Excerpt from The Summe and Substance of the Conference: Which It Pleased His Excellent Majestie to Have With the Lords Bishops, and Others of His Clergie (at Which the Most of the Lords of the Councill Were Present) In His Majesties Privie-Chamber, at Hampton Court, Jan. 14. 1603 This is a bold alfertion, and a very formi dable challenge. But if the fiatement and com plaint: of the Puritans had been jutt, why did they not give the public, as they were in duty bound, their firm and fubfiance of the Confer ence? If the Bilhop's was falfe, why did'they not fet forth a true and corre t account? Yet fo it has happehed, that no account of any not has come down to us, but that of Bitp Bar low: and this, notw1thftanding there were feve ral able men at the Conference, of the Puritan party, who filled the country with grievous com plaints of their hard treatment, and of the'falfe hood and partiality of the Bifliops' account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.