L 175 J ." Contentions, Seas, and Difquietnefs " did arife among her People, and for ¢` one Godly and Uniform Order, Di- " verfity of Rites and Ceremonies, " Difputations andContentions,Schifms " andDiv/flans were already rifen, and " more like to enfue ; the Cage' of cc which Diforders her Majeiiy did cc plainly underftand to be the NEGLI- " GENCE of the BISHOPS and other Ma- " giílrates, who fhould caufe the good " Laws and ,Ads of 'Parliament made " in this behalf to be better executed, " and not fo dffembled and wink'd at cc as HITHERTO it might appear that " they had been." After this we have a very important and ílrorig Yetimony of the fame Nature, in a Letter from the Lords of the Council to the BISHOPS, (blaming them for not profecuting the Puritans) who, as Mr. Strype obferves,L,fe of whit. were not forward to take Punijhments t' P. 454 upon thefe Defaulters, however they were by them requited with much Re- proach and Hatred. It gives great Weight to this remarkable Proof of the great MildnefsandFavourthew'dby the Bithops to the Puritans, that this Let- ter was fign'd by the Lord Burleigh, Lord Leicefler, and Sir Francis Knol- lys. The two left efpecially were re- markably attached to the .Puritans, and
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