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THE
WORKS
OP THE
MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,
WILLIAM LAUD, D.D.
SOMETIME LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
VOL. VII. LETTERS.
OXFORD : JOHN HENRY PARKER.
M DCCC LX.
PREFACE.
CONSIDERABLE delay has taken place in the publication of this Volume, from the difficulty of bringing together the materials of which it is composed, and of obtaining accurate transcripts.
It is at length completed, and contains, with the previous Volumes, everything written by Archbishop Laud which has come under the knowledge of the Editor.
With regard to a collection of Observations on the Prayer- book, preserved in the Lambeth Library and printed in the Supplement to NichonV Commentary on the Book of Common Prayer, 1711, there do not appear to be suffi cient grounds for believing them to have been written by Archbishop Laud to justify their insertion among his works.
The larger part of the Letters in this Volume was obtained by the kind permission of Earl Fitzwilliam, from the Went- worth Papers, in the possession of his Lordship, to whom the best thanks of the Editor are due, for the unhesitating
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manner in which the use of these papers was most obligingly conceded.
A portion of the correspondence between Strafford (to use the title by which he is most commonly known) and Laud had already been published, as is well known, in the Straf ford Papers, edited by Dr. Knowler. The letters of Arch bishop Laud now printed constitute the remainder of that correspondence on the part of the Archbishop. They are in many cases replies to letters of Strafford contained in Dr. Knowler's selection, or else are letters to which Strafford's letters there printed are the answers. The corre spondence on the Archbishop's part is further completed by the publication of several portions of letters omitted by Dr. Knowler, and likewise of several long and inter esting " Side Papers " to letters printed in that series. It was found impossible to comprise Wentworth's Letters in this collection, as they would have added so very considerably to the bulk of this Volume. These letters are not preserved in Laud's hand, but in transcripts made at the time, the originals having been destroyed.
Large portions of these letters are in cipher. The original cipher has been, for obvious reasons, retained, though its interpretation, for convenience' sake, is printed above, on the plan pursued by the Editor of the " Bromley Letters."
The Cipher Table itself is printed separately, at the beginning of this series of Letters.
The thanks of the Editor are likewise due to the Rev. the President of St. John's College, Oxford, for permitting transcripts to be made of such of Laud's letters as are
PREFACE. vil
there preserved, and for his careful supervision of the transcriber's copies.
A few remarks must be Coffered on the letters which were obtained from the State Paper Office. It will be seen that they were found in several different departments of that collection. Some of them could not have been discovered unless the papers had been in process of arrange ment, and every assistance, and even casual information, had been furnished by the officers of the several depart ments.
It may be added, that these papers appear to have been, many of them, among those which passed into the hands of Prynne on their being carried off from the Archbishop's study. Many of them are docketed by Prynne, with references to the particular charges they were intended to support. Besides these letters, there are other papers in Laud's handwriting, of a private character, such as accounts of money expended on the Chapel at Lambeth, and receipts for money advanced, during the progress of the works, for the buildings at St. John's. There are also many letters to Laud from Bishops Hall, Cosins, Bramhall, and others, which, however interesting, could not, for the reason mentioned above, be included in this collection.
It has been considered desirable to prepare a tabular state ment of the sources, both printed and MS., from which the letters, in both this and the previous volume, were obtained, and a Chronological Table, which will compensate, as far as possible, for the dislocation which has been caused by the publication of the Letters in two series, in consequence of
Vlll PREFACE.
the recent discoveries of so many unpublished letters, both in the State Paper Office and elsewhere.
These, together with the Cipher Table, will be found at the end of this Preface.
A copious Index to the Third and succeeding Volumes is printed at the end of the Volume.
JAMES BLISS.
PLYMOUTH,
May 9, 1860.
TABLE OF SOURCES FROM WHICH THE LETTERS WERE OBTAINED.
PRINTED SOURCES.
Baillie's Letters and Papers. LVIII. LXXIV. LXXX. xc. xcvu. cm. cxi.
Beuzelii Dissertatio de Durseo. xcvm.
Brnce's Account of Laud's Berkshire Benefactions, cxxvu. cxxvm. CLXXX.
CLXXXII. CLXXXVII. CLXXXVIII. CXCI. CXCII. CXCIV. CXOV.
Cabala, v. vi. vn.
Christian Remembrancer. LXXVII.
Clarendon State Papers. CLIX.
Cotelerii Patres Apostolici. CLXXIV.
Dalrymple's Memoirs, cc.
Ellis's Original Letters, iv. cxxxvm.
Fasti Aberdonenses. LXXXIX.
General Dictionary. CLXXXIX.
Gentleman's Magazine, cxcvm. cxcix. CCCCXLVIII. CCCCXLIX. CCCCL.
Hearne's Curious Discourses, cxcin.
Laud's History (by Wharton). cxvui.
Nichols's Leicestershire, i.
Prsestantium Yirorum Epistolae (a Ph. Limborch). xn. xm. xix. LXIT.
CLXXI. Prynne, Canterbury's Doom. n. m. XXL xxxv. XLVII. L. LI. LXVIII.
LXXVIII. LXXXVIT. CIX. CXX. CLXXVII. CLXXVIII. CXO.
— , Hidden Works, vm. cxm. cxv. cxix. CXLI. CXLII. CXLIV.
CXLV. CLXVII. CLXIX.
Rawdon Papers, by Berwick. CL. CLVII.
Rushworth's Collections. CLXIII. CLXIV. CCITT.
Sidney Papers (by Arthur Collins), cccxxv.
Somers' Tracts, cxcvi.
Steven's History of Heriot's Hospital. XLVI. civ.
Strafforde Letters, xxxvii. XLI. XLII. XLVIII. XLIX. LIIT. LXV. LXVI.
LXIX. LXXV. LXXIX. LXXXI. LXXXII. XCI. C. CV. CVI. CXIV. CXXIII. — CXXV. CXLIII. CXLVI. — CXLVIII. CLIII. CLVI. CLVIII. CLX. — CLXII. CLXVI.
Twells's Life of Pocock. CLII. CLXXIX. CLXXXI.
Ussher's Life (by Parr), xv. xvii. xvni. xx. xxn. xxin. en. cxxvi.
Works (by Elrington). CLXXXVI.
Vossii Epistolse. x. xi. xiv. xvi. xxiv. xxxn. xxxiv. xxxvi.
XXXVIII. — XL. XCIX. CXVII. CXXII. CXXXIX. CLXX. CLXXXIII.
Ward's Lives of Gresham Professors, xxxi.
Whitlock's Memorials. CXLIX.
Wilkins' Concilia. LIT. LIX. LX. LXVII. LXXIII. LXXXIV. xcn. ci.
cxxxvi. Wood's Athense Oxon. cxn.
LAUD. — VOL. VI. APP 7>
TABLE OF SOURCES.
MSS. SOURCES.
British Museum, ix. LV. cxvi. CLTV. CLV.
Crowder, Rev. J. H. ccxxxix.
Gresley, Rev. J. M. ccccvn.
Lambeth Library, xxv. xxvin. xxix. XLIII. — XLV. LIV. LVI. LXI.
LXIII. LXIV. LXX. LXXII. LXXVI. LXXXV. LXXXVI. LXXXV1II. XCIII.— XCVT. CVII. CVTII. CXXIX. — CXXXV. CLT. CLXXIT. CLXXV. CLXXXIV. OLXXXV.
Laud's Register, ex. cxxi. cxxxvu. CXL.
Mickleton and Spearman MSS. at Durham. CLXV. CLXVIII. CLXXIII. CLXXVI.
New College, Oxford, ccccv.
Overstone, Lord. CCCCXLV.
Queen's College, Oxford, xxx. XXXIIT.
Russell, Rev. J. F. LXXI.
St. John's College, Oxford, cci. ecu. cciv. coxvi. ccxxxvm. ccxci.
CCCIII. CCCVIII. CCCXXXII. CCCLXV. CCCLXXXII. CCCCIV. eCCCXVII. CCCCXXI. CCCCXXIV. CCCCXXXI. CCCCLI. CCCCL1I.
State Paper Office :—
(1) Conway Papers. CCCLVII. CCCCXLIV. CCCCXLVI.
(2) Domestic Correspondence, ccv. — ccxv. ccxvu. — ccxxxn. ccxxxiv.
CCXXXVI. CCXXXVII. CCXL. — CCXLII. CCXLIV. CCXLVI. CCLII. COLV. CCLVI. CCLXX. CCLXXI. CCLXXIII. CCLXXVIII. CCXCVI. CCCV. CCOIX. CCOXI. CCCXII. CCCXV. CCCXVII. CCCXXIX. CCCXXX. CCCXXXVI. CCCXLIII. CCCXLIX. CCCLI. CCCLIII. CCCLX. CCCLXI. CCCLXXVI. CCCLXXIX. CCCLXXXIII. CCCLXXXIX. CCCXCVI. CCCCIII. CCCOXIII. CCCOXXIII. CCCCXXXVII. CCCCXXXTX. CCCCXLI. CCCCXLIII. CCCCXLVII.
(3) German Correspondence. ccxxxin. ccxxxv. CCLXXX. CCLXXXI.
CCLXXXIV. CCLXXXVIII. CCC. CCCIV. CCCVII. CCCX. CCCXVI. CCCXXII. CCCXXVIII. CCCXXXV. CCOXXXIX. CCCXLVIII. CCOLV. CCCLVIII. CCCLIX. CCCLXXXVII. CCCLXXXVIII. CCCXCII. CCCXCIV. CCCXCV. CCCXCIX. CCCCI. CCCCXV. CCCCXVIII. CCCCXXV. CCCCXXVIII.
ccccxxix. ccccxxxir. ccccxxxvi. ccccxxxvra. CCCCXL. CCCCXLII.
(4) Irish Correspondence, cccxiv. cccxix. cccxxni. CCCLXIV. ccccxxx.
(5) Spanish Correspondence. CCCLIV. CCCLXVI.
(6) Swedish Correspondence. CCL. CCLIV. CCLXIV.
Wentworth MSS. CCXLIII. CCXLV. COXLVII. — CCXLIX. ecu. CCLIII.
CCLVII. — CCLXIII. CCLXV. — OCLXIX. CCLXXII. CCLXXIV. — CCLXXVII. COLXXIX. CCLXXXII. CCLXXXIII. CCLXXXV. CCLXXXVII. CCLXXXIX. CCXC. CCXCII. — CCXCV. CCXCVII. — CCXCIX. CCCI. CCCII. CCCVI.
cccxiii. CCCXVIIL— cccxxi. ccexxiv. cccxxvi. ccoxxvii. cccxxxi.
CCCXXXIII. CCCXXXIV. CCCXXXVII. CCCXXXVIII. CCCXL. — CCCXLII. CCOXLIV. CCCXLVII. CCCL. CCCLII. CCCLVI. CCCLXTI. CCCLXIII. CCCLXVII. — CCCLXXV. CCCLXXVII. CCCLXXVIII. CCCLXXX. CCCLXXXI. CCCLXXXIV. — CCCLXXXVI. CCCXC. CCCXCI. CCCXCIII. CCCXCVII.
CCCXOVIII. CCCC. CCCCII. CCCCVI. CCCCVIII. — CCCCXII. CCCCXIV.
ccccxvi. ccccxix. ccccxx. ccccxxii. ccccxxvi. ccccxxvn. Tanner MSS. xxvi. xxvu. LVII. LXXXIIT. cxcvn.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LETTERS.
1611. PAGE
Feb. 27. To Sir David Williams Vol. VII. 1
1613.
March 16. To Sir Thomas Lake Vol. VII. 2
1615.
April 18. To Richard Neile, Bishop of Lincoln .... Vol. VII. 3
1616.
Oct. 21. To Sir William Herrick Vol. VI. 238
Feb. 27. To Miles Smith, Bishop of Gloucester ... 239
March 3. To Richard Neile, Bishop of Lincoln .... 240
1619.
Aug. 21. To the Mayor of Oxford Vol. VII. 4
1623.
Nov. 23. To Sir Robert Cotton Vol. VI. 242
1624.
Nov. 18. To the Duke of Buckingham Vol. VI. 243
1625.
Aug. 2. To the Duke of Buckingham Vol. VI. 245
Dec. 13. To the same 247
Jan. 14. To Dr. Aubrey 248
16. To the Duke of Buckingham 249
1626.
Sept. 30. To the Lord Viscounj^Conway Vol. VII. 6
1627.
April — To George Montaigne, Bishop of London . . . Vol. VII. 7
Aug. 20. To the Lord Viscount Conway 8
Aug. 27. To Sir John Coke 8
Sept. 25. To G. J. Vossius Vol. VI. 250
Dec. 22. To the same . — 251
Jan. 28. To Dr. William Smith, Warden of Wadham Col. Vol. VII. 9
Feb. 20. To the Lord Viscount Conway 12
1628.
March 26. To G. J. Vossius Vol. VI. 252
July 2. To the Lord Viscount Conway Vol. VII. 14
Aug. 5. To G. J. Vossius Vol. VI. 253
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Aug. 26. To the Lord Viscount Conway |
PAGE Vol. VII. 15 |
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Sept. 6. To King Charles .... |
16 |
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Oct. 7. To the Lord Viscount Conway |
18 |
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25. To G. J. Vossius |
Vol. VI. 255 |
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Jan. 2. To Sir Robert Heath |
Vol. VII. 19 |
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26. To Dr. Juxon, President of St. John's .... |
20 |
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29. To James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh . . |
Vol. VI. 258 |
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Feb. 25. To the Lord Viscount Dorchester |
Vol. VII. 20 |
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1629. |
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May 10. To G. J. Vossius |
Vol. VI. 259 |
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June 16. To James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh . . |
— 260 |
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— 25. To the same |
— 262 |
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July 4. To Mr. Edward Nicholas |
Vol. VII. 21 |
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— 14. To G. J. Vossius |
Vol. VI. 263 |
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Aug. 4. To Thomas Dove, Bishop of Peterborough . . |
Vol. VII. 22 |
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— 9. To the Lord Viscount Dorchester |
23 |
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Dec. 7- To James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh . . |
Vol. VI. 266 |
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— 10. To the Lord Viscount Dorchester |
Vol. VII. 23 |
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— 10. To the Earl of Mulgrave |
24 |
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— 12. To the Lord Viscount Dorchester |
27 |
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— 28. To Sir John Coke |
28 |
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— 29. To the Earl of Mulgrave |
29 |
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Jan. 2. To the Lord Viscount Dorchester |
32 |
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— 4. To the Archdeacon of London |
Vol. VI. 268 |
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— 5. To the Lord Viscount Dorchester |
Vol. VII. 33 |
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26. To the same , , |
35 |
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Feb. 23. To James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh . . |
Vol. VI. 270 |
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1630. |
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June . To Edward Stanley, Schoolmaster of Winchester |
Vol. VII. 36 |
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July 5. To James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh . « |
Vol. VI. 272 |
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21. To G. J. Vossius |
275 |
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Sept. 10. To Dr. Robert Pinke |
— 278 |
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Aug. 7. From William Bedell, Bishop of Eilmore . . . |
280 |
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Sept. 11. To the same |
284 |
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12. To Dr. Robert Pinke |
— 288 |
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30. To the Lord Viscount Dorchester |
Vol. VII. 37 |
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Oct. 1. To Dr. Robert Pinke |
Vol. VI. 289 |
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— 15. To Dr. Christopher Potter |
291 |
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Dec. 9. To Dr. Brooke |
— 292 |
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Jan. 21. To G. J. Vossius |
— 292 |
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Feb. 11. To Dr. Christopher Potter |
294 |
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1631. |
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April 14. To Sir John Lambe |
. Vol. VII. 38 |
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July 10. To Lord Cottington |
39 |
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Aug. 27. To the Queen of Bohemia |
40 |
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Sept. 29. To the Lord Viscount Dorchester . . . > |
41 |
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Nov. 7. To G. J. Vossius . ... |
. Vol. VI. 296 |
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Jan. 27. To Sir Henry Vane ....... . * |
. Vol. VII. 42 |
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LETTERS. Xlll 1632.
PAGE
May 27. To Dr. Thomas Comber Vol. VI. 298
June 13. To Secretary Windebank Vol. VII. 43
July 3. To G. J. Vossius Vol. VI. 298
30. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 300
Sept. 7. To Sir John Lambe Vol. VII. 44
Dec. 24. To Dr. Juxon, President of St. John's . ... 45
26. To G. J. Vossius Vol. VI. 303
Jan. 4. To the same 304
Feb. 15. To the same 305
1633.
April 30. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VI. 307
Aug. 23. To Mr. Richard Sterne Vol. VII. 47
31. To Sir Thomas Roe 48
Sept. 2. To Sir John Lambe 49
— 9. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VI. 310
12. To Sir Thomas Roe Vol. VII. 50
. From John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln . . . Vol. VI. 312
— 16. To the same 314
— 19. From the same — 316
Oct. . To the Provost of Edinburgh 318
— 4. To William Pierce, Bishop of Bath and Wells . 319
— 14. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 320
— 14. To William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore .... 324
18. To Dr. Christopher Potter 326
— 24. To the Bishops of his Province 327
28. To the same 329
Nov. 15. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 330
Dec. . From John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln . . . 335
— 2. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VII. 51
9. To Mons. de Vic Vol. VI. 337
11. To John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln .... 337
19. To the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury . . . Vol. VII. 55
— 20. To Dr. Richard Astley Vol. VI. 339
Jan. 13. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VII. 56
14. To Adam Ballanden, Bishop of Dunblane . . . Vol. VI. 340
18. To His Majesty's Printers 342
31. To the Bishops of his Province 344
Feb. 2. From John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln ... 345
— 6. To Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Gloucester . . Vol. VII. 62
— 24. To G. J. Vossius Vol. VI. 346
25. To John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln .... 348
March 7. From John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln . . . 351
— 11. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 352
— 11. To the same 358
— 12. To William Noye 360
— . To Lancelot Bulkeley, Archbishop of Dublin . . 361
— 21. To Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork — 364
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1634.
PAGE
March 27. From John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln . . . Vol. VI. 365
— . 29. To the Lord Viscount Scudainore — 366
— 31. To John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln .... — 368 Apr. ad init. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VII. 63
- 12. To the same 65
- 15. To the same 71
22. To Sir Thomas Roe 73
- 28. To the Lord-Mayor of London Vol. VI. 369
May 6. To Adam Ballanden, Bishop of Dunblane . . . 370
14. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth — 372
- 16. To John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln .... 378 June 3. To Sir William Bellasys — 379
- 17. To the Merchants at Delft — 380
- 23. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth — 381
— 23. To the same Vol. VII. 75
July 1. To Adam Ballanden, Bishop of Dunblane . . . Vol. VI. 383
3. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 384
- 10. To the same 385
- 20. To King Charles Vol. VII. 81
Aug. 1. To Dr. Richard Astley, Warden of All Souls . . Vol. VI. 386
2. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VII. 83
16. To Edmund Griffith, Bishop of Bangor . . . . Vol. VI. 389
- 25. To John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln .... 390
- 25. To Sir Thomas Roe Vol. VII. 86
Sept. 13 To Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Gloucester . . 88
- 15. To John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln .... Vol. VI. 391
— 22. To the Clerk of the Signet — 392
— 22. From John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln ... — 393
- 22. To the Dean and Chapter of Hereford . ... Vol. VII. 90
- 23. To Patrick Forbes, Bishop of Aberdeen . . . Vol. VI. 394 Oct. 4. To Adam Ballanden, Bishop of Dunblane ... —395
9. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VII. 92
- 20. To the same Vol. VI. 396
26. To the same Vol. VII. 93
- 31. To the same 94
Dec. 3. To the same 95
3. To the Dean and Chapter of Norwich .... Vol. VI. 403
— 18. From John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln ... — 405
- 22. To John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln .... — 405
— 29. From John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln . . . 406 Jan. 10. To John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln .... — 407
12. To Adam Ballanden, Bishop of Dunblane ... 409
- 12. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VII. 97
19. To the same 110
Feb. 10. To the same , 111
10. ToJohnDury , . 112
— 10. To the same . Vol. VI. 410
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PAGE
Feb. 27. To G. J. Vossius Vol. VI. 411
March 4. To the Lord Viscount Weutworth 414
— 4. To the same Vol. VII. 113
[This is a passage omitted in original edition of the former letter.]
