¶ To all Parsons, vicars, Curates, Schoolmasters, Churchwardes and Sidemen, and all other the Queen's majesties loving subjects, within the Diocese of Ely, greeting.  
WHereas one john Hitche of London hath authority from the high Commissioners to sell in every place within the province of Canterbury the Catechisms in English, Latin and Greek, written by M. Alexander Nowell Deane of Paul's. And whereas I am credibly informed, that there are some within my Diocese, that refuse the buying of the said Catechisms: This shall be to will and command you and every of you to buy the said English and Latin Catechisms, and see them faithfully taught to your Parishioners and Scholars, as ye will answer to the contrary at your peril.  
Given at my house in Downham the xviii. of November. 1574. Richard Ely. God save the Queen.