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them and all others in that corner very tractable. This hap- CHAP, 

 pened in July. 



The Bishop retreated from his adventures at Maiden to Goes to 

 Wickham, where he had a manor, to which was a fair large Wlckham - 

 house annexed, formerly the seat of the Bishops of Lon 

 don, for the government of those parts of the country. But 

 now it had been granted away from the manor by some 

 means or other ; perhaps some long lease made by some of 

 this Bishop s predecessors to the Queen, as it seems : so that 

 the Bishops, when they came into these parts, had no house 

 for them and their companies to reside in : whereby the 

 people of that country was deprived of the benefit of their 

 Bishop s influence and care in dwelling sometimes among 

 them. The house was large and spacious ; the farmer who 

 now occupied it had but a small family ; so that a great 

 part of the house might well be spared. This therefore the 

 Bishop had a desire of, and made interest with the Queen 

 for her gracious letters to have some portion of the house for 

 a month or two in the year; not only because the house 

 went to ruin so greatly, as if he had not some part thereof, 

 thereby to repair it, it would be ever hereafter unfit for any 

 Bishop to tarry in ; but chiefly, because he doubted not but 

 within short space to bring all the whole country into so 

 good an order, as any other part of his diocese whatsoever, 

 both in respect of disordered persons, as such as were of 

 lewd conversation. As his being at his house at Hadham 

 some small time in the year had made by this time all the 

 country of Hertfordshire (before out of order) now to be 

 most quiet and orderly. 



The Bishop s pious and painful son, Dr. Thcophilus Ayl-Dr.Ayimer, 

 mer, now Archdeacon of London, the 6th of January en- 

 suing, called for the Clergy, (as he frequently used to do,) 

 intending this meeting chiefly for such Ministers as were not 

 preachers, but of the inferior sort : for the bringing forward 

 of which were these particulars enjoined. 1. Every person 

 to have a Bible in English and Latin. 2. Every person to 

 have Bullinger s Decads. 3. Each to have his paper book, 

 and therein to write the quantity of one sermon every week. 



