The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

For as for that in the next divis. (he compoundeth not controversies by him self alone) onles he mean that he hath his servants the ⟨p. DLXXV⟩Chancellor / and Archdeacon / or some other off his own ch••s• ▪ the book set out by the archbishop of late / doth declare the contrary: and the experience off his visitations / and deposing off ministers doth openly convince him of untruth. If he say he is not alone / he hath them following him: he must understand / that because ether the archbishop carieth their voices under his girdle / or if they use the freedom which is meet / yet the approbation dependeth upon the archbishops beck: he can no more account them to be divers / then a man and his shadow following him. And where in his former book he saith / the chief office off an archbishop is to compound contentions, schisms, &c. here being put to his shift / he changeth ¹his speech / saying / it is his principal office to provide that contentions, &c. be cut of. Where he addeth / or else with the Princes consent he setteth an order in a provincial Synod: If there be any Synod / ether to take the judgement out off his hand / or control the sentence given by him / it is like to be sore against his will. So that the remedy off this mischief / dependeth only upon the Civil power: which if ether it be enemy to religion / or entangled with the present heresy (as hath / and may hereafter come to pass): the church being without remedy must languish / and pine away.

For as for that in the next diuis. (he compoundeth not controuersies by him self alone) onles he meane that he hath his seruantes the ⟨p. DLXXV⟩Chaunceler / and Archdeacon / or some other off his owne ch••s• ▪ the booke set owt by tharchbishop of late / doth declare the cōtrary: and the experience off his visitacions / and deposing off ministers doth openly conuince him of vntruth. If he say he is not alone / he hath them following him: he must vnderstād / that becawse ether the archbishop carieth their voices vnder his girdell / or yf they vse the freedome which is meet / yet the approbacion dependeth vpon the archbishops beck: he can no more account them to be diuers / then a mā and his shadow following him. And where in his former booke he saith / the cheif office off an archbishop is to compound contentions, schismes, &c. here being put to his shift / he changeth