Compare 1577 edition: 1 This also being thought verie reasonable,The daie for the first meé|ting of this conference appointed. was signified to both parties, and so fullie agréed vpon, and the daie appointed for the first méeting to be the fridaie in the forenoone, being the last of March at Westminster church, where both for good order, and for honour of the conference, by the quéenes maie|sties commandement, the lords and others of the pri|uie councell were present, and a great part of the no|bilitie also. And notwithstanding the former order appointed, and consented vnto by both parts, yet the bishop of Winchester and his colleagues, alleging that they had mistaken that their assertions and rea|sons should be written,The bishop of Winchesters waie of pro|céeding misli|ked but yet in fine followed notwithstan|ding the con|trarie proui|ded. and so onelie recited out of the booke, said their booke was not readie then writ|ten: but they were prouided to argue and dispute, and therefore would for that time repeat in speech that which they had to saie vnto the first proposition. This variation from the order, and speciallie from that which themselues had by the said archbishop in writing before required, adding thereto the reason of the apostle, that to contend with words is profita|ble to nothing but to subuersion of the hearer, sée|med vnto the quéenes maiesties councell somewhat strange: & yet was it permitted without anie great reprehension, bicause they excused themselues with mistaking the order, and agréed that they would not faile but put it in writing; and according to the for|mer order, deliuer it to the other part. And so the said bishop of Winchester and his colleagues appoin|ted doctor Cole deane of Paules, to be the vtter|er of their minds, who partlie by spéech onelie, and partlie by reading of authorities written, and at cer|teine times being informed of his colleagues what to sai [...], made a declaration of their meanings,The maner of their first entrance into this cõference. & their reasons to their first proposition. Which being ended, they were asked by the priuie councell, if anie of EEBO page image 1183 them had anie more to be said: and they said; No. So as then the other part was licenced to shew their minds, which they did according to the first order, ex|hibiting all that which they meant to be propounded in a booke written, which after a praier & inuocation made most humblie to almightie God, for the indu|ing of them with his holie spirit, and a protestation also to stand to the doctrine of the catholike church, builded vpon the scriptures, and the doctrine of the prophets and the apostles, was distinctlie read by one Robert Horne bachellor in diuinitie, late deane of Duresme.Afterwards bishop of Win|chester.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And the same being ended with some likelihood, as it séemed that the same was much allowable to the audience: certeine of the bishops began to saie con|trarie to their former answer, that they had now much more to saie to this matter. Wherein although they might haue béene well reprehended for such ma|ner of cauillation, yet for auoiding of any mistaking of orders in this colloquie or conference, and for that they should vtter all that which they had to saie: it was both ordered,Another or|der taken for the next mée|ting to con [...]er. and thus openlie agreed vpon of both parts in the full audience, that vpon the mon|daie following, the bishops should bring their minds and reasons in writing to the second assertion, and the last also if they could, and first read the same, and that doone, the other part should bring likewise theirs to the same. And being read, ech of them should deli|uer to other the same writings. And in the meane time the bishops should put in writing, not onelie all that which doctor Cole had that daie vttered: but all such other matters as they anie otherwise could thinke of for the same: and as soone as they might possiblie, to send the same booke touching that first as|sertion to the other part, and they should receiue of them that writing which master Horne had there read that daie, and vpon mondaie it should be agreed what daie they should exhibit their answers tou|ching the first proposition.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus both parts assented thereto, and the assem|blie quietlie dismissed. And therefore vpon mondaie, the like assemblie began againe at the place & houre appointed:A new assem|bl [...]e on the mondaie ac|cording to appointment. and there (vpon what sinister or disordered meaning is not yet fullie knowne, though in some part it be vnderstanded) the bishop of Winchester and his colleagues, and especiallie Lincolne, refused to exhibit or read, according to the former notorious order on fridaie, that which they had prepared for the second assertion. And therevpon by the lord kéeper of the great seale, they being first gentlie and fauoura|blie required to kéepe the order appointed; and that taking no place, being secondlie as it behooued, pres|sed with more earnest request: they neither regar|ding the authoritie of that place, nor their owne re|putation, nor the credit of the cause, vtterlie refused that to doo. And finallie being againe particularlie euerie of them apart, distinctlie by name, required to vnderstand their opinions therein: they all sauing one (which was the abbat of Westminster, hauing some more consideration of order and his dutie of o|bedience than the other) vtterlie and plainelie denied to haue their booke read, some of them more earnest|lie than others, and some other more vndiscréetlie and vnreuerentlie than others.