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A70894	The life of the Most Reverend Father in God, James Usher, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland with a Collection of three hundred letters between the said Lord Primate and most of the eminentest persons for piety and learning in his time ... / collected and published from original copies under their own hands, by Richard Parr ...	Parr, Richard, 1617-1691.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656. Collection of three hundred letters.	1686 (1686)	Wing P548; Wing U163; ESTC R1496	625,199	629

have shewed themselves more forward than wise in preaching publickly against this kind of Toleration I hope the great charge laid upon them by your selves in the Parliament wherein that Statute was inacted will plead their excuse For there the Lords Temporal and all the Commons do in God's name earnestly require and charge all Arch-Bishops and Bishops and other Ordinaries that they shall endeavour themselves to the utmost of their knowledge that the due and true execution of this Statute may be had throughout their Diocesses and charged as they will answer it before God for such Evils and Plagues as Almighty God might justly punish his People for neglecting these good and wholesome Laws So that if in this case they had holden their Tongues they might have been censured little better than Atheists and made themselves accessary to the drawing down of God's heavy vengeance upon the People But if for these and such like Causes the former project will not be admitted we must not therefore think our selves discharged from taking farther care to provide for our safeties Other consultations must be had and other courses thought upon which need not be liable to the like exceptions Where the burden is born in common and the aid required to be given to the Prince by his Subjects that are of different judgments in Religion it stands not with the ground of common reason that such a Condition should be annexed unto the Gift as must of necessity deter the one Party from giving at all upon such terms as are repugnant to their Consciences As therefore on the one side if we desire that the Recusants should joyn with us in granting a common aid we should not put in the Condition of executing the Statute which we are sure they would not yield unto so on the other side if they will have us to joyn with them in the like Contribution they should not require the Condition of suspending the Statute to be added which we in Conscience cannot yield unto The way will be then freely to grant unto his Majesty what we give without all manner of Condition that may seem unequal unto any side and to refer unto his own Sacred Breast how far he will be pleased to extend or abridge his favours of whose Lenity in forbearing the executing of the Statute our Recusants have found such experience that they cannot expect a greater liberty by giving any thing that is demanded than now already they do freely enjoy As for the fear that this voluntary Contribution may in time be made a matter of necessity and imposed as a perpetual charge upon Posterity it may easily be holpen with such a clause as we find added in the Grant of an aid made by the Pope's Council Anno 11 Hen. 3. out of the Ecclesiastical profits of this Land Quod non debet trahi in consuetudinem of which kinds of Grants many other Examples of later memory might be produced And as for the proportion of the Sum which you thought to be so great in the former Proposition it is my Lord's desire that you should signifie unto him what you think you are well able to bear and what your selves will be content voluntarily to proffer To alledge as you have done that you are not able to bear so great a charge as was demanded may stand with some reason but to plead an unability to give any thing at all is neither agreeable to Reason or Duty You say you are ready to serve the King as your Ancestors did heretofore with your Bodies and Lives as if the supply of the King's wants with monies were a thing unknown to our Fore-fathers But if you will search the Pipe-Rolls you shall find the names of those who contributed to King Henry the Third for a matter that did less concern the Subjects of this Kingdom than the help that is now demanded namely for the marrying of his Sister to the Emperour In the Records of the same King kept in England we find his Letters Patents directed hither into Ireland for levying of Money to help to pay his Debts unto Lewis the Son of the King of France In the Rolls of Gascony we find the like Letter directed by King Edward the Second unto the Gentlemen and Merchants of Ireland of whose names there is a List there set down to give him aid in his Expedition into Aquitaine and for defence of his Land which is now the thing in question We find an Ordinance likewise made in the time of Edward the Third for the personal Taxing of them that lived in England and hold Lands and Tenements in Ireland Nay in this case you must give me leave as a Divine to tell you plainly that to supply the King means for the necessary defence of your Country is not a thing left to your own discretion either to do or not to do but a matter of Duty which in Conscience you stand bound to perform The Apostle Rom. 13. having affirmed That we must be subject to the higher powers not only for wrath but for Conscience sake adds this as a reason to confirm it For for this cause you pay tribute also as if the denying such payment could not stand with a conscionable subjection thereupon he infers this conclusion Render therefore to all their due Tribute to whom Tribute Custom to whom Custom is due agreeable to that known Lesson which he had learned of our Saviour Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which are God's where you may observe as to with-hold from God the things which are God's man is said to be a robber of God whereof he himself thus complaineth in the case of substracting of Tythes and Oblations So to deny a supply to Caesar of such means as are necessary for the support of his Kingdom can be accounted no less than a robbing of him of that which is his due which I wish you seriously to ponder and to think better of yielding something to this present necessity that we may not return from you an undutiful answer which may be justly displeasing to his Majesty This Speech though it had not its desired effect yet may sufficiently declare the Lord Primate's abilities in matters of Government when ever he would give his mind to them and how well he understood the present state of that Kingdom And it had been well for Ireland if his advice had been then hearken'd to since those standing Forces then moved for being to have been all Protestants would in all probability have prevented that Rebellion that some years after broke out in that Kingdom but a Copy of this Speech being desired by the Lord Deputy was transmitted to his Majesty who very well approved of it as much conducing to his Service and the publick safety It cannot now be expected in times so peaceable and quiet as these seem'd to be and in which my Lord Primate proceeded in one constant course with little

wrest them to his own sense which made him take up a firm resolution That in due time if God gave him life he would himself read the Fathers all over and trust none but his own Eyes in the search of them and this was the occasion of his undertaking that great work which he afterwards began at twenty years of age and finished at thirty eight strictly observing to read such a proportion each day from which no occasions whatsoever should divert him the fruits of which labour as the World hath already tasted in his learned Writings so had he lived to finish that great work of his Bibliotheca Theologica which he intended as the sum of all his Studies on that important subject whereof we shall give you a further account hereafter yet before he was Master of Arts he had read here and there divers Books of the Fathers and most of our best Authors who had writ in confutation of the Errors of the Papists with many of their Writers also by which he had so well acquainted himself with the state of each Controversie that he was able to dispute with any of the Popish Priests as he often did with the chiefest of them year 1598 The Earl of Essex being newly come over Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Chancellor of the university of Dublin there was a solemn Act for his entertainment Our Usher being then Batchelor of Arts answered the Philosophy Act with great approbation But while he was busily imploying himself in these studies and great designs to fit himself for the Divine Calling of the Ministry when he should be qualified for so high and great imployment his Father recommended to him the study of the Common Law designing to send him shortly over to the Inns of Court in England but to this his Son was very averse it no ways suiting with his natural Temper and Complexion yet dutifully would have submitted if his Father could not be brought to alter his mind in that matter But soon after he died and the paternal Estate descended to this his eldest Son being of a considerable value but this young Heir was so far from being transported by such an accession of Fortune that it did not in the least shake him from his design for he finding it somewhat incumbred with Law Suits and Sisters Portions and fearing those might prove an hinderance to the course of his Studies which he still resolved to pursue he chose rather to commit himself to the Providence of God anew and so very frankly gave his Inheritance to his Brother and his several Sisters for their Portions only reserving so much of it as might enable him to buy some Books and afford him a competent maintenance in the College This act of his perhaps by some may be censured for indiscretion yet so much may be allowed him in his vindication that it shews how little he valued Earthly things in comparison of true Wisdom and Learning And besides to let you see that he very well understood what he did in this matter There is to be seen an exact Terrier of his own hand writing of all the Estate and Leases left him by his Father And that it might not be thought he did any thing rashly and with precipitation he drew up an exact state of all the Suits and Incumbrances that lay upon it with directions what to do in them which he committed to his Uncle as Guardian for his Brother and Sisters to be managed for their advantage which he so well performed that most of his Sisters being seven in all were afterwards very well married and some of them to Persons that proved eminently considerable both in Church and State And now being setled in the Colledge and freed of his worldly cares and left to his own choice he devotes himself entirely to the pursuit of all literature both Humane and Divine for the service of God's Church and the good of Mankind which he chiefly aimed at next the Salvation of his own Soul and in these noble subjects he constantly exercised himself and did so much increase in all sorts of knowledge that his Fame thô he sought it not went abroad and he soon became an Example of Piety Modesty and Learning But that which administred greatest cause of admiration was That so much fruit should be found upon a Plant but newly set and scarcely ripe for blossoms so that in this short space from the thirteenth year of his age to the twentieth he gave most ample proofs of his learning and abilities in all publick Exercises which he performed About the eighteenth or nineteenth year of his age he being but Batchelor of Arts was thought the fittest person to enter the lists of disputation with a daring and learned Jesuite one Henry Fitz-Symonds then prisoner in the Castle of Dublin who sent out a challenge Defying the greatest Champion and best Learned to dispute with him about those points in controversie between the Roman and Reformed Churches Our Usher accepts the challenge and accordingly they met the Jesuite made slight of him at first as but a boy and thinking it an easie task to baffle him the Priest admits a publick Disputation the subject of which was Bellarmine's Controversies and because the several matters in debate could not be dispatched at one or two meetings they appointed to meet once a week to argue the chief Points in Controversie But it seems that after one or two Conferences the Jesuite had enough of it for though he despised him at first yet he did not care to have any more to do with him for after the second Conference this boasting Goliah declined the Combate with this stripling and not without cause for he had felt the quickness of his Wit the strength of his Arguments and skill in Disputation so that this Jesuite quickly left the Field as will appear by this modest Letter which Mr. Usher then writ to him I Was not purposed Mr. Fitz-Symonds to write unto you before you had first written to me concerning some chief points of your Religion as at our last meeting you promised but seeing you have deferred the same for reasons best known to your self I thought it not amiss to enquire further of your mind concerning the continuation of the Conference began betwixt us And to this I am the rather moved because I am credibly informed of certain reports which I could hardly be perswaded should proceed from him who in my presence pretended so great love and affection unto me If I am a boy as it hath pleased you very contemptuously to name me I give thanks to the Lord that my carriage toward you hath been such as could minister unto you no just occasion to despise my Youth your Spear belike is in your own conceit a Weavers Beam and your abilities such that you desire to encounter with the stoutest Champion in the Host of Israel and therefore like the Philistine you contemn me as being a boy yet this

God But if by Jure Divino you would understand a Law binding all Christian Churches universally perpetually unchangeably and with such absolute Necessity that no other form of Regiment may in any case be admitted in this sence we cannot grant it to be Jure Divino And much of the same Opinion is the Learned Bishop Davenant in his Treatise So that you see here that as Learned Men and as stout Asserters of Episcopacy as any the Church of England hath had have been of the Lord Primat's Judgment in this matter tho without any design to lessen the Order of Bishops or to take away their use in the Church since Mr. Mason in the said Treatise