Note 361 — Chapter IV
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It was couched in the following terms:—
"Proud Prelate,—You know what you were before I made you what you are: if you do not immediately comply with my request, by G—— I will unfrock you.
Elizabeth."
Poor Cox wrote a very good letter before this, printed in Strype's Annals, vol. ii. Append. 84. The names of Hatton Garden and Ely Place (Mantua væ miseræ nimium vicina Cremonæ) still bear witness to the encroaching lord keeper, and the elbowed bishop.