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To the same |
Vol. VII |
, 114 |
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April |
20. |
To the same |
— |
120 |
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— |
21. |
To the same |
— |
123 |
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— |
28. |
To the same |
— |
124 |
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May |
2. |
To the Queen of Bohemia |
— |
126 |
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— |
2. |
To the Elector Palatine |
— |
127 |
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— |
8. |
To the Bishops of his Province |
Vol. VI. |
417 |
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— |
10. |
To James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh . . . |
— |
418 |
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— |
12. |
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth |
Vol. VII. |
127 |
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— |
19. |
To Adam Ballanden, Bishop of Dunblane . |
Vol. VI. |
419 |
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— |
19. |
To the Provost of Edinburgh ....... |
— |
420 |
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— |
25. |
To the Mayor of Canterbury |
Vol. VII. |
134 |
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— |
26. |
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth |
— |
137 |
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June |
4. |
To the same |
— |
138 |
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— |
12. |
To the same |
— |
138 |
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— |
17. |
To the same |
Vol. VI. |
421 |
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— |
30. |
To the same |
Vol. VII. |
148 |
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To the University of Oxford |
— |
148 |
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July |
6. |
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth |
Vol. VI. |
422 |
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— |
14. |
To the same |
Vol. VII. |
150 |
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— |
15. |
From John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln . . . |
Vol. VI. |
425 |
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— |
17. |
To the same |
— |
428 |
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— |
22. |
To the Queen of Bohemia |
Vol. VII. |
151 |
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— |
26. |
To the Elector Palatine |
— |
153 |
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— |
30. |
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth |
— |
154 |
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July |
31 ^ |
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and J. |
To the same |
— |
155 |
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Aug. |
3.J |
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— |
19. |
To the Dutch Congregations at Norwich . . . |
Vol. VI. |
432 |
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Sept. |
2. |
To Dr. Robert Pinke, Warden of New College . |
— |
433 |
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— |
11. |
To the Queen of Bohemia |
Vol. VII. |
167 |
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— |
16. |
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth |
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169 |
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— |
18. |
To the same |
— |
170 |
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— |
19. |
To John Maxwell, Bishop of Ross |
Vol. VI. |
434 |
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Oct. |
4. |
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth |
Vol. VII. |
171 |
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— |
6. |
To the Queen of Bohemia |
— |
185 |
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— |
12. |
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth |
— |
188 |
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— |
12. |
To the same |
— |
190 |
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— |
16. |
To the President and Fellows of St. John's . . |
— |
191 |
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— |
21. |
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth ..... |
— |
197 |
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— |
23. |
To Dr. Richard Astley, Warden of All Souls . . |
Vol. VI. |
437 |
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— |
26. |
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth . . . |
Vol. VII. |
200 |
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Nov. |
3. |
To the same |
— |
202 |
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PAGE
Nov. 10. To John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St.
Andrew's '.'.' Vol. VI. 438
— 16. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 440
30. To the same Vol. VII. 202
Dec. 1. To John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St.
Andrew's Vol. VI. 443
— 16. To the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury . . . Vol. VII. 215
— 18. To Dr. Richard Astley, Warden of All Souls' . Vol. VI. 444 Jan. 1. To G. J. Vossius 445
2. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VII. 216
14. To the same 223
— 16. To the same 226
— 20. To the Queen of Bohemia 227
— 23. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 229
Feb. 4. To the same 240
— 26. To the President and Fellows of St. John's . 242
1636.
March 27. To Sir Kenelm Digby Vol. VI. 447
— 30. To the Queen of Bohemia Vol. VII. 244
April . To the Dean and Chapter of Wells 245
— 8. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 247
— 20. To James Wedderburne, Bishop of Dunblane . Vol. VI. 455
— 29. To William Kingsley, Archdeacon of Canterbury 459 May ad init. To the Queen of Bohemia Vol. VII. 252
13. To the President and Fellows of St. John's . . 255
20. To the Warden and Fellows of Merton College . Vol. VI. 461
June 9. To G. J. Vossius . . ' 462
23. To the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury . . . Vol. VII. 257
26. To the Queen of Bohemia ' 259
July 30. To Sir John Lambe 262
- adfin. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VI. 463
Aug. 4. To Sir Thomas Hoe Vol. VII. 265
4. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 266
5. To James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh . . 267 9. To Mr. Sumner 268
. To the Queen of Bohemia 269
19. To Sir John Lambe 271
22. To the same 272
31. To the same Vol VI. 465
Sept. 8. To the same Vol. VII. 278
12. To the same 282
26. To the same 286
Oct. 13. To the Queen of Bohemia 289
18. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VI. 466
18. To James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh . . 469
Nov. 5. To the same Vol. VII. 291
15. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 293
18. To the Countess of Leicester 297
— 20. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth . — 298
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LETTERS. XV11
PAGE
Dec. 1. To the Corporation of Reading Vol. VI. 470
— 5. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VII. 300
14. To the Queen of Bohemia 302
15. To the Corporation of Reading Vol. VI. 472
23. To Sir John Lambe Vol. VII. 303
23. To Sir Francis Leigh 304
— 26. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 305
28. From John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln . . Vol. VI. 474
29. From the same 476
Jan. 6. To the same 478
— ad init. From the same 480
— 13. From the same 481
— 16. To Dr. Richard Bay lie, President of St. John's . Vol. VII. 306
— 17. To John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln .... Vol. VI. 483
— 18. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VII. 307
21. To the same 312
— 26. To the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury . . . Vol. VI. 484
— ad fin. To the Queen of Bohemia Vol. VII. 312
Feb. 4. To the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury . . . 313
11. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 315
— 20. To the same 320
28. To the Queen of Bohemia 321
March 4. To the same 323
15. To the Provost and Fellows of Eton College . Vol. VI. 485
21. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 487
21 . To the same Vol. VII. 324
[The second part and side paper of former letter.]
1637.
April 5. To the same Vol. VII. 326
6. To George Coke, Bishop of Hereford .... — 337
7. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth — 339
17. To the same — 340
19. To the same . • 34]
26. To the same — 341
May 3. To the Queen of Bohemia — 344
9. To the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury ... 345
— 12. To Dr. Christopher Potter Vol. VI. 488
22. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth Vol. VII. 346
25. To Sir John Lambe 347
28. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth 348
June 3. To Isaac Bargrave, Dean of Canterbury ... — 349
— 14. To Lord Aston 352
22. To the Queen of Bohemia 353
28. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth — 355
8. To G. J. Vossius Vol. VI. 489
July 1. To Sir John Bridgrnan 490
4. To the Earl of Traquair . 491
7. To. the Lord Viscount Conway ... . . . '. . Vol. VII. 356
XV111
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LETTERS.
July 11. To the Queen of Bohemia
Aug. 7. To the same
7. To the Earl of Traquair
— 10. To Sir Henry Wotton
— 25. To Dr. Isaac Bargrave, Dean of Canterbury . .
— 28. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth
— 28. To the same
[Side paper to the former letter.]
Sept. 4. To John Spottiswoode, Archbp. of St. Andrew's
11. To the Earl of Traquair
— 18. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth
Oct. 7. To the same
12. To William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore . . . . 20. To the President and Fellows of St. John's . .
— 24. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth
— 27. To Lord Aston
Nov. 1. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth . . . .
— 11. To the same
16. To the same
— 22. To Sir Edward Littleton
23. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth
— 29. To the same
Dec. 2. To the same
— 19. To the same
Jan. 9. To the same
26. To the same
Feb. ad init. To the same
17. To John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry . . . . March 2. To Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Warden of All Souls' .
— 19. To Kobert Wright, Bishop of Lichfield . . .
1638.
March 27. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth
April . To Dr. Edward Pocock
May 14. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth
14. To the same
[Side paper to the above.] 16. To Dr. Accepted Frewen, President of Magdalen
— 17. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth
. To the same
— 24. To Sir William Boswell
24. To the President and Fellows of St. John's . .
— 24. To the Sub warden and Fellows of Merton College
— 30. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth
June 22. To the same
27. To the same •
July 5. To Sir Thomas Roe
5. To Sir William Boswell .
19. To Sir Thomas Roe
— 20. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth
PAGE
Vol. VII. 358
— 360 Vol. VI. 493 Vol. VII. 361
362
Vol. VI. 496 Vol. VII. 364
Vol. VI. 503
— 504
— 506 Vol. VII. 372
374 376
Vol. VI. 508 Vol. VII. 377
— 378 Vol. VI. 511 Vol. VII. 380 Vol. VI. 517 Vol. VII. 391
— 393 394
— 395 405 406 408
Vol. VI. 517
— 520 Vol. VII. 413
Vol. VII. 416 Vol. VI. 521
— 521 Vol. VII. 424
429 430
— 433 Vol. VI. 528 Vol. VII. 434
— 435
— 437 446
— 456
— 458 Vol. VI. 529 Vol. VII. 459 Vol. VI. 530
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LETTERS.
XIX
July 20.
— 28.
— 30. Aug. 3.
11.
— 11
— 15.
— 29. 30. 31.
Sept. 10.
— 10.
— 22. Oct. 4.
— 8. 18.
— 22.
— 29. Nov. 2.
— 5.
— 9.
— 12.
— 13.
— 21. Dec. 3.
— 8. 11.
— 29.
— 29.
Jan. 11.
— 20.
— 31. 31.
Feb. 10.
— 11. 12. 13. 27.
— 28.
— 28. March .
15.
— 22.
1639. March 31. To the Lord Viscount Weutworth
April 5. To the same
5. To Dr. Richard Baylie ....
To Sir Nathaniel Brent, Warden of Merton .
To the same
To the same
To Sir Thomas Eoe
To the Lord Viscount "Wentworth .... To John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry . . .
To Sir Thomas Roe
To the same
To Sir Nathaniel Brent, Warden of Merton . To the Lord Viscount Wentworth ....
To the same
To the same
[Side paper to the former letter.]
To Sir Francis Windebank
To Sir Thomas Roe
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth ....
To Sir Thomas Roe
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth .... To the Dean and Chapter of Chester . . . To the Lord Viscount Wentworth ....
To the same
To Dr. Richard Baylie, President of St. John's To Dr. Robert Pinke, Warden of New College To the Lord Viscount Wentworth ....
To the same
To the Marquis of Hamilton
To the same
To Lord Clifford
To Thomas Martin, Bishop of Durham . . To the Lord Viscount Wentworth .... To the same
[Side paper to the former letter.] To the Lord Viscount Wentworth ....
To the same
To the same
To the Bishops of his Province
To Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham . .
To Sir John Lambe
To the Lord Viscount Weutworth ....
To Sir John Lambe .
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth ....
To G. J. Vossius
To Sir Thomas Roe
To the Lord Viscount Wentworth ....
To Dr. Richard Baylie
To Sir Thomas Roe ,
PAGE
Vol. VII. 460
462
— 463
— 472
— 473 Vol. VI. 532 Vol. VII. 475
— 477 478 479
Vol. VI. 534 Vol. VII. 480
Vol. VI. 539
Vol. VII. 486
487
— 494 496
— 497 Vol. VI. 541
— 544 Vol. VII. 499
499 501
Vol. VI. 545 547 548
Vol. VII. 504 Vol. VI. 549
— 550 Vol. VII. 505
— 516 516
— 519 Vol. VI. 558
560
560
Vol. VII. 524
— 525 526
Vol. VI. 562
Vol. VII. 530
531
— 545 546
Vol. VII. 548 551
— 552
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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LETTERS.
April 11. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth . . .
— 14. To Dr. Sampson Johnson
17. To Dr. Richard Baylie
— 17. To Sir Thomas Roe
— 30. To certain Swiss Pastors
May 1. To the Lord Viscount Wentworth . . .
— 17. To the same
31. To Sir Thomas Roe
June 21. To the same
— . To William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore
— 28. To the President and Fellows of St. John's July 8. To the Dean and Chapter of Exeter . . .
18. To Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham .
26. To Sir Thomas Roe
31. To Hugh Menard
Aug. 9. To Sir Thomas Roe
Sept. 1. To the Dean and Chapter of Bristol . .
20. To the same
Oct. 4. To the same
13. To the Bishops of his Province ....
26. To Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham
Nov. 11. To Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter . . .
12. To Sir Thomas Roe
13. To the Dean and Chapter of Winchester .
— 21. To Sir Thomas Roe
29. To the Dean and Chapter of Worcester .
Jan. 14. To Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter . . .
Feb. 14. To Sir Thomas Roe
— 16. To John Towers, Bishop of Peterborough March 4. To Edward Pocock
6. To Sir Thomas Roe
9. To Sir Francis Windebank
1>AGK
Vol. VII. 654
— 555
— 558
— 559 Vol. VI. 563 Vol. VII. 559
— 573
— 574
— 577
— 578
— 682 Vol. VI. 566
567
Vol. VII. 583 Vol. VI. 568 Vol. VII. 585 Vol. VI. 601 Vol. VII. 587
— 589 Vol. VI. 570
— 571
— 572 Vol. VII. 591
— 592
— 594
— 595 Vol. VI. 575 Vol. VII. 597
— 598 Vol. VI. 578 Vol. VII. 599
— 600
March 28. April 8. May 9.
— 25. June 19.
26. July 1.
— 17.
— 17. Aug. 2.
— 8. 14. 31.
Sept. 25. Oct. 6.
1640.
To the Corporation of Reading Vol. VI.
To Edward Pocock
To the Lord Viscount Conway
To the same
To the same Vol. VIL
To Dr. Sampson Johnson
To the Lord Viscount Conway
To Sir John Lambe
To the Mayor of Reading Vol. VL
To the Lord Viscount Conway Vol. VII.
To the same
To the same
To G. J. Vossius Vol. VI.
To the Earl of Pembroke ...... • • •
To the Bishops of his Province
579 580 602 604 601 603 604 605 580 606 608 609 581 583 584
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LETTERS. XXI
PAGE
Oct. 23. To James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh . . Vol. VI. 584
Nov. 13. To the Corporation of Reading 586
29. To the same 587
— 29. ToJohnSelden 589*
Jan. 3. To King Charles 590
1641.
Sept. 17. To the President and Fellows of St. John's . . Vol. VII. 611
Oct. 28. To the Corporation of Reading Vol. VI. 591
Nov. 29. To the President and Fellows of St. John's . . Vol. VII. 612
Dec. 23. To the Corporation of Reading Vol. VI. 591
Jan. 31. To John Greaves — 593
1642.
Oct. 20. To the Mayor of Reading 594
27. To the Mayor and Aldermen of Reading . . . 594
Ad fin.anni. To the Vice- Chancellor of Oxford
TABLE OF THE CIPHEK USED IN THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LAUD AND WENTWORTH.
|
CIPHER FOR ALPHABET. |
|||
|
T40 |
T43 T46 f49 |
T52 |
|
|
A <j 41 |
E J 44 I J 47 0 J 50 |
U J 53 |
|
|
u |
[_45 1.48 Ul |
u |
|
|
B 30, |
81. |
C 32, 33. D 34, 35. |
F 36, 37. |
|
G 38, |
39. |
H 55, 56. K 57, 58. |
L 59, 60. |
|
M 61, |
62. |
N 63, 64. P 65, 66. |
Q 67, 68. |
|
R 69, |
70. |
S 71, 72. T 73, 74. |
W 75, 76. |
|
X 77, |
78. |
Y 79, 80. Z 81, 82, |
& 83, 84. |
|
The 85 |
,86. |
That 87, 88. Th 89, 90. |
St 91, 92. |
|
Which 93, 94. |
Him 95, 96. |
All numbers less than 30 are b)anks and deceptions, and are occasionally used to divide the words.
CIPHER TABLE. XX111
CIPHER FOR NAMES.
100 = The King.
101 = The Queen.
102 = Archbishop of Canterbury (LAUD).
103 Not known.
104 = The Keeper, Lord Coventry.
105 = The Lord High Treasurer, (i.e. to March 13, 1634-5; the Earl
of Portland after March 6, 1635-6), Juxon, Bishop of London. It is sometimes used to signify the office of High Treasurer in the Treasury.
106 = Duke of Lennox.
107 = Thomas Earl of Arundel, Earl Marshall.
108 = Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Pembroke and Mont
gomery.
109 = Earl of Salisbury, Captain of the Band of Pensioners.
110 = Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Cottington.
111 = Lord Carlisle.
112 = Lord Holland, Groom of the Stole.
113 Not known.
114 = Secretary Coke.
115 = Secretary Windebank.
Intermediate numbers not known.
127 = England.
128 = London.
130 = The Deputy.
131 = Chancellor Loftus.
132 = Earl of Cork.
133 = The Primate of Ireland, Archbishop Ussher.
134 Not known.
135 = Lord Montnorris.
Intermediate numbers not used.
150 = The Bishopric of Lismore.
151 = The College of Youghal.
152 = Boyle, Bishop of Cork.
153 = Boyle, Bishop of Waterford. 158 = The Castle Chamber.
163 = The Archbishop of Dublin ? See Side Paper to Letter of July 30, 1638.
XXIV
CIPHER TABLE.
164 )
165 I
166 =
167 =
168 )
169 j
170 =
171 =
177 =
178 =
179 =
180 =
181 =
182 =
183 =
184 =
185 =
186 =
187 =
188 =
189 =
190 =
191 =
192 =
193 =
194 =
195 =
196 =
197 =
198 =
199 =
200 =
201 =
202 =
Not known.
The College of Dublin. The Provost of Dublin.
Not known.
Ireland.
Dublin.
Lord Northumberland.
Earl of Dorset.
Earl of Leicester.
Lord Ashton.
France.
Spain.
The States.
The Prince of Orange.
Bishop of Lincoln.
Prince Palatine.
Attorney General.
Solicitor General.
The Tower.
West Indies.
Star Chamber.
Lord Antrim.
East Indies.
High Commission.
Earl of Newcastle.6
Bishop of Derry.f
Scotland.
Marquis Hamilton.*
Madame Chevreux.
The Queen's Mother.
A Parliament.
Earl of Berkshire.
a Side Paper to Letter of April 5, 1637.
b Laud's Side Paper to Letter of Aug. 28, 1637.
c Probably the two new numbers referred to in Laud's Side Paper of Nov. 16.
<i Laud's Side Paper to Letter of Nov. 16, 1637.
c March 27, 1638.
t May 14, 1638. Side Paper.
P Sept. 10, 1638.
h Letter of Oct. 8, 1638.
' March 31, 1639.
LETTERS.
LETTER CCI.
TO SIR DAVID WILLIAMS*. A. D. 1611
[St. John's College, Oxford.]
Salut. in Christ.
AFTER my hearty commendations, &c.
Whereas you desire to have a grant of that royalty and interest which our poor College hath of fishing and fowling in the river of Windridge, at and near Hardwicke, in the county of Oxon. These are to certify you that I have pro posed your request to the Company (whose consent I must have in all such businesses of the College) : and we all think that those waters are much abused by many idle persons that are thereabouts. And in hope that you will see them better preserved than we can, the Company are most willing you should have a grant of all those their royalties there in that form as the honourable knight Sir Henry Lee1' had before,, that is, during life, with that covenant which yourself mention in your letters, that any of them or their successors shall and may retain their liberty to fish, fowl, hawk and hunt there if they please. And I find them all so desirous of your love, that whereas some of them before my time had been solicited by others for these waters (which I knew not of), and were
a [Sir David Williams, of Gwer- knighted July 23, in the same year.]
nevet, was Serjeant-at-law in 1594, b ['The ancient and redoubted
and one of the Judges of the Queen's Champion of Queen Elizabeth.' He
Bench in February, 1603. He was lived- at Ditchley Park.]
LAUD. — VOL. VI. APP. 75
2 LETTERS.
A. D. 1611. inclinable to them, yet understanding of this your desire, they left that thought and were ready to grant them to you. That which they desire farther is only this, that the College may have somewhat yearly at Midsummer-day, flesh for fish, if you can without trouble help them to a little venison, or if not, what trifle yourself please to name. And although there was never any lease made of these or any other royalties of ours that I can yet find, but they passed only by grant in the register book, yet if your desire be rather to have it by lease, the Company will be contented to do that also. And for myself, I shall be ever glad of your love. Thus not having farther wherewith to trouble you, I leave you to the grace of God ; and shall ever rest
Your very loving poor Friend,
W. LAUD.
St. John's, Feb. 27, 1611.
To the right \Vr11. mye verye good
frend Sr David Williams, one of the
Judges of his Maiestyes Bentche.
att his house att Kingstone Bagpuze,
these.
LETTER CCII.
TO SIR THOMAS LAKE c. [St. John's College, Oxford.]
