[646] Ibid. 23, 150.
[647] Shillingford’s Letters, 37, 38.
[648] Shillingford’s Letters, 11, 47.
[649] Ibid. 43, 45.
[650] Ibid. 32, see 11, 14, 20.
[651] His temper towards ecclesiastical interference and his urbanity in argument are admirably shown in a letter to the bishop’s counsel. The rough draft of the letter ends with a fine outburst of anger. “We would fain have an end,” he writes, and goes on to ask how it was possible for any one ever to conceive that “John Shillyng, for no dread of great words of malice, disclaunders, language, writings, nor setting up of bulls to that intent to rebuke me and to make me dull to labour for the right that I am sworn to, for truly I will not be so rebuked nor dulled, but the more boldlier.” But he struck out this vigorous passage in the second draft in favour of a less belligerent sentence—”for ye may fully conceive that my fellows and I would fain have a good end and peace, praying you to apply your good will and favour to the same.” Shillingford’s Letters, 25.
[652] Shillingford’s Letters, 52-3.
[653] Ibid. 78.
[654] Shillingford’s Letters, 97.
[655] Ibid. 53.