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VarbarH Collrgr Icbrarg
JOHN AMORY I.OWEI-I,
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APR 8 188'.
THE
PUBLICATIONS
SURTEES SOCIETY,
ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR
M.DCCCXXXIV.
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VOL. xxxvn.
FOR THE YEAR M.DCCC.LX.
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MISCELLANEA:
COMPRISING
I. THE WOEKS AND LETTEES OF DENNIS GEAN-
VILLE, D.D., DEAN OP DTJEHAM.
II. NATHAN DEAKE'S ACCOUNT. OF THE SIEGE OF
PONTEFEACT CASTLE.
III. A BEIEP MEMOIE OP ME. JUSTICE EOKEBT.
9tiftli0ted for t^e J^ciets
BY GEORGE ANDREWS, DURHAM;
WHITTAKER & Co. 13, AVE MARIA LANE; T. & W. BOONE,
29, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON;
BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH.
1861.
At a Ucn«rml Merting of the Siirteei Kociety, held in the Cn^xlv
of Durham cm the twenty-fourth uf June, I Mil, it wan
UnviLVkD, "That a Vulumr of MiBcellanitw Im* preporwl f**r
thin Snrirty," to conaiiit nf the folhiwing urticleA :^
1. The workji and Icttem of I>enni« Granrille, I).I)., lK<un «»t
Durham, to be cdit(<d by the Ilev. (ieorge Chnnby.
2. Nathan Dnikea accfiunt of the iiiego of rcintefract (V<«tli-.
U> bi* edited by Mr. W. II. D. liongitafle.
•i. The l€*tterf. Ax,, of Mr. Justice Ilokcby, ti> hi' Mit«^l h\
the Sivretary.
JAMF>* UAIXK.
.Sr rrr/*irv.
L'-J
THE REMAINS
DENIS GRANVILLE. D.D.
4
DEAN AND ARCHDEACON OF DURHAM, &o.
COMPRISING HIS
FAEEWELL SERMONS,
LETTERS TO THE EARL OF BATH, Ac.
AND
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
Vntlwtelr for tfje i^octctB
BY GEORGE ANDREWS, DURHAM;
WHITTAKER & Co. 13, AVE MARIA LANE; T. & W. BOONE,
29, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON;
BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH.
INTRODUCTION.
Amongst the Manuscripts in the Library of the Dean
and Chapter of Durham is a book labelled ^^ Deans
Granvillb," comprising a number of letters and other
documents, partly written by the Dean, partly addressed
to him, or otherwise having a direct reference to him,
which were collected and bound up together by Dr.
Hunter, the well known Durham Antiquary. The most
considerable portion of the volume consists of a manu-
script copy of two sermons, delivered by Dean Gran-
ville in the Cathedral of Durham, previous to his aban-
donment of his several dignities and preferments on the
descent of the Prince of Orange upon the shores of
England, and of five letters which he shortly afterwards
addressed respectively to his brother the Earl of Bath,
the Bishop of Durham, the Prebendaries of the Cathe-
dral, the Clergy of his Archdeaconry, and his Curates
at Easington and Sedgefield. To the latter is subjoined
a copy of the " Directions " which he had formerly (in
the year 1669) given in charge to his Curates in those
two parishes. These sermons and letters were printed
by the Dean in the year 1689 at Rouen, where he first
took refuge after his departure from this country, but
only twenty copies saw the light *. It is consequently
* There is a copy in the British Moseum and one in the Bodleian
Librarjr. The former belonged to Dr. Jos. Smith, Provost of Queen's
a2
IT IimODUCnO!!.
of excessivo raritv, and ito contenU have therefore been
judged by the Council of the .Surtees .S^xrimr not un-
worthy of republication, <*onne<*te<l as it is with a very
interc8tinf; |)ericMl of the histor}* of our (^hurch and
Nation, and emlNnlying aluo, as it does, the sentiments
of one of those highminded men who chose rather to
sacrifice the highest preferment than swear allegiance
to one whom they regarded lioth as an invader and
usurper. Another manuscript copy of the Dean*s pub-
lication forms a portion of the liawlinson MSS. in the
Bodleian Library. It is however not so perfect as that
preserved by Dr. Hunter. Ikith have evidently been
transcripts from the Houen imprint, for both reproduce,
almost invariably, the typographical errors into which
his ignorance of the English language had caused the
foreign printer to fall. It is probable that copies were
circulated in manuscript amongst the Non -jurors, to
supply the deficiency of so small an issue from the press.
Dr. Uranville occupied a position of some eminence,
social as well as eccU*siastical, and a perusal of his pub-
lished reasons for withdrawal from England and the
relinquishment of his great preferments would be sought
for by many with considerable eagerness. The present
Coilnce, OtforJ : ** es domo .imfkoris,** st we Icsrn from lb« liUe
psftP. Vr. lUirlinKm, odo of the Noo-juring Bt»hop«, wm Um
ovti^ of tbo Utter, which conUint tetersl Dolet in hU hsndvhliiiK.
On one of the flj l«-ii%r« of thr Ci>pj in the Un tt»h Mutrum i*
the following note: — "Thu I)<mke wm wrote* hx Ih (frmntille, I>e«n
of Durhsm snd printed at Ktf>urn in Frmnee bj •|>ectal] gmc^ and
puticiilar fsYour, a bo(»k rrry Mrarce and so hard to he met with, rt
thcrr waa not abore tventjr of them printed off, and Lord Carter^ a
rtlation of the author'*. c*ve ten gu^ueaa for i»ne of them, sa ia cer*
tifj*d by, Thof Baker, t\>ll. Jo Siciui rjivtu* ** Thia note it not in
Bsker'a writing, but wa« no doubt trmojcnbed from one which lie
I m his own copv
nrrBODUCTiON. v
reprint is the result of a collation of Dr. Hunter's
manuscript with the printed copy and the Rawlinson
MS. The Editor has followed Dr. Hunter in placing
the Farewell-Sermons and the Five Letters first in order
of arrangement, though they are later in point of date
than, with one or two exceptions, the letters and papers
which follow. These, heing of a miscellaneous character,
and, as regards many of them, of inferior importance,
more fitly form the second portion of that pc^t of the
Society's publications which is devoted to Dean Gran-
▼ille's Remains.
This latter series of letters and papers is arranged in
chronological order, the first bearing date 1665, the last
written in 1702. The collection made by Dr. Hunter
has been enriched by the addition of some other original
matter, chiefly gathered from the Tanner Collection and
Dr. Bawlinson's MSS. in the Bodleian Library. The
source from which each of these additional letters or
papers is derived is indicated as they severally occur.
Those which are undistinguished by any mark or re-
ference will be understood to be portions of the volume
collected by Dr. Hunter.
Much of the correspondence is of a domestic and per-
soinal character, relating to the Dean's private afiairs,
and to the embarrassments with respect to pecuniary
matters in which what he calls ^^ his bad husbandry "
involved him. In connexion with this portion will be
found particulars of the value of his Deanery, and the
Rectories of Easington and Sedgefield, and accounts of
receipts and disbursements of various kinds. These are
placed together at the end of the correspondence *.
• The Editor has not giyen the whole of the papers of this de-
scription preserved by Dr. Hunter. Some are duplicates, and others
Tl DCTRODUCnON.
Amongst these ciocumcnU will be found, howevpr,
many letters and papers of more general interest, bear-
ing upon (Jburcb matters, at a period of wbicb little,
comparatively speaking, is known. Some papers illus-
trative of this part of the text will be found in the
Appendix. They have been obtained principally from
other volumes of I)r. Ilunter*s Collections in the I>ur-
ham Cathedral Librarw
The family f>f GiiANViu.E*, or Grenville, lays chum
to great antiquity and distinction. Kichani de Gren-
ville, who came over into this country \%ith William the
Ginquenir, is said to ha%'e lieen a younger brother of
Roliert Fitz-IIamcm, Karl of Carlioil, lord of Thurigny
and Granville, in France and Normandy, and to have
been lineally descendeil fn>m Hollo, Duke of Normandy.
He was the common ancestor of the Grenvilles of I Devon-
shire and Cornwall. It is 8UpiM»se<l that he obtaineil
after the conquest a grant of the Manor of Kilkhamp-
ton; but howei'cr this may Im\ Dugdale mentions it as
one of the possc^ssions of the family as early as the time
of William Kufus, and it is on recxird that a Hichanl de
Gn*nville held (*ertain knights' foes at Ui<lefoni in lK»von,
in the l!nd of Henry II. This appi*ars Xo have bet*n the
pbce where the family wan originally si*ttled. From a
mrrr U^rvnal •r^uilunccc, or liocumeata of little or no importancr.
II r luM thrrrforr i»irrciM*il lii« judf^mmt in M*livtin|; f«»r pubhcmti«>n
th4)M« onir vhich rrconi th«» valuo of the Dran'ft pfvfrrnwnt«» or
fftNii which anv ffUtitticml infunnAtion, of tii«>r«» or \em intrrr«t, buit
be glraned.
* The I>t*ftii in hi« rariu-r life cummoiilr «rutr hi0 naiiM* Grmtiilr ;
but A0 bi>th he an J other momben of hi» famiU appcttr errntual!?
to ha?e prrfrrrrO •t^n'^i'lC thriu«rl?n (ininTinr. the Bditor wA*^\%m
that mode of siwllinf; the lome in tbi« lotrpiluctioo sod the notes
whicb tUuftrste tbe text
INTRODUCTION. VU
very early period, however, they. had a seat at Stowe, in
the parish of Kilkhampton, which, for many generations,
was the chief residence of the successive representatives
of the family. Like the bearers of many others of the
historic names of England the Granvilles fjpr centuries
sought no higher precedence than their knightly degree
could give them, but their antiquity of descent and the
extent of their domains gave them an influence and a
power far superior to that which any new patent of
nobility could either secure or confer. Popular accla-
mation assigned to them, moreover, an hereditary cha-
racteristic which they regarded with a justifiable pride.
While wit was said to be never wanting to a Godolphin,
or courage to a Trelawney, loyalty was equally held to
be the indefeasible inheritance of all who bore the name
of Granrille.
In the breast of no member of this antient house was
the spirit of loyalty more inherent than in that of the
high spirited and gallant Sir Bevil Granville, one of the
bravest of that devoted band who shed their life blood
in the cause of their Sovereign during the unhappy
wars which cast so deep a shadow over the 17th century.
He was slain on the field of Lansdowne, near Bath, after
having distinguished himself greatly as Commander of
the forces for Charles I. in the West of England.
Sir Bevil Granville married Grace, daughter of Sir
George Smith, of Exeter, Knt., by whom he had a
numerous family, several of whom died young. Three
sons survived him: John, the eldest, who was, on the
Restoration, created Earl of Bath, Bernard, one of the
Grooms of the Bedchamber to Charles II., and Denis,
afterwards Dean and Archdeacon of Durham, the subject
of the biographical notices which follow. He also left
three daughters : Elizabeth, married to Peter Prideaux,
• ••
Tin iKTBODUcnoy.
Ktq. ; nridf^t, tho wifo of Sir Tho«. Higgont, Knt ; and
Joan, or Joanna, who married Col. Richard TbomhiU^
and died at a great ago in 1730.
Denis Graxville was bom on the 13th Feb. 1636-7 ^
Of hit earlj yean we hare no account f. He was ad-
mitted a fellow-commoner of Exeter College, Oxford, on
the 22nd of Sept. lt)57, and on Sept. 28th, 1660, was,
amongst others, cn*ateil Master of Arts in that Univer-
sity, an honour which he i§ imid to have owed to the
'* favour of his great relations ;" and to which Old An-
thony h Wood seems to have thought be was scarcely
then entithnl, inssmuch as *^he had \nxn no sufferer for
the King's cause, nor ejected his college, ))ei*ause entered
then*in after the Parliament visitors had turned out all
the Kovalisu.'*
It would appear that he had been designed for the
Church from his earliest years. In his letter to the
Earl of Itath he mentions the intention of his parents to
devote one of their sons to the especial service of God
in his Church. The lot, as he expresses it, fell upon
him, and he fulfilled their pious intention by *' devoting
himself thereto, honestly, with good will to God's ser-
vice, and without designe," — ''in a time of adversity
and rebellion, when there was small hopes of being Dean
of Durham ^.'* His actual ordination, however, did not
• ^ lOaC tortim jr. ton of jf. woril. Bcrill Grenvile Etqr. sad
Orsrr hi* wife. «M borne the 13 Febry. uiJ HaptiMd the *i6 Febj **
Fur tbr omrtrviM cunitiiunu-aCiun of thi» extrmd frocn Uw Ikilk*
hsmpton I*an«h Krfpstrr, and for •(>me other infomuUioo, the Editor
hm§ to thsnk the Kct. A. C. ThjDne, the Rector of thftt (wish.
t Kton wu probablr the pUcr of ht« educmtioa. He it ulAted, <m
the authohtj of SftncmA, t«* have bern a fcilow of Eloo CoUcfSu
8re AtheM bion. ed HIim. it. 407.
I An wUraluig Wttsr (mb the futurt Desa of Durbtai, ss-
INTRODUCTION. IX
take place until after the Restoration, for we learn from
a letter addressed to his friend Beverid^e that they re-
pressive of his feelings with reference to undertaking the office and
work of the ministry, is given in the Life of Mr. George Trosse.
" Cadleigh, July 28, 1660.
" Dear friend ! I had according to my promise, written to you
before this time, had I gotten into Devonshire as soon as I imagined
I should. I met with an ohstacle in my journey down, which
oblig'd me to go towards London ; where I tarried near a month's
space, and was hasten'd thence upon the sad occasion which I
believe you have heard of long ere this, I mean the loss of my
brother Leache, who is as much lamented in these parts, as any man
bath been these many years. And triily, I think, very justly, having
great ground to conclude that Ood hath sanctified his dispensations
towards him unto his soul, by several passages before and since his
death, and that he would have prov'd a great instrument of Gt)d's
^ory, and of good unto his country, had it been the will of Qod to
have granted him a long life. But, blessed be God, howsoever he
disposeth of us : for his dealings with us are for the best, tho' they
appear to us otherwise.
" I do yet, T bless God, hold my resolutions, by his assistance, of
undertaking the ministry ; and hope, that by his grace I shall con-
tinue in them ; which that I may do, I beg your prayers, and the
prayers of all good Christians : for I am not insensible of the many
difficulties which I have to struggle with ; but, I praise God, where
I feared I might have met with some, I have not yet met with any, I
mean amongst my own relations ; for I'll assure you that not one of
them hath us'd any argument to dissuade me from being a minister.
I confess some others have occasionally done it ; but I trust in God
that the devil and his instruments shall never, in this particular, pre-
vail against me: though reflecting upon mine own infirmities, I
might justly fear it, did I not also look to my Saviour at the right
hand of God, making intercession for me, who hath promised not to
suffix his servants to be tempted above what they are able, but will
also with the temptation make a way to escape.
*' Dear friend, pray let me hear from you ; for I value nothing more
than conference with God's children by letters, if not by personal
diaeoorse : and I hope we have a Christian love for each other, though
pefduuioe we differ in opinion in some trivial circumstances. But it
a
X IJfTRODUCnOH.
ceived Holy Orders together, from the hmnds of Bishop
Sanderson, in the year 1661 *.
lK*nis Granville's firnt pn^fennent was the Rectory of
Kilkhampton. It was in the gift of his brother Sir
John, afterwanls Karl of Ilath, and had been bestowed
bv him on Nicholas Monk, brother to the celebrated
General (leorge Monk. Sir John induced Nicholas
Monk to exercise his influence with his brother in
favour of the exiled monarch. Monk's good offices were
rewarded by promotion to the See of Hereford, of which
he was consei^rated Bishop on the 13th Jan. 1661.
Granville was no doubt preferre<l to Kilkhampton when
it became vacant by Monk*s elevation f.
M nj principle (and I hope erer vill be) that dtflerrnee in jtidfment,
when not in fundamental*, it not a tufficient ground (aa now it dailj
ia) for breach of charitj, where there ia hope of tinceritT. But no
more of thia at preaent. I do heartiW praj, that God bj his liolr
Spirit would gire ut both a right judgment in all thinga, and ahew oa
the truth in whataoeter we err or are deceifed.
I do once more deairr tour prafeni in a paKicular manner ; (tou
ahall not want mine) bt^ng ofif*n ftomething •tart led at the diiBcuhiea
I diacem in a Chriatian courae of life ; eapcciallr in undertaking thai
weigh tT calling which makea the Apoatle cry out, Who ia •ufficieot
for theae thinga ? Well, friend, farewell. I beaeech Ood to preaerre
jott. I intended once to diacoune further with jou but I am pre-
vented. I thall ever be, tour friend and •errant in the Idsrd,
Dtssria (Iexsttili. For Mr. (leorge Tniaae, at hia chamber in PMn-
broke College in Oiford.**— Life of Mr. (k^Mrge TroMe, late Minialrr
of the Goapel in £ion, bj laaae Hilling. Lond. 1715, p. 123.
* Mitcdlaneoua C'orreapondence, p. 235.
t (tranville never, probablr, rraided at Kilkhampton, for the
Edit4>r ia informed bj the preaent Rector that no record of hit in-
cumbencv appran in the church booka of thai panah. But a letter
ttom Biahop Coain't dooieatic chaplain, Davenport^ to HaacrofV, dat«tl
Auckland. Oct 4, IC^Ti, tufficientlj prorea that he waa at that time
Hector. Sancruft appean to have wtahed the Biahop to all^iw him to
rxohange lloiightoo*le-8pring for Cotienhan Ilia firiend leUa hiai in
INTRODUCTION. XI
His marriage about this time with Anne daughter of
Bishop Cosin, gave him no doubt a claim to future
patronage which was scarcely likely to be overlooked.
But there is no reason to suppose that he was a man
who received preferment «imply on the ground of family
connexion. There is abundant evidence that he threw
himself gallantly into the work of re-construction which
was so much needed in the diocese over which Cosin
was called to preside when the Church and the Monarchy
were re-established. And Cosin was a man of far too
high administrative power to select unfit instruments as
his coadjutors in the task which he so resolutely took in
band.
The work which the Bishops of the Church of Eng-
land had then to accomplish was, in truth, one of no
small difficulty. The correspondence of many of the
occupants of the episcopal bench at that period suffi-
ciently shews in how disorganized a state, as regarded
ecclesiastical matters, their dioceses were found when
episcopal rule was once more established *. The diocese
of Durham was no exception. In Northumberland the
leplj that the Bishop says that " the Bectory of Kilkhampton, for-
merly Bishop Monk's and now Mr. Orenvil's, he conceives is better
than Cottenham, for Mr. Orenvile saith it is worth £300 and some-
timea £400, and if Dr. Manby would take that instead of Houghton
in exchange, and you accept of Cottenham, it would please him so
much the better." " I had rather a great deal," adds Mr. Davenport,
" see Mr. Qrenvil at Houghton than Dr. Manby."— Tanner MSS.
zlviiL 55.
* Even as late as 1670 we find Bishop Hacket complaining to
Archbiahop Sheldon that ^* Nothing is a more common trespass then
omitting or curtailing Divine service." Tanner MSS. zliv. 206.
The reports which the Primate received from other dioceses were not
more cheering.
a 2
xii ntTRODrcnoy.
only appearance of tpiritual life which manifested itaelf
seems to have been shewn in the boldness with which
the Roman Catholics ventured upon the public exercise
of their religion. *^ In severall places of that Archdea-
cpnrie masses arc openly and publiquely saide, and warn*
ing given to the people to come thereto/' And where
Fopery did not prevail Puritanism had done little.
Many of the Churches an* described as being '^ altogether
unprovided of ministers;'* whilst their fabrics are re-
preiicnted as being ^' altiigether ruinous and in great
decay." In many *' there be neyther bibles, )HM>ks of
• • •
common prayer, iiuq>Iis)te$, fonts, communion-tables, nor
any thin^ that is neces&arie for the stTvice of (tod."
And there is no reason to think that the ( ounty Palatine
was in a very much )K*tter state than the more remote
and wilder n^gion of North um))erland. When we n*ail
of the inattention to rubrics, and the slovenly liehaviour
of minor-canons* and singing-men, which (ininville
complained of as prevailing in the Cathedral itself f, and
of the sluttish and disordc*rly habits which, as we learn
from Cosin J, characterized many of its highest digni-
tarit*s even when attending the service of God v^ithin
the walls of its choir, we c*an scarcely suppose that the
offices of the Church would be solemnized with much
rubrical order in the secluded comers of the Bishopric,
or that there would be much decency either in the con-
* KittcmtHm mtirvo\er wwtnt to havr bren tt a rrnr low ebb
MiioDir«l tb0 !^ItQorwC*Miona. In Dr. Ikitre't .\ntwer to Bbbop
Co«nra Articled uf IiMjutnr in IMo, hta rrp(»rt u( tbem is, thml
** •omc rrtt«ltf not to dUtinctly, but havo bi?en admonuhed to read,
phTati*l?« the le««ont aforrhjuid. accurdinK to quern Kluabrth'a la*
juncti«m»**— Hunter MSS ij wfj.
t Bn-ackee of Hubncks in the Cathedral, p. 143.
I Coin|i«rta and C oiuM«lerati«}ikA, Ac. p. 2t)7 8ee alao p. 2M.
INTRODUCTION. Xlll
dact or appearance of those who there ministered at her
altars.
That such irregularities and disorders should exist,
need occasion no surprise, even when we find them pre-
vailing after Cosin had for some years occupied the see
of Durham. The Act of Uniformity was no doubt the
means of ridding the Church of England of a vast
number of those who opposed her doctrine and disliked
her discipline. But those who withdrew themselves, or
who were turned out of the benefices they occupied, on
the day of St. Bartholomew, 1662, were, for the most
part, the best and most conscientious of the Puritan
party. There was a residuum left for whom we cannot
entertain the same respect. Some, without any one
fixed principle except hatred of the Church, had in-
truded themselves into benefices during the unsettled
times of the Commonwealth ; others also were in pos-
session of preferments, whose afiections and sympathies
were with the ejected ministers, but over whose minds
conscience exercised less power than the solid advan-
tages of glebe and tythe. Those who belonged to either
class, yielded but a reluctant assent, when yielded at all,
to the Episcopal and Archidiaconal injunctions of men
like Cosin, Basire, and Granville, who both taught in
words and exemplified by action the most entire and
implicit obedience to the Rubrics and Canons of the
Church of England.
These semi-conformists were indeed a great thorn in
the side of Cosin and his co-adjutors ; and they were
not confined to the ranks of the less important clergy
who occupied the rural livings of the Diocese. They
were to be found also in the high places of the Church.
When Cosin came to the see he had little opportunity
XIV nrrBODucnoif.
of filling the stalls of the Cathedral with his own friends.
In six of them their old occupants were reinstated, while
five at least of the remainder had been filled up by
Charles II. before the Uishop had received the tem-
poralities of the See. And though such men as Basire,
Wrench *, and perhaps Neile, were like-minded with
himself, jet the presence in Chapter of a man like
Wood, who was a thorough Puritan f, added to indiflfer-
* Formcrlj * fellow of St. John**, Cambridge. He wm ejected bj
the Reri of Manchester in 1014, and at the Beetoralion finding a
worthj man in hii place, he would not diiturb him. He was after*
warda preferred to the aizth prebend in the Church of I>urham.
Hr. Thomaa Haker characieriiea him aa an eieellent and good man,
an encouniger of learning, who would ofWn oome into the school at
Durham, and eiamine the tchoUn. — Life of Dr. Berwick, p. 306.
See alio Walker's Sufleringt of the Clrrgj.
t Wood became also Dean of Lichfield in 1(M». Bishop llacket
complains frequentljr and in no measured terms of his obnoxioua
conduct there. The Editor subjoins two specimens out of many
which might be gathered from the Biihop*s correspondence with the
Primati*. The first extrart is curious also as ginng lome account of
what was then doing at lichfield in the way of (^hurch decuratioo.
It bears date December 12, 106S. *" Your Grace's Church (d Lich-
field under the care of jour deroted sufilragan wants nothing (except
the dispatch of the organ, through the negligence of the iwdertaker)
but a few ornaments, which I doubt not to accompesa. And for
ornaments I hare had more sent to mee, and unsc»ught, then I could
haTe eipected. In vellet, purple and aiure, fidie pounds worth from
the excellent Ladie I^erieon, to senre for a parsphront, a sufiroot, and
car|)et for the Altar. Kn>m mr liadie Bagol, most rich piccre of
gold and silke, and exquisite imagery for two quishioos, whose
making up being added from a devout aged widow, and a poors ooe,
Mrs. Hulkee, thej are as beauttfull as e?er I saw. Add to these the
most curious piece that I hsve seen, of purple vellety fiowrr gold and
silke, to bee pUced in the paraphront above the quiahton, prreented
to mee from the religious wife of Mr. William Talboi. Mr noble
Lord, I must not omit that mj I^adie Wobj's daughters putt to>
gather ail these ornameota with their ooat« tndaslfy, and
INTRODUCTION. XV
ence and carelessness on the part of others, would neu-
tralize many of Cosin's endeavours to make his Cathedral
Church a model for the rest of the Diocese. To the
determination and vigour with which he prosecuted his
purpose to make it such, his Articles of Visitation hear
ample testimony; as do also his Comperts and Considera-
tions on the Answers of the Dean and Prebendaries, and
a curious paper on the Privileges of the Church of Dur-
ham. These papers, as far as the Editor is aware, have
never been printed. They do not, at any rate, occur in
The honest residentiaries deserve a Church thus beautified, so doth
not the phrentique Dean^ who sides all together with Puritans, and
told mee to my fiuse, I did more harm then good, in reedifying this
Church. Gk>d remove him from us." Tanner MSS. zliv. 66.
Two days after the Bishop again writes: — "My most humble
requ^ (and in great earnest) to your Grace, is, to entreat with my
Lord Bishop of Durham to call of our most untractable and filthy
natur'd Dean from hence, and to command him to his benefice, or
his prebend at Durham. He is a professt favourer of non con-
formists. His wife comes sometimes to sermons (as to Dr. Boibton)
but not above twice in 3 months to Cathedral praiers. I rebuke the
Dean for keeping companie with Puritans alltogether. He answer'd
mee scornfully, he did so, and he would do so. For the sake of the
welfare of a poore church, and for Ood's sake, at least carie bim
away hence to Durham. He hath kept his residence to his full
dales. And his bretheren the residentiaries will praise God for his
absence."— Tanner MSS. zliv. 69.
Dr. Wood nevertheless became eventually Bishop Hacket's suc-
cessor at Lichfield, through the unworthy intervention of the Duchess
of Cleveland, whose favour he gained by contriving that his niece, a
wealthy heiress, to whom he was guardian, should marry the Duke
of Southampton, the Duchess' son by Charles 11. His subsequent
grosB and flagrant neglect of his episcopal duties led to a remarkable
and unusual exercise of discipline on the part of Archbishop Sancroft,
namely, the suspension, of Bishop Wood fi9m his episcopal dignity
and functions, which took place in April, 1684. — S^ D'Oyly's Life
ofSancroft^Ll93.
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the collection of Conin's works published by the Editors
of the Anfflo Catholic Libranr. He has therefore given
them in his Appendix, as an illustration of the state of
the Cathedral of Durham during the earlier part of
l)ean Granville's connexion with it.
C)f the manner in which Bishop Coain proceeded to
restore order and uniformity in the ministrations of the
parochial Clergy, we gain information from a similar
source. His Articles of Inquir}' addressed to the (*lergy
and (liun^hwardens arc extxHHlingly minute and curious.
They have been pnntinl in the coUei*tion of his works
just mentiontnl •. It is then'fon* unntHressar}* to do
mon^ than allude to them here, cxcvpt in connexion
with the (Queries put forth by Granville, when he after*
wants held his Visitations of the Clergy as Archdeacon
of Durham. The similarity Wtween the two dcM*uments
is c»bvious, and it shews how fully the Archdeacon car-
ri(Ml out the views and prin<*iplt»s of his early patnon, and
how thon>ughly emh do(*ument was gniunded upon the
Hutiric^ and canons, the Ivx scriptn of the Chunh in
which the writers res|)eftively filknl such high and
n*sponsible office.
For Cosin, in the appointments he made to the more
im|)ortant pn*fermt*nts which fell vacant during his
epis<*o|>ate, was can*ful to fill them with men <if his own
schiN>l, who gave the liinit pmnif of their conformity to
the rules and onlers of the (*hurch of Kngland, viz. a
reatly oU*<liem*e to them in their own persons ; men, in
short, whose practice did not contradict their theory.
• Vol. IT. p. 506. froA * copy printed bj T. (f«rthvmit#, in 10G3.
IIi« Lftliii Iiijuoctuini to tbe Vhmxk UkA PrebraiiariM sir gitcn in Uw
■unr folnmr, p. 381
INTRODUCTION. XVU
Such was Sancroft, an old and tried friend, with whom
he had maintained a constant correspondence during
the time of the Commonwealth, when Cosin took refuge
in France and Sancroft found a home at Utrecht. After
the Restoration he made him his chaplain, and hestowed
upon him the valuable rectory of Houghton-le- Spring,
and facilitated an exchange of prebendal stalls which
placed him in the Cathedral of Durham. Another of
the same school was Davenport, who succeeded Sancroft
at Houghton when the latter was promoted to the
Deanery of St. Paul's, a man of most blameless and
apostolic life, and of munificence which is even yet
remembered ♦• A third was his son-in-law, Denis
Granville, whose birth and connexions would, no doubt,
have secured him preferment in any diocese he might
have entered, independent of any family connexion with
the prelate who presided over it. Whose zeal and ac-
tivity in his several characters of Parish-priest, Pre-
* He Dsed to say that " he feared to die with any of the Church's
goods in his hands." A danger, says Surtees, which he probahly
avoided, for he rebuilt the rectory from the ground, added a domestic
chapel, and endowed one-half of the alms-house. — Hist. Durham, i.
171. What his own feelings were with respect to the " good works
and almsdeeds which he did," we have an interesting indication in
the following extract of a letter to his friend Sancroft.—"! love a
man that lo?eth the Church as well as his own flesh and blood. And
I am of opinion that we priests that liave no wives, ought to look
upon the Church and poor as our next heires. And truly I could
think well of myselfe, if I could be assured that I have profited the
living Church as much as I have bettered the matenall and dead
church, by my means or money. But when I think of that burden
that was laid on me when I was made priest [till no place be left
either for viciousness of life or error in doctrine] fearfulness and
trembliDg take hold upon me ; and in this thing Ood be mercyfull to
me, and to all priests."— Tanner MSB. xliv. 281.
b
XVllI INTRODfCTIOJf.
bcndary^ and Archdeacon went far to justify his munifi-
cent patron's selection, in spite of failings which often
caused the Bishop much vexation.
The earliest preferments which Granville received
from Hishop Cosin were the first stall in the Cathedral,
his instalUtion to which bears date Sept. 24, 1GG2, and
the Archdeaconry of Durham, with the Itectorj* of
Easington annexcil, to which he was collated in the
same vear. To these was added in 16G4 the Itectorv
of Klwick, which he n*si^ed in 1667, on obtaininf^
Sedgefield. The death of I>r. Naylor, who was Itector
of Sedgefield, occasioninl also a vacancy in the second,
or Golden, stall in the Cathedral, to which Granville
was removed on the IGth April, 1668.
These were assunnlly great preferments, too great
indeed, in some respects, to be given to so young a man
as Denis Granville then was ; for the possession of a
splendid income, without the previous discipline of that
early struggle with the world which most men have to
undergo, pnxluced the not ver}* unusual result of lavish
expi*nditure and c*onse<iuent embarrassment. We soon
find that he was frequently absent from his benefices.
In Oxford he could have the advantage of literary
society ; in Ix>ndon his noble birth and great connexions,
and his position as Chaplain*in-<irdinary to the King,
gave him a ready access to the very highest society.
And these two pUces, not unnaturally, offered far
higher attractions to a man of his time of life than any
thing which either Ihirham or his country parstmages
could aflTord. (>n the tHHh of Ikm^mber, 1670, he Uiok
his Doctor of Divinity's degree at Oxford. When he
left the north for this purpose he seems to have con-
templated a long absence; for Dean Sudbury says in a
INTRODUCTION. XIX
letter dated Nov. 18th in that year, "We expect a
letter ** (viz. a Royal dispensation) " in behalf of Mr.
Greenvill, who intends to continue with his wife at
London not onely this winter, but another spring and
fall, if not longer." His father-in-law writes about the
same time with his accustomed acrimony : " I know not
what to do with Mr. Grenvyle, who is still at Oxford,
idling away his time, and suflfering his Curates to be
non-resident at Easington and Sedgefield, as hee him-
selfe is, under colour of his wife's taking physick, who
for ought I see never needed any, for, from her coming
to Durham to this day, she was never better in all her
life, though she be now thrust up into a coop, and a
strait close place, which may much endanger her health.
But hee is a wilful man, and will order her as he lists.
In the meanwhile, though I went to visit both him and
her a month since, I never saw either of them at my
lodgings here, for she dares not go forth of her own
without his leave, which leave, it seems, hee left not
behind him ♦."
• Letter from Bishop Cosin to Mr. Stapvlton, Dec. 13, 1670. —
Surtees* Hist. Durham, vol. i. cxliii. On the 30th April previous the
Bishop had written an equally characteristic epistle, of which the
following is an extract : — " Mr. Grenvyle' s priviledge is now out of
doors, for his privilege lasteth no longer than 20 dayes after the
adjournment of the Parliament. I told you in my last that he had
carried his wife from Bigglesworth to Oxford, and now I can tell
joa that he hath left her there (where she is not acquainted at all)
with a kinswoman of his there whom I know not ; being himselfe
come up hither to London to see the funerall of the late Oenerall \
which is this day to pass from Sommerset House to Westminster.
Hee tells me his wife is very well, and that the waters were so much
* Monk, earl of Albemarle.
b2
XX IKTRODlCnOK.
IIU imprudent expenditure at length resulted in a
roont humiliating and public exposure of his pecuniary
difficulties. (>n the 8th of July, 1674, as he was
^* coming from publick prayers, and a funerall (where
the cheifest of the gentry of the countr)- were assembled)
and l)eing in his habitt he was openly arrested within
the cloysters at the door of the cathedrall by three
bailiffs." Hy a high-spirited man like (iranville, ^ with
a stnmg dash of the cavalier about him" (as Surtoes
happily expn^ssi^s it), this must have been felt as a most
galling affront ; for the pride of the high-bred gentfe-
man as well as the dignity of the churchman must
alike have lieen most bitterly wounded. The manner
in which he more than once refers in his correspond-
ence to his '' odious arrest," sufficiently proves that this
out M tbej journred about Newarke that tber men forct to ataj 12
dajea bj tKe war, which I thinke waa no waj to cmre her /rvm iks
Ufkime9 ^f ker kmtJ, but rather a certmine waj to augmetil her old,
or elae to get her a new and a wone diaorder. Aod when I fottiid
fiiult with him for mia timing their joumej, and brinipng up hia wife
in that nuuiner aa he did, and before the weather and the waj were
well aettled, hee answered mee thai Dr. Tonatall and Dr. WiUaoo *
gate htm order ao to doe, and bj no mcanea would let biro atar till
Maj began, whieh I can hardlj believe ; and therefore I praj cooh
mend me to Dr. Willaon, and tell him if he gate thai advice, aa I
beleive he did not, it ia not apprtyred here bj anj of our friends, or
by the Colk*dge of l^hvaitiima, w hereunto her huaband pretenda to
tning her from Oiford the neit time he cmn aaj or find ahe aiiea aaj
thing, and I prav let me hare both Dr. Tooatall and Dr. WiUaoo'a
anawer whether ihej gave advice or no to thia hurrying of hw up to
London at the beginning of A prill, when the way ea and the wealbcr
were ao ill that no woman though ever ao well would have ventursd
a jouroev hither '*
l*n>bibU tht author of the SfmJmerrm i^mmwimtem^u
INTRODUCTION. XXI
was the case. It was in vain that he pleaded his piivi-
l^e as Chaplain-in-ordinary to the King. The bailiffs
were inexorable, an appeal to Mr. Richard Neile, the
under-sheriff, was equally unsuccessful, and Dr. Gran-
ville was carried off to gaol, " with many aggravating
circumstances."
The matter, however, was not allowed to rest there.
The appeal which was made in vain to the Under-
sheriff and his bailiffs was brought before the King in
conncil without much delay. On the 17th of the same
month of July Dr. Granville's petition was read at the
Council-board at Hampton Court *, and all parties con-
cerned f in making the arrest were ordered to appear
within ten days before the Council-board. The result
was, that ^^ the King was pleased very much to repre-
hend Mr. Camabie, a person concerned in it, and to
direct his Attorney-General to prosecute him and Mr.
Neile. But on the submission of Mr. Camabie a pardon
was granted to him, and also to Mr. Richard Neile, on
* At which were ^ present the King's most excellent Majesty ; his
Highness Prince Bupert; Lord Archbishop of Canterbury; Lord
Keeper; Lord Treasurer; Lord Privy Seal; Duke of Monmouth;
Marquis of Dorchester; Lord Chamberlaiii ; Earl of Bridgwater;
Earl of Peterborough ; Earl of Bath ; Earl of Craven ; Earl of Ar-
lington ; Earl of Carbery ; Viscount Halifax ; Lord Bishopp of Lon-
don ; Lord Barkeley ; Mr. Vice-Chamberlain ; Mr. Secretary Coven-
tiy ; Mr. Mountague ; Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Mr. Chan-
cellor of the Dutchy ; and Master of the Ordnance." — Mickleton's
MSS.
t The parties summoned to attend before the Council-board, as we
learn £rom the authority quoted in the last note, were, Mr. Neile,
aboTO named; Mr. Thomas Maacall, attorney; John Qfoth, his
clerk; Thomas Brantingham; Balph Westgiurth and Christopher
Bolland, baili& ; and Francis Forster, Thomas Camaby, and Miles
Sti^ilton, gentlemen.
XIII ITTBODUCTIOK.
the petition of his fathcFi Sir Paul Neile, and on ei-
prcHsinf; his mmm for his misdemeanour, who dec*larod
himself ifpiorant that I>r. Granville was his Majesty's
Chaplain-in-onlinary •." Mr. Neile, however, as we
learn from Mickleton, lost his office of Under-sheriff.
i hi his submission he was probably reinstated.
It would ap{)ear fcom a letter, written soon after this
occurrence, by ^fr. Isaac liasire to the Karl of lUth,
that the sharp lesson whi(*h this arrest taught him as
to the results of imprudent management of financial
matters was not altogether thrown away upon I>r. Gran-
ville. He ap{M^ars to have circumscribed his expendi-
turt* within more prudent limits, but it is manifest also,
from his brother-in-law's letter, that his thoughts had
begun even then to turn in the direction of the dignity
to whi(*h he afterwanb attaininl. The postscript to this
lett4T evidently shews that Dean Sudbury *s health was
supposed to be breaking, and it is no less clear from its
commencement that the Earl of liath's interest with the
King had been sought in onler that I>r. Granville might
su^Tcd him. His accession to it might free him, it was
hope<l, from the embarrassments which pressed upon him,
and his fitness to fill a distinguished post is vouched for
by Mr. liasire with the warm partiality of a devoted
friend and near connexion. The instances which Mr.
Rasire gives of I>r. (franville*s readiness and ability as
a prea<*her shew him to have been a man of very con-
siderable |K)wer.
With the exception of a congratulatory letter to Arch-
bishop Sancnift on his accession to the prinuu^y, written
by I>r. Granville from Aix in Provence in lti7^, there
* Fmoi Xhi* Act I)ook of the Dean and Chapter of Ihirham.
vQuotrd in Zouch*t Life of Smlbiirj.)
INTRODUCTION. XXlll
is little in his correspondence at this particular period
which possesses very peculiar interest. The letters
which appear are few in number, and relate almost ex-
clusively to his private concerns, which seem indeed to
have been at all times in a very hampered state. " I
cannot manage nor mind these money affairs," is his
own candid confession. But, in justice to him, it must
also be said, that an honourable readiness to discharge
his obligations was never wanting, even at the cost of a
ruinous discount. We find him telling Mr. Isaac Basire,
whose brother appears to have advanced him money, and
to have been put to some inconvenience by its non-pay-
ment, that ^^ he is so far from being unconcerned for him
that he would gladly betake himself to his old bad hus-
bandry, and give 20/. per cent, rather than bee should
longer want it."
But we need not dwell longer upon these results of
thoughtless • and profuse expenditure. It brought with
it its own punishment, embittering many an hour of his
after life, and occasioning much self-reproach and pain-
ful retrospection. Enough has been said to give truth
to the portrait by the laying in of the shadows, let us
proceed to the more pleasing task of giving prominence
to the brighter parts of the picture, by recording some
of those indications of character which drew forth from
Barnabas Oley, the biographer of the saintly Herbert,
and himself an eminently religious man, '^ the expression
which he usually had when he mentioned him," — " the
title of the truly pious and devout good man. Dr. Gran-
ville;" and which, as we have seen, rendered him not
unworthy, in the eyes of Bishop Cosin, to fill the re-
sponsible post of Archdeacon of Durham, at a time
when no small amount of judgment and firmness was
XXIV INTRODUCnO!!.
re<{uire<l for the worthy discharge of ita rotpootible
duties.
It 18 at all times interesting to mark the modus
opt^rnndi which has been adopte<l at {periods uf partictdar
exif^*ncy by those whose position or character mark
thcni out as leaders* The Restoration was such a
period. Monarchy was a^rain U) resume its sway as the
mode of civil government, and Episcopacy was oooe
more established as the form of ecclesiastical rule.
But the relations of scxriety, both in its temporal and
religious aspects, were greatly disorganized. As regards
the latter, as has already been oWrved, the difficulties
which beset the Hisht»ps of the Church of England when
they resumed their functions were many and multiplied.
Disorder and the abuse of private judgment were
bi^ytmd all question the prominent excesses of those by
whom the religious feelings of the people were directed
during the period of the Commonwealth, and to repress
this unscriptural and Utopian licence was the great
object of the leaders of the Church of England. With
Yi view to this they sought above all things to obtain
uniformity, and a thorough obedience to the rubricka
and canons of the Church ; more especially on the part
of the clergy. Cpon this leading principle they acted,
and to this we owe the review of the Liturgy in 1601
and the consequent Act of Cniformity. The pniceod*
ings of the authorities of the (*hurch at that time, and
the {mssing of that Act, have been often censured as
t4io unlientiing, and not sufficiently marked by prudent
conciliatitm. Uut the accusation, if just, is one to which
the stat4' of the times and the history of the recent ex-
cesses furnish the best reply. Just as the prevalence of
a particular heresy within the Chorch has ever canted
INTRODUCTION. XXV
an exaggerated prominence, so to speak, to.be given to
the opposite truth by those who deeply feel the danger
of the error; so, at the period in question, the passive
obedience to rulers, and the rigid and unbending ad-
herence to rubrick and canon which were souofht to be
80 carefully enforced, might be said to be but an in-
stinctive attempt to tighten the cords of discipline which
had become so fatally relaxed when Rebellion was a war-
cry and all reverent observance and decent ceremonial
in the worship of Gtxl became the object of contempt
and hatred. But it was more than this. There is a
necessary coiinection between doctrine and discipline.
And the rulers of the Church were too learned and
sagacious not to accept this as an axiom. They knew
full well that, to meet the necessities of man's complex
nature, spiritual truth requires to be incorporated with
forms, and ceremonies, and outward symbols, and that
rule and order are necessary to its existence. The Puritan
overlooked this» His was more a religion of feeling
than of obedience ; and technical creeds, and positive
enactments as to seasons and ceremonies, were, in hil
eyes, only chains and fetters which destroyed the free-
dcmi of an enlightened worshipper. But excesses as
gross as they were inconsistent in those who so loudly
damonred for the exercise of their own Christian liberty,
had accompanied the ascendancy of such views, and
wane too recent to be either forgotten or overlooked.
The line therefore which every devout and pious
churchman of that time might be expected to take would
be more especially on the side of rituatl order and ob-
aenrance. The hatred which the Puritans bore to forms
and ceremonies, their impatience of rule, and their re-
Inctanoe to subcnrdination were neither extinct nor para-
XXVI niTBODUCTIOK.
lyscd by the restontion of Af onarchy and Episcopacy :
and any tbing whicb tbrows ligbt upon tbc manner in
wbieh Cburcb principles were carried out, and in wbich
cburcb-men went to work to counteract I'uritanic in-
fluences can scarcely be re);ardcd as either useless or
uninteresting. The reader will be able to glean, in the
course of the pages which follow, some information of
this nature, in the diocese of which Cosin was Bishop,
and Granville Archdeacon, and subsequently Dean. It
is important, moreover, to bear in mind, that the prin*
ciples and practices which they inculcated and carried
out, with more or less success, were those of an older
school, wherein had been trained such men as Wren,
Bishop of Norwich, the saintly Herbert, Hammond, and
many others, who, though thoroughly opposed to the
spirit and practices of Puritanism, were yet unbending
enemies of the corruptions of the Church of Itome.
The'great strength of any Church must always lay in
her parochial ministrations, and the manner in which
they are carried out and discharged by those who m^rve
It her altars; and no document or work is uninteresting
which tends to throw light upon the manner in whic-h
the Clergy, at any period of the Church's histor}% have
performed their onlinary but all important functions.
( )f the manner in which parochial work was carried
out in the 17th i*entury we have been accustomed to
form some notion from the ideal picture which the han<l
of lietirge Herliert has trare<i in his ** Conmr Paiwox,"
a work of which the lapse of more than two centuries
has neither destroyed the charm nor remlercd obsolete
the instructive less4>ns. But in the course of the pages
which follow will tie found a very curious and instructive
doc!ument bearing upon this subject^ and afliNrding a
INTRODUCTION. XXVll
Iife-Iik6 picture, not imaginary but real, of what, in
modem phrase, would be called the working of a parish.
It is the paper of Directions already mentioned as having
been issued by Granville in 1669. to his Curates at
Easington and Sedgefield. The minuteness and par-
ticularity with which, in his double capacity of Rector
and Archdeacon, he enjoins the observance of rubrics,
the manner in which he enters into various details
respecting the services of the Church and the inter-
course of his Curates with the parishioners, the practical
common sense and evident sincerity of its tone, render
this a very valuable illustration, not only of the period
to which it belongs, but of the religious feeling and
character of the writer. Not one of the least interest-
ing indications of the latter is the recommendation he
gives his Curates to observe, ^^ as far as they shall be
able, the Venerable Mr. George Herbert's method and
rule, prescribed in his * Country Parson, or character of
an holy Priest,' which book," he goes on to say, " as I
recommend to all the Clergy in my Jurisdiction, so do I
more especially to my Curates, for their rule and direc-
tion in order to the exemplary discharge of their func-
tion, having always made it mine.'' A striking testi-
mony to the value of Herbert's book, a,nd to its popu-
larity as a compendium of pastoral theology. It is
worth remarking also, that high as were Granville's
Tiews and feelings on the subject of the passive obedi-
ence which some writers seem to imagine was the chief
and almost only doctrine preached by the clergy of his
school, we find little or no indication of any desire to
give it prominence in his parochial teaching. The
pulpit was, by his direction, to be " reserved for more
c2
xxYiii nmoDucnoM.
•ubstantiall and eisentuU truths, at the doctrines of
Faith, Itepentance, Loye, Obedience, Temperance, tcc/^
At the time these Directions were issoed Bishop Cosin
was still living, and prosecuting the work of reoonstnu>
tion in his Diocese. Some interesting testimonies to the
success of bis efforts are found in a diary kept by Granrille
in the year 1683, of which, unfortunately, only a small part
has been preserved. He details, amongst other things,
some conversations he bad with the Lord Primate of
Scotland, and that eminent person Sir William Dug-
dale. The latter appears to have entered into some
particulars respecting bis progress into the north, on
his heraldic visitation in the year lOGG, and ^^ spake
much in comendation of Bishop Cosins and I>r, Basiere,
highly comending the conformity of the place." The
IVimate eiprt'sses himself to the same effect, taking
occasion ^^ to repeate bis comendations of the good order
and conformity of our Diocesse, saying that Bishopp
Cosins was a great man, and an excellent governor.**
At the time that (tranville was recording these testi-
monies to the worth of that eminent prelate, twelve
years had passed away since bis removal (in 1671) from
the scene of bis labours. But bis strong and vigorous
mind had left its impress behind, and upon none more
strongly than his son-in-law and Archdeacon, Denis
Granville, who exempli6ed in his own person, and
strove to impress upon all who came within the sphere
of his influence, that strict conformitv which Cosin had
taken so much pains to enforce.
But it was evidently uphill work. ^ The exact con-
formity which Bishop Cosins set on foot *' in his dioctrse
was not easily maintained, and arguments were brought
INTRODUCnON. XXIX
against Dr. Granville's efforts to keep it up ^^ from the
practice of the generality of eminent^ clergy elsewhere,
and sometimes from the practice of the very Cathedrals.''
So we find him complaining to Sir William Dugdale.
Yet, in spite of all this, as compared with others the
diocese of Dmrham maintained a high position. We
find Granville telling his Sovereign that it was ^t with-
out dispute the most exemplary county for good order
and conformity of any in the nation."
His efforts were especially directed at this time to the
general and permanent establishment of three things,
viz. a strict observance of the 55th Canon with respect
to the use of Bidding Prayer, Daily Prayer in Parish
Churches, and Weekly Sacraments, at least, in Cathe-
drals. The first seems to have been a point of order
on which he laid great stress, even to the extent of per-
sonally pressing the subject upon the attention of his
Boyal Master*. Bishop Cosin had attached, as we
learn, considerable importance to it, for the obvious
reason that the semi-conformists, or puritanical party
of the Church of England, took advantage of the ab-
sence of any express rubric with respect to it, and pre-
faced their sermons with prayers of their own devising,
which, as Sir William Dugdale observed, " was a shibo-
leth whereby to distinguish the fanatic party, and that
if the liberty which ministers take, bee not seasonably
check'd, it may ones more runne down the liturgy f ."
With regard to the second the reader will find some
interesting observation in Granville's letter to Arch-
bishop Sancroft of the 26th Sept. 1683, wherein is
* Miscellaneous Correspondence, &c., p. 169.
t Ibid. p. 167.
XXX WTBODUCnOlf.
mentioned also a fact of tome importance, namely, thai
thnmgb his instrumentality Daily Prayers and Monthly
Sacraments were an established practice in the most
considerable country parishes of his Archdeaconry \
and that many other places could be prevailed upon
* It b worthy of obienratioo bow much psios were lakeo to obUaa
obedience to the Rubric which enjoiot Dailj Pnijer upon the Clergj.
A tenet of Article* were tent bj Archbtthop Saoeroft, in Julj 168H,
to til the Bithopt in hit Prtirince, for circuUtion tmongvt the Clerfj.
In one of tbete he recommemit, ** That thej perform the dailj office
publiclj in til mtrket and other grp«i towut, uid even in village* and
lett populout placet brin^; people to public prarert at frequentlj at
mar be: etpeciallj on tuch liajt and tt such timet at the Rubriet
and Canont appoint, on Holy />0yf, and their A*re», on Kmhtr and Ro-
pUiom Daft, on H'ieJmesJayt and Fridsyt in each wodi, and espectallj
in AJteni and Lent**
Nor wat the detire for a general obterranoe of thit practice ooo*
fined to thote churchmen who afWwanit became Non-jurom. Some,
at an? rate, amongtt thote who twore allegiance to Wiilian III.
were likeminded with them at to thit point, and indeed at to moti
other matter*, with the tole eiceptiou of the tubject of the Oath. A
Pattoral lietter of Arvhbijhop Sharp, who ■ucceoded Laapluj;h in
the See of York, in 10U1, contaitit a n*commenilation aimott identical
with the one jutt quoted from SancroA't Articlet. Bithop P^riek
tpeakt even nnire ttroci|(lj : — **The verj firtt thing in the Book of
Common Frajer detrnret to be tehoutlj oontiderod : where jou art
enjofned to tty Jlakly Iks Momimy mm J Kremimf Prmyer €%iher prmmi elf
or Oftrmly, moi beimy Ui by tickmtSM^ or some oihtr mryemi emus. It it
potBible, I am ture, to obtenre one part of thit injunction if jou ean*
not obtenre the other. That it, if jou cannot procure a eoogregatiaQ
to meet dailr in the Church ; jet jrou maj, and therefiire oQ^t« to
read the terrice of the Church in jour own familirt either prtomieiy
or openly, moi heimy Ui by su-l'meMS, or sowte oiker mryemi twmse ; nhicll
eann4»t happen errrr dar. Thit, if tolemnlj prrformrd, would be a
powerful mc*aiit to prrtenre an awful tente of God continuallj upoo
juur mindt. and Ui makr yomr§eiret mmJ yomr /mat$I%es ttkoisomts rjr*
mmtpUs to tkrjiock of Ckrut ; at Tou protniM'd to endcarour at jour
ordination/*- lA*ttrr Uy hit Clery^ bj Simon Patrick, Bithop of 13v.
Ixindon . printed fur Ric. Cbitarll. Mncicti.
INTRODUCTION. XXXI
^* to observe the like good ordier, if the Cathedral did
not authorize the breach of law in having no weekly
sacrament." To the restoration of the latter, therefore
he devoted all his strength, evidently regarding it as a
sort of main-spring upon which the orderly working of
the rest of the diocese very greatly depended. It was
a matter which for years he urged with the utmost per-
severance, not only, as he tells Sir William Dugdale,
" for the honour of God's service," but as being " the
only considerable matter in our Cathedral or Diocess
which Bishop Cosins left uncompleted." Of his anxiety
on the subject there are many indications in the follow-
ing pages, but it may not be out of place here to record
also some extracts from his letters on the subject to his
friend Dr. Comber, which are given in the Life of that
Divine, now a very scarce book. He speaks of waiting
upon the Archbishop of York concerning his " great
affair about the weekly sacrament, which above all other
matters oppresses his mind." He has Dr. Beveridge's
warm sympathy. " I am told," he adds, " by Dr. Beve-
ridge that it is intended to have one, when St. Paul's is
rebuilt, in that Cathedrall; and by the Dean of Canter-
bury that they are likely soon to set one up in their
church, which will have a great influence on all the
cathedrals in the kingdom. Dr. Beveridge his devout
practice and order in his church, doth exceedingly edify
the city, and his congregation encreases every week : he
hath seldom less than fourscore, sometime six or seven
score communicants, and a great many young appren-
tices, who come there every Lord's day with great devo-
tion. The doctor approves of my honest designes, and
hath confirmed mee very much in my resolutions, and
xxxn ncTRODucnoK.
will bee I promiM mvselfe a very uieful friend to mee *.**
In another letter he urges on I>r. Comber to aMitt him,
in the roott strenuous terms. ^* To retume to mv old
topick of pushing on the trtekl}/ socramefit^ jou and I
are more particularly concerned in this good worke than
any other clerg}'men that I know of in the whole pro-
rinoe, and I am certaine that it it the expectation of
severall clergy and devout people in these parts that wee
should doe more than others. You are looked upon to
bee the greatest champion for the Common Prayer-
Itooke in the whole country, (nay, perchance in all
England;) and I am considered as one of the more
exac*t observers of the rubrick, and sticklers for con*
formity ; ami I dare without pride or vanity owne thai
I am an heartv lover of the booke, and have in mee
some innate love of order. Really, l>r. Comber, this is
a great and excellent worke, and will doe God more
service than all your past labours or my past indeavours
since our fintt coming int4) the ministry. It will have
a wonderfull influence over all the north, and shame the
oth<T cathtHirallrt into the like practice : which aocom*
panied with such a circular letter as my L#ord of Can*
terbury intends to nend to the bishops of his owne pro-
vint*e, would in a powrrfull manner preach to all the
inferior clergy* not only fre<}uent communion, but exact
c«niformity. Without doubt these means that are of
(*hrist*s <iwne institution, and the inaim|)arable esta-
bliiihed onler of our owne church (the most incom-
parable and um^xceptionable institution in all Christen*
dome, ) are the most probable means to revive religion,
* Conbrrt hdt of i ombcr, p. 17i>.
' INTRODUCTION. XXXlll
deyotion, oonformity and loyalty in the land*. The
Editor of Dr. Comber's life does not give the dates of
these letters, but from the place assigned them in his
volume they were in all probability written in 1683, the
year in which, as we learn from his Journal, and other
sources, Grranville was especially engaged in urging the
necessity of this return to exact conformity, upon the
highest authorities in the Church. His representations
were not without their weight. Weekly Communion
was soon afterwards established ^^ in the Metropolitical
Church of Canterbury, as appears from a letter of Dr.
Tillotson, Dean of Canterbury, still extant f," and in
1685 " the Archbishop of York issued his commands to
have the holy Sacrament administered every Lord's day
in the cathedral at York, and on the 26th April this
laudable practice first began J." A letter from Dr.
Granville to his friend Comber is written in the most
enthusiastic terms on the receipt of this intelligence,
declaring that ^^hee is ready to absolve him from all
his sins for the comfortable news hee sends him of the
weekly sacrament being set up in the cathedrall at
Yorke." And in the Cathedrd of Durham, also, his
perseverance in the revival of "this long sleeping
rubric," as Comber calls it, was at length successful §.
From a letter addressed by Granville to Archbishop
Sancroft in October, 1685, we find that an Injunction
had recently been issued by the Bishop for its restora-
tion. The position he had then attained as Dean of
• Comber's Life of Comber, p. 182. ^ t Ibid. p. 184.
X lb. p. 204. It fell into desuetude, however, in the course of the
next oenturj. Archbishop Harcourt ordered its resumption in 1841.
§ In this Cathedral, as far as the Editor is aware, its observance
has never since been intermitted.
d
xxxir iJCTRoDrcnox.
Durham no doubt ailded weif^ht to his rqircscntationt
on the subject.
To this (iif^nity he was promoted in December 1G84,
on the dtH*eaiie of Dr. John Sudbur\\ whose health had
lonf; been failinfi^. The likelihood of a speedy racancr
occasioned somewhat of a struf^gle for the fpre^i prefer-
ment which he held. The powerful interest of the Karl
of Ilath had lieen exerted some time previously to secure
the Deanery for his brother, in opposition to the scarcely
less powerful interest of the Bishop of Durham, who was
etjually anxious to secure it for his nephew, Dr. Moo-
taf^e. The letters which the Bishop aildresse^l on the
subject to his Chanc(*llor, Sir Kichanl Lloyd, are both
curious and amusinf^. In these he dilates at some lenfrth
upon the relative advantafjes and disadvantaf^ of the
I>eanery of Durham and the Mastership of Sherbum
Hospital, a preferment which l>r. Montague already
held, and tries to induce I>r. (iranville to content himself
with Sherbum when his nephew should be advanced to
the I>eanery. Sherbum, however, presented its attrac*
tions in vain : the Bath interest prevailed over that of
Crewe, in spite of some opposition on the part of San*
croft, and Denis (iranville was installed I^ean of Dor*
ham, n*tainin); also his An*hdeaconry, and the Itectoriea
of Kasinj^on and Stnlp^field. His ai*(*ession to this
dif^ity cn'ate<l a vacancy in his prebendal stall, which
was filled up by the appointment of his m*phew Sir
Georfje Wheler.
The restoraticm of WiH»kly Communion in the Catbe*
dral of Ihirham was, as wv have seen, the first act of
importance whirh he acxHimplishtHl after his aci*t*ssion
Ui his new di^rnity. To this he stNin addi^l a further
revival of antient pnu*ticv: — the preachiiii? of sermons
INTRODUCTION. XXXV
in the Cathedral on the Wednesdays and Fridays in
Advent and Lent. The Dean himself preached the
opening sermon on the 2d Dec. 1686, being the first
Wednesday in Advent in that year. It was afterwards
published. It would appear that a similar course of
sermons during those seasons was at that time the prac-
tice of the Metropolitical Church of York, and had for-
merly been customary in the Cathedral of Durham.
Much of the subsequent miscellaneous correspondence
at this period relates to arrangements which were made
for the gradual liquidation of his incumbrances out of
the revenues of the Deanery. Nevertheless from re-
ferences which occur to subjects of more public interest
we see how matters were then tending. In June 1687 we
find that the Dean was in London, and he tells us of his
having been ^^ sorely attaqued at York, and all along the
road by the voters for non-addresses to the King," but
he can discern nothing substantial in the arguments by
which they sought to bring him to their views *. In
March of the following year the King was on the eve of
issuing his second Declaration of Indulgence, that fatal
measure which proved how wrongly he had estimated
his own strength, and his subjects' submission and
patience. In the midst of much censure the Dean of
Durham had nevertheless prepared himself to follow out
* Amongst those who '' attaqued " him Dr. Comber, no doubt, was
one. Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, had urged the Dean of York to
use bis utmost endeavours to prevail upon his Chapter to send an
Address of thanks to the King for his Declaration of Indulgence, (of
the 4th April 1687) but Dr. Comber " so eflTectuallj opposed this
attempt that not a single individual set his hand to the address.** —
See Comber's Life of Comber, p. 237. Dr. Comber appears to have
accompanied Dean Granville on his journey to London.
d2
XXXTI IXTKODUCnoN.
the prinriples he had always profeMed and taught, viz.
ail implicit oUnlience to the commandii of his iSovereign :
— '^if the King goes beyond his commission, he most
answer for it to God, but Tie not deface one line thereof.
Ijoi my liege and dread Sovereign intend to do what he
pleas(*s to me or mine. Yet my hand shall never be
upon him, so much as to cut off the skirt of his garment.
In this Magna ( 'liarta aim*d at by the King for esta-
blishing his I Ktrlaretion, our n*ligion will lie established
in the first place, and others incaimcitated to hurt us as
much us we to hurt them. And if we can*t be put into
better circumstances without resisting the King in lawful
i^ommands, there is no remetly but Christian patience *.*'
Consistently with these sentiments, which, in his case,
were not those (»f a men* sycophantic time-server, like
his Bishop ((*rewe) the I>ean was one of the few clerg}*
men who obeytnl the King*s order, and read the DecUu^*
tion.
In the autumn of Hixy^ the intelligence that the
IVincv of i >rang«* was pn*iMiring an armament for the
invasion of Kiigland nruihed the ears of the lK*an of
Ihirham. Anxious to vindicate the antient reputation
for loyalty of the Hishtiprick of Durham, the Iran's first
care was to establish, if it were possible, the (Nirishioneni
of his omntry cures in his own high principU*s of ^* nub-
jtvtion and allegian<*e to their Sovcrei^i, »hewing them
that subjects were upcm no considernticm whats^wwr,
neither of religion, lilierty, nor life, to resist or des«»rt
their lawful S»ven*igii, tho* he wen* no better than such
a one St. Paul livinl under, when be writ the Kpistle to
the K(»mans, not only a heathen, but a cruel |M*rset*ut<ir,
* MiacellAncotw l\irrr»|ioiidriicr, |». '2M
INTBODUCTION. XXXVU
a Nero, a Caligula, or a Dioclesian : and that subjects
to a Christian Prince, and to a prince soe mercifuU and
gracious as ours, by consequence would be more guilty,
if they should rebell against or resist him, merely be-
cause he professed a different religion *."
He then repaired to his Deanery at Durham, and
^^ summoned his brethren the Prebendaryes together
into their Chapterhouse," for the purpose of laying
before them the duty which he conceived was incum-
bent on them all to assist the King in his present
exigency " with their purses, as well as their prayers."
All present complied with the Dean's proposition, and
an Act in Chapter was passed granting 700/. for his
Majesty's service; 100/. from the Dean and 50/. from
each of the Prebendaries, to which all who were absent
from Durham at the time, with one exception, gave
their assent by letter. The Bishop being absent in
London, Granville next called the Clergy of his Arch-
deaconry together, to confirm, if it might be, the loyalty
of the wavering, and to do all that in him lay, as he
somewhat pathetically expresses it, ^^ to awaken those
out of their sin whom he could not confirm in their
duty." In the course of the Address he delivered to
them he eames^y set before them the duty of assisting
t^eir Sovereign at the impending crisis, and of securing
their flocks by every means in their power from being
seduced by the arguments of his enemies.
The Dean was further anxious that his brethren
of the Chapter and the Magistracy of the County
should have united with him in a loyal address to the
King, expressive of their horror of the invasion with
which his dominions were threatened, but the pro-
• Letter to the Earl of Bath, p. 67.
XXXTUl llfTRonUCTIOlf.
pufiition was coldly rcceired, and he was obligixl to
satisfy himself by forwarding; to his Majesty his own
personal assurances of devoted allegiance. This addreM
was intercept4*d at York, and fell into the hands of the
Karl of Danbv. and the other adherents of the Prince of
Orange, who hail already seized upon that city, and
^^were some of them advancing northwards to secura
Durham and Newcastle.'* A fruitless attempt was made
by Granville to induce the Magistrates and Itcpoly
Lieutenants to take mea^iurcs to check this advanoei
and Durliam was entennl by Ixird Lumley with a small
force on the 5th of I>ein»mlier, whilst the Dean was
preaching one of the Advent sermons in the Cathedral.
No opposition was offeriHl. The Dean was summoned
to deliver up his arms and horses, and on refusal was
confined within the walls of the Deanery during the
occupation of the city by the friends of the invader.
The IVince of Orange's I>ei*laration having been pub-
licklv read bv I^)rd Lumlev at the Castle and the
• • •
Market Cnias, and sanctioned by the presence of most
of the countr}' gentry, he was encimraged to demand
ailmittanix* into Newcastle, but meeting with opposition
to this farther ailvance he withdrew to York. The
iKmn now stood alone, or nearly so, ^ an adherent
of James, but mounted the Cathe<lral pulpit on the
following Sunclay, with unabated courage, to discharge
his c*onscienci* by pn*ac'hing another ^^ seasonable, loyall
sermon .... to |ieniuaile the memliers of that church
and all the auditor}*, t<i stand firm to their allegiance in
that day of temptation, an<l never to joyn in the least
waves with that horrid n*bellion whirh was at that time
sett on f(N)t in the nation *.** Mattt*rs however wore a
* Sec tbcM* imo HmDOfia here^tier. pp 9 ami *i3.
INTRODUCTION. XXXIX
hopeless aspect as far as James' cause was concerned,
and Granville began to despair of being of any further
service to his Sovereign by remaining at his post. His
personal liberty appears also to have been in some
danger, and after much consideration he finally resolved
upon flight.
Accordingly, at midnight of the 11th of December
Dean Granville quitted the walls of the Deanery, never
again, as it proved, to re-enter them.. His journey to
Carlisle, his reception there, and the hardships he un-
derwent before he could pursue his way to Edinburgh,
are graphically described by him in his letter to his
brother, the Earl of Bath. Soon after his arrival in
Edinburgh an opportunity offered of embarking for
France, of which he readily availed himself, being
anxious above all things to join his Sovereign. On the
19th of March he landed at Honfleur, where he had the
mortification of learning that he had arrived the very
day after James' departure from Brest for Ireland. His
stay here was of short duration, for on the 25th of the
same month he departed for Rouen, where he took up
his abode with Mr. Thomas Hackett, an English mer-
chant resident in that city, from whom he appears to
have experienced no ordinary kindness and attention.
In this city he resided at intervals for several years,
occupjring himself during the earlier part of the time in
committing to the press the Farewell Sermons and Let-
ters which are now reprinted. In February 1689-90 he
undertook " a hazardous journey into England," "whereby
he got a small sum of money to subsist awhile abroad
tho' with much trouble and danger, occasioned
him by an impertinent and malitious postmaster, who
discovered him in Canterbury." From a letter addressed
Xl INTBODUCnoK.
to Sancroft after h\» arrival in Knglancl it is eTidenl
that he had entirely withdrawn himself from all com-
munion with those who had taken the oath to the
new Sovon*igns •.
I lis determination on this point was not to be shaken.
Throu(i[h the inten^st of his brother the Karl of liath,
who, grievously to the I Hum's mortificaticm and sorrow,
hail sullie<l, as he det»m€*d it, the hitherto stainless loy-
alty of the house of (iranville by espousing the cause of
the usurper, he is sai<l to have been enabled for somo
time to retain his revenu(*s. But after his olistinate
refusal to take the (mth« he was stripped of his prefer*
nM^nts on the 1st February- ItiOO-I, the dav fixed bv Act
of Parliament for the deprivation of all those clergy wlui,
up to that date, should have refused compliance with the
conditions which it impose<l.
"The deanery of Durham, va^^ated by \hr. Granville,
was offenKl to Mr. Samuel Johnson, the noted author of
the pamphlet entitliHl 'Julian the AiHMtate/ but he re-
fuM^I it, as not adt^|uate to his merits. In 16^9 the
lK*an*s giMMls and chattels were distrained by the Sheriff
of the County, in cfms4H}uence of his pecuniary embar-
rassments, and Sir Geo. Wheler purchased his library
• Sr* ftlM) hifl ''(\mcludinff obtrrrmtiont,** p. 138. Tlis Xoo-
jun»r» wpTp difidt*«i in thrir opiniofu m to thtg p«Nnt, but ibe m^
jiiritT frit tliat ihrr oui;ht iitit rrrn to ftp|)(*mr to join in the |irm?rri
that WITT now offrrrd in iht* churrhM for William and Marr. Han*
cruA'fl Tiriri upon the tubji^t were rrnr ttroni;. '^ScTenilof tbe
prindpsl Non-jurorv haTini; attended the aenrire in the Cbapel al
Ijunbeih Palace, une of them ai^tin aakrd hit »piiiion aa to the pi>inl
of tbrir attending the public •enicv of tb<* (*hurrh. lie imniediatelT
gate tbia deciMte answer : that if thej did. thrv would nc«ti the ab>
•olutifm at the end, aa well aa the beginning, of the terrier.** —
irOjiy9 Life oftkncroft, i. 46h
INTRODUCTION. xli
for £221 •. That Mrs. Granville was reduced to great
distress on this sad occasion is proved by the following
order: *Dec. 8. 1690. Whereas upon a complaint made
to the Chapter on the behalf of Madam Anne Granville,
wife of Dr. Granville, Dean of this Cathedral, that it
appears that she is left destitute and unprovided for her
present subsistence, it was therefore in compassion to
• In the following extract from a letter to H. Wanley from Dr.
Smith, Prebendary of Durham, the learned !E!ditor of Bede, we have
an account of a portion of the Dean's Library. '* The best collection
we have of Bibles and Common-prayer books in this place is that
which was made with a great deal of pains by the late Dean Ghranville,
and is now in the library of our excellent friend Sir G. Wheler, by
whose leave I have extracted for you what follows in order as they
stand in their places. 1. Queen Elizabeth's Bible, with Cranmer's
preface, &c. Imprinted at London by Chr. Barker, 1578. Fol. (with
distinction of verses). 2. Queen Elizabeth's Bible, imperfect to f. x.,
and from f. xcix. (without distinction of verses). 3. Tiudale's trans-
lation of -the Bible (in lesser fol.) with his prefaces, &c., printed
by John Daye, 1651. Dedicated to the King by Bdm** Beck.
4. Bichard Tavemer's translation, printed by John Byddel for
Thomas Barthlet, 1539, fol. minor., and dedicated to the King.
5. Another Edition of Tindale, in a larger letter, with his prologues,
but printed the same year as above, 1551. Imperfect both in the
beginning and ending. 6. Another edition of Tindal, with Beck's
dedication, notes, <Sx;., printed by John Day and William Seres, 1549.
7. King James's Bible, printed by Eobert Barker, 1616. 8. King
Henry 8^*' Bible of the largest volume, overseen and perused by
Cuthbert, Bishop of Durham and Nicolas, Bishop of Bochester,
printed by £i. Grafton, 1541, with Cranmer's preface. 9. Bible in
quarto, of a different translation, but yet inscribed Tindale's. Imper-
fect. 10. Bible translated by Miles Coverdale, without beginning or
ending. Of Common-prayer-books here is (as I take it) ah entire
aett, 80 I need not particularize. And thus, Sir, you have all I am
able to send you from hence, which I hope will however be some
testimony of the good will of, Sir, your assured friend and humble
servant, Johh Smith.— Durham, Mar. 19. 1708-9."— Letters to
H. Wanley. Vol. v. Harleian Coll. 3781.
e
ilii INTHODtCnOS.
her ncccttitiM ordered that Mr. Treasurer for the time
boin)^ shall allow and pay her twenty pounclii quarterly
(to hi* reckone<l fnim Michaelmas last past) out of the
Dean's revenues/ < hi the appointment of I>r. Comber to
be Dean, ibis onler was renewtnl •."
The acceptance of the lK»anerj* by Ih*. (omlier, a
man with whom he hail associatcHl for years on terms of
the most intimate friendship, was deeply felt by Gran*
ville, who bitterly writes to Ik^-eridge that he ^^ hath at
last pro(*laim'<l to all the world that he lov*d my bene*
fices better than he did my person/* To the last he
regarded him as an intrmter, and fmm time to time he
wn>te to him from France, reminding his former friend
that he considered him only in the light of his steward,
and that on the restoration of his Sovereign and his
own c*onsequcnt n'sumption of his prc^fcrments he should
look to him for a strict account of all the monies he
had received in the capacity of iK^an of Durham f.
After the defeat of .lames in Ireland, IV. (tranrille
repaire<l to the fallen monanh^s court at St. (termain't,
where his devotion to his Itoyal Master's cause might
fairly have entitled him to have looke<l for a kind
re(*eption. But his firm and unalterable attachment to
his '' Mother the (*hun*h of Kngland/* as he <lelights to
call her, stcMMl in the way. lie was ^'slightinl by the
bigotiHl IViiKv for whom he hatl forfeititl everj- worldly
piss4*ssion because he would nc»t alsii abandon hb
religion J/'
It is said, indtn^K that ufion the death of I>r. I^imp*
lugh that he hail the empty title of An^hbishop of York
• Zoucb*8 Life of WMcr. Works, ro\. ii. p. 170.
t Seo 1 ombrr'i Lifr of ComSrr. pp. 309 aiid S3i.
: Surt€<*s* llitt. Durham, I. 12.
INTRODUCTION. xliii
conferred upon him by James ; but this, if true, forms
a solitary exception to the ungracious manner in which
he, and the other members of the Church of England
were treated, by the master for whom they had sacrificed
so much. They were desirous, not unnaturally, of
having a chapel assigned them at St. Germain's "for
the exercise of their worship according to the Church of
England ; and proposed Dr. Granville as a fit person to
be their chaplain : they urged the great incouragement
such a toleration would give to his adherents in England,
and what satisfaction it would be to such Protestants as
followed him : but tho' common policy, and his circum-
stances made every body believe that this request would
be easily granted, yet it was positively denied, and Dr.
Granvile obliged not only to retire from court, but also
firom the town of St. Germain, to avoid the daily
insults of the priests, and the dreaded consequences of
the jealousies with which they posses't King James'
court against him *." *
"In 1695 he came incognito to England, but soon
returned." No allusion to this visit is found in his
correspondence. Its object was, in all probability, to
obtain some pecuniary assistance f .
• View of the Court of St. Germain, p. 6. Quoted in the Biog.
Brit. Art. Denifl Granville. " None of his Protestant followers were
Ousted. Colonel Cannan refusing to join the Church of Eome was
reduced to a very small allowance. Being sick, he received the
Sacrament of Dr. Granville, hut some priests actually thrust a wafer
down his throat after he hecame insensible, and published that he
died a member of the Church of Bome. It seems that the priests,
and no doubt the King approved, endeavoured to bring over every
Protestant to their own Church." — Macky's Memoirs, xxxvi., xliii.
Quoted by Lathbury, Hist, of the Non-jurors, p. 110.
f A plan was set on foot by Mr. KcttleweU in this year for the
relief of the Non-juring clergy, many of whom were reduced to great
e2
xliv INTW>DLCTI(>N.
Aftor loavin^; St. (uTmain he rctirwl to Corbeil, a
place which |H»HS4»ssiHl inten*st in h\» eye« as havinf^
foriiuHl part of the |N>HHosi»i(iiw of his remote anct*storB«
and where he appt^an to have met with respect and
attention an the (li*srenclant of one of its ancient lortls.
In a U'tter written from this plaice in 1702, of which
only a {M)rtion has lieen pn'M»r\'(Hl« and which was pro*
Imhly addn*sH4Hl to his nephew. Sir Cicor^^ Wheler, he
a4*knowKHl|{eH the nH*eipt of '' a si^asonahle supply of
iJO/./' and HH'ounts with some de^jret? «>f quiet humour
the tlrjtaf^rnm'Ns attending u{Mm his rheumatic attacks,
and the attempts which were made to i^onvert him to
the faith of the Chun*h of Rome. It is somewhat
affectin): to read this, the hist {Mirtitm (»f his correspond*
ence which has \wvn pn*s4Tved, an<l to mark the cdd
man's unhmken spirit, the chcvrfuhit^ss with which he
writes, and his unwavering attachment in {xiverty and
exile to the Church at nhosi* altars he had S4*n'e<l.
('optroven»ial sul»jects ap{K*ar to have Uvn pressed
ufMin him hy the pri<*sth<MMl of th<* placv with c»fficious
{MTtinacity, hut ht» n^fuM'^I to In* drawn int4» disputation,
and their endea\oars w«*re utterly futile. He ilieil, as he
had livi*d, ;i true and ^enuim* S4>n (»f the (*hurch of
Kntrland.
We dcri\i* the foIlDuin;: account of his last hours
from a MS. note written hy I>r. KaMJinson in his t*opy
of the '• Fan^wcll S*»rmons, &c."
'•I>r. <tranville sickenM on Thursday the 1 2th of
in«|ii:rnc«*. It ma« uiirtioniNl h\ the drprmii lii*hi>pii. but tS«>u|^
ni»thiiii; ci>ul«I »«*11 Kt» ni'iH' h.inu]fft» ttiaii tr.r |ini«'^*«Miini*. «t nt-trr-
thclrpfi ririt«*«i tht* jrali'UKT *»( ihv (ftivi-nirnrnt. an-i Hmhcp Km ««•
iuuininiM'ii brforr thr Vn\j I'uunt-tl l«i aunwrr itTtAin intrm>ir»t' •nr«
rrtiMx-tiug It. Sn' I^thbun't llitt of th«* Nuii-jur\rn. |> lt>:i.
INTRODUCTION. xlv
April, 1703, N. S., continued ill that night and the
next day (at Corbeil, 7 leagues from Paris, upon the
Seyne, in the way to Fontainebleau, where he commonly
resided, and was much' delighted with the place, and
the rather because he there discovered the original of
his ancestors). On Saturday the 14th finding himself
something better, he went to his lodgings at Paris, upon
the Fossed St. Victoire. On Sunday the 16th the ague
or fever retum'd, continued the 16th and 17th, and on
Wednesday the 18th at 6 in the morning he dyed,
and was privately bury'd in consecrated ground within
the city of Paris *, either that or next night, [by Dr.
Taylourf, from whom I took this account June 9th
1713.] attended by Mr. Thomas Higgins his nephew and
some few of his acquaintance of the Church of England."
Dr. Granville never had any family. Little allusion
to his wife occurs in the correspondence. From the
memorandum quoted by Dr. Zouch from the Act Book
of the Dean and Chapter of Durham as to the pension
allowed her by that Body, it would appear that she bad
not followed her husband in his exile.
A portrait of the Dean, after Beaupoille, engraved by
the famous Edelinck, is prefixed to the copy of hi&
^^ Farewell Sermons, &c." in the Bodleian, and is marked
as one of the rarest prints in the British Series J. An
* Another MS. note hj Dr. Eawlinson tells ns that the place of
his interment was the lower end of the H0I7 Innocents' Church
jud in that city.
t •* Of Seyenstoke in Worcestershire, and a Non-juror. Vide the
Appendix to Eettlewell's Life." — Note by Dr. Eawlinson.
X The print has the following inscriptions. Bound the portrait,
"DiosTSius GsAiTTiLLS, Decanus Dunelmensis. ^t. su^ 54.
Beaupoille pinxit. G. F. Edelinck sculp.*' Below, " Impensis Thorns^
Haoquet, Botomagensis hospitis.*' Underneath is a shield, with the
xlvi INTnODLCTIOH.
impression from the name plate is similarly prefixed to
the eopy in the British Museum, with a note telling; us
that ''The print of I>r. (iranville was the pft of the
n'lipous Lady Joanna ThonihilK sister of I Van Granville^
to I>r. Smith, afterwanls Provost of (Queen's College.'*
The {Kirtrait is rhararteristir and is Ix^autifully enj^ved.
In a letter aiddn*ss4*d to his nephew Mr. Itevill Gnm*
ville, u|H)n his enterin<; intn holy (»rders« I^ird I.4insdowiie
has drawn the I Kuan's character in the following
eulopstir terms: — "You had an unrle, I>r. IVnnu
(iranville, lK*an of Ihirham. whose nu*morv' I shall ever
n*ven»; make him your example. Sanctity sat so easy,
so una(fiH*t4Hl, and so ^racvful u{Mm him, that in him we
lM*lield the v«*r}' lM*auty of holiness. He was as ehearful,
as familiar, ami <*i>nilescc>ndin^, in his rfmven»ation, as
he was strict, n^ular, and exemplar}' in his piety: as
well hre<l and ac*(*i»mplished as a ccmrtier; as reTerend
and venerable as an aiMwtle: he was indeed in every
thing a|)ostolic*al, for he aliamloned all to follow hb
lortl and master. Mav vcm resemble him! Ma? be
• • •
n*vive in you ! May his spirit descvnd upcm you, as
Klijah's u{)im Klisha! and may the gn^at (iod of hearen,
in guiding, directing, ami stn*ngthening your picMis
n'solutions, {)our down his licst and choicest blessings
u|K)n you •."
(iraii^illi* b«-ani)ir«. Kaun;* an iiiBcnptiun on rithrr niile an fullow*:-—
*' 1. .S-n*niA»uiiUiu l>>itiiiiiutn Jarobum S4<cuiiJutii Mai;ii» lintAnoi*
li4-;:im M^utuAtit 111 (fA^iiaMi. Anno IG^s. *1. Pn^ptrr fiJrliUtm
»iiam I^itiitiiti |{<*i*i l'rinri)M- Armuiiaiviiiii i\fn»iuim Ani;lur UMiqMuate
d(*|irnatiu tuit. Auim lolU."
* I««»nl I.»n»il<i«fio't lrtt«-r «:ki« |iu1»1i4K4h1 iti th<* |in*fftcr to a
|>afn{>hu't I'lititlri " All fh'fuin «hrtlit«r \\.v l**in«taii riiun^'O u of
All) Iti'tif'tit. i»r tmli an uM-ful) tMUMtiutlit^ t4» \ tntiiu|* iimtioii. bf«>.
L(»n(iun 1 7112. rnnUxl for Wratcr Uickrrt«in.'*
INTRODUCTION. xlvii
Due allowance must be made for the partiality of a
near kinsman, and consequently for expressions which
may be allowed to wear the aspect of exaggeration; but
in spite of the infirmities and consequent errors which
often accompany an ardent and impetuous temperament,
there was a substratum of genuine excellence in the
Dean's character which went far to justify the warm
and laudatory expressions of his affectionate nephew.
Nascitur a sociis is a trite and well worn proverb, and
we may be well assured that men like Beveridge and
Comber would not have given their friendship to one
who had not many qualities of mind and heart in unison
and accordance with their own undoubted excellence
and real piety. Of the sincerity of the Dean's religious
feelings there can be little doubt, and their outward
expression, it is almost unnecessary to say, was ever in
subordination to the rules and ordinances of his spiritual
mother the Church of England. His devoted attach-
ment to that Church and his unswerving loyalty to an
ungrateful Sovereign are indeed traits in his character
which cannot be over-estimated, and to which it is
impossible for any one to refuse his meed of approbation.
The sacrifice of interest to conscience is a thing which
must ever command admiration.
Without making any pretence to deep learning. Dean
Granville was evidently no contemptible scholar, and
possessed natural abilities of no mean order. He
appears to have devoted some attention to liturgical
studies ; to the prosecution of which " the good advice
which he had many times from Bishop Cosins," and
also, as it would seem, from Bancroft, appears to have
inclined him. We have an interesting testimony to his
desire of furthering the growth of learning among the
Xl viii IKTRciDrCTK ).V.
younger clergy of the diocx^sc in a letter from Sir (ieorge
Wh«*ler to the Rev. Ilamond Beaumont*, who had been
(iranville*ri C'uratir at Se<l;^efield, dated Augutit 19th,
1(>03. After alluding to the ''pious and devout temper'*
which diMtinguif(he<l the iK^an when an under-graduate
at Oxford, ai» testifunl by Bishop ( n*we, and to bin zeml
in the restoration (»f the Wt^ekly Sacrament in the
Cathedral of hurham, he gtH^s cm to speak of '* his pur-
pose to make the ( athedral the great S4*minar}' of young
Divines for the I>i<ii^'ss4*; and to this end, to invite
ingenuous young men to \h* Minor-Canons, he got this
onler {Mist in Chapter, that what preferment the (*hapter
had to disiMMk* of, the Minor-( an(»ns, according to their
seniority, meritts, and <tes4»rts, should have the option
liefore any other; and to further them in their studies,
did intend them the use of the College librar}' ; and that
they might continue a regtdar and cM>llegiate life, had
often thoughts of pitting them KMlgings enacted in the
Collwlgef." In c<mnexion with this it may bi* obwTred
that his (*urat«Hs np{M*ar to have rei*<'iv4Hl from him
s^miewhat of a domi^tic and iiermmal training. Soma
{lassagi^s in the pages whi(*h follow lead to the inference
that they formed {mrt of his hous4*hold ^, often acting as
his nmanueuMni, and no doubt re<vivinsr directions from
him as to the prosivuti<m of their studies §.
* llaniond IWumont hm onUtocd lK*«inin sod licmecd m Curate
of Sut^m on the Forvst of (»mltrv«, irith MatcH, IGOj.^iix %m/orm :
C li H.
t Surt****** II iff. I>urluun. I. 175.
X «S«e, III partiruUr, tho I^rao'i Ix*ttcr to hit ('urates, p. 123.
I It !• pn»bAblc* that this «aji not a yvrj unusiuiJ thi&K amoiifil
th« churi*hiii^n of that pcnod. Thr f«illufiifi(; ritract fnmi Um
c«*rTr«|>.ii)(lciici* bf'tfitvn (tnuivillt* and Hr. i\imlM*r would wt^m to
jtuttfr this »u|>|HMition. S|M*aktng uf Mr. I^Affchaa, a bruClier* in-law
INTRODUCTION. xHx
The Editor does not conceive it necessary to oflfer any
remarks upon the motives or reasons by which the Dean
was actuated in refusing to recognize the Prince of
Orange as Eing, and in submitting to the deprivation of
his preferments which followed that course of conduct.
The merit of consistency at all events must be allowed
him. He tells us himself that " his, religion and loyalty
were not of the new cut," and that for six and twenty
years previous to the abdication of James he had upheld
the principles which led him then to abandon every
thing to follow his Master, " valuing his innocency and
quiet of conscience more than' the best *Bishoprick and
Deanery in England." Of the validity of the arguments
by which he fortified himself in the course which he
adopted difierent notions will be entertained according
to the political bias of the reader. No one, probably, in
the present day, will be found so far imbued with the
of the latter, the Dean writes : — '* I am persuaded that to be your
aasiatant for a year or two in your cure, and you superintend his
ttudies, and make him a complete churchman, would bee most eligible,
and I see nothing to contradict it but camall reasoning. I am of
opinion that if he had not been diverted from his designe of living
with mee some time at Easington (though hee would not have had
halfe the advantage as by living with you, in point of learning and
^ecolative divinity,) it would have been more profitable for him than
the taking upon Um such a cure as you have in view for him. Not
doubting of the reality of what I say, I have invited my nephew, Sir
QeoTgd Wheeler (who writ the Travels and went into orders last
year,) to come and live with mee, and officiate for mee in the same
eticnmstances that Mr. Purchas was to have done. Sure I am itt
will bee noe nnvnse thing in mee to secure him, as I should thereby
eDJoy the company and assistance of a learned and pious coadjutor,
with whom I should bee the better pleased, because hee is an hearty
lover and honaurer of my Master Comber ^ and a zealous studier of his
CommoD-Fhiyer Book."— Comber's Life of Comber, p. 181.
f
I ISTRoDrCTlOS.
tM»ntimont8 of a party t»o totally extinct as the Non-
jun)r8 as to mx^inl his unqualified assent to all the
ponitions which they held ; and few now can fail to tee
that, in spite of much that was douhtful, nay e?en
morally wron^% in the conduct of the chief actors and
leaders in the Kevoluticm of l(i8H, it yet inaugurated
for this rauntry, under the overruling hand of Dinne
Providemt^ an era of {Militical frtHnlom, and of conse-
quent moral and tUM-ial progress, uniH)ualled in any
previous {KTitNl of our Country's history.
IltHiides the *' Farewell Sermons, &c." which form
part of the present volume, the Dean puhlishe^l the
followini; works: — 1. The (*omplcat ( onformist; or sea-
sonable Advii^e concerning strict C onforraity and frequent
celebration of the Holy Communion, preached on the
7th of Jan. liein^ the first Sunday after the Kpiphany,
l<iH2, in the Cathedral Church of Durham; on .John
i. 29. I^mdon: XOH-l. 4to. To which is adde<U Advice :
or a lA»tter written to the Clcr^^ of the Anhdeactmrj* of
Durham, iu the same pur{)ose. 2. Sermon preai*hed in
the CathiMlral Church of Durham, up<m the Revival of
the anticnt, laudable Practice of that, and some other
(atluHlrals, in having; Sennons on Wednesdays and
Fridays, during Advent and Ix^nt: on Uom. xiii. 11.
I^mdon: IGhU, 4to. This S»rmon was preached on the
2nd of I>ec. It5h5, U^ing the first VVeilnewlay in Advent.
3. Counsel ami diretrtions divine ami moral: In plain
and familiar I^'tters of Advii-e to a young (Jentleman
his Nephew, s<M>n after his Admission int4i a College in
Oxon. I^ondon: lOsri. >^vo.
The Kditor U»gs to a<*knowliHlge, on the |>art of the
SrRTKi> Sh'iety, the courtinms ^*adinc^s with which
the lV*an and Chapter of Durham allowetl a transcripl
INTRODUCTION. ll
to be made of the various contents of the MS. Collection
entitled " Deane Granville " now edited. It would be
ungrateful if he did not likewise record his own indi-
vidual thanks to that Body for the liberal access at all
times permitted him to other Books and MSS. in their
Library, a privilege which has enabled him to furnish
the illustrative matter contained in the Appendix. To
the late Keeper of the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel,
and to his successor, the Rev. H. O. Coxe, his thanks
are also due for the facilities afforded him in making his
researches in that repository. The courtesy and kind-
ness of the latter, in particular, he will always remember
with pleasure.
GEORGE ORNSBY.
F18HLAKB VicARAOB, near Doncaster,
Dec. 28th, 1860.
f 2
CONTENTS.
, PA6B
Dedieition . 3
Afltbor's Intiodiiotkm . ' 5
Piveirell Seniion, preadied in the Cathedral of Durham, on the Mh Dec. 1088. 1 1
A aeoond Sermon, preached in the same place, on the 9th Dec. 1688 23
Vkrewdl Viaitation Speech 37
Letter to the Sari of Bath 61
' Kahop of Durham . . . . . . 94
*— ^— Vioe-Dean and Prebendaries of Dorham 104
■ — Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Dorham 113
to his Curates at Easington and Sedgefield II9
Directions to his Curates 129
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &c.
L Breaches of Rnbrics in the Cathedral 143
IL Answer of Denis Granville, M.A., Pnbendary,
&C., to Bishop Cosin's Articles of Enquiry
exhibited to <he Dean and Chapter of Dor-
Jnly 17th, 1665 . 145
in. Letter from the same to Archdeacon Basire . Nov. 7» 1674 . . 146
IV. From the same to Isaac Basire, Esq. . . Dec. 21, 1674 . . 148
V. From Isaac Basire, Esq., to the Earl of Bath . Dec 26, 1674 . . 150
VL From Ardideaoon Granville to Col. Blakbton Feb. 11, 1674 . . 152
VII. From the same to the Bishop of Dorham . Undated ... 154
VIII. Fkom Isaac Basire, Esq., to the same . . Undated . . . 156
IX. Agreement between Dr. Granville and Mr.
Blazston Feb. 28, 1672 • • 1^7
X. Letter from Archdeacon Granville to March 16, 167} . 158
XI. From the same to Isaac Basire, Esq. . April 20, 1676 . 159
XIL From the same to Archbishop Sancroft . . Feb. 1, 1671 . • 160
XIIL From the same to John Basire, Esq. . Aug. 7» 1682 . . 161
XIV. From the same to Isaac Basire, Esq. . Jan. 15, 168| . . 162
XV. Firagment of a Journal of Dr. Granville, be-
ginning May 22, and ending July 3, 1683 164
XVI. Letter from Archdeacon Granville to Arch-
bbhop Sancroft Sept. 25, 1683 . 174
Iiv
CONTKNTS.
rA««
XVII.
from lli# MM lo Hir WUImb Ilocdftb
Not. 3, i«D . .
in
XVIII.
Pran tlM Bitkop ot Dmihmm to 8ir R. Ployil
M«7 34. I«t4 . .
\m
XIX.
Pros Dr. (Vmb^ to AKkdmam GnmrUlt .
JoM 33, Itt4
\%\
XX.
PnMB tlM Bukop <A DvbMD to Hir RiHisnl
■iM««
Jour 36. I6S4
19
XXI.
HaoeniA .
Nov. 36. I6S4 .
l«7
XXII.
Pr«B J. BMif*. Riq.. to Tbo«. ( raaork. B«|.
Nov. 36, I6SI
\m
XXIU.
fr«B \^^%i\ i^rtunl.^ Wtkoo, R«>
(ifCrw to thtf Dma muI Chafitcv of Dvluin
Jm. 34. I6«| .
191
XXIV.
Pr«B Um flUM ti> th« •MM* ....
•
193
XXV.
Proai the lUri ol iUth to tbo imm
Jm. 37, I6S4 .
193
XXVI.
Proai I>mn (irtpTtUr to tkr tAme
Jftn. 3». I68| . .
191
XXVII.
Pron th* MUM to tlM «mb« .
Pcb. 10. IC«| .
. 196
XXVIII.
Pr«B Um Mmr ti> til* 0MM
'Poh.34. Ifa|.
. 196
XXIX.
Prom th* MOW to tk» imm
M«rk3, IfSl
. 3M
XXX.
Pron tlie MOM to tW mmd^
Marrli 7. 16^
. 991
XXXI.
Pron tiM MOW to tli* Mmr
MtfrhSI. Ii»
. 9M
XXXIl.
Prom tlic 0MM to thtf imm
M«rr!i34. Ii»
999
XXXIII.
Pram tiM mmr tf> tli« mmr
Aprd % IMS .
. 9M
XXXIV.
Pram tiir mm* |4> .Vrcft»bMlMf> HmicpoA
EMtar Bfo. itn
. 9N
XXXV.
Ptam tb« MM to tkr mm« .
(M. 17. ictt .
. t\»
XXXVI.
P»om Mr. R. B«rtoti to I)mi GrmanlW
Po6. 37. IC^I .
. tl3
XXXVII.
RMvipC from I)Mfi (irMf Ok to Kob. Ikkvttl.
Km|.. far Ahw Pkir IrDt to tlir Cathedral
\ri onW o# tiM> Bulwp oT DuHMm .
tMUtod .
31?
XXXVIII.
Prom Dr. Brvviat to tW llun. ll«Mr«l
GrMvilW
D«r. 11. |C«
. 319
XXXIX.
Pram tU ll.m. B«mH (rtwinUr to Mr.
Wtkoo ....
Di«. 31, IC«
319
XL.
Prnm tbr mm« to tlie mmo
Dtc. 33. I6M
399
xu.
Pram Dr. Rrvnnt to tbr mm«
Jm. 17, 1661
391
XLII.
Pram tW Htm. IWrnwd (irftavOW to Um mmo
JUI.SI. If6|
391
XUII.
Prom thtf mmr tn tbr «m«
Jm. 37. IM9
. 93t
XLIV.
Prom thtf mm* to th* mmo
Prb. |». IC«
333
XLV.
Prom tiM mmo to tW mmr
Prb. 36. 1661
tN
XLVI.
Pram Dmn (iiwillr to That. Cfttiock.
R«,. (Mkml
Jur 7. 1617
tSft
XLVII.
)fnrm thr mm* to Umlry
Mwrb 19 I6»i
399
XLVIII.
Prum il»r ••nir to Mr. WiU«
M. Mwi. 108
399
\LI\
Prom tlw mow to tbr Motr
<M. SI. lua .
399
u
Pnim thr maM> t«i Uu> mnr
Nov 35. 1616
391
l.l.
Knjoi thr mmr U> tkr IU«. I»r Kirri
*^*mr4ftfttr .
«
UI.
Prom tkr mmr l«» Arhbifth.^ >MKTOft
A»ftl 3U. lOM
SB
UII.
Pram tiM mmr to I>r IW^m>l(«
Jul^ 1. l6Br3 .
9M
LIV.
Prum thr mmr li>
No*. JD. 1763
339
L\.
A Qo«ntor m k«o dull . .
Indotei
341
LVI
liMor fram Iftmn firutiUi to ^lUmot iKiti.
•O..IUH
ilMUl«<l
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ACCOUNTS, &c.
PAGE
Aptfticalarofthe RoTenueof theDeanery 244
Dr. GrmnTiUe's Debts 244
A fbither List of Debts « .... 245
BaoeipU and Fkyments, \6&i^l6S7 245—260
Aooonnt of Botrd-wages 250
APPENDIX.
I. Informatioiis given to Dr. Basire, Archdeacon of
Northumborland, by some of the Clergy of the
Archdeaconry ' . April 9, 1662 . 251
II. Articles of Enquiry exhibited to the Dean, Pre-
bendaries, Minor-Canons, &c., of the Cathedral
of Durham by Bishop Cosin, at his primary
Visitation July 19, 1662 . 252
IIL Account of the Expenditure of the Dean and
Chapter of Durham in repairs, &c. after the
Restoration 260
rv. Comperts and considerations by Bishop Cosin
upon the Answers of the Dean and Prebenda-
ries of Durham to the Articles of Enquiry ex-
hibited to them at his second A^tation in
1665 262
V. Memorandum by Bishop Cosin concerning the
privileges of the Church of Durham . 1665 ... 268
VL Artides of Enquiry exhibited to the Dean, Pre-
bendaries, Minor-Canons, &c., of the Cathe-
dral of Durham, by Bishop Cosin, at his third
Visitation, in 1668 269
VIL Articles of Visitation and Enquiry exhibited to
the Clergy and Churchwardens of the Arch-
deaconry of Durham by Archdeacon Granyille 1684 . .271
VIII. Injonctions giren by Isaac Basire, Esq., LL.B.,
OfiSdal of the Archdeaconry of Northumber-
land, to the Clergy of that Archdeaconry . April, 1684 . . 282
ERRATA.
P. 55, L 26. After Cerent Teeli should have been inserted (? Count Tekdi).
P. 226. A reference was overlooked for the note upon the " Oxford Reasons."
The Oxford Clergy published their '* Reasons for not Addressing." A Reply to
IS printed by HiUs, the King's Printer.
I^. 251, 852. 262. 268, 269. In the references to the Hunter MSS. at the foot of
Kh of these pages/or iL read xi.
THE BESIGNED AND RESOLVED CHEISTIAN
AND
FATTHFIJLL AND TTNDATJNTED EOTALIST.
IN TWO PLAIN
FAREWELL-SERMONS
AND A
LOYAL FAEEWELL-VISITATION-SPEECH.
BOTH DELIVERED AMIDST THE LAMENTABLE CONFUSIONS
OCCASIONED BT THE LATE FORREIGN INVASION AND HOME DEFECTION OP
HIS MAJESTTES SUBJECTS IN ENGLAND.
By DENIS GRANVILLE, D.D.
DEAN AND ARCHDEACON OP DURHAM (NOW IN EXILE)
CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY.
WHBREUNTO ARE ADDED CERTAIN
LETTERS TO HIS RELATIONS AND FRIENDS IN ENGLAND
SHEWING THE REASONS AND MANER OF HIS WITHDRAWING
OUT OP THE KINGDOM.
VIZ.
A Letter to his Brother the Earle of Bathe.'
A Letter to hia Bishop the Bishop of Durham.
A Letter to his Brethren the Prebendary es.
A Letter to the Clergy of his Arch-deaconry.
A Letter to his Curates at Easington and Sedgfield.
Printed at RoUen, by Wm. Machnell, me S. Lo, near the Pallacc, for John
Baptistc Beaongne, rue Esciiyer, at the Royal Sun, and are to be sold by
Augustine Besongne, in the Great Hall of the palace at Paris.
IK THE YEABE OF OUB LOBD GOD, M.DC.LXXXIX.
TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.
May rr please your Majesty,
Almighty God haveing enabled me by his grace to resist those
temptations, which have overcome the greatest number of the
members of my own Church and Count^, and being now inca-
pacitated here abroad to render my Sovereign and your Majesty
Detter servises than to owne your righteous cause, I think my
fldfe oblig'd to give the world a more than ordinary testimony
of my sincere loyalty and resolution in all times and changes to
adhere unalterably to the Crown. Haveing therfor already
sacraficed my revenew by quitting the nation, rather than sub-
mit to the usurpation, and exposed my selfe to censure and
obloquy in that part of England wherein I have lived, bv re-
fuseing to head or joyne with those my dependants there,
ecdesiasticall and secular, who have departed from their alle-
giance ; I know of noe better and convmcing instance yet re-
maining to be fi:iven b^ me of my stedfastness to stick to, and
serve the Boycdl Family, than to proclaim that I dare speak
truth here abroad from the press, as well as from the pidpit at
home ; tho' every one must foreknow that such an honest bolde-
ness will unavoidably render me uncapable of the favour and
good oppinion of all those persons in the nation (hi^h and low,
spirituail and temporall) who have shipwrackt their faith and
consciences by ceasing to yield (after often sweareing) alleigiance
and fidelity to their Sovereigne. And it is easy to foresee the
printing these and some other papers at this time, in mine owne
name will thus render me obnoxious (as I am content to be) to
all those builders who employ themselves in erecting a new
Monarchy and Chui^h in Engmnd. But the aspersions of them
that forsake their religion, as far as they desart their lawfull
Kege lord, (as I hope the following sheets will evidence) will be
noe intolerable load to me, who desire noe greater honour and
satisfaction, than to share with my King, Queen and hopefuU
young Prince in their misfortunes ; and thereby to demonstrate
that my poor distressed Mother, in the greatest and most gene-
rail defection (as this seems to bee) that ever was among any
king of England's subjects, will never want some to bear testi-
mony to the truth of her doctrine, who, according to the ex-
b2
4 \IT1I<>R^ l)KI)ir\TlO!<.
umpU* of (*)mHt iiiul hiM A|)|MHtl<*<«. doth iimintuin the pnii*tito «>f
allr^iiinr(> niul intin* HuhTni-v^iun uii«l mihjivtion to all Liwfull
Hupninr t)*»w«n* clriiut*-*! by (i*n\ an hi^ vicfpi»n'iit* !•» gvi^fm
thr World; how jrrt-at ii r«iiitni(lii*tifiii hi-n^if wwvrr thi* laiit
y«ar'j* tr.niHtirtiini* in Kii^daiid have pn»v<<d, (whirh huth >nv«*n
thi' j^-ati-^it Wound that w;ui «»v«t \vi jrivrn to our rhun*h ■ tho
diN'triiu* of non-n-^i-Htanr*' n-nmin** on Muh aut)i«-nti« k rwiinl in
th«* rhiiri'h of Kn^Lindn print«'«l honuly«-M u^inttt lU*bi-IlitiQ
(whirh I have in i«oni<* nort t|)itonii/4'<l in tht* n»nrhiHit»n of mj
diM-oupM'i that yt»ur Maj«>ty. a** wrll tm xhv Kin^, will, I b^ifw,
U* idruM-fl to cfiiitinur your charity to our «H-<*h*f%iaiitirk c^nuiti-
tution, with liUTty to it^ nirniUr* to rx«-n-iM> thtur ndipon. and
think n««' wurM* of thi- inniit for xhv di-^dM^dicmv fif th«' rhil-
dnii, !>ut ri'ndrr tliat jur^tirr t4i tin* Thurth of Kn^rhind whirh u
du«' to all churrht'*', to wit, t4» In- juilpfl hv lu-r d«*'lrini% diict*
|ilin«* and onh-r, ^wliirh I am •^un* iicvtT did 4*urr}' alon^r with
thrm unv rflwdlion' and not hy thr iirartiii* or c-tinviTHatiim of
itH nirniUr*. Whin by if th*- wh».h- <'hriitian Thurrh wm to
Im* judpil, it w'ouM in many tliin^n ai»|M*ar nion* vih* than some
|i;irtj* of thf World o\iT-run withTuni-m and ra^ini^ni.
< Mfrrinjj toO^wl my niiM frrvint d«'Votion« for thi» nntn^r^-atHMl
antl r«*Ntoration of the Kin^^, thi* litV and happy luiii of thr liinrpv
and out of ^nititu<h' t4i IIra\fn - in a twt^x |M'rtirular manner for
v«»ur MaJ4*^ty, who havi» U-^-n in««tnim«-ntall t4j thi» ^rrr«t««t
blt'inin^ whii h hath Ui^n th**^* many vi*nr« mnft-mfl on thr
kin^hini in Uarin^ and hrin^nir torth an lu'ir mulr fi>r thr
hUp|Mirt of tht* Monan-hy, I d<N- with all liumility imphm* yimr**
t^ivr^'thfr with hin Maj«Mv«-^ |i:itn»n:ip»\ n*^ wvll a* b>*|?ir I*»nfc»
for thi** pn**»umption, anA with th«' mi^t profound nitjMMrt inuH
^nuldi* f^ulnHrilH.' my •mIIi-.
Your Maj»-»tyi- mt»-t <lutifulK
and i:\ir faithful! M-rvant and »uhj«vl,
Dl.M-* Gk\nviim.«
TO THE READER.
The subject matter of these ensueing sheets concerning Chris-
tian resolution and humble submission to the will of God in
times of distress, (according to the example of the holy Patriarch
Jacob) and hearty subjection to the King, according to the doc-
trine of the Church of England, and our many indispensable
tyes of conscience, will, with all those few who truely fear God
and honour the King, sufficiently apologize (I hope) for the
publication of them in a juncture and an age advanced to the
tii^est contempt and defiance both of loyalty and religion.
That incensed God who hath, for our manifold provocations,
and more particularly (wee have reason to believe) for our
carnal confidence in the arm of flesh, and disobedience to God's
vicegerent, pour'd out the vials of his wrath on three kingdoms,
is not like to be appeased without the serious practice of the
contrary graces, in a manner as universall and generall, as hath
been our late notorious defection towards the King by an ab-
hor'd detestable violation of the many sacred and often repeated
oaths whereby all subjects were obliged to support his crown;
and dignity.
Such is my sence of what is past, and dread of Almighty
QoA^B future indignation, when I consider that I am (how weak
and unworthy soever) advanced to a publick station in the
Church of England, that I cannot satisfy my selfe with mourn-
ing in secret, but conceive it my indispensible duty to proclaim
(aner such a stupendious revolution) as soon, and as well as I am
able, to all persons in the kin^om, my unfeigned resolution to
adhere to my Soveraign in his distress ; lest I may by silence
contribute to the increase of that dangerous lethargy which
hath seiz'd on the people of England, who, by resisting, and at
length desarting their Prince, have apostatized from their reli-
gion.
I have helped possibly as little as any one of my brethren or
fellow subjects in the nation, to the first growth of this disease ;
having for 26 years together open'd my mouth widely on topicks
which would have prevented (had they met with due regard)
our present misery : and for truth whereof I appeal to the whole
Jurisdiction whereto I have [been] long related.
But, however, I cannot think my selfe perfectly disengag'd to
AITIIORh INTKollUTIOX.
{
|oyn in attomptiit^ tho run*, or at Irant U> help on what u, God
:m* thiinkiHl in m>nu* nort Ix'f^n, and whervto the contradictory
and i)n'|>oMtorouM |>nN*c4xlingii of the King'ii eni*niyca have aa*
HiHtiHi. I ni«*unr to the oiN*ninf( the evi'A of thoiuanda in Kng*
hind to Mt* ulreiidy the niuilni'Mi of their change, and the errota
of their hite nietliiMl to n*<lreM grievanrea ; bv labouring to bring
their S>verui^i to tennn. (all that wa« aini^d at, I dtie belinTe,
by the Thun-h «>f Kiigluud*ri fuln MinH) und to deliver the natiua
fnmi dome?ttiek evilin by <'ullin^ for ft»m*ign aMUatanoe. The
numU'r of HtiuU i^tniitt^Ml to my charge in the rathedrall, in mj
Arehd(nie«inry. und in my |M«cMiiiar JuriMliition defieiiding on
the rhun-h of I)urh;tm. un* t<Ni many und tiio conHiderulile u> he
forpitten <»r ne^lfetc-<l by me, now inru|Mu:itut4«l otherwine to
preai-h to them.
Therfor in tht* h>w «'bb t»f h>yulty, when imttanc-oa of firm
tith'lity to one^^ IViiue an- mk* run', the I>fan «>f Uurham, it ia
hoiM<<l, will U* |ftifcnhiii(il if hi* m'it* mm* mueh vulue on hia own
exuniph*, as t«> make ilsc* «»f it um will ua hiA wordii and writeinga
towanlft the « xtrirut^iiiif the |Mt>|ih' with wIhum* m»u1ii he hath
been intru.**ti'«l out c»f thr lakirinth wh«-n*into thev are run bj
n«in*i*«>mplyani.v with their law full Sivrruiini, untl mMi%* oun-
eurn*nee with a forrt i^n uiiur|M>r, t»r, utt ^f*^t*t\ towards tka
hindrin^ them fmm running fartht r yet into it, und n^maining
utiiiiidly in fUN* NiiituU and driilorabh* u ntute und <*«indition.
Thin induetft m«' to wi-^h that I muM hrin^ the taut worda I
A|M»k«* to the cli-r^y and (^(-h-niii^tii k ntlirrnt «»f my Artdidi-aounfj,
and to th«* nitniUTn «if the tatht'dndl ami Titty of I^urham,
(r«intain«'«l in thi* t-n^ui-in^ diMnurMf»> to the view and cuuii*
diTutioii of th«* uliiilr munty ami diiNtiwM*, that th<Me who wrra
ulitw tit \ihen I utt«n^l thrm may. :ii u«-ll ai thtNie pnwnt. par*
take «if my \Kntr /cal and «>ndi-a\oupt f*ir tlieir fipintuaU otlvan*
tup*; whi<'h i?* ull the n-tuni I lun utt pn-nent make Utf the
tem|iondl In netitt* I have reup'd in the itiuntry duning mjr
<*nj(»yment of M'MT.dl mnMderubli' prt'fennent* among them.
If Nueh e(mimuiii«'atioii of my iKi|H*n« canuiit !m« «ii Mjon and no
nuei'i'Miifully I'th'cti'tl Ull I would, by ntt^Miu ull intereourai* be*
twixt the k in p loin of Kn gland and thiii mhi-mn I n-^de ia
Mi|it. I am williu;; in thi- mean uliili* to Irt th«' world m^- thai
I afn not idle or umnnc^enn^l, but doi* ull that in me l\-««,
t4iwanlf« thii honiitt «>nd ; m hen-by. it' iuk* pn*titt arnwv to tht w,
or «»ther«, I nhall roAe my min«l ami «!« lt\«'r my •■•ul.
If any are pli-UMfl to ecnnun*. roiitcmn. **r rejivt my writ**-
ingn UtaiUM* they tind nothing in them h-unn^d «ir i'luU»rat«\ or
(iii)i«*n^if till* up* in o\rr foiid oiiitravcr^ull. I dci«in.* them to
eoiioider thut |iohnmk Uaniing and dninity an thingn I ue%er
AUTHOR S INTRODUCTION.
did nor shall pretend to ; and that in the xnoneth of November
'88, when I spake to the clergy, and in the first week of Decem-
ber following, when I preach d in the Abby att Durham, (as ill
as things did portend) I little dreamt that my Soveraign or
selfe should be put under an unavoidable necessity to fly into
another kingdom, or that I shoidd be obliged to make use of
such means and methods to evidence my sincerity in my reli-
gion (the first thing I shou'd strive to evince to all those to
whose spiritual! assistance I administer) otherwise more regard
wou*d have been had to the penning and composure. But since
I am reduced to such hard circumstances (whereto in conformity
to my own doctrine I heartily submitt) and that the ensueing
discourses, how slight soever and little worth in themselves, are
abundantly sufficient to demonstrate that both my religion and
loyalty are not of the new cutt, but of the old royall st^p, and
carry with them, I trust, the true touch of the tower, Providence
invites me to expose them to publick view ; being ambitious of
nothing in the world more than to approve my selie (in this day
of rebwe) to my Soveraign and his right lo^al subjects for one
who thinks that he is obliged to be as faithAiU to a Roman
Catholick as a protestant Prince, and as true to him in adversity
as prosperity.
Ajb for any censures of vanity ariseing from my title page, as
if I did there sett forth my selfe a pattern of humility and
lojralty, they ought not to sway with me soe farr as to stopp me
in my endeavours to be soe, or to perswade others to become
such, since thereto heaven att this time loudly summons all the
nation.
This I can truely say, without pride or boasting, that I have
laboor'd to practice what I preach'd to others, and that I was
never more than at this very instant aspireing towards those
excellent (but rare) vertues mentioned m the following dis-
courses, which I commend to God^s blessing and the candid
reader's charity ; desirein^ all persons in England who have
laboured, either by kind mvitations or threats of deprivation,
to prevaile with me to return and submit to the new Govern-
ment, to receive this my final answer, — to wit : If I be deprived,
I am deprived, or, to approach a little nearer to the phrase of
good £ftther Jacob, If I be bereaved (of my preferment) / am
bereaved.
fnm my Study in Rotien :
Not. 15, 1689.
A
DISCOURSE
CONCEBNINO
CHRISTIAN RESIGNATION AND RESOLUTION :
WITH SOME LOYAL REFLECTIONS
ON THE
DUTCH INVASION.
PEBACHBD IN THE CATUEDmALL CHURCH OF DURHAM, ON THE 1 WEDNESDAY
IN ADVENT, AND THE SUNDAY FOLLOWING, BEING THE 5 AND 9 OF
DECEMBER 1688.
By DENIS GRANVILLE, D.D.
DEAN AND ARCHDEACON OF DURHAM (NOW IN EXILE)
CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY.
TWO SERMONS
CONOBBNINO
'christian resolution
akd humble submission to the will of god in times of
distress: on the holy patriabch Jacob's farewell
words to his sons att parting.
If I he bereaved of my children^ I am bereaped.
Gen. ch. xliii. v. 14.
For the better understanding of the story it will be requisite
to read the precedent words from the 11th verse to the text.
V. 11 : If it must he soe now, do this, take of the best fruits of the
land in your vessels, and carry dawn the man a present, a little
balme, and a little honey, spices and myrrhe, nutts and almonds :
T. 12. And take double many in your hands : and the mony which
was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in
your hand; peradventure it was an oversight : v. 13. Take alsoe
your brother, and arise, goe againe unto the man : that he may
send away your other brother and Ber^famin.
If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
The approaching holy feast of Christ's Nativity or comeing
in the flesa, doth every year require a solemne preparatory time
of devotion. And that it may not want such due respect, the
Church takes care in its preceedinff exercises. Every Sunday
service in Advent hath an eye to that pious end and purpose.
