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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.

The three propositions wherevpon conference was determined to haue beene at Westminster.

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  • 1 _IT is against the word of GOD, and the custome of the ancient church, to vse a toong vnknowne to the people, in common praier, and the administration of the sacraments.
  • 2 Euerie church hath authoritie to ap|point, take awaie, and change ceremonies and ecclesiasticall rites: so the same bee to edification.
  • 3 It cannot be prooued by the word of God, that there is in the masse offered vp a sacrifice propitiatorie for the quicke and the dead.

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