ABSTRACT
May it please your grace: Upon Thursday the 12th of January, my lord’s grace of Canterbury, with the Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester, Worcester, St David’s, Chichester, Carlisle, Peterborough, and myself, out of the privy chamber, were sent for by his majesty into an inner withdrawing chamber; where in a very private manner, and in as few words, but with most gracious countenance, he imparted to us, first, the cause wherefore we were called up; which was, for the reformation of some things amiss in ecclesiastical matters, supposed, and by some complained of. Next, how desirous he was, and we ought to be, that the kingdom of Ireland might be reduced to the true knowledge of God, and true obedience. To which latter, without the former, he could never hope to find among them. Lastly, his majesty gave us to understand, that the day was somewhat mistaken, being
meant by him to be the Saturday after: at which time his majesty willed us to repair to the court again.