In porsoanoe whereof, we Iiave revived in this CathedraU an
aatient religioos custome. Two days of every week throughout
c2
tlii«* •i»:iM*in, t«i wit. Wi-^liu-^lay^ ami Frydnyn, arr umiinn day*.
an<l (1 (li«.itiil til |ira\i-r ami t'a-tin^. in arriiiii|uity iImw f«xrr-
ri*.!-^ «it' it|M itt.iiK*- >\liii-h an* :ilwa\r<« tliniitrlit a iiit^'^'^ry |ttrt
of oui jm |>.tr.iti*iii. Hut <iiMl'« iiii|M>iiiliii}; jiidtniH'iitM for uur
i«iii*«. uhii h .tt thi** tiiiii- t!in':it«n MinnI uihI rfUit'iMinn, (Iih* «uin«
llhill 11^ til :til<l til tliii^r « \t Ti I'M'**, and, h\ mtuw voluiiturT iin-
]Mi^lti4>ii^ lit' <la\l\ <li\iitii>ii aiiil iinfrtiticatioii. to turiK' thU
A<l\t>iit ti» a littlr Lfiit ; ^i\(-iiiir u]i niir*i-lv<*<i whi»ny u» ili«*
rxi-n-i^* lit' pii-ty ami pr.iyrr. U-^ti-hin^ <t«ifl that li«' will n*iC
riitrr into jiiil^iin-itl with u.-*, anil for tiur |)n>V(M'ati«»ii» ^i\i' u«
up It- a |>r«'\ unto our «-ii«-iii\t*i, niak«'iii^ u^ a ^ortit* uii'l tli**
ri*«itiri to thmi that an- r<>iin<l alMnit ih. It in lawt'ull. nay n-li-
^iou.M, liv (It'Viiiit jintviT t«i 11^- \io|fni-«* to tin* kin^lotn of
h«'a\rn. ami it' w«-«- «iiil. iti thii* mir diMn-^. Iii-takr our*«-l\i<n !o
MM- huri* a nt'ii;:!-. in.ikiiiiLr u<m of thr holy wca{Mi!i4 of iht*
aiitii'Mt < 'hri'*ti.in*«. /V'/v"'« and ^'fl«; <*r«iwdin^ u|i|> t<i the
liorn*i of thi* Altar, and n-ndriit;: all Miir drvotionn nion* pn*«a-
It-nt liy tin- \i»ikly n-« t ptimi i.f tin- I^inrn Siiii|mt. wt^* that
niiit in <fiMr« Ifiii'**- it ui i-ain*- with tliat ftptrit i%i* tiu:»hli
niii:ht <1'**' ••iir Kxuj: and <'iiuTitr\ Utt* r <^'r\ii-i* than thi>M' who
ti^dit for him in tin- tii M. What hath U^'n H;iid I pn -mi^- in
riu":**"!! !•• thi- pp - nt -^ .iMin of A«l\i rit, and lh»* «-iiH:ii*in;f fi'^ti\al
of < 'hri**Tnia^. li\ ria<^<n in\ ti-xt ihitli not n-^^iN^-t fith«T of tht m
Ml paitii ularl\ a** thr ^tonii and flan;;i r uhii h i^* iiniii* nt. an«l
di'th jiiiidly (all for thi- holy n "Miliithin ;ia %i<-11 a'* oiihnii^iiin iif
pitiiix .lariih. And )ia\i in^ -**>•• d><n' . I •thall U-fon- I irit«-r ««n
till* wonU ino\r \iiu to pray ai-i-<inlin;r to th«' r»noni«all v\*
hortatiiin of tlii- rl^uri h : Vi-*- xliall pray for th«* Holy ralhidii k
riinrih of < 'hii-t, that i^ t<*r th*- whi'l*- ri*nLrr<'k''ation nf ^'hrUliAB
|N«>p|i' di^|Mi<Mi| tiiiiiuu'hoiit th«- i»orld. nr>ii* «i»|hi lully fur th«
( hur« hi*^ of 4fnat Untt.tin ami Inhmd. antl h«-n*in I sun In
n-«piir«' \ou iniin- p-trti- niarl\ tn pr.iv li>r our dr^nul «o\ir%it*ii
lord JwiK**. hy till- ^ra«-i' tit timl. Kinir "t Iji^rlaml <\«*. \em
•*hall lik«'Hi-M' pr.iv for our u'rut imiM tiiii*«*n Mary. K.iih«nni' tftw
Uut«n thiwa;:i r, hi« K*i\all hi^hnt n thi- rnnti* of WaUn Ae.
i-oiirliiih inLT y«iiir dtiotitin^ ulwa\i*^ withi- tiit* lAini*^ Trayfr :
< M K V M Itl K, Ar
Till- P.itrianh* w»'r«' now ri-Turni*i| from thtir tir»t jnunirT
into r.^niit. and an thi\ liith thou;:ht - fri»m fulrillin^r t\uir
hrothi r JoiM ph't dn am. Tlu'V hail Ui««<<l tti him wboni tht-y
thou^^ht thry had P'l>U^l of all huninir; and Im^ii I'M Uv hiM
whom th««v oiii •■ lunxpir'd to ^tar«f% mv in\iohihli- \% i.iiml\ |Nir»
fuMi- in thui^ til nun iin|N>vtih|i .
< >ld tlaitth hi r«-, at tir^t witli ^n-ati-^t jov «i« ItMiint^ hoiui* liM
«iur\ Min%; hut « xo-w of Kl«Mln4-<«« ii ivmni<inlv alU'udrvl ott
SERMON8, &C. 13
with greif, and the end of joy is mourning. Whikt he is yet
confi^tuhiting their good success in their journey, the sad news
of Simeon's imprisonment silenceth his mirth ; which grief too
is attended on by a greater, the necessity of his dear Benjamin's
^oeing into Egypt. Crosses in God's children, just like billowes
m the sea, follow one on the neck of another.
The good father is not less troubled with this newes than at
the sight of Joseph's bloody coat ; and cruell famine pressing
yiolently upon him wee may conceive him to take up his son
Reuben 8 note, in the xxxviith ch. of this book, and at the 30th
v.. The child is not ; and whither sJiall I goe ? What shall I do,
miserable man that I am ! My dearest Rachell is dead, my be-
loved Joseph is not« Simeon is not, and can I leave Benjamin
alfloeP I remember my sons what news you brought me of
Joaeph, and shou'd you doe the like of Benjamin too, you wou'd
bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. And yet,
wo is me, I must send him or perish : noe redemption of Simeon,
noe food, without Benjamin's going into Egypt, and without
food noe life. I had better venture one than draw distruction
upon my whole house. Thus even, my sons, seeing it must be
8oe» on God will I rely for your safetyes. His providence be
your guide. Benjamin shall goe with you. However, Gods
providraiee must not stop your diligence, nor His care for you
prevent yours for yourselves. But use all possible means to
excuse yourselves and content the ruler : v. 11, // it must he soe
mncy doe this : take of the best fruits of the land in your tessells,
and carry doume the man a present 8fc, v. 14. Arui God Almighty
gitt you mercy before the many that lie may send away your other
brother f and Benjamin, If I he bereaved of my children y I am
bereaved. I need not stand long on the words : the story is well
knowne, and it gives you some light into the sense and occasion
of them. The difference between interpreters is more in words
than substance.
Arias Montanus, nearest to the original, doth translate them
Et ego quamodo orbatus sum, orhatus sum, '£7(0 jxlv yap naOairip
nrimv^fiaiy iiriKvwfjuu, saith the Septuagint. Near. this St. Am-
hfoae and others : " Ego autem quusi orbatus absque liberis ero,^*
JuniuBy also our late English translation, to the same sense,
bnt more fully render it : Quum orbatus fuero, orbatus fuero.
If I be bereaved of my children I am bereaved, A speech much
Uke to that resolute speech of queen Hester, (Hest. iv. 16.)
Q$utm perierOy periero. If I perish, I perish. St. Chrysostom,
in his 64th Homily on Genesis, makes Joseph's absence the
cause of this speech ; as if Jacob had accounted he had lost in a
maouer all his children when he lost him. Another will lhave'\
M DilW f.H%NVII.I.K.
liciiiainiii the ch«'if iiiotivi*. C alvin und MuMruliw fniU all tlie
hfvtlin*!! fur xhv ^niuiid of it; whu, siviiig their futht*r'» grtmi
vam und mirruw, nii^ht thfiiiiH'lvuH lir mare can*fuU iu Uirir
jouriifV.
How pnitNihly Mievcr th«*iM* mviii n-aflomt of his former oooi*
{JaiiitH, in hin di*M*«>urRi* with ItiMibcQ at the •i6th v. of the
chapter ime<liutely hefun*, aud with Judah at the <>th t. of this
chApt4T, yot they art* ihm* certain ^n^iundA for thiji Nprvch.
It in the voiiM* of a faithful! houI, mith Luther* and noC of a
deti|M*nite man, etiin plain in f? ; for we nhall find on eiiquir}*» that
it MivourH mon* of (xinntanry than fear. Affection lammta, bat
Faith rejoy«*4*th ; though he M'v'ni^ to doubt, yet the event telk
UH hi*( pniver mim not without faith. True indeed a greml
e«>nil>at there huh for a time, utlivtion ti^litin^ with diacrvtioo,
nattin* with neet-Hrtity, hut uU thin hoa hut rf// hiriam ; nue ooo*
(|U<**«t enf«u«'<l.
He doth not dinput«> thf vnxim' and font-iiAt th«* wornt extream.
Powir i-* here ronji>ync4l uith extnant infinnity. When he waa
wi-uk, likf the Ap|iiMtl«-. lh« ii hr wa** ••troti^. (iml'tt ne\er fail*
in^ Spirit mntmtft him utt thi* lant ; h«* puttji off all further
can* to (nidV pnivi(h*nee, h-m living tn endun* whateriT hap-
|M'nM, at if he «*hi>uM h:iv, (indV will U» dune, Ii4*njamin thnll
pM' with th«' rext. and, ^/' I ^^ fmn*tr**i i»f mj^ ehtifirrm, I mm
in n'ttrttf.
You ^f, •hrethnin mv tt-xt ii a faithful HubnuMion of a rc^
HoU'M Patrian-h to the will of (fii«l, a mitlitation whieh I rrram^
mend tti nil your «*«Tii»u.^ thou^htH lui huitable to thin day of
ealaiiiity and Mati* «»f atfair*. Ti» improve the Mime by r^-ndrinK
it i-xrniplary to u^ ThriMian** in ^in«Tul. and nmn* pertirularlj
l>y MM' uutlifutii-k and p^llv a iKittmH* tn |M'n»wade yim who
hi-ar nil*, to imitate the laudulih* H'Milution (»t thin man <if itvd
in tkirtin^ with your U'lovi^d H«njamiiiA, that i«, your dtiamit
dfli^ht^ in tinif*fi of tt-mptatiiin, nith«-r than fi»rMike your inte-
ffritv ; •ihall Im< tin* d«^ign«' of my n'mainin^r diM-iiurM*. IW tho
fTxliy t'xaniph* «>f pMMl falh«-r Jue<»b we may hiini in all adver-
fiily t«> nh faithfully on ti«Mrii meny, to hfarken Ut the vote*
of ri^ht n*awin, and to kt^*ii a px^l e«inM*ienr«* without giveing
ear ti» Htfih and IiIimmI. n«ft doubting if wi««' d«ie m-n^ but that W9
aU(M' in th«* oairluniun, liki> old Jacob hern, «hall nnvive a r»-
wani.
The U^t nitn ar**. aji he w:if>. lyablr to all maner of afHietkma ;
even to |MiV4rly, •v-onit* and contt-mpt via. they may lie oaal
donne, but if th«'y ran in |Nitii'nee im^m*^ their houIs. and will
wait (tod'4 IfiMire. tht y •»h.ill riM* a^iiif. tiiMl l^ek^ thnr (xm*
Hietii ifiith irr«\AiMabIi- |ii*««t Though •■»rn>w. eitreamtwt tor*
SERMONS, &C. 15
row, endure for a night, Vet joy, says the Psalmist, shall come
in the morning. Wnen Israel laments for the absence of all
his sons he is comforted with the recovery of them and Joseph.
That I may the more effectually perswade you to such pious
resolutions and faithfull submissions to the will of God, con-
sider, —
1. The necessity of them : wee must submit ourselves to the
will of God, according to the example of Jacob, whensoever we
are, as hee was, afflicted or tempted.
2. The quality or nature of them : how we must submit our-
selves.
3. The benefit redounding from them : why wee ought to doe
it. Which last head (the two first affording matter enough for
one discourse) I shall resefVe for another sermon.
Of these perticulars by God's assistance (which I begg at this
instant in an extraordinary manner) I intend to treat at this
time.
1. I shall shew the necessity of them, and here I must take
my rise from Nature.
Soe carefull is Nature in provideing for her owne safety, that
every shaddow of danger affrights her ; and, too jealous of ad-
versity, oftentimes becomes most dangerous to her selfe : like
the partridge in the nett entangles her selfe the more by her
own flattering. Man is never more plunged into the troubled
sea of calamity than when in his own strength he most struggles
to gett out of it. It is in vain for him to fight against nature,
her de|;enerated weaknesses begett our greatest miseryes : and
they, naveing soe near a relation to her, she cannot putt them
otL Man may discover, not expell them, but (which is the
cheifest misery) the nearer he pryes into them, the worse : soe
doeing he makes a new wound by too deep a search into the
old. Just as if he digg'd in some putrid grave, or went into
some darksome cell, the dteper he diggs, the more noisome the
stench, and the farther he goes the greater the horrour. In
which perplexity he is made such a slave to his passion that he
is imfitt for any employment, unsettled in his thoughts, incon-
stant in his actions, his whole course of life (like a skene of
mfSed silk) inextricably intangled in the world. Either the
kiss of wealth or care of getting it trouble him.
He hath noe sooner secured himselfe a^inst a forreigne enemy
fafot a domestick setts upon him. Ambition of riseing, or fear of
fidlinff, the loss of one friend, or danger of another, still gnaw
upon mm ; you shall sooner find him not a man than not some
way or other distracted.
This oontinuall involving of all things and winding of men's
ITi HKiN f.Ki.WII.I.K.
iniruU with thnit drovt* tho Ntoirlcji itf old t4> thcir,/Sf/iriN ;
iii)r. i^f* it W(>n\ an iniiiiutuhlt* law of mutability in iiAtarmU
tliin;r«. Hut their ^uinil, wc* iiiuy ht* nun*, wuii tiridr. noC
I'aitli : whii, thf»* thry t'«*lt th«-iiLM'lvi'» <Iuyly i*nMt with cuntrmry
iiii»fi«>iH, vet HcornM t*i oiiit«*iM their natund witiknea an not
•^iilijiii^.itfiii;:, or nilliiT imt rnifiii-ati'ln^. th«'ir |iaJMiun«.
And then 'ton* imt of all r vent ft fniin thi*inM*lvfa Ut dcwtinr.
WhutrviT hapiH-n d thrv ri-Milvi'«l t«i ciidurt* it, on tho' not U% ie
a\oid«'<i, and siMij^lit iio«> t'arthiT for any cauiH* of u calamity than
HH- /'I fit n/tnt. Not' I'vill. thry th(»u;rht, imuM pnm«td fmm
ihi'ir ini|KiH.<«ionat«' •«iitil«*<«, thry wen* in thi-ir own ii{i|Mnioa
u)M4dut«* men. atitl thrn'for. whatfwr rume amimi, \ctuvM im
fnJfyi/n trtmuttf^ it wa*i not th«*y did amiM«, hut fortuiii*. Such
h*atlii'ni<«h n-^olution-v n(i*<l no n in fatal ion in a rhnttian amli*
tory : w«-«* ha\** chani^iil tlii-ir fate into |irovidfn(-«*, hoiking
nion* to th«* tir-«t t)ian thi- mihoiiiI imiimi^ ; to th«^* oiifly oji ihrf
aiv di>|Mi^ii| li\ till- t'ltiniiT. in whii-h all thitipt o»nM«t. and hy
\%hii'h uU thinjr* an* p»\«'rn«-<l. Hut did thr h«*uth«*nfi then mtc
tirtnly n-ly on naturall < .iU'm •«, \i!ii»^ • ti'i-tt*. thi»u^h c-^'rtain. oa
i)\ thr tip«t caux' thf (foil of nature iN-fiirr ditrnnim^l yet thrr
<>r»uM n«>t witiiout injury to rx|N'ri«n*'«> hut cxin^t unrt'rtoin.
It Wrti' a douhlf ^hatut' t«>r a <'hri-li.iti ni»t to nuhinit nuin* rn«>»
hiti'ly to hivini* l*rovi<U-ni>«\ ^liiirh !ir hi-l<-i\i-^ unrhnnin^AU^.
Sut'h a n "Mihition i-» thi- ••tn»n;r»-? fort tli.it ran fh-frnd a irnud
man'- hrart. and l«*t ilh now tlv intii it in our pn-M-nt ^iMtatitio.
Ni» rnjfinr ff Satan «an rrarli it. nor itonnr of fortune fkhoki* it,
nor rahnr I n tray it. Whrn-.m without it, man pihaki« al tke
tirHt •^iclit it' •\rr\ <-loud of t«'in|)fation. and likr u htit inm
hi*^<M-n x^ it u.n- at f-\rry driipp of atliution whii h touches
him.
I iw^A f»tand no«' loni^-r to proVi- •*«»•• ^nintr«l u prinriplr:
wr«* will r«ini hii)f t'hriMian warl'.irr niu<«t U- und« r thi* hanntT
'»f hivinr rro\idrn<-f. \VhiH«iN'\ir d«-^in-^ j«*j«-«* of oinwirtuv
a!ifl tntr immfort niu-*t rr**olut<ly -ufmiitt him^-lfr in uU thing*
ti* till- will of (iimI.
Kut ii tlii<< all. ^ly-* thr Moirull t hri**ti.knr Mm ni.i\ It^v
thi-n ax f)ti-\ li^f, (foir^ rni\it|i ii«-r i« ini-\i!aMr. ni\ U*«t i-ndr^-
\iiur*« rannot prtvrnt it if I ^ihull U- -avi<d, 1 nhull U- mvi^, if
dami:r«l. I ihall !■• daninrii A tlroiMTiilr d«irtriiir i if Sit-in. and
thr hri;:ht)i «if ini<|uity. liLi that nf th«* diviil tn our Si^ i«iur :
Matt. i*. '». ■ f'fi*f lh»i ** /f'¥ ti. /i«ti7.'.rf,y , f,»r /,/ htifh iprrn Am
iinfj*i* ' ftiinj* nrt r thf. rhrtit'n un!««iT U* thr d< \ ill thrn-, mui»t
In- oup» to liig «li« iplrn ht p'. Strtj'fuiH ••' It i« ffnttrn, tk%>m
f>K:/f i,.»* t* »,-f'* '/m h'f-f 'Av tr'"/. <ii-l wdl not ha\i hl^ dt« n<«
hrou^^ht If I man\ un|u*it ilrtiTminitiitn, unit h.it«-<« all unui*r«%-
SERMONS, &C. 17
aary tryalls of his power. We may not trust to his promises,
except wee obey his commands, nor rely on his power onely,
when he affords us means to use our owne.
The Tery heathens were not so senseless in their destiny.
Some things, says Seneca, were so determined of the gods that
the prayers of the people shoidd conduce to their events, and
this very thing, he adds, is not contrary, but according, to fate ;
and God's Providence, as it hath absolutely decreed all things
to their proper end, so hath it ordained means to those ends, to
use which is not against providence but of it : as he that is
ordained lx> be a scholar, is, by the same omnipotent power,
ordained to bestow his time in learning ; and he that shall avoid
dangers shall use means to pacify God's wrath by the same
decree. These are Seneca's instances in his book De/ato,
Learn of him, whoever thinks it an easy way to heaven by
mere hanging on God's decree. Neglect of ordinary means is a
signe of the want of grace. While we stand gazing on the
Starrs, lett us beware lest our feet slipp into the water under us,
and whilst wee are diving to the bottom of the rock for the
more rich pearls, lest we lose both our selves and them. Let
US not dispute downwards from God's election, but upwards
from our own sanctification, draw our arguments ci posteriori,
fitnu the effect to the cause ; not say presumptuously, I am
elected, and therefor I must be saved, but with modesty rather
begin at home, saying, I feel the operation of God's Holy Spirit
inclining me to seek the ordinary means of salvation, through
Jesus Christ, and therefor I trust I am elected, and, by neces-
sary consequence, conclude thou mayest be saved. To avoid
this dangerous shelfe in the business of our salvation, we have
need of a two fold pilot to direct our course : Faith and FhAR,
which, well tempered together, declare the quality or nature of
a Christian resolution, how wee ought to rely on God's provi-
dence : the second thhag I am to shew you, to wit, that Chris-
tian resolutions are mixt with fear and faith. But can these
•land together, fear and faith?— it will be very naturall to
question. Fear perturbs us through the apprehension of future
evill, saith the philosopher, and, can any evill happen to those
who are in Christ Jesus, demands the divine, as wee are by
fidth P (Bom. xii. 15.) A plain contradiction it may seem, to
fear eviU, and beleive noe [.^ none] shall happen to us. Fear
not, saith your Lord himselfe, (Luke xii. 32.) emd shall we cross
his precept by trembling P Cant your care on hiniy for he careth
for you, (1 Pet. v. 7.) and can we think his care insufficient P
Why should wee fear P
There is a conmoientator which easily cutts this knott : necnon
D
|H |)K%\ c.KWVII.I.P..
nttit AfM>%(uhin turn fTmro^iii'. Tlic A|iOHtl<\ NayA ht*« forbtdft not
a Miiflimi^ iiidu.*«tn-. hut an iiinnliiiutt* c*ttrkiiifr ciin», whcM* onir
fruit i.H <i( Mrurtiiiii ; and our Saviour i*oiiii«*mnfl not aII fttir. bat
that of puniitlniK'iit. raniall aittl wrvilo fi*ar, ntoiM to diii|Hunp.
1 1 in iiwii |)raf'tir«* a|»|in»v«'M of Uith ttmufrm vnftHM r/ rn/^mr^ a
<lf*vout anil tiliall frur in lioly w«irhhi|)|i, nnd ran*ful r«*or of
otirndin^, u/nt at tht- t/nt/n* «/' //** //#%/# ojTtr'ti up pm^r^ a^i «fp-
p/imfinnj^ iitth f*trimif t rtjfH #/if// tmr* unto ktut trhtrh »ffu nhle to
Miirf /nm, fiHf/ mm nUtm httii'ii tti that ir/iu'/t h»' ftan*i. i Ilid*. t. 7.)
Our hlfH-Mtl lionl*'^ |>r.irti«-f !•* th«* )M*Ht wumint for tmn, he him-
fM*Ifr Uin^ thr an liity]X' nf all ri^htcHiiLMii-^^M, wh«f*««* lift* ought
t<» Im* th«« raUMU and rulr nf hi"! iliM-ipIt*?*.
Thi*^* iwii j«)yn«-«l in riiiJHt .li hu-. our grand «'Xt niplar. who
i*« th«' Way, tlif truth and th«> lift*, mtvi' at (wo ntum to dir«^
hin follnutr** unto him. I'* ar Mirr** u** u]i|i t«i i«fH'k all iMnaihlr
inrjinH fnr thi* |>r(\«ii?i<in n\ « \ilN, Faith kiijM a*« from dUiviir.
F«ur in linkfd with thi- )»• :;i:ini:t;^ of wiMlmn. without which
y«iur Um artiiinn arr hut a-< tiiM^- appb-H of SMhiiii which Unng
toui ht \.ini-<h in Ninoak. f»r a<* tiitn uitliuut fruit, or tlu-lU with*
out kt-riii'll.
Ah an i>^n<>rant rarrh h*. niarin«*r without hi^ ('vimpaiw we
^lM•1^t| )m- diiM 11 u)Hiii all thf -limdi and rotk*! nf tfrnjitatifin,
Hen- nnt thi^ t«ar |ilai'«^l in i*ur h«*ar1.H. a^ a watrhnian tn {nr^
Warn otir dri»Wi»y miuU i>f appniai'ltini; danm*r ; ami ua (lideon
on '/aAki and Silmuniia. .Iiid. \iii. 1I.> Satan w«»ulfl wurprixi* oi
uiiauart**, ami r**h u*« nf our vrr\ h»-.irt«» and ri»n-'i«nfti*, whik
wr -li-^p in M«*urity. lUix wl.tri- th»- In-art i-* wi-ll fraiffht with
f«*ar. thin- i« n*** n-'ni f«ir ^ it.i!i an<l }ii<« train: it quirklj
«**ipyi^ and pn'\»nti hi** ini»-t runnin;: pi* 'tt-*, 'putting? to flight
tlH>^' arni\i-<» (»f i« inpt.tf i<>!i-« uiMi vihii-h In* u««th to l^^ffpp
nian'«« unuiidol «-mii<h i* n* «•. 'Ili«- hi>Iy iVdnji-t tlnth wril infim
UH itf thf imuiT and t'«>r>'«* <>f ti.ir. viln-n Im- t«IU u^* that it fiirhta
with an^«-N ••tnnjrth. I*- wxiv. 7. 7Vi* ./'../»// f.f /A* I^*rd^
Riiitli !»a\iil. **:tt.hfft i"t,,l •/'..*' tf.»t,t tK :* htr Imi, tinJ 'iri»»
i*i*th f/,»ttt. Nm- that wr iiuiv liiTi- \i ith'tiit rum*' pn-^uim* to
rri»v» our Saviour* -^iMai li in aii«fth«'r ra«M- of ii r^ di* fur; lUi*
dir*tan*l tn«^- of an h*<l\ fi ar < *h nit-n of littir faitli. why arr
yii- not atiratd Y
\\'h«n^«\i r rlii- jrn* •• ».f <f»-l *hall U^'in t.i in« n-si^* in th<v,
f«ar : wU* u it ^h ill d' fkirt fr><ni thi-«-. f« tr : and hIhu it ikhall
n-turni* to tht---, fi ir. *.h?1j St Itirnml. Wlnfi t>i..u tip*t fi<«-hwt
Ooiri* lli.ly >pirit t>> xif*\*- within t!.ii-. fi ar thiiH- i»wn uiiwor-
th\n<-M. tliat thou r<i«-ivf it ni<t in \ain. A niiX not u^i**! att
all, or not m« II rnkpl>»\«'<l. it a dishonour tti tKi dt»n"Ur. Whrm
tltiMi fi-t Ii-^t liny di'«a) «»r «uji|m n^ion of th« i|M'nitiiin of gracv
SERMONS, &C. 19
within thee, fear God's displeasure, who, for some cause or
other, suffers thee thus to fall. But most of all must thou fear
when God's grace is revived within thee, for the relapse is
worse than the former disease. Therefor thy fear must in-
crease with thy danger, lest, being made clean, thou sin againe,
and a worse thing happen unto thee. In adversity, let us
humbly acknowledge ^dtn Job, the punishment of God is fear-
full : in prosperity, with David, there is mercy with [^?>w] that
he may be feared. In all estates let his essentiall presence beget
an awfnll fear and reverence in all our actions, since there is
nothing more- fearful! in the saints and servants of God than
not to fear. (Jer. xxxii. 40.)
However, scruple not hence (yee sincere tho' imperfect Chris-
tians, over subject sometimes to despondency) the certainty of
our salvation. An holy fear doth not make us more scrupulous
but more certain, saith St. Bernard, in his 15th Sermon upon
the Psalms, for this fear (as hope) is the fruit of an holy faith ;
and St. Paid joyns it witn faith, (Kom. xi. 20.) as an antidote
to a high mind. Thou standest by faith, be not high minded
but fear : and indeed [tY] is the ground of our assurance of sal-
vation, which we cannot nave but by faith. I say by faith, not
as if it were not certaine, but to exclude that certainty of evi-
dence and sense which requires an absolute assent, both in
respect of the truth of the thmg, and of our knowledge, because
it 18 soe, and because we can demonstrate it to be soe. And
when we say 4 is more than 2, the whole is greater than part,
perfect knowledge of sence and experience absolutely conclude
it most certain. The certainty of our salvation is a faithfull
cleaving unto Christ Jesus. Tho' this in it selfe be more abso-
lute than that of sence, as faith is more certain than any science,
yet man's mind not throughly purged from the foggy mists of
originall pollution cannot clearly determine.
Christ indeed hath broken down the partition wall between
Qod and his people, yet hath he sett the register of his elect
beyond the ken of any mortall. Neither can we assure our-
selves anjr otherwise of our salvation, than by trusting in him,
by applying particularly, what he (that cannot lye) hath spoken
in generall ; Whomever believeth in nie shall he saved, and this is
in noe man so perfect but that the best may pray still, adjura
me Damine, Lord help my unbelief. He that doth not thus fear
hath noe faith, and then, noe certainty.
As the Spirit of God witnesseth wee are the sons, soe fear
testifyeth wee have the spirit. Noe man more surely relyes on
his Saviour than he that most fears to offend him, soe is it no
paradox at the same time to tremble and rojoyce in the liord.
n2
W 1»KA\ (.KANMU.K.
Tilt* fruilty of our iiutun* und the nubtilty of the dovill coimpm
tor (»ur ruitu* : lii*n* in ff«»ufl iiiuim* to fvar. Uut J««u» f*hriat U
our ra^tlt* iiikI ilctViU't* : ht*n* i» p^'ut«*r cuunc to njoyce.
A lima oil thr t«>|»|> o( all hi^li tow«T l«ioking diiwiiv and rub*
hidrriii^ tiio <luiip'r <»f u tiill. inniKW to think thrn^uti. IniI
It Miking luK-k on hin tWx und Mviii^ hiniM*ltV* rnvironcHl on v\trj
Mv \%ith kitthin* iit>, njiiyirth that hi* U fMic M.t*urt* of the
dimmer : iM.r thi* niftf«t •*lc«ldy lH'K*i\tr, tho* ho known tliat undrr
the |)rot4i'tion of tlir Alniitrhly h«* «'ann«it nim-arr}', y«-t he
<M»in(iini«'Mt tri-niM*?* t<» rtti«vt on thi* drpluruhK* i^tat** of CulU
in^ awuy. Al!N-it hin i»riiif-i|ili- U- tni«\ the Wonl of (fud «-«n-
not tail in any tiitl*-. \Vlii.^rt-\«-r iM-lirvcth nhall U* mivM. Vft
iH h«* j< aInUH ot' nii**-a]iiil\ 111;: it fii hiniM-llr. Tho* hv thinkrth
h«* -Maiiditli. h«- nni'«t iHUait- li »t ]ir tall; tor it in tin* «'i>u«iititiii
of faith and ^'rar«-. a- nf iiutiin-. ^till t<» drnin* i*n4Ti*aM> and I'-r-
ItHiion : wlii«h in* i-K.«<iril\ ri-«|uir«*?« rarncM iimyt-r, und tLi«
ini|ilirH u M»li(itoUH tV>ar.
Sn* then ^ti^i- Miy «if a < ')iri*>?lan, us S-i|iiii Mmiftinif* «|Hikc of
Koiiir, it Miifi mor«' ' m**'^* Mtun* wli«-n it Mt«id | m awi* of
Tarthaps The ^'liunli wa<« n« \('r fn^-r from hi'n*!«u-« tliaii in
thf tintr of |Mr?Mt-utioii. and tlu* nid of |n r««rution wa« tlie
lM-;;innin;: i^{ In r*-7*y. \V«>«- an ini»!>t < iTtain whi-n wt^f iirt' nifot
t«'!n|tti'«l. Whrn S-itan di -in -^ to Hliin<»wSt. I'l-tfr u« «ht<at,
tlun riiii>»t*<« i»ni\i'r a.->un-<* him of <d\ation. ChrintV intfn««-
Mon.** an' nion- |irr\aU'nt than an\ ti in|itati*iii, und, unl«-M> «•
ii'iidi r tin in in< tt* i-tii.iU 1f\ ini|ii-nit« n* y. th«-\ art* nt\tT in
\aiii. Ni-\*rih«l«-«>. Iii<« iiray* r iiiav tii't hiiidiT our*, nor hi* all
Mitlii it-ncy i x« luilr i>ur l.iU>ui-. Wit mu^t pr.tv t<i hiui. and he
will i>r.i\ t'<«r U-. Li'tt u- tulfitl hi- • iinimaiidmi'ni% an«l ht- «iU
t'nltitl hi- ]in>iiii-M «.. If \\i- lii\«- him. 1* t u- fi-ur to i tf* nd him.
If Htf h.ivi- i-i>iitid« nci- of i«iir «'l««iioii in him, thm h-tt u« u«e
:ill dilip-iiii- to iitaki- mir t.iUiii^, ainl thi- our i hi tion, »un>, liv
addiii;; ;pMi«i uork- to nur taith ; in dtN in^ uh«niif w«- •hall
n«\ir tall. It wan an h'.ith*n raniai that rorlunf nhi^u'd ikiI
In* |*t.i\'d iii.t«i hut %iitli hand"! in motion; iiilintattii^ that no
»mi!.it.ii niu'd U* air«-|»t«d iViiin tt hlu;^';r-»ril. .\iid it i» the
A|>|Hi-*tti '- ruh-. w«- all kliiiH, tii add \irtitt- U* f.iith. intlu»tri t«i
|ii.i\«r. Ffr t*i « r\ ^**A htl|». und not t>i tiutt to I'ur In I|»ing
Kind, i- a- \.iin a- to lalHiur without (fmU h<-I|i. N'*t jl^ it hi*
|HiMir%it-rr ii.-titht it lit. Iiut lat .iu«m- our i ndi a«wur i* n4|uir%«l
t«» ilttith II- t'i hi- hh— ihu*.
>hall till* |t!<>u!ii.iii liiirii hin |>h«w. or tin* iiiarrini r Iiia Hhi|i|i»
In^ au-4' (fiMl littJ* "^iiid, / i'l/V ti**'r Aiifr fh»» »tt»r f'»r»*iir A"*?
Nli.ill wif n>it pn>vidf dit-i nt < hmthiii^. U^uu^ «i«- inu^t ii«4
'.iKi thi'idiiiati tail t«>r ii\niintr lUvau-* ( l.riikt -aid. Tak^
SERMONS, &C. 21
Hce care what ye shall- eat y shall wee therefore expect another
white sheet from heaven P Or shall wee, with the sluggard in
the fable, lye on the ground and expect the falling of the figgs
with open mouth P which is not to serve God, but to tempt him.
Such idleness becomes none worse than a soldier of Christ's
band* The watchman must watch, tho' it be God that pre-
serveth the citty; his vineyard must be husbanded emd his
garden drest ; Paul must plant and Appollos water, before God
give the increase. God cou'd have healed Hezekiah without a
bunch of figRs, our Saviour no doubt cou'd have spoken the
word to the Dlind man, and he shou'd have received his sight,
but, that his actions might be our examples, he uses means for
the cure ; he anointed his eyes with clay, bad him wash in the
pool of Siloam before he cou'd see ; and, in the xxviith of the
Acts of the Appostles, he gives St. Paul all the souls in the
shipp. His promise cou'd not faile, yet their own sedulity was
required to their safety ; by swiming and using broken pieces
(you will find by the story) they all came safe to land. For
how certain soever things are in respect of him who knoweth
the end of all thin^, as well of those which shall bee, as those
[ir^ticA] are or have been, they are not soe in respecf of our
knowledge : (as you have heard) wherefor, wee must not idly
cast our selves upon his providence, but humbly submit our
selves unto it, alwayes shewing our devotion in prayers against
an evilly tho' wee cannot our power in over comeing it.
Discreet diligence must accompany our affection. Faith must
be our anchor, and we must row with fear ; even with fear and
trembling, in the least matter of our salvation : not like those
[jichose] faith dares speak as boldly to their Maker as their
neighbour, and hear his embassage with less reverence, nay
imk like familiarity, as the message from an acquaintance;
searching into the very secrets of God, and presumeing to learn
what God hath revised to teach. A generation whidi may be
known by their boldness, who take Christ's office upon them-
aelvesy and will weed out those tares which he said should grow
with the wheat till the harvest : and, like true Pharisees, they
aeptrate themselves from the congregation of their brethren,
thinking themselves more holy than they ; and more skilfull in
God's counsells than if they were imediately inspired from on
high, interpreting God's deepest mysteries without an^'O (iaOog,
at first sight ; yea, and that more sanctifyedly too, than with a
moneth's preparation.
Daniel, (I doubt not) as wise a man and as holy as any
of these men, ecclesiastick or layick ; will not presume to inter-
pret soe much as a dream without respite and consideration.
'S2 liK\N r.K%N\II I.K.
II«*4* ttr^t pnivr^, you will fiml. with \m coin|iany t«> (SihI Uvr
itirrt-y (itiu^^-niiii^ xUr mvrrt ; nor will lh<»tc*r niMiik unto hrr
ktii^, uiitill ^hi* Im^* iiMAiJitwl with th«* pruyrni of all tht* Jc'W«i» in
Shii.oh.iii. Ami St. .Iiihii, M** St. «lrn>ni«* n*iMirt« in hin pni|ii|ru«*
uiN>ii St. Matthew, intn-utiti hy thi* lii*«ho|Mot' Aniu. hinhn-thrfn,
to writ«- hi* <f«»*>|N'lI iipiiii^t (ho lun-tirn Khion ancMVrinthus,
tir-t nt|iiin^l » |iuhli«-k l*af«t tu )m* M>h>iiini/4.'<1 thn»u^h<»ut iho
whi»h' < 'hunli.
Siifh |>ri*|iiir.itiiiii, in a |iro|»i>rtion. in n<(|ui«iti* in our l<-<«M*r
affaim: ranhly to * riti-r th«* lint* in any hu**ifn<-nn <«h|ii<(*ial]y thiit
whirh in •sitTitl' it ini|Mi(Uiiily to rliallfn^' u hlc^^Mnir, n*>X to
entn-at on*- ; \ihiili |inft'.inr n«-;^l«i t o|'«liity, how hli^htly mu'wr
mm «f«t<<«*ni of it, •^\iiiir** of Inkiihiiiy anil Aiiin«»M. Ft>r
whi* i*an ii>ntr*u< u Hrity. an<l 1k-«- i;rnnnint of iu omrurn'nr^ Ui
nil artii*n!« : unii wlioran kn^w tlii^, utiit. without p^iit ini|itrty,
forU'ur to iin|ilf»n' it«« u«**i-t.inri- !"
To a-^k hi*l|i itf (f«iil. thf < 'n-atour. r;in U* no nn^judin* to nian
hif* rn-atun\ hut hi< (rri-at*<«t a<i\:int;ip> and hi^hi-nt honour;
ni'ithiT d*n* nian'^ (»nliiiary nn an** atnl i'n«li'U\ouni (h'tnii t fmni
(to«rit alNt<utlii*ifiit rri*\i(ltni «*. hut (hM-hm* it«« |Miwor : wiv, m<^.
in^ th«* Hh*n<liTn«'?^** of our owm^ **tmi^th, mith Ln^';it«*r mlmirm*
titin a«-kni»wh*<I':i' hi^ onitil|i**t«-n(*<> %ihirh i%i'rkt*th all in nil.
Our IT***! «»M fat lit-r •! atoll h«p-. «<11 knrw th«* |i«iwfr und
nirriy of foMl, y«t lioth \\r n**X |»ri **unii* in a danpr, th«iuirh he
U* riTiolvtil to N*ar it : hut u^ <« hi*t N ^t ni«-.in«. Ili^ faithfull
Ih'urt an«l trtuihlinir hand ar«* «ni|il'i\tii to^'thcr. thi* on«* in
|ini\id«in:r |in-M>ntM I'nr th** ruh-r «>f K^\|»t. tin* othrr in «N«ndin|f
up|» |»ra\t ro t'l (fo«i. It' thi' t.r**t ranrmt |»« mwudr him. lh«* Uj4
fihall i-Mii.in.irid him. Faith !•« th«- u'n»un«t nf all hi*i ililifr^'ncr,
\\t' lirM ri l\'-« **u iunW nun y : und liar tin* ruh- «if hiii artion«»
h***- !:'»•■• uUiul to iwrify tin* nil* r
H't // f/ftn f|U«»th hi' */ if tttif^t /•* ii»«r, my •*#«•, titw fkn*, t»tL^
A>«'fty, •y.i«» • "1./ 9n/t h» , tt'fttn .ii« 7 'i/tn.in f*, \t . |I|4 |ir>iyi'P» *«'4«inri
hi* iiutu.ird nii-aiit : .imi fi'^i .l''f/«<'/A'7. •s'i\«'^ hi'*-, f/»rr yom
#*it r. 7 fmf',t* thi tn*ifi, th'if hi 9/ui'/ »* «'/ ii*r*t»/ ti*ftr nthrr hnnihrr
<inJ /*' iir'i/r.iM, uiul Hh:itiMH>\ir ha|i|Hnt I u ill I tidun* il. y«-a, //
SERMONS, &C. 23
ir° SERMON.
HiTHBHTO you heard the necessity and maner of submitting to
the will of God. I shall now enter on the third part of my
text and shew you the benefitts redounding from such submis-
sions.
This casts me unavoidably upon a common-place, and one of
the most common of places, even that of adversity or affliction
as often preached as felt. However there will be noe cause to
pass it over, since I am naturally led thereto by the time, as
well as my text. A time of judgement, of warr, and of danger,
threatening our poor Church and Kingdom with a heavy mea-
sure of affliction and large portion of this bitter cupp, which I
fear is like to be felt or tasted (unless a speedy return in duty
to God and the King prevent) by our selves and posterity.
While temporall crosses remain, (which dye only with man)
wee must preach their necessity and benefitt, the one as abso-
lute, the other to the godly certain.
To doe good and siiffer wrong, after Christs blessed example,
is an especiall part of Christian life and duty. Your diligence
hath been required for the first, the last requires your humility,
upon the same grounds of faith and fear : whereto if you do add
(sinoe heaven frowns upon this land) a profound humiliation,
you will doe no more than God expects att your hands.
Not to fear affliction becomes a rigid sceptic, or senseless
stoick, not an affectionate Jacob, or tender hearted Joseph. On
the other side, to be utterly cast down in the bed of sorrow fitts
not an Abraham, but a Cain. Both good and just is God, saith
holy David, good and gracious to teach patient sinners in the
way ; but just alsoe to punish those which run on still in their
iniquity.
Happy jihen are those troubled spirits (let me mind them)
where this constellation appears, where Fear acknowledgeth
God a just judge, and Faith bclieveth him a loving father.
Adversity, indeed, is the discipline of God's house, under
which he brings upp his children ; through fear of which he
bridleth their inordinate affections, and, by disenabling and
mortifying them, works an unwillingness to offepd. For ex-
ample, —
21 l>K \\ i.K\\\lt I >.
The rirh man fi|)(iyl<'(l of hit riihiii M^'n thoir uncertainty, and
fMM* riyt-H liiu*k fmni hin fugiT iiuntiiit nf tlifni to him that igmrr
tht*m. T)i<> vuin-^Ii»rioti.H uml umhitiouM man. drf^nwliMl frmn
court ti> rottap*. iiikI. aArr all hit iiiduAtrv to hm*. brou^rht low,
und nmdr "M-t* pluinly then* i** n^M* r4mtidfncx* in any humane*
h«'lii, not* nf»t in th«* Ufii und nnv^t |i«»trnt of nrinnn. nor in anj
thild t»t' man. .in*i*rilin^ to Ihi>id*rt olMtT^'utioni t«nu*hin(; him
to trutt only nii thi* Kinirof kin;:'*. Th«* pNnl father ht-n* in
the t<*\t. lH-rra\M| iit hin chiMn-n, «'<inl«'*»4^ th<'V wi*r«* Init a
hroktMi ••tatrf. anil, uhi-n hi- roiiM not lon^^T (-ontinuo a father,
rontt-ntfil hint^M-ltr fully that h«- ua** th«* rhihl of ^mmI.
Sm* pniih*- i-* iMir ii.it iin- tn all \ii|ii|»tu«iiiinc'A<* aiiil unthtui-
WW*, ami *«iN> n-U lliiiiio an* mir atltitiun^ air^iiit^t any pHid. that
nothing hut thii u«»rinuiMM| ran >»i*an ih from nurkin^ tht*
dri-^(r« of Worldly and •»4ii»uall iiI«\ioun-H, fir ntup ua in thia
i-urthly |til{;rinia;:i' fn>ni runnin;? hi:iiili>ii^ tii di-tnii-tii»n. lie
in t*frtainly nii*M raMf whi> ni'V«-r fi-It any niiiicry. if we U*li<rvr
S-n«-« a. aiiil it i% ^mnI di\iiiiry in th«* hi*»th«n'i« own M-nnr ;
txtrttt tftihn* ttfiuhjt t* , tfitfiiim imir*;9'f n ft fur, 9tn»!i*% r*mtmr%M
Mw/M *'r"tf. V« ry ni-ar that «if tht- A|pr.tli'. >ll«h. lii. «>.i
Th* L'tf'i » /. /•'. <if '/# tt Kfitn /i# A. '•?/!. 'til i •"'•»r7»^A mrtf •/m •fA**m
/««■ 9'*fu*fh . hut ri-M'r\i'th wtiMiii h*- ■M-«>iii«th to |niim hy, ywi^tM
flirt *r> tt'f*fin'. hi* doth hut Mi*ni t«i |ki<Mt thi*in oviT, f«ir |pr«-ater
|»uni**!i!iii'nt. H^kI Utvk rt*^.iriU a ih(»u<ind U'uni^ in th«* r\i*n ttt
th«* wirkul. than i»n<* nmti* in thi* lyi-^ nf hi** |m<«»|i|o; / iri// no/
f'titunh ■H,iilh <iin| hy Win |*p'|*h«-t V'ti/r littutjhttr* tfArm fhef
iIliMu iv. It itut \iMi \ih<itM I h.i%'i' rhiMii*n of all the I'arth
wdl I |>uni«h f t all y<>ur inii|iMty. Am. ni. !.•
Thui <iiMr^ |Hii|»|i- in thi** Itfi* art', a« it w«>n\ tr.ivrllin;r fnim
KhT^pt toraiiiUin. Tho' our ihaiUy I'haroah. th«* 1 ni*my « if man-
kind. Ih' iivi rwhi'Iini'il in thi* nd ^.v of ^'hrint'^ hh^^l that l.r
lanniit throw \m d<iwnf. \tt hi* 1 a-t nihl»« in our w.iy to ^tumlde
u*. Niiui" An»«>rit«-« thi-n- will U- «lill to ifiJiMHti* u». Th«- •'*•
naaniti' i- wi in thi* land. Tin* th-^h and th«* world t-rii-t pildra
• al\i-. -uiTtf'-t n»'iniiuriiiir* .in<l l'i-*» whinhy w«^- |ir*>\«>kr tiod
to wrath, .mil t>>rrr him l>y atlliitiiiii ti» c-ha.*iti4i*, and tivrrtx't im
in thi- richt wa\ .
<»ur I'liiniiy i-* a* tinir*; Nunih. \\i 'J'» fn«m ilam*»lh to
I'ltCatli. Ip>nt till \ lit- i>t huinilif\ and d* .ith to thi- tdain htU
of ha)i|i\n<'«fc« and « \* rl.i^ttn;; hit- : •>«•■- Nt -Itp^mf u|»|»lycrA theiV
woriU in hit I'pi-tl* . ' /'I^-.-.mo,..
* Tt.t |lir«n -iklrnr!! i|u>>lr« frmi n mi in It it §fr-n»*9 in thr IrtI ntaij. — KSL
SERMONS, &C. 25
And this, (before wee proceed) may alsoe aflford a profitable
lesson for this world's darling. Hath any ascended this hill of
happyness P Let him not cast his scomfidl eye on his brother
in tne vale, but look rather towards Jeshimon, the wilderness
over against him, pitty them which are in it, and praise God
for his better mansion. Let him not forget that the hill whereon
he stands is Pisgah, which St. Jerome interprets dolatus, smooth,
as if it were plained ; very slippery, with an easy descent, from
which the lest slipp may cast him downe thither whence with a
great labour he got upp : making him feel by experience that a
relapse is a double fall. But this by the way.
Wee may take one type more of the saints' afflictions from
the Israelites. There was never any hony (observes the father)
in their sacrafices, neither were the lights, which burnt in their
tabernacles, of wax, which is sweet, but of oyle, sharp and
bitter: as if they ought [jnot~\ to enjoy the lest emblem or
shaddow of pleasure. But however, it was with them, certainly
as it is with us Christians, that our joy and felicity is not here
below, but in those things which are above, where Christ sitts
on the right hand of God, whereon wee ought to sett our aflfec-
tions ; and which are the only object pf a right mortify ed and
iaithfull Christian's search. Our light, as well as life, is in
heaven ; where our conversation alsoe ought to bee, and where
wee shall by the assistance of the Almighty, and a truely sanc-
tifyed use of God's visitations, (which are a Christian's best
directions) in the conclusion arrive, to our everlasting comfort,
if wee are not wanting to our selves. Christ Jesus, the Sove-
raigne of men and angells, and captain of our salvation, if wee
readily and heartily follow him, and trust in him, will bring us
(and it is only hee that can bring us) through fire and water
into a wealthy place. Hee is our Moses to lead us (for wee can-
not goe without him) from Bamoth to Pisgah, through many
tribmations, through all the difficultyes of our lives and call-
ings, into the kingdom of heaven and port of our salvation.
And this is the end of God's visitations. The fire of ad-
versity is designed to refine us, to purge away our dross, and
to fitt us for those pure mansions whereinto no unclean thing
can enter.
Who will not then cry out with David (Ps. cxix. 71.) in his
sufferings, ii is good for me that I have been afflicted. It is as
necessary a duty to praise God after afiliction, as to pray to him
in it, though wee may not pray for it ; tribulations in them-
selves being evill, and the efi'ect of disobedience. Had not man
grown rebellious God had not visited, but because of the wick-
of his doeing, Gtxi sends upon him cursing, vexation and
B
2(1 i)K%N (*K%NVI1.1.K.
n*hiiki\ (I>i*ut. xx%'iii. *2i». > Hut iliriM, tho KiM*k of rnir nah'a-
tiitii ihlfwu^l Im* hin Nfini«*> liiui tumM thi* (h1^* of thU fi«'orrl :
iMi thitt '»«m r^t mnluiH jam f»fift, «*/ malum /arrrr) it in not rvill
now tn Nutr«T. hut t4» cliN% rvill.
Tin* rnwH of I'hriitt, iliki* th«* trf<* of iuA iJirwwI M(»v«.
KximI. XV. *2'n luttli nltcrM the mitiirr of our tmuhhod watrrt,
X\iv\ an' no lfinp*r htttir und un%av4)ury. hut pIcoAiint iind whol-
Minif*.
(iHIMH'iully in th<*««* otM^nition^ following:
1. Tlit'V incn-uM* our knowlwlp*, lioth of our <*rr«tour and
our fM'Ivi*^.
i?. Thi'V inrrtii.itt* mir dt^votinn, niaki*in^ u«i nlmtp mort* con-
fonnnhh* to <*hnM our Ilimd. iintl mh* fittrr i«uhjix*U fur
hifl |»itty un«l mnipiiH.Hiiiti.
Fin*t, th«*y inrn*;iM* our knimh-vlp* ilr. While our outward
man in ron^unn^fl <>ur iuwunl man i<« n^nrwi^d. For aa hiHff aa
thf IhmIv tryunit>h«« in hi*« Mrt>npth. the wiurn whoh* rniplfiv-
nirnt i^ to tiinii-h thr (<ir|M»rt'all or^rinit i»ith vifr>Mir and |iowrr
for thi'ir nion- h:i*w> i'Xt'rri<M'«i. Hut thow* lurtu diMiMed by ad-
TciNitv to ri*4'«'i%r th<HM' faf*ultv«*^, thfv n*tunu* to th«« mniI. and
unit«*«l. Work nion- •»tron(rly in u w«-i^htyf*r matter, c-Trn in •
flivine contfni{>hitii»n. Th« n* i« now n<M* fi-wdl for lunt, nam
nhtui'^t for |»ri(h' Krrry iuji^i* faih*^ to hrin^r in t\ume driight-
Minir i»[MMr4>fi whirh. in th«' tinit* of UMlily h<*nlth, ovrrhnd«<«i tb«
fainting m»uI. Thi** pri<Min th«'n*for of th«' m»uI than onn* bn»krii«
nhc Ui'otn«*«» iit'ti^t' in h<T hu'«in«fi.<«, und nin« tho «'iiy of (t<id'a
roninian(hn«*nt**. Whrna* Iwfon- *hi* only hiiinl of (mmI aj» Jtib
ii|H*Hk<* hy thi* hiarin^ of th«* ran', thf \aih' of thr tt-in|il«* onca
n ni h\ •ii'kn* ?M.. or othrr mlrrrHity, nom h«T vytti «*»• him. The
«*yc of htT uiidrrHtandiu}^. f»h«' inon' rhuirly a|i|in*hrn(hi hia
|»ow( r; tht* ryi* of ht r fuith, »hr nion* rontidwitly n Ivc-a on bia
nu-n-y.
Siondly. thjit knomli-clp* inflan)«-«i her di'^'otion and mndm
u«» tilt* r -uhjii t» for hi* l»itty. \Vi ni««*t canii-Mly nur for a
n-nii«l% i*f lianp r fn»m him i»hom w«<«* N-M know ran« mi«l
for u« Whih- lit' an* in «tur ji»IIity, juM likt* thi» pnNlipill to
St I.tjLr'<» (m>*|*i 1. 11(1' l««ik no furthi r than our Mht-*. And
t}i.it. I .ini ikl'r.ipL h.ith Im n «»iif of thr ^inn«» i»f thi« nation, and
of thi* plan A litil* rro^** nui\ ilrivr u-* to ctur nc*i^hlM>ur. hut
whtii u«' .ir«- tlri\in to lat hu^k^ m\\\\ tin* -win**, in our in^'atn4
rxtnntifx. thru K*n,iiiuttt*. Ill /Mf/.|/|^/^ nur niiti<U an* humhied
with i»ur UMlvt-w ; tht ri. and tt«*t till th«-n. m^'v-^tAity Utxmif^ a
vrrtut' ; / •'''// !■■ auM- I niu«it i •/** /«» my f\ithtr.
(ohI d«.iU with hi« I'hddri-n sm a nur<4' uith hrft; •utfrrt
thrni to Ma^'p^r, now and th«>n, that thi*y may look the bHter
SERMONS, &C. 27
to their feet. There is a hand behind which the child sees not
that holds him up. Our Heavenly Father indeed plunges us
(if I may soe speak) here in the depth of sorrow, that we may
dive into the depth of our own hearts, and to make us more
sensible punishes by decrees : (as he did Jacob) first with the
loss of Rachell, then of Joseph, afterwards with famine, and fear
of Benjamin ; even as Joseph dealt with his brethren, but as
Joseph alsoe, tho' he began m wrath he ends in peace.
Mercy foUowes judgment, and nothing but impenitency doth
moke a separation. If Ood at any time be long in punishing,
it is to teach his people more sensibly the guilt of their sinn ;
that soe, by the better knowledge of their guilt, they may be
driven the sooner to repentance, the seat of mercy. Both wnich
methods of Almighty God's dealing with his servants have
been often experienced by the people of this land.
Rough hewn timber and unpolished stones are unfitt for any
princely building, therefor God sawes us (as it were) in pieces
oy adversity, smooths our inordinate affections and hews down
oar rebellious lusts> before wee can become a meet temple of the
Holy Ghost.
God well knowes we have lost that image and superscription
which he stampt us in, and therefor melts us anew, as the pro-
phet speaks (Jer. ix. 7), and purify es us in the fire of afiliction,
that wee may be made fitt materialls in that day in which he
maketh up his Jewells. (Mai. iii. 17.)
In a Chnstian life then, as in the almond tree, we must
expect a hard shell, tho' there be a sweet kemell. Hardness,
all know by experience, thus many times contains sweetness,
and sundry other usefidl qualityes, as comfortable health follows
hfter an impleasant potion.
Let us approve ourselves therefor the servants of God, in
much patience; as dying , hut behold, we live; as chastened, hut
not killed; as sorrowfully yet alwayes rejoyceing. (2 Cor. vi. 9, 10.)
Our sorrow is but qtiasi tristitia, transitory, (it seems) as there
noted by the Appostle, a dream or shaddow of sorrow. But the
joy of a true Christian is otherwise ; there is certum gaudium, it
IS not said, «« joy full, but, alway rejoyceing.
Hath then God taken away our worldly wealth from any of
us ? It is (wee may conclude) because it shou'd deprive us of
etemall happyness. Hath God bereaved any of us of our chil-
dren or friends P It is because we shou'd put more trust in
him. Hath he brought any of us to dishonour here? It is
because we may be more fitt for glory hereafter.
Extemall benefitts (none can deny) are God's blessings. But
soe is the want of them alsoe. All things work together for
s2
*JS |iF\N <«HA\V|| I.K.
till* UM«t ti> thii*M> who Iiivr ^iimI. (Horn. viii. "2f*.) <*lirii»t U to
\i\H faith full rtt-rvaiit- Uith in litr and ih'utli. ii(l>:intap*. Wou'd
n*iT ,iii\ wi-i- ni.in uillintrlv •miw in t«Mp», thut hi* luiirht n-ap in
ji.y 'r WiiiiM hot A ni.kn Ih- inntini uiili » vift ftprin;;. th.it ho
niii:)it h:i\r :i ltihnI h:ir\iM r .\n«l thii<« !nui*h (hr |ini|)h«t Il^irid
a**«urt'"i Uo iit* !*•». i'\\. ('• . //" ^^«'/-' *l*mth *m In* tfiy trfp^piNf/,
itt'ifiihi /'ii7/i #;'*.<«/ 4« f /. n/i.ii/ i/<i/^//#«« rum* iitf*t»n iritA y«y. 'Im*/
hfiuij /no %/,iiii»% '/ i//i /i»//i. Thi- k*** jiiT ••!' I«>rac| in.iy fH*in«-liiDt*«
Mvni ti> uink. hut in«h*«il hi- m ithri •«hinilNTn nor •^h-t'ife*. If hi-
•*utli-r a Monn tor a tiiin'. uhi-rrwith ur an* at thi« inMjinC
(Iri-adl'iilly thn iNiii'«l h^i^i \ir. th*' •*)ii|» *»hall not nink. ii*A
in nii»-t )»i».%i-rtull iittt ntiiii< «, \%hrti »•• ««-«*ni nuM n«'trh-« i<*«i.
Man'«* i'\tn*imtvi -^ .in- < iiMl** iij.|»..riuiulyi*^, hath ul«ay«ii Ih^-ii
thi* iilH.«r%af i<*n anil laiiL'u.iu'* <*t lutly nun. Whiii Afiruhani'c
h.iii'l !•> n|i I'lr ihi- •»!!> k* . linn .m .iii;^^'ll ^topp^ tht- «moni.
Whiii Mil-*!*! I\i- ^jitauhii:; in thi- ii\iT. thi'n i»* /f nio*t %at'r
tVoin thi- r.;:\|»M.in i ru« Ity A!i«l f.ir .laroh hm* nio*t rtim-
|iirti<*l in hi** ^iif* \« h* n hi- ^upjfi^'il hi^* liail hmt th«>in. Th«*T
an- til him ,i^ t)ti Kill *•• .1. thiiMttti fli-««trut-:ioii. hul pm^i*
H.ittf\. U hih- he I iitN)*l.ii!i-< tiny uill hrin^ fh>wn hi« irr«T
hairn initli Mirrou tn thi- u'ra\i . tht-y r«-\i>c hi^ €«hl afpr «itn
pMMl tiiliiiir* ol ii'ini .mil •I<>*m|i]i
l.it n<* thi-n. in th« iiani«- ot <ni«l. Mithout lurtliiT inlariri^
im lit takr up 'l.ii oil'** ri-«xihitt<-n in unr ili**tn'^i«-!«, to |ii>r^waili*
will! }i i« thi- I )ti it «1« ^iizu* I't fhi*i and niy turniir •M-rniitii. and
fur uhirli wi«- li.til III \i f nii»!i' « .ii»-« and ui* may jumIv lAin^l
.lariili'i nu.ird. 1^ r n^ n-*- .ill ti.i-an«uith frar and faithtull-
nt-<»i. dilpji-iti I' and I "-ii.i;.'! . til pri\iiit thir-M* i*\ilU mhirh
tliitatt-n u*. and h.1%1- tin • \ • lit totii^l'i i;i»<iil ph-aMin* : Mill
na-i\ with pi'iiiit till I .■:■.♦. i!.r .I'll, in thi- 1 \tnaiii«-4t ini*«-rT
til I IV I'tit. fi,f>'fK 'Ai- I ^.. .•' », f. ;. t *tiii I f.'tt riiv tru»t m fh**.
Sh' •«hill ui- apprixi i-nr •mJxi.. taithlull -*« rvaiitu to IiimI and
till* Kill;:, and att la-^t r*ii-i\i- that rpiwn of rttniall hiiM wkirh
ii laiii up ti>r ail tli<kM tl.aT ti-.ir him.
Kilt I nh ill not piii<i«^l aii\ lurthi-r in h«» hi-ati'ii a niail an thr
topii-k of ad\«r<«i(y. itor %• t. hy \i>ur ta%iiur. ronrludr my dia>
riiur«« I'i.i ri i« ii'-ritinj^ uhii h f.in U* ninn* plain and oh%ii>tia
to .1 <'l.ri-*iiii tliati fhi- U 111 tit iif .itlliitioii. a truth <-oii«pi«*uou«
on? -I tIji- wiifiiu;.*^ ..f til. \ir> lii-.i:!nn*. and I loiiitnd unto
yt-ur ri'XiiU at rf.;« ih^t.iitt I'ii.T.ir. )i*« i-\i t !li nt tri-atiM* ti» that
pnr|*»<» I -h dl ti.iril'ir lia\i- p ;; ird to thi tiim ^ a« wi U a*
iii\ tt \t. and ii-n^idir "niHm *,( ihiM' \<*ry alllu tion« lian^nK
i>\i I ixir 1.1 aiU. whnh muot 1 \fri 1^- thi-<i«' our n^t^nation*, and
i»hiih mil pro\i-. >< hri'«tianly «iihniitti<l tii lhu« bi*tii*tk-iall
to u«
SERMONS, &C. 29
That it is our duty faithfully and chearfolly to submit unto
Gods will all times of adversity with faith and fear, and that all
truly Christian submissions, will in the end be highly advan-
tagious, hath been the subject of my two last discourses in this
pmpit.
Application.
If the dayes of adversity and affliction, brethren, be such a
hopefull seeds time, wee in our present circumstances are like,
if we sow in pious tears, to have a plentifidl crop.
Many a heavy judgment are already fain upon us for our
past sins against God; and in a more particidar maner (we
have too just reason to suspect) for our secure and carnal confi-
dence ; oiir trusting in the arm of flesh, as well as our unpar-
donable disobedience to, and vile contempt of God's vice-gerent,
the King, and ^that'] many greater, for our stupid impenitency,
will fall, we have alsoe to just cause to fear.
God hath moved the land and divided it, and if his Almighty
and most mercifull hand doth not prevent, it must shake nay
totter into ruin and destruction.
Hie sword is drawn in the midst of the nation : God grant it
may not be too soon sheathed in one anothers bowells, nor whet
by the present cessation.
Insomuch that what party soever gains the victorv, both
must certainly, some way or other, in the conclusion be con-
siderable loosers.
It is a sad thing that subjects to the same Prince shou'd,
in words, many times profess and pretend the same thing ;
and yet all the while fight against one another to destruc-
tion.
One party, among other matters, declares for the protestant
religion in generall, another for the Church of England as by
law estaUist.
They cannot be other, with honest meaning, than the very
same cause, for the Church of England is undoubtedly a pro-
testant church, and the best protestant religion (notwithstand-
ing an aspersions) is profess'd in that Church ; and yet, in all
probability, here is in the nation a quarrell begun, (God forgive
the authors) which is not like to be determined without the
shedding of much Christian blood.
Or else, againe, one partv declares [/or] the King alsoe (as
the Lords att York) as well as the protestant religion, together
with the libertyes and propertyes of the subject. Another for
«M) DF.AX r.ftAXVIU.R.
thi* Kiiiff and nntinit luwtfi and ^ivrmmmt in Cliurrh and
State. 'riiiM likrwiM*. without montul nwnutiuu, in nor other
thuii tlu» fiirnifr, und yet \nd\i |Mirtytf(. you ihv, enter int4> a dia*
Uiull hliMidy war to dii'ide the ri>iitniver*»y.
'Ti«« «*«Ttain that our antient lawen and ^iveniment (wit*inurh
depi*ndin^ on monarchy ) eannot \n* |in*M*rvt^l l»y the dentruetifMi
of the I*rint-e; and true lilM*rty and |>n>|N*rty cannot U* Mvuntl
bv the d«*Mtniction of the antient )^>veniiuent ; uim* uion* can the
ri^ht pnittfitant ndi^ion.
(*<im«*, brethren, let um all U- w«*Il aiU'imil iM*fon* wc*c imbrue
our hantU di*«|>ly in on«* aiiothvr-i blo«Ml. Sueh like pretence*
and lM*pninpi had auvv lum* \n*tXvr coiiH4Miu«'ne«*.
iWhohl, I Miv, two iKirtyi*^ <it' the Kin^ n ^ubjivtn mokeinir the
name |)n»t<fitation. and yet all tin* nhih* lifrht «*ith one anoth«*rt
MM* that one of thmi eann<it b** ••in<*«*ri*. If two |M*r%onA de<dar«
for the Kinf^. and ytt fall to bli>wi«, on«* (if them 'Iirt«t4iid
what he wilh mu^t e< rtainly be a reliel in tigbtinfc agotuot the
KiuK.
I would in eharity think that you all conclude rv'bi'IliuD a
in«Mt imUoum thin^, ami that fiw will d am Min* not* fpntA
Would) dip theuiM*lve« in ttot* heinoujf a crime knowtnglr
willuUy.
The danp*r is that many «-orthv and honi*fft ^*ntli«iiira, as
hen*tofore (and now in our pn'M'iit junrtun*i maie U* immaralv
k'fore th<'y are awan>, int4i thi- foul ori'rnn*, wi farr that thejr
cannot trll how to p'tt b;u>k u;rtiii ; or if thi>y (hi themarlTea)
cannot hinder ill nun fmni pnMi^«din^ nn and eifivtinir thrir
(*ndi by virtui* of the njiutation which they ha%'e ^ren to aa
ill f-au**e.
I wdl therefon* o*ai*e to o>nt4*nd in thU pla4*«* whin* ia the
Iw-nt nulMt^et or verjiftt ndwU ; whrthiT I that dcvbtr^* my ^elfe
for till* Kin^ and prntintant nlif;it»ii, or he«* that diH^lanti him-
M*Ife for the priil<*iitant religion and the Kin^r. i* the m<»t kiyal
and U*»t proti "^tant.
I havr hi-n*. o|M*nly and fn-ijuently eni»u|rh. di*eover*d my
print iuhiH «*f>nf*«*niin|r ^ubjivtion. I am. bn^thrt-n. of the Kime
mind I ever iia», and not* remdvitl. by ttiMl'^ ^rait*. to live and
dyi*.
In«iti-ail uf Mirh diAput4«ft. Tie endeavour to |iaint and M*tt
U-fort* your lyt-^ thi% almminable ^in. that n«*ither imrtv wiU
own*' ; and without tilling \ou any ninn^ who an* n-U4L»' I'le
|ilainl\ ohi'W you. what xi^ reUllion. and what it iji to \m* r«?brl«
ii»U"».
In pnioecution when*<if. I'le k«*t*p pn*('iM>Iy u« widl a* I an
abU* to the Wry temui and wurxla of the (*hurch of bliigland in
SERMONS, &C. 31
her printed Sermons or Homilies, published by Royall autho-
rity.
Kebellion, then, you must know, is there esteem'd by the
Church of England, wherever it is found, either among papists
or protestants, (either on the 6th of November, or on the 30th
January) the worst as it was the first of sins.
In the first of her Homilies against Rebellion it is stiled the
root of all vices, and the mother of all mischiefs, and in the
second part, the worst of all vices, and greatest of all mischiefs,
at the breaking in whereof all sins and miseries did flow in and
overwhelm the world ; the author of that cursed sin of disobedi-
ence (which brings in all other at its heels) being noe other than
Lncifer himselfe, who of the brightest and most glorious angell,
for this very sin of disobedience and rebellion against his King,
became the blackest and foulest fiend, and from the height of
heaven fell into the bottom of hell, as our Church expresses it
in the aforesaid Homily.
Rebellion in another place, speedily after, is stiled the foulest
of all sinns, being as it were the source and originall of all
other, and inseparable from the highest pride and contempt of
Qod. " He that nameth rebellion," saith our Church, ** nameth
not a single or one only sin, as is theft, murder, robbery, or
such like, but " (to speak in the old language of our Homily)
** the whole puddle and sink of all sins, against God and man ;
against his Prince, his country, his country-men, his parents,
his children, his lansfolks, his friends and against all men uni-
versally. All sins " (saith the very same Homily) " nameth hee
that nameth rebellion, every commandment being violated
thereby.'* p. 360*.
Tea, that all the seven deadly sins are contained in rebel-
lion, you will find asserted in the same page, all sins, by all
names that sins may be named and by qU means that sins
may be comitted, do wholly and upon heaps follow rebellion.
p. 361t.
Pestilence, famine, and war, declared in Scripture to be the
greatest of worldly plagues and miseryes ; yea, all the miseryes
which these plagues have in them, doe altogether follow rebel-
lion. The fore quoted page J.
Of all warrs (wee are there minded) civill warr is the
worst, but rebellion far more abominable than any civill warr.
p.362§.
^ P. 607 in tbe Oxford Edition of the Homilies, 1840.— Ed.
t P. M8-9. Ibid. t P. 609. lb.
$ P. 610. lb.
•i2 l»K\N UKINVILLF..
Mt>n'ov<»r, that ri'lN*!!*! un* foininonly punuhrd with mnark*
abl«* ^haiiicfull ilrtitli^, an<l that thfV citM* \vr\ M'Mtitn n*|wiit,
itlir ^ri*at4*?»t of |iiuiif<hin«'nti«i wr an* aHuunHl l>v tlir Tc*nr Hmir
Il«fiiiily. |». .jrij*.
A- aI*«4H* that h<niV4'ii i>« ■ M#-l phirt* of pi«Ml and (ibi^inil
AuhjtitH. a- ht'll thi' |in<M»ii ami «luti^-«iii of ri*U'llii. a|rain«t Uod
an«l thtir Prince: our <'liun*h, in that Tt*rk* |ufr*s trnuinfc <*vrr7
olNNliftit n^alnic* thr fipiro uf hruv^n. ami a n*U*llioiui onr Um
■iniilitmh* of hrll.
I think I mi*^! not pnMliu^o any inon* quotatiunfi or armi-
mcntfi out of thi<« n'|i«>Hiti>ry «>f our t'hun*h to r«invin«x« ytm that
ruU'llion iH the ni4»**t ahhorn^tl nin ; ami that it nevrr pnf%«4 •
twiwrui^i Halve (whi» ever an* the authun or aupiiurtcr* of it)
for the Kinir, <*hun*h (»r Kininl"in-
liut that I may have a r^uthrifut foundation for a pathrtirk
di<i««waHit»n fri>m thin ^in, it will Ym* ntiuinito to in forme jrcm
fully in ri^ht <*hunh nf Kntrhind hiyatty, and it ran br no
other than i^ takm, wnnl tnr uurd, «iut of the^t* her own
nuthori/4'<l M'rmitn.^. whirh will U* nii>**t etfeet willy done hjr
natinfyin^ yuu in a {Mrtirular manni-r what the <*hun:h of ¥Mg»
Lind eiite«*ni*i t4i U* n*U*llion.
Fintt, to withstand nr um» any fi»n*e or violrmv to lawful!
•ovinii^m*. tho* they U» m'v»r y^i wiekctl, and doe never mm
inueh ahuM> their {m>W4T. ih nU'lliouii. If you will n4it fn^« M
en*4iil, rie ttU you th** \«-ry |kiu^' wh4*n* you nuiy timl it ; ^Twm
in the Homily 4»f nU-4li4'nr4' : I'art V.M. |u. t;4>. the la.«t nlitHm ia
the y4*ar l<>7*i. wh4*n- \ou an- al-Mi.* mindi*tl ami I di^in* rtvu to
tak4> i;oim1 not iff th«>n^if < that th4' Amahkite who killM KiAff
Siiul. tho* it W.I- ilom- hy NiuTh ohu «-«fn'Mnt ami o>mniaad,
(*J K iiijr* i. ' w;u4 |iut to di-ath ♦.
Si 4 mi I ly. w«<«' an* infonn«*«i that not onlv ojM'n n*lM*lli«in or
downright n*f*i-tam*4* of the I««inr^ anointi^l. ImiI any kind of
n*nurn*<'ti«in. «ir ((itnmotion, or munnurinLr. •»m* tif our tti««lrm
>irtuf'« i^ MindciiiMtd ;i- ati mtuji r.ilil*- >%itktdni-^^ in a wrll
jr»vi rnf*i kintrh^m : |m. ti7 of th«* <inl lli«mily. J Wh4'nr Ton
iM*«*. hy th4* way. hi»w iiiiieh thi<« a^* aufi that a^* pn^teAtABta
4litrrr in th«tr -M^ntum ni- of li'V.ilty.
Thiriilx. iti i a<w- of uitl.iutull ^r -int'ull i*omninmU. i»ur ni«>tli«r
tlt«* t'liunh i»f Ktii»d.ini| .mii'ltt all tht- rtpniaiht-^* ia.*t on hrri
in M»«* far from appro\in;; .in\ %i«ili*iit mith-tamim;*. or n*brl«
liiii*. a;r»in-t l.iulull ruh r^*. th.it it uill n-«t .ill-iw i-I any *itrt of
wilitiMii i.r tumult-. « ith« r h\ I'-n 4* of .irui-, '-r ofht r» i**-. airainil
^li 4>if ^1 FJ -r,o • r la*. Ib*4.
: N H
SERMONS, &C. 33
the King himselfoy or any of his officers, but laves before the
rebell's eye God's remarkable judgments on Coran, Dathan and
Abiram, and on others, for provoaking God in the like kind ;
and less provocations than most of us have been guilty of, tho'
through the mercy of God and a gracious King, we have
hitherto escap'd unpunished.
The forementioned Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, were swal-
lowed upp alive for but grudging against God's magistrates,
others were utterly consumed by a sudden fire sent from God
for their wicked murmuring. Others were stricken suddenly
with a foul leprosy, for but froward behaviour ; not to mention
some stun^ to death with strange fiery serpents, and 14,700 at
one time kdled with the plague, whereof you are minded at the
conclusion of the same Homily, as you are in other places of
Scripture of 24,000 and 70,000 alsoe slaine, by the same judg-
ment of God, for the very same sin ; that very sin of rebellion,
that truely diabolick sin, which many present pretenders to loy-
alty, nourish in their bosoms, who have invited the sword into
the land, and thereby conjured upp a divill which God knows
when they will be able to conjure down againe.
I shall say noe more to rectify your notions concerning loy-
alty and rebellion, than that our mother the Church of England,
(now sadly wounded by her owne children) who is exceeding
averse to this hellish crime, doth in these her orthodox and
pious composures (the standard of our sermons and divinity)
condemn it as disloyall and rebellious, not only to depose, de-
stroy, or oppose the King, but to put him in fear, to terrify or
disturb his sacred person or mind, valuable (as the Scripture
tells us) above ten thousand of his subjects.
And how any of those who either joyne with his enemyes, or
sitt still when their Soveraigne needs their assistance, or soe
much as mutter against him, can purge them selves from this
last mentioned gmlt, (if the contrivers and managers of the in-
vasion have furnished them with distinctions to clear themselves
of the former) I shall never be able to comprehend or imderstand.
Having now, by God's assistance, shewn you the necessity of
Christian submission, resolution, and resignation to the will of
God, and the manner how wee are to exercise those necessary
and usefull graces, and alsoe made some seasonable reflections on
Qod's judgments, at this time hanging over our heads, which
doe loudly call for practice of the aforesaid dutyes ; (without
which it is impossible for us to be soe truly penitent as to ap-
pease God's wrath) laying alsoe before you the heinous guilt
and odiousness of the sin of rebellion, and according to the doc-
34 1>EVN GRANVILLE.
triiio, and in tlio words, of the Cliun*h of EnffLaod, ondettrour'd
to iiifonnt* you what the <*hurch (which can wttrr judflv than
oiir piivati* htwUi doth cMtivni to In* n'b(*llion ami rt*U'Uiauii, lo
fortity you iipiin5«t the 04 Id luttionn luid hud^*-|MMlgr dirinitr of
Mirh diviiK^ uii iin* mow adde to wnt«* the hintory of the Itr for-
mat inn, than willing to praftitv the n'ff>nni*«l n*li|p<ifi, of the
< 'hunh of Kn^hind ; f the ^lory whi re<if i% U^arin^ faith and true
uUe^ianre to their hiafull S»vrrai^iei pve ine h*a?e. a» w<*ll a*
I am ahle, to di«wwade v<m fn*m that al)i»niinahle tiin, and all
appnisiehi*^ towanlft it, wiiirh i** MHMln^adfulI in iU eoDMH|ueiii'vm
an<l (h-««truetiv«' to Monan h\ anil K|}tie«>[N«cy, h(*in^ foftti-n^d a»
the darling fd* Tn-^hitry and a roinmimealth : and pndmblT
liy Uiiuo mon* than our ni't^hU^iirint; i»nt*. who upholds her un-
natundl invasion l»y trmptin^ -uhj*rtM to ti^ht aipiinst tb«*ir
law full Mi%t nii^n.
I(ri*thri*n. I am n'lt tun- i>Id a.« to havf for^it, nor noo ytHinft
hut that I dot' >»i'll rt'in* niUr. the -^fivvifiUA an«l holy prvt^-nri'a
of *ll. whirh urre ni:i<lr u^* of to ruin Imth <'hun*h uihI Statr,
nrithi-r wnuld I U» tlmu^ht !««ii* •stupid iv* not t^i fiar and <iu^|M<ct
hut tlie s.iMi«- train of' dr<*i«;iit!«, intri^u••^, ami maehinatiun«, mar
havf t)u.' *«;uni' di-ntall etfii-t^.
Th«* p iH-rality **i |>t-<i|»l«' wi-n*. f%«'n thm. in lh«* day!« of Kin|r
(*harl<H I. a- mu< h alraid of |»"l»«ry as mi* are at pniM'nt. tho'
h<* ^•hrwM him«M'Il'f' to U- oiii> 1*1' the m*i^t iiimi^ men ami tnieat
protiMant prim**** on tin- tai f nl' thi* liliolf i-arth. lliey then
driad«-4l I tit WW and \Kiiiiit\K^ t*«iUftK, a» they pn-t^mled)
tho* th*'y li\.^l uii'h'r a mi* k anil trrai iou-* i*rine«\ nihiM** ch*-
nn*nr\ pro^'d his ruinr. TIhv liudly t>\i Liimtnl a;?ain«t ••rill
< i.iuii ••Ij.iur-. lilt wi n- uttt -iti-tyi-il tdl tiny i»« ri* ih-^hM nith
thi' MiiiHl lit* l.iud an<l >tr.i!ioril. .iihI had ii\t-ri}iriiun undtr
th.'i* |*'*)iid ir « l.iuii'ur artd «lf*^wi<«« tin* ni'tt mnMiltnihlf pdlarv
in<'iiiir<)i and S'ad-. 'Uh \ «'>iMiplaiiiid f>t };rii-\ani tn, -with m«e
li --* ii'M-M- i!i 1 1ll ••«- da\« 4 til 111 iiLiIi^'ittitiiit^ in thf-^ : ami ali^ir
u!inMiiirI\ |«r» --d l''»r i.tii! - • i.-»ii«n*. liiit uKiu tlii*%* h.ul r\.
t**it« tl t)ti*m h ail th it ;;«nh| riirii ". uhn h.i« t«*nd< r ol' hin |iisitdr
• %•:» t<i i\ii-*-». thi'\ u. ri- in»l rmi'i nttil till hi* hail eomle-
Hii lull \ 111-. r>*\.ill lii nl t.i tit*' 1>!*« k. and tli.tt, \»\ i*un' t'.ilall
M'"U. ?)irf«' k:ri;,il'»:iM \\. n- in\*'U*d in hl'-«il and ti»nt*u«ion.
IJinI^ <»>1< nii;«' W'»r-!'ii|'p .iiid •nt\1'^' tiirhi-*l «j'iit»' out i»|" d««»r«,
thf I »th» r- iii'l di;:ii:t\iil « !• r;:\ ■■! tin" < f,:ir« h, a* Ui II a« the
ri;:lit.l'.\ ill N'-ImIi'v .i'i 1 tf-iitr\ «.t !h« l.iiid. \il»l\ tr.iMiph^l i.ti
hv th«' nil i!H -'t lit" tii. \idi:.»r. .i!id iJl th'- la**, thi- <'rw»:n- a:iil
<'hi»ri!i r»\.iiiif tl.i j. Ill ii I'M « i.f tf!\ :iiii»'d ,r\ im :/'d i>n. and
empliivM t«i nuint.iin laiiatii f-m and t iar|M'.."n.
SERMONS, &C. 35
Why rebellion, seditiou, or rude treatment of Majesty, should
now portend better in *88 than it did 48 years agoe, I cannot
discover, and that rebells and traitors, fled into the Low Coun-
tryes, shou'd be pnrifyed by the air and conversation in Holland,
I can as litle conceive ; no more can I conceit how the inticeing
and insnaring away of the King's subjects (as at present) to
fight against their uege lord and Soveraign (nay to deliver him
up into the hands of his enemyes) shou'd be a specimen and in-
ffulible mark of kindness to the Church of England-protestant
religion, which will not permit, upon any pretences whatsoever,
to take up arms against a lawfull King, nor assist, aid, or abett,
those who doe, noe not so much as to wish ill to the Lord's
anointed in the very bottom of our hearts.
For the love of God, brethren, let us leave those fond
imaraiations, discourses, and practices, which have set the
whole land into a combustion ; let us be ashamed of those un-
reasonable delusions and methods of delivery which bring those
very fears (or worse evills) on us which wee endeavour to avoid.
Such infatuation is a sad prognostication. Quos perdei^e vult
Jupiter y ho8 dementat.
Wee have in this jimcture, I confesse, just ground of fear and
jealousy. I who have hitherto opposed fears and jealousies, do
now advise the preaching on those topicks, to wit, that they
who dare unjusUy to invade us, intend if they can (pretend
what they please) to conquer us, and, in plain terms, in the con-
clusion to enslave us.
I dare not in such a time of difficulty but declare clearly my
mind and conscience. If the trumpet now shou'd give an un-
certain sound, it might be of lamentable consequence.
I never did yet, (I thank God) nor, if \^? Ilive^'] will, play my
game soe as if I intended only to save my stake.
It is your infelicity, dear and belovea brethren, at this pre-
sent to have noe person in circumstances superiour to me (in
the country) to give you right measures : which, when I have
honestly and faimfully done, as I have endeavoured this day,
(if you will not take them) the guilt must lye at your own
doors.
I never yet was, nor ever shall be, I trust, ashamed in the
pulpit to own my duty to my Soveraigne, and if I shou'd be
silent now, when there is more need than ever for preachers
fidthfully to open their mouths, to prevent the seducing of well
meaning people, I should conclude my selfe accessary to rebel-
lion.
The God of heaven by his Holy Spirit, the most infallible
r2
:U> HKA.N (iRlXVII.I.K.
guide, (lm«ct ui all into the faithfull dijcharge of our mmaotiTe
iluty(»i« t4> our S()ven*igi>(% fnmi which we can nerer denola, I
am nun*, without deviateing from the Chuxvh of EngUnd.
To God tiik Fatiirk lic.
FINIS.
THE
CHIEFEST MATTERS
CONTAINED IN
SUNDRY DISCOURSES
MADE TO THE
CLERGY OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF DURHAM,
8IKCB BIS MAJESTTBS COMEING TO THE CBOWNE :
SinafZB UPP AKD 8SA80KABLY BROUGHT AGAIN TO THEIB YIEW
IN A
LOYAL FAREWELL VISITATION-SPEECH,
OH THZ 15 irOT. LAST '88, BEHTG TEN DATES AETEB
THE LAITDIKO OF THE FBIHOE OF OBAKOE.
By DENIS GRANVILLE, D.D.
DEAN AND ARCHDEACON OF DURHAM (NOW IN EXILE)
CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY.
Printed mt RoQen, by Wm. Machuel, ruS S. Lo, near the Pallace, for John
Baptnte Besongine, ml^ Escnyer, at the Royall Son, and are to be sold by
Angnstine Beaongne, in the Great Hall of the pallace att Paris.
IK THB YXAB OP OUB LOBD GOD H.D.O.LXXXIX.
TO THE READER.
The same necessity which drove me from my home at the very
time which my Sovereign was forced to withdraw from his own
pallace, compells me to send these, as well as my other papers,
to the press, to shew the maner how I parted with my friends
and flock in the Bishoprick of Durham, and that the last dis-
charge of my Archidiaconall office, in a time of trouble, was
suitable to my past life and actings dureing more than twenty
years in a time of peace.
How imperfect and insufficient soever both have been, I
never wanted, thro' God's grace, resolution all along to oppose
the subjects' incroaching on the prerogative of their Kinff, as
heartily as I have withstood the Dutch their invading of the
land. It will be noe great ground of admiration to all who
truly know me, that, at such a juncture, J did dare speak plain
English to fortify my brethren against temptations, and encou-
rage them, as I nave done^ in their duty to God and the King ;
and I bless God's most holy Name that he hath been pleased to
bestow on me, for the supply of my manifold defects, always
Christian confidence in the pulpit, who have not enjoyed much
of it any where else.
By what God gave me boldness at that time to speak in the
ears of a large and publick auditory of clergy and laity, (not
rashly, but with the most mature consideration that I utter'd
any thing in my whole life) they mi^ht perceive I did not
intend to stay at Durham, if my sovereign should be banished
from his kingdom ; as by committing the qame discourse to the
jvess, after more serious fhoughts and greater deliberation, all
men will be easily convinced that, till my sovereign be restored,
(which I doe heartily pray for) I have noe thoughts to re-
tume.
Though I found it very easy and intelligible how to behave
my self under a Roman Catholic prince, in the discharge of all
datves incumbent on me as a right Church of England subject
or Christian, yet must acknowledge I am void of logick and
other learning to supply me with distinctions and furniture
necessary to live under an usurper.
40 iiK\x f.KAwiu.r.
And th«'n*f<ir if thi* n*nd<*r clincovrr the whctli* (^vunw* of iny
lift*. UM ^«-U U.H tiiy writi'iiipi, (h^^tituti* f»f «Tuft t4> traiiiifi»mi idt
M'lt'i* int«» any n)i;i|m>. uikI ihuiip* with \hv ^vi-mtii«*nt, l«*t him
not )m' liAtoniHhfii. or ur<u<*4* nu* o\«t riptily, fur n<»t <l<M'in^ that
for wliii*h I am n«»t mh* well ua oth(*n« quulifyt'il, i-ith«*r l»y luitiuv
or <'<turatioU.
It liath \n'*n my futi* to havi- HurkM in othrr prinripli^^, ajmI
t«> liavt* \n^*u trainM up undtT lN*ttrr tutopi ; nay, ptmihly, in
my wholi* make to )m* mm* n»ntri\«-<l ami c«im|M»^'(l, that i/] ui
not in the* |H»wcr of man t«> ni'W niouKl nit* into that ai^rt of
unimull vrhirh can hlow liut uml (tild with the ftume hrpath, and
in uhlo to tmk\€* hi<* utakt*. what r\cr rani tunm up trump.
To thoM* whf> f«)iall romlfnuH* it in mv oji a drpiorvMr pirrf
of iuadn«*mor t(*lly. to talk or writ** away i»urh u nin^idf ralilr
n*^fnut* Oil rro%iil<*iH'«* ami my kind {mtroni have U'Ati'WiW on
me. (which I um like* to d«M* hy •^'ttiIl^ my nam«* to what I
print I mti**t (l«i'!ai«- tliat I am oiif of thofw fuoU St. I'aul
MN-aku ' '»/] wlio. that I muv U- wi<«4\ uni willing: in the ftiirht of
tlie World to biiHime a f«N»f : ^aluiiii^ my inrnK-t-nry ami «iuic4
of ronneiemv more than I doe the U-nt deanery «>r hiahonrick in
(*hrifit«'ndom. and uh notliin^ yet hath tempt«'<l um*, i thank
(f«Nl, t4i CM implement away my r« li^ion, -tho* I ha\«* lii-«*n bj
luime lUM* ri'pnm«irdj u|Min Utrtl'i raiflin^ and M-ttin|r over us a
Trinre «)f u ditfm^nt rommunii>n ; mn* n*^ eonnideration what-
«'\er tl n*ly on (ffo<rii ;;rar( * fihall U* ahh- t4> prevaile with nw
to pnMtitut«* it. hy fallinif <lown t«> oilorv the multitwU. or any
ima^e. itho* it Im- of ;»i>lii whii h th<* |M-«*plf «hall M'tt upp.
ThoM* t heritor that attac k mr hy urpifmrntii or thn-atii in
lett«'n«. ti» •M^lu«i' mi- )*.!• k. .Hid draw tiKf into a ii'mphanor
with thr new piVfrnm* nt. that I miudit mX my hatitl to thr
rui^in^f upp tht* ItaU-U mhi« !i th«*y an- h'tiMin^ in KiiuLuid. may
K;i\e their laUmr and tht-ir ink. i\*T till thfv hav<- c^fnfutrd
the diM trine whit h they hati* pnaihi'*!. u« wtll a^ tht* i^iiand
divinity of th«'ir Miither whi«h thiv ha^i* ft>r«akfn. tht-y may
eeaiM* fmm olfi-rrinff me othfr artrtifinenti* tii o»ii\inte me ; and
tdl tho} |H'n»wa«le nif* to M-tt a hitrhtT value i*n my mony than
I dtM> on till' irrai-i* of (oid. and pri/i* my ti iii|Mirall intt-ni^t mcuT
than mini- ititr^rrity. whirh imi m.i;;ii k I ha%f \«-t m« t withall,
hat)) U^ti ahlf t'i I'tfi-i t •WH- .11 to till tiiv |««k«iti th« y maj
ttl«*"' l*«'rUar to utfricht nu- with d* privaM'in
I ha\f h»n^ i-^in-^id* n-il nn<l *tii.lii'.l thi- \m>'.u* of allt p.inr»
whii h I imr to my oiu ly ln-j^- lofi mi. I o«'\i raitrn*'. King
Jain*^ Vf, and to ni«' othir; aitd am lirndy. withi»ut doul4 or
M-riipl«'. •citi«l\<«il that iii\ rt li;;ioii wdl nut i^rmit me to
fidelity t<» any U*%ithi» him.
FAREWELL VISITATION-SPEECH. 41
That the greatest part of my brethren, notwithstanding the
faithfall and frequent endeavours I have us'd to establish them
in oonfonnity and loyalty, shou'd forsake God's vice-gerent to
doe homage to the people's, is an unexpressible grief to. my
soul.
To prevent the incurring such guilt, and the lamentable
aeandal of such apostacy, I did in due time (as may appear
from the date of the ensueing address) expose my selfe to much
sensore by delivering my mind to an auditory which seem'd
read^ to run themselves (as they have done) into that yoke and
aemtude, which I (who had greater temptations than others)
was resolved to run out of the kingdom, and from my prefer-
ment, rather than submitt to.
And to demonstrate that I am (after great thoughtfuUness
and much prayer to God to direct me) of the very same mind
here in France, Nov. 15, 1689, that I was in England, on the
same day of the month 1688, as well as desireous to express my
willingness to doe all that in me lyes to awaken those out of
their sin which I could not confirm in their duty, I am as will-
ing to commit to the press the discourse I then made, tho' I well
know that I shall in soe doeing, in case these papers get into
England, (and considering men's present genius and actings
there) be exposed to the danger of running, as it were, the
gaontlet through the nation.
PVom mj Study in Roiien :
Not. 15, IS89.
Advertisement.
If this or the former piece have the good fortune to find the
way back to Durham, and fall into the hands of those persons
that were present when they were spoken, (for whose sake they
were first delivered and since printed) they may chance to take
notice in the perusall (if their memoryes doe not fail them) that
the author is more sparing than heretofore, or ever used to be,
in his comendation of the constitution of the Church of Eng-
land and more particularly in th^ praise of its well compiled
liturgy, which he was wont, upon all occasions, very highly to
extoll. In which case they are desired to understand and con-
ndeTf that these papers have been printed in a Boman Catholick
42 1»|-.\N <.K\NMI.t.K.
c-<»!inin'. whfTi' tlu-v tinilil not U* |M'nnitt«*cl to poM the pmM
without th<* |M'ru».ilI anil iipiimluitioii <if Itoinaii ratholiok*. mid
tli.kt it ua<* u ^r«-at mark nt' t'a\(iur. ami nn (*»»|M-«*iull t<iki*n of
tlifir |*r«-<Mnt t'i»rwar<iiii <«*« to mm urr with ami rnrf»unip* !«•%'•
nlty, til Hiitrt-r •»• riinni'» ami a •.|M'«t}i **|iiik«*ii \*y a IH^im* of tdr
C*liun-h «»t' Kii^liiii'l to )m- priiitfil ht-n* at all: m>twithftt«iifliii{f
till* raHti^atiiihJ* uliiili lia\t' Ut n iiia«li' hv th«' n*tnnrhinf'nt »f
Miiulry <-xpn*H.*>ii>ti«. anil «>niittiti^ all r(ini|MriMiiiii whirh did
rarry with thini any n riiitimii. Ami thi-n-fon' tli#' afon'^iid
IMtiplr have no juM raii'M* ^i\fn thtin to romi'it that th«*auth*»ur
lath in any n-HiMct rh.titiriil lii^* •*« ntiniftiii of ihi* riliirinn of
tilt* (')iiin*h ot* Kn^Iaml. uhith ht* ha'h 4'\«t profi'^M^l, and
wlirn'in h«* dr-^in"* an*! r'-^^lxti Kv iuA*n jjraif to iivr aud
dy.
If tlio alMivr ni«'nti>imil aiplitiir'* w)i<i (li<M-f»V(T tof» a{»|Hirv*ntlT
that thrn' in aiuont: th* in at )i<>ini'. w}iati-vrr in in t)i«* aiith«ir
ahn^nd, a lainrntahli- « haiiL'<- or any '•tlii-r •uirt of n-ailrm of our
ownr or tit* any I'ltrn i;;n nutifn. laiiry him piilty of tiio inu«*h
nharpiif^i* lit" t\|iri'^''ii«n. tiny an- intn-ati**! tt» rfnn'nd>i'r. or to
Im* int'itrniMl. that whatiYir );i- h:ith ntt«T'd in a timi* of pn«t
ht-ut ami hurrx . hath U>«-n oiHiktn a^aitiM iiurh an did invad«>
hi^^owni- ii;iMvi- ri.iintry, 1* itli utit xpno-^ilth* injiiMirt* and iin-
nutunilm'-^*> i** ^^^ 11 a** ni.my h«i;;iit« nin;; airirr.ivution^ fur want
of i^ratitud*' .iiid tint it w:i<« a *«]»«i iall duty in i^vcr}* iiui* of hia
rli.irai tf-r and ■•t.iti.'n, a* that tinp- t.i tAiHt-M-. u^ nimh a« thrjr
w«-n- a)>l' . .Ill iii\.ixii>ii inlii«h u m Uxi^nd all pnit«<l«-nt and
withiiut itirillill In •»•••• inmli tl.at it a •«ityrirall ifivi^-ri\4' .»f
wliii h th«- :'.titlioi U.I- m-i h*\* r U- a* ;in\ tinn* allnwaMi- in thr
writi-inu'* "t .1 'livit:* . it iiiih^t U- iitn\i^i. ••un ly. htit that it
njay jM*'. hi Tt . In tl.i- iM«.*inii : i -|Mi'i.d y t iin«id«>niitf that hr
di'l \«r\ •M.iMiii:kM\ •»li. \\ -.lull hi-* iriiiiL'Tiatinn. •'xm lji'fi»n* tlw»
!'«.ri ♦ -. thai 1 ini!#-«l IupI f-iwImI u* *«k' ;rr«Mi a numlMT. hut that
thiv ini;:ht K.i\«' U»n I'jtiN^*-*!. nay •>'i]i|iri'^^'<h hy any «*«iuntT
ft" 1-!n;:Ian<i whiili i*..mM h.i\4» «li*w*il it ^ llr njrf»t valiant,
t'atthtull and unanim«>u« - .iiid it' H«ink«* *»( t}i>Mw nii*n* |iiiWrrful|
orati»iir*i wh>> ha\r Oh'^ n til* ir rli* *<irii k with «i\it niu«*h mii^'v^aa
(il'iriii;; th«- n itfn «it 'litii* • >ati- in rai««;ni» ••uhj*-* t«* atri"* tittcia
tir^t t" i'X« ludf . an-l att la-«t. in I'Xalfinj* III' I>«Nti.r li.' to
<lt-thri!ii* tilt ir laut'ull *<*\i n i'^n. l.ad «|i»n'* tin ir |iartii liat
with an hf irt\ u*'-"! ^ '-H ol ^htt tin- autrmr i iti Uki*! nf wm
h«' tli'i ; ni'»n ii.ti:.?\«t th^i •li*' Tni;^»ht |ir>iUiMy h.i\t* Utii
al.iruni*il in?** *» *U ' |» a *• ii-« ••! tht ir ilut> an*l i fmlitinn. that
• •ur j»rr«M !it K..U t ..Jiit;r\ i-a\al;t'r«. uhnli.i^* nfunti'^i u« and
ftlp«n th*tn« Iti^ ailri ail\ '»*m' ill ri'h I« iv* U» ha\«> «|iur-)ralM
FARKWELL VISIT ATTON-SPEFX'H. 43
us) mi^ht have been driven away with shame before they had
gotten into, or fixt themselves in the saddle. See desireable an
end, the author conceiv'd, may certainly authorize some smart-
ness of style, and apologize for him in any nationall or personall
reflections his honest zeal transported him into, (which as he
spake he prints) since that if any perceive some vinegar in his
ink, he is perswaded they will discover noe gall.
a speech made by the archdeacon to the clergy of the
archdeaconry of durham in the church of st. mary-
le-bow on the 15 nov. 1688, with a repetition of
some chief matters contained in former speeches since
his present majestyes accession to the crown.
Reverend and worthy Brethren,
It is a custom in the University of Oxford once in the year
in the University Church to have a Repetition-sermon. This, as
well as other her customes, I make no doubt, is supported with
substantiall reason. An auditory of scholars and learned men,
doctors and divines, have not, as she supposes, alwayes such
faithftiU memoryes but that they need a monitor.
It is noe affront therefor, brethren, to think that the gravest
clergy, at the most solemn Visitation may be men of like in-
finnityes.
Were I not then convinced by the language of your actions
(whereby you speak as plainly as by your tongues) that you
have either forgotten many things of moment said to you, or
have done much worse, that is, in plain terms, undervalued and
rejected them, I your unworthy Archdeacon might have cause,
once in my life, to imitate this laudable University pattern, in
makeing you a Repetition-speech ; which, tho' long, will goe
down with you the better at a time when, as at present, you
have noe Visitation-sermon.
And here it will not be amisse to remind you that Repetition
task there, in the Church of Oxford, is the most difficult employ-
ment of the whole year. So that you will have small reason to
imagine that I doe betake my selfe to the like course soe much
ibr mine owne ease as your edification, and as I shall imitate
g2
44 I>i:\N <.K%N\II1.K.
my niothiT tho rtiivtrHity in mii* n-Aiii^ct, mir dhall I in an«()irr.
Sh«* fluth hut rxi*n*iM* tin- |iotiriirt* of hi-r (lutiitun- mm> far an to
l»riii;r to tlii'ir virw thr iiu)iht;iiM-4' of many or any fM*mii*UA of tke
%i)iti|v \iMr, hut of tlx* fi'ur l.i'vt ini«*<li.it4 ly priH-i^tlin^ I ^»i» -Sun-
day, vix. ' th<* fHTniouM iin'aciiM on ^hmmI Frytlav an<l FImUt
iKiy, with thtvM' on tii«- ti^o fulhiwinv; fi'MivulU. Ncm* inori* aliall
I ilinttirh \ou uith iitMnin^ th«- hiM«l^ of any of my pojrt ail*
ilr<**^'M-«, ««.i\iii>: thf fiiiir l.i^t, I nit m thiHM* wliirh I h:iv«- nioilr
HJiiri' ih«* «h ith iif our l.itf ;:i.ii iitii'i Sivi n'i:n»»', th«i* I nii^ht
iiiMtr Viiti t«> l«Mik t'.irtli* r h.n k. U in^' ni^t (tMiM-itMi^ to my M4fr
(ii^l 1if |ir.ii<Htl tii.it I ili<l «-v*r nith /«tth* |in-n« uny thing
ii|i«»n yitii hut uh.it n.io uill u<»rth y<*iir iit-arini^ an«i oin.<«onant
to thr kiHiwiK* ruh-^ of ttic <')iur« h tif Kn^hin«l ; •««» that with«Nit
any nion- aihw* praying tor <i<Ml*.t a<^i.«»tamv; I cnttT on mj
|mr]MM>i«* an«l rm|>loyni«>iit.
/w jtt'tttion nf (hi • »i /« tn nrr uf ^ formrr m^wtrhrM .
SrKiuii I.
Tiir. fonnor of thfin* four (li*i«*i»urM>^ I vwAv you in the Churrh
of St. Nii'holaM. thr thn*<* la^t in thi^ whrn*in wo<* an* at |inntfiit
alwmhh'*!. I nhull. a(*<*«tnliiiic to our Ojifonl nifth«iil, t*nt«*njua
you witli till* rh«-if an<l ni«Mt ini|>ortunt |M)intrt in thr aaini* order
whit-li I H|»ok*- th«ni.
l-'in*t. in tliat aft«*r a fHin<*i(h-rahh« alifM-nft^ and in^*at rhangr)
I flul ju«Ii»«- It nittt to hriiiir to yi>ur viiw tho in>'atnt*Ma of our
atlliiti«in, aud our i;r< .itt-r -*i!;<», whi« h |»roV(»ki^l Uod, att that
tinii-. and in iliat tiiiiiii* r. to |iutii'*!i u*i with tht* Vwm <if a mtTtk
and nii-n ifidl f.»tlnr of nur rtiuntry.
A iirintt* of wit* omdf^^ndintf a mtt*. that he waft, 'likr bit
n<*v«*r iMiouirh to U* adniinti and fTiMxl natural fathrn iiii»ri
<*«in4-rni(*«l t«ir thf «-ajM* a!id pn>|Mrty of hi* ^uhj^^tn than for Um
atruritv of hi* own {»*rw»n anil |»n'n»tr»tivt-?*, a prinn* of Ruch
i*%<*mplar)* lon^'^ulffriii^r* iMnirin^ with turh inumi*nilil«* and
ititiih rahU* utfronti t»f hi* authoiity. that h«* tiid t*vintv U\ all the
worlil tliat it waa *i*an*«* inmiM** for a Sti aki to U* a tyranL
A iirinci-. what«\<r niiffht Im* hi* own |>i*rM>imll intinuitTt«, thai
hail ni»t oiir of thtvM* ^nMn flawiii in a nionan*h whi^h dot* Uiftlcr
u|iiin inju*tic<« and rnii-lty to hi* iM'viiih*. A princt* which did
aiH- ulmund in a«*t« <»f ^rruo* to a Ptuohi»ni and unirrat«*fuU gvtie*
ration, tliat an tXf*4'«»ivo (drmciK y had likr to ha%i* |inj%cU hk
ownt\ a* it did hi* fatluTV niiu. Laatly, a phiici* luidvr wboM
FAREWELL VISITATION-SPEECH. 46
(God forgive our unreasonable complaints) we might have been
(if we were not) one of the happyest nations in the world.
The next thing which I oflfered to your consideration was the
gracious goodness of the present king, in not only continuing,
but protecting our religion : whereby he did, in an unexpected
blessed manner, defeat the bitter calumnyes of his malicious
enemyes, who, for seven years before, had most seditiously ham-
mer'd into the spirits of the vulgar most dismall and dreadfull
apprehensions of a popish successor ; hee thereby proving all
those (God be thanked) false prophets, who had insinuated into
the peoples minds, (to the scaring them almost out of their
senses) that, as soon as the Duke of York came to the crowne,
wee should have mass said in all the cathedralls in England, to
which act of mercy in the king it was but an unsuitable and un-
seasonable retume (I cou'd not omit the notice) to grudge his
majesty and those of his perswasion the exercise of their own
religion, with impunity from the severity of the laws, whilst God
kept us under the government of a pnnce of the Roman com-
munion. Witness the untimely heat of some turbulent spirits
in the House of Commons, which assembled on the 19 of May
after his coming to the crowne, who flung a bone among that
august assembly which was like to have broken all their teeth,
foriously pressing on the then present and imediate revivall of
the penall laws, without any exception of the Roman Catholicks,
who had imdenyable pretences, considering their loyalty and
services in the Great Rebellion, to some respite dureing the
reign of a prince of their own religion. But the major part of
that loyall Parlia:ment wisely fore saw whereto such a preposter-
ous proceeding did tend, and, like faithfull patriots, did readily
oppose, and soon quench the flame of that ill-tim'd zeale, re-
solving without any more adoe (would God none had ever
chang'd their minds) firmly to rely on the word of their gra-
cious Prince for the security of their religion and lawes ; duti-
fully expressing their just indignation against those rash, as
well as norrid rebells, who did at that time insolently make a
desperate attempt to overthrow our ancient monarchy : the Par-
liament passing a Bill of Attainder in the first place against the
arch-rebell and head of that republican crew who were wafted
hither from the Low-Countryes, and then afterwardes assisting
llieir Sovereign with their purses and persons to the utmost of
their power, till, (by the blessing of God) he had wholly sup-
prest a dreadfull rebellion, which, however small it might be m
the begining, might have prov'd fatal to the whole Church as
well as Kingdom.
On which wicked and bloody designe we may now make the
•U\ l»K W oH\NVIt I F.
iii(in* iM'Vf'n* n*fli-«titifi*i. ii% tliinir* havt* talln out) miiicv that vik*
n U'lli'iii '.'it>fT it wa-^ hiitrli«^l in htlli iiiul liuil Imvii ImrUmn^
ill lliillaiifi. iiT.d iitiif»ri}f «*tir nt-t^liUmp*, whu iiiakr a ImwI mm-
|ilrinrnt t«» Kii^liiiift tnr raisin ;r thi*tii tVoiii n |HM»r dUtn^nnrti
Htatf in thf fliiyi-M oft^ii-^-n Kli/.iUth. t** mm* hi;rli und mighty •
n-|iu)»lii'k :iH ti» pvc rliii k tn tin* ni«Mt iMitrnt rriiwTii<<l hi««U,
cvru to tht* ^n-:it<*?4t of tilt- ir iM-iitlartiipi, aiifl f'ruiii ili«|»utin|f in
IIm- (InVf^ of* rharli'*« V? fi»r tlii* •-•\iraij»i»*y of tho wa*, <an met
in*MiIi*iit «-noii^li I t«i (iiiiti nd in tii** «liiy«-fi of Kinp: Jutiir* 2 ftir
tilt' tovrniipity of tii«- land, and to ti;rtit fur tht* imticriAU
( niufif of thirt KiiiL^I<ini. if not to Miar it on th<*ir h«iMU.
<uliirh it uiiuld li'fcdiy iN^i.ini- tti trampli* it uiid«'r thrir fr<vii
wliirh wiitiM U- till* und<iiilit«'«l i'^w of a Fl«iiii'»h ri*alo miit
with inin|H»i»ii*r and lirandy. tlio* m-vi r t^t mut-h vunii*ih'd uvit
Hitli |in't«-iirif» of lilM-ity and it-Iiu'ion.
Wii* fii:iy |cani<- tKc i.i\<'iir ^f tip- Iftillandi-r in the Mttriiid of
AiiilMiina iimi Haiit.iiii TrMiii Ihitt-h at t^ «»f ni«*n*y <thn* MUDfi
I d«M- U'liold uoiiM n*«t )h- (-••ii\ iiii til. 11 fi-w iLiyi«it a fg9n\ that
if till* Ihitih oh'iu'fl land tiny int* tiilnl n- iiiiy hann«-. thi* I>*rd
di'livi r liif and all tin* Kiii^*-« ••iM^lifnt fiiil»ji-«t%. and Irt th«Mt»
wlio altound witli -m- unan oiintalilt' ami ali%unl ««irl of ctumtT
oiitly fitl and t \|t« rinit nt t)ti ir t •>ni|i.i<^-ioii. And now, fn«
tlii« M-aM.naidi' and |MTtin<-nt diL'r< •M.iiin. I .itn I«m| tu my third
I^Ttif ular iif tliat Vi<»itatii>n -^j^t-* li whitdi I am «|>iti»minnfr. to
wit : —
Thr uiiMM .ikaiili* and und* — m-*! mm v of Almi|»hty <mmI in
tin- li|iHM'«| •«ti|»|irt >«i'>n of that iliaiinlii k n-iM-llinn wht-rrwith
llic «iitni\i-*t **i iMir Kin;r and C'iiundi fn-it-nnrd «iur So%rn*ign
to tin* ^'p'Ulli'.
A *,iil w« li'oin*' tor II i-"»r w.at?.«'r i»«it«ii iirini-i* nr%iU- ri«i^
int«> tlii' )iav*n. .itN-r a l'>ni: an<I ti iriiij** ot'inm*. lattly wnuilit
fntm kin;:il««ni to kin;r<l<>tii«\ and. wliirli in* Iniil n-a«in to think
noiH- of till* li<«it iM-naiii-i-i* Hiiirli liia\tn liati ini|»Miil u|nn him)
drivfti into IIhILiihI ant«ini; tin- iKifrh. w}i«>. it i« » wondrr, did
niif n«4- \iM|4r.ri- t«i liiin. "iifii-** tiny did. iint^diatrly uiion bift
roniinu' til thf rriiWTii-. < •"iinti-naiH*' hihI ^tijii^'ri thiM* n'twdlinot
mi-** r< ini'» iltat •••ti;.'ht lii^ royal Iif«- : ami fil.i»-4* i:«h«I «»i11 and
u«ll u:-lii« ti» t!i<><a' tint'iirtunati- nU lU >w)iii landt-il in tbo
w«-«! tn.iv Tt**\% 4I. .ir!\ \m- ili-M ••\i-r«'<l i'V tii«- pn [Kiration« vhirh
lit* \ i!.i\i' !•• n in.iki iiiu' • ^*'T ■*iin'i' ili** %i« t«'ry ^ivm liy ^i**! to
«iur S..V. n ijii at? Ki?ik' ^-^ii:* tn'-'t. ^iii«ii di«.i{)|«'intmont it ia
|ii ii*i crit vt^l rlitni. -::.••- thi v an- at tlii« \»ry in«tAnt main*
tainin;* tltf *^iiiii ijuarri 11. |iuhli<«)iin;: a n«it' 1«'<«m HirkM mani«
fi o?o i*r d«*« l.iraTfTi. oidy i^itii tl.t** ditii rtiiif. that tbf«»
rr*aihip>'i4 iniii-\''» wiiirh in t\\\^ jtinctun* of afiair^ bnrp
FAREWELL VISITATION-SPEECII. 47
impadently invaded us) seem a little more angry than those
trajrtors which landed at Lime with the God of heaven, for post-
poneing their State-holder's pretences to the Crowne bv the
blessed birth of a hopefull prince, (whom God preserve.) To
whom the barbarous Dutch, (and some more barbarous among
our selves) have been more bloody than cniell Herod in killing
the children, by endeavouring to prove him illegitimate, and
disinheritting him, (which Providence, and the King's wisdome
and care, seems to have put out of dispute) thereby destroying
the hopes and felicity of three kingdomes, in depriveing them of
see on valuable a blessing as an heir male to succeed and support
the monarchy. But to retume : the remarkable justice and
vengeance of God in cutting of with great speed those traytors
last spoken of, which they had foster'd in their bosome, and
assisted with vessells and armes to land, and begin a rebellion
in England and Scotland, together with the many signall pro-
vidences of heaven in frustrating all their wicked designes,
bringing to nought all their mischeivous attempts, and makeing
that rebellion intended for the mine of Church and State a
means (as rightly improved it might have been) the longer to
uphold both ; should convince (I say) the most stupid Dutch
understanding of the heavy displeasure of God against such
hatefnll hypocrysy as the colouring over secular, unjust, nay
treasonable machmations, with the profession of piety. One of
the mottos which they att present bear in some of their flaggs,
(as reported) Pro libertate et religione, for the preservation of
liberty and religion. That our neighbours the Dutch, of all
others, are become thus zealous and devout, and concerned for
the libertyes and religion of England, (as they would have us
imagine) is somewhat imintelligible. Btbit Flander editque beni,
hath been by wise men heretofore assigned for the Flemins'
character, and I never since heard of his reformation. Such
saviours of our Church (God bless her) wou'd be as bad as the
late saviours of our Nation. If heaven were incensed against
US in soch a degree as to putt us imder a necessity of such
miserable comforters and Mends to support us, it wou'd be hard
to know which to choose, a saviour from* Amsterdam or Sala-
manca. All I shall further say, before I proceed to the next
particular, is. that as I doe with all my soul, thank and bless
heaven for saving the nation from one of these saviours, soe
I pray with most fervent zeal (in conjunction with all truly
loyall subjects) that we may in due time be saved from the
ouer, trusting in God, nay resting well assured, that we shall
have a gracious retume of our prayers if our sins prevent not.
4H iiKAN «.u\>\in.k.
Ami ^M» I f-n^i?!* in my hiAt {iiirtiruLir cif my fitiit dincoorvr,
namely, - -
< >iir imli<»|ifiiNi)i|.- iililipition Ixith to Uml ami the Kin|( to
iivr **iiit.i)ily til •<u( h iiniX|»« i't*-<l hlrnMngn of hravi'ii, and un-
m«Tilt«'ii ki!i*Int'A<« t»l'an imliilp-iit |irinr«*.
Till' m«'n*y ot'tnMl 'ytai win* th«'n tf>Mi ha<l bet*n wcmdrrfull
)M-yt»n<l t\i>n'!t.<«iiiii to utir ^raiitiu.i S»vrraigiu\ in tint n«tiiriii|f
him with liin my all hrotiii^ni, ut'^i-r inuim-mhli* difficulty t*A at*
t4'mlin^tiif(triat and hin^ K«'Ulli<in. aftn^anln |in-M*nin|r him
friim thf dati^T of many hl«HKlv I»utt<-1K in di.'fi*uix* uf bia
nation u^ain-^t t)i«»M' vi-ry mi^i^if rni*inyi'% which would itKit*
withntatuliii^ W(i* ffi-l thiir malic**.' nuik«* the world U'leivt* laod
Mimt* I timl an* vimy i*ni»ii^h tn U-Ifive it i that they arr our
kind, nuy rrli^imi^ t'rii'n<U. In th«' nrxt plan* dclivrrinK him
fn>m that n*-\i>r to )m- torptttt-n dan^ri-r of tin* €lr«*p, wiu-n the
(fioiiiviKR |H-ri<«lit>«i oil thf I««>mon and Oap«*, wh«*n* iuml
many way«<A manif«-?*ti>il that h«- w:ui u |irinr«* whirh hfavi-n t«iok
into itM ••iMii.ill and t'\traonlinar\ pnitit-tion. Thru n-at'uin|f
him fmm a ^nat* r tli.ni any of thf former danp'r<i, vxvu frum
the madness of the iM^>pli-, from tht* fur\ of the rahhlr, fn»ni the
ni^* of the in< eiiiMtl multitude, uhi* h (i»uld not ri'fraiii fnKn ihm
hi^heM atfn»nt-, st.ihhint; in elh^M< . jud;;ini; him unworthy ihm
n*«|>*-«t due III a Kinu'\ hnithtT tho' a Turk or Paj^n ; n«4 re*
memlMTintr him fi»r a whih' -mm- mueh aM in their prayrra <ir
i*up{M. Whirh upK-en and eontempt of hiA NM*rvfl |H*r«i»n in-
rreoM^d to •uic hi^h a piieh (I t)i« n olwr^'Mi that many, of all
de^n-«*i and <|ualit\e^, >M-ttin^ themnelve** apiinitt him) wo«ilil
U* Hatinf\«Ml witli iiothinf? h^-M* than a liurlianiufl r&rl union of
him fnim the iiu|MTi.iU ('rowtir. whi-rito Almi^htv <tt«l, in ttiitc
uf m< n aiitl divi-IU, }i:i4 hniu^lit liim. with irreat honour, and to
our e«>mf«irt. tto<l. in whi»-M' troxirnanee i« the h« -art a of kingiw
piittin;: it into hit myall mind todi«»|)ill the fear« ami JmeIuoaTcw
of hi* {Ntiplf hy th«» tir-t ml h«' did in « .lunefll. before hr had
wiju-^l the t«nr^ fnun hi** ey. h fi.r hi«* lirit»ve«l brother; and
ut^erwnnln nmkeini; him a Mi^AMfl in-trument f»f mi|i|ir^<«Rin|t
tiiat tir^t Ihitrh r« U llw^n. whit h I dare ^> tti Milr. ^in^v it waa
tornii«l in llojl.iiiil. in the «ttiiim*>n rii-«-i»tai-le tif ( liri^tendoai
for re)M-lli and trail«ir«. an«l --*■ •»tim-x.,tiill a lortfi' fi»r Xtr%
* n.«- iKikr ..M 'k «!• «r.vkr«l u( 1 1K l« n *. »r.t On- ***• «t Mtt««« I
fMim IK. m utii •.( tt^ llurii»i#r. on IK. it ^«..rix "i M*« >^. !•«■.' \ «i««t» ■■I
inUr« «ltriff .1. Uii .'' D* tir uintt*i»*r« t thi* Ji*a*irr. •.I «l lh€ l»*W* tmrw % m, m
fim in • l.lfrr fr.M:, '•tr J«riM>« I» ik. lUrt |^*! Vr % nt 4 |Uli»'^^r(lk. I.i %lf.
Uumry KUw. « 4. i« p C^. - Ko
FAREWELL VISITATION-SPEECH. 49
able practices that two proscribed ministers (fitter to be smiths
than diTines) have there hammer'd out a second more divellish
conspiracy. Such goodness of God to our Royall family, not
leaveing it destitute of a prince of the right line, but settling
upon the throne soe accomplished an one, in all respects,
that, if hee had been of our own religion, wee should have
thought our selves loaded with more happyness than wee had
been able to bear. This mercy, I say, in raising a gracious
prince (tho* of a different faith) to be the defender of ours in
crushing a rebellion, like a cockatrise in the shell, which aimed
more att the destruction of the Church than the Crowne, is soe
unparellelled a blessing as deserves everlasting praise, and an
etemall obligation to conforme our lives to the will and com-
mands of our earthly, as well as heavenly. King. Which wee
cannot doe, (give me leave on such occasions alwayes to be your
monitor) till we approve our selves trulv genuine obedient sons
of the Church, as well as dutyfuU complving subjects, (I know
noe difference in these two epithets of obedient and complying,
tho' the last hath been tum'd into a reproach) in all things
which are not contrary to the clear Word of God. But I will
for a while stopp such enlargements, as well as sett a period to
my promised repetition of the most important Tieads of the first
of my four Visitation Discourses propounded to be brought to
your view ; which I have enlarged bv unavoidable digressions,
occasion'd by the present wick^ and treacherous invasion. I
shall sooner pass through the heads of the second \_? and other]
refmaining ones, without such additionary reflections, and bring
all, I trust, within the compass of less time than what is allowed
for both Sermon and Speecn att a Visitation.
