No. XIII . THE WISBECH STIRS byshopps . Every of us with his immediate power from the highest which he will not have impreached by the intervention of others who have no plebiscite in the churche .. And again : with what storme & shoulde suppose them to be out of order, indignityeit is taken, yt yow which yett with gods assistance keepe theyre place in the folde (Cf. Bagshaw to Bavant , c . late August 1595, No. XIV, para. 6, vi) . Another example of the same attitude occurs in another letter of Bagshawto Bavant , dated 30 September 1595 (Westm. V, n. 17). For a quotation from this letter, cf. Mush's First Articles , 26 September 1595, No. XVII , note 6). Since there was at that time no organised ecclesiastical hierarchy in England, and no authority to enforce the canons, this attitude provided a convenient means of evading any issue. On this point Thomas Pound pertinently remarked : your appealing only to lyve according to the Canons , admitting no means (as owr desolate state here in pryson is) howe any perverseman may be censured and judged in foro externo whether he have offendyd against the Canon or no : is muche lyke to the protestants appealing to be tryedonlyby the scripture , admitting no judge upon the scripture . " (Thomas Pound to Calverley, 25 June 1595, No. VII ). From Bavant's reply here it is clear that he and Bagshaw did not mean the same thing when they spoke of regiment . '
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14 i.e. Dr. John Bavant , alias Clerke or Clarke.
15 Dolman had accused Southworth of tampering with the order of events in his account of the arbitration in order to hide the odiousness, as Dolman said , of his party's 7 articles. Bagshaw had evidently passed on this accusation to Bavant as a complaint against Southworth . For further information about this matter, ( cf. Dolman to Southworth , 29 July 1595, No. X, pp . 6 and 7 of the Ms. , and Note 13). 16 See Note 9 above. 17 There is no information
extant to explain what is here referred to. That some outsider might have had matters to report against our brethren in this context evidently meaning Bagshaw's party, is not all surprising. Bagshaw himself had constant meetings with the Protestant minister of the town , Mathew Champion (cf. Archer's Relatio de Bagshaw 1602, No. XXXVIII , para. L.), and the behaviour of at least two others , Potter and Calverley, was well known to persons outside the Castle (cf. The Rules, 7 February 1595] , No. II , note 1).
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