"[I]n sundry places of our realm of late...there is crept and brought into the church by some few persons, abounding more in their own senses than wisdom would, and delighting with singularities and changes, an open and manifest disorder and offence to the godly wise and obedient persons, by diversity of opinions and specially in the external, decent, and lawful rites and ceremonies to be used in the churches...the inconvenience thereof were like to grow from place to place, as it were by an infection, to a great annoyance, trouble, and deformity to the rest of the whole body of the realm, and thereby impair, deface, and disturb Christian charity, unity, and concord, being the very bands of our religion."
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Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker (25 January 1564), quoted in Correspondence of Matthew Parker, D.D. Archbishop of Canterbury. Comprising Letters Written By and To Him, From A.D. 1535, To His Death, A.D. 1575, eds. John Bruce and Rev. Thomas Thomason Perowne (1853), pp. 224-225
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