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09 £xtracis from the Port-fol.o of a Afan of Letters, 
that, the Commons being desired to as- 
sent tothe Bul of the Test, with the 
Duke’s proviso, the said proviso was car-_ 
ried among them onlyby three voices. » 
Every day here prodaceth both ac- 
tion and likewise learned and smart 
discourses against the Papists in print ; 
and the Spes et Ratio Studiorum is de~ 
servedly in Cesare tantum. One of my 
Lord ‘Treasurer’s sons told me, that, 
since the searching: inte the fate plot 
hath took up the time of the King’s 
[Oct. 1, 
knew, on such occasion, under a cover, 
to whom at Dublm to send it for your 
Grace, I should upon occasion there, 
with entertain your Grace, = | 
I shail watch when the number of the 
Papists 1 is given in by the parhiament-inen 
for their respective couties and towns, 
to gett it for your Grace. ; 
Dr, Rogers returns his thanks and 
humble acknowledgments to your Grace, 
-for remembring him in your's to me; 
his sou is a man of such worth, (whose 
Ministers, his father hath not slept above. character I gave your Grace in my last, 
four hoursany night. Mr. Oates paving, 
belore the House of Commons, accused the 
Queen of high treason, they desired the 
Zords to concurr with them in an ad. 
dress to the King, to remove her from 
Whitehall, which the Lords, in a confers 
ence, thought fit not to agree with them 
in, as not satisfied (I Suppose) with 
@ates’s reason forhis accusation. 
When your Grace shal have leisure, 
from your more important aifairs, to cast 
your eye agaim upon my poor paper of ob- 
servations and calculations, relating to the 
drish Linnen Act, I entreat the favour 
of you to consider, that l-restrain qhe 
proposition, not only to arable lasid, but 
to the land de fucio ploughed; and I 
think I may venture to suppose, that all 
Jand that will bear corn, will bear hemp 
and flax: but your Gitice being on the 
place, and having the advantage both of 
your own, and others observations there, 
can of this affair judge infinitely better 
than avy at this distance, and therefore 
1 do entirely submit my thoughts herein 
to your Grace’s great judyment. 
The consideration and examination of 
matters relating to the plot, has tock ap 
the time of the House of Commons so to- 
* gal ily, that they have not yet liad leasure to 
‘pursue, what debates they were at. their 
lust Sessions so busy about, namely, 
about aveneral sowing of heinp and flax 
3p this kingdom. 
There’ is fately sent out of France 
the description of a new engine to make 
nnen cloth, without the help of an arti- 
ficer, which has been communicated to 
we, and w hich, ® suppose, will be 
sk ortly printed in thePhilosophical ‘Trans. 
actions, aid then I shal’ send it fo your 
Grace, by some one that goes hence for 
tre eland, and likewise a colle étion of some 
of the new paniphiets relating to popéry 
and the plot. 
and then a pamphlet may ‘come out 
kere, that it may import your Grace for 
the good of the public to see, and which 
may be very extraordinary ; and af I 
"Tis possible, that: now 
from my own observation of tim) thas 
‘the doctor -hopes, when your Grace has 
any yacaney among your chaplains, you 
will please to remember him, 
I shal presuine_to give your Grace 
now no further trouble, than by my most 
humbly craving your, Grace’s blessing, 
and by my old subscription of being, 
my Lord, your )Grace’s most -faithful 
servant, = Lib Say 
London, St. Andrew's Diy, 78. 
I being lategy at Doctoi’s-Commonss 
saw there my Lord John Berkly’s Will, 
where, among other things, tis said: "hen 
I leave to’ mv honest friend, Sir Ellis 
Leighton, a 100), 
But the said friend of his deceased 
Lordship, is now a Sir Politic, with the 
tortois-slell of Ne weate onhis back. 
Endorsed, Sir Peeter Pett. 
Dated Nov: 50. Receied a 
Dec. ** - Answered Dec. € $ 
OA kas 
Copy of a paper inclosed in the above, 
endorsed ; 
An Account of all Conformsts, cand Nonz 
Conformisis, tn the Province of Can- 
terbury. 
An account of the province of Canters 
Bucs. 
In the takin of thes e accounts, we find 
these things bschyaulles : 
t. That many left the church upog 
the late indulgence, who before did fres 
-guentit. ‘ 
2. The sending forth these enquiries, 
bas caused many to frequent the cliurch, 
8. That they are Walloons chiefly that 
make up the number of dissenters in 
Canterbury, Sandwich, and Dover.” 
4. That the presbyterians are divided, 
soine of them come sometimes to church, 
therefore such are not w holly dissenters 
upan the third enquiry. 
5. A-considerable’ part of dissenter§ 
are not of any sect whatsoever. 
6. Of those that come to church 
many do not receive the sacrament. 
@, At Ashford, “and at other places, . 
we 
