ADDITIONS. 



&quot; ment. But having, upon due inquisition and knowledge 

 &quot; from the best of that shire, understood, that the foul 

 &quot; matter wherewith he was charged in the open sessions at 

 &quot; St. Albon s, of incontinency, was maliciously informed 

 &quot; against him by a lewd woman, that seemed to have had 

 &quot; the report thereof from one Forster, a gentleman dwelling 

 &quot; in Essex. For he, by his letters written to the Justices, 

 &quot; and openly read in the Sessions-house, utterly denied to 

 &quot; have ever used any such speeches. Whereupon the wo- 

 &quot; man confessing her lewdness in slandering of him, and 

 &quot; asking him openly forgiveness, he sufficiently was cleared 

 66 thereof. And truly, my Lord, added he, in that manner 

 &quot; may the best Clergyman in this realm be slandered. That 

 &quot; he did not therefore see, but for that matter his Lord- 

 &quot; ship and all the world (who hereby might hardly con- 

 &quot; ceive of him) ought to be satisfied. 



&quot; And for one other matter, of his not administering the 

 &quot; Sacraments, he being but only Deacon, and having no 

 &quot; cure or charge, whereof to be Minister or Curate, might 

 &quot; not lawfully minister the Sacraments ; although being a 

 &quot; Deacon, and so authorized, he might, as before his Lord- 

 &quot; ship s restraint he did, preach to the instruction of the 

 &quot; people. 



&quot; That for other matters, he thought his Lordship had 

 &quot; been over hardly informed against him : which made him 

 &quot; to continue in earnest manner his former request to him 

 &quot; on Dyke s behalf, and to pray him to restore him to his 

 &quot; former place of preaching at St. Michael s ; where now 

 &quot; the people lived untaught, and had for a Curate a very 

 &quot; insufficient, aged, doting man. That his Lordship knew, 

 &quot; that magna est messis, et operarii pauci ; i. e. the har- 

 &quot; vest was great, and the labourers few. And that al- 

 &quot; though he might have some imperfections, as the best of 

 &quot; us all are not void thereof, yet in a reasonable sort would 

 &quot; the same be borne withal, being but moved of zeal. 

 &quot; Which made him [the Lord Burghley] the more ear- 

 &quot; nestly to press his Lordship for this man s restitution : 

 &quot; who, he hoped, (if he had heretofore erred by overmuch 