Speech the 2nd.
The chcif points of my second Discourse I shall lay before you
are as followeth.
First, our present King's further expression of his gracious
goodness and condescension, in the seasonable and happy re-
newall of those wholesome and excellent directions to preachers,
which were published by his martyr'd father, and sett forth a
second time by his royall brother King Charles 2, in the vear
1(J62* : injoyning such a regulation of wie pulpit, (out of wnich
have issued our former and our present flames ready to devour
* ChariM Il.'t Directions to Preachers are given in Cardwell's Docamentary
Aanab of the Omrdi of England. The re-issne of these Dfavctions by James II.
ban date Mi llarab, 1665.— Ed.
H
r>l» VV.W iiR%NV|I.|.F.
un< surh oxiK't mnf«irtiiity tii our niKriclc. nu-h fn'OUfnt imMira-
tinii (ill :ill |iiinM*lii:ill rlninhi^i f»f tin* (liN-triiu* aim tli«t-i|>linr of
our I hiin'li* ftiu-li r* **|m ft to tlir linnl'n tlay, ami i'li«'ifly »urh a
training up|> «>t't)i«- ^mith :iit<l t-:it«*<-)ii/t>iti^ tlinii iti thv Ibrnk of
Ctmiiiiiin I'nviT. an wa-* thr iniK>t Iik<*Iy ni«Mii« 'VuIuaMr iiiA-
iiitcly 1h yoiiii all (Ii-|»uti-?t ami liarraii^ii*<i frulii «*itlirr |nil|»it <»r
pn'Hxi tfi prt-M-rvr tiir rinin )i uf Kti^IaiuI. Ati<l %ihirh wi^
rliT^v li.ifl ^riiilily riiilir.ii f«l. i<i<Nl tiiri;i%i' ut that t'at.il i-rn*r
of iii>;;lM-tiii^ tlitiin lia<i «'<•«■ Hot lalM»un*«i utuitT •mihu* kin«l tif
iiitatuatimi.
S^iiiifliy, that Mtti-r iiiv<-4 ti\f<« a;rain'«t thi* P« |m* of Ilufnt*
ivkliiUt Wf4* livi' iimlir a |triiH •■ ft' tin* Koiiiati r«imniurii*iiii
oiiiittiti^ th»* iiHin- Min- wiivi-^ tn ]»ri-MTV<* iMir n-li^i'ti all<*vixl
h\ thi** aii«l thf la<«t (;«hm1 kiiiu'. a** utll an liitiii^ ilf-«-lanuti*ins
ii^TiinNi th«* ii'»n-i i»}iti>i!ni-t*« in !)■•• I.ii*- kin;r >*• n i^tic hy (Kimp
who Hi-n* thi fii-^lvt •. liii! -. ii.i-i i.riti'ni»i-t-. u*r«' an « fft^ I i*f
\rry Manii-aMr niul (laii;:i tmu-. /* ilr. ami hail tiu;rhtily iiii n-a.«*'d
our M liimn ati<l w<akf i)«-«l (-ur i hiin h. It lH-iti)» iint iiatinrall
liarraritpii*** in tin* «Ia\«^ ••! Xiiiu' ^'li.irltn *J An I t)i«n t<*M v<iu«
ami ««till thiiik *m .I'^ni.iMf tn P-|>*-af au^aiii^t thf t'.iimtiik^. i»hirk
fli«l, without a (omph-.tt rontuniiity tn our nil***. Ai^iuli/t* a riipht
riiurrh of KiiLrl.iml ili\im-. ipi- inon- than furiou** railing, or Ku(
(li<*|iutf iii^ n;raiii-*t th«> l*>»|»-. or ('hun h of Koiiu-. in tin* pn-iictil
rti;rm* of Kiii^ .laim<* J, ran lmvi- an unih niahh* «l«-nion«tr.itiuii
tliat «»• an* ir^K-i •»ul'ii-«t«. Mf tirnii- prot.Maiiti. Ni-ith«T of uliick
r.in f-\iil«'i)i «■ \i^ iimi kiioUi -^ til In> ih*- |fL;irin;ut«- i^iui- of that
riiunh whbli w.i- tn v« r i7uilt\ i.f l»iii»ttri»U'» ami unniaiim rlr
/••.ilf. hut :iiM.i\i^ j"rt»ti-» inil t.i'i;rht. init on. 1\ a (i<^'|» %* nt^ra-
ti«.n for M.i)''*v. l»Jit I 'hi i*?-liki- in*-i knt •*•% anil intHlrra!ion,
i-xh^rtiri;: hi I « hii'lfi n t" '."rjiur M.- K::.^'. a?* wt II iim ft .«r iti*].
aii'l !•• U* j'l*! ••• .ill. ♦ M :» I'll},! w.-r** .it.il ni'M ini|>ljiMhlt* i»f
h«r «n«iiiii- "F iipp-.j!.i r^.
Thinlly. I ihinM tin ih'ii-|»«ii*il«h iluJy of f\fry onr of us
til U t.ikf- our m|\i- to .1 nioTi- ii.'iiih:*.ihl«- 4iiur*«- than thr
ti-rnnr. ot ni.iii.t.iiitiit^ our ri Iiu'i'>n h\ i!,«*^>- hivituM nii.iii« an<l
niui It ntop- ttftttuill th.m lh«' i^thi r a hit h \m n- alh'a«il hy tkr
Kiii^f, .1- Will a** o'lr <'l.urih. to •».i\i- imr *«i'*li-<, that i*. I»v liTi*-
iu;; ill « «'rilin;: t.> «iur «!•« rri:i«-. rath* r than li\ talking of it. and
u\**^X pirti* iil.irly hy '•*iiii\iu^ ami pr^ii ti** in^ mir (\iiiini44l
rravi-r H«"ik. not -^in u.iiii;; i.tir imuilt-r aiitl k.ll in ni-^<<lli^M» and
iniiN-rtim-nt pn karin;r>. hut l.iMhi: u]» .1 «!*-n- of aiiiniujiitHiQ
uinl turiii-liin;: "Ur - |vi* ]*\ !}.« fur'^iiil pr* - ri^«<l oiur^^ aitk
rourap- an<l ina^nanimit) .i;:atn**t tht il.iy of Uitt« 11.
Thi- fourth au'l la-t |«>inl n « •inHinli^tl to \..ur oaiMilrrftlitiii,
thfii. af that iun< tur« of atfair<*. and i« Mill nnrthi' to br
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thoaglit of) was, whether that subtle and malicious spirit (who
oitea transforms him selfe into an angell of light, effecting his
worst designes imder the disguise of holyness) doth not use
pretended zeale against, as well as fears and jealousyes of,
popery, as the most likely and successfuU stratagem to bring it
m. 1 was then and am still of that opinion, and for God's ^e
doe not despise the honest caution.
Speech the 3rd.
Thus haveing dispatcht the things most worthy of notice con-
tained in my second Discourse, as well as the first, I shall
attempt to bring to your view the most significant heads of the
third.
And here, waveing sundry arguements then laid before you
to submit to your Soveraign's will and pleasure, even in the
most unintelligible of all his acts of mercy, I mean that in-
cluding the fanaticks in his Declaration for Hberty of conscience,
excess of favour and liberty granted to his owne, as well as our
Churches enemies, as allsoe passing over the characters of a
right loyall and unalterably obedient subject to the King, and
of a true right bred son of our Church, together with that nian
of indifference, that pretends to be both, and yet is neither,
which I did then very largely sett before you ; as well as the
motives to become the two first, that is, good subjects and
good Christians ; — ^waving, I say, these and some other matters,
mat time will not permitt me to reflect on, I shall onely exer-
cise your ears att present with heareing four cautions or direc-
tionB, which I recomended to my auditory in the conclusion of
that charge to the clergy, to wit : —
First, that just reasonable and moderate groimd of fear,
which every wise man ought to have in our circimastances,
might drive us more close home to the throne of grace and
God's altar, and make us all acquaint our selves, better than
ever heretofore, with our hearts and consciences, takeing such
care of the internal exercise of grace and vertue in the soul,
(wherein cheifly is the Kingdom of God) and liveing in such
obedience both to God and the King, as become the best Chris-
tians and subjects, lest that our mercifuU God and gracious
Prince (on whose grace and favour our felicity did then greatly
depend) should for our past or future provocations be incensed,
and deprive us of the liberty wee enjoyed in the exercise of our
establist religion.
The second was, to take care of the young generation, and
never to suffer any youth to depart from the parrishes or fami*
h2
•VJ IkF.AN <.RA>\lt.LB.
Iy«*H, or iinpnjQch in tiu* I^ml*n Supprr, without ilur tnntnactiucit
mill u Humririit di'^^n**' ot' kn«>wl«*ilp' utid «lfri>tioti ; (/jm- Uhor^
fum' ii/*.M t%t uiifi. ii' ynu wrrt* U*T aiiv work^ of tu|i«'rt<n*^tiuo»
I itniVfil \Mii tti |ir.i>'tiro thrill in thit nmrm*, iR-niiittcd to ua»
(hli-«iM^l In* ttiNl uikI hin vir«-pin*tit nay rr<|uirtM| of im hy hit
M:iji-Hty. in hin piim** ilini-tinti^ t«» pn*ttfhrrn, im U-fon* mm*
tii»ii«4l. ulitntii wi- all iiti^hl iLi I tht'n ruutinnM y(»Uf to kM-p
c-li*^\ anil thi* mu^hi t whtrcof huth uiurh i*4intribut«^l, without
«li«|)ut<'. Ill liur pri'-M-nt ini««iry.
A tliinl a<l\itc u.i<». ti» U H.m- liM a viiLmf niiti<in «*f loyulty,
aii«i fiU^lifht-f til \*iiir •»ti|Nri<*iir-* in rhun-h un<l Stutt% luiyrht
(liUiiii ii y<»ur ilinhr^t.uKliit;/. an^l niaki* y<»u nitin* MUMiiri<»ufl of
yiMir pi\<'nHMir« int-nKn iiUHiit (tii thf pi<ii|>Ii'«i |>rivih'il)»ra, thfta
of till' |H-<>|iIi-^ -.11 r ill :^iMii- i:t\a«iiiii t>t ihi' |in*niLpitivi* 4if ImhI's
virr-;^ rent \V}i« n \iti' 4.i!iii'>r fliNiiivi r in Kii^lund if^iH^riAlly
in th« t.iiniK ff fin >ii mci^ uny f*n*- in^ttanci* of th<> tin»t, but
nia\ <\i*ry (la\ finii fur I.itiiiiitalilc ixamnh-^ of th<* hittc*r. And
that yiiu Hnu^i n nil tiiU r anil In* a^^innM that tlif n*Iip*>n of
our N)\frt-i^n«' (li«l nut <>ni* jut (itin-r h-«Mcn. or mo niurh ••
ri otr.iin. thf aiith<*rity i^r ikiwit wliirh he* rit^-ivifl fn»ni iiud,
nml iK't fr*»ni iii-^ •^i.hji^-tM. a<« al-^N* U* nion* ntfmiii of. an«l atc*rM
til |Mi|»iiI.ir X\ raiiny than th« alitLMi* nf }^iv«>nini*-nt, in a tii«inarch
whu in:iy U- *>u|i|»i<»'^l to ha\« , a<« ui 11 a^ hii» «uhj«^ tn, know*
h"<lp\ irr.Mr. an<I ninM-i.-nri- of tliity to hin Si\t'nii>n*«* *■
h«MMti. to n •strain hitii tnun an r\tra%'atrint «'X«*n*iM* of hit
|iiiU4r, aikil to inl'oniii> him that hi^ aioMint t<i i\\n\ will hv
ni«»ri- hi-aw tlian (li.it of hi-» •^nhji^tH in ruM* of nialr-ail-
iiiini-tratiiiii.
My toiirth antl l.i-t roun«Mll ua*. to In- jii«t to all iu<-n, luth
to tl,.- ):. iii.iiii<«( .i!4>l h:*^s« iiti r. Tliat \our u%ir^ioii ti> the
ih' trill* of .iii\ |i.irry. th«i' iii\i r ?».»■ i-iintrar\ to your owiirl
•«h'*iil<l hot. in .iny ni.iunt r, i\i-i«<il your |o\f anti i-iimvnit* for
th«- iili:^Mfii \ou |irot> •v^<<l. ami tcinpt \<iu to i-nixturap* hart
ta*i^l \h»hiti<>ii of truth ami ju**tiri% win n it i<% in tho cuiRx*m of
an ri.t iny or aihi-rniiry to your opinion)*.
SlIIMI iiti till.
TiUKi p iiiaiii^ ititu «tni l\ thi ioi^t of tny four AiMn-wi« to br
hr..iijh? t.' \iiiir \itu, Uf.iTi- I i-ninii^' in my t-nni lu^iVf n-tlrr*
li«»n* mhuh ion'*t-ti^l iif ihti-* ht aii«», .ifiil whtrvin I *|iukt* by
w.i\ of •Miitioii. I .1. *in you tii n m<*uiU'r niih«r than sivuna*
ti-.i..
lhi«« tliinc^ I <li«t .oUi^ aiiil U ^^-v h voii. i<i a tMrtii*ul*r
i.k.iiiuir. ti> t.iki lii«^l .iiitl hiw.in III. ami *»n I lihall. in tiM*
' I*
•hall
FAREWELL VISITATION-SPEECH. 53
name of God, as long as I have the honour to be your Arch-
deacon) things which really portend much worse than most
ground usuafly assigned in this suspitious age for fears and
jealoosyes.
The first was. a preposterous zeal against our adversaryes,
aoccmipanyed too often with a spirit of contradiction.
And which distills more aversion into us, and disgust against
our adversarves person, than principles inclineing us to oppose
and confute nim, right or wrong, concluding all to be evill in
our antagonists, (tho' oftentimes very commendable) and fondly
over-weening all to be good, (tho' sometimes very unchristian)
in our selves and others of our perswasion. A malady which
hath been long the disease of our nation. Our poor Church,
ever since the puritan faction began, labouring under the same
in such degree, that a spirit of contradiction hath been com-
monly made the cheif standard and measure of many men's
religion and devotion, and the distance they kept from the
waves and sentiments of their opposers, look'd on as an in-
fidliUe mark of the vertue of their own persons, and truth
of their profession. Which opinion and judgment of matters,
(tho' never soe popular) are very false weights and measures.
By reason, at this rate, the worst men must alwayes be the
greatest saints, since in them dwells most hatred and animosity,
and bitter aversion to all that is not their owne. Horrid vices
are usually the parents of this spirit, which I sett before you,
and desire you may all loath.
Tho second thing I cautioned you against was, men's de-
clining in loyalty and love to their Prince on accoimt of his
religion, which doth not in any manner dissolve or abate the
bonds of duty and respect in the subject. But, on the contrary,
favoun receiVd from such a prince, (such as wee have received
as I shewed then more largely) oblige subjects to some more
officioos respects than are to be paid to a kind prince of our
owne perswasion.
The third thing whereof I told you wee ought to beware, was
ingratitude to Ood and the King for those speciall mercyes and
acts of grace which wee receive from one and the other, even
dureing our murmuiings and complaints. Ingratitude to the
King 1 then told you was inseparable from [in] gratitude to
God ; a good and gracious prince being a choice gift of heaven,
tad one of the greatest blessings which a nation can enjoy, and
lie that will not, from the bottom of his heart, retume his
thanks and praise for soe inestimable a Jewell, is a monster of
onthonkfullness to the common Govemour of the Universe, the
greatest of benefactors.
."it uy\s (*K\>viij.e.
lit ff't fu'ftn tfH *tifnr Iff' fht' fHtittfn r*'l»*'*tt* •{ ntuf thf rirruthMftit^ftt
ft tff \>ifi"ti *tft f/t' tun* '*f t/i* *i'!i*tr»j *'f t/its Sjt^i-/t III rrfrr*
* ft* » t*i th» tlf 'i*f»H.
Ami iii»w. K«'Vrn'nil Kn'thrcii, I luivi*. hy the uwiiMtanrc of (tod,
fiiii'*h«*«l till* ta.'^k ^hit'li I |iro|NHM-«i. to wit, of n'fn-nbiii}; your
iiH'iiKiry with n«« il;ill i»t' tin* iiii»^t iiii|hirtaiit iiiutt«'n« which I
n'«-4iiiiiiiiif<l tn ytiiir oiii**i«U*r.iti<iii in all my piihliik Vi^it^tHia
lii^'iiiirM-H -iu«'«* till' «ti-.ith itt' thf Killer- AikI I am i^un* that
then- in tint tiiif lit t hi III hut ii vi ry wiirth\ nf «i»ur thtiu^hta,
«*<«|N'(*i.illy in **iii h :i jiiiH-tiin* **f :ifi'.iir<« an i>hlip-n %'\vt\ man in
iiuthi>rity tn n^- thf nm-t i-iwi-rtull ar^inii«*ntfi which i'Tit wcto
ii<M««t, til r.ii^* ni> n tn a hiu'h iiitt-li nl loyalty anil atftTtinu ti* tho
( 'ri>\» Ml' I't* \a\\z\ i!l<t.
I niii^'ht \ir\ |tri»|»irl\ . .i:i<l |ip-:ifaMy, farth«r nfl«it and
i-iit.ir:^'!- '•ii ni.iii\ "t tin- pi-r {•«rri ular*. in th««i<* our «'in~uni-
•«t.in« I". I>ut I «hall Miiitiii'- my ^Xu- i hiitly to th«* two \mi^
uht-niii I (li'l np-*t ltn« r!\ toiii h. :i<* nit>^t |Hrlinfl*nt for our
nil •tiT.iTioii in t}ii^ iia\ nf n )>!ik«* antl tri>tiMt'.
All nit-n aft- iimm. I •*u|i|ni<w . «utlii ii-utly tiiti\inrixl < who do
nut lal"iiir uii<l< r ^'nti' ih -iit-rati- fit lu-inn **\ tin* mifli'hi*t«<itti
i|i-.i;^ri> tif li'ir tn 11 hf-riiU'* ii« i:;)ilii<ui«, ulinin u«^* ohnll he
a-hani'«l, n.i\ altrii«l. an\ ni'-r- . -ur.Iy. to ••ilf t'ri* nil% «ir to
ir\, ''• V '. " '/'- •" li* i.trin. , 1 iTtiju-iiri- wlnnwith my imra
h.i\'- U*:i l":i.; L'rati«l \\ \**'\i.^ u*'\\ l.y |iri> lainati'in tn'OMin so
til iJ-H-
li !li« Priti t' «»rinL"* lanliri;^' wi!h I I'miu tniyfnn. tir
»ii|i|-ir!i r^ xr aU rtiif- til iri ih..ii ;i*t luHlntU. thf ]» liii ulan
«i( \iii"-i f"r»i- y*M \..i\*- ill till l.i-r <ia/i:ii fi*;*« thi*r with Mimr
III I'U ■'! I»i"» n !■• Ili"^iH M'^ l.ir iri'iti uill n-it r«'!i\infi' mi'n thai
tlnn ua<* *»•!• )i a tiiiri;: a** an i \ ill itit« iiili^ii in\a«i<»n. un«l tlial
ill" r- ■ a!i I- ij" L'"**! •!' -i-T^i*" ^'» •'ur hi* T'y n«'r n-Iiirii^ti hy mm
MMli::- -* i \i<*!.iM"li 1*1 l-'*h. I -li.ill ;ri\i- tht rn u|i tor ha^t, f«ir
TIP ti \'>i<! I't* i>;M>>n -M-ii«« . ai.«i n-it ••jMiiii any nMn^ |iain« ot
lifi iO\ M]*>ii thi ni.
A'« ---n i-i III- ^Iaii-t\ toM u-< in hi* I.rr TnH Liniati<in that
In- !:.i"l ii!i«l".il ••il ail\ It i- i.f a wii k- 'I ili '»i;rn*- to in\.iiii* und ««-
ijM* r tVio kr^;j«!"m. I ili>l. ar:il tliM'i;r!ir it my iiii!\ mh* to do^
tirtiih Ul«i\< if. aihl ).a\i i\i r «in> • art ••rilirii;i\ in m\ |«mr
«|>!i< n :i"? ••!il\ "ll' r*<l ni\ m«>-t t'ir«iiit |»ri\tr« !•• hi*aTtn fur
tli. |if«iT.i ri..:i i.( i.-ir 'frat I'.ii- Ki'.i:. • 'Kuri li. an«l Kincd<»n>. hut
li.i\i- il>>!ii' .ill Ml. it in nil' l.i\. Uith \*y wnnl ami •■&ain|i|i*, to
• \}.<iii I \i ry |« r^>n iMuattiti fn m\ « liaru**' t<» <i« ti mi «nir Kin|r
.4!i«l < iiiiii- r\
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And if all persons had been as forward as my poor unworthy
8elfe to give credit to and rely on the word of our Prince (which
I have not yet doubted) the nation had been, it is manifest, in
a better state of preparation. Tho', God be praised, his Majes-
ties Yiffilance hath been such, that, (if the officers continue
fSuthfiill) the kingdom is in noe bad posture to receive and
requite the malice of our enemyes, tryumphing at last as glori-
ously over those inveterate foes as he did, three years agoe, over
the last rebellious villains which landed in the same country.
Thirty thousand well disciplin'd and loyall subjects, imder
the banner of soe valiant a prince as ours, are able, imdoubtedly,
by the blessing of God, (despair not) to encounter any prince in
the world, attended on with 14000 rebells, by which appellation
I doe no injustice ; since, in the case of rebellion and treason, as
in that of murder, all companions are adjudged to be accessa-
ryee, and justly are to imdergoe their tryall as well as the prin-
cipall actors.
The goodness of our owne cause, and the badness of our
enemyes, is as clear as the sun, and put beyond all manor
of doubt or suspition, neither of which can be brought into
question by any person but such an one as haveing suck'd in
sedition with his milk is antimonarchicall, (whilst he pretends
to be antipapisticall) in his nature, and soe much more zealous
for the name of protestant, (the worst thing in it) than for the
religion of protestants, as to become a well wilier to Turks
fifi;amst Christendom, wishing success to infidells, because Cerent
Tecli, bearing the name of a protestant, (a rebell and apostate
or as bad) is one of their number.
Wee must not think soe blasphemously of the Deity, that the
God of heaven (a God of purity and truth) can have more
fiivour to such a rebellious rout than to a loyall army, fighting
under the royall standard of their lawfuU prince, in defence of
an ancient monarchy and most excellent government.
No, no, wee must not imagine that God (who is of purer eyes
than to behold any iniquity with approbation) can have regard
to such a gathering together of the froward, and insurrection
of wicked aoers, (as holy David heartily prayes against in the
64 peahn) tcho hate whet their tongue like a mcord, and shout out
their arrawes, even hitter words, where David's character of the
wicked (you will easily perceive, if you will take the pains to
penue the whole psalm) exactly agrees with our invaders, both
the wickedness and secrecy of their undertakeing haveing been
soch as he describes. But as his character and complaint in
ihe former part of the psalme doth well agree with those of our
enemyoB, so I trust in God, and heartily pray, that the latter
unci iini|ihi«tirk jnirf may U- Vfrityiil nf !h«*in likrwiJir, v. 7, •*,
II. liuf ffiitf ^h'lll «'/</>/ffi/f/ *fnftt tit f/nm trtf/§ ff «fri// iirnttr^ tkai
th» '/ *httli fm innithf*'/, 1^' il t/tf If ii't It fffttrpi' 4 m/hi// »t*lkr thftt* to
/#i//, iH^nifittt ft thil* *'if.- - •ri^/« (ff Hi •fittil Uitttjh thim tn «4««rn,4fN</
nil tu*h fhtit A«f it 'httil *tiu^ t/ti% it'ith (»nd *if»tt* , fur /Ary n^uli jmr*
CfW l/ l< /iM *fnk.
Many i'<*ii>«iiIfTatioiH, ti»pthrr »itli (iiNrM |»n»vi«I«iict' in
Lriii^in^ tlii<« uihI <>th«r {tiTtiiii'iit |ip»,iliiin to tin- < hun-hi-^ u«i%
Miit-f ciTtJiiiii* iiit«llii;fiit-i* nt' thr iiii'iii\r<4 lamliii^, iln t'i»r my
|M-rti('uljir> iiu-Kiinip* iih- to |>ut my truM in it^A that hi*
will iitit ^ivr iiH ii|i|> I aiii hiiri' hi- uill not. unh-^ tiur -luii
rim* t(i u hi^h<r |»itt-h than lhiir*i um a prry to our nuili(-ii>tt«
eni*niy«'M.
It' all onh'ri ot' mm :iini*ni;<*i \x*, who ha\o tnin»;n^iiiM<il hi*
ri^litiiiu** l.intr*. .mil ri-iith rM to uh. thi- uopU of our pn-^TilMtl
|»niycpi Uitli hiH iiHTi yi't ami ju'l^mntfl ini tfi'ttULill tu <4ar
ummtliiit lit, tlo hut uiitf-ipi«ill\ \*t\\W^^ to timl an<l htxirtily
n*|H'nt tor Muh thrir |»ro\.ii .irfnt. turning away In mi th«-ir
wirkiHln«i(n I tor whi« h it i- n^t y«'t tiM» hiti > hi^c* will U* (ihrnA'd
to turm* iiway from \\h hi<iurath, uhiih n«>w huiiff^ ovi-r our
hi'uiU uml (hith (rri4\oUHly thn ati-n uh.
Ihtt ht u** all pHt a^^MifMi that i»«> ot* Kn;;Liiitl i an ni-^iT l»
thn»ii^)ily r«vt tilt- ill il to Alnii;r}ity to^t ami mh- niut h I (Ian* in
)ii-i namr to asf^un- \oii> uith«<ut ri-]M'ntin(r ot mir in^n^titude
(•ir lh«' latf iNlifMiH unpanllrllM ini;ratitti«|i to our Su\«*ni|nkr,
itM Well a<4 liiniM'lt'i'. whirli hrin^r* in«- hi>ni«* to thi* tojiii k<i tliAt
an* <•!' all othi-r at thi-* tiim- iniM |m rtini'nt tor our t-on^iilm-
tiiin. Whirh inu'ratitudi , I <iy your in;:ratituth' t«itf««l an«l tkie
Kintr, whitli. aini'iit; oth« r *«iiin'« an<t inutniTahh* im|»i«t\m
nnany itt' i»hirh I trar « ry t«»r \riii:i-arii t diith lUn- hfsi%i*n noC
(inly to f h:i^ti^' u« it m Iii-. hut to maki- ui to U* rfliuki^ of our
ui'iir)ilx*nrH. ami a h\ i»onl unions th« h*-athtn4, nutfrrint; u» Ia
Im- lau;rht to •K-oni nn«l had in ih rifii'in of th«iiw that an* n»uiiil
iiImiuT U4. Thi* \v\\^X 'f uhiih thi- \»-^\ of un at thi^ t-ri«i* maT
ju-tly ilrt'ail fitr tiur lati* a^ wt-ll u« tfrnwr wn'trhi^l r^^iuitolw
that WM* h.i\i' niaiii- I'-T x\\*' \uvr*\ an«l U.uiity of our Talh* r in
hia\4'(t anil hi-* fli|iiit\ mi larth. I -h.ill not ••mitt thi* r«-|v*ti-
tion th«r«^>t tho* Lti- i .irri.i;r«^ •nul tnmviitiont |«-rK«iatl«* ^•^]
it will U* un|ilia«ant to •Miint- of \our ^.\t^ «inrt «iut of ifmU
rivhU wr mav at tiii^ \i rv ifi^taiit iilut-k a li^*Uf tti ti-ot-h lu tmr
\Vi' ha\i' inipuih iitl\ ihf\t'«l hi .ivi n )i\ all ini.i^inahli* |»rt>«i*-
(-ati<»n4, hut liy ni>:i.iii;^ nion- I am not atfraitl nor a^ham'il \\<
to \\i\r\\ u|M>n my «>1'1 «tnn^ than liv our i^mti'mpt «»f it in
niak«-in^ laihiiAith it* \irf--^Ti lit 'lho'<ti«i hath hlfMiJ ua
FAREWELL VISITATION-SPEECH. 57
Enriish with a more happy race of kings than any nation in the
world can boast of, yet it is notorious that no people under the
sun have transgressed more egregiously by murmuring and com-
plaintSy or that hath coppyed out with more exactness the im-
thankfiiUness, infidelity, and distrust of the impenitent and hard
hearted Jewes, both in reference to God himselfe in heaven, and
their conductors Moses and Aaron here on earth.
If Qod in his wrath had sent us a wicked heathenish per-
secutor, a Nero, a Caligula, or Dioclesian, to reigne over us, we
most with confusion have confessed that it had been much less
than we deserv'd. And yet we (the most incorrigible people I
think under heaven) are soe squeamish that we cannot digest a
Christian monarch, gracious and mercifull even to wonder, a
prince who hath demonstrated himselfe, beyond all gainsaying,
to be a true son of King Charles the Martyr, who was a king (I
am perswaded) of the greatest clemency that ever was upon the
fece of the earth, cannot digest, I say, a sovereign endowed
with all those graces (and a midtitude of other kingly qualityes
relating to war and government) merely because he is not of
our oppinion in point of religion ; tho' he gives us noe other
disturbance in the exercise of ours than to desire liberty for
himselfe and party to enjoy their own.
Since we have thus ungodlyly browbeaten, struggled with,
and in a maner disclaimed, if not rejected, such a Christian
prince, God in his justice threatens to give us upp a prey
to our enemyes, and the worst masters upon the face of the
earth.
Our abhorr'd ingratitude to his royall brother and [/«*//»]
selfe (without putting into the scales our other inumerable sins
and impietyes) may give us just ground to fear that our incens'd
God may designe to teach us submission and subjection by soe
severe a method as to make us (who have been yet one of the
fireest and most happy nations of Europe) truckle to an upstart
comonwealth and an anti-monarchicall generation, who, by
their continuall sheltring, encouraging, and assisting of traytors,
proclaime their enmity to the very name of King, and that they
would not leave (if they ceuld have their will) one crown'd head
in Christendom.
But let us not be discouraged or despond overmuch. Our
condition (blessed be God) is far from desperate ; England can-
not be destroyed unless it destroy it selfe. If wee will in tliis
our day but forsake our sins, and stoop first to the God of
heaven, and afterwards to his anointed servant our indulgent
Sovereign, as far as he hath for this last moncth past con-
descended to the requests of his people ; flinging the worst of
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FAREWELL VISITATION-SPEECH. 59
oaths, stand by him, and serve him to the uttermost with your
lives and fortunes.
It is the indispensable duty of a faith full Visitor to quicken
his Clergy in such an exigent, and with integrity of heart I now
do it, that I may give you true measures whereby you may set
right yoiu: people.
1 doe aclmowledge my selfe a very feeble (tho* I hope honest)
supporter of the Churcn and Crowne of England. But, how-
ever, I have not soe bad an oppinion of my selfe, God be
praised, as to be ashamed (here among you) either of my life or
doctrine.
And to evince that I am not, I have this day repeated the
substance, or cheif heads, of what I have laid before you dure-
ing the last four years of my office, which none can deny hath
been a time of great temptation and tryall.
I commend you to God's blessing and protection.
I'le say but one word more (and God knows whether it may
not be tne last I may ever say in tbis place) and it shall be
this: — Contend and fight, as well as pray, as heartily
AS YOI7 please, AGAINST OUR INSOLENT NEIGHBOURS THE
Dutch: but cease to dispute with your Prince.
i2
THE
DEAN OF DURHAM'S REASONS
FOB BIS
WITHDRAWING INTO FRANCE ;
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE
PEINCE OF OEANGKS INVASION,
AKD DBIVEINO THB KDTO BY THE SWOBB OUT OP THE
KHrODOM OF ENOLAin):
IN CERTAIN LETTERS.
A LETTER TO HIS BROTHER THE EARLE OF BATHE.
Printed at RoQen, by Wm. Kachuell, ru6 S. Lo, near the pallace, for John
Baptiste Besogne, raff Escnyer, at the Royall Sun, and are to be sold by
Augustine Besogne, in the Great Hall^of the pallace at Paris.
IH THB YEAB OF OUB LOBB M.B.0.L3XUX.
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
The reader is desired to understand, that when the Author first
set pen to paper, soon after his landing in France, in the moneth
of March last past, that he did not designe to print this and the
ensueing letters, or the foregoeing discourses. His intentions,
at that time, being onely in a few lines to discharge the obliga-
tions which he did, in civility rather than religion, owe to his
friends and relations (spirituall and natural) in England, after
so sudden a separation and mighty revolution, by informing
them, in an ordinary way of writeing, first, of what passed in
refference to himselfe and Cures Ecclesiasticall, dureing the dis-
turbances occasioned by the Prince of Orange. Secondly, that
he did continue (by God's grace) to be the very same person
that they discerned him to be at parting, and which he had ever
professed himselfe, even an unalterable, firm son of the Church
of England, as first established, as well as a right loyal subject
to his Sovereign ; resolved never to own any new sovereign, set
up by subjects, in the room of God's lawfull vice-gerent.
But the changeableness of times, and variety of publick oc-
currences, which did render it difficult for persons in his cir-
cumstances to fix possitivcly in any determination, caus'd him,
on second thoughts, t^ undertake the enlargement of the said
letters, for the satisfaction of his owne conscience rather than
their curiosity, and likewise to publish to the world the account
of himselfe and actings, which he sends to his brother and
bishop, together with the wholsome advise he gave att parting
to the members of Durham Cathedrall, and Clergy of his Juris-
diction ; to the end that no person whatsoever under his au-
thority might be ignorant of his behaviour and stedfastness in
a time of great apostacy, but be throughly informed and well
assured (the better to keep them from falling) that he did, to
the very last upshot, practice the doctrine which he ever
taught ; and was not ashamed, by his last services for the pub-
lick, at withdrawing, and by his first employment of his pen
after landing, to proclaim himselfe one of those indisputably
loyall subjects that could obey actively, in all commands not
sinfull, whatever his King bee, either by his practice in point
til
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LETTER TO THE EARL OF BATH. 65
ing, the seriously and well weighing the vote of the (pretended)
House of Commons to forbid all intercourse with France after
the first of August ; and, more especially, the frequent reflection
on his bodily intirmityes (fearing he might never be in the like
condition of strength and understanding to unburthen his con-
science if he slipp^ soe fair an occasion) did cause him to make
as much hast as he could, thus to comit his thoughts thus [^]
to writeing, and to communicate them by this sure method of
printing his letters, which were not compleated till the end of
October last. Wherein, if neither the reader, nor persons to
whom he writes, (more than in the discourses preceding) find
any excellency of stile, or matter of modem policy, or modish
learning, they may yet meet with what the Author is more
proud of, and in this present age and juncture very extra-
ordinary, as well as more valuable, that is to say, honesty and
courage enough to be faithfull to his King, last year in spight
of the Mobile, and this year in spight of the Usurpation.
EoMD, Not. 27, 1689*.
* The date is added in manuscript in the printed copy.— Eo.
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LEITER TO THE EARL OF BATH. 67
conceive, make any apology. All ceremonious respects being
then swallowed upp bv the great concerns and transactions
of the year '88, that Annus mirabilis, which wholly employed
the head and hearts of all men. And since that time my rolling
poetore, change of measures and resolutions, occasioned by the
uncertainty and change of affairs and persons at the helme,
together with the cross accidents which I have by land and sea
met withall, (through which God hath of his mercy well carryed
me) would not permit me to salute you with that formality as
became me ; wherefore I have hitherto continued silent. JSut
being now more fix'd and easy, and got where I have been aim-
ing ever since I left my station, (on the 1 1th Dec.) I cannot soe
fiEurr forget my selfe, as longer to deferr the presentation of my
humble duty and service, and give you some account of my be-
haviour and motions last winter, together with my present state
and condition, both as to body and mind. I have retained that
honour and duty for you that I have given lest \_? less] credit
than any other to what I have met with concerning you, either
in written or printed newes, (wherein I have met with many
things that have troubled me) and I hope you will be pleased
to have the goodness to afford small regard to any reports or
discourses concerning me which may have flowne to your ears,
oontraiy to the tenour of what I write.
About the end of September last, on the first intelligence of
the Dutch invasion, I retired to my Cures in the country : first
to Sedgefield, and then to Easington ; useing my utmost zeale
and discretion in my private discourses, as well as publick ser-
monBy to establish my people (in soe sad a day of temptation
when some starrs of the first magnitude fell from heaven) in
the essentiall dutyes of subjection and allegiance to their Soye-
raign, shewing that subjects were upon noe consideration wh*at-
aoever, neither of religion, liberty, nor life, to resist or desert
their lawfull soveraigne, tho' he were no better than such a one
St. Paul lived under, when he writ the Epistle to the Romans,
not only a heathen, but a cruell persecutor, a Nero, a Caligula,
or a Dioclesian : and that subjects to a Christian prince, and to
a prince soe mercifull and gracious as ours, by consequence
would be more guil^, if they should rebell against, or resist
bim, merely because he professed a different religion.
Ajfter I had endeavoured thus to approve my selfe a faithfuU
aheepherd in takeing care of my country flocks, I repaired to
my Deanery att Durham, with the honest designe of demon-
strating my fidelity to my Soveraign, and my mother the
Chorch of England, being perwaded that their interest could
never be separated; wherefor I summoned my brethren the
K 2
fiS ni.lN f.Ki.Wll.l.K
rn-lM-uiliiryt-« tii;;i'thiT iiiti* tiur <'hu|itrr)t'iUH-. mhrrf I jin*-
|Hiiiii(lii| t(i thrill till- u.*«^i*»tin^ lit' tin* Kin;:, in «ui- pad jui
rxi;;«'nt. witli tlnir imr*** s. un mi-II an tli«-ir |iruy«'r>. wiih which
iiHitiiiii uU |irfMiit (i>iii|ilyi«l. ui>«'iii^ njilil\ thrir ruiiM iil with
thrir vi>ic-i i«. ii« nil uliM'iit H.i>fiii^' mu- diil hy thi ir l«-tlir«.
Wlliill tNCaoinll 111 all At t n|'< 'ha|»t('r tii thi* fti'lt t t'nllnVllli;*. t'l
wit. that thi* h«aii i«hi>ulil ailv.tiirr fit*- hiiinln^i |MPunil«. ami
r>rry Ph-UthI till v. i\»T hi.-* Maji-^tW-n ^r^iir, lowanii* xhr
raisin;; ot* hi«rM> uii«l iik-h, it' iN-ia^itiii nhtfulil ri^|uin-. umi !•• \k
(ii*<|)«i'<i il Iff til thf at'«ir!^iiii i-ml'* ami |»ur|ii»M**, in nm h ii.aiit r a*
tiitr l»i*»h<i|» "ihiiiilil a|i|Miiitt.
Ami thi*< I ili<I. ii'it thiiikiiii; it aity v«ry roii-iili-ralilf «4'r\u«*
til thi- Kin:; tn \:'\\f liim 7<i(*' ••ti rim;; t<i %ihirh «uiii it «->ultl
aiuiiiiiit hut that thi:« at t nt' niir-* mi^'iit U- an ucraninii ul' «■ ttirti^
thi-Mhit-l a pN iltj/ iifl at liiat tiiiii 'l»a.<« lint ti«i Ltt* thniu^h
tlii> KiiiLr«iiiiii : fill I i\ ill}; it ii«n- -ih in tui h an i-xtrannii.'unr
jiiiirtiin- til had tlir >aii. in jH.int •>! lnvalty tt» iny I'r.i.ii-,
^im-l■ th<> I )i>i« I x^'M- ami Aii hth-ai •■!ii\ Iff' lKirh:iiii ni'Mi- loii
fh li\ iiail Im^ii all ah>li;^ iliiti inu' lix' tinii- nt lli^hi'^'p < '<>«:iui,
aliil r>i r *>i!l«-i*. a mitahh (A.illllili*. tii thi- wh'ih' liatinn. cl' f-«in-
liiiiiiit> til till- Ia\%t-!>t aiitl ilutitull n i^.inl tn hi*i Majt9it\i-!« hoiji»ur
lar .t*i an\ »«ri*
|H rN«iii.iii .i-*-**!.!!.! !• I'l nil II .^>>i i.i:;:iii . a« lar .t*i an\ w^n*
uhllu'iii, ami ixiitiii;^ thi ir /• .il til ««iuii- thrir fixk*. th.it thf-y
imi^'iit iiiit If •>iiluiiil triini thiir .ilh i^i.iip « i>\ thi lanti:.^
**«.|ihi*.f ry ami lii-tn.i tii>ii^ ••! tht .i^* .
Ai:«l t!...' ti.i /imI 1 t!.. :i i>i(it III • .1 in ii.\ \ i -./.*? Si-n >|a«nh
h.iTli ha<i "i!.- I . a" tiriiiill\. -ir. ill i th » t .i* I- !•-! >i*ihli)>\ thr
('lir^\i'' ;:•!.• lall I ••iii]<I\ .III! •■ \« itli th« ir in u < I'-n i:.*iur'* .i?ai
liii>i liiin« li'. .»1.>1 !• i.x.iui ;::;^> thtiri'lij \tt it uili •»r\i at all
tiiM •« t«i |ir>-]*iii.< that thi ir A?i hiji .11 I'll iii'i ■■'i th.t! iai.4.«itia
a- h.« !..i I •;■.'. • ;■• :. r- l.i:T}.!j.!i\ ill li\. r h.- - .1
|-*i>iirt!.l\ . i^ il .\i .:.;: it ii,i;jht 1m -. !,;«■ fM r\ ii • :••].> Mai«i»t%
l.if I"»th « h T i:\ .11. 'i I. \ '\ t.. -ii. « :"'.i .r .il:.- : :• :. • • i \t. »t un-
i.atiirall in\.i-.'*. V : !• h w..- •'.•:. !• .»ii«i. 1 ii..\... lir^t m*
I'll till! n I'l li.i ( i.<|'ii, >!.•! ..Ml I w.ir>!" u,\ h:«:'.n:i **i thi*
I'm mi. .t'l i"\M «.'!. II.' :• .*!. .I'iirt*- ': i:...' i. i!..ri ?■ tti%
^I ip 'i .!.••■ T ?• :. . • . ^- .!•.'•:*■• .1 * .! !» ^.i*. ■
LETTER TO THE EAKL OF BATH. 69
ing, the same, I thought my selfe (the most publick person in
the Bishopp's absence) obliged to give a demonstration of my own
loyalty, wnich I was not afiraid to doe, (tho' the Prince of Orange
was at that time advanced as far as Salibury) and accordingly
on Nov. 27 sent to his Majesty by the post an assurance
thereof, in an address which was intercepted by the Lord
Danby*, Lord Liunlyf, and other lords at York, whereof I
desire your lordshipp's permission to annex a true coppy to this
* Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, co. York, and Viscount Latimer of Danby,
afterwards Marquis of Caermarthen and Duke of Leeds. One of the principal in-
■tfwnents in bnng:ing about the Revolution. He was born in 1032, and lost his
frtbcr at an early age. He came early into parliament, and was among the most
ftrennons of those who opposed the earl of Clarendon, and finally succeeded in over-
dirowing tliat great minister. He was made Lord Treasurer and Earl of Danby in
1C7S. In 1678 articles of impeachment were prepared against him, in which he was
c haig e d with entrenching on the King's prerogative, and endeavouring to introduce
an arbitrary and tyrannical rule, favouring the popish party, and other political
He was committed to the Tower and not liberated until 1684. His next
in public life was at the trial of the seven bishops, whose cause he
He IS supposed to have held communication with the Prince of Orange,
dviog the reign of King James, through his sou, lord Dumblaine. He was one of
tboK by whom the plan of operations was settled, as respected the counties of York,
Derby, and Nottingham, if the Prince succeeded in making a descent. The original
plan was that the Prince should land in the llumber ; but when the landing was
rfg cte d in another part of the kingdom, the Earl of Danby still acted according to
tjbe plan which had been settled, and seizing upon York, removed Sir John Reresby,
tke gotemor, and put the lord Dumblaine in his place. ** Danby," says Lord Macau-
lay, - acted with rare dexterity." On the 13th Feb. 1G88-9. he was made Lord Pre-
fldent of the council, and soon after Lord Lieutenant of the west riding of Yorkshire.
To the gratitude of William III. he owed his advancement to the dignities of Marquis
ofCacrmarthen, and Duke of Leeds. He died 26 July, 1712, in his 81st year, and
vaa buied at Uarthill, co. York. See Hunter's So. Yorkshire, i. 143.~£d.
t Of whom Surtees gives the following account (Hbt. Durham, ii. 160): —
** Rkfaaid, Viscount Waterford, created an English peer [by the title of Baron
Lvmlej of Lomley Castle] in 1681, and Earl of Scarborough in 1G90, one of. the
■ort hoDOorable and nnimpeached characters of hb age. The Earl of Scarborough
had entered early into the army, and had fought against Monmouth at Sedgmore.
He afterwards forsook the court, on the manifestation of James's arbitrary inten.
tioDS, appeared openly to countenance the seven burning lights of the Church of
Sogiaiid, the seven Bishops, on their trial, and ran the hazard of maintaining a
private correspondence with Mons. Dykevelt, the Prince of Orange's resident. On
the eve of the Revolution he retired into the North, and secured Newcastle for the
popalar interest. He afterwards argued powerfully in support of the resolution that
the thnme was vacant, and voted for settling the Crown on the Prince and Princess
of Orange. His subsequent honours and employments may be seen in any Peerage.
He attended King William at the Boyne, at the Congress of the Hague, and in his
seroal campaigns till the peace of Ryswick. In the next reign he was a commis-
nooer for the Union ; and on the accession of George I. one of the peers entrusted
with the govemment until the king's arrival. He was afterwards Vice Treasurer,
RceBvcr-Gencral, and Paymaster, of Ireland. The Earl of Scarborough (who under
every Whig administration was Lord Lieutenant both of Durham and Nortbumber-
hmi, and Vice-Admiial of both counties) was the last of his family who bore such
cftoe ia the North, or had much immediate connection with Durham."— Ed.
7l» liKiN C.KAN\ U I I*.
li MiT, t«i i>r«V(iit t!ic atiU^Hi whirli iii.iy \m' •M-ru-niniii^i \*\ that
|KiiN-r '^ r.illiii;^*' infii ()ir luiiifU nf my «'ni-iiivi*74.
Al<iiii\iT. iiiii-iiliTiii:r riiy >t\u- itiiri> lunn* in thf oa|Mi it\ nf
u ri\il) iii.iL;i-tnt!i . .!•« miM ;i<« it-1-li-iiaMii-.iil. 1 iliil a |'<» (la\«^
iitti r ili-irt iii\ l>n*liri!i, Jtittii i« anil I^|Kity I.h'>ti ri.iiit*. In
^'ivr iiii- .1 iiiiitiML'. (•> t (tii-^iilt :iUiiit --irxiiii; hi'< M.ijtM\ !•• tLi'
iitiiiiiof nt 4iiir |h.\\i r-.. iti.iiiuu' :!*< Vit imtiiin^ t'r«iiii our liMhiji
:iimI iiii>p- |i.irT:i-ii!.iiIy )i>iu !•• lii t<-ii<l i>ur -^'U*-^ a;r*Hl!oC thr
I«inU .iinl ^'> i.f !• rill 11 ul.n li.nl ->4-:/'il uti Vurk fur tLi- rri:.o- itf
< »raii;^'«-. aittl \\i ii -m-hh- i.f' i!,i m .»il\.iiiiiii;«' ipirThuani*. t.i ^.^ un-
Ihirl.alli .ili'l Ni Ui.i^tli'. IkilT Tt.i.t h'llii <»t /lal i»t' IlillH « i*. h\
tliiir ^huiisiiiiu' tl;i*> •.|.i«.ifu!itry kI' iiM«tii)^', IiLi-uiM- n ti-ii-n^i
Iruilli''-. alii tin- I.'Ttl l.'in:! y. hm W«^Iii»-^la\ th»» 'ilh nt I>«i- ,
Mir|»ri/tii M-. ami i :iti n-l Ihuhaiii Mhil<*t I w;u* |pn'ai Kiri;; \u
till ji'ilpil •■! ti.i < .r:.«.i:.»ll i:. ni\ i-.iir^-, it l^iiij: thr !.r»t
Wi ii-ila> iii A'l\.:;' uirli ■'»'» )•.:-.., «.! i!i« ri aii-'iit-.. a:il *'i:;'iM
pi.?r\ Ml t:.:? .i:-I tl.. . r.'\ .■: Y.:l* iii»< ilud !y .»t>. r hi*
iiriixall •*! :i>{;:.^' hm < .i:>!. Iii !••:!. Mith tin tiiHi|»r-. u|i !•• ri«y
di"ir, III ''I :/■ '.Ii n:\ .iiM:- jTi I l.'-r*!-. ul.iili I n 111*1 m^* iii«liii-
\< r. ••!- vi.iif I.!! !j:^ I"ii!<*.i]>ri. I.- in hi^ l«>ni'>i hanti o rirnn^l luf
til nil Ij'i:.- i'.iiii ::;;» l.i- \i\ in til ii I iTi_\ .
< *n 'l'liiii^l.i\ t->!I>»'A :nL'. fl* l.^tni l.'imliy. \«iiK'>(i? au\ i}i|»»-
-iti-n. rt .; 1 t!;« riin- • .1 ' »i in^" '1 !»' • lira!i'»n at tii- •a-tli, m
ill' |ii--i:.i. i.t n..»r .-! t:.. !». j«u*y I.ii ati hai.t*. .Tii»!:> 1^, a:;!
( i> n!i \ . \%:.i> t!ik'<i in t* ).i'< lfrii-^i]>]i. anii \'\ t).i !r 1 ••in|ii% -
ani «■ I n- "I1I.:;^-''I J.:?:s t-i^in-l T.. ti.t \I.i;ji^tfati .•! Ni W • .l*!l« . t<>
il> liianil It .j'i'Ti jV. f'. )■ .• V«il.,' I'lu-'il a<iri.it!al.i • . !!:?•
•Nitiiliia\ .il?. I l..i-*:i\ .I'.l \\;*1: -.Mt |ili i ipit.i* I- ■!: r» MiTli'ii. hf
uuA l.i- • f:'!' i:;\ . ••. ^"i■:I.. ..!•.! l.a\« ii.u' ri a.l |iii!.ii. k!\ ..! tl.i*
Iii>ll%i! 1:.-'. :;.! I'lli..! .-I • h in;^'i '- I*n !ara'?j.ili, a':i!i>Ii«i •■«
l»\ .1 LTi it 1.11:'.!.. :■ .1 j':.u\. .i:,'\ :!.i- m jiitry tri»ji: l- »:. I
t)iank ti-1. t?.. r. \\*T* 11 « 1. I'.* !i'-r n^ n •■! mini- tl...' iLi*
hi .in a! • "l. I !ii:.i- - !.r : ■ .: t-. .:':t.:- th- nuniUr. .*:; I
h"ii.ii •'. .: ..I n.«.:i\. wlii- I: lii:.-!' r •! - \. r.ill .•! tl.i i'l. ri;\
i! :\.a\ ti!:;i •■ *.!..! in tl.' ii-. t" til' li -*• i.'.Ti:.' i-t tl.- a||B ..r-
an< •-
II< II ..{>^ :.. I (ill ]!.'l^-i it iiiii t ll.i III \t .!a\ .kf'it r. I* r.^j
Suntl.i\. t-. j-r. .. !; .i^'.iin. 'Im' I li.i.l il-:,! i! lati l\ in iii\ uwii
|if'|Hr \'t- :. i:. ?!.. • 'a!*.. .Ir.ill J-illl'it. a m a^-.I.alii |.'}all f*r-
M.i'n, * iitai>!i to n.\ pf^' \\U- a'.A .u'l'-n^ in :lta! funiry to
]Mi-u.i*li •;.• n. n.:- r- •■! rl.i? 1 I. .:■ * . .i?.-! .»":! !•:• .iu<iit'irv !•»
-»..nl li:n. •• M.i-.r a!!- jiar.* i m rl. .• .l.y •.! ti !i>|iCa!:MU, aiuI
ni\ir til t \:i i!i rln Ii.^^i \ii\i<. w.*.':, tl.at L"rriil nUlli<4i
wi.wii u.it .: tiia* tin. I - *.t i-n !••«.( i*) ihi :.at.'>i. WLuh ^r-
LETTER TO THE EARL OF BATH. 71
mons I have printed, to justify me to all the world (if the pub-
lication of these doe not do it) from being accessary to the
defection which then befi;an (to the intolerable vexation of my
mind) in that conformable county ; which had, till the summer
past, by its forward obedience and dutifull respects, stuck [so]
close to the Crowne, that his late Majesty was wont to stile it
his loyall county of Durham.
Thus was God pleas'd to assist a poor, weak, inconsiderable
member (exalted beyond his merit to a high station) of the
Church of Eneland, with fidelity and courage to maintain his
post, against the abettors of that uunaturall invasion, which, it
was easy to foresee, would bee (as it hatli been) attended on by
an intolerable usurpation of the Crown, and violation of the
lawes, and finally, if God should not of his mercy, by some kind
of miracle, prevent, the utter mine of the Church of England,
and, consequently, of those who at first invited the sword into
the land, and betook themselves to a desperate remedy, a thou-
sand times worse than the disease complained of.
And here, before I ]proceed in my intended relation of some
other passages, I desire permission to insert a few lines to
obviate some censures which I expect to meet with.
To such, therefor, as shall endeavour to destroy the reputa-
tion of my sincerity and zeal, in sticking to the cause of a
Roman Catholick soveraign, bjr the greatness of the example of
those who have deserted it, in complpng with the Prince of
Orange, (alledging that it is not likely that the single Dean of
Durham should be in the right, and so many eminent persons
of greater learning, wisdom and piety, in the wrong, who have
given notable testimonyes of their loyalty by their sufiering
and confessions in the Great Rebellion of England dureing the
banishment of King Charles 2) to such I declare that I have
nothing to say for my selfe, but must retume, with a non nobis
Daminey all the glory to God, who is sometimes pleased to make
use of the weak things of the world to confound the things
which are mighty, and to reveal unto babes what he hides from
the wise and prudent, assisting, within times of persecution,
poor illiterate men and women, when many great philosophers
and mighty clerks have quitted a righteous cause and shame-
fully deserted the truth.
I do with all humility acknowledge it to be purely the grace
of Qtxl (the wind of whose Spirit bloweth where it listcth) which
hath supported and carryed me through all those blasts of
temptation which have thrown downe mvers strong pillars of
the temple, preserving me from the contagion of the age, the
spirit of popularity and republicanisme, whereby Satan (trans-
#j II!: \\ (iKwviri.R.
fomiirii; hiinHoIfi* int«) nn aniri*ll of li^rht i hath tainted thr
p-n«TiiIity i'»r thr Knj^lioh natimi. uf »II HurM and lii'in^^r*. ui«i
wliii>)i h:ith ill thi* upshot an 'ti«* t<M> vi^iltlf tn ull thr wurldi
Iinivtwl ili.-ir ov«Tthr.)w, ami th*» fall ni'ViT fiuni^h tn U*
:iin*iitt>«l of im))1i> |)4*r4«in:iiF,*«4, who h:i<l, a* wrll uii th«-ir an*
rr-^tiir^, Niit kM in loy.ilty with thi'ir milk, ^hM th<*ir hliMMl to
iii>hi»M thf iiiiirianhy, and H.-t-inM tn )m> tho Aun*«it tuppiBrti-n <»f
thr rniwiHv
And thuH mtirh I hax* Imh^h ohlitrid to in^Tt ht*n\ tho' I
riMiM mon* willin;:Iy havi* l«>t'T it iinNii<i. if it liufl n*»t\ bt^f-n
f(iri'<<«l from n)i* hy thr nialicimit i»hjf«-tion4 of my fni'mv*"^ and
rommiin jiHtin- to my '^U'*- an<l th«' i .iiint* I muiiitaim*. it h»nnir
im]Ni<.-»ihlr for nn- t.i jnT*-vt n- in thi* Kini;'!« <|iiam'U whirh I
ha VI* «*H|NMi<M*<l, without h«iMin;; fa-t with j^vat n-«H>lution my
int*-Lrrity. anil iN'irin;; wirnf<.<i ti> t)ir tnith. lii^^iih-^, I am r;i4
a*ihaini-<l. n.iy. think it inv ihtty to nwu*-, th.it I am tirmly and
r^tronirlv iHTMiailf^l. without «l<itiht nr Mrii|»lf. that my |in-«*nt
|irin«i|il»". an*l |irai*tii-i-* uf liiV.ilty t«i my Sovrraijjn. ami pa»t
olN'ilifniT to thr <*huri*h nf i-*n;:lan«l'4 riil^'^ h«iw i^iniruljr
MtiViT hy Miinr ini-n it mav Im* th<iui;ht • an* ■muukI and orthmlux,
U-int; t'lMinrlttl ii|Nin «mm' rji-arS-riptiin* ami n-:iA«tn an M-t/i a nuin,
in thi<* |».irtii iilar. iilktt\i' any i'\ani]>I«' u|Hin rarth.
Nay. I uHi nnt atfraiil tit |>ri4*l;iim<- to nil thi* worM that I
ihiH' ri*hiiki' hy my at-tinim Mni* n«it nthi-rwiii* thr |rr*-atttit man
«li\i' wh'i «lari-* tran'*;:n-^ th«»»-- |ilaini' iin^-i-pt** nf <ffod. »hi«'h I
•thail i\rr ili-i*m a irnaT ^in to ii« |Kinitr. tf» wit. Fi. \K <f«»p and
lloMU K iiir KiMi.
Thi»' I )iavi' -MN* kTP at \in«Ta;iiin anil n -j>iM-t f-ir htimln^l* f»f
«-niiniiit |N r*«<ii)'<, •«{iiritu.ill ati<l f«-m]p>ral!. uh'i !ia\i>. to tho ad-
miratinn itf all nun. lafi-Iy Ui n i!n]Mi<M^l itn hy nhat kind «»f
mairii k it i** hanl ti> uiuli r^!an<l *<• murt .ind i'iini|il* m« nt t)ii-ir
(tMUr nii<Mry. that in iluhii>U'« niattt-n I am n'>t •Mfi- Uihi aa to
ri-»iM tlii» jwiwi-r i»f thi'ir i xaniiiji"*. whirh in -urh thin^ I or-
knnuliil^- a nai'lm t.-r "•atV » nituirh tn jjuiih rlnir infi ri'»r^. wh'*
outf}»l III -U'liH^ t thi'ir owno juffinmiit^ an«l •« ntim<'nt«, whtii
thi-y ha\i< ii'm* i- h ar li:;ht t** Irail thi-ni. rallu-r than thiM* of
thi ir l^•\••rIl••!lr- in < hunh an<l Stati-, whom thi-y owm* to W
wi- r aTiil U iti r nun.
Iiut to -^ruk rl-.M- til thi* •i-rxii'i- atnl int« n-^t nf my lawfull
SiVi-raitfUi . wliii i-i a ^-xi'miini ii«>ir thi- h-^* law full fur hit
atllii-tioni nr f>*r hi- nli^^iMn atiil t'l i>Uv him x»**, .&« I am rr*
«<iUi-«l. in all Thi!i;r» uhii h an- iint t„i''*nt nt •> if hi- alM»luti*lr
r»'i|iiin'^ it nhat.\ir may !■■ flu* mn^i^iui nt-«-« ; i« a |M>int
uhi-n-in I am «•«■ «rll ^iti<it\ti|. that I am ankhiti.»u«i t«i U« in-
■»trumrntall in lonvinrtn;^ all who di'|»i ihI i>n nu-. ••r my -luri*-
LETTER TO THE EARL OF BATH. 73
dictions, if I cannot others, of a truth so necessary and season-
able for the consideration of subjects in a rebelKous age.
Indeed I am soe farr from being ashamed, that I am tempted
to a little kind of pride to think I brought this, and some other
like points, to discussion last summer; the generall eviction
whereof (however they were despised or opposed) would have
stopt multitudes from running with full career to put their
necks (by the expulsion of their own undoubted gracious Sove-
raign) under the yoke of a forreign power. And it may not be
altogether unworthy of their thoughts who were so angry with
them, and made soe much noise about them, whether their
anger did not proceed from the serviceableness of my doctrine
to the King's interest, which they were about to destroy : those
propositions which I asserted strikeing at the very root of
the contraversy betwixt the King and subjects of England,
(viz.) whether the supremacy should be in the King or m the
people. A galled horse (pardon the similitude) shewes where
he 18 sore by his unwillingness to be handled, and the serpent
directs where a man should strike by defending his head.
But how OTcatly soever I was hereby exposed to censure, \_and']
made the talk ana scoiF of some Divines and others over their
cappe of coffee, upon the interception of a letter to my ever
honoured friend and other treacherous publication of
some Queryes, which were canvassed up and downe about a
year ago, under the name of the Dean (and sometimes falsely
under the name of the Bishopp) of Durham, I am very well
pleased ^d greatly comforted that I had then soe much honesty
and courage as notwithstanding great opposition, powerfull ex-
amples, and persuasions to the contrary, to assert the preroga-
tive of my King, and to make an attempt towards the conviction
of others committed to my charge, which were the only persons
for whom those Queryes were first designed : being certain pro-
positions (of the verity of which I made no doubt) containing
the reasons of my forward complyance with his Majesty, which
I drew into queryes, for the private consideration of some young
Divines I had under my roof, requireing them effectually to
answer them in writing, with reasoning which would bear the
eye, or to comply, as I had done, with the King.
Which honest and loyall Queryes, tho' good sense, I am sure,
when they were first stole out of my study at Durham, being,
after passing through divers hands, I know not how disguisea,
ami l^ some styled the nonsensicall Queryes of the Dean of
Duriiam, I shall crave leave alsoe to publish in the postscript of
this letter, giveing you noe more trouble till then, about them,
L
71 111. \N (.H\N\II.I.I>.
or my own justifiratinii : Imt mivrin^ |¥irtIon for mn* l*>nir a
ili^ri'ooioii, ri'turu unci {idm-i'inI in my iut4*nJv<i numiti«»ii of wimr
farther trun!%iirtiiins rt-lutiin^ to hi^ Maji-ntyi^ wTviiv, uid miiM-
ownt* rM'a|>«- out of Kii;;luiiil in i>nl<-r to rv|iiiir to him.
Ni'twithotainlinir, tlun, uU that I hail doni*. nvitt^l in th«
U'^rinin^ of thi.^ h-tt«-r, u|Min thr tir«»t ullurm of thi* I'rince of
< ^ranp'*.-* ili>.ii;rni* t4» invaih' Kn;;Iaiiil, und tho' I hud iiuA be
thanki^l< hnnif«tlv diM-har^T'd ii pMfi mnM'irncv in opikm-ing
hy my witnl.H ami ai-tion**. ti> thi* utt«-niiiMt of my |iowflT. tbr
thru ^rowint; n-U*Uinn. uh I Imil, all ulonir. tki* inc*n>aM* of the
t«'ni|M<r which wa?* at that tinu* biip*t out into a dr^-udfull lUmr,
whi>n-to I clis4'«rniil my "M-Ift- tmi wiak to muki* any further
opiNititinn, in.iny i>r my oMtir Ipti'tlin-n d(*M*rtin^. na%' o|>|»Minf(
mt' > I Hjiy. without all (hi« 1 muld n<»t !«iitii»fy my m*\(v withuuC
M'ndin^ away a fait 1: lull -aTVant to hi?* Mujii^ty «-\|iniiM\ with
an acrount of that county, toi^i-thrr %iith a dupli4-;itr of th«i9e
IKi|Nrs, iN-tnn- m«'ntiii!ii^l, uhirh wen- intm-iptcvl, Ii>ttin|r the
vin^ undcr^itand that I di-«i]Kiir«-d, a.« ihinpi wmt. and mi did
thiiH<- t'cw hiyall frirmU nho mnrurn-«! with uif- of doin^ hit
MajfMy any t'urthtT mtvIi-i* in that pluii*.
iia>« iui; <lnni- all that lay in my |ioWrr. in all my ra|iaritTf«w
hy my iiii»t \i«^«iniu« mihaViiur^ towunU tht- AU|»|>»rt of the
(roHiif and tin- < hun h nf Kn;;land, and "^^ inc mv ^M-lfr alao-
hiti'ly unra]i;iM«' to ai t furtht-r fnr hi:* Maj«My u« I bad cliiiir,
and t4i (liM'har);!' my i nUM-ii n«-i* tin n-. in •mn* m«-tumoq»hi««'d •
|il.ic(\ I ri-Milv4fi, at'tt-r larn'-^t prayi r t<i ^tod t«i dir^^ t mr. to
pn-^TVr my inniN* in y l.y tliirhi, ^irir*' I muM m»t dot* it bv
^ittin^ Mill ami <»tayiii;: in iMirham. if I -»h«»uld i M-a|M' the iusl,
uhirh I had litth- nM.-M'U ti> h"|"- alt«r an hiinff^t hiyull aitoitj
whit-li tiiHl had ^i\«'n uh till- uTai •■ tn |ira( titv, iiiiiirijllv d^^^-
iii'^ till- \«ar iM-^t, aiul (hiPlMi iMthnuirht my «ft*ItV of tl%in|t
aHa\ "M^nTl\ to thi' Kin^'. \n ouni- hi« rau«*« uhi*n I o»uId not
MthiT««a\i <• "Mi\«- him. i-iimnn iidinir ni\ tli«kaitd i-har^-, UAh
in Ihirham ami il<«i%)itri- in tht- l(i«ho|i|irii k. tiitii«l'% wi««* and
^Tai iiiut iirit*! tifU. •«i^iiit'\ iiii; my miml li\ litt«r ti» my dt-pu-
t\i«. liotft in l)urh.im ami tlu' rnantry. and h"|H-inir to MifT
tliini nmif h\ «iurli i'\|>r*^vion of m\ li>\alty .lUil plii:i«>n, m
adhcri iti^; tn my Si\<rai^n whin tn«- iiifi«litiii l« ••r*An tt» be
p iti T.dl. than I u\L'« liL«' t*i i|i«' hy «ut h «• nn^n^ nr fxam|d<* ■•
tin- nru authority unuhi |Nrniit iii«- ti» ;;i\i tin ni.
Aiitl aiiiiniirt;:!). mi th* Il'h l>i^ . .it ntidni^'ht. hy thr hi Ip
nt' tHi» t'attht'ull ^ r\.iiitM whn h I liiil dan- tru«t» 1 p«t niy lnir«i«
iirt|ur««l. anil wai riMnhn ti^l hv fin- ft' thi-ni that ni^ht to
ili-xani. wlnn- I |tr*« iir«-«I .in Inm* ••! ^unh- tn t arlmlr, llie
IJETTER TO THE EARL OF BATH. 75
nearest of the King's garrisons, and the most considerahle place
(as I conceived) which then held out for the King ; Hull being
reduced the week before.
I had noe sooner got to Carlisle (where I was very kindly re-
ceived by Mr. Howard, the Govemour, Coll. Purcell, Uapt.
Hem, and other officers there) but the very day after, being
Saturday, the post brought in the dismall newes of the defeat
of some of his Majestyes troops at Reading, and others deserting
in such sort that he was forced to withdraw out of the kingdom,
together with some intimations to the Govemour that it was to
noe purpose for him to hold out the place, but that he, being a
Roman Catholick, it would be most prudent, and not displeasing
to his Majesty, for him to retire, and leave the government to
the old Govemour, to wit. Sir Christopher Musgrave, who came •
into this town on Saturday night, and entered on the govern-
ment, appearing in the Govemour's seat, on Sunday the 15th,
in the catnedraU.
This direMl catastrophe, which did both astonish and afflict
me, to see our Soveraign, a gracious prince, treated with so
much bnitalitT, betrays by those he thought his best friends,
deserted by his nearest relations, forbidden his own palace, and
forced out of his kingdom, did imediately, without much con-
sideration, incline me to leave it alsoe, to manifest my just in-
dignation against rebellion and treachery, which had then
qnead themselves almost over the whole nation, and did resolve
aooordinffly to hasten into France, to share with my Soveraign
in his misfortunes.
In order whereunto (after I had visited the Bishopp of Car-
lisle* at Rose Castle, craved his benediction, and deposited with
his Lordshipp some solemne assureances of Uvein^ and dying in
the right Church of England religion) I departea from Carusle
on Wensday the 19th towards Scotland, with a single servant, a
Scotchman, whom I had newly entertained to conduct me to
Edinburgh, hoping at Leith, or some other sea port on that
eoest, to procure shipping for France. But resting a day or
two, att a certain place cdled, Allison Bank on the borders, to
ecmt&T with an honest loyall gentleman who had engaged there
to meet me, I fell into tne bands of the rabble who then with
farj raged up and down, on the firein? of the beacons there-
abouts, very rashly and indiscreetly, oy some credulous and
I Smith, S.T.P., Dean, and afterwards Bishop of Carlisle. He was oon-
at Yorkt June 29th, 1684. He died April I2th, 1702, kL 88, and was
in his own eathedral. Before his promotion to the see of Carlisle he held a
pKhendal staU in Doiham Cathedral.— Ed.
l2
7G m.KS oKiMii.i.i:.
t«'ini»i>riM'inp ju.H(it'(f«» wIkp pive rn'«!it to tin* TuIm* and malic-ioiM
n*|NirtN nt' thf landing of Iri^h iNi|>if«ti«, Ituniiiig uf tuwn* and
iiiti'^ii'n-iii^ of |N-(>i)Ic whrn-vi-r tliry niiiu*.
Tiit*M* villiiyiuf*. hrailitl liy oit«' I'ultiMT, a iioioriousi ntpM* and
iiiunli'nT, whit luid l>ut liitt-Iy f>4-uiit*(l thi* guHomcii, m'Lx'cI on dm*
for a |>o|iiMh prii-*t and jf>iiit on St. Thoniaii's day. almut 11 at
ni^ht, and |iulli-il ni<> out of my )n<<1. ritiin^ my i^irkfta and mjr
rhaniUT, rarryin^ away my honn-tt (two gvldinfen worth 4<i/.i
and my |»ortmant4H%und mounting inv on u little jutii* ni»t worth
4tN.
TiiiM diM^rari' fully ronilurtinp uw to a |MMir alidiouai* tiu the
Kni;li-«h hiilr, thn^- milt?« i»H*. whm* thry M*un*h*d my |4Prt-
mantiM* and |duMil«T«-<l nn* of a iKiirt; of mony, and aonn* snudl
|iiivi'(« of iiKttr. with otlur tliii.^^, I<-a\i*in^ nir altfrwani* in th«
landh of (h«* wad h and a ruit^talilf to li-ud mv away on foot, in
a M-MTf rold fp»<.ty iiiirlit. uith a lH*a\y ridrin^ oiut and fm^M
liiMit**, lill an-outri'Mit-iitt t'«ir walkintr to nian-li toCarliftlr. to he
r\aniini*4l iN-fop- iiiii- < '.i|»t. Uuli, and f»lh<T ifffin-rt tht n in ihr
^irn'«4»n, ami )iy hIiuih thi-\ ditl \i**\m* to \ui\v Ui-n n'wanli^
(a>« tlii-y aftcruanU d«<-hiri'd' for thi'ir pNid Ai'r\i(*f^ to ihrir
country, in i^runin;; hh thrv Mili^l \uv a fuptivi* uiid dangrr*
ou** |N-r<«on.
Hut U'in^' wril ki;MiKn in tlic cittv, and tnivrllinc with Sir
rhri*»t«i|ihi'r Mu*»^niV('''« ui^t. tiny miAfM-«I of thrir r\|R«tati<ia«
and rit-4i\i-«l a n-liuki , uiiil^t I li.id my liop»t-i> and thi* trr^^tcwt
|Nirt of my nionv riMnri-*! ni«-. aii<l w.im M'tt at liU-rty. vithrr to
F*tay or d* p.trl tin- tti\«i:i - mtl inili-t'^l can onfly citmplain of the
Ma\or and <miiiii' nf rli* iii.i;:i«traTf «, who. inMti-ud of iiimniittinir
th«' filliiui^ tiT fi h<:iv and huri^lary. thry hn-akinir i^pm a
Middi- diH.r in thi ni;;ht to t.iLi* u«.i\ ni\ vr«'lilin^. h-tt thrm
pM- MJth'iut mil- muih a<« iiitrihc i^^t*' rit-<i::niiEiinii'.
'I'lio' I Man n*>« a -niintl tina- at hUrty. h\ n haptiy prn-
>|ih Md-, to p« u hi ri- I phiiMd. an«l linimi^il a |«kfw», it I wimiU
^'<N- )iitnii ti» hurli.mi, i did think it niiM pnith nt tit ointiittH* a
uhdi- ill til. it I ittv, t>i fi n.i>\i thi- hu«|iii inn of my intrn«ii^
tiiu'ht nut Iff i'.np.tnil ; a!.d a(-ijtnlin^I% h^itl unoini c-mfxllr
thi IV. tor \\ nr 1 '» fl.i\i-. ( on'*tantl\ utti mlin;; ^iiai'^* |Nil4ick
Mr\i<i-. aiiii |in.Mhitt;r in th<' i.itlif-drall ou t hri^tiiia^-iUy.
Hh<lrli\ 1 i-i>ri\iiii til thi |ii*i]ih'. I hit|N-. lliat I Ha« n««* |io|iui|
j)rii ""t i.i-r ji -uit.
Att« r ihi-. tht ii;i/r\ 1- ii:;j n*iiri- ijuii i, aiA :.-m njtthrv
kijtt. n<ii noi-- ..I Iii-l. |i,ip:'*-. \\!i:h li.i'l l-r a njiti« th U ior«-
intoxhatitl .a.<» it ««n that ami otht r |«irt« of Kn^Ltnd. I Irft
thi' tnuiir of <'arl>lf. and \i Titum! Ikirk t"«ianU I Durham. a«
! ir .1^ II- xani . )«ii* u:*h it* « inl* ntinn t" .;•« Immi . di-»itfnt izig.
LETTER TO THE EARL OF BATH. 77
after I had shifted off a guide, and 8ome servants who were sent
with letters to me, to strike out of the road by Berwick towards
Scotland : which I did, blessed be God, without any other con-
siderable impediment, and on the 26th of Jan. last arrived safe
at Edinburgh, endeavouring, as soon as I could, to get admit-
tance into ike Castle, and wait on the Duke of Gordon, to whom
I communicated my designe of going to the King, and by whom
I was informed of a vessell then in the roade, ready to depart
for France ; which opportunity I made use of, and was, crfter
many tempests, and a tedious voyage by reason of contrary
winds, at last safely landed att Honfleur, over against Ilaver-de-
Ece, by the mouth of the river Seine, on the 19th day of
rch. N.8., and the very day after his Majestyes departure
from Brest for Ireland, which missing of the King was a great
disappointment and mortification to mee.
£eing somewhat indisposed after my long and troublesome
voyage (tho' I was never sick at sea) and in some danger, as I
thought, of an ague, I rested a whole week in that place, where
I found all persons more than ordinarily civill to me, upon their
being satisnred, that is, my loyalty had brought me there, and
that I was fled to the King ; too' I own'd my selfe not onely a
protestant and an ecclesiastick, but an Englishman, which is
now thought imprudent, and a shame to confesse ones selfe,
miless he carryes with him undeniable testimonyes of his late
fidelity to his Prince. After I had paid my respects to the
Govemour, the Marquess of Beuron, and returned the comple-
ments I had received, on the 25th I departed for Eoiien, where
I judged meet (since his Majesty had left the kingdome) to fix
a whue, and to recruit my selfe, being alsoe induced thereto by
the great friendshipp and civility of Mr. Thomas Hackett, an
honest and loyall merchant, who welcomed me to towne with
great respect and kindness, supplyed me with monyes, tho' a
stranger to him without recommendation, (whereas one to whom
I was recomended failed me) and kindly entertained me at his
own house ever since.
And I have been the sooner prevailed on to rest here in thia
citty from whence I write, by reason a violent asthmatic cough
(which hath long hung about me) increases soe much, that my
physician beleives that my lungs begin to be ulcerated, and that
without much care I am in great danger of falling into a deep
consuii^tion, and, moreover, thk physician imder whoso conduct
I am, Deane of the College of Fnysicians here, and Physician to
our late Eang, (being not onely a very eminent Doctor of Physic,
but acquainted with my constitution, I haveing heretofore lay'n
long sick of an ague under his hand, and he haveing alsoe per-
T** i»K\> (.kiwii.m:.
fift I mnniaiitl nf tho Kii;;li<*h t(»n(;iii'i i*» liki-ly in ho murli rnorp
iiMi-l'iiU til iKi- tluiti ;iniitltfr. mill h:ttli Imi'TI uln'ady in ttn' U-^rin-
iii^ |iniiMil !«• (mmI wry ^m « • ■•-rull.
I (*«iiiti-^<* I h:i\i- ip't ;:ri-:it n .imin tliin-iiiir my illii4'>v« to makr
thin ritty thi' |il;irr ot' my ri-*«i(li-nr«-. fmr th«* wukr of tin- air,
wliirli I lNlii\f iiiit vi-ry i:***A ami |ini|M'r for a roii«iiniptivo
iMKly. 'Mm' I iiiii ]HT<*ii.fl«^i tliiit the air of tht* c^iuiitpk* niiinil
iilNiut. :tt :i ili-it.iiii I' t'piiii tiii- riviT. uhiih I iIim- oAi'ii lin-sit)>. i«
U'tttr than any air in Knu'lanfl. Itiit t)i<- nilifr Kititf.n ti<ir:* I
lm\r nir!itiiini<l. i'l an .ihli* |>)i\*>i«-i;iii. {iri^y ti< tlii> inffinnity «if
my NhIv, anil ii ViiA Kuthtull trii ml in ailv^r^ity, not t«i \m*
fiiiin«I. in iiur irj:*-, •\iry il:iy. ii**r iii i v<r}' i»l.u*4', (li«* miko
iinii'iiiU alninilantly f<ir an\ <ii|f<'t'« itt' t)i«< rlinir. nntl ur^> hut to
In* riinti-nuK <l liy a ]iir<Min in rnv i intiniManii'i^. ilrivi-n wry
Km- lint lit' lti« ii.tr I \ I- « uuntry t'i>r lii^ tMi-Iity to hii Prinrt*.
A-« -iHiii a-* I liail ri\i^l my n^tliitifin of ntayin^ u whilt* lo-rr
lit KiiiM'n. I tlifl |iri"«<inii- in inl«>rnii- hi<» Maj**«ty, hy a |Mrkt t I
runt intii Inlaml in m\ I/'pI M«ll<'ril, of my arrivall in Krinir,
umi tlif maiiniT nf niy i-M-a|i«, uith an a^iiin-ann* nf mv un-
ultf-raMi* li*\alty. anil tliat I ^h'lulil i'%|»iti*«- hit H«r\i«f wit^ th<>
Kinii- /lali*. iliirrin;r lii.t rxili- a!iil ailx r^ity. un whi-n h«' wa^ on
tli<- thr«>ni-.
I iliii al<^M-. iiriMrilin;; tn t1i«- iiiit\ of u loyal 1 «iiliii^t, |iay to
iKf <jiiiiii ami l*rnii*- all t)i<i^- ri*»|N«t4 whiih I roiiM utt • di*-
tani I', infnnnin^ In r aUiH, liy ilii- .i.*i>«iHt.itii t- of niy I^inl Wali|f«-
;»'r.i\i . itf my arii\all. with aHtiir«anr«* that I «i4>ulil n*vrr faik*
til n Mill r h» r M »]'-•> iml tin I'liim- all tin- iliityt-^ whirh wtrr
im-iiniU lit nn a o'llip • f *-\ \\.* KiUiS of Mn^'hti-'l- And that
••iip •■ 1 h.i'I nut ih<- tilii|r\ \«h;i)\ 1 i ani« !'<>r, nf U in^ n«-ar hit
M-iit-^ty. I w.i«i in t!i'- ni \t |.l.ni" ih "•irnu- tn U- inar hrr», an«l
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U- niirh t'rii- p»\all Iamil\. uli^n I laiiiift i'Tl.«rui«f ••r\r thifn.
ni \< r tlr.:ikiii;r m\ *»• Ifi- any uaM^ a)->iil\i«l frnm thi' ol^
•ur\i:.ii I •.■.\>il nt\ N.\iraiu'n. ai.il In-r M.ij*<<ty, and all thr
hj.^-l r««\ ill. h> tlii ilitii n !it I' of rtliiTitin.
Ila\' .:.;j. >jr. 'l.ii'i ;ji\tn \*>\i tl.. tr • *'■!• i-f -■• |iir»ii-iilar an
a<>>n';t ••! ni\ ^ It*- .ii.'i lii {»>rt(iii nt. tP'ni ih«' tinii' that Wrr
uiii tii-^^ allarniM u-.rh tin ntw* i.f thi- Hiikt^l int* ntion« iif
t)if l>ii!t h til \t\y iii'- ii«. l.iiiiif tii tiii« pri^ nt duv . 1 think tnr
--l!.- }i-m- j. *- i.Mi^n^l ?.» i:i\i- \.^ -..i.»i iii!..ri.iatni:i mni^'nun^
II \ prt^iit ti nt]« r i<t nniid aniPfutiiri- in;* ii!i"i.<» And «hicii
I .lilt ti.i- iiiori Uiiliii^ tiiiniliraii tl.i« i>|>|«>rtuii;t\ ff dt 'in (?. hv
ri .!« ■!. in\ ritirniii> • 1 ft U-1% ii>t in «n> h «irt nn r«-a«' that 1
I. i\i* »iiiall ri i«*n t'l iniaiTin*- that I *hall U a Inni^ li>imi man.
LETTER TO THE EARL OF HATH. 79
they administrihg to me too many grounds of fear (if I were to
undergoe no other hazard) that I may scarce live to see my
friends in England any more, unlesse the air of France and
motion be, by God's blessing, a means of my recovery, and
cnre of that disease which I have contracted, by a sedentary life,
since my installation into the Deanery of Durham.
And here I doe, in the first place, declare with all sincerity,
that I am resolved by God's grace to live and dye a true son
of the Church of England, whereof King Charles was. King
James 2 (not the Prince of Orange) is, imder God, supream
head and govemour, beleiveing her to be, for the purity of her
doctrine, the decent regxdarity of her worshipp, and the whole-
someness of her discipline, (well executed) the best and most
approaching to the primitive times, of any Church in reformed
Christendom. And I doe openly aflBrm to all the world, that
however her children (or rather those who have pretended to
be Boe) have behaved themselves, ether heretofore or of late, to
the scandal of the world and reproach of her constitution, I am
assured shee will be found, upon through and serious examina-
tion, a Church which doth not coimtenance rebellion, or indeed
any sin or wickedness whatsoever.
I have given noe just reason, I thank God, to any, to think
me of another oppinion, and if some have been soe imcharitable
as to censure mee for ever deviating from her, it hath been only
for such carriage of mine, as may best demonstrate that I am a
right genuine and through paced (tho' very feeble) member of
her ; I mean for my exact conformity to, and observation of,
the excellent rules of her incomparable Liturgy, without any
variation, and my constant zeal in asserting the King's prero-
gative, and her excellent doctrine of non-resistance, and subjec-
tion to authority, in both which, perchance, I have been thought
sometimes a little singular. But if I have been soe, I am sorry
for it, I mean, that I should want company in so laudable and
Christian a cause and practice ; for I must still affirme that the
first is the indispensable duty of every Churchman, and best
means to preserve her, and the last (which way soever fled at
the Prince of Oranges invading England) the very flower and
glory of our Church, which neither loss of estate nor life shall
^yy the assistance of the Almighty) cause me to renounce.
1 doe therefor humbly entreat your selfe, and aU my relations,
noe wise to suspect me, as if wavering from my obedience to my
Mother (the Church) for my iminoveable adherence to the cause
and interest of the Father of our Country, and my innate abhor-
rence of disputeing, contesting, or rudely capitulateing with my
Prince, even then when he commanded things very contrary to
my •*« ntiTni-iit^, uhiili I iliil fihlp* iinC fm«>ly inoxp'«iii-nt hut
|iii)iiili< i.ill Til till- tl<itiri^}«i!)ir i-«iiiiii*iiiii ••t'ctir <'hiirrli.
Il.til 1 l.iilM. li'o tiM» iti.iii\ (li/|, ill th.it itinrttiri-. nr in [Ki\inff
till- \i-r\ o.iiiif «liiMii nf .illi-;ri-tni •• :i!i(l litiiimir !•» inv pn^^ lit
Sivi Ti i::in'. whiii In- i;iiin- !«• tin- iniwin-. :i4 1 h.i<l |MTt"riii'^l l*i
till- l.iti Ki!iL'. lii** r<*v.ill liPitiiiT. iiThl my ^r.ii ii'U^ iiul%i« r **{
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thf liiiiiiiii r.ithiilii k pli.'i'U I iiiiirlit iii*i««-<l li.iii- Ikfii I\ iM-*
til it'it^iip'. i**T tliif \i.i« .1 li.nl II) irk i't' II o'lit ••! (h«' t'lrinh ni'
Kll;:i.llHl liMt <i>Hl llixi!:;* iIl.iMfl llli' \** fi «l«t t|ii« ti>lll|itiltli»ll.
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li.n«- y-iii 1' .ir tl.it I ilj.iil Ih- •.%. rtlir«iw!i \t\ .my litht-r.
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Uoiiiiii ( '.irliiilji- |iiuiif. .i:.il I li\i- ;it ]ir* <•• lit in a U"niaii
t'lfii-iliik i>>uTtti\, h r -111 I am Mt it t!:'- riirht I'hunh "(
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LETTER TO THE EARL OF BATH. 81
God be praised, hath ever been noted) none, Sir, hath better
ooppied out than your selfe, whose name is on that account
already recorded in our English Chronicle. The secrecy and
suooessfullness of that negociation of yours, in your master the
late King's behalfe, with Generall Monk, will not easily be for-
gotten among loyall men, and I must confess to all the world,
that that notable example and patteme which you have sett all
your house by your services and endeavours, in the worst of
times, for King Charles 2, hath had great force on me, and been
mighty prevalent in inspireing me with more than ordinary re-
solution for his royall brother, his lawfull successor and our un-
doubted Sovereigne, at my first entrance on my Deanery, which
did oblige me to appear and act in a more publick post than
before, and doth still animate me (wherefor, whatever measures
vou are pleased to take at present, I hope, Sir, you will not
olame me) in my present zeal and endeavours.
Since which time, I can say it without boasting, (tho' if I did
boast a little, this conjuncture and my circumstances would bear
it) that I have never strayed in my affection from his Majesty,
nor fiuled in paying him all the honour, duty, and respect,
whicli I should have rendered to my deceased master, of ever
blessed memory, had the nation been longer blessed with his
reigne. But, instead thereof, I doe not blush to let all the
world know that I have been somewhat more oflScious (and
thought it every ones duty soe to bee) in his service than I had
been in his brother's, in consideration of a Roman Catholick
king's grace and goodness towards us of the Church of England,
in reference to the free exercise of our religion ; hee grantmg us
the liberty of a religion contrary to his owne, and makeing it
his care, att his first appearance in councell, to secure to his
pt>testant subjects of the Church of England so unvaluable a
blessing, neither of which if he had done, could wee have told
how to help our selves, or been absolved from our obedience,
which my little divinity hath ever told me (and I hope ever
will) is as due to a Eoman Catholick soveraigne as to a pro-
testant one. The consideration whereof hath, by the blessing of
God, kept me untainted and unstaitied throughout the whole
transactions of the last 5 years, I mean from the 6th of Feb.
'84, when his Majesty mounted the throne, to the 10th of Dec.
'88, when the same sacred Majesty was disgracefully driven, to
the everlasting reproach of the English nation, from his owne
palkceofWlutehall.
Noe fears or jealousyes of religion, libertyes or lawes, did
ever tempt me (1 bless God) to any undue courses of resistance,
opposition, or soe much as unseemly capitulation with God's
\ ii'i ^••■ii nt til ]iii'.<r\i- tl.i 111 ; tipi' I luxi- !l.*iii :ill -««' wtll ar.il
(li.iri\ tli.it i 1 .11; In I i.iiTt i.ti'l t.i«l>tii>r tin rii. i!i .ti.\ |i!.i*< ••r
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\.iti Mtiiii^ti r. Mf |it/i.1< I^ it..i;.M«!i.ifi . • • i !• -i i->ti< .til ^r i:>:ll :n
tilt Hi^t. iii\ t.i xt. iif :i>-: ' i. "t l.-'i;.'! iinl. iii\ i.itt. «;it: •:! i • .i**-*!
t.i jii.ir?:r» .ii,.l 1 \ ;. • .L -.'I :• t . ■ ■:. l-.i ii.it \ fi. rl.i ruli - ••!' '.nr r« li-
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ti«'::\ !■ I II.'. ti I* ! !.:\i '-•:. i. -A Ui ik uri-l iiii-»u.« » *»:"-iil
•w- ;. r /• i!"ti-.. ii.'.ij. service of my
Soveraign (tho* a Roman Catholick) that I did to his royall
brother ; and have not, . that I can discover upon the most
diligent search, wilfully and knowingly made one false stepp
towards the late irregular and unjustifiable method of preservation
of our religion and lawes by the ungodly practices and means of
invasion and usurpation, (which hath in good truth la)m both a
Gsping) is a felicity which doth not only wonderfully support,
t almost transport me, amidst my exercises of patience, and
will make me relish the worst air and usage that I can meet
with abroad, where there are noe fogs nor fumes raised by
rebellion, better than the best air or preferment in England, or
any other country where there are. And here I should begg
pardon for this present trouble and conclude ; haveing been, I
fear, too tedious, but that I stand obliged, lest I preach in vain,
to answer one objection which is easy to foresee will be made
against my doctrine, and may carry more appearance of reason
than any other : to wit, —
Christ's example pretended for submission to the prevailing
power, since his acknowledging allegiance to be due to Tiberius
uttar, whose predecessors had soe lately changed the govern-
ment of Rome oy the senate, did, by that act of his, give liberty
to us lawfully to yield our allegiance to any unjust prevailing
power whatever it bee.
This difficulty being solved by the foremention'd learned
ss
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LETTER TO THE EARL OF BATH. 89
or meddle with the crowne, and yet. most willmgly accepted
thereof at the very first ofler of the people.
Secondly, the exercise of the King's prerogative in dispensing
with some lawes, on extraordinary emergencyes, was thought a
burden intoUerable, but it hath been noe crime since in the
subject to dispense with all. They haveing got (as they think)
what they have long contended for, the supremacy in their own
hands.
Thirdly, the introducing of arbitrary power was the dread of
most men, and now they are contented to enjoy nothing else.
Fourthly, it was judged impardonable tyranny in our Sove-
reign to touch the meanest of his subjects in point of property,
bat it is a laudable vertue in the subject to usurp upon, nay
dispoee of, the Crown.
Fifthly, the English were overwhelmed with jealousyes of
introducmg popery, and promoting the interest of France, and
all the while have gone the direct way to bring the worst of
ibeir fears on themselves, by driving the King and Prince out
of the kingdom.
Sixthly, in a word, sundry other things, which were deemed
unsofferable in a lawfull prince of God's ordaining, are now
practiced without disgust by an usurper and king of the people's
makeing.
Hee mat is not yet perfectly convinced of the hypocrysy of these
pvetaioes and proceedings (which I hope the most emminent of
oar clergy and nobility by this time are) seems to have neither
eyes to see, ears to hear, nor heart nor head to consider and
understand.
I shall conclude with a memorable saying of our Royall
Martyr King Charles I.,' on his observation of a like spirit
of delosion, which, in his dayes, possessed the generallity of
the people of the same kingdomes, in dethroning, nay murder-
ing their lawfull King, and one of the best of princes, att his
owne doors.
" Soe easy is that leger-de-main which serves to delude the
vulgar." That the Almighty and wise God, who in his just
dis^easure for our sins and ingratitude to himselfe and his
Tioe-gerent, hath for the present made the Church and Monarchy
of England a notable monument of his wrath, would bring all,
bigfa and low, who have contributed to soe heinous a guilt, in
Us doe time, to such a sight and sense of their crimes, that they
Mty give to the world an undeniable demonstration of the truth
of their repentance, labouring with all their might to redress
tlie scandals the^- have given by an unparell^ed apostacy
from the principles of our Church, and an abhorrod de-
!)0 HI \\ (.IIIN\ II IK.
Iivtiiiu in iMiiiit of luv.iltv : i** tli<' ht^rtv iiml hunil»I«* iiru\rr
I • • ■ • ■
Ml".
■ K\< r hititiiiinil aiKl cIimf Sir
Vmir Ifpl-.lii|»p*« iii«Mt huiiiMf ^Maiinat a ^ui to uv oaj
• "TiipuNiie ar^uniMii* t" n n^truui or tiriif\ <imi*B %iix-):%-nrnt.
LETTER TO THE EARL OF BATH. 93
into a complyanoe with the will and desires of his subjects, be
they neyer soe much for the good of himselfe, Church or King-
dome : having learned in the communion of my mother the
Church of England (wherein I am firmly resolved to live and
dye) other pnnciples than to teach my supreme, or any my
superiorSy- wnat he or thev ought to doe, with a sword in my
hfiuid, or compel a soveraign monarch, whether he will or noe,
to doe his duty and gratirjr his people, sooner than he is in-
clined, or his own necessity (whereof he is best judge) will per-
mitt. Satisfying my selfe with the repeated assureance which
your Majesty hath already given of our religion, lawes and
libertyes, together with all your past and present gracious con-
descentions to remove the fears and jealousy es of your people,
resolving to stay your leisure for the calling of a parliament,
and all other means and methods which are in your Majestyes
choice for the securing vour own royal person, or establisnment
of your government in Church and State.
Denis Granville,
Dean of Durham.
Not. 87, '88.
Queries put by the Dean of Durham * to some young clergy-
men, to answer privately in his own study, (near about the time
his Majesty sent forth an order to read his Declaration for
liberty of conscience) which being treacherously stolen away or
ialsely transcribed, upon the interception of a letter to a friend,
were dispersed and canvass'd upp and downe the coffee-houses
of London, and other parts of England, (as mentioned p. 73,)
and are for that reason printed.
1. Whether a subject is not bound to comply with his prince
in every command, or reasonable intimation of his pleasure,
wherein he is not in conscience bound to the contrary?
2. Whether a subject is not bound to comply with his prince
in some things which he conceives not onely inexpedient, but
such as may tend to the prejudice of the flourishing condition
* QiMms, essentially the same as those in the teit, have found a place amongst
Bbhop CosIb's works, (Anglo-Cath. Lib. iT. 384.) and are supposed by the editor of
llMt volome to have been issued about the time when the Declaration of liberty of
nwsiiiBiiii was put forth by Charles 11. , i.e. March 16, 1672. But it is evident,
ft«B what the Dean says, (ante, p. 73.) that they were falsely ascribed to the Bishop,
ami hcpe no referenoe to Charles^ Dechuration, but to the much later one of James.—
!»| \*y \\ <'U\N\i I.I.I.
of thi' • 'hiinh. I pniviili**! thr U'intr of tiu* C*hiin*h U* Arcun- if a
Liwliill jiriiH •- ••i' a ilitli riiit nli^iiiti iloth iiImmiIiiU'Iv itmiiii^iiil
tht-iii, aiiti will ih't In- •<.;iti<«tvt'<l without i<iiii|ilyunii- with «ii« h
I'liitiii.iiiii y
-t. Whitlnr till' rliiinh of Ktitrlni'l w.m not uii I'^tdhli^M
cliun h U'tMri' thi> i ii.i< tin:: «•! tin* ]m'Ii:i1I lawi^t > If ntH-. wh«'-
tliiT it >« ii'it lH!*.r t *"]''>' ^^^^' ^*^^ M.ijfv«ty ill i^iII'm t;ti!ii(
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LETTER TO THE BISHOP OF DURHAM. 95
hath prodaced, I think, all most all kind of changes among men
of every quality, degree and calling, but that which Doctor B.
speaks of in his letters concerning his travells into Italy, I mean
the change of sex.
I need not, my lord, give you any perticidar account of my
behaviour or usage in England, after your lordshipp was called
up to London, about Michaelmas last, or of the manner of my
escape, since your lordshipp was certified by letters from my
selfe, in the moneths of Oct. and Nov. last, of most matters of
moment relateing to the Church and County of Durham, (tho' I
had the honour and satisfaction of receiveing an answer to few
of them) and may come to the knowledge of other things by the
relation of my deportment, which I have published in my printed
letter to my brother the Earle of Bathe, whereto I crave leave
to referr your lordshipp and all who are inquisitive after me.
I shall onely embrace this occasion solemnly and publickly to
assure your lordshipp, in generaU, that I did faithfully, and
with as much punctuallity as I was able, discharge those trusts
which were comitted to me, in every one of the places and
offices which I had the honour to bear under your lordship, and
maintain'd my post in your absence, notwithstanding mighty
discouragements, till it was not possible for me any longer to
strive against the torrent which had hurryed all matters in
that and other parts of the nation into great disorder and con-
fusion.
When I saw there was noe possible means left for me but
to sink, by endeavouring to oppose what was irresistable,
or swim down the stream, (which noe argueraent nor ex-
ample of the age could, I thank God, prevail with me to doe)
I was under a necessity to tume aside and withdraw my selfe,
beholding matters a while att a distance, rather than in my own
station and place of acting ; since I carryed about with me an
unalterable loyall heart, which woidd not suffer me to runn (as
most did) witn the multitude, and, on the other side, wanted
both strength of my owne, and the assistance of others, effec-
tually to oppose that unruly and many headed monster: but
did not resolve to leave the kingdome, and commit my flock
and £unily alone to God Almightyes protection and care, (as I
afterwards did) till I had a powerfuU example, which a dutifull
subject ought to be proud to follow, and a precedent which may
sett me above the censures of any person in the three king-
domes.
When my Soveraign was forced from his own pallace, nay
driven out of the realme, it was time for those who were firmly
resolved to adhere to and suffer with him, to yield to that force
Wt ni:.\.\ (.RANViM.r^
iiiifl ii(H-c*HMity whiih n niiirlity piit«'ntati\ by mmplyinR «riih,
])riN>l:iiiiriI to In' iiiviiii-iMiv llavrin^ t)i«*ii \\\o honour l«i h»
oiir ut'tliat iihiiiImt. uiiil kIumIii;; that I am mi it %i<>tiM harr
U-fii a |ir«-]Nt-tiT(MiN niurif t'nr iii«' who iifvi-r ]il:i\ '<! my ^riinv
rtiH< a.H to Hii\r my -takiv to havi* MayM at honii- or in KnirUnd.
when I wa*« n<H' Imi^ir i*a|isihh' to M*r\«' him in thiwr oftn«
wlnn-in I was |)hinil. ami whilu I had n«H* othiT |»nM»{«H t but
that ot' a pri^uin, withmit diN-in^ what wom ini]iipviibli- fi«r mr ti>
<hM>, I mt'aii In»w <Iiiwn to Itu:il. or, in plain Kn^li«h. nubmit to
an uMirjN'r
Thi^ «Hva>ionM tlr^t mv flight to ^arlith*. and frtim th«ncr.
ii]Min itr« flit-hirin:^^ t'lT tin- rrin«*«' **( < *nin;ri*« and rhanp* of
(io\iTnnur. to Kiliiihiir^h. and tnan that citty. u|iiin int«-Ui-
^■m'«* of an cmUir^rn. int«t l-'ram-t'. an is -^-tt forth m«*n- att
lariff in the t'oriiif r li!t«T fo my linithrr to ha\r thf hitiynir
and •«ati'«t':irtiiin. Mhiili !<« ni^- *>tnall tiin«M il.it ion i.i a \**\n\\ Mib*
j(i t in hani*«hniint, ul diM-iit^^ hnni.i:;*' fii thi* rovall family, ami
virwin^ our hti|M tall \<Hifi;^r rrim-*-. wh«i uill \i\v, I tru«t in
(mnI, ti» *rnn-tii'iM hi- ffiiin\i-«* tM innfi— • what th«-r »«*rr. I
diiiiht not, ulw:iy«-<i |Mr-\«iii)t-«l in th* if h«-art« that n«- i« tka
h'^itinialc Min i»t KiiiLT 'I.iiim*- J. aii«I ••ni' i»t tin- (rnal^M blraa*
in^ \»)ii<-li tiiNl lAir iM-^tuWid ini tlir l'!nu'li'*h it.itinn.
As I'lir m\ |Kirt. hi.w t:p at a )>.iri'l*i\ *'i«-\ir it may a|t|«-ar to
sMniti I am tnlly i-i<!i>i:i< til i.t t)i<- irutii tl.i n^ot'. aji I ulwavra
h:i- lit IonI's uiiiidirtiill p^Nlni -^i* ami |ip>\idim«- in l<rintnii|t
III- t'.ilhir. iiiir L'rai ifU- S.\i ri-i^ni. thruiij^h all hi«i tni«ibl<« to
fhi' Oitun. Aini I 1*1. ir th.i? mir .ihhi«rrM inirratituiii- tiiwarda
tiiMl I'lir tHii Hinh ill! -tim.iMi' lili««^intr* as thi- M^unty of thv
Mtri-cviit>n hy an In ir m.ili . aiiil tiii>*.i< hah it^n day* whi^h «■«
fur twti \i.ir- iiitii\*d :ifiil mi^'ht h.ivt- iiiii>\*ii Ii'n;rir h.iil it nuC
U-t'ii iiiir ii\»ni' t.iult'« uiiiji r a u'raiiiiii^ rrim*«* **( a ri 'nilt^trrncl-
in;; rail*, havi* aUtVi- uthi r -in-* imU'd duwm- (iihI** jucitfinnitBfe
nnd mntrilMitctl tuw.ipU flif nii*«T\ wi* now irriHin unili-r. and
ih*- ;;rr:iti r nii-tTv whi«-li h.itiLr* «'\«'r i^ur h«:iil». and out of
whiili wi* *-.in iiivir U- d«li\iri't!. I«iit hv tin- «xtraon!inanr
fiH««i^tanr«> (if th«* -am*- nif n itull and ;;rai mm^ OimI and Kin|r.
whom wif h.ivi' .lU'Vr mt-aiiirt- pr*'V<>:iki'«l uttd ini«ii««<<il
I h.iM' m Vi r U«n a-h.itn'il. I thitik (ti*!. to ii»n •urh M^ti-
imnt-t as th«^ , amni-*? all th** di Ii|i«;i>i.i w hi< h th<* ;^ ni ralitr of
m*-n ot a conirarv ••|iitiiMii h:i\«- !a\in undi r. ainl thi' {?n'«t«il
oliIii4|iiy und «i»ntini)it wliith l.\ t}i»m hath U^i- • a«t «»n ••TrTT
oin* ulm ntink <!••««• To hii Mi)i«t\. A** I tliaiik toal I haw
d«*iit' to thi- utiii«-t iif my imm-r in a<wM-rtiiiir hi« |in*P*iratiTv.
Ihit I ni^-*! not athrm*' thi« to \o(ir |i»nUhi|i|i. **t any «ilhui
\>>iir difs'i-^iM*. Iia\i itt;f «iitlii ii III 1\ |irm-luim«il iii% ludirnifnl «>i4i>
LETTER TO THE BISHOP OF DURHAM. 97
deraing these matters in the pulpitt, both in the Cathedrall and
other chnrchesy after his Majestyes happy accession to the im-
periall Crowne, and the birth of the Prince of Wales.
Towards the filling np that measure of iniquity wherewith
our just God would noe longer dispense, and whereto our kings,
our princes, and our prophets, nay all the people ii\ the land,
(to speak in the evangelical prophet's phrase) have contributed
more or leas ; I know that 1 my selfe (a wretched, miserable
sinner) have sadly help'd in every one of my capacityes, and
heartily begg pardon of God, through Jesus Christ, for my
share of the guilt. But it is to me an unspeakable comfort,
that neither my enemves, nor my owne conscience, can accuse
me of those sinns wnich doe seem to be more imediate in-
gredients of God's wrath, and which certainly more than others
nave provoked him in such manner and by such instruements to
pimisn us.
For I have heartily, and from the bottom of my soul, re-
joyeed att our gracious Soveraign's moimting the throne, [awc?]
att GKmI's blessmo; him and us with a hopemll prince. I have
been all along, without murmuring, contented with his govern-
ment. I have had alwayes more jealousy of the subject than of
my Soveraigne. I have thought our selves (as it hath proved)
nearer a rebellion than the introduceing of popery, and lastly, I
am not, noe not in the thoughts of heart, guilty in the lestwise
of that perfidiousness and ingratitude to my Soveraign, or in-
jnstioe and unnaturallness to my fellow-subjects, of calling in
finreign assistance for our preservation. Or if I had, it should
have been any nation in the world rather than our neighbours
of Holland, being not ignorant of their dealings with the Eng-
liah both at Amboina and Bantam.
Tis highly probable, my lord, that these venr things which I
here alledge for my Justification, and wherein 1 alsoe glory, will
be received with derision, and objected against me as my
crimes, and that mine and other men's forwardness to obejr, and
comply with the King, has contributed to his fall. This is a
(ate wnich I am sure it is not possible for me to avoid, since
that, before I left the nation, I had this laid to my charge by
•ome who, to justify their own fawning on the Mobile, out of
fear or interest, began to lay all the guilt of the King and
Kingdome's overth^w to the door of the King, and his most
obement subjects ; as in Oates's and Tong's plott some brought
in our late gracious Soveraign as concerned in a designe against
his own life.
But I would crave leave here to know who are the objectors.
If they are anch as have ' renounced their allegiance to their
!»•* it^ \\ i.li \N V II 1 K.
I.iufiill Sii\inii.rn, I m.iv •*.i\i' tin l.ilnnir in uii'^wrr thrm. th«y
Uiii:; lint i|i|:iliiyi«l In iiii^'iP' ;iii'i ;niu-.« nit f.ir hi-l|»i'i;r t«»
uh.it tii« y\«.|-i Will pl'M-*' :i w itli. aiii (I'oitT'il "•h<'ulil U- l»r<' i.'lit
til ii.i^<«.
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;^'i>\iTliiui lit. :iiiil l.iki' 11* \v milhi-. iIhi' thi-V )i.i\*- )■■« li t«ii» I'^rr
• •iiii-iTiii li ill. .iiiil }i.ivi tiNi mill h c-oiiliiliiiti^l tti, lK< ««tii!i^ ii|i
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till lit' I.iti- Ihi II |..iiii ..t. «t t }..rt}i .1* l.ir;:f in Ktir < "iiun h-II"iiii-
Iii-«, tlntli iu-*tt\ ih\ In }i.i\ii.!ir ; u).iri«il uii\ oni- iij.i\ )•- ^k-.n
riiiiviiH •«!. th.i* ^\ill i'l |il<.i««il tif t.ikf till- {uiii- Hht'li I )jk\f
l.iti Iv ilniii i>t «• ri>>ii^!\ i- I 'i«i*i:r. '''ii'i^ ii'LT -t^''^ .iii.ili/ihLr tho
lloiiiilvt^. ]iiiMi«}.t •! ]'\ .1 iT;...| it y. •••:!« I rititi:; * *U«i:' :;•«. .izi«i
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liiaii Iri'iii ill* lli<Iy Sii)iMiit. iMi, I li .irii aii\ iiM^liiiia Utwiit
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lti\r^ tl.o^f I •niiiiiaiul- I.i\i tull. (l"lli Ml -"iitf III! a-^'in P^i^t l.im.
til it ^.i\ 111.' ••! Our I.opl in till- r.k«* )n iii^ n rlai!ii\ a]*|ilit jMf :
Iiiit tl.t-M aii'l ilk' I'li^un-* Uitl ii'>T. my Inpl. iii i!.) ;:niat
in« .loiin .iliih t Mir. I* }iai}i !•« ■ !i ii.\ t.iti- t«i U tr<>ni ii.y \fijth
iiiin'il Til -jhIi .i!.«l ur- iti I I \« r» ]"»• "» ••! |iiliiii<i. I'4'l»ttl I
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I.K1TER TO THE BISHOP OF DURHAM. 99
me thereto. And since, your lordshipp hath been soe kind as to
attest with your mouth to his Majesty, that I was never back-
ward to concur with you in any thing which was for the King's
service. Wherefore I shall spend noe more ink to disturb your
k>rdsbipp with enlargeing on soe unnecessary a topick. But I
shall take care to strive (by God's grace) to make good the
character which your lordshipp was pleas'd to give of me last
year to the King. You were not, my lord, any wayes deceiv'd
m your attestation, neither shall his Majesty (I trust in God) in
his expectation from me.
The remaining paper, then, my lord, will be more signifi-
cantly employed in laying before your lordshipp and the* world,
the reasons why I have not governed my selfe by your lord-
shipp's example since October last, as I did before, and cannot
be prevailed on now to comply with the people's, as I did with
the Lord's anointed, my leige and dread Soveraign.
It was, I know, sadly bewoilable for persons m such publick
stations, and soe nearly related as the Bishop and Sean of Dur-
ham, to draw two wayes as wee did, (I must confess) after your
lordshipp was plcas'd to present a paper of advice to his Majesty
to comply with the demands of the multitude.
And it was the more to be lamented that such division shou'd
happen in a juncture of affairs, and conclusion of the Church
and State, that required the uniteing of all persons, in every
body, ecclesiastick and civill, (all which strength was little
enough) to uphold our Soveraign lord's Crown and dignity,
whi<£ we both were stricktly, by our repeated oathes, (and pos-
to oounteiiaiioe tbe performance. When all was over, the Bishop (as a penanoe I
pNtBine) order'd me to go to the Dean (as Archdeacon) to require him to make a re-
tarn to court of the names of all such as had not read it, which I did, tho' I was one
of tbe number.
When the day of thanksgiving for the birth of the Prince (of Wales) was solem-
Bb'd, tbe greatest and most splendid entertainment I ever saw at Durham was made
hf tbe Bishop upon that occasion, and he himself preached a very excellent sermon,
exhorting all to loyalty and obedience to the King, &c. So it is worded in the
Gaxette, July 5 to July 9, for which reason I presumed it to have been sent up by
Us aecretary Bifr. Peters. But having the curiosity to enquire, he told me bluntly,
the aoocNuit did not come from him, but was sent up by the Bishop himself. Many
dher instances I could add, for he (the Bishop) was really troublesome (and I some-
times weary) with his recounting his great and many obligations to the Duke, and
after to the King."
These notes occur on the fly leaves of the copies of Dean Granville's book re-
ipecthrdy oootained in the Bodleian and the British Museum, and have evidently
been transcribed from the original notes in the copy belonging to Tho. Baker, Coll,
h. aoehu efeclui. The editor regrets that this copy should have escaped his re-
searches, for as Baker was a friend of Granville, and likewise a non -juror, it might
probably have been found to contain some curious adversaria. It does not appear to
be either in tbe University Library at Cambridge, or in that of Baker's own college
cirStJohn'8.--£D.
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loo Ur.SS C.K%N\||.|.B.
Hihly. rnnn* timii all ntht-n*. liy |Mrtu-iiliir olilifpitionji, haTeinf^
n*«'fi\M i»iir |ircffniH'iit^ hy h'm fu%-tiur- i-npi^M to iiwintAin,
iind ulii'h Wen* iiftn* tliiitp-ntu*ily thuii i*vtT Mruc*k at by t-nr<-
lliyi*<* Utt lltllll*' •All*\ alipM'i.
I wa<« UMtiini'<hi'«i. my lonl. at mm* niifltiaiii aii'i uiii'Xpivti««l a
i-liuiip*. aiul ^%a-i. out nt' p^in-* t tt> \iiur lorcUhi|i|i, oiit* o( the
lust thai in tlif (itty of Ihirli.iiii irii%«* « n^lit tu th«* njirirtji
(whi'niii your hnip-iir u.i*» roii4i*rii«'<l uhich }itifiyt<«| for a while
tilt' mouth of iilin«i-t 4-v<Ty iiuMith , *»*] in th«* fvmnty.
That tli.it \«ry m*lho<l ^%hi« h hi^* wiTf uHniid, nay wril aa-
HurM ot\ iK'fxn- |»;iniii^. ^%at llki-ly to ili-<«tri»y our i>r«wnt
pi\i'rnmi'iit ami ^*'\* niiiuro, t!iiii;:*« iiort«*n(lin^ :i«» Uul hm in
ttifty oMi* -.hotiM *•«. iiui •li.iTtI\ ai lonitn^ to your own«* t'\pn-^*
hion iMi'oiiif till- oit« 1\ ,iMii m>*-<t a<«'»ur'ii iii«*uii« of thfl* |in «wr%a-
lioii of thf Kiii;^* ]■• r"*"!!, .iii'l •Mahli-hini'iit of hi* i^*%i-ninii-nt
in <'liunli ami >tatr, ;»'avr imi- iM-ratiiiii Uyonil uU niruAun.* to
aiiinin*. AihI uhat *<ii<Milii iiitf\r \iiur ionKhipfi, of all mrn
in thr nation, in .ui unu-u.ill uav toucl\i^* hi^i Maj<-nty ■■■* to
t\in\ i^ ni»t \it (li'4-i>\rri<ti hy nu-. tho* it oftt'U i'iu{ilo\i^ my
thou^ht.v
Tlii<i rlian;ri' •>(' ni<'a.**uri^ in yrmr liinUhi|i|i, my I>it*'<MH,
wlii»M- I'oun'M 11. r.\ani|il«'. an«i a-v*i«talir«'. I diii nii»n* ttian i-Trr
n«^'<l ami «\]ni t at -u^ h .i th ^\n rat<- tri*«U, di«l wundt-rfullj
Hi-aki-n iiif in tli** di<x'h:ir^- •>! all dutyiw im uuibi'iit on mr«
ritlior a^ a Chunhnian or a •fu.-«ti<f of thi* I*car%*, und di«I p«t
me uniliT an unav>iiiial>ti* nui-^-ity nf alutin^ in niv ii*al tu al*
ti-mpt -umlr\ thin^r^, aitti * Ui^A'^f in M\irall di-witrn*. wkirh
tiMiIii Uitt U' |ir>«it ittti, intii h li-o ai I ••ni|»ItH)tf'fl. « ilLout tkr
rohi urn m «■ iif my i(k*«h«i|i aiiil l>ini l^-i\t«'nant.
Tiii^ ili'i liki-Mi-M* iiii .i|kai i!aTt- ni«' X** ii n^un*. or ««* niu«h aa
« nrh. tlii»^- in-ilriit \..utij i lirt:\ini-n. whi». U-fiin* \i*ur d^-
]i.iriuri'. utn* arrival tu mh h a |«i(ti h «»f ImMiMv* a.^ tii ri|«Hr,
hy undi^-iiit in-iniLitioiii in t}i«- tiinirn'^ation. not only ttM*ir
I Kan. hut Iti-hiip. ti<r ••U-iinnff tt* th** Kiii^. And «hith im-
IH*tii)i\ of niii.t U.1-. thi \«r\ SuUfhiv atti-r. inaiii- ri*n«|iiruoaa
•\ an^thir imiiMritt -« uni.n. |fri-.it h ^i in thf i.*uthi'«lrall pul-
pitt. mIiiiIi I u.i» t'>>r«««l t<i |i.f> t>\ Hithi'Ut «iM- ni«ii'h a« ^hnoni*
tii'ii. «tiil\ iiiii\i::;« tl.»- |»ri .nh« r tht' ruittiuiary n-^i-^'t* of aa
ihMT.iri'i!! t.i iii\ r.L^!• I'nr It.ir i*t a *>«^-:iil atf r «•:.?. *ini^, in«t€«il
i«f a*^:-t.iiit •• iF'Mi !lp.*«- ui.il uir«- '•u.-rn to i:\\*- !»•■ that and
mui li n.i-rt'. In-? uj'h n j.:...u ii. -. .11..I wa- ?«'M. ;:■. 'J.i pul>lit'k
• Ii-M h.irji- **\ lit l»i.in\ i-lhi«-. .'"'i' / r.-ji ii».V 'fi .{..;.'. p« I f '1/ la
I hail ift •^ni.ill ilitfiii.lix r** \--.T u|> .i^ii;.-* a:i<I n |b 11 !h*«r
• Tfc.Mii II • !.•<. whu li >»• |. If. ii^r.» tii« l.,<.' \i .ir. ••lit I'f thi i'^lnr
lETTER TO THE BISHOP OF DURHAM. 101
PtOYmce, from the example of great and venerable prelates^
which my intirely devoted heart to honour and obey the King
woald not permit me to imitate, tho' modesty would not allow
me openly to condemn. But when those who laboured to shake
me cm from my foundation of firm loyalty, and to betray my
innocence, by perswading me to enter into the herd, descem'd
me void of my last support, and depriv'd of the example of my
owne Biabopp and father in God, they attack't me (your lord-
ship may imagine) with too great strength and rudeness for a
single Dean, without countenance of superiour, or concurrence
of inferiour, brethren, any longer to withstand or oppose with
any considerable effect.
