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don wrote this letter unto the said Peer, relating the truth CHAP. 

 of the cause : _.. VI1L 



&quot; I received your Lordship s letter of the first of June, The BU 

 &quot; upon the fourth of the same, touching Robert Cawdry, tdthe said 

 &quot; late Parson of South Luffenham in the county of Rut- Lord - 

 &quot; land, and his deprivation from the said benefice by sen- 

 &quot; tence definitive of her Majesty s Commissioners for causes 

 &quot; ecclesiastical, together with a case drawn by himself, as it 

 &quot; seemeth, and subsigned by his learned counsel ; wherein 

 &quot; how far he abuseth your Lordship may appear by this 

 &quot; enclosed brief, touching our proceedings against him. He 

 &quot; was detected unto us, not only for depraving the Book of 

 &quot; Common Prayer in such vile terms as in the said brief is 

 66 set down, but also for refusing to observe the orders by 

 &quot; the same book appointed. Which his speeches, he being 

 &quot; oftentimes by us judicially admonished to revoke, and to 

 &quot; observe the said orders, and he still refusing the same, 

 &quot; we in the end proceeded, as by law, and a proviso in the 

 &quot; end of the statute, mentioned by his learned counsel, we 

 &quot; hold it warrantable, to his deprivation. 



&quot; Where your Lordship further writeth to pray the Com- 

 &quot; missioners to review and examine the said sentence, and 

 &quot; to consider of the exceptions by him proposed to the same, 

 &quot; your Lordship shall find in the enclosed brief a further 

 &quot;judicial proceeding against him, whereat were present 

 &quot; some of the judges of the land, and of her Majesty s 

 &quot; learned Council ; wherein, for that he persevered in his 

 &quot; disobedience, whereof he was convicted upon his own con- 

 &quot; fession, for not submitting himself to the former sentence 

 &quot; of deprivation, and for continuing in refusal of observa- 

 &quot; tion of her Majesty s laws, touching the use of the orders 

 &quot; of the Book of Common Prayer, he was by sentence de- 

 &quot; finitive in writing degraded and deposed from his min- 

 &quot; istry. So as there is now no colour for him to desire re- 

 &quot; view of the former sentence touching his deprivation ; 

 &quot; when as the same is by a second sentence confirmed, and 

 &quot; he utterly unabled and removed from the ministry. These 

 &quot; proceedings, I hope, will justly move your good Lord- 



