[ l'j J King was much 'pleafed with thefe advices: And upon that began himfelf to form a Scheme for amending many things, o c. ~ It appears by it: that he intended to f.et up aChurch Difcipline, and fettle aMethod for breeding Youth_.__ Page 361, 362, 1i.4. To return to Qpeen E– lit..abeth, the Changes are recited, and he addeth, [The liberty given to explain in what fence the Oath of Supremacy was tak§n, gave a great evidence.of the , 1 Moderation of the .§0eens Government ; that jhe would not lay{nares[flr her people, which is always a fign of a Wicked and Tyrannical Princ.e. But the ~en reckpned that if fuch comprehenfi-r,'e Method; could be found ouras would once bring her people: tender any Vnion, thortgh perhaps there might remain a great diverfity of Opinion, that would wear o;fwith the pre-. (ent Age, and in the next Generation all wo11Jd be of one mind. ·· Page 363. The Empowering Lay- men to depriv~ , Church.men, or Excommunicate, could not be eafily excufed; but was as juftifoable as the Commiffions ta Lay-Chancellors for thofe things were. There are 9400 Benefices in Engl~nd, but of all theft the J.Vum– ber ofthofe (viz. . Papift{ ) who chofe to rejign rather than take the Oath was very inconjiderable. - Fou.rtten Bijhops, Si:t: Abbots, Twelve Deans; Twelve Arch– deacons, Fifteetz Heads of Cu!ledg,es, Fifty Prebenda- ries, and Eighty Reaors wa.s the whole number of thofe that were turned out : But it WM believed that the · greateft part compli'ed againft tbe'ir 'cenfciences, and woHld have been ready for another turn, if the f2..yt;.~n · ' had died white that Race of Incumbents lived; andthe next Succejfor had been of another Religion. · Read·what he faith of Mt. Parker's gteat unwillingnefs to be A. Bithop, and the threatc ning , •
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