ADDITIONS. 



Commission had been altered, as occasion of time, persons, 

 and other circumstances required. And that it was true 

 indeed that the former Commissions had not inserted into 

 them the clause of proceeding by oath : but that there were 

 some men, discontented with the State, had sought curiously 

 into these things, and observed them. And that Mr. Cart- 

 wright had taken them from them. 



Some de- Hereupon there fell some jar betwixt the Bishop and 

 between the Dr - Bancroft ; the Bishop affirming that he liked not that 

 Bishop and saying of the Doctor, and the Doctor making it good, and 

 ^oft Ba not afraid to profess it. But the Bishop said, that he had 

 been Commissioner this thirty years, partly in Lincoln, and 

 partly in London, and had always that clause of the oath 

 inserted. His fear being, as it seemed, lest they [the Com 

 missioners] having used the oath always, and having no 

 Commission, [warranting it,] but now of late, should be 

 thought to be in the prcemumre, for that they had used it 

 so many years without warrant. 



Cart- Then Mr. Cartwright said, that he had a hard point re- 



u^ument mamm g f his answer to Dr. Lewin and the Bishop : which 

 against this was, that although they might, by words of her Majesty s 

 Commission, proceed by oath, yet it followed not, that there 

 fore they might proceed by oath without any to accuse, 

 without any limitation, and without reasonable time of de 

 liberation and advice what to answer. And therefore he 

 which refuseth not simply to swear, but to swear in such 

 sort as they required, was not, as is said, directly opposite 

 herein to the Queen s authority. Hereof there was some 

 debating concerning the difference of this oath from the 

 oaths tendered in other courts; Mr. Cartwright alleging, 

 that although in other courts the words of the oath were 

 general, yet that indeed it was restrained to some particular 

 matter, which the deponent knew before he took the oath. 

 And that himself, in title of hospital lands, {viz. the hospi 

 tal in Warwick, where he was Master,] before certain Com 

 missioners, had taken the oath which is accustomably given 

 in other courts. 



After, Mr. Dr. Bancroft charged him, that he had taken 



