Note 63 — INTRODUCTION.
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Neal, i. 451. For his statement respecting bills for reformation he gives MS. authority. Strype's Whitgift, i. 391, contains the letter to the Queen, dated 24th of March, 1584-5. Parry says in Parliaments and Councils, 1584, December 14, "three petitions are read touching 'the liberty of godly preachers to exercise and continue their ministry, and for the speedy supply of able and sufficient men into divers places now destitute of the ordinary means of salvation.'" Cobbett supplies a brief account of the debate.—Parl. Hist., i. 824.