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CHAP. VIII. Of divers other Points that will belong to the Council of Reformation to deal in.
HItherto only hath been treated of Abby-Lands and Ecclesiastical Li∣vings to be collected, imployed, and disposed by this Council, and Religious Orders to be replanted; but many other Points do yet remain, for that the whole weight of Restitution, both of the Ex∣ternal and Internal face of our English Church, and the perfect reparation both material and formal of the same, will de∣pend principally of the Authority, Wis∣dom, Zeal, Magnanimity, and Piety of this Council; and for this purpose such principal branches as come now to my Mind, I will here set down.
First of all it will appertain to these Men to send Commissioners abroad into the Realm, and to have ordinary Cor∣respondence in all the Shires of England, thereby to advise from time to time, what are the greatest wants, and what first is to be remedied or provided for: As for