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enter in ; who hindered him by any means from shutting 

 it. But perceiving that they meant to proceed to a mar 

 riage, he persuaded the strange Minister not to deal herein, 

 wondering how he would intrude himself into his [the Vi 

 car s] charge ; and then offered to him an injunction against 

 it, and began to read it unto them ; which was to this 

 tenor : 

 An injunc- Item, For the avoiding of inconvenience which some- 



tion about 



licences to &quot; times groweth by licences to marry without the banns 



&quot; asking, (which notwithstanding are sometimes reasonably 

 &quot; granted,) no man shall be suffered to marry any person 

 &quot; with such licence (the banns not being first orderly pub- 

 &quot; lished) but in the church or chapel where he is Parson, 

 u Vicar, or ordinary Curate ; neither at any other time than 

 &quot; is usual for public and common prayer ; neither except 

 &quot; he do first shew his sufficient licence to the Churchwardens 

 ** of the said church or chapel : and either by his own 

 &quot; knowledge, or the knowledge of the said Churchwardens, 

 &quot; be assured, that the parties to be married have thereto 

 &quot; the assent of their parents or other governors. 1 



But they refused to hear it; and the strange Minister 

 (whose name was Lewis) told the Vicar he had sufficient 

 authority, shewing him a licence under seal ; which the 

 Vicar offered to read : but before he had read half of it, 

 Sir Thomas snatched it away from him, and offered him a 

 rial to marry him. But he refusing, Sir Thomas bade the 

 other go forward. But the Vicar, when the other began to 

 read, resisted him, and shut the book. Whereupon Sir 

 Thomas thrust him away, and told him he had nothing to 

 do therewith, and that he should answer it for resisting my 

 Lord Bishop s authority. And one Godolphin, one of Sir 

 Thomas s party, took him up, and told him he shewed him 

 self malicious. Whereupon, after once more forbidding him, 

 he held his peace. Edmund Lucy, Esq. one that lived in 

 Sir Henry Cock s family together with the Lady Dorothy, 

 coming in, plucked away the book from the Minister ; who 

 told him he should answer it, and was in danger of a pre- 

 mtmire for resisting the Bishop s authority ; and so he went 



