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and require: Whomsoever you, my brother (as circum- 
stance and occasion may offer) shall.take and join with 
yourself, shall choose and approve, confirm and consti- 
tute, I also* (as far as in me lies, and I can do lawfully) 
do in like manner take and join with you, choose and 
approve, confirm and appoint. In a word, whatsoever 
you yourself shall do in such matters, or think proper to 
be done, all that, how great soever, or of what nature 
soever it may be, do you boldly impute the same to me. 
Behold! I, William, have written it with mine own hand; 
IT will maintain and make it good; yea, I will not only 
ratify it, but be thankful for it. Now, may the light of our 
Lord God be upon thee, brother, and may He direct and 
strengthen the works of thy hands. And moreoyer, may He 
snatch thee (and all our brethren) out of the mouth of the 
lion, and the hand of the dog, and the horns of the unicorns. 
May He hear you, and honour and crown you finally with 
all spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus! 
“Given from my own hired dwelling (for the hut which 
Tam building for myself, the sharp winter coming upon 
us, is not yet finished) here in Fressingfield (which is 
even now deeply frozen), situate within the precincts of 
your diocese, on the ninth day of February, in the year of 
our Lord 1691. W. Canr. 
“Done in the presence of me, 
Wm. Sancroft, Jun., Notary Public.” 
An account of the first consecration under this 
commission was drawn up and left in MS. by Dr. 
Hickes; and is thus alluded to by the Rey. John 
Lindsay, in his Preface to Mason’s Vindication of 
the Church of England : — 
“T have seen an account of this affair in manuscript, 
drawn up (I suppose) by Dr. Hickes himself; out of 
which I shall oblige my reader with the following parti- 
culars: viz. that after the deprivation of the archbishop 
and his brethren, they immediately began to think of 
continuing their succession by new consecrations, and 
often discoursed of it, without taking any particular reso- 
lutions, till after the consecration of the intruders (as 
they call them) into their sees, that then the deprived 
archbishop and bishops resolved to continue the same, 
and to write to the late King James about it: that in 
their discourses on this matter the deprived Bishop of 
Ely acquainted the archbishop and his brethren with the 
letters in St. John’s College library in Cambridge, which 
had passed upon the like occasion between Chancellor 
Hyde and Dr. Barwick}; that thereupon they had re- 
course to those letters, and resolved to impart the secret 
to the then Earl of Clarendon, who had been his father’s 
secretary in that correspondence; that from those letters, 
and the additional light which they received from that noble 
earl, it appeared that, in that case, in regard of the diffi- 
culties of making elections, it was resolyed to consecrate 
the new bishops with suffragan titles, according to the 
statute of King Henry VIII.; that therefore the deprived 
archbishop and bishops resolved upon the same method 
in this case also, and to write to the late King James for 
his consent to it in the way directed by that statute; 
though (it seems) they judged it a matter of so great im- 
portance as to resolve to do it even without his consent, 
rather than not at all: that upon their application the 
late King James returned his answer, that he would 
readily concur with it, and required them to send some 
* « Although absent in body, yet in mind and feeling 
ever present with you.” 
t See the Life of Dr. John Barwick, p. 206. The letters 
are given in the Appendix, 
person over to him, with whom he might further confer 
about the matter, and along with him a list of the de- 
-prived clergy: that Dr. George Hickes, being made choice 
of for that purpose, set forward from London, May 19, 
1693, and, after many difficulties, arrived at St. Germains 
in about six weeks’ time: that there the late King James 
acquainted him that, for the further satisfaction of his 
own conscience, he had consulted the Archbishop of Paris, 
and the Bishop of Meaux, and the Pope himself, who 
severally determined that the Church of England, being 
established by the laws of the kingdom, he (though a 
Papist) was under no obligation of conscience to act 
against it, but obliged to maintain and defend it, as long 
as those laws are in force: that the late King James put 
their said determinations into the Doctor’s hands, which 
he read and found to be to the effect aforesaid: that the 
said late King James also assured him, that he had on all 
occasions justified the Church of England since the Revo- 
lution. That the Doctor returned to London 4th Febru- 
ary, 1693, and was consecrated on the 24th.” * 
FHinar Bates. 
The Savoy.— The following will serve as an 
addendum to Timbs and Cunningham in their 
account of the Savoy, and shows also that the 
inhabitants of this precinct preserved that cha- 
racter for ill behaviour for which they were no- 
torious when Fleetwood, the Recorder of London 
in 1581, described them as “rogues and master- 
less men ;” and in#697, when their condition is 
so forcibly described by Macaulay : 
“Jn the year 1736 the German Congregation in the 
Savoy preferred a petition to the Lords of the Treasury, 
wherein they set forth ‘that near to their church is 
situated a house (late Peter Miller’s, Cabinet Maker) 
which is now inhabited by a coalheaver, whose wife 
washes linen for the barracks, by whose noises they are 
frequently disturbed in Divine Service, and by the great 
stench of the lye used for the linen; by keeping of hogs 
there, and by the smoke proceeding from the apartment 
underneath, several of the congregation are kept from 
church ; besides which, several rude persons belonging to 
the said house abuse them, make trespasses upon their 
church to their frequent charge and expense.’ They then 
pray that as the house in question is not in grant, that 
they may have a lease thereof on paying a rent of six 
pence per annum.” + 
“By a warrant dated June 28, 1736, the Treasury, in 
order to remove the annoyances and inconveniences com- 
plained of by the congregation, and to the end that the 
officers might render the piece of ground and building 
thereupon commodious, and add a vestry-room to the 
church for the service of the congregation, gave licence 
to the officers of the church to hold the piece of ground 
during the royal pleasure, paying the yearly rent of three 
pence, and keeping the premises to be erected thereon ip 
repair.” f 
Wirriam Henry Harr. 
Albert Terrace, New Cross. 
Father Petre and Dr. Busby.— The following 
story from Revolution Politicks, will, I hope, be 
* See also Macpherson’s Original Papers, i. 452—455, 
+ Treasury Crown Lease Book, No. 4. p. 22. 
} Ibid. p. 103. 
