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THE CONFERENCE 147
the Church, and should express his opinion as to what
concessions it might be well to offer to tender consciences
or irritable minds. The Archbishop Whitgift
of Canterbury, himself not a little of a Calvinist in
doctrine, attended, and with him wereBancroft,Bishop
of London, a man of more liberal views; Tobie
Matthew, Bishop of Durham, an Oxford scholar of
fame and a singularly able administrator, who had also
defended the English Reformation with learning and
adroitness against theJesuit Edmund Campion;Bilson,
Bishop of Winchester, the renowned author of " The
Perpetual Government of Christ's Church; " Bishops
Rudd of St. David's, Babington of Worcester, Watson
of Chichester, Dove of Peterborough, Robinson of
Carlisle. Eight Deans were summoned — Montague,
Dean of the Chapel, and the Deans of Christ Church,
St. Paul's, Worcester, Salisbury, Chester, Windsor,
and Westminster, with Dr.Field and Dr. King. Four
clergy onlyrepresented thePuritanposition — Reynolds,
whom his friends regarded as the " oracle of his time
for acquaintance with ecclesiastical history, councils,
and fathers," Sparkes, Chaderton, and Knewstubbs.
On the first day the bishops and five deans alone
met the King "in the King's privy chamber, one of
the large rooms of Henry VIII.'ssuite of state apartments,
on the east side of the Clock-court, which were
altered in the reign of George II." 1
The King " propounded six points . . . three in
the Common Prayer-Book, two for the bishops' juris-
1 Law, " History ofHampton Court Palace,"vol. ii. p. 32.