Tho' God Almighty (praised be His Holy Name) endowed
me in that day of tryall with soe much courage as to attempt to
doe it, in such manner as may hereafter prove to edification,
never changing my note or measures (when all began to dance
after an outlandish pipe) as long as I staid on the place. Wit-
ness my sermons I preach'd on the 5 and 9 of December, two
dayes before I fled, and the Sunday after the generallity of the
citty and country had, with open armes and mouth, received a
diBOontented loid*, who, the week before, seiz'd on the towne
fiff the Prince of Orange, and prophan'd both your Castle and
Market Cross with the reading of a treasonable Declaration, as
is related more at large in the foregoing letter.
I could not accord, I must confess, with such example of
your lordshipp, nor with the example of others, in being silent,
or sitting stQI in a time of imminent danger, warr, and tumult,
when ffood nature, as well as ^ood conscience, dictated to all
fiuthfuTl clergymen and Christians not onely to lift up their
Toioes like a trumpet, but to employ all their hands to have re-
stadn'd the unruly multitude, which had gott the bitt in their
te^, and were running madly to a change of government, and
deposition of their King, and in that, towards their own destruc-
tioai, since the Monarchy, as well as our Church, was like to re-
oeive (as it hath done) an incureable blow by another disgrace
and banishment of a lawfuU sovereign, of the same stock and
nee which had been once before barbarously treated beyond
expression, and in such degree that the English nation for a
while became an object of contempt and indignation among the
rerw Turks and Pagans.
However matters might appear to your lordshipp and other
prdates above att London, (as I ought in duty to conclude, by
jour and their actings, that they did otherwise than to me
* The Lord Lumley. See ante, p. 70.— Ed.
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LETTER TO THE BISHOP OF DURHAM. 103
8ouL Wee haTo, Gh>d knowes, madly grasp'd our religion, our
liberty, and our lawes, out of the hands of our own lawfully
descended, mercifiill Prince, who manifested all along, and even
att the last upshot, that he carryed about with him, as he pro-
fess'd, a truly English heart, and whose interest it was (what-
ever was his Majestyes religion) to uphold them all ; grasp'd
them away, I say, and put them into the power, and att the
mercy, of fbrreigners, whose humour and inclination it is, as
well atf interest, to destroy them all, whereof a few moneths are
like to afford us more lamentable demonstrations, as we have
reason to apprehend by the five or six that are past.
By these few honest reflections on the miserable estate of my
native country, and more particularly on the Cathedrall and
Archdeaconry of Durham, (which I cannot here reflect on with-
out often sitting down and weep) your lordshipp may perceive
that I am the very same that you found me when you entered
on your Diocess, 17 years ago, and left me, in the month of
October last, bearing the brunt of that dreadfull hurricane
which was then comeing out of Holland, and struggling with
that- insatiable Hydra which did widely gape for the Crowne
and Mytre, and is like, after devouring its supports, (like a
judar) to disgorge a common- wealth.
I am indeed, my lord, on all accounts, and to all intents and
porpoees, the very same I have ever been, intirely devoted to
the honour and interest of the Royall family of the Stuarts,
and 8oe unalterable and steddy a practiser, as well as pro-
fessour, of the old Church of England religion, (and more espe-
cially of those distin^ishing doctrines which do simally
lumoar our Church, and which were, whilst practised, soe lovely
in the eyes of all, as to prevail with a Roman Catholick prince,
at his mounting the throne, to continue and protect her) that I
can, by the power of noe temptation, or arguements of Dutch
divinity, be induced to doe any certain sinfull act to preserve
her, whether by way of resisting my lawfull Soveraigne, or
complying with an usurper.
I say, my lord, that I am, both by nature and instinct, a
perfect abhorrer of that diabolick sin of rebellion, however var-
niah't over by the father of lyes, and by what names or titles
soever it be dignifyed or distinguished. And, in the same
temper of mind, I doe here declare to your 'lordshipp (which I
iesae may be communicated to every person in your Diocese
under you) that I am resolved, by the grace of the Almighty, to
end my dayes.
Grieving that your lordshipp hath, by doeing homage to a
soperiour which 1 cannot owne, absolved me, in a great mea-
l0| hr.\N r.KANMI.I.K.
Hiin'. I'mrn tli«* runiHiirall nlniliriiiv. iliity. And rp«pi«rt, wkirh I
dill niif-i* iiwi* y*Mi, .ind wlit-n-liy I Bin ca|iurttttti^i tti Xmkv
^riMii-r tri-«iii>iii«- ^\\\i \<>ur li«nl-)ii|ip tli:iii 'tw;ij« Lwfuil for mr
in il<M- ill tifTiiii r Ii-ttcrH. a** wril tiM (Irl»arrM of U'^innir vuur
Uiptiii-iiitii viitlt th«* '<iu\v ilili::ht I Imvi* duni' funiirrU = 1
n-t.
My I^»nl,
Yfur I>itnNIii|i|»\ «lr.
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U..arn. Juli thi- 1 I(n'i*I
Tu Tin: VinM)KAN ANh IM:KHKMaKIF>
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I havi- xtriii^u'l*'^! with •«iiiii' I irtt Ihirh.kin. intimaU^ ia m
IrttiT t'iKiii K iiiiliiircli h:i\f Ih<«ii. awl an*, -tutiii-iffit t«) t^xraat
iii\ ;il»^-i)ii'. .kiiii niii\ jii'^iit'v fiif in the tvi-^ nf 4 mm! aini maa
fi>r |t.i\iii^' tiir *M.iiii' tiiiM- «.<«• mill iiml nini-t un air a« th«* imrtk
«if Lii^I.iIhI, :iiiil n-|Ktirin^ iiii<iu rliinfin<»n wjnni-and U*niinM*,
yi t i. w)iti )).i\f U^-n all my d.iyo ;i Ii«v«t i»f plain tiruhaiTi
ihink n«>t ti(t tn itiiiiiiil ;iii\ Iiinj^»«T tin- nii>n* •^ub^taatuil
r(-:i<M.ii« wliiih ilnl at tir^t hurry uw ;i\»ay fmin Vnu. lUifl dor
^till ill tain nil- ahpMil
I'lll I w.i- Will i:**t iiiir i.i ill. ri-.ii It nf lh«»^» nrw fr«iTrm«aari^
uhxin I iKiilil niitlitr ••i%iii ii'ir **\m\\ uml fnini whnin. f«ir tlutf
\t r\ I .li-i . h i«l 1 .iii* < lit" Mil. ill f.i\iiiir. I ».i*. a* wi-Il ikm iny hrt-
ti r-. iM I •->«:*. iti •! \tt iiM- th»' ui*^t |ii.iU'*ilili' ar^^i nirnt* I could
urh i!iiii«i!ii< r.>r A \-«\.ii:«- iiitii Ir.inii. wi!h<iut ili^Lmnff tW
l»>tt"MH ••! iii\ il. -iiTSi'- Ai:il i*r<>\iiii-ni •■ at ih.if linn- fumuh-
iiij 111*- viith •>!.• ^< ry .iiit).tii!it k. anil ri.iM>n.i)iIr i-ni»tii;h. Co
u'lT. ii|H'i) th«- rftuni' i'f a ilaii^^i rmi^ riHi;:h, %•• ^m* i4i«-«* natv
iiitM .1 >«iiiiitry tiifii wh.ih I h.ul n-iii\i^l l'*>niiirl\ n n iHi rahltr
aii\.iTi!.i^ 111 imint'* lit hi .ilth i -huuM ha\i- U^ U iniU'li to til
it I liad iiot III. nil u^- thin'til a« 1 ilhi in iinh-r t<» m\ «^iiTi|w.
LETTER TO THE VICE-DEAN, &C. OF DUUHAM. 105
On this account, (in my letter to you and discourse with
those I met in my journey) I insisted on little else than what
related to my then growing indisposition, which was come to a
great heighth, neither did I (God be thanked) meet or converse
with any so unreasonable or inquisitive as to demand stronger
motives than the recovery and preservation of my health, (the
next valuable blessing to the salvation of my soule) to authorize
my designe of hastenmg into this kingdom, famous for its sove-
raigne and beneficiall air for all consumptive constitutions.
And the vertue whereof, tho' I am not got into the most saluti-
ferous region, I now already, in a very great measure, per-
ceive.
But tho' all I alledge be very true and reall, yet I dare not
deny that other and greater matters (set forth in a precedent
letter) did first put it mto my thoughts, and incline me to quitt
my station, and without which, had the danger of my life been
never soe great, I must confess that I think I had never more
thus left my charges, after soe considerable an absence here-
tofore (to recover my health) from my offices and cures.
In plain English then, I declare ip all the world that the
true cause of my suddain flight was, that I carryed about me a
conscience, more \mtractable and less plyable to an usurpation
than most I left behind, as process of time hath made too appa-
rent. My conscience (such as it was) did oblige me to the ut-
most of my strength to oppose all usurped power, (as I did to
the last, witness all the congregation in the Quire the Sunday
before my departure) and then, I need not tell you, it was not
fitt for me to stay there any longer. I might use the word
mposiiblef rather than unfitt, since I could not with good con-
science stay. Id tantum possumus, (says the civilian) quod jure
po99umus,
I cannot deny that every one of you, and all those clergy in
the nation which were satisfyed and resolved to submitt, that is
to say, renounce your allegiance to your lawfuU Soveraigne, and
swear new to those who- have ungodlily and unjustly deposed
him, have done politickly enough to remaine at home, sit still,
and hold your tongues, at a time when the right Church of
England religion, (according to the best notion I have of it)
nay, Christianity in generall, required all faithfull preachers to
Hfi up their voices Kke a trumpet, to oppose the madness of tho
people, and stopp them in their carreer to destruction.
But I, your imworthy Dean, who, without doubt or scruple,
beleiv^d it at that time, as I doe at present, a piece of detestable
rebellion to jovne with any in a conspiracy against our King's
Crowne, as weU as life, (and desire to be tome with wild horses
106 I>K\M riRA3CVlU.S.
rathor than uh* to cloo^ <Ii(l on prilitickly fund I am ntrr mart
hoiiiHitlvi in withtlrawinf^.
Hut t (Imin* you to n*mrmh(T that I did not itirr from bit
rimt, till thi* citty (»f Ihirhum waa iioUutiMl by the* midinfr uf a
KH'lurution, which, hv a Into PriMiumation of thi* KinjrV vm
i>nnii>un(*(Hl tn*:iMonuhli* ; iin<l that thm* wm* not four |»ublirk
Mup'^truti'H, nor oik* MiniMi-r in thr townr, had tht* ciNara|pa
nny wuyt*ii to oti|M«t' it, 4»r dcthin' thiir diiuirnt thpn*to; a renr
fi*<'hIo HU{ip»rt for u Kim n-«il\M ^an I thin df*a*larM I van, and
now d(*(*lan» anew that I am.- to ittii-k rhwc* hy Uiid'^ fiTai<t^ to
thr (*rowno of my (*iily Kiufall Sivi*nii^i«». Kin^ Jamt^ th«* 3»
luH hrirH and f*ui'r<*Hm»un«. kuowiii;? n'*<* ilitfiTt-n*** Utwi\c Um
duty and «i)wdi«'n«*t* I iiwti«' to a |>riiir«* of tht* |>nitiiit int, and to
a [irintN* of th«- Kimiaii faith.
Nny, I d«t<in* you m<in^i\ir t^i ron^iidrr, that I did ni>t im
Hwny and fi»r'*;iki* my tl<Nk<«. .ih ^hw* may U» ajit tn iihj«Tt, wb«V
I WW thr wolft* mmt'in^. Iiut aft«T I ii.kW him ri»mi'. und witli
opiMi mouth niwly to devour, and tiati my Mdf«*. in ^nmc aort,
toAti^fi hirt ticn*4'n<'w4.
I U*«M*<vh v«m thon*for to tak<* ni»tiri\ that it woa not till iha
II of Ih>t*«>m)NT, ut ni^ht. that I li*t> Durham, a day aftrr hia
Mi4*n*d Maj«My wu^ drivfii fn>m \V)iit«*hall. hy whii h tiinr the
wirkitl (^mtrivrm of thin kuI Hi* volution hod an-om{di««h««d what
thry hiul U»«'n lon^ rnd(a\i»urinir. Mript the Kin^^ of all hia
MUiiiKirtn, i»ut him uiidiT a ni-i***NMity, tt^ wi-ll an hin mf^it faithfuO
f*u{»jii*tM. to Itv into aii(»t)t(T nation, and Micwn thrir piodvill
towardfi thr diHMilution of the tr>v«*nmi<*nt.
And fanh«T, and aUi\i* all thi«. th<m^h I could not ctaj
litntr«*r in Durham without U'iii;; th>tili'«l hv o*n(-urnnf;, or coo-
tiii'd for op|iiMinir. I diil not hM\«- Kn^laml till thi* '2*^ Janoarj,
u**T tly out of tlt«* Kin^'<< di>niiiii"ii«i till tht- Miliji-vt. who vaa
tiiiiliT enough of hi^ own {»n>[Mrfy. had. aft«T innumcrahk
\iohitioUH of thr Kin^'rt pn-n»^iti\i', pn'^unrd tu di5]uar uf tlia
vtr\ t'piwn.
For Anh WMiit^Mliiy * wa* ovrr U-fon* I t«»ok *>hipiun|r IB
S^ttland, u di*niall day, a day which I -khall mark in my ralrtt*
dar with a niiti' of (h-« {mt humiliati«u than lirfiin*. a day «hach«
hy all truily di vot«*d miuIi-^ to thi* honour and int«*nM uf tha
iiii|MTiall t'niwnt* of l-lnclaiid. will U* n ntrmUri'il with niotv
n*^ntt than A**h Wt^l 111-^1.1% 1 (>-'»•(. a lUy iiidt^^il om^* thou At
titt tnr the inaufnir.it ii»n uf an UAuqM r ^. who, tho* in all iAhmr
t ( nnuWrU ilcrUnvl Pr..l.«t.« ..o .itii >lr.|rM-ta««. It-^U.
LETTER TO THE VICE-DEAN, &C. OF DURHAM. 107
respects odious and infamous, had not the boldness to seize on
the Crowne, nor the people of England, at that time, (tho'
plunged over head and ears in rebellion) the timidity nor
stupidity to offerr it to him, who, without all dispute, might
then with less sinn and more prudence, have put it on his head,
(it haveing for a while been deposited and unemployed) than
somebody since snatched it from the head of his owne uncle, nay
father.
This is, Gentlemen, the true and reall cause of my withdraw-
ing, and if you please to be mindfuU of the critical! time when,
the manner how, and the cause wherefore, being alsoe soe just
to your Dean as not to look barely on his goeing away, but con-
sider it as circumstantiated, and allowing me so much charity
(who have alwayes exercised greater towards my dependents) as
to beleive I did att least mean well then, and doe speak true att
present, I am willing to bear all other censures you can load me
with for this late hazardous undertakeing, wnich, however it
may be misunderstood in England, (over which, as of late,
there seems still to hang some notorious cloud and mist which
strangely obscures men's imderstanding) and deem'd an act of
fear or folly, yet I am, God be prais'd, fully perswaded that it
was the most nonest, the most couragious, and the wisest, act of
my whole life, and doe incessantly praise his name that he was
pleas'd to endow me with his grace, (passing hy many more
capable to doe him service) at that very time, and m such manor
as I did, to bear witness of the truth.
1. For my flock : had I (whose notion of religion and loyalty
hath caused me all along to act at another rate) fail'd by a
sordid and truely mean complyance, I had certainly done them
irrepairable wrong, by thwarting my past doctrine and destroy-
ing the example of my whole life.
2. As for my revenue : tho' I possest the best Deanery and
possibly the best Archdeaconry, and one of the best liveings in
England, a faithfull Christian ouffht not soe highly to value
them as to put them into the scales with his conscience ; and
besides, I doe not forget that I both received and held my
Deanery by the King's favour, and doe resolve that without his
fiivour I will never keep it.
These two perticulars granted, I leave all men to judge whe-
ther it was an unwise act of mine, all things considered, to
withdraw when, and in such manner as I did, and I doe well
assure my selfe that it will [not] be esteemed otherwise by all
those that doe not deny the truth of this undoubted maxime,
that honesty is the best policy. And I doe comfort my selfe
that my poor exploded notions of honesty and religion, loyalty
p2
los \n.\y (iK\\\ii.;.K.
to my Kin:;, nnd ol)«>ili«>n«*(' to t)ii> pnvqit^ and tuIchi of the
<'hunli, will vi't ri»n»«' in V4«;r«»'* Nlnp' I Imvr thr world, iho*
I Iia\<* t(Ni itiiii li ri:i'«<in to u]ipri*Ih'iid tliut. unliivk thr rhanm* uf
air {iri<M'rv(' im-, I •*)i.ill iii»T (»•• a tt>iit? livifi iiiuni howrViT tbc^
Im* nut diiutii' and r«*ji-«t«'d in tlii«« int«»xii*at4il u;:r, whit h hatli
in a inannt-r 4*:i|iti\atiil nun*'* miim^, im wi-ll &.<« tlicir undtT-
Mandinp*.
I that am, thi' I. "id Im* th.ink«'d. Iiaiijiily dt-livcrM fur a while
irtiin th<' !"••!;;.', i.f' my owm* rmintry, whirh wrn* •^i^lly in-
iTtM-M-d -iiKi' !!•, l.itf .illi inri- anri nimuiuni«*uti«in with HulLitKli
diM' n«N' morr tliiu!ir. ili.m I vw**- u* pray tnr, the Kin;;'* ^It>n<iufl
and hh-^-M>d 1'%*^^ lur.itim. Tli.it j 'Xtull day. in «|'i;:h! nf iiii*n
and dixiH-. uiil • nmi> ;i-^«im .k-t th< < 'hun h anil Kinufihim'- arr,
hy a {in>t'iiiinil humiiia;ii*n aiiil NJni'rn' n^fn nt-moi . pn|iar*ii for
HiH>rh«'iii' a hli'^-inj*: aini \v)t«ii it d'lth (•■nif, or i^ ni;;h a{^
proiU'hin;:. it ^i\\ int'.illihly o|m n m> n'n • y*-% and lauM* thrm
rliarly to iIi<Mi':n«- thiir pa-t ri;ri iri*'"** lolly, and laiil;:y in
butfrrin^ tht'inM-lvfi to U* s.^- -^imiii o\« rronit*. hy ourh d* pl«>nilde
drhiMoii, a^ ii'it to tii«;iiit;iii<.h liitMixt thr t'l-lirity i*t livin|r
nndcr an undi'*putahli lawtuil ami ;;rarii>UM prim***, of tho m<H4
mrnifiill and i lii'ihh* rati' and 4|ualitii alii>nt and UMrintr the
\**kt' **\ an 11^.11)^:-. u)ii<««- ir*>i\:i»' niii<«t ntii^^arily U' main*
taiiitii. a- It i<. lT"'?'*!. *■> 'l«' -W'-ril. anil uip"^* n i.th-, th«/ it
!•• iriii- //* "' '"• 1*"'" '■'. .I'sd i"* '*'»h» r'd iii l-y .* ••Ij« w ••!' nli^on,
anil -I'lnin;^' I'»\i- i-I i.l • rty aiiil l.iw«*. -•-n l-iin.i^ ^ni'\oui^
and i.in li**!. !;:.^-. r t< It ni:ii !i Iraxiir tiian th«- lawtuil pn^
d«*i --.Mir** l"\ II-.
It uill ii't U- 1 i t li'u'.l !■- |.'. t. 'A !i» xh*- -pint of prophi^ r dw
tl.i«» ili-i -X' i\ : t':.' l..-t * I'^L^ IT iii::»- m«'iii tii« t \|ii niia*- doCh
jiiiwi rlilly I '. II.' ■ Mif t:.i' . ..I w'- .• 1 ,f? :i.i '1 (i«-rr d<-th M^m
alria«l_\ !•• I"- t \ - • :.■ ^i^'li ■ I" :i. i! '..'ir 1. iinl- Mtn .it JiU r!v,
(and p""l -lUi.td- :i: ti.i:. ;:. N ..ti.it'.l aini liijli:..! li-.. a- Wf l|
a- InLnid, l«i d»ii\'r ih-i-f !.ii*i r.iMi- kiniri"'"-*"* Iri in n-wll
l\rann\ :i!.d pn *I.Mi r \ . w I. i }: .ir- * ■•! likt !•• U :"i.ui..i L.^ih
i:."ri Tiili :.iMi- li-r t^.i 1 »■• u'.ji.*- 1!> .ii'l«' a- w« II a* iii;:iit« .l.;:j|iir
i;.i !h«*l-. .'t . \i lii^i^'ii •'!" J- |'«M ..liil pfi ?• ndid .irlatr.iry [ikWit.
AH till'-*- mK" \\« n- t "nif !••, ;ii d •••-.ill • \i r> i«« t}.i ir undtf'r*
^• .ri'iiii;:-. If. Ill tl.' \i.ir *ll i*i th. \. ir *••". i.iiin«»! l"«ri,-«*t the
u:.-till' r.iMt -I»\«r\ \il:ii]: tj.i tl.n-f- kiiu'd>>iM <• u:.i!i rwi nt u{ii«
thf null ippy I ' :.jii!:i !i"ti it tl.. •«•■ t<i> n.* t.?i< :ii«i ui.-' j^.mlile
twini;*- "1 1.« l.< rr:-! f- In 11;. I. ..! :!.. -M d i\i • u.i- I. — •.!!.. u* than
tl.i- pn - :iT !•: 1. \\ : i. ). i- a- • < n.| .iii\ id %mIIi tlj« i.:^'hi*« a^Tirm-
\.»ti..?.-. li — i-l!«'i-. I •'.i\. i-r .it li .i-t l- -Mi ;s!.:. iMirall. :].au that
III.. It r u!i'*f. ti.f \t -' ^iil;t«!-» and < iir.«?..ii> \u Kn^-Uiid at
)|i«ar.' ^*ii .ii: .li -ii:i:t\ ri-|«tt». lad l.'>t tLi tnnirvr U^ll
LETTER TO THE VICE-DEAN, &C. OF DURHAM. 109
deeply dyed in the blood of King Charles the Martyr. And
yet all the religion, and great ostentation of purity of the
Grospell, wherewith it was introduced, and at last, after a flood
of loyall blood, submitted to, by an infatuated generation, ended
at length in downright enthusiasm, which, by breaking of
fences and tearing up foundations, lett in a deluge of all kind of
prophanenes: the priviledges and propertyes, as well as the
liberty, of the subject were got into the hands of such miserable
keepers as kept them all to themselves, in such sort as scarce
any person, you doe well remember, could be master of them,
or meet with them, but att Wallingford house. In a word, after
in^Lpressible violence and injustice, cutting off sundry members
of Church and State, and most, those well fix'd Church of Eng-
land men, (clergy or layicks) who had the valour to withstand
the usurpers of those dayes; all matters att last run into anarchy
and confusion, and the babell which had been twenty years in
building, after a short tottering at the death of their cheif up-
holder, fell and crushed it selfe with its own weight, and cover'd
all their antimonarchicall machinations with its ruins.
The serious and sober review of all past transactions, from the
beginning of the long and Great Rebellion, home to the Dutch
invasion, to wit, of the first stupendous wickedness of the ene-
myes of the King and Church of England, the wonderfull long
roferring of a justly incens'd God, his unconceivable goodness
and compassion, at length, in a reall delivery of our nation and
the Church, (from not onely the most arbitrary power which
had been before exercised, but from the utmost malice of its
worst adversaryes who were watching to devour her) the wretched
reqoitall of God's mercy and love made to heaven by the most
reall (I fear none can excuse themselves) as well as pretended
friends of Crowne and Miter, in repaying such unexpressible
bounty with contempt and iuOTatitude, and, at last, the most
deplorable folly and madness oi the people of England, in being
catch'd by, nay running into, the very same snares wherein
they had been once before entangled, by the subtility of the
deiill, almost to their utter destruction. The recalling to mind,
and through consideration, I say, of such and the like passages,
should have made us, methinks, wise enough to have avoided in
due season the same trapp which was againe laid for us, and
into which we are a second time fallen; at least, one would
guess, (or else we are become perfectly stupid and insensible)
should awake every one to look to his aftergame, for fear wee
may be remedylessly deprived of the remaining part of our
feludty, which is bound upp in the life of our dlstress'd Sove-
raigne and his legitimate issue by our gracious Queen-Consort,
1 10 M \N riUW. :i I.K.
\v)ni h:iT!i i'viilini»f«| IhT mIi*i'. in thi-" :inl f«»nnrr iirirn* raMo
tt'KuMi'* itfiMir :itHii tfl .iii'I thrirr Kini-li't rHin'i'. n ii>*t.iM« 1 1-
iiiii|i|c o!' ^uliiiii^iii^ii ;i:..l |i:irli'iii«>. anil w!io iiu;rht t«i U*. r»r
iM-itii^" in.iil'- liv til*-! tii< ii-»i'{»v iii<«!rut nil lit of Kriii^in^ u* thf^
)•!• ««in^ (if :i h"|» t ill )i< ii-:ii.ili-. Inr i \«-r «ii-:ir t*» t)i«- Kn^Iuili
i):iti<iii :iiiil ail I'liTliliil hhI.;.-. t- h» tin* rpiun ti|' KnirLri'l.
ir sin h «\ir.iMr"lii:.iry iliilinir^ tii' th«' <i«»l *»( luMV.ri. %jryf«J
til «\iry inan*t «-:i]Kii-ity :intl i <>ti<li;iiiii. it' ixiitln-r < iiHr** «]M.ikinK
h\ :i •«till \niri- iiiiP i:i ti.« \\liirli-\«inl. iii-illn-r hy thi- •^uTi^hinr
oi' ni«-n-\i"4 ii*>r !hi' thiiTpl'-r ••!' hi* jii'i jnii iii*. th.it iiri-.iilfull
cliin uhi-r*iiitii tin- lit* l'l.i< k • l':i<lo ilri\*ti intn Kn^U::! i*ut
of lliilLiiifl Itri'kf \ir\ t'iTi!l\. tn tin- uiiliiri;:in;; i>t* thf iih«J«*
falirii-k nt' liiir •j'o^'Tiini* !i*. K>t)i in ('liiinh :infl Stati' will r«**
rLiiini* 11-. :tiiil iii;iki- 11** -' ii<.)<|i- nt' "iir ni'i^t r«-.ill intf-n^! itnd
li:i|i|»yni ^-^ ill .1 ni'i-T ili<«ir.klili- :iti>1 «i*II iotaMi*)it MnrianJ.y And
Kiii«ri>|».if\ . iiTfl :i irr.uixiix Priin i- m • ••riliii;; tn the h«>in*«
wi«li ot'rvrry ri:;lit l«>y.ill -••ii i>t' tlir ('liunli nt' Mn^^Ln:! ; laitf
thiit III* dnili Tint |ip>t'i-*« I'lir n lii;i<»H ti'*r n^lint' ii« t«> riul in-
tir«> nlMiliiiiii- :itii| •*tii»nii->«i<*n t" tin* Kini; and (*hun-h «hirli
till' uioi> i|iN|Nri«.iTi<iii*« lit' a lnxinL? .ithI l>>n;:-«ititr' rin;? iitm\ «t«|ii
uUivr <>ll)i r thiiii^ liy ni.iiiy ri]M.iT«i| •>uniniiiii<M « loinlly !•■ r^
!'<«r. tin Ti' n-niriiii'* ii<<Thiii;r Imt a !i.irS-ill l'-*kin;; t*<ir ol juii|r-
i!» lit. I kn«»w ii«- -lU, j.r nur >»'r* , n-T i.iri ili^^'%ir mnjr
tliiii^r whiih r.iii iii«»!!ity ^\i* li '•♦•»n\ l.« -.ir!-. nr ni-rily •tirh fxjr-
nijif naTiin-. tli.it h im* l.iiii' nr.iMy i|«!. .iti»l Mur ilt-a^i'niT
I'atlji r ill .ill lii« im thiNl- t.i li I 'j'-i-l uiiTi« u* .i!iil *.i*i' u*. And
I. « lii- li ivi- T . V. r U ' :i ill •!; i' kii •■.* ni'- i:ii*t • ••nl't-^ a riian
1. 1 • \. . ^-ix,- I, »r ar.'i ;• il ■ ;-\ p- ?•• ti.i- t.-iMi. k. MiU-t ^vX ii<*«ii
in •!• -ji.nr. :i!il •..':. In-!, ti.i* ?!.. |...'|'li i.t Knjland. th* i.thrr
il:i\ a:i ..'.•. ■■• "i . • \y T.. .11 f} .
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LETTER TO THE VICE-DEAN, &C. OF DURHAM. Ill
distiiiCTisIiable and incorporated in the mass of rebellion which
the wiae and just God is pleas'd to permit to oppress the whole
land, pierces my very soid.
It was one of the most painfull mortifications I ever mett
withy the week before my departure, to disceme my selfe de-
serted by aU the Citty Clergy, in my honest zeal for the right-
eous cause of my Soveraigne, in such sort as not to discover
then on the place any one ecclesiastick, neither in the Cathedrall,
or anv parochial Church or Chappell within the precincts of
that (5itty, who had the courage at that time to owne openly,
either in the pulpit or in his conversation, his opposed Prince's
interest and honour, by shewing just indignation against that
treasonable attempt wmch was then insolently made against his
Crown and dignity, in reading publickly and with great for-
mality the rebellious paper* mentioned in this and former
letters, tho' every man, who was not a mere ideot, must com-
prehend that thiat very act countenanced was, in effect, the
nulling up the sluse, and letting in a stream of rebellion, to over-
flow the whole County.
This was, I declare, to me a mighty exercise of patience, and
did, among other pressures, which possibly contributed much to
my crazy condition last winter, heavily afflict me : but when I
look forther, and at this day regard the, state ecclesiastick of the
whole County, and discover but three of all my brethren of the
Clergy through the whole Bishoprick of Durham, (as I am made
beleive by report) who have had either the integrity or courage
to stand their ground against a new and unlawfuU oath of alle-
giance to a prmce sett up by the abhorr'd treachery and un-
heard of ingratitude of the people, (subjects) who have noe
tathorily in our ancient henditary realme to dispose of the
Crown, I am above measure astonisned, and overwhelmed with
greif, which grief is unexpressibly augmented, when I consider
that the menu)ers of that body^ or comunity, whereof I have had
the honour to be head, have mcurr'd the same guilt ; and those
eminent persons which, as salt, by their examples ought to have
•eason'd the whole Diocess, are rendered uncapable to reprove
their inferiours and reprehend the sins of the times.
Alas ! if resistance of the higher powers be, by some modem
Bitines and distinctions, refin'd into a vertue, is perjury no sin ?
If the sacred authority of our earthly god (the stile in Scripture
allowed to a lawfull Soveraign f) be fain into such deplorable
* Hie Prince of Omge's Declaratioii.
t ftiL Ixzzii. 6. CC the Homily against Disobedience and wilful Rebellion, pt. i.
On 493. OzfOTd Sd.) ** As the name of the King is very often attributed and given
112 l»r.A.N <.KA%\ILI.K.
r«>nt«*nii>t iitiionp: fluhjirts thnt then* ib littli' rrfmrd pv«^n cntkrr
ti» thiir pntuii^H*!* or (-oniin;iii(|<«. i-i tho maji-^ty of thr liuflof
ni*;i\«it Iniimhi* mm- iiH-aii and rhiM|i that iiirii, tiav hiTinf<«. <Urv
laiii'i-ll till* ohli^itioii ol' an oiith Y And thr rallini; ^iml to «il-
nt-N thi' truth ot* wh:it %<«<• ]ininiiM* )M<«i>ni«« void ami of' nop
ctiU't. a<i MMin a-HiMir intfrf?tt ti-ntpt uh to hrvak it ^ Ii'mh-. thm
tiirt'Wrll all n-li^ion, nay 4*on\4*rsati<}n and omniM nv anH4i|f
nirTi. It* thi' iHindn ot* u i«arri*d mith un* not miflicii-nt to hukl
null. Miri'lv Tiothinir i-tn.
Th<* (vilU and nii-M lirift whirh iniLM unavoidahiy atti-nd m
h\\i sih' uni\(T*«ally ctinmiitt*-*! through th«' Kin;pl>itnf, i'\ru bjr
the Irudfpt an<l ^uidi- ot' < 'hri^t*<« tl>i«-k, an* niorr and yrr^^atrr
than it i.n (^i<f«tMi' tor any t<> r>inrri\t' or !or< «it*.
Sui'h a iiotorinuo i onir.nliL-tiiin nt y*iiir ownr |ja.-t ]in-ai kin|t
anii nrai'ticf inii.'*?. I !*• .ir, rti.ih r y«Mi xi-ry rht-.i|i anion tr^t thoar
{Niijilf. ^%hit-h y>*ii h.ivi- dr.iwin- into a «^n.tri' hy u yvry MnfuU
fxanii>h\ aitil who h.iv«- {**>* nr.n !i ^ U'»' n«it to dii«*« ni«- tht* ilU
nf^s tin n-nt*. ilio* th'V u.mt oniric''' tit n-^i-^t it.
1 am •Mtrrv th.it thi- ntr'^^i-\ 1 am {mtt to of dt li\4 rin^ nr
Miul conxtn-in- ni«* hrn- v* (i«< l.iri- l'':u<* m n )>. and th.it y*<u liMXr
vrry oIN-n in my |»r"^»n«»' jir-.uh'il i.iI-m- di*ttrin<'. il yuur |>n>
•»• lit j»ri"'«« •iiiii:'' a!nl r'.ni|»!\.in» . «* ari- j i-lil\ jLI'.
It'n iinw a nmn- *• aH-'MiMi- tirip- 'i...!! J! u.i%' u \iar a^** fnr
il<i rrrlfsia.-^tit-k-. uli'i 4 iMi>>! -wall-u im] lli it l.ilth. to teach
our h' an r-» ti» Uw.iiii'l" ii-.jili* i! ..U.iii'im-. Ii it w rp> ilrrad*
till! a!i<l d.iii:;- piti- u l.ili- u> Ii\ M ii;i<Ii r a ^-rai i"n* I'rinii- •»{ aa
U!i'ltiiili!i >l tith", w'.i'*. «\. I ".*!'..' L*'-"!?.'*' .»lid t'-r ward !*!-%* U)
ply i'li l.i-* •.nil]' » »^ \, i'.ii pro', il i :•« rui'i. i- ji U * niin t.ti.t rwi«e
iinli-r the LrM\«rnin* nt Kla priri'i \\]t** l;.»'!i 1*\ \i<'Ii m i* nn^vScd
a <r<>uti troiii thr ^« ry |'(!i.< r i*t l.i^ i'\«:ii- |>!i:ii-i-^«. and hi« «twii
m-ar nlatioii. ^%hii. l»y ^ui ii an .f t ••!' ii'4{Mr> Ih IM t!ini<!ii«-. and
ini \ru>;ildi' and |iil|<al»lf «l«:*i: •'! \fr.Mii\. ;n li.»\ini^ at hm
hi-»f iiilranir trr"-li i ■■:i?ia'li' t»-*l lii-. nw;* I»«f lariti».:i, ihv^«
nmn- pi-t u'ri'Jinii ti,.in U'ii !..'• iii. 1. •* ■ r i.:-* jr..:i<iuth* r t vor
did. «•! pali'U-V a!id !• iT'. a:.l !•• ii'inlidi- ti.a! !.* lli*t nd» to
Mill, .i^ li« « '-ii.jtii r'd. ti;t K;riL'i"i»> . pr")*--!!-.;: ?■• !.ini«« Iff rnm
!•::.• I n: ■':%« ^ i:i li;- i'.*:ir» ,;-\i ii.iii i.l tii 4:1 i.» lii i m h;« tint
j:.\a^;":.. and u ij.i! fit. \ hi r» it w ill !«• in • 'il* — :■• r - :*• t.i anj.
1 It !h"- v.! .. \K, r. . .*. i:. .. ,• u." n.. ' ::.* ♦•:«•! ..:. I N"\. nihrr
!. I • • «> a. :.ii*t t I I «:. 1,1 .« ... «,:: • af^;. • | r ..• •. 'tru. &( Ub^vi po^"
* IV «t h*r« i-i f * • (*!tfi*rv:i t.r- -t f t'-.r .«' . a* «rl; «•■ .«-•(.««« Sif— *•
• •uti'*ii Ih.ir hrarrr* ^••■■•l i-i | :-.. iir 'i««lM-n'i ■i.irr^n *:. t 4^4 all UMI
■iMAo «11 •unpii »•.«• •lib K J«u.<« i
LETTER TO THE VICE-DEAN, &C. OF DURHAM. 113
lastf fisiat a sleep : and what will become then of our religion,
libeiiyes, and lawes, it will be easy enough to divine.
Ofortunatos nimium, bona si sua norint, 8fc.
The review of our past felicity, those very blessings we en-
joyed, and sadly overlook'd, during the reigfi of our present
ooveraigne, must needs greivously torment our hearts, and give
us occasion of pining away with just vexation and anger at our
selves : since it is not possible now for us, in all humane appre-
Iiension, to swim back to such our (sottishly neglected and lost)
happiness, but through that sea of blood which tyrants and
Qsorpers comonly shed, in prosecuteing and accomplishing their
Machiavellian designes, and it is matter of noe small moment
for men, especially churchmen, to examine, throughly and im-
partially, how much of the guilt will lye at their owne doores,
as a great measure thereof must, it is without all dispute, rest
at the door of every one who hath knowingly and wilfully con-
tributed to the fall and banishment of his lawfull Prince, where-
by he is putt under a necessity, out of justice to his son, to re-
cover his owne by the sword, which by force and violence, as
well as the abhorr'd treachery of his owne subjects, were taken
aooL him.
And I doe beseech you to be assured, that in now recommend-
ing to you (whom God hath plac'd under my authority) soe
seasonable and necessary a task as this sort of selfe examina-
tion, I doe manifest that I am (as I have done often in other
matters) your faithfull friend, as well as
Aug. 15, 1689.
Your affectionate brother,
Denis Granville.
TO THE CLERGY
OF THE Archdeaconry of Durham.
Reverend Brethren,
AifOKG the many applications which, upon my withdrawing
and leaveing the nation, I have been obliged out of common
deeencv, as well as good conscience, (considering the publick-
0688 of my circumstances) to make to mv relations, naturall and
^nrituall, I might without censure or blame, omitt all laborious
Q
114 m.KS r.RA%Vll.I.R.
[Mnninfr down of my thou^htj* for you, th<» Horp- of my Arrh-
(itatnnry. huvinp fur iiion* than twmty yranii ti>s«*thrr. vith
tht* ^ri*at«M iii<Iii<«try ami Um /imI I w:ia ubhs fr^'tn yt-ar to
ytar. )iy word and Ii tt*r, :iiid •Mini«-timtii in itrint. not tmly in-
ritiil ymi :it in\ ViNitatioiiH, faithfully ami diii^ ntiy tn i-xi^-ut«
ynur oflirr<4, hut |il:iinly and fully dtlivrr'd my miuIi* ut my ImA
und nmn- inrniiimldr Vioitutimi, nu tht* I'lth of tlit» ni'Vrr to be
forp»tt4«ii m« fill -til (if N<iv. \itSS, Xvn duyi-n ufttT tmr Utt* > hutch
|>nit4f«taiit <iun|>fj«fhT tna.Miii, 1in»th«Tly ud\i-it-inir. nay t-ttr*
iii-«tly |in'*Mii;; you. to Maud thi* tint in that f^*ut day of trialL
that \iiu miu'ht imt ha\r hi**! rithiT thr hommr or nw^nl uf
<ni)t'i'<<M.upt fiir a riu^hti-fiu^ rauM*. in aM«-rtin}; whi'rf«»f I am
willing; ami rt-M.l\. hy <i<Mr>. ^ran-i to HuiTatin' my lifr, at I
havi' tlun«- my n \«iiu«'. if tln^ ^li-**- (foil nhimld think titt ti> cmil
lur to till* i»Iit' at hi* hath d«iiii> to tin* other.
To di-moh'^fratr ui«di niahly to your mIvi-m. ami uH tlut hoard
nif that day, that I wa<* not. anions all my wrakni*««M^. aftmid
or a>)iam*ti to uwiii* my |M>t lifr and dot-trine, ami to t-omiJcat
thr tilhrr of a Vi-it^r ha IiomiMIv and hrartily ua I U-ffan, I
rhoM*. you may n^nii-mliiT, to lay lM-f<in* vou the rhi'if hciMl* of
all th«> pmmI CfUUM-ll and adviti* whit h f had ^ivm you. at Um
fonntT t-tiiivi tition** of tht> rh*r^' of my JuriMlirtion. for fuor
ytar* top-tin r, t\i n \\iv four la-t iitraonlinary yt-an*. tlut it to
•»iiy, tvt r fintf hi«» prafimi-* Majf?»t\, our liip* Itinl ami Sif^
raitrrii*. Kin^; -lanifA t)i« 'J. mi«uTit«tl hi<t thpinc; thii' I ha<l too
mm h HM'utn tin ii to ajiim h« nd, hy \our hinir mchit thrnixj/,
ami runiiin:: ii'iintir tn iht- priririphit and prattio- of tout
Anhdtantn. it uouM Ui'lli ^uit with yi>ur |>:datt^. uhii-h at that
titm* til my lti* f ap)M arM. aiul oim-f. Mithoiit all tliMnitr, are
foiiml. Ui't ••iil\ \i;iatiil, hut |N.y«.»nM. hy tht* h-uvrn ana niafrick
• if tin- a^p'.
It u.it i\ir my h«»j»i«» that hi* M.iJ'M^i-* hiv.dl f'ountr of
Murham thf a|>i>f ll.it ion \iliii-h my ;rra<ii»u«» .Ma^ttr. Kin|t
( h.irliN thi- *J. h;l^ Wont, a^ I ha\i- olt«n n miiith^d y«iu, to
atlopl til «i>ulil ha\i- n-i*>tiil lunt** r than any fli<m^«i«* in
Ijijrlaiid. h\ \i-rtui I'f thr i:»"-l p'Vinimitit whiih «x* xrrf
•M-a««naM\ . and ni«pr«' ttfittuall) than i !•*« « hi n-. tht-n-in tt't oo
fiHit. at )ii*> ii>\full KcMauratioii.
HiiW litth |irt\alint and nn*>i»i 1 1 *jifull mmvit my poor and
w«-ak fnilia\««ur*> pn<\M t<iu ir^N \<>iir f«tahh-hmf*nT, I roold
ntit ima^inr that tin- < 'h r^:y ••! tht- lliohopruk ••! iKirham on ""
ha\f -i«* *«»t.ii fiif^itti n mui h h"Wi tni*irati^li thi* pn<«-f|>t« i
< \ampl«- p\in th«ni l'\ ■«•« i^n at .1 ..■:.!'i*.-..r • and itMUt cl
* Hubiiffi C oant.
LETTEK TO THE CLERGY OF DURHAM. 115
pion of the old orthodox Church of England as had happily
reviv'd good order and conformity to the Church's rules among
them.
But since wee find, by sad experience, that it is soe, and that
even the very leaders have apostatized from their duty to God
and the King, it become me (who dare not follow their example)
to doe all that I can to prevent the people of my Archdeaconry
from being seduced thereby.
You know I have laboured faithfidly, and with zeal more
than ordinary, to assert the King's cause, from the year 1678
(through all the combustions occasioned by an infamous im-
postor) home to the Dutch invasion, and- at that very time,
even on the 15 of Nov. 1688, brought all the wholesom advice
which I had given, at severall Visitations, to your view in one
address, (as before mentioned) which I have printed for your
&rther edification, and my owne lustification : and, in the next
place, I knew of nothing better that I could doe than to preach
to you by my example, in leaving my station and my revenue,
(when I could not be permitted longer to discharge a good con-
science) rather than mvolve my selfe in the guilt of an usurpa-
tion ; which act of mine, how greatly soever it may have been
censured, I esteem as the best sermon I ever preach'd in my
life, the reflection on which affords much comfort to my soule,
rince thereby I clear'd my selfe from the guilt of renouncing my
allegiance, as the generality have done, which will provft an
eternal blot to the nation, not excepting the Clergy of the
Church of England.
'Tis too late now to give you cautions against perjury, or to
set before your eyes how much more heinous it is in a priest
than in a layman, because the greatest part of you already have
swallowed a new oath to an usurper : and to inform you in the
obUgation that lyes on you to repent of, rather than to keep,
the oath you have taken, is to conclude you (what I ought not
to do) not only bad Christians, but very weak Divines.
There is noe man, that understands any thing of religion,
bat knows that a rash oath only obliges to repentance, whereof
that there might be some meet and worthy fruits brought forth
among the Clergy of my Jurisdiction, would prove to me great
mater of consolation ; and if it were done very speedily, it would
be a very great extenuation of their crime, and adSbrd good
ground to hope they were overborne with the boisterousness of a
violent storme, rather than did wilfully plunge themselves in
8oe horrid a guilt.
Let not the fear of loosing your possesions (which I thank
God has not prevailed on me) tempt you to lye one moment
a2 ♦
I;
110 1»1.\N (.kAN\ll.l.K.
undtT ^H- in'«u|)iiitrtahlr a Itiufl. TIu* «*njoyinrntii of vour live-
in^ u ill Ih> iciflly |nirt*hu.HM liy thr c*nrnuM* of mm» moniiouA an
ini|uity. ami tlti-n hIII U- u laiiiiiitabli' pn-ci^lnit \vti to roar
Hm'kft, if Vim. till' ]M«*4irs, havi* nut biifliru*nt aiiiet*ri(y to make
u Nixiily «iiiili**i«»iuii inr ymir hin, uiid Ciiuru|;i' fiidUfch jitiblicklj
to oMiif till* r«.iiiii , li\ j^MM-iii;; ;^^I«»ry ti» (iiicl, unci taki-iiiir •(!•»•
unto yiiur M-lxrv Tht rt* i iiii U* uin* tuort* ffli^-tuall way t«» rr-
(l«iin }<>tjr OHM !if!i<>ur t)..in l»y n •»!iirin^ <i«t(lV N<*tiiiii^ ixio-
tril)ut4tl h<> niurh tn tht- ;:l«>ry of St. Au^nt^tiu a*** bLt <\»nfi^iiiu
un<l rt'triit-tiiinM, iiit<l, oiUm t|ii« nlly, n'lthin^ run U* iui«rr to
y«iur!*, than til U r.ikf your •mUi-* to thi^ «-<iMiitLil iKirt «if rv>*
Miitanii-, I nif.iii tli iifr.%*«ion of your « rinn-, «h<n-I»y \%m
:iavr M'undali/'il your fl«H kx. •
You that havi- tuk« ii an uuLufull lutk to <ia\i' yiKir U nr&x^
ha\r tht r< liv |>ut \iiur -^ Ivi •« undrr a ^natif nit-ti^^ity nf |iart«
in^ uith thi ni. m* nt. lining \oiir ^uilt. F«ir n«>:hin^ Ii-nn thaa
p«M> •</'/•;('/ PMt nil to Ini II outiit ii-iit r\iili-no' «*f your MntfritT.
<mm1 hath •^iN- linh n«l it 1>\ hi^ hivinr rro\i*Ii-iirr that a muiirr
aluii\«** nii'*»«*<* of iti.i ainn-. IhtitM' that U :;ik* thinivU«« to
unlaufull (••iii-i^, *i* «.i\i thi'ir li%*t or ifttat*^. niu*t nt^fwtarilj
fi>n«;ik«- thi in. aini « nt« r <>n mu h ao at*' •lianitrriiall) contrary to
till' foiint r. or I*"*^*- !)«• :r '^*\iU «. uiiii ii urr intmiti ly ui n* ^ala*
ulih* tlian Uitli. Ki|ii nt.i:.- 1- <Mi:;i.t to U- i^f-mM }'\ f-\iiy
onlin.in Christian a nturiiiiii^' lioni ^in, y* a, -;•• h a n turuiii|(
im ^«|iiino thi' tn-u'iini; «>iit tl^i \it\ }»t« |i|»^ wi.iih tht- Mimcr
inu«h i:i liiih r tn f}i«' riiniini'*^i'>n «>f it . aii*l !«urii\. thin, what'-
h.M\t r i" hirnilij^' in tji« ili- ittli . iiimI 1-- inurh iu**r\ ••Mtj^toiy
in thi* -|iiiitu.ill L''n'<>
llui I -h.ill !.•>: iii\«- t>Ki far luU* \-rli ular«« and <-haIk <Ntt
tlir i\.i4 : ni'!i.-! .i:A mi ii.n- r l."U \.... *.t..ill niaki* ri-jttr^tMNi
for th«- ur-'i:^' u f.i. ). \ 'ii. i\- il .:*. . i\ ^.ihiiiiiMii;; to .in u^arfjcr,
Uilh to t}it- Kmi: .lit! ('iiUNh ■•! L:iu'I*»nil. I l..i\« n'o^tfi to
ImIiIvi tiiat ull III \"'i k:fu \iitir I-it\ uill • iifii^h. az^il rnanj,
I .I'll Niirt , In tti-r th.i;« I • »:t i:i*>!;i.<t \iiu: »i*.i< tin pr* r* ,:.4!iV9
I'f thi- Knu'. |>i*>^i\i- kU .!!• Ill t . aij'l i."n-ri «i«taii< ■ , w< n pn a* h'd
u]i with niiiri' /-At h\ \mi in xh*- l»i«h'<i*ri< k «'f iKirham. xhaM
tiny wir«' hy •••)•• r-* in an\ ihiNi-^i i.i i.n^*.iTiii. win n* mnfitrmitj
t.i th« ••nhr* *'i th- < 'hunh. untl i \«^ 'itii.n •-! I'thi r law*-* ..f x)m
land, »• rt- M« wi'.l pra'ti-M. »h-.' n-'! a* uill a- thi \ nUifhl to
ha\i- Uin thi: thi iti<»h><j«ri< k. uh><!i wa« anti«nf!y t:uM fir
i" l;i / 1./ y.»i. •*•, w.i^ L'* Ji'T.i.i\ ri|»it«tl '/,# •» ;' "' ffnuafk nM»*
Yiiii i^n thi- pli' I . ai'ir.L*. inU'*' ^i- ii.>r« 'harly than I ran,
:i? thi^ ili^taiii* . :h«i' y.. ;r i\*« i.i\i- \m*\i m .i ^rvat ni^*.«urv
hliu«l«il )i\ thi> tniiKik ot a r* In ai'i:i mh uxu^^x luaiiui r
LETTBR TO THE dJSBGY OF DURHAM. 117
opportunityes of makeing satisfaction for your egregious
apoetacy.
I shall therefor, rather than prescribe the means, mind you
of your indispensable obligation to doe the thing, and soe
redeem your honour, and redress the scandal you have given, to
the increase of your own sin, and the unspeakable greif of my
aool, who did faithfully labour to make every one committed to
my charge such as God hath given me grace to approve my
adfe. even an unalterable loyall subject to King James the
Kcond, as well as soe legitimate a son of the Church of Eng-
land, as can never be perswaded that it can be for her interest
to contradict her doctrine, which, as I have hitherto profest,
and held fast among all the blasts of temptation, (from what-
ever point of the compass they have blowne) I am resolved, by
tlie divine assistance, to practice unto the end, in spight of the
inost prevalent examples or malicious censures used now as
argaements or engines to overthrow me.
That such a generall neglect of church order among the
Clergy through the nation (as I long and loudly complain'd of
and wam'd you against) shou'd be attended on oy soe fatall an
ianie as an universall defection, should not be a thing perfectly
aew to you, to whom I address my selfe, since you your selves
can be my witnesses that I have often faithfully foretold, that
an aniversall semi-conformity would end in as universall semi-
allegiance, and would God we had not foiind by lamentable
e^)mence that itt had done much more, by produceing that
degenerate o&pring who have not onely imbrued their nands
in ape horrid a crime as the dethroning their lawfull Soveraign,
tnt, like vipers, have in a manner eaten out their very Mother's
Wells.
I do not doubt but that Almighty God hath by this time
bitmght to your memory some of those seasonable cautions and
mementos which I have plainly laid before you in the publick
discharge of my archidiaconall office, with some greater force
and effect on your spirits than they had at their first delivery.
I cannot havp such prejudiciall thoughts of you as to imagine
otherwise, since Divine Providence often lead me to such suit-
able topicks as might have prevented, by God's blessing, (had
. they been generally insisted on by all those who had eccle-
aiasticall jurisdiction, and not been rejected by the people) much
<^OQr present misery : the ill effects of which are like to be felt
by the succeeding generation, tho' wee shou'd be bles'd to-
morrow with such undeserv'd felicity as all good Christians
long for, .1 mean the speedy Eestauration of our Soveraign,
nJigion, libertyes, and laws. If any of my brethren prove not
lid I»K\N OKANV1U.R.
<»iu*Iy unkiiui, liut w unjust as to flfiiv what I affirm, in rrfrr-
fill'*- to thr M:ij44»imbl«> ii(l\it*r which 1 ilid fnmi time t<> time
riNiiiiifiifl ti» thi'in. thf iNiiMtx whii'h I havt* )>v mr. (imtAininip
thi* )i«-:i<U «it' my Vi-itation-iluMirurM-n, vhirh hml bcttrr lurk
thuii Hiiiii** of my luoiiry uiul phitr, in <*^-aiiiiii|f th«* hands
of (hi* ral»hh*« who tnMt*-^! iiu' ri>ui:hlv rmm^fh in my tintt fliitkl
fpim hurlmm. ran ti-^titV fur mi>. anfl drmon^trat** iu thr mail
malicitm.«i of my rontt'niuiT** «>r optHi^'nt, thut I wa/*, (iun*in|^ mj
Mat ion iimiintr y<>n, n«H' tinfaitlifull atnl ni*^lip*nt, tho' Wfok and
un«»ut rfj^ofull, Visitor.
Th«-n* an- many thiiiirt I havr H;iiil thut 1 nm «urt* you rannol
lazily fiTp-t. \i)ii('}i. tli^' thiy li.wl ni»t thfir tip«t fit^ipii^ rlltct
nil \Mii. iii.iv «-i>n-.ii|(ii>iitly lit^rvr •M»ni<* of ynur mnM'i(*rmtii«.
It >%oiiIfl In- \« ry L'r.iiifiill v* im- tn U' infonmtl that 1 am not
mistaken in (hi.i |Nrtii iiLir, hut tliat my inuit |M'r^waAitin« to do*
vour duty may o|M-rat«\ a- ir*"**! nmnM'U luith oftiU don*-, in
linvrtli of tinii-, atul at a ;:r(.it <li*<faiiri'.
Niiiii- (ii-.<»inahli* truit in tlii ('•»nrlu'«ion, which I diM* not
(lc?«|i;iir of in mi tlioM- uunit piun ynun^ i>lantii tha! I it^i, for
•J<» viar^ toL'itliir, uith k'n-it can- ami iKiiun, MiZxl.iulU watiT'd,
will, amiiUt all tin* ninrtitiratinn I un(Ii-rpi«-. nvivi- my nu^ilr,
and tiiHiii* ii'^.ttr in •^•tui- niia<«uri fp<iii ' f'** tlijt lam'titaUe
I r<'|>;»\«hi< h 1 lia\« hitlnrto r<a|iM Irom ihi -«^il I ha%i «i*«u<>;
Ii.ivi in^ nut uithall. .it l«a\ilii;: my <»tatiiin. litth' fthit n ti.rne
iif ni\ l.iUtur** than Alnii;:hty <f.Nl diil. I>ii. <};•- ■'*. whtn*. ^firf
till- liiM\i Illy hu-lMndm.in i..id iliu'M aiitl dn^^^'d hi« \i:;t \ ml,
.i!id k'r.H i'«ti*l\ i\|«i!iil it *!.<»'il.l h.i\« lprtiu;:l.t fttrth ^rr *}■•*. it
hri'Ui^'ht ti«rtli .L"* ••ur- a:.'l ••tiii r ihtN . •- - h.i\«' il'-i.i . ' . *;^«,
uliii h riiiiit U ai ktiii.ili^ljitl, alt* r -lit h h<a\i>itly i ul!;\att-in. a
>%pti lird r« tnl»'.i'i"n
lliariil\ ]iri\iii;^' tik.it tilt* . Mill!;;!. ty wiiul'l *»tri (i;;thi n tboar
\*\\ that «rallil. alid fal-f U|i all ui«<i .iP- f.«llt n, I (Yillif nd BT
uiii'Ii- .luri«»-in ti"ii t" ttiNl"* ii!i —.wi^. ai.d P"«t
V<iur(\ii taitittull tho' unH*>rt)i\ \;-i: ir
Ik n> «f i.\n\ :i : I .
!•• •>:.i' 1 • i.-iir* . \\\. :> : • i ..:u !• -■ \s ..... / :• ..i;* ..i -. I- ::.;; ::i<.irr
•i'«iii«- ■•M- t" i.i-:.:y n \ - 1; ; . . . ■ i.-m : ,\ |.:.-".p-. I t*an*
Iiol f<>r)«ar tn l..k« !.«>!lti t*.. r*^-! .:. .. ]-«!--j.j.: I i.ii.i.-M.^al tif
'-in^'ularrx . to Witt, tiia! Ili\ lull*/ '/.. w..v '. r ' .. \r*Fftmmm
LETTER TO HIS CURATES, &C. 119
of the Church of England that doth at present attend his Master
in his esriley ought to make me suspect my zeale. This is the
judgement of my enemies, that is to say, of the compliers with
the usurpation in Enghmd. But if any of them, or others, twit
me with sinralarity at this time, I shall be the less surpriz'd
therewith, since the non-complyance of the Clergy under my
ftuthority in that strict order and conformity wnich I ever
thought my selfe obliged to practice, (and did observe, I thank
Ood, in such a degree, as to evince the practicableness of those
dutyee, which some men's sloth represented impossible) hath
Tendered me soe, for near 30 years together. And that I have
been so, I mean, not discourag'd to keep up as close as I could
to the Churches rules, (tho* I have wanted the example and
company of any right and thorough pased conformist since the
deootae of my ever honoured brother Archdeacon Basire) is at
tliig juncture noe discomfort to me. For if God had not en-
dowed me with grace and resolution to have performed my duty
in a time of peace and quiet, I should never have been able to
doe it in a time of trouble, and to withstand that rageing tor-
rent which hath over flowne our Church and State.
A LETTER
to uk, james hope, curate of the parrish of easington,
and mr. wm. kingford, cural'e of the parrish of
shwefteld, in the bishoprick of durham, substituted
by dr. granville to serve the aforsaid cures.
Brethren,
Amidst all the mortifications and exercises of patience which
haye been occasioned to me by the late revolution of affairs in
Church and State, and more perticularly by the defection of the
Clergy of my own Jurisdiction, nothing has created soe much
disquiet, and so lasting a disturbance to my mind, as that there
flhoold happen any scandalous failure in either of you, my more
pecroliar deputyes, and fellow labourers in the GosdcU of Christ.
Tho' the members of that community whereof I am head.
I'Jl) IiKl\ <.:c\\Ml.lK.
tojfi^ihir with till* n«T;ry of my Arfhdoaronry, briran tn uke
(litriTi'iit ni«:i<*un-H t'nitii in*'«*. whirh piv«» tn^* t<M> niurh ^nmni
til t'v.iT that th«y uiiuM, •;lh tln-y utU'rwuni« (iid ^"nr '/iHrs lo
/^^/^ in •*li.ikiiii^' otl' tlu-ir .ill«'iri-iiH'«' t» thtir iic^ lunl and
Si\i>n'i^). aiiil Hiitimit t«i an ti^tiriH-r, yft I iliii mnifort my w-lfff
uirh titntn:: |ii»|iiH4 that y«iii, my inwnt^liiito nupimrtcn. vmU
Htirk hy nit', uiiA rndiMViiiir tn tin- utiniMt nl* yt>ur iMiVfn to qp.
Ii«ilil ni(\ >a;^iinM t)iu viuli m-i- **t' tht* ^t4iniiL* whi<*h thntitfl'ticdl
ni>twit)i*(tan«lin^ imr ilitf'rn-nt 4«nrinirntA an<l a|it»mhf*n«ioo0
tiiin-hini^ Ninn' ni.ittir^ in ril.itii*n tn tin- tran^ii-liiin^ nf tk«
ViMT iKi.'«f. Hut at'ti-r all th« %•• my i'\|Mv1atiiin«. that «»nr t*f mj
«nitifn- •pTivi- m»' lia\i- -n- to ti-rni*' \inj, -iino- I »li<l ^jt rttcvm
ymi. «hnulil )>n ak. in a finit- of d.mp r ami «lithrulty, u to dm
•rn-at irniiiml of' t^ri* I" .mhI tnni^l*-.
That aUmr thr iNMjJniri^^r .it' th«- y*ar h^^^s I nnii \iiu •hmiU
•••imitimi*«i ilifi't r in oiir ••]>|iirii"n ft' thin^r*. whi-n tlifr«' U^^aa
to In* an unli.ippy iliM-ion .iin«>iiL' th«' <*l«ru'y. ihi? i xr« ptintr ill*
vi-ry l-'.ithi r*. i>t ti.* < hun h tit i-.n;;lanil ati'iinii^i iiti vrri at mattrr
lit' unMii«r«<r ailmiratiMii, litit in thi* ni'in«;h nf KvimUr !'<«1I<jw«
ini:. whi !i till iVti wi r»' ^r nu^'ht u* U- fi|ifn.<tl. dy a nail ua-
n.itiirall i!t\.i'»:'>ii. atiil ^.tw .ill *!.• \n-\ inM;:ii: i!-h- m.i«lf* vitv
h-ntly til ii^urp t).«- ('r<'un*. I>\ !i.* •!• t:.n»iiin;^' ..f a lawlull aad
^rai i'»:i«» rriiH • , •»!riki * nit\\s?h ;:r' .it .i«:fni«}.ni« i.!. t^|»^ uiIIy
f Mil-ill' riiii^ my i irii" -• aiiii iiirA.aryi*! i li-lf-ix.-iir^ l.\ tJh- ut-
m-'-'t I ..ihl- -< • li-i'-ri a!i'l r» M-^iiinL"* t-. ir.i.'rm \*>n *>{ ill «i«-«ijnM«
I .iir\i •! I-!! \\).:<iil l.i'l ti.- !ii> U. \<>>i niu-? .ti'kri<i%%!i«i;p-. lii f«ir*
*.•<• ^H Vi r 'Kill \i- ii *. I\. * ij- ii:.-r ♦).. rji-ir. h. .i- *• 11 .l* Kmff,
i.J ririj! sril . '.''..A* "•;. ■-! \'.i. 1 -.i\, it-l 1- I'ri:-'! ir :• ikiC
l-'tli wifli ul.-rii I }. i.j ! iki :. -•* n.ii- i. j'i::i* ?•• k«« |> «'*«iiiv,
"•III -III- 1. ;i:v r •« • }•" i::. .1 tl.- -v- I \ •■: •'.• l-^'.-n. i-l ill n»» !.'• m*
tri;:ui- ti» i!.\"I\- tij. ijiTi-n ::. *),.%* ih j-Inrilili miM'r\ un«kr
uhuh it «|..tli it j-J'-m:/ jri I'l. . Ni:..iili. ! .^.4% . n^r xiin i««r.rr,
I'M* ;it li*! t.ill II. 'ii ^*» ili'.-rr il a ■ ::m- a* p rj i-v. 'l-'lh ji;rnv
n.\ \ir\ -•■..!• ?" !:.;:ik -i/r. -.1:1. f.\ * i. •: :'l . x.impli tin n- i«
.1:. iM- j .•.";!• ;■.) .r\ '!.•:. r ••• :i.\ I: - V.. i-. i •■• ♦!.. \- .r.^: ^']''Tgy
• t ri \ .I-.:.-!:. ' ::.':.'... '.■ I- .r".'! .. :. ■ -i 5.\ ■ • . « \..::.|.:«- ..f ti^
Ar:.;. .. •.'.«.: .^.^* '.!.:: -i.i. I.-. .;..':.:■ .k i-^r.n 1 . l^ad
l-tij\':\ .\. rij!.:\ \'., ki.|.!.^ 'ip iT-'-i *'r*i'T ir^ii iii«« ipliar.
ri:: J '■ : j -i -•! i r:j).* i:.:.- ; 1. : ! . -^ ^rT^-rabk
I'r- laN - • m:. i- r w:.-'ii.. I\ ti,»i", j.n.\ j-i. ., - . I j.a 1 my ctla-
« atiiin
i «.inri.»t n :1»' ' 1:1 ^ • i::pir»i-v ■.' I. a I r- i. ij 'if lr-.i%i. iho
n« \ir ■•"«■ \ari.>i. 'i ••*• i v, i* . ::.. :..;"m- j .-.•.• •...« \i:i!i^i m tkr
LETTER TO HIS CURATES, &C. 121
kbisdom, without sore indignation; nor cease to charge the
gxnlt of ace neat a sin upon you my representative in my par-
rish of Sedgneld« (to whom I now singly speak) who have com-
mitted the same with many high aggravations, as the following
perticulars will make appear.
First, you being a person that was happily trained up, not
onely in a (hitherto ever) loyall county *, and more perticularly
in a parrishf where there had been much seed sowne which
ought to have brought forth other grain ; but under a family J
whose loyalty, till the fatall moneth of Nov. 1688, was never
blenush'd with the lest stame.
In the next place, after a loyall education in the University,
and the happiness to escape, by God's blessing, those dangerous
locks on which youth there most comonly splitt, (to wit, cor-
ruption in principles or moralls) were seasona bly transplanted
into the Curacy of a very considerable parrish in Worcestershire,
where the Rector kept up exactly to the order of the Church of
Eaffland, the strict practice whereof (however things have falne
art) was the most likely means to have kept clergymen steddy,
in nich a day of tryall and temptation as our present miserable
generation have liVd to see.
Thirdly, were with much affection and honest intention,
nngl'd out and pitcht on by me (I haveing a great oppinion of
yoor loyalty) to be my coadjutour, in one of the most consider-
»Me country parrishes § of England, the burthen of which trust,
M well as my great conceme for the spirituall welfare of that
my flock, you ought to have leam'd from the extraordinary
kbIoub applications which I us'd, at first, to sett you, and, all
Jong after, to keep you, right in my honest perticular notions
of obedience to the orders of the Church, and of subjection to
all sorts of lawfull authority. Which notions I am not ashamed
now to stile perticular, since the issue of things proclaims them
to be right, as well as the opposers of them notoriously in the
wrong, and must be soe acknowledged by all persons who are
not unhappily besmear'd with the present (religious) rebellion
of England, or blinded by the mist or fumes of an unsupportable
nsarpation.
Lasdy, had more reason than others to have resisted those
temptations which overthrew the generality of the Clergy of
the Diocess, since you had, in one person, your Rector's, Dean's,
ind Archdeacon's continuall example in your eye, to the very
last minute to uphold you, moreover had a pathetick letter
written joyntly to your selfe and brother, (directed to the Curates
* CornwalL f Kahampton.
X The 6ran?iUe8. § Sedgfield.
R
V^2 Pr.\N «.H \N\II IK.
of F.iM'n^iai and S-^lirrH-M from tin- iVaii* n*. tho vi-ry nigkt
nf my <iip:irtur«*, «)ii(-h. < iirryl:iir ^'itli it my uu^X anJ U'^t m1-
%ii<-:iii(l friitimi lit- iiii«iliat«'I\ Ufori- I laiuhM f»ut iiit«> a •§«
of tniu)»I<*. liktly u* iitdml t)i;it |i*r*ii titi^il nc^iti^ai* lauw
uliiTi'tii I ^^^An n^^'ilv'fi ti» aril.' P'. oiitrht In )iu%i- )i.it{ u« miirh
fnn*«- iitt Sili!!iili| :i<* it h.iii ;ttt K;i**iTi^li*ii. in inMiinin^ «>n«-. a*
It (liii tilt* i»rlitT, tn uithMiin<i (hr Aimk iihii-h li:ith tuni>uiJr
ovrrtuniM mm> many of x\iv tlilir un«l !«trr>npT r|i r^ U»(h in
tlic (*:itlii*flRilI and lh'M-i<»<». and M-.ir'i| ttifiii out **\' Xlwir allf*-
^janrr uiitti thrir luwfull I'rinrc into ^uKmiMinn Xo a lnm*i^
u-iiriH-r.
Till* la*»t u«krd- of a dyini: man an- u-iiall\ \t ry |«i«>rfull
uith all lii** nlatii'Ti-. .ind "tirt ly tlif la^t r\liPirtjitiMri« nf a clt^
Itartinir Vi*.it.ir. in -u h a nianii* r. uiid f'T -ii< h a «auf«. •hould
i.ivr hail till' liki- rtfitt. If my l.it«' «\:im|ili-, a<* h*1I a« /i«lr
« \]irt H^'d ill iiiv Addi*^-* !•> tin riir:.'\. in my « uni Iiii<:\>- Vi*it«-
tioii. pill till- <'iiiir«-h "I ^r. \1 iry-li-lUw. NHv. I 'i, li>«* |inii'd
ntiMiti f<»-t'ull and ii:« tt'i • tii.dl t.i |H-roMailf thi* Ktt tirr* i if the
Iiarri-lii t of my •luri'Miiriidii tii i-tin'iis. ihtM-aii**- i>f un ••|«|*r«'«'ii
'rincf. an<l imitati- an hi>iiiot I>ai(«r and faithful! ««T\ant t*» tht
t'rowni*. \ihip \^a<* ri »o|\iil to vn ratii • alK rathiT than il«^Tt has
Si\i'r.iiL;n i:i nii'««Ty. y« r it iiutrht ni»t t'l Im> •*»m' r«inti mptiMc
wiili liilur ill \t»»i. my «i\\ii« ' "jirati-*. a«» to \»- nji^tt^l; but
•*lioii'd ha\i' xriijit y>iii in \iiuriar««r. h.td \i>ii U« ti U r.t fo
run with invi r -• mm h iaL^rni-^- ifit-i -Iiii-ry undi-r a lU l;n<'k
\ ■■»»•■. na\.iiui:hr t«i ha%«- Im«ii !■-••• lu'ii tt» ' '- ••■ fi>ri ildi- to
-ti« h ifiiiiliati il« jH nda!.''» .1* \'ii. !•« wr.-iii I rp-u -j-ak. that it
*}i"iili| lia\i- In 111 hiplU j-'-*!Mi !«ir • jthi-r "f \i.i fnn-i^t iL
\iiil that i-itliir nf \<iti olmuM :.i.<( ilar* tht^n t** n ^••iki m«- br
\Mnr f*rai tii-r. and ah.i!id'-n :.il h"] • < .'.fkd I xih-* t ifiiiii- ttt L;niU
in«*^ |p»m nii . I'\ l-*r.i\ii!j m- . i?iii *•!%»-• n<i»- niil>i« r < \|»rp»-
oii<n I l<M*k on a- a hi-jh ait i>f r>>:itf ni]if . and n^tiii witll
.ill th>>M* rtHintmi!it« of di'*]!]! a<np that an- allnuahli- in a
< hri-'i i!i
I del !i'? • \j-i! tl-.it l-.r!i. ..r • ;'h« r **\ y*\i. -h-itild ha\»- imi-
tafid iiii •■- I.irr i- t.. I. i%i i|. "fid \«'Ur -•a':-:!-. :h--" I am
J- r-\v.i.l. .1 ir.\ li--.!.^'-- « I- M.I U •• ii.il wi«- •• ai 'i.-r, •■! my
wht'li liti l'!i' :! U.fhiif \i.ii r.iTi.^ r 'i.an r«!p'u:.ii y-ur *»»-mr
fldi lity t'l Kit:;.* .1 .!in -. ti.il -wt .r illi;::ii.ii •<• .?. ii:tli.ti«iCM
|iri!;ii*. I.i- --I?! iii law id ?.. ji'.». u*.. finl !\ .Vin-I .ixA I'^m*
liij-'iMhi* urn-l. . • :\ fi'Vi?. i li !..'i !r. .d -• '■'•i--. and
di ->• rt Th«- na?: •!:. to I <iid .< uii! .- :;.; tj.. »- • • r].n.:t!i^l U>
\iiiir ' .\v^-. it Hfiijd f. i\f U. II .t ? J \- r\ »*\:l\ ::.,: aitd ^rat«^
lull !.:.tii nn . :i!id ■ !•! j-'-I n.- ••• : ,\* t.i'm n • ar« "t y-a. and
.iliu'il %..ii a •^hap- it «}.ai«*«%ir I l..td :o «u|i|Hrt riM' ; noC
LETTER TO HIS CURATES, &C. 123
safTering yoa to want bread so long as I had it, which yee had
noe reason to suspect that God's providence and a gracious
Master's kindness wou'd deny me in the deepest adversity
abroad.
I am sure that yee two, who have not been onely long resident
in my house and family, but often admitted into my closet, and
tometimes into my very bosome, ought to have conceived such
an oppinion, and should have taken it for granted, by great ex-
perience of me, without any further declaration. Tho' you had
not such perticular and positive assurances thereof as I season-
ably gave a certain Divine, (I much valued) to deliver him out
of those temptations whereinto hee (being unhappily metamor-
phosed in another region) did however willfully run himselfe,
to the injury of his conscience and dishonour of him selfe and
friends.
You therefor, (my lapsed assistant) whom I had drawne
away from my native soile, (hopeing that as you have breathed
the same air you would alwayes profess the same principles) to
be my comfort and support, in a remote part of the nation, for
the remainder of my life, doe strangely dissappoint my hopes,
[and] are soe much the more blameworthy since 6od Al-
mighty did assist me (poor weak and unworthy labourer in his
▼ineyard) with such a happy foresight of matters relateing to
the late unfortunate change in government, that I was instrue-
mentall in the bringing to the view of all those who [leers']
related to me, such a prospect of the things, (which did att that
time portend ill, as well as future miseryes) as might render
a person stupid who shou'd despise or neglect them.
Tour fellow labourer, who has done his part faithfully to dis-
charge his trust in a criticall juncture, (and thereby has help'd
to save the honour of the young Clergy under my conduct) will
be willing, I know, to bear testimony that I did to my utmost
diligently discharge the part of a faithfull watchman, penning
downe my thoughts almost dayly (using him sometimes for an
amanuensis) to fortify all persons under my care against the
dangerous invieglements of ill men, and the plausible, rather
dian reall, arguements of good men, who have by their reputa-
tion contributed more to the present sad state of things (I must
take the liberty to tell them) than the more malicious sinners
that did originally designe to trample on the Crowne and
Mitre.
And that I was noe bad prognosticator in the moneth of
August 16b8, you your selfe, and every body else,!may without
all contradiction be convinced, by a coppy of a paper which I
penn'd att Durham, the 27th of the aforsaid moneth, according
rjt I»i:\> (.K\NVII.I.r..
tti my iiMiull iiiiitiiiiT of (iic'tatiiii; to oiii* of my clrrk*. in bt
rliaiiilNT, at my u]»ri-iii<r. Wliirh |Ki]N*r f»tily (.*«»iitaiii!i mn
float in;; (limi^litH of my hniiii. Imt n-latin^ to muitir* i*f
^n-at ini]ii»rt.iiirr a^ iIhI. ao uniiii}; to it.i titli*. |»irt«'ii*i m
fiitally to tlir ir<ivrriim« lit ami < 'hiin-h of Kii^rhmii. aiiii it Unnff
tilt* only hIii-iI of Miiiif )itniiiri«U |H*nn'cl in ^Ufh niann<-r mml
much ti» till' H;ini«' i»ur|iii^-. that I liiil l>y ^rt-al uiviiit-iil Imn^
away \iiih ni«'. I -liall lure to thi<« my ii-ttcr annf \ a «**ppjr
thrn-of. whit h will at Ii«it ilrnuinHtrati- tn nil wh*» «hall M'n'iUilT
coiisiflrr it, tliat I i:a\*- a Utter pi«>«^« how lhinir> «'*uM ipv
than any nf ni\ t«ii<«uriro anil •■]>|ii***«-pi. «hothi>u;;ht th<ni^*Uf«
^r«-at«r ]» 'litii i.iii«. hut h.i\i- •»ih- ninth fail'fi in tliiir |»>titit-k«
th:it th<\ .1-* Will .1-* ••li.'io arc hy thi^ tinir. I Mj|i|ii>«it'. i^nti.
vinciNl. h«>u thi-ir /imIi-. uhi<h ran «iiiinti'r tn mint-, wa* irTT
|irr|Hi-t' r>>u« : th.it i« tM •«.iy. th.it th« irp'^rular aii«l unaiitiunt-
ahir nHih'Hl th< y tiMik tu U- iiili\irM fp>m |*"I>tTy anti arliitranr
|>iiui I. hatli hnitiL'))! thi' uh«>h' Kinu^ionif alKHiJiitfly umiiT the
one. anil in ^rfati r flani;i r th.in «\it it ymn of thi- itth< r.
And that I may iIm* all th.il in im* lyi-^ to « Irar my w4f<r,
iNith in thi* -*iuht of (oh! .iihI ni.m. tnim U uii; tin* l»M wayiv
nci-ro^-Miry to thi h>irri«l piilt m in\. uhn haii- il« {■ iiilf*! ft\ mr
in my |iarrioh« •*. <ir <-l*««- ^in ri-. iia\t « (intrai-tf «i. hi t<<r«akin^ iwr
rhnrt-hi <» iliN-rritif. .mil th>- i^^A nih - ultirh I 1. i\i- ^tt thna,
I •»hall I mhru •- ihi<* iN la**!"!! tn :i'i<l .in<itl.« r |k.t|M r to thi- fofrurr,
« '•nla;niii;; thf < »r«h r- ainl Ihn vtiMii^ w hi- h I r.^juin^l Mncilr
to In- i>h«t Mi^i in m\ {Mni-hi^ !• ••iHvtMi ly, uhi* h will U- %ufi-
I ii-nt tor\inii-, ihit I «ii<i l.>>:i> •*!!%. th<>' iii.{- rtM !l\ . i imI< .iiiior
t-i ha\i |tr« \t!iti .1 th' .ij*- -r n y i.f .my i ••niinitf*^! to nt\ « h^rnr,
al\»a\«t Imtkiii:: *>n a otiiit i>l>«4 r\.iTfTi cf thi- ili^ iplim- and
luhritko of ih. rhunh .i* ?hi U-t hh.ii,-, J.\ (mhI\ hl«-*w»ii.^. to
ha\i «triii}*t)ii niil ihiin .ii^'iiriof th-i-^^ ti iii|.!.iti'>!t^ that ha%i- at
l.i«>t n\i niiiiii- th<-TM, t-ir ^«hi> li I li'U U :*in in i^Iai my •••lit:
Ami a ^rioiio i i>:^<*i<l> r iM* n of ?hi« niiti.i«l fi.ji.ym^l in my
|i.iri«)ii <*. a(M>-<i to thi ni.ini:i r ••! ii.\ ]».irtin;: Mttn my hnthnm
i>l thi- < '.ithi«iiall. and < h rL'\ ••! my Art i.d«ai oiiri . <w-tt forth in
ihti-M- I'.iri Hi ll-|l><M oiir-M * I iii.uh to th« m in th« m-nrh* of XiiT.
and hti* 1 !•*«*«. Mill «ii!lii 1* ntli |»ri« laim tti all iinhia<K*'ii |i«'r«tiiit
th.it I M.i*. at 1> «.? Ill hoii'^r in.iii. •Mit- f.irr. in ail iii\ • a]>ai-ityc««
.i-* to h.i\f u*t t.:i^ r .»♦ .til in ti.i ii.Mt.iti.n .-r a torr^'iifiM
|k>Hi r. and till niintr-iriii in\.i-:->n uhhii .it'« r:<i*^i ?h« rivD,
\» hi> h I am •!• *ir«' I* ^f.- tid ft ifi.iin ?■• j«-ti ri?\ '.i|» :. f" •ni.
l! till |iiihiii a!i-i» 'I * .■ 'i |>i[i« r« a- u«r< n» \i r tii-^iini'^l fof
tin- pri-Ho «• t-ni l.i ■•.i\.irir »:.\ •:..:.j. -.l \.i:ii!\ .iiiil i an** tt» b^
h i\f tiiaT { ud>ry II. h.i\i ;!.j !-• n ii;or« r* ^'ul.ir and ron«tant in
lay liiiti *han th« p!if!aii'\ >i mi hr«'.(.r<n. h t thiiu y^isr m
LETTER TO HIS CURATES, &C. 125
looser leave to speak, and desire them to remember and consider
that the Apostle S. Paul himselfe was compelled to boast, in a
less day of temptation than the 5th of Nov. 1688, which did in
a manner blow up the foundation of three Kingdoms.
I confess that I doe glory with the B. Appostle, but it is as
he did, in my weakness, and the grace that Almighty God has
manifested therein, carrying me through the manifold tempta-
tiona which have prevailed over my stronger brethren : I doe
Uess and praise Uod's Holy Name, and will doe it, by his as-
sifltance, for ever and ever, that he did endow me with resolu-
tion to stick close to all the Churches rules and orders, (whereto
I save my assent and consent, at my first enterance into the
mmisteriall fimction in the year 1661) without governing my
Bdfe by example of any Clergy, hiffh or low, in the citty or in
the country, Iiveing by the example of those who contradicted
their excellent rule, being a sort of complaisance which, I bless
God's Holy Name, I have never been guilty of, tho' it has been,
God knowes, too frequent among my brethren, and proved
fctall to the poor Church of England.
To take noe comfort and satisfaction in my own innocency,
(which God has in a manner miraculously preserved when he
has suffer'd such a multitude of abler divines to faile, who were
furnished with greater qualifications to have borne witnes to
his truth) I should look luponl as an act of meanness of spirit,
BSTOuring more of spirituall ingratitude than true himiility, who
Awre rather to be really thankfuU and humble than to appear
ather.
Lett my censurers be contented with my revenue, which I
have left to their mercy, (choosing to doe soe rather than betray
my conscience) without depriving me of that precious ointment
and more valuable treasure, a good name, which I shall, in spite
of all my enemyes, endeavour, by the aid of God's Holy Spirit
to secure my title to, in approving my selfe to the very end, as
I have hitherto as much as in me lay, a genuine son of the
Church and loyall subject to the Crown of England.
If the present generation, who favour none with their good
(pinion but those who concurr to the support of the present
ttbrick in England, will not allow me the aforsaid satisfaction,
bat load me with obloquy or contempt, (and one of these fates I
expect from the north, where so few have followed my example)
there remains yet one thing that I am sure they are not able to
deprive me of, I mean the internal peace and quiet of my con-
science which I have enjoved, since I was driven from my
tetion, (to heaven's etemall praise 1 speak it) in a more plenti-
fbll measure than ever I did heretofore, when I was in the
l'jr> in. \N (.KlWII.l.K.
iic'tiiall jniHNi*«i..i.»n f»f Miiui* 'if til*' U-^t pn-ffnn«'rit4 nf th« Ir kiml
ill l-!ii}^l.iit<i. Tlii** oii|i|Nirt- im* iiikIit my |in-^'iit pn^^un-^. It
will In' i-iiTiiiiiiii^il til nil'. I tru-t in UiMi,.wliiIf I oiiitinui*. »• I
|iniy I rii.iy. t'.iitlitull in my Mnflit-r. ihi* ^'liunli.aiiJ unaltfrftMT
uUiiitiit tii till- r.ilhi-r «»I' my r,,iiiitrv.
nt' th<««> t}iiiu'<» I rcipiiri- ynu t<i OMtiin* (hi* fluckji I hare
riiiiiiiii:ti'il to yntir rliar;:!-. ulimii I il«ii* n«it Uili* to c^ttninriid
until (iti(i in my (-iinstant |ir.i\>T<«. iiii(l> tii «h<»in, U^idt** niT
(Irviitinn^. I h.iVf imthint: ^i ' )h<i|iii .iihi- Kiit H(ii»li-««ni f*«iiitL«rU
timi II i;inn1 I a iniplc. AipI **\n*f I h.iVi- n<«- u;iy It-tt tiimnvrr
unto thiiii thf tir-t. I'lit l>y uiiii iii;^\ .in<i tii.it Hith trn-at difi-
I'ulty tiNi iiiit !•• •!« ]trivi- liii-in •>! tin- l.itti r i« Imvoiui* a tUiry uf
liiiriii-r tiMi.:.iiii>n.
K\;iniiil<- i-* 't*- :: inxri' pn \.ilint than pn-vi'pi : i«h*'!h«r tkr
wIm- (iinI wili !• :i«ii r mini <»«m- unt4> my ]i*^ipli'. Mi- ulon** k!iov«^
mill it iIr|N-nil- iiu lii-> l'"*"! plia^up'. Nun- I am. tli.il wht^n I
(lrp.irt«il iVi'in iii\ i UP •* uith a s**rr<iwt*ull hi*art. I liiil f^*n<^iTp
it tht'U-t \\A\ III: iiii- t'l pri .11 It unto thiin. Ky p'lttin;* into
artuall prai t|< « tii A jt-i uli ir *Miit nf n li;:i.«ii untl l'iyal*\ to luv
thi> \< r\ p'li.i'M- III ^.imi- III' iii\ « i-n«urir«*> uiiii'n I h-wi tirr
tau;:ht tit fthi 1^. a!iil uh'niti I <liii iii« « 'v>antl\ l.iUiur tn •<«ta«
iili^li \i>M. .1^ )h lull- p hi ir-x-il aL^itn'*t thi* tiii-:i fi^hi'tn^ble
upo'.iit ili\iiiiiy .iU'I .i!l« ji.iiii I' nt th* a;:* . anil «h*n^i> I
o!ii>uI<i iii<t i:\\* tliii :!'*r tiit loiniir ijntii*: in tin U ,:inin«: of
thi^ htti r. iu\ P liu'i'*!! i'A loyalty, ht nun tall t}tim wtui
ihi-y plia'.i'. It ill u* u-1- ntli^r. I hh -** tii«l. th.iu thi- ii.iturall n^
•»'ilt I'l th'" pur* Mil' ••rriip*««i il'i-tiin*' ni :hi- isirht c^ :i'4inr
<'inirrh I'l I.:i;ji.i:.i iiul th- \ ri-.t I-'* ii. ymi kii'M.i" iiiv n^-
pp..ii h i-tti II ■»•"■ '••\l'-«l hy tii. I? i^'i-:.. rati'-n nl •• »■• '■ •!«»«/#
ami l>i\ah^to. \%l..i .:li t!.«:i )• ;! i.il:.- i^mply uith th* n .t*-4i-
ahi' ill lii.iti'U ••! a Itu : .ii I'm:.' • . '-■ i^ i an ioH w !.<>lli i*>!ii* rmr
li» thi- w ill "t' .»:■ ■;-!iT|- I.
1 I.I iu-:j1 \.i '• •:. \\i*]. all ii.\ -f.-ip, t«i .\l!i>ikrht\ < it^'«
iiiinyaiii ]ii« . •!•■:•. pi i\ i:i«' wi'i. Ill t r\iini ti* fur lli ..\«q1t
i it'm I III !!.• ( Mill ill <• laiaiiv. p irf lit rn\ lii^ 1\ ■!« \<>!:«iTi4. a«
I otip|«i«<- It l:ki -Ai-.- :« .t '].* -ri:.i!l : 'iii.^N r -I ■•r?*. "•!•■! i hripr-
fill !> i:i till n.ifioi. "ti. I? i:r m tv p! .*• iimi :•• •>::• :.^;!.i n ftuch
.!•« li't «!a:i'l. ! !iil--rt .t'.il }f l[i t!.i u> ilk i.< ir?i«l. !•! rai^- up
ihiiiit!.*! I.iii. .iTi-i :i!i.ii;\ t.i U-.i! .l-.w:j **i!.i:. u:, i. r ..iir l«*-i,
appi\in«' 1' ii.'-:- •'|-»:iil\ T.. ?!.. * a^ • t' \ ■■iiu\ *-il*>!ltutr«w
uii'N .11' -liiiitppiix iiL\ .'Li*!. :•• ni\ .i:.-*!* .ik.i'>.' tp> I'-Ir. in joar
pri'n ;| !• • .i'. i pr.i« ? i. • - . u !.:. ii p-i-j. r* ?i.i* ni\ pn-^-iit »ay of
■ij j.l:- a!;- :. %• i \ ii:l!i' «.i- '■• n.i . '•i:.- %• ;r ;* :; •! i .i*i , in .iiii- joVbI
.111 {p-^^. att tii> «.iii.* ttriii- %• pra;^ aiiil lii-^prai** <^ ■ oniiut; Id
!li' -ii ^;l*'' '-i *i.i-» JMj- r \'- 1 til ^i ifiii I » nil
LETTER TO HIS CURATES, &C. 127
You then (to conclude) who have continued faithfull in your
trufltB and discharged your conscience*, I doe (as the best re-
ward you can for a whUe expect) praise and pray for, earnestly
beseeching God to strengthen you dayly, and to carry you
through the remaining difficultyes you shall meet withaU, and
must blame (tho' I pitty) you that are fallen, conjureing you to
reflect on what you have done, and desireing you to be assur'd
that I can never have any complacency in your services till you
bring forth undeniable fruits of repentance. Hopeing that my
censures of one, as well as praises of the other, will have that
kindly operation on your eoules which I designe, I doe, with
much Christian charity and compassion, subscribe my selfe
Your very loving brother in Christ Jesus,
Denis Granville.
BoQoi^Oct. I, 1691.
[Copy of a paper mentioned in the foregoing, pag. 123, and
penn'd at Durham by the authour, Aug. 27, 1688, by way of
reflection on the, then, dismal prognosticks of the times f.]
Things which portend very fatally to the Government
AND Church of England.
1. An universall aptitude in men to receive, multiply, and
XDagnify fears and jealousyes of the King.
2. The generality of the subjects of England (contrary to the
rule of charity) putting the worst construction on the designs
and actings o^ their Sovereign.
3. Men's discovering by their preposterous courses (tho' they
* In tbe Appendix to the Life of Kettlewell, (London, 1718) Num. vi. p. xii, is
"A Liat of aerersl of the Clergy and others in the Universities of Oxford and Cam-
bridge, who were thought not to qualify themselves upon the Revolution." Under
''Dvham " occur the following names, amongst which it will be seen that Mr. Hope's
ipport : — " Dr. Dennis Greenvile, Brother to the then Earl of Bath, Dean of Dur-
MB, Archdeacon of the same, and Rector of Easington. Mr. John Cock, Vicar of St.
Omild's in Durham. Mr. Kendal, Curate of El wick. Mr. Grey, Curate of
k Newcastle, went into France and changed his religion. Mr. Thomas Baker,
lector of Long-Newton. Mr. Charles Maddison, Vicar of Chester in the Street.
Mr. John Hope, Dr. Greenville's Curate of Easington. Mr. Luke Maubum, Rector
«f Cnyke. Besides Mr. Johnson of Kellow and Mr. Davison of Norton, who after-
mds oomplied."~£D.
t This paragraph, and the subsequent passages which are similarly distinguished,
by being placed within square brackets, do not occur in the MS. copy of Dean Gran-
vflk's Letters now edited, but are found in the Rouen imprint. — Ed.
I'JA III \N CiK\%Vtt.lR.
(Inn' not n\M\\k it witli thtir moiitlKw) thiit th«*y think thrir all^
^i:iniM< to till* Kiii^ lU-i-aiiiM* «it* u <iirii'n*nt n*liinont n«it thr
Kiiiii' thiit it w*»ulii Im> ti» ii |>n»t«'!«tant |iriii<*t>.
t. An iT)ilu-*trii>U'* I'litli'avour Inr u h*u^ titn<' thn»u|rhcMit \hm
laiiil to alii'iiatr tin* '<u)ijirt-* atFiftinn frtim thrir Sivi'iniirTii*.
*i. Tiif "^itirit of |Ni|»ularity ut pn'^'nt vin* univrrmlly n-iLfiiiiit
a.H to ovrrthn»w many li«ini-t uml ^immI iii«*n. who M^'in AtfrBad
any lt>npT to <iiM* th*'ir <liity to thrir Kin^r. unci <u't aiYiiniia|t
t4» thrir |)rinri|»h-f4. tor I'tar f»f lh#» Mnht/r.
<». An rxtraiinlinary lnn«jnln<-^. hi>th in (*UTtr>' n« vfll m
C't'iitry, to ili'*|iiit«' aii'l nnlrly to rontfiui with thrir I'niicr,
nay inMiltiitly ti> inniilt umt him, u|Min thi- I«*^t «U4t-«'<M : mmim
tiHt a|)|Nir«'nt hv thf i<^<«ui' of thi' latr try all of the I(i^hu|a ta
Wi-fitminHti-r llall.
7. Thr iti-h of ilixiiutati'iti. iiitiniti Iv pri'Vailintr in thi* Afr,
aU>Vf thf •»|>irit of iMvinc r!iarity anti tni«* ctfVotion. mtu rvlj*
inir t(Mi mui-h on thi-ir ar^ruf-mf-nt^ ami too htth' on tht-ir prmyrrk
^. Mi*n Uiiii: iiou a:;itatf«l mi*n- than f'\fr })y un intfni|«*r«te
7va\ apiin*«t ]Ni|H'ry. a** hi'P-totiin* a;r-iin**t fanntii-i^nir. ^hi*win|t
niurh mon* a\( r^ifin ti» thi-ir ati^frH^iryc** than lo\«- to tht-ir ova
r«'h);ion.
!t. MiH.t nii'n, <*\*n dixini*^. manifiMinir un fxif-^ivr fi-ar that
]io]N'ry HJII romr in. an<l yt all thf uhih- m-^Mi-it to Utake
thi-ni**flvi'^ Ut thf m«M a«»-uri*l nii-an'^ to k««« j» it tiut. t^i wii,
fi'inttm*/ "If ff" 7' "Of/ '/• m r- fi 'v </#. >j^ti'\»» •./ /*'!.'* I /fit ini*.
!•» 'l'oi» III »n\ tlyin;; tn iiu|ii-?il'\ uMi- nK-riTi- to |in*M r%f thrir
ft li:»i"Ti. :iij«l j»n" l.iiiiuiii: hy thi ir .i. 'i'lii-i that thi-y an- n*«>lT«d
l«» fill* II. riithi-r th;in htt it ;;i^v
11. rifph- u-inu' tli.'ir ••tn ij;:'ii .unl nuniU r to lirinf? thrir
Si\inii;rnf i«» t* rnii *i. aii«i i nil* a\<>urin;: hv .ill nunn* |k*wiKk
t«i f.u't4j/,.Ltn>i him. if I m.i\ U- |«-niiittii| to «|MMk in thr
iii>rthfm |ihra<M- . 1 m«aii. not tn ha^i* it in hi« {"imfr tn hart
thim. fithir in tin ir nli;:iiin. la«<-^. \i\f*», or i "tatt^, »huh w«
in |il.iin Knirii-h. to iinkini: him
t'ojiy of aii«?h»r i».i|* r. m« n^s.-iu.! ji !"JI ?}. it thi authoor
J'wMi«»hi''« til ••*.••« till *i. ;■ ■;■ ' . 1- r u }.:•!: *• m.i« • • t:*fin«i hr
^•nii'. a"* U f«»rf platitl. ami ili<«|iiMil h\ ft hi r». fi-r hf«- knows
hini««lff piilt\ of no nfhir « i« tor |ir.i( ti«:ri;; !hi« \% r\ fiJluw*
DIRECTIONS TO HIS CURATES. 129
ing method himselfe, when present, and imposing it on his
Curates, when he was absent, to be by them also used in his
parishes: or for other such like unfashionable observation of
the Churche's rules, and performance of his duty. Which, upon
strict enquiry into the authour's discharge of his offices, (since
his first settlement in the north of England,) will be found to
be true; and may serve to evince, that as hee hath had the
hard fate to be deposed, for following his Soveraigne into
France, and sticking to the Crowne ; so nath hee had as hard a
£Eite, heretofore, for cleaving to his Mother, (and regarding,
more than others, the precepts of the Church) even to be often-
times unjustly opposed, and sometimes reproached by his
brethren (citty and country Clergy) merely for over doing it, as
they have usually term'd it. That is, in plaine English, be-
cause his. conscience would not give him leave to omit those
duties, • which they, and the generality of the Clergy in the
nation, (I will, and may, now take more liberty than ever to
speak out) have, to their everlasting shame, scandalously neg-
lected. And by the neglect whereof (in a word) have betraySi
ibeir Mother the Church of England, the Head of Reformed
Christendom; a very odd kind of way to accomplish, what
people pretend, the support of the Protestant Religion.]
Directions which Dr. Granville, Archdeacon of Durham,
Rector of Sedgefield and Easington, enjoyns to be
observed by the curates of those his farrishes, given
TO them in charge at Easter Visitation, held ati
Sedgefield in the tear 1669.
That the Mattens and Evensong shall be (according to the
nibrick) said dayly, in the chancells of each his parrlsh
ckorches, throughout the year, without the lest variation.
That the houres for dayly prayer on working dayes shall be
ox in the morning, and six in the evening, as the most con-
venient for labourers and men of busyness.
Except asfollotceth :
On all vigills and holyday eves, as alsoe on all Saturday
Afternoons, (which anciently were halfe holydays) three of the
dock shall be the hour for Evening Prayer.
On all Wednesday and Fryday mornings, both throughout
|.'{0 |tK\N f.KWMI.I.R.
Ailvrnt ami all Ii«*nt, ami «m tlu* thrfi* KniliiT iLiyi« in ttich
KinU-r wii'k. thr hour nIuiH U- iiiiii'.
On tht' |{i»^-.itiiiii tiavtii nnc liimr at Ii^iit ttirlvrr. bv n««in of
tlu- iM niiii)>iilatifmH.
Tliat alwavii att nin<* of th«> rliic^k un<l ihn^* of th«- t-Lvk
])ray«*r« afoi^iid. iwhi'ii lh«'n* *<hall U* <aiiiif> uiMitiolian' «xrf\ui^
of ilfvntinii, rii|uiriTi^ » ;rnMt«-r iiuiiiUt than onliuarr, tvo
Im-IIh nhall rhiiiH' to iiitirnat<- th«* !<iiii*' ti> ihf in-viiiIi'.
That ut -*ix of thiM-IiM k imivi-r^. om* U'll only muII ttJI, btinD*
iiiiiir a qiiartrr fif an hour iM'ton*.
That tli«n' Oiall U- aUayi - i-atirhi/in^* ofliT thc'Jnd It^*w«i
on Sundav anil ho|\ii:iy aft< ni'mn**. with •M»nif «'\|ilaiiat:'«n uf
thi- i 'hiinli i 'al««hi-njr, a!>«T th^- thini t-olhit, LujUrn >»ttr 'Urk'
/f'«* unh*<M thtTi' U* ^irim- i \|N»^itinii of thf S-riplun* or ru-
1»rii k«». Minii- |»r»itita}i|f « \h*<rtatioii, «»r iIi*-our«v •/• //wi/'-rr,
drawn fnuii thf Mr\i f ihf t'hiirrh. or vW* that 4hi* •fil
artifh-« of rrli;;ion. ^r «-an'>n<*, an* ti» U- n*ail, iiLX«>rdin^ to
onh-r.
That i»n«* «|turti r ^f an hour U siitliiit nt for «ui-h lAiaauiinn.
('\hortati«iM. or iliHriiiipM' : and that it !*iiull ncviT rxi^^d Ikalfe
an hour.
Tliat on all at*iir<^iiil •Livt-^i whi-n th«n' an* |)riyi'r« at nin«* in
till- ini>rnin;:, and tU'i )n IN ihiiin'. ihiTi* iiu;fiit to U* ««'inf a«Uii-
vTjf
tii'narv • \|»ii«.itiitn i.r di-« •»iir-*- tn ?!.•■ |M^iiilf, ;inii if f* •••i;*Pi
tlirlnttir \^hiih •■UL^jt Ti»it Im i\i i t-il till- tiiur a|i|ii>int««i U
tin- • \|ilanati"n iif thf • '.itM l.isiiH-.
Th.it thfTf -h.ill !■' -. rni'iii- '.n all ftMi\.iIU nr hoUdajf^^
lAitpt thiTf Ita :in ll-'Uiily ^. ul.iih *>hall n«it W oftni r than to
niunti nani i- thi- U-'k. '-r .i-«Mrt thi Kini:'* •u]irfniai \, a«iiTi;nc
t'l fhf •.iHiin. \\\\u h ni.iv \* rv o innimlinu-ly U- d^ni in •■•mf •/
tlir lliinti!\<'« fi'i.t • ii.i: ;: < 'U^lii n. i-, i.r .i^MinM Ih« U«i:i c«rr,
U in^ ihf \iT\ Hord'i <if thi < hun It whi< h •*• rm<*n4 «hall n«T«r
t \i i 111 halff an hi>ur.
Tii.it thf M rnioiio. I \t n on >und.iyi«. nhall U- «ht>rtt na«i to
h.dfi- an h'iur. ul.t n tin p h.i]i]ii n<* any fi.i um ti! ••t1it«'« which
n^jiiin- It, hut lii vi r tl.f \%^\ •iMii«».*iMni.f i.n.- titth- nf !hi- ••r^u-*.
i-r \.iri.iMiiii I'iMiii ihi ruhri» k-.
TK.it ihi* t "iir.it. wi.in K*- hi<Mt ('hri<itnia«, Mt«t« r. ^r l*«ntt<-
11.-?, With th«ir l«-lii.ill-. :l'» .il*-- wh«n hf k'i^i^ nntm k4
• N v. lK»l \\.. m»?. • I. j'f.i-^ ,fr. v\ T fc>»c A\^f I Lmt*. tL.-^«» v^vk
■ • r« *>< f> n- « i| rr«i:f ■• ri niAn-!i-! i tF r I *.ur< h. ••• fi Jf«i*r« thfti \^ j»i4 4 tW«
• •I ■!•• !t ni Ok«t<t »• \\^%: \\r m -uW rtaitr \*\«'.*t astii tr.« v n |»H tf^^n-r .jtf Uwa
i[i li.t ■li |l*n■^. )• •'tr 4h<r iii. *••• 'rrt^ui 'I'li . fi*««!«rrv
* \« l^-", !■- C^Tw n-ip* i r.'\ f ■ ^irmf hmv-Qt It ii t«i ftmrtbJ lb«r Lt««. liottdhv*
DIRECTIONS TO HIS CURATES. 131
Ember weekes. Passion week, or perambulation or Rogation
dayesy or other times extraordinary, he shall come downe to the
desk, (after the Nieene creed) and doe it in a more solemne
manner than when he bidds the ordinary holydayes at the
table, makeing a short speech de tempore to quicken the people's
devotion.
That on Advent Sunday, and Quinquagesima Sunday, he
shall doe the like, to prepare the people for the devotion of the
f(dlowing holy seasons.
That besides the severall Sacraments at Christmas, Easter
day. Holy Thursday, and Pentecost, there shall be at lest five*
other Sacraments : which Sacraments shall be administered on
the severall dayes here nominated, viz. on New- Year's day, on
the first Sunday in Lent, on the first Sundays in July, October,
and November.
That Easter shall be the time ar banisht King, the authour conceives
no better than a mere gally-moflBrv of religion. And that if
this be not halting betwixt God and JBaal, he knows not what is.
But what talk, noise, and disturbance, these positive con-
closionsy contrary to the genius, and current of the times, may
occasion, he is sufficiently sensible ; as hee also is, that the pre-
vention of men's talk would be too dearly purchased bv the
loss of his innocency. The Deane, then, would have all re-
member, that hee hath already declared, that the thoughts of
mortality, and a more serious preparation than ordinary for an
other world, hath incited him to go through with the attempt
in hand, to the perfect imburthenning of his conscience, and
that he dares not any longer, (in such perillous times) trifle
with God and his some, putting off a work of so high import-
ance from day to day.
Hee is not apprehensive, that reproach, or opprobrious words,
will create any disturbance to him in the grave ; but comforts
himselfe that an act of virtue, and christian charity to the soules
of his countrymen and fellow-subjects, (as he believes without
any doubt this to be) will have a sweet odour and edify the
livmg when he is in the dust ; and contribute to the increase of
that felicity and glory, which hee hopes to attaine by the assist-
ance of God's grace and through the all sufficient merits of his
Saviour Jesus Christ, who teaching him by the mouth of his
Apostle, in the New Testament, to Iionour (without exceptions)
hk King, as well as feare God; as the Holy Spirit doth in the
old, that he must not run with a multitude to do evilL And being
thus taught of God, he is (without regard to humane 'policy,
leam't by the precepts of men) firmly resolved (by the aid of
the Holy Ghost) to endeavour to persevere, as well as he is able
in unblemish'd loyalty to his prince; and by the uniforme
practice of that pure and imdefiled religion, which hee hath ever
profess'd, to keep himselfe unspotted from the world : being as
willing to sacrifice his reputation and life as hee hath his pre-
fennent, to maintaine that righteous cause he suffers for, and
for the common good and true spirituall advantage of his
Christian brethren and fellow-subjects (rightly inform'd or de-
hded) in the three Kingdoms. For whom he is more heartily
ooncem'd and griev'd, (considering what an unsupportable load
of guilt and misery they lye under) than he is for the loss of his
possession.
Which is all the authour hath in his mind, at this instant to
t2
140 DEAN (flL\NVllXB.
u<lvrrtiiM* till- n^ador of: isivitifr thut hv hath encUmTcMir'd all
u ItMi)?. M> fur iiH he c*<iulci, with ti(k*iity «nd justice to thr c-aiMr
hv ciwiuM, uiul x\\v other hev oppiweat to Avoid unrhrintiAii rr*
nnnu'hcii iiiid hit in;; oxprc-i^Hiont ; he hiniM*lfe never dc*iightuiy
111 hitter uivti-tivt r«, not likinj^ them in othen.;
FINIS
Mil.l |>Ko (tl.DkU.
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE,
OTHER PAPERS.
No. I.
BREACHES OF BUBBICKS IN THE CATHEDRAL*.
Ist Having only a monthly Sacrament, when it is expressely
injoyn'd by the rubrick to have one at lea#t weekly.
2ndl7. '^^ omission of the second lesson, and sometimes the
Elms, when there is a funeral, and taking in the psalms and
on for that office, which ought to be us^ also, without the
omusion of the other.
3dljr. Using part of the Visitation office for the sick, in the
Cathedral, which the Church only designs to be done in the
sick man*s presence.
4thly. Baptizing children on the week-days without any
necessity.
Sthly. Observing a Vigil or Fast, and using a collect for the
feDowing Festival, when the Church appoints none.
6tldy. Observing the Vigil on Sunday, when the Holiday
fiJU on Mond^, which should be observ'd tfn Saturday.
7thly. The Priest that officiates, and the Sacrist, ordering the
bread and wine, for consecration, at other times when not ap-
pointed by the rubrick.
Some of these breaches may seem to be but of small moment,
bat vet however they being oreaches of our rule of conformity,
our Conunon Prayer-Booke, to which we all give our imfeigned
anent and consent, must needs be (as I am sure I find them) of
very bad consequence. For when the bounds are once broken,
and such breacn authorised by the Cathedral Church, (which
should give law to the whole Diocese) it must needs give a
great wound to the uniformity of the country.
Some other omissions and irregularities, which I conceive worthy
our consideration^ in order to the rectifying of thetn.
lat. No sermon on Ash Wednesday, nor on Gk)od Friday
* TUi paper is withont date, bot the Editor places it first, as it js no doubt
sior to Bishop Cosin's Visitation of the Cathedral in Jnly, 1065. It b through-
in GranfiUe's handwriting.
1 M 1»: \N (.K\\\ II IK.
iiritluT, •»i>in«'tiinr'», mlii-n';i?« tin n* wi-n* «*niion4 hon-t^^fMnp in
this rathiilr.iIL mi nil WiNlni'^Mlay!* unil FriiLiv*. thniii;*h«Haf
I«4'iit ami AfUfiit, iiminlin^ tn tlu* i*xaiii|»li- ufnur )!• tn*i»»l:ran
riiiin-h of Vi>rk, and ^miic othrr <\itlii*iiralU in Kiitrl^ncl
•Jinlly. Ni» i»niyt r* I'mf f-rvaiit* in tin* rath*<«lr.ill mt mix a
rltM-k iii» Siiiwiav!* aiiil Utilyclay*, wIh-m ihi-n* an* a jm-atrr
nuiiilKT than onlinary ili tairif<l at hmiif. :*-A|Hx*iall\ in tLt- timr
of Ki*^iili'n«'«'; to 4lri"«M* ilinnrr. an<i whni |mni|i1i* ha\f a {^n'alrr
o)>li;r*ttioii than on iith«T ilay** tn U* at |>rayfp«. Tlii^ i* «<iEiilnNl
at 'to my kiiowlftl;:!'. l»y -iim' jM-^ipIi', Imth in thi' ti»»n ami
roiintry, and iu(i:;M vrry tinan iMintaMi'.
•iilly. Pcopit**! makiiiu^ tin* <'hiirih u 4*oin moil thnm^hfair to
iwrry luinl* ii-*.
■Itlilv. Walking: in tin- ^'Imn-h aiul riny*tfr», i'V»»n on Sua*
day*, in tiin*- «>t' lh\iii*- •«• tmh. anil niakin;r miirh m>i«t-. manj
limi'*. to iln- ;:r« at di^tiirlum*' nfil.
.'ithly. HiiVH |»l.i\in;: \iry riid. ly in thr (*lfiy«Tfr» r*n Sun*
daxf*; anil Mimitinir** <*ii «<tlii-r iiay« {ilayin;; in tin* \ir\ (*hurrh
it ^ll'.
•ithly. Sliivinl\ U h.i\l«»iir **f -•nii* Titty r.4n'»n*, in <sttin|f
on thi'ir d»««k*. with thi ir hark-i'li- tow.inU tin- «iuin'.
Tthly. Siii;;ini:-imn •M-liliini wi.iriii.; thrjr p»Hn« ii:i«irr thrtr
Hiir]ilii-i*^. ami U'th Ui^^aiid **iri::in;»'-iiii n wiarini* *ur]dir«'<« m»
iiaM\ and dirty thit it -^w*^ iiiui h «ij!iiui' to |»^«|»N'*
Thi-»f an* tliiriir* t^r whi«}i I. in thi- i \*^-t]tii»n I'f my oIImv;
h« ar tin t'hiiri}i imii !i nfliiti^i i.n. .11. d thi-n t^ri- think mvvlf
III « ••:i-M Hill I U«:i;id l.iiii()>i\ u* tt ;iili r tl.i in tti yi>'ir 1 •>ri*idi ra*
tiiin. thi p- Im iiii: '»'• I'pUriiiry th.i? Ii.it}i inun* inrtiruUr
na-"ij ti» d'n ••• thin in\ -It'. uK.. ijn -uffi-r mmdi hi ndi«' is
till- n«mti»rt.ilili- I \i tiitii»ii «.l' iii\ "tfi't
l^} \l^ <tK \N\ 11 I IL
• l»r lliMr« '• •••••.♦ !■ Hi.». p !.»•:•.•. Xi.i'Vi 'i \f. i.« -f xY^ I7!k Jul*. IflU^
r. j-rti'!.** ■ •■ fi',. •! -•inri'<cn.< II \ %*• »w^ii ^im '..^^l •.« \|r thaiw. — |
|ffu*.! 4MI-.!- ^ * . .r .:nit.! *\try.i**»%" Ifi.r.Sf M**** II Rfk U »a4 I".
1. '■?*.-» I h.f '.» .
MISCELLANEOUS OORBESFONDENCE, &C. 145
No. IL
The Answer of Denis Granville, M.A. Prebendary of
THE First Stall, to the Articles of Enquiry exhibited
BY Bishop Cosin to the Dean and Prebendaries of the
Cathedral Church of Durham.
JuLT 17, 1666 ♦.
Ik answer to your lordship's Articles of enquiry exhibited to
the Deane and Prebendaries of the Cathedrall Church of Dur-
ham, 4c., July 17th, 1665 : viz.
To the 1st, concerning the fuU number of those persons whoe
are to be susteined in the Church : the 2d, 3d, and 4th, con-
ccmiiifi; the Deane : the 5th and 6th concerning the Prebenda-
ries: the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, concerning the yearly officers of
the Church among the Prebendaries : the 11th, 12th, 13th,
Mth, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, concerning the Minor
Canons, Clerks, Ministers, and other officers of the Quire : the
20th concerning Divine offices : the 21st, 22d, 23d, 24th, 25th,
26tli, concerning the fabrick and repaires of the Church : the
27th concerning the Evidences, Charters and Muniments of the
Church: the 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, concerning the letting of
lands, manners and tenements, keeping of residences and hospi-
taKtie, expending the monies appomted for charitable uses and
making accounts : the 32d, 33d, concerning keeping of Chap-
ters and registring of Acts there made, with Acts of V isitation :
flie 34th, 35th, concerning the better provision for Vicarages
and appropriated churches : the 36th and 37th concerning of-
fenses and crimes of ecclesiastical cognizance : as also the addi-
tionall Articles, — I have nothing more to say at present than
what I said formerly in the answer which was delivered to
TOOT lordship by Mr. Deane, Augt. 21st, in the name of him-
adfe and each of the Prebendaries.
Denis Grenvilb.
* The trtidee of inquiry which Bishop Cosin issued on his Visitiktion of the Catbe-
ini ta 1666 are not exUnt in Hunter's Collection, but a tolerably accurate idea of
tkflv nature may be derived from the Bishop's ** Comperts and considerations " npoo
Hk answers given in by the Dean and Chapter, in their corporate capacity. This
rib— «tfiiitic paper will be found in the Appendix ; as also the Visitation Articles of
IfBS and 1668, and a curious memorandum of Bishop Cosin, concerning the priti-
kgm oi the Church of Durham, which have been preserved amongst the Hunter
l&S. They are documents of considerable interest.
U
144> nr.AN C.R\N\1I.LR.
No. III.
Lktikr krom I)fmh Okanvii.i.f. AKriiiii \(fiN or IhmHiM.
M» Imu* Hasirk*, n.I>., Akiiiih. \it)N or Nokiiii miii:&l%!ii>.
Nnv. 7, |r,74.
•
ijcf RK. Whether thi* rhiM of a ]MT«iin ixminiiiiinirate f«»r f«»r-
liitMtinii, uiitl t'uiitiiiiiin^ olMinate. uithmit the lea*it n-in«ii^r, uc
hlieW of re]M-TitaTire. th*- ^Aul rhlM h* illj: \m»ni ilurilk}; the
o!>**tiii:iiy, whii )i niiihr'* tlie ]i.irentt an iM-atheii't aiicl pulJit^
whether the chlM IliaV Ui- h:i]iti/ifl liefon' the puniitii' n^-vio-
4*ih*iiieiit to the rhurih? I rtMiKe it atlinimtiii ly. lIi*v«-«fT,
I ch*«iire yoiir Utter j>i4l;:iiiifiit.
Yoii will Mv, Sir, in the iiii IiimiI letter of one of the t'learirT
of my JunMiii tion the ra«M- inup- at hirire. Ilee •iiiji|Mn«^ It ibie
Kinie caM* witli the rhild of an intidell. or |Ki^n. «ht«', Uinf
out of the \Ki\r of tlie Thiin h, eannot intith* th* ir thihinn, br-
fore thi'V tan an-wir I'^r thini-^tUeA. to Ha|»ti«nie. I mm nov
hui*Mlv em|»h>yeil to ri*|i;iy the <l« ht whii h 1 o«e yi»u and «hick
I re-nilve to «li»f hy the anni'^tani i* of <ii*l on NiintLiv ntnie m^h'*
ni^ht. Wheref«ire I ]h-^ {kirditii if I iitnie not in |M-rvjn. i*%r,
* A iMltvr of Riium lli«hn|i M'fl' n m%* Lit rvU palma. Kpn« ikw fm4a^
hr rrmii«i fitrfh ilf«i^in'« anil |-rir«l'« iir%lrM. «i.J tHvam* hi« rK«|-Uin. wtUaC W «••
Itiih'ii fif Iji-bf.rl.l Mr. llMin- ••Tiim|«r. r>l Li« |«lnin v^«rn )^ vm |«r*^HiC«i4 !•
Uii' M^ tif iKirtiam. ftnil «•• •••Kar^il In (.1:1. ir. liOfi tn t)i« K«viiin n# l^u i» tfc_
Iti If 41) hf hi\ Ihr I'lcr*** '*f I* 1> ti'MfirrKt kh K.h. mt I «n ^r.tffv. ht ■■■■riili. «■!
«K« ■(.••rlU ftft>r«ari« iTti-«ir|'«.r«tfil :ti Ihi *«:i r »• Oif rl K)»«t «Li ^ t.a« W «••
II ftilr ( LaplaJii ii> «>nliri«ri I • K'i>( < i.jrlr« I |:. IM4 Kr «»• »||-tr.t^ Irr^Jaafv^
of N>>ff1liunilirrUn«l. ftiiJ In |l>4*t «a« intutlnl In O^ R^viiTi '4 Manko^. •• Ab
I rr^ntAfinii ••! kinf < '> vl* • I < *n it^ Kftdkinc ••ul •>/ ll«r krWl.»i«i U vm i
lirril. t-litiiJirrai. aii-l ••hlicrtl !•• (!•• Ihinnff tli' t ivrj^l**!?! r.# «•• an *tij*.
