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move him out of that Diocese, in'that he would not permit him to con-tinue as a Lecturer in Bury , after he had taken the Parsonage of Rochsordin EJJex:

Mr. William Kerrington , and Mr. 'Thomas Warren , Curates in Ipswich,were only admonished by the Chancellor to observe the Orders of theChurch, and to certify their Performance at the next Court after Whitsun-tide. But they conspired 5 and to praise a Clamour, deserted their Cures atWhitsuntide ; whereupon this Defendant coming thither that Week, sent forthem, and exhorted them to look to their Cures still. They pretended a fear ofSuspension j of the contrary whereof, although he assured them, yet could henot prevail with them, but that they would officiate no more. But all thiswas before any such Censures fell upon the forenamed Ministers, and there-fore the Terror of those Proceedings, could not drive them away, as is ob-jected. For the said Mr. Kerrington did in open Court profess, that what-soever he had heretofore been defective in, he would amend hereafter, whenhe should take upon him a Cure of Souls within the Diocese, so it were notin St. Nicholas's Parish, the Cure whereof he had now left. And both heand Mr. Warren professed, that the reason why they durst not observe the Or-ders of the Church was, only for fear of losing their Means, and not of anyother dislike.

Mr. “John Allen of Ipswich , not being meddled with, did (about a Year afterthis) voluntarily depart from his Cure for a better Place in London. [Videchart am ejus.]

Mr. William Green the Curate of Bromholm was suspended for many De-fects, and among the rest for want of a clerical Habit; but upon his Sub-mission he was presently absolved, and his Licence to preach was only takenfrom him, he being very illiterate, and having been of late by Trade a Taylor.Of which fort of Men many others must come into the Reckoning, to makeup the number of fifty that were under Censure, viz. Mr. Pitman , Curate ofof Grundfborough, who not long before had been a broken Tradesman inm Ipswich: Mr. Cook of Frit ton, not long before a Country Apothecary:Mr. Farrar of Benejiall, a Weaver, made a Minister: Mr. Bridges of Wickham -market , no Graduate, not long since translated from the common Stage Play-ing to two Cures and a publick Lecture. And yet the Number will not bemade up (as this Defendant believeth) unless there be brought in under thefame Account, Mr. Porter , Vicar of Kirbrook, where he had not been seen forseventeen Years before ; Mr. Smith, Vicar of Mttndejley , which he held abovetwenty Years, and was not in holy Orders of Priesthood : Mr. Norton, Burton ,Burr age, Creak, Hurly , Cockerill, Mote, Thomson, Rising, Sherwin , Beavis, Sher-wood, Burch, Gray and others, of whom this Defendant receiving Infor-mation, that they were debauch'd, and scandalous in their Courses, by his fre-quent Letters to the Chancellor, they were brought under Censure.

He further faith, that at Snailewell,and at Dalham, where Mr. Ajh preached,the Minister or Curate (as this Defendant believeth) was not suspended. Thesaid Mr. Ajh was therefore cited, to show by what Licence (he being aStranger, and not known to be in holy Orders) did continue in that Diocese, anddid intrude himself in several Parishes, to the Disturbance of the catechising,and to the Neglect of the Orders of the Church, and the factious leadingabout of the People from their own Parish Churches : for suffering whereof(contrary to their Oath and Duty) the Churchwardens also were censured bythe Consistory, that the like in after Times might be avoided.

Mr. Manning came closely to Town on a Sunday Morning, and betookhimself to St. Laurence's Church in Ipswich, which Mr. Warren had deserted-The Churchwardens therefore were not cited there ; neither had the said

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