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demeanors, as if Heresie or Sacriledge 

 had beene the ground. But the Bishop 

 (most judiciously) quitte mee as no way 

 taxable : I desir'd by Acte of Parliament 

 to unite these Churches into one body (being 

 patron of two of them, the third under a 

 prebend of the Cathedral Church :) but they 

 wrought with the Ecclesiastical state by 

 principall men, that an homily audibly red 

 would be as edifiable unto the simpler sort 

 as a preskian-Sermon unto the reformed 

 phantastiques. These troubles, the African- 

 Politicianhzth raised: And I feare a further 

 mischiefe, that he will inforce those Luna- 

 tikes to stirr upp the Patron Prebend to 

 a higher pitch ; his infirmity offering 

 nothing lesse then all the likelyhoods of 

 discontentments. But having gotten a 

 fee-simple in the Bishop, a free-hold in the 

 Deane and chapter ; an inheritance in the 

 rest of the Cathedrals^?, beg at your Lord- 

 shippes handes to add the Act of Parlia- 

 ment to put us in possession. In following 

 which Acte, it is necessary your Lordship 

 warrant my descent from Gladis de gam 

 Daughter of S. David Gam, slaine in the 

 vangard of the battell of Egincourt; who 

 beeing sent by Henry the fift to discover 

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