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Urttcvs from Eanncv iHSS. 



No. 131. Bodleian Lih-ary. 



Contributed by Rev. W. Harry Arkwright. 



HO. BROWNE, Archdeacon of Derby, was Vicar 



of Wirksworth from 1662 to 1689, when he was 



deprived for refusing the Oath of Allegiance to 



William HI. He was also Vicar of Ashbourne 



from 1660 to 1669. He was probably appointed to the 



Archdeaconry of Derby in the latter year. 



Archbishop Sheldon was a Derbyshire man. 



Bodleian — Tanner AfSS. 131. 



Page 13. — [Part of letter from John Hackett, Bishop of 

 Lichfield, to Thomas Browne, enclosed by Browne in his 

 letter to the Archbishop.] 



"Our Church worke is neither at a stand, nor insues fast, 

 but what is finisht is verie sightly. And within y" walls nothing 

 more pleasing to God & man, then the singing of a comon 

 psalm after Sermon, w^'' hath charmed the whole auditory to 

 take all y^ praiers & the blessing with them : A reformation 

 that my hart reioyceth in. This is no innovation, it was so 

 in this Church ad antiquo, & but of late omitted. It is so in 

 S'- Pauls London to this hower, it was so in Westm : Abby 

 from W- Andrewes to B^- WiUiams time. But if you goe 

 higher to the primitiue Church for the first 500 years the 

 comon people did partake at all times in singing the psalm 



