IT was a new but wittie Etymologie , which the Lord Chancellour a a At Star-cha , in the Cause of the Nottingham Libell . St. Albans gave of a Libel ; that it was derived of a Lie forg'd at home , and a Bell to ring it up and down the Countrey . Both these parts are fully expressed in this Pamphlet . First , b b Title lease . Coal makes the Lie , and presents it for a Token to his private friend ; then his private friend makes the Bell , by commending it to the Presse , and ringing it abroad over all the Countrey . And it gave an Omen , of what colour the whole Book would prove , by the mistake in the first page , where his friend calls him a Divine of Judgement , which is the second part , whereas indeed he is but a Divine of Invention , which is the first part of Logick . And this Invention he puts in practice , not onely in displaying his matters of Right , as all your c c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Vlpian Enarr . in Demosth . orat . de classibus . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and artificiall handlers of Controversies are permitted to do ; but even in stating the matter of fact : which when it is in writing before our eyes , is no more by a disputant indeed to bee wriggled and wrested , but to be taken as it is set down , and ( for the time at the least ) d d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Arist. Rhet. l. 5. c. 17. swallowed & beleeved . Whereas this poore fellow makes himself an Adversary , not out of the Letter , but out of his own phantasie ; and driving him before him ( as he in e e Aristot. Meteor . lib. 3. c. 4. Aristotle did his shadow ) from one end of the Book to the other , shoots all his arrows at this man of clowts of his own rearing , and yet with all this advantage never stirs him . I will give you a short tast of his faining , and his failing . f f Title lea●e , & P. 26. He fains the Letter written not long since . He fails , because it was written , when all flesh in England had corrupted their wayes , and that there was a generall deviation in this weighty business . g g Title lea●e , and Letter , p. 69. He fains , that the Question was of placing the Communion-table● . He fails , for it was about the erecting of a Stone-altar . h h P. 5. & Let. p. 68. 69. He fains , that the Writer conceiv'd the Bowing at the name of JESUS was a vain thing . He fails , for the Writer doth commend , allow , and practise it . i i Pag. 8. and Lett. p. 69. He fains the Writer had no reason to suspect any other sacrifice aymed at by the Vican , but spirituall onely . He fails , and never confer'd with the Writer about it , who chargeth the Vicar with meaning a Sacrifice contrary to his Subscription . k k P. 27. and Lett. p. 69. Hee fains , that the Writer would cunningly draw the Chappels and Cathedrals to a kind of ●remurire about their Communion-tables . He fails , for the Writer confesseth he doth allow , and practise it . l l P. 25. and Let p. 71 p. 41. & 40. He fains the Writer doth slight ; But fails , for he doth cite and approve the appellation of Second service . He fains , that the Writer doth report the peoples pulling down of Altars , as a doctrine . He fails , for he mentions it onely as a matter of fact . m m Pag. 42. & Let p. 74. He fains the Writer should make the Counsell Act , for the taking down of Altars , A kind of Law which no man was obliged unto . He fails , for the Writer saith it was obeyed over all England . Lastly , n n P. 51. and Let. p 69 76. 77 he fains , that the Vicar did not think of Fixing his Table to the Wall , because hee himself hath no cause to think so , nor reason to conceive , and may reasonably presume the contrary . He fails , for the Letter doth every where charge upon the Vicar the contradictory assertion . So that this man hath not onely made himself the Iudge , to open the Law , but the Jury also , to find the fact in the whole controversie . But this is not to be endured . For beside that it is uncertaine , whether he be of the Voisinage , and but an inhabitant of a remote and another Province , and so ignorant of the Circumstances of the fact , he sheweth himself ( every where ) such a pugnacissimum animal ( as o o Petron. Arbit . Satyr . Coepique pugnacissimum animal armatâ elidere manu . he said of the Gander ) so partially addicted to brabbling and contention , that he may be well excepted against for a common Barreter . p p Pag. 11. He chargeth it home upon the Writer , for saying that the Curate and the Churchwardens were appointed to pull down , when they were appointed only to take down the Altars : For saying , that the name of an Altar q q pag. 34. Crepe , when he should have said , Came into the Church : For r r P. 12. saying that they were taken down in all or most ; whereas he should have said , in sundry and many places of this Kingdome : Lastly , for s s P. 8. saying , The Communion , whereas he should have said , The Lords Supper . When the Rubricke t t The Order for the Administration . hath it , The Lords Supper , or holy Communion , And would any man trust such a u u Aristot. Ethic. l. 4. c. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and Tither of Cummin , as this wrangler is , to be of his Jury ? Besides that ( as Plautus describes him to a hair in a Comedy of his own x x Asinaria . denomination ) Siquidem hercle Aeacidinis minis expletus animisque incedit , he comes into the Session-house with such a haughty and prejudicare opinion of himself and his Cause , that no man can expect the least right at his hands . For besides that his friend Clove doth stick him in the doore of his Book ( before his going forth into the open Aire ) with this pretty perfume of a Judicious and Learned Divine , he doth so swell and improve by degrees , that he makes his work above all the Humane , and equall to the Laws Divine . For speaking of the Preface of the Communion-book , ( a Canon confirmed by Act of Parliament ) that doth not ( without all question ) direct the Bishop to send his resolutions to the Priest , he saith upon that Law , y y P. 11. It is as true , or at least wise more fit , that the Bishop should do as he would have him . Which is so high a Language against the Laws of the Land , and the practice of all Ordinaries ( who execute their own Mandates by their own Officers ) as was never uttered , and printed with Licence by any Subject of England before this time . T. C. indeed from his Presse at Coventry , was wont to send abroad much of this stuff in Martin Marprelates dayes .

