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Bishop of London [Juxon] within a month."1 On 18 February he desired "his petition to be read;"2 it was "referred to the Bishop of London," and on 5 May Mr. Doughty "gave up the following submission which he desired might be accepted:"
- The humble submission of Francis Doughty, clerk. Whereas it is charged upon me that in a prayer before my sermon upon All Saints Day last past, in the chapel of Wapping, instead of giving his sacred Majesty his just and royal title, according to the canon in that case provided, I used these words, 'Charles, by common election and general consent King of England,' I protest that I did not intend or premeditate any such detestable words, and if through inadvertency I let any such fall, I am heartily sorry, and most humbly beseech his Majesty's gracious pardon, professing and acknowledging from the bottom of my heart, that his Majesty's crown and dignity is most justly descended unto his sacred person by lineal succession and inheritance, and shall daily pray that it may continue in his royal line to many generations. London, February 19th, 1635.3
This submission the court accepted, and having admonished him "to beware how he let slip any undutiful speeches against his Majesty's church or state, dismissed him." Mr. Doughty seems thus to have escaped rather easily from a really dangerous situation.
The next notice we have of him is in a letter of 6 April, 1637, from Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland, to Sir Thomas Roe. The Earl, writing from London, says that he --
- has only seen the Archbishop of Canterbury once since his coming out of the country; will take occasion to say something to him concerning Mr. Doughtie, who is going to settle himself upon two small livings which he has.4
When before the High Commission, Mr. Doughty was vicar of Sodbury,5 Gloucestershire, and this letter would seem to indicate that he had been deprived of that benefice; unless indeed it
1 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1635-1636, p. 487.
2 Ibid. p. 496.
3 Ibid. p. 505.
4 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1636-1637, p. 557.
5 There were three Sodburys, close together: Little Sodbury, where the incumbent was a rector; Chipping Sodbury ; and Old Sodbury, where the clergymen were vicars. Old Sodbury seems more likely to have been meant by the word Sodbury.
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