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A27495 A letter of Dr. Bernards to a friend of his at court Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661. 1660 (1660) Wing B2010; ESTC R11731 8,249 14

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or reprivall IV. His Relief of those who suffered in their Estates and Liberty for his Majestty which was the cause of his acceptance of the Almoners place that he might be serviceable to that end He disbursed TO Dr. Bromrigg the late Bishop of Exeter the receipts of which are ready to be produced 150 l. To the late Lord 〈…〉 is ready to be produced 250 l. To a Lord of Ireland 10 l. To a Bishop of Ireland for a debt compounded for 15 l. To the ●ame Bishop in his extream poverty at several times 20 l. To a Dean of Ireland 8 l. To Mr. Durant a Sequestred Minister who had 10 children 6 l. To a Captain who was at Drogheda when it was stormed and now in Virginia 20 l. To Dennis Sheriden who coming from Brussels was conceived to have been employed into Ireland upon his Majesties service 8 l. To a Captain who had been faithful to the Lord Leivetenant in Ireland being poor at several times 30 l. To many other distressed Persons Ministers Widdowes and others of quality relating unto Ireland who are unwilling to have their names mentioned 50 l. To diverse Sequestred Ministers and others of quality as meaner persons in their several distresses in England 40 l. To John Allen the Lord Primates old servant 8 l. To a person of some Eminency upon the complaining of his poverty the Doctor having then no mony gave him a Deputation for receiving the Almoners dues in 2 or 3 Counties without accompt He had once prepared 60 l. for his Majesties Servants but Cromwrl at that instant time sent for him and commanded him to give so much to the Jews and accordingly 40 l. was paid to Manasses Ben-Israel whose receipt he hath and Cromwel took the other 20 l. from him pretending to pay it himself Besides what he gave to some Germans and other Outlandish persons commended unto him as to a Turk baptised by Mr. Gunning for clothes 8 l. 60 l. About a year before Oliver Cromwells death he was complained of for giving what he had received as Almoner to disaffected persons and thereupon was called to an accompt which he knowing the danger of deferring he had been 〈…〉 Cromwel had lived a moneth longer In a word he layed up nothing for himselfe out of it as he might have done being without account but by the losses he hath suffered and the many suites wherein he hath been engaged while he had the office and since it was taken from him he is the worse by 300 l. V. In Relation to the Lord Primate of Ireland he hath been further serviceable as followeth The transcribing of a great Manuscript which had been his 50 years study worthy of Dedication to his Majesty which was so interlin'd that it could not else be Printed Laid out and ingaged for it 40 l. He was at great labour and expence in the constant solicitation and receipt of his Pension which for one quarter onely was paid at the rate of 400 p. and after at 160 p. a year as also for what was promised after his death to his which through the iniquity of the times was not performed who used this fraud in calling that a graunt which was onely signed but not suffered to be sealed The Dr. preached his Funerall Sermon buried him according to the book of Common Prayer and obtained 200 l. to defray the charges of the Funerall VI. In further Manifestation of his Integrity As he ever used freedom of speech to Cromwell in defence of Episcopacy and the sequestred Clergy both in publique and private so he never altered his habit though it caused him many affronts from the Phanatick party and being once prevailed with to preach at the Cock-pit where were diverse of his Councell and other grand Enemies to his Majesty he took his Text out of the 1. Tim. 3. In the last dayes c. men shall be traytors c. Having a form of godlinesse but denying the power thereof A Bishop had once consecrated a Chappell according to the usuall form the Ministers in the Diocesse combined in a Petition against him the Dr. interceded and so ordered the businesse that he was dismissed and heard no more of it He omits the gratuities he gave to such as did assist him in the obtaining of diverse suites for those that were distressed and even to the meaner servants for some seasonable admittance for those ends and the long attendance till 11 a clock at night taking a lodging frequently there abouts upon such occasions often to the hazard of his health and life in cold and unseasonable weather all which he would have given over l●●g before being every way displeasing to him by the hatred of the Army and the Ministers there attending but that it was the request of diverse distressed persons to continue it When the Army and Citty of London were at difference under the Committee of Safety before Generall Monck appeared he had prevailed with a principall person for the uniting of both and Proclaiming of his Majesty in London upon his undertaking to have procured their pardon and it was once so far proceeded in that he was preparing to go beyond Seas for that end His often free and faithfull discourse with the L. Generall Monk himselfe in relation to his Majesty when his actions were variously interpreted he submits to his Testimony For these nine years past at Grayes-Inne he hath according to the Book of Common Prayer celebrated the Communion and did the like elsewhere In Baptisme Marriages Burialls c. never using any other And the employing his endeavours in some tracts published for an accommodation betwixt the Episcopall and Presbyterian parties hath been in order to his Majesties service and the Church wherein he is still ready to spend himself The Rectifying of some misapprehensions of him concerning the Office of Almoner THe Dr. was not absolutely made Almoner by Oliver Cromwell but onely joyned in the Patent with Dr. French his Brother in Law by which what little interest was intended for him doth easily appear and he dying a quarter of a year after it fell to the Dr. as surviver which was taken notice of then as a Providence of being by it put in a capacity of doing good to those as had suffered in the like cause with himselfe and was desired by such to accept of it for that end and now there was so little trust put in him that when any thing of value fell Cromwell took it to himselfe I. In special the estate of William Tombs found a Fellon of himself which was the greatest that fell in his time the whole was by a special order from Cromwell taken from him and put into the hands of Major Worseley who took it up accordingly and what little of it came to his hands an account of it was made to him He is the worse by a 100 p. by the losses and charges he hath been at about that one businesse which are not yet satisfied