And for the other , what meaning should he have to bind up the Letter , not ( as in reason he should ) before , but after his whole Book ; and to call it z z He turned to a Printer . Apocrypha ; but that he would have us to take all his dreams for Canonicall Scripture ? So that a man cannot imagin what evidence to provide , to give satisfaction to so haughty a Companion , who Jura negat sibi nata , nihil non arrogat armis .

Considering therefore the partiality of this Writer , who makes his own Case , makes his own Evidence , makes his own Law , makes his own Authorities , and all out of his own Conceipt ; and endeavours what he can , a fear la Causa , ( as the Spanish Advocates use to say ) to give a fair Cause a foul face : I shall be bold ( as a neighbouring Minister to the Scene of this businesse , and imployed amongst other of my profession , in some of the main passages ) to set down seriously and faithfully the whole carriage of the Businesse , the true Copy of the Letter , the agitation this Cause hath had with us below , not able to penetrate into those Motions it receiv'd above in the Ordinaries breast , and ( for it hath been a kind of walking Spirit ) in the Lower house of Parliament .

The Vicar , a Chorister in the College , and bred up in Musick , brought along with him from his faculty , some odde Crochets into the Ministery . And having too much favour from his Diocesan ( who had never seen a tolerable Incumbent of that Church before ) began to fly upon his own Coat , and turn'd out of the Town two grave and painfull Preachers salaried by the Parish ; whereof the one was his own Cozen , and brought in by himself a little before . His next quarrell was with the Alderman and his Brethren , about some matters of Malting and Tithing : which ( by the continued favour of the Ordinary ) was ended to his advantage . Then he fell upon this removing of the Communion-table from the upper part of the Quire ( where it was a a Aldermans Letter . comely placed and had stood time out of mind ) to the Altar-place , as he called it . Mr. Wheately the Alderman questioning him thereupon , what Authority he had from the Bishop , Chancellour , or any of his Surrogates , to do this alteration , received this Answer , b b Aldermans Letter . that his Authority was this , He had done it , and he would justifie it . Upon the which return Mr. Wheately commanded his Officers to remove the Table to the place again ; which they did accordingly , but not without striking , much heat , and indiscretion , both of the one side and the other : The Vicar saying , he car'd not what they did with their old Tresle , for he would build him an Altar of stone at his own charge , and fix it in the old Altar-place , and would never Officiate upon any other : the rude people replying , he should set up no dressers of stone in their Church , and they would find more hands to throw his stones out , then he should do to bring them in ; and would all in a body make a journey to the Bishop , before they would endure it . Whereupon Mr. Wheateley the Alderman presently wrote unto his Lordship of these passages ; as also of his light gestures in bowing at the name of JESUS , so as sometimes his Book fell down , and once himself , to the derision of those that were not so well affected to that religious Ceremony . And this was about June or July 1627. To this the Bishop returned no answer in writing at that time , but sent a quick and sharp Message by word of mouth ; both to the Alderman and the Vicar ; that they should not presume , either the one or the other of them , to move or remove the holy Table any more , otherwise then by speciall direction from him or his Chancellour ; and that it should remain where it did ( if it stood within the Quire ) untill his next passage to Lincoln by that Town ; at what time he would himself by view taken upon the place , accommodate the same according to the Rubrick and Canons . And that the Vicar should not presume to set up any thing in Church or Chancell , in the interim . Which return did not altogether pacifie the People of the Town in their jelousies against their Vicar . But Mr. Wheateley , a prudent and discreet man , afraid to offend the Bishop , ( as one who had been a singular friend and patrone to that Town , when he was in place ) resolved to ride unto his Lordship . Which was no ●ooner known , but all they of the Town that were able , would needs hire horses and ride along with him . The Bishop when he saw such a company , enquired of them what the matter was ? They opened