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 20 REIGX OF E LIZ ABE TIL [011.41. proceeded peremptorily as lie might/ lie would not have left two in any one of them ; and here it was not a peer or a magistrate that Jewel feared, but one higher than both, for the Colleges appealed to the Queen against him ; and Jewel could but entreat Cecil with many anxious misgivings to stand by him. He could but pro- test humbly that he was only acting for God's glory. 1 The Bishop of Winchester found his people ' obsti- nately grovelled in superstition and Popery, lacking not priests to inculcate the same daily in their heads ; ' and himself so unable to provide ministers to teach them, that he petitioned for permission to unite his parishes and throw two or three into one. 2 The Bishop of Durham, called a clergyman before him to take the oath. The clergyman said out before a crowd, 'who much rejoiced at his doings,' 'that neither temporal man nor woman could have power in spiritual matters but only the Pope of Rome ; ' and the lay authorities would not allow the Bishop to punish a man who had but expressed their own feelings ; more than one member of the Council of York had refused the oath and yet had remained in office ; the rest took courage when they saw those that refused their allegiance ' not- only unpunished but had in authority and estimation ; ' and distracted ' with the poisoiiful and malicious minds about him,' the Bishop said that 'where he had but little wit at his coming he had now almost none left him, and wished himself a sizar at St John's again.' 3 1 Jewel to Cecil: Domestic J/&S'., vol. xix. . ibid., vol. xxi. 3 .l/.S'. Ibid., vol. xix.