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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The stubur|nesse of the aduerse part an occasion to dissolue this assemblie.Wherevpon giuing such example of disorder, stub|bornesse and selfewill, as hath not béene séene and suffered in such an honourable assemblie, being of the two estates of this realme, the nobilitie and the commons, besides the presence of the quéenes maie|sties most honourable priuie councell, the same as|semblie was dismissed, and the godlie and most chri|stian purpose of the quéens maiestie made frustrate. And afterwards for the contempt so notoriouslie made, the bishops of Winchester and Lincolne, ha|uing most obstinatelie both disobeied common au|thoritie, and varied manifestlie from their owne or|der, and speciallie Lincolne (who shewed more fol|lie than the other) were condignelie committed to the tower of London, and the rest (sauing the abbat of Westminster) stood bound to make dailie their personall appéerance before the councell, and not to depart the citie of London and Westminster, vntill further order were taken with them for their disobe|dience and contempt.

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