U!Hlrr«fril ni»iii KaniiKi|-« iii Li* *r«ir!t in Kur'f- . ^ina «r.d f^irvtit.* 11*
t«mrrJ In |<r t>«ot'' tt.« ilmlnrM^ ff ihr t hur«h '^f y.r.gymrM «itrv*««v bi
M r. :•( IT, 11 .. i,« t..aii«- IV r.«->r aI .4>V4 H^ft.iw \t rt.r R"«t rv'jim W W*i
In Af !..li * r^ . T! • Hi. •. r« • --I '•f*! ' I* •■ ' I £^i»*. . f* ft .: •?« anr^.tk «Ia1
I»r lUi:rt |.f. • *...! I •r ■: l .1 . • lu-ir*: H»r?i. ■; fr v ||- s 1. 4 //• Wm^
W#a-{ %'' ti*.i*tS v-.i *. «a* ■**>r«tr'« | •■' :-•(.••!, «.'h ••i-r*. |«f*» '..Ar* tf l^
iLtti-if • t.'*. Mt-t Ml • iTr»>f ff II. r.it «i.;. «.it'tr tl.« ■,!»•« 1 fi'.« 4 Ik* i»K^4 lf«a*t
rtfil >f*trk^ 1,^'tfi H«>* I* 7-*^ II- *■■ B*^' ''^ •«*'■« .f •.!•*«. 4*wY tr^-t* •■!
(iii.^>«.r«r« III >'..r«l 1.**.'! 4ki |t,7i. kf,,| i/i «. .1 «^s ».«.«wt! 'ii th* I aC^^prf
« iikri h «ftrl. uiui'f « •t-rt« « L ■ h *ir«r« iLr f.-.. «i ( ::.».rt.*k-. I*^p«if«« Ul
llaitrr. > 1 I' \»it.il^ ti \ fr.un.'r f -.'n .n . m .■•■ t.-* .\ rrf^c m^jg.
i »i :• l:i. ■ AtAT'l* ll:.> • •A.na. ,ui f.! rn.i.! I .' : . i^f.^S |t« |> u \%T^
\* a-lAt. lua fiti I 1:i««« 1% II l>iut tij* tfWi ii>«u.»>r«.t |«ff Jr
I -.11. 01
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 147
I heartily beg your prayers in reference to the pulpitt, and in a
multitude of other respects, for really, Sir, I am badly treated,
wherof you were a witnesse yesterday. It was harsh language
I received to bee accused of writing untruthes to the Bishop, and
of being quarrekotne. As for the first lett your owne children,
my brother * and cosen Basire cleare me. I never writt any
thing to the Bishop but they have seen itt. And for the latter,
it is the injustest calumny in the world, unlesse I was quarrel-
some in asserting the honour and priviledges of the Church in
the buisnesse of my latie odious arrest. If I must be esteemed
contentious because I will not betray the priviledges of [the]
Church and church men, I will continue soe (by Gods grace)
whilst I breathe. And if I will not consent to have a slur cast
upon my very good lord of D[urham] (to whom I have parti-
cular obligations) I must be' accused tor seeking an occasion of
quarrel, I cannot helpe it ; but recommend my cause to God,
whoe knowes the integrity of my heart in this particular.
Sir, I humbly beg your countenance and favour in reference
to our contests in the Chapter. I will never maintaine any
• cause but what is honest. You see they are cruelly sett against
mee, and soe prejudiced, that I cannot have credit witn the
D[eaii] in anv thinff I say ; when Mr. Neile f and Stapilton J
(and some others of the same latitude of conscience) speake
nothing but what is authentick. Begging (in this great ex-
epciae of my patience) your prayers and benediction, I rest. Sir,
yonr most iaithfull humble servantt,
D. Grenville.
To tiie Re?. Mr. Archdeacon of North-
unberUndy humbly present these.
(hdorsed ** Durham, Nov. 7, 1674. From Mr. Archdeacon of Durham : L The
of baptizing the child of parents excommunicate. 2. Elenchus about the In-
Basire, Esq., LL.B., Official of the Archdeaconry of Northumberland.
He WIS Dr. Basire's eldest son, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Bishop Cosin,
nd was therefore brother-in-law of Dean Granville. At the time of her marriage
ike was the widow of Samuel Dayison, Esq. Mr. Basire succeeded his step-son John
Ikvison as keeper of Frankland Park in 167.
t Grandson oC Richard Neile, Archbishop of York. He was an attomey-at-law,
md Umler-sberiff of the County of Durham by patent. He was engaged in Bishop
Coiin's serrioe after the Restoration. He lost his place of Under-sheriff for his share
h Dr. Granville's arrest, as already mentioned in the Introduction. He was after-
wards of Pleasey Hall, co. Northumb. and Sheriff of that county in 1687 and 1688;
was knighted in the latter year, and died in London, March 3, 1692. See Snrtees'
Hist Durham, vol. i. Gen. Hist. Ixxziz.
I Miles Stapilton, Esq. Formerly Secretary to Bishop Cosin. He, as well as Mr.
Nd*, was mmmoned before the Coundl for being a party to Dr. GrannUe's arrest.
xj2
I IH hfin i.k\>\ii.i.k.
Nn. IV.
Kkom tiif s\mi: m Isi\r IUmrf, KMi.
Si. Tbi-oia** cUt.his
paper as a caution : you have fair play ; the next time I dis-
cover you are guilty I shall quite confoimd you. In good truth,
my honest bondsman, I intend henceforth to take a little care of
your Boule. For I see you are noe good keeper, tho' you doe
not seem to understand the value of soe great a treasure. If
you did, you would not thus squander it away. Expect there-
fore henceforth a gentle rebuke sometimes, when such mis-
demeanors come to my eares. For till you are a perfect swine
I shall not cease to fling my pearles before you. When I judge
you are soe, I shall leave you to the rest of the herd, and not
trouble you with these sollicitations ; which I intend as a vade
fftecum for you in your London jomey. Really, (honest Tro-
jan) a little wholsom councell in your pockett will doe you no
disservice. For if you can play the debauched here in your
country, in your owne Bishopis Castle, among your owne kindred,
and they younger men, and at soe umcasonahle an houre as one
of the clock at night, I say, if you can sinne here thus, with
these aggravations, in the very sight of the sun, (or of the
moon at least) I may shrewdly suspect you to play odd pranks
•bove (as demurely as you carry it in the presence of your mis-
tress) and to take greater liberty there where you will not meet
with such interruptions in your career to hell. Farewell good
friend, this shall suffice for the present; but if I doe againe
discover more of your irregularities I professe I will make affi-
X
I'll |)l\\ r.KlWII.I.K.
(Livir i)f tlniii lM'f'>n' Mjidam P. <f*iil !tl«%4 you, :i:i(l nulw
\iiu u lu'ttiT iiiaii. I am
Viiiir f.iithfull iiiiiTiitiir uml •>irTa:it. ]l it.
ro^T^M*. : — I thoiij^ht t'> }t.i\i' :i tliii^ at y<*ur owianii>; tliAt
flaiiiMt il inxipitl \ii. .mil \iiiir 1i.iUiI\ <miii^^ tliat i ur^^l |>n*-
lait.it ioii lit \>>ur iiii-liiiliiiU'* \«>iri- uhirii \*m wimiM )« rti r • i:«|*I*iT
ill till I ritt ii.tliK ii.i !it ft liir I l..i«t I art- •<!' Mailain h.ilt> li * mAn
>'!n* ^••|i!lltT'- \\):i«ll .i!> «i\*ur\ a!.>I 11. Ji ilii'U'* l-.t I ^h^Ii
fii*iii:'»^i- \i»u ii«i\\. \\:t1. .im iii-irn M"Ti t.. *< inl ii.it- a:i ai*'unt
whiM \i'ii ^i!f t> :7i.. I'T I Mill i.o* l.iil* t*i {irM^iil* •^'ii««- I«:un
tor II tv In iiiiN.
Mv jiiM-. :. liitl!. iju!!! r * rhiiui' i-*
Yrtt t'\*;Il -• r\' t«'r a .V- ^ufi nnni.*.
Nm VII.
FiiitM iiir •*\My 111 no Iti**)!"!' i'» P*kii\v{.
M\ I.iHiii.
AM"Ni. i1j« m-wil iif U jijir- wliiih «!•*■ I -hjijiipm i \t r |»n**
iut« yiir li.nl-ltij'. u'l^' 'i-* 1«.»\« I •! •• iin-T Liiii.?l\ ?«^^y1i
\*>ii Til i!trrTi>ii .iiiil U i^-j .1 i««<!i j.x.iUi]!* 1"II:l' I-k* I mm
alr.iiii t'l ii..i1m- II. • 111.}. i-:< 1/ *•-• .:. !:iiii. \'\i' M.i rii^>i*«t I
\i.i\» t. iii.ikf 1* I..- .■?!.. r I'lt r:...! \.-.r !■ i.>:.:;» u.-.m \kt
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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 155
liberty of disturbing you with an impertinent letter sometimes,
(thouffh noe great affair or buisnesse should require) to keep
my sdfe but warme in your lordship's memory, and beg a bene-
diction by my pen, being deprived, at this distance, of any more
formall addresse. If your lordship doe not finde mee an honest
fidthfull (though a poor and inconsiderable) humble servant;
and a true hearty lover and honourer of you, lett mee bee eter-
nally branded and proclaimed for as great a villaine as I, or
any of my friends, have been represented by my enimies, whose
envy and malice is still rampant against mee, and all that owne
mee, I perceive ; as by many peevish, indirect meane courses they
take to asperse mee and those that love mee, is apparent, soe
more particularly by their late malitious impudence of disturb-
ing even your lordshipp (as I heare) with a notorious untruth
otmceming my brother in law, (and faithfull champion in our
late contest) Mr. Isaack Basire. In good truth (my lord) since
these spleenatick people have defiled your lordship's eares with
Buch a dirty and ridiculous story, I shall presume to take awav
their imployment, and bee your informer (but a more faithfull
one) how it was. You may bee pleased then to understand (my
lord) that his Majestic hath a notorious sott to his train-band
caDtain and your lordship to your prothonotary, pardon my
holdnesse, called Wright *, whoe ha^^ng gotten his noddle as
Mof drinke as his heart with folly and mallice, (to my brother
and our worthy Chancellour Ireland f, for zealously asserting my
caufle) and having received some false intelligence from his cor-
espondents Staputon and Neile, concerning our hearing before
the Kin^ and uounsell,' Tber 4th, could not satisfy him selfe
with crymg in the very streets that his patrons where come oflF
with flying colours, but rudely and impudently thrust himselfe
in to their chamber to aflfrontt them, and hector them with in-
•dait language and reproaches, for having owned mee and my
odious causes, insomuch that after some civill entreaties to de-
part their roome (his carriage and langiuiffe beeing intollerable)
my brother in law takes him by the shomder to tume him out
rfdoores, and this Wright, being highly distemper'd, had not
strength enough to endure a small thrust, but falls downe on
the floor, without receiving any harme, or imdergoing any other
violence. And here (my lord) is the truth (as 1 am informed)
^ Thomss Wright, of Windleston, st 26, 1666 ; bapt 11 June, 1640, at St An-
^kur*!, Anckland; wUl dat 13 Jnly. 1689; bur. 15 Jan. 1690, (at St. Nicholas',
Bttbam,) ** called Captain Wright :" Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas.—
Bnteet' Hist, of Durham, toL iv. p. 153.
t Thomas Ireland, LL.B., Spiritual Chancellor and Vicar General to Bishop
Oeve. He was appointed in 1675, and died the following jear.
x2
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of that fuindiH riMintfr-MiilHf w!iiili li.ith li;i»! tlio li«»?;Mur t^
ri;nli ymir lnriUlji|». 'I'li *jh .ik-- my tliMsiL'ht-. my l-if-i. I'T
ymir litpNIiip'^ {'.ivuiir Mr. r<.ioiri- fi'-«>iii«'<l ti> iiii i* tint in* n ifull
in ('•iiitriitiiiir hiiii'M Itr uirii iIIm ImruMni; hi^ • )i:tiiiU r <*t a (■•on!.
I u«>uM li:i\i' lii.i(i'- ImiM til )i:i\i' }i:iii«Ii^l thi' •>t<- k- «i!h **ur %,i
hi'* M.iji'<*tii-'- linmkt n r.i]i!.iin« ; .i>* h*«- ami hin rp<:i>-«« hail thr
):i<t|*-\\ilh mil' i»l hi-* M.iji-'rii '^ • )i.i{'l.iiiii-'«. In ^i*"l tarn**t. my
liinl. thi<* |iuni»lini4 lit ha*! Ui li 1.111111.1(1^1 \icll iii'>ti;:f4 t<<r thr
nifridiaii «•!' th*- t nature. uh^N- ^^ I .tin tulil t«ll flfunt* m thr
>«tn'«-t<4 tit'tiTwanU. wit hunt \**t\*\ (•• thf irnatt- !u aii'lal! «>t' {■«pl«
and hit cmpl'iymt ntn. .\ii>l ii<>v\ I tiiii.k« y<iiir {••r<i«h.{'2t ni-rv-
daninitliij hy \\\*^*' \\\\\*r\\n*\i^ .\vA ri'ln uli»ux '-t<:it«, ;:ia!i th«*
< 'a]>tain w.i"* h\ tli.- -Iii-tii . . Mr li.i-jri . wii'i-i .i'^-m r^ii.i: iii\ in-
tri-**t uliirh hi- hitli «l<:.< \t-(y Ki!i«"iiily i-* **\\* ••! hi"* jriMtr«S
:ii'ru<%;itiiin«. liiit U\ (i>i.rluiii. it 1 • iii 1 har hi!ii. V* t I • a:i not
i!«ari- ni\'>ilti- ot -"tuiwhit •>! imj'ii'li i.< •■ in tK .'• a.-^iultmit
Vttiir liinUhi|i])'- {lati^nd-. t<ir uhi«h 1 humhly U kV |ianl««:i ami
n-.M. my lunl,
Yitur litriUhi]i|i'-i mt'^t oUiliint huuiM*' m rvant
lM.M*» <ffR>.\\ II I f
Nm VIII
N\\i r>\**iKK r.^j i<> nil iii^Mi'i' Ml ihkiiiM*.
M \^ II ri.r i"*! \**\ 1: l.i'i.ii^n:i .
I \M i:iv« n til in'l- r^vm-l t!..it ysr !■ pI-' .11 i...*:i pit-TcJ
*"ini im|««rl««T in? .im i!..-:. %• ;■ :.ii: j .1 |- .'. :.! 1 •. i\» uirh::. th«
hi.iiiNi j,,r I- ii.:: K'«j-r •.! I'r.i:.' k! iT. i w.«-l u .- :• uj-^n it
U « iiiiii - M;i . t«i "i:;^'hi:\ t:.' trii' -ti'i ii !:.:- ni.i"- r. !• •! vi>ar
l"MUf.i|i 'l.-.u!"! fiii.vi .i:i\ wfi.rt;; ii;ijT» ^*:-ri »-S nii^ ^r this
rMiin rill', ui.iiiiii I '-l.'.iil'l i.i>t ha\i (rfuM««l \<<ur l«>ri*;.i|i b«t
that I ain villi iiitfiiii'ii • t t't;* t.ilo* «n«»»^t !>*:•! • <•!' r^ ver.j^ full
|M-r*Mili« at thi'* I f!ii>ir II T :.!•.•■.. .1^. -Ti. ij \'\ ;: \ .•.-.■••:'.^ i:.i -wn-
if.;.' tl:«- Jii-T « a'l-" •! •'.• • !*.i •!...:. i i!.\ M ' :• r • in :.\ ...• . »l
•'.. r..ii:iiill U-irl. iji.-.-: '■.• 1;. .'.'.■ 4* a*'.:i.|.t* <<I '.hi««
i:..it Ml n ihj IJ"-*! ?!-• r« .
MISCELLANEOUS OORJIESPONDENCE, &C. 157
My lord, my case is shortly thus: the office of Keeper of
Frankland wood hath been anciently grantable for life, and
hath been granted particidarly in the family wherein I am.
placed by three severall patents for life, to Mr. Davison for his
life, after his death to his eldest son for his life, and since his
death, and my intermarriage with the late Bishop of Durham's
daughter, (mother to the son deceased) to mee for my life, which
I obtained from the King, to prevent Mr. Neil, who had clan-
destinely procured his Majestie's warrant for the depriveing us
of it ; since which time I have built up a new house at my
owne charge, (the former house being totally ruined to the
Eund) for the better preservation of the wood by the in-
dtants thereof. At your lordship's coming into the country,
you will find by the severall patents which I have ready to
produce that I have given a very true information of this
matter.
Craving your lordship's pardon and benediction, &c.
(Indoned, " Coppj of Letter to my Ld. of DnrhAm touduDg Frankland.'')
No. IX.
AOBBEMBI^ BETWEEN Dr. GrANVILLE AND Mr. BlAXSTON.
Feb. 28, 167|.
Br. Grenville and Mr. Blaxston then agreed that Mr. Blax-
Bton was to give the Dr. 518/., and to have an hundred pound a
year during the Dr.'s life for it ; and to have an hundred and
fifty pounds a year of Dr. Grenville's estate, made over by lease
to him, for the payment of 100/. and that Mr. Blaxston is to re-
demise this estate to Dr. Grenville or his assignes, upon a reserve
of 100/. a year to be paid out of it ; and there is this provisoe ;
that Dr. Grenville hath a power to redeem this 100/. in paying
in the money upon 3 months warning; the time to comence
next Lady-day ; and the payments to be made, to be paid quar-
terly ; but yet they are not actually to be paid but every halfe
year ; only this is done to secure a quarter's payment out of the
perscmall estate in case of death.
Denis Grenville.
Rob. Blaxston.
I'l.^ !IK\N (.K%NV1|.|.K.
Mi-TiKiraiulinn, ttiat Mr. lU.ix^tuu li.itli x\u* iviwi-r t.* hmrr
aiii»!!nr •*»'»/. :i \i-;ir. u|Miti thi- ••*im'- l«-aniif**, ;irr«»niiri^ !•• |in»-
]MtritMii. ()i:it ii. t<'i 'J'fM.'. ill in-iiiy.
/» ./..»■.,, I'M. JS ir.T^.
Pr. Nniixilli «»winl Mr. I»l.i\-'«iij !i|»i.n lUiinl, .V»^r. It. In!i-
n«.t i.f tlii-* !..r h.illr ii \i.ir ii«\t I.nly il;i\. JJ/. P*-. 1* Miirr
tiT allot Iti-r iltliC. J'Hi// It. Iiitii.^t lit ihi** till m \t I^i.i\-<ia_v.
nhiih will U- l*i»r a tui I\iiiiuii()i. 'Jn/ T««tal. •*-*f'ii'. |ii. i »ut
ill' this \iiii iiri- ti» ill 1 1 111 t t'lr an annuity nt a I'lt)/. a }far fi*r
I>r. <inn\illi'i litV, .M>/. Si thin- n main^ liui- !•• Mr. liL
X.. X
FkmM AKUfltKlMiN <iK\NVllIK Tn
Ili>MM Kill Silt.
I II WK ni*«-iv«il yiiiir*<(, ami am a-^ti.ni-hM tt* umlir^itanfl Mr.
Ni-ili'-i niiliiii-^fM' tfiuanl- yi-n. I 'hall imt faili-, :Mii>ni:n^ to
\uiir jtist i-\]MM taM<in. aiiil iiiiii*' mmih- iii;^Mp nn nt. tit ki'«-|i yn«
naniili**^^ tr(»ni any il.tin.i;:!' whirh niav ai i n w tn yi>u. If it
lyi-A in mv jmurr i \i-r tn n<«'i'in]H iim- tin* triiiiMi- «hirii may \m
im-aoiMniil \iiu. I oliall U • a- t<>ru.inl to il»«- it, a.* \*iu mi-rr to
|i.iy mil". I am vi r\ ^ii-iMt- i-t tin ^rr^•at•■ ri-^|«^»» of roar
Hnrtlty t'aiiiilv. With thi* |iri^ iitati>«n ol m\ iniMt humhlt
M'r\i(V. ami thaiikif* to \oiir m Iti- iiml tlmn tiravin^ fur j«Mi
ull. aji«l U-^^'in^ jonr |)ra\»r- I P-t. w..rti.y Nr.
Yiiur mi>'«t ariit tit'iiati hiunlili- •Mnant
M\ Mil* ]>ri^:it<i \iiur m Ii'i-, l.flv. .iiid iLiu^hti r« «ilh kcr
liumMi MFMii-. I hail tin li.i|'|'iiii <^ t«i -^^ \>>ur «>n U {\»rr kua
ili-|iartiirv. 1 ]-r.i\ <iiiil iiji %m- Kmi.
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 159
No. XI.
From the saJie to Isaac Basire, Esq.
London, Apr. 20th, 1676.
My honoured Brother,
Ip you doe not interpret my silence an argument of my con-
fid^ce in you, rather than neglect of you, you are not just to
me. I understand by Will. Mason that you were very zealous
for mee in your discourse with Mr. Morland * ; I retume you my
most heartye thankes ; and assuer you that you shall not finde
mee peccant in any substantiall concemes of your's, tho* not
aflways over cerimonious in letters, &c. Pray continue your
kbdnesses, in advice and assistance, when ever my cosen Beau-
mont t or Will. Mason, shall repaire to you for itt, as I have
order'd them to doe in difficult cases. Tou are the man of law
whom I relye on, and one that will pardon and take in good
part, I hope, the troubles occasioned by mee or my agents. I
ie8t,Sir,
Your very affectionate servantt and brother,
Denis Grenville.
(tome over)
Postscr. : — I am my ladies' &c. My most affectionate humble
Knrice to Mr. Chancellour. I am likewise his &c. Hee hath
^te beaten mee out of the feild with mine owne weapons. His
m long letter of Feb. (since which I never writt) struck mee
^d, or dumb at least. But not with reason, (for I am sure hee
i in the wrong) but with his prolixity. To which I cannot
wply without greater, and therefore, before I doe it, and dispute
the point, I desire to know of him which he will take in best
part, either a lone epistle of three or foure sheets, or my farther
ftlence, which if 1 once breake, I can't hold, I shall be at him.
A sound Archdeacon sure (if he contest) will rowte him, since
kee cannot hold his owne against a lame D. [.? Bean,"] This
* Geor^ Morland, of Windleston, Esq., eldest son of John MorUnd, an Alderman
«f the dtj of Dorbam. He was M.P. for Durham dty, 1088—1690, and was Mayor
in 1690. He was buried at St. Oswald's, 26th March, 1711.
t The Rev. Hamond Beaumont, Curate of Sedgefield. He appears to have oon-
ttnplat^ a memoir of the Dean. See Surtees' Hist. Durham, i. 176.
IM Ul.SS (.KWVll.JK.
Ii»H«.f lit' irnminl uririn*. a jrnat ili"«ay, ait<l if hi** n'%tT*i..ii
lint alri.iil\ iw L':.' •}. «*rt.iiiilv fi.i- miuM u'i^** •m f^'<a«i>*n. \m
ti> Mr. >t.t|>ilt«fii'4 til ih.iiiil I iliN- .itfiriiii- th.it I ••«!' him ii>»t a
l.iithiii;:. I h.i\t- I Mii-.'ilii •! pr. lU\iiH, whiN* ma-* my a;:«nt.
A III! Hi ith* r i*t 11** i'.tii ri-im iiiiH-r u |wnri\ uii]i.iiil nt' au\ mt»nry
I i\ir ha<l <it' hint, or .my I'tht-r |ii p««»ii hy hi* i«r«lir. Aii«l
t)iipt>>n- I .1111 in LTi-af a<lniir.ili>in .it thi^ talLi- f>f *if>' I know
n«>tliin;; ••!' itt I.«-t th* in ]'r>i>lii< • an\ thiii^ iin<li r ni\ haini.
uliif h tiii-y « all -111* ly. it tlitr* Ui- a!iy pallit\ in tiinr pn^
tf iitr-. I -iiall '-li-iiXi yi!ir a'l\it • in *;^nin;» n^i aiij'.ii!:aia^-.
I'lir \An h.iii'Uirtii t'\ i -i l-.tv I'.i-.f' . }.* ^ .
ml I)ur..iii.
I.t r- !. ■■ l> t.-.M \}- •***. ■;».. •'..'.• J . rr..*i."« l f*i'.' 1 I- fwrvf r«rrf
.N. Ni*! '•! A.'i*, iir.i.t ..■ « . '. ■ r.fi. »r,- . . re*:- -f. i • j ft.-!C (■■«.''. .If «f«.
a fr« ! -r
.v. XII.
T*fi-.r M-**
tl l.'il
I'k«»m iiir. '•IMF !•» Aki iii.i^ii'»r SwiKun.
M \\ II ri I \«»» ^««» K < ii: \* K.
Tn"»«ii I .ini in* i\ n i* »•• •! ?.. li:- i..ir^'«' |ii p^iTially ffi.i! Autx
\\ )ii« h. .iriif!!;: ••*ii' i^. I -{.•I'll'i 1. 1\<- \tr\ n uiilx j-ui !•• vii«tr
Wr I. . . i. ».l I ''■■ . •! ::i l/ jl .:. I. \. • I . I'in. • !:.::, k- n.\«. ift' «w
tii».il!y ix- !■.]••• i. J\ .i:.y •!.•■ i:.- • »-i i-!..f. .i-« ti. i.ii;;! ••,:• kind
• •I' !»!• -• :i?a*l'!J -I Tr.) n; *' l.i! "''l' -iiM alfl •• r\ J« •■ . « hi- b 1
h"|«i m iv -ith' • '■' .i-»»iir' \.'ir"i: .i v.ir I i ::■• r; !:.-^ tluU-
t'lll •■-|--N H.-i i ■■.;:. I'u! I*. ■>:.-. u.. . .iv\ ..t ti.v H'-rthr
ir. •■•.-. I. ,\ ■■!!: \ ■ : :• .■ :::• \\\ ':■•..:. « i... 1 I'l. .> :ii:*J
n.' ■ ' \ • ";.i :•:•?::■.■ ■'. ■ ! I : - ^I i ■• -' ; • i. l. i:. •■■ ! -.i I !i irvh
i:: •■' ■ j.:.;i.-* :::•..:«•: :. .]- - :..::ii. \>i.;thc
n I---.- •■: r V .'• • .• I .'. i •" .' •". 1\::.^- -.M !. ■■! • -nlr
iJT I':* i;.' ' i|- :. Tr.\ • i;: • j- .i^ •■ .1 .;- jr i. ■i'. .i:»|- r.Ki*iun :
|.ii» •).,! i*.".. I •■.! \| .■..•:.,«. :■ j ;..»... I !.. ;::\. :..., ir;. viU-
l.i.-' ni' :.*. !r-.! • !;.. .r i:. .•:.■- •■■ ■.-. i- •• ^- •■..- j.-.'m-i! j.»ur-
:.• \ ] "I. iii I. ! j-i* • .ri.» •.. .1 !■! .i!.\ • .■ ;; !■• \.-tir <ir.»«Y'«
t.:*:.-: i .r. rr-i;-'. *.. l-'T ..:. .--i:.»-. . *...• ' w .•.*.-■. i::i:»;j" |
,iui .1 jri.it ni.k:i\ niiii'< iii-*?.!:.' :: :.i i. \ • .•!> «. I >;■« \i: h'*w«
i\ir «iii- Will P nil mU'r ni\ linfx tn^ti^i .ki.<i ^'n rhiin h *• to
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 161
imploy my time (as far as my poor brain and body will permit)
in the study of the sacred scriptures, and such usefull learning,
u may best quallifie for the future discharge of my duty, and
a good conscience after my retume. Heartily begging your
Qiaoe's benediction on my honest desires and poor endea-
Tonrs, I crave leave to subscribe my sdfe, Your Grace's most
obedient and dutyfull humble servant.
Ail in Ptturenoey
Feb. Itt, 1672 8.N.
De. Grenville.
No. xm.
From the same to John Basire, Esq.
Scarbroagh, Aagart 7tli, 1082.
I wuT to you by Hixon, that after Sunday the thirteenth of
tlu8 instant, you might come away when you please, and fetch
itt li(Hne, and now I think fit to repeat the same by the post, to
kt vou kiiow that wee shall be ready by that time, if you are
i«My with beasts and money to come and fetch us ; but if you
■w any reason for a day, two, or three's delay, I give you
Ifterty to choose your own day of setting forth, and the road
that wee shall return by, provided wee have our own coach, at
}^ to receive us at some convenient place the last daye's
joorney. Twenty pound, the sume you mentioned in your
mer, for Scarbrough expences, will bee the least that you can
unng along with you, and whero to get that, and the other
fieoBMary sumes you best know. The waters* do very well
with OS all, and I hope will do my wife moro good than any
ittnedy that shoe has made use of a long time. The Germane
Doctor is exceeding civil to us and does deserve to bee very
handflomely gratified by us. All other matters in rolation to
«ir jonmey whether in point of conveniency, good husbandry
or graadieur, I rofer to your selfe and rest
Your afiFectionato friend and servanto,
Denis Grenville.
My wife gives you her service.
fv Jolm Bifire, Btq. at Durham.
^ Tbe mineral spring at Scarborough appears to have been in some repate at this
JgM. A book entitlad *' Scarborough Spaw " (13mo. I6S0) was written bj Robert
Wittia, Doctor of Phjslc, of King'a College. He died in London in I684.-'Wood'a
Ili'J l>; \.\ i.kiNViiJ.K.
N... XIV.
Ruia«i->«i. Jmmtj l>ck. '^.
IIoNoI KKI> HkoTIIKK.
I iii\NK yiiu tnr y«iur li-ttcr. and :ii*«i>unt nf tLi* tran^irtuviu
lit till' S !«.tliiii*i ut Miiri**th. I tl.iiik it a iiLirtiT I't' |?rrttt
inoimni in hii\t- x\.i- l>'\al ]>;irTy ut' t)i«- U in h «*iiiutt xiarnrti;
ami il' I ^i I to l.4iiiili>ii Ul'<iri- tlir ilit i<«ion, I ^Imll A*** nir juur
iiiilcaviMir t«i»artlo it.
Mr. I«iiiil>t«>ii * at t)ii- S-^<.i.in<. |iri-'^«M iinuli to havi* all fhinipi
]N'rfirI(-(l. iL*t tiiiiriTiiiii;* Ml iirity. ilc. with<»ut bii\ further
ili-lav ; a^i tor urijuttiii;; i>t' matt* r«, I t«>M him that w.l* ii4#C mT
b(ii?«initi.M', hut to ^hiu my wiUin^u-^M- to ihn' any thinir vithlB
my Hiiiii'n*, I pnnniMtl him. that tin/ I hatl hui««i;i'<^M' tii \k^ at
hi»mi- Thiir^Ml.iy ni^^ht. I wmilil -.tay til Satiifilay ; whirh I did
ai-icnliiiu'I>. mii<-h to iii\ ]Ti ;-.i<Iii i-, hut Mr. I^iiiht.ih ii;*i nol
a|i|M..r. Mr. <'ra<ltii'k h't't th* foWTi. aii'l \-*u. wli** h.i'l thr ju«tca|
ria««iii. I roiit-iivf. laiin Hot Ut'ofi I 'oiik horM>, thu' I ^taid til
aImo-.t tl\i- o'rliw'k.
Ni \t Sutuniay I am fi* **»ui* in a^* liii*' to ('h.i|i!*r. .»:.-: it' yam
-f aJiy niHiXHlry i.i'my n'MiinL* "-"•!.• r, lithi-r ii|k»ii tJ.i ai^^mnt
111' thi attair uith Mr I..iii.hton. or thi- litatjnn Mnt^loi* ture,
• •:i» I it thi- • o:.-;iT«'r\ t'"urr. whin-'t l'r«»:iil lafi inS'ormt \ini 1
-hall II. mi- in on Kri'liiv. il' \i.ii ju'Lt- i? m^ i^^iir^-. ami *hall
ai:\iM' mil'; hu! I iliiin- to !«<«• r\t ii>m^1 tr^m all jiunif\i«
hiiiii:ii'«* whirh an n-it ot .ih^ihitt- ni«i.H«it\.
'riiip*- iiothini: th.it I i-oiihl m«>rf- %»iIIinLrl> unth rt.iki-. tbaa
?!n t.i-k uhiih \i.ii ri'juiri i.trm*. in rilVrti'.n to y^-nr l'i»th«*r*0
UM.k*<. hut uipii I u.i* ]>r» |i.irin<,: ni\>Mlt'h\ my «-'!i?iifh* and n^
tin nil nt tor :'ur iii.«h rfakin;: *i th* thin;;, ^itnliiit; !•» niT
tajint. till I >>n**.>h f.iT^. n • t* m\ ohi:;:.iti<>n *o |<naih l«t<>r^-tbr
Kinj. uhiili i i.< u «.^ :- iiii.k\o:(l.khh .ir;>l u)fninm\ h'>t»oar
anil intift^f, a» \m \\ a.>« ni\ lori^pnii. .in a« mtii h oni-v^rxifid
a* in :in\ atti>>n •■! m\ liti . • kii.i i:.*o ni\ ni.i.'l mth «• i:nirh
ton*, .tiiil till'ii nL\ h« ail uit}. ^n- n.aiiv \.kriity xt !!.*>-4*:hU of
* (M ihr ttrw-wnC Umm f I.Afr■^t•>r| ,,{ \^t, •,;.,«■.. . ^ !r>l utn .f l|#nr^ |j»»%ti^
Ktt] . ^*l crmfrtl» n •>! >ir W i.. %m |jir M.m •)..> f< .1 i-t Ik* r^ift] •-•■«» im Hm^mtm
M-« ilr rr|rrwtil*t! i).c •• u-«« I- •« «rn |«fliafrtti'i and *iif«l •An«ffffwi4 IB Iff ^
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 163
that nature, that I^was fit for no other buisinesse, which re-
Juired invention, before I had discharged my head of them, and
id accordingly, on a new text whereon I had never preach'd,
nmne of halte a sermon, at leisure hours last week while I staid
at Durham ; and if I could but have secured another week here
at Easington, before I had met with any thing that had dis-
turbed my head, and put mee out of tune, I do not doubt but I
should have runne of the other half, in the same straine, and
made it all of a piece, as I am afraid now it will bee hardly pos-
sible for mee to doe. For your brother's want of this 100/.,
which I think is grounded upon undeniable reasons and neces-
sity, does at present soe much disturb my brain, (tho' I know of
nothing that I can doe to the promoting of it, but saying to
Proud, as I have said, Let it bee done, \f it bee possible to bee
done,) that I can hardly think of any other thing ; notwithstand-
ing it bee wholy out of my sphere, I having a little of that they
call good nature, which is very imgovemable in mee, and makes
mee feel sometimes some other people's sufferings for mee more
than I should, especially when they are persons that have given
mee a demonstration of their love, as your brother hath done.
See is, I find, at an extraordinary pinch, and I am, in an ex-
traordinary manner, concerned for him, which is all the con-
tolation I can give him. Hee knows I cannot manage, nor
mind these money affairs, and therefore will not blame mee, if
it bee not done. I send in Proud (on whom I do relye chiefly
of all my domesticks, to take of these troubles, about my re-
venue, m)m mee) to waite upon you and to represent imto you
the utmost that wee are able to doe. The moneys he has is ab-
solutely necessary for dayly expences, and where wee shall get
more for the house in my absence, or for my journey up, I
cuinot yet foresee ; both which must bee taken care for like-
wise, with all expedition ; and I hope Proud and you will take
it into consideration while you are together; for I would faine
heginne my journey, if possible, this day fortnight, and spend a
few dayes, before I take coach at York, with Dr. Comber, con-
cerning the stile, phrase, or method of my sermon, who shall
hee the only person I shall consult about it here in the north.
As for the comission, I beseech you to mind it in the absence
of Mr. Brown.
Mr. Cradock prevailed with Golding to stop that buisinesse,
in his hands, til fresh applications were made to Sir William
rnd'hill by your brother above, concerning which I writ to
him by last post.
Blacket never came to mee, nor sent to mee, tho' I heard by
Tho. Cradock, that hoe was in town.
y2
1(»-1 U¥.KS (•ll\N\ll.l.R.
I liuvr imt ytMir )»lui'k )m»x mhIiiI up, tm(v int«> mv ntuiiy. I
will try whithrr it In^* iMHMiililr fur iiu^* to cliJM*har^' my l.«^ of
iithiT thim^iitM thin WM'k. iiml m*t uImiuI tliut thr uvxl fullitvinf .
Winhiiig \'uu » ^hnI r«t«>iimrk to your vnitwiii, I rii«t,
Ytiiir uri'irtiiiiiuti- limthiT, uiul huinbli* NTVuut.
I>F.NI^ tfftK^VII.tir.
Urally I mil •^i t'lr tVoiii U iii^ unr*>ii<*fniM f^r y«»iir linith«r,
tliut I nuiM « iiiiti-ntMliy Ui.iki- my mIi' to tiiy *»\*l l*a«l ho*-
luiiiilrv, uiiil pvi' 'JO |i out.. nitiiiT than hit* «h«ul(i lungrr
wunt [t.
.v.. XV.
lUwbnton MSS.
miMTll. Kd.
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(nN\ %|-UH\%\KM** \H \S iiK 1Mrm\M. U K. *
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SNithiiul f , Qinl alltT ■«"iiif liiM.iur^* «»ii ihf v«iuilirfull I*»o«
* Tlii« ht«ilinK t« in 1^ Ka«lin*»n'« K«?.>lwntitic-
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pftr*« hial til iiiafrr. whu ««• ••! fttr fan.i.t ••( IUm« III* rr.mtwr «m V lh« fft»alf flf
TrA<|uur llr •«« Uim in !%■ trar Ifill ttr.il i« aai.! tn Kat* ^Mvn riu^Uiq !• Ito
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Thr IVr«^ llr rift". K:rat>ifi tw«M lhi« l^"Ti';i •*•¥ tti Hu'tiH'i /f.af^«r« ■* T^ g^99
r^rrf »«n lii« rfi:*, ).• w*! rv««4ih|w •«!# itf iHr hr«t v- -rvli ••!■.•«•£ I* # |»* — t cftivgy.
llr ••« A nl■c^'• ^ ( ' f r t),r K • f iiiK .wr' m. "r<« ».■ I f 'n • »■•!»« lDrw««>i %m kat*
all Ihf uvac* "' 1''' < r.up« t, i-;lr -f 4 r<f !•• *s^*lUni|. m if K« ^^1 'v^ii vf-k-ttU^ ^
lli«hi«fi \m9^ . «r«. I.- Sail h:i !ani-« | IrwMtl «-.fii tt..M. |«a^i«ntr>r« Ki' *•.•! ai^Hgl
hatr ■«Siiiiiim4 t.« t^. 4.1 .-ifti n ff iKr »« .il \>tfk •ivrr iSr I Lv* (. "4 ^-t^U^ Al
Kit tint tli.iTT^Mi mtw^inf W |>«i1 nir iir •!! r«p%r.« p«tM.i%tt in -^Itr*. a^«« ibr R^f^
ht*. pinti'^i'At. I' rnurt- ib^ w«n«| .i^ •^-«.( ar^l • . l!.i«. n •ir.*.c^ k-.r%L>*i p m,
H» -Irtt l'» ••Irplwii. Hi>l- f^. I'll :i p .V%| T'l «nilrr«fa:.J l^l• tC
^iMir 11 Oiinrf. thai IK'^ffb Ihr nr«irr« h^ bwi rvvbWTd •■• *^«lUfi4 •Arf tW I
ii •'!, Ihif' «ir« ii-iii.i-r arrti.! ■'ui'%> i»^ «#•(■
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 165
Tidenoe of Qod in raising up soe considerable a number of able
perBons in the Church of England to maintaine her doctrine
BoiMly tiiottgh a mild and ChristiMi-like nan, was indeed a strenuous upholder of
the rifhtt of bis order, and of the Church of which he was a minister. For these
odsaoea he was in 1M9, immediatelj after the passing of the Assertory Act, sus-
peoded hom the exercise of his office as Bishop, or of any jurisdiction inthin his
iosesi of Glasgow, during his Majesty's pleasure. The Archbishop demurred, but,
being threaianed by Lauderdale, surrendmd his office, and his name was abo ex-
pand fW»i the list of privy-councillors. Leighton, then Bishop of Dumbbtne, whose
Bsaa doaa not read well in history, was, after a slight demur on hb part, appointed
ssBiMsudator and administrator of the see, and in 1671 was elected Ardibishop,
though the election was never ratified by the King. Next year, howerer, he resigned
kis pott into the King's hands, but was persuaded by Lauderdale still to act as ad-
■Jnlaiisttw of the see. Burnet was restored in 1674, on the occasion of Lauderdale's
bttof threatened with impeachment by the House of Commons, with the double
fiew of keeping the outrage he had sustained in the background, and to purchase the
snott of the Bishops of Bngbtnd and Scotland, whom Lauderdale had greatly
ofeoded by his arbitrary interference with their rights and privileges.
The eaaaat of Lauderdale's anger against the Archbishop were, 1st, his efforts to
Mie ^e Bsiaguided fimatios from the violent measures of the Privy Council after the
bittle of the Pentland Hills in 1666. Having faUed with the Council, he brought the
Mttcr under the notice of the English Secretarv of State, Sir H. Bennett (afterwards
Ivt of Arlington), exposing the acts of the Council. 2nd, His opposition to the
BIsek ladnlgoDoe, which seems to have been suggested by Leighton. This was a
plai for allowing the discontented Presbyterian ministers in the west to occupy oer-
tria deeuitd churches, from which the clergy had been driven by popular violence,
mA to hold synods, &c apart from the diocesan clergy. 3d, His opposition to the
hmmtmj Act, which was designed apparently to save the Council from the con-
MfMB ce i of their violation of the law in the matter of the Black Indulgence. It
M i ftc d the King's supremacy in most extravagant terms, declaring "that his
Hij es ty hath the supreme authority and supremacy oyer all persons and in all
CMMS eodeeiaetical within this his kingdom ; and that, by virtue thereof, the order-
isff and disposal of the external government and policy of the Church doth properly
MBQg to his Majesty and his successors, as an inherent right of the Crown
•iy Inr, act, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding." The Indulgence was dated
thi 7th of June, and the Act passed on the 16th of Nov. 1069.
Tbs Archbishop attributes his disgrace (if such we may call it) to his appeal to the
Kflif for more merdfnl measures in favour of the rebeb ; for, writing to Sheldon on
Km dsy of his resignation of his archbishopric, (of which after his suspension he
i|tiiMd the name and style up to Dec,) he says, ** My great crime was the informa-
tini I pve his Bi^esty in your Grace's hearing. Yet 1 bless God, most men here
iNsk my integrity is my greittest crime." It is possible, too, he may have told the
Cog what he is said to luive written to the English Bishops, that the great obstacle
te thi return of peace was the countenance afforded by many in the Council to the
■Mfiois acts of the Cameronians.
On being suspended by this extraordinary exercise ot the royal supremacy, the
iichbiihop called together his clergy and told them ** he was not to act for some
tfas as their Ordinary among them, till the King should be pleased to allow him."
ftsaing at onoe his Christian temper and his consdons rectitude. By will be left
• piece of land in the neighbourhood of St Andrew's for the benefit of the poor o{
tbs Goildry, which is still called " Bishop Burnet's Acre." The poor however do not
fit the benefit of it, the Corporation applying it to the general expenses of the burgh,
iicbbishop Bumef s successor was Arthur E^, who was deprived at the Revolution.
Tbs Editor has to thank his friend, the Rev. Canon Humble, of St Niaian's,
Hrth, kr directing his attention to the particulars respecting Archbishop Burnet
Mibo^ed in this note.
ami di-fi'iiIiiH*. iintwlth-t:in<Iin;r tin* prut iiitrrvall uf nliiri'Jii
uii(i liarnin*: iluriii;: fhi' tiint-^ uf n*U*llii»ii, and that it va» mM^
^n at :i iii.irk i>t ttuj'i I'lVf tliat it pivi* u-k Munt* ctiiiiiiilt mhlr
^ptiuiii lit* }hi|MM4. tliuc uif iiii.'lit yi't -M*!' Kn^luiul u ha|»iiv and
wi-U M-tt|iii ii.it ii III. whi ni't' »«<«' h:i(i ium* n*aMin t<i cii-^mir,
•xiiiri* \%c«> •^iM , lilio'Mi! Uf (iinl. I^iiiilf*ii fiu*tuinuq>hiM«l um
iiiui h t'lir thr U'ttiT. Af. I iiuiiilfly iiti'iTM, oi* tlit* \ikm\ rucD*
|il('liif^ lit' j^iirh trlirit\. tin- :.'ri-at niii*Miity i»f u i^trirt i-tw-
tnrinity, inrnplin^ to th*- Aii- «»!' rjrii.iiiu nt, niihiiut mnr
('\rrri!>M> I if ]»ruil«'i>ri- faltlii r t}iati Wa.i :JltiWi«l. Ili« 1 1 FMV
|M*rt'r«-tlv a^n-«'il uitli iiP-«'. \*r\' uixuh v**u^\fnimi\g thf IiU-rtj
timt iiii!.i*>ti r> t**iik in \.Lr\i!;:: t'i>m tliiir nilt . jii>1 »il(iin;:.
tliat. iu% St. .Ianii<< o.iitli i:i r> !• r* im' tn thi- Li«i ••! timl. ^^ fAnf
off*H'i»fh III "«#, i.< 'i'lt/fij '.? ./ ., i*iH- If wiiiild hiil'l ill n-fi-r* r-^* to
tilt' Ma^i^tr.iti* ,\\\A t'iiiinli*'* .iiitli<>rity. tliut lii^> thjt li\«J in
till- tiiii^taiit 1>ri.iili lit' .my \*\i* • !• if law ff tin- dtii;' xi lV.iT«r«
iUkiik. riHitiriiiM liy Art nt' i'.irli.iiif iit. wa*i to U* l««'kM ii{Bin m
a (itiiti iii!irr Imth iif thi- Kin;; .iiid tin- Ihiirrli.
I aI*4N- n^-iiiiH-iMlitl t<t 111- tir.iii'H <-i»ii»iili ration, thf I n«ck
i»f nibriik in tin* Kiliu'-^^'lialilN-Il. whiili I ri«iirti\iil «rx« a lifTT
)i:ii| (A iiiifili* to tlii> 4 'Ii r;:y oj tli«- iialitiii. iM-i;i*tiotiiri^ tK«m to
tak«- t'll-i* III! asiiri-*> : .iinl whi ii I ]iartii-iilari/M in tiii- KXxXUu^tA
i*\ t!ic tir«>t jrv-on and lttan\ ton^taiitly on >iinflayi-<>. anii ^n^ml
part iif tin* < 'oniuni«»n-H«rvin at all i « li'!»ratio!iH. \\\^- ^fnallr
\%o!ii|ip-<l. -.i\in:^'. fli.it uh.it • \i-r ill* rty 1)41- Ki:.;: t<Hik in kis
])ri\a*i- il>-*i-t. ill it it i-ouM iio «.i\ W jii-.titii^i t«> takf anv in
tin- |nilili« k fK.ii.|»ll. wKinii'. \iiti...iit il«.«il't. tin- Ail "f f'tti-
forniitN liiil i \ft \A
l.i-'!\. I lit III iiitliil )ii*< <ir:iri''« iiiil^nirnt i-onif-niinc I^
Sltwapi- litfl. J.i«". • Ii.'- ol-l Puritan \« .' • hIihH I jvT-
«ii\i<l i.i^- li.i 1 ii< ^< I *^ • n. i:t 1 ]>:• nii-^il to m tui it t^i hiiu . bitf
lii^f- ninnt- ■•n \i-r_\ l.tr;;i 1\ in 1 ••ni'iit n-Liti-'ii i*t thf aiithitr. a* an
inri'iiijiir ill!*- j'P u lnr. a:i'l j-r-M-:! i«! \ir\ -inin'l prin* i|>lt-« and
P^mI htt
•Jltl. I --i.t !l:i- li"I. |.i. I* ..l" hr. N!. maril'* \'' V*r* i:im-
tit»i:id tt> \\\* Ar> i.)'!-!. -i']!. ini im r witli i.iMt *):• ^nii- iI.it al
rourT. in thi K::.;j'- wi'f 'ii .« .:.«• r'-.ii.» , w ).• :• l.n- ^^\\ tun
thank* til th* U«'k. .lUti "^.H'l ln^ m.i« |m rN^ tl\ of' k.i« jud|t»
nitiit. ;inil tli.it It w.i" tit t'T niiii.^^r* to j^*.- i.iii- h.i\.
* KitkiAT^I Si.v.ri -r >«iurt. 1.1. |l |lr«n . r U . fl«rr..-<rfr« T>^ «-«% illiiii
! > «fe* |uM!«i.««i A' '^'11 v«if Its iii«. It At f . •« ■ \\' ■ ! l*ttm*B 6€^mt%tA
a* -1 ilrS »lf«l , -r • ' nrf IrrAiis* •{.•«i> c ). • ' • :.' - %t*.f* v r |m j •! pr««vv« f^
• ::«k*i*iri At Bii tin t^ {.••' fi.i. mi iur««i f.- u .'itr'i.in^ ti.. ..'.u'fv off '.he ( fcwva ^
Ir4;«'.l 111- U.ruUir. HUTJ.
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 167
27th. Being "WTiitsuiiday, I dined with Mr. Secretary Jen-
kinSy where I met with Sir William Dugdel, Sir William Basset,
and two other gentlemen; and after much discourse about a
mat discovery of coyners and clippers in Wilkshire, [sic]
Dorcetshire, and Summersetshire, Sir William Dugdel began
some discourse concerning his progresse into the north which
hee made in the year [1666 *] and spake much in comendation
of Biflhopp Cosins and Dr. Basiere, highly comending the con-
formity of the place, and more particularly the observation of
the 65th canon, and telling me a story of Dr. Burnet, how hee
took an occasion to admonish him for omitting, in the first
volume of his History of the Reformation, the Bidding of
Prayer in Edward the 6th's time, &c., and that Dr. Burnet
oonfeaeed it an error, and promised to take notice of it in the
pablication of the second voliune, but that the Doctor failed to
doe ity and thereon censured him to bee a man very deficient in
integrity. Sir William did voluntarily inlarge very much upon
diis point of Bidding Prayer, and confessed that the contrary
practice was a shiboleth whereby to distinguish the fanatick
party, and that if the liberty which ministers take, bee not sea-
sonably check'd, it may ones more runne down the liturgy.
After this, wee had some discourse concerning Newcastle ; and
upon my informing him that it was brought to a very great
degree of conformity by the zeal and diligence of the Omciall
of Northumberland f and Vicar J, whereat hee did heartily
* He WM at Bishop's Auckland on the 4th Sept 1666.— Surtees' Hist. Durham,
Idfl
t Isttc Basire, Esq. See his Injunctions to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of
Nortkamberland hereafter, in the Appendix.
t John March, B.D. was Vicar of Newcastle from 1679 to 1692. He published
nmal sermons: 1. A Sermon preached before the Mayor and Aldermen of that
tovn on the 30th Jan. 1676-7. He was then Vicar of Embleton, co. Northumb.
2. A Sermon entitled " The Encsenia of St. Ann's Chappel in Sandgate/' preached
^ 3, 1682. 3. Another Sermon on the anniversary of King Charles* Martyrdom,
tttitled *' The false Prophet unmask't, &c." in 1683. 4. A Sermon on the like occa-
>ioB in 1689, advocating passive obedience and non-resistance. These three dis-
QNDies, like the first, were preached before the Mayor and Aldermen. The one last
Bined occasioned some letters between the author and James Welwood, M.D.
1^ wretched state, as regarded .Church matters, in which Northumberland vras
fctad after the Restoration, may be gathered from the Informations given in by some
^ tbe Clergy to Archdeacon Basire in 1 662, which the reader will find in the
A|ipcQdix. It is evident from Dean Granville's testimony that Bishop Cosin's vigorous
idaunistntion produced some good fruit. And it is not uninteresting to find that
ifter the lapse of a century the good order and discipline then set on foot were
Ml atterly extinct. In Wallis' History of Northumberland (published in 1769)
*e find that at St. Nicholas', Newcastle on Tyne, there were then " prayers twice
> day ; a catechetical lecture in every week when there are no holidays ; and a
■ereioo tvrice a week, on every Wednesday and Friday, in Advent and Lent, preached
bj all the clergy of the town in their turn." At All Saints', in the same town, the
ir>8 Ur.KS riR%NV!LI.B.
rfjfiyiY, hiH> clininiiclfNi Mimo quratioiiii coiuvminir Mr. Imme
Hii^in*, wlu*t)irr hii» wxh a man of iMirtii, lir., mhirh «•• ft
topirk ulitTtNiii I (lid iiihirp* not to ttii* pnjuduv i)f Mr. Immt
liar* in* :inrl tuinily.
'\*Hh. On till- -it^th of Miiy I>r Tullain (*amt* tn my Ifj^ffinir.
and hrouirht with him Mr. Wyut, th«* CniviTiity l^rmtiir of
Hxl'iirii. who \i-.i<4 tti w:itt«< in thi* nt<inth «ff Jum*. im drputy for
hiH w*n. iind ciiHi*i)iip«ini; minitwhat fif xhv liU^rty which wwm
taken in rt'tn'nchiii^ «inif |Mirt of th«* mT^'iiN* in n-aflin|^ tk»
rhtM't )iruv<*n«, hii* toM nut* a Ntory of I>r. An«h*y. whrn h«»
H4'r\4il as riark i»f thi' <Mi*si*t tn hi** Mujiiitit*, whih* hi* MajmCt
rami* to St. <ti'«ir^''H ('ha{i|N<lI: h^iw I>r. An«Ipy m^i to thir
I>fan«* of Win(l«>r. and aif*thi-r tinir to him^df, to irurtail^ tk«
wr^iii- h\ liavintr out t)ii* li-Miin at thf Kinir*^ ordinary* (la«t
praytTM, and n .idin^ i»idy tin- litany tqmn Wi-ntddyi-fli and Fry-
daii-H ; hut that th^y rifu^'*! to ni*«'ivi* anv oni«-ni fn»m h«.
unri aftiTWunU madi* uiijilii-aMnn to th«* Kintr. and thf King
uppnivf^l of what thry had ili*fi«>. and u|M»n thfir infi»nninff kioi
that hi*!* n«v<T hail th«- lit.my in hit own C*happ-ll on SumUt
niornin;;**. ?*hi-wi-«I iimii* ilinph-aMin* th<*n*iit.
•I lint* 'J. S.it unlay iM-imr thf ^f^^iind of Jun**. my bro(h«r
(rrriivillf * rarri<-«l mc«' ifitu tht' IU<«irhamlHT, tii taki* my Iraw
of hi** Maji-^ty. \h «(Miii a.t I h.i>I niaih* a low oU-yMnrv upoa
mv fntrant'i'. thi* Kiiii; ifnif^ aw.iv imi^iiiutlv to m^** fnim tb#
f.irfhi r part i»f tin- nwinn*. aiwl «|i;ikt' u^ mv vi-ry kindly to
itiii t. uhiih I h.i\i- jHiiiiM d«i\%n in tin* viry iii>nU. An n««r as
I I an n-iMi mUr. ' Vi»u .m- iii*w nturnin^r I i»uji|MMi' into the
ninth.' I npl^Ml til liit ^l.lI•■*t\. Yi •. .mil that I iliil intt nd to
IiMVr t)ii> riiurt M'inilav tnllxwinir. whin-uiwn thi- Kin>r ^ki«d.
* I am \i ry m^II x.iM-ti'd wifh thi* l«'\.ilrv and it>nfiinnity of tkt
rnuiitry. ami with yi>ur <>un in .i [iwirtit uliir ni.tnntr Kt rormhrr
ni4^> kindiv tn all my hi-urrv trithiU. and innMira^* thrm t«> dot
••frr wnt«Y Irlli ut iK^tt wrTp " prmtrf* r^wf^ 'Ut. ftt ir-i ■^'"■i-wfc in |K« (
I -ur in thr •f'rr*! *»n " V.il n. yy W4. SK* \* r«««r<i« Ih* wm ••4 IW
Fr»]irT. m r*« irr. -n ahu-h \U%xi (trmnvi.ir \mk*\ «* nvb tfrpM. Ih«
Ihr .'i.'iOi ( Ki. •. V« -.1 iKr frtnnnt nf % I afkMlrai wm ti- < •^«<>;iv r«n»^ •«■«
• I'lii- r«<nc *»■ " ^« Tti^ Kiili'f Km fwrn d^M hi |lr T^nvp. th« ii ri^ai 4f«A.
dra. iin xf l»urh«in, tr.»f hi« fmf hrr. Ihr Vm Rnhrrf Thi«r ^rrK^^ i iw -4 \««tW^
».^r[a-.1 «^-> di<-! at fKr %<•. .( ;•. m l/il'i in«an*M* uwl •.».« lUMiaf t%%}m
III- b!*! Km! tlftilv )rm««Y m Ki« i-f >ir> h 'if itBtr^hr*! ^i ••• di«r« t w^^i. .« g|
n.an itt l^r i1i«v«r >f |Kifh*ii. aii<( 'nilh «m* n<t iI-hiM rry^r^ml^' **w ii# a cte^ i|
•-:• ro *■■ *t*->:ii K*4 *4« n lr»n«milt««i BiM-v tif lb# pnmipiM an*! |«wfi»-«« isl •■ «AAv
* THr ll'*n il««ttw«l i;rmnt::i. .^nr nf ih# «if«ii>int >^ lU tU^^^fciMln Is K^
( btfU. II
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 169
their duty^ assuring them from mee, that I will' stand by them.
Farewell, Gk)d bee with you ; I thank you.' Whereupon I
kneeled dow^i, and his Majesty gave mee his hand. Im^atly
before the King said, * Farewell, &c.,' I replyed, wee had ffreat
inoouragement to doe our duty in the Bishoprick of Durham,
and ahcrald bee more than ordinary to blame, if we did not doe
it, it being more easy than elsewhere, it being without dispute
the most exemplary county for good order and conformity of
any in the nation. ' I believe it,' says the King, with a gracious
nod, and then spake as I have mentioned, ' Farewell, &c.'
Jane 3. Sunday morning, waiting in the Closet, as soon as
tlie Minister began prayer in the pulpit (the King's attention
whereto I made lesse conscience of interrupting than other parts
of the service) I took an occasion to speak to the King, first
making Dr. Montague's excuse, as hce had desired mee, and
therewithall presenting him with Dr. Stuart's little piece
against pulpit prayers. The King asked mee how I did know
it was Dr. Stuart's, I told him that the bookseller for whom it
was printed did informe mee soe. The King shaked his head,
and said that was not enough.' I then added, that Sir William
Heywood did informe mee soe. Says the King, * Did Sir Wil-
liam Heywood tell you soe P that's somewhat ; I'le read it :' and
thereupon glancing his eye on the title page, and turning two
or three leaves of it, held it in his hand till the sermon was
almost ended, and then put it in his pocket.
Sunday evening, attending by the Duke's Bedchamber, and
watching an opportunity to take my leave of his Royall Higli-
nesae, S^retary Jenkins came in, and waited there a consider-
aUe time to speak with the Duke. I took an occasion to let
bim know that I was going for Oxford, and would take it as a
great honour if hee had any comands for mee. * I pray give my
•ervice,' saith hee, * to my Lord Bishopp of Oxford, and Mr. Vice
Chancellor.' After this, observing the Secretary to wait there
a considerable time, some mutuall discourse passing on such
nbjects as did occasionally present themselves, no body being
pwent with the Secretary, but Mr. Gary, the Master of the
Wkhounds, and myself, I took an occasion to ask of him
blether hee had ever met with a little piece of Dr. Stuart's,
(diewing the mischieves of pulpit prayers) which I had taken
the bol&esse to put into the King's hand that morning while I
did my duty in the Closet. Hee told mee hee had never seen
it, before hee saw the King reading it in the Bedchamber :
whereupon I took one out of my pocket and presented him
therewith, saying that I thought it a subject very worthy of
consideration, especially now at this criticall time, when men
170 uy.KS (.H\Nvii.t.r..
wriii to l»ti» riinvinr«-<l liy ^ul rX|>ori«nrr i»f iIh* fni^i-^^ity nf m
\\\\:\ivT i^iTili I if ri«iit'i»rriiity iKiin hit«« liitii tr^nrnlly |»ra-M««^l t»f
lat«> in thi iiaTii.ii. ilii< p- id** tin- titli* |mLr>-. uii'l •«.iy'>. * Truiv
iMH' it ii:* aiMiii;:. iit'tir In- ha^i ^Liiiri^i hi*t t yi* mi »*iiiii |»^rti
thm-i»f, * it ii !'• U^' ui-hiil tli.it tin* i It-ru'v fli>I ir»»* *il •■?••'
wiiv ;* iiinl iiinri- « -|w"<i;illv. -.i\-» I. iii hi-* M.ij»i-*t\ '* < ':..ij->'ll.
• Mr. Anlnlian'ii * y^^iy-* tin- Sn nl.iry ■ ' Viiu ^iw in X\u rij^it :*
wliiiOi pi\(' nif«- :in ii<ra**i<iii to kiv Ni'\fnill thiiii»«. • nii* • rianff
(nNl'H sM-rviif auil r«HitMnnity. l«» tin- S^ti tary. who itj**- \ifT
f^rrat utti*iiti(»n : whi« h iiia\ . hy <iiNl*^ hhii^iii;*, in tnni ih«« thie
rhun-h MiiMf Hi'TWi I*.
Thr -anil- iviuin'j my hp«thi r ^iniixiHi- t-.M uu^' that tbe
Kin:; hail -oini" tarthi-r ili- ■■ur-M* mni* rniri;; nji-*-, •i{iiMkiD[f
Mini«' kiml thiiiL"* «»t' nit-f-. in :i|i|irMKiti<in of my h«'ni-«t /. ^1 fur
hin Majritty'^ .iinl th^- < imp in'- Mr\i>i*. ami im-niira^rin^ mee
to ^ivi' an arcoiiiit viii- 'iiii*-^ to ti.<- Ntp tary ••! -ui h |- r«i4M
;lh wiTr niii-l nf;rliu''t»^ ii* tiii* ili-^ h.irL"' "t th' ir ilii!v.
AltiT thi- I wi'iit 1. 1 ji\i' .1 \i-it t.i m\ L.pI i*rim:ifi- ««l' NijC-
luiiil. who at-ropiin:: t<> Ki'« w> liTiil m.iiimr n^i:%iil nii« with a
^n-at ch'ali- i»t' kinilii«'x-4-. .uhI in )ii^ tli<Hour-«- ttmk an •■im*mi
to P)Nati* hi- 1 i»nii-n<latior^i, nt th>' ,:*»A opU-r a!i(i iiinl'innity nf
our hii •«'•'-■-••. •viyi*!;.' th.it ili-ifipji < o^^n- wa- a i:f* ->' ni.i:i and
an i-\r«lh'nt u'^ivi-nhir : anii ::.\Lt"! m**- !•• <iiri«- uith htm nt*st
(lav. whii'h I *\i*\ ai ■-•>pLii::1\ : .i!i<l h.ivi*.;: .m i>p|«i«r:-ir.iT% to
ili-««nir-i' m.i!iy thm^-. io:i'-n;i!i/ \'u*- -j:^**] "p:! r ari^i n ;pQ-
hiritv o|' a t "Imp )jm ill. %*).ii:. iii- *ir.i. •■ -irrnii w* 11 ? . .qjipivr
i't'. I W.I- ninth « •■!it;riiit <i :': m\ n->*i-'n ••! i ••:t:>iriii:t\ . AArr
wJiirh I t.-'k ni\ I'.i\. !■! J .sii. hi.fh'r.K • r.i\ in.: hi- I- :.«i:> :;«*q.
Itli. < »n M.:: l.i\ t|..- !•• ij:\ l-r-*!.' r i a!n»- !•• my i *..i-.i'*r,
an«l Iiiim.m<l*>i <>l iiim u lit rh. r tl.* Kii.^j ha*! p .»•! tl.< I;?tlr
|iiiif u iiirh I {>p^*n-<4l t>> i.im Xi,* il.t\ U !>iri in !!.* < [••-at.and
uhat }ii- Maj« -ty -.ii«l i "-rj. • rriiri:,* if \\\ hr-'^h- r l-M \v^ thai
till- Kiii;^' liail Pa"! tr.«- /p-iri"! I'lrr .-i' :'. hir \*.i« n..* Thp.ii^KIjr
-atiotti^l rh.it it va- Pr. >' ;.::'-. * ' !.• ■ •••Ti..-i u« li ]>l*.ur«|
tiia! I h.iil |.r. -. i.'-tl It r.. h;m. -.i\:: j ?■•*.-. r*. • V" I -- Vfior
bfothi r i- a I-.xi r •■!" «p1' r .ir.-l .i -T::' • i- rx :•:..:: •! tbr
C'iitip h' - r\u* -. u la« li 1 hk^- \* r\ w» !!. .i:.'i !.• • 1 • - \i r\ ••■U
lo in'h a\.'jr ?•• Ml .i-l i!i tI.i -Ti ji- i.i |»r >'ii.*'V :-r :•• i.4nn<4
Ml Ut-Hi hiH i \i H .4 !.•:•: j- !••• r:.* tI.iti tI. it u- r'i.v vi i!i. « ho
wa- oiit III' !}.• ]m ^' j.p i. h. r- T*. I* • \. r I I i • '. ;■ • .\ ; •• v^
♦ ini- of thi- U -I ni« :i • ". i» I \. : Ik:.- ■■* . ^.wj : .- .- ^i .t» w *.>-IIt
til (If vi'tiiin
l.-.th. Mn \V..l:.. -li\ !:.. 1:-^ I . i--.. f m I .j 1 w n\,rr
I }iail *|» lit a wholi \*««k ii: .•"••.•!;:. ^' ii.\ i'»»-l ••M .I'lii! Iti;:nr»
in liiT Mick r II -M. to lU* oii-t.! !>i, whiri I vi.»i!i<l lor a |«iL%na{C«- ui
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 171
the London coach to Oxford, and had the honour to bee received
into the coach of a yonng Prince of Sueden, son to Prince
Adolphus, iincle to the £ng of Sueden, who being present
at Windsor, when I preach'd before the King, and attended at
the King's elbow in the Closet, remembred my face, and being
told that I was a brother of the Earie of Bathe's, from whom
hee had received some officious services, shewed mee great
favour all along the journey. Hee demanded of mee, after I
came into the coach, what languages I could speak best. I re-
plyed that I understood the Latine, but could explaine myself
tetter in French, whereupon hee and a Germane lord with him,
as aUsoe his chaplaine, which seemed to be a very learned man,
discoursed with mee oftentimes in French, and sometimes in
LatiiL They seem'd all to bee very much satisfyed with the
order of the Church of England. I demanded of the Chaplaine
whether hee had ever read our Liturgy, and hee told mee hee
had seen it, but never read much of it : whereupon I took out
my Latin Comon Prayer-book. Hee seemed to bee much satis-
^ed therewith, and confessed wee had retained very much of
we practices of the Primitive Church, and more particularly
fliat wee had retained Confession, Absolution, and soe many
Feasts and Fasts, all which hee said their Church did observe,
^esse the four Ember- weeks, but hee told mee that hee was a
Kttle scandaliz'd that the people did not better observe the
Feasts, according to the order of the Church, saying that hee
was much offended to find Ascension-day very much contemned
hy the people of London, observing the shops in the town to be
generally open on that day.
15th. Friday the 15th. The University having ended all
thdr complements and ceremonies in the reception of the Prince,
and admitting him and his retinue to severall degrees, I went to
wait on the Bishopp of Oxford* and beg his benediction : and
after I had thank'd him for the obliging letter hee writ mee
about the weekly celebration of the Comunion in Cathedralls,
Ac, and hee had inquired whether I had succeeded in my honest
attempt in reviving the rubrick, at Durham, that does injoyne
the same, wee entred upon some discourse concerning the usuall
objections which are made against soe laudable and pious a
piactice, and hee declared that hee did not think any of those
4at had been offer'd to mee by the Deane and Prebends valid,
condenming that which they seem'd to lay the greatest stresse
on, namely that there was no likelyhood *to have a sufficient
number to keep up the dignity of that Holy Mystery, saying
* John FeU, 8.T.P. consecrated Feb. 6, 1675. He died in Jaly, 1686.
z2
17*J UYKS fiRlNVll.lK.
tiiiit \vii' NlifiiiM U» first iimrrmi^l for !hr o»«'nrf of thr thine
uml .iiliiiiiiiMiT it Mith xhv -iiull«*!»t nuiiilHr mthrr than u*ii at
sill. A;* tor any ur*,riinii'Ut*» thfV hnm^ht u;ruit^t it u|B>n the
ai rituiit nf (U'Mirtmli-. or iiiiiMViiliiin, hi* thitu^ht \frv mmk axmI
tri\ii|i»u*« : mill having mnniMhil my (h'fii;^ir. and cauti'-acd
nil I* aLT'iiH'^t all iNiiMniu- |inK-iiilinp*. hf«* |»ni|MK«tl u* mt^* tbc
!«tirrin^ up Ninu* ili\i>iit |nii]>1c. Ia<iy«it or ir^'nthint-n. t«» cl««ftfv
liii* «;inir t'n*ni th«> iN-ani* and <')i:i|»ti'r, ii«i tin* Um i*\|H<ili« nt to
(tlW't tliat pNMi wnrk. Miyiiii; that thi- lN':int'anii Tn U xni* i«>uU
ni»t ju<«tit'vc the til iii.il tin ret', ami lM'^iih--i it waj« u \fnk' |iLu«ihk
u;i\ tor thfiii til -t«.ilf jiitii tliiir duty, mithuut i'X{N»«iii^ thria*
Ml\r> t'i>r till ir |i;i-t ••iiii-*itiiiii aiiil ni-^Ni t«i.
The Kinir ni«^ht I ix-L'uniH lU'iin* •li'M-itiirM'. almut tlit* «anw
Huhjit't, with my Ui<rt)iy t'ri*ii'l i^r Ihiry. l^<«-ti)r of Kxi-tcr
rolli-p>, ami liiii. aiiiii-l (i.iilx . iluriiii; my ^Ui\ tlki'P*. talk «itk
him. ni'tp or lt-»i . alnint it. li-i* /• .il «•« ii.t-vl mui h to outMrip
mini* in tlii-^ |urtii'ul.ir. .iixl w.i- t\. M-<lin;:iy |H«iiti\i- that it
(•u«jiit III U- a lon^t.Likt I ii:.i • iiiir.iiit •>! all I'ta-ti*. ;u* «fll .i« t^
Sund.iy. \i'. Hut ihi** *>hall ->uthi •■ oitnt riiin^ hr. Iiur\'ti j'.iii|r>
m*nt. ^im-f it i** -^'h* tiil!\ ih-tLiriil in thi tun itiitiiHtii i»f tua
u -I I'll 11 ainl li.in:t>i tnati-**. 'The cii^^tant < 'v*mniunit jnL*
Vi.ir thf U^.k it-mIi'.
l^th. Mi»ml.i\ till I'^th. I wtnt t«i thr Puhhfk I^hrarr ia
< *\t"'»nl. wh« n- I I't-iwiil fUt tin* Ui^x t'*'iuui**ii rni\iT-U-'k vt
Liiw.Lpl thi (irh. uhnh I h pI -aiiLid l'*'r a ;rn at uhilt-, vilh
pri.it iiili;^'i III I', hut <iiul<I Uft iit<*«o\ir; aii^l thm*. ankonir niasT
uthtr u<»< lull ••I>'M'r\.itii>ii-, whiih I {m-uM li-'wn. I m« ? «itk
uli.it I •M.ii^jht .k!T«.r. K.iii.i 1\ tliLit th«ri- u.L- a? ;l..it tnnr ia
< .ith* ilraU. ai.'l -M-nif nihi r |<].ii<o. a daily i • it iir.itp>n of tlbr
< fmuiiti'ii. ultiiit't I i.*\ir l« txri- Kad a!iy A^^uraiK^. thu' I«
wa^ aluai*?* apt tn i«Iii\i it u.i« *«4-. !p>m thr n^hrit k whirll
!«aitli till* <'«>llttt. i.)ii«tli-. and 4i<«|>«l |.>r thr >un«by. ^haSk
•Mr\i all tin- ui^ k att«r
huriuu' h.y *-t.iy .it < >\t'MrrI. I I:. id t'ni|uiiit m-ra^ion ti» dw*
ii'UiHi \%i?ii !; . l'iioi:>j>|i. .i:iil iii.i!i\ • r:.. p.. ii>iti •■rii::iir tkt
u<-rtli_\ /. .il !!t.i dih/i :.< • •-! rh. < »tfi, I'd ,.t .N'.;t}.uii:U rl in>I and
\ U'.ir 'it .Ni \\« .i»!i> . l!l !..\l!.;J l-fi'li^'lif 'l.tt SiViIl to all « &i^i-
jil.iry *» iTi ••! • "Sitt-m./x . i I'H-itli r;:.;: i* ;- :i -.i-jii'rt ti-»n. aad
a t ■•! J i-r i*:-'. . \* • . il > .1 !.-j':. K I'l.V. I li.-i h <'t'I;« r tixMi*uncd
ii!i tit.i:: > :i' /t^i i:. ?'.> I ■• in.
•J'Uti I*m;iij ''■• '-i^ J- :• :i II. \ liii ir* *r» lp:ti !:.• liiiv^r*
•>i!\. 1 vi>itt !■• ^-.-.> i \>i( t" :!.• ;•.>::: •! Mr l»>«i»ti;. %ihfl^
• T' • ■ • ■• i- • < ■■ • • *?f ■■ I f » ■ c ■ *■ • •'•r -^ in "Tivit.:^ |W
I • ■ . * I ■ . • • ■■ .. j. 'A' .. - t I • »«•< I iki.K^ . lit Itthf I'mrt. ^ T P
J.» • i»ilf il. HtakJ
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 173
tho' a man of no extraordinary presence, yet hee appears to bee
a person of great learning and sincerity. After a complement
at first entrance, in relation to those learned books that hee
hath published, I demanded his judgment concerning confor-
mity, and the Holy Sacrament. First, whether the Gomon
Prayer-book does give any liberty for the exercise of prudence.
Secondly, whether that strict conformity which the book re-
quires IS not at present very seasonable to bee practised.
Thirdly, whether it was not both pious and prudent to restore
the celebration of the Sacrament weekly in Oathedralls. Hee
tnswered the first in the negative, and the two last in the
affirmative.
21th. Upon my retume from Oxford to Taplow I went to see
Mr. Bradock, Curate to Mr. Levet, Minister of Taplow, where. I
found Dr. Evans, Prebend of Windsor, who in his discourse
oonoeming some greivances of the Church did instance in a
danse which was now left out in Acts of Parliament, to the
at prejudice of the Cleargy. In the first Acts after the
luff's Bestoratibn, there was provision made that there should
no diunaffe ensue to the Clergy by levying money without the
wmaent of the convocation : but in these latter there was (as
the Doctor inform'd mee) no mention at all made of any thing
to that purpose ; which ground lost wee all judg'd would bee
veiy difficultly recover'd. Mr. Bradock made mention at the
aame time of an Act of Parliament wherein there was a grosse
aror and mistake as to point of time, which Hickeringijl * takes
notice of, and is in the right.
23th. The three and twentieth, being Mid-summer eve, I
lodg'd at Mr. Bull's at Moreclack, where I preach'd the day
Mowing, and was much satisfied to find that place, which had
wen very factious, supplyed by a worthy person, one Mr.
Jones, who reads the service very orderlv, observed daily prayers,
and celebrated the Sacrament monethly, and had been instru-
nentall a little while before in suppressing a very considerable
conventicle.
From thence I went down the river to London, and the first
^ ''Die 22 Octob. 1662 Edmandus HickeringiU Cler. admiss. ad Vic. de Boxted,
Cob. £Mez.— qnam resignaTit ante 12 Dec. 1664.— Idem Edmandus ad Rect. omn.
fiHdonun in Tilla de Colchester, 21 Octob. 1662. And fearing he should be oated
0tt of All Saints' bj taking the Vicarage of Boztdd without dispensation, he pro-
^ni i presentation under the Great Seal of England to the Church of All Saints,
o' was again instituted thereto the last day of Decemb. 1662. He was, Jan. 20,
iC81» instituted to the Vicarage of Fingringho in Essex which he afterwards resided,
bst itiil continued Rector of All Saints, 1700. He was a man, though episcopally
ixd^tted, jet publicklj bade defiance to the Prelacy, and that of his own Diocesan in
Pvtienlar; an impudent, violent, ignorant fellow, very troublesome as far as he could
to hii Diocesan, and to all that lived near him." KenneU's Register, Vol. I. 809.
171 UYW f.KlWIl.l.K.
Suii'l.iv a(u r my :iTri\.il I wi-ni to l>r. lit- vi-riiltr«"'« *. f.-r xhe
H.;ii-i !• i:<:i lit r***\\;:j: \\\*' NttTamiiit, wiiirh tii* ci !• iinN^
ui'kIv ill 1.:^ ]• iri^li-ritup-li. .iiii! I t'liiiitl. iiiiu li t«* my i^tufjc-
li«>ii. ili.d th- uiir;!i\ i)'Mt4>r li:i«l. in i«iiii|ily:tiiii' with «<inr
iiri^'iiiii. :it^ tii:it 1 li.id ii<utl. i!i.in^nil hi^ prjiiit-r «•!' .iii<lr*-iwing
):iiii-i It til t i.i.l ill ;i jiiii .it.iry \«.iy)N!ori- hi^ •»« riiki»ii iiitt> thtf
• .ihi'iii .il t< 1 1.1 it I'll liiiiiL' Ti i\* r. .11 1 onliiii; t«i tin- 'V'tlHanoo;
uif'<-i- I \ iii:{i!< . I li ulif H'lt. will pri \.iiii ii|ni!i mm! «•! xhm
t "li rL'> I'l :ii« < ;t\ . u 1. I L''- ■•- I'l/r.kvx w.iV.
•Ii.l\ -M. 1 u. :.T ti. u .:r . :. >;r 1 :i"in is l.\!i*n. ulin ii|»>r& uor
tl:^r"ii!^> • xM* 1 :.!:. J Mr M:i:>:i'- i:.Ti : r t}>tin^ iiii« in liim- of
hi\i.« -. }\:...ti. ..I.. I !!...■ -., i: "rpii 'i-.h-* wi.i. ?. .luil^- <t.
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\«.i« tf* lii'iii III :::..• ••: it!\.:. <>i\.<*.
N .. XVI
I lilt I A'i.
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i'lily t-r til. r.t. !.".• ..I •!.. t i.ui. ii .•! I/jjI-iil-I i*. ;:« ti* rti. but
• t t).< I iiMi il.kT .iif' «-ti>>:t .I'.l iijirl till' }•>>! K.k\i !•• iht
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\iiiir « ••unt» :j;i!;' • in .m *.■■:.•-• lii^iuvi I«»r tlit l|. .•.!*•• i»l ttod.
lilt L^'-il .i*1m<'- ul.iiii I : .\- i..i>l Tii.i!:y r:iiti« tr«'ni lii^liop
• • *ii.-. .IIP I -.i:i i U\:,* " Ir.in \-.ir*» it. !•• *?'iil\ 1;.\ < i'lii"". Pra^'VC
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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 175
pasty that I now see soe much beauty in that incomparable
oompoBure, and find soe much pleasure and profit in the con-
sideration of the matter and method, the design and history of
the book, that I find it impossible for mee to desist from the
prosecution of the same as long as I live, which is a task I find
more than enough for the longest life. And in the view and
serious consideration of the rubricks of the Comon Prayer, I
have been often struck with great admiration, that soe many of
my brethren of the Clergy should skip over two rules which are
meihinks of essential obUgation to every church-man, namely,
for Daily Prayers in Parish Churches, and Weekly Sacramento,
at least, in Cathedrals. If they could forget the solemn pro-
miae they make in the presence of God, and face of a congrega-
tion, when they give an assent and consent to all the rules of
the Book (which I have ever esteem'd little inferior to an oath)
it is strange they should be altogether unmindfiiU of those
duties which are, above all others, incumbent upon every good
priest; I meane to ofier up daily prayers and praises to Al-
Bjighty God, in behalf of the whole Church, as well as the par-
ticular congregations which they serve ; and to administer the
Holy Eucharist soe frequently as the circumstances of the
people or place where they live, do require, or will allow of.
These omissions of dutyes of such hign moment amonff the
greatest part of the clergy of every diocess, has occasioned
oftentimes much grief to my soul : the dislike whereof in others
Iws stirr'd mee up to indeavour to rectify the same within my
Jurisdiction ; which (I bless God) I have done, in some measure,
ha?ing gotten in the most considerable country parishes Daily
Prayers and Monethly Sacraments ; and I could prevaile with
many other places to observe the like good order, if our Cathe-
W did not authorize the breach of law, in having no weekly
Sacrament. Hereupon, my lord, I have for late years, often
•Mress'd myself to Mr. Deane, and my brethren of the Chapter,
to reform this irregularity, but without success ; and now do, in
BH)st humble manner, address myself to your Grace that you
TOild bee pleased to give some little intimation to Mr. Deane
of Durham (who has a great veneration for your Grace) that
kse would comply in this particular, and permit the weekly
cdebration in his Cathedral, whereto hee has been often moved :
or, if you would judg meet, rather to give some hint to my Ijord
Arch-Bishop of York, to restore this holy practice in that
Cathedral *, it would not only have influence over Durham, but
^ the fonowing letter firom Archbishop Dolben to Sancroft (Tanner MSB. xzxiy.
Ill) dieirs that Granville's earnestness on this subject produced some result.
IIat rr plbasb tour G&acb, — Although the welcome lasts stiU in its impor-
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HI8CBLLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 177
ilip, aince my Jurisdiction would receive see much advantage
thereby. I had thought, my lord, often when I waited upon
jfoor Ghrace at Lambeth to have moved you herein but want of
eimfidence or opportunity did hinder mee, whereat I have been
much distorVd. Dr. Beveridge, who I hope will do mee the
&vour to deliver this letter with his own hands, will say, I
tast, somewhat for the promotion of this good work. Begging
your Ghrace's pardon and benediction, I subscribe myself,
Your Grace's most faithfull, obedient and humble servant,
Denis Granville.
Duimn,
Ml Sept. 1683.
No. xvn.
From the same to Sir William Dugdale*.
Dnrbam, November Srd, 1683.
Worthy Sir,
Before I had the happiness and honour to meet you at Mr,
Seovtarv Jenkin's (when I was at Windsor) I was sufficiently
avored both (rom your works and report, that you were a person
of great integrity, as well as learning ; but til that time I did
oot understand you to bee (what is very hard to find even
iaiODg the clergy, I meane) a true Church-man, a lover of
<Kdsr and exact conformity, not allowing any liberty to exalt
pirate prudence above the Church's.
His encouraged mee to present you with a small treatise,
befixre I lefb London, of Dr. Stuart's, concerning Bidding of
Phtjer, hoping that soe considerable a man as yourself might
[vt a h^png nand to the banishing the irregularity out of the
King's CnappeL And the same consideration doth now again
i&Tite mee to recomend unto you, as I have done to some learned
dergy, this inclosed paper of Qusories, touching the Holy
Gomimion, humbly beseeching you, if you can now, or here-
after, give me, or procure for mee, any light in all, or any, of
Aeie particulars, that you would be pleased to convey it to mee
in a line or two, directed for Dr. Grenville, Arch-deacon of Dur-
* lliit letter has tb«iidy appeared in Hamper's Life of Sir William Dugdale (4to,
leiMloii, 1827), but its rdation to a passage in the Dean's Journal, and to his letter
to Sawsolt of the 25th Sept 1683, may perhaps be allowed to jnstiff the Editor
aiieprin^iig it.
A a
178 liK\N f.Kl?(V||.LE.
hnm, at Purhnm. Tho (M*iM.«<ii»ri, Sir, whormf in ihi^. I am in-
fnnncl, tliiit liii <tr;i*'«'. my h-nl of runtiTlmn'. hath clHrr-
iiiiiMi! «>ii till' Mttiii^ ii|) :i Win Lly n Iilir.iliiiii •»( thf IIi4r
r<iiiiiiiitiin, iirriirtliiit: to thr riil<rli'k, in th«- rhiinh i»f ('jntrr*
hury ; aiiii that my l«inl An-h-Mohiip <•!' Vurk i* Iik(Hi««' iii*uif
till- i«:imi* ill hi.4 ('aihiilr.il. ;in>l that thry an* Utth wntiiif
It'tttTfi t4> the |{i*<hn|M uitliiii thiir iirti\iiu*«'«i, to follnw th« ir rx-
aiii|ili>; a iii»hh* wurk nf ]iir:\, uhnh will nnfVr to thi-ir • \rr-
lu5itiii^ liouuur, auil \vr\ inurh I'.u ilir.a«' t •.ii|i>riiiit\ iu th< L&nJ.
whirli hath Uvii vi-ry inurli uouiultil hy thr Uul I'lJinjiir at
Tat hi "viral**, whu ha\t- t'^r iln* tno-t |i.trl a(ithiiri/<-«l th<- l-n-^.^rh
of law, III f»iuittifip^ till wi^kly i • li i<r.iti(iii i«f tin- Ku« harut,
whii h liath ii'tt Ih*:; i ..::-.*;iikTly i* I* l»rar«-l ••!! >iiiiil.ky<i». in ft&T
Tatln ilrai". luir riuUi • i.iri h. i.I\..iii*l W««rii^t«r. TL** np*
\i\.il lif tlii<« riiiiiii !..i*:i U • n \< r\ I-i;;^' thi l>tinii :• -i ny
tlMMiu'htH. aihl il li.i»:. :.■••.. i- ..•\.-'l ii.y -"^il ?•• -1:1. l»r*'.*:. 1 trvat
wii- ;irf iii'W i:i -'•• I.i.i .1 |^I•l^ il':lit\ f'-r ii.i\ iii:,' tl.it ^"--i Aitd
|)iitiiH Work n--( tt liil--.}.. .i. u ).ii ;. li.ith !**fri :•«> Itin^ :.. ^'.'^ :<U.
tn thr ^HMt (h^tay «•! <[• \"(i<<!i aifl 1 ••:i:<<niiiry . Aii«i I aii. :i<*w
'••imr th«' nt'fiiii i.f thi-^ iiitiliiu'* ii«»'. i"!n .riii:i^ i!i» .\r\-h-
hithn|i^* «M'a.Hiiiiahh' /i-al f<ir ti-il'** unrthii' u^ii.^ f^*iuv fn«h in-
ilf-avourH to |>n'Vailr with Mr. htaia .ii;ti tin' |iri-hi i:<l« lY Ihir-
ham, ti* n'ctify tliin ^^PMt IrnkTuhirity in I'ur <>wii I'atht^lrd,
liiui till' U'ttiT Id pr« \aili- with thtiii to oh'lirati- tht- r«.tnuxiMl
wiikly. 'whirli iniii*- think a ini:;hty wi.rk of mi|» n'P»jr»tit«i I
nm fiipMl til tnii !• nut thr h!Ht..ry it the Kuth.iri^t Initn lb«
viT} U ;:iuni:ii: •'* thi- K» t"-:iii.iii..:i. U lii'\iii;r that im^>|J«* will
na-u- thiir wmU'Iit at i Wi.kU < • !• -'riM'tii. wh*n thiv aiv onti-
\iiMiil tli.it tlnri- «.i- a hi'f '•'>.' .». i.t thf Simtii* lit ««ta-
Miihiil in .ill < ".iil.i.ir.iU .i::l • -lli ^'i »'•■ ' hnn ht-*, in thf bc^
^nnifiL;. ai.'i ni\<T .lU'L^l.t •!. I'ur i<nl\ t'Jn t'l thf ^^-ur.-l br
till* inili-\Mtii>ii iif thi- atj* . :l^'I I**"* ^.^h inn^I tn o|>|iiiM^ w<«*klT
Sairainiiit-. wlitii tl.f r ilr: k it i? U. t!r;< ^ly • lainiiit^i «L-U^
at thi- v» rv il.iv, •i^ij.i-'t,' liailv ny..^ Viil.- ruhrirk after
t niiiuni.in.
Yniir aK«.ii»?anri-. Sir. in thi-* Kirtii iilar. w^.ul-l l*v an «'\li»-
onlinark- i»hli;;atii'n T.» tmi-. an«l -pnii- I'thiT 1 l«-r^'\ -m« n. vbo
jnyn with iiii-o in th*- .uhtn-w. atul thi* |inM<iutii<n 4 tin* ^«TT
niiuw ih-Aipi. Ari'l thi' «*liittnn of tht ^* «|ii:i m^ will U^* t>f im*
jHirtanri', not mily to mir own ('hnph h<'n . l-ut likiw;«r to
iMinii* othrrH in thr nilnr Pni\iiirr. whi< •f.irth- ..t thi \irj iim-b-
tinn nf a We* kly ( 'nfiinni'*!!. iiviii^* •>.*. 1! i* th« wjy to n«^r
iM-vililc U'lii»%-i' wf-«' .IP' hrm^rii.L* in th* M.i*» N»njt' wi**- tiwn
of till- rKrj:y of ihi*«' I'.irt-. ap- if i.jiiiu. i. tJ..4? \i.u .»p- Um
tittt-M |i«rM>u in Kn^'Lmi to hi Ip mt« on tlu^ ^i^unt, ur at
MISCBLLANSOUS CX)RRESP0ND£NCB9 &C. 179
least to recomend mee some books or persons, who can inform
mee herein. The books that I and some others, are, at nresent,
taming, in order hereunto, are Heylin, Gyp. Bed. and Reform,
of the Church, Bishop Jewel, Fox's Martyr., Paul's life of
Whitgift, Bishop Andrews' life and works, fiumet's History of
Reformation, Q. Elizabeth and Edward the sixth's Injunctions,
(Goodwin's Lives, &c. If you can inform mee of any better
authoors to make a discovery of what I seek after, I shall
heartily thank you. I know. Sir, that the disturbance which I
give you with soe long a letter, may seem neither prudent nor
mannerly. But I perceive you soe tenderlv uffected, towards
the interest of the religion established in the Church of Eng-
land, that I presume on your pardon ; since all that I aime at,
is only the honour of God's service, and the edification of my
Jurisdiction ; the most populous towns whereof I do not doubt
to raise to monethly comunions, when our Cathedral (whigh
hath been famous for conformity in all things but this) is once
come up to a weekly celebration ; which was the only consider-
able matter in our Cathedral or Diocess, which Bi^op Cosins
left uncompleted. Sir, I have had a very hard game to play,
these twenty years (which time I have been Arch-deacon of
Durham) in maintaining the exact order which Bishop Cosins
set on foot here, since arguments have been brought against
mee oftentimes (no Diocess in England having kept pace with
us) from the practice of the generality of emment clergy else-
where, and sometime from the practice of the very Cathedrals.
In consideration whereof you will bee soe kind, I hope, to a
poor, feeble Churchman (that would faine make good that
ginnmd which was happily gained here by our worthy deceased
prelate) as to afibrd him a little countenance and assistance
in those matters which you have been conversant in, in relation
to Bishop Cosin's notion of conformity, which I find very few
to approve of, or understand.
It did very much rejoyce my soul, when I discovered among
the laity so eminent a champion for our Comon Prayer Book, as
yourself, who appear to mee very right set in all things, and
pwticularly in the matter of Bidding of Prayer, the very crite-
non of a true Church of England man. Praying to God to in-
crease the number of such good friends to the interest of our
Church, and reward you and yours in an especial manner for
your real love to our poor despised Liturgy, I do, with great
Mncerity and afiection, subscribe myself. Sir,
Your most faithfidl humble servant,
Demis Grbnvillk.
Sr WiUm. Dugdaie.
A a 2
180 I>RA!« UlLiNVlLLK.
Crrtainr qu/rrrn (ourhintj thr Hol^ Commnmiom,
1. How loiiff tliL* Daily ( oniuiiion in C^athc^nd*. and
]iliic<-H, u*Mtul»Ii?i)ti<il iiiitt«'u«l (if thi* Mum, by I')«lininl thr
vidi' ImC romiiKin PruyiT Jt4H»k, VAw. i\\h) did «*(>ntintu*h
*J. Wlu'tluT it flifl over cibtuiii iu ull ( •thc<<lralii Y
•L In wlittt ArL'h-bi.Hhuii'M tinii.* that holy iimctice brgaa to
Ut' n('i;l«x:(4^i Y
4. Whi'thtT Wi-«-kly rianunionft on Sund:ivtii and Iluly-dajw
ill ( uthtilnilH, won' nut oIim rvcti, ul'Ur tlu* Ihiilv Cumuniun tdl
into fliMiM' y
'}. Whrthi-r Mtimi* <\ith(^lntLi did not (down to our Ltti* n-fad-
li«»ni hi ill ]n'*'\t ii|» thi.-* Indy |»r.ii lii-i*. in n-lrbnitin^ the Ilalj
(*oniuni<*n, ut li;i-tt, wirklx, ;ind whiih ihry wi-n* iT
(». Whi-thi-r thrn* \ii-rf not in <'.it)ktilriil% at h-ant in tki
nii-tni[MiIiti(Ml rhun-lif <>. ('oiniiiiinii-. nii thr Fi^tiruU, mm «dl
a.i SundaviTi, uIUt tlu- Ihiilv rtununion tdl into <
No. XVIII.
FlUiM THE HlsHiH' ny Dl KlIlM 1" Sim \l. FluIP*.
SiK K. Fin\n,
TiiK \ii-t k Uftirt' I It't't Linfli>n. I liail thf o]i|iiirtuniiy nf wmiU
iii^ (iM the I'LirIf lit* Hathc. and at thi- ^luw t\iiii< of diM^tumu
\iitli hi?« ltinU}ii|i|> onu «rniii;; hi^ hr>it)i<r rA# \ ArvlnU-M-^ttx, lua
i'in'uin*«tan(-i>n and nntf ii*iiiin« t<i the I> rani-n | 4>f I* urliam]
(»n iii'Xt va«-.in(*y. 1 luivi* mi ^n-at an Imnotir f«ir tliat nt>hl»
family, that I ciiuM nut hut n)«-nti<>n what I thtiu^ht mofll
advaiita^inUH f«ir hi.** hrothi r, and a*> I r« nit-tnliiT *twaji thU, thai
if till- An hdi aroii woft Milling tiii|iiitt Li'«i lainn' to thr iK^nrrj;
and \iiitdd pi«- over ull hia intn-^t fur I>r. Munt a^^r] f t«> mc-
* Nr Ki.K*nl >! iv.l. •r l.l.f.l. »in of An.'rrv am! ffrvhUw cV Kjr4iv4 Umi| «!
A«t.n. o>. >al 'p. «M (.Ui*« ..r Ail S<u1i'. flif.««l. %rA t.«*k IN* 4««f«« ^^ LI. D. m
lA^i. Ill vM ui »i« xiftttf III thi- Arrhrv. mn4 afUrVKTil* ( b«fwvlL« ni IJ
**|t.ntitfl ( )k«iw^ll« ..r Ih«rhAni. |«4h |tr«-. H^Tf.. M P f-< it' nt« at iHr^tm
|i.;'ir. If J.*.. «M n^l. iHtial .<( l.Sr Ar«U«. N^r llUU. m«n .^ O* Tn
**ir lii««ai»# Jrtikint ||» «ianl in U«t.in' I cMr.ai fi«. ;!Jllh Jit»r. [haft, ab^ W
bun<>'. IU tl»r rbanh «»rl •>! ^ IW^imC. n€«r IV«I • •*.«»f
• T1i> II m JuhB M «il««vr. !H» . f wrth ••■» f i?.r K^i ^ "Wkilw^ l|# «M
nr|'^«<^ la lteiha|« i'lrwr, by «h>Mn tir ««■ i^ilUicil tt iW Maw fa riiup ci
llotfNtol, in thr CDMtjr at UwbMi. lo ISfllt l» lAO br «m BHtf ~
MISCRLLANEOUS CX)RRESPONDENCE, &C; 181
oeed there, the Hospitall of Sherburne, acoording to the Comis-
sionerB rule for ecciesiasticall affaires, as well as the Dr/s other
weferments, would become void by such a promotion. This
Ho8|ntall is free from trouble and attendance, and lyes con-
Teniently betwixt Durham and Easington. The value of it I
am well assured is better than 300/. per annum cleare, besides
the casualities of fines. This falling to my disposall, I shall
most willingly conferre it on Dr. G[renyilleJ as an addition to
what he now injoyes. All these together I am verjr confident
are considerably beyond the Deanery ; espetially considering the
way of liying the Dfean] will bee obliged to. My lord seemed
weU pleased with this proposall, and was inclinable to move his
broUier as well for the sake of Dr. Montas^e, as for his bro-
ther's sake. What his lordship hath done m this, I know not,
and therefore must desire that you would favour mee, as at
your first conveniency, to communicate the contents hereof with
my most humble service to his lordshipp, who was pleased to give
mee leave to doe this. Whatever determination my lord and
Ilia brother Dr. shall make herein, will be satis£Eu;tory ; and
\h»j may bee assured of my reall services on all occasions,
lam
Tour affectionate friend and servant,
N. DURESME.
Mm Castle, May 24th.
Dr. (JrenviUe is now attending at Court this month, which
ia allmost expired ; so that I hope you will speedily send mee
B& answer, least hee should bee gon northward againe.
(ladoned, <* Copj of Bp. of Durham's letter to Sr. R. Floyd.
May 24th, 1684.")
No. XIX.
Dr. Comber* to Archdeacon Granville.
York, Jnn. 23d, IS84.
Sis,
The reason of my not writing was the uncertainty of your
^Aitf CoUege, Cambridge, and Prebendary of the 4th stall in Durham Cathedral m
^ lUDe year. He eventually obtained the Deanery of Durham, in 1699. He died
'cb. 17S7, Kt 73, and was interred at BamnoU, the barying place of the fiunily.
^ Dr. Comber's name has already occurred (pp. 163, 176). He was a natinre of
182 DF.AN OE%!«VIIXI.
ubcNlo. and now I nlioot ut rov«T«, nnr havo any fniiiii
(»nly to (it'^in* you to rnniiin* of Mr. TlawII how tho prrl
rumt* to Im* U*t^ nut nf till' r«)lio. fur it wai« luA by my ornvr,
(li<l I miHrt** it till you told mv of it. If you nttui* to S a r b orw
lM*fore I^ummiui rHhall not mh* you, for it will bo thr 6ch or
t*n* I i-un U* thtn*, my n*f»idrn<*«* cndin^r not till th« 4th
Au^llNt. I will not mniplttiii that uiiilr you un* at I^jodon
ConiniiKHioniTH ^ivr away a lV(*l)[('ndj i>f your ^'hun'h, and ]
did not («pi*aki' i>ni* wonl for ii man you um- to wmh wttr T
nitT nri^h)>or, for 'tin now to> liftt-, und thiit inT^m i^ cociU
only hi' nuikfft M4»nu* n-inarkt of hi^ frit-mr!* vi^ilani^r. I k
founil in our old InnjUh a \rr\ mortifying ri^-(»nl for xtmr
Hitni. fi^r in M*:in'hini; t}i4-iii 1 find u*^ fiMit^ti-jw of any Wer
Surnmitiit at Vi'ik. aitd n<>t *mi nnit h aa u .Monthly Somun
till iKaii MiTiti'ii*'* * tinp\ f><r it ia rt-iri^tf rf-«l. that fur
futun*. troin tlic 7th of S pti mh. Iiil7. thc-n* "should In- a Sw
mmt at the r.ithi-flr.ill on tht* t)n*t Sumlay of i-vi-r}' mi»ndit, i
M) it roiitinutii untill thf w.irr^ and wom n'ot^in^l with thr Ki
und now amtinu«r*. Whtiin- it i*i rIi<«T tliat kM-ton- that j
liil7 thori* wcrr no S;u-r.inu'iit>* dut onl\ at thi* ^tit Fcvtin
und it -ihoitld U* ron^idiTMl whi rhi-r thi'* a;r<* will U-ar grvi
lit'i^ht «if duty tht-n \ia<% n-(|uiri-<l in K i:i;^ J.iini-^ hit tin
1 I'ouf* s.^' if nn'ii wiiuld l.ikr ran* to |irr|kin- duly, thr oft
tlicv rainr thi' Utti-r, hut I <ms- thit in.iny t»f th'M* wbo
fn^|Ufnt ronununion \:r^*w *>li^>ht in tht- {»i rf"nnani-«\ and ip
tin* Siturday till lat4' at ni&rht in ui«'«<unt4. ^i^it*. liUAincvw i
itllf talk, wliirli it an I'tfinn- to nir, wh** havi* nion* i«tiflCMl
in iltiin;: it ut-Il onn* a nii>nth, uith a duf lan* to jmfiArp i
thi' day iMfnri*. then in all tl.i- t.tl.i r four tiniifi if 1 should 1
roini' to it. lloHiVi-r I .thall ii>it ii{i|iiM«* thr wi^-kly
in lOMi. Ill r«v.iir.i tKi .Wrr^^ .f U 1» i'. 1«:;k l!r «m lUn*v ni ^tmm^
»ii.! Ttn>nil.iii. r>« \ rk. «r..i |*rt..fir..r •! Vrk ('»irr«!r»] lU ^ir^■ Vm
iHirham mUrti IH l«r»i.«il.f ••• ? nail? ilf|in«*«l. in |(i^i| ||r «•• CW SOl^
•rtifmJ >i*N4*ftnil lr».-tt. Kc! !>*•• « -rk b^ wt.u !. Kr i« n « * Lit Ay ki,^ -vn m hli *C
|««fiiiri III till* Tinijlf llr iti'l ! . •.!• 'i.'ilL }**i. m N 'irfr.'jvr. If*!l9l .% gavd
!•( i-^irTrvi^riilrn. r !■• k |I«. i -x*«r«'i hf-ai. Iirvnvil^ Mrvtl \tr ( •ia.*jrr •« tO* ai
iif tb«- mf.iTttUfi ••! \\.'»? ( ..UIII- >i :ii ( «0. -irmlt - Vv Mm^wv of |
C'li.Vr. * * »!.. £r%t !«■-. T:. .-.-.^t « . . 'mt K... K.-.L^i. \'*M
• iMxr.-t Mfn'.>n. ** 1 r «■• *.'r::i'U<l bi tl.« Ikm. cm f ) rk Maffv^ SM^ |
H^ Klfvt -- Nrr 1^ \t*r • K*<tl
t T«rnt« «t«r« aflrmar!* o.r II \% ( ■<» v.ur in vat •. <« ».«v l^^vsMlf %
in«fi-rr«i in IhirttAm ( aOi<i!r«l In |(i»*t y M>*r*..<n • \ uUSk ct .IrlirM W lOJ
f U>«ii>ir tiirur* ••!.■ i.c<t itkr r.-|tiir%r* •il>irr«ic«J t.* littf Ikr^A a»i CtefOi
' U iirttur hair if • ( • i..iit«t.; n t!.. firtl *«u .-Ut i4 f «*n a.«.«tb. kcttfiUvyi k
l««i-« m lUl brl.«if.
MISCELLANEOUS CX)RRESFOND£NCEy &C. 183
bat rather promote it * aB soon as I see our great ones encourage
the thing, and in the mean time you must think of beni as well
as Sippif or eke religion will rather loose then gain by reviving
this long sleeping rubric. I could say more, but suppose you
will thi^ this too much yet 'tis nothing but what uiould be
considered by you as well as by
Sir, your faithfull friei\d,
Tho. Comber.
I My service to my brother Lane t when you see him. I was
•asored you would be pleased in his conversation. My wife and
UtUe girle is now at S. Mun^o's Well J. Pray let me know if
you go to Oxford, for I will give you a little trouble there.
TV) the Re?erend Denis Greenvily D.D.
Aiffhdetcon of Durham, now at London.
(Indoned, " Dr. Comber's Lre. Jane 23rd, 1684. Ben^ as well as »ap^. To bee
No. XX.
From the Bishop of Durham to Sir Richard Llotd.
Auckland Castle, Thursday, June 26th, 1684.
Sir Rich. Lloyd,
AoooKDiNO to my promise last post, I now send you my mind
M fully in answer to your inclosed paper as the straitnesse of
the time would give mee leave. Nor can I thinke of any better
method for enforcing my former proposall than what Mr. Arch-
deacon himselfe hath used in his deliberating thereon ; who, to
doe him right, hath said as much as the thing can possibly
* la May 1684 we find that Dr. Comber wrote npon this sabject as follows to Arch*
tMiop Bancroft : — " We are here ^ery happy in him, [Archbishop Dolben] for he is
yvy actife in his station, bat still the weekly communions do not take. I have moved
^ *ith modesty, and am not denyed, bat the thing is deferred for a while. I hope it
Bsyihortlj do."— Tanner MSS.
t *'He [Dr. Comber] contracted an happy friendship with Mr. Joseph Lane of the
Middle Temple, afterwards comptroller of London; which being groonded on the
pimples of piety, the only sore foondation of a lasting friendship, soon encreased to
Mdi i decree, that ther addressed each other by the endeering name of brother/' —
MoDoirs of Dean Comber, p. 60.
t There is a place of this name close to the Railway between Linton and Long-
Biddiy, near to the Drem Junction, on the North British Lme. It if not v«ry it
fRHB the Border, and may possibly be the place alluded to. C B. R.
Ift4 DF.AX CRANVIIXI.
btmre. Tho inrlnurd will tAu^w vnu my arfrunrnita on <-itkir
Kiilr. iind I ran only nflrl this iuiifiiT, that if my I^nnl of Math*
anil hi<« Imitlicr l)r. !«li:tll Ui' iiIi':lm*c1 to |iniiiiotp my n«'phrw*»
Uin;; iNani- nf Ihirhiim, I «ii:ill miMt willintfly Imv knxii to
thi'ir m |»hiw >ir Ui-orirt* Wlnli-r, in avunntr him n( Dr. «irpT'i
|)n Uiul, uhtnrvtT it t';ilK iiitu my <ii*i|>fMall. Nay. fanh«-r. I
nhiill lis n-ailily ^ivi* Mr. An-lHlt'.iroii uii niitmrt unity i>f |J««-
Hurin^r JUiy fninil with I)r. ••n-y'^ livini: nf Wt-n niimth. rp-
imt4-<l nimniiiiily ulNiiit 'Jihi/. imt annum, u4 !«iion a« it f^lU into
my pt't, lilt' rii-omi-niliii;; a \i'ry unrthy |H*r>M>n unt«i mtv f«ir it.
Koth thi-?H* pmluhilitii-?* iHin.«ii|« rini; thi* ^n-ut af(«*. and uftca
intinnitii-H nf I)r. ^in-y ha Mmn nr fn/urv the I^am-n'. vhirk
top'thiT with Sh<rhiinit« fur thi* An-h<litin»n himiii*Ifr, vim
l>r. Montaifii in hi-ani*. an* thi* only ailvantH^*ii I ran thiaka
pni|M'r in thiM rum'*, iinl«-<ss<< thi« may In* rukonM an«>th«'r, tlial
u|M>n mv nc|ihi-w'H U ini: I)i'.ini\ I ^hall ^rludly MilMtitaU* IV.
(in-nvillf to utti-nd thi* <'lii«M-t in my a)M*ni*f, vmi*titmM. Thii^
I ri>ntr?i«M*, may In>4' a vi-ry ^rnat itrp to lii<4 futun* pn'ftrniMvt,
and will nitirh Ii'h*m n lii'^ i \|>i m i-^, (Itirin^r the tim«- i>f aifriid*
unri'. tht-ri' U^in^ a ri.n^tant dii t with thi* rha|iljinii U^r X\m
riark I if tilt' (*li>M-t and t\«<i ->« r>.in!-. and uh« n th«- Tourt it aft
Whiti'liall Ki-«> may /.'/•• tin- ri>n\«*nii-n(-y i>f my a|»|iartiiirtit
thi'p-. utirn* ill* will Im*' in rh<> niid»t nf hi- nlatiun^. If what
i- li»'r»' jini|ii»-Mtl U-*" imt ;ii!*wi r iM' tn • aj-i f.ilitin*. I »hall ml
an wt'll !«.iti<»tii-«l in InoSimjii^ K.i-iTijffn and Sd;:«t)ilil upna
l^r. Miinta^u. wlnn \m\^\ Iit l*r. <ip ii^iil* '•• U ini* lN-an«*. and
that Pr MMn(.i<:ii -iiMtiM lyw^ hi- h"«i<i*.ill tu lii-i hp>(hi r •lamt^
ihr ynuiitri"«t ^'.!i i.f tI.. j.i'i L-rd Saii*l^»iih Wh,n tkeis
c-hankr*'- ni.iv h.i|i|i«-M. (t<»l kiU'Ui. I'it tliii' thr I^-am* halk
l.ilily Ui-n *'ry nnuli iiiil:*|h.^id \*i?h a l.ini*- h ;•, yi-t In- i« rp»
oi\i rill;: t.i a uiinih r. and i- \' r\ ln.ir'v. I yr \\ fi^'-ur iiiff«
niiif niMn- in w.ii^in;; f»i my l.^-rd ••! Ua'!.- nith my nutfC
huniMi- ^r^ii'i <i. aiitl a<i|tiiitif hi« l>'riUhi|>|i nith thr r«»nt«*iita
<it thit Irttrr and uith thi- iui h*^^!. I am.
Vitur \i r\ .itin :i":ial« liii inl a::d *• rvai.t,
N nil. IM k»iir.
/'/.■ f.;''..iir . ;. . ../■ Sit i ^ r t, II -•; if ;.V.
!■*!. Till- nri«.nt man.i«»« r nf thi- H.-*|.:T.dl. Mr IvUtbII,
nt'rr" til P n! it I if !>r ^l •■:.!,! ;:'i f..r Ma^tn vi.ip^ !.»i:ithtt, at
ti.i' r.il«' ■•!' -il".' j- r aiii;iiiii. •!< •rl\ |r.»\ !•!;:;.; .I'.l !hi?:ir* :»t^rt».
nary. aMiipiinj t.i i ii*ti>iii .it.>1 -l.iluii . |i*r thi |ii«T hr^-thnrtt,
t\ii|it pjuinsi, whii'h, oii^'niin^ to th«* HiAhi*|i'!i lajuiictiua in
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 185
his last Visitation there, are to bee made substantial!, whatever
the charges bee to the present Master.
2. The casualty of fines (which were considerable last yeare)
are wholy belonging to the Master.
3. This is free fix)m tenths, first-fruits, residence and duty.
4. The Master is the sole patron of 2 or 3 livings *, and hath
the nomination of a Chaplain in the Hospitall, who is main-
tained, as well as other servants, upon the House stock. These,
with the Curates and Deacons in Easington and Sedgefield, may
be looked on as so many preferments for his friends.
5. The Master of this place is as great an Almoner as the
Deane of Durham, there being thirty two Alms-men in his
disposall, sixteen whereof are allowed fourty shillings yearely'
ana to live where they please, the other sixteen are suiEciently
pnmded for within the Hospitall.
6. *TiB a place of retirement upon an occasion ; and the addi-
tion of this to the other preferments will more easily advance
than one entire Dignity can ; because the Deanery, tho' great,
is only a provision for one ; whereas Sherburn, the Preoend,
Sedgefield, and the Archdeaconry, are singly, by themselves so
ooonderable, that they are credittable substantiall preferments
tor somany severall persons, who by the variety of their in-
terests can without difficulty shove a man up higher into a very
good station.
7. The goods and cattels belonging to the House, left by the
late Master, were valued at 200/. and ought to have been worth
four hundred according to custome ; but the Bishop, in con-
sideration of the suffering of that Master, who was plunder'd
for his loyalty, was pleased to dispense with a lesser stock, which
yet may be advanced againe, according to the old custome,
rtenaoever the present Master leaves it, which is to carry on
^ charges of the House, and to bee left to succeeding Masters.
Disadvantages of the Deanery, .
!• Whatever the Archdeacon's present preferments are valued
a^ihee best knowes ; but I am well assured that the Deanery, at
the utmost, is not above thirteen himdred pounds per ann. and is
'i^dy to bee lesse, considering the decay of rentes in his Corpse,
•nd the dayly growing expences in repairing an old Church f
^ ^ Vicuiges of Bishopton, Grindon, and Sockbnrn, and the PerpefUal Curacy
^B)dietta>, aU in the Biahoprick of Durham, are in the gift of the Master.
t IW total amovnt expended by the Dean and Chapter of Durham in repairiag
** t^ wtite plaoei " which Puritan misrule had left belund it, must have been Tery large
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an<l inaki'in^ u iu*w i*fwtly nr^an *, in iill whirh rhargw tkr
Hi-uiif iKiyt-M u (Iniiltlf nliart*.
'2 Tn«' Ikniiii-'H iiff^itive viiin i^ f|tiiMioii:il»l«* in numt thinft*:
un<l Ui )n-«< <»urr mn (lij«|)iMi> nf litlr without tlu' mriM-nt of tlftf
(*hii|)t4T. which mny oftrn m-uti* tniubliiuini«' dii»|mti«. and bmj
pcrhuiM I'uUM* hipN4*ft of livinp«.
iiid«««l. TW Nwlcr wilt ftnti m ibr Apjimilii mi MnMiat *4 iW f nn » 4if •! ila
Ibidv in Ihu wsy fff«iin the lir«|iirmliiia In Junr ICfil, mmI iI ft|pran l^al ■ lM4«
Biiirv thftii t*mly ;rsr« aflrr. the viirk «ft» vtiU ^mif >b.
* Till- " nrw ctmUt f*rcma." wLirh iht- H ib'tp nratiftiM. tt «Cill la tW Cm
It «M huih bv Ikr n-lfbrnla^ F«lh«-r >nuth. TKr Mluvin^ Uttan *«>« tas •■ ]
WUmmi. Ibc RrKiilrv ul Ibc l>raa and 4 t^>!«r, wy Di4 bv alliignbrt wiiilw—
.sV'i/rA Mr#r. |A# IS •/ .Vm«. IMI
IIb. WiLMiv,- I ram Mtr bum last Sat'jrdav, iwi ul lb* rmlnv. «Wv I In
«nur kiiid k-ftrr aiul tb«- bill in rliit>-4. «lip-r fir I fiir yii« ba«i**l» Ihaatfi lav yi
kr«n 'roMfcnr and cral kuiJnr«. vKn-b I all aavra kn«4Wc I baw ii tw iai I
btimlrrl aad nttj |> -ami fiifmlM. 1 iKmU tir •:! aayr* rraily In vrWr ynu i
«bm ki rvrr II maT br yoar plranur. Ai fnr Ibr nrgan I !•«••■ m*! f>ir f ii^r j
drall I bunh. I kiH»« it it ki r^^t a"*! •■'ur.il n.»l a* anni it la Ibr h il w nu fc. |
mail runfr* I Itavr iiui c^m ibr |>ri«. f-t thit I drvlan- tKai if c«««t a»«r • kaavA
ibituarnt fHiua*!. Irll aiini UdJi ti.itik tw tav abal tite |4«v« F« rawimf isl
Ctfniinc 1 ba«r \arm Um «-unu«. in «)ii>h I muiJ l*afr ••tri l/rr pari la t>M, md WB
mM tb<iuUl bavr luuild f^ull aitli it bul «)mI I l«air il<i. I baar da« lav i|*
bonnrr ii^ Mr. ^iir^ |>ird and lb«- Ikan %nA rbafitrr. In dni I «m aiiviaH by «■•
prnlrlmao t> batr il d«ta an c**"d aa ntuUl btr, tn ihr will rb<ini arvva] to mm Wmm
a IfHMrr. aldo Ihr nintr» k \m nlbrr «ajr«. and ai | bair d«« aku la Iba ovfn^ Iv
frmrly nf iIoih* and i|uaftrr doI«. ll*al imj un^an baa bat yoan ar-d la Iba TflHfijf
lUl I niada.
Sir, I |iraf Tim In nmiiilrr tbi>a Ihinf. Il anald br bard l>i fak ill iJM ba«iai
fauna and >m a U>iiarr. 1 1 i« m««« t^o r f-ir mmav ibm rt (tiar f>«ar nar TVv feml
ihrr |r4'«iF] •>rraa wrni Ik \ nrk I t.Air ciK t««ntT {•■vnd, axid ibal m •& §m I
lia«F ariil ibrr fiTf i'r« «f<-p-« •■! |'i|«'«. «Kji1i aitni man «o«tid ba«r paid ■•■ M
l^nidm lr««^hor |<iiiiii ^^r :f. ai^«l Ib^ •rfffirif •>! omI l«*-«ff |«««nd. »• IW«v li Ml
IwrfilT |Miuik>l (hil II all. «« t\^: it It t.of • 'rd • n^aa • wkitl \t f ir tW ^tf
iirran. I «iil •• It al annf rafr a« ii \%. f -r «■• '• %% ii a C'«*! ••fcaa vdl '^«C a lata I
brc iinir |>«ril>ri t>i ct^i «>.u Fbi" tfu' !• '.i ••• m»\ ni«ii-b. •«!:« «L#a I «ul ngM^Av
llir |<a:i» I l.a«r f«k* t.. il Au* a.»l *>ar •!.« Ir>i''> -f il. t'Ul I (*'f«' Ibr [iMa aai
I bapliT ■111 ikxl «•«■ nil* a l*«"*rr >ir, •••ar kimiiir^ ■«•? da a c*af dr*l la it. Aa
1 •i<ni-lttil. «:fh nil and my wifr't l»art«-li 1 •• arid l.u-nt.lr wnii !•> t « aad yavi^
fnim iiNir huniMr wnai'd l.» minfnarMlr, lUa ^mitii
l*rai. Nr. mi banihlr dull and trrvia In Mr I Iran a-ij tbt rral ^4 bia bMAaviL
l*art:.-uiar my n.atft-r Muvi«m
Smf:.iek StwH tk» •» -/ /W««| IflQ.
