But hostile thou mayst well esteem the claim
Which I, by duty bound, must here present.
Those who are over me have sent me here.
And their desire is that the property
Belonging to the Church, as by old deeds
Is well attested, should be given back
To them without dispute. Yon tract of ground
Upon which ye have sunk your mine, belongs
In law and equity unto the Church.
The manner in which ye possessed yourselves