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tional paragraphs, however, of much interest, re- 
lating to the seven bishops, which are not con- 
tained in the MS. used by Gutch, are supplied at 
the end of a copy existing in the Bodl, MS. Rawl. 
A. 289., f. 129. They are as follows: 
“ His Majestie does more particularly expect and re- 
quire, that both in your charges and other discourses you 
use your utmost endeavours to satisfye all persons that 
the late proceedings against the Bishops was not in the 
least intended upon the account of their religion, his 
Majestie being fully resolv’d to maintaine all his gratious 
promises to all his subjects of the Church of England, 
which he has made in his said declaration; but because 
they did, by a seditious petition offer’d to his Majestie, 
question his royall authority for granting liberty of con- 
science to all other his lo. subjects in the free exercise 
of their religion, which his Majestie is fully resolv’d to 
maintaine, as well as his royall prerogative, upon which 
the same is founded. And doubts not to prevaile to 
establish the same by a law at the next meeting of his 
parliament, notwithstanding all the opposition that either 
has or shall be made to prevent a work that is so much 
for the publick good, and common advantage of all his 
kingdomes. 
“ Lastly. His Majestie expects that you doe, with all 
diligence, inquire into and with all severity punish all 
riotts, routs, and unlawfull assemblies, either by pretence 
_of bonfires or otherwise, that have happen’d within your 
severall circuites by reason of the late proceedings against 
the Bishops, or upon any pretences which have been so 
apparently contrived and acted in affront and contempt 
both to the King’s royall authority and against the 
Knowne laws of the kingdome. And that you take care 
that when you returne from your respective circuites, that 
you give his Majestie a particular and exact account 
both of the offenders, and of the punishments that you 
have inflicted upon them suitable to their demeritts; so 
that his Majestie thereby may be fully satisfyed of your 
intire zeal for his service.” 
W. D. Macray. 
The Convocation of Ireland, and “ the glorious, 
pious, and immortal,” §c. — The following curious 
message from the Upper House of the Convocation 
of the Church of Ireland to the Lower, and the 
reply of the latter, is certainly worth preserving 
in your “ Macaulay Illustrations.” It occurred in 
1710. 
“A Message from the Upper House to the Lower, concern- 
ing a Scandalous Health. 
“ The Prolocutor. 
“Whereas we have heard that some persons have pre- 
sumed to drink a health, as they call it, to this effect, 
viz.: ‘Plague, Pestilence, and Famine, Battle, Murder, 
and Sudden Death, to all Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, 
and Deacons, and all Congregations committed to their 
charge, who shall refuse to drink to the glorious memory 
of King William ;’ which words we think to be very un- 
christian, Se RPNg the Liturgy of the Established 
Church, and highly reflecting upon all the Archbishops, 
Bishops, and Clergy of this kingdom, and their Congre- 
gations; as if og had not a due honour for the glorious 
memory of King William. (sic) 
“ We have therefore thought it fit to communicate thus 
much to you of the Lower House, and withal to desire 
and charge you that, as we are very sure none of you will 
ever be ty of drinking any such healths yourselves, 
so you wouid in your several cures to the utmost of your 
power use your endeavours to discourage and prevent the 
drinking any health in so scandalous a manner. 
“The Answer of the Lower House, 
@« May it please your Graces and Lordships, 
“T am commanded by the Lower House of Convocation 
to return their humble thanks to your Graces and Lord- 
ships for the seasonable discouragement you have given 
to the great abuse thrown upon the Clergy and the 
Liturgy of the Church, by the scandalous and unchristian 
health, as some call it, mentioned by your Lordships in 
your late message to us. 
“We have heard, and many of us both before and since 
your Lordships’ intimation, have received full assurance 
that the said health has been publicly and frequently 
drunk; and we have always heard of it with horror and 
detestation. 
“We are humbly of opinion that persons may have a 
due honour for the late glorious King William, and a due 
sense of the many and great benefits which this king- 
dom, under Gov’s Providence, has received by him, with- 
out expressing it by drinking to his memory in so profane 
and wicked a manner. And we are further of opinion 
that such an irreligious practice tends really to dishonour 
the memory of so glorious a prince. 
“We assure your Lordships, that as we have never 
been guilty of drinking any such healths ourselves, so in 
obedience to your Lordships’ commands, we will in our 
several cures, to the utmost of our power, use our endea- 
vours to discourage and prevent it in others. 
“ And that these our endeavours may prove the more 
effectual, we will not only inform them what great dis- 
honour such a scandalous practice brings upon religion, 
but also that it is, as we apprehend, directly against the 
Statute of Uniformity, 1 Eliz., prohibiting under severe 
penalties all persons from declaring or speaking anything 
in derogation, depraying, or despising the Liturgy of the 
Church. 
“ JoHN STEARNE, Prolocutor.” 
A Reply to a Vindication of a Letter in a 
Pamphlet called Partiality Detected, Dublin, 
1710, pp. 111, 112. 
This certainly was not very solemn business to 
lay before a national synod. We must only hope 
that when the Convocation of the Church of Ive- 
land meets again, it will have some questions of 
greater moment laid before it than even the most 
correct way of drinking “the glorious, pious, 
and immortal memory,” &c. 
Wittiam Fraser, B.C.L. 
Alton, Staffordshire, 
EARLY ENGLISH WRITERS ON COMMERCIAL AND 
POLITICAL ECONOMY. 
In “N.& Q.” (1 8. xi. 224.) Thad occasion to 
mention Thomas Mun’s England's Treasure by 
Forraign Trade. Ihave now to communicate a 
Note on the same author's previous work, A Dis- 
course of Trade from England unto the East 
Indies. 
Mr. M°‘Culloch, in several of his works, has 
referred to the second edition of Mun’s discourse, 
published in 1621, but has at the same time ex- 
pressed himself (though generally in ah inquiring 
