[12] Strype, (in his Annals, i. 106,) says 177. He adds "In one of the volumes of the Cotton Library—which volume seemeth once to have belonged to Camden—the whole number of the deprived ecclesiastics is digested in this catalogue: Bishops, 14; Deans, 13; Archdeacons, 14; Heads of Colleges, 15; Prebendaries, 50; Rectors of Churches, 80; Abbots, Priors, and Abbesses, 6; in all, 192. Camden, in his Annals, little varies, only reckoning 12 Deans and as many Archdeacons."
[13] Paper endorsed—Dr. Bardesy; "Of my Daughter's Death, 1 April, 1641;" 1/4 ho. ante ho. 9, post Mer.—State Papers. Charles I. Domestic.
[14] Mr. Bruce's Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1633-4, p. 275; and Preface, xviii.
[15] Lathbury's History of Convocation, 253.
[16] This is illustrated in the Tractarian movement, as appears in Dr. Newman's Apologia.
[17] Roger Ascham's application to Cranmer in the reign of Edward VI., for a dispensation during Lent is very curious. So is the grant of it in the King's name under the Privy Seal, at the Archbishop's suggestion.—See Strype's Cranmer, i. 238, 240.
[18] "Many choose to be wanton," it is said, "with flesh at that time, rather than at others." February 13.—State Papers, Domestic.
[19] See "The Arminian Nunnery, or a brief description and relation of the late erected monastical place called the Arminian Nunnery at Little Gidding, in Huntingdonshire." 1641. Compare Walton's Lives, 335.
[20] Rushworth's Historical Collection, ii. 324. No doubt, sometimes the charge of Popery was unjustly made, and there is force in what Sanderson says in the Preface to his Sermons, p. 74. The passage is too long for quotation.
[21] See Hale's Precedents and Proceedings in Ecclesiastical Courts. Introductory Essay, xxxiv. Compare Hallam's Const. Hist., i. 99.