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strument proceeds ** whomsoever you, my bro- 

 ther, as occasion may require, shall take and 

 adjoin to yourself, shall choose and approve, 

 confirm and appoint, all those, as far as of 

 right I can, I in like manner take and adjoin, 

 choose and approve, confirm and appoint. In 

 a word, whatsoever you in matters of this kind 

 may do, or think proper to be done, of what- 

 ever magnitude or description it may be, you 

 are confidently to impute to me."* 



* It may be desirable to give the whole of this curious in- 

 stniment in the original language. The following copy is taken 

 from a MS. in Emanuel College. 



** Wilhelmus Providentia Divina Ecclesiae Metrop. Cant, 

 humilis minister, reverendo admodum in Chr°. patri, et fratri 

 in Domino charissimo, Gulielmo, eadem providentia etiamnum 

 Nordo\"icensi Episcopo, salutem et fratemam in Domino cha- 

 ritatem : Cum ego nuper ex sedibus Lambhithanis vi laica pul- 

 sus, et non inveniens in urbe vicina ubi tuto possem, aut com- 

 mode commorari, procul secesserim, quaerens ubi fessus senio 

 requiescerem, multa autem jam tum remanserint, et emer- 

 gent quotidie plura, eaque momenti maximi, Dei scilicet et 

 Ecclesiae negotia, nullibi ita commode atque expedite, ac in 

 magno iUo rerum gerendarum theatro transigenda^ tibi igitur, 

 frater dilectissime, qui pro ea qua poUes animi fortitudine, 

 et pio, quo flagras, zelo domus Dei, adhuc in suburbis Lon- 

 dinensibus (palantibus undique caeteris) moraris et permanes, 

 adeo ut neminem illuc habeam ita ^a■o^^vp(pv, quique ita ytvia-iaiq 

 rerum mearum et ecclesiae satagat, tibi inquam ad haec omnia 

 pensitanda, et finaliter expedienda, hoc quicquid est muneris 

 mei, et pontificii, fretus prudentia tua, et solita in rebus gerendis 



