Life and Works of Henry King. 287 



APPENDIX B. 



Letter i} 



D'. Henry King, Bishop of Chichester, to Edw*^. Bysshe, Esq. 



Hitcham neere Maydenhead, 

 Jan. 22, 1656. 

 Worthy S^ 



According to y'' desire (w^^ to me is a command) on Mr. Dugdale's 

 motion, I searched all the Papers I had left, to find some Notes long 

 since taken, concerning the Church of S* Paul. But through the 

 barbarous usuage of a wretched Committee at Chichester, I was not 

 only depriv'd of those, amongst severall collections of higher moment , 

 but denyed my owne Private Papers, w^^ had bene the moniments 

 of my course in study through all my life. 



These few scribled notions,^ recalled to my memory, I have enclosed, 

 w* perhaps may prove as unusefull, as uneasy to be read. From 

 w* meane test you may please to conclude how forwardly and w*'' 

 what alacrity I wold serve you, did any faire occasion point out the 

 way. At my last being in London, for a day or two, I was to wait 

 on you, who (as y"^ servant told mee) were abroad. I w'*^ him left 

 my service, to y'^self and worthy Lady, w^^ I now againe tender 

 to yee both ; w*^ an acknowledgment of y"^ many undeserved favours, 

 especially that excellent Book, bestowed upon 



Your most faithfuU and affectionate servant. 

 Hen. CHICHESTER. 



the reference in 286, 41, concerns his second wife, not Anne Berkeley. The 

 whole passage, 286, 40—46, certainly suggests the unromantic, utilitarian 

 kind of marriage which has already been inferred from other indications. 

 In this case, "The Anniverse" must have been written only a very short 

 time before the second wedding; but, of course, "1630" in the title of the 

 present poem really means "1631". 



1 Reprinted from pp. 317—8 of "The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of 



Sir William Dugdale, Knight .... Edited by WiUiam Hamper, Esq 



London .... 1827". 



2 "An account of the repairs of the Cathedral in the times of James I. 

 and Charles I. ampUfied and used by Dugdale in his History of St. Paul's, 

 p. 134" (footnote to p. 318, in Hamper's " Life," etc. of Dugdale). In the 

 1716 ed. of Dugdale's work this account fills pp. 137—145, Henry King's 

 name appearing on pp. 138 and 141. 