unto him all this difference , assured his Lordship they were every one of them quiet and peaceable men , conformable in all things to the Kings Laws Ecclesiasticall , and willing to submit themselves to any Order , concerning the situation of the holy Table , which his Lordship should appoint . Onely they represented unto his Lordship , that they were much scandalized with the putting down of their Sermons , and this new intended erection of a stone-Altar upon the neck thereof . And that , if his Lordship should appoint the Table to stand in the upper end of the Quire , it was impossible that the 24th part of the Parish should see or heare the Vicar officiating thereupon . Desiring his Lordship to take it to his consideration , that the Vicar ( whom his Lordship much favoured ) was not alwayes right in the Head-piece ; and that they lived in the midst of Recusants , their chiefe Governour being one of that profession himself ; and that those kind of men began already to jeere and deride this new Alteration . The Bishop entring into a discourse of the indifferency of this circumstance in its own nature , the Vicar came suddenly into the Hall , pale and staring in his looks , and either with his journey , or some other affrights much disordered . Which the Bishop observing , used him with all sweetnesse and lenity , bade him not be troubled with any thing that had happened , for he would end this difference to his contentment . The Vicar brake out into passion and teares , and said they threatned to set his house on fire . The Bishop answered , that if they did so , he would procure him another ; and he hoped his Majesty would provide for them such houses , as in that case they well deserved . The Alderman & his Assistants utterly denied the knowledge of any such base intents , or menaces : but submitted themselves wholly ( as the Vicar likewise did ) to the Bishops decision . Then the Lord Bishop taking the Vicar aside , talk't with him in private a pretty while . What they discours'd of is not particularly known . His Lordship was over-heard somewhat earnest with the said Vicar , to tell him who they were that set him on upon these alterations . And it is conceiv'd generally , that the Vicar told his Lordship all the truth , from point to point . At the close , the Bishop said unto him , Well , Mr. ( ) you shall sup with your Neighbours in my Hall to night , upon such cold provision as my people can make you : But I have sup't already upon that you tell me . And if all the Books I have of that nature be able to do it , I will find some satisfaction for my self and you in all these particulars , before I goe this night to bed . And I will provide a Letter , as written to you , Mr. Alderman , to shew to your Brethren , and some Notes to be delivered to the Divines of the Lecture at Gr. And both these ( if the fault be not in my servant ) shall be ready by seven a clock in the morning .

The Bishop sate up most of the night , and his Secretary with him in his Study . What they there did is not distinctly known : But it was observ'd that the Secretary came down for the Book of Martyrs which stood in the Hall , and borrowed from the Parish-church Bishop Jewells workes . In the Morning between 7. and 8. of the clock , was delivered to the Alderman this Letter sealed up .

Mr. Alderman , I do conceive , that your Communion-Table , when it is not used , should stand in the upper end of the Chancell , not Altar-wise , but Table-wise . But when it is used , either in the time of the Communion , or when your Vicar shall be pleased to read the later part of the Divine service thereupon , the Churchwardens are to cause the Clerk or Sexton to remove it , either to the place where it stood before , or any other place in Church or Chancel , where your Minister may be most audibly heard of the whole Congregation . If both your Churchwardens agree with the Vicar upon such a place , let it be disposed of accordingly ; and your Ministers are not to of ficiate upon it in any other place . If your Churchwardens disagree with the Vicar , let them take the opinion of that Surrogate of my Chancellour , who dwels next unto your Town of Grantham , and he and any one of the Churchwardens shall upon view assigne the place where the Table shall stand in most conveniency , when it is to be of ficiated on by either of your Ministers . And so I desire you ●o intimate this unto the Churchwardens , and do recommend me very heartily to you and all your neighbours , and you and them in my prayers to Gods protection . And am

