[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 [page 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.