Mb. M ii»« %. I Kfti. rrrmnl t^him ibr |»i. whih !• »Uin thr f, erf t^«, abaNB |
la>l Ibal Tbr llrttji ai.il I ka|-lrr baa ••nl.r«4 n.rr .'rfi; ah-, h Lat •rt« d#« (
■II. • 1 iliil •! •{••ihl an 'iltrf-r kmd ■>/ tvan > iU>).*i : \i^ m cT*<t
that i! :• (>iititr1 for iKat tamr Anil hr«i-!r« tt.f •,htr'cli ■/ rr: -^ • «»k Ibrtt tkflv
aaa a rr«^l t^^ A« f t ni« |«n ttf r i« riiv>it *^^ « v^ •••« f« m«» tiwl | pay
b<fit>ri(« in. iill* ivrr. bil il >»e «f.at if •iii I .f«<«tr« 'rf f <«r latav aiid bM^bM
111 at nl nirr lKi« .Nii a? d lK« .*• (u-r t^rv i-i a ^-i.; * 1 1 -.a^ifi-. vii.*. k«ar I afcafl 1|4
il f -r a cral fanif . a: •! I aKall '«■ aJ^avr* rv^Ji !-• ^r*r \ nt :•, ar.-i? thisf IftaC fepaa
in |*'«rr In mi •I<tiMf vim «UI vrrrv- rr.urh >'»< r^m ii \^m failfaii ffwmA tmik
l.uri.- Ir ■rfvaad Id lAKxtmand. Hi a >witm
M« b<iui 11 iiarr aoin \hr I >• k. in *Siff i. k Mnt. Mar i b«vi«f t'raaa.— HviV
Mv«. 10 l&l. 173. I) A ( . Libran. f
MI8CELLANB0US CX)RRESPONDENCEy &C. 187
3. Tib soe small a mark of favour to exchange the title of
Aichdeaoon for that of Deane, (these seeming not consistent in
tlie same person in the same Cathedrall) thathee may reasonably
liope for a better Dignity, considering, as I said before, the
Tariety of preferments, and alko the attendance in Closet, as
my letter mentions.
4. In answer to the great expences in severall ptreferments,
I thinke the great hospitality, and the way of the living whereto
the Deane is obliged by oath according to the statutes, very
neare amount to as much extraordinary.
5. Suppose something eke might be held with this Deanery,
(the sreatnesse of which will hardly give leave for such a pro-
posaU) yet whatsoever is so held must beare its share in all in-
ooQveniencyes of a distinct preferment; as to curates, tenths,
jHOcnrations, sesses of all sorts, repairs, removalls, spoyling
goods, charges and board-wages of servants.
6. The charges in passing the Great Scale for the Deaner^
patent, and fees and intertainment at his installation, will cos^
it least an hundred pounds, whereas the addition of Sherbum
will be quiet, and litle or no charges.
7. If the Deane happen to dye soon after Michaellmas the
whole yeare's revenue of his Corps, which is valued at 1000/.,
\S1 the* following Michaelmas, belongs to his executors and not
to the succeeding Deane : such a casualty as this may happen.
No. XXI.
T^BBer, nzH. 180.
From Archdeacon Granville to Archbishop Sancroft.
May rr please your Grace,
It being no small mortification to me to want your Ghrace*8
Wty approbation to any preferment that I should either seek
•fter*, or keep, I do (my lord) humbly present a few things to
^ Siocroft teems to have been by no means favoimbly disposed to GranTiUe's
P^vment to the Deanery of Durham. '*When Dean Sndbory died» my lord
[Ciewe, Bishop of Darham] got the Deanery of Durham for Dr. Greenyill. The
iicfabisbop of Canterbury said to my lord that ' Greenvill was not worthy of the
Inst stall in Durham Church :' my lord replied, ' He rather chose a gentleman than
• nOy fellow, who knew nothing but books.' Says the Archbishop, ' / bethrew
Mil.' "-.fife of Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, &c., p. 60^
Bb2
I^S |i» \N (.K\N\II I I..
ymir I't'ij-^Mmiti'in tn ]>r»- iin- tin* vmu', if p»^iM«- : •i'K'-ut
\i)ii«h hi'* M:tjt«t\'N iitt«iiiiiil t.i\><ur in rtt'i n-iii i- (•• thrI^.\r.*rT
III' liiiili.irii. :itli r Mr. Ik.iIi'o ili.irii. uiU nui^i a ^va*. ail^v.
aitl U iiiiLr}>fiI\ iiiiti:.Mt«<i un^i tu*
My li.r«l, >ir <ii.irL'» ^V1.•1- r uinl >ir Willi.tiii li;i%u.««i \.A\r
i:i!""iiijnl Mil i . tl..i! \iiur <ii.i. • \% I- I'l'.i^'l u* *.i\, y-'ur ••rarv
if,>'''f ht,' /.. /.i / » '1. ..»/. in II. y I'll :• ii'i«-:i-. t.. hulii u,\ An "r.-
ili.iriiiiry uiili my > tK*r ]>ii !• rintitV lint my l'>r>! I i at; r. -
\ia\*^ i-iiiiTiiiT m_\^it wi;i. ?!..it. uiri.'^ut l.ilHuiriiikr ^^ muiK a«
in mi- l\i«. lli.i! \i'ii 111 i\ In iii\ tri'i;'i; uLuli I liii imt lii-^iiuir
my I'-nl Im! \'-u will in-. \ii..ii \..ir •irm- h.»^ th-ir- -ipTf-lv
«-\.iminM my r.i^ , :ii.>l i' "i.-iil .i]<{» ii u!i*.'i \iiii Ti;.i? I <it-ii;r« t.«
linl-l i;.i?l.inir uitli '■*• 1 '• ^^•^> l''»t \\i..ir i'* .l* « ii.-:-!! t.r !L»r«'-
wifh u"* \\ \i'.i- uitIi ::.• I'liUri'i: .i:.>t «},• r*<it I i .1:1 i • r^a::.2y
(li'M)i:ir;;i l)i«- iltiTy ^ n.;< ii l«!!*r ^':..i:. I tliil Ut'*rt. Ki n.&«a4i
I ^li.ill i.«it U ri-m"M'<l -" ii:} kT' .k-« r 'ii-f.itii r. thu' iwi«.it.r«'ii lo
Ii lii:;}it r '*T.ifii>ri, ui.iili wiW .i!!i<rii lu* mm K ^n at* r .lul!.- r.'.y
unil Utt«>r aiU.iiit.iLT* "•. til oTriiu'L'!' vii:fi .iH th>~ iltiLt ul^w**
uliirli I mi T v\ i?l.. ill i'l :!..■ j-.i-r * \i ■■..■:■•; -t" my Mt!;- 1"
I will n«'* ■'.ly i?.y l-rl ii..i' \'\ tl.- p.i*l iu.iu.ij:*r\ »'( r..r
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MISCELLANEOUS OORRESPOXDENCE^ &C. 189
kaT6 any arguments to prevail with my Lord Bishop of Dur-
bim to bestow a Prebend on him^ that you would use them.
If his Majesty should be graciously pleased to remove me to
theDeanery^ there will certamly be a vacancy, and there cannot
be a worthier person than Dr. Comber found to fill it up. I
made bold to name him the first of three deserviiig persons to
my lord of Durham ; but I perceive that my lord is fixed as to
his cliaplains, or Lincoln CoUedge men. And if my lord con-
fines his kindness to Lincoln Colledge, I wish nis lordship
would (now or hereafter) think of Sir George Wheler ; and the
more because hee doth not think of himself.
Begging your Grace's benediction I rest, my lord,
)laff«mbr. 2Gth, 1684.
Your Grace's most obedient servant,
Denis Grenville.
No. XXII.
Fbom J. Basire, Esq. to Thos. Cradock, Esq. *
DSAB S1R9
It was noe small surprize upon me to receive the inclos'd from
Mr. Dale, at a time when I was thinkeing it might be season-
aUe after the receipt of vour Martinmass rents, to have re-
Creiaht your memory in laying, a greater obligation on our
»]ioiiCHirable frend B. G[renville] by the loane of 250/. more,
bemff he is soe sensible of your laite civilities, both to himselfe
ndhis noble sons ; who, in a letter to me of the 25th instant
fiom Paris, express themselves thus : wee beg you would* make
r complyments in the most respectfull manner to Mr. Cra-
doek, whom wee understand is a particular frend of yours. Be-
aides it was but a few dayes since Mr. Grenville received the
fii^nmT of your money, which was payable here upon my gossip
Jackaon's biUs of exchange ; soe that if I could be soe weake as
to beleive you in good earnest, that, you intended I should repay
* Of the City of Durham, son of Sir Joseph Cradock, Knt., LL.D., Commissary
if tbe Arcbdeaconry of Richmond. He was a Barrister- at-law, and Attomey-Ge-
to Biahop Cosin, M.P. for Richmond 1078, 1679, 1685. Died 26th Feb.
lUO UK AN (.R%N VILLI.
luirk 'ill/, of thut fctiiiiiiH? iiInitMt um i-urly an our fnmil wsji pivaral
(if till* lH'n«'tit of your iiion* y, your kind lurtiiiii'. whirh lir nam
I'M It'll 11 a ^rrat Kivuur :iii(l fn-iiiUhi|», mitrht hiTi-ufti-r a|»pi«r f<>
Im* othi-rwiM'. I li.i\i- lint y«-f n-m Mr. I^tilr, your l«-tt«T. t*r lull,
btit I hi'iir th:it In* h:iH UfU Uith yi-fttfriLiy. unci thi% Amy. vrnr
friHiuriitIv :intl (i:iwrily nmkiiii(? in<|uiry ullvr mv. I am in tbir
<LirKi'. till I kiiou M-riou-ly yt»ur niindr ax ti> thm inAtt«-r : tbcTP-
fun* pray let it U tiMt-^Uly ciiiivi'y'il to, uy trui* fri'nil,
Ynur nu»>t iililip*«l. v«tv iiuami inatt-Iy aITix tiniiatfl*
aii«l faitlitull M rvant
J. IS\«IEI.
lyiml'-n TTiur^Uv
'1*1 Ni»*r. ^ !'»«*.
I*.S. Viiu Kuvr till* •MTviri-^ I if all that n^ilili- family, and I
h.i\«* a tiik* II troiii my Iail\ (in :i\ili* fur %<iu; «lii«-h in. a aullid
iHN-ff iif tilMT ••tit iif lii-r I.i«l\-»hi|i'*i inint*. tn In* luaili* into a
iiiutr«' Inix \\tr Mr ('niiliM k.
< hi SuiiiLiy la-^l >ir l*«t«r Wyi )]•• u.u« n^titn^i to hin lUai*
dcrit'n |iLio- at llanihriiu^'h : In- i-* tiir t)arli* of Hathr'n lirvUlcr
ill luu.
Till' taiii«- day my Lini I.anMlnwn. tin Kiii^ dc^ lar'd is
r.iiiiiii II. -hiiuld ;:iH- (ii\<i\ t'iir S|Kiiii. lltry bi*th kiiit kit
Ma|iitit'i Itaiiil u|Htii thi ir iiiiplMymciif'*.
Vi Minl.iy my ImpI **i K.i'lic n-tunofl fp»ni the wrat to
Whitfhiill. Will I'Miliii with wi-l«ni chart* r* *.
Mil Maji-tfif di^ l.in«« that Mr An-hdciutpu iin'nTiU* tkall
ftiiii'4t^I thi' iK-aii Iff hurhaiu in that I>(-nar}', in caw tjf kaa
death aiid hi- i- likiwi«i- ill a fair Way nf huliiin^ with it botk
N^IiTtit-ld and hi."* An hdia(fti:u-y. thu' tin- Hijiliif|) nf U urliMBj
|iut^ in for l»>th a« 'ti« %.iid ii*T l>r. M •tiita^ii* hu ni'phi-w.
Thi* day tin Kiiiu' ihi l.inil Mr I'hiliii Ilnward ^tuTrr
i>f •Ti-iiiarii, «liii)i ^»«'\iriii«nt i« ^.iiil to U- wurth Uni^Ii'.
\iar. •
Ki>r mv l.i^hlv h n.i«r«^| frrr.il TK'in.a* f 'mkirk K*) . tf bti bmtv la
{.id r^ietm. Uf 'in.l A'i«rr««l li^ml b» |«f AfC to Mr. U^. i
• 4 Ihr < -■«< pf l««: ilxti. M.<1 hi r *nf u* ••r mtin-.i.Uu-a "httnt^ lfc# nwtafag W liaB
'^*n •itni*iiif Kia inl1to>niv in Oir >i>i)i.li<-« -■# |W« n Ai.«i 1 .«n«a^. t* tkit c^A Y^t
• r« . '.Artm crmfitrtl t>« < KafW<« II (rnrrA.,! fair thr K nj; an *b*4«lv «■«.« «« |^
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laSCBLLANEOUS OORBESPONDENCE, &C. 191
No. xxni.
Fbom Dean Granville to Mil Wilson*.
WhitehaU, Janry. 24th, 168|.
Mr. RsoisTERy
I SEND you here inclosed a particular of what rents are in
arrear, and will become due to me^ from time to time, betwixt
this and next Martin-mas ; and do inipower you to receive them
ally bat those that are assigned Mr. WilJdnson, as also to
manage the whole revenue of my Deanery, Archdeaconry and
PaiBona^ of Sedgefield, which I do, with much willingness and
satiafSBKstion, commit to your care : desiring you to pay of the
aererall summes of money specified in the paper as fast as you
can with conveniency, and those first that have been longest
due, and wherein my honour is most concerned. My brother
Bath remembers kindly to you, and told me that he would write
to yoa by this, or the next post, when you shall hear more
largdy and effectually, from
Your very reall and affectionate friend,
Denis Grenville.
Give my service to all my brethren, and let Mr. Subdean in
particular know that I did receive another very long epistle
iroQi Dr. Cartwright f by last post, whereto I shall return as
cort and resolute an answer as I did to the former.
Next Tuesday I am to marry Sir William Blacket to Sir
^ Registnr to the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and LL.B. He was made
SfWtoil Chanoellor of the Diocese in ]690, but did not long enjoy his office. ** Bfr.
^^SKiB Wilson in the Bailey was drowned the 27th Nov. 1690, Thursday at night as
nppotsd, and was found the 7th Dec. neare Coken Boats, being Sunday, and buried
tkit Di^t in the Nine Altars.*'— Bee's Diary. He left a son and heir, Sudbury Wil-
*OBt UMned from his god-father, Dean Sudbury.
t Thos. CaHwrlght, D.D., of Queen's College, Oxford, became prebendarr of the
Mk itall on Dr. Eaton's resignation in 1672, to which he was appointed Dy Ring
Clttries II. tide vacanie. He was also Chaplain in Ordinary to the King, and Dean
^HipoQ. He was ecclesiastical commissioner, and one of the delegates to enquire
into the aifiurs of Magdalen College. In the year 1686, he was consecrated Bishop
<if Chester. At the Revolution 1^ fled into FVanoe, and came wiUi King James into
IHaod, where he died April 16th, 1689, at Dublin, Kt 65,. and was intaned in
Cbriit Church.
\'M Mvw *.n\\\ iii.R.
rhriMoplur r.inv«»r«*n firi*' <laui:lit»T *, a fuir and vi'iiunu* I^ly.
\«ir)i 11 rnii^iiii-nilili* t'liriuin-. uh>>ni I Uijiti/Ml in th«- lSi«li*i|<{int-k
lit' hiirii nil. but ii«-vi r h.iil :Li )i;i|i|i\iii-«k^ tn mi* •linii' I l.^i Lrr
ill iiiiiii- :iriii<« .it ihi- t'iiiit.
K'T Mr M lUm.
K<(i«trr III Ihf \h^n anil l )i«|itrr ■ f Ihir^am, Ihtrbam.
l\ •U*r-^\, •• -J4 Jaa. 'H{. Mr. |Kma>'i l^<trr lu iai|"i«cr mr lo ■nni<f L.i aW A«
Kr^tiiur.'";
Nn. XXIV.
Tin'M iMK ••wiK 111 Tin: -\Mr.
Mu. Kki. inm k.
I «% \<» yi^rcpi:iy .tU <I.iy. till '* **( tIh- iIik k .i« I u««* tn Uv* oci
Siiiiti.iM-i iiiii^i iMMiiitiiiily .t? Kl\ llniiit-: ItiiT |i f> vionl K« n* aI
till- <'1«»^-T wiiin- I \%ip- Ariij I li.iM- tr.iifHl within. thi« lUr.
till I'J <•!' rli- liiH-k. tiiiiikiiiu' tli.it v>it iin;;hT i all h* n* iSuf'l
:ini n>iw i;>irt«' to >t •l.irii* ^*«. i^lpn- I -hall ili:.i-. iiritl •!.iv fill
t \t iiiiiu'. aii'l (i'kiXiNtf til ««■«• voii thit iLii. it' %<>ia ln^M viior
I - ...
n *>«>iii7iiiii ii\ ;:'iiTij t«i iiiMrp-w.
I •*li.ill Uf Wfll |i|iM<M<l titbit till' hi-lhtp :iii.| my lir«'th«T bjT
uhi-iii I iiiii^T Ut j^'iiiilfMi ill tliit :it}.iirr :iii<l \<iu tli .-t^n«- mi to
til-' I iniP- ; ni'W nr li« p .iltir Hut uhi-n- y-u il" ■•r ii'» turnc
t.iriip r. I am p«««'i\i«l t>i itii|<Im\ \i.u a« «riift.ipl ••! ni\ n Ai-nnr,
.iit«l to Ut' a- km I T'l \'W a^ my |ipilf<i-««wMiiir ; iiii<i I 4ni rx-
• i*itiiii^' ;jl:iil that I liaM- ::iiititl -Il irri-at a \**in\ iin hiifh tkcv
a|ii'p*}K.iriiiii«.
J ilt«^in- tti uuthori'M' v-m tn art in all my ri»iir«'ni««.
• '• • * •
f\ ft ri f» mih'
ri>!*r«iii. " Mr |)r*n't I^trr at l«i>iii|-»ii, «brr«ifi b^ p«!i«r<t IriU mm 1 iftiA
• J . 1. '» .' ■ f ■• ! ■ ■ 1 .*. ! ' ■ f -r r ».f .• •. r.r. I r.«.». lUrl . / II #^lr«. «
f- ■ .r . . • » , 1 J. .: w f. Ji • tAu.- 'rf f !: • u- !. I«r*! IamAv^.
l.» « I i.k •- » •< . - • W . t I I- K * IU« rArr w# l>«Qtf
■f l-i».' :.. *t..i .■ « ".«■ lUr. .• f !.'.• Ki hf, . r.
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE^ &C. 193
No. XXV.
From the Earl op Bath to the same, and copy op Mr.
Wilson's answer.
St. James'ies, Jan. 27, 1684.
Me. Willson,
I AM very somr that your sudden going out of London hindered
a conclusion of the treaty which was begun betwixt my brother
the Deane and your selfe couceming the better management of
liis BSkyres in your hands, whereof however you will sooner
oomme (I hope) by correspondence of letters to a good under-
standing, and finish the same to both your satisfactions, which I
wiah and very well approve.
You may remember I spoke to you in the busines conceminc^
Mr. WilUanson's debt, but had not time then to say soe much
as I would on that subject, deferring it to another opportunity
which your hasty departure would not permit. I desire you
therefore to speake with the said Mr. Willkinson, and to let us
certainly know with all convenient speed his resolution about
the 1000/. borrowed of him for which he hath receaved soe
much money more (as he well knowes) then the ordinary rules
of the law doth allow^ and however he may yet have a faire end,
if he please, on those termes we last did discourse, without
lirinfi;ing his name on the stage; my brother, for neighbour-
hooa and kindnes' sake, being (I find) more inclinable to have
a reasonable proposall made to him from Mr. Willkinson rather
then firom another, and therefore forborne to proceed about
raising money for payment of debts till we have further in-
formation £rom you there. I need say noe more, only I shall
be glad to meete any occasion of doing you any good office or
kindnes within my power, remayning
Your very loving firend
Bathe.
For Mr. ^Y^^flon, at DorhAm,
Rwgiiitfir to the Deane and Chapter of Dnrham.
(liidaned,<«270Jan. 8]. My Ld. of Bath's Lettr. ICr. Wilkinson's Barg.''}
Copy of Mr. TTilson's answer.
Tours of the 27th with which I was honoured catne not to me till
tbe 2nd instant, and then I cou'd not meet with Mr. Wilkinson till
c c
104 HI «N (-K^wiuT.
ii-ntfTilnv. with «)ii»iii I t)ii-!i ili*r<ti)r«'ii thf* l»u*inffia fullr Rut I
r.»u*ij iml hnui»t' hirij t«i niiv jir«j'«'«al!« rmirf njiiixj lh«* rlfsnnf «■([ ct
\\\% il' )it. t'lirthi-r \\\v\\ t)i.it K«* « 1* nMtiy aiiil willini' t>i takr hi« ppi»-
r j':ii!. a«'«'»»nlin!i t.i ri \ifiarit. aiiii ihi* arri*ar»*« t\\iv. fi»r •»• •ji« K^ it
af'iiT..i.ir'tlv ".itintii-il iKjiI I'.rr** \* ii»i!h«T Isiw iii-r iij'iil* acs:ri«; K:^
fitr tii« h.ivt'iiiir li:* li.iri;.iin«-. nr.tl th«rt'>>n' \\v «iil i«ot ivfvilr fr\^:n iL.
Hut h«- i« uilliiij III :i.i\.iiii-r w''.:i( (i.i>!tr\« Mr Prafir Kaa -^vasw^
fur M !h»' mtr i*!* i i w'an-*' p'jr-* .i-i- T'-.r .in amiuitf f^r Mr IWn^'t
liir. Aiitl tht* nthiT. nn !:•- pr^ !• i.-ii •{. U'l-auw Kf hcarl tKa! Mr.
I>«Miii' BMil I hail riii<if n bir;:! [<•■ l'>ir hi« «hii!c r«-\riiur I t- l-i S-.a
Hiii-h A liar:;aiiii* bi« l^.-tt wa^ ikh' kiinlriiffir. l'<<r that I hah «i...r.c to
diN* that iit\>i-lt'i\ nhirh ii..i«ii* him iii-ip- ranii-«t f-T ;:. w^fe tKat 1
v«>r}ly U'lir%r hi' wil l'i^<' «"n.i'«hat ihi>n* tliaii (» %rari'«' purr^«M•,
whrfl Wff c-'iiii* |>.>«iti\< 1\ f'» •■•rn-!u.!t* wit)i hini, th -• h«- m- -j'.i pn^
liiinH rii>*' in-'P- .1*. {-ri-afrit, i i-r ai;ri-f tn aiiv riim|M^iCioit f>*r L:i ««• bC
I InHiir*<«l. '* Mv ■ii««>r f« mt U! • ' I* '« I^tffT '
Xn XXVI
FlliiM h\ W Nk\N\||li: 111 1IIK •iWK.
Mr. Hi'.i-ii.R.
TiiK. iinlii*««l l«ttf r ipiTii iiiv lip-tli. r H.i'lii. m-.i* ili^i^i*^ !n (■«
MTit. .!« \iiii will |Mni;\f hy r|i« <{.it<-. Iu*»t |Mi*t . )i.wi n«4 aT
atf«'M<l.iiii«* •zi thi nuj.'i.iil-* ..r ^ir WjIIi.iTii IU.t< krt ami mj
Lilly ilrf.iii.<<{ lu. T.»i lit. ?.. int^riii my l.f'tl.i r how h»f rr.iipkt
ilin^! I*i*lt!!«r. Ai;il I il-. ii't .!■ nl.t l.i.r that y.iu »;I1 pi«
lii^ |i»nUhiji :i pxxl .iKt.ti'it iiMli.if .iff.iin-
I Oiiill In.' vi r\ »«ll i'1-.iJMil. th.ir i!i\ lip'thrr arni T«<i. do
ailj«i*t ;ill iii.i?ri r^ i i-th . n.sii;; thi t';irTiiiri;: i.|" ni\ n \i riu*- V-ifh
XI r..«»r- I.. V. r\ .iL^r* .iM- t.. u\*^'. \i.\\\\i)z ?»••!. I. •t'.«i.,n at aH
u^.iiii^t \..\ir |i.r«-.fi Il'if »ij.«»i. r .-r im "iii. }i .-» kii,.| *{ mM\f^
iinr»t i:»» ii.. I .till H.i»|,tiii| iti ;iii I \rr.i«'r<l;!iar\ iii.iMi<-r that I
h.i\t- cltt.iii.iil «•• I'iil .1 •iiii^iiif .iiiil ;i]>|»r*'lu!i"ri. f r in U4ii
Hi««)iiip ait'l )>r>'*}.ir, \\\.i* \..ia «h;ill U^ On |«r«i.:i «h<> AhAil
nuinap* my ri\«irii it' \\\\ lV^\u%^u^• NtfWani |)n*%i- h^lfr •>
NiiiT.iliI*- !•• my mir.il. I «h.ill r'i.::.L' m\ « It'*- i n^t^Iii;^ ^*M^
\\\\\ l.t l;iiii j.f.\. 1...W hit- w.:i. i! \*.II I.,,! hi:i>liT hut t^^l'l
-}..ill iii.iki- .ill ri »• !.•. ..♦ \. -i u':.. ?. I .:.'.:.. I., 1. l.v wa\ •>!' ad-
\ ii •■ :irH| «i!hi rw !«• .
I lii-Min- that \<iii iftouM, with ««{>>««1. a|»|« art* Uith At F!AMa|t»
MISCELLANEOUS OORRSSPONDENCE, &C. 195
ton and Sedgefeild^ and informe mee how you find matters
there, and if you perceive any affiiire to require a more speedy
determination than the consulting mee wUl admitt of, I do
authorise you to use your discretion. The dark of Sedgefeild
18 lately dead, and I am not yet resolved how to dispose of the
place. Mr. Beaimiont can host informe you of the state of that
parish. I would have you advise with him concerning the
Clarke's place and the schooll ; and afterwards to write freely
your thoughts. I would have Mr. Sisterson performe the duties
of the pla^ for the present ; but I cannot yet resolve to bestow
the place upon him, (as I heare hee desires) tho' I know that
hee and his family are great objects of charity and compassion.
Walker, for whom the parish do move, is, I feare, a very
drunken fellow; and tho' otherwise able enough, no wise
quallified on that account. Poor Sisterson is, I Imow, a weak
brain man, and doth still, I feare, often faile in point of drink ;
bat I conceive the poor man as harmlesse and innocent a
drunkard (if hee deserves the name) as any in England : and if
I do bestow it on Sisterson, it shall bee for the sake of my god-
son, his son Denys, to bee supplied by him till the yoimg man
bee of age ; and in the meane time I would have the lad addict
himselfe to song, if hee have any voice ; whereof I would have
you and Mr. Beaumont make some triall, and to give mee some
account thereof. I have a kindnesse for the boy, and intend
when hee is a better schollar to take him into my house. I
hope Mr. Battersby takes a speciall care of him, as I have de-
aii^ him. I have received another very long letter from the
Deane of Rippon since you went, to the old tune, whereto I
shall retume no other answer than I have to his former ones.
With my services to Mr. Subdeane and all my brethren, I rest,
Your very affectionate d,
Denis Grenvillk.
Bemember me kindly to all mv freinds, your neighbours ; and
very particularly to my cosen AUenson, his wife, and doughter
yomr wife *.
* In bis will, dited Jan. 3d, 1689, Marmadake Allenson the elder mentiooB his
■OD-in-law, William Wilson, Spiritnid Chancellor of the Diocese of Durham.
Thtre was a connection between the Allensons and Mrs. Granville's fiamily, which
aoooonts for the Dean's use of the term * coten.* Ralph AUeuson, a steady loyalist,
Ifaynr of Durham in 1635 and 1642, was married at Brancepath, Sept. 9, 1636, by
Dr. Jo. Coon, afterwards Bishop of Durham, to Mary Blakiston, a sister of Mrs.
CcMiii. They were daughters of Marmaduke Blakiston, PrebendMry of the Ttii itall
'm Durham Ciihedral.
c c2
VM llKAN Ok\>iVIMJt.
KonwnitMT mi* uIImi kindly to mr rtiiim lieaunmnt aiiii
funiily ; und tell my ^whiuu^hUT I M-nd Iht my bl««iinir.
To Mr. WiUoD. Rrfiitrr In the llirmn and ChapCcr of iHirlMai.
• Ifiit.ir«^, -Mr. l>rMr. 39 Jm. 'Hj. Ili« Hror. II '• I««ut My Wm« te
MuMc")
Xo xxvn
FktiM IIIK -\MI. in IIIK ^AMi:.
mutob^. imk r«4 i<^^
Mk. Uf-.r. I-TKK.
I K%iiN}**M\ fit «irc \>>ii. a- w.ii .i« |H»H^i)ily \«>u laii. t** take
fiiif jniinif y tiion Uiiii to l!.i«in;:t<>:i .iri>l S>l;ri;l<M. lud il' Mr.
l(«'auriit*iii will .11 1 iiiii|uii\ \<'ii. I *>h.ill T.iki il kiii'tly t'roiu him)
to tit and |in IMP- til*- iMri^i.' *• tit )•«■ ailM-Md li\ iiif \u p l« n-nce
til tht- 111 \t r.li«rii*ii. I |'ri\ i.ill tM;;itKir .1! !•.!«? "«>ir.i' <if tbe
Iradiii^ u\* u .iiiii tiKiLi- tl.i 111 iiiii|t-p*T.iiid li^'Vi ;;rj«i>>u*i\ iiur
]ip\<M-ni Kiij;: U ;:iii^ hi<* p ijin . .iii>l h>iw li-ii>|i\ fur t-ipua*
r«(iiiiii'* iiiii\ )••-. it It |ili.i<*« <ii«l ;«• Ml H-.4' UH witii an h<ini-«t l'«r-
li.iiiuiil. Kiii'.i 111)1 r III* Li!idl\ Til ifi\ ('ur.iti^, and all mj
li'viii;; 111 i:;iiUiiir-». .Hid till tli ••m- at Sd^jitiild that I lui^r «>
pMitl all ••{)ini<'!i I't lli'lii fl.a! I di> li>>t «ii«|h<T :ti.\ <>]>|»Mi!iiia
tri'iii flu n; win II I p...iii.rj.l .iiiy Kiii;*^'** "t tl.i >iiiP tn thrtf
lilt ri..ii. i«}:ii!i I .III) liki ?•• dii \ir\ *|i-iiiil\. Aiid t« II !kuiv
lit' Ka-iii;;ti ill. that j d«ii«tll r^ im iiiU r fh.it at LiAt KItt tnjo. I
had ImiI thpi- ]Hi>|*li- fh.if Wi.uld Vxrn l.-ati tn jtnaiiluni mr lo
hurham. mi<l tun •.! th«ni \>>tttl upni.^! mt- : hut 1 hii{«- tlie
ti iiiiM-r o| ni\ |kirt<«h i« a litrlr .ds p^I. a* «fll a* t};at nf tile
u!i«i|r KlM;rl>>fni-. I -halll-r»ady !«• iliitt.it* thi' 1 h Tln'Iii V of
ni\ I.ifi ;:r.ii i'iii-< S.\irai;:T)i .i!.d .Nl.i^ii-r. in t'"ri;« -tin; all that
i^ I'.i'^l. fltii* I h.i\«- U« n \ir\ Uiiil\ u^A \*\ lifni. |irx>rulrd
lhi-% Mill d" ih* ir ihit\ :inil U- ^••\iriii^l hy in* . .m tar n* ni«KNi
and p !:«rj ii r»n'MP-. I.-r fh» IuMip-. !►.• ymr 1«-*?. I !«^r«cll
\i'U. witlj t}i. I .'iti <irri til * "l Mr !»• .i'i!i..":f. w I. ■ \.ry »»11 ua-
di r^taiid* *hi- t« iii|m r ft Nifh |k.tri«hi-<» 1" turthi r lhi« «i-a*i>iuible
|iiirf •»!' ««'r^ii I' tti tl.i Kill;: and Kinirdom*' < aptainf Mi*ii«'ni\
* (>f |*i«|aaiU. A rrffitlr«i«ri •>( nmN^tTAbU itUIr in thr |«rMh <^ Kmh
*nrt thr «ki»lr |«rwh C f lb* !»••: t J.NiriMl. Jul* 3 iMd «•/# p 174. Ni
irrv' llitf IhirhMB. 1 li
MISCELLANBOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 197
luiTmff loet Ills lieutenant, Stothard, would hardly oppose me
now, I guesse, if I were upon the place, and made an addresse
to the people, betwixt the ITicene Creed and the Sermon ; or, if
he did, he would hardly passe muster so well before my Lord
Chief Justice as he did before Judge . I have divers heads
dmbenda's in reference to my private afiairs ; but the circum-
atances.of this place and my present temper of mind (who have
as mnch reason to moume as any man in England) will not
permit me to inlarge on them, I shall therefore in a postscript
only send you some minutes of them, and rest.
Your affectionate friend,
Denis Grenville.
1. To let Mr. Wilkinson know that I have received those
two letters wherein he desires to be my malt-man, and am will-
ing to gratifye him in buying my malt of him sometimes, when
he has the best malt, and so shall my nephew Sir George
Wheeler.
2. To examine the controversy betwixt Mr. Sisterson and Sir
Edward Smith's tennants, wherein Mr. Beaumont may be help-
foil) and 80 accommodate it according to your best discretion.
3. That I received your account, concerning your inspection
into my affair at Easington, and am very well pleased with your
detenrunation.
4. That if Sir Christopher Conyers do not make some volun-
tary application to you, that you would, over a while, make
wne application to him, to receive an answere of the affaire I
^commended to him, when he went for the north with Sir
William Blacket.
5. That in case I should draw a bill upon you, payable at
Kdsumer, that you would accept it, and take care for the pay-
Bwnt of the same, out of the Pentecost rents, which I will not
4>if I can possibly avoid it.
Pot Mr. WUlm. Wilson,
■^K^ to the D^ne and Chapter of DarhAm.
(bdoned, <*Mr. Deane, lOth Feb. '8|. ParUamt Men. Mr. Wilkinaon, Malt-
■>>• 8r. E. Smith, tennts. Sir C Conyers. The BUI of Exchange.'')
19H 1)1 IN f.K\N\ll I.F.
Nn. xxvm.
I-'kiim I III-- <i\\ii: III iiiK '^\Mv, HUH (uriM i»r fi.vrti^
I KIIVK^.
Mk. Km. 1-11. k,
I II WF w:iitiMl II gn^.it wlwli' tn h.i\f h.ui «i>iii«* lii^nurv villi
111% 1iruth« r, t)i:it 1 iiui;}it luvi* <Miit vmu lii« (m*ii««* ci»iK-i-mitt|r
voiir iH-i^M-iiitiiiit with \ViILiii«<ii Hul |».irtly hi« • i>iiitTTi«- far
thi* lii<«Nt- III' hi-< M.iMiT. uliiih \*t I tiritl «tirk<« (Ii»M- h\ him
.izhI |Mnly tft«- (ii«|Mit*' :iUiiir hi- <i'*Mfii Ki'\ Uin;; vt-t an-
iltiidctl ^till hiii'iriii;^^. I li.iV' *•« i*f y>>a <1<*hui' tor tltt- pn^M «
i«i|i|i\ III' ;i Ii'tr« r h« •wilt lit*, -ii.it \'>ii iiiay <'i)ni|urf hi* «r;i.iic«
with hi- ui'pI-
I hiiVi- |irr\.iih-<l %iith Mr. Knhr. th'i' I )i.i\«' nut w^-n buB
Vrt. to stiiji thr hill uhi«h I h.i'l ^n* 11 I'll VdU. lUVaUe A*
Mirhai liii.i-. hilt u)ii tiii-r I -h.til U- :ihh *.• j.r* \aili with him to
take an ii.'»^«i;^nni('ni "t ihi* ri-nt.-< ilui- at !*• rii«i init. Ar . I am nol
Vft a-.'iiinil.
Ill ilrawiii:; niy liill ^-n yi>ti I *i-'kf (.in- it «h'>iil I not U* mt-
ahh- Hit *M>i<n a** I'lnfff-t, V'T ti..tt \«>>'il<l h i\« U«n t«B> Lard
u|ii»n \iiu. hut till* hill )•• iii:: it ■* |i.i\.ihh !:11 air* r \iiu i*»l np.
i«i\iii Mil h.ii Iiii.k- r'li'-. !%*.:• !t u>'i!-{ ri{'i\ y>*ii . and ikia
-Hill. )•• -iili •* -I \i I. ill f'i.i r -Hi ti! <!• i*t-. a- -{mi :t\tti in lh« lAprr
•« lit yii\i, I th<»u;:ht it i;«it i.iii'Mi ii !i!:.i!l «i t«i ih», iirt»«;4rnn|t
my « in iimot.iTu * -.
1 n*«'i>iiinicnii it niiii- innri ;•• vxiir i ••n-tih-rilii'ii. wh«thrr. if
vm I aiiipi? .i< t f |>! .1 h:ll |M\.fthli .i! M:- h.ii IiiLm nr MartiZAiAM^
iiini th.it ICiih r uill iK't att'i'! ••! .iti .k%«;;;Titiii lit i*t my rmt^
wiiii Kiit- tlj.it It \**ii HI thi- ••*ui.?r\ i< rupli .it thf ji-kf|rf
lit i)i«' hill. Ill iii.ii ti.iii h iiion "« ruph ut the ;i^«i^iiiM>nt
I :in |>r<'i>«<iiiiil aiii «'th*r •\]"«ii*rit u*t u»\ •*u|>]i!\ h« n . l«*tm-iU
tliii .iTi<i M:< hi' I'li I- It \-'i I -k!;!! •!. I li.'i-r ni ik« u«- "( «i4Dr
|» r«»»tii* tli i! I »i.»i!.l !j..t w:ilif.^!\ ri"«»:\i- .iii ••hli;:-.i'ifn fn4&.
I if k'l^' ^'T\ I \': I riiri.iry l»r"k i j-
|K-ir::;j !•• In ar I'p-iii \"W -|ii"i;I\ .iJi I r-^^ixi I> ni Viyq n
-t,i?» i'l ■!;•■ «il-J«»r. l-t«l\? 11*1 Jf •!•! • •• -r a:.l ll.. |(.%h'|isf
< h • i.t *•• r. w 1." ;- i.».\% »:«t*>Mri«. i:.-! txr-^'^ .lU a!.««in irctm
iii» . %Vi I P -V
V. if .ir:.* 'iM?. :r;. rl.
\h M- « ik» Willi..
Mv ^rMii t.- Ml >:il«Ii .ii.t iii;i: ii.\ hriri.r»ii
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 199
Copy of a letter from Mr. Wilkinson,
Mb. Deu^, — Lately I have spoke with Mr. Wilson. I perceive
by him, that you or some body aoth thinke I have had a great bar-
gain of you, and I hope it will be so, but I would have none to thinke
much at it now, who knew of its making, and did not make you a
better ; for if you had dyed I had none to make my mone to for
iitiafactioD, but must have armed my selfe with patience, so I hope
none doth now thinke much because it doth accrew by your living so
Ion|^, whose life I pray God long preserve. Also I perceive by Mr.
Wilson that you are not yet furnished with money, and if so I is yet
in the same mind, to give you six years' purchase for your life, and so
adTmnoe what sum you have occasion for, provided I may receive my
owne rents. I is told you are about letting your whole revenue. If
jon do 80, 1 thinke it will be your prejudice, and his that deals with
yoo. But if you will let it, I can help you to a chapman, who will
give aa much and more than any. If you thinke my proposalls your
conTenienoe, let me know, and I will order one to treat with you and
iMiue joor selfe of the assistance of your reall friend and servant,
WlIiLLAJC WlLlOKSON.
6 Feb. '^
For Hr. WiUm. WUiod,
to the Dome and Chapter of Durham.
(lateMd, *'Hr. Deane, 24 Feb. '8}. The BilL The Bp. of C.'s case. A copy
of Mr. WOkiiMon's letter.")
Copy of Mr. Wilson's reply,
30 Martifl, '8}.
Sim, — Year kindness in sending me a copy of Mr. Wilkinson's
letter wil be of great use to me, as often as I shall have occasion of
duooorseing with him, for I finde I must take noe notice of what he
■aja, for he was pleased to declare solemnly, with great protestasions,
tiuit his great incouragement to deale with your honour was, that he
was to receive his money irom me, and that he heard I had made a
bold bargain and a verv hasardous one, and more to that effect, to all
which his letter is a designed and a direct contradiction. But my
bargain is to be cryed up for a mighty great and advantagious bar^
gain on my part, and that by persons that ought to have both more
wit and honesty than to do it, for I know they are all ignorant of
the value of the Deanary, on which the bargain mainly depends ; soe
that they therein discouer both their folly and malice to me, who had
noe designe in that treaty but to serve your honour, and who, by
these reports, am mightily discouraged to meddle any further in it,
tho' I am very willing to serve your honor, and if you please to in-
trost me to manage your revenue, if I doe not make as much of it as
200
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any oiii* livfini; 1 will bt* rt)nt«-nt t*< \h* n*{>ut«*<I Nith knair wrA f .■ ;.
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ti» oivrpt tlir luK i« ii'it tiii- t:ii f' |>.i\ inriit. hut tSt* i^ii.*t«it'nti-*n of
our iii>«rtali(«. t'-r it' tiif n-iiti« witi> .-ittudil^ liur. »ii that I n.ii;*Lt ^.av«
an afk'*lL:!ilu«rit nt thriu. 1 m< uM «llil:(iL:'v at-rrjit lilt* hul, thit' I «rrv
UiH to nti-tif thi* ni>'ni-\ ihi«« *ii ii.<Mii-tli*. arnl \*m nia\ AAiitsVr Mr.
Kiih'r t}iat th.it i« iii\ itifii «-r-. !•!•■. .irni. i.tu \.iti kimw it. I h -p*
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N. XXIX
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MISCELLANEOUS OORRESPONDENCE, &C. 201
that they may be fre from his disturbance which they say is in-
toUerable. I promised Sir Edward this day that I would write
to you by this post, and give you Ml authority to let the thing
aoooiding to your discretion, provided you found Sisterson as
onreaBonable as they pretended. And if you find him so per-
▼erae, I would have you admonish him from me, and let him
know I shall be much dissatisfyed at his deportment.
I sent you lately the Order of Councill, concerning the Form
of praying for the Royall Family, which I hope has been ob-
aenred in the Cathedrall, and that you have communicated the
•abatanoe of the same to all the Clergy throughout our Jurisdic-
tkniy aooording to instructions I sent I)r. Gartwright.
Bdl continues in the Counter in lamentable distresse, and
unlesse you retume up his last quarter's sallery, I am afraid he
win starve there, tho' I cannot discover yet that he is any thing
humbled thereby. GKve my service to Mr. Subdeane, and let
him know that ^oell promises to order the retume of the books
to Hutchinson. Expecting your reply to my last, I rest,
Your affectionate friend,
Denis Grenville.
Mr. John fiasire was this day marryed to my Lady Stote.
Some had the confidence to desire me to knit the knot, (to my
great wonder) which I refused.
For Hr. WiUimm Wilsoii,
BiHfiter to tiie Dnae and Chapter of Durham.
(ladoned, "Hr. Deane. 3 Bfartii. To negodate with Wilkinson. Sr. Ed. Smith's
Mr. BeU's Sallaiy.")
No. XXX.
FbOM the same to the same, and copy of HEPLt.
Whitehall, March 7, 168}.
Mjl Rboistei^
Tho' I am exceeding buisy, and my head very ftill, (being in a
eriticall conjuncture to preach to morrow in his Majestie's
Chappell) at St. James's) yet I cannot satisfye my selfe without
answering yours of the 3d instant, and assuring you, under my
owne handy without the helpe of a secretary, that as I haye
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In**- |iri*{MiM-cl liy iny tri' ipU. Hiiit i^hiiin I imiM i'>iituit.
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iiii'I lui\i* iin «ii^|»itiiiii Init fli.it \i>ii r.iii ]i«rt"niH- all ?K.i! \ -u
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Y<>u an- :i««tiri^l nt' iny kin-lin ^^t !•• \"'i. .iiid \iiur« nA • !' mr
rnntiili iiri' in ymi : .iii-l I iji i\ !»\ ':p- )•!• -*!:;:: •■!" that I'.nr.r
l*nwir \ihii-h I. ifli iii*ii< I r. •.•»!.• il nin- mul lipnijl.t im^ ?•• a
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t'r'^tly aiiUMfl nut ; ar»>l •!• {>•>:*<•{ :.i-' troin ( i>~I. a« wt 11 .&« !:.•«* :
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MISCELLANEOUS OORRESPONDENCE^ &C. 203
phers than so, or I shall not be with speed out of my troubles.
1 rest with much sincerity and love,
Your reall friend,
Denis Grenville.
Copy of reply.
Your extraordinary kindeness you are pleased to express in your's,
of the 7th instant, does ingage me soe farr as to resolve to submitt in
your affairs to greater hazards and difficulties than [according to the
rate of this world] becomes a wise man to doe, yett [and thereupon]
I am resolyed, maugre all the censures of all mankinde, to rely wholly
upon the justice of soe honourable and worthy master, and the kinde-
ness of a new, but I hope, lasting patron ; and tho* I am bold in call-
ing your honour soe, yett I hope I shall soe manage myself, under
your countenance and favours, as if I had them not to that degree as
to pretend to interpose in your councell, and soe take away all occa-
sion of the most censorious and prying to thinke that ever your
honour is in the least influenced by my services in your determina-
tions and resolves, except in matters where the circumstances of the
caaes may make it necessary [requisite] for your ease to be sayd that
it was done by my advise. And [whether as steward or farmer, all-
ways] shall stick close to manage your revenue faithfully to the best
of my skill, the most to your interest, both on the paying and re-
oeiveiiig side, still haveing an eye (which may displease [disagreable
to] some) to your honour and reputation as Dean and Archdeacon ;
for tho' I may be a good steward without that, yet have regard in
mj own oppinion I can never be faithtuU servant wdthout, which
humor will never, I hope, make [render] me less acceptable to you,
or leas fitt for your service.
(Indoned, *' Mj Answer to Mr. Deane's of ye 7th March.'')
No. XXXI.
From the same to the same.
WhitehaU, March 2Ut, 1685.
Mr. Register,
Sib Gteorge Wheler * sets forth in the York coach, next Mon-
^ Sir George was aboat to toke possession of his prebendal stall at Durham. He
wM ion of CoL Charles Wheler, and was born at Breda, whilst his parento were in
exile on ■ccoant of their loyalty. He was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, but
Dd2
*J04 U¥.\S UKAN\II.LK.
(lay, tnwunlrt Durham, and I chtiin* you to impkiy innie wa
uh<iiiiri<N'\iT \iiii think t-diivrniriit, U» rh-unM* thi* hi»UM*. and fit
it t'lir hi*« ri^*i|itiiiii. I th*«irf vuu ti* |fi\f liiiii M iht* mwuitaocr
hi' iihiiU Htatid ill iw^-il of. ill iNiiiit iit' iMlvi«f. or •ithi-rmiM-. aArr
hii urrivall. Mr. Smith*. [i;i\iu^ thi* haiii»yniiM tn U- ac-
(|uaiiit«*«l with liiiii Ih-p- \n thi- fNiuth. will uNi U- Tt-r}* utf^* iout
ti) M-rvi' him. And hu\iii^ ni pmhI n tfm|iiiniU und ftitintuall
|ini|) U.H yiiu twi>, hf will iHit Mand much in iw^nl nf fCLer
udvi-M-m. uhfiiii I wnuld h:ivi' him maki- iuk* of at lir>»t with
^ri*;it |iruiIi'iH'«* iind (;iutii>ii.
It wnidil havi- U-tii vi ry pr.it rtuU. I tind, t«» hi* Majt^tT,
Hith Miiiii- prt.it nii II lii r* ut rmirt.tii h:i\i- ha<l >ir Wuliaa
Ittiwri t'linM-ii, hut -ini • fliin- i- .in h'inf«*t p-nthin^n. I'f a
liiVal lamil\ , « lit-tiil '*'. I :im \try indithri lit. I liavi- ii«i
ut pn-M'nt, thiTi litr I z> in.iiii.
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h.-li iinlrr*. Mr inamnl (tm^. lUa^btrr of >ir Tk.<M llifctn. Ki»l ^
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MISCELLANEOUS OOBRESFONDEMCE, &C. 205
When Sir G. comes to Durham I desire the D[ean] of Rip-
pon may be summoned to Chapter.
(lodoned, ** Mr. Dome. 2lo Mar. 1684. To prepare the hoiue for Sr. Geo.
No. XXXII.
From the same to the same.
WhitehaU, March 24th, 1685.
}hu Beoister,
Sii George Wheler did, according to my intimation, set forth
yeiterday towards Durham, in the York coach, with Tho. Bla-
JDstoQ in his company, whom I desire you to be very officious
to senre and advise, aiter his arrival.
Tour's of the in answer to mine (which you think fit
to stfle a kind letter) I do esteem a very kind answer, and do
retome you for the same my very reall thanks. My condition
I most confess dos require some officious services, more than the
oidinary notion of prudence will allow of, and possibly, betwixt
tliig and Michaelmas, more than ever hereafter. But there is a
thing called ^nerosity which is a vertue as well as prudence,
aod nowayes inconsistent with what does best deserve the name,
which will justifye a seasonable assistance of a person in my
circumstances, unhappily plunged thereinto not altogether by
my own sin, but partly hj the ill management of my agents.
Tme glad to find more of it in you, that has had no advantages
b? me, than in many persons from whom I might more reason-
ably expect it.
1 have at last satisfied Mr. Ryder, who has supplyed me with
money to strike of all those debts (except Capt. Richardson
100/.) which were uneasy or dishonourable, so take an assign-
ment, as you advise, only with this difference, that he will
allow me no lon^r time for the payment thereof than Mid-
WBuner. But I have not been able to get money enough to
£y of the Captain's hundred, neither is it possible for me, I
d by a letter he sent me last night, to stave it of any longer.
Hee is civill to me, and promises me ftiture services, but at this
time 80 very importimate with me to write to you to pay his
money to Alderman Hall *, that it is not possible for me to deny
* Fitbar ofJonathan Hall, D.D., Prebendaiy of Durham and Ractor of Cockfield,
oo. Sdlblk, and ancestor of the Halls of Flass, in the cx>unty of Durham.
'JOO lifc\% nR«N\||.I.R.
liiiii : will) li:itli |)rf\uiK*«l with iiir tn duo it t»y thU p*»t aa
«trM'ni:tllv .!•« I am iiM*', :iiiil I till ai'i-itnlintrly intniit yi»u tit ^o
til the AliliTiii.iit. iiii<l tti ili-M-iMir'M- with him uUiut thr
iiii«'<li:iily al'ti-r th<- nt't-it tit' thi-* li-ttiT. uiid tn nmtriie mh
w:i\. it' it Im' |Ni-.«ilili\ to ^i\r ih«' AMi niiuii i«uti«fj( tiuii. ra|4ii.
KirhariU'iTi i-* .1 mail that ma\ dn iii«- iiiuiiy iiliiAAun^. aiiJ I
wiiiild lint Milliii);ly <li«»hli;:i* liiiii. I fihull nay no niun* cuo-
riTiiiii^ it, hut Im-Hi'Vi' that, it'yiiii tan «ltj it, yuu will dti it. and
;^i\t- mi* •Miiiit- at-(-«iuiit iit thi- rt.iiii«-.
I iim ?Mirr\ >ir Wm. I(ii\ii<« did nut manap* hi.« W«xnMM
U-tft-r. imr .i|i|M'.ir. •^iiit-r tht- liiohii|i anti Il«an. «Mit nl' n«|B'«*1 ot
lii-* M.iji-*«t\ *« Ml iimiiiiinlatioii. liail •iiirai^i'vi .ill thiir inti rr»(
t'lir him. U'if)i my kiml l'\i- tn \i>iir uitV. i<ai<*in Allinwn. ^ai
all my tVitiiil-. I ri->t.
Viiiar a!fii-ti<iii:iti- fri«-n<l.
Ih.M^ (iKI.%VIU.K.
My •H-rviii' tit Mr Suhil«an.
Fi>r Mr \l m. \l lUin, Krtfittrr i.i ti.e |Kar»r ah J Cliaflrr 'if iKtfbMB. Ilwtem.
'Iml'ir^^l. " Mr. U-Aa.. '24 Mar 'Hi. Mr. K«J*r bivrf4j m Aft«c»ttt. Cflfk
Ki.tianlft.iii'« |mi/ "
Nt. XXXIII
I'hmM till. ••IMI III mil ^KMV..
.Mk. Kk.i^iih,
1 \M -Nirrv my hmthir Mu-.jra\i- !• t't Ihxrham U f*>n- SirOnx
\\ 111 li r'o arrix.dl. hut thi urift- inr thi < '«in\.« .iti«*n »ill rr«ril
him, i-r -M 11111 o!|.tr I'liUi.'!. t«i m.ik<* u]) u < 'ha|itir : i « iin t rnxnff
wliiih il*itii*ii. m\ lord i'l Puih.im an«l I ha\i- ain -tiiy uiU-
matt^l "\iT miiiii*.
1 .till •"•rr\ \i'ii ^tiit iiif 11*1 Urtir mi-«« mnrtnr.nj; S^t
ll'-lmi**. hut I li.iii If »u-|ii!i li h.ir th.i* \iiu il". .ii.d wdl «k\
\iiiir \m -! t.T nil"
! .i:;. \tr\ •"■n .i" n k-^l uj» m IL* aiii-iii,» ft |*-r Ni-trf^-ii,
.i:id iiiiii' •-]•>: ili\ ::. In h i\\* • t h:* w it. .ti. i . !..i :r« :.. « h-i at*
I.^i t>i \m riii:;*ii. my < ir.iti' .iiA i>!hi r* iM<r!i.* ni< . ii the
* \ (vn. til IIh )«nitt U IktiiiicrkAOi. ru. P«l . •luim kwaoofv^ Ui lk» l
1 >«rft^n.
MISCELLANEOUS (X)RRESPOia)£NC£, &C. 207
tjtlis of Elmdon are let from him. Sisterson may have been
possibly somewhat to blame, but certainhr Sir Edward Smith's
tenants do very bitterly oppose him. I do leave the thing
freely at your dispose, but I desire that you will take speciaU
care that he be not really oppressed. It would trouble me to
hear the clamour of his wife and children. And I shall be
necessitated, I fear, to add to his sallery for their necessary
support Had it not been for the convenience of taking the
lathes of Elmdon in kind, and the laboriousnesse of his wife,
uiey could not have fed so many mouths with 20/. a year paid
by hand.
As fo^ my course in the Cathedrall, I have depended on
Mr. Subdeane ; but in case his indisposition hinders him, I
Bhoiild take it kindly if any other Prebend would preach for
me, bat if none can be got, I shall be very well contented with
my former substitute, Mr. Smith *, it not being unreasonable
that he should rise with his patron, and from a Prebend's
deputy to become a Dean's. I dare venture him if I were
a Wnop, and not suspect that I should receive by him any
dtthonour. I am very much vexed my brother's operators at
Mug^eswick have made such havock of timber there, and much
the more because they had the impudence to pretend my autho-
rity for the same. That I should not be forward to countenance
any abuse upon that account, you may perceive by my former
order, concerning timber, which I sent downe, whereto I hope
there hath been had regard, tho* I did not receive any reply,
that I do remember, to that particular, from you or Mr. Mor-
ton. With my service to all my friends, I rest,
Your affectionate friend
Denis Grenville.
For Mr. WDiain Wilaon,
KcSMttr to the Deane and Chapter of Durham.
(iMioned, •< 2 Ap. 1686. Mr. Deane. To continue to Mr. Sist'son Ehndon
lyh-.")
^ It would appear from this that the Minor Canons were then occasionally allowed
to oempy the cathedral pnlpit. Mr. Smith would, most assuredly, be no discredlt-
aUe nbstitate. See ante, p. 204, note.
'4?0A ii|.\N riK^NVlI.I.K.
X.. XXXIV
Tani.rr MS«*.
itii. I'i.
Fkmm III! <«\MK !•> Alci !iiii<«ii'>r SwiKiin. fM:if«iN'. %
rKl»M>l \l l«iN *»¥ HlNOKin, Ai'. (II IIIK <• \\| I. Ii%I|
M«Y II n K\<«K M»t K <iK\t K.
TiiiM (.11 1 am Will ]N>riM.iiIt^I fii\ Inpl **( hurliarn i<i «ii «l«p
uiiil >r**'<l •& iii.iii. that HiiaT«-\ir u->'- ht- iii.tki-^ •'!' thi* tntL«i4i,
i|irfl«iiil»««l fit ]h- (!i<m .ixi n •! m inv l.i?«- iii!i'ni|iTi"«l lftt«r ke
will nut I'ailr at la«t ti» hniii: \u* Tr.ii'i>iir. yi-t I am %•• |fai<ni* of
mi«n-|»rf«M'iitatiMim (n iii\ ImpI ?Ii*- AnhKi*h«>ii ••! ^^Tk. aad
H4>ini' tithiT lli<*}iii|i<*. whnli ui ri- im-aht lliiiii;rii ii'^t iiam***! la
my IrttiTi that I liavt- \iiitiiri'«i uri -^i ^ri-at an ait ••!* |»n«uiiil^
tiiin a.*« til ini-|i>*4' ln'n in a iipitiflaiiiin **i inv iniKitN n< y. kuinlilT
lM-^<«i'hin;; Vi>ur <ir.iri* i iinti<li'rin;:l\ !•• nail it. an<i. it' V'Ki Lav*
iinv (iiiiniiin **l my vrraiit\, uhtr«it". uhat<ViT lia\i- l»^n mr
failiiic^. I ha\i- i:i\i-n th** w««rl«i. I h"|«'. Iittli- n*a««in t««(louK|}
that ymi wonhi U- |ih a<4-(l !•• |ir'it*tt ari-l iiii]i|»)rt me. if tk<TV
In' (M-ruMiin. ii^aiiixt thi- mallu*' nt' thi««- ill mrn. «)ii» d<» YvrT
iii(lu'*Triiin'»ly. I {«ri-ii\f. t'xlhiu thtir hh<w, in wnunilinir mT
ripiiTafioii iiith my It*1 ••!' Ihirham. to makf if )»«MiMr a
hfi-ach iN'twixt u- WIjii h. h-w* \«r. I Iru^T in (it«l hr will
pn^iiif.
If I huvi- iiMikiii !ria->ii .i;.Miii>»t my HiiH^fwin, nr A|rmiBil
(if her iiri'Iati-^ of mir ( hunli. *h>iii;*h, it I ma\ U* fnitfi-n'^i U« bv
n i'i>mmi'ntatiir u|*<in my iiuin- h-tti-r. it hiII U-an* a fa\tPurmU»
I iin<*tnii tifii I flari- atlirnit nf my •»< Ifi-. a^i rnnr<* KiiiH*rt luvd
til f|it iif thi- i>l>i ili«M ••iit<rit«il ia\ali*r<*. that it hath U^ro mmi
Niit kn'iuii:;j 'if a h- Tt« r •\|Hilit7ir t*i ili*i harp* mT ovar
rMn<« ii-iK I', unit fh ti-.it m\ *riiniif^' ^iilt^i-n. tlian tn (liiaMiU* iIm
inih*^-tl |in-tt-.Vit!..n au-l i .-nli-^-ii-n wilh ynnr <ira«« , at thit tk*
niM-.T •Miltiiiif ?:rii' !-.r r}ii- • • !• hra'i-in i»f tht H'.l\ • -fun.-iM-in:
iiii'l hii|»ini; ^i. I* \'ir ^iji-.. .:" \ -u h^ ar n.* •«•; '.i*'!\ • • :.*-.Ar^^
Mill Npak a k-r.«l \\"u\ tT ii:- 1 . r- .?'• r. .i!. I .i! j-n •- :.*. t;»4
ill iiy lur l.-r .»ii\ ri'l.iii^- «r j:iij.rii«l' :.• • i.i? I inav !.Ar*
Uf'ii ^Miltv i'l. Ill fh:* I'r .i:.\ '-'hir .n t «.* ii.\ miH m^ar.T /c-^lrf
\iiur iilvMiIuii.iii. riiiiri- thaTi _\<>iir U rii«lii !i<-ri. in thi* prmmt
MISCBLLANEOUS OORRESPONDENCE, &C. 209
tryally (which is no small one) I rest, with all imaginable humi-
lity, sincerity and respect, (my lord,)
Your Grace's most obedient son and faithfull servant,
Denis Grenville.
BMter Sre, 1686.
Postscript. — If my late zeale against pulpit prayers (whereto
I have be^ an enemy throughout my wnole.li^) hath been any
waies extravagant, Dr. Stuart's little piece hath been the chie^
occasion thereof, and therefore I have presumed herewith to en-
close it, though probably your Grace has long since perused it.
T6 the iDott Rarerend Fftther in God, his Grace my lord the Arch-bishop of Can-
tcrlmj, bunblj praeent these.
rMSS.
C3div. 104.
A hearty proiegtation of my sineerity and integrity, in reference to
wmf letterM, intercepted and maliciously sent up to the Bishop of
JD^mrham,']
As I do hope for mercy at the day of judgment, and comfort from
the Holy Sacrament of my Saviour's Blessed Body and Blood, at this
high and solemne festi?all of our Lord's Besurrection, I do solemnly
protest^ in the presence of God and His holy angells, that I did not
aeiigse any disnonour or uneasinesse to my lord the Bishop of Dur-
httn, nor any countenance or support of Dr. Basire against our
Dioeesan, (whose practice was for us in this point of Bidding of
Prayer,) but to oppose an irregular and dangerous practice of the
Vioesr of Newcastle, whose unptmionable stiffiiesse (in disputing this
dctr dnty with his Archdeacon's Official!, in opposition and contempt
^ not (mly the example of his Diocesan, the Deane and Prebenda-
liei, and the whole Clergy of the Bishoprick of Durham, but of the
sratter, elder, and wiser part of his owne brethren of Newcastle) was
fib to be of mischievous consequence to the neighbouring Clergy of
■J Jurisdiction. And that by the private letter written to Dr. Ba-
■ic^ and intercepted, (wherein I confesse were some unwary ezpres-
BOQs not fit for my lord Bishop's eye) I did not intend to expose my
M &r ignorance in his rubnck : meaning by that expression, that
his hriship tsould in short while become a good rubrich man^ no more
baft this; — that his lordship, by Sir George Wheler's manuscript
mm the rubricks, and Dr. Beveridge's alK>ut Bidding of Prayer,
(Doth which are stfll in his lordship's custody) would receive so much
satiifiustion, as to be of our mind : and give no countenance to the
Vioear of Newcastle. Much lesse did I make bold and insolent re-
flections on the prelates of the Church of Enghmd, &c.y as pretended
K
2It) l»K«?t (.K\N\II.I.K.
in B fftlsr and npuriiuiii «'(i|t|ii *f!it xiy in thr Hmhup. wirk«*«i:r
iiii!*t'hii't"iii>U iii*«t*aiit«*il i>n« tn a \tr\ v\i\\ inti-itt , Aiiii. if poA^ibK*. to
niiikr a linMi'lk U'lviiil tiir H:!ih>«[< iiii-i rnv m ItV. nKirlt I lid m ZTi-^-'ft
tin uil, ai« till* |ili»n.itii-k mid iii-iii:*('>>iit'"rtjr.«t« d ir uin ^n 1 ed^iv-
ti'Miiii;; tiir prii'lii-*' nf nhr A ri*"'Ji;»^"ji. M-««TaIl lii«K<ip«. ai.*! ^-n*- ■/
till' riilTt-r«itii!«. ill iiniinf \i I'liij'.l |>r.i\« r. !•• rauti<>n thi* Otfir.a.i to
hv pniilriit III h:n /iaI l<i n<'t::ii- t^i^ (<r« .n h nt' caiiMn. ratKrr t:..an to
\iiit'\i' mill rt|Mj<M* lyti'iii \n t*<tr aii\ iTitlrrnitH'fl aint impr.tiiff.'^^'^ ta
tlii!« traii!«a4*tiiiii, I Ih'i* (itNi'i*, ii.\ lurd'ti. and particularlv «<>ur Itrarv's
ali!*i>Iiili<>ii ; )iut dii III ihi- nti'^t !io'!riiiiif ii.aiinrr pnitfft thai I V«fti
iiii i\ill ntid uiii*liri!*t'.aii airni* :ii tsm iiitnn^ui' Add a<-«N»riir.c to
xUv ititi'grilv if thai, and iLi!*. p:i|Mr. Inip nir G«Ni. I)c9it liftis-
VII I.K.
N... XXXV
Twiii.r MHS.
nil. -.MH.
FkOM TilK HAIIK Tn I ill: ^%MF.
M W IT riF\-K Mil K JiHA« K,
II w iMi Takiii jN»«iH«'-*ii»ii nf ir.y wnrthy i»n^It< •■^n*ir'« •tail in ibr
(^lin-. and rh:iir in tin' ('h.i|irir-)ii>UM-. I tliink niy "«lf«' MMiipiJ
n«»t only t«i iid«Irt^*i' in\ •••ll# unt.i j-.iir •iraii- f-T :i fn^li («*n^
dirtii'ii, luit til pn ^t-nt y«'U wirh :i ri-:i.^*iir ri- •■ nf my ai rric««
:intl diitifull n «|Nr?.i». .i« uill a- fh<>«M- i-f tht- n««ly «huh I am
n«>w hy rpiMil* nci* t]ii>ii;;h I kn<'W ini<*t unw<irthy •« t tn prr-
•»iili' it\i r. A««_\'U. HiV I.'pI. \..i\>' ;iIu.ii<-<* •Ilmuih- a {Ajr1;i .ilAr
kiiiiliitK-M' til the < 'liuri h of h.irl;.iin *, <*«• dc I tin«I t}*«nLa a
iKirtit-iiIar horitiur for your <ir.iit-. \iitii !i, ;t^ L*:.^ lu* I r\-Latr to
l\nn ('liiinh. -h.ill U niv (*••! •!.iiit iiiiIia\our U* priv nr
My li*rii. I do i;irii<-*il\ 1h^«ii)i ynii, that \ou uiH |<raT lor
n.i-. ThouL'ii Tiiy r*i«|''hn l->tli h\ th«- lii<Ki>|i. I'nUn*!*^ and
< 'li r^'\ ani|<ttn?r\ in thi- roimtry. l.iii U^n kinii U-i^nd niT
d«-!w r^ini: : :ind my pniltiKivr^' i h:iip*. thnui^h thi ii%Ll:rM«
und n«|H'tt{<i of all |MpHin«, an- inaili- t<i im- \4t \*r\ i.k*v, I aa
Mot ipionmt i>f th*- «ti^»}k* of ijiitii^ and liithi ultii^ tha: xriwt
niHt'Mttirily uTtiii*l njy pp-mtifi.-n. I i].. th'Tif-r*-, .••.!? .f a ii««
m'n«<* lif niy wiiikn*-'^* ar;d unn*'r!hini ^**« . t!\ ?.. Alin:»''r.!\ ti-J,
who h:ith i\ir ltu ii>ti«I\ «afihi«i ••\ir ri.i . i.irr\'^l m« 'hr *^|^
:i multitudr i>f ilithiultii-. lii.d at Ia«t vm^A m« . !•% ).;• Trt^
* Hftmr ft «k« a Pn '<n«Ur« ■•# iHii^Air. f r m li«l t* IA74.
mSCBLLANEOUS OORRBSFONDENCE, &C. 211
Tidence, to this high and honourable station, which makes me
(m well as an object of envy to many) to some an object of
Chris^an pity and charity, so as to afford me a title I hope to
their devotions; among which number I please my selfe to
think that your Grace may be one.
I can say no more for my selfe at this my last promotion than
I could at my first entrance into the Church, namely that I do
not now more than ever discover in my heart any evill desime
on the Church, nor any alteration in that honest zeale that
brought me very early into it, to give my selfe wholly up to its
service, and to imploy all that I have received, by the good-
nesBe of a gracious Master, to God's honour and the advantage
of our established religion.
The evill designe of some malicious men, in endeavouring to
make a breach betwixt the Bishop and my selfe, by treacher-
ously intercepting my letters, hath had a contrary effect ; my
lord having, after a through inquisition, and view of the worst
of me, discovered me to be no other than an honest man, and
his lordship's hiunble servant. Whereto I have great obliga-
tioiis, having received extraordinary expressions of favour from
my lord since my arrivall, as well as mighty satisfaction in his
Visitation ; which his lordship has mannaged hugely to his
hoDour and the edification of us all.
Among many other excellent things my lord of Durham hath
strictly injoined us to continue the celeoration of the Weekly
Gommunion, with jubilation, (fallen into disuse since the deatn
nf Bishop Cosins) and to restore sermons on Wednesdaies and
Fridayes in Lent and Advent, according to the present practice
of York, and antient nractice of this CiE^thedraU, and probably
of all Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches.
These worthy acts of my lord do afford me great joy, and will
he, I hope, very exemplary to other Churches. Assuring your
^ Grace that I shall not be backward to concurre with his lord-
' ship to promote such undenyable good works, I once more beg
^ yoir Grace's benediction, and rest, (my lord,)
Your Ghrace's most obedient son and humble servant,
Denis Granville.
Muun, October 17tb, 1685.
My wife importunes mee to insert her humble desires of your
Grace's benediction.
E e 2
'JI2 IIKA.N 4.K«.\\ILLE.
.V. XXXVI
FkiiM Mh. K. lU'RTdN 111 I>K\>i CiRA>\||.ir..
Sir,
I ii«vK. ftn-MuniMl til ^mi ynu thi^ 'inp-nioun' Mn^^h, uiaio
hii|i|Hi*»ilii«ri th.it it rii.i\ not .1- \<r U tninr ti» vnur njuiil%. jIt
wiirthv iViiMul Mr. Nowf r • j-n-^ iil-* \iiii uith hij« ^ifTiif . dinmy
with (lini till- ••tlur d.iv t"M ii.«- tl..it In* wr«>t«' Lit«lv ^• \«hi.
Thr l:i-t Wi«-k l>r. .M«'Jiii!.i^mi, M.i-!« r I't Triiiit}. -mhI /iir bh- to
ciiiK' HJth him. Ili- liki-wi^- {•n-^-ii!-* hin M-rvin* tn }i»u. Ilr't
III lift- piitr tnr l^iiiilnii, ill upii T !«• |'niich hu ciium*. ia tbr
(*hiip]M-I ikoyal ithi<* M-;if«*iii ft' l^'iit . I'lii toM that tLi« daj
yiiur t'rit ml. Mr. K.irnaULH < lU- y t. i<* t*» \n- hnryW. liu p*-
ri?>htini*rs un* uln'aily txtn-iiir ^ ii^ihlf i>t' th<ir Iipmi of liiAt
n'Vrri-ii<l aii«l « iniiniiily U4irth\ u''"**! luan. I havi* it (nmrn
thi»^> uhii'h Win :ilin<-«t hi-* il.iily (om|KiiiitiriA. that L^- hadl,
U|)iiii many im ra^iiiii<«. «-\|iriM \<r\ miirh i^tt^ni and h«>Do«r
iwhirti all |iiTMin'« raii't hut Ui kiiMwh^ij^- fiiii> fur V'iU. Iiv tlM
tjrli' 4<l' thr truly y'\**\\n awl lit xmit ;riHiiI man l*T tiranrillr;
%ihirli i-\|>rc^<*i<in ni- ii->ually had. win 11 ht- mixttii>ni«l \«i«.
hr >aywil;. i^ur |»n— 11! \ :• • -('hikiii ilh<r thixikni^ that he
nii;^Ott U U Ml r liHik't aft* r }i> n*. than at hi« o«n ht»u^', toni a
«-iMi h tiir Klin .lUiu! 1'* il.iv* ■*ini.i- : hut l^y n-a«in <>f hi« «ruk-
iii%i« \i.i^ nut ahh- tM «r:r. th<>' it>- *M-i fii'il iinlinalih' toioinr, hx
itaiidiii}^ hit hi arty thank!i tn thi- I>r. t^'r hi^ ^-at i-an*
* %!•••• r "f HI. J bn'i ( ..llrfr. " (Kir MmIvt. Ihw^ mv. i« ft ucbly k«^ |««bI
mail, '-ul i»i>l '*<■ ituir kr<l I kT»>>« 1 -ii.'.ng ••f ih«l m «ft b? bt «q ri|wnr«tfm. Hm
n«ii>r !• I*r. I •••«•?. ■' A il «m hr liiAl fki^t *)r>u<hl up Ihr Katiac "-^ T^wh h tt*
n lit^>. •.it.iiul ItM* knfii-.f ' f r^rrj n# •># «Kir.*. •. rmn L*ir rkvi •!•«?««« ' ItSL
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kindness. Sir, I present your good lady with my duty and am
with all due respect,
Your most obedient nephew and humble servant,
. R. Burton*.
SL John's, Fdny. 27th, '^.
Mr. Baker f desires me to present you with his humble ser-
Tioe.
The Bishop of Vaknce^s J speech to the K[ing'] of Fr[ance'], att
Venaillea, the 14th July 1685, attended by the whole body of
ike Clergy ofFr[ance.']
This is the 2d time that I have the honour to speak to your Majesty
in the name of the whole Clergy of your Kingdom. I know not how
ifc comes to pass that 1 find myseff this time more surprised, and
move astonisned, than I was the last. I was then to speak to the
most formidable and the greatest King of the earth : 1 still speak to
the same King, but to one who has made l^mself infinitely more
gnat, infinitely more formidable. This new grandeur. Sir, is not an
effoet of the number of jour conquests, nor of the provinces reduced
under jour obedience, nor of Europe it self, of which jou are sole
iriiifcer; but proceeds from the zeal and the indefatigable industry
wlneh has made jour Majestj allwajes prefer the designs of convert-
ing the Protestans before all humane considerations and all reasons
*A gnndfoo of Bishop Cosin, being the son of his daogfater Elizabeth bjher
iMMid husband, Sir Thos. Burton of Brampton, co. Westmoreland. He was Uving
hi 1719, and is described as of Elemore, Clerk. Lady Barton had no less thanybicr
iMteis. 1. Henry Hutton, son of Sir Richard Hutton of Goldsboroogh, co. York,
Kit S.' Sir Thos. Burton. 3. Samuel Davison of Wingate Grange, oo. P^, Esq.,
tkM SOD of Sir Alex. Dayison, of Blakiston, Knt. ; and 4. Isaac Basire, Esq. Mr.
Mn writes as follows, concerning his step-son, to Archbishop Sancroft.
Hat rr plsasb tour Gracb,— My wife having a very great desire that her only
■• ihoild attend your Grace upon his initiation into Holy Orders, I could not let
^ go without doing him this right, humbly to acquaint your Grace that he has had
^mox education, and a competent residence at the University of Cambridge, and
^Ui freinds have good grounds to hope that he will be truly conformable to the
"^cnd constitutions and rules of our holy mother the Church of England, and that
^JMtmall estate will not make him lesse capable of serving the Church.
loor Grace well knowing his grandfather and his relations, what countenance yon
•tplsued to fiivour him with will perpetually oblige my late Lord Bishop of Dur-
«■ I daughter, and all our freinds on both sides, and particularly, my lord, your
CiMs^i alraadv most bonnden and most humble servant, Isaac Basws. — Durham,
^ SsinlB' Day, lSa4.-Tanner MSS. xzzii. 166.
t Thomas Baker, Fdlow of St John's, the celebrated scholar and antiquary.
t Monseigneur Daniel de Cosnac, Evesque et Comte de Valence.— Tanner MSS.
>^ I2S, where an extract b given of the Speedi in the originaL
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as ihej weie, always found theyr laws too weak, and their annes too
toMOf to subdue and extinguish the monster of heresy. If they
were now alire, (I mean as men capable of infermitjs and Dassions)
wbat thoughts would they have, what matter of joy woula it be to
them, to fbd soe happy and soe surpriseing a change, how jealous
would they be of their honours to see that your ]\£ije8ty alone, in
80 short a time, should have almost brought to perfection a work
which they altogether could soe little advance in the space of soe
many years P What would they say of the penetrating genius of
yoor Majesty, so capable of applying methods, sometimes gentle,
sometimee harsh, alwayea just, for increasing the empire of Jesus
Christ, with what satis&ction would they see the Protestant religion
(which onder theyr reigns was called the religion of bold spirits,
with which the most powerful part of the State, and the best witts
of tiie Court, were generally infected) now contemned, now trampled
on, DOW reduced to see it self for ever abandon'd by all persons of
lemnmg and reason, and all this without violence, without armes, and
much less by the power and force of your edicts, than by your own
exemplary piety, with what greif of mind would they remember the
contemptB offer'd unto theyr authority ? How often was it ques-
tion*d and interrupt'd, and subject to many revolutions ; and with
what wonder would they consider your Majesty, so simple, so ah-
Kdute, so uncontroulable ? What difference would they not find
betwixt the dismall troubles of those times they liv'd in, and the
^brious blessing of that peace, which you doe not onely enjoy your
weUf but make the Church partake of also. But, as if it were not
hoDDor enough for your Majesty to bring into the bosome of the
Church 80 many millions of mistaken so^s, who have liv'd under
your own dominion, you generouslly designed the conquests of new
fiovinoes abroad, purposely to restore the office of Prelates, the
worship of Ood, and all Divine service. Those many victories you
Wre obtain'd, both in Germany and Holland, have only serv'd as soe
BMmy theaters for the triumph of Jesus Christ, — what ought we not
to expect ? England it self is upon the poynt to offer unto your
Mijesty one of the most glorious opportunitys you can desire. The
ktvest and greatest of all the monarchs in the world (before heaven
U ^ven the blessing of your Majesty to this earth) did onely wish
IS his cheifest happiness, that he might once in his life meet vnth a
<liQger worth exposing himself to it. The K[ing] of England, who
^want your help, and the assistance of your armes, to maintain
kimaelf in the Catholic religion, will ere long furnish you vnth an
*«taon worthy your giveing him your protection. Those turbulent
ssd seditious spirits in the countnre of Dauphine, Yivarett and
^e^rennes, who these' years past foolishly flattered themselves that
the times were changeing to theyr advantage, and in theyr imma-
RQuirj projects had entertained some hopes of a forei^ power to
'^ "i them^ have cost you but too little trouble and time to make
•JU\ PK\N (.KWMII.K.
tlit-m r»Mni-mK*r t!i.it you Ji.iv«» i'hii«t«til ilirm. but jnur cl<inr in pmr-
run •! tin :n m:i4 .ill tfn* jiurii^hdii lit \>*i i;:(i-i)<it*>i. anii y*-.! ^-.^ii r.«C
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liiit. Sir. !h--hi|i'« .ill till'**' un'i! I'niu'^ whu'h y-mr Maj'"«t\'« ux. at.*!
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mSCBLLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 217
I ongiit of this great implojment, that I speak nothing bat what is
WQitbj 80 great a King, and nothing of which another ^Ling was
r yett thought worthy •.
Sr, — ^I'm now to beff your pardon for my * young ' amanu-
ensis's bad hand, and likewise for the mistakes he may have
made in the transcribing of this Speech. If time wou'd allow'd
me, I should have endeavour'd to have writ it over again, so as
that it might [havej bin somewhat more legible, &c. After you've
done with it, 1 desire the favour of you as that you'l please to
let your brother Basire have the perusal of it, if he be at Dur-
ham. I'm uncertain where he resides ; having not heard from
him flinoe my cominfffrom Durham. I'm now and always, Sir,
Tour's as before, R. Burton.
For the Hononrmble and Reverend Dr. Granville,
JDmd of Dorfaam, at the College in Dnrham.
Foft pd. at Cambr.
(Indoned, *«The Bp. of Vallensines Speech to ye French Kg.'')
No. XXXVII.
Rbcbift from Dean Granville to Rob. Delaval, Esq. for
Altar Plate lent to the Cathedral by order of the
Bishop of Durham f.
I Dennis Granvill, Doctor of Divinity, and Deane of Durham,
doe acknowledge myselfe to have received the day of the date*
^ Tldi. Speech seems, not without reason, to have made a great sensation in Eng-
W. Bve^ mentions in his Diary that he had been shown ** the harangue whidi
fte BUiop of Valentia on the Rhone made in the name of the deargie, celebrating
te fkvneh King as if he was a god for persecuting the poore Protestants ;" and ex-
pBHes great surprise at the sUenoe of the Gazettes with regard to the sufferings
vltii bad been inflicted on them.
t The date of this paper is not giren, but may probably be assigned to this
piod. Mr. Ddaral was Biayor of Durham from 1686 to 1689. He was son of
noBMS DdaTal, of Hetton-le-Hole, Esq., who was a younger son of Sir Ralph
I^iknl, of Seaton DelaTal, co. Northumberland, Knt. The document is some-
^v^ carious as showing what were then regarded as necessary appendages of
^ Lord's Table, eren when required only as a temporary provision. It will
^ obsenred that CwndUtHckt are included. The follo#ing letter from the
Mop of Lincoln to Sancroft, who was then Dean of St. Paul's, (Tanner MSS.
^' 42.) bears upon the subject of that particular adjunct, and also upon another
•«s<f puttiio of the present day. « 1668, Oct. 27. I hare a greater trouble to
8^ yon, wfaidi you will recdye firom my secretary, Mr. Symmonds, now in London.
It if to buy me an Altar-cloth, which I would have rich : one pane thereof to be
P f
2lH liK\N i.k\NV||.|.E.
h«Ti*«)t\ <hy thi* iinlcr ninl ii|i|ii'iiitniiiit **( th«* Ui^lit IIi^n«>rmM«
and Kiirht Kivi ti'tkI r.irliir in timl. N:itti:iii.i4 1. l/ml ni«K"]ip <Y
Ihiihani iViiiii li«iU rt hi t.i\.il«-. l.-i . M.iii.r i»t' th»- i\i\ ^4
Ihirlumi. till—- I'in'i «■!' ;,'ih Alt.ir ruti. \i/ . • »n« tu.^!:. tw •-
i*anilli'-^tii k*>. tUiH- f|.i}»i>!f. Tx«<- I li.il.ii'i-«. ui;'l tn-iM iu?tfl^« :
uliiih Kiid {tiifi-^ nt' |tLiti-, I t}f ^.liil l>i iiiii<t <ir.iii\illi* havr r^
rt'ivi<*(l u/« ;il'nn<«.ii(l, u|iiiii Nmii mih I\ , h*T tht* u^- nt thf < 'atht«lr»l
rhiinli (if iMirliani. t'i»r ainl mil ill '•Uih tini*' »* tht- Altar I'Uto
U|iiiiL:iiiir tn th«' ^.tiil ( '.ithiilril rhiiP h nt' I Durham U ih^n^r'^
Ami I (liN* ht'D'tiy itnttnit^ tn n -<lili\*r tit thi* Hiiid Ki*U ri Ivl*-
\iili'. nr to Hiii*)i I'tlif r {M-r'^ai ••r |« r«»ni a** thi- ^viiiil Kiirht lii^
nnrulilc iiiifl liiirlit lN\iniiil I'.iTh*r in ^t*A Otall a|>|*jint or
fliri'<-(. all thf -.liil |iiii*i <« «•!' ]tl.itt . ii|ti*n iitniun<l. Kil'i*. «h>4r,
iiiid in li.*! pMjil A tiiniliii'»n ins uln-n 1 ri't-«i\f«l ikcm. ^^ it
\r.
Jndoncd, "Mr. I>MiM''t iLtt-t|-l t.» Mr. Ik>Iaift:.r. f>r mr Ld.'i PbU."
No. XXXVIII.
FrhM Dr. HkKVINT m IIIK IIn>. Itl.KMKP liRWMl.ir^
llnNuKMiM. SiR,
IUkiirk thi^ ]iit<«!i' pit--. :iw:iy. I hj\i' i>ni 1} tlii> tinn- tii ai kr.«iw-
jitlp' the n-<'«i|)t and h«innr nl' vtiiir I* Itf r : in u!i««tT vb&T^
rlirth nf fUl. thr mhrr I Ihinkr i>f iUfnMk> .if* ^ky «^ti-«r. if il Sr» »4 l*«i f«9^.
4 lur I •lh««tr»il \aI\i • |'ur] Ir -"ir of •! <r.. |-«ii«il «i!K •-nrt.»«i iUaaa4» M.a» I
irit<riil fiir vUn.fir .!«ir« I r.. I. Mfti I 'ir V:!ar n 7 f . 'r. r,. i»rt k^t ■»! <«•
tp«il A^*i> it^ \>'ar J «•>"-* ' ■"' "'*■■> If J- " • *-* ^•' |•^' *•> *>■•■> ■ 4
t)i»l I tnu*! Ui*i« tj> « 'i Th>T K4i«' « I itifu.. pftir* -f •««!.:.*n ^'ftMr .mrfciawtM^B
U|-<n tbr AltAT. «^i<h 1 Mii M'.4n •! !•• trt . Arfl ,mn :r..!..rr ri . ' f«v T%«v*# v^ |
«i.l CI*** 1^* ni • i-airr 'Y fairi- iv-ili •'! ki Tr%.i. I ^-«iv . ai ; ur** it •«;<« ^b4 I
i-aii-if li ■• «(•*( I ■••li^.l \Va 1 h-i.i in tLr Inn-.' •! f tj^ \'l.»r\t. \'rmm"wL
U f -r* tJn » wrrr in.'* X . •!. » |**f i-f I"* |»{«»f ■■■•r. !li«!. *• £\«.;? \l\imat I & « f*«9
tt.r likr If 1 lu •; { r- «• x^ I*. Ihrri I n <••' nirvA!. «.»f| t V^i^^kr \t*^ k-n«4
■u: ;. • t^«.rr «:!i •int lii ii l.t ^. > i n " \ n. n. rviJii-. .■ »! :•■: %X Xhr iwtf 4
|L:« '.•t!rr i:i H«;..n>ft'* f^n.] |>r \U| Ir* Yl r«i<-« .'Wi. f r a | / .-».- i>«c *-«lkte
ptlr. 'ir if »««•! ^» Ml* h « «i' ! •; {«^r i!»«! i n ■ rf rftnatwr* f « l^ lAv ^
■ frilrmiir •!•»•"' «m l.'.rfi ■■ ntfit rri! j«-f1n*.i aifii..t«.*r..
• Ni*ir»'l ■univi'.f "P. -f *• r lUi.I tifv.i i. !!• •»• *• ^. i-. l».:i| \^«» ife
Kr*r.ir«(i<'n Ki ho*:*- >?!••! Ihi <fr^>>n« f l.'.r r«<i- '.i.-;. «r ' > I ltf-.#« II ||«
ni«mr«) tl.i tiaufhtrr a;ii! »-.' b«irr«i ■ f I ;*K M r^«. F •., f N r«^*^« .a C^«^
Ufv.i. \i\ hit viff Ia!« KA:r.«r.nr Ixkr liku^Vvr i Y*^- it |!aH 4 ^-^P^Wi^
(••••Tfr tirmiitiilr. thr p»1 9i\rrm%rA* \*^\ I ^r.*ki arc «»«• «^ imw 4 Uj* flHr-
nac'' IWmAri (jrmii«i.> iIm^ June I Ith. 17"1. in thr 7<*t-*t «r«r j' ^j* ^v. torf «■§
'•urwvl At lABibHh.
HI8CELLAKE0US OORRESPONDEKCEy &C. 219
unto, (ocmoeming one partictilar) I'll assure you that what I
ba^e to dispose of^ is much at your service. So if Mr. Deane
payes the small debt which he owes, you may take of it what
Toa please, part or all, and leave onely a note of it to me, in the
hanoB of lu*. Wilson. I am sorry to heare of too much fer-
mmtation between the Bishop and the Deane. I doubt the
two new Counsellours, who they say succeed Wilson, shall in-
flame it.^ However, I am sure that as soone as one of them
oomeB in, your honest brother shall have this reflection cast
iroon him, that he keeps not his word, by which he engaged to
tne Bishop, when he was helped by him to the Deanery, that
none of that name, B. should com neare him at it. Beati pact-
/let. Sir, you may oblige a good man by a seasonable
word; and I wish myselfe at Durham, to contribute to my
worthy .... honorable friend somwhat more effectually, and
more seasonably then by writing, but the poste is going, and the
other poste could not find y . . at Durham. With my respects
to my Lady, I am.
Your most faithfull servant,
Dan. Brevint.
lincckln, 11 Dec
Tbete, For the Honorable Mr. Bernard GrenTille,
at the Deanery, Durham.
Pd. li Lincolne 3.
(Indoned, *' 1 1 Dec. '86. Mr. Deane of Lincolne's Letter to Mr. Granville to
me to leU him have 100/.")
Seal of arms ... 3 foals 2 and 1. In chief a lion passant gaardant, impaling . . .
afBMfosaj.
No. XXXIX.
Fbom the Hon. Bernard Granville to Mr. Wilson.
Bairgwhridge, Thursday night.
He. Wilson,
b the first place accept my harty thanks for your greate cevi-
Ktves at my parting with Durham, with this assurance of my
'winesse to serve you on any occation being confident that you
*nd my brother the Deane are sincerly united, according to the
^68 of. Sir,
Your affectionate frond and servant,
B. Granville.
Ff2
2*Jn liKAX (.K\N\ILLE.
My If>nff At ay nt I>urh:im hiui put nu* iindiT nomr prt««int di»-
ii|i]Mtiiitiiu'iit mncm^t iiiv tinu;iiitj« in ('li vil.ukil .... f<rtAri«l by
th«»M> that nil t nir iit North Alh rfoii ; whuh inaki« mv iirmire
ytiur tn-nd-hip tn uu»\v ill' \ttu thinki- tit ( Mr. Hn'\ int V» ^\r me
rriilitr on y<m I'nr thi- < it her li*((.'. whii h ahull, with intn«t, he
|iunr . . ally n |iuiil at thr tinir \tni pn'tix, und iil . . . . intfAnr>
nhuU ownt* it urt an udditiitnall
( T*rtt or fhr*f ri»»rlutii9nj tevT'U turn ojf)
Fnr Mr. Wilmn.
il thr Di«iiui7, in IhirtAin. tbt^r.
ilndon-Hl. '••.>!• IW. UiW; Mr lUrn.! (ir«atiik'i Lr. Abo«l Dr. Hnvat't
oCImt lim/.")
No. XL.
Kri»M IMF. H\MK T» 1U» ^IMK.
Marr* *. IV aU. '«.
Sir,
I iii\» nil i\i^l \Kiir 'J hill** aii'l nti'iini* yi-u iii.ki;y tha:.k* Cor
\oiir i-.iin . :tijl xh-illU u'l-i'l' "t any 4«i .itinii to M-r\L- \fU, ia
t.'wnr or rounlry, uiiKiii th*- r« .n )i **t p'U. r t.i".
Your .iti'it tii>!i.kt< *« r^aiit,
II. Hki^viixB.
My !Mr\i(i-«* ti» all my u^mnI t'n niLn at Uurhani
l>'..r Mr Uni MiU>!i
•I UurhARi. IK'W
iln«i.irv«). ".'.* IWn. |f.llf: Mr iWm) (;r»r.«i:i'- TV.' K«vi o# m t Iw IVl^ *"
S«] -if arm*, (irvniillr. «:!K -r^^i-nl f t <!iffrffrnrr. i% mi «m
«M 111! •'•-A«i->n*J r«^iilrffr nf BirmSrr* > f tKt :. <.m> •' ti'SM w- a ' rmj^*'vuH §§
l>>r«f l^ittiS- vr ■ vr ir 1 • .r*(rr ur;*.; c ^> * (A!.'.*r t- ' '^-. ' r r '. a ■ -^atv c«^
n l»i»<n. «t.i ^. Lm '«< • M. t*f'.' ■ rt* » f i* ■• r -. fr.fr r tKr ;•■< ' « l^.
J-L;.«ifi Nil Mm «M A W!t • :.!. 'foj ■ t:. ^ t%*:..tr. « ii «**■«' 4 U vd ||r«-
KISCBLLANBOUS OORRESPONDEKCEy &C. 221
No. XLI.
From Dr. BREvnrr to the same.
Lincoln, 17 Jan. 168?.
GtoQD Mr. Willson,
Wmn I told you by my last letter, that I wotdd leave till neact
nmu&er for tne use of Mr. Deane, or your owne, the money I
hi in your hand, I did not know Mr. QrenTille would have
moiB then one hundred of the two hundred which I then of&ed
liim. Now, since I know it is otherwise, I desire you if you can
Wt with this other 100/. without too great inconveniency to
Mi, Deane's, or your occasions, to accommodate his brother with
i^ and to take his note onely for it. However, to order the
iNubease, if you can, so that 1 be not thought guilty of breaking
^i^ on either side. I am your humble servant,
Dan. Brevuct.
TttMr. Bernard GranTille,
to be aent Mr. Wilson.
(Iidoned, *' l^o Jan. >86. Dr. Brerint's Letter. To lett Mr. Granyille bare ye
'low.")
No. XLII.
Feom the Hon. Bernard Granville to Mr. Wilson.
Mar, Jan. 21, 'aj.
Mb. WiusoN,
Jot hearing firom you according to your promise, I writ the
^ post to Mr. Deane of Lincolime, on the same subiect of my
letter to you firom Burrow-Bridg, and Mr. Deane's obliffinff an-
>weare is contained in the inclosed to your selfe, but if his in-
^ded favor to me cannot be done without clashing with my
^Mher the Deane's appointments, I will submit myne to his,
Wng resolved he shaU never suffer in his spiritualls or tern-
222 I»KIN rik%NVIIXK.
|»i>nilli, if in'IIcft* nr (*:ii4o c4Ui U* pvm him tii (*ithrr of ihrm in
omrt nr fnuntry, l»y
Viiur jitTi'i'tiitniiti* wTvant,
Vnt Mr. Wm. M lUin.
ml Ihp Ik-onitn. in 1 Durham.
liul >nrd. " *.M Jan. 'Mi, Mr. (JrannlU '• l^rOrr Abuvt f0 •Noad IM/.")
No XKIII.
TkiiM IMK •tWiK Pi I UK *«|%||:.
Mir. Jwy ink. 'H.
Sir,
I RMT1VKII vniirH nf tlif J'lth with uHMunnin* of VI mr Iuii4
intnitioii.H tu iiir in rflatinii tn Mr. lKaiu'4tf L'inn»in'ii' oikcr
huii(ln'«l |Miuiifl. iltui vcMi ^'ivrik thi* iiitiiii:»tii>n \iiu *iw Diiw, I
hiul it(ii|>t any tartlirr •>uitf in tht iiiatt<r tu thi- h fOii'. IkiI mj
lint hi'ariii^ t'niiii Vi>u aminlin;; !<> \tmr iimiiUM* iiunU* mc rt*iirv
thf ni)ui-9it my **<'ltt>. linir thi h can nt I. iiH^iIn' awurinir b*
hy h'ltcr hiMl \\v hin anpiaintf-tl with iii\ «ii«in^ ut* the uCkcr
liH)/. «arly i'iii«Uk'h. hr wmihl ha\r i'nln-<l ii ui«^inlm|rly. and
iiMt haM- (lini'ti^l all to Mr iN-aiir nf lKirham\ (jit-ati-inj or
ymirH. an hi- fli<l . thiii I will a|i|«ah* t^t \uur «• Ifr »hith«-r I
nljkt-*! ii"t iiitin ly im yniir fn-riiUhi]! tu |ini|Mw it hy my kcicr
fnnii Ii«>n>u^h Hri'lp-. thi^ I iKu^t oiiitifw pi^i* nir iau«r to
ni««!it it with fhiuhti' nf \iiiir fn-uiUhip in m«>. nimi- I h^ frvdr
nlM-tiM ti> ynu my iliMip|MMiitriifiitA in my |Muiia<l|r* hithrr. 1
fli-^irt* what i.4 luat may In* fi>rpit, ami that Mr WiUm vill
Ulit^i* nil- us *iiii-ian- ti> liim ;l<^ I |in>fi^t my ^-hV at Ihirlu^
and unih r hi^ owm- r^»"t'*', .it hi« nm^l i'Mi^in^ t'ntfrtaynmml,
fnr I kiinw n«4' nun nmn* i.i]k.ih|r nf inr\iij;» itft-«tuAllT o«r
p""l l> i.iii i>I l>'iirr..ini. iiiflt r all hi^ tin uni«tanti«. tli^n
M Iff, anil I am .L^ I riittiij- nt y^u will i|i>t- it ; and iiinrt' ht- su
Vnu ami m«* tn U i!ii lin.ihh' t^i trimming. »r mii.*t n-MiUr i
Iiitt ly tit aKin<i"ii it. tn ixiitinm- him in an intin- U lit-fr nf u«r
intt irrit \ tn him Ynii ili«ir'il nu a Iith- tt* i\{ila\nr wkiMI
1 nil ant h\ <x*V,\Ui* t*t I^ith in hi* «|iintiialU :iA wi-li &» tn^
{•nralU: 'ti« that I .mi nf thi- npiMnn hi- i** in !hi nch^ (^4l«
• I riling thi' lati- tinha|i|iy (li>*|iut< UtWivn hini and hu liiobu^
MISCELLANEOUS OORRBSPONDENCE^ &C. 223
which, if my brother Bathe doe not setle that pointe to both
there ease and quiet, I will serve my brother to the utmost of
my power, if any unadvised men (this syde or the other syde
Trent) should still ad fuell to the flame : and then, as to his
temporalis, I will never neither desert him when he requires
my Bflsistance or service, and I am of the opinion you will doe
the same, which will be agreate inducement for me to serve
you, if at any time you judge it within the reach or power
of him in whose esteeme you are, and remayne,
Your affectionate frend and servant,
B. Granville.
I have sent according to the intimation in your letter a note
for the hundred poimd to my brother the Deane. If it be full
to your satisfaction, be pleas'd to pay it him for mv use, since
he dedares to me that at this time he has noe intention to make
use of Mr. Dfean] of L[incoln's] money, with which I owne
your additionall obligation.
Forlfr.Wm. WilBon,
at Durham.
I, *' 87 Jan- '86. Mr. Ber. GmnTille. About Dr. Brerinf s second 100/.
to pay it to Mr. Deue.")
JK'
No. XLIV.
Fbom the same to the same.
^ M», Feb. 19th, '86.
Sib,
I have received this post from my brother 2 bills for Dr. Bre-
^f 8 other hundred pound he has bin pleasd to oblige me in
tlie lending ; and do retoume you many thanks for your kind«
J^Mse to me in this perticuler, and the trouble it has occationed
yoQ, and shall be glade of an opportunity to make you a retoume
of my respect and service, in courte or country, when you shall
oonumdit firom
Your affectionate firend and servant,
B. Graitvillb.
lIr.Wihon.
224 1»F.AX f*RAKV||.|.R.
My humlilo ••^'n'lro to Sir Kai>li C^Av* whni rou •*** kini,
|i4*rtirulirly to Mr Slifrntfr S{M^n-iiiaii ^, whom i-Ibt* y«»u ]iM%
fil*«mr p«»<l t'n iiii« ut iMirliain.
F.ir Mr Mm. Uil-n.
■I iKirliAni. tha-«r.
In.|.ir«^i). " i'» Krh. hi: Mr (irmimlh '• IxfUT. Ih lUt^nnt'i «rt»i )t
Nn. XI.V.
Fkmm iiik •>ami. hi iiik ^\M¥..
Sir,
Mat. rr>) 5Sch. ^
Hkkokk tin' n-tt i^t ni" y»'iir\ thi- !"•*!, I li.vl ri-f<»uniM y-u nj
tluiiikfi l'<ir till* huiKlrifi p'tiTui ymi h.i'l |Mifl to rii\ f-p'th'-r fair
my ii-M-, atifi -ih.ill U- irLul* «it ait\ «i't-.iM>>ii t^i thm- yi>u ««mSc«;
iiiiil iiiiw I .ini til L'i\i' y«ni .1 r»^|ii«-T \T"U\ my u :|.- !.. liinct
Mr. PniWili- !.. Ni nil • ait* liiily tin iii* I'-M. .i'mI th.it y.i* will n»
ri:4\i' iViiii 51* In.! I, ..iir tli.iiiL-. I'..:- \Miir ii-\ilit\* (•> Mr I'.rrinjf
tiiii. uh>i HriN-t u- tfi.it -iiii •• wi- ill? iKirh.im hi li.i« I'ln kistdhr
rivii\i-4l \»''\i li\ til* Iii.iiii :iii«l \«iur «« Itr, and inr tht*
• IK Hp«n.-<|««i. I Mtlr. mrn;tirr f r th^ nl« f Huri.am in |f;7H 1A7*J. ana i# |%
Nil h -La* ( iiir. tKr r.r«l *ikr<nrt Tl.t* fa'i ..« r m«- •.m •tl ; rr »«ir«« frHM IW iaiAf
!•• It^ ri*ruf.rtA<r. Jaii.x ( Ir . f (iA'<«ii *.!. finiri. «m« U'Ktf !•« \i tfcuiM ^Hi
Cr»tii|r«rlitr t.> Nr Rilit. . «^•«• ^-rti.'T T^ ': m •{i<tl « -rth an iiiiiB#««r MB •
'■ IN. '».m!i. »n 1 n. -rt^»^<« "nut •■!* •!.■■.•: i.«^! *if !h# llrr«:.t« in KIS TW
frm-..jr*'!.rT >f th< bwb Wr. iU:|>!. ( »• . Ki-, . Ma« r of \r«.-mfttl#. |ff>.\3L p«««iaM4
ilrmn ii«th I *•<!•-. ari i >. • c^^n ■•.m. **r Ka.; h rrf r<«rf.titi ll.r ntt m liui ani ifta
{•111 m.:,£ iiArliAni i.t **ir Ka^^ li ( • > •-• n tmi fr^ ILi Purhun rrc^nitfvit -^ m^flB M
I'^'u'i. Aj.'l h< i« rtitii.:irrT«i b« \lal(«Nr iti Km imUliirtw "f )AiB!«-t« llr ••• M^^lfl
thr «ft '•• \«M-fikr a-itl It «At.| !•• Kair r«C*.:.rt! l*Al.afi |i«ii.*rr« lo hi« W<«a* •• 1^0
it.jvi "f iiii f ^r* .-.r II. .* rtl \ux 'ff:. l7iU. A.-.'i «»• *ianr>i m i.'m famUt riaH tf
HrwiM^I'tt* T(.« fail.:* f* L; «t •ii.M«':'.i m il r«««- . Ik' • bnf t.f r«baUlk« ift ifta
r«>iiinc, anil U-- tr%-.-i •* .• irrn f *• r Ka*i-K <:!•■! in U'l !fr«« |>Mrrfv ^v Mw^ ifta
U«t }t«n>nrl c''*'--** " "' **•' Ka.} - «•« ''v.r-r<i ir. I r>««<a*.r. at U^ »t|vma» W In
• ■ uiirt. Vr Ka') -. M .*tarift>. H.r I •>t.ar* • K:..«'Mi an.* |Uf(r«H<« *4 tW l'«aBif
a-.! I fv •! l)»r.aiB. r .11
• J S-i **|w«fn.a:i. (••nt . Sa|>C Ja:. I*>" I*>l • ».»• i trar* I n-lrr ^k^Ttf W ifta
•> Tal of l»«Hian. a/.! a tki-fu: \ ii,^f «i. >r|l. .M. IIUO. i^vrfM. H L
\''U-« \tyi. liurLain >«trto« Mi>: l»..r .a.ii. i laA
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 225
teacLXicing our workes at Muggleswicke you doe perticulerly
Your affectionate servant,
B. Granville.
All our services to the good Deane, and where else you
pleaac
For Kr. Wm. WilsoD,
il his house in DurliaiD.
W. B. GnnTUle.
(Inidoned, «< Feb. 26, 1686. Mr. Bemd. GranyiHe Lr. The Receipt of ye 2d
No. XLVI.
Fbom Dean Granville to Thos. Cradock, Esq. Official.
London, Jane 7th, 1687.
Ml. Official,
It win be more acceptable to you (I hope) to give you an ac-
cwffit of my perfect recovery, and that I am at present in as
good health (1 thank God) as ever I was in my life, then it
^wmld have bin at my arrival to informe you of my indisposi-
tion ; which proved to be a pleurisie, (as Dr. Needom told me)
fcot with seasonable bleeding and a clyster soon past over.
As to the busines of my Jurisdiction, I went yesterday to Doctors'
Commous, stated my case, and shall have the best judgments
ftcpeon that can be gotten there by tomorrow night. For God
•ke, do your part, faithfully to support and maintaine my
Jurisdiction, by all legall and justitiable wayes, and I do assure
you I shall not fail to support and maintain you in all such
pooeedings.
My lord of Durham going out of town before I got abroad, I
"Mt not with his lordship tul last night. He received me very
loodely, and invited me to dine with his lordship this day. I
^^^ not think fit to say any thing as yet of busines to his lord-
•ky. As soon as I do my Mends shall hear further from me.
^ I tliank you for all your kindenesses at my departure, espe-
^•Dy for your courage in rejecting the allegation. I am as-
^Ofmi'i at their proceedings, in citing you and my Register. I
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As conoeming Fiahlake I must give you the same answer that
I give others, rf^ee have establish't a rule in the disposal of
our livings. First, to provide for the members of our Body :
2ndly, the Dean and Prebends' Curates: 3rdly, the Viccars
of our own Jurisdiction : and I wish all persons did know this
our resolution, that they might not put in for our livings,
which are too few and too mean to accomodate those that doe
depend on us. In a word, there being never a Petty-Cannon
that I can foresee will put in for it, of those who have served
ibe Church long enough to pretend to a Hving, I have already
iMnmnated Maurice Lisle *, and desire my brethren to concurre
with me in the same. He has been a great while a Preist, and
MBiovided for, and has received late promises from the Church
to be kind to him, upon another vacancy.
I hear a good report of the person you intercede for, from
Dr.Qower. 1 believe him a hopefull young man, but yet all the
while he is but a young man, and may stay, for any thing I can
discover, till his seniors are provided for. If he expects prsofer-
nwnt from the Church of Durham, let him first be a member of
the Body, which I shall be willing to admit him to be upon a
▼Mancy, provided he can make it appear that he is qualified for
the same.
My brother Granville, and all his generation, and all my re-
h^m, I thank God, are in good health ; several of whom give
yoo their himible service. This is all at present but that I am,
Your affectionate freind and servant,
Denis Granville.
My service to Mrs. Cradock. One Mr. Harrison, who saies
he 18 your nephew, being outed of my Lord Dartmouth's Regi-
nwit, came to my brother, and desired him to speak in his
Wialfe to his lordship, who for his uncle's sake will serve him in
the best manner he is capable, this camp[aign.]
* Maarioe Liflle became Vicar of Fishlake accordingly, and appears from the Re-
ihtoBtohave remained there antil 1695. He died Vicar of Kildiale in 1719. Soon
lAer Us coming to Fiahlake he had a son bom to him, whom he names Denyt, with
* gntefol feeling, doubtless, towards the Dean, by whose patronage he had been
And there. At the Visitation of IG91 we find him presenting *'John Rhodra,
viitiiig master, for teaching school upon the 30th of January, and for publick teach-
-in the free Bchoole upon Candlemas day, in time of Divine Seryioe, forenoone and
jAcnoone, keeping the youths from coming to be catechized at the church, and by
*<>Uly boasting that he will doe this in spite of the Minister, and that he values not a
pBMotment, and hereby bath made the young people neglect coming to be catechized
OBholydayes as they used to doe." This celebration of Divine Service upon Holy-
«fi, both morning and afternoon, in the church of a small country parish, and the
ittntion evidently paid to catechizing, are neither of them unworthy of note, as in-
vcitioDa of the practice of churchmen at that period.
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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 229
Gkid's deputy, to incapacitate him to hurt either my life, estate,
or religion. Fie leave them in his power, as God has done : if
the Kmg goes beyond his commission, he must answer for it to
God, but I le not deface any one line tiereof. Let my liege and
dread SoYcraign intend to do what he pleases to me or mine, yet
my hand shall never be upon him, so much as to cut of the skirt
of his garment.
In this Magna Charta aim'd at by the King for establishing
his Dedaraticm, our religion will be established in the first place,
and others incapacitated to hurt us as much as we to hurt them.
And if we can't be put into better circumstances without resist-
ing the Kin^ in lawful commands, there is no remedy, but
Christian patience. A half loaf is better than no bread.
I am now much censured at present, but I censure my cen-
surers more for their semi-loyalty, which is that which now
portends most dreadfiilly. Let us do our duty, and leave God
to maintain his own cause. Never do evil that good may come
ofU. I rest, with my service to Mrs. Limiley,
Your very affectionate friend and brother,
Denis Granville.
Mr. Woodmas begins to have some odd notions of a limited
supremacy.
[This gentleman was Vicar of Bedlington, near Morpeth, in
Northumberland, and wrote notes on St. Chrysostom, in 8 vo-
hnnesin folio*.]
No. XLVIII.
From the same to Mr. Wilson.
St Mark, 1688.
Mr. Register,
^»DKRSTANDiNG that the Subdean and Sir Gfeorge] Wh[eler]
Iwive had some hot disputes, I have chosen (as the best expedient
fcr the composing of the difference) to write them a joint letter,
^hich I desire you to deliver with your own hands, at some
convenient time an4 place, when they are together ; or that you
^ This note respecting Mr. Woodmas is added by the transcriber of the letter in
"8 Hoseun copy.
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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 231
to mee. I lieaie Mr. Graham * is going away againe (tho' I did
not 80 much as see him on Saturday) but I pray secure his con-
sent to the late proceeding before hee goes.
If you cannot come over againe, signify to Mr. Bowes that
he must send over this evening, by Luke, my gelding for me to
come in tomorrow. I rest.
Your very affectionate freind,
Denis Granville.
You need [^nof] mention my coming ; least imnecessary appli-
cations steall away my time from my buisnesse of moment.
I pray send me 6 if not a dozen bottells of claret by Luke. I
like not Simpson's claret. Bee you my taster.
For Mr. WiUiam WUbod, at his
lioiise in Durham.
No. L.
Prom the same to the same,
Sunday, Nov. 25, 1688,
5 in the morning. .
Mr. Register,
Tho' I declared to you last night, that I was in charity with
Dr. Bagshaw t, and could exercise an act of discipline, before a
Sacrament, without breach of my Christian duty, (as well as a
Judge pronoimce sentence) yet the better to remove this re-
proach, (cast on the Deane by a member in unbecoming man-
ner) I do once more declare to you, our publick officer, (and I
pray take notice of the same for my justification) that I am in
Christian charity, and beare no malice to him or his ; but shall
hee ready to do him or them, all the kindnesses or civilities
which they shall bee capable to receive from mee. But let not
* William Graham, D.D., son of Sir George Graham of Netherby, and Pre*
^^^ of the first stall in Durham Cathedral. He was also Rector of Whickham,
J^ PiL, and successively Dean of Carlisle and of Wells. He died in 17n» and was
^'^'^ it Kensington.
t Henry Bagshaw, D.D., Prebendary of the 9th stall, and Rector of Honghton-le-
^V^f ^here he died, 30th Dec. 1709. Notwithstanding his torbolent demeanonr,
||nich appears to have given the Dean such umbrage, a letter of Sir George Wheler's
||^*^ which records his liberal and generous conduct towards Dr. GrauTille in his
^ ^hm ent— Surtees' Tiist Durham, i. 171.
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ul:.:. •:• !./.r. .! •':.. .vii. .l...!\., .•• I »! !• ij«'. b« ttJd
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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 233
nerer the worse. But I'le no more suffer Dr. Bagshaw, or his
supporter to trample on mee, or his brethren. Begging your
prayen for mee, and beseeching Almighty God to have mercy
ipon the King, Church, and JU^ingdome, in this time of dis-
tiaee, I rest, Reverend Brother,
Your very affectionate brother and servant,
Denis Granville.
I send this only that you may justifye mee, if there bee occa-
rion, in point of charity.
For the Re?. Dr. Grej, These.
(Udoned, " 25 No?. 1688. Dean Grantille's Lre. to Dr. Grey compUyniDg of
Dr.Biphtw,&c")
No. LII.
TnnerMSS.
xxviLlSS.
From the same to Archbishop Sancroft.
Mt Lord, «.
^' I am come into England, and desire to depart incognito,
yet I conceive it not only a great indecorum, but breach of
4%, to conceale my being here fix>m your Grace ; which doth
injage me in this present presumption of disturbing you with
4is letter to informe you thereof, and humbly to l)eg your
Grace's benediction, having the happiness of a good conveiance
ty a fit bearer, (my nephew George Granville *) every way
qualified for the delivery of the same, being one of those few to
^W I have discovered myself, and who can give true informa-
tion of mee (to obviate reports concenung me which may have
flown to Lambeth and efcwhere) as well as intimations 'from
iQfi. If my application to your Grace doth render me nowise
serviceable to you, (which I should rejoice it might do) it will
(1 am sure) be beneficiall to myself, and effectuall enough (I
J^Jpe) to keep up my interest in the devotions of your chappeU,
B excellence of his character, for a little ? ein of harshness and asperity which
P^idei his priiate correspondence, and frequently mingles itself, in a manner suffi-
^^"Btly strange and qnaint, amongst sentiments of a fery generous and elevated
••'■w-— Surtees* Hist. Durham, i. cxii.
* AlUrwards Lord Lansdoiwne.
Hh
2'M UV.\S r.k%\\IM.K.
whfH' I nm pn*iM>iit in fi|iirit, i'«|ii*«'i:illy whiii ymi arr At lint
Altar, unci, whii-h I (Ian* •^iv ••!' ti u othir |iliii'f^. d«-«innir tkr
(irthiMii'X fni|Ufnti*p« thirf^*!', U.tli at thr u'n-ut Fi^imbU and
hi'n*»ftiT, ttt I xm-iM- •mi imii-li rli.iril\ a^ !•• n tii«*iikU r and
coiiiiiiiinl t«i <iiMi iiii«' wliM. tl.ii' iii-r wi-ak anil fi'c-Mi- in all
ra|i;ii-ity*i, hath U^in iiu-|ii-«l \»\ lli.i\in. ami oiiiiixrli^i hy tkr
I)i\ini' <trari' hithciin, to uith-tainl all thi* lil.i«t«. i ti- that he
huth met with t'mm any \ntiut •>!' tlii- (-••ni|Ki.<«. \»\ I.in«l i>r ma, aI
hi»nir or al»n>a(l ; ami uhn i« ri'«'i*l\i'il. I<y thi- a^^i^t.nii*- « 1 that
S|iirit uhii-h hluurth whirr it li^rdh. ami uttiu um« weak
iiiHtrunifiit«*. tU . til ri-t;iiii li\i .iri«I •In- in, thf**- hi-in*! !f!i««M
and |)rini-iiiIi'H nt* th«* <']iurih ft' r.ri;;l.iml whiih h*< *'i< k'd ia
uIiikM uitii )ii«« milk. :iii'l wi r* .ittiru.inU lii^tillM ^lA ti&M ia
him by mmii* Iik ky niaNtiT^, ii'iw uith <i"«i. an<I ninri' i«|«^-iallT
hy hiA «\rr h^tiorM ;iii(l \* n* r.iMi' |i.itriiii uhi*M' nifni<>rk I kntiv
will i'\«r In- |«riti<<u-* %»i!h \'*ur <irai«- that fir«t hn>tijht hia
into tliat ('athiNir.il t'liunh. uhiri- h«> «a<» Mi-^t with Toor
(■ni('r*4 ari|ii:iititanr«- tVnm wl.ith uhi-ii nii>*»t uIm-ii! ixi 1^«It<
he hatli Tii\«r ih iKirti-fl in atR^tixn. n>ir withilriu. •!•• Ii.*.^ as m
rniilil n-taiih- hii inni^-i ni-i-, ul;iih uill in flm- tinit- anplj
u|i|Nari'. Ill thi* nii-anw)iili-. niv |i<nl. all I ilt^in* and aim at m
to t^iti^ity iii\ Mitri>|"ili'-in I <f.irri>iin u** •ftln r that, tine* 1
mil iipht ill in my iin <*rnt /• iN l>y hi** n n<<uni>«| « \am|ili . I
ami h<i|>«- I ••till Oi.ill. li\f .i)->\i' ihf • \.ii!;|>|f nt* any that c
trailit t It: txiii tliat fl" my I- li.\i illn- ii-i!* l>r II iViniifr**!!
Sir <i. Wh • lir . at »h«in I »1«» mu< h .uln. in*, fi'mi •frrm'/tk§m
th*»*» thtif i.'.jf. /. . '. . •;ii./ ;■/ -. ■</. '"..v. 'it* ';V. **-
I -hall, my loni. \i\\* \i>vi u** I'.irtlt* r tn-ul'h- than in tkit
low ihh of' |iiirt- un^opl.i-tu-ati^ii 'li \>iti<>n ultin |inniitni lTr|na*
ri»|Kil lil«'^**in;;*« art *^i ran !«• !• |m .it tl^f ri«|Ui«t lor \i>ur hrw^
(lit tioii. ami I ••ntiiiii.ini-r ••! y-wr ]i;a\ir«. u|--n ail 'hruCiMI
a«-«iiuiit-. i-tc. aiiii {tiirtii iil.irl\ th.i? (i<«i ulUI- |iliM««ti tiiarrrft
ol' my liiiiiiM inti ntio!t«, iVi in Mjmratii.;: tn>ni th^m- cjf bt
hrithnn who liiti U ;;in to t!i nli tin |>r!i -tl.KHl. |«Hatr kM
h<>u<M-, and adulti-ntti hi4 wi<r«l.:]i aiiil ri ini mU r n.t^ !><r ipood.
