[508] An example of this occurs in the following letter by Bishop Patrick, addressed to Mr. Williams, Rector of Dodington:—
“You have done very worthily and prudently in stopping the progress of the Anabaptist faction, by applying yourself to the Justices, to call their unlicensed schoolmasters to account; who, you tell me, and I am glad to hear it, have bound him over to appear at the next sessions. I think you need not fear his procuring a license from the Archbishop’s Court, for I had the like attempt here at Littleport, where I refused to licence a fellow whom a party set up against one, who had a long time taught school there with good acceptance. Whereupon they pretended to have not only applied themselves above, but actually procured the Archbishop’s licence, and showed an instrument with a seal to it to the ignorant people. But I soon found it was a cheat; the Archbishop having granted none, and having given a strict charge in his office that none should be granted (as he told me himself), without acquainting the Bishop of the Diocese with it. But for fear of the worst, I will write to his Grace by the next post, and let him know what the sectaries pretend, who, I am sure, will stop the granting of a licence, or revoke it if any have been granted, which I think you need not fear; for after a great deal of vapouring at Littleport about the licence they said they had got, the fellow durst not appear at the sessions, nor come to me, but ran the country.”—Letter to the Rev. Mr. Williams, Rector of Dodington. Cole MSS. (British Museum), xxx. 148.
[509] Heads of Agreement.
[510] Ibid.
[511] Thoresby’s Diary, i. 210. Hunter’s Life of Heywood, 374.
[512] Extracts from the Church-Book in Memorials, by T. Coleman.
[513] Calamy’s Life, i. 327.
[514] This account is drawn up from Williams’ collected pieces in two volumes, Crispianism Unmasked, Crisp’s Christ made Sin; pamphlets by Lorimer, Calamy’s Abridgment, Life of Bull, and Toulmin’s Hist. of Dissent.
[515] Nichols’ Apparat. ad Defens. Eccl. Ang.
[516] Hist. Account of my Own Life, i. 401.