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I do in vaine wish my selfe neerer yt I might pay you ye utmost of my service 

 and since my distance disables me from giving you any but generall directions I 

 thinke it necessary to warne yr Ldsp of ye greatest & most prejudiciall intemper- 

 ance I know you guilty of, wch is yt of over exercising your braine beleeve 

 it my Ld tis as unlawfull an intemperance as yt of eating & drinking & rather 

 more dangerous because its injuries are seldome discovered till they are incurable. 

 I was iu good hopes ye duties of yr function would have kept you very much in 

 company & abroad on horseback yt it would not have permitted you to make any 

 longer a drudge of yt head you have to much harassed but I wish a crooked 

 irregular clergy may not have to great a share in your present disorder if soe it 

 will (be) yr Lo""' remedy as tis your duty when you have done your owne part to 

 be unconcerned for ye issue, a packet came in this morning brings word yt 

 Namur is gone as Mous^ went, ye confederate army looking on we have many 

 irons in ye fire we expect suddenly to heare of a fight in fflanders and a descent 

 into ffrance ye action of ye ffleet was really great. 



My Ld. I am, Y"' Lo"' most obliged servt. 



C: Willoughby. 

 (Endorsed by Kingj— Dr Willoughby, June 14th, 1692. 

 (Addressed) : These ffor the Eight Reverend ffather in God 



Wm. Lord Bp. of Derry at London Derry. 



May 10th, 92. 



1 have reed my Deare Lord, by ye hands of Mr Bonnell your noble alm^s for 

 wch I am able to make noe other returns but my humble thanks to yr Lop and my 

 perpetuall prayers to God for your Lops health wealth & prosperity. I make no 

 question but your Lp has long since heard of ye intended change of our Provost' 

 who is by noe means satisfied therewith the Diocese of Kilmore being all wast and 

 Ardagh lopt of to gratify another pretender and sufferer Dean Bourke.^ he is 

 gone into England and Dr Ash' landed here on Saturday, some thinke yt if he 

 can (without disobligeing those he depends on) he will strip himself of both & 

 endeavour to procure ye Provostship for Dr Browne* & resine ye Bpricke to Dr 



' Mons capitulated to the French m March, 1691, and Namiir was taken after a siege 

 of eight days, just before the victory of the English over the French Fleet at La Hogue 

 on May 23, 1692. 



2 Robert Huntingdon, d.d., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, was admitted Provost 

 of Trinity College on September 3, 1683. In 1688, when the College was occupied by 

 troops of King James, Huntingdon fled to England, and Michael Moore, d.d., was placed 

 in charge of the College. After the revolution Huntingdon returned, and he continued in 

 the oflice of Provost till August, 1692, when he resigned, and was appointed Rector of 

 Stanford Rivers, Essex. In that year he was oftered the See of Kilmore, but he refused 

 it. Subsequently, on August 21, 1701, he was consecrated Bishop of Eaphoe, but he 

 died on Septemlier 2, 1701. He was a distinguished oriental scholar. 



' We have not been able to identify this Dean Bourke. 



* St. George Ash was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1679, and co-opted senior 

 on July 25, 1686. On October 3, 1692, he was admitted Provost. In July, 1695, he was 

 consecrated Bishop of Cloyne ; translated to Clogher in June, 1697, and to Derry in 

 February, 1716. He died February 17, 1717. 



^ George Browne was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1673. On July 22, 1695, 

 he succeeded Ash as Provost. He died June 4, 1699. 



