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CHAP. &quot; preach at Paul s Cross never moved any such question to 

 IX&amp;gt; &quot; me. Nevertheless, if any error have been committed 

 &quot; herein either by me or the parish, through ignorance, our 

 &quot; joint desire is to have his Lordship s good allowance and 

 &quot; approbation for the exercise of my function in his Lord- 

 &quot; ship s diocese. 



&quot; Touching the second, however his Lordship hath been 

 &quot; informed against me, I never used speech in any of my 

 &quot; sermons against the said Book of Common Prayer ; 

 &quot; whereof the parish doth bear me witness in this supplica- 

 &quot; tion to your Lordship. 



&quot; Concerning the third, I refuse not to subscribe to any 

 &quot; Articles, which the law of the realm doth require of men 

 &quot; of my calling : acknowledging with all humbleness and 

 &quot; loyalty her Majesty s sovereignty in all causes, and over 

 &quot; all persons within her Highness s dominions ; and yield- 

 &quot; ing my full consent to all the Articles of faith and doc- 

 &quot; trine taught and ratified in this Church, according to 

 &quot; a statute in that behalf provided the thirteenth year of 

 &quot; her Majesty s reign. And therefore beseech his Lordship 

 &quot; not to urge upon me any other subscription than the law 

 &quot; of God and the laws positive of this realm do require.&quot; 

 Certain of If he subscribed not afterwards, yet he seemed to have 

 the parish p&amp;gt;i ven some satisfaction to the Bishop for his continuance in 



sue to the . 



LordBurgh- his place till the year 1589 ; when, upon the dangerous sick- 

 Sunthto be ness ^ Harewood the incumbent, divers of the parish peti- 

 their Minis- tioned the Lord Treasurer, that in case he died, Mr. Smith 

 their preacher might succeed him. And being departed this 

 life, they renewed their petition, signed with the hands of 

 divers of St. Clement s and Lion s Inns, and the two 

 churchwardens, the one a grocer, the other a locksmith, and 

 a good number besides of ordinary tradesmen, as smiths, 

 tailors, saddlers, hosiers, haberdashers, glaziers, cutlers, and 

 such like, most of them setting their marks. The petition 

 was somewhat rude, as were the men from whom it came: 

 for it expressed, &quot; That if there were any towards his 

 &quot; Lordship, whom his Honour affected, and was willing to 

 prefer thereunto, they most humbly and instantly impor- 



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