SIR,
I HAVE been ever much bound unto you, and that hath encouraged me to make more bold upon your love than were otherwise fit. At this time I am thrust upon it by necessity. For our mortmain (which you may be pleased to remember I solicited you about in October last d), having passed all other seals, is now and hath been a good while stayed by my Lord Chancellor6 at the broad seal, and all the means I can devise to make, help us not. About Christ mas, so soon as we could hear the stay was made, we writ
c [One of the Secretaries of State.] amount of BOOL per annum ; the
d [There is preserved in the Do- number of Fellows being increased
mestic Correspondence, S. P. 0., Nov. from 30 to 50.]
20, 1613, a Grant to St. John's e [Thomas Egerton, Lord Elles-
College, to purchase lands to the mere.]
LETTERS. 3
a letter in Latin to his Lordship, which we sent by this bearer, A. D. 1613. a Fellow of our house, and chaplain to my Lord Knevett f. The letter my Lord Chancellor liked, and commended, adding further that he would not absolutely stay our mortmain, but only for a time, because there was a large mortmain to pass for the University, and he would not have the one cross the other. What his Lordship's meaning was by this latter clause I know not, but our mortmain sticks still, though we have made the best means we can to put his Lordship in mind of us. The College hath been at some charge already with it, and being poor is loth to lose it. This makes me in its behalf very bold to trouble you, and earnestly to entreat your best furtherance, that his Lordship would be pleased to seal it ; for which (as for many other your good offices) the Col lege and myself shall rest bound unto you, and I shall be most ready by any my pains and service to show myself thankful. Thus not doubting of your love, I leave you to the grace of God, and shall ever continue
To be commanded by you,
W. LAUD.
Endorsed :
'March 16, 1613. ' The Copye of a Leter sent from Mr.
President to Sr. Th. Lake about
passinge our Mortmane then stayd
by the L : Chancel or.'
LETTER CCIII.
TO RICHARD NEILE, BISHOP OF LINCOLN. [Rushworth's Collections, vol. i. p. 62.]
I CAME time enough to be at the rehearsal of this Sermon, iipon much persuasion, where I was fain to sit patiently, and hear myself abused almost an hour together, being pointed at as I sat. For this present abuse, 1 would have taken no notice of it, but that the whole University apply it to me, and my own friends tell me, I shall sink my credit, if I answer not
f [Thomas, Lord Knevett, the only holder of the title.] B2
4 LETTERS.
A.D. 1615. Dr. Abbot in his own. Nevertheless in a business of this kind I will not be swayed from a patient course. Only I desire your Lordship to vouchsafe me some direction what to do, &c. 8
April 18, 1615.
LETTER CCIV.
TO THE MA.YOR OF OXFORD. [St. John's College, Oxford.]
Salutem in Christo. RIGHT WORSHIPFUL,
AFTER my very hearty commendations. Having occasion lately to confer with you concerning a watercourse for the passage of the water of the houses in Magdalene parish and about our College, I was bold to move you concerning the disposition of the hundred pounds given unto your city by our most worthy founder, Sir Thomas White, which very shortly, as I am informed, is to be paid in by those that have had it for these last ten years, and now again to be lent out by you to other four, for the like number of years, upon sufficient security. At which time I then did, and ever must, entreat
« [This fragment of a letter was in- uncensured to Oxford. The paper is
advertently omitted in the former as follows : — series. It appears from the account given by Heylin, that La ad, in preach- ' Mv g°od L-
ing on Shrove Tuesday, had used "I moved his Ma. this day some sharp language against the touchinge Dr. Laudes returne to Ox- Presbyterians. This caused great forde, to wch. his Ma. answered, Yes, offence to Dr. Eobert Abbot, who was for there is no cause y*. he shuld Vice-Chancellor at the time, who made staye. I have made a full and quiet a vehement attack on Laud in his ende of all those matters. I was bold Sermon on the afternoon of Easter to saye, then Dr. Laude shall have day. Laud was absent on the occasion, peace, and be no more trobled in y*. but showed himself on the following matter. No, sayd his Ma. ; my L. G. Sunday at St. Mary's, when the Sermon him selfe acknowledged his brother's according to custom was repeated. error in it, and Dr. Abotts him selfe On the next day he sent Bishop asked pardon for it, excusinge him- Neile an account of the whole affair selfe y*. he was put to it, for y1. all ye in a letter of which the above fragment Universitye did understande y1. Dr. alone remains. Laudes was upon him. If ye Dr. wilbe
It appears from a short document gon before I come, commende me to
which is preserved in the State Paper him." (The rest of the letter lost.)
Office, that Laud was summoned to Endorsed by Laud, 'June 1615. What
London on the subject (though Heylin his Maiestye sayd concerninge D.
is silent on the matter), and that after Abbot sermon against me, Szc. ] some weeks he was allowed to return
LETTERS. £>
your care therein, especially that you would, as far as with A. D. 1619. conveniency you may, hold yourself unto the covenants prescribed by our good founder ; among which one is, that clothiers h be preferred above all others, as the words of the deeds are. And then also we had speech of a young man well reported of, and one of your incorporation, who though he be not a clothier in one sense, because he doth not set poor on work in making of cloth, yet in that he doth sell cloth, I take it he is to be preferred, as a clothier, in respect that among the merchant tailors in London, they do so un derstand it ; and our worthy founder himself did use that trade, and his practice will be a good direction to understand his meaning therein. His name is Cockram, whom I do again commend unto you, not doubting but that he shall speed, because he is, by the covenants of the deed, to be preferred before all others of any other trade. I do not know whether there be any other clothiers that are suitors unto you for this money ; and if there be, I would be loth to move you to do anything that shall not, in all respects, be agreeable to the covenants of the deed. But if it so fall out that you do lend any of this money to any other but clothiers, which are to have the preferment thereof above others, there is one commended to me to be a very honest and painful man, that will put in very sufficient security for it, by his trade a glover ; his name is Newsome. In whose behalf give me leave to be an earnest suitor, to entreat your favour for him. Wherein you shall bind the poor man, and all his, to pray for you ; and I shall take it as a great favour at your hands, and be ready to deserve it in anything that is in my power. And so recommending these things to your wisdom and care, I leave you to the protection of the Almighty, and remain, &c. *
August 21, 1619.
Endorsed :
' To the Maior of Oxford about the loane of the Founder's monye.'
h [It will be remembered that Laud's father was of this trade.]
6 LETTERS.
LETTER CCV.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT CONWAY '. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP,
I HUMBLY thank you for your noble favour many ways vouchsafed me, and for this among the rest, that your Lord ship hath been pleased to send me a copy of my Lord Grace his letters. That which I moved yesterday was out of zeal to his Majesty's service, not any presuming to give my betters direction. And I am still confident that this Instruction, being long k, and to be sent to every minister in his several parish, will be so long in doing as that his Majesty's service will suffer in it, and the time, in many places, be passed before the Instructions can come.
And for that which my Lord's Grace mentions, — That many copies are sent out already ; I am sure the printed ones will overtake them, and outrun them.
And for their falling by this means into the hands of ill- willers, as well as of those which mean better. I think it is common to writing and printing. For it is not possible for my Lords the Bishops to have their registers and under- officers write out so many hundred copies, but that some will fly abroad into the worst hands.
As for the manner, I conceive, with submission, my Lord's Grace is very right, that it is best to be in the form of a little book. A charge given to the printer for secrecy. And the like to the ministers which receive them, and the officers which deliver them, if it shall so be thought fit. All which I humbly submit to my Lord's Grace, and your Lordship's better judg ment ; and shall so ever rest
Your Lordship's to be commanded,
GUIL. BATHON. & WELLE.
Septemb. ult. 1626. To the right Hrble. mye verye good Ld. the Lord Conwaye, Principal Secretaire to his Maiestye, these.
1 [See vol. iii. p. 149.] 1626, as prepared by himself.
k [These are the Instructions spoken vol. iii. p. 195.] of by Laud in his Diary, Sept. 14,
LETTERS. 7
A.D 1627.
LETTER CCVT.
TO GEOHGE MONTAIGNE, BISHOP OF LONDON. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
IT is his Majesty's command that your Lordship read over this sermon1, which he conceives is for his special service.
His Majesty hath appointed your Lordship, with the L. Bishops of Durham m, Rochester11, Oxford0, and Bath and Wells?, to consider of this Sermon, and return their judgments, whether they do not think it fit to be printed.
His Majesty hath likewise commanded the same Bishops to consider of certain objections made against the said Sermon ^ and the answers to them, and return what they think of them, having power to add, alter, or diminish, upon any just exceptions.
His Majesty, in the nomination of these five Bishops, charged the four to make haste, and not trouble your Lord ship, because of your defect of hearing, till all was ready, and then to submit it to your sight and censure also.
My Lords of Durham, Rochester, and Oxford, have read this, as well as myself.
Your Lordship having seen the Sermon, and read over the objections against it, and the answers made unto them, are to express your judgment and conscience to his Majesty, what you think of them, whether the Sermon be not to be printed? and whether the objections against it be not fully answered r ?
1 [This was the celebrated Sermon the handwriting of Bp. Montaigne:
of Dr. liobert Sibthorp, on which " I have seen this Sermon and read
subject see vol. iii. p. 204, and vol. iv. over diligently the objections against
pp. 274—276.1 it and the answers to the objections
m [Richard Weile.] which I think do take away all scruples
n [John Buckeridge.] that may be made of these places
0 [John Howson.] now questioned, and therefore I think P [William Laud.] the Sermon fit to be printed.
1 [These objections were made by " Geo. London," Archbishop Abbot, ( See Laud's
Diary, April 24, 1627).] The paper is endorsed, " The Ld.
r [The whole of the above letter is Bp. of London's consent to yeprintinge
in Laud's hand. There is added in of Dr. Sybthorp's Sermon."]
8 LETTERS.
A. D. 1627.
LETTER CCVII.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT CONWAY. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
MY Lord Chamberlain s moved the whole business of the commendam for my Lord the Bishop of Llandaff * at Windsor, which made me add it at the end of my former note, which I writ in great haste to satisfy my Lord's desire for expedition, and that was cum clausula permutationis likewise. But to leave that, because your Lordship desires it so.
These are to certify your Lordship that yesterday I moved his Majesty, that my Lord of Llandaff, now elect of St. Da vid's, might have in his commendam one benefice, and one dignity, in the church and bishopric of St. David's, with a clause of permutation for either or both of them. This his Majesty graciously granted, and gave me power to signify so much to your Lordship. I wish your Lordship all happi ness, and shall ever study to deserve your love. So I rest
Your Lordship's loving poor Friend and Servant,
GUIL. BATHO. ET WELLE.
Bagshot, Aug. 20,1627.
To the right Hrble. mye verye good IA the Lord Vicount Conwaye, Secretarye of State to his Maiestye, these.
LETTER CCVIII.
TO SIR JOHN COKE. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
RIGHT HONOURABLE,
THESE letters enclosed came to my hands this morning u as the King was going, so I had but time to show them to his
• [Philip Herbert, Earl of Mont- ham, asking for another Bishopric, in
gomery.] Cabala, pp. 115, 117.]
1 [Theophilus Field, successively u [The enclosure was a letter from
Bp. of Llandaff, St. David's, and Here- the Mayor of Winchester concerning
ford. He was a great preferment the apprehension of Martin Lucas, a
hunter. See his letters to Bucking- Dunkirker.]
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Majesty, and receive his commands concerning it. His A. D. 1627. Majesty commanded me to send it to you, which I have here done accordingly. I hope the messenger will be careful. Though for my part I think this is the longer way about, and so much I made bold to tell the King. I pray pardon this moving day haste. So, I leave you to the grace of God,
and rest
Your Honour's loving poor Friend,
GUIL. B. ET WELL?.
Aldershot, Aug. 27, 1627.
For His Majesty's special service. To the Right Honble. mye verye
worthy e frend Sr. John Cooke,
Secretarye of State to His Maiestye.
LETTER CCIX.
TO DR. WILLIAM SMITH, WARDEN OF WAD1IAM COLLEGE. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
AFTER my hearty commendations, &c.
Whereas James Harrington, Master of Arts, and Fellow of Wadham College in Oxon, complained to me of you, Mr. Warden and the Fellows of the College, against him, concerning his right to the Fellowship in the said College, notwithstanding an annuity of xlh per annum during his life left him by his father ; I have taken the business into serious consideration, and, with the advice of my counsel learned in the civil and canon laws, have given my final sentence and determined that cause, and sent it down to the College in an instrument under my hand and seal ; which according to your Statutes I require both you and him to obey, that so an end may be put to those differences.
And because that instrument could not well contain all particulars both of the said James Harrington's misde meanours towards myself as Visitor, and towards the Statutes, Warden and Fellows of the said College, I thought fit to give the particular directions for the punishment of those abuses in those my letters. The abuses are, first, that the said James
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LETTERS.
A. D. 27, Harrington hath falsely and unworthily scandalized Mr. Warden and Daniel Escotte, Master of Arts and Fellow of the said College, for fraudulent conveyance of certain letters containing the dispensation of the foundress for his conti nuance in the Fellowship ; of which slander he hath been able to produce no proof.
Secondly, that the said Harrington, in the end of November last, brought up the Warden and Daniel Escott aforesaid to London, under pretence of coming then before me to answer the business. But the very next morning, without acquaint ing either myself or Mr. Warden, went suddenly back to Oxford, or at least hid himself out of the way, and did as much as in him lay to put a scorn upon his Governor and the Visitor's power with him.
Thirdly, that the said James Harrington, in or about November last, very unworthily, and in strict construction against his oath, did unduly procure a commission out of the Court of Requests to examine witnesses and to end and determine the aforesaid cause, which himself had brought before me and was then depending, and thereby sought to decline the Visitor's power, and submit the Statutes of the College to a foreign j udge, which might have proved not only a great dishonour to the College, but an example of dangerous consequence both to that and other Colleges.
Now in regard to these and other sundry miscarriages of the said James Harrington, though I have settled him in his Fellowship upon such grounds as are expressed in my instru ment, yet I do no way think it fit to let him go unpunished. And therefore I do hereby will and require you the Warden and officers to call the said James Harrington before you, and there publicly to read my instrument for his settling. And 1 do farther require you, that because some, if not all, of these faults have no particular punishment laid in the local Statutes (the founder not thinking any Fellow wmild decline the Visitor's power), I refer the punishment of them to you the Warden and officers, to whom it is left in the conclusion of your Statutes to lay an arbitrary punishment at your dis cretion upon faults not particularly ordered in Statute. And for your better direction in that arbitrary punishment, I shall give this direction following : First, that James Harrington
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aforesaid be enjoined, and I enjoin him with you, to acknow- A.D. 1G27. ledge his misdemeanours specified before Mr. Warden and the officers, and to promise to live peaceably and obediently to his Governor and orderly toward the rest of the Fellows hereafter. And that you, Mr. Warden and the officers, sus pend the said Harrington from all commons and profits in the College for so many months as that his said commons and all other profits may pay the College the xx marks charged, which I have awarded him the said Harrington in my instrument to repay to the College for the charge which he hath unworthily put it to. But then my further direction is, that if the said James Harrington do presently pay the said xx marks charged to the College, or give sufficient security (such as you shall like) for the payment of it at such time or times as you allow of, then that his suspension shall cease at the end of one fortnight, or three weeks at the most, because though the College hath been at much more charges, as appears by the sentence, yet I hold twenty marks to be a great punishment upon a Fellow of a College, and I hope it will give Harrington a warning to live both peaceably and dutifully hereafter.
I do likewise by these farther require of you, Mr. Warden and the officers, that the instrument for the settling of Mr. Harrington, and likewise these letters for the ordering of his punishment, be registered, as the Statutes of your College I think require, and I am sure is fit; that no more troubles may arise about this business, as formerly there did, for want, it seems, of registering some letters. And this done, I wish you all peace and happiness and a flourishing College, and so rest
Your very loving Friend and Visitor*. Westm. Jan. 28, 1627.
Endorsed : ' The Coppye of Mr. Wardens Leter
to me. And of my Leter to Wadha Oolledge
about Mr. Harringto. Janu. 30,
1627.'
x [There are several papers relating to this subject still remaining in the State Paper Office.]
12 LETTERS.
A. D. 1627,
LETTER CCX.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT CONWAY. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P- 0.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
I HEARTILY wish your Lordship a good journey to New market, and am sorry that my lameness will not suffer me to wait upon you before you go y. I made an hard shift, not without pain and some danger, to wait upon his Majesty yesterday night; partly to do my duty to him before his journey, and partly to acquaint his Majesty with the business which will nearly concern the Church of England if it be not prevented.
The business I received from my Lord Carleton2, and his Lordship was pleased to write it to me, conceiving that a churchman would most fully understand it, and most feelingly take care to prevent it. The business is this : —
"There are many both English and Scottish ministers in the Low Countries, which serve the several companies both in the field and in their garrisons. Some of these heretofore (having no superior to overlook them) gave divers scandals by following drinking and other foul courses of life. Upon complaint of this made to King James of blessed memory, he would have placed a superintendent over them : but that was thought by them that were there, a preface to bring in a bishop amongst them ; which that state likes not. So that was utterly refused, and one Forbes a sent over to wait upon King James for accommodation of his business. Upon this King James gave way, that the ministers here should hold an Assembly once a year, and that should be a little after Easter; but in this Assembly they should have no positive power to meddle with any point of doctrine or
y [He had met with a severe acci- he was one of the Secretaries of State,
dent just before. (See Diary, Feb. 5, having been created Viscount Dor-
1627).] Chester in 1628.
2 [Dudley Carleton was Ambassador His letter to Laud on this subject,
to the States General from 1616 to dated Jan. 14, is preserved in S. P.O.]
1628. He was created Baron Carleton * [This appears to be the same
of Imbercourt in 1626. Subsequently person mentioned vol. vi. p. 380.]
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matter of Ordination, or do any prejudicial act to the Church A-D- of England : but only that they should have a power to restrain abuses among themselves, and punish disorders of life, that their calling might not be made a scandal among strangers. To this order of King James they yielded obe dience till of late, and according to the freedom of that place, some used the English Liturgy and some the Dutch, as they and their auditors best liked. But now they begin to chal lenge to their Assembly other power, and go as directly cross to the Church of England as a consistory can devise to go. For now they are upon making of a new Liturgy, mixed between the English and the Dutch, which is like to breed a new sect : for they are divided about it already. They have likewise of late meddled in matter of Ordination, which may be of very dangerous consequence to the Church of England : and this was done with addition of great novelties openly at the Hague in the face of the English congregation there, the King and Queen of Bohemia being present. It is likewise feared, upon some probable grounds, that they have an aim to get some Act made there by the States to confirm their proceedings, which will be a great prejudice should it pass. And, to perfect all, they purpose to settle, or at the least to do some acts towards the settling of all these things, now at their next Assembly after Easter."
This is the business. And my Lord Carleton's desire was that I should acquaint his Majesty with it, and humbly desire some timely direction to prevent these evils. This I have done, and his Majesty is much troubled that they should hold such courses ; and commanded me, because I was not able to go, to write to your Lordship, and herein to signify the business and his pleasure. Which is —
That your Lordship should presently write a letter, as by his Majesty's special command, to the Lord Carleton, that his Lordship should signify to the ministers there, both
_ ,. . J . Buthis Ma-
English and Scottish, that his express command is, that jesty's ex-
they forbear meddling with the making of any new Liturgy, thauh™^' That they presume not to meddle with any giving of Orders, ^jjouid keep but leave English and Scottish to their several Churches to. the dof-
m • . . . trine estab-
respectively. That they bring in no novelties such as of late lished in the they used at Hague, or any other like. England01
14 LETTERS.
L.D. 1627. That they assume no positive power to meddle with any thing in doctrine; but keep themselves to the power first given by King James, to examine, restrain, and punish the ill manners of such as give scandal in their life. And that so much only his Majesty is willing to condescend unto ; both because it was a permission of his father's of happy memory ; and because he is desirous to cut off all lewdness of life by any means possible. But if they shall not content themselves with this, and so live orderly, he will absolutely take from them all power of assemblage. And his Majesty's will is, that the Lord Carleton do signify to the States that his desire is, that they would pass no act to prejudice this his Majesty's order.
My Lord, I am heartily sorry that I have held your Lord ship thus long, but I could not make the business briefer. And having now discharged both my duty and trust, I leave the rest to your Lordship's care and goodness, of which I cannot doubt. And so wishing you all health and happiness, I leave your Lordship to the grace of God, and shall ever show myself
Your Lordship's humble and affectionate Servant,
GUIL. BATHO. ET WELLE.
Westm'. Febr. 20, 1627. To the Right Honble. my very singular goode Lorde, the Lorde Comvay, principall Secretary to his these.
