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a mistake here. But a certain Chaplain of the Archbishop s CHAP, 

 not doing his message, it had no effect : which otherwise XIL 

 might have saved their lives. Indeed our Bishop had some 

 controversy with Archbishop Whitgift about this point of 

 the descent : which the said Archbishop seemed to have re 

 quired the assent of all the Clergy to ; and that from his 

 bare authority, as Archbishop of Canterbury. But the 

 Bishop of London told him, &quot; that some [meaning himself 

 &quot; among others] thought, that his title and revenue might 

 &quot; be employed to singular good use for the Church, with- 

 &quot; out authority of ambition to be relied on. 1 



Bishop Aylmer was a friend and a fautor of that above- Bishop Ayi- 

 said most learned man in the Hebrew literature, knowing well Sugh* 

 the great use of it in the study of divinity. Broughton had Broughton. 

 conversed much with the Jews in foreign parts, and for 

 their sakes he bethought himself of drawing up an abridg 

 ment in Hebrew of all the Bible ; and was very desirous 

 of having the work brought to perfection. He communi 

 cated it to the Bishop of London, and to divers other Bi 

 shops, who were all for it ; and would have contributed to 

 the charge of the impression, and given other encourage 

 ments : for the Bishop well considered, that this abridgment 

 would have served notably for the use of the Jews, that is, 

 for their conversion, or conviction : for the drift of the work 

 would have been, to have shewn how all the Old Testament 

 bore an admirable harmony with those things that hap 

 pened under the New. But Broughton applying not him 

 self to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Whitgift, he shewed 

 himself no friend to it ; and so it came to nothing. 



When the said Broughton had set forth his learned book 

 called The Concent ; , the Archbishop of Canterbury disliked 

 it, and was calling him to answer for some things in it : 

 so that he was fain to depart, and go away into Germany, 

 or at least hastened his journey thither, to avoid the ecclesi 

 astical Commission. This gave cause of much discourse 

 among learned men, and Broughton was by most of them 

 cried out upon as a broacher of errors ; and Dr. Caesar was 

 one of these. But their clamour depended upon their ig- 



