Note 395 — Chapter XIII
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This was in spite of orders "to do no injury to the church." Before these wars the cathedral suffered through neglect, as appears from a draft letter written by Archbishop Laud to the dean and chapter, in the name of the King, complaining that the dotations and allowances were very mean, and that there was "little left to keep so goodly a fabric in sufficient reparation."—State Papers, Domestic. (undated) vol. cclxxxi. 57.