LETTER CCXI.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT CONWAY. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MAY it please your Lordship to give me leave, I shall be bold a little to trouble your Lordship with a business of my own. For the despatch whereof I shall humbly entreat your Lordship's care, and the rather because his Majesty is pleased to call upon me for haste. His Majesty, out of his grace and favour, hath been pleased to name me to the" Bishopric of London, and commanded me to give notice to your Lord-
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ship that warrant might be sent according unto course to A. i>. 1628. the Signet Office, for drawing of the Conge d'elireb.
His Majesty sent before, but your Lordship was not within ; and, therefore, my humble suit is, that you would be pleased to do that now, which your Lordship would have done then, had the messenger found you. Your Lordship shall always find me ready to serve your Lordship in all occasions that shall come in my way. So I leave your Lordship to the grace of God, and shall ever rest
Your Lordship's ready and affectionate Servant,
GUIL. BATHO. ET WELLE.
Westmr. July 2, 1628. To the right honble. my very good Lorde, the Lorde Vicount Con- waye, Principall Secretary to His these.
LETTER CCXIL
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT CON WAY. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY humble duty and service remembered to your Lord ship.
With many thanks I acknowledge the receipt of two letters from your Lordship, and have taken order to send a copy of both of them to my Lord's Grace of Canterbury, that he may take order accordingly ; for upon his Grace this service lies. I cannot command the use of the prayer c, further than in mine own diocese. I had been so careful in this business before your Lordship's letters came, as that I had caused letters from the Council to be sent to my Lord of Canterbury, to the same effect which your Lordship's letters contain, and I make no doubt but that my Lord's Grace will see that performed which is required by his Majesty and the State; neither shall I be wanting in my duty and care to call upon it. And I most humbly thank your Lordship for your great care of me in the expression of his Majesty's resolution for
b [See vol. iii. p. 208, note l. was the same form which was issued
c [This was a prayer for the good in 1625. See vol. iii. p. 98, note a,
success of the fleet. See endorsement where for ' Bishop of London,' read
at the end of the letter. Probably it < St. David's/]
1 6 LETTERS.
A. D. 1028. setting out the navy, of which many began to be doubtful here.
My good Lord, though your letter bear date the day before that abominable murder was committed upon my dear Lord, the Duke, yet at the very same time in which I received your letters, I had the news of that accursed fact d, to my great sorrow and grief of heart. My Lord, it is the saddest accident that ever befel me, and should be so to all good Christians ; but what humours are stirring here I shall not at this time trouble your Lordship with the recital ; but humbly take my leave, and rest
Your Lordship's very sorrowful Servant,
GUIL. LONDON.
Westmr. Aug. 26, 1628. To the right honble. my very goode
Lorde the Lo: Conway one of his
Maties principal! Secretaryes, these. Endorsed : ' Bishop of London.
'His Lordship hath caused letters
to be written from the Council to
the ArchbP. of Canterbury to take
order that a prayer be prepared for
the good success of the fleet.'
LETTER CCXIII.
TO KING CHARLES. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,
I HERE present your Majesty with the examination of one Alexander Gill e. I am heartily sorry I must tell your Majesty he is a divine, since he is void, as it seems, of all
d [See Diary, Aug. 24, 1628.] London seconded for his coat's sake,
e [This was Alexander Gill, now and love to the father." (See Wood,
Usher of St. Paul's School, and who, Ath. Ox. vol. iii. pp. 42, 43 ; and Court
in 1635, succeeded his father in the and Times of Charles I. vol. i. p. 437.
Mastership. It appears from a letter of Gill was an intimate friend and cor-
Joseph Mede to Sir Martin Stuteville, respondent of Milton; three of whose
that " he was degraded for the offence Latin letters to him are still preserved,
here spoken of, but that the fine was and who had a high opinion of his
mitigated and corporal punishment skill as a Latin poet. (See Milton's
remitted, upon old Mr. Gill's, the Prose Works, vol. ii. pp. 56-3, seq.)] father's petition, which my Lord of
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humanity. This is but his first examination, and not upon A. D. 1628. oath. When the information came to me against him, as I could not in duty but take present care of the business, so I thought it was fit to examine him as privately as I might, because the speeches are so foul against religion, allegiance, your Majesty's person, and my dear Lord laid by execrable hands in the dust. He hath confessed most of it, the rest I am told will be proved. I have committed him close prisoner, til] I receive further direction from your Majesty, which I humbly desire your Majesty to signify by my Lord Conway, or any other way which shall seem good to your Majesty's wisdom. I continue my daily prayers for your Majesty's health and happiness.
Your Majesty's most humble and faithful Servant,
GUIL. LONDON.
Sept. 6, 1628.
[It is added on a separate sheet of paper in Laud's hand :] —
When Alexander Gill spake those lewd words in Oxford, there were present (as I am informed) Mr. Pickeringe and Mr. Craven, of Trinity College, and Mr. Powell, of Hart Hall. And after that the words were repeated, and some other added in the hearing of these persons above named, and one Mr. Shillingworthf, whom they met in Trinity College, of which house he likewise is &.
f [This was the celebrated William disparage his Majesty's wisdom in Chillingworth, with whom Gill appears being led so long by the Duke — as he to have kept up a political correspond- was ; and farther saith that this is all ence for some years, in which " they as he remembreth that he spake con- used to nibble at state matters." cerning the King. Being pressed that (D'Israeli's Charles I., chapter xii., at his late being at Oxford, he should 'On the Anti monarchical Principle in use these words : ' We have a fine wise Europe,' vol. ii. first edition.)] King, he hath wit enough to be a
* [The following paper, contain- shopkeeper, to ask what do you lack,
ing Gill's examination, is also pre- and that is all:' he confesseth that
served in the State Paper Office: — he used words to that effect.
"The examination of Alexander " He saith that he thinketh that these
Gill, the younger, Bachelor of Di words were spoken by him priv. tely,
vinity, usher of the Free School near and in a cellar, or at the gates of the
the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, in College, or in the quadrangle, or at
London, taken before the Lord Bishop one Grize his house, or in the Grove,
of London, piite. Thoma Mottershedd, but knoweth not certainly when,
norio pubco. ] " Being asked whether any person
" He confesseth that he hath spoken present coming after abroad and meet- more undutifully of his Majesty than ing others, did not ask in this Ex- he should have done ; and as he re- aminat's hearing whether he, the said membreth to this effect ; that he did Examinat, did not deserve hanging
LAUD. — VOL. VI. APP.
18 LETTERS.
A. D. 1628.
LETTER CCXIV.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT CONWAY. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
HERE hath been a proffer to print a certain book, in folio, of English verses in the commendation (as is pretended) of our late gracious and worthy friend the Duke of Buckingham. The pretenders to the press affirm they had leave, under your Lordship's hand. That I did desire to see ; because his Majesty's charge was strict upon me, that no papers concerning my Lord Duke should be suddenly printed. I was dallied withal two days by the printer ; but yesterday night the papers were brought me by one who calls himself Mr. Darcye, and goes for the man that puts it to the press. Then I saw your Lordship's hand, approving these verses to the press ; but so fairly written h, that after the party was gone with his papers, it drew me into some jealousy, lest your Lordship's hand
for speaking the aforesaid words of the sometimes Steeny, he saith he remem-
King; he saith that he doth not re- breth there was some such speech,
member that anybody asked such a " And being further demanded
question. whether upon that question asked what
" Being asked whether he did not at meaning his Majesty had in callinghim
the same time drink an health to Fel- so, he the said Examinat did not answer
ton, that killed the Duke ; he saith he with scornful gesture, that sure there
thinketh he did ; and that it is a com- was some profound wisdom in it, that
mon thing done, both in London and cannot be bottomed or faddomed,
other places. stretching out his arms, or to that
" And being further asked to this effect; he saith that he doth not remem-
effect; whether he himself did not say, ber that he spake any such thing,
he had oftentimes had a mind to do " Lastly, he desireth that before he
the same deed upon the Duke, but for put his hand to this Examination, it
fear of hanging; he saith he did say so. may be added, that he protesteth he
" Being further pressed whether he had never any ill meaning towards the did not say that if there were ever a King nor any person about him that is Hell or a Divell in Hell the Duke was now living, nor never shall, but hath with him, or to that effect ; he saith he daily and ever shall pray for the pro- did say so. sperity of his Majesty.
" And being further urged whether «ATFxGTT ALEX GIL
1 * n TT-. T n ALKX, \JlIL* ALbA. VTlJj.
upon casual speech of King James of p T
blessed memory uttered at that time
and place, he this Examinat did not « This was subscribed by Alex. Gill
further«say, that King James was in jn our presence, and acknowledged
Hell to bear the Duke company, or to to be true.
that effect ; he answereth that he never " Ro. HEATH.
spake any such words in his life. Jo. FINCH."]
" Being demanded whether there was
not some speech offered that his Ma- h [Conway's handwriting is remark - jesty did call the Duke in his lifetime ably ill-favoured.]
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were abused. These are, therefore, humbly to desire your A. D. 1628. Lordship that I may, so soon as conveniently you can, receive two lines from you, whether your Lordship did license any such poem to the press or not, that so my suspicious thoughts may be satisfied. My good Lord, I know your Lordship understands me better, than that I would take upon me to make stay of anything which your Lordship hath thought fit for the press ; but I do it only out of my duty and care, that nothing but what is honourable should pass over the dead : and to deal freely with your Lordship, I do much suspect the countenance and other deportments of him that brought me the papers. And now I have taken this care somewhat beyond the strength I now have, I humbly take my leave, and rest
Your Lordship's weary sick Servant1,
GUIL. LONDON.
London House, Octob. 7, 1628.
To the right Honble. my very goode Lord the Lo. Vicount Conwaye, one of his Matits. principal! Secretaryes att Hampton Court, these.
LETTER CCXV.
TO SIR R. HEATH. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
GOOD MR. ATTORNEY,
IT is his Majesty's pleasure that in regard there is no head of any College in Cambridge already an Ecclesiastical Commissioner, you now put in Matthew Wrennk, Doctor of Divinity, Dean of Windsor, and Master of Peterhouse, in Cambridge, into the Commission now to be renewed, accord ing to his place. And this shall be your warrant.
GUIL. LONDON.
2° Januar. 1628.
1 [See Diary, Sept. 27, 1628.] showing that it was probably by Laud's
k [This letter, though merely of an influence that Wren was placed on the official character, is here inserted, as High Commission.]
20 LETTERS.
AD. 1628.
LETTER CCXVI.
TO THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF ST. JOHN'S. [St. John's College, Oxford.]
AFIFR my hearty commendations, &c. I have at this time some employment for Dr. Parsons1, not far from Warwick shire, where he hath begun to settle himself, to practise in his profession of physic ; and it is to take care of some near friends of minem, who are now like to be forced to enter upon a course of physic of some continuance. I know your local statutes give leave to a Bishop to employ any Fellow of your College for half-a-year, and I shall so far presume upon your favour as to desire it at this time for Dr. Parsons, that I may not be driven to put my brother11 and other friends into the hands of strangers. I cannot doubt but that I shall receive this courtesy from you, according to the utmost extent of your statutes ; and I shall ever be ready to acknowledge the favour, and to return it unto you, as any occasion shall be offered me, for the good of your society. So I commend me heartily unto you all, and shall ever rest
Your very loving Friend,
GUIL. LONDON.
London House, Januarie 26th, 1628.
To the Right wors11 my verie loving frends, Dr. Juxon, President, and the Senior ffellowes of S'. John Bap- tiste Colledge in Oxon.
LETTER CCXVIL
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT DORCHESTER. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
I WAS no sooner come within my doors but I had this enclosed letter delivered to my hands. The person, Mr. Oade,
1 [Dr. Philip Parsons, afterwards family, who lived at Stanford in North- Principal of Hart Hall. He was M.D. amptonshire, on the borders of War- of Padua, and bad been incorporated wickshire.]
at Oxford, June 20th, in the previous n [Dr. William Robinson, Rector of
year. (Wood, F. 0. i. 443.)] Long Whatton, in Leicestershire.]
111 [Most probably some of the Cave
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who writ it, is a proctor that belongs to the civil law, which, A. D. 1629. I think, made him pick me out to whom he would direct his letters. The fact, I doubt, is little less than he makes it ; and the cognizance of it (as I conceive) belongs to your Lord ship, and my Lords, whom I know you will inform. I have much need of money ; yet I think it not fit to keep this coin any longer in my house, lest if there were more pieces than one, I might burn my fingers with telling it. My good Lord, I have made bold with this my servant to send Mr. Oade's man that brought the letter to me, that if he be able to give any further light, he may ; if he cannot, your Lordship may yet enjoin him secresy, till you have done what you think fit in the business. I think he will keep counsel, though he be not sworn. I leave your Lordship to the grace of God, and shall so rest
Your Lordship's loving poor Friend and Servant,
Guru LONDON.
Feb. this 25.
To the right Hfirble mye veryegood Lord the Lord Vicount Dorchester, one of his Majestyes principall Se- taryes, these.
LETTER CCXVIIL
TO EDWARD NICHOLAS, ESQ. ° [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
AFTER my very hearty commendations. If anything hath been or shall be moved, touching the account or dealing for any prize or enemies' goods, or other perquisites of the Ad miral's jurisdiction within the counties of Pembroke or Car marthen, or the ports therein, I pray you give me present knowledge thereof, that I may speak with you before anything be determined. So I rest
Your very loving Friend,
GUIL. LONDON.
London House, the 4th of July, 1629. To my verie lovinge freinde Edward Nicholas Esquire.
0 [Edward Nicholas was first brought and, surviving the troubles, held the
forward by the Duke of Buckingham, same office under King Charles II.,
to whom he was Secretary. He was with whom he had suffered in exile.] afterwards Secretary toKing Charles I . ,
22 LETTERS.
..D.1629.
LETTER CCXIX.
TO THOMAS DOVE, BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
MY predecessor, the late Lord Bishop of London P, received letters-patents from the King's most excellent Majesty, whereby he was commanded to send your Lordship a competent number of printed briefs, for the making of a collection through your diocese for the relief of the poor distressed ministers of the palatinate*1. The briefs, as I understand by my officers, were sent accordingly, but whether they came safe to your Lordship or no, I cannot tell. I have rather cause to believe they did not, because I presume your Lordship's care would sooner have perfected so good a work. Therefore, my earnest desire to your Lord ship is, that you would now, as much as in you lieth, advance this pious and charitable business, and according to the tenor of the briefs, make collections where they have not yet been made, and with all convenient speed return the moneys collected, for the business is so often and so much pressed here, as if all the delay were in my officers, who cannot receive till it be sent. And I humbly pray your Lord- ship to give such order that there be no abuse in the collec tions. So with my very hearty commendations I bid your Lordship farewell, and rest
Your Lordship's very loving Brother,
GUIL. LONDON.
Fulham, 4° Augusti, 1629.
To the right reverend Father in God, my very good Lord and brother, the Lord Bi?. of Peterborough, theise.
[George Montaigne.] issued as far back as Jan. 29, 162f
[These briefs were ordered to be (See vol. iv. p. 312.)]
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LETTER CCXX. A. D. 1629.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT DORCHESTER. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
DR. OWEN, named now to the Bishopric of St. Asaphr, hath by me moved his Majesty that since he leaves his living in Northamptonshire s to his Majesty's disposal, and hath nothing yet in commendam but the archdeaconry, which hath for many years last past gone with the Bishopric, that he may have the corn now upon the ground, being the tithe of the said archdeaconry, without which he shall not be able the next year to keep house there. This his Majesty hath graciously granted to the petitioner, and commanded me to signify so much to your Lordship, that no other suit may come between to trouble or defeat Dr. Owen. I humbly pray your Lordship to take this care for him, so I shall rest Your Lordship's loving poor Friend and Servant,
GUIL. LONDON.
Aug. 9, 1629.
To the right Hrble mye verye good Lord the Lord Viscount Dorches ter, principall Secretarye to his Majeatye, this.
LETTER CCXXI.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT DORCHESTER. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
I WAS with his Majesty upon Tuesday, and after some speech about some business of the Church, it pleased his Majesty to think of the reviving of the Injunctions of Queen Elizabeth, which she set forth in the beginning of her reign*, and to give them new life by his authority. His
' [Vacant by the death of John Sept. 23, 1629. (Wood, Ath. Ox. ii.
Hanmer, July 23, 1629.] 880.) His appointment to this Bishop-
8 [John Owen had been chaplain ric was by Laud's influence. Richard
to the King when Prince of Wales. Cobbe, mentioned several times in
He was Rector of Burton Latimer, in Laud's Diary, and in his Will, was
which place he was born, his father, Bishop Owen's nephew, being the son
Owen Owen, having been his prede- of his sister Catherine.] cessor as Rector. He was succeeded * [See Wilkins' Cone., vol. iv. pp.
by Rob. Sibthorp, who was instituted 184, seq.]
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A. D. 1629. Majesty was likewise pleased further to command me that I should signify thus much to your Lordship, that so at your next addresses to him, your Lordship should put him in mind of it, that so his Majesty might give order accordingly. I humbly pray your Lordship not to forget it, lest I bear the blame with his Majesty. So I humbly take my leave of your Lordship, and shall ever rest
Your Lordship's to be commanded,
GUIL. LONDON.
London House,
Decemb. 10th, 1629.
I have made bold to send your Lordship one of the books, that you may see it.
To the Right Honble. my very good Ld. the Ld, Yicount Dorchester, principall Secretary of State, these.
LETTER CCXXII.
TO THE EARL OF MULGRAVE u. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
I HAVE laboured as much as my weakness would give me leave x, that your Lordship might receive a speedy answer to your kind letters, and the inhabitants of Hammersmith to their petition. I am heartily sorry to hear of your Lord ship's infirmity, in which I pray God to give your Lordship first ease, and then full recovery, which I shall be as glad to see or hear of as any servant your Lordship keeps. And it hath not a little troubled me, that the reliques of my fear ful disease have stuck so close to me, that I have not been able in all this time to come and visit your Lordship.
Now for the business itself, I first considered of the roll which your Lordship sent me, where I find the contribution towards the building rising to 242/. 7s. and ^d., or thereabouts,
11 [Edmund Sheffield, first Earl of x [See Diary, Aug. 14, 1629, (vol. Mulgrave, created February 7, 1626, iii. p. 211), and Hist, of Chancellor- ob. 1646.] ghip, April 28, 1630. (Vol. v. p. 10).]
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besides (as I conceive) the materials allowed by Mr. Crispe y, A. D. 1629 and the east window to be built by Mr. Saunders. And for the minister, I find the allowance written down comes to 28 J. 13s. and 4d.
For the building, I think there be money enough promised to make a pretty little chapel of ease for the inhabitants, but no man hath yet signified to me where, or whose the ground is upon which it shall stand ; and I shall look that it be built as other churches are, east and west, without tricks : and so I shall freely give both leave and countenance to so good a work, and the ease of my neighbours z.
That which is behind will ask a little more deliberation. And first for the rights of the mother church of Fulhain, I must and do confess that the petitioners do fairly acknow ledge that they will pay and perform all duties to their parish church with as much alacrity and cheerfulness as ever before. But, my Lord, payments are not all. For there are some duties which do ever remain entire to the mother church, and are seldom or ever granted to any chapel of ease. Such as are burial; and that the inhabitants receive the blessed Sacrament of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ, once in the year at least, namely, at Easter, at the mother church ; and I would be loth to go beyond the Church canon or custom in that behalf, concerning which I will presently inform myself if there be further need.
I likewise sent for Dr. Cluett, the Vicar of Fulham, to see what he had to say further for the mother church ; and I find by him that he hath been lately with your Lordship, and hath received satisfaction from your Lordship and his neighbours concerning his duties ; and for other things he leaves the care of it upon mea.
There are two greater difficulties yet behind, both con cerning the minister. The first is, if it please your Lordship to cast your eye upon the roll of allowances, you shall there see that a great part of them which contribute to the
r [Afterwards Sir Nicholas Crispe, p. 96.) It was consecrated June 7, a well-known and faithful adherent of 1631. (Ibid. p. 213.)] the royal cause. About this time he a [Dr. duet's " Provisos for the built a large mansion at Hammer- Mother Church in the Matter of Ham- smith.] mersmith Chapel," are still preserved
1 [The first stone of this Chapel in S. P. 0.] was laid March 11, 16§§. (See vol. iii.