At the same time this Letter was delivered , there was delivered also by the Secretary , a sheet of paper closed up , to be conveyed to the Divines of the Lecture at Gr. upon their next meeting-day , with a Note of direction from the said Secretary , that if they conceived these passages contained in that Paper to be well and truly collected , and had not found in their readings and observations the contrary , they should impart them to the Vicar of Gr. being one of their Company , and improve them what they could to give him satisfaction , not denying ( if he so required ) to let him take out a Copie of the same for his own use , but not to divulge these papers any farther . But if they found any mistakings in these Quotations , or had met with any other Canons or Constitutions differing from these , or that they themselves varied in opinion from the premisses , they should forbeare to impart them , but write freely back again their said variance from these directions , together with their reasons for the same , which should be very kindly and thankfully accepted . Or to this effect . We met accordingly , perused these Papers , found them digested in the former part into the fashion of a Letter , ( yet directed to no body ) but not so figuredly and distinctly in the later . They were not written with the Bishops own hand , with which we were all acquainted , nor subscribed by any body , and they varied in some places in matter from this printed Copie , but little in form . After perusall we did conferre with the said Vicar at two severall dayes , especially about the Contents of this Paper . Who undoubtedly , at that time , received full satisfaction thereby , and conceived that he had lost nothing by this decision , having gain'd all the points , excepting the Form of placing the Table ; against the which he conceived the Rubrick of the Liturgie to be apparant , but his Lordships opinion to be very indifferent , because he observed ( as he said ) the Table in his Lordships private Chappell to be so placed , & furnished with Plate and Ornaments above any he ever had seen in this Kingdom , the Chappel Royall onely excepted . And so this difference was at that time thus ended and composed , and the Vicar well satisfied , and never out of his Lordships favour ( whereof he reaped after this much fruit and profit ) to his very dying day . Now the true Copy of this Letter or Notes ( for without all question they were neither superscribed nor subscribed ) here ensueth

Sir , with my very hearty commendations unto you , &c. When I spake with you last , I told you that the standing of your Communion-table , was unto me a thing so indifferent , the unlesse offence and umbrages were taken by the Town against it , I should never move it , or remove it . That which I did not then suspect , is come to passe . Your Alderman , whom I have known these 17 or 18 yeares to be a discreet and modest man , and far from any humour of Innovation , together with the better sort of the Town , have complained against it . And I have without taking any notice of your act , or touching in one syllable upon your reputation , appointed the Churchwardens , whom in my opinion it principally doth concern , under the Diocesan and by his directions , to settle it for the time : as you may see by this Copie enclosed . Now for your own satisfaction , and my poore advice for the future , I have written unto you somewhat more at large then I use to expresse my selfe in this kinde . I do therefore ( to deal plainly ) like many things well , and disallow of some things in your cariage of this businesse . It is well done that you affect decency and comelines in the officiating of Gods divine service , that you president your selfe with the Forms in his Majesties Chappels and the Quires of Cathedrall Churches , ( if your Quire , as those others , could contain your whole congregation ) that you do the reverence appointed by the Canons to that blessed name of JESUS , so it be done humbly and not affectedly , to procure the devotion & not move the derision of your Parishioners , who are not it seems all of a piece ) and that you do not maintain it Rationibus non cogentibus , & so spoil a good cause with bad arguments . These things I do my self allow and practise . But that you should say you will upon your own cost build an Altar of Stone at the upper end of your Quire ; That your Table ought to stand Altar-wise ; That the fixing thereof in the Quire is so Canonical , that it ought not to be removed ( upon any occasion ) to the body of the Church , I conceive to be in you so many mistakings .

For the first ; If you should erect any such Altar , ( which I know you will not ) your discretion ( I fear me ) would prove the onely Holocaust to be sacrificed on the same . For you have subscribed when you came to your place , that that other Oblation , which the Papists were wont to offer upon these Altars , is a Blasphemous figment and pernicious Imposture . In the 31th Artic. And also , that we in the Church of England must take heed lest our Communion of a Memory be made a Sacrifice . In the 1. Homily upon the Sacrament . And it is not the Vicar , but the Churchwardens that are to provide Vtensils for the Communion , and that not an Altar , but a faire joyned Table . Canons of the Convocation 1571. pag. 18. And that the Altars were removed by Law , and Tables placed in their stead in all , or the most Churches of England , appeares by the Queens Injunctions 1559 related unto and so confirmed in that point by our Canons still in force . Canon 82. And therefore I know you will not build any such Altar , which Vicars were never enabled to set up , but were once allowed ( with others ) to pull down . Injunct. 1 mo Elis. For Tables in the Church .

