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&quot; will forget any piece of that fear which you owe unto CHAP. 



&quot; God, or that singular care which your Lordship hath _ X 



&quot; ever had to cleanse the Church, the Spouse of Christ, of 



&quot; all hypocrites and filthy livers. And upon that confi- 



&quot; dence I am bold to pray your good Lordship, that such 



&quot; an acolastus, and dilapidator rerum ecclesiasticarum, shall 



&quot; not carry any piece of Christ s patrimony away to main- 



&quot; tain his vicious life : or that he and his friends shall find 



&quot; such favour in Court, that a sequestration, granted by 



&quot; my Lord of Canterbury s Grace, and of his colleagues, 



&quot; men of great wisdom, knowledge, and consideration, 



&quot; should now be discredited, (a matter whereof there is no 



&quot; precedent,) to bring the fruits of Squire s livings to hungry 



&quot; men s hands, as those two were which were offered to your 



&quot; Lordship ; whereby the unthrift might make some piece 



&quot; of money, and so run away ; and so the creditors be de- 



&quot; feated of all satisfaction ; which hitherto they have had 



&quot; good hope of. The sequestrators are for one piece, Mr. 



u Francis Hastings and Mr. Purefoy, of Leicestershire ; the 



&quot; others, my eldest son, and one Mr. Kemp, of the Temple, 



&quot; Utterbarister ; whom your Lordship may at all times 



&quot; cause to be called to account : where otherwise, being 



&quot; committed to such needy fellows as he hath and will 



&quot; bring in, your Lordship shall see a mervailous great in- 



&quot; convenience to follow : whereof I shall not need to speak ; 



66 for your wisdom will have thereof sufficient consideration. 



&quot; Thus praying God to direct your Lordship in this and 



&quot; all other things, I commit you to the most favourable 



&quot; blessings of God. From my manour of Much Hadham, 



&quot; this 12th of August, 1587.&quot; 



The Bishop s vexation with this man, both for his un- 

 kindness to his daughter, and his other immoralities, was 

 such, that he accused him at the Council-table, where he 

 gave the Bishop sharp words. But in his own vindication 

 he soon after ventured to make his protestation to the Lord 

 Treasurer, (which I must not omit,) that for matters of 

 crimination objected by the Bishop, he was innocent; and 