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A. D. 1629. minister, do it upon this condition, ' as long as they continue there ; ' so that if some of them remove, the minister's allowance may be a great deal impaired, especially if your Lordship should at any time remove thence. And for them which give without this condition, yet they assure nothing upon their house or land, so that when they are dead, their heirs may choose (for aught I know) whether they will make any allowance or no. And so in the end it may fall out that the Vicar of Fulham must maintain the curate, or the chapel stand empty ; and therefore a perpetuity must be thought of; and if that cannot be done, I do not see how the work can subsist.
The second difficulty is concerning the public government of the Church ; for the petitioners desire that they may tender to the Bishop's approbation an honest, able, and conformable minister. These words, my Lord, are very good, but I have been beaten and forced to understand that some men under these titles bring in notorious dis turbers of the peace of the Church. Therefore, my Lord, I shall be very unwilling to give way to any popular nomi nation ; but if the inhabitants will trust me with the nomi nation, I will see that they shall have an honest and painful man there, and so I doubt not but my successors will after me. If they plead that they allow the maintenance, and therefore should have the nomination, I must answer that they give that allowance for their ease, not that they should dispose of the Bishop's office. Besides, Fulham is the only place that I have to retire myself unto, and it is now at quiet, and an orderly parish, arid I would be very loth to make way for any busy-headed man to disturb both that place and me.
And lastly, I humbly crave leave to tell your Lordship that I wonder much at one passage in the roll, where your Lord ship may find a man that gives nothing to the minister, and yet prescribes both to the Bishop, and the inhabitants, that they shall choose two conformable ministers, and the Bishop shall take one of them. But I do not mean to be so hampered by him, to say no more.
Now, my Lord, I crave pardon for length and the free discharge of my duty. And if anything in these letters
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shall not relish your Lordship, I shall be ready to satisfy A. D. 1629, you either in person, so soon as I am able, or by letters, if it so seem good to your Lordship. So with my prayers for your health, I humbly take my leave, and rest
Your Lordship's to be commanded.
London House,
December 10, 1629.
Endorsed :
' Mye answear to mye Ld. Mulgraves first Leters about the Chappell att Hamersmith.'b
LETTER CCXXIII.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT DORCHESTER.. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
CONCERNING the business of the Queen's Injunctions which your Lordship was pleased to write to me about, it is most true that some of them reflect upon the beginning of her reign; but yet, notwithstanding, I conceive under favour, and with submission to better judgments, that even they are one of the best authorities we have for the proceedings of those times.
As for the second doubt that is made, whether King James of blessed memory did ever revive them in his time, I can say no more but this. I have advised both with some of my own papers and with such friends as were nearer the passages of those times than I then was, and I cannot find as yet that ever K. James did make any particular ratification or re- vivor of these Injunctions, further than is contained in the canons made in his Majesty's first year, or in the conference at Hampton Court, or in the proclamation printed with the Book of Common Prayer ; all which (if I mistake not) come short of divers things contained in the Injunctions.
b [This document is in a clerk's hand, corrected by Laud.]
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A. D. 1629. I must further acquaint your Lordship, that in those times divers of the best lawyers were of opinion that these Injunc tions were as ecclesiastical laws in force, although the Queen were dead : but I do not find that all lawyers agreed in that opinion, and of what judgment the lawyers of the present time are I do not know. So I humbly submit the business to his Majesty's wisdom, and shall ever rest
Your Lordship's affectionate Friend to serve you,
GUIL, LONDON.
Lond. House,
Decemb. 12, 1629.
To the Eight Honble. my very good Lord the Ld. Vicount Dorchester, principall Secretary to his Ma1? : these.
LETTER CCXXIV.
TO SIR JOHN COKE. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
RIGHT HONOURABLE, my love and service remembered unto you.
I received letters a day or two since from Doctor Dee c, and my Lord Ambassador's Chaplain in France d. In those letters he sent me three other inclosed6, which seem to come from an English gentleman there imprisoned ; who com plains grievously. Why the Doctor sent me these letters, as he doth not express, so I do not know. The gentleman is altogether unknown unto me, and I do not remember that I ever heard so much as his name before. Your Honour shall find all three letters here inclosed ; and I make bold to send them unto you, partly because you are named in some of
c [Francis Dee, appointed Dean of 1616 he assisted at the Conference of
Chichester in 1630, and in 1634 Bp. Loudun, between the Komanists and the
of Peterborough. He died Oct. 8, Protestants ; and was appointed again,
1638. (Wood, F. 0. i. 300.)] in 1629, Ambassador to the French
d [Sir Thomas Edmondes. He was Court for the ratification of the treaty
employed as early as 1592, as agent of peace.]
for Queen Elizabeth in Paris. In 1610 e [These inclosures are still pre-
he was sent as Ambassador to France, served with the letter.] on the assassination of Henry IV. Tn
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the letters, and partly because there is somewhat in the letter A. D. 1G29. which is to his wife, which a Secretary of State perhaps may make use of. I humbly pray your Honour to pardon this boldness, and so wishing you many happy new years, I take my leave, and rest
Your Honour's loving Friend to serve you,
GTJIL. LONDON.
London House,
Decemb. 28, 1629.
To the right Honble. my very lovinge frend Sr. John Cooke, knight, principall Secretary of State, these.
LETTER CCXXV.
TO THE EARL OF MULGRAVE. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
I HAVE found so much nobleness and respect from your Lordship, that I should be much to blame if I should not be as careful as I may of your Lordship's health. Out of that care I made bold to say to your servant I would not have your Lordship, in a disease so uncertain and so full of danger, commit yourself unto the hands of one physician only. The debate and consultation of two may happily drive things to a better issue than can be presently hoped for, or than it is probable one man's eyes can see. I made bold further to say, that if your Lordship thought fitter to rely upon one, it were requisite you should pitch upon some man very well skilled in anatomy, and of great experience in his profession. For without that skill all other knowledge will fall short of your Lordship's disease, falling so much upon chirurgery. I humbly pray your Lordship to forgive me this boldness ; and upon whomsoever you rely, I shall heartily pray that it may be with success to your health. For my own estate, I was coming on with some hope the last week ; but since, upon Tuesday, the 23rd of this December, and the two days after, I had so
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A. D. 1629. fierce a tide within me, that it hath cast me much back, and I pray God it may end so, and that it be not yet worse with me.
My Lord, for the business, I pray your Lordship to know that I am very hearty for the building of the chapel, and will do anything that conveniently I may to help the work for wards, and this I speak from my heart as I do the rest. And for the plot of ground, the manner of building, and the re ference of such things as must be reserved to the mother church of Fulham, your Lordship's letters have given me abundant satisfaction ; and when the time shall serve I will prescribe and order those things with as much favour to the chapel as I may with justice to the mother church.
So far, my Lord, the business goes on fair; but for the two other difficulties, your Lordship's letters do not satisfy me in either. For the maintenance first. My Lord, I did not desire a perpetuity only upon a doubt that that which was promised upon condition now might fail hereafter, but I did it because I am bound so to do by the ecclesiastical laws; and I did not trust mine own judgment only, but I caused my Chancellor f to consider of it and give me his answer, who returned that there must be a perpetuity. Neither did I write this altogether out of hope, for Mr. Crisp, being with me upon other business, and speech falling cross of this chapel, he told me he did not doubt of a per petuity. And, good my Lord, do not think the doubt grounded upon no just cause. For though it be more than shame for the successors to deprive themselves of so great a benefit for so small a charge (their predecessors especially having undergone both that and the greater charge of building the chapel), yet how many do we daily see do those things which impudence itself would be ashamed of. And as the education of this age is, I cannot conceive how the next should be better. Notwithstanding this, my Lord, because you write there is no possibility of settling a present perpetuity, I will deliberate further ; and out of my hearty desire that the work may proceed, and your Lordship, with my neighbours, receive content, I will yield to anything which in the judg ment of such men I shall name, and your Lordship shall like, I may yield unto.
f [Dr. Arthur Duck.]
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For the next, which is the maintenance of the minister, I A. D. 1629. do easily conceive, that to leave the nomination to the inha bitants will, as your Lordship writes, advance the minister's maintenance; but I shall never give way, my Lord, to a popular nomination. For which resolution as I crave pardon* so must I also for not accepting the offer made by your Lordship of committing the nomination to some few of my own choosing. For though I do confess the offer to be very fair and loving, and do so embrace it ; yet it is a popular election still, be they more or fewer that shall name to the Bishop. And though I humbly and heartily thank your Lordship that no doubt is made of me, but only how I may be succeeded; the like must I answer for the nomination desired; for I heartily profess I have no distrust of your Lordship, nor of the most of the inhabitants, but I do not know how your Lordship and they may be succeeded.
And further, my Lord, (which I forgot to express in my last letters,) the parsonage of Fulham is in the gift of the Bishop as patron, upon which depends the vicarage of which this chapel must be a member, so that the nomination of the minister, which is desired, would not only take away the Bishop's general right as diocesan, but part of his inheritance as patron ; and no township shall, upon any pretence, make me give away the least hair of the inheritance of my bishopric.
(I pray your Lordship remember upon this passage, that I conceive a circumstance which I may not write for fear of mistaking, but if I live to see you, as I hope I may shortly, I will tell it to your Lordship, and with your favour it may take off all difficulty in this point.)
Now for the conclusion of your Lordship's letters, I do ingeniously profess to you upon that credit which I desire to hold with your Lordship, no man hath directly or indirectly done any ill office to me concerning any of your neighbours, as if they were men forward to bring in a busy or a factious man ; and I know your Lordship would not endure it, should they attempt it, and therefore, good my Lord, let that suspicion die.
For Mr. Aldworth, I know the man well, and he is a little kin to me, though very far off%, and therefore I took his
8 [A Richard Aldworth, of Milk of John Webbe, Laud's maternal uncle. Street. London, married a daughter This was probably the person.]
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A. D. 1629. subscription to the roll so much the worse. And for his letter, though he say his meaning be mistaken, yet in the self-same letter he says the self-same thing again. But he shall be no hindrance, my Lord, so the business itself may be rectified.
My Lord, I have written my heart and plainly to you, and I hope ere long God will make me able to come and take the air at Fulham, and whenever I do that, I will return by Hammersmith and see your Lordship, and I am heartily glad to hear by Mr. Fenton11 that your Lordship^ s ease and health comes on beyond expectation (for that was his word). And with my prayers that it may continue so, and be speedy and perfect health, I leave your Lordship to the grace of God, and shall ever rest
Your Lordship's humble Servant. Lond. House, Dec. 29, 1629.
Endorsed :
« The Copye of mye second Leters to my Lo. Mulgraue about Hauler- smith Chappell.'
LETTER CCXXVI.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT DOR.CHESTER. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY VERI GOOD LORD,
YOUR Lordship's two letters came so close together, that by that time I had read the first, the second was come, and it took off the malignity of the contents of the first letter, but not my care to prevent as much of the spreading as I can. I have therefore { sent to all that 1 can use, to inform me of such libels, and I purpose before I sleep to set them in the best way I can for the discourage of this malice, and then shall give your Lordship further account if I can do any service ; but they are now grown very cunning.
h [Probably the John Fenton * [The word is written ' go,' which mentioned in the Diary, Feb. 20, seems from many instances to be 1626.] Laud's abbreviation for ' ergo.']
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For the second business, my Lord, I confess it pleases me A. D. 1629. at the heart, and I heartily pray God to perfect this great mercy begun. But, my Lord, I pray remember my most humble duty and service to his Majesty, and give me leave to acquaint him in all humbleness that the business of thanks giving and prayer cannot be done to-morrow for this great blessing k. For there must be a prayer made ; my Lord's Grace of Cant, must have notice of it in ordinary course, and call some other Bishops to him ; when it is agreed upon it must be shewed his Majesty for him to approve it. This cannot be done to-night. And should I cause the preacher at St. Paul's Cross to-morrow to use such prayer or thanks giving, when none is come forth to be read in the churches by authority, it would subject me, and the business itself, to more interpretations than I think, under favour, were fit. I pray your Lordship let my Lord's Grace of Cant, be sent unto so soon as you can, and with care all may be ready against Wednesday next, which is Twelfth-day. This is the best and all the account I can yet give your Lordship of both your letters. So I humbly take my leave, and rest Your Lordship's in all love to serve you,
GUIL. LONDON.
This 2 of Janu. 1629. To the right Honble mye verye good Lord, ye Lord Vicout Dorchester, principall Secretarye of State, these.
LETTER CCXXVII.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT DORCHESTER. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
I PRAY your Lordship not to think much that as yet I have given your Lordship no answer about the Injunctions. The cause is partly my own infirmity 1 ; which will not give me yet leave to be busy with my books : and partly because
k [This was probably the expected J [He had been suffering for some birth of an heir to the throne. See months, from the effects of fever, with the form of Prayer, vol. iii. pp. -102, which he had been attacked the pre- 103. Prince Charles, it will be re- vious August. (See Diary, Aug. 14, membered, was born on the 29th of 1629.)] the following May.]
LAUD —VOL. VT. ATT. 1)
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A. D. 1629. the business itself hath multiplied beyond either his Majesty's or your Lordship's expectation ; for we find there are divers other canons and constitutions made in the Queen's time beside the Injunctions, all which must be taken into consi deration, or else the business will be very imperfect, and I doubt some things will fall out so cross that the business will be hardly mastered; which my Lordships the Bishops will humbly submit to his Majesty's wisdom, so soon as they have done their best endeavours.
Concerning the two libellous writings about which your Lordship writ unto me, I took all the care I could, and that presently, and this I find, that when they whom I employed came to the Custom-house, they found out by some means that those base writings were not ready to come over as yet, but happily they may very soon ; so they pretended their search was for Doway Bibles, and returned. By this employ ing of them I find two great defects for want of warrant, but 'tis too long to write, and therefore the next opportunity I have to come to Court, I will wait upon your Lordship and acquaint you with the whole business, that then you may so do, as in wisdom you shall think fittest for the State.
One business more I have to trouble your Lordship with, by the King's command, which is for the granting of the vicarage of Broad-Hemston, in the county of Devon, to Nathaniel Delaune, Mr. of Arts m, which his Majesty gives in honourable recompense because his father, Mr. Peter Delaune, left a benefice of greater value to his Majesty's disposal above a year since. His Majesty would have your Lordship draw a bill presently that this bearer, Mr. Delaune, may have it signed, and not stay longer here, to his further charge or trouble. So I humbly take my leave of your Lordship, and rest Your Lordship's Friend to be commanded,
GUIL. LONDON.
Lond. House, Jan. 5, 1629. To the right Honoble. my very good Lord, the Ld. Vicount Dorchester, principall Secretary to His Majesty, these.
m [He was of C. C. C. Cambridge, of Du Moulin's Elements of Logic. and published, in 1624, a translation (Wood, F. 0. ii. 91.)]
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A. D. 1629.
LETTER CCXXVIII.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT DORCHESTER. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
I WAS yesterday to attend his Majesty by command, else the day was not a day of choice for a thin man to go abroad. I was heartily sorry when I returned, and heard your Lord ship had honoured me to call at London House, and that I was so unfortunate to be absent ; but now I give your Lord ship humble and hearty thanks by these.
Mr. Lucas n was after my return with me from your Lord ship, and showed me the warrant for the Commendam of my Lord the Bishop elect of Rochester °, which certainly in the ordinary way (the Commendam being only ad retinendum) is to pass by my Lord's Grace of Canterbury.
When I was with his Majesty he was pleased to give me this petition enclosed, which he is most graciously pleased to grant for the good of the poor Church of Ireland, and would have let ters drawn up accordingly, that the clergy there in their several incumbencies may not fail to be partakers of the intended benefit P. His Majesty commanded me to send this petition by this bearer*1 , who came from my Lord Primate of Armagh r about this and other Irish affairs, and to write to your Lord ship expressly, that he would have this clause very punctually set down in the letters ; ' That the ministers in their several cures may have this intended benefit secured upon them, and that my Lord Primate of Armagh do carefully look unto it, and after it is done give notice to his Majesty how it is settled/ But his Majesty will not have them settled upon the Bishops
" [The Clerk of the Council.] * [Mr. Hygate, or Heygate, aftcr-
0 [John Bowie.] wards Bp. of Kilienora. See vol. vi-
P [This relates to the restoration of pp. 267, 270, 324.]
impropriations. See vol. vi. p. 270.] r [James Ussher.]
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D. 1630. for them to dispose to their clergy as they list. My Lord, I wish you health and happiness, and so rest
Your Lordship's very loving Friend to serve you,
GUIL. LONDON.
Lond. House, Jan. 26, 1629.
To the Eight Honble. my very good Lord, the Ld. Vicount Dorchester, principall Secretary to his these.
LETTER CCXXIX.
TO EDWARD STANLEY, SCHOOLMASTER OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE 8. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. O.j
SIR,
I HAVE not troubled you much with any suit belonging to your place in Winchester, neither have I any purpose often so to do. But you know how much I am bound to my old friend Mr. Windebancke. And if I do live to be able to do you any good hereafter, I owe that, under God, to the great love and care I found from him in the time of my great extremity*. Therefore I must not refuse to desire your favour to choose one of his many sons into Winchester College at this next election, and to do your best to do him that kindness, as well to ease his great charge of children, as to put his son into a way of breeding. I shall take this love from you very heartily, and return it upon you, as God shall make me able. I pray fail me not in this, and you shall see my requests shall be few. Commend my love to Mr. Warden". So I leave you to the grace of God, and shall ever rest, &c.
June, 1630. Endorsed by Windebank :
' Copy of my Lo. London's Ire. to the Schoole Mr. of Win ton : for Jacke.'
• [See vol. vi. p. 278.] Aug. 14, 1629.)]
1 [He was attacked with fever at u [Dr. Nicholas Love. He died
Windebank's house, and remained shortly afterwards.] there for many weeks. (See Diary,
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A. D. 1630.
LETTER CCXXX.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT DORCHESTER.
[Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
Salutem in Christo.
MY MUCH HONOURED LORD,
I HAD not been out of Court, (and by that means I put you to the trouble of a letter,) but that I found myself not very well, and so retired to give myself a little ease, which I saw I could not there take. The materials of the letters to be sent to New College, your Lordship shall here receive ; but when the letter is ready, I humbly pray your Lordship it may not be put to the King for his hands till I have seen it ; and I shall not fail (God willing) to wait upon your Lordship about it on Saturday v.
Concerning Dr. Bancroft' sx brother, Mr. Richard Bancroft, and his unhappy business, I was present at the High Com mission when his cause was heard, and he censured for so much as he was found guilty of. A part of this censure was the bond, mentioned in the petition, into which he entered. The cause for which he is now questioned and prosecuted is for being in the woman's company since, contrary to his bonds and the admonition of the court. Now, as I take it, all that he desires the pardon for, is to avoid a presumption in law which supposeth the petitioner guilty, because he was since in the woman's company. And therefore, in this case, I suppose a pardon to be agreeable to his Majesty's grace and mercy ; though where a crime is in question, and not only such a presumption of law upon the bond, it might be thought unfit (with due submission be it spoken) to pardon any great crime depending in the High Commission. I can give your Lordship no further account, but humbly submit this to his
v [These were letters respecting the x [John Bancroft, Master of Uni- election of a Warden of Winchester versity College; afterwards Bishop of College. See vol. vi. p. 288.] Oxford.]
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A. D. 1G31. Majesty's goodness and wisdom, and your Lordship's care, ever resting
Your Lordship's ready and affectionate Servant,
GUIL/ LONDON.
Fulham, Septemb. 30th, 1630.
To ye right HoD.ble. my very singular good Lord, ye Ld. Viscount Dor chester, one of his Majesty es princi- pall Secretary es, at ye Court, these.
LETTER CCXXXI.
TO SIR JOHN LAMBE. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
Salutem in Christo.
SIR,
YOUR former letters I did receive, and was confident, without your promise, that you would never call me ad testi- ficandum ; only if I had been ready for mirth I might have made good sport (you know with whom) about it ; for that's the way to Winchester.
