• .[ Io8 ] 'Chichefter, a great Confident of his Grace, the ' Lord Treafurer, ·and Eight other Bifhops of his 'Grace's Party, did mofi paffionately defire a Re– ' conciliation with the Church of Rome. That . ' they di~ day by day recede from their ancient ' Tenets to accommodate with the Church of ' Rome. That therefore the Pope on his part ' ought to make fome Steps to meet them , and 'the Court of Rtn;eremit fomething of its rigour 'in Doctrine, or otherwife no accord would · ' be. The CompoGtion on both Sides in fo good ' a forwardnefs before PatJz..ani left the K~ngdom, · ' that the Archbi{bop and tbe Bi(hop of Chichefter 'had often faid that there were but two forts or ' People like to binder the Reconciliation , the ' Puritans among the Proteftants, and the Jefuits 'among the Catholicks. ' Let us fee the Judgment and Relation of ano– ' ther Author in a Glofs or Comment on the ' form€r, entituled, The Englijh Pope, Printed at , 'London the fame Year 1643. And he will tell .'us ,that after Con had t;mdertook the managing 'of Affairs, the Matter began to grow towards 'fome Agreement. The King required, faith he; 'fuch aDifpenfation from the Pope, as his Catho- ' lick SubjeCts might refort to the .Proteaam , 'Church, and take the Oaths of Supremacy and ' Fidelity ; and that the Pope's Jurifdietion ibould 'be declared to be but of Human Right . . And 'fo far had the Pope confented, that whatfoever ' did concern the King, fhould have been really ' performed fo far as or her Catholick Princes do 'ufually enjoy and expect as their due: and fo far '.as the Bifhops \V ere to be Independent boch ' fi·om King and Pope. There was _no fear of · 'breach
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