BISHOP AYLMER. 95 



&quot; I make bold to return to your Lordship such writings as CH A P. 



&quot; it pleased your Lordship to deliver unto me, touching the 



&quot; removing of Cawdry from the parsonage of Luffenham 



&quot; in the county of Rutland, and his deposing from the min- 



&quot; istry ; which for the duty I owe to your good Lordship 



&quot; I have perused, and according to my poor skill considered; 



&quot; and dispossessing myself, as I could, of all affection that I 



&quot; should bear to the maintenance of a sentence wherein, 



&quot; among other, myself is a party, I make bold to impart to 



&quot; your good Lordship my opinion simply, as I think and 



&quot; can conceive of the cause. First, if either the Commis- 



&quot; sioners were bound by the Commission to proceed accord- 



&quot; ing to the statute of anno primo, or had in any part of 



&quot; their proceedings expressed that they meant to proceed 



&quot; only according to the order and form appointed in that 



&quot; statute ; or if the statute were so straining, as the Com- 



&quot; missioners were tied to proceed according to the form of 



&quot; that statute, and no otherwise, (as I take it not to be,) it 



&quot; is true that is delivered to your Lordship by Cawdry s 



&quot; counsel, that the sentence is not justifiable by the precise 



&quot; letter of the statute. But the law ecclesiastical being in 



&quot; such force for manner of proceeding as it was before the 



&quot; making of that statute, and the Commission warranting 



&quot; the Commissioners to proceed according to the law eccle- 



&quot; siastical, or according to their sound discretions, all the 



&quot; principal force of the reasons alleged to ground a nullity 



&quot; in the sentence is taken away. And where the sentence is 



&quot; impugned, because the Bishop of London did read the 



&quot; sentence cum consensu collegarum suorum, whatsoever 



&quot; the temporal law is in that point, it is most agreeable to 



&quot; the law civil and canon, that where there is a multitude 



&quot; of judges, one shall be the instrument in the pronouncing 



&quot; with the consent of the rest ; and it is a matter absurd, 



&quot; and not possible, that all shall concur in the act of read- 



&quot; ing. And that hath been in this realm the usual form, 



&quot; and no other, of all sentences in proceedings and causes 



&quot; ecclesiastical. 



&quot; As for the degradation and deposing of Mr. Cawdry 