For the second point ; That your Communion-table is to stand Altar-wise ; if you mean , in that upper place of the Chancell , where the Altar stood , I think somewhat may be said for that , because the Injunctions 1559 did so place it . And I conceive it to be the most decent situation when it is not used , and for use too , where the Quire is mounted up by steps , and open , so as he that officiates , may be seen and heard of all the Congregation . Such an one , I am informed , your Chancell is not . But if you meane by Altar-wise , that the Table should stand along close by the wall , so as you beforced to officiate at the one end thereof ( as you may have observed in great mens Chappells I do not beleeve that ever the Communion-tables were ( otherwise then by casualty ) so placed in countrey-churches . For besides that the Countrey-people , without some directions before-hand from their superiours , would ( as they told you to your face ) suppose them Dressers rather then Tables . And that Queen Elisabeths Commissioners for causes ecclesiasticall directed , that the Tables should stand , not where the Altar , but where the steps to the Altar formerly stood . Orders 1561. The Minister appointed to read the Communion , which you ( out of the Books of Fast in 1 mo of the King ) are pleas'd to call Second service , is directed to read the Commandments , not at the End , but at the North-side of the Table , which implies the End to be placed towards the East great window . Rubrick before the Communion . Nor was this a new direction in the Queens time onely ; but practised in K. Edwards reign . For in the plot of our Liturgie sent by Mr Knox & whittingham to Mr Calvin , in the reign of Q. Mary , it is said , that the Minister must stand at the North-side of the Table . Troubles at Frankford , p. 30. And so in K. Edwards Liturgies , the Ministers standing in the Midst of the Altar , 1549. is turned to his standing at the North-side of the Table , 1552. And this last Liturgie was revived by Parliament 1ᵒ Elis. c. 2. And I beleeve it is so used at this day in most places of England . What you saw in Chappells or Cathedrall Churches , is not the point now in Question , but how the Tables are appointed to be placed in Parish-churches . In some of these Chappels and Cathedralls , the Altars may be still standing , for ought I know ; or , to make use of their Covers , Fronts and other Ornaments , Tables may be placed in their room , of the same length and fashion the Altars were of . We know the Altars stand still in the Lutherane Churches . And the Apologie for the Augustane Confession , Artic. 11. doth allow it . The Altars stood a yeare or two in the reigne of King Edward , as appeares by the Liturgie printed 1549. And it seems the Queen and her Counsell were content they should stand , as we may guesse by the Injunctions , 1559. But how is this to be understood ? The Sacrifice of the Masse abolished ( for which Sacrifice onely Altars were erected ) these ( call them what you please ) are no more Altars , but Tables of Stone or Tymber . And so was it alledged 24. Novem. 4ᵒ Edv. 6. 1550. Sublato enim relativo formall , manet absolutum et materiale tantúm . And so may be well used in Kings and Bishops houses , where there are no people so void of Instruction as to be scandalized . For upon the Orders of breaking down Altars , 1550. all Dioceses , as well as that of London , did agree upon receiving Tables , but not so soon upon the form and fashion of their Tables . Act. and Monum . pag. 1212. Beside that , in the old Testament one and the same Thing , is termed an Altar and a Table . An Altar , in respect of what is there offered unto God ; and a Table , in respect of what is thence participated by men , as for example , by the Priests . So have you Gods Altar the very same with Gods Table , in Mal. 1. 7. The place is worth the marking : For it answers that merry Objection out of Heb. 13. 10. which you made to some of your fellow Ministers , and one Dr. Morgan before you , to Peter Martyr , in a disputation at Oxford . We have no Altar in regard of an Oblation ; but we have an Altar , that is , a Table , in regard of a participation and Communion there granted unto us . The proper use of an Altar is to sacrifice upon , the proper use of a Table is to eat upon , Reasons , &c. 1550. vide Act. & Monum . pag. 1211. And because a Communion is an Action most proper for a Table , as an Oblation is for an Altar ; therefore the Church in her Liturgie and Canons calling the same a Table onely , do not you now , under the Reformation , call it an Altar . In King Edwards Liturgie of 1549 it is almost every where ; but in that of 1552 , it is no where called an Altar , but The Lords Boord . Why ? Because the people being scandalized herewith ( in Countrey-churches ) first it seems beat them down de facto ; then the supreme Magistrate ( as here the King ) by the advice of Archbishop Cranmer and the rest of his Counsell , did Anno 1550 by a kind of Law put them down de jure . 4ᵒ Edv. 6. Novemb. 24. And setting these Tables in their rooms , took away from us , the Children of this Church and Common-wealth , both the Name and the Nature of those former Altars . As you may see Injunct . 1559. referring to that Order of King Edw. and his Counsell , mentioned Act. & Monum . pag. 1211. And I hope you have more learning , then to conceive The Lords Table to be a new Name , and so to be ashamed of the Word . For , besides that Christ himselfe instituted this Sacrament upon a Table , and not an Altar ; ( as Archbishop Cranmer and others observe , Act. & Monum . pag. 1211. ) it is in the Christian Church , at the least 200 yeares more ancient , then the name of an Altar in that sense ; as you may see most learnedly proved ( beside what we learn out of S. Paul ) out of Origen , and Arnobius , if you do but reade a Book that is in your Church , Jewel against Harding , of private Masse , Artic. 3. pag. 145. And whether this name of Altar crept into the Church , in a kind of complying in phrase with the people of the Jews , as I have read in Chemnitius , Gerardus and other sound Protestants ; ( yet such as suffer Altars to stand ; ) or that it proceeded from those Oblations made upon the Communion-tables for the use of the Priest and the poore , whereof we reade in Justine Martyr , Ireneus , Tertullian and other ancient writers ; or because of our Sacrifice of praise and Thanks-giving , as Archbishop Cranmer and others thought , Act. & Monum . pag. 1211. the name being now so many yeares abolished in this Church , it is fitter in my judgement , that your Altar ( if you will needs so call it ) should according to the Canons stand Table-wise , then your Table , to trouble the poore Town of Gr. should be erected Altar-wise .