For your second letters, as I gained no information by them (for I knew all that you write concerning Green's Norton, alias Norton Davy, and more than what you write, above a quarter of a year since), so would I have given no answer to them, but that I observe what a great courtier you are grown of late, and how cold a friend. For though Green's Norton be almost as far from you as Tossetor?, yet that being in the King's gift, you can give me notice of it ; but Sudborow being in the poor Bishop of London's gift, and known to you to be so, having been so long Chancellor of Northampton2, and seeing what passed at the last institution, and being under your nose at Kowell, you can send me no word of that, though the parson of Sudborow be as dangerously sick (if he be living) as the parson of Green's Norton is. I did not think you could have respected me so little, for you cannot but
f [Towcester.] Diocese of Peterborough, June 10,
1 [Lambe had been appointed Joint 1615. (Wood, F. 0. ii. 58.)] Commissary and Vicar-General of the
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hear of the sickness of the parson ; and were I apt to take A. D. 1631. unkindnesses from old friends, I should take this very un kindly from you, especially seeing that men both remoter from the place and from my acquaintance have given me notice of it. To make me amends, you shall do very well to inquire presently in what state things there are, and to ride over to Sudborow yourself, for it may be the parson may be dead, and I may have some wrong done me in the insti tution by the new Bishop % against his will, as perhaps not knowing that the patronage is mine. If it be void (which I will look to hear certainly from you, by the next carrier), I pray send me exact word how far Sudborow is distant from Brackly, in the common estimate of the country there. So hoping you will think this no great trouble that I put you to, I leave you to the grace of God, and shall ever rest Your very loving Friend,
GTJIL. LONDON.
Lond. House, Apr. 14, 1631.
The Bishop of Peterborough is now in town, and I do purpose to speak with him about it so soon as I shall see him.
To ye right worp11 : my very louing freind Sr. John Lambe K*. at his house at Kowell in Northamp : shire, these.
LETTER CCXXXII.
TO LORD COTTINGTON. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. O.]
MY LORD,
WHICH title give me leave to congratulate with a great deal of affection amongst those that honour youb. I was in hope that my letters written to you and my Lord Treasurer*
a [William Pierce, elected Sept. 17, fixes the date of this letter within a
1630.] few days.]
b [Sir Francis Cottington was raised c [Richard, Lord Weston, afterwards
to the peerage July 10, 1631, which Earl of Portland.]
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A. D. 1631. had given some satisfaction touching what ye were pleased to write unto me upon information given you by the Commis sioners : until coming to wait on the King at Oxford, I found his Majesty possessed with the circumstances men tioned in your letters, that my denying the possession of the lodge had drawn great and notable inconveniences upon his service ; and that he was by that means disappointed of £15,000. which should then have been paid, and is still unpaidd. I humbly desired his Majesty not to believe that my behaviour in that particular could beget such prejudice to his service; and if it pleased him to command the business to be examined, I would renounce his pardon and favour, which I valued above all things in the world, if ever it were made appear that those disservices could be justly imputed to me. My Lord, I know you are quick-sighted, and I have heretofore faithfully made report to you of all that passed touching that matter ; wherefore, I beseech you, do me that right to set me in his Majesty's favour and good opinion as you find I have deserved ; or if anything stick upon me, let me know the particulars and be called to clear myself, which I shall account a singular favour from your Lordship, and truly be obliged for ever to be
Endorsed :
' A coppye of my letter to ye lord Cottington.'
LETTER CCXXXIII.
TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. [German Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HIGHNESS,
I HAVE been honoured with letters from your Majesty in behalf of Dr. Higges, whom, together with his worth and sufficiency, I have known for these many years ; and I ever found him very honest and learned. I may with the more
d [It appears by an undated entry in ceedings of the Lord Treasurer and
the Diary, between June 26 and July Cottington, the nature of which is
26 of this year, that Laud felt him- not stated. See vol. iii. p. 214.] self much aggrieved by some pro-
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freedom and assurance give him this testimony, because for A D. 1631 some years he was bred in the same College with me, where I could not but see his civility and studiousness. For the particular concerning the church of St. David's, where I once was Bishop, I am ready to give him such particular both direction and assistance, as he shall think his cause may need, and that as well in his absence as now6. And I shall be ready to recommend so much of it to the King, my gra cious master's care, as shall be fit. But I hope in so just a cause there will be no need to implore so great help : if there be, I shall be ready. And hereafter, in anything else within my power, and much the rather for his time spent in your Highness' service, I shall be ready to do my best endeavour for him. Which, as all the rest of my poor service, I desire may be such as may express my care, in all humility, to be found
Your Highness' most humble Servant,
GUIL. LONDON.
Aug. 27, 1631. Endorsed :
'August 27, 1631. The copye of my Letters to ye Queen
of Bohemia.'
LETTER CCXXXIV.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT DORCHESTER. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. O.J
MY LORD,
His Majesty hath commanded me to signify his pleasure to you, that you forthwith give order to the Clerk of the Signet attending to prepare a bill fit for his Majesty's signature, and [to] pass the Great Seal of England, containing a grant in reversion to Robert Readef and William Dells, gent., of the
e [Higgs, who was first a scholar Chancellorship of St. David's, in the
of St. John's on the Reading foun- previous June. The point on which he
dation, and afterwards a Fellow of required Laud's intervention, probably
Merton, was by Laud's influence related to the revenues of the Stall.] appointed Chaunter of St. David's and f [A nephew of Sir Francis Winde-
Rector of Cliffe in Kent. He was bank. Many of his letters to his
appointed Dean of Lichfield in 1638. uncle are printed by Prynne in
(Wood, Ath. Ox. iii. 479.) ' Hidden Works.']
Higgs had been appointed to the s [Laud's faithful secretary.]
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A. D. 1631. office of one of the Clerks of his Majesty's Signet during the life of Thomas Windebankh, gent., son of Francis Windebank, now Clerk of the Signet, with all profits and commodities thereunto belonging, to be held by them to the only use and behoof of the said Thomas Windebank, as soon as the said place shall become void, after such as have former grants of the same. Which I humbly recommend to your Lordship's love and care, and shall ever rest
Your Lordship's loving poor Friend to serve you,
GUIL. LONDON.
29. Septem. 1631.
To the Eight Hoble. my very good Lord the Lo : Vicomte Dorchester, Principall Secretary of State to his
LETTER CCXXXV.
TO SIR HENRY VANE. [German Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
S. in Christo.
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
I WISH you all health and happiness in your employment1. I shall, according to my promise, take all the care I can for Mr. Blechenden'sk business. But sure if Dr. Anyan l have denied Dr. Huntm his dividend in the church of Canterbury,
h [Many of his letters to his father of MSS. (See Mrs. Green's Life of
are also printed by Prynne, ut supra. Queen of Bohemia, pp. 493, seq.)]
He was Groom of the Chamber to the k [See vol. iv. p. 223.]
King.] l [Dr. Thomas Anyan was Pre-
5 [Vane had been sent abroad in the bendary of Gloucester, when Laud previous September, to renew the was Dean (see vol. iv. p. 233). He treaty with Christian IV. King of was also President of C. C. C. Oxf. Denmark, and to make a confederacy ' Afterwards beingfound unfit to govern with Gustavus Adolphus, the King of a college, because he was a fosterer of Sweden. He returned to England in faction, he resigned his presidentship, Nov. 1632. Several of his letters and was made Prebendary of Canter- while engaged in this embassy are bury,' where he died in 1632. (Wood, preserved in Kushworth, vol. ii. pp. F. 0. i. 359.)]
129, 166, seq. There are others yet m [Dr. Richard Hunt, the Dean of
unpublished in the Domestic and Durham. He was appointed Dean in
Swedish Correspondence, S. P. 0., and 1620, but appears to have held his
in Sir Thomas Phillipps's Collection stall at Canterbury up to this time.]
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it is not with any eye to your Chaplain, but to increase their A. D. 1632. own dividend; for it hath been a custom in that church, and in some others, to allow some small proportion to him that lives absent, and when the audit comes, to share the remainder among themselves, towards their charge of housekeeping upon the place. And, howsoever, if they refuse to give the Dean of Durham anything at all, yet Mr. Blechenden cannot challenge any part of it, being as yet no prebend there. And whosoever caused your Lordship to write in that way, did much deceive both himself and you. For the business, if I live to see the place made void, I shall fail in no point of trust, but be ready to move his Majesty for Mr. Blechenden.
How affairs go in those parts, the latest carrier will bring me word time enough. I heartily pray that all may go well for the settlement of Christendom, and the honour of our master, neither do I expect to hear anything from you; I understand your place and myself better than so.
Thus ending with those prayers which began my letter, I leave you to the grace of God, and shall ever rest
Your Lordship's very loving Friend and Servant,
GUIL. LONDON.
Lond. House, Januar. 27, 1631. To ye right Honble. Sr. Henry Vane, Ld. Embassador for his Ma^. of Great Brittayne, at Ments in Germany, these.
LETTER CCXXXVI.
TO SECRETARY WINDEBANK. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
S. in Christo. MR. SECRETARY,
FOR though you think perchance that I am apt enongh to jest, yet I know you will believe these enclosed11. And this present day in the afternoon at Council, Secretary Cooke is
n [Windebank had just been ap- This letter was probably the first pointed Secretary of State by Laud's intimation he received of his appoint- interest (see Diary, June 15, 1632). ment.]
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A. D. 1632. by his Majesty's special command to declare it to the Lords. So now you have a second cure to attend as well as your son-in-law °. The name of the parish is S. Troubles. And now I return you your prayers for me: God send you as much health as you may have business. I have sent Dr. Ducke to bring you the news, that the women may abuse him for his last week's knavery.
I pray you make haste up, and follow the directions of this enclosed. And among other benefits I doubt not but the very naming you to this place will make them at Oxford look well to your son. So in great haste I leave you to the grace of God, and rest
Your very loving Friend,
GUIL. LONDON.
Fulham House, June 13, 1632.
We took another conventicle of separatists in Newingtou Woods upon Sunday last in the very brake where the King's stag should have been lodged for his hunting the next morning.
I pray commend me to your good Lady Madame, forsooth.
To ye right Worp". my very Honble. freind Mr. Francis Windebanke at his house at Heynes hill, these.
LETTER CCXXXVI1.
TO SIR JOHN LAMBE. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
S. in Christ o. SIR,
I THANK you for the MSS. which you sent, and I have received the whole number of one and twenty, and the cata logue enclosed. As for Aurora P, you shall have your desires.
0 [Dr. Thomas Turner. (See vol. Evangelia metrice reddens. Quo in
iv. p. 270.)] opere .... non solum historicum
P [This Book, written by Petrus de sensum, sed etiam allegoricum, in
Kiga, is thus described by Cave (Hist, quantum potuit, breviter expressit.'
Lit. vol. ii. p. 239) : ' Scripsit Petrus There is a copy among Sir K. Digby's
Heptateuchum, quern Auroram voca- MSS. in the Bodleian Library.] vit, duos libros Regum, et quatuor
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I will keep it till you come, and you shall perform the pro- A. D. 1632. mise of binding it if you please.
It is but a melancholy conceit, or a dream rather, of your returning to the University there to live a retired life as you began. I know what hares do when they be over-hunted, though you had not told it me ; but I will yet hope as long as I can that it will not be so with you. If it should so be, I have given you the best comfort I can already, and so you acknowledge. One comfort I have more for you. You will lose your wager to me, and therefore I pray provide for it against this term. As for the greater business which I spake with you concerning Mr. Secretary, I hope you will give me at your coming up such an answer as shall best fit and content yourself, against which I shall never press you. So wishing you health and happiness, and that peace which you desire, I leave you to the grace of God, and shall ever rest
Your very loving Friend,
GUIL. LONDON.
Fulham House, Septemb. 7, 1632. To the right Worp11. my very worthy freind, Sr John Lambe Kt. at his house at Rowell in Northamp : shyre, these.
LETTER CCXXXVIII.
TO DR. WILLIAM JUXON, PRESIDENT OF ST. JOHN'S.
[St. John's College, Oxford.]
Salutem in Christo.
AFTER my hearty commendations, &c. I have of late been so happy (by God's blessing) as to be a means to settle the schoolmastership of the Merchant Taylors' School upon Mr. John Edwardesq, a deserving member of that College where you govern. This is a thing which I have for many
i [John Edwards was admitted pro- elected Head Master of the School
bationer Fellow of St. John's College Feb. 13, 163$, and entered upon his
(having been educated at Merchant office the Midsummer following. He
Taylors' School), in 1617: he was gave up this appointment on Oct. 31,
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A. D, 1632. years together heartily desired, and am glad to see it effected so well. I hope Mr. Edwards his carriage will be so discreet and give such contentment to that Company that whensoever he shall think fit to leave the school, they may be willing to choose another St. John's man in succession, which as it will be a great benefit to the College, so I hope it will be a good means of unity between them and the Company. At this present, by reason of my preparation for Scotland r, and other businesses which lie upon me, I shall have occasion to make use of divers men, and among them of Mr. Edwards, for the transcribing of some scholarlike papers, which in the evening, and other times of freedom from his school, he may help to despatch for me, being such as I am not willing to trust in every man's hands. Some other businesses I have likewise both with him and for him, which have relation to the Com pany, and the settlement of that place. I know by your local statutes you may give leave to any Fellow, for half a year's absence, if he be employed by any Bishop s, as now for a time Mr. Edwardes must be by me. These are therefore to desire you to propose and grant this power of absence to him, which I know will turn to his and your College benefit. And so not doubting of your love and kindness herein, either to myself or him, I leave you to the grace of God, and rest
Your very loving Friend,
GUIL. LONDON.
London House, Decemb. 24th, 1632.
To ye Right Wor11 my very worthy ffreind Dr Juxon, Deane of Wor cester, and President of S. John Baptist College in Oxon.
1634, when he returned to the Univer- Bliss, is a Comedy by Edwards, entitled sity (having never resigned his Fellow- ' Saturnalia,' apparently prepared foi ship), and became one of the Proctors publication, with a Dedication to Laud, in the year following. He was chosen as President of St. John's.] Sedleian Professor of Natural Phi- r [He set out with the King in the losophy in 1638, and graduated in following May. See Diary, May 13, Medicine the next year. He retained 1633. These papers no doubt related his fellowship and professorship till to the King's Coronation, and to the the Rebellion, when he was deprived preparation of a Service Book for of both of these offices with circum- Scotland, which had been under con- stances of great cruelty. (Information sideration ever since 1629. (See above, from Rev. Dr. Hessey, of Merchant vol. iii. p. 427.)] Taylors'. Wood, F. 0. i. 508, 509, and 8 [See Statutes of St. John's College, Walker's Sufferings, p. 118.) cap. 32.] Among the 'MSS. of the late Dr.
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A. D. 1633.
LETTER CCXXXIX.
TO EICHAED STERNE *. [In the possession of Rev. J. H. Crowder.]
Salutem in Christo.
You shall understand that you are appointed to preach at St. Paul's Cross on Sunday, the seventeenth day of November next ensuing, by discreet performance whereof you shall do good service to God, the King's Majesty, and the Church. These are therefore to require and charge you, not to fail of your day appointed, and to send notice of your acceptance thereof in writing to my chaplain, Mr. Brayu, at London House, to bring a copy of your sermon with you, and not to exceed an hour and a half in both sermon and prayer. So also to certify your presence some time on the Thursday before your day appointed unto John Flemming, draper, in Watling Street, at whose house your entertainment is provided x. And hereof fail not, as you will answer the contrary at your peril.
Your loving Friend,
GUIL. LONDON.
London House, Aug. 23, 1633.
To his loving friend Mr Richard Sterne, Bachelr in Divinity and ffellow of Bennet Colledge in Cambridge, these.
* [See vol. iv. p. 423.] made for his lodging and diet for two u [See vol. iv. p. 85.] days before, and one day after his
* [The reader may call to mind sermon.' Dr. Wordsworth, in his note the passage in Walton's Life of on this, gives an interesting illustra- Hooker, in which he speaks of the tion from a sermon preached at St. 'Shunammite's house; which is a house Paul's Cross by Sam. Collins. (See so called, for that besides the stipend Wordsworth's Ecc. Biogr. vol. ii. p. paid the preacher, there is provision 463.)]
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LETTERS.
A. I). 1633.
LETTER CCXL.
TO SIR THOMAS ROE ^.
[Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.] S. in Christ o.
SIR,
I RECEIVED your letters by Sir John Worstenham % just as I was preparing for my journey for Woodstock*, and full enough of other business in regard of my Translation b. And now that I am returned, I thought fit to let you know, that upon occasion of other letters which came before those of Mr. Duryc, his Majesty hath been acquainted with the business you writ of, and hath given a very pious and prudent answer, though it reach not home in all circumstances to that which is desired. The answer is too large for letters, and there will be time to communicate it to you, when you come to London.
I am very glad to hear that you and your Lady d have your
y [Sir Thomas Roe, who had been previously ambassador in Turkey, was shortly after this employed in the same capacity in Germany. Besides the published portion of his despatches, a large number of his unpublished letters is still preserved in the State Paper Office. (See Mrs. Green's Life of Queen of Bohemia.) His name is spelt both Eoe and Howe. The former mode of spelling is here used, as being adopted in the Biographia Britan- iiica, in which his life is given at length, though both modes of spelling the name were used by himself.]
z [See vol. iii. p. 216.]
B [Where the Court then was. See Diary, Aug. 17 and 25, in this year.]
b [This took place Sept. 19. See Diary at that date.]
• [See vol. vi. p. 410.]
d [Eleanor, daughter of Sir Thomas Cave, and Eleanor daughter of Nicho las St. John, Esq. She married first Sir George Beeston, of Beeston Castle, Cheshire, and secondly Sir Thomas Roe. (Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iv. p. 372.) In Bridges's Northampton shire (vol. i. p. 583) is recorded the following notice of her: —
" Here (Stanford) is also very elegant furniture for the pulpit, reading-desk, and communion-table, of crimson damask with a broad border of various coloured silk ; a large Bible and Prayer Book, bound likewise in damask and embroidered with gold. The whole was worked by Lady Rowe, nnd dedicated to the service of this Church, gratefully to commemorate her own and Sir Thomas Rowe's pre servation in a violent storm at sea, on their return to England from Turkey, whence they precipitately fled on account of the Sultan's having discovered too great a regard for Lady Rowe, who remarkably excelled both in the beauties of her person and her mind. This gift and history are recorded in a leaf of the Bible, in the handwriting of that age."
It will be remembered that Laud's first parochial preferment was the living of Stanford, to which he was presented by Sir T. Cave. This accounts for the playful and familiar way in which he writes of Lady Roe, whom he must have known from her early years.]
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health so well in those parts. I pray commend me to her, A. D. 1633. and I thank you both very heartily for your kind expectation of me, had I gone or come that way in my journey. But the truth is, as I went, I thought it very necessary for me to avoid the dust of the carriages, and so forsook Newark way ; and in my return upon some business which befell my brother6, and a son-in-law of his f, I was in a manner forced to return by Leicester. I thank God I have had my health reasonable well both in the journey and since ; and so wish ing you all health and happiness, I leave you to the grace of God, and rest
Your very loving Friend,
"W. CANT. ELECT.
From Fulham, Aug. ult. 1633.
To the R*. Worp11. my very worthy ff'riend, Sr. Thomas Roe, Kl. at his House at Bullwicke in Northamp. Shire, these.
LETTER CCXLI.
TO SIR, JOHN LAMBE g. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
S. in Christo.
SIR,
YOUR letters met me at my return from Woodstock. Very large they are, but the matter contained in them might have been shorter, had it pleased you : for if the business of Leicester11 be remedied, it is well, else your longer conti nuance the worse. And for your wager all your instances are nothing, for my first letter was express enough. And I
e [Dr. William Robinson. See vol. Communion Table, about which there
iii. p. 154.] is a letter (No. 852) in the State
f [Probably Dr. Richard Baylie. Papers of the same year from Bp.
See vol. v. p. 144.] Williams to the Mayor of Leicester
e [This letter has no superscription (Sir John Lambe, it will be remem- remaining, but is endorsed by Sir bered, was Chancellor of Peter- John Lambe.] borough) ; or does it relate to the
h [Does this refer to some disputes " business " mentioned in the preced-
at Leicester respecting placing the ing letter?]
LAUD. — VOL. VI. APP. ™
fi
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A.D. 1633. do not mean to be cavilled out of my wager, which I have clearly won. Neither will I refer it to law, or arbitrement, and yet I doubt not but I shall find means enough to get my own.
Concerning the third business, I was so far from thinking it time enough to speak with you about it the next term, as that by that time I did, and do still expect that you had, or will have given, that other party his final answer, for so I did directly understand you, when we spake last about it. However, I am glad to hear you have some causes of dislike, of which you will make me judge.
If my Lord of Peterborough's i business, either of Visita tion, or other, give him not leave enough to come up to my Translation, I hope I shall without any great trouble have number enough without him. For the manner of your writing I will defer your punishment till you come up, but that is all the favour you shall find. So I leave you to the grace of God, and rest
Your very loving Friend,
W. CANT. ELECT.
Fulham House, Sept. 2, 1633.
LETTER CCXLII.
