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&quot; his means they had enjoyed this benefit of the word 

 &quot; preached,) they were in their present distress emboldened 

 &quot; to become most humble suitors and petitioners, next after 

 u God, unto his Honour, that in regard of so many benefits 

 &quot; they had by preaching, and in respect of their great loss 

 &quot; now upon them, by want whereof they were spoiled of 

 &quot; their comfort, weakened to God-ward, and made more 

 &quot; unfit for every good service and necessary work ; it would 

 &quot; please his Lordship, in the bowels of his honourable com- 

 &quot; passion, to pity them in their present misery, and to be- 

 &quot; come so favourable unto them, as by his means they 

 &quot; might enjoy their Preacher again.&quot; 



To this petition were subscribed the hands of six, and the Who there- 

 marks of twenty-nine : which made the Bishop style them JJ &quot;JJe^Bi- 65 

 such as were &quot;dubbed with the title of yeomanry^ But shop. 

 whatever mean mechanics these subscribers were, upon this, 

 as was specified p. 104, the said Lord despatched his letter 

 to the Bishop in Dyke s behalf. To which in answer the 

 Bishop gave his reasons for suspending of him ; which are 

 there set down : as, that he was but Deacon, and so had con 

 tinued many years, refusing the other order of Priesthood ; 

 shewing thereby his disaffection to the book of orders of 

 the Church of England : that he lay under the infamy of 

 uncleanness; and that he was an impugner of the esta 

 blished way of worship, and preached innovations. To this 

 some time after the said Peer gave this second letter to the 

 Bishop : 



&quot; That he had received his Lordship s letters of the 9th His second 

 &quot; of November, in answer to his formerly written to him Dyke s be- 

 &quot; in the behalf of Mr. Dyke, Preacher at St. Michael s in hlllf - 

 &quot; St. Albon s. And that he had forborne hitherto to answer 

 &quot; the same upon sundry causes alleged by his Lordship, 

 &quot; that moved him to forbear to restore him, until he [the 

 &quot; Lord Burghley] had more duly informed himself of the 

 &quot; truth of some of those matters. Which if they had been true, 

 &quot; as it seems his Lordship [the Bishop] was informed they 

 &quot; were, he should not only be of his Lordship s opinion for 

 &quot; his suspension, but think him worthy of further punish- 