Hot arii.rdin^ !•■ my imrit. I (-••n:i.*v<» in\'M|i'iii>t wi>rth\ turarry
nut thi- iiun^r ot (iuil'*» •mi-ritit 4 •» hut aitoniin;: t4i thi- ^^rvaUMW
of hi«i nun v
Your p-^iii'*-* "my I'Til in -tii h a i );ariTaMi it.:iiii^>
will at |'ri*«nt n \i\i- ai:ii • •>mt'<rt mj |*»'r ui arhi r-Ua% n
aiiii « ti-ntiilly ol.liji-. My I-«-pi, Your ii ran '••• \i r faithful
un.dti rahly oU-«lirnt ^nant.
\\'\ Jinb liim.
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &0. 235
Postscript. — ^Whether it be lawful or expedient for me to
approach nearer to your Grace (after which I have great
longing) doth depend solely on your Grace's wisdom and deter-
mination.
No. LIII.
TkDoerMSS.
eoodiz. 72.
From the same to Dr. William Beveridge, Archdeacon of
Colchester, &c.
Bkverend and worthy Brother,
There was nothing touched my soxd more sensibly that re-
garded my own particular, and the late deplorable defection of
the Church of England Clergy, than being depriv'd of so great
a treasure as the friendship of so pious, so conformable, and so
learned a Divine as yourself; whose eminent example, edifying
conversation, and communicative disposition, I esteem'd as the
greatest happiness of my life ; and which taught me so many
good and holesom lessons of pietie and devotion, for the better
regulating of my life and offices : that as I am troubled above
measure wv my loss, so am I more astonish'd at your complying,
than at all other men's.
After the decease of those venerable prelates, who initiated me
into the Church, I comforted myself in that great blessing
which Providence had bestow'd on me, to supply the want of
that, (I mean your acquaintance) since I discem'd the good
order and zeal of those great churchmen live in you ; the fruits
of which had rendered your congregation (I think no ecclesiastic
aijouT citie will be ofi&nded if I say it) the most exemplary in
London.
When I was censur'd, and somewhat reproach'd, by any of
my negligent brethren, (which was often my fate) for thinlang
myself obliged to discharge and execute my offices according to
nue, rather than by the opinion of people, (which they call
imgularity) I supported myself that I had both the example
and approbation of one great and good man to countenance me
in the performance of the chief and most important duties of my
calling, even in the citie of London; where conformity was
more difficultly practicable, as well as more necessary, than in
any part of the nation.
As I had the honour to receive Holy Orders with you, from
h h 2
2-ili UK IN ('KiXVIUJL
till* liaiirlN nf Mi^hnn SiUifli'PMtn, in tin* yttir UM, mt Ubiirvd I.
ttn«T ynii ii]i|iiiirM III publick. tn iinitiit4% um wrll a« I «7u afalr,
Vfiiir {lift if iiiifl (lili^i-nn- in yi>ur iiiclrfati^ihlr att«>n«Uiicr ua
\Miir iiiiiii**tiTi:il him tidii : iin<l uu^ {ip»ii«i X*i ^}.«lt*-r luyw'U
uiiiirr }<>ur t'.iin<' an«l n |»iiT.iti"n ; ami lh:it .ill nnii i:i.k! kn**w
nil' niij^lit fliHiiTti I liiii imiu<*tri*»u«ly cinliavfiir, a« iiiut h a» I
iiiiiM. Ill ;:•> til*- •*.iiii*- u.iy tli.if ihf niiiiwitiil I^r. II. liiil in aU
]iiiMirk (ill l.intioii- ••t'l-iir «liify tn <i>4l ;iml tlif Kin^. A:iil till
till- \iitn\ yi :ir "f '*^>. wh. n %*•• mi-d- iiiit'<irt:iiiati-ly |»u? ti> uor
I*;/.' .|.f/ «,.«»• A'/i'. I il«i n"! tliiiik tli.ii thi- iii'-t Im-y i'Im rviT ol
riilti r i>!' niir .n *i"ii** i '>:iM il:-' «>\i r tli.it ui iljil, in ;ii«- m.t'ti-r* «>l
;rri-.iti «.? niMTinsiT. l*" twi «.iii«.: whiili. w In ii »r .lii. ■! was
--•II t.iki !i !i - r. I- 1 !. ■• 1- :iL: U :"..ri- I luar-I i-t :•. ij«il a
lirtli' III iiiv «i;-t'ir' i::- • ..:. i m-if .rl- .iM«.n. .iml ilii- u. .^ki..:*^ uf
my :iiirlfr:r\
I (i'tilil \\:<}i I }..fl )N«:t ri.i- i-itlx oii:!' r>r liv \oiir i i« irisv at
int:iNitrt^. ui:>>iii I ill t .-Mil )ii>i;;i- :i« ^frii t|\ |i>i.il ti< th* Kltl|r.
a- yi'M ui-p- 11 'Ml' ■rill. M. •.. tli« ••nlir ••! tLi» t'iiurvli .»ii«l tLat
a iiiiiltituili of' Ih\tni-« .i!il li'iiiT- ii.ni Hot Uim i>%'r:» r:i hy ao
|Miwi rt'il a |>n-« t lit ii' .ii tiii- pr.iitiii nl *«• ju-in i"U« .ii.'l piuiM
itlloU;^}| |M>|>'ll.ir ^ I^\ilii-. T}.:it u .i- iii<Mr%..il\ Uli'ti. a&d
li.iil ill • <*?• lie hy all \\. v. ki.< M l.ri:. IT i.ii im i: m.;1. :.;« wurk*
in till- ii.iti>>n.
IIi'W ii..iny w.ll ii;. i:.::.j ..:. I -ii!) -l.'«|i tl.r i^*:.- •.»• the 3
Kin;^lin.«. h.ivi- \n^ u Inl ..-'riv. |.\ f.. 1 1.. •.*::..» :!.. *:i j» «!* tkrtr
)i.i-f..r-. !- -.I'i i:. *!•• r "t' I •■:.-, ■!• nr: ■!!. Aii'i .'i"» m ii.j • laixwttt
Mil n't Hi>rk- ii.i\- )«i!i r>:iili:'<i !• *>^«. if ii*-? u!.>II\ i:i« tfi^toAl
li\ till .iii?j.-r^' li-r.Taili' ?in:^» y-'iir •■wn «1.- trii.i*. .iff nl« a1m>
iiiuih ^oiiis.l ..i" ;frii I t.i • \f r\ ?rul\ pi--:;- *iMil. Aiiii that x\
i»K'*iii I l..i'l i:i -*«• i^P .it .iii!!iir.fc*i>>rt. .iifl «ii>«fii I ii;«i U In
(|ii.ilitii«l I'l il'i .!■» u'--l "-rxii » Til tiii i "riuri h i.f * i«l ^u* .ii«y
ill till* na!iiiTi. *il.i>uM U> aii*-^--r\ t«i ti:«- »i<ii?ifli!ii; v( thm
n li^'i'^n nt tiii- < itun h «>t I iijl-in*! n.iy ir.iit^«l tht vbolt
< 'hrixfi i!i <'l:-.ir<)i I'V a »• .i:.<l il-i- «-il<ni:'^<*:>:i !•* an i ijio^t
u-^uriu^i"!!. il'-th I'll r»Iii In: ii:i witl. •^■rp»w .ii.I \i\tt:<:i
I I" jiM II'. w til l..i\t' n -u-ji-.ti"'! I'!" ii.\ II.I !i. .ir.'i lip .i.i Juirw I
liinfr.n t *~> iiitiiii.iti- trii iiii«l.:|i.k:(\ iiiofi . .ii I u.t* :.>:fiir'ii villi
a uliii* I'\ \iiii. .iiiti an'<tl.<r iiii:i.<::T .i?i<1 !• .t::.i«i I*i«iiir*,
wh'-i- u : itiiiij* I ■ T.. . rr.ir;;.' tl.i < 'i.iipli I.i* .r;j;» i. »l U'* n ^rffT
u-hil t.. II.I. .i:. I ' ."••!) I -'it III' 1 V'.P'i^':.- i! M.i K;:.^i- m. BtA
"!.•• i..i<I UiM .il^' ^'fy kir. :. .»:. i u-m :.ill j:. .i-^.-'.i.j :..■■• «itli
'.;•. .i.i\iii . Ar . Im! li.iti. ..' 1 .-r j - - liiin'-i ?.. lii •;.. « -Li ihai
1.1 l'\ i! my U III til • * I- ■ •. r •!. .;. ;. 'iiil i..\ j- r*-:. |iut mkIi
MISCELLANEOUS OOBRESPONDENCE, &0. 237
inJQgtioey Qod be praised, none can charge on yon. ThougH
ywff temper permitts. you, it seems, to renounce your allegiance
to your mwnil Prince, and to swear obedience to an usurper,
(any leaaon for doing whereof I cannot yet discover ;) yet you
dare not, it seems, enter into the possessions of another man ;
the mtdligence whereof I receive with much joy and satis-
iction*.
This makes me hope that what you have done, you have done
in integrity of heart ; and if so, I persuade myself that the
wnniacient God will be so mercifid to you as to open your eyes
that you may in due season discern your error, and the evill con-
aeqnences thereof, and endue you with grace and courage (as
you are well read in) to imitate S. Augustin ; even openly to
confess and retract what you have done to the injury of your
own Boul, and the betraying of others, not only m your own
flock and jurisdiction, but throughout all England ; since such
an example (as that of Dr. Beveridge) ought greatly to sway
the people of the nation.
This were a great and noble undertaking, to open and clear
the way to so good a work as the reducine misled and seduced
pet^Ie : and there is no man I can think of, that can be the
first mover in this Christian enterprise with more probable
woceas than you; who are qualified with great learning,
courage, piety and prudence, indefatigable in the execution of
Tour office ; and of so exemplary a modesty and humility as to
oe belov'd of all that know you, and of a multitude that never
•aw you.
Leap forth then, in the name of God, and lead on your
brethren, (and I am perswaded that a considerable nimiber will
Wlow you) in this excellent attempt to redeem our oppressed
^w subjects out of an insupportable slavery, spirituail and
temporal : the groaning under which renders tnem an object of
ptie, and the willing submitting thereto the scorn and contempt
rfall Europe.
I conjure you by all that is sacred, faithfully to consult God
uid your own soul, and not to give ear to flesh and blood in this
matter, which is likely to suggest to you as false means and
courses to support you in your present evil way, as they did at
firat to draw you tnereinto, under colour of preservation of our
fdigion, which hath been more deeply woimded by the un-
justifiable proceedings of the late pretended champions thereof,
^ it ever was by all its enemies ; or coidd have been by the
^ It will be remembered that Beveridge refused the see of Bath and Wells, of
*^ be bdiered Ken was still the Uwfol Bishop.
2'i8 |lF.\!f ORAXVILt.*.
lNi|)i* and ull hi« runclnvp. if t)ii*y hiul jnintlv buMrd their h
tiip'tliiT 7 yvnT'* |»ur]M*-^'l\ til (liMn»y it. l^'t no nfrulAr
••idrntidiiH «iittTr \i>ii ^urli a-* ilfitrivatinn. in!|)h«i»nninii
till* liki" in |tr«i<M'(-u(in^ a luuii' wliirh will niaki* th«* Ium
lii-ail a ni(i*tt di-in aMc tVlit ity ; an<i whi* li will n^quirv 'if
iL'«ur|Nitiiiii fill mill ^•lll^^ I.i^t thi* hhnMin^ I t'<-ari of i
t*t'<'li-f*i:i.«itir Moiid, a*« a mm'cI nf4'i-i<<iry iM't'iin- wi- ran rxpect
run^iilf-niMi' i-rnii nf truth anil riu'littxiuMn-^M to Kjirini; up in
I-rarl. Tlii-n* ha\i- ^t manv ('.il^- |ir!ni'i|il*'!4 U^n iiuinu
int4> rltT^ry atnl laity. «••! niind un*«iutii| iliv-trinr \i'nt«^I, but
till* iiulpit anil liy tin- pn *>^. and •ii<-)i liy|HiiTitiraI paint
varni'^li ]iut ii|iiin tlii- tnii- : tl>at tln-n* i« n«i I'.iitli nr pnnM*l
likf to U- \i>-T'>riiiii<« in Kiil'I iipI. daritiu' thi- |in^nt tynnnr
iilipri-^oion. III:!' **- if U .ii-r"iii!iirii««l uitli thi-zr.il .irni nMulit
ni iii.irt\r«. aMil i"UU ^-'^r^. N mti !• ••^ wri?inir*. -^^id undrrl
«-ndiM\«»ur'' i*» !••.!. .fi- tlii- Kiiij, tli"»;rh m-^ir •»! •■\i^*llm
tliiir kiiul. will n^t i tl'iit fhi- lt* if work nun' izi'Utnhml
r\irv irti»- I'lVir fH'Ji'irih ;ind •••uii?r\. Tin y mil lir stiU
validaTitl liy rlit> iniun-.iM«- iii«i .i*m-^ i.f' Kn^rlanil. jt-aliHiay
NUNiiitiiiii ; ariil (iiiitludid. tliuii;:h Uf\*T •*<» widl wntt by
iiuii, t}it' ciiiitrixin^-i •»!' -..mf i unnin;: «lt-«iiiti'. «liti trmnaft
liinio* It' iiitii an an;:i'l •»!' li;:ht, :i*id ili<*::^'n« th«-ri li\ Mtdv thi
tpiJiii fi<in id' |K'I" ry. W iii* li tiiii y. U-mj «iiiif inilnbrd,
ptt inlti llii- |ktti lit tin niultitiidi , tin ir lar^ will U* «kut Ifi
{»ri-.ii hin;; lit an ali;:* I triiTii }iia\rn.
I h.i\r lately {inittfl till*, .lud •miihi- nth*T Mnall paprr
|ir>>\<'k«- yiiu .i!i'i -•tm i.t1;> r tri* itd«. uL.>ni I iLi i.nt ui^Mpna
tti dii yiitir iliiti' : mtiri i\iitu' tl..i! ni>! withstanding the f
kin \iiu havf Im«ii piilry nt, in ^.ikin;: an un!a»t'ul ontli.
till* mand.il ymi liaxi- rh« ri-h\ u'>^*'n tn all that kni-w rua;
tlii-n* i* hiiwi-vi-r at thr Uitt.ini tin" r«*»t ff »ini^'ntir. am
iiirliiii' viiu til (»|ii n \'iiir ry^ t«i thf truth, whiii 'tis brui
iM't'nn* tiii-ni : aA.<<»urini; niyM-li' that ynu ha\r huinilitj cue
tn rniit'i^^ i>|ii-nly all t.iii|t«>. m);'>m- i ••nii-aliii«iit will U* ytnk
til thr '*i»uN I'l \*i<ir lip tlin-n. a<i tip ili^^ii.^in^ ••!* -* al^iaua
» hill a*« |M rjur\ rirtairil\ i«, .iii'l «%ir hiU U> «-«!ii*ni'd b[
ri^htl\ intiirni'd and di*i::iti n-«v'<l i^^'fl nii-n
I h.i\t- had iTfiat i\tiiri<nii- nt" v«-iir nji-» k:if-«*. f harity
nmili-^ • n«ii'n : and tr-ii\ l..i\i- ^Pa^lx a>lniir'd !•• tind k> n
of* thi'*i- u'^'-i* • •• .il»"i:*l in \'ii i:i .m .i,ri «}.in th**^ Tii
Win* -I rati* aiii'Mi;: tl.i jji :.t r.ilit\ . uK.i i alh^l !h» niw l%ra<1
tiaii'.. that th. \ -.iiiM with !r-i!h T.. U alrii'-t t!»'l aVBT I
thi- u>>rld. Mth.rui^, I •.',• il i Iff havt un>lf riak* n au do
t.i-k. .L.O til U* \iiiir nii'mriir. •^inir 1 inu^t arkn**»li\I|{v w
Vi ry unworthy nl Uin;; nii*n- than ynur dim iplr. I mm
mflCBLLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 239
ignorant of your s^t^at qualifications, and cannot pretend to
equal you in any of them. All that I shall vie with you in, is
vol far the truths and Umlty to my Saverain. And this puts me
under a necessary obligation to endeavour the reduction of so
good and considerable a Mend, whom, if I cannot restore b^
my advice or persuasions, I shall never cease to endeavour it
by mv praiers; and if you be powerfully and irresistibly at-
tack'd by such a violence as it is lawful to use against Heaven
itself, you ought to take it in good part from
Tour faithftd and 'affectionate friend and brother,
Denis Granvil.
fnm S. Germain's,
Jily lit, 1092.
No. LIV.
From the same to *
CorbeU, No?. 20, 1702.
So soon as I received on the ninth instant yours of the first of
last month, at my return home, with a seasonable supply of 20/.
I hastened away a letter of thanks calcxdated for the view of the
administrator, as you hinted, and written as well as I could in
eyill humour and circumstances ; and I desim'd very speedily
after to have written you for your own eye a large one with re-
flections on a multitude of things which much trouble my mind,
relating to my present and future circumstances, as well as past
ones, ^ut having but lately recovered my eyes spoil'd by over
imploying, and lost my secretary, for ... . expedition the first
day alter my arrival, when I had more business of writing on
my hands than I could go thorow, I have delay'd post after
r)6t, (having you know too dilatory a nature) till this day, when
set myself in a posture to write you a terrible long letter, with
minutes before me containing matter enough to fill three or four
aheets, and had very likely occasion'd you the trouble of perusing
at least a couple. JBut I am likely to be prevented, by a new
infinoity I begin to feel in my body, from finishing and sending
* Thii letter is transcribed upon the fly leaves of the copies of the Dean's Farewell-
SermoDS, &c., in Bodley's Library and the British Museum. To the transcript in the
^■tter reporitory a memorandum is prefixed stating that the copy was made by Mr.
^Bith of BumhaU from the original written by the Dean.
24U IIK\!« CIRA9CVIIJ.S.
you one wholo one. I do jiut now htfgin to fivl a pua i
n'iliii wli it'll niurh cIwturiM nu*. I h«i|»« it i« onlv a tuorh i
rhriimulijiiii, (N-iaiiiituM l»y bi'ndinf^ mv botiy nftvr »itUnir
at mv |M'ik, uiiii will mmju ikim away. ISut if it nbnulil prt>i
ntflniff (if A nt'W, uik old ili!it4*ni(K*r, I nu-un I lit* miatira, wk
hull aUmt !•> dayn thnv y^iim a^j. it will uiu* k aAarl
liiiviii^ no limn ^-rvaiit imr mankind iu my ImUM* with bm
family, which lont wintrr. with my Mdf, during my rartj
riiiiiintft'd of /i |NT!Minrt, (Mr. <'iN»k iinfl 'hui, uu i>ld and a y
witiiiun.f Uin^ ptlui-iil t^i oiu*, thutj^t tn ^y. my yuunfc v<^
whom I havr l)n<«I iiii fnnii u ihild, whn will pt-n-hance h
to liiT trum|H« nion* than I. if my i!idi«|iii'«itii>n oimt* to a
tiiu. und di.<ihli- nu- tn turn in mv U^i, :iji my l;uit tit difl
rn-uti-d troiiMf i'iii>iit;li t«i my uld woiiiaii un*! my man J
iiMiiMiiI iftith till' p'litlcwiiiiiaii of till* hi»u«M\ wht-n I did r
drink. Fur it ii a mighty iiiiH|i-<*t ■•liaini-far'd pri. tkn' whu
niidily do, I kimw. all that liiit in her |ii»wiT to hrlp me.
if it idriL«M' tiiNl that it «ih>iuld U* mi, my cumfiirt is that !
iimou^ kirn I nri^hliiiiiM, vi-ry charitahh* and rt*aily to do
oflir«>ii t4) my UmU*. umi to my ^ml Un\ whii-h i^ rkaritj
takrn und ninn* thun I diMn* ; und whii-h m at |in-w*nt a
lmrdi*n to mi*, und thi* In aviiM I iiiirliT^»o. Ki>r tho' I
hithirto «M'a|i*d thit troul>h <M>nif a|i|ili(-atinn viry nrll frm
|)ri«M!t of tht* town, who un' t-ivil wtll hn^l |M^)|di\ no bt
vrt r«inri* tki'ir ^inin^ a o*rtain ^'ut hinl*. wh« n^if I tn
^lr. t\M»k him infonuM you. to thiir jLiny. th<-y U*^nn li
u|Min nif iHMir man v«tv unnirn-i fully. ho|iini: that ninre
ha\i' i»viTtNirii thi* rhiff hiirk. thry iihall ii\it p*««T the
«i-(*li'Mi;iiitiik Thi«» i«ru-iiin* nu- tti writ.-. tliM* I «di be d
intt) no foniial ili«|)ut« . U-yAnii tny Mn iij^th. and ndM i
much tinii' ; for I raimot In- 10 rudi* a« n><T t«i ri't';rri any ai
ut all to thi* hltrr^ und |kiimt« th«-y •mh-I im- Hi*h rivilit]
pHNJ iiHMninir. hiiWi-\iT thi'ir Zful U* ill i;r><.i!.<i>^i ; and p
\i»t a kind iif |MTMi-utii<n. a« Tut In r Ti>u*-h> :'•* ua« !•■ \oa,
iJ<» y«ar* *inn'. at St. Jan)f^'«. I ilo thi n i>r*\ !' -r rht* kolK
my fainil\, (li"-H-itpU'«l fn»ni thi-ir iiiihli* found* r aitii beneC
liki' .1 i:«'ntlriii.in ni'i-i\«- th« ir vi*if« .i« uil! :i« |kk|ii'rx hebi
my- If. rmifnihrin;: I ha\f a wwoni hy mv -iih*. Iikr a rm*
rith«T than hMiiif. thru«>ti!i;r hy th*-ir *ith;l« l";;i' aI aktmrn
tii'iii u-1 «ill .!« I ran. )i.kvin;r n<'\ir Ut n k"*-*-! at •»uca Id
ti^hlinf;. ami U'^idi*. ihM Uin;^ iHitouatny i'>t it. I iki
* I'll' IWm nil .!. u^t A::tt.!r« I > t;.r f Mirfv n . f lit* (Uft 4 MMh^am
K ■i'.«ii t aChxlit f«ilh. Bhiih l.k>k y^ r i. I i.ri L.r-c b*f.wr lU A«l9 W flkm
I ■.• .-id imn uf iftAl oobicmMi ai IV. lirrjMta't, al rr ihal c««»C,
L.'«:..:« I.
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, &C. 241
trersion to all disputes, and take no poste willingly but that of
tn inquirer, asking questions ; and if they let me alone here, I
am hard enouc^h S>r them all, since a fool can ask more ques-
tions than a wise man can answer. This intercourse that is un-
happily begun betwixt me and Eoman priests here and else-
where, is not like I am afraid to conclude, though I add no Aiel
to their fire, but labour to extinguish their zeal. And my trouble
is much increased by a necessity of keeping copies of all I write ;
and to copy fair my own writings, which are horridly blotted
and interhn'd, is death to me, or at best it extreamly hurts my
eyes. This, with the personal application by way of letters,
which hath been long mcumbent on me, to my scattered, scam-
Uing, and sometimes scabby sheep, together with other neces-
sary writing, relating to my study, as well as temporall afiairs,
creates an absolute necessity, for the comfort of my life and pre-
servation of my health, to procure some person to live with me,
that is able to discharge the office of an amanuensis, and \mder-
stands French and English, as well as Latin, and becomes more
necessary to me than to most, because I have an incurable in-
firmity of prolixity in all, even my best writings, if any deserve
the name ; and to analize and abridge would be alone great
service to me. Your godson, as well as my old amanuensis
Dr. Smith, had a special talent of doing this, I
{The rest is wanting.)
%^ lUs I presame was to 8r. Geo. Wheeler. — I am not sore,— TVaHteribtr^i
Mte.
No. LV.
A QU.£RITUR IN FORO DOLI.
1 BARB affirme that all bonds of resignation, taken by any
patron upon bestowing of a living, are (tho* possibly allowed
of by the common law) very ill thin^, and of mischievous con-
B^cpence to the Church, and that I shall never advise any to
p^ or take them.
I dare affirme that no clergy-man, or layman, who had the
dispoeall of any prebend or living by grant or promise fix)m any
Bishop, can (bemg patron for that time) bargaine for any simi
of money, or the loane of any sum oi money, or any other
advantage, for himselfe or freinds ; but tiiat the said prebend or
I i
243 DEA9C O&AXntUL
liTinft cmght to be hmtowcd upon a dnmrinft num (tmIt, mmi
that all ifturnni whirh tho penion (on whom the prpfmiMBt ii
biwtowcd) Hhall maki* by way of fn^titudr, oufrht iikrwiw to bt
free and voliuitan% witliout any pn*\iauii runtmct or mgvfi^
mont.
I daro owno to all the wnrld. thnt I hmkr upon mirh in<lif«ct
dealing, in the dinpiMull of Thunh pn*f«*nii(*nta, fvkrrpia I
thank (Jod, I ncvrr yet ha«l uny hand) to 1m* m% ill in Cbeai«
■elves, and im> injuriouM to tlir <*hiiiTh of Kny^land, that ratbcr
than appn>V(* of the nurne, or be any way mcn'tmrj th«*rranliK I
would continue in thi* lamentable condition I am in, tbo* I
would undergo tho rack fur tome time, rather than lin m
it any longer*.
No. LVI.
DeaK GkANVILI.B to WiUJAM DAVIHrftX, KnQ. t
Mr. I)Avif(OX,
I fiiiAl.l. nut fuile t4> In* with to momiw about nix a clock
to iiup with yiiu, but ymi ran not diitiiblip* me more than to gm
my wifr tt i^nut ku|)|)«t, thi*' it nhnuM not U* Hi-Mh. That, mmi
titiling in thi* ut\iTiitN>n. with thi* Mtrung wat4*r )H»tthti and til*
likr. are tin* m«^t iiijurioun thintr* inia^nabb* for her. I do til*
Mjonrr «^ imply to p> uliout with ni} wifr. and vUit my fr
ut thiit fU'OMMi t. hoping that |M^»pli' will not bi* imi indifn-nrt (
diBordiTlv on to tnittt uji, ua ut other tini«-^, with ■wemt'-nii
* Tift* MfttftlofT b dmmt •Xi lim c4f, b«t fooock fvaMim Id
l>i«n (irmnviJU't. Tb* paf«r icarll hm» brrn vncUti by mi
witboul 4»t«L
t ia<b«t mm ut IU1|4» llttttfos. K«| . of TWmilrv Vwof 9mA t3««C bt
aMNlbUT .il >ir M lUiMi HeUMjw, at MiiHoii ll.iwr. kat.. ttd rvi4«ia 'at ]
•advf l>ft«iaun. KnI., onr %4 Uir Vrj^X iM«4«rt t4 NrvrwCW;
RMunlcr cil Ibarham. \U ir.wnMl J'«a. dMcblrr dt WtU»H
maaby. m. V.^. Km, . and dw^l ApnJ », 1«M. IVrv mm a
Ur%. UrmavitW* IbmUy aad xhm llaftftMU. Sunari lJa«tem. of Wt _
Km, . aarlr to lb# K«ntfd«T n| I>urhftiii. aai txnr at lb« bMbaadi at hm i
brth. «bi» •l^rraanl* rr aMfftnl Imat lUaif*. K*,.
•• lt«l. XA N^it WbrrtM J.thn Jffffi«««ffi. Sf*)c«at^.b« aad tt i BiM. h
^vMtavil to he • Jttdfr ta IrrUad. M iUimi i)a«iaJo. Km|.. U tte Ul| af Uvl^ Ii
: Ic aai ytabably Um mmi oI LnL
MI8CELLANB0US OORRBSPONDENCE, &0. 243
and drink, wliich my wife's infirmities cannot bear. I intend
to ffo downe into Elvet about 4 or 5 of the clock, and to spend
an hour <Mr two, with your mother, Dr. Browne, and some other
friends, and then wait upon you and your lady, which is all but
ihitl am
Your affectionate servant,
Denis Oraxvillk.
TbWniiam DaTitoo, Esq.
li2
ACCnl NTS, \r
A I \Kll< » I u; ••^ IMF i:»\»>N» nK IIIK Ih \\ (kl
Till y« .irl\ P !i! • I Mit ri-r)-. \i/! : II* .ir)>;irki . V.M .' !"• l'»i .
Il.ix.li^tl.i!!. -;r ; W.'.i*. I..1II. J"" : >!.i|-I\. »." : H^i-r M. *!•.•,
.■'•J 1«»>.; S.il! II..liii.-. I'-"" ; |iilli!i-i..i!M l;..ii|-*. J»'7. . >!• r-
nn.'t.-ri li•..■.|l^ IJ**.. Tv ** /. ; M. ii:i* .lU-l «..i?- Ni. ..l:ii^-« .
1 :• 1/ . Mi I». »?i.'- \. irly ^'ii..!.!. .'«■'■ 1 l- I. . Mr !»,*:..'•
l»L\j-l. II. i .iifl >• .!• -riM*.« \. :«"• . ^Ir I »• ..■■■ '- U* -: l« ti- • -in- :.• y.
I"«i , 'J|„ |,ti.-li ..I ^.-ijl.. I.l. . ;•* ■;. *• ' . l!:* |»kr.*\ -4^
1. i-jiiL'*":!. '."I . 1- ;'!";.• r. :l*- -I '}.. Ai- i.-'i- .*■ i'I.t} . 1 1 ■'•• W
■1"..T.»1. J IMS l; ;..
T.. U |.i\.l I.. !■ ■: w-. \:/? TMr I». iTi. r r l:«?i!. ^•"•'.'. ;
I:. 11! t. .!?.." <'):,,r. 1.. I'M.- |. ;■ : T. i.?!., !.. •!.. Kj:.j. It :K<
tw.- Ili<!>>r\*. 17" 7- *• ' I wiri- •).• r- j«.i:ri "! t:.* !»■*
lii I ••■r\ -. 1" .<■: •!::.. - I -r '^. L'!.. !■! ii.l l..i-;!.;:t. •,. IJ." ;
'1'.. I- ill- w'.i K. !• 'I • ■ ji.j - :. \. .:!\. . ^ ^^ • i-.f v.!':. ln»
alul 'h.- !:■■ ■■ 1\ ■■! II. I!::. J '..i!!. . •» . N ^-* ^ !.,r ?!.• r»-! ■ t thr
« -■:!-. .1* I'.k-'. !•• . l;-|-*.r.- ■! '.:.:.:•.'-■ ! ■ .-m ... ■• ......*.^
. ■■'» %■■•• •: .»• •:• I'.\.:.: : .%'.-[ **• .i!i -i:.--:.- \ w;ll r.«C
I 'III' •.. . M ii .. :. .* I- <•• •• i" -.k !.. ;r. •!.■ ! r::.i r J*»,^ • .•^••••1-
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"I ■ i « i^p n '«! !■ r . ' r.. r I :..4r /• ' V* !.: '.. ' r..:.--' !■ i' * k« ri« J uc
I r..:. \:. »
Mr U*
ar : It . «\««*Afl k-ttf .
I'i. ill:
•^ I»J
Sir Williiiii ! :..!. rl.;!:. \ '7 \: . Mr <ir.. w-r.. t>.. . Mr.
I.!tnik. P''.«= ; Nr Wilij.iiii I1..U !.. |iH«" . lir IWrkhi^l. 4«». .
ACCOUNTS, &c. 245
Mr. Blakeeton, 170/.; Curates, 125/.; William Willson's old
debt, 200/. 19s. 7d. Total, 968/. lU. Id.
[Indoned, *' A note of debts payd by me the first yeare."]
A FUKTHER LIST OF DeBTS.
Mr. William WiUdnson, 1300/. ; Mr. Blakiston, ; Tho.
Cradock, Esq., ; Mr. Isaacson, 500/. ; Dr. Berkhead, 800/. ;
Mr. Potter's executors, 103/. ; Mr. John Basire, 400/. ; Sir
Christopher Conyers, 150/. ; Sir William Blackett, 100/. ; Mr.
Delavale, 100/. ; Mr. White of London, 200/. ; Deane of Lin-
cohie, 200/. ; Mr. Duck, 50/. ; Mr. Charles Basire, 100/. ; Dr.
Basire, 114/.
Receipts and payments from Feb. 1684 to Sept. 1685.
Received for the Honble. Dr. Granville, Deane of Durham,
from Candlemas 1684 to Michaelmas 1685, by William Wilson,
ms followeth : —
1684, Feb. 7. Received of Chr. Robinson for Easington tyth.
Mart. '84, 29/. 9«. &/.— 14. Tho. Chapman, Archdeacon-New-
ton, Mart. '84, 10/. 10s.— Mar. 21. Mrs. Farrow of Bradbury,
for the tyth there, 4/. — 1685, Apr. 17. Richard Hixon for the
Corps, 4/. — May 21. Ambrose Miller for Coll. Tempest, Lady
day, 6/.— Ditto. Luke Taylor for wheat, 5/.— June 4. Mr. Wil-
Uain Davison, for Lady day rent, 12/. — 14. Widow Hinkes, for
Lady day rent, 10«. — 20. Mr. Henry, for Horden PrsBscription,
Pentecost, '85, 3/. 155. ; Wm. Pattison for part of his arreare
of Shotton, 3/. 1«. 2d. ; Jo. Wolfe, in part for his Pentecost, '85,
the rest in notes, 36/. lOs. ; Christ. Robinson for Easington
tyth rent, '85, 29/. 9«. M. - July 18. Nich. Reed and others,
in part for Shotton Pentecost, 9/. \d. — 24. Wm. Thompson, for
Stodart's land, Pentecost, '85, 2/. 5». 4(/.— -Aug. 8. Robt. Leigh-
ton, for half a yeare's rent, Pentecost, '85, 1/. 10«. Received
for Hawthorne PraDscription, for a yeare at Pentecost, 27/. 2«. 4(/.;
Jo. Thompson, a y care's rent for his land at Shotton, 7/. 4«. —
22. Tho. White, for Redworth tyth, Michaehnas, 1684, 15/.
lieceived for Mr. Deane's quarterages as follows : — For his part
of Cliristmas quarter, 18/. 4s. ; for Lady-day and Midsummer
quarters, 133/. 6«. U. Total, 357/. 17«. 1^.
Payd for the Honourable Dr. Granville, Deane of Durham,
from Candlemas 1684 to Michaelmas 1685, by Wm. Wilson, as
followeth :— .
240 1)K\!« ORAN'VILI.K.
Fill. /5. Piivfl to Mr. I.i-*!!'*, fiir'n ^Tirintma^, pro^t hU mt*
()iiiit:iiir('. 111/.— 7. To M:iruMn-l AfLiiniwui, 'j/irui Whiti-. (*»r Kit.
17/. ov — |)ittn. To A nth. lif^^l. t'lir u Imr^*. I>y ('hr. lU>l>iaai4i,
>/. .■»*. — Mar. 7. Til Win. F«inii«r, Inr ulii^inu iht* lufmc*, I/. li«.
--'jn. Til th<' (\illi^t(jr t'iir the \»»»r\' i»( <nll\^jt«\ 4«. ; To t^
(KcpM^T ot' Ivu^iinirtitn, 1/. 1<.— 'J^. Til Mr. AVilkiri*in. fi>r t^
carria^' u( ii Uix. •'(•. 1/. ; Pay* I tor Ktakin^. hi^I^n|r. axmI m
still' tor tin* hay. li*. ; AllouM Kirh. llixon fur -m^. 2^ — Ap.
'JJ. Ti» Luki' Taylor, lor hall'i- u yt-anV wap«, ^J/.- May l\.
AlliiwM Anihm-^- Milhr tor -M-iM-!*. n*.-- Jun, •'». Alhiw'tl Mr.
U'ni. I)a\i-*«iii ti»r m-^im-., iV*. ; Tt» thf n^ipn-tT of thv |^«jc«^
(lillyirat**. 1*. I/. — I't. To Liiki* Taylor. f«>r !«•«• jouruiyv to
S-anion '*'. 1 ^. ; To Mr. Li^l*-. tiiwanLt hU I^ly-iUy n^mT'
t« ■rtL'» ■,•'«/ : I'or tin- Oiirniiiy-m-iiii y at S^ltrtiilil, l-U. — Ju1t21
To Ilix.tn. tor th. iarria;ri- i-f ;j-«i«i-. t'n»in Siirhr'^u^h, !«•• : To
thi- r»i-h*i|']t «•! <\trli<l*-, in <li'M h.ir^n- i.f a \m*ur\. f'n'u* aa i|u:t wATMr,
1 "►/. llv 'J' : Til'- <'hiiiiii. y-iii'.ii« V t'T ihr I^anark', 1/. 4« ; For
niouiiiLr, li ailin^'. ami rak'ii.i: th*- hay, I/. !*'»•. 'V/ ; MaIiI
Shaw'*! liill^, tvtV/. An J. 7. 1'o'I'i.ii. Atkin^»n. fiir brt*»ixi^
\i^i. 7». li. ; Til Mr. I.i-li- i-f S ani'-n , /r"*.' hin u«i|ui{t
•»/. l".v :5./. : Th,- irl.LM.r^ hill. IJ-. 77. -l'.* T. Mr. rjilmu :.
liy Mr. ]>• .ini 't iipl* r. 1/ : To thi ]>«<ri- at iLi^iti^rtnii. 1/. 1«.Il;
Til Mr. hi.in.'-. -m It. . at tu.- lin.i^*, "J : lavi In liisofi, far
rarri.iir*' of u''""l". /'»'"'' hi"* aiijuittanri', 1»'. 'm. ; l'a_\il ft-r l.dMlT*
tlay r):iiiiiiiy.iiii>iii y tor r..i^i!;L'to!i. i'J« : T>» Thii AtkillflO^
tiir hiiuinu* anil f«»r yi-^t. !**. : I'l-r ^•l.i^^*. **«. ; To IIilU, fiir tbr
liiin^'inu' of U.rtJi - fr-mi N« «• .i^.tl--. !•• N p. !« T-* Mr. Atrick^
fi'r t'r.iiii;}i! i*i l'<-"U tri>ni I.'ii<l>n. !•'• : Fi*r l<r!n,rint: the* nmmm
pHwU from .^iinilirlantl. '.<< : For hririji::;: a Imx tif Uii»ki« hiam
Ni'W('a5»!|i . 'I* ; Tii Mr. I >• ain* hint-M Ifr. ^i«inir ti> tjuinfcfo^
1.' I'.. Til hini hy .!•• Ninii»^iTi. .'i' '**.- 'J*; Thr Lnwi r'« bdl
I Iv ; I'll S-l-ti. Ill l*.wlin/-;,Tit n. hy Mr. l^iiU* 'n onitT. I/. Ijl;
l*a\.| .Mr. l»..iTi.\ l!:*MlLitj..ii rl.aVut-. J-l/. ; Thr Nart'ni«|{k
l";»rii«\. /'■■.'' rhf hiil "l p-ini. ular*. 4/. "»•. N' ; Tl.i- w— h<r«
h»ll. J Iv; >|Hiit at N.L'tMl, ;p i/ thi' hilU, Ji Ti. 6^;
• IV.'.i*.!« Miunr^- 1...]. . •f^.nttfiit Vu«r of FiiKUkr lU ««• »3 4«V« rt Ml
li»i;r -Yi- ■■Mil Ik-fi't t u'»fi«.
f It. ( .. trUd.! «h«r«- Mf. IUt'.w-! tin- %.'.\r h»I r^«lr« in rffM n/ Ui vrfk
; Mr r«.'n-.tit «M r- 'i 'u^t !'.« Iv«n • ^alr «!rr«to^ff In a |k« 4 V .i.*«««Bito
k.^l ^f K«l|>t. r.«l'..M! i.>.»ic>.. ■* « A.1««'. «■ .-Irrk t. Mr \r-'."^. Ik«k ^ t ^m^
IVtri.aM f r lU'.tilic l.ii !.%.r. J« f'-l " fV:* i<<lurr«-. «r..i\ ■< r.1a.7i I
ifiM.i. f •rnit • i^rli ;. f lL«- \|^ (' uo-i . • i |>^ Ul< **a ( «n.!vrt ""JM^ . i
r...» :-i !f.. |..'f»ri "■ !'.- l»r«?i l' .1 ( ..»iVr ^ iKr* •..'•
', !*• .- I Mat. r Kitr k fV. -' <*»• «. - r 'r-' f '.o^ • « / •!»« I'Mki
lU |- ri I NuiiUtf Ui.«!. ai.tl k4«iBlr*r •! li.. ( .-«rt >il Atla.;/».tf ui I«i4l.
AOOOUNTS, &c. 247
To Mr. Eirkby, for the tenths of Sedgfield and Easington,
17L 7$. 9rf. ; To Mr. Wm. Greeveson, in discharge of a bond to
Price, 101/. 10«. ; To Jo. Benson, prout his bills, 77/. is. 9d, ;
To the pewterer, prout his acquittance, 21/. ; For 36 dozen of
bottksy 4/. 28.; For shewing the light horses for 14 days,
4/. 16». ; To Luke, for a load of oates, 7«. ; To Luke, at Scar-
brooghy 11«. lOd, ; For a hogshead of wine and the carriage,
7L 17#. 6d. ; For silke for a waiscoate, and carriage from Lon-
don, 21. 7«. 4d. ; To Mr. Anth. Isaacson, for the interest' of
600/., 30/. ; To the glazier at Sedgfield, is. ; Jo. Dunn's bill for
ckmning tlie house, is. 6d. ; To Mr. Hope *, at severall times
for the house, prout his acquittance, 20/. 10s. ; To Mr. Eing-
fordf, prout his acquittance, 25/. Total, 441/. 3«. lOd.
[bdoned, «* My Aoct wth. Mr. Detne, ye 29th Sep. 1686."]
Fbom Sept. 1685 to Nov. 1686.
12ih Nov. 1686. Mr. Wilson's account of moneys paid to and
lor Mr. Deane of Durham, from Michaelmas 1685 to this day.
Doe to me upon ballance of an account, 200/. I9s. 7d. ; To
Ifc, Proud for the house, 842/. fe. id. ; Eents paid to Mr. Wil-
Idnnai, 288L 8s. ; Mr. Sisterson's sallery, 20/. ; Sir William
UndBrhill's debt, 157/. 12s. ; Mr. Grievson, 66/. ; Mr. Ettrick,
109JL 7f. 6d. ; Sir William Dodson, for Mr. Shaw, 100/. ; For
the xetame of it, 1/. bs. ; Dr. Birkhead at severall times, 40/. ;
Mr. Bobt. Blakeston, 170/.; Mr. Kingford at severall times,
921, 14t. ; Mr. Lisle at severall times, 42/. 10s. ; To Jo. Hendry,
6L lOt.; Mr. Roper 2 years' rent, 8/. Is. id.; Mr. Sergeant
JTeffanon t, 2 guineys, 21. Ss. [^ic] ; To William Hodgshon the
tlwer, 1/. 78. 6d. ; Thomas Melsonby, 34/. 14^. ; Usher of
Hdughton, 3/. Ss. id^ ; Chimney-money for Easington. 21. 12s. ;
CSnmney-money for the Deanery, 21. is. ; Henry Brittaine for
eoksy 16/. 12s. ; Mr. Smith for coles, 5/. ; Jo. Ramshaw for
ooies, 9/. 16s. ; For 2 hogsheads of wine and carriage, 20/. 15s. ;
For 2 coach horses, 40/. ; Mr. Dunnell's man, 10s. ; Mr. Wm.
Ihaon, 11/. ; London mercer's bill, 29/. ; Sir Jo. Sudbury §, for
Iwuaehold stuffe, 83/. 16s. 3d. ; Mr. Cuth. Hendry, for interest,
fcr Sir Christopher Conyers, 9/. ; For a bever, and carriage,
81 12«. &/. ; To Cuth. Appleby, 3/. 17s. lid. ; Mr. Skinner for
* Conte at Easington. He seems to have been an inmatD of the Dean's hoiue.
t Cttate at Sedgefield. See ant^, p. 1 19.
X Sb John Jefferson, son of John Jefferson of Durham, mercer, by Margaret,
^Hghter of Hugh Walton, Alderman of Durham, bapt. Sept. 1635, at St. Nicholas',
^mtm ; Recorder of the city of Durham ; Serjeant-at-law ; appointed one of the
^ViticM m IreUnd 1691, tod knighted ; ob. arc. 1700.
( Nephew and heir of Dean Sudbury.
■J I** HK\N •.ISWXII.IK.
in. lit. J"'; Mr. I^iwi -i I'-.r < "iiiiliri'l'j'-. ■'»/ ; •^•» IUt.^-ti ft*
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ACXX)UNTS, &c. 249
Easington Bieife-money, 51. 13«. 4e/.— 21. To Mr. Cradock upon
Mr- Deane's note, 2/.— -22. Payd Mr. Deane's Breife-money as
Dean, 20/.— Ditto, Mr. Leaver, for Houghton school, 2/. 3«. 4d.
— 26. To Mr. Cradock^ upon bond, 50/. ; For the Deanary,
Mich. Chimney-money, 1/. 28, ; For Sedgfeild Chimney-money,
12«. ; Overpayd in paying the bills, protit my account dated
28th Jta. 1686, 1/. 7«. 2d. Total, 863/. 18«. r^d.
April 4th, 1687. Seen and allowed, (errors excepted) Denis
Oramtille. Wm. Wilson.
Witnesses, Hanmiond Beaumont. Jo. Proud.
From April to August, 1687.
An account of moneys payd for the Honourable Mr. Deane
of Durham, by Mr. WiUiam Wilson (and to be allow'd to me)
since my account dated the 4th of April last past, till this day,
being the 9th Aug. 1687.
Due to me upon the aforesaid account, prout acquittance,
363/. 18«. 7d.; To Thomas Cradocke, Esq., for interest due at
Lady-day, 9/. ; To him by order from Mr. Deane, 50/. ; To him
for his Midsummer's dnnuity, 62/. 10s. ; My own Midsumer's an-
nuity, 25/.; For 26 load of oates, before Mr. Deane went to
Xiondon, 8/. 9«. ; For 13 load, since Mr. Dean's retume, 4/. 7«. 6d,
For 10 load of hav, 12/. 10s.; For getting in the hay, 55.; For
straw, 19«. 6d, ; To the servants for board-wages, prout the par-
ticulars, 11/. 7s. ; To Luke Taylor, for coles at Easington, 1/. 6s. ;
For the Lady-day Chimney-money for the Deanary, 1/. 6s.
Total, 550/. 18s. 7d. Mr. Deane's quarter's rent, 500/. 9« Aug.
1687. Bests then due to ballance, 50/. 18s. 7d.
Seen and allowed (errors excepted) by mee, Denis Gran-
VXLLS.
Witnesses, Hanmiond Beaumont, Jo. Proud.
From August to October, 1687.
An account of moneys paid for the Honourable Mr. Deane of
Durham, by me William Wilson (and to be allowed to me) since
my account dated the 9th of August last past, till this day,
being the 12th of October, 1687.
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2M |iF%!« ORAN-VII.1.K.
Diif to mo tiprm mv lant tirmunt, AH/. |R«. 7«/. ; RmU paid to
Mr. WilkiiiMin. fiiiitV I^uiv-clay, III/. 4«.: Mr. rroduck't
MirhniliMiM nut, l>'J/. In«.; l\i him u\nm Iminl, •'>«i/.; To him (or
iiittn-^t, 7/. P^.: Til him u|N>n unliT.^dntfd 'J7th •^'p(- U«t,
*i/. : My iiwnr Mi«lMimiiii-r iiiiiiiiity, 2*i/.~S*|i. I.'l. To Mr.
SkiiiiiiT, ill lull i>l' hii iifitt-, I'J/. I.m. — Si». 14. To Mr. Ilnpr.
ii|iiiii Mr. iK-aii'H nnhT, 7/.: Fur (kiIm, I.'t luml aiiiiv my Li»t ac-
riiiiiil, 1/. r»v !»•/.; To lh«" •M-rv.int- for Uianl-wajp-*, I/. !-• *»/.;
Tu Mr. < *uth. Howi-si. ut !k\«r.ill tiim^. I l<i/. TnUl. ilo/. Im. liW.
S*«ii iiikI ii1Iowi<i1 hy miv, l)i:M*i (iranmi.LR.
Witiu-^<H-f, II.imi!in:ii| Idauiuuiit, Tuth- Imiwi*!^*. J«i. rn>u<l.
A«iii(M nK l{fUKI»-HAr.Pjl.
Piiyil ti) Mr. I>«tin«-'!i M*r%-iiiitM fur Imurtl-migiv, while Mr.
I^'Uiii' wa- at l^iiiilifti, a*t ffill<iw'«: —
.l..hii It.ii^.ii. l..r 1« w.^Ln I/. II<. tW.; T)io. pArkixiMm.
i/. IN. «n/. ; To thi* Pi^rtif anil (lanliiirr. 'M. :i«. : T«i Hwol
Thur^l'V. !/. 7v: To Lukt T.iyl"r. 1/.; To tht* M.Liiiii^i>ii miiitfn,
iSa.; To the iKuliarv inaiil and lU^t, I/. I'm. Tutal, 11/. 7c
APPENDIX.
L Apbil 9, 1662. Iitfobmatioks given to Doctob Babibs,
AbCHDEACON of NOBTHUMBEBLAIfD, BY 80MB OP THE ClEBODS
OF THAT AbCHDEACOKBIE *.
I. That the papists of late have taken such boldnes that in severall
places of that Archdeaconrie masses are openly and publiquely saide,
and warning given to the people to come thereto. As was done on
Easter's day last in the towne of Duddoe, within the parish of Nor-
bam, where there was publique mass and preaching and the people
inyited thereunto. Memorandum, that at the chappie of Eslinton
masse is publicly said every Sunday at Mr. Greorge Colingwood's.
n. That there is a great need of a visitation of the churches in
these northern parts, many of them being eyther altogether unpro-
vided of Ministers, or provided with auch as are, in effect, noe minis-
ters ; and are soe farr from conformeing, themselves, that they preach
against those that are conformed, and intrude themselves upon their
charge, by baptizeing children and marryeing the persons of such as
are enemies to the orders of the Church of England. And likewise
the fabricks of many Churches and Chappells are altogether ruinous
and in great decay, and cannott be gotten repaired without Visita-
tions. Besides, in many churches there be neyther Bibles, Books of
Common-prayer, Surplisses, Fonts, Communion-tables, nor any thing
that is necessarie for the service of Ood. Nor will the Church-
wardens (not being yett swome) contribute any assistance for the
supply of those defects. In all which respects there is great neces-
sitie of Visitations, soe soone as convenyently may be.
in. In respect that by the King and Parliament there be two
Anniversarie-daies appointed to be kept, vizt. the zxxth of January
and zxizth of May, and* that there is noe order as yet come to these
northeren parts how the same shalbe kept, nor are the books ap-
pointed for that purpose here to be gotten. My lord Bishop of
* From Dr. Hunter's Collection of MSS. (ii. 68), in the libruy of the Detn and
Chapter of Durham.
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2!}2 liRAN f*kA!IVILLB.
Diirlmm wduKI ho maili* n«*iiiniiit4Ml t)i4*n*with, th«t tome roune mmj
btf takrii fur thf iih!M«n«*t!ii; uf t)ii»iK* diiiiii.
A J e^irwm. Apnl :i. |Mi'*i. Durrtmr. Infiifmaivm* fiTr« ia by i%mm Bh^
Krctour i*f I'lini, AU-taniJ«r l>ft«i*<jn, (ante uf Nurhun.
S-nl 111 yi* L. Hp. A)>nl 1.%.
[Thii mcoKirmiMliuu in Dr. lUairr'i ■ntiof.]
II Aktu i.rH or iN^riui c\iiiiiitci> t<> riir Prix, PMKi(E!rD4Erai^
Ml^i)H-riSi»N««. Cl.KUkil AMI uTIiril MlMATCRll nF THE i*4n»
bKAM. I'm IK II <ii l)iuiii\i. i^ rill riKnr Krint or^L VitiT4nos
TiiKiti: y\t»i: ii> rill \{\ Kmmum* Kiiiieu i^ <ft<D. Jobs,
l^)ltli HltllMf III 1)1 1(11 Wl. Jl 1 I I'.Mll. 1^ Tlir. illi-i>^[> 1EAKB Ol
iiiH roTCMi u\Tii'>. \M» 1^ rill 11 iur. m|- m m 1<«iki» likSli *.
FifMt : conrrrnintj thr full nurthr t.f till th»^^ permmM ftko «nr |0 li
MUMffyiird in thkt rKurrk,
I In thi'n* now in tiii4 (athi limil riiuri^ th«* full numKrr of aB
IMTnons «iii> an* tu \h* \\\\yV^\%M\ ainl P-;«t<*\iic«l themn. that is If
Mv. an* there (N*i«}iii- t!ti- Pi-ant* ami twi-itt* l*n-U*niianr«) tw«lfi|
IVttv-(*aiii>n>«, Www Siii;:i:i{*-('ltTk4. an K;M^t<plrr ami a<ft«prUcr.a
MantfT of the t*hi>n«t«T« or Orjaiii^t. t««iiii t'h>«nit«T«. two Sak
naoriitii or Virji'm, two t«'at-hrr« at tlu* linriiniar pi'hiiiilr (wf
i\\\v IS M:i.»tt>r and tlif otlwr r»»in r). «i;:liltfm» S' .►lli-ri thnv, v
AliiH'Bini'n, two li«'llnni:f*m aini kt*«-{H'ra ff thi* cliickr. two pofl
t«o butli-rii. and two i-iM>kw r llavi* thf-y all Ufn** durlr rlfvird
Ailniittrd, and an* tiicy ex cry dno ^vr^iivaMo and Jdifprni la *
|tlacrs ?
SfC'.tndlj . c 'nrrrtunj the Jfran^,
II. N till* I)«*anr' i:;:;!iiit in Kit xtiTir*- aiid L'-'^crnmrnt .iTcr aD ihl
(^annnH and Mii^ittt-r^ ff tin* r.\urr^. takirt:; ran* tliat all Difjw
iM'n'\('^*!« (\%hrn-«»f MTH.iin^ an* a partiM i.ia\ U* dm :y a;.d n*UcMMMll
|H rf.irnii'd. at tin* wvi-rall t\ini!i .mil |'[.ii"' • t*.in-ur:%» aii;*i m t> 4
tliat th.- t i|»h!r»'!ii' •*i...llir* N- ». '.I i:i i^li! ai.l in*:r.irtr«l by
nia-'tt r*, that llir t'h'.m-h-air!i«-* N faitMi,il\ d'.«tr.^-^iti-«l V* iKe p
tlj.1t h'««|"il:il;ly \h' ki {it h\ Liri)«< '.fi- ainl On- t'a!i>-!k« n-ni-it tit m I
faiiiilw-«. t'h.it tfki* tn-.i«ur«'. «>ni:imi ti!^ anil fun.itun' *'i Vtv i*bHVk
tilciatiitr vi;t'!i tfii* rKarti-r*. urit«-iri;;«, U«>k«. n C'"tc r«, a!id all oikfl
^•khIa iir uliM,«iilii thi-n u!it<i lN|.iiit;it;;; U* wril ai.'l uft 1\ puanwtJl
irnii'ntiip* i:i.idi' i>!' ttHin. :iu*\ ii.i« tin* n-imr itiVf ntar.i* j>u^-^:«H^ aw
aliiivifd in triapltr. l''.a*. **•«• i\»r\ {■.irt.r-..'.ar t'-tn-!' may be ki
^»*.i»ii- and mt.n- t». K:* *.i«o-*'r t'.-r l*..- u**- .-t' t*;«- i t:un!s ? Am
!..ii'i !.•■ l'\ hnn-M ;fi'. nr -.-mr i'I'.-t if tru* tKapt«-r. ti.fnrt.» 1iput<J
f.-ikiji J !»ur^i'y iif thr lani*. n:.i:.:;>ir*. t4*nt tui nta, »oodi and appto
ll».:;l*T Mv» u 7i;
AFFEMDnL 263
priftte ebuvcheB, appertamemg to this Ghnrcli, that the same eurvej
xnaj be pat and remaine upon record ? And doth he cause the
oourta to be duelj kept hj the Beceyror and stewards of the
Church?
m. Doth he, being at home, and not hindered by sicknes or
some other urgent cause, (which is left to his owne conscience)
daylj frequent the Divyne offices of the Church in his Quire habit ?
And doth he in his owne person officiate and preach in the Quire
upon the three principall feast dayes of the yeare, that is to say,
upon Easter-day, Whit-sunday, and the day of Christ's Nativitie ?
Or, in case he hath a just impediment, doth he proyyde some other
eminent, learned, and fitt person to performe the same for him P
IV. Doth he well repaire and keepe due residence in his house,
heang not allowed abore one hundred dayes absence in all the yeare,
except it be upon speciall occasions that are mentioned in the
statutes ? And doth he other whiles goe to preach in some churches
abroad within this Dioces, specially where sermons are most wanting,
and able preachers, for lacK of due provision and mayntenance, can-
notbehad?
Thirdly: concerning the Frehendaries.
V. Are the third parte tft least of the twelve Prebendaries alwaies
resident in their houses ? Doe they duely repayre those houses, and
keepe their familyes and maynteyne hospitalitie there ? Doe they
all, or as many of them as be any tyme at home, and are not hindred
by aicknes, or other just causes, (wherewith their owne consciences
are onerated) dayly frequent the Divyne service of the Quire, and
beare their parts in it ? Doe they come to it every one in his Quire-
habit, and keep his owne stall there first allotted to him ? Doe they
in their owne persons officiate there upon those holy and festivall
dayes whereon the Deane or the Subdeane doe not officiate them-
sefyes? And doe they preach foure sermons there (one every
quarter) in the yeare, according to their due course and order, or in
ease of a just impediment allowed by the Deane, or, in his absence,
by the Subdeane, doe they provyde another of their owne ranke and
quality to performe the same ? And when they preach themselves,
or such their substitutes that preach for them, doe they that day
absent themselves from the Quire servyce, or come late to it, or stay
they in the vestry and not in the Quire, attending there till the
sermon tyme begins ? And doe they and their substitutes weare the
Quire habit when they preach, and use that forme onely of inviteing
Slid exhorteing their auditors to pray and give thankes for all estates
of men in the Church and Kingdome, which is prescribed by the
Injunctions and Constitutions Ecclesiasticall, and hath been hereto-
fore accustomed, though of later tymes disused and left off by some
men, who preferre their owne voluntarie and private dictates before
the publique and approved formes of the Church ?
VI. P'N- t':. \ . 1'.. pa' .!• "• •_•"•• t-i I r»:ir'. in -iir.!' i-I.-.n-^n*^ a* ri^V,
FourtKJi: rj-.i.-'.-siitf; fh'- ».• • */ ''>» r* tftkf Tij/rvi a/no'*^ fif
'/•..'.;,/.':.-„..
VI!. .\r.» !'.■■ S..l»!. i: I-. Tr ;i-:.r p :i?. ! Kfi'k^ir. i Tt r^ Ttf*«ffr
iiji«!\ •■•-' - r: .;•.■! *a- :■ •• ! • ;. r\ r:i.-- ''.• .r :•• >rr.k.l i-ffiit* a*-"-^?:!^
Ill !:..■ -::iri.-- «.:•■.■ l . .r- :. :
VIII. l» :". : . >.'.:..i . . i-. !'■■ .i- :. . !* t».o i>.a!..- r^r^fJ2j
altiTiil !!;•■ :''\' r-. I ::.-:.! .i:. : 'i.p ■ r [•-./■:' all t!,i:,j^ aj j- -ta.s-^a^
t.» ii.i* ri.-.ir. ■ f
IX. N !•.. !:. ^^. r .!. . ■ ■! :.:.! •*:••*.:: .:; ^av-rv^ a-, i n^
r.-w.:-/ !'■■ T '.'-'. ■ '!-. ■. .: .T r • : .■• :.■.%■ t ■ i .rr^f
!»■•■. 1".. I» ..•■■■:■..•:■•. : I ' '■ .■•-:■>...•'. t. L»
I f!;. . : I! i!'. ! ■ : '■ - : ' :» . i ■ • . l: ^ r r. . ■ ■ . i; -■mt
I'!" :i!! ::. •••.-- ■ »* ■ •. '. : •■ m '. ■ ' I .■.-..-• r ■.*::;. :. •;.■ tisar
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APPENDIX. 256*
to obserre the Statutes ot this Church, see farre as they are con-
eened m them ?
HI. Doth the Precentor carefully order and appoynte the hymnes
and seryyces of the Quire to be dayly sung there ? Doth he take
cue that the bookes belonging to the Quire be well and &irely
bound, and soe from tyme to tyme preserved ? Doth he every day
£ut]iMy note the absences aswell of the Deane and Prebendaries,
ts of all other members and ministers of this Church that are bound
to attend and assiiste in the servyce of the Quire ? Doth he every
fertnight present the same note of absences to the Deane and
Chapter? And is he duely chosen, admitted, and swome to per-
fe me his office ?
XHL Is the Sacrist likevrise duely chosen and swome to doe his
doty ? Hath he received the furniture, ornaments and utensills of
the Church by inventarie and indenture &om the Deane and Trea-
surer? Doth he provyde a sufficient quantity of the finest bread,
and best sorte of wyne for the Sacrament of the Eucharist, when-
•oerer it is to be administred in the Church, and doth he place and
Older all things aboute the Communion-Table or Altar, for the more
decent celebration thereof? Doth he likewise provyde a sufficient
atoie of waze lights to be used in the winter at Evening-prayers in
the Church, or at other tymes when it is darke ? Doth he (or some
oilier appoynted by the Deane and Chapter) diligently look to the
eommon Library of the Church, and see that the bookes be well
bound ^d preserved there ? And is there a catalogue or register of
tlMwe books distinctly written, and remaineing in the Library, for the
use of those who shall repaire thither to read them ? Ajid is noe
book lent out to any man without a subscription or pledge to restore
ibe same, in a due tyme prefixed by the Deane ? Doe you knowe of
aoT books that have byn in the late wicked and distempered tymes
imbezeled, and taken away, either by violence or fraude, and in whose
bands now they are ?
XIV. Are the two Virgers, and the two belringers subservient to
tbe Sacrist? And doe they in all respects otherwise attend and
performe their duetyes according to the Statutes of the Church
whereunto they are swome ?
XV. Doe the belringers duely keep the clocke of the Church?
Doe they keep all the floore of the Church cleane ? Doe they suffer
any burthens to be carryed through it, or any persons idlely to
walke in it ? Doe they carefully open and shutt the doores of it at
doe tymes prescribed them by the Deane and Sacrist ?
XVI. Doth the Master of the Quiristers (or Organist) diligently
teaeb and instructe the tenn young choristers every day in their
Bcfaoole ? Doth he attend Di^mie service dayly in the Quire habit,
as other the Singing-clerkes doe, and looke that all the Quiristers
doe the same, every one keeping their gownes and surplices cleane,
and behaveing themselves orderly, reverently, and decently, dureing
tbe whole tyme of Divyne servyce in the Quire ?
Z/iri UYSS f.KW'VII.I.F.
X VII. Am thi* Si'Tfi.ilRi'uitrr ami TnhtT *»( thr Ommmar ArhooAr
w.il -jiilit'w.i. li;ir:.iii. :il..i !i!t !".ir t!.- :r «-tr\Cir U m* If rT iiu».
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APPENDIX. 267
be aett up where it was before ? What is become of the wood and
kftd of the two great broaches that stood upon the square towers at
the west end of the Church ? How have the same beene disposed
or imployed, and what accompt hath beene made thereof to the
Deane and Chapter ? And if noe accompt be jet given, have you
loagfat after it, and legally demanded it of those persons that pulled
downe one of those broaches, and sold away the lead and wood of
them both? By what other persons' (as you knowe or have heard
from others that knowe it) have any parts of the Church fabricke,
Ahar, Pont, Organ, Pulpit, doores, partitions, or stalles and seats in
the Qotre, been destroyed ? Search out and name them, if by any
neanes you may, to the end that if those impious persons and
authors and abettors and instruments of theso destructions may be
foimd oat, and live iu this kingdome, the law may compell them to
make restitution ; or if not, that the names of such persons and their
aa crfleg jous violence may be recorded among you to all posterity.
XXII. What summes of money have you the Deane and Chapter,
and those that were before you, already expended in these two last
yeares about the fabricke and repaire of this Cathedrall Church,
togeather with the renewing of all the ^miture, ornaments, and
other things reauisite for the servyce of G-od to be duely performed
in it ? And what proportions of money have you sett out and
aUowed for the future, to perfecte and finish, as much as layeth in
jou, the workes that you have soe well begun, to the end alsoe that
this may be recorded to posteritye, and Ood may have honour by it ?
XAlll. Are the severall houses belonging to the Deane and
Prebendaries, and those that belong to the Petty-Canons all in
good rnmyre ? and how many of them have bin lately spoyled and
renewed or built up againe? At whose cost hath the same byn
done P And which of those houses remaine yet unrepaired ? Are
the Cloysters and the Chapter-house, the Library and the Eegister's
offiee, the Treasure-house and the Dorter, the Petty-Canons' hall
and the Ouest-hall, the Exchequer, and the severall schoole-houses
bdonging to the Church, all in good and seemely estate ? Are there
Doe incroachments made one upon another, nor any of those houses
extended beyond their auntient limitts? And, if any be, was it
done by the direction and order of the Deane and Chapter ? Are
the eirloomes in every house preserved ? And are the woods and
timber-trees groweing upon the Church-lands abroade, now after soe
much mine and destruction made of them by others, carefully kept
and ordered by you according to your statutes ?
JBigitfy: coneemeing the Evidences, Charters and Munuments of the
Chwrch.
XXIY. Have you the original Statute-book of this Church, or doe
jou endeavour to procure an Exemplification thereof under the Gbeat
Seale of England ? Are the Evidences and Charters of the Church,
l1
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toiTiMtKcr with ilio r.iiirSr"''!--^, n*!'! hiviUn of aivompt. inTrntares
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a fit p in:: rJn *• \\.* n*. wIht- in I" kitp th-- l'hi;ri'*i iii.-ri.-T. t«» }*r fros
Ivini- l«» l\riii' t:iki'!i It'll. ai» ■^•ra^j-ifi •f.all rtsjuir**, (••r tV.r puS'u^-,.i«
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APPENDIX. 269
XX VllL Is the money appoTnted hj statute for charitable uses
(beixig the summe of eiebtj six pounds thirteene shillings foure
pence) yearly and faithfuUy payd and imployed by you towards the
lelide of poore persons, and for the mending of highwayes and
InridgeBy ana is there every yeare a due accompte made thereof at
your audit ? To which audit doe all your bayliffs, and other your
officers^ oome to make their due accompts alsoe ?
Ttnikfy : eoneemeing the keeping of Chapters, and regUtring the Acts
there made, with Acts of Visitations,
XXIX. Doth the Deane, or, in his absence, the Subdeane, call
and keep a Chapter every fifteene days, according to the Statutes of
the Church, that he and the Prebendaries may prudently and quietly
conaolt aboute the affaires thereof, and advyse togeather for the well
<»dmng of all things thereunto belonging ? In those Chapters are
Tonr Acts made, registred, and subscribed, by the Deane and Pre-
Dendaries that be then present, especially at your two great Chapter-
dftjes, to be held constantly upon the xxth day of July, and the
zxth of November, every yeare ? And is your Acte-booke well and
fairely written, and safely kept P
XXX. What speciall Acts and Injunctions have byn made and
srren you by your Visittors, the Bishopps of Durham, our pre-
deceaaora, in their severall visitations of this Church since the yeare
of our Lord 1617 ? The sight whereof you are to exhibitt unto us,
within one monnth after this our first day of commeing to visitt
yon.
JEleaoerUhly : concemevng the letter provision for Vicaridges and
appropriated Churches,
XXXI. Have you the Deane and Chapter taken care, and made
provision for the poore Vicarages and Churches abroad, (whereof
the impropriated Rectoryes belong to you) according to his Ma-
jestie's letters, lately sent unto you for that good purpose ? How
many of those Vicarages have you augmented, and to what yearly
value?
XXXII. Have you yet provyded and appoynted sufficient and
able Curates for the severall appropriate churches that belong unto
your care in the Citty of Durham and elsewhere? And doe you
allowe and pay unto them their competent and annuall stipends?
And how much have you augmented them ?
Twelfthlg : concemevng offences and crimes of ecclesiastical cog^
nisance,
XXXIII. Doe any of the Prebendaries, Minor-Canons, Lay-
derkes, or other the members, ministers, and servants of this Church
refuse at any tyme to obey the lawfull directions and commannda of
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thi* I)*>ano. to whomc, aji to thrir ^iitli* and i^rrniour. tkrr afv
X.WIV. WiH-iiit-r tit- aii\ *>( thmi kii>>«»i'. fAmni. i>r Miip^rtv^
til \\\v 111 ati% t;rii \i>ii^ i>r MMitil.iM'U** rrwnr. or Kavf* tht-j (VtD.Bk:tt^
aiiv nthi-r ••ffi-iii*!* tYiil Id piirti«haMf h\ •t^rlfvuitticall crruurrs. mad m
pubircto t«» thi* t'i<^iii/an<*r i't'\iiur Viiitor?
III. Art icTi.i-xT i»r Till- itrr^MTtiir mf inr Dri^ i^DrRirrva
i»r DiuiiiW !.<« hi:i'\ihf*, \k' aitiii thi: Ki.]iTnfthTi(p» *.
Juiii- 12. Itii'ili \i. .ii.-^%ir !•• ll.i- :* t/ii.int4 ii)iat l^th U'«>q ea-
{x'litifMl l>\ tlii- t ':ktltii!r.ill ( iiwn-it ••:' iKin^nif mno* tut MajratM*
iapp\ nturii.
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APPENDIX. 261
Ifi. We oannoi make any lease for lives, it being against our
fltfttutes.
2iid. For 21 years we have not taken 4 years value of any tenants,
of many not 3, and of some, and they not a few, not 2 yeares value,
if their farmes be iustly rated. Where any of our tenants have com-
plained that their farmes were over-rated by us, we have put it to
them to rate their own farmes and to set their own fines ; promising
tbem either leases for such fines as they themselves should set, or to
give them soe much if they would quietly quit their farmes and leave
us to find other tenants. Which ofiers we have made them, not in
consideration of any right they have in their farmes, they being all
leaseholders, and their leases expir'd, but in consideration of the
great oppressions they have endur'd, during the late troubles. And
wbere ther is not enough to be discounted for their purchases, by
lesson their leases are but lately expir'd, we have not demanded soe
much.
Wbera leases were made to any of them in the year 1643 which
are not yet expir'd, or but very lately, we have demanded but litle
more then one year's value for a new lease, and /)f some of them
not soe much, and soe proportionably for other leases but lately
ezmr'd.
^or manv leases of houses in Durham, and olher things of small
ndne, which, being very many, make up a considerable part of our
rerenne, we have made many leases without demanding any fme of
BOtAk as were either poor, or had suffer' d much in the late troubles,
or were related to the Church, and of others of them a small matter
towards the furnishing our Library with bookes.
To the Qusre what necessary repayres are yet to be taken care
finr, and what they will amount unto ?
1. For houses for our Petty-Canons, Schoolmaster and Usher,
tiieir must be new houses built, the old being quite demolish'd.
2. For fineshing our Quire, upon which we have many dayly at
warke. 3. For building a new font, suteable to that which was
destroy'd by the Scots. 4. For a new pulpit. 5. For the front of
oar Quire toward the Church. G. For glazing twoe windowes in a
place cal'd the 9 altars, behind the Quire, one great window on the
north side, and one round window with painted glasse at the east
end. 7. For lead worke and timberwork about some turrets upon
the top of the Church. 8. For mending the pavement of the Church
and Quire. For all these, and some other things which we intend
to doe, we conceive the charge will amount unto 3000/.
We have not put upon this accompt, 1. What we have allready
expended, and what we must yet expend to maintain the rights of
our Church. 2. What any of us have privately given to any pious
or charitable uses. 3. What is expedient, though not soe necessary,
toward the repayrin^ of some decayes in our Church, which we know
not whether we shaU be able to undertake.
Since the coming of the present Dean, Mich. 1661, we have had
'jr»'2 in: \N (.KINVIIXK.
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APPENDIX. 263
at home^ or hj others abroad, or bj his sacred Majestie when he
shall know of it
Their answer concerning sacbutts and cometts is extrinsecall to
tiie inqoiiTy thongh the Bishop likes them Tery well, haying been
eatsbUshea in his time when he was Prebendary heretofore.
They confesse they want a School-master, and rely for the present
upon a probationer, by whose unfitness to teach, and to goyeme the
achoole, most men haye taken away their children firom it. The
Cookes! places granted nnder the Chapter seale as patents* (in
whose time soeyer) are against statute and ought to be yoyded by
course of law.
If th e pr esent Deane and Chapter grant no offices with patent,
Qoare, What becomes of their Stewuxl*s office? And what will
become of their Begister's office, if it should fall yoyd in their time,
wherein no man will serye them without a patent P
2d Title. Concerning the Deane.
The answers to the 2d, 3d, and 4th Articles concerning the Deane
eonfesse that there is yet no sunrey made of the lands belonging to
the Chnrch, which they fey cannot yet bee fully discoyered. In the
mean while, of those that are already discoyered, why is not the
mmrej made and recorded ? The seryice is not yet performed so
often in the Quire as it was before. The song bookes are torn and
not renewed. The Lectome and Litany-desk are meane and un-
oomely. The Aitar is cloathed with course countrey cloath. The
Treasory and Begistry are undigested into order. The inyentory of
goods belonging to the Church is not yet perfected &c. The floor
€^ the Chnrch is broken. The tombs of benefactors are left broken.
The north door, and the jammes of the windowes without are plais-
tered np with morter. The Church-yard wall is not repaired, but
left open to annoyance, &c. The pinacles aswell at the east as west
end of the Church, and on the north side thereof, are not repaired.
All the other particulars mentioned in the Articles, they say joyntly,
are well performed; which had been enough to say in answer to
those Articles concerning the Deane. The rest of the answers here
are onely declamatory commendations of his understanding, and his
yigilant care in managing of seyerall suites at law and chancery
against refractory tenants, and of his yindicating this Church into
more fireedome than it had for these hundred yeares and upwards ;
which freedome is not explained, and therefore cannot be understood
by the Yisitour what is meant by it, unlesse they meane their free-
dome from paying the King any subsidy, or from repayring the
"Bishop's seat in his Consistory, as they haye done his seat in the
^ If thej cannot remedy this without law, the law may be prosecuted against
them, aaweU as against their refractory tenants ; and against their tenants they have
proceeded by law. Why not against these ? — Margimai note.
2(\\ MKW riRlWII.I.K.
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APPENDIX. 265
6th Title, Concerning Divine Offices.
They answer here that all is well. They referr to the statute
which they conceive impowers the Deane to order the times and
pboes of flill Divine offices, according to his owne prudence, without
taking any notice of the Bishop's power, to whom this prudence of
the Deane is subordinate, and subject to inquiry, whe'ther he pro-
ceeds 9eeundmn regulas prudentue, or no, wherein they are all bound
hj an oath to obey the Bishop, as hee shall see cause to require
uem. They say that some among the Prebendaries weare not
hooda answerable to their degrees, but they do not specify who these
Prebendaries are. They say that their studies and meditations hinder
them from coming to the Quire service so often as otherwise they
would do, and that they have not herein looked upon the practice of
their predecessors, which might be various and not imitahle^ words
Toy obscure to the Bishop. They referr to the Chappell Bojall for
th^ patteme, and to other Cathedrall Churches, where, if any thing
be amissOy they have no rule nor reason to follow it.
*lth Title. Concerning thefahrick of the Church,
Here is a long narration made of the workmen whom they have
inmbyed, first by day- wages, and afterwards by the great, which they
■till continue to do ; reserving as they sa^ sufficient money to pay
them, but to what summe that money anseth they say not, nor to
what Bomme the repairs which are yet to be made, and injoyned by
tbe Visitor, will amount, upon a view that should have been, and
ought to be, taken thereof, by the severall and respective workmen.
^ inhabitants of the City, neighbours and strangers, many of them
find as much fault with the patching of the Church with course
BKnter and lime upon the asler work without, and the broken pave-
ments within, with many other defects there, aswell as some of those
P^nona do commend what is well done alr^uly. But these things
•''B to be referred to the view and consideration of the Bishop, and
^ to strangers and neighbours of the city. What those things are
vhich they hope the Bishop will not presse upon them, or what their
Wttona are against them, they do not specify. Although they be
giurdians of the Church, yet they must give the Bishop leave to be
their Overseer • (and that in a higher sence then what is specifyed
in Mr. Dalton's Justice of Peace) and if he findeth any thing de-
fecttreto have it supplyed and amended, for this belongeth to his
jnriadiction over them, which he is bound to preserve, and must give
>n aooount thereof to Ood and the King and to his owne conscience,
-^gsinst the sacrilegious persons, in all these five yeares they confesse
* It is th6 GMe of all other Rectors and Churches in the Diooes.— Ifor^tMi
M m
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APPENDIX. 267
VHh TUle. Ckmceming the keeping of Chapteri, and Acts of
yiiitations.
Wbat the lawfull' impediments are whj a Chapter is not kept
erery fortnight, thej do not specify, and therefore the Bishop, who
is to judge of those impediments, whether they be agreable to the
itatates or no, cannot tell whether he shall allow them or no. The
good carriage and temper of their Chapter is commendable, but the .
tudng of other places, and saying that there are but few examples -
Hke to their owne, is not so, and is altogether extravagant, and
eztriiuecall to the Bishop's inquiry.
Strange it is that they can find no footsteps of any Acts of Yisita-
tioD, which is a sign that they have not well been kept, and therefore
they are bound to take more care of them hereafter. But when they
ny that they find no inquiry grounded upon Injunctions, it should
■eem they do not so much as keep the Articles of Visitation neither,
wberein, (not long since exhibited) before my time, they might have
feimd this Article amongst others, viz. Num. 28, in fine : — " What Acts
hmve been made by the Bishops of Durham, your VisitarSj in their
severaU Visitations^ and how are they observed and kept from time to
immer
They desire that no such Acts or Injunctions may be made with-
oad tfaiey be first asked and consulted about them, which was never
jet demanded of any Bishop by their predecessors, or any others
that used to be visited by him : and the Kectors, Vicars and Church-
wardens of every parish within his Diocess may aswell demand the
■ame of him, as the Deane and Chapter, which they themselves can-
not think fitt to be granted.
The certificate which they mention in this answer they disowned
tiiemselves, and withdrew it as being a * writing not so considerately
drawne up as it should have been.
To the rest of my Injunctions they answer nothing.
To the 34th Article, they say they have augmented two Vicarages
in Durham during pleasure onely, which is not according to the
King's Letter, if they be not established upon them for all times to
eome.
To the 36th and 37th Articles, they answer that there is no irre-
golarity in habits, but they say nothing of coming to the Church in
night gownes and grey stockings, nor of wearing long rapiers, great
slurted jumpes, and short daggers.
To the additionall Articles, they confesse that some of their Man-
non-houses belonging to their Corps abroad, are ruined, and they
plead against the repayring of them, and say it is more for the
* Wherein they pat a sdvo for the privileges and liberties of their Church, as they
c^led it, appropriating it to themselves. Of which privileges amtpliandwn eit, prout
m ehariA wbjwuet&.^Margindl note.
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APPENDIX.
9. That tiiey hftye the patronage and right of presentation in
many ehnrches.
10. That thej are custodes spiritualium^ sede JEpiscopaU vacante.
Tkeie following are none of their primledgeg' or libertiet,
1. That thej shall not as well erect a consistorial seat for the
Bihop within the precincts of his Cathedrall Church, as his stall in
fte Quire, or his throne betwixt the Quire and the Altar ; all which
thej are to preserve to him, and furnish for him in honourable and
mtmi manner.
2. It is not their priviledge or libertie to keepe any places void
tbt are appojnted by the Statutes of the Church, nor to dispose of
tlie stipends, and profits thereunto belonging at their pleasure.
8. It is not their priviledge or liberty to order the times and
1^1068 for Divine service as the Deane or they shall thinke fitt, with-
out the consent of the Bishop ; for upon this mistake some former
Beanes and Prebendaries have appoynted the service only to be read
in the Quire, and a ryming psalme to be sung instead of the Nicene
Creed before sermon. And if it be left wholy at the liberty of the
Beane, as now is pretended, he may do as rope Gbegory the 11th.
did, and for more conveniency (according to his owne prudence) ap-
poyntthe Evening Service to be sung before dinner; (and that m
aipr other part of the Church, out of the Quire) neither of which the
Biihop must allow.
4 It is none of their priviledges to come in to the Quire in their
Aun and night gownes, or to sitt with theire hatts on their heads at
the leading of the first and second lessons.
[Indoned, '' Papers conoemiDg my Lord's Visitation In 1665."]
^ AsnCLXS OF EVQTJTBT EXHIBITED TO THE DXAITE, PbSBEK-
BAaiEs, MiNOB Canons, Clebks akd otheb Officebs of the
Cathedeal Chubch of Dubham IV the thibd Episcopal
TiBITATIOK OF THE ElOHT ££YBBEin> FaTHEB IK GOD JOHK,
LoKD Bishop of Dubham, ik the eighth teebe of his ook-
ttCRATIOK, AND IN THE YEEBB OF OUB LOBD 1668*.
1. Was all things in the last Visitation found a miss rectifyed and
uiended in due time, according to the Monitions and Injunctions
girenyou?
2. Concerning the Deane.
Hath the Deane since the last Visitation hin vigilant in his office
^ gOTemment over all the Canons and Ministers of the Church ?
Hath he taken care that all Divine services be duly and religiously
P^ormed at the several times and places thereunto appointed : that
* Hunter MSS. iL 1U9.
270 l»l IN i.RlNVH.LR.
t}.<- (*)iun'h Alniii ht' t'.nthfiillv (iiiitn)Mit«*il : that hfvi{»it«]itr (v \rpl
h\ r.iiM-i-!r«' ariil thr ('.ifi<>ii>i ri'!*hl«>iit . tiiat t^i* lri-a.«urr. i>rr.i!nf ta>
:tiiii I'uriiitiirv I'i ill*' I'hun-li, toirilhfr »ith ihr i*hr«te«. «nt:Bfi.
I'M.k*. r«-::.-t'r-, :iri.l .ul"!'.i-r i;-..!'. .t u!»*ii«il!ii Iv »»'ii ar..! «aMv
j.n^ini'l liint tin* rourt-* U' liml^ krpt bv thi* Kror:»er umI
Mi-viaril ut'lhi' C't'.iin'lir Hat*» I.*- (!:••! Iiaviu-^ bin hifi»in-«i St t^-
I.. **, ,ir i'll.iT i.tlT' T.t i*a'i''»'> 'i-vL^ !ri-.j .f!il»-.l t'n* l);«:i.f ■ tf;.'*^ Y
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j.j^l i!njit .I'.iiiiiit iiiili I- I rii\ !■!•■: '.■-M.' .tr.. r • Ti.ii.i :ii. ifarr.'^: wad
fit i-.f-'Ji I" |-i r?'-'riii- l\.*' "•irii'- :• r i.iti. r Hal'; ho k'pt !..• '. .^«W
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;) f\ttirr-ninjthr I'rrf^n.hrin
l!.i\i* tilt' Majur i'ain'ii* in li.<ir turm-n ki-(-t n*^i>ii*nci* ? Hate i
liM^l a tiiini part ut' ti.r 11! l'r» !i!i'Lir:r-. (•!!. ri*9LAiii in t^irir ^j<
inasittaiiiiiu' ii«-!*|-itai:tv l\.*n': Ila\i- .t.l >i!' tKi-in k«'{-l th«:r biuMi
lU ^••^»ii n*| a:n* r llavi- ai. ••!' thi'in. «t a^ uiaii\ at* at axi% tit&e kaiw
I'ji at ii'Miii', aitil lU't !i:n'in-i b\ n:i "Krj«'«* 'T ■•tr.fr ju^t •'aut**. davir
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APPENDIX. 271
Choieby walk of the Ghurch-jard, and all houseB and buildings
theieiinto belonging be constantly kept in good and sufScient re-
ptile ? Have they made provision for all things needfuU for the
fomiture and ornaments of the Church P Have thej bin carefull to
look that all the Plate, Vestments, and other utensills belonging to
the Church, be diligently preserved, examining the inventories of
them every quarter of the yeere, that nothing may be lost or spoyled
bjr negligence? Have the Eeceivers bin industrious in gathering
and receiving the rents, debts and arrearages due unto the Church ?
Hive they made due payment of all moneys so gathered and received
to the Treasurer, within the time limited by the statutes ?
5. Concerning the Divinity Reader,
Hath there bin constantly a Divinity Seader belonging to the
Ckiirch, being an eminent and learned person, of the degree of
Xaster of Arts at least? Hath he constaatly frequented Divine
•emce in his Quire habit ? Hath he duely performed his duty in
preaching on the two Sundayes in the yeere, according to his course,
QD Festival dayes, and on the Wednesdays and Frydays in the time
of Lent : and hath the wages according to the Statutes of the Church
Kn duely paid unto him P
8. (kmceming the Minor 'Canons, Ministers, and other officers of
the Church,
Haih the full number of Minor-Canons, Clerks, Ministers, and
<Aer officers of the Church bin constantly kept up, as well by fill-
ing the roomes vacant last Visitation, as by providing others in the
l&es of those which have since that time dyed and removed P Have
tbqr bin all duely chosen, admitted and swome to observe the
States of the Church so farre as they are concerned in them?
Bave all the aforesaid Ministers and officers, both those that have
Kn of late admitted, and those that were admitted before the last
Titttation, behaved themselves well in their respective offices and
jdaoee ? Have they duelv frequented Divine service in their Quire
WnttB, behaving themselves reverendly and orderly there? Are
tfaey all men of good fame and honest conversation? Have they
ihewed them selves able and fit persons for the performance of all
daties required of them by the Statutes of the Church ? Have their
wages and salaries bin duely paid them ? Give direct answeres to
ereiy perticuler conteined in this Article.
7. Concerning Divine offices in the Church,
Hath in the performance of Divine service the Book of Common
Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Bites and
Ceremonies in the Church of England, bin duely at all times ob-
272 DKAM r.RA5V||XR.
MTTod, without alteration, nmiMinn or adclition P Ilive the w
tini«*ii of Miiniiiig, Kreninf;. ami Communion Sorrier bin diatift
ko|»t ? II nth oviTV (>ii(* that in Km ml to mmo thi'rrin mDila
worm* till- haliitt (mIuiii^ih;; to iKiir ri-f»[M-«-ti%i* tlrt^r*** an«l qvabli
iliith tlx* i*ri*.irlu*r at am* tim«' utavi^l in thr %niirT. *»r otKcr pk
out itftlii* (jiiin*, liunni; tin* tiim* of Ihvim* fu-nirv*. till hx« xomg
to the pulpit ? ILith anv l*n-ai*h<'r t;<<n up into the pulpit wttk
hin (juin* hahit ? Hath hi* at any tinit* uiumI an\ M*t T nine or
t«'ni|Minin' pray it U'fon* hi« i*rrii;nri, or any othi-r ritnifftaliofi
pravi'r lii*Hii|i*fl thi' furiiu* appotnt<-il )iy thi* (*iin»titut:i>n4 anil C^a
of th(* tMum*h of Kntrlaml r Math anv hin aiimittiNl t«> pivttrh
thin (Miurt* h nut bvin^ a liccnsiii prvai'iirr, ur U'fon* h«* had ahn
hifl lici'nco ?
H. Conerrnitt'} fh^j'jf'nrl nml rrp*urrM of t^e Ckmrck.
Hath tlirn* hin «iu(* can' XiVvu t.i kiM-;-- t^«* ('*iurt*h an*l all b«
inir" thfn*unt«i Ulunc^'ii; I'l cihmI an*! juitfii'irtit n>pain<? Iljlh
the nH»fi* liin c*iinMantl\ krpt iMxi-n-ii with IraJ millioic^t to \m
out till' raine anil wrthi r ? tiarr tin* vnmlttwi-* b:n krpt vrll |[Im
the rtitn Hi'll arni rvfn!\ pa\iil. thi* w.iIU mi*!! plA^tm-*!, and vUl
anii till* inhitli* nf tin* t*hi>n*h k«-pt i-lraitf* t'pirii «-••)•« r!>9 and da
Hath till* I'hurt'h-yi'anl «uil hin kipt up. the i:atr« lh*n^*f kept ki
ntiil shut to kiv|N* nut <iwin«- ani ratt* !I ? llaM* thr h>utraof
l)i*anr, thr Major arnl Mtii'T-raiioTii. anil "f a!'. l'.*< ftlirr od
b«*liiiii;ini* to the I'hun'h Inn ki pt in c*-"! an-i rur.ttant rvpn
llalh rare bin taken that n«i m u !• a*i « iih'>u;<i be n.a*W of
h'>u<M*^ ntainltnL; U|Hin thf t'hun h-\earti. a«viinlin«; t>> thr comm
iif hid late .M:ijfiil\ Kir.tT <">kar!f« the tir^t. >>f (;!i-n«»u« nirnMiTT, gr
until the iK-ane and i'ha]<t«r h\ lim l{4>\al lA'tten r
0. ( onrrnnnp thr /.*ri./r«.-rf tinl f'h.trfrn -jskr ('kmrekn
TIath ran* bin taken i** pn'»« ne a:..! kirj^* cl.ar:i- fn-m mould I
ri»tt»-in«* the an«v.-t.t r\i ili i..".i • ai.l i-?..irtt r« *•■ 1- :.j v^ t-- !*.e i\m
ti'i^ither with till- Slatuti-tH»i»k*. U-.k« 'f aiv<-..r.t ar. I .ritmlani
1 1. Ill- lh«'\ n.it hm -utfriMl t'< U- tKp'-Ai.i- a^^tit a;;! vaUu h\ «m
niii*«-, ur i-thtT \irnr.nr An* thi>\ k^i t :ii C"^^ i ri!iT az<'l mrtbod,
to Ik* ntaile um- tif u|Mm all iMva^i'iia r
III. f '•M"r»-»:i'!.; ltt(»*\j ■ ' M i".n. 'f, .V •
Math any frautluleiit praeeii>> !•.*. um*1 m h t!::.;* ai.i f the B
n< r*. lantin. anil t«-nrnift.t« <•• fant.!*, i-ontrarr i** \Mur Statoti
II »th any li-a»r« !»in n.ailf h\ y-'i wiiri.ril »utTii*iei.t *iirrl*r« for
pawi.ent nf the C'hurvh rtnt and krepii;^ coirnantaP liatk ik
\
APPENDIX. 273
bin iDj ilieiuitum, mortgage, letting to fee-iiurme, sale or exchange
of any lands or tenements belonging to the Church P Hath there
bm anj leases made of the Church lands for lives, or for more then
21 jewesy and of the burgage tenements for more than 40 yeeres ?
Ha?e you let any part of the Corps belonging severally to the Deane
•ad mbendaries which ought to be kept in their owne hands for
the better maintenance and keeping of residence and good hospi-
ti% in their respective houses ?
11. Concerning keeping up of Residence, Sfc,
Have you observed the Statutes of the Church in keeping resi-
dences, admitting none thereto that are not by the Statutes capable
of keeping them ? Have the Eesidentiary constantly frequented the
Choith, both forenoone and evening, during their 21 dayes of resi-
dence? Have they in their times of residence augmented their ordi-
niij tables, keeping good hospitality, and inviting to their tables the
■wmbers of the Church and their poore neighbours, and strangers ?
Bith every Besidentiary duely observed the &sts, and dayes of absti-
Mnee, ordained by the lawes, ecclesiastical and temporal, of tliis
Cburch and Kingdome? Hath every Eesidentiary allowed him,
dnring his 21 dayes residence, 40 shillings a day, according to the
CQstomes and usages of this Church P Hath any Prebendary not
capiUe of keeping residence, or any that being capable have not
kept tbeir residence in their due course, had a dividend, or any part
« pardtion thereof, allowed unto him : and, in making of the divi-
<lfBds, have you observed that none be made till the Church have
bb first served, by having all things both without and within, and
d itructures and buildings belonging thereto, kept in good and suffi-
«nt repaire : or, at least, before you have made any dividend, have
70Q laid by as much money as would, by the judgment of skilfull and
*Ue artists, amend and repaire whatsoever hath bin amiss or out of
crier? ' *^
12. Concerning keeping of Chapters, and registring Acts, Sfc.
Hath the Deane, and in his absence the Sub-deane, called and
^)t a Chapter every 15 dayes, accorcLing to the Statutes of the
Church ? In those Chapters have your Acts bin registred, and sub-
Ktibed by the Deane and Prebendaries then present : and is your
Act-book well and fairely written and safely kept P
18. And lastly, have any of the Major or Minor Canons, lay sing-
ing-men, or other the members, ministers and servants of this
Chnrch, at any time refused the lawfull directions and commands
of the Deane, to whom, as their guide and govemer, they are swome
N n
274 liK\!« GftAXVILLK.
tn f^To due obedienr« and rprrrrnrc* P II«re anj of ihrm bm I
famod. or ■uiip<*ct«Hl to liri* in anv |^*i%ioua or 9cmndalan»
havo aiiv (»f tkriii coTiimitt«*d any other offc-ncp punuhaMr h
aiajktical cfnuun*, and nubjft*! tu x\m cii^ixaiicr of \ our Vi
[IiMloncd. " Artickt inlrmM tu b* eiLibiu^ lo j« Dmm aad CK al
Ittia/J
VII. AariCLEa or Vihitatio5 a5D K^rgriaT coiccKaviya «
K«rLraiAHTirAi. r\iiibitbd to tub MivitTKaa, Cacac
i)E5H krfu SiDr.*ME?f or ktkkt pahi»ii withix thb Ab
Oi)!IBT or Dt BIIAV l!« THE VlfilTATIO!« or THB UoS
DtJtm (iBE^rVILLE, .\BCIiDtACO!« or Ul'BllAM *.
TlTlL. I. CoHcrrninff Chwrrhn amd CkappeU, tnik H0 Oh
afiJ Furmtturr thereunto Lelonpm^.
('All. M. I- I A Vf^ur Pariiih Oiunrh or (*hap|M't kept in |*nod and sufl
and an* thr nioffi thfrrnf vrll oivrnnl «ith Irad. tilr. or alar
windows well |!la/t*<l, thr fliMin- wWl pavrd, thr arata wcO fl
and oonTcnifntiy plai*«*tl ; and all thinga ao dccrotlT oidi
bemnii'th the Hi'tuae of (lOt! 'r
Lnid. II. Hath thi* at«i'pU* or t«»wrr of rour (*hurrh or i^bappoL
vvni'i IVr>- iiart thrrrof, bi*<*n pulled down, nr anr of the l«*ad or bolb f
«inaal#. bt.Ionpnjj thtTuuto l»«»n iiiihri«*Ili*d aold or made avaj P Ii
■tiiuiiiinit ^uuiila or cu9ti>ily doth thr rarm* f»r anr part thorrof reaaui
Ahciw. lib. olarv what vou know, ur have hi*ard then*«'f.
III. Dt fM. III. In i\\vr%* a Font of atonr. with a i^ooil cover Xh
""■ ***' ing in a tMntenifnl tilaro towani^ thr l.i^rr part of thr
('•n HI t hi* at! m in tat ration ot iiapti»ni? And la then* in }our coflM
(an. H2 M*>t^ (*onimunion-tabIi* U*t the adrniniKt ration of the liafd*a i
with a raqn-t of ailk. atufT, «*r fine «ollen rloth, and another C
i'Mn. I'll of white and pure Iinnin t«i ^prvad thenMi|inn r And havo jo
romniunifin*cup. or chalui*. with a ciivrr of nUer, and <mmi
fla^ima of aiUrr or pewter, thi*n*unto ht-loninni*?
Can. US. 1^'* Jlarv you in vour aaid Chun-h i>r Thappel a (onfiBM
(mi. R3 «ir iM'ii for thi* Mini«ter to n*ad Mivine M-nuv in. a pulpit
(mi m. comrly cloth i»r ctinhinn for the aanie; a HiMe i»f the I
( unf. («a. in a large Tolumo, and the liook of I onimon IVa\cr, (c
* R#|innlrd fn^fn a n>f»y Ktmnd up in a mU^linn nf trwvv Tiw^ la ifea I
ChapfrT Ij^rwy. l^urbMa. It :§ la bUrk ^ut, fn«i lk» pvwW-late
llfltiff IB IU«irc«tr." >'«•. |i;ii4 It l« •rH*l.*«}:« | nr.lrd. r«|«rrHlly aa a^
f% 'rrvncrv in the ( «n* Mt. h . »lir<«C *il i mi.-, h rT.,u.r*«i n rfM-lM*. f^
d> irvi mi r.l lh# n-p« in t|iir>tii»fi A|-|w«ri f>i )(«•• ^v-n lb« o»« tmrVH^aA ta ]
( La| oMn. Miatiter t»f lUrriMil i«*ll#. Mr ( b*| kmi vm ( vfHa iBflKl ft
APPENDIX. 276
the late Act of Parliament) both well and substantiallj bound?
Hare joa likewise the Book of Homilies set forth hj authority ; a Can. 80.
book of Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical ; and a printed table Can. 99.
of tiie d^rees wherein Marriage is prohibited ?
v. Hare jou a comely large surplice for the Minister to wear at Can. 68.
iQ times of his public ministration, provided and to be duly washed
at the charge of your parish ?
YI. Have you a Eegister-book, of parchment, wherein to register Can. 70.
tlie Dames and simames of all the persons as are married, christned,
«r baiied, within your parish, together with the names and sirnames
of both the parents of the children so crestned, expressing the day^
noath, and year, of all such christnings, marriages and burials ; and
IS the kanscript thereof yearly within one month next after the 25 of
Much brought into the Bishop's Begestor ?
Vn. Have you likewise another book, of paper, wherein to record Can. 62.
tiie names and licenses of all such strangers as are admitted at any
tioe to preach in your Church or Cbappel ; as also a third book,
wheiein to write down the Church-wardens accounts : together with Can. 89.
t itrong chest, with locks and keys, wherein to keep the aforesaid
hoofa, and all the forementioned fomiture in safe custody; and
hAj, have you a bier, with a black hearse-cloth, for the burial of the
Tif . n. Ooneeaming the Churchwards the Souses, Olebs, and Tithes^
helonging to the Church,
I. Is your Church-yard sufficiently fensed with walls, pails, or Can. 86.
iilei^ and decently kept from the annoyance of swine, horses and
stter cattel P Hath any person encroched upon the same, or made
ajr door into it out of his own ground or habitation, without allow-
aee from the Ordinary ? Have any trees there growing been cut
down? How long since? By whom, and to whose use and be-
MftF
IL Is the house of your Parson, Vicar, or Curat, (with all the Lynd-
snt-houses thereunto belonging) keept in good sufficient repair ? wood'a
Or have any of the said houses, or out-houses, been defaced or pulled ^^^' ^
down without license from the Ordinary, and by whom ? Have any Aj^d.
pflnon encroached upon the garden, yard, or close, belonging to your
nnonage, or Vicarage-house \ or cut up anv trees growing there ? V^^' ^^*
or changed or removed the antient marks and bounds of the same ? ^^.^,v*
m. Have you a true and perfect Terrier of all the glebe lands, Can. 87. *
prdens, orchards, tenements, or cottages, belonging to your Par-
looage or Vicarage ; as also a note of such pension, rate-tythes, and
portions of tythes, or other yearly profits (either within or without
Toor parish) as belong thereunto P Have any of the same been with-
hdd from your Minister; and by whome, as you know^ or have
heard?
Nn2
i M. iH.
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l.inil««>Ml •'■•t.:i^*»- 'T \ Jivir.i.:!-. Ui'Ti lak«*ri aiii:iv, ••r r\i-' an ,;•••! It iJirirr. wH^
Uh III. ,ff ,.iit |i|* t'ni- r>>!i4« lit I)!' tiif InruiiiU-iit. .in<l tu*i-u««' Imm U^r i
rfhmM K'-- ,,.,p^ y n^ .^i, ,.,.,. \^:^\\^ ijj.. ^-im,. |i.iii fua-if ; «n.l *...■ iii4n% i
••iinN' . aiiil h'»» riiui'li m *"iir I'ar^iiiai!i' iT Vii-ari^»- iiAr:.&
tlii'n-)i\ 111 thi* W'arly \allu** (lunitf ; a« y*.u ki.on, U-iictr, or
lii-anl :
Tit. Ill f'fnr^rni ft'/ M\nt»t^T9
y. |:],f, I I* \'Ur M lii-li r ili !'.i::n-il. i»r fiu*; •«:i>l !•■ liitr «ibtAi!Msl
luj. W. |,i« |l«-iii 'ill- iir t >n|i T- ^\ a!i\ •jT:...i;Mi-.ii r«.!!.|.arir
II. Il.i'.li }.•- !'i<>i I'-.'i..^ iiiiu ti«l i:it>i !i:« li<itfr.«>* ?
('«n .i«;. HI l>i.i Kf, ur!.:n i^ • ni<>-.T7i- w'iUT in* :ii<iui t.-<ii. |<uK:^iT
l.vh.ia.ii*!. xhv t!.ir«'i -..: -i - ■:.. ^ .-. i.ii .-r 11 • \'*\\\. in t'.- liipf ..|" iM'
li'llA"i. -.ni.-.- r. li !:. :i'i \r-. • ^ .'.:' \ ..■ T ..ir.'. .-! K ..• .ir. i f»la
13 U I II.' , . . ....
iK»|» Ij. ''^ ai.t'i'T''. ^ . .i:. ; : .■ r ; ,: ... .\ -l. ■ ..i- -.:••••%« itt litT* ui.i. r
(ail. 41. I\ li.il'i i •■ ;i:.\ . ' ■ r I!. . "• - i-' ..-.i. It T,.ti.f ? N '.«• o aat _ ^
r'-«i*l< lit ii:'!i L- !(•!;•'.. ■• :k-:. m^* ,«-i'r lI<-« iiiaitj «i.'«k» ta aay
n:ii- \i.ir fi.itli In- i • •■!! .i^*- lit Ir-i:! :: ?
V. ila'.h V. 'if ii.iM'iiT .1 t iini.- i.i \\*m\%\ K-.ni ? Wri-j it 1*-^
C'liritf r |« III- ri'til'.-rii.a' !•■ li» tfn* \a'a* .i:. i .'pirr* of !:.#• l'a«
ol" r.!.j'.i? .!. iit.i il.t'i !,•• -.T-.i- ;:i :i:.\ '.'■i. r t ■. .r •. U-».ir? J
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('All II. VI I». : \..'.r I'.ir-.-: \ . .ir. r »".ri!. ::i ra:.:j I'v
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U"'"^'^-' tMM.l. ,.:.!.r:i?: .-. . : Mirr..^ . 1 . .r '.. / ..f * ::.•:. .r:.r. .. l-^Hft^
Ut Hur (''>ni:iri:: >ri .tj:i!:.-t r:.{t«iiit' !.t «::.t:i r^. ti««- *.'.•• t -rm a:i<i «-.'rte p«^
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i li*.. » -. '.ii \ 'ir iMirr'i "F <'l.:ij.;. .. vi.Ar t:.*- •urj .t*c .■
«an f*4 \lll D'tli i.* 'o.rw t .• II-.w^livn a:i<i t a*t.:.u*-4ai«. m
ku'.r k .1.,. li.i.i.. r-u.i k». .I'.-: !■.. >• ir!\ j- r kfi.!-..:*:; i; it. IC>^U«-
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i ■'.•rw;«f .1* .-ir-'fi •.!: I. il-.T . :.*' j-r— ..n* a *• r::.. L t.» !ir ••» prracVH
>.\ ...V •■ .-till r .Mi;.i'!. r. a !.■• !.«• : ; r» .i.r.. r ■ r ' r.r .-f •.K^ lUm^fl^
*i t !..rt' ^1 ai.!'..'ri:v \ • *•■ l i.r na-i > \ a r.-.i-»: "f I^••."^■r. •
APPENDIX. 277
I. Dotb jour Minister deligently instruct the youth of jour Can. 59.
parish in the Church-Catechism P And doth he prepare, and present Can. 61.
then, heing so instructed, to he confirmed hy the Bishop r And Can. 66.
doth he endeairour to reclame ail popish recusants, and other secta-
riH, (if any such be inhabiting within your parish) to the true reli-
gioa established in the Church of England, and to their bounden
htj in obeying the law, and submitting to the goverment
thereof?
XL Doth he neglect or refuse to visit the sick, or delay the Can. 67.
bntiim of any infant that is in danger of death ? Is there any Can. 68.
• dttU past infancy, or other person of more years, through [yoi*r] ^^^* ^9*
Koistar's defolt, yet remaining unbaptized in your parish P Doth
he use to baptize any without Godfathers and Godmothers, or admit
other of the parents to be Godfather or Godmother to their own Can. 29.
children?
XII. Hath he at any time (as you know or have heard) preached Can. 5.
nrr fidse, heretical, seditious, or schismatical doctrine, thereby to
Mnoe the people into parties and factions, the disturbance of the 12 [? £/i-
pbKc peace and unity, either of Church or State P M*eM].
Xni. Hath he presumed to marry any persons in private houses, Can. 62.
ortoeh as being under age have not the consent of their parents ;
dfwkhout the banes first published, on the Sundayes or Holy-days,
in the Church ; or at any other hour then between eight and twelve
in the morning, unless he had a license or dispensation so to do P
XIV. Doth any person preach in your parish as a Lecturer ? Can. 36.
Bbth he allowance from the Bishop for so doing P Doth he before
hii lecture read Divine service according to the Book of Common
ftijer? And is he in all respects conformable to the laws and
Olden of the Chureh of England ?
IV. Hath your Minister taken upon him to apoint any public or Can. 72.
piiiate fasts, prophesying, or exercises not appointed by authority,
or doth he or any other, either Minister or lay person, hold any con-
Vtttides or meetings in private houses within your parish, for people Can. 73.
of iOferal families to resort unto, under the pretence of preaching,
pmjing, thanksgiving, or humiliation, contrary to the laws and
onoQS in that case provided ?
IVI. Is your Parson, Vicar, Curate, or Lecturer, a man of a Can. 75.
lober, unblameable, and exemplary life P Doth he familiarly converse
vith ungodly, vitious, and excommunicate persons P Is he a frequenter
of taverns, or quarreller P Doth he set neighbours at variance one
vitfa another ; or encourage them to suits and contentions P Is he
noted to be an intemperate drinker ; or vehemantly suspected of in-
eoQtuiency with any person either within your parish or without ?
h his apparel grave and decent, as the Canons of the Church re- Can. 74.
E? Or is his carriage and conversation, in any kind whatsoever,
ierlj or scandalous, and unbeseeming a minister of Jesus
ChristP
278 IiK\>f f.RASfVIM.R.
Tit IV (**mrrrning the I'jrtsktomfTM.
Vaix Mil. I. In tlii-n* ill y*Mr pan«h aiiv |wr%>fi a known tif rrtiutod 1
or (•('liKtiKitii'k . .iny P.ipi«t, F.iniilint. Aii.it»apt;«t. l^uakrr, or
Mvt.-ini*ti. tlial ri*t'ii^i* t<i cdnii' iiritn iUv |iiiM:i' &«»-mblit*«, pfsj
•H'nfHt'i iif i*ji' I'lnjrrh; i^r ihal in.iki-« |»r .S'-^-.nn *»i an? «jC^
pimi iIj.iu *ih:ii i* f4i.i»i!i«^i',| m th.* «'*j'ir\*h nf KniCiaxiJ ? .
tlii*r«' ))f* .ifiy ^iii'h, what an* th«*ir nanif* ?
I an. hli. II. In I Ill-IP aiix |"T* 'ti [II \.'!ir |i.in-h ihal '.jtrfli i^r.^lrr a «
faiiH* or vi'*M'nji-iit *'.i-|-;t..«fi f»l'a>[iiit«-r«-r, foniu-al'-r. -t inoi«l ?
tlinr .iiiy roinniiin ilruiik.irN uitriiii vnur psn^h, i»r i-trmnnta 9W
or M»«|)!if!iirr« nf (i>m1\ N.iinr ; nr any tKat arr* noU*<i to b» i
uiii-lf-.iM .-iiiil !i!i!iv i.ilkfr«, or •••■Atpt ui fM<i;t: ':i, !acti> a and ^
ainiirii: thiir !i» ijfi*"Mir!» r
A \ i: K^l. III. I)>i any III' \M'ir )>:ir.«^ upm Sundai* or ir>ly-<laj«
■ •nl \\ tlifir l>«»«iily 'ir or«i:!i:ir\ Lk^Miur*. iT inttiilI ifit-ir ^naxiti aa I
lu'n * ■» •^'^' •*"*.** "^'"I** \^v\^i iijt-n .-r Man*« *•;.!? i-r ilt> an* «iatiMn
" kifjM-r*. or othrr \!'ti«.il:ir«. a:ul *• lirp* .if N-ir •■? a>. miS
{ifr«4»{i to tippli' or t;.inif in tl^ir lt< ';««-9 ujvixt t^io^ lUit ?
IV. n>ith fVir\ |N*rt.iik inhaS.'.i:!^ atfl ^'junkini; vitkii
pari!*K <iuly rt'»«trt uiito tl.i- ('liun-li i<r i'ha{'{«-l u|iun rvcty 9
( an IH ur lli>U-tl:i% :lpp>iintiii tor 1 ti\ lUi' M-n i«i' ? l>>i thr« thm aftd
a^iili-. i{<iii-tly. Mitli rr%> n:ii'f, i<rii«*r. aini •iivmiv. (iurui|{ i
wliolr isTMi' i'{' r.ini!n"n-j»ra\»n». jTi-ai'liiiii;. or iiir.rr amicv d
tlii-n' 1141(1 r AikI .in- l'«i'rt' .iii\ 3:ii<>ii;* \«>-i t'.at i^-nte obIt
pn-.i«'liiiii», :iri i n.i! l.» < '-rsim-'n-i rjy r« "rtij*- i "iurx-h ?
('«n |:<. V. Hotfi f\rr\ {M-rNiti n'fi-ri-nti\ iin>'"«rr hi« hfa*!. Mftd m
tiiiMr ail thr tiint* nt' I>m::ii* N-niiv in tin- rhurrh : Do tl
r«-«*-n-ntly km-*-! at tKi* pri^LiT^. aifl niAnil up nrtrn the Cmi
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APPENDIX. 279
nL Ib there any perton in your parish who, bepng] 16 years of Can. 112.
doth not leoeive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper at least p^' ^I'
) times in the year, of which Easter is alwayes to be one ? Doth Rubrick
if your parish refiise to receive the same kneeling, or from the Com. Fr.
I of your own Minister, repairing for it to other parishes and ^n* ^^ ^
iters abroade ? Or are there any strangers, not of your parish, ^^*
fixrsake their on churches, and usually repair to others from
1 Hare you any amongst you that "he denounced and declared Can. 65.
nmunicate for any crime committed ? How long have [they]
so excommunicated ; and do any of your narish keep society
tiiem before they be reconciled to the Churcn, and absolved ?
Are there any leving in your parish as man and wife who are Can. 99.
n the degrees prohibited ; or any that being li^wfully married
not separated or divorced by course of law, do not exhibit
UM] together?
L Are there any married women in your parish who after there Rubrick
ay from the peril of child-birth refuse to make there publick Com.
caving to God in the Church ? And when they come so to do ^^y^*
toey come decently apparelled, and make their offerings accord-
leoatom?
X Are there any belonging to your parish who refuse to pay 28 Hen.
duty for Easter-offerings to your Minister ; or any that remse vm«.
Bteibute and pay the rate assessed upon them for repair of your ^°^"<^1^
dh or Chappel, and for the providing of such Books, Furniture, p^^.
)maments, as be requisite for the performance of all Divine Can. 86.
ithere?
IL Do any refuse to bury their dead according to the rites Rub. Com.
B Church of England ? And are there any wills or testaments Pnyer.
nons dead in jrour parish that be yet unproved P Or any ^' ^
I administred without a due grant from the Ordinary ? Did 21 Hen.*
\png in your parish, or else where, leave any legacy to your Vlll. c. 5.
eh or Chappel r What were those legacies, and how have they Lynd^ood,
bertowedf ^^
y. Is there any strife or contention among any of your parish ^i^^
bsre pewes or seats in vour Church? Have any new pewes
erected in your Chansel, or in the body of your Church or
pel, without leave from the Ordinary ?
[Tit. v.] Conceaming Farish-Clearks and Sextons.
Ebve you belonging to your Church or Chappelry a Parish- Can. 91.
, aged 21 years at the least P Is he of honest life and conversa-
and sufficient or able to perform his duty, in reading, writing,
nging ? Is he chosen by the Minister, and doth he duly attend
1 all Divine servecies at the Church ? Are his wages duely paid
[limp
280 iiFAK nM.%?rviLi.K.
II. Doth ho or jnur Srxton (if thcrp be anj torh appu
vnur parinh) (liliirmtlr l<wik to your donni of your rhurrn, tJ
In* liM-kf'il ami ii{N*iit'rl at iliip tirne? And ili>th he krrp xonr
(»r rii.i|i(H'l I'lraii fnirii iltiMt, ri>b-wi*l>«, aini «ithrr aniiotaacv*
hr tnul or nni; th«* U-IN. at the* du«* acniiit4inied h«iur«, be
br{;iiiniri^ ot' l>i\tM«* m-nruv, Moniinic aiid KTriiini;. thai ik
f^. iiin\ U* wanif'd to rnritt* unto tho Church? And «heo bbt |
|mit»iiii; out of thm life, doth h«*, uiHjn a nt»tice ipven him %hm
a lielL aff hatli bet'n aocuBt4»in(Hl, that the nriehbiiurr* aav k
waniftl t<i nvuinnirnd the dvinf^ perBnti t4) the ffrace aiM f
God?
Tit. VI. Conerrniny UngyitnlM, Si-hooh, ScKtMl-mattera, Pk
('kirurt^*nt, and Muiwirrg.
'•» lira. V. I. Ik thfro in \<iiir pnri*^ nwy lliifipit.iU. A:m«-houte. <
' iirhtNiI, imt of thi* Kiru''« fn'iridntiori or { atn^ru:*!* ? Wbo
■14* founder. IT i< r.'nr tKi» pntr-n thin-i-f? And ^\.%\ ia tk
\'tlKliM. rr\rnue or »iti|M'nd bi'I-iiiijinj to thr 4jii\rn»"r« "ir maalen
I] aanii*? In tTi«* «nmt* ordmil anil ^oTrnit-d in fl*vi*rr rvepii
iiui:ht III Im*? And an* t^i* r«->tniirB t!.fn-««f nchtlr •■
acNMinlint* to thi' int«'itti<<ri nf thr fnuniii'r, and of ftueB gi
onlinanot'A an h;m> f n ni.-iiir iMrufrinrii; |)ir nArnr ?
('an. 77. II. Hiith atir r:::iri ktr|) a puMirk or private trhool
4 an. 7U. parMfi. nhii in n^i a!l'»wiil tln-r»'unl«> by t!«f |{i«hop ? Da
S'l]iNilina!iti*r ti-m-h hi« M-|f<iIl<'r« \)\v ('atrrhi«in of n li^ioa •
by aiithiTit^ r I>>>t^ h«* i-.iu««- tV.-;ii. ii]»>ii Siindat* and Hfl
onltrly l" npair to \..ur t'»iun-h .t l'hapj»«»l. and aee tb
Ih-haM' t!:Mi.-!\r« thtTi* •|M:i-t]r and rt-vrn-ntlr dunni; tW
I>iimi' PiT\ii*f :i!..l ••■nil -n r
a Urn 111 I>i»t*; a?,* piiti -.'i x.'.r pir:**! pn% t:i"f pV\f>k or du
\ III m. or any vioiium takf lijv.n *., r f'» 1 i« r»-i«*- thr •'iFirv of a midwf
tmt appn-batioii ;ind luiniM' fr»ni li.t- Ordii\irT ?
Tit. VM i^^um^a to f'^ yu* f«» the .}fini$trr^ roncrrntm^ lAe
tr.tr :rna ii'i./ .S'i,/r-m^<i.
t'Mi. Ri I \ri- !^f (*hunJ.-«.iri!i'i.* if* %....r p.ir.»'. V *''■.' ***'*^ ^"^
b\ Xht' i.i^iiT r.«Tj*«'i.t i'f tKi' Min.it.T a::'. lVir.»'.s 'rm , «
tlirni b\ tl.f M;r.:»tfr a{:>i t* lln r b* ttji- lVin«*..or.rrB ?
Can B!i H II.ii.' I* i- :' r:- r .tt. 1 i.Kt I •, .n :. Mardfi:* »:'.»«-n up tl
a(Viiiint« t.f !•..- I ir.-'i. .iiiii lit !iiind i.p to t'r •lii'vreiletQf I
vardt*ii« lh*« n» •i-\« n*:! .».!-.:!:j .li t-*:r J.iri.i*. ti>pribar 1
olhrr thin^^ In ;.iiij:r-.j t.i y-wr *'}.i.r»-ri i^r i'Kapjwi?
(•n.vm ''' '^*'* I**' *"f' '^ ^-w'lri- J • a:-. 1 S !. .:ijrn uk.* ddi|pr«l
and •«•#• ikbii I if tliiir | iri-'.. 'Ut-r* an' a^»«t':it fr»in the Dmaf
and »4-rniiiti. m \<>'ir i'l...r\ ?i iir 4 'KapjH-l. ufmn Sundaji tm
APPENDIX. 281
dajB, and, if thej find any of them have absented themselves, with-
<mt a sufficient cause, do they by warrant from some of the Justices
of peace levy of them, by way of distress upon their goods, the som
ilf 12 pence for every such day of their absence, according to the
Act of Parliament in that case provided ? And do they distribute 1 Q. Elk.
the sereral sums so levyed among the poorest of your patish accord- 2-
iHgto the law P
IV. Do they present them that come late to Church, after Divine Can. 18.
•orriee ia begun, or depart before it be ended P Do they suffer none Can. 19.
to stand idle, or talke together in [the] church-porche, or to walk in Can. 90.