TO SIR THOMAS ROE. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
8. in Christo. WORTHY SIR,
I WRIT to you very lately upon the occasion of Mr. Dury's letters, and I hope Sir John FinnetJ, according to his promise made to me, sent my letters safe to you. I have no occasion of writing at this time, but only to give you thanks for your kind letters, which I received from you to welcome me into that troublesome place whither I am going. And I did not think it fit, for all the business which now lies thick upon
1 [Augustine Lindsell. See vol. iii. J [The Master of the Ceremonies at p. 152.] Court.]
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me, to leave such letters from my friends unanswered ; and A- D- I hope you assure yourself you shall find me the same man at Lambeth, which you did at London, and in both places
Your very loving Friend to serve you,
W. CANT. ELECT.
Fulham, Sept. 12, 1633.
Your Lady hath sent me a cat, which she saith came from Smyrna. I thank her heartily for it, whence ere it came, but I hope she doth not mean to scratch her friends with any tokens she sends.
To the E*. Worp". my very Worthy ffreind, Sr. Thomas Eoe, K'. at his House at Bulwicke in Northamp. shyre, these.
LETTER CCXLIII.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT WENTWORTH. [In the possession of Earl Fitzwilliam.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
I AM very glad to hear that you have such power in taking off excommunications, and I doubt not but you will make good use of the two priests whom you have preserved from that thunderclap k. All the fear is, lest being made friends, the Archbishop and they join together, and then your interest prove the less in both. But I hope you have providently prevented that.
Indeed, my Lord, you observe very right, I gave no answer to the learned letter of my Lord the Bishop of Cork L, for which I am very much to blame, considering the gravity and the learning of it. But to confess the truth to your Lordship without drollery, there was so much in that letter of your Lordship's concerning the Earl of Cork, that I never dreamt of the Bishop, but thought that the physic which you had given that Lord had made him vomit up all those learned old
k [See vol. vi. pp. 311, 320, 331.] » {See vol. vi. p. 357.]
E2
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A.D. 1633. ends of gold and silver. But now that you have informed me, and that I am out of that error, I give you this clear answer, — that letter is for all the world like a beggar's coat, patch upon patch. That is for the style ; but for the matter of the letter, that is so prudent that you may, if you will, believe what you list of the author.
My Lord, I am very much bound to you for your good opinion of me and the course I hold in the Church. I assure your Lordship you shall always find my pipe (which you were pleased to say is so tunable) in the same tune ; and I am the more confident in this upon myself, because having travelled a great way this last summer m, none of your bag pipes in the North could alter me or my pipe.
As for Dr. Bramhall, I am very glad he gives you such contentment, and I hope he will continue in the same way, and then he cannot but do the Church and you good service.
I hope my Lord of Kilmore will be advised n ; if not, you will bear me witness, I have done my part. And for the choice of new bishops (so far as the King shall be pleased to trust me), I will look upon no man's person but for his worth sake. And truly, my Lord, it were a great happiness if every man that is raised to that place might be stored with those three conditions which you require, — goodness, learning, and wisdom. But I pray, my Lord, was there ever any age in the Church, though much happier than this in which we live, that had all such ? But I will endeavour the best I can, and the thing that is most likely to be wanting is wisdom.
Your business of St. John's College sticks still °, and the manner of carriage of it hath done a great deal of hurt to that University. And I am afraid will do more ; but it no way concerns me further than the public, and for my judg ment of the particular persons, you have it already. Cer tainly it had been happy if the King had pitched upon a third man two months ago, but now 'tis with the latest. The King is going upon Monday, December 2, towards Newmarket, and if he do not end St. John's business before he come back, it will be stark staring naught.
m [In his attendance on the King Laud's Letter to Bedell, of Oct. 14.
to Scotland.] See vol. vi. p. 324.]
n [ The point alluded to seems to ° [See vol. vi. p. 323.] be that which formed the subject of
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Your Lordship agrees with me that you must not look for A.D. 1633. all men's affections to be alike to the King's service. I would to God but half of them that pretend to it were but half what they pretend. And for the public souls, if you have none in Ireland, it may be there are not store somewhere else. But since you are resolute that you are able to do the King's business there in despite of opposition and private ends, if you may have countenance and despatch from England ; God forbid you should want either. I hope you shall not, though sometimes we talk much of business, and do little. Well, does your Lordship naturally swim against the stream, and yet are you of a cold constitution? You may swear I do not believe it indeed, unless you will say that your spirits are the warmer by dwelling in the antiperi stasis of a cold constitution. Cambridge man, mark the learning ; is not this as good as my Lord of Cork ?
I perceive you go still on in the practice of physic, and you have hitherto had a very good hand. If this patient prove well after the vomiting up of four vicarages (which cer tainly, whatever he thought, lay heavier upon his conscience than any surfeit upon his stomach could do), you shall by my consent proceed Dr. in that faculty ; and because I mean to have some honour by you, you shall proceed out of St. John's in Oxford, another manner of College than your Cambridge pair of panniers. For your Divinity you are very right, it was John of Constantinople that would have been universal Bishop ; but I never heard till now that he made choice of an Irishman to be his Vicar- General.
Your next business is serious indeed; but you are, for aught I know, upon an excellent way in it. For, first, I know no reason why any man should be suffered under almost any pretence to carry bullion out of the kingdom, but, least of all, why any should be carried out to train up youth against the King, the State, and the Church P. And therefore I think your Lordship shall do a very good deed to the public, and very honourable to yourself, to call the guilty parties before authority, and give them another vomit : it may be the money will come up as well as the vicarages ; and in the better hands it is, the better the work.
P [This refers to money sent abroad See below, p. 58, and Strafforde to maintain youth in Jesuit seminaries. Letters, vol. i. pp. 172, 189.]
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A. D. 1633. I know no reason why you should not do it thoroughly. And if you get it, it cannot be put to a better use than your Lordship thinks on, which is, to buy in impropriations.
For your next passage, I am very sorry that my reverend brethren should so irreverently use the money about com mutations, and other charitable uses. And I wish with all my heart, that some good course were taken to make them vomit too, that such a public scandal might be taken out of the way.
And if your Lordship think a Commission be necessary or fit, I pray weigh it well, and so will I, and then we will judge of it after it is come out of the balance, and do accordingly.
My Lord, I send you herewith a letter to the Dean of Cashell <*, who I think is a very honest man, and well set for the King's service. And I make bold to trouble your Lord ship with the letters, both to give your Lordship hearty thanks for your care of him, and because it will be an addi tion to his credit and his comfort that you are pleased to send him these letters from me.
As for the Archbishop of Cashell r, you cannot have a better opinion of him than I have, and I am sure the King hath as good as either of us.
You do well to give me good hopes of my new Canterbury wife, but I will assure you, for aught I find yet, she is a very shrew, whatever you think of her : and which is worse, hath been in some things ill dealt withal, so that (as it often falls out with them that marry widows) her worldly estate is nothing near so good as was commonly voiced before I mar ried her. But howsoever His now for better for worse, and I must be contented. As for your lay-wives, you complain of ease, for whensoever you are disposed to speak truth, you can then brag of your contentments, though at other times the best of them are troublesome, and I know not what.
Concerning your cause in Star Chamber, I know it is in itself most just and fit to come to trial ; and I assure myself your Lordship will produce nothing but what you are able to prove, and that's enough, I think. All the days of term being otherwise taken up, his Majesty commanded a day out
i [William Chappell.] T [Archibald Hamilton.]
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of term for you. So your cause was heard, and Sir Da. A, D. 1633. Fowlis and his son sentenced upon St. Andrew's day, and very deeply s. But the particulars I refer to the relation of them who have more leisure, and will I am sure certify you how the votes went, and to what the sentence reacheth. So I leave you to the grace of God, and rest
Your Lordship's Very loving poor Friend to serve you,
W. CANT.
Lambeth, Dec. 2nd, 1633.
Becd. 22nd.
LETTER CCXLIV.
TO THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF CANTERBURY. [Domestic Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
S. in Christo.
AFTER my hearty commendations, &c. I have received a letter from Sir Hen. Martyn *, which I here send unto you, because you will best understand his grievance by himself in his own words. It seems he takes exception against some thing done by you in the vacancy of the See of Canterbury, to which I can give him no answer, but must of necessity refer him to you, and what answer you shall be pleased to give me I will return to him.
Upon occasion of this business, you will give me leave to acquaint you, that some complaint hath likewise been made to me about some greater fees than ordinary demanded and received for confirmation of the patent of the Dean of the Arches, and of a lease which I lately let. For the lease, had I thought any confirmation necessary, I would have written about it, but truly I do not ; yet if the tenant will needs go that way, I know no reason why any stress should be put upon him. As for the patent, so long as I keep it in the ancient form, as it hath formerly gone, I take it you can put no fees upon it, but that which is ordinary for your seal, and
8 [See vol. vi. p. 352.] was afterwards removed. See vol. iv.
4 [Then Dean of the Arches. He p. 226.]
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A. P. 1633. I hope I shall have in all such businesses as fair usage from you, as I shall be willing to show unto you.
One thing more, you must pardon me, if I be free to acquaint you with, at least in part. It concerns my Visita tion, which I think fit should begin at my own Seat and Diocese, the law providing that I should see all well at home, before I be too curious abroad. I hope all reports be not true ; but if some be, then I hear that some of that body have been a little too bold with me, but I shall examine it further, before I give credit unto it. If upon inquiry I do find it true, I shall not forget that nine of the twelve Prebends are in the King's gift, and order the commission of my Visitation, or alter it accordingly. For I cannot take it well to be ill used, and undeservedly, especially at such a time as I was endeavouring your good. The report I mention came to me very probably within these few hours, and I should not so soon have imparted it to you, if this letter of Sir Hen. Martyn's had not come to me almost on the instant, which made me think fit to join both together. Thus hoping, &c.u
The letter in Secretary's hand, and endorsed,
'Decemb. 19, 1633.
'The copy of my Lrs. to ye D. & Chapt. of Cant.'
LETTER CCXLV.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT WENTWORTH. [In the possession of Earl Fitzwilliam.]
Sal. in Christo.
My VERY GOOD LORD,
I THANK you for Dr. Williams T. I doubt not but he will give your Lordship every way great contentment. He hath given me thanks, as if he found himself better in your Lord ship's acceptation, because he came recommended from me, and I assure myself he will make all good that I have said in his behalf.
Well, my Lord, whatsoever he prove in the corporal way,
• [The Dean and Chapter's replies spondence, Jan. 7, 1634.] to this are found in Domestic Corre- * [Wentworth's physician.]
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1 am sure for the Church you are an excellent physician. A. D. 1633.
And I see you have happened upon the right way of purging
of those men which were so greedy, that they swallowed down
the Church-means whole without chewing. God hath put
a great opportunity into your Lordship's hands, both to do
Him service and yourself honour, and you do passing well to
lay hold of it.
The Church in that kingdom will be bound to pray for your person, and to honour your memory. And I assure your Lordship they do begin, as they have cause, to relish your proceedings with great contentment. I lately received a letter from my Lord Primate of Armagh, in which he gives you as great and as honourable a testimony as is possible w, and therefore you must forget a passage which I writ in my last letters x, namely, that I was a little doubtful of him, because I had not heard from him since my return out of Scotland. But his letters have now satisfied me, for by them I find that he was absent in the North of Ireland.
Well, now, my Lord, to the particulars y.
And, first, I could not but smile to myself to see how handsomely you carried Mr. Beresford's business, especially the term you put upon him when he yielded to a private hearing, and should not. And it is a great happiness that so many livings are in view already. I hope since you are so regular in these things, you will not forget your grammar rule, but that if upon examination you find them to belong to one thing, you will put them all in one case.
Concerning the Bishop of Killala z, I am heartily glad to read what course you have taken : I mean with them which now possess the lands, and which came in by mean convey ance and so are no way acquainted with the fraud.
I profess to your Lordship, this was (as you call it) a stone of offence indeed. And as I read it, I was in a bodily fear how you would be able to leap over it ; but I see you have,
w [This is Letter clxxii. in Parr's See Strafforde Letters, vol. i. pp.
Collection. The date of that and of 171—174.]
the following letter are given inaccu- z [This should probably be " Kil-
rately by Parr.] laloe;" as "Old Jones of Killala" is
x [See vol. vi. p. 332.] spoken of below, p. 68, in reference to
y [This is a reply to "VVentworth's the same subject. But Lewis Jones
letter of Dec. 1633, by reference to was Bishop of Killaloe, not of Killala.
which many allusions are explained. See vol. vi. p. 261 ]
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A.D. 1633. and very cleanly. And because you shall not rest upon m^ judgment of it only, I have read over all that passage of your Lordship's letter to his Majesty, who was marvellously pleased with it, and commanded me to give you thanks, and bid you go on cheerfully. But I pray, by the way, send me word what is the Bishop of Killala's name. His carriage towards Sir Daniel O'Brien was very poor. And you did very nobly to harrow him as you did, that would so forsake the Church's cause and his own, in a time when he saw help so ready for him.
I read likewise to his Majesty your passage concerning the Bishop of Limerick, where you have excellently stretched the donor's meaning into a right sense a. The King laughed at it heartily, and said it was as good as might be.
And whereas you are pleased here to crave my opinion con cerning the thousand pounds given to maintain lectures in the Jesuits' school, &c., I gave you an answer in my last letters b (which it seems were not come to your hands when you sent these), which was that you play booty, unless you seize the money and turn it to buy in impropriations, or some other good use. But I pray you, hereafter mention nothing that you have written in your former letters till you have received my answer, for it is but double pains. And for a Commission to examine how moneys received for pious uses have been bestowed in that kingdom, I for my part think it very fit there should be one. So you be careful, as I doubt not but you will, into whose hands it be put.
I am heartily glad that you are in so good a way to relieve the Bishop of Clonfert c ; for not long before your Lordship's going to that kingdom, he writ a letter to me, in which he did much bemoan himself and the state of his poor bishopric. And as far as I remember, my answer to him was, that he should now have patience a little longer, and expect your Lordship's coming, who, I doubt not, would do him justice. And so I thank your Lordship heartily for him.
The Archbishop of Cashells will be very much bound to you. But when you have done him and that bishopric that service, I pray you bind him sure, that he let not for above
» [The case here alluded to is stated b [See above, p. 53.] at length in vol. vi. p. 308, note «.] c [Robert Dawson.]
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one and twenty years, for my confidence in that man is not A. D. 1633. infinite.
The Bishop of Downe d (I pray you let me have his name, too), it seems, would throw down all ; and it is strange that no member of the Church would give your Lordship infor mation. That the Earl of Antrim e should get the advowsons of the benefices, if he could, is no wonder to me, for being a recusant (as his son also is here f ) they might make great use of them. But that the Bishop should pass them all away, and to a recusant, that is a wonder. Good my Lord, do not trust the Bishop too far, but see that he perform his promise, both for the one lease and the other.
My Lord Primate acknowledgeth all that you have done to him, with a great deal of honour to you and thanks.
I have now given you my opinion of all these Church particulars, as for the most of them you desired I should. And now for the general, — I give your Lordship very hearty thanks, et nomine Ecclesiae Christi, that you are settling so roundly for the repairs of the churches, and the restitution and addition of means for Churchmen to live, that there may be places to receive the people, and persons to instruct them. This certainly is the way, or there is none, to put that kingdom into a better course both for religion and obedience. And the wray to maintain both, when they are so settled, is, that the King's payments may be certain, both for the army and all other necessaries. And if any zealot be of a contrary opinion to this, I dare be bold to say his zeal is not according to knowledge, either in his profession or out.
And now, my Lord, by the way give me leave to thank you for the mercy you have showed to the poor old Bishop of Kilfanora e, with which Mr. Secretary hath acquainted me. And, in the next place, to tell you that I have lately received a very large and fair letter from my Lord the Bishop of Kilmore. Therein he tells me that he has written a large letter to your Lordship b, a copy whereof he hath sent me. He hopes by that he hath given your Lordship and myself
d [Robert Echlin.] letters.]
e [Randal Macdonald.] g [James Heygate ]
f [He married the Duchess of h [See Bp. Bedell's letter in Straf-
Buckingham, and is frequently spoken forde Letters, vol. i. pp. 146 150,
of in connexion with her in these 164.]
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A. D. 1633. abundant satisfaction. And truly, my Lord, for myself, who know nothing of those parts but by relation, I cannot charge him with much, if all be true which he writes.
And I do heartily pray your Lordship, if this can give you satisfaction, to use that Bishop very kindly, for either I understand nothing, or else, setting my Lord Primate aside, he is more worth than half the bishops there.
Your Lordship says, I shall have no more ( ifs/ but positive doctrine, which I am very glad of, and you shall have as positive from me as I can write. But let me tell you, the common lawyers are another manner of body here for strength and friends than they are with you. As for the panic fears you speak of, I for my part hold them to be such indeed, but perhaps all men do not so.
And now that there may be three hands in one letter, I come for some particulars to my own. Your Lordship writes, that the debts of the Crown taken off, we may govern as we please. I grant that, so our pleasure be grounded upon any reason. You add, that you are most resolute that work may be done without borrowing any help out of the King's lodgings. Non sum (Edipus. What's your meaning ? Is it that there is enough in the King's lodgings to do it, without borrowing any other help ? Or is it that there is enough without diminishing anything in the King's lodgings? Or what else is it ? You are bound to express this to me.
The King likes all your considerations concerning Mr. Porter's and Mr. Murray's business. Mr. Murray tells me he thinks they are all in the letter already. If they be not, they will send the letter to me to put them in. I am not acquainted with forms, but if I do mistake, you may help it, for all parties are content.
I have received your cipher, but God in heaven knows what I shall make of it. If you write much in it, it is impos sible I should find leisure to sit and decipher it. If you write only five or six lines, which you would keep secret, it may be I may make a shift to read so much ; though I am such a stranger to that course, that I cannot tell whether I can or no. But if I find I cannot, I'll tell you so.
I will expect what you have to say of the Canonical concu piscence the next term.
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You satisfy me abundantly for the stables, by building A.D. 1633. another, and restoring the old to the old and better use. But among all the Bishops in your long letter, I find not Bishop Michael Boyle, of Waterford, nor any word of his debt to St. John's College, which is another of my Memorandums delivered unto you, and a special one1. I delivered his bonds in case he should deny it.
I thank you heartily for the copy of your orders for Christ Church in Dublin. I hope you will propagate them into other cathedrals of the kingdom.
It is true the leasing of the rectories to the present Incumbents, reserving the usual rent only to his Majesty (as you tell me you have done there), is in some sort that which I did so earnestly entreat of you to be done, but it is not all. For, first, when this term now granted to them comes out, another Deputy may let them to another man.
Secondly, my desire is for all the King's impropriations and to make them certain, and past power of alienation, while we have a gracious King that is willing to it.
Thirdly, the King's rent being reserved and secured, the Crown can lose nothing. And for the pretensions of great gain to be raised upon them, it can never be done without spoil to the Church and dishonour.
Lastly, if they be not settled, the time will come when they will be begged away by half dozens and half scores at a time, till all be gone, and the Church remediless. And it is no infinite service to a Crown to pretend a great profit to it by ways which are afterwards deserted; and so nothing done for the Crown, and all opportunity lost for the Church.
If any bishops have aliened since and contrary to the Act of State to prevent fraudulent sales, my judgment concurs with yours : — one example would do infinite good, and I cannot desire you should spare them. Oh ! that great deservers here might meet with such resolution.
I have not heard from my Lord Bishop of Durham k since I writ to you ; but the passage of your letter which concerns him I read to the King, who took very good satisfaction from it, and did from the beginning dislike the carriage of the
1 [See vol. vi. p. 308.] stance alluded to was mentioned in
k [Thomas Morton. The circum- an earlier letter. See vol. vi. p. 334.]
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A.D. 1633. Bishop. For my own part (and you know it) I did ever think somewhat was wanting there. My Lord, I am very weary. And did you know what I do and suffer, you would think I must needs be so.
In the midst of which weariness I take my leave, being this day to attend the Committee about your St. John's business, of which I am weary already. And therefore may rest
Your Lordship's very loving Friend to serve you,
W. CANT.
Lambeth, Jan^. 13th, 1633. Eecd. Feb. 15.
LETTER CCXLVI.
TO GODFREY GOODMAN, BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.
[Domestic Correspondence, S, P. 0.]
