By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 277 



my head is vrarme and wants rest, soe good night. All heare are well and re- 

 memb" to you soe good night : pray write what newes you have. 



"R. Ingeam." 



In another hand, underneath : — 



" Sil vous ne faire pas un voyage expres pour voir icy je dire que vous este un 

 mediant frere, adieu 



" M J." 



Address : " To M r William Ernley belonging to her Majesty y e Queene. 



" Windsor." 



Docketed : " M r Ingram to M r Ernely about L d . Shaftsbury & L d . Digby " 



XXXIII. — Guy Carleton, Bishop of Chichester. Two Let- 

 ters FROM HIM TO HENRY COVENTRY, SECRETARY OF STATE, ABOUT 



the reception given at chichester, in february, 1679, to the 

 Duke of Monmouth on his returning from abroad without 

 King Charles the Second's leave. 



[Guy Carleton, D.D., of the same family as George Carleton, the 

 forty-eighth Bishop of Chichester, was a native of Cumberland 

 and Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. He had been deprived of 

 two benefices by the Presbyterian " Triers " who imprisoned him 

 at Lambeth and treated him with great severity. " Worn out by- 

 hardships he plotted an escape ; and his wife having conveyed a 

 rope to him in prison, a boat was prepared to receive him and 

 convey him away. The rope proving too short, he broke and 

 dislocated some of his limbs by the fall ; but succeeded in reaching 

 the boat, which carried him to some place of concealment. He 

 used to relate to his friends that he was then so very poor that 

 his faithful wife, to pay for medical assistance, sold her clothing 

 and earned their joint subsistence by daily labour. After passing, 

 more than a year in this misery he escaped to the continent. At 

 the Restoration, Charles II. with more than his usual gratitude to 

 the partizans of the royalist cause, appointed him Dean of Carlisle 

 and Prebendary of Durham. In 1671 he was made Bishop of 

 Bristol, and in 1678 translated to Chichester. He died in 1685, 

 at the age of 89, and was buried in the choir." 1 ] 



1 M. A. Lower's Worthies of Sussex, p. 118. 



