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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"'i S. VIII. Oct. 15. '59. 



marks & Additions are by Mr. Lewis of jMargate, the 

 others are mine." * 



" P. 4. Extract of an original Letter of S"" Henry 

 Wottoa to the Earl of Salisburj. Venice, 23 Febr. IGQs. 



« < I have occasion at the present of the begging your 

 Lordship's support and encouragement for one Mr. Bedell, 

 ■whom I shall be very glad to have with me in the place 

 of chaplain ; because I hear very singular commendation 

 of his good Gifts and discrete behaviour. It may there- 

 fore please your Lordship, when he shall take the bold- 

 ness to present himself before you, to set forward also 

 this piece of God's service.' S"" Henry's former Chaplain 

 was Nathanael Fletcher (son of Dr. Richard Fletcher, 

 Bp. of London,) who having lived with S"^ Henry two 

 years, returned from thence in the latter end of Sept. 

 1606 to England."— T. B. 



« This Book was first publish'd in 1685."— T. B. 



On p. 2., 1. 11., " of Colchester." 



Dr Stern, who ordained M'. Thomas Gataker. 



Dr. Richard Rogers was Bp. Suffragan of Dovor till he 

 died A.D. 1597." — J. L. 



On p. 3. : 



" Whilst he continued in the University, He with M"'. 

 Abdias Ashton of S*. John's, M''. Thom'as Gataker of 

 Sydney Sussex Coll., & formerly of S'. John's, & some 

 others, set on foot a design of preaching in places adja- 

 cent to the University where there were no pastors able 

 to teach & lead the people in the waies of truth, peace & 

 life."— J. L. 



On p. 4., 1. 14. " Chaplain." 



" The Chaplain, who first serv'd S^ Henry Wotton in 

 that capacity, was M''. Nathaniel Fletcher, sou to Fletcher 

 Bp. of London."— T. B. 



On p. 4 , 1. 5. from foot. " Religion." 



" About Aug. 1605. See VVinwood, vol. ii. p. 109. 

 119. 131. 136."— T. B, 



On p. 11. 1. 18. " Paulo— QG6." 



" See Ep. Andrews a.i lib. M. Tortl Resp. p. oGl." — 

 J. L. 



On p. 21. 1. 6. from foot, " Eight." 



« Three."— T. B, 



On p. 25. 1. 10. " Horingsheath." 



" Horningsherth."— T. B. 



On p. 69. I. 9. " Archbishop of Canterbury." 



" Lord Viscount Wentworth Lord Deputy of Ireland." 

 — J. L. 



On same page. " Right Hon. &c." 



" See at the end."— J. L. 



At the end of the book Lewis has given the 

 following portions of the letter omitted by Bur- 

 net : — 



" Right honourable my good Lord ! 



" ex auto- 

 grapho. 



" That according to mj' duty I have not repaired to 

 your presence since j'our coming into this kingdom, you 

 may be pleased to understand the reason, viz. That I have 

 been informed manj' ways that your Lordship hath so 

 openlj', and, as might seem, purposely signified your 

 displeasure to me, yet never calling me to answer, as if 

 you would advise me to keep out of your sight. No ser- 

 vant, how faultless soever, hastes to receive a chiding, 

 especially in that place where he hath been lately sore 

 beaten. To make excuse before a man be blamed, lacks 

 little of accusing himself. And although the Integrity 

 of my own conscience made me confident this would soon 

 be appeased if I might come to make my defence ; yet I 



• I distinguish the notes by the initials " J. L." and 

 «T.B." 



considered, that possibly your Lordship conceived the 

 exigence of His Majesties affairs did require so, or the 

 first impression you desired to make of the future form 

 of your Government: and then Time itself, which is wont 

 to mitigate even deserved anger, would, after a while, 

 restore you to your natural goodness, & »ne to your good 



opinion. In war (printed in Burnet, p. 69.) I am 



glad that I have now some occasion & something of cer- 

 taintj' whereto I may make answer, holding it better to 

 be accused without cause than be suspected so. And 

 albeit neither your Lordship's nobleness, nor the form 

 itself of the information will consent, that it should pro- 

 ceed from you, but, as I conceive, from the report of j'our 

 declaration of 3-ourself towards me ; yet, being to make 

 my defence both to His Majesty and you, I crave leave 

 to do it first to j'ou, and through your hands to his 

 Majesty: to whom, when you shall be rightly informed 

 of the truth of my Apology, I doubt not, but you will be 

 pleased to take upon you the patronage of mine Inno- 

 cency. 



" Your Lordship may be therfore intreated to under- 

 stand, that according to His Majestie's Commission to me 

 and others directed for the reedifying of the Churches in 

 the Diocese of Kilmore, after I had personall}' survey'd the 

 decaj's, and taken minutes of the charge necessarily re- 

 quired for those in the County of Cavan, I appointed a 

 general meeting, the day after Lent Assizes last, to give 

 VVarrant for the levying of the money for that purpose. 

 At which time, I being in the house of Mi;. Richard 

 Ashe, my Register, who was himself a Commissioner, 

 attending till some other of our company should return 

 from bringing the Judges on their way, there came to me 

 one Mr. Alane Cook m^' unfriendly Chancellor, being 

 none of our number, and some other of the Gentlemen of 

 our Countrey, and craved my hand to a Letter to the 

 Lords Justices and Council touching the new aplotment 

 of mone}'s upon the Countrey for the Army, Whether 

 this Letter were like to that of our neighbour County of 

 Fermanagh, whereunto my Lord of Kilfanora had sub- 

 scribed, and that Mr. Cooh being his son in Law la- 

 boured to join me in the Same cause with him, or else 

 he would redeem the good opinion of the Country with 

 such a popular service, I know not: this I maj' truly 

 confirm to your Lordship, that I was not of counsel, nor 

 had any participation with any Bishop or Layman, or 

 any creature thereabout, and that the very presenting it 

 by" that man made me nothing forward to condescend to 

 grant my hand to it. I answered them, that it was a 

 business that concerned not me at all, forasmuch as all 

 the Land I held was exempted from contributing any- 

 thing to the Soldiers. For but the Midsummer Assizes 

 before, when, besides my voluntary contribution, the 

 Sheriffs and Collectors applotted moneys upon my Men- 

 sal Land, contrary to the Act of State in that behalf, I 

 had, with much ado, found remedy by a reference from 

 the Lords Justices to the Judges of Assize. At which 

 time the malice of Mr. Cooh towards me well appeared ; 

 for he affirmed openly, that my Lord primate and the 

 Lord Archbishop of Dublin enjoyed no such exemption 

 of their Mensal Lands, which was contrary to truth and 

 that which themselves had told me. This Exemption, 

 allowed me contrary to his false suggestion, I now al- 

 ledged, telling them, that /had no cause to complain. 

 They urged me still in respect of my tenents and the 

 Country, and the Ministers. When I had perused their 

 Letter, I showed them, that I could not concur to it; 

 for there were some things in it which concerned the 

 time before my coming into the Kingdom; some per- 

 sonal imputations to their former Agents which I knew 

 not to be true, nor thought fit to insert. Besides, the 

 form, as I conceived, was not fit ; and, in especial, one 

 phrase there was, that His Majestie's Justice, as I re- 



