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at this time at the table the committees ; but signify 

 his pleasure to themselves afterwards. 



The committees named by his majesty, were 

 the archbishop of Canterbury, secretary Lake, the 

 chancellor of the exchequer, and the master of the 

 rolls. 



This report is to be prefixed, to be given in by 

 Wednesday at night, that his majesty may commu 

 nicate it with his council, and take farther order on 

 Thursday thereupon, if his majesty be so pleased. 



At this declaration, it is his majesty s direction, 

 to the end things may appear to be the more evenly 

 carried, that neither my lord chancellor nor my lord 

 chief justice be present. 



But then when his majesty entereth into the 

 second declarative, my lord chancellor is to be called 

 for: but my lord chief justice not; because it con- 

 cerneth him. 



For the second declarative: that his majesty 

 hath reason to be offended and grieved, in that which 

 passed touching the commendams, both in matter 

 and manner : for the matter, that his majesty s reli 

 gious care of the Church and of the prelacy, and 

 namely, of his lords spiritual the bishops, may well 

 appear, first, in that he hath utterly expelled those 

 sectaries or inconformable persons that spurned at 

 the government ; secondly, that by a statute made 

 in the first year of his reign, he hath preserved their 

 livings from being wasted and dilapidated by long 

 leases, and therein bound himself and his crown and 



