BISHOP AYLMER. 139 



&quot; ment thirty weeks in the Clink ; having a man conti- CHAP. 



&quot; nually suing to their Honours for him : whose expenses, 



&quot; besides his ordinary maintenance, were great and charge- 



&quot; able unto him. And that it might be judged, that nei- 



&quot; ther he, nor any poor student else, who had been ten- 



&quot; derly brought up after an honest manner in learning, 



&quot; could not any way live conveniently in so costly a place 



&quot; so long time under 40/. cost at least. Secondly, the un- 



&quot; faithful dealing of sundry men with him, who had most 



&quot; part of his household-stuff in their hands when he went 



&quot; to prison ; and the utter spoil of his books, both at his 



&quot; chamber, and also in the prison, brought no less damage 



&quot; unto him than were his costs in the Clink, with much 



&quot; grief because he could get no such books again, as were 



&quot; the most of those he missed. Thirdly, his tenement of 



&quot; freehold, all the stay of living that was left him of his 



&quot; father, was so ruined, and utterly spoiled in his absence 



&quot; especially, as an 100/. would not in all things repair it 



&quot; again, and bring it to the same ableness for her Majesty s 



&quot; service, that it was in, in his ancestors days. 



&quot; Wherefore these things briefly informed by their Ho- 

 &quot; nours, and his present poverty opened unto her, to wit, 

 &quot; that it would please them to tell her, that he was not 

 &quot; then able, unless he would sell his poor apparel off his 

 &quot; back, or cover of his bed, to lay out 40,9. for his recovery 

 &quot; of ought of that which was unjustly taken from him, and 

 &quot; by force kept still. Which if they would do, he would 

 &quot; nothing doubt of it, but that God. who of his mercy to- 

 &quot; ward him made her Majesty to pity him for his long im- 

 &quot; prisonment, and other wrongs received of the Lord Bi- 

 &quot; shop, would now again move her to set down, according 

 &quot; to this Christian clemency he had ingrafted into her, some 

 &quot; good order of recompensing of him for the great wrong 

 &quot; the Bishop had done him.&quot; But how well or how ill this 

 petition was taken of the Lords I cannot tell. And so much 

 for Benison. 



As for the charge, that the Bishop made his porter SL 

 Minister; all things considered he thought it to be iustifi- his P rter 



J a Minister, 



cleared. 