S. in Christo.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP,
I HAVE received two letters from you, both tending to the same thing, though differing in some particulars. I have acquainted his Majesty with the contents of both of them, and the answer which he gave is to this effect : that yourself was the only cause that you had not Hereford l ; that you must not look he can be well pleased with your carriage in that business ; that your way to regain him is not to talk thus unadvisedly of a coadjutor, but to do the duty of your place. To this end his Majesty hath commanded me to signify his express pleasure to you, which is, that notwith standing your leave taken there, you do repair to Gloucester, and settle yourself to live there, and look to your diocese, of which I will look for an account, according to his royal instructions. And surely, my Lord, I cannot give you any other counsel, than' to obey these his Majesty's instructions,
1 [Goodman wished, together with Laud's knowledge, who informed the
Hereford, to hold Gloucester in com- king. (See Heylin, Cypr. Angl. p.
mendam for a year. He had also 248. ) There may be an allusion here
obtained his nomination to Hereford to both these circumstances.] by bribery, which fact had come to
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lest you would move him to further displeasure. I would A. D. 1633. not that you should trouble your thoughts with me, for, thank God, I*have no particular spleen. I do but the duty of my place,*and if you shall set yourself to do yours, I shall be as ready as yourself can wish, to do that which is fit to be asked at my hands. Thus not doubting but you will apply yourself to give his Majesty satisfaction, I leave you to the grace of God, and rest
Your Lordship's loving Friend and Brother.
Endorsed :
'Febr. 6, 1633. ' A Copye of my Lrs to my Ld. Bp. of
Glocest*. about a Coadjutor, &c.'
LETTER CCXLYII.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT WENTWORTH. [In the possession of Earl Fitzwilliam.]
S. in.Christo.
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
His Majesty, God be thanked, is very well returned from Newmarket. And the first opportunity I can get I will acquaint him both with your Lordship's letters, and your more private instructions, and give you such answer as I receive. I told you in my last that the King had named a small Committee to consider of the great despatches which you sent. If he refer the Church business to them also, I am afraid I shall meet with delay, and some other hindrances ; but if he leave it to myself, and refer nothing to them, but where there is a knot indeed, I shall be of so much quicker despatch. And howsoever, according to such despatch as I can have or make, your Lordship shall receive my answer.
About the time which I writ last unto you, I received by the hands of the Lord of Dungarvon"1 three letters concerning the Earl of Corkers tomb ; and all to make good, that if a fair
m [Richard Boyle, the Earl of Cork's eldest son.]
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A. D. 1633. shrine be built before it (as is intended) there will be little or no room taken from the quire, and the monument be left standing as a great ornament to the church n. And though your Lordship was of opinion in your last that my Lord Primate would write no more to me about it, yet one of these letters was from him, and more full in the defence of it than his former. The other two were, one from my Lord Arch bishop of Dublin, and the other from the Earl himself.
To these three I have given such answer as I can. And to the end that you may see clearly and fully what my answer is, I have here sent you inclosed the copy of my answer to all the three letters. But I must tell you I am put to a pretty hard task to answer the letters of two Archbishops who are both upon the place, and so eye-witnesses of what they write, myself having never been upon the place. Besides, I acquainted your Lordship in my last letters how tenderly that business is taken here, and by whom. And therefore, though I have written my judgment clearly to these letters, yet I leave your Lordship prudently to do (as I know you will) what seems good in your own judgment.
As I was writing these letters, J received one from the Lord Bishop of Clogher0, in which he makes a great complaint of certain false suggestions put up against him to your Lordship. And particularly for a wrongful charge of Simoniacal dis posing of a benefice to a chaplain of my Lord of Valentia's P.
My Lord, this gentleman is brother to my Lord Archbishop of St. Andrew's, and hath been very maliciously dealt withal in those parts. They once put him upon a trial for his life, which, God be thanked, proved a work of malice only ; and I hope this will prove so too, that is now against him. For I should be very glad some Bishops there should be able to defend themselves and clear their reputation.
And thus much right I must do my Lord of Clogher, as to testify to your Lordship, that amidst all the sour usage which he hath plentifully had in those parts, yet till now I never heard him accused of Simony.
Howsoever, the merits of the cause I must leave to your
n [On the subject of this tomb, see minster Abbey.]
vol. vi. pp. 358, seq.] P [Sir Henry Power. The title, after
0 [James Spottiswoode. He died his death in 1642, devolved on Lord
in 1642, and was buried in West- Mountnorris.]
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Lordship and himself too, in full assurance that he shall A, D. 1634, receive all justice from you, of which I heartily pray your Lordship to take special care, both for his coat's sake, and for that I find by his letters he is a little jealous of the pro ceedings of Sir George Radcliffe and Dr. Bramhall, to whom your Lordship hath referred the hearing of it, which for my part, I must confess to you, is that which I like worse than his cause. For I am very well persuaded of Sir George Radcliffe's honesty, and of Dr. Bramhall's justice to his own coat ; and that neither of them will be an instrument of any man's malice to overthrow the credit of a bishop. And if they should be so minded, I know your nobleness will not endure it. So I commend these businesses to you, and yourself to the grace of God, ever resting
Your Lordship's very loving Friend and Servant,
W. CANT,
Eec. 18 April, 1634,
I pray, my Lord, let the Archbishop of Tuam^ be spoken withal, that he may be willing to part with his commendam which he holds of the Deanery of Christ Church, for those livings which have been tendered unto him, and then I will be ready to do my best for Dr. Bramhall, according to your desires. But I should be very loth the old gentleman should be discontented.
LETTER CCXLVIII.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT WENTWORTH. [In the possession of Earl Fitzwilliam.]
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
BEFORE the King's return from Newmarket, I gave your Lordship answer to as many things as I might speak to alone, and those now I shall not speak [to], but go on to the next.
His Majesty is marvellously pleased with your just and noble proceedings in Church affairs, and thinks himself (as indeed he is) much honoured by it, and hath commanded
* [Randolph Barlow. See vol. vi. p. 258.]
LAUD. — VOL. VI. APP. w
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A. D. 1 634-. me to signify that he will see you want no assistance in those ways.
I am sure your Lordship understands the King hath made a new Irish Committee to consider of all the great proposals sent over by you. There are none of it but the Lord Trea surer r, the Lord Marshal *, the Lord Cottington, the two Secretaries *, and myself. But I am not to trouble that Commission with any Church affairs, but only such as either his Majesty or myself shall doubt of, if any such occur. And by this means I shall be able to make you the quicker despatch at all times of these my businesses, when they are to attend no man's leisure but my own.
And first, for those of the clergy whose wives and children are recusants, his Majesty likes very well that your Lordship make an inquiry, and that a list be taken of all their names that can be known. But for depriving them, he holds that to be very hard, unless it appear that their own carelessness, or other fault easy by themselves to be prevented, have concurred in and to the scandal which hence arises.
And in special, he would have notice taken if any clergy man of note have either wife or children recusants. But the names of all I pray your Lordship I may have. Any other punishment beside deprivation his Majesty is willing should be laid upon them, so it be according to his laws.
His Majesty likes well of the remedy you propose against their unseemly marriages after supper and in private houses, and requires your Lordship to prepare a draft there, such as may best fit the constitutions and customs of the country, for the reception and establishment both of the Canons and the Articles of the Church of England u. But neither his Majesty nor the Lords do think fit that this should be put to the Parliament to confirm, lest it make a noise to the dis turbance of other business. And your Lordship knows well that with us the Canons have no other confirmation than the Broad Seal.
And I, for my part, think that a Declaration of his Majesty's (such as King James set forth before the Canons),
* [Richard Weston, Earl of Port- u [This was effected in the Convoca- land.] tion which was held in the course of
1 [Thomas Howard, Earl of Arimdel.] this year.]
* [Coke and Windebank.]
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mutatis mutandis, and fitted for Ireland, and printed before A. D. 1634. the Canons, will be abundantly sufficient. If your Lordship like this, upon signification of your pleasure, I will do what soever is fit.
The King and the Lords here think it very fit there be a High Commission established at Dublin. They likewise approve that it be not set on foot till your Lordship sees what will become of the Parliament. Against that time, I pray send me over the names of such as you would wish should be Commissioners. With us, all the Council are, and all the Judges, and all the Bishops, with some other selected. But whether you will think fit to have so many I leave to you ; that which I fear, if there be, is the making of parties.
And I hope your Lordship will be content we shall leave power to the Commission here to call over such causes as may appear too strong for that court, or in any great respect be fit to be heard here.
This much in account of your Lordship's letters to me about the affairs of that Church.
Now, to your private instructions concerning some great sacrileges in that kingdom. And truly, my Lord, I took a time to show them all, and read the most to his Majesty. He is very well edified in the business, I assure you ; and commanded me to let you know, that if you do your part, he will stick close to his, both for Lismore and YoughaK Therefore, on, thorough; and God's blessing be with you.
And to enable you to this service, I here send you enclosed a Commission under his Majesty's signet, with all the clauses and powers, and to the persons you name ; and assure you it is not yet, nor shall be, put into the signet- book, till you send word it is fit to be public. And if it may add anything to your knowledge, I here send you enclosed the state of the Bishopric of Lismore and the College of Youghal, as it was presented to me, when I had no hopes in the world to do any good for it. And if your Lordship does it not, depono spem. But for the laying of the business open before or after a Parliament, that his Majesty leaves to your wisdom, who can best guide occasions upon their proper place. But whatever you do, take heed that the causes suffer no v [See vol. vi. pp. 332, 333.]
F 2
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A. D. 1034. hurt, much less be concluded by any parliament pardon or settlement of defective titles.
While I was writing these letters, in came your brother with two more, and a copy of yours to my Lord Clifford w, for which I thank you, and will make use of it to your service, if I find any cause. I was put to preach on Palm Sunday x, and have taken an extreme cold with often passing the water, which makes me very faint. But so far as I can go on, I will give you answer, and leave the rest to better health and leisure.
I am sorry old Jones of Killala? is so faulty. But I, for my part, like it passing well, if present profit be got out of Brian, that may go to build a house against a better Bishop come to fill it.
And if I hear of Stretch his complaint here2, 1 will acquaint the King with your proceedings, and do your Lordship all other right I can. As for the Bishop of Downa, if the advowsori comes back from the Earl, and the Bishop's house from his son, he will be well again that hath done very ill.
"Pis most true, I should have been heartily vexed had your large letter come all in cipher ; and I believe you would have laughed heartily to think how you had puzzled me. But you would have vexed yourself more, for certainly I should never have had time, or skill, or patience for it. And then all your labour had been lost, and all your business undone. And then, though I should have been very sorry for the mis carriage of the business, yet I should have laughed at you for such a hazardous offer to pose my ignorance. And I do mean to let the few lines now in cipher lie still, till I am at better ease and more leisure.
I verily think you are right in all the character that you give of my Lord of Durham, and of that business; yet with this addition to that truth, — that I think the Bishop is as froward in such business as any of them that would set him on. And that the Clerk of the Peace and the Judge's Marshal were not more displeased with their loss by it than
w [Wentworth's brother-in-law.] y [This should be ' Killaloe.' See
x [The circumstance is noted in his above, p. 57.]
Diary (March 30), but the Sermon z [See vol. vi. p. 308.]
has not been preserved.] a [See above, p. 59.]
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some of their masters with their loss of glory and applause A. D. 1634;. among the factious multitude. By the way (for I am not yet in case for the cipher), I am sure your Latin, Thomas in secunda secundis, is stark naught. I believe you brought it in a pair of panniers from Cambridge.
Dermot O'Dingle hath a mighty swallow ; three vicarages at once, and not a steeple stick by the way. But I hope if you physic him, you will be at least counsel for the Bishop of Ardfartb. I am sure he stinks above aground.
I protest I am almost ashamed of my calling, I hear and see my brethren are so bad. God of his infinite mercy for give me my other sins, and preserve me from these. But I take it, though there be Bishops', patrons', and incumbents' conscience, if there be not the King's too, it may be loose enough. And it will be infinite ease to your Lordship, and to me too, if you send me but now and then a memorable passage when your letter would be lank without it, and then make me amends with a yearly kalendar what livings you have that year recovered to the Church.
I hope your Lordship hath received my last letters, and in them the copy of my several answers to my Lord Primate, Lord Archbishop of Dublin, and the Earl, about the Tomb. In the most material passages, you and I agree, the rest I shall not dilate upon ; yet some particulars in that letter must have an answer.
And first, for the Tomb itself, I cannot smother my judg ment. I am where I was ; and though I think a strong answer enough, yet should it have been somewhat more full, had it not been for the cunning of the foreign argument. Especially since I was resolved, to take off all further jealousy from you, to show the letter which I writ to the Archbishop of Dublin, to my Lord Treasurer, and I did it.
His Lordship excepted at nothing in that letter, only when I had read it, he honourably expressed, that since some so near him in blood were buried there, it might stand since it was now up; and that two Archbishops upon the place thought well of it. To that I answered, I, that never saw it, could
b [William Steere. Laud here writes and intended to be seen by Wentworth a very strong expression respecting only, is here omitted.] him, which as reflecting on a Bishop,
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A.D.1C34. not be judge, but would leave it to your Lordship and them that were upon the place. Now, I had discharged myself.
For the matter itself, the consequences will be extreme
naught if the Tomb stand, so you write and so it is. And
over and above the rest, few will dare to show themselves
in the other great business, if they see his money, cunning,
or friends can carry him out, where he hath thrust God
out of his most proper place on earth, next to the hearts of
th»t his servants. Therefore I have laid by all respects of you
the ' or myself, and moved the King for a letter to issue out
LdTreasurer a Commission to inquire, &c. And the Primate and the
h 10f ' Archbishop of Dublin are two. And if the letter can be made
56, 40, 2, ready, you shall receive it enclosed, if not, then by the next.
73, 55, 4, I went about it so soon as ever I had read your letters, and 56, 44, 41, the King granted it instantly.
29, 69, 34, I have made a shift with the three passages which you write
°f, the Bp. of Cork
t h i in cipner- I11 *ne nrsfc I nud you confident that 152 and
74, 55, 47, Bp. of Waterfprd the E. of Cork Bp. of Waterford 72 7\ 8&3, 153 will join in complaints against 132. I know 153 so well,
75 4 48 ^a^ •"• canno^ believe it till I see it. The second I can easily i i c believe, that the E. of Cork hath run through all these r' o' a' you mention and more, like a very brute. For the third,
69, 50, 71. " your Lordship the King
43, 74 c. whereas 130 is confident that 100 hath the Earl of Cork at
Laud all advantage even in this, yet 102 are too many for me to
trust in such a business, therefore I have thought good to abate 2 of that number which are suspected to be blabs, but
the King all the rest, even the whole 100, I have imparted it to. And
wot you what ? The King laughed heartily at the comment which Dr. Leshly made upon that tomb in Esay, though on the bye at a funeral sermon d.
I likewise acquainted the King with the exposition of your riddle, that there might be enough raised out of his own, &c. He said little to it. And I cannot tell what to say, only this.
c [Several necessary corrections have funeral sermon at St. Patrick's, ' fell
been made in this passage. That it was upon the denunciation of the Prophet
incorrectly written by Laud, see p. 76.] Isaiah against Shebna the Treasurer '
d [It appears from Wentworth's (un- (Is. xxii. 16), and that the Earl of Cork,
published) letter, to which this is a who was present, 'took it in horrible
replj, that about two years previously, dudgeon,' being, it will be remembered,
Henry Leslie, the Dean of Down, in a Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.]
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If there be a case in which non esse and fton apparere be all A. D. 1634. one ; then, in a case of revenue, 'tis not unlike ' not to be,' and f not to be improved/
Concerning Mr. Mainwaring, your Lordship doth very well to carry it as you do, and to be as ready to go out of your opinion as to hold it. For I see some clouds here hang over that business. And whether they will fall or blow over 1 am not wise enough to foresee.
This I promise you, if I see any cause, I will not spare to acquaint the King with what you desire in that business. But it may be you will have present answer, for I know my Lord Cottington hath spoken with the King about it.
And I make 110 doubt but he will acquaint your Lordship with it. If you send me word what answer you have, I shall the better see whether it be fit for me to say anything to the King or no.
I pray your Lordship have some care of young Croxton e. I hear he is in the College. But what my Lord Mountnorris f doth for him I know not. He is from his friends, and was persuaded thither by me. And therefore I should be glad he might prosper.
My Lord, I am very weary, not only of writing letters, but almost of everything else, yet tire, God willing, I will not, only ease myself, and rest
Your Lordship's faithful Friend and Servant,
W. CANT.
Lambeth, April 12th, 1634.
LETTER CCXL1X.
TO THE LORD VISCOUNT WENT WORTH. [In the possession of Earl Fitzwilliam.] ^
MY VERY GOOD LORD,
SINCE I delivered my packet into your brother's hands », I find he will be forced to stay two days more at the least ;
c [See vol. iv. p. 288.] « [Sir George Wentworth.]
1 [See vol. vi. p. 302.]
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A. D. 1034. I pity liis patience therewhile, but the business more. The use I make of his stay is to discharge myself of all that your Lordship trusted me with by him.
Two things there are behind, and no more. The one is, the draft of a Commission and Instructions to be sent to all the several Bishops to proceed upon in their dioceses respec tively within that kingdom.
My Lord, this copy of the Commission I read to the King, and by his Majesty's appointment to the Lords' Committees. They all approve it. I craved leave, because it touched upon ecclesiastical officers, as well as government itself, to show it to some of our best civil lawyers, and see what exception they could take to it ; or what further direction they could add to it.
This I have done, and do hereby send you back your own copy of the Commission with their several advertisements, which they as well as myself submit to your judgment. And when you send it back altered or unaltered (so it be as you would have it), I will get the King's hand to it and return it with speed.
The other thing is that I have put some life again into the Commission about the Earl of Cork's tomb. I hope Secretary Windebank will get letters for commissioners named, of which the Primate and Archbishop of Dublin
the Lord Treasurer
must be two. But I find that 105 is very angry h. Who can help this ? But is it not a pitiful case that a gracious Prince should have [scarce] enough against the great difficulties of these times, and be left poor whilst so many enrich themselves ? If these letters mentioned come not, I hope you will now say the fault is not mine. God bless you in your government. So I leave you to the grace of God, and rest
Your Lordship's loving poor Friend and Servant,
W. CANT.
Lambeth, April 15, 1634. Eecd. 21st of the same.
11 [The reason of Lord Portland's anger is explained in vol. vi. p. 359, note x.]
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LETTER CCL.
TO SIR THOMAS ROE. [Swedish Correspondence, S. P. 0.]
S. in Christo.
WORTHY SIR,
I WAS very willing to let you see I took Mr. Dury's person, and the pains he hath been at in so good a cause, into as good and speedy consideration as I could. That it succeeded not was no fault of mine, nor did I suffer him to bear the charge of a fruitless journey. And whensoever it shall please God to put the little opportunity into my hands, I shall be as ready to do him good as now I was, and the rather for the respects you bare him.
Concerning his return to the Diet at Frankford *, my letters have lain by me long since, one to such Lutherans, and the other to such Calvinists, as at Mr. Dury's former return into England did write unto me. In these letters I have expressed myself so far as yet it can be any ways fit, and Mr. Dury hath free leave to go to the Diet, now to be held in May, if he please. His success there I wish may be happy, and I am clearly of your judgment, that if he can do no good there, there will be little or none done at their private houses ; where, as themselves are more absolute, so the care of the public will be less : and for my part, if a public act could be gained at this meeting for a reconciliation in general terms, and that act made binding, I should think there were some footing for further proceedings to rest on first, and then to get ground : but till then I cannot see much hope in the business.
For your next motion, I have moved his Majesty several
1 [This was an assembly of German Thomas Roe, whose appointment the
Princes summoned at Frankfort by Queen of Bohemia requested. (See
the Chancellor Oxenstiern, to which Mrs. Green's Life of Queen of Bohemia,
King Charles sent Sir Robert Anstru- p. 532.)] therashis representative, instead of Sir
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A. D. 1634. times, but though he highly approve the work, yet will he not publicly avow either Mr. Dury's person or his negotia tion till he see better grounds to work on. Neither doth he hold it any way fit so to do, where the princes which are upon the place, and whom it must needs far more concern, have not as yet publicly declared themselves. And I know you will not think it any way fit for me to outrun the King my master, and offer to give Mr. Dury any more public countenance than I have warrant for. But I have prepared a letter to Sir Robert Anstruther J, his Majesty's ambassador in those parts, which I mean to show the King, and then deliver to Mr. Dury.
I perceive you have received letters from the Chancellor of Sweden k, by his son1, and so have I. Mine are short, and contain nothing but a general desire of my assistance to his son in his employment and for the cause. And though I am in Court, yet am I as far almost from being able to give him assistance as you are, for all these negotiations are handled only