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province of Canterbury met several times in their Synods : 

 and I make no question so active a man as he was, and so 

 useful as he had shewed himself to be once in a Synod in 

 the first year of Queen Mary, was also very serviceable by 

 his advices and conferences in these ecclesiastical assemblies 

 under Queen Elizabeth, when he bore a greater figure. But 

 I confess I have little to set down of this matter ; only that 

 in the year 1580, when the Convocation began to sit, Ja 

 nuary 17, our Bishop presided, being deputed by the Arch 

 bishop of Canterbury, at that time sequestered, and under 

 the Queen s displeasure ; and was at the head of what busi 

 ness was then done. And in the Convocation that sat in Rights of 

 February 1586, the Bishop complained of the Dean of 

 Norwich and some others for not preaching at Paul s Cross, 

 according to monition ; it having been of long time custo 

 mary for the Bishops of London to summon up from the 

 Universities, or elsewhere, persons of the best abilities to 

 preach those public sermons, whither the Prince and Court, 

 and the magistrates of the city, besides a vast conflux of 

 people, used to resort. For the due providing therefore 

 for these sermons, and for the encouragement of the preach 

 ers that should come up, this Bishop was a great bene 

 factor. 



Numb. IV. Pag. 104. 

 Dyke the Puritan. 



WE there left Dyke under suspension from the Bishop, 

 for troubling his auditory with new opinions. For the re 

 storing of whom to his preaching, mention was made of an 

 earnest petition put up by the parishioners to the Lord 

 Burghley ; which being omitted in the history, I will here 

 give the tenor of it. It set forth, &quot;how they had lived 

 &quot; without any ordinary preaching until within four or five 

 &quot; years. By which want they knew not, as they ought, 

 &quot; what did belong to God, what to their Prince, their 

 &quot; rulers, their neighbours, their families, to bring them up 