Lastly , that your Table should stand in the higher part of the Chancell , you have my assent in opinion already : And so was it appointed to stand , out of the Communion . Orders by the Commiss . for causes ecclesiasticall , 1561. But that it should be there fixed , is so farre from being the onely Canonicall way , that it is directly against the Canon . For what is the Rubrick of the Church , but a Canon ? And the Rubrick saith , It shall stand in the Body of the Church , or in the Chancell , where Morning prayer and Evening prayer be appointed to be said . If therefore Morning prayer and Evening prayer be appointed to be said in the Body of the Church , ( as in most Countrey-churches we see it is ) where shall the Table stand in that Church most Canonically ? And so is the Table made removeable , when the Communion is to be celebrated , to such a place , as the Minister may be most conveniently heard by the Communicants ; by Qu. Elis. Injunct. 1559. And so saith the Canon in force , that in the time of the Communion , the Table shall be placed in so good sort within the Church or Chancell , as thereby the Minister may be most conveniently heard , &c. Canon 82. Now judge you , whether this Table ( which like Daedalus his Engines moves and removes from place to place , and that by the inward wheeles of the Church Canons ) be fitly resembled by you to an Altar that stirs not an ynch , and supposed to be so resembled most Canonically . And if you desire to know out of Eusebius , St Augustine , Durandus , and the fifth Councell of Constantinople , how long Communion-tables have stood in the midst of Churches , read a Book which you are bound to reade , and you shal be satisfied , Jewel against Harding : Of private Masse , Artic. 3. pag. 145. The summe of all is this .

1. You may not erect an Altar , where the Canons admit only a Communion-table .

2. This Table ( without some new Canon ) is not to stand Altar-wise , and you at the North-end thereof , but Table-wise , and you must officiate on the North-side of the same , by the Liturgie .

3. This Table ought to be laid up ( decently covered ) in the Chancell onely , as I suppose ; but ought not to be officiated upon , either in your first or second service ( as you distinguish it ) but in that place of Church or Chancell , where you may be most conveniently seen and heard of all .

4. Though peradventure you be ( with him in Tacitus ) Master of your own , yet are you not of other mens Eares , and therefore your Parishioners must be Judges of your Audiblenes in this case , and upon complaint to the Ordinary , must be relieved .

5. Lastly , whether side soever ( you or your Parish ) shall first yeeld unto the other in these needlesse controversies , shall remain in my poore judgement , the more discreet , grave , and learned of the two . And by that time you have gayned some more experience in the Cure of Soules , you shall finde no such Ceremony to Christian charity . Which I recommend unto you , and am ever , &c.