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Cities that they shall not use the ensignes of their authority within our said Cathedrall Churches, that hereafter the distinct liberties & privilidges granted by our Royall Progenitors to their several bodies may be inviolably kept: Wee therefore casting the same gracious eye upon our Cathedrall & Metripolitonne Church of St. Peter in our City of Yorke, to have it regulated in like manner, do hereby require y^w according to your sev'all duties to take care for the due p'formance of all the sayd Orders in that Church; and further that as well y^w the Lo: Major as also the Recorder & Aldermen at some solemne times ev'y year shall receive the holie Com'ion in the said Cathedrall Churche of Yorke, to manifest your conformity to the Orders established in the Church. Given under our signet at our Court at Greenwich y^e second day of Julie, in the thirteenth year of our raigne, 1637. Directed to our right trusty & welbeloved the Lo: Major of our City of Yorke, & to our trustie & welbeloved the Recorder & Aldermen of our said City."^[1]

Then follow copies of the Star Chamber's and Judges' orders agreeably thereto.

At this time the dean himself appears to have been willing to give up the sermons in the nave and to return to the parish church of St. Oswald.

With a view to this arrangement, a meeting of the parishioners of St. Oswald was convened upon Thursday, the 15th of January, 1628-9, when Mr. Mallory, the dean, delivered a speech to the following effect:—

"First, hee entred into the comendac̄on of peace and amitye in generall, and thence proceeded to a declarac'on of the divisions and dissentions that had bene of late in that p'rish;

Hee said hee had endeavoured much with the L. B^p for reduceinge things into their auncient course, and that the sermons might be preached as formerly in that p'ish church;

Hee said that it was av'ed by some, and after said it was affirmed by Mr. Recorder, that the p'ish church of S^ct Oswalde was noe p't of the cathedrall, and if it were so then he inferred that the deane and prebends were not bound to preach there.

1. Bishop Bridgeman's Leger in Diocesan Registry, Chester.