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CHAP. &quot; God s word; he demanded then, with what conscience 



_ &quot; they could deal so hardly with them for leaving out some 



&quot; ceremonies more superstitious and offensive than this. 



&quot; Thirdly, for that they would allow any Papist, atheist, 

 &quot; and what wicked liver soever, that was convented before 

 &quot; them, to know their accuser, to have a copy, for their mo- 

 &quot; ney, of the interrogatories and other proceedings ; but 

 &quot; they, the Ministers, could neither know their accusers, nor 

 &quot; yet have the benefit of subjects. 



&quot; Fourthly, for that they, the Bishops, condemned non- 

 &quot; residency to be horrible, odious to the people, and perni- 

 &quot; cious to the Church of God, and yet tolerated and dis- 

 &quot; pensed with the same ; as by their book of Canons extant 

 &quot; in print, and agreed upon in the Convocation House 1571, 

 &quot; in these words, as his memory served him: Absentia Pas- 

 &quot; tor is a Dominico grege, et secura ilia negligentia, quam 

 &quot; videmus in multis, et destitutio Ministerii, est res et in se 

 &quot;Jfeda, et odiosa in vulgus, et perniciosa Ecclesice Dei. 



&quot; And lastly, for that they, the said Bishops, did molest, 

 &quot; nay, deprive them for preaching that doctrine which they 

 &quot; themselves had published in print, and was extant to be 

 &quot; seen.&quot; And then instanced in a book of the Bishop s of 

 London, entitled, The Harborough of the Faithful : out 

 of which the said Cawdry had transcribed as many passages 

 as would fill half a sheet of paper, and sent them enclosed 

 in his foresaid letter to the Lord Burghley. 



Offers some And these at length were the causes set down by himself, 

 why he would not submit himself to the Archbishop and 



mission. 



Bishop, as he was advised to do ; yet afterwards, upon fur 

 ther suggestion of the forementioned Lord, he made at last 

 a submission before the Archbishop, for the words he ut 

 tered concerning the Common Prayer. But a further sub 

 mission he refused, viz. to submit himself to such orders as 

 But will not should be agreed concerning him ; namely, to recant and 

 retract publicly in the same place the words he was charged 

 with, and to promise conformity to the laws established, and 

 subscription to the Articles : which were such conditions, 

 he said, as he dared not yield unto ; being persuaded that 



