He thought fit therefore to let the Lord 

 Treasurer know it, and interpose himself in it. He advised 

 that the Dean of the Arches, who was very active and as 

 sistant, might be encouraged by his Lordship or the Queen; 

 especially having had little favour from the Court : and the 



