Thence to talk of other
things, and the want of money: and he told me of the general
want of money in the country; that land sold for nothing, and the
many pennyworths he knows of lands and houses upon them, with
good titles in his country, at 16 years' purchase: "And," says
he, "though I am in debt, yet I have a mind to one thing, and
that is a Bishop's lease:" but said, "I will yet choose such a
lease before any other, because I know they cannot stand, and
then it will fall into the King's hands, and I in possession
shall have an advantage by it." Says he, "I know they must fall,
and they are now near it, taking all the ways they can to undo
themselves, and showing us the way:" and thereupon told me a
story of the present quarrel between the Bishop [John Hacket.]
and Dean [Henry Greswold, A.M.] of Coventry and Lichfield; the
former of whom did excommunicate the latter, and caused his
excommunication to be read in the church while he was there; and
after it was read, the Dean made the service be gone through
with, though himself an excommunicate was present (which is
contrary to the Canon), and said he would justify the quire
therein against the Bishop: and so they are at law in the Arches
about it; which is a very pretty story.
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