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and was like perhaps to lay her burden within the Bishop s CHAP, 

 house : and then he must also provide for her nurses and _ 

 other necessaries. This Priest had lived in Spain, and 

 seemed to have been privy to the conspiracies between 

 Spain and the wild Irish against the Queen, and an actor 

 in the disturbances and rebellions of that people. But now, 

 upon some disgust taken against his party, came over, or 

 was sent over, to discover their practices ; for which he ex 

 pected not only pardon but reward : for he carried himself 

 insolently in the Bishop s family, and required great ob 

 servance of him and his, from the Bishop and his people. 

 When he removed with his family to Fulham, Sir Denys 

 would not stir from the Bishop s house at London; and 

 made such a revel rout there, that the Bishop and his ser 

 vants were perfectly afraid of him. 



He was therefore not without cause highly displeased Sues to be 

 that these guests should be forced upon him, and sent letter 

 after letter to the Council ; and his son had waited upon 

 them a fortnight and more, to be released of that most 

 heavy and unbishop-like burden, as he termed it. And to 

 the Lord Treasurer he thus bemoaned himself: &quot; That 

 &quot; besides his charges, there was the carefulness of keeping 

 &quot; them : and assuring his Lordship that it was a great of- 

 &quot; fence to his conscience to keep such an idle couple in his 

 &quot; house ; which stirred no more in reading, in working, 

 &quot; in praying, than very dead idols ; but when his Irish 

 &quot; mouth lavished against his Lordship, [the Lord Trea- 

 &quot; rurer,] the rest of the Council, and such as strained them- 

 &quot; selves to keep them to their charge, [the Bishop meant 

 &quot; himself,] very unseemly and ungratefully. That it had 

 &quot; been the wont to commit to the Bishops of London their 

 &quot; keeping learned men, and not asses with their great- 

 &quot; bellied wives ; Indignum Episcopo, et sene, et libero cive 

 &quot; officium, i. e. * An office unworthy a Bishop, an aged 

 &quot; man, and a free citizen. He prayed his Lordship that 

 &quot; he might have help; for it hindered his study, his prayer, 

 &quot; and his preaching : and whatsoever they had offended 

 &quot; among them, that it was no reason that he should bear 



