A second admonition to the parliament

And yet they may not shift some of them by those gifts which God hath given them / they may neither preach / nor teach children publicly nor privately. §30And they that are in some livings / what sorrow do they hold them withal / and how ticklishly do they hold them to / evermore in dā ger of being called before the high Commissioners / and to loose those livings. How many have they driven to leave the ministry / and to live by Physic / and other such means / or to leave their country? Howe many students have they discouraged from the study of divinity / and to ⟨p. 26⟩change their minds since they saw their dealings / and to change their studies also? Howe many poor Artificers and other commoners in this city / and elsewhere / have they ill entreated? brought up slanders upon? and by their ill usage and lack of diligent conference / have they not suffered to fall / but have been the cause that they have fallen into errors? Contrariwise / what encouragement and favour have they showed to papists? how have they opened their ears to their §10complaints against the ministers / and shut their ears when Papists have been complained upon / or slightly overpassed it. Yea some of them have said / that conformable Papists were more¹ tolerable then these precisians and godly men that seek for reformation? Hanson of Oxford / which amongst other articles was charged justly / and is yet to be proved that he said Story was an honest man / & was put to death wrongfully / and had friends alive would revenge his §20death one day / how slightly did the Bishop of Canterbury use him: what friendship found Thurlbie in his house? may poor preachers be half so well used / or such other poor men / which led by the word of God / do freely utter their con sciences against the abuses in our Reformation? Or rather shall not they find harder dealing then Hanson did: will not they take on more against the author of this book and such like / then against Hanson? Let us proceed / who be their §30Chancellors? but most suspected papists / I hear not of one of them that is no briber. Who be their summers but the veriest varlets? What are the Canonists? What are they but suspected Papists? and where have they their most countenance / but of the bishops?