oa LETTERS FROM TANNER MSS. 



become, if Hopkins & Sternhold's Rithms may justle out our 



Anthem, & a long Pulpit-prayer seduce the Devotions of the 



comon people. 



J am very sensible my good Lord, what a great Trouble J 



give you' Grace by this tedious Scrible : But with hope J 



humbly begg pardon, &, praying for your Grace's good Health, 



subscribe, as J really am, 



Most Rev'', ffather, 



your Grace's 



most humble & most dutifuU 



Serv' & Creature 



Thorn Browne. 

 VVirksworth 



Apr. 1 8. 



1666. 



This, the foregoing letter, is endorsed on the back : 



"Archdeacon of Derby — Browne Ap 18. 1666. 

 Cone, a Comon + sung aft. serm in y*" Cathedr. & a long 

 praier before it. The Dean neglects Discipline." 



Addressed : 



" To the most Reverend Father in God Gilbert L° : 



Arch-BP of Canterbury His Grace at His Grace's Palace 



of Lambeth 



These, 



most humbly p'sent. 

 Lambeth London. 



Page 16. — [A letter from the Bishop of Lichfield to Archb*"- 

 Sheldon.] 



Most reuerend Father, and my verie good Lord, 



J haue been a truant for a fortnight in Bedfordshire, 

 to see my lately maried daughter at her own house, w"'' was 

 a kindness, though a troublesome one to my old age, due to 

 a child that allwaies deserued wel. 



Upon my return to Lichfield, J betoke mee to exaniin what 

 monies my instruments had gathered in my absence, from the 



J 



