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of incontinency, schisms, and disorders, and withstanding of C H A P. 

 orders given from the Lords of the Privy Council; whereof _ 

 he had not yet purged himself, and therefore not to be 

 retained in the Church. He added, that the multitudes 

 of supplicants for him were of the meanest and basest sort, 

 &quot;dubbed,&quot; as he expressed it, &quot;with the title of yeomanry.&quot; 

 But instead of all other reasons, he urged that he could not 

 in conscience tolerate him, who was not full Minister, nor 

 would be, lest by that means he should seem to join with 

 him in misliking and disallowing of our sacred ministry. 

 And thus hoping that his Lordship, in consideration of the 

 premises and many other reasons which he omitted, would 

 be content to bear with him, though he bore not with Dyke, 

 he took his leave of his Lordship, praying God to bless him 

 with health and a just care of the peace of the Church, as 

 hitherto he had done. 



Thomas Cartwright, the head Puritan, lay now in the Cartwright 

 Fleet, having been in the year 1590 summoned up from ^ n il ^ ^ 

 Warwick into the Star-chamber, together with Edmund fore the 

 Snape, and divers other Puritan Ministers, for setting up a Bl 

 new discipline and a new form of worship ; and subscribing 

 their hands to stand to it e : which therefore was interpreted 

 an opposition and disobedience to the established laws. In 

 May 1591, Cartwright lying now in the Fleet, was sent for 

 by the Bishop to appear before him and Dr. Bancroft, and 

 some others of the ecclesiastical Commission : and being 

 brought into a chamber of the Bishop^s house, he in a long 

 speech directed himself unto him. He first charged him in wi, expos- 

 abusing the Privy Council by informing them of his dis- tulates Wlth 

 eases, wherewith indeed he was not troubled : for Cart 

 wright had lately sued to them for his liberty from the 

 Fleet upon pretence of his gout and sciatica: which it seems 

 was more in pretence than truth. Secondly, that as he 

 had abused the Council, so he with others, in a supplication, 

 had abused her Majesty, in suggesting that the oath that 

 was tendered to them was not according to law, and that it 

 was given generally without limitation : meaning the oath 



See Appendix, Numb. V. 



