[142] Ibid., 20 (1592).

[143] Ibid., 21 (1596), 44. Op. cit., xxv. 32 ("We do suppose that [name] ... doth keep back from us a certain sum ... given by will to the use of the Church ... and we know not how we may come by the same, unless your Worship’s aid be ministered unto us in that behalf.” 1581). Ibid., 22, 23, 26 etc.

[144] Op. cit., xxvii, 219 (1569). Op. cit., xxv, 14 (Keeping church ewes and not paying rent for them. 1613).

[145] Op. cit., xxvi, 33 (1605).

[146] Ibid., 39 (1600). Ibid., 31.

[147] Op. cit., xxvii, 224 (1584).

[148] Op. cit., xxv, 13 (1600).

[149] E.g., Hale, Crim.  Prec., 221 (1599).

[150] Dean of York’s Visit., 333 (Church house. 1601). Ibid., 214 (Churchyard fence. 1570).

[151] The higher nobility excepted.

[152] Cardwell, Syn., i, 128.

[153] Barnes’ Eccles.  Proc., 19.

[154] See, e.g., op. cit., 42-45 (5 schoolmasters mentioned by name at Allhallows, Newcastle; 4 at St. Nicholas).  In Durham city “sub-pedagogi” are also spoken of in the various wards.

[155] Op. cit., passim.  Other examples will be found in Dean of York’s Visit., 225, 229 etc.  Hale, Crim.  Prec., 154, 184-8 (John Leache’s case. 1584-6), 190, 198 (One Dawe’s wife teaches without a licence.  Warned not to teach any “man child above the age of x yeres, untyll she shall be lawfully licenced.” 15-89/90). Canterbury Visit., xxvi, 20, 21, 25, 31, etc.

[156] See J. Cordy Jeaffreson, A Book about the Clergy, ii, 58.

[157] Cardwell, Doc.  Ann., i, 176 and 182.

[158] See also Archbishop Parker’s and other commissioners’ precept to churchwardens and others in June, 1571 ("And that in no wise ye suffer any person publicly, or privately to teach, read or preach ... unless such be licenced [etc.] ... as you and every one of you will answer to the contrary"). Corresp. of Archbp.  Parker, Parker Soc., 382-3.  Cf. also Archbp.  Whitgift’s ‘Commission’ to the ministers and churchwardens of London, Aug., 1587, forbidding “that they ... do suffer any to preach in their churches or to read any lectures [etc.] ...”  Neal, History of the Puritans, (Toulmin’s ed. 1793), i, 428.

[159] E.g., Hale, Crim.  Prec., 188 ff. (Leach, a schoolmaster, was cited for catechizing and preaching, being unlicenced.  He was strictly warned by the judge not to “use any private lecture or expositions of Scripture or catechisinge of his schollers in the presence of anye ... not ... of his owne howse-hold [etc.].” 1586-7).  Ibid., 202 (A curate detected for preaching without a licence.  He confessed “that he hathe expounded” a little on the text, “but wold that Mr Archdeacon