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CHAP, service, and that Carew preached no more in his diocese 

 without licence. But in January these persons had the 

 confidence to make their complaint to the Council against 

 these proceedings, according to their custom : and some 

 friends they had there. This when the Bishop understood, 

 he wrote to the Lord Treasurer, who now seemed with 

 others to shew them favour, importing, that they were com 

 mitted by a great bench, both of divines, civilians, and com 

 mon lawyers. That if his Lordship understood out of the 

 registry and otherwise, of them and their behaviour, he 

 thought the other would as much mislike them as they did. 

 He shewed him the reasonable conditions made them for 

 their enlargement ; and at length in some heat he added, 

 &quot; that if those were suffered, the Church and the realm 

 &quot; would be so disturbed, as it was never yet since her Ma- 

 &quot; jesty s reign. That if the Lords of the Council thought 

 &quot; that the Bishop and his Commission would deal too hardly 

 &quot; with them, he prayed, in God s name, that the Archbishop 

 &quot; of Canterbury and the Commissioners there at Lambeth 

 &quot; might examine it, and inform the Lords how they found 

 &quot; it there ; and the Bishop declared he and the rest would 

 f be ready to exhibit the whole proceedings before them. 

 &quot; Finally concluding with these words, that if this foul and 

 &quot; contemptuous fact were suffered, he for his part must 

 &quot; yield up to her Highness all authority which they had 

 &quot; received at her hand.&quot; 

 Composes a This year, 1585, the nation was much afflicted with un- 

 seasonable wet weather, and dispirited by fears arising from 

 foreign enemies, the Queen of Scots, and the plots laid for 

 Queen Elizabeth s life, on which so much depended the 

 peace of England. This gave occasion to the Bishop to 

 compose, or cause to be composed, a form of prayer, very 

 pious and well expressed, and of good length, consisting 

 of seven pages, and being one continued prayer; and re 

 commended to be used in private families as well as in pub 

 lic. It was entitled, &quot; A necessary and godly Prayer, by the 

 &quot; Right Reverend Father in God, John, Bishop of London, 

 * to be used throughout all his Diocese upon Sundays and 



