[ 3203 Prayer] was prefented to the two Houles, and paffed. into a Law. There were no Colleas altered, but leverai valuable Prayers were added in Queen Elizabeth's Review. N's Hirt. p. 148. Mr. N. gives an AbftraEi of force of the Queen's InjunEtions. It had been very proper, for the Credit of the Government, to have taken Notice of feveral very material ones for the Incouragement of Learning, Relief of the Poor, Prevention of Simony, tho' he had no Occafion afterwards to refer to them. N's Hi4t. p.154. ' Parker and Cox were for ` Images in Churches. However Parker and Cox might be ingaged in the Conference, theirJudgment and Pra&ice are plainly on the other Side. Mr. Strype gives the following Account of Parker: ' The Archbifhopele& [Parker] ` had the Affurance, and the Honefty to advife her Wetly not to permit the Crucifix and lighted Ta- pers any longer in her Prefence; which hedid with ` that Gravity and Freedom, becoming his Office, that Sir FrancisKnollys fent him a Letter, Oa. 13. ` 1Ç59, withing him Profperity in all Godlinets; namely, in his good Enterprize againft the Enor- mities yet in the Queen's Clofet retained." Again Ann. p. r7f. the fame Author. ' 'fhe Archbithop of Canterbury performed his Part, by applying himfelf honeilly to the Queen, for divers Reafons, to remove them ` And fo much thefeFurnitures of her Chapel dif- gulled force good Men, that one of her chief Bifhops, 'viz. Cox, Bifhop of Ely, being appointed ` to minifter the Sacrament before her there, made it aMatterof Confcience, to do it in aPIace which he thought fo diffionoured by Images. " Some Time after this the Queen herfelf exprelt great Dif- like even at a Common-Prayer Book with PiElures; and Paid exprefly to DeanNowell, who laid the Book strype'sAn. i. upon her Cuthion, ' You know I have an Averfion p. 273. ' to Idolatry, to Images and Pi&ures of this kind." We thall have this farther confirmed under the next Particular. N's Hiit.
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