[the] Church or Church-yard, during the time of prayers, preaching,
or other sacred offices ?
V. Do they suffer no misbehavior or desorder to be done by men, Can. J 8.
women, servents or children, in your Church or Chappel P Are they Can. 19.
eu^ul that none of them sit, lean, or lay their hats upon the Com«
Bimion-table ? Do they permit no minstrils, no morice-dancers, no
dogs, hawks, or hounds, to be brought or come into your Church, to
tbe disturbance of the congregation ?
VI. Do they against every Commimion appointed in your Church Can. 20.
or Chappel, provide a sufficient quantity of fine White bread, and of
good wine, according to the number of communicants P
VII. Do they cause all strangers that preach in your Church or Can. 62.
Chappel to subscribe their names, the same day, in a book provided
fer uiat purpose, together with the name of the Bishop that licensed
tbem to preach in his Diocess P And do they permit no other to'Can. 60.
preach P
VHI. Have they (the Church- wardens and Side-men now sworn Can. 119.
to give in a true answer unto all these articles of enquiry in all their
aeveral titles) taken sufficient time to draw up their presentments,
and therein consulted with you, their Minister, for your fiaithful
aasistanceP
For know you assuredly, that, as the true discharging of your
office is the chief means whereby publick disorders, sins and offences
in your parish may be reformed and punished; so if you wilfully
refuse to present such crimes and faults as either you know to have
been committed or by publick fame, that in such cases the
Bishop and his are to proceed against you in the Ecclesiastical
Court, as in cases of wilful omission and perjury.
The Ministers of every parish are desired to give in the names of
mch of the younger sort of their several parishes as they judge fit to
receive confirmation from the Bishop, and present them to be con-
firmed, especially such as, having competently learned their Cate-
chism, have not yet received the Holy Communion : and to present
them to the Bishop to be confirmed as there shall be opportunity.
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APPENDIX. 283
y. That the whole, as well as the sick, be seasonably and dis-
creetly conferred with by the Clergy, in order to reduce those who
are out of the way, and to confinne and strengthen such as are
wsTeiing.
VI. That some competent time before every visitation the Clergy
conferre with the Churchwardens of their several parishes, and in-
forme them with the danger of an oath, if not duely observed ; and
to assist and direct them in drawings up their presentments, least any
notorious offence escape unpunished.
yU. That the Clergy hereafter appear personally at the Yisita-
tion coures, Easter and Michaelmas, except they be hindred by some
legall lett or impediment, wherewith they are injoyned to satisfy the
Archdeacon, or his Officiall, by a mesinger on purpose, who may be
ready to make oath thereof, if required : and that they ^ake due
letum of the process to them directed, according as they are obliged
by law and usage.
Vin. That every Parson, Vicar, Curate, or Preacher, upon some
one or more Sundays in every quarter of a year, at Morning Prayer,
daU, in the place where he officiates or preaches, treatably and
audibly read the Homily against Disobedience and wilfuU Bebellion,
in the Book of Homihes contained, or preach a discreet sermon
wherein the regall power may be duly and fully assarted, being the
ordinance of God himselfe, founded in the prime lawes of nature,
and clearly establised by expresse texts both of the Old and New
Tbitaments. Isaac Basiee.
Will. Staqq, Not. Publ.
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INDEX OF PERSONS.
Atiaauon, alias White, Margaret, 246
AArfphWf Prince, 171
Albin, Frandfl, 94
AliaMOQ, Marmadoke, 195
-^^ — , Ralph, ibid,
' , oouflin, 206
Amley, Dr., 168
Applel^. Cuth., 247
Arten, Mr., 246
Arimgton, Earl of, tee Bennett
AifatDD, Ifr., 135
AtkiujoD, Tho., 246
Atriek, tee Ettrick
BiSihair, Dr., 231, 232, 233
Mer, Thomas, Fellow of St. John's,
84.99. 127.213.228
Jjnrick, Dr., 188
^Mire, Basiere, Dr., Archdeacon of
Northumberland, 144. 146. 151. 167.
209.245.251,252.262.282
•^-— , Isaac, Esq., 147, 148. 150, 151.
165, 156. 159. 162. 167, 168. 213.
217. 242. 282, 283
, John, Esq., 161. 245
•^-— , , Mr., 201
, J., Esq., 189. 190
; , Mr. Charles, 245
BMiet, Sir William, 167
^ Bathe, Earl of, 66. 95. 150. 171.
190.193, 194.200.204
r^.lord, 184
°^by, Mr., 195
J*Wer, Mr., 212
fi«*ainont. Rev. Hamond, 159. 249, 25<»
; , Mr., 195, 196
2<l«sy8c, Sir William, Knt., 242
^nett. Sir H., Earl of Arlington, 166
Benson, John, Jo., 247, 248. 250
Beuron, Marquess of, 77
Beveridge, Dr., 174. 177- 209. 234, 235.
237
Birkhead, Berkhead, Dr., 244, 246. 247
Blacket, Sir William, 191. 194. 245
, Lady, 192
Blakiston, Blakeston, Blaxston, Col.,
152. 154
, Rob., 157, 168. 247
, Tho., 205
, Mary, 196
, Marmildake, ibid.
, Mr., 246
Bowes, Sir M^illiam, 204. 206
, Mr., 231. 248
, Mr. Cuth., 260
Bowman, Jo., 248
Bradock, Mr., 173
Brevint, Dr. Daniel, 148. 218, 219, 220,
221. 223
, Mrs., 148
Bristol, Bishop of, 161
Brittaine, Henry, 247
Brown, Mr., 163
Browne, Dr., 243
Brudenel, Lord, 220
Burnet, Dr., 83. 167
, Alexander, Archbishop of St.
Andrew's, 164
, Mr. John, ibid.
Bub, Capt, 76
Bulkley, John, 274
Bull, Mr., 173
Bulmer, Sir Bertram, 200
Burton, Mr. R., 212, 213. 217
, Sir Thos., 213
. Lady, iW3.
Bury, Dr. Arthur, 172
28ii
IMiKX I IF I'KEMlXK.
, AnlhuBj. i6iJ.
C'antirtiury, ArrhhuKii|i uf. '/fi!!
CaHHiiQ. |ll«tH»||l. l.'iii
( arliili-. lli«»M«p uf. T*^- 'ilf'
( •rtrfvl, (it^irci-. l>rU, fifi
('•rtwHchl. Dr., Hivhiiii fi ('Kr«frr anti
II.W1 .if KiiMiti. I'll. !•«.%. -.111. '.1M
r«n, Mr . |fi!l
('lui|>inMi. T)m> . -Ji-'i
.Mr John, JTl
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Itir inarlir, kiii^. *>7 !*>!<
II.. Kiiitf. !•;. i:i. ■'•II Mi 711
;:». HI. III. |!MI. till, .'lit
( hfvttr, Ki«K<>|i itl. §f* r«ri«riKtii
( hirlrf-«irr. nith.i|i nf, IWI
( huk«-. Mu Ka. 1. »;
C'Urmaim. ^jui 'if. f^ri
( la«rll. Mr. lrf-.»
( iibhain. I^inl, M!
<«k-k. Mr. J.'hn. |-.'7
( *i|r. Sr Ralph. /.U
, Nir NkhiilM. tliJ.
- -, Jamt-a. i&ij.
. lUI|iK, K«<|.iAu/.
. Sir Mark. i£i./.
C •iliiic«<*i«lt Mr. (■mrp*. 'I'»l
itmiKr, llr. Th.i. HnI. |;i; ICl. IJiX
IKH. |l<!» £li;
( .Mivrr*. ^ir t hn»ti<|>K.r, l!l.*. lu;. Jl.'i
( 'N.k. Mr . 'J40
( ixiii. r.Niii*. |U«h<|<. f9i Ii.*!. 111. 13*.
ii.i. III. 111. IK., m: i«i7. i;<i
174. i;'.i. l:r.i. Jii .'i:i -MX J4f;.
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lh«i«rU. Mr. 172
I^iihm. Arrhbiihuf. 17^ 1^
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K..i««rtiibr uh. i#;7. 173
i:;iiA*-<h. Wur«n. 46
K::..^. Mr . 4^1
Y.iitUnd, garrn .4. 3
Kmn^im. Mr . 331
K«iri. liar I >4. M
Kcxn.k. \tn. k. Mr . 344 :&k, UC
. WftlrfT. Ilik, . 34r.
K«ani. llr . 173
Ktt.m. Sir Tk^ica*. 174
K«rr->«. Mn . 34''
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INDEX OF PERSONS.
287
GeoifB I., 66L 69
Gcnioo, Dske of, 77
Go«», Dr., Matter of St. John's Col-
le|e,Ckm1iridge,S12.227
Gnbiin,WiUMin, D.D., Prebendary of
Dariiam, 831
, Sir George, ibid.
tesTiDe, GrenViUe, Grenvyle, Green-
rSi, Dr. Denis, pattim
, Sir Bevil, 64. 66. 82. 218
, Benl,66
, Hon. Bernard, 168. 170. 189.
S18, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223. 226.
227.246
■ , Earl of, 66
, Conntess of, ibid.
, Sir John, tee Bath, Earl of.
, George, 218. 220. 233
, Grace, 66
, lady, 190
, Mrs., 195
, fiunily of, 121
Grey, Dr. Robert, Prebendary of Dur-
lani, 184. 232, 233
—- ,Lofd,ofWark, 232
--,Mr., 127
GrimoD, Greereson, Mr., 244
,Wm.,247, 248 *
Gnning, Bishop, 120. 212
fiMkett, Mr. Thomas, 77
Rill, Alderman, 205
"*-, Jonathan, D.D., Prebendary of
Darham, ibid,
BuMBd, Dr. Hen., 84
Hanison, Mr., 227
Haay, Mr., 245
H«fry, Jo., 247
■ , Mr. Cuth,, ibid,
Httbert, Mr. George, 132. 212. 282
H«ni, Capt., 75
Hcywood, Haywood, Sir William, 169.
188
Rickeringill, Edmondas, 173
R)gp>Ds, Sir Thomas, Knt., 83. 204
Hiokei, Widow, 245
Htton, Richard, 245, 246
Hodpon, Wm., 247
Hope, Mr. James, 119. 127
^, Mr.. 247, 248. 250
toward, Mr., Govemour of Carlisle, 75
^- — , Sir Philip, 190
5*»«»y, Lady, 230
fl«tton, Henry, 213
, Sir Richard, Knt., ibid.
J'^lwd, Chancellour, 165
I'Hoii, Capt, 70
Isaacson, Mr., 245
, Anth., 247, 248
James, King of England, 12
, , 69. 79. 182
James II., King, 40. 46. 49, 50. 83. 94.
96. 106. 114. 117. 122. 134. 136
Jefferson, John, Mr. Serjeant, 242. 247,
248
Jenkins, Mr. SecreUry, 167. 169. 177
, Sir Leoline, 180
Johnson, Mr. Samnel, 94
, Mr.. 127
Jones, Mr., 173
Katherine, Qneen-dowager, 12
Ken, Bishop, 174. 2B7
Kendal, Mr., 127
Kennedy, Bishop, 164
Kingford, Mr. William, 119. 230. 247
Kirkby, Mr., 247
Lambton, Mr., 162
, Henry, Esq., ibid,
, Sir William, ibid,
, William, Esq., 204
Lane, Mr. Joseph, 183
Lansdowne, Lord, 190. 204. 218. 220.
233
Laud, Bishop, 34. 164
Lauderdale, Lord, 165
Leeds, Duke of, 69
Leighton, Bishop of Dumblane, 165
, Robt, 245
Leke, Lady Katherine, 218
Lever, Mr., 249
Levet. Mr., 173
Lincoln, Lincolne, Bishop of, 217
, Guil., 218
,■ Dean of, 222, 223. 230. 245
Lisle, Maurice, Vicar of Fishlake, 227
, Mr., 246, 247
, Mrs.. 248
Lloyd, Floyd, Sir Richard, 180, 181. 183
, Andrew, 180
, Richard, ibid,
London, Henry, Bishop of, 94
Lumley, Lord, 69, 70. 92. 101
, Richard, Lord, 192
, Mrs., ibid. 229
Maddison, Mr. Charles, 127
Man, Rev, Charles, 176
Mapletoft, Dr., 218
March, John, B.D., Vicar of Newcastle,
167
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INDEX OF PERSONS,
289
StepOtoD^Miks^Etq., 147
,Mr., 165. 160
Stote^Lndj.SOl
Stothmi, Mr., 197
Stnfbri Lord, 34
Stoart, Steward, Dr. Richard, 166. 169,
170. 177. 209
Sodbuj, Dr. John, Dean of Durham,
151. 187. 191. 247
, Sir John, 247
&Mden, Prince of, 171
• , King of, iHd.
Sjrmmonds, Mr., 217
Tiylor, Luke, 245, 246. 250
Teopest, ColL, 245
Tenoc, Earl of, 164
IVnpsoD, Sir William, Knt., 192
, Wm., 245
— , Jo., ibid,
ThonhiH Lady, 248
Tlnmby, Geo., 250
Xliynne, Henry Frederic, 06
Tillotwn, Dr., 176
Tong,97
Twichet, Father, 240
l^oair. Earl of, 164
UnderiiiU, Und'hm, Sir William, 163.
244.247
Vilence, Bishop of, 213
, Monseigneor Daniel dc Cosnac,
i et Compte de, ibid.
Waldegrave, Lord, 78
Wales, Prince of, 12. 97. 99
Walton, Hugh, Alderman of Durham,
247
Waterford, Richard, Viscount, 69
Welwood, James, M.D., 167
Weymouth, Viscount, 6i6
Wheler, Wheeler, Sir George, 184. 1K8,
189. 203. 205, 206. 209. 229, 230,
231.234
, Col. Charles, 203
Whelus, Mr., 248
White, Mr., 245
, Tho., ibid.
, tee Adamson
Wilkinson, Mr. William, 191. 103. 197.
199, 200, 201. 245, 246, 247, 248.
250 •
William, King, 66
III., 69
Wilson, Mr. William, Registrar of the
Dean and Chapter of l3urham, 186.
191, 192, 193. 196, 197. 199. 201.
206, 207. 219, 220, 221, 222, 223,
224, 225. 229, 230, 231, 232. 245.
247, 248, 249
, Sudbury, 191
Wiseman, Sir Robert, 180
Wittie, Robert, Doctor of Physic, 161
Wolfe, Jo.. 245
Woodmas, Mr., 229
Wright, Captain, 155
Wyat, Mr., 168
Wych, Wyche, Sir Peter, 66. 190
York, Archbishop of, 208
, Duke of, 45. 48. 94
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INDEX OF PLACES.
291
EMngton, C7. 90. 119. 122. 127. 129.
151, 152. 162, 163. 181. 184, 185.
192. 194. 196. 230. 244, 246, 246,
U124B
Sbebeiter,]85
Rbbojfh, 48. 75. 77. 96. 104
liolaciiffe, 146
£ieDore,213
EbdoD« tee Embleton
IH242,243
Bfiek,127
%. 178. 212
— Houac, 192
knnel College, Cambridge, 152
KnUeton, Elmdos, 167- 200. 207
bgliod, 3. 166. 215
U,200
UntoD, 251
£mx,173
EDope,57. 213. 216
luier College, 172
fcpingbo* 173
ltt)nini,248
5Uake, 227. 246
Am, 205
JW,252
hm*, 41. 63. 75. 77, 78. 80. 90. 96.
lOi 191. 213, 214.216
I^Dkluul, 147. 156, 157
Gitttheid, 204. 224
Gmnuiy, 215
QliBf, 176
%pile, 246
Gbneester HaU, 66
GnUiboroQgh, 213
Gnmille, 66
Gaaosden, Great, 212
Grindon, 185
Hisoe,69
Bambrongb, 190
H«thai,69
Ht»er-d©-grace, 77
Httrtbome, 245
H«tton.le.Hole, 217
Hexam, 74. 7«
HolUad, 35. 46. 48. 97. 103. 108. 110.
215
Honfjeur, 77
Hoiden, 192. 245
HonghtoD-le-Spring, 204. 231. 247. 249
Humber, 69
Hints, 212
IreUmd, 77, 78. 108. 191
Jemaco, 190
Jersey, 66. 148
Jesus' College, Cambridge, 212
, Oxford, 148
KeUow, 127
Kensington, 231
Kent, 182
Kildale, 227
Kilkhampton, 66. 121
King-Sedgemoor, see Sedgemoor
Lambeth, 218 ,
Lansdowne, 66. 82
Leith, 75
Lemon and Oare, 48
Levant, 82
Lime, see Lyme
Lincoln, 148. 219. 221
College, 189. 203
Linton, 183
Llandaff, 180
London, 48* 68. 93. 95. 159. 106. 171.
173. 182, 183. 186. 190. 192. 225.
246. 249. 262
Long.Newton, 98. 127
Long-Niddry, 183
Low Countries, 35. 45
Lumley Castle, 69
Lyme, Lime, 47- 66
Madrid, 204
Magdalen College, Oxford, 94. 191
Mar, Marre, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224
Marston Moor, 162
Merrington, 244
Middle Temple, 183
Midridge Grange, 204
Moreclack, 173
Morpeth, 162. 229
Morton bouse, 242
Muggleswick, Muggleswicke, 207. 225.
230
Netherby, 231
Newbury, 66
Newcastle, Newcastle on Tyne, 69, 70.
127. 167. 172. 224. 242. 246
Norham, 251, 252
Normanby, 218. 220. 242
Normandy, 148
North AUerton, 220
Northumberland, 146. 167. 172. 229.
251. 2d2
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A JOURNAL
IE FIRST AND SECOND SIEGES
PONTEFRACT CASTLE,
1614-1645.
BY NATHAN miAKE,
A GENTLEMAN VOLUNTEER THEREIN.
'H AN APPENDIX OF EVIDENCES RELATING TO THE
THIRD SIEGE.
9ubU0l|elr for tit g^tirtjn
BY GEORGE ANDREWS, DURHAM;
ITTAKER & Co. 13, AVE MARIA LANE; T. & W. BOONE,
29, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON;
BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH.
INTRODUCTION.
The minute and curious record of old siege warfare now
printed has hitherto been known only from the history
of Pontefract by Boothroyd, who gives what he con-
sidered to be the meaning of its most important parts
ill his own language. His readings of names and his
deductions are often so inaccurate that the MS., inde-
pendently of its minor details, comes fully, even on those
heads, within the scope of the Surtees Society. Let me,
however, do justice tg the local historian. He has
hrought together much useful topographical and genea-
logical information *. Dugdale's Visitation is also
printed. Consequently I have not thought it necessary
to enter much into illustrative matter, which if applied
*o every person and place mentioned would have swelled
this volume beyond all reasonable bounds with matter
already accessible. I have, however, compiled my index
^th considerable minuteness, and I trust it will be a
Valuable assistance to any future historian whose local
^vantages may induce him to identify places critically.
The name of Nathan Drake the diarist may be seen
* Some valuable observationB in 2 Hunter's South Torkshire
^nst be read bj the careful enquirer.
a2
IV ISTTRODUCnOH.
ill the Society's print of I>u{nUlc*8 Visilation, p. SiB
lie in there stated to be of (iodley in the pftruh o^
I lalifiix, and for further {MirticularB of his anccstrr aa^
lit4T:iry descendants, the n*ader is referrcfl t4> WataoaW
Halifax, lioothroyd's INmtefnu*!, Hunters works 0^
S4)uth Yorkshin% and other obvious sources of info
turn. I le is said to have bet*n deprived of Ciodley dii
the Coininonwi alth, and his son Samuel was exp^UiS
from his fellowship in St. John's CoUe^\ Cambri4gi^
and ac*tiv(dy servinl the kin^. He mas ofBciatin}; mini^
ter of Suuth Kirkby (the vicaraf^ of the unfurtooait
Ik*aumont, set* p. 1U5) during the later years of thi
Commonwealth, and after tho Kestoration wu institalrf
to the vicaraf^e of PontefraA't.
The family have a parchment memorandum, prohtUlf
copied from a much older one, inscribed thui:^
''Samuel Drake, Vinir of Pomfn^t, DzH. of St: Jolia%
College Cambridge, createtl by a Uoyal deplomarj far
his own and his Father's loyalty to Kin^ Charkt thi
First, and l>ravor)' in the M'i^jes of Newark and I'umfril
(*astles: collated t4> a TrelK-ndal stall in the Mel
litical (litinh of York and (\>Uej;iate (*hurch of \
well; ditnl in the year l«i7i), U*ing |ioisoned by his ph^
sictan« Ih*. Johnson of Ponifret, for the sake of mm$
valuable l)ooks in which he had privately and maA
vilainnusly inserted his name and as impudently 4^
mamled, but (on i\w cheat l)ein{; detectctl) he did Ml
Ifi'i them. He marrieil Jane Abbot of I'omfret If
whom he had 5 Sins & 1 Daughter Ann marriod 11
Mr. Benscm of I^hmIs.**
l>r. Nathaniel Johnson (see I>ui;d. Visit. 6), althomi
an antiquar)', has not transuiitte<l fair name and fMi
in other n*spects, for he is said to have embenlcd IMti
INTRODUCTION. V
nrhic^ was raised by brief after the Restoration for the
repair of All Saints' Church, which still lies mostly in
the mined state to which it was reduced during the
deges*, notwithstanding also the parliamentary grant
of 1000/. (See p. 113.) His collections seem to have
been purchased by Mr. Richard Frank, recorder of Pon-
tefiract, who enumerates among them in 1755: — "E. 4.
Si^e of Pontfreit castle. I have a copy from the same
original MS. which the collector made use of." (3 Nic.
Lit- m. 592.) One of these copies of our MS. is pro-
hMj that in Trin. Coll. Cambridge, Ff. iv. 24. The
catalogue of MSS. informs us that the scribe appears to
have been often unable to decipher his original.
There is an engraving of Samuel Drake by Birrill,
and it also states that his degree was conferred by
Charles I. for his own loyalty and bravery during the
si^^es of Newark and Pontefract. There is however
* " Some have written that the four outward corners of the belfrey
were once adorned with fair images of the evangelists, and no doubt
but inwardly it was furnished with a proper number of bells. There
it but one at present ; which, indeed, has a verj melodious sound.
This place is remarkable for the two entrances of a double staircase,
agreeable to their various doors below; both gradations turning
lound one centre, and circumscribed within the same space. From
the top of this old square an octagon is raised, which trulj is orna-
mented with beautiful spires. But we are told that this, which was
built ;aince the civil wars, is inferior to the ancient lantern, which
was ornamented with the effigies of eight apostles, standing on
pedestals, joined to the several comers, which became so terribly
shattered bj the discharge of a cannon that, through the force of an
high wind, a sudden dislocation ruined the fabric.** (G^nt.)
The account of Pontefract from the hand of the Eev. Marmaduke
Pothergill in 6 Magna Britannia, 396, agrees. " The old lantern,
whose finances of the several angles were beautified with as manj
apostles, as also were the angles of the lower square enriched with
the four evangelists.'*
VJ IVTUolMmnV.
iii> mrntion nf liim in lii^ t'.ithtT*s di.in' of th«' <ii«i!^p«
tiTiiiiiiiiti'tl (luririi: tli.it inmiari'lr^ rtMifn. As \Vhilak«*r
>t;it4S tli.'it \\'\< Lrraii«Uiiri l^r. FraiirU Praki* hail a i:ttnd
liiMil i»t'(*nl. Miirrin, in arinmir, witli small wliijikfr^ and
Innir hair, it \< wnx iinproti.ilili* that hi* may havr joini^i
that <lr^|HTati' rii\ali^t. uhom hi* nnist haw nrll kn*i»ii.
in tho 3ril siri:!*. iluriiii: which ('liarK*s i. stifr«*n*il oxc^m-
ticiii.
Hr. SaMiiu*! I>raki* wa< Mii*ri>t*ilril in hi-« vii^arnifi* bv
his siin 1-Vaiii'i<. hurti at Sutuh kirkhy in \^\o^. He
(lirtl atnmt ITliK ami hi*^ •^nu. aimthi-r I'Vancis. w;l< the
4'i*li*hrat«*il authiir n\ i\w l-^lHiraiinn. in whii h niiinrnioi
l>raki*-i an* fuiiiKl in th«* li**t nf suhsrriU'rs. A mona-
ini*nl rriMtiMl tn hi:n in St. ManV rhunh. lU-wrltT",
hy hi< Mm, l>r. i'raiK-i'^ hr.ik«*. \iiar i»f that rhurrli
and liMturiT lit' runirfrait, >Ui\r^ thai hr ilii'.l in 1771,
:\\sri\ 7ii.
T\\\^ hr. I'raiuis hraki* niailr a rnpy nt' thi* (Hanr,
whii h i'<i iii't alv\ay< aii iirati'. hnt whirh h;i.« \ii*lilt'«l a
I'i'w I iill.itinn** uliiTi' thr uriL'iiial i-^ driaxiMl. Thi* inipv
i'« hradiMJ in a \i>iiiii:tT ami ilitriTini: h.niil t'n>ni the
hi'adiiii: ••»! ihi- ••riL'inal: — "A .Inurnal nl" thr tir-^t ^icfB
lit* I'tinli'trai I ia>tli\ ki^jil l»\ Natiiaii l^raki*. a i:«'ntl^
man \i<hinti'iT in it. Thr nriL'inal man' in hi« h.%iHl-
writing i^ in thi* |Mi^«.rH*ii,ii i,i hi-* ltimI u'raml-M.n the
llr\ ■ I ram !•• I ^rakr, Kim inriT nl' l*i«n!i!rai t." 'Ilie
writiT ri'.ill\ wa- thf ili.ir:*l''» i;riMt irnat i;ran«!«Mm.
i hr hiadinj i«n ilh* nrii^iiid alri.i(l\ niriiih>ni il i« in a
iliti'iTi-nt ami iiinn* .-iL'<'«i iiamiMriliiiL'. anil {niMiiblT
-htiulil Ik* ri'ti-rriil in th«' ;inii(|uar\.
I hi* (liar\ i<* ^lill in ih*' ]H<<.<.i«<.iiin i<t' thr I>nke
l.iniilx, ami i-\i-r\ kin>l t.n ilit\ h.i« U-fn 'Swiu h*T iu
piiMi«aliiiM it I** a thill ^mall tohn. in ilnuMr oilumoi
INTRODUCTION. Vll
and exceeding closely written. It is much disfigured by
damp, and the circumstances of its composition probably
caused it to be in a worn and ragged state shortly after-
ward, as in one or two instances, where a word at the
end of a line is a little indistinct or imperfect, the
writer has retouched the word or supplied the imperfec-
tion above the line.
When the siege of Pontefract is mentioned, the
romance of the third siege springs to the ideas. I
found it impossible to omit an account of that strange
sequel to Drake's diary, but for many reasons have
allowed the evidences to tell their own story.
Although Drake does not notice any coinage. Sir
Gervase Cutler, who died during the second siege in the
castle, is stated to have taken lUOO/. worth of his family
plate thither to be minted. Many of Charles I.'s siege-
pieces have no name of town or local symbol, and cannot
be assigned to any place or date. They are occasionally
strack upon irregular pieces of silver bearing the very
mooldings of the divided salvers, &c. For the year
1648 the following Pontefract shillings have occurred.
' The maximum and minimum weights, which are ex-
oefisively irregular, are founded on a collation of
Bailing's examples with those instanced by Messrs.
Chaffers and Bergne before the Numismatic Society
ou 23 March 1854.
Chaklxs I. — 1. (Buding, pi. zxix., fig. 11.) Olw, c. b. under a
crown, DVM : spibo : spebo. — Bev, A castle, obs. p. c. 1648, xn.
A drcular die impressed on a lozenge of silver, 66 to 94^ grains.
An example on a circle of silver weighs 58^ grains. This is the onlj
type on which the value is expressed.
2. (Ruding, xxix. 10.) Obv, As No. l.—Bev, A castle from which
& streamer flies. Out of one side a hand holding a sword issues.
Ofi>* P. 0. 1648. A circular die impressed on an octagonal piece,
Vlll
IMHiiDrCTloN.
iui to 7t> craiiiB. Kiarnpli*^ ou n lo/i*i):;i^ nf ntlvor aU-i mrrur*. •fe.^aiBt
«>f tliiMii wiMi:liiiii; llfS aiiil ITrJ i;niiiiti Mr. l^'iafTiTi bu^^i^U t&tftf
thi'iu* wrn* twi>-!»hilliiii; piivft nr }ialf-rri»wii4, FiilkM aMi*rtin^ t&^itf
cmwiiM and h.ilf-rniwn!i wrn* iii^iiitN]. Kiitiiiii; uvi that th** tcpf^ ^tfirf
oruwti in Thort* «i)iy*A i-iillivtion pninM t<i U* nriij a ihilhni;, axftd tla^
hiM haltVrtiwn mo.-* al>«iiit half am hi*aTT a^in aa thr aluDi:^ ■■
coiunion.
riiAUi.r.M 1. «ir II. — \\. r\ti •lanijil.'* ) 'Mr. "Pir rmwu
(". B. on fiich mU*- i.t' It."- -Rrr " A ranlli- with Y. i».*' - St»afcr«
iM(uan\" iii.iili* !•!' platf i^ui nia nf t!.** i->'.:ritr\ ai;ti |iaMi(*U ain'jii|(
br?«ji-i;i'il a* f.-jii ju!»l Iwl'Ti' 1*1 !i. .'i, lti|H.«.» i ,S'«' j». iJJfi )
i*iiAUi.KH II.— I . |{iii:i.L». \i.i. IJ.) nlr a* N.i* 1. J — -J
Thi' r;i-lli' an I f»tr'Min«T wit', a iMriSi.':; •■.h«liluttN| f t thr ■« j
lt;|N.
rirvu.ar il:e o:
(HIS. I*, r., li-L:t'n>l, I \!:iii.\- : >ii i^i'it
iK'taf^ohal j iii'i-
5. ',Uuiiiii::, SiiiiT, \i"\. l"i. li ■.!, lii W) (Mr a cr>wn i
innuntini; iiixr. iii:vs i>emt. It'll**, !t-.;i:i.l. LiniaVii . n u . M
II: r: CT: II : HKv. — AVr. a.** N* I. I'lit lii-- !i-;;«nJ '\* pit»T : Hi^ari
TATUIH : run: lll.lt*. A I'in'uLir il:**. -ha an iN-la;:!*:!*! j»:ivr i/ ij
71 tn 7*^ u'r.iin*: iiNi "Kvurruj^ in iH-i;i::;;u:.»r ;; liii "l" ! .r mrig^t
mininnn 'Jtt*. jiutv.
Ftir ihf liKiii i»t' till' \iT\ riiriiiii?» lilrir:«-i-\f view
rnril«'trari rju^tli* in it«i l;i>l jLivs, iln' Snifij \< indebl
tu tli«* lilNTal i-oiiric**} lit' l.nnl <i:il\\a\, mIhi rntra*>tcil
t(t till* liaiifis (if till* I'llitnr tn iiiakf a ran'tiil ri»|i\ fur
ilurliDii liy tip' liiliMi;ra]iliiT. It \^ r\iil«*iitl\ (iiil\ a o»|
hut thrrr \< rr.L^nti in Ih-Iii-m' that it i?« a inrnHt i
ami that. iiiakiiiL: allnMaihi* tnr il^ rnmriitinnal t;
iih'tit. it i< \%<irthv (it 1 iiti**iili'ralili' (Ti'«lit It !« ilai
hlir», liiit till' lH'^ii'L'«'r«»' wt.rk«i arc ( Icarl) lhi»M» uf ItV|
aii'l I lia\i* .ih«'rr<l tin* il.itc ai rnnliiiirlx. r(Tlia|»« if
>ai\ till" hfilmimI Mrawiiii: uc >lnnilil tiinl it |»ri*|uinNl fi
tlir tir-t \iMr and alifn-il t«»r tli cnnil. '\\\v nain«-4
|ila(CH \«liiili .ire plai ('•! in lira( kct** an* aiMi*<l fi
utljiT .uilliMrilii"*.
• • >!.! !^ I \ Jl.ili'il I'* rui' k l^.i'ilT ''.J» «Ml» ^ l' tho CAAllc.
INTRODUCTION. IX
Back, in 1726, gives a view of the south side of the
castle " fTTom a drawing, taken during the siege, now in
tlie possession of the learned and curious antiquary,
£U^r Grale, Esquire." It delineates fairly the slope of
iliis side and the high mound of the keep ; hut, as to
tlie building, the existing remains of the Castle-gate and
the multangular wall near the Upper-gate with other
reasons induce us to pr.efer Lord Galway's view. In
1734 the Society of Antiquaries published in 1 Vetusta
IdoDumenta, 42, a view of the castle from the Duchy of
Lancaster office. It is picturesque but highly conven-
tional, as the representation of the church at once
proves. In the fore part especially is much diflFerence
l>etween it and Lord Galway's copy, yet these discrepan-
cies are probably in a great measure owing to its earlier
^te and alterations in the works, and in many respects
^t is a very valuable aid when carefully studied and
<iecked.
Hearne mentions a picture of the castle in the Ash-
'^^lean Museum.
Of this stately castle, says Gent, in his history of
York (1730), "I have seen a fair prospect, as also of
*he town, beautifully done on vellum, resembling its
^licient glory." " I have a prospect of the castle," he
^^ys in his history of Hull (1735), and this no doubt is
^Hat he roughly engraves in vol. 2 of his Historia
^^<>inpendiosa Eomana (1738), where we find "a com-
prehensive Dissertation on the Ancient and Present
^tate of Pontefract, in Yorkshire : with an Account of
*Oe Civil Wars, as to what concem'd that strong and
^^ugnificent Fortress, thought to have been* impreg-
• " Colonel Wyndham, the Qovemour, assured King Charles the
■*^i«^, It was so Strang a Flace, that it could not be taken.'* (Gent.)
\ IN ii;<<iit I ih>N.
nnhlf : l^ikrwist* \\w iimiiiht nf iH SM/un*; Ik«-n«litiiifi
thi'n*ii!' : ami fntin* l>iu!riu'tii»!i. Xunr (Jlyrt/rrhii'M
rn\s'rl/ ///// (*'i>ft'//f/tn fni^* !''
i\v\\\< \ii>w li;is I II n-]H';iti'tl \\\ I!<Mitliri>\«l. and
lia> :i i:i*iiiTal <*iiinlarlt\ In tlii' i:riMintl plan to i^inl
<ial\vav's virw, Init tlnn* an* <*«-\ir.il \arialii»ii«* in ili-tAiL
aihl 1 pri't'iT till* laitrr. <iint tr.iii**I.iii<i an " i*\|»lii a:i«i
|)riis|M*rtiiH" wliii li is a]i]irii<livl li\ liiin in a \v\W ami ii
hon' <'n|)U'«L
I. l\.'(un*li fur'H. 'i .,.1 I: . '• iri.* Ii- \ Al.^'.:i *.ir*ir» trur iaii
iii'Tf ilirtii^ i-t t, lit :i; :*• i- • rii •ri?;ir. A I'lirrt' H<-t'iri !i a-i ibImm
• 'Till' r.nirtyini "f l^'* ♦■.i*tl'-. ■.!:•!! i-l "f *iiir r».in..i.iri
Pt...k.-i will. »..!-. I r.-.lii.j:.^' !■.,•-.'*.. J. it :■.■,. r..'i-." Hi. • :• k.;«a)
III !":..■ m:»:;i/.!.«' rr.l .■■.! .-l" it.i- r.ik I'll n- " an- I ■.•■ -.iv - 1 •* i. :i laraa-
!■:• - .»! i!j'- l'..!!i'ii. :..-'.* I- ■ll^l r!'-i -i- .' »• n- l' r •:• r» '. ..- • I'.-r ib^tf
l:.,-...ri.-.- " l;.i...i !:.■■ im*Mi' > *-. tJi-r r- ::.. '..S :• : ' ■■ :"■.■ i^ cic»
li'-Ti:il :ii;ii-;-:j t- j? •. !'..• " IV-fnrVft i;A» ^ " '.l' !.-, . r.ii- :;.-4:. ' ;i tSf
lli'i'l i:'. "MW^ i!« 'iT:! t: :.^ ■•!' ll^ f-ril.tT I-irt'i'.- •.
t •■ I h:ivr U-« fi l.-.j| tr..it III th»* iniii.ili' i.f tho r*'m tKifr WH
a pili.ir. r.«j.!.il wlm'i :•»• ii;«tri-*««tl Ki:;;: Ta...\:4:.y f.-^,:-.:. ab4
wfi-niii n-Miairii-ii -m.-- ij..irV^ .•!* !..» f-ri '.{m' *!r It* .!. » -r fon^
Ti'Jn r»* il.i\ •, wlirii t":..it p.ir! .■!" t'.i' ra^tl.- »a* ^ta:.-;::.,; " itrrtil't
V.rk. -hT.) T!..« t:,...:. r-i •!.:.!.:. .it; r. ■ :" .iri ar ' • -i n^-t^ m tte
i:i-:!" m;»!1 wii'i ihi* |.r:«-ri i.|' K.i-ii.inl ■!.*■« L«it !>•*,.. .rr *i.t c^W
li..t:.-.-
I " I :ni:i::ir;«- ;t« ii- r:..:..i! :i!i«!rn'*V •?. w i' I'r- rv. Kii-mt]i:. a f&s. ot
r'.:ir:.[- ■■•!. w^.-*. :■■!:.'• :^ :rj •"..■ . 'M.r.'i .•!" II:kn-*.--i. ■ ^.-i fr thtf
n 1. *'r.i!. i .1. ij- i\ .'. .'•..• : . * f-ir-.i-.l !»:... ..•'••. ri,T> •.««#«
^X* .-itli TA.iril" ' .. ■ -i * . • .' • i:i:.- i! Ii..-.. j-.. i *.r. Al M-irrti
M ril«r"« Ji-i^f :. 1 ?.:.....: ■ m,:.*.) K. : 1. a. r •.-*:. ^l ■*"* -..r .r. ii»
^. : : r .;.!;» ■..'.. •:.. ! .'. *• k-. ..: .. l--%.r .; • • a;. : x- • »4i .;i «:^-a
It I* r:». n:. .:...! n- \'. t Ir .••.-. r- I" a. r ^-.i*- * :.■• k\- -i't x» to tM
pyii':i\!!k...i^ iMlir : f.r : •* . r;.i:..i •
5 " t ?iiiii« ' (III :.; I
INTBODUCTION. XI
kogitudine extendit versus borealem partem Turris Bohmdffi, et
drca eandem distantiam Arcis BeginsB ffique ac BotuDdsB ; linea
intersecta Arce Suillingtoni ad Mansionem Janitoris rectis fere
angulis. 3. Suillingtani Turris*, Ab hac turre ad Mansionem
Jinitons (angulis obliquis prima linea divisis) pedes 390. 4. The-
* iHirarU Turris, 6. Beginm Turris, 6. Begis Turris, 7. Cb«-
stdbularU Turris. 8. Fortatoris Mdnsio. 9. Armamentarium f.
10. Stdbulum Begis. 11. Horreum spatiosum, 12. Janua ad Orientem
ipeetans, 13. Janua ad Occidentem, 14. Janua ad Meridiem {.
• The usual order of Swillington Tower and Treasurer's Tower is
bere reversed. G-ent, in his translation, gives the usual order, as in
Lord Gkdwaj's view. In the Prospect itself, No. 4 is placed behind
the wall as in our view, but the doorway leading to it is wanting.
Doorways are inserted in the projecting basements of No. 3, and of
the Queen's, King's, and Constable's Towers. As to the name of
Swillington Tower, Gent gives the following note : " Adam, lord of
Swillington in the West Eiding, was so great friend to the Earl
[of Lancaster] that he was fined a thousand marks for his sake.
I am apt to think that Swillington Tower might be so called for his
confinement therein, or in honour to his person, whom the Parliament
thought fit to clear firom that erroneous judgment in the next reign."
t " The J^Magazine, cut out of a rock, with an inter-terraneous
descent, the passage 4 feet broad, having 43 steps to the bottom,
which is 6 yards over, 3 the breadth, (with 6 cavities cut in the
ndes of the rock) and 9 yards upward to equal the surface of the
earth. Not far from this was a large Dungeon ; at the 17th step of
which, the entrance, a yard in space, is stopped by the falling in of
the ruins." (Gent.)
On the walls at the side of the stairs which lead under a circular
chambered arch to the magazine (which is entered by a pointed arch)
are many names rudely cut by the brave defenders of 1048, some of
them being several times repeated. ll desire, with a
ient convoy or pass for their security ; and the common soldiers
the inferior officers ta march out with their swords and pikes,
to his own home, or where else they please." (Bushworth.)
onel Sands besieged Pomfret Castle, and took of the garrison
)r8e and many cattle.'* (Whitelocke's Memorials.)
ptember. *" Colonel Sands for the Parliament besieged Pomfret
le." (Whitelocke's Memorials.) " After staying [in Lancashire]
months, I returned towards Yorkshire with John Mainy. On
I 111 I III ^ I ^11 •. I
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OF roXTEFRACT CASTLE. 3
November, Helrasley Castle surrendered to Sir Thomas Fairfax
without loss of arras and on honourable conditions. " Lieutenant
Colonel Forbes, and all the rest of the prisoners, shall have their free
liberty ; and that Lieutenant Spright, and five soldiers belonging to
me, now prisoners at York, shall likewise have their liberty." (Con-
ditions arawn by Col. Crosland the governor, 1 Fairfax Corre-
spondence, 121.)
December. " Knaresborough was surrendered to the Parliament
upon conditions, and there were taken 4 pieces of ordnance, store of
arms," Ac. (Whitelocke.)
" The Lord Fairfax his forces took in Pomfret Town, and close
blocked up the castle, and other castles thereabouts." (Ibid.)
[" A Journal of the first siege of Pontefract Castle,
kept by Nathan Drake, a gentleman volunteer in it. I desire
that this MS., in my great -grandfather's own hand writing, may
never go out of the family. — Francis Drake."]
A List of all the Vollunteres as were at Pontefract Castle
the 25th December, 164[4].*
Colionelk, — Coll. Lewder, governor, Coll. Ilutton, Coll. Roms-
den. Coll. Wintworth, Coll. Cuttler, Coll. Gray, Coll. Vawhan,
Coll. Middleton.
Knightes, — Sr. Thomas Bland, Sr. Frauncis Ratcliff, Sr. Ed-
ward RatclifTe.
Lieutenant Co//^w<'//5.— L.C. ^Vheatelay, L.C. Wintworth, L.C.
Darcey, L.C. Tindall, L.C. Portington. "
Majors. — Ma. Beamont, Ma. Hudlcstone, Ma. Mountaine,
Ma. Wintworth, Ma. Copplay, Ma. Warde, Ma. Dinis.
Preachers. — Do''. Bradley, Mr. Hirste, Mr. Lister, Mr. Kay,
Mr. Pickrin, Mr. Corkor, Mr. Masham, Mr. Sikes, Mr. Oley,
Mr. Burley, Mr. Maukneholc, Mr. Buckanhanan.
Alldermen. — Mr. Maior, Mr. Rusby, Mr. Stables, Mr. Thomas
Wilkinson, Mr. Austwieke, Mr. Taytom, Mr. John Wilkinson,
Mr. Gates, Mr. Smith, Mr. Cellom, Mr. Lunne.
Captenes.— C'd. Constable, Ca. ^lollett, Ca. Hillton, Ca. Hud-
lestone, Ca. Shaw, Ca. Romsden, Ca. Harrise, Ca. Vaucer, Ca.
* This list is found on pages 5, 6 of the MS-, among original matter written after
the erasure of the list, which indeed is evidently unficistied as to the gentlemen
▼olanteers. But it is a convenient summary of the status of the persons engaged,
and, as a check upon the names in the more perfect list of watches which follows, it is
an assurance to the reader that the editor is not exaggerating the shortcomings of
Bootbroyd's history of Pontefract. There are a few discrepancies between the lists.
Tbf^ fHTobably arose ^m withdrawals and transpositions from illness or other causes
before the watches were settled. The erased list furnishes the physician and surgeons,
with an additional alderman of Pomfret, Mr. Kellom. Out of a corporate council of
13, 11 of its members defended the castle.
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OF PONTEFRACr CASTLE, 5
CoUone Chayes list, — Collonel Gray brother to the Lo^. Gray
if Warke, Lieut. Coll. Darcy son to the Lo^. Darcy of Hornby,
Jr. Ed. Radcliffe, Baronet, pa., Sr. Francis Radeliflfe, p., Leiu.
\)11. Portington, Major Huddlestone, Capt. Huddlestone, Capt.
lodger Portington, Ca. Grimstone, Capt. Vavasor, pa., Capt.
^est, pa., [Capt. I Wheatley; — [Capt.] Lumsdall, [Capt.] Sea-
an, Scots. — [Lieut.] Wheatley, [Lieut.] Smith, [Lieut. J La-
bum, [Lieut.] Perry, * [Lieut.] Cape, pa., Mr.
ohn Thimbleby, Mr. Charles Jackson, Mr. . . okefeild, Mr.
[ammerton, pa., Mr. Stappleton, pa., Mr. Anne, pa., Mr.
Latcliffe, Mr. Cutbert Medcaulph, Mr. Jo. Medcaulph, Mr.
ibbot, Coronet Spurgion, Cor. Harrington, Ensig. Harbert,
It. Stables, Allderman, Mr. Smith, AUd., Mr. Taytom, AUd.,
fr. Higford, Mr. Wilkes, Mr. Burton, Mr. Hey, Quartem*".
rench. Clergy to this detnsion. Mr. Key, Mr. Oley, Mr.
Buchanan, Scotus. — In all 48.
Sr. Richard Muttons list, knight, high sherife of Yorkshire. —
'aptin Constable, Capt. Musgraive, Capt. Standeven, Capt.
laibome, Capt. Croft, Leiut. Smith, Leiut. Antrobus, Corronet
Tailor, Cor. Bamford, Cor. Matthwman, Mr. Gravener, Mr.
Impson, Mr. Atkinson, Mr. Preston, Mr. Johnstone, Mr. Massey,
It. Madockes, Mr. Taytom, ju., Georg Wentworth, James EUi-
Dii, Peet^r Swift, John Lang with, Steeven Scammenden, James
Lendrick, Mr. Burchell, Mr. Hopgood, Mathew Sutton, Robert
lallyfax, Robert Burton, AVilliam Watson, Thomas Walker,
idward Gauthrope, John Farram, Sargiant Fether, John Hes-
am, Robert Moore, Thomas Senior, Mr. Binnes, Mr. Willson,
rho. Pouke, John Oxley, AViilter Steele. — Clergy to this devision.
Mt. Buchanan f, Mr. Mankenhole his peculiar chaplin. — In
all 45.
8r. John Eomsdens list, — Sr. Gervis Cuttlcr, Lieutenant
Collonel Tindall, Major Warde, Major Wentworth, Captin
Pilkinton, Capt. Morrett, Capt. Horfold, Capt. Swillovant, Capt.
Standeaven J, Capt. Clough, Capt. Beale, Capt. Shaw, Corronet
Harrington J, Cor. Nunnes, Leiutent. Saivill, Leiut. Fleeming,
Mr. Burton, Mr. Baumforth, Mr. Carwike, Mr. Stringer, Mr.
Gascone, Mr. Pearcye, se., pa., Mr. Will. Tiiidell, pa., Mr.
Hodgshon, Mr. Pearcy, ju., pa., Mr. Jackson, Mr. Reeser, Mr.
Georg Tindell, Mr. Foster, Mr. Hitchin, Mr. SciUito, maior,
Mr. 'rho. Wilkinson, All., Mr. Jo. Wilkinson, All., Mr. Lunne,
-^d., W . . . Strickland, Nathan Drake, Pectcr Heaton, David
* The MS. is much decayed at the edge, and some tiiles have been supplied from
"^ other list. At this blank two names are illegible.
t He seems to bavQ attended to two divisions.
♦ These two occur before.
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OF PONTEFRACT CASTLE. 7
there was 60 killd within the church, — suhstituieiQ and church
yeard at the same instant by the beseeged.
29, beine^ Sunday, those 11 men &nd boyes having beene
6 dales in the steeple without meat or drinke (both being left in
the church by the beseegers suddejme aproach) they (5ame all
down the west end of the church by a roape * ; at which time
Joshua Walker (their captin) was shott into the thigh (but
since recovered) and one other of them killed in the church
yeard. All the rest escaped without any hurt at all.
That day and the 30 and 31, the beseeged shott 15 canon.
[1644-5] January 1, 2, 3, 4. The beseeged shott 15 cannon.
Sunday, 5th. Mr. Pattison was killed upon the topp of the
Bound tower, being shott into the head with a muskett buUit
from the beseegers.
6, 7, 8. The beseeged plaid 12 pesos of cannon into severall
places of the towne.
During this time of the seege there went out of this garrison
to Newarke with Captin TuUey 140 horse and men the 8th.
January.
9, Thursday, the beseeged plaid one cannon against NewhaU,
wheare it broke a hoale into the wall and one of the stones hitt
Generall Forbus on the face but was but a little hurt. That
day the beseeged playd 10 cannon.
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. The beseeged plaid 24 cannon into
severall places of the towne.
16. The beseeged playd 1 cannon into the closes below the
towne, amongst the cutters up of clottes, but what was killed is
not knowne, but they came there no more, and the beseeged
plaid 6 cannon more. And during all this time there was 15
sling peeses shott. There is in all 128 cannon shott to this
dayt.
The 16th of January the enemy brought into the Markitt
place in Pomfret 6 peese of cannon the same which had beene
at Hemslay and Knavesbrough before, one carying a buUitt of
42 li. weight, another 36 li., 2 other 24 li. a peso, and the least
9 li. We hearing they would plant them against Piper tower
and betwixt that and the Round tower where there was a hol-
low place all the way downe to the well, the gentlemen and
souldyers fell all upon carrying of earth and rubbish and so
filled up the place in a little space, and we ranmied up the way
that passed through Piper tower with earth 4 or 5 yeardes thick.
♦ Probably taken from the Belfry. (Boothroyd.)
t **Jan. The Lord Fairfax possessed Pomfret town, and close blocked up the
castle, and Scarborough, Skipton, and Sandal castles were blocked up by the Parlia-
ment's forces." (Whitelocke.)
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who are the causers of it. This is my resolution which I desire
rou C3rtefie the Lord Fairfax from your affectionate frend,
Richard Lowther. — Pomfrette Castelle, 16th Jan. 1644."
But they prevented the sending of this letter, for the next
Homing by that it was light they fell a battring and the
nme day gave us 400 shot.
17. The enemy begunne to play with theire cannon against
Pontefiract Castle upon Friday morning before sunrising, being
the 17th January 1644. Theire cannon was planted upon the
west end of the castle upon Mr. Lunne's back yeard.
The beseegers begun to play with their cannon about 7 in the
noming. That day they playd 400.
The first night after they begunne to shoote, was Capt.
If onroe and Capt. Lay borne sent out to vew how farre they had
nttered in the wall, which they found to be a yeard haulph,
thereupon our men was commanded to carry earth to strengthen
he wall within, which was done with all speede.
Our men went out every day into the graft* and fecht in
Jieire bullets for 4d. a peece.
18. They playd 348.
19. 286 cannon. This day, Simday, about 9 of the clock,
WBS Piper tower beaten downe ther having beene 78 shott made
that morning before it fell, by which fall a breach was to be
made into the Castle wall, and [by] which fall 2 brothers of
the Briggses of the [Half Jpenjr howse f was killd and 3 or 4
tnuch hurt but they are all againe since recovred, and 27 of the
beseegers men blowne up with their owne powder by a shott
from the castle which hitt their match and so struck fire into
the ponder.
17, 18, 19, 20. The beseeged playd 16 cannon.
20. [The beseegers] shott 144 cannon. 21, 189.
21. Captin Browne was killed in the Barbican with a muskitt
hollitt from the beseegers.
About that time was one John Spcnce killed in the Bar-
bican by overcharging his owne muskitt which burst and killed
him.
The 21th January, about 11 a clock, there came a drunmie to
the gates from Forbes and beate a parly. Word was brought
to the Governor who sent to know his busines, he tould them
he had a letter from Coll. Forbes to the Governor. The
Governor returned answer, he would receive no letters from him
^esse they would sease battering, whereupon commaund waa
* The ditch, a West Riding expression,
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night they gave us 4 great shott, according to their usuall
manner.
On Weddensday the 22th they weare reasonable quiet, their
ordinance ceast playing, whether they wanted powder or
thought it but wasted on us I know not, but this day and the
night they gave us but 6 great shott.
And the Lord Fairfax not finding the breach so cleare as he
was informed and not able to gett his men to venture on it,
returned to Yorke againe, without possession of the castle, where
upon the Munday before both he and his son Sir Thomas Fair-
fSuL * came to towne to take the honnor of the busines, and pos-
session of the castle, who were entertained with great honnor
and exalltation, gaurds of horse and foot ready to receeve them,
with great showting and volly of voyces and voUyes of shott ;
but went away without either beating of drum or sound of
tmmpitt.
[22. The beseegers shott] 3 [cannon], and 3 in the night.
23. That night 3. 24. That night 2. Saturday, 25. 15 can-
non. 27. 1 cannon. In all to this day 1349 [apparently
altered to 1390] and not any more cannon shott made since tiU
the 1th [«i^] Feb. nor not an}' one man killd with the cannon
bfdlit, nor any man hurt with the cannon buUitt but one James
Ellyate (the little gunmaker of Yorke,) who had his arme
bruised with a stone burst with the cannon buDitt, so presently
cut of, which is since well againe.
From the 22th to the 31th, the beseeged playd 18 cannon.
February 1. The beseeged plaid 4 cannon.
4. [The beseegers shott] 2 cannon and 1 in the night. The
beseegers pLiyd no more with their cannon till the 1[2]
February and then they shott 3 cannon without any hurt at all
to the beseeged. The beseegers have now shott 1400 cannon
against ....
There went allso t with Mr. Corker at another time to the
Prince out of this garrison during this seege 16 men and horse
the 6th of February : he was the onely man that procured Sr.
* " Jan. Sir Thomas Fairfax and Colonel Forbes standing together near Pomfret
Castle, a cannon bullet from thence came betwixt them, and the wind of it beat them
both to the ground, and put out one of Colonel Forbes his eyes, and spoihd that side
of his face, and yet no other hurt to Sir Thomas Fairfax." (Whitelocke.)
** The Commons proceeded in the business of the new model of the armj, and
nominated Sir Tho. Fairfax to command in chief. — Colonel Lambert was ordered to
speed down into the north, to take care of the forces there (he being commissary
general of the Lord Fairfax his army) when Sir Thomas Fairfax should come up."
(Ibid.)
t This paragraph follows that recording Captain Tullcy*s exit to Newark on
Jan. 8.
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our foot from the castle coining on and the horse charging with
the foot 4 or 5 times, recovring the hedge from them, beat them
quite away towardes Ferry bridge, continually charging them
all the way, there being left dead and wounded upon tne ground
about 160 men. And at Ferry bridge the enemy playd 3 times
with one cannon, viz. 2 case shottes and 1 cannon bullitt, killed
there 4 of our men, but we bett them from their cannon, and
tooke it and brought it away, and followed them in chase
betwixt Shearbume and Tadcaster, killd 140 of their men (as is
reported) in the chase, took 600 prisoners, commaimdera and
officers 57 * ; doble barrells of powder 47, containing 124 lb. a
peece ; armes 1600 ; collores both for horse and foot above 40 ;
and many wounded men brought and many dead since, and we
lost not above 20 men in all the fight, the enemy being allmost
6 for one. There was brought in to the castle neare upon 20
cariages with all their match, muskets, pikes, bullits, and all
other provition, and many packes taken in the chase, and the
plunder of the feild was to the souldyers and to the contrey
about. Sir Marmaduke Langdall coming into the castle betwix
10 and 11 of the clock in the night, having quartered his horse
in the townes about, and he continued about the towne, refresh-
ing of his men, till the Munday following, being the 3 March,
at which time he marched away with the most of all his horse
and foot.
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KiUd the first seege Wounded
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140 more betwixt Ferry bridge and Sherburne
[300]
* The parlUmentary loss has been stated at more than 1000 men. Lambert him-
■If was wounded, and many of his officers were sUin*. Among these were Col.
^ lyn, Col. Thornton, and Col. Malevery. (Boothroyd, 1 Fairfax Corr. 184.)
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before your orders came from Colonel Forbes to draw off to Ferry-
bridge, which (though I used all possible expedition therein) I could
not do until within night, and then began to march with not above
240 horse and foot in all (for reason of the sudden notice, many of
my men were absent), expecting to have found no enemy either at
Pontefract or Ferrybridge, but discovered them at both places, by
intelligence from some of them whom we took prisoners. Where-
upon we were forced to break up their quarters in Longhoughton,
where some troops of Colonel Carnaby quartered. "We forced our
passage there with divers of their horse and some men of theirs pri-
soners, and it was generally conceived most secure to make for Brad-
ford, in regard we did not know how the enemy had dispersed them-
selves towards Leeds. My lord, your lordship may perceive by these
inclosed what a distraction this late accident hath wrought in these
western places." (Sir John Savile at Bradford to Lord Fairfax.
1 Fairfax Corr. 177.)
March 3. " We have notice that the enemy is retreating to Don-
caster •, but we hear of Prince Rupert's advance on this side Glou-
cester t- Now that the country about Wakefield is not secured, the
enemy at Sandali ranges at pleasure.*' (Sir John Savile at Bradford
to Lord Fairfax. 1 Fairfax Corr. 179.)
March 5. " To the right honourable Ferdinando Lord Fairfax,
these. — My lord, your oflScers will inform you how far you are short
in medicaments^ the number of the wounded considered. Here is a
chirurgeon of your party that will go as far as he can with such
things as he hath received. Your lordship will receive with this a
list of oflBcers and soldiers, if I may receive the like from you upon a
safe-conduct. I shall send officers to treat of a general exchange,
and remain, my lord, your humble servant, Sichabd Lowther.
Pontefract Castle." (1 Fairf. Corr. 185.)
March 9. " For the right honourable the Lord Fairfax, these —
VLy lord, your lordship's of the 7th of this instant came but this
morning : for the time and place, the first is precipitated, for the
other it is at too great a distance. If your lordship please to give a
meeting at Ferrybridge, upon mutual engagements for the safety of
those who shall be appointed to treat upou both parties, I shall agree
to it, and to that purpose desire a new safe-conduct for such as I
shall nominate ; the time, Wednesday next, by nine in the morning.
The list your lordsliip sent of our prisoners with yours is altogether
imperfect. I desire a particular under whose commands and in what
regiments they have served, as also a list from Hull arid Wressell in the
* *' Langdale retreated to Newark. Col. Rosseter and other of the Parliament's
forces fell on bis rear near Doncaater, and took divers prisoners." (Whitelocke.)
t March 11. *' I am sorry to hear of the sad accident in Yorkshire. It is very
probable that the storm will jet be greater there. Prince Ru{>ert is gone northward
ibo ; and it is conceived that Prince Rupert, Prince Maurice, and Langdale will, in
amdnsion, fiJl into one body.'' (Sir Tho. Widdrington, at London, to Lord Fairfax.
1 Pairf. Corr. 182.)
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officers, 67 souldyers, and about 100 horse. That niffht allso
our men went downe to Tumebridge again, and brou^t away
fix)m the enemyes storehowse 40 new paire of bootes with other
provision.
21. Fridday. About 2 of the clock in the afternoone the
enemy came in again and tooke the Upper towne, killed Captin
Redman about the bridge, and a souldyer upon the toppe of the
Round tower and tooke 3 of our men prisoners. That day we
shott 14 cannon and 2 in the night, but the Lower towne we
had at liberty. They could not beseege it upon that end, and
from thence we fetch in wodde from the burnt bowses and other
necessary es, the enemyes forces being not so strong by much as
was thought. The truth is thought that this seege was for
nothing but to keepe us within the castle untill they had areyed
men & plundred the contrey to prevent the Prince's victualls
at his coming *.
22. We shott 15 cannon to sevrall places and we had a
woman shott thorow the hand and a man shott thorow the
thigh with the same bullitt ii[X)n the toppe of the Round tower
(but neither killed). The enemy fell a trenchinge in divers
places about the towne but espetially before AUderman Lunnes
howse t-
23. We playd 5 cannon all into the towne J.
• "Mar. 17. Letters from the Committee of Nantwich informed that Prince
Rupert, Maurice and Langdale were all joined in one great body and that without a
•peedj relief, Sir Will. Brereton's forces would be in great danger. The House
ordered a letter to be forthwith sent by the Committee of both kingdoms, for a party
of the Scots horse and dragoons to advance towards Sir Will. Brereton, and ordered
supplies for his forces."
•• Mar. 27. The Scots forces, being joined with Sir Will. Brereton, the Prince's
forces retreated, and would not engage. Prince Rupert marched towards Worcester,
Prince Maurice to Ludlow, and Langdale northwards." (Whitelocke.)
-f Mar. 22. " The Lord Montgomery was pleased to acquaint your excellency with
my capitulation of surrendering Naward Castle, and you were pleased to give me
your pass agreeably. My lord, a party of the Scotch horse conveyed me to Ponte-
fract, where the commander-in-chief. Colonel Forbes, undertook my further convey ;
but it so fell out that some party of the King's advancing, and your horse retreating,
it was not held fit I should pass then, but I was modestly requested to retire to some
place until your present affair was over, which I had no reason to refuse ; but I went
back to Giiling [Castle], where I have kept myself." Applies for fresh pass or con-
voy. (Col. Atkins to Lord Fairfax. 1 Fairfax Corr. 18.4.)
I Mar. 23. " I have endeavoured to inform myself of their strength at Sandall, and
find that they are 100 foot and 50 horse, besides those 60 horse lately gone out upon
a party from Pontefract garrison, and could not return to it again by reason of our
leaguer there. I advised with the oflScers here, and the result was that we were too
inconsiderable to lie in Sandall, for we are not above 150 fDot, now that Capt.
Spencer is marched, as (it seems) your lordship's pleasure is; and we humbly con-
oetve 300 foot and 6 troops of horse, of 60 in every troop, to be a proportion small
enough for that attempt ; yet I refer myself in this, as in all things else, to your
lordship's wise consideration." (Sir John Savile, at Wakefield, to Lord Fairfmz.
IFairf. Corr. 181.)
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♦ve had one man taken prisoner. They lined divers hedges
betwixt the * and the Parke ana sett upp their collors
att [Skinner t] Lane head, but our cannon from [the Kings t]
tower beat them downe, thus were we still imployed on both
sides.
6. (SW/y.) Our horse did sally foorth under the command of
Captin Washington and Captin [BealtJ and 40 musquteyers
nnaer the command of Captin Smith. Our horsemen behaved
themselves valiantly, facing a whole troope with 5 men,
made them retreate within the towne and duble their number
of horse fall forth with 100 musquetears &
lined the [hedge t]- They gave fire freely on both sides [but
our ment] manteyned the feild bravely and tooke [2 butchers t]
and their horses loaded with flesh to the towne, before the
enemyee faces, which did very good service to the garison upon
Easter day ; [but, the] said 6th day, we killed one man upon
Baghill, and tooke another prisoner, and tooke two horses ; and
we shott 6 cannon that day both into the towne and other
places and that night 5 cannon into the towne but what hurt
was done is not knowne.
[6.] The enemy basely stayed all wine from coming to the
castle for serving of the Communion upon Easter day, aUthough
Forbus (their Governor) had graunted protecktion for the same,
and one Browne of Wakefeild said if it were for our damnation
we should have it, but not for our solvationi But that day,
being Easter day, (the 6th Aprill), which was prepared for the
health of our soules, was prepared for the liberties of our bodyes,
for, after sarmond done [att 11 of thef] clock the Governor gave
strait command that all men should presently be in armes, which
was as willingly done both with horse and foot. {Sally,) Then,
after a little delibration, orders being agreed upon, Captin
Washington and Captin Beale commanded the horse. Capt.
Munro with 60 musquetears did sally out of Swillinton tower
up into Northgate. Captin Flood with 60 musqutears sallyed
forth of the Lower gate & so up by the Haulpeny howse &
fell upon their trenches. Then there was 60 gentlemen volun-
teres wherof one haulph did second Mimroe's musquetears and
the other haulph Capt. Flood's. The gentlemen weare chosen
out from the 4 coUonells within the Castle viz. : — Sr. Richard
Hutton, 12 gentlemen commanded by Capt. Croft : Sr. George
Wintworth 10, commanded by Leiut. Warde : Sr. John Roms-
den 10, commanded by Capt. Benson ; and Sr. Jar vis Cuttler 10,
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knowne; and 5 men was killd from the Round tower, and 4
men and a horse att Munkhill. That day they carryed away 5
waine loade of men over Ferry brigges, and the same day the
enemy drew their men into a body, it was thought to know
what force Sr. John Saivell brought of horse and foot, being
newly come from Sandall with litle comforth. That night our
cannon made 2 shott charged with case shott into their trenches
where the enemy was heard to crye is me, is me, divers
times.
11. The enemy came forth with a party of 12 horse and 30
moskiters. They lined Baghill allong the ould hedge 2 howers
and then retreated under a hill for a safegard. That day our
cannon plaid 2 cannon and 1 in the night, but what hurt is not
knownCy onely one man was kild upon Baghill with a muskitt
from the Round tower.
12. Alderman Thomas Wilkinson* unfortunatly was killd
with a muskitt bullitt from Baghill at Barbicon yate : {Sally,)
and our men did sally forth with 7 [hors^ f] to Munkhill but no
execution done with the horse on either side, but one of our
footmen killd 2 horses there, but the men gott clere. That day
we shott 5 cannon into the towne, but what hurt was done is
not knowne.
13. The enemy showed 3 or 4 troopes of horse as though thev
did intend to draw into a body, but drew away into severall
places^ Before noone a troope or 2 came to
where being drawne into order upon the sand bed below the
hall §, our cannonear made a shott from the Kinges t^wer when
we was att the sarmond, dismounted a whole file, kiUd 2 dead
both man and horse, the other 4 were sore hurt. The enemy
showed 5 troopes of horse more then was before that day. That
day our cannons made 6 shott into the towne, and 3 cannon
more that night to the enemyes barricade which was broke
quite downe but what execution was done is not knowne.
14. About 10 of the clock there came a party of the enemyes
foot to drive away summe catteU which was sent out to feede
neare Swillington tower, but our musketers caused them to
ninne away and saved the cattell. About the same time there
came 3 loade of munition whereupon we conjectured they doe
intend to fight with the Prince hereabouts, because that 3000
Scotts lyes at Leedes and other places quartered to joyne with
* See bis pedigree in Dugdale's Visitation. " Thomas Wilkinson, Mayor of Pont-
fr*ct 15 Car. I. anno 1639, slaine in Pontfract Castle, Colonell Lowther then being
Gotemour for the King, anno 1644 " [1646].
t P. Drake's copy. X F. Drake's copy inserts " tiU."
§ New Hall. (Boothroyd.)
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danger of death ; and he runne the horseman thorow the legg,
and into his horse noase, and the horseman himsellfe ahnost to
the midle of his raper into his body, and so the horseman gott
away, but whether alive or dead is not knowne. That night
there was 2 cannon playd into the towne *.
16. William Ingram plaid 2 cannon into the towne in the
morning and shott thorow Mr. Lunnes howse topp, into the
Markitt. {Sally.) About 10 of the clock we made a strong
sally forth into their trenches. Captin Himsworth with 50 mus-
keters went out of the Lower gate to the trenches at Allderman
Lunnes howse : Captin Munro with 50 musketers out of Swillin-
ton tower to Northgate, & so through the upper trenches. There
was appoynted 50 gentlemen vollenteres to second the mus-
keters : Collonell Hutton commanded 12 by Capt. Croft : Collo-
nell Wintworth 14 commanded by Leiut. Ward: Collonell
Rumsden 12 commanded by Lieut. Coll. Galbreth : Collonell
Cttttler 12 commanded by Capt. Ogleby. After the^e gentle-
men followed Leiutenant Fevell (Captin Himsworthes Leiut.)
with 10 musketers to a little worke. All the rest followed Capt.
Himsworth who assaulted the great trench. They cleared the
little worke and the great trench with much vaUor, beate the
enemy up to another trench nearer the bridge ; there was kild
in the great trench 17 men, and many hurt. Our cannon plaid
20 shott during the time and did much execution. There was
one Captin Wade taken prisoner and 4 souldiers ; it is thought
there was killd, hurt, and taken prisoners 50 men at least,
1 leiutenant killd, taken 60 armed, 7 drummes. {Sally.) Our
horsemen did sally forth with 38 horse under the commaund of
Captin Beale and Corronett Speght, stayd all the time upon
Baghill and there faced the enemy that their horse never came
forth to any rescue. Captin Washington and Corronet Speght
rid out in tne after noone with 2 horsemen more and mett with
one quartermaister Hill, and tooke him and his horse, and
brought them to the castle. That afternoone we playd 6 can-
non and 4 sling pcses, but what hurt is not knowne.
This day there came newes from Bonevant (the governor of
* " Some ot Pomfret garrison sallied out, but were beaten back with the loss
of Colonel Tindall, Lieutenant-Colonel Middleton, and other officers, and many
soldiers." (Whitelocke, under April 15.) It does not follow that Whitelocke's date
is quite accurate, but it is singular that the diary is silent as to this transaction.
Boothroyd supposes that it happened in connection with some party sent out from the
castle to Sandal or elsewhere, and beyond the enemy's works, and was unknown to
Mr. Drake at the time. Tindall was only Lieut. -Colonel. (See page b.) ** Leonard
TiDdall, Lieutenant Coll. under Sir John Ramsdon, Knt., in the service of King
Charles L" (Dugdale's Visitation. Tindall of Brotherton.)
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gave fire upon them and beat them into their gaurd, and killd
one of them and hurt another. This day we fired the lower end
of the towne and the lower end of MunkhiU.
19. {Sally,) A few of our foot went out to Munkhill, and
beate the Scottes 3 times from their workes, and killd 2 at
one time, and there was seene divers to faule at other times.
{Sally.) And, in the after noone, 3 of our men went up Grange
Lane and beat the Scotts from the upper end of the lane where
was seene 1 or 2 to fall at that time. That day we shot 3 can-
non, one of them to Baghill (loaded with case shott), and shott
thorow the hedge where lay many of the enemyes foot, and there
was seene diveres hattes to fly of and is supposed many men
killed.
20. Simday morning, the Scottes fired the upper end of
Munkhill about 4 of the cloke, and fell a trenching from the
upper end of Bondgate Millne dame to Wardes, theire barieade
at Cherry orchard nead neare Newhall, and from thence made
bulwarkes in divers places to Munkhill topp. This day we
playd 5 cannon, whereof one was to theire barieade upon the
back of the schoolehouse, and shott it thorow, where there was
many of their men, & is supposed did great execution. The rest
was shott into the towne, & one of them to Newhall. This day
the Scottes made a strong allarum among themsellves, and a
musketer of theirs killd a major of theires for a Cavelear.
21. The iron gunne whicn lay in the outworke above the
Upper gate was fecht in to be planted upon the Mount * before
the Castle gate which was then making ready for hur being
there, but was not finished fitt to play till the^24th day. At
night the beseegers'in the Upper towne brought about 40 or 50
musketeres to Baghill, and there lined all allonge the hedge and
the dike with them, which gave fire (for two howers and a
haulph or more upon our men which were making the platforme
for the gunne) very vehemently but did no hurt there.
This aftemoone the Scotts sent a drumme to the castle, and
Captin Flood and a souldyer was sent to fetch him in from the
Lower gate : but the Scotts shott from Munkhill at them, and
shott the souldyer through the legge, and after the bullitt
CTased upon Captin Fluddes legg, and numned it a little, but no
hurt ; the souldyer's name that was shot was Anthony Foxkroft.
That day we shott one cannon into the towne. Captin Grim-
stones man, being taken with the enemy as he was coming to
* There was found in the Park closes 'about 1793 a ball weighing 58 lb. and up.
wards, which iu Boothragrd's time belonged to Mr. Milton of Spittle Hardwick. It
■Bight hare belonged to either party engaged in the siege. Many balU of 40 lbs.
weight hare been found in and near the town.
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wick), 88 she was carying a stand of ale to the souldyers at
Newhall, and brought hur with the ale into the castle, (but
eased hur of hur money she had about hur before). She con-
fess^ the battell which was made about Westchaster, and that
the kinge had there gott the better, and that the beseegers in
Pomfret were not to stay above 2 or 3 daies at the furthest.
26. The beseegers from the Upper towne came up to Baghill
in the forenoone with about 50 musketers and about a troope of
horse in severall companyes. The foot lined the hedge and the
dike all along Baghill, and shott very furiously for about 4
bowers together, but did no hurt at all to the beseeged. During
that time we playd 6 cannon and 4 sling peeses, but what execu-
tion was done by the cannon is not knowne, but we saw eaither
hattes or heades flye up at the fall of the bullitts, and the bul-
littes grased amongst them 3 times, from whence was heard
great exclamations at one time. (Saili/,) In the aftemoone 3 or
4 of our souldyers did sally forth to Munkhill, and beat 16 of Sr.
John Saivell men 3 times from the howses at MonkhiU to theire
workes, and after tooke a souldyer in Munkhill closes & brought
him into the castle. That day we killd one man from the Round
tower in the morning, & 4 men more in theire trenches at night,
at the releeving of their sentryes, from the Round tower.
26. The be»eegers from the Upper towne came to Baghill
about 8 a clock with about 40 or 50 musketers, and lined the
hedge & dike all alonge the hill side, and shott very hard for 6
or 6 howers, but without any hurt to the beseeged. At that
time was 1 cannon shott full amongest parte of them but what
execution it did unknowne to us. There was one cannon playd
more into the Graimge lathe where there was many officeres and
souldyers, and 1 cannon more up into the towne into the Mar-
kitt place. That cannon killd one man against Mrs. Jackson
doore and so grased up the Markitt place.
{8ally.) Ahoxxi noon, 7 or 8 of our souldyers sallyed forth to
Munkhill, and there fought with a party of Sir John Saivell's
souldyers, killed one, laymed another, and beat them into theire
trencnes. There came allso about 40 horse into the Closes hard
by Mimkhill to have taken our men but they retreated a little
wick within muskitt shott of the castle, but the horsemen durst
not come within that compasse. (Sally.) About 2 a clock allso
there went up again to Munkhill 5 of our souldyers, and gave
them a larum, and beate them back, and killed another man, and
brought him away with them down to Denwell, and went up
againe and killed another horseman which came braving up to-
wardes them, but that horse and man was both fetch of and that
man was caryed behind another man to Pomfrett where he dyed
:\n nil himimi ^ulf
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?)..if tiiiji \*.- -i*..!* ..I Ji.inri'ii til Ili^-l.ill. III? w't'.jkl it«^ u»^J«
w I- •[■■::i J- iiri"" r'.i \ i..-
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OF PONTEFRACT CASTLE. 31
not put forth our cattell to grasse. In the forenoone there
came downe 3 very good hoggs downe at Erode Lane end to-
wardes the castle, and our souldyers seeing them (out of Bar-
bican), went out and fetcht them in, which was a good booty for
the Bouldyers. About 12 of the clock, a killnehowse of Mrs.
Oatses, (neare to the Upper church), was sett on fire, but by
what meanes is unknowne to us. During the time of the burn-
ing our cannon made 7 shott to that place and to the places
thereaboutes, but what execution was done is uncerteine to us.
Our men shott very hard all the day into theire workes, as well
as they to us, where there was scene one man of theires kiUd
and diveres shott and carryed of, but we had not any man hurt
(praised be God). {Sally.) That night, about 11 a clock, 6 of
our souldyers, commanded by one Lowder, sallyed forth downe
to their worke below the Low church, gave them a larum, beate
them from their workes to Newhall, which caused them to give
fire throughout all theire workes round about the castle : and
that night was 100 men working in their trenches at Baghill,
but went not fare forwardes by reason of the stones there.
28. The beseegers from the Upper towne about 6 a clock
came with above 150 men to releeve those whicli were on Bag-
hill all night, and wrought still forwardes in their trench all
the day, and shott very furiously upon the least occation, but
did no hurt to the beseeged : and we drive out our cattell to
grase neare the castle and brought them in againe in safety
after they had been feeding most parte of the day. {Sally,)
About 9 or 10 of the clock, 3 or 4 of our men went to Munkhill,
and there met with sume parte of Sir JohnSaivells men, & killd
one of them and came back againe. About 11 of the clock there
went 200 horse from Pomfrett (or the townes thereaboutes)
thoroug the Parke to Ferry brigges, {Sally,) and about 3 a
clock 12 of our souldyers went forth to Munkhill without any
order or knowledge of the Governor, being led up by one
Lowder a souldyer, a good stout man, gave an alarum to Sr
John Saivells quarters about Newhall, from whence issued foorth
neare 100 souldyers. Our men charged them bravely till they
came almost close to one another, where our men killed 2 of
theires, and wounded as many men (as is thought) of theirs as
went up of oures, and then they basely runne away, and tooke
one of the killed men along with them, but the otner our men
brought downe with them to Den well and buryed him by the
other was killed 2 daies before ; though they su£Pred our men
which were killed at the Low church to lye there 10 dayes un-
buryed, having been often sent to and requested to doe it. This
day we shott 2 cannon and one sling peese to Baghill but what
nil ^tiiiMi NiKi.h
rxi-rutiiin wits ditiit* i** iincir1«-viit-. Tint iii^ht allibi u}«»u! I J -J
tin- «-liM'k Wr -liiift mil* «;iiiiiiiii 111 ri.i;^'}iill .iiii..:.j^? I--- !:.•:.*:
lt;f*l >l;milinu' tiiL'i'th«*r. wliii li ;:r.i.-til tiiri'ii;.''. •;.• n. .i;.J ix.-».:« a
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OF PONTEFRACT CASTLE. 33
May 1. This morning the enemy releeved their trenches on
BaghUl very yearely, with (as we supposed) 150 men, where
they had made a Triangle worke, and walled it with stone, and
filled it with earth, and, as we conceived, there was a little work
within it for officers to sitt in & to shelter them from rayne : we
playd one cannon to it that mominffe, which burst the stone
wau without and we supposed shott through the inworke allso,
where they was drinking (for they had greate store of ale
brought them that morning) and very many of them nmne out
of that worke very fast. So that we supposed the cannon did
good execution. That day they shott very slowly both from
Baghill and from their lower worke in the Round close under
Baghill. {Sally.) In the aftemoone 8 of our men went out to
ilunkhill, where Sr. John Saivell's company had lined a long
hedge and a deepe ditch with about 60 or 70 men. We shott at
them from the castle with our muskitts, as well as those 8 of
our men which went up the hill into the ditch, and at that time
we killed 2 officers, and our men runne hastely into the ditch
and beat them all away where they runne all away very basely.
Our men then retreated do^^e the hill and had summe more
ammunition sent to them. After that the enemv drue up a
great parte of their horse which they had both in tne towne and
at Newhall, & they drue up the foot allso from both places, but
the horse staid not within muskitt shott of the castle. (Sallyea
2.) Our men fell up twise more to Munkhill, and beate them
from the hedges into theire workes, and killed them 2 men more
at that time, and shott many more. After that went up 3 men
more from the castle, and beate them from theire workes. Our
men then retreated back, and in theire retreate one of those 3,
(his name was Nathanyell Sutton, a barber,) was shott into the
shoulder & so into the body, whereof he dyed instantly, but our
men brought him oflfe. TOiere was another of those o allso was
shott on his brow and it entred the skull a little, so that [we
hope in a short time he will recover, erased^he is well again
\_stib8titutedl, (his name was Captin Dent). The 3th. of those
men was allso shott through his dublitt as he stooped, and so it
went up to his neck, but never bruised the flesh, so that he was
not hurt. He was a drummer, but had no drumme at that
time. Our men had done very good service that day, if those
three men had not gone up without either order or commaund.
That night the enemyes cut bowes under Baghill and made
blindes at either end of their Triangle worke, and planted a
drake (as we supposed). About the beginning of May the
enemy brought againe a long drake belonging to Sr. John
Saivell and planted hur upon Baghill upon the south side of the
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l.f r* 'I M if '^'-A ji— •'•tliij^'^ :iTii| i«iir !rt iiuli-** wi-IIUrv
\ 1 i.t- i'\A\ , \m II. u >iiiiil.i\ . till « !:• r!i\ n li-ivi-«i tht ir tr^-.; ni ii^
.i- ..» .•».! ••!!.... l-iii •}...!? \.r\ *I..wI\ . :i l-itii ^s.l** all tbfll
i!.\ Ai.'l III *) I .ttr* rii'M'tii tlnrt i :iii:<- :i ^mhiyr in!i* iW
I i-fli u|.:>*i rui.if .i\i.i\ fiKin f 1.1 • ;:• iiiv. :iiHi tf*iilfl 119 a% tlfW
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' T ■ ' •! I' ■«: 1. .:.i! 1?. iiL'^» ♦" !'"Ti.tf«tf. afiii -• thiV « a« anit
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OP PONTBFRACT CASTLE. 35
toppe of the hill tiU they came to Widow Tupman's howse
(which they had burnt,) and in it they kept their sentry howse,
and shott out of it when they could see any occation, but they
did no harme all the day. There was great shooting from their
trenches about Paradise orchard, Trinities, and Mr. Lunnes, and
Mr. Rusbyes against the Round tower and the north side of the
castle, but they did no harme to the beseeged, but we shott
from the Round tower very hard and, at the releefe of their
gards, we killd one man, and shott many more of them.
6. The enemy releeved theire gaurdes this day at Baghill as
at other times, but shott very little from thence all the day, nor
from their gaurdes at Munkhill, but in all theire workes up the
towne they shott very hard, and we likewise at them, where we
killd one of them in Paradise orchard, & allso another in theire
trenches on Mr. Lunnes backside, & shott 3 or 4 more of them.
There came in this day a horse litter from Ferrybrigges into
the towne, which went away next morning the same way it
came. We supposed [it] aid carrye away summe wounded
officer in it. That day we playd 2 cannon to Baghill. A little
before the shooting of the first was 2 women scene to bring 2
standes of ale into their Triangle worke, at which time the first
cannon plaid full into that work, & made a breach into it, & we
supposed did summe execution for they runne very fast out of
the worke : and the other cannon drive away 3 or 4 stones from
the toppe of the worke amongst them which was within, but
whether any execution was done or not is not knowne. This
night there came into the castle a sargient from the enemy,
which told us simame news of the enemyes proceedinges in the
towne.
7. This morning the enemy shott of theire drake from Bag-
hill to the castle (it was loaded with case shott), and scarce hitt
the castle, for summe parte of it hit the stable, and summe the
battlementes of the castle, and the rest flew over the castle, but
did no hurt at all. The enemy shott one of our men from Bag-
hill as he was working in a trench in the Barbican. They shott
very little all this day from all theire workes. In the afternoone
there came 10 of the enemyes souldyers vaporing with their
swordes into the Lower church, but 8 of our men, seeing them,
went downe with their muskitts, gave fire upon them, and they
runne away as fast as they could. This afternoone at the re-
leeving of theire gaurdes we killd one man in the trench behind
Mr. Rusbyes, and there was 2 or 3 more laymed in the out
workes.
8. This day was but little shooting on all sides till the after-
noone at the releeving of their gaurdes, at which time we killd
f2
• Wi nil. ^KC•lMl SIVAmU
titif in t}ii*ir InnrlirN }N')iiiiri Mr. Ku'iliy«-4. and diTen «»• ban
litit iiM iiuiri* M'«iii* til tall. Tht-n* hu^ hut >H wt^nt up Ut IW^
liill to rt l«^-v«' till in- ^:iiini«'-* lit ri-l«-«'\iii^ tiiiK*, hut tbrrv wrot
up 'Jn 11)1 Iff uiiH M-i'iir til p4' up u;^iiu*t iiiffbt. Thu nx|rbc
raptiii Ili*r*to|(i 'uith his iiiiii> uiiit forth to SamhU Taadi^
aiiii alUo ]i(llwi thiT wiut m-nt a^aiiio ttmunU Nrwarke. Tbty
h;ti| ii iVw iiiu-^Lt tctrt Hfiit f<prth with thnn to IU|rbill« hii
x\w\' Kiw iii't :iiiy man Miring thi-n*. m> thry H'turacd bacfc
iipiiiii* iiitit thf ru.ttlf.
1^ Tliii fhiy wf nhiitt 2 i'uiinnii fnitii thf Kindts U^wrr U^
wanh-M the Markitt pl.it i* afmut 10 tif the (-I«M-k, aaJ Allan I
oaiiiiiiii iiKin* thitliiT in tht- afti-nniiinc. hut what rxivution tbiy
«Iiti in unri-rtiMH. W«> ^liott litih* im Imth nidtii all tbe (ur^
niMin**, liut, at thi* rtl«4-vin:: i»t* their f*uunl«-s, thriv waa Larl
nhtNitini: «iii all *«iil< s uht-n- «•• iciw nm- man t<i fall in tbr p<t^
ItMlr ii|Min H.t^'hill, :iitii ur Lillii 'J uiori* hy tht-ir workcv im-lam
rfriM!«|.iii«- «-iii|, wl.mi't' ii!!" u.i<« an ntli'i r lall in rvddi vxlb a
^latFi' in hit hanil [hi- iiiinn* u.i<* ('.ipi. Ciiuli'rk. in fJk^ attfryM^
th<* nthiT wa** a hiiuIiIx i-r. AU*ut I nt' ihi- rhnk thr rncmy Htt
• 111 firr .mil hiiriit ili\ir-i l»:inii s .ifk<l huWM'i^ in Bi-\cran places gf
till' tiiwiir, an, naim Iv. tp>ni tin- Nnrth Mn^t 2 lumc!* of Mr.
M.ii<iri'?4 aiiil Mr. llttUt. Hatth yi n ji>\ni^I t«i;»«'th4*r'> ami allio aD
nloTi;: tif'si' liii\\-H I'rnTii thif phirc in tcj thr lliffb ttfvala
(m)I*-<1 Mii'i'klt ;:ati-. whi-n* tliip- wa.i many p^mI h«iv«ai aad
killiirH huriit .in>l Itiiht. K.iirliVi- nt-w l.'iu^v The firt* Inimt aD
th«' iiiijht ill thr )iirii«'o. Til* \ alUti Mtt nn tin* anuthir bovat
h- !..\v Mr. Jiihii Wilkin- >!iiic« • n tl :h«T niilv of tb« otrrat)
h.it w.is put nut Th.it i.iirht. aU'Ut t* ff th«' «](« k. tbf rtmij
;:n. :i v.ilii-y i»t* -h"ft in th- M.irkit! pl.ir«v Wv hranl i: n^
IHiftfl at l!if Imriall <it' a l^imlinan? l.iiiit«nant (*«JI«4wll
■".■! n. Ml f^i* fi /'/.'•. \\ !■ ••hi'tt 1 «.in!.oii Mi'-r*' fn'in thr «da
lif t!ir Ti« .i-ii:i r^ t..\\.r u\*"U tliat |>I.rt'.<rnii'. Tlial caxmoa
pi i\<l t'till intii t!p rLt>i<il<- if t1i«- tir*-, anil ^r>ni*ht «l<ivnr> a parts
. f' tl:. Ii.iw^. with it. hiiT \ihi til. r it (li<l any lA^-uiion mi>rr ar
I.* is II'-* kii'iui;!'
!'^ T).i« ili\ thi- f III iii\ m nh- a n<'W miirkr mi Munkhill ia
ii. inn< r i!' a h.mlph nf^iiir. tn jinvi n! u« fr*'iTi iwill\in|f fortb
• •it ot' >uill:nf'in tnui-r. Thr -in:'- d.iy thin- »a.« unr moA
k:!!l t'r<*tii tli< It'i'ifiil t"Mir in thi- liiarni i n il Ivhind Mr.
1. :nri' -. .i!.>l -"ni' hint, hiif \ii- kii'ivi n<>t h->>« n;.ir.\ . Tla« iii|rbl
th' r*- w. Tl -• nl i»u! I't" '\.* * A-th J III' n ti. Sni.li 11.
11 >'inla\. VVi h.iil J I. irn»«l - rni'ii-U. thi ••m* h\ IVjrUr
I'.'i-IIiV. tl..- i-*h' r ]\ Mr t •!■ \ .1- Wi l.a\i »\ir\ Nu!iiia\ 2
li.i l^-rtl i:\\* 11- jrax t.. t-ll-.u t) W. ki'lhii «* «»t' tb«
I ri* iiiVi H tVi'iii t!.< K«>iii.«l t"W«r 'I'hi- iLx j1U> w« bad uor of
OF PONTKFRACT CASTLE. 37
our men was looking out of a porthole on the Round tower (a
Wright by trade), and seldome using to rome thether, but he was
shott thorow the arme, and though at a weekes end fbll of payne
yet there is no signe of his death. We had allso a boy about 9
yeares of age (as he was getting of greene sawse* without
Swillington tower) was dangerously shott in the belly from
their works at Munkhill. This night, also, a gentleman of ours
was talking with one of the enemyes officers upon the Round
tower, conditioning that neither side should shoot, but yett one
of the enemies souldyers, contrary to conditions, shott in at the
poarthoale side, where the bullitt erased upon the side, and so
nitt the gentleman upon the buckle of his gerdle and burst it,
but (praised be God) did not so much appeare as the very show
of a hurt.
12. This day there was fire given very freely on both sides
but not any hurt four knowledg on either side. About 8 a
dock our iron gunne plaid to Baghill but what execution it did
is not knowne. This night, about 9 a clock, our gentlemen and
souldyers being merily disposed, did drinke whole heallthes (of
the New well water) to the King and all his good freindes,
pledging one another with such hallowes and shoutes, as the
enemy, wondring what should be the cause of such sudden joy,
took an allarum, drew out all theire horse into the feild and
dobled all their gaurdes (which pleased us well) and then, our
taptoo being beat, every man to his gaurdes or to his bed.
13. This day we kill one of the enemyes upon Baghill, and 2
firom the Round tower and divers more were hurt. They grow
now so fearfull that they will scarcely looke out of their trenches
but when they are forced to releeve their gaurdes. This day
were carrj'ed away 3 oi;4 lodes of goodes towardes Ferry Bridege,
which makes us thinke they will not stay long.
14. This morning the enemy drive both sheepe and catteU to-
wardes Ferry Brigge. Some thought it was to victuall Yorke,
ethers thought it was to prevent our army from having any
-victual, for they fetcht them from the townes nere about Pom-
phrett. In the aftemoone Coronett Thurley was shott in the
anne in Barbican. There was this day one of the enemies
killd and devers shot from the Round tower. . About 5 a clock
there came a troope of horse riding fast from Daimcaster, fewer
of them rid into the towne and the rest to Newhall. In the
cevning all their horse was drawne up in a body into the Parke,
to what end is not knowne. This night, Captin Benson, with
• Young willows ?
:js
1MI NiiiiM) Hi>:f.K
Iii« iiLiti .iinl t\\** iiiiip', wi'iit fii S.iri>l.ill <':i«t|f :inii «•• ^i^* rli««<t«
fir«-^ .tlirii;i<li- rlii" iii::)tt. Kut wi* kii-iw !ii.r tht irti-.ili'ii t):m«'l
I "i. 'Ilii'* li.iv m;i- til'- '"tiiMy* T- ^ t mi \vi>rki- lo till uji a t::!h*
iniikI u}ii>-)i u.i- III \\i»- <*i->fl'- \>.iril. :i!iii iii.ii|«> :i |'la« •- !•» <irm«
tlii \i.iriT iiw'A} uipit r ;;ri*iiT]ii. :i!i<i -*■** it. iiini i-ii\i-r«<l it «::h
httiiK'H :iii<i r:irl)i :iL'iiu''. 'itxi • li-ii^*^l .ill thi- <\i*!l«' WMni. «Kirk
M.i-* a \tT\ 'j'**\ u«*rk«' f«i I l«!i-- rill i.i«tl<- U**u\ iii.iii\ tv-\m^mt
MiM'lli •« AlHUit 'J a il'xk in \\i» ani-riitHiin-, TIi<>tii^« l^ivtKrr
ci •MtiiliUi-r , uit}i 'J '«iiul«lvir« iimri-. • -{•\i-«l lw>i ••! tK«- f-:k'*na%f^
til riiiiif iiiit lit t)i« ir uitfk'^ !•• ■>■ J t*-«rii nf thiiii It-iiAti nan^* lo
M:iti-h •iitr iiifii uliii \i w :<« l> fi ):;:t.r iii ••! U'iii>l- tV>i!i lh«- U-vrr
i-ii'l •>!' tIic tdU hi', till \i\»ri thi III •«ii<i>l<iil\. A ••ii*- ^^t ihf ni ttZrvKk
lit l.'i\\t)i«r uiMi )ii*« |Mrti-.iii. Imr h^- .i^arlfvi Th«* rlanprv^w
lil'iu ah'i ru:iiii liim t[n\\*- tl. •••<•» uitli }.i«. r..{>i-r ; a!.il an<«ll:rr of
tii*« t« ll'iw -•iil<l\ii- -^hoT* l.iin tlpir-iw thi- thi;rh. l^jt »a« tviC
hlilM. I'lit liPMiL'^' ^^'•• ^•l■ • I-"'!'-; il;*- ••t}pr hi u?'r;.irit r^nttr
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X OF PONTEFRACT CASTLE. 39
dobled their gaurdes and charged again upon them, so our men
retreated and came into the castle. About 5 a clock a few of
our men went forth to their worke below the Low church, and
save fire upon them, then they drew out about 30 men into the
Graunge barne, right opposite againt our men. Then our men
fell into a thick orchard of trees, & so they gave fire one against
another for haulph an hower, and then our men retreated againe
into the castle without any hurt to our knowledg. {Sally.)
About 11 a clock in the night we made out a party nere about
40 men to a new worke the enemy had made at the bottom of
the Abbey cloase, where we itended to have fallen on to some
good purpose. And we shot of one cannon from the Kinges
tower against our falling on, but by report a woman got out of
the casUe and gave them intelligence, but it is sure they had in-
telligence, for they had lined all the hedges thereabouts, and
call^ to Captin Smith & tould him they were provided for him.
Neverthelesse we gave fire upon them for almost haidph an
hower and so retreated into the castle, having had 2 men hurt
in that service. And during this time we sent out Thomas Han-
son and another man to go to Sandoll Castle.
17. This morning there was one of the enemyes killd in the
Markitt place from the Bound tower and we had one man shott
going out of Swillinton tower. There was this day a drummer
from the towne & allso a trumpiter from the Lord Mountgomm-
reyes brother ; both came to the castle together. The trumpiter
was fetcht up into the Governor's chamber and stayd there for
about haulph an hower, and so they went away both together.
This day there went a cariage from the towne loded and covred
with red, and drawne away with 14 oxen and a horse, and went
towardes Knottinglay, but was gone the next morning Tory
yearly, we heard not whither. The trumpiter tould us that the
enemy was not above 8000 both horse and foote in all the
country.
18. {Sally,) Being Sunday, after praiers was done in the
morning, the Governor staid the sarmon, and gave order that all
should to armes, which was with all willingnes performed. Ould
Major Warde was commanded to the New mount within Bar-
bican to observe all the towers in the castle towardes Baghill
that no man nor woman should make any signes either with
hatt, hand, or handkircher, or anything ellse that might be
perceived to be a signe to give notice. In the intrim, Uaptin
Smith & Captin Flood, Ensigne Killingbeck and Sargiant Barton
went out first over the bridge towardes MimkhiU. Capt. Smith
with 30 souldyers went up by Denwell lane to the outworks
upon the back of Munkhill & beat them from those workes & so
40 IIIK *iK(1lNn MKfiR
wi'iil :ilon^ (lifrii* 1ri-iii-liii« \ «-lt'ur«iI thi-iii an hr wmt to tlkrifv
tir^t lii\MT \iiiiki-. <';i)i!in ri<H«l Miih Am hit-ut KilhiijU^k mtMi
*in Miiilil\i>i<« «-h.irpil u|» \\iv Ili^li r>tr(tt in Munkrnll f'»|*f»«
tli«il till' lii'Wti <• till p'. aii'l Ml it 11 iiiMiii tlif ir tir^t worLiv ;:« ti«e
Iii:;h •<tntti- li\ .S-.iiii- aihI iiili rtil llt.il wurki i^liin* hr art
Mitli <\t|itiii >iiiiili. ( 1..M- with hiia < 'a|i. Muiin^' with FiA«&j;n»
(iftiiUity A. S.iru'i'int < Miilaii'i uiili 7*^ im ii fv»iic*tl i»ul «Iir«i- A/trr
tlif < it 111 r A ut lit ill lu 111- I liiHi> liy till- l^iH rhunli. ibar^tl uima
their liiui--t wiiikr. ih-.it*' ihi 111 t'iMiii it. killtii mt iitaiiy xn \:^j
K.'.iM n\i rt.&kf, tiTitl thi l.M\i«« inari' In it. riiiiiif ii|i ihr Lirii' to
thi <ir:iiin;^^' UariH- ainl killni all ihut i»aA»iT)iin it %iL*i«M
ilriiikiii;^ lu^llthn .i!l« r thrir iliiiiti r, tf» llu* hi^hi r kuwar of
rarhiiiK lit, I'nnii thtihi' Hiiit u|i Ui Muiikhill iii the «<*rkf«
t)i«rf, aiiii ii\iTtixik«' tin I'tln r I oiitiMiiW'A att'hirn' ••rv^^.^nl
hiaii iiian* N«*\ili.ill. l^!:iti iiaiit riillu!!* 11 tiiUirtth. (jL'iuXt'r.xtxl
Williiwhy .iiiil l^'iut«iia:tl \V.ii<k- uitii Oi inujiki-tc^ n «ts%«%i at
thi' l^*w i-hurih. Ami luM M.ijnr Wunii- aiiii Lit u. Kaii{1 «iik
tit iiiUikftit-rH HiimI all tht- walhs in the IjhW Imrbiian. KoT
lhi!M.' lurzi, ut tho lyiii I hurt ii tV h«-arf. Hrari- n-^ r%i-ii u|**a pur*
|Mi-*i- that, if rithi r ihi- t<>-A«-ii nr lia^hill hu«i t.iull«*n uul to Lftt*
Mtiiiiiini tho i'ii«-iny ut Nt\\h.ill, th«-ii ii{»iii the tir>it tu/lLir tWy
wuulil havi* n-m'Uf^l (utr iu«-ii. Wr luii all'Ni a)«*ut 'J** hont
iHtlllllialnUAl hy ('ajitill Id air i.kllK* U|i t'l .Muiikl.iil U|ajII
H4Tvi(i-, liut ihry i-iiulil n>il |t.t.^v tl.«- Irtiahit that w«
thiTi-. Thi' (-«iiiiliiaTiil« M al'nicnainMi (h.ir^'«l \i rv hrmvt U |#
thi* \(-ry N\'\ihMlI lit* uhii h th« \ Kft •»ul1ii i« u*. i\iili lux* in J mcA
whiih th«y thin- killnl. Tlii* « iiniiy ruinif jua\ Lojkcly Kt 40
lit II tiiitr iivt-r M. Thi'iua- hill tnwarili-!! rirr\ hri<lji-« auA «kat
May lh«y rnuM Htmiicst takf. < 'ur im u diil ^n-atv cxtxut
Utth hrt-t'Hy aifl gallantly, haxiii;: iint li 1^ uiio uiaxi iu all tkv
trfii(-ht*fe hut ilruil. aziil ntnati-tl hi>ii>>r-ahly tl.i- aaiat* haiiv ihcT
wriit uut, uiui ill tlicirr ritr«a!« li«kc«l uvi r the hlaiiir Uai n, aa^
t)i<iii::h they Maiil ii -t t«< otri]i|f tl.t in, \»t! tl.i\ t>«'k>* i-l mmm
• •! thiir*' U'ht liMMM- ^ariiirlitv a^ halted \ i*huiiWtii, Ui»t fuf^* tllAf
I hi ir iH^-kitti'.H, whiTi- tht-y touiitl in Niiinc lu ^riat«, nioic iW^
>4'inr l^h , Mtuit iiiori', whirh ^u\i* tliiiii t»»tii.v ini tiuru^-nif&i im
vkiiut nl' I lay. ILniiii; K>H cKail u\k»u thi- ^nmud ul^.ut SO ur 6t
iiirii aihl inauki^l u«- U-lt<i'\i- ha iimiiv iniiD-, aiiJ bruu^Lt iato
thr tattli 'J priM/iar^ tSi 2 li-^mr* liiil\L-ft •uhith la«Uiii »r ytt*
S4iitly ilMiLi^t . ui lt.t\iii;: iiaii i:ti 1\ mu- man killi^l. a jnlwA
;:i :.tl< 111 III ali'l a hr.i\i •Miiiliixtr. h> lialiii Via« t orn'!.!! r»k«k«
li \ \\}..i ua* «).'T? lit an ('hirr\ i>ii hanl -:<li hut tan^c to
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OF PONTEFRACT CASTLE. 41
where he dyed that night, and allso a common souldyer scare
grounded and taken prisoner. During which time our cannon
>laid twise from the Kinges tower where the enemy had a
noope of horse. The buUitt grased fidl amongst them and killd
me man which we saw. Two cannon more was shott to Bag-
lill ; the first was loaded with case shott, havinge 16 dozen of
Duakitt bullites in hur, which tooke at. least 10 yeardcs com-
Mifise jdst upon the toppe of theire worke at Bagghill, from
rhence the enemy shott not one shott of 2 howers after ; and the
»ther cannon was playd at a company of horsemen which was
)ehind the hedge at Baghill, which grased amongst them, but
what execution the both did is unknowne to us. One thinge I
lad forgott, for, besides the light pillage our men brought
iway, yet they tooke time to take up theire armes too, as
words, muskuites, haulbordes, drummes, saddles, spades, and in
jvery trench a bagge of powder and some match, which for hast
hey had left behind them. That night, about 9 a clock, there
WBB 2 waggons loded at Newhall, and went forwardes Ferry-
)ridge. We supposed they was loaded with wounded men.
Ind about 11 a clock there was a great fire scene upon the
oppe of Sandall Castle, which continued for the space of 2
lowers.
19. This morning, in the forenoon, the enemy cept theire
v^orkes so close that we could scarce gett any shott betwixt the
^und tower and the Kinges tower, yett we kill'd one man at
heire worke side in the bottom of the Abbay close. Our soul-
lyers, seeing the could not gett any shott, fell a showting upon
he leades and cryed A prince, a prince, so loud and so strongly
LS that the enemy tooke a strong allarum, fetcht all theire
IOT86S from grasse soddenly, saddled them, and drew them into
he Graunge lane. There went downe from the t-owne 42 men
o Newhall, and as many to Baghill to strengthen theire gaurdes.
[n theire running to and from we killed 3 or 4 more of the
jnemyes, and woimded as many.
20. This day we had a report that the enemy had footmen at
Ferrybrigge, but at noone this great number appeared and
proved but 22, thus they feed their souldyers with bragges.
ifterwardes there appeared about 200 horse from Ferry bridge,
narching under the hills from Darington to the Westfeeld, and
K) into the Parke, and then turned into the lane at Tansill, and
$o into the Parke again. Then our cannon from Treasurers
ower plaid upon them and killd 2 men. And then they made
laste, behind the ridge of the hill in the Parke, out of sight ;
md that night there came 6 or 7 more troopes to them and
o
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erasedl of Major Beamondes, who tould us that the Scottes was
marching northwardes,* and rejoyced much at the wellfare of
their landslordes. With this tneire creeping into favour with
theire landslordes we tooke as a good sime that we weare in a
good condition and that we should shortly regaine our liberties
so long desired. This day allso there came a captin from the
enemy (with a drumme) to speake with Captin Speght, who
said ne would tell us the truth that the kinge was advancing
to releeve us with all speede f. This night allso went Captin
Washington and Leiutenant Wheatelay to Sandall, and there
was a great bonefire made at SandoU Castle, and we answered it
with another in that night, which we tooke for a signe of good
newes. We had allso newes that they f . . . within Skarbrough
Castle issued forth from thence and killed and tooke 300 of the
enemyes, and nayled up their cannon and burnt theire cariages
and so retreated into the castle^. The tennants allso before
mentioned tould us that Collonell Bruerton had drawne offe his
forces from the seege of Westchaster, upon the report that the
king was advanceing §.
24. This momiuff about 3 a clock the enemy gave fire as
though they would have entred the castle presently, upon what
reasons we know not, imlesse they were greeved at the bonefires
upon the Round tower that night, for they shott most at that
place. About 10 a clock, a woman which was gathring of pott
nearbes was shott by the enemy into the thigh, but not danger-
ous of death. About that time our iron gunne shott once into
the towne but what execution it did is not knowne. About 4 or
5 in the aftemoone, 4 of our men went down to the Low church
(where the enemy was) and as soone as the enemy espied, they
fled all away but one (who was supposed to be a leiutenant).
He stayd behind, and threw stones so fast that our men could
* " May 24. The House sent earnest letters to the Soots' army, and messages to
the Soots' commissioners, to hasten the adyance of the Soots southwards, to join with
other forces to pursue the King's army." (Whitelocke.)
** The Scots' army retreated again northwards, susj^ecting the advanoe of the King's
forces that way." (Ibid, under May 270
t ** The King went towards Shropshire." (Whitelocke, under May 20.)
i ** Letters from Scarborough informed, that some of the garrison sallied out, and
at first put the besiegers to a stand, but they recovered, and beat back the enemy.
Sir John Meldrum wounded, and Lieutenant Cockeram and other officers slain, and
some of the garrison slain. Lieutenant Colonel Stanley, was taken prisoner, and
carried into the castle, and there slain by them in cold blood." (Whitelocke, under
May 19.)
$ *' Sir William Brereton drew off from Chester, to prerent the King's surprising
of his forces." (Whitelocke, under May 20.)
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OF PONTEFRACr CASTLE. 46
rne removed from the Mont before the gates and planted of
platforme withon the Upper gates where she was before, and
we plaid one shott with hur into theire sentry howse over
against Mr. Rusbyes, where it gave such a blow as they runne
out of it by 40 or 60 at altogether and was thought did great
execution. This day allso was the little drake planted upon the
toppe of Swillington tower, and was twise shott towardes Para-
dise orchard where there was a strong gaurd cept in that worke
all along the hedge, but what execution they did is not knowne.
There was one Will. Jubbe and a boy went out of the castle to
fetch in some grasse for the horses and cattell (as there went
out many more besides them) but, they being too negligent to
looke well about them, the boy was shott in at the mouth side
and thorow the cheeke but not any mortall woimd, and Jubbe
was taken prisoner and caryed up into the towne, where, they
finding him to be but a simple man, many came about him and
Sve him good store of stronge ale till the had soundly foxt
m, thinking then to have gott good intelligence out of him
and in the night brought hun towardes Newhall there . to be
examoned, but in the way (the souldyers being not too vigilant
over him) he tooke his opportunety and slipt away from them
and came into the castle again before 11a clock. This night
aUso came in Captin Washington from Sandall who went thither
the Fridday night before and brought good newes of the Prince's
good proceedinges, that he had summons to Manchaster to
tume out the women and children out of the towne, or ellse he
would come before it, that Westchaster seege was raised*, that
Darby was summoned, and that Skerbrough had relieved them-
aellves, killed all theire officers excepting 2 or 3, and had killed
and taken 300 men, dismounted theire great iron gunne and the
2 pockitt pistoles with all the rest of their cannon theare, and
that they had nailed their gunnes and burnt theire cariages
there, and had taken Skarbrough towne. Whereupon for joj
was a boanefire made upon the toppe of the Round tower. This
day allso the enemy sett on fire theire owne worke in the North-
gate. We suppose it was by some mischance, but it was quench
again that night. There was allso a parly this night betwix 3
of our capteines and 3 of theires, but the enemy gave fire upon
our men and then our souldyers gave fire towardes theires and
so the[y] parted.
* " Sir William Brereton raised his siege of Chester, and drew into Lancashire to
join with the Scots' forces, and the King's forces relieved Chester." (Whitelockc,
under Iday 22.)
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OF PONTBPRACrr CASTLE. 47
hence or from Newhall. And Capt. Joshua Walker with
mt 20 snaphanches * went out through the howses on the
side of the Church, and so, up the Closes, to the toppe of
11, where they mett all the cattell withe the Sandall brave
ers, who delivered them to him, and then went all back
excepting some 10 or 12 which helped to bring downe
btell to the castle, but, they driving them downe the hill
jt, they lost many of them f. But they brought in 97
le castle, and a foale above a yeare ould which runne in
he cattell. And then our drummes beate a retreate for
• men to fall of and retire to the castle, which they very
jT did, and during which time our iron gunne plaid 3 times
re workes in the towne and about the towne. Thus having
Ddes assistance) releeved the castle to our great comforth,
de boane fires upon the towers of the castle and played
ur cannon from the Kinges tower into Mrs. Gates howse in
arkitt place in signe ot this great releef which God had
"^ed upon us, not having so much as one man hurt during
me, but onely one William Dickson who was firing the
gunne was shott from Baghill on the side of his cheeke,
iver touched the boane, and was allmost cleane well within
9 after. Our commanders had very much to do to kepe
men from falling upon theire workes both at Baghill, and
hey would needes goe up to Newhall, though they had
wmd to the contrarye.
This day the enemy would scarce speak to us of all the
NAPHANCE : a spring lock to a gun or pistol. It differed from the modem
in the hammer not forming the covering of the pan. The term was some-
plied to the instrument itself, as in 28 Archseologia, 139." (Halliwell.) Sir
Beaumont writes from Pontefract, June 7f 1043:— ** For the match yon
r, I shall shortly send you some ; but I put you in mind ooce more, to use
aphanoe pieces to keep centery with, as that will save our match.'' (Booth-
t modem fire-lock was invented about this period, and the improvement was
d by a peculiar fire-arm called the snaphauncft from its being invented and
a set of Dutch marauders called tnaphans or poultry-stealers : the light of
ch betrayed them, and they could not afford to purchase the expensive wheel-
ley therefore substituted a flint for the pyrite, and an upright moveable for-
iece of steel in lieu of the wheel ; the cover of the pan being pushed back, the
steel was brought to stand over it and the spark elicited as at present. The
nee was known as early as Elizabeth's time; but the fire-lock dates firom
635. Before this invention, the wheel lock was frequently called the fire-
lit that term was afterwards used for the modem piece alone." (Planche.)
'or they began to be in a low condition within ; and, one Tuesday 'night,
nen coming at unawares, got in some 50 beasts. Our men took 30 from
the castle side : 6 or 7 horsemen were forced into the castle, that had not
to come out. After this they grew quiet, and made no sallies." (Captn.
Ddgson's Memoirs.)
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marched up into the towne. This night the enemy made a
triangle worke in the closes above Denwell, neare to the upper
side of Swillinton tower, to prevent our sallying forth from
thence. About 3 a cloc in the morning there went about 30
souldiers more from Newhall up into the towne. They marched
(as before) in single file through the Abbey close.
30. This day the enemy shott very hard from all their
workes, but did no hurt at all, (praised be God) and we shott
our little drake, which was planted upon Swillinton, 6 times to
theire new worke over against it, where we beate them out of
the worke behind the outside of it, but what execution was
done we know not. About 8 a clock towardes night we shott of
the CTcat iron gunne into theire workes behind Mr. Rusbyes
and Mr. Lunnes, where it shott thorough theire workes amongst
them, but we know not what hurt was done. This night the
enemy repaird theire new worke against Swillington tower.
31. This morning one of our souldiers killd a woman in the
Markit place with a muskit from the Round tower. The enemy
shott very hard all the day from all theire workes round about
the castle, but did no hurt at all (praised be God.) In the
intrim we sent some shottes amongst them with our muskitts
when we saw the least opportunitie, to keepe them in play, and
likewise we mixed amongst them some cannon shott. We shott
in all 6 cannon and most of them to the Markitt place, where
we saw 3 draughtes (which came empty in the morning) was
loading about Bonny Couper's shoppe and thereabouts, but 2 of
those cannon was plaid from the Kinges tower, which made
them soone remove their standing quite away and went to-
wardes Ferry bridge. We supposed they was loaded with
goodes out of the shoppes and at the other cannons playing
there was supposed divers to be shott, for we saw them carrye
away 3 men at one time, but what execution more is not knowne
to us. The Governor of the towne sent a complamentall letter
to our Governor about exchange of men and other matters, but
in the conclution he writt, beeing too weake an enemy, [^Blank
of 2 linen as if for extract,'] This night there came in letters to
the Governor of very good newes, which was imparted to the
gentlemen the next morning.
June 1. This morning being Simday [the governor called us
and read the newcs, Newarke besette — that W . . . .
ington was both taken, erased] and allso that upon Tewsday
last was Darby summoned by Sr. Marmaduke Langdall and also
greater confirmation of raising of the seege at Skarbrough and
the taking of many coUonells and officers and the killing of
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snoe marchth to Darby, after which (God willing) he
kt and releeve these North partes *. Iliis day we had a
it forth to gett some ^rasse for the cattell and horses,
many more besides hrni), but, as he was coming in at
er drawbridge, was shott in the legg, but hit not the
r he brought in his burthen. We had another man also
ing from pnders to the watch, wheare, leaning upon the
ui above the Upper gate, was hitt with a bullitt came
I a clifi of the worke was made befor it, and so shott him
he arme, and then OYcrquart his back cleare without
les, and stuck in the outside of his back* and cutt outj
there is yery good hopes of his recovery for his arme is
t [he is now well again, inserted']. After this there was
ion shott of from the Kinges tower into the Markitt
lere there was great store of company and did great
1. There was sene 3 or 4 taken up. This night the
spaired a little the new worke they had made.
IS now shott of our great cannon from the 1th May till
June 37 cannon and 8 drakes, and the enemy shot
bat time 7 drakes.
IS day the enemy shott very little of all the day till to-
ight and we killed one of theire men in theire workes
hfll from the Queenes tower. They likewise shott one
en which was sleeping in the Low barbican. The bullitt
ed upon the waU, and then it turned the bidlitt so that
ipon the outside of his arme, and ruiine up at least 4
trough the flesh, but touched not the boane and so he
lUmost well againe. We shott one cannon from the
x>wer to the new worke in the Closes imder BagghiU
he Church, but the gunne lying too hie for the pace
execution. This nignt they begunne a new worke
ueare to Zachreye Stables orchard head, about 120
Prom the other and this night allso they made a boane-
L Sandall Castle, which so soone as we perceived we
with another upon the Round tower. One thing I
ott, that at the releeving of theire watch, about 7 a
3 enemy gave fire from all theire workes round about
\ as if they intended presently to takiB the castle with
iskitts, but theire fury lasted but a little, and not any
3 at all, (praysed be God.)
dale's regiment were ia discontent near Leioetter beoauie they might not
thwards ; but the king quieted them with a promise that th/Bf^ ahottkl
!r within 15 days/' (WhitelodLe, onder June II.)
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end the other at the other, and so beate along towardes the
towne, in manner of Scotch march answering one another, and
there was one or two beating in the towne. There was allso a
trumpitt sounding in the Parke, to make ns beleeve (or ellse
theire owne souldiers) that the Scotch was coming, or ellse
for feare we should sally forth, but we never regarded it, but
the enemy stood on theire gard all this night and had done so
the night before.
7. This day was there little shooting till towardes night at
the releeving of their gaurdes, but about 10 a clock our men
espied a souldyer of the enemies coming downe from Munkhill
to. the mill, where 2 of our men went out : one was Jonathan
(Sir Jarvis Guttler's man,) the other was Rich. Laipidge.
Jonathan tooke him and brought him into the castle and eased
him of his money, but he confessed little for he was then
dronke. At the releeving of the gaurdes (as before) there was
very hard shooting on both sides, and we shott from all places
of the castle because we had about 21 men was getting gras ;
for we shouted so very hard, as we gave the enemy 2 allarumes,
which caused them to draw out some of theire men from theire
lowest worke under Broadelane end, and we beate them twise
back into theire workes, and killd one of them and shott
another, but what ellse more was hurt we know not, and the
enemy shott one of our men was cutting of gras into the side . .
but he is little worse for it praised be God.
8. This day, beeing Sunday, we had 2 exceeding good sar-
mondes by Mr. Key and Mr. Hirst. The enemy sent away 9
prisoners towardes Yorke, but there was not any of them was
taken from the castle. There was little shooting all day till
about 6 a clock, but none hurt then of either side. About that
time we espied a great body of horse from the towers of the
castle coming from Wenthill, and there they devided them-
sellves, some to Cridlin stoopes and 5 troopes came allmost
within cannon shott of the castle, and so went towardes Knot-
tinglay. These horses, with divers more which went over at
Medlay bridge, was reported to be quartred about Tikhill,
Rosinton and other places beond Dajimcaster, to the nomber of
400, and, hearing of our army advancing towardes these partes,
removed theire quarters. They brought 2 cariages along with
them. The enemy releeved not theire gardes at Baghill till
towardes 9 a clock at which time there was very hard shooting
and we killd one of them coming to theire low workes under
Baghill and shott another man ; but in the night the Leiutenant
CoUonell put out his meare and foale, tyed hur in a doase neare
to Swillington tower, but the enemy espied hur, came and cutt
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