8 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT. 



winter. Sir Phil. Skippon, one of the bur- 

 gesses for Dunwich, died on the Saturday after 

 I came hither ; and, as 'tis said, some others in 

 his family soon after, perhaps of the same 

 disease. Our two neighbour justices (Sir Ro- 

 bert Kemp, and Mr. Cornwallis) have both 

 been to see me, with much civility, and the 

 former with great profession of kindness too. 

 So much from Fresingfield. 



*' For your letter, having thanked you for it 

 mille volte, I answer: — The three shillings for 

 Mr. Bernard's books, and what else you may 

 have expended for me, I pray take of the 

 steward. Though 'tis kindly offered, I can by 

 no means think fit, that my letters should be 

 franked from the secretary's office : Unus Ber- 

 nardus non videt omnia. No ; if he will needs 

 oblige me still with the foreign Avisos, let them 

 be consigned, as they come, into your hands ; 

 and my curiosity is not so hasty, but that I can 

 expect to receive them by Bens at his next re- 

 turn. It grieves me to have missed (when I 

 was so nigh it) the seeing of my reverend bro- 

 ther of Bath and Wells.* I am not surprised 

 to hear that his innocency and courage was so 

 bold as to appear openly ; but am (I confess) 

 that he did it safely. In that condition God 



* Br. Kenn. 



