log. TheHISTÒRY of the Pt7RITAN9. Chap. IX. R. CharlesI. if the bithops would have relinquifhed force part of their jurifdi&ion, i641 the.mifchiefs that befel them afterwards might have been prevented however, for the prefent the profecutiomofit was laid afide. Debates a- But the houfe went more readily into the debatefor abolifhing deans bout deans and chapters, and applying their revenues tobetter purpofes. This alarm- /ter'. .ed the cathedral men, and put them upon confulting how to ward off Fuller, P P g B. Xt. , the danger that threatned them for this purpofe one divine was de- P 176 puted from every cathedral in England, to folicit their friends in the hou- fes on behalf of their feveral foundations; and it mutt be owned, they .did all that men could do, leaving no lone unturned that might be for their advantage. Addreffes were prefented from both univerfities in Nalfon, their favour ; the addrefs from Oxford prays " for the continuance of 305. " the prefent form of church government, as the mol ancient and apof- " tolical and for the continuance of cathedral churches, with their .e lands and revenues, as dedicated to the fervice of God, loon after the " find plantation of chrilianity here; as foundations thought fit to be " preferved, when the nurferies of fuperlition were demolithed at the reformation ; as confirmed by the laws of the land; as nurferies of " Indents and learned men in divinity; as the upholders of divers fchools, hofpitals, highways, bridges, and other pious works ; as beneficial to " ° thofe cities where they are fituate, by hofpitality, by relief of the i, poor, and by occafioning the refort of many firangers, to the benefit "" of the tradefinen and inhabitants of the places where they are built; " as the chief fupport of many thoufand families ofthe laity, who en- " joy elates from them in a free way, and as yielding an ample re- venue to the crown, and a maintenance to many learned profelors in " the univerfity." The addrefs from the univerfity of Cambridge was to the fame purpofe, and therefore prays, " That the religious bounty of their ancelors, for the advancement of learning andof learned men, " may be preferved from ruin and alienation but withal, to take or- " der, that they may be reduced to the due obfervationof their latutes, and that all innnovations and abufes may be reformed." The deputies from the feveral cathedrals drew up a petition to the lords and commons to be heard by their council; but being informed that the houfe would not allow them that benefit, and that if they had any thing to offer they mull appear and plead their own eaufe ; they made choice of Dr. fohn Hackett prebendary of St. Paul's, and archdeacon of Bedford as their advo- cate, who being admitted to the bar of the houle, May 12. after the petitions from the two univerfities had been read, made a laboured fpeech in their behalf, infifting chiefly on the topicks of the Oxford addrefs. He
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