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to think them worthy of the Commissioners proceeding with CHAP, 

 them. For as for Carew, he took upon him to preach with- V1I&amp;gt; 



out authority, nay, against authority : but this was not all, Enormities 

 but he contemned all ecclesiastical censures ; he was elected doctrine&quot; 56 

 by the people, and practised a Presbytery. He defaced the of their 

 Book of Public Prayers and Administration of the Sacra 

 ments. He utterly denied that article of the faith, that 

 Christ descended into hell. He held to the Bishop^s face, 

 that the Queen had no authority to make ecclesiastical laws. 

 He maintained, they must continue in division, because 

 Christ saith, Non veni mittere pacem, sed gladium : i. e. 

 / came not to send peace, but a sword. He put several 

 good gentlemen and others from the Communion, when (as 

 the Bishop wrote in his letter to the Treasurer about him) 

 there was more need to allure them to it. He ignorantly 

 and heretically held against the Bishop, that the soul of 

 man was of the substance of God; and so consequently that 

 it was infinite : and the soul of the reprobate being damned, 

 the substance of God should be damned ; with infinite such 

 other errors, as the learned Bishop shewed him, whereinto 

 he fell through ignorance and arrogancy. Nor could he 

 speak three words of Latin. As for his people, he had 

 brought them to that point, that they said, even at Baptism, 

 that it made no matter for the water ^ so we have the word. 

 And divers of them denied to join with the congregation in 

 praying for the Queen ; and irreverently sat with their heads 

 covered, in spite of good order, when others kneeled and 

 prayed for her. 



The noise of these men was so great in the parts adja- His dealing 

 cent, that the Earl of Sussex, who lived at New-hall, not at Hatfidd&amp;lt; 

 far off, signified to the Archbishop of Canterbury their great 

 evil example. After these innovators were committed, the 

 Archbishop and the Bishop took care to send down preach 

 ers to Hatfield, and one to read the book, according to the 

 law. And however greatly they had offended, they were 

 offered to be bailed upon these conditions : that Allen, the 

 layman, would not disturb the preachers that were appointed 

 to preach there, nor disquiet the Minister in reading the 



