[167] dire&ed her. Letter this Year to the " Archbiíhop, &c. The Queen re- ceived repeated Information of the Diforders, that were occafioned by thofe who would not comply with the eflablifh'd Rules, before the direóed this Letter to the Archbithop to redrefs thefe Diforders. It may not be im- proper to tranfcribe Part ofthis Letter, bearing Date January i5. 1564, which will be a farther Proof of the Diftur- bances raifed at this Time, and confirm Mr. Strype's Account, how this Liber- ty they took was refirained. " We Ibid. " have now, ( fags her Majefly) a good " while heard, toour Grief, fundry Re- " ports hereof, hoping that all cannot `' be true, but rather miflrufling that " the Adverfaries of Truth, might of " their evil Difpofition encreafe the " Reports of the fame ; yet we thought cc until this preftnt, that by the Re- " gard, whichyou, being the Primate " and Metropolitan, would have had C4 hereto, according to your Office, with " the Affiftance of the Bithops your " Brethren, in their feveral Dioceffes " (having alfo received of us heretofore cc Charge for the fame Purpofe) thefe " Errors tending to breed force Schifm " or Deformity in the. Church, should cc have been flay'd_and appealed ; but M 4 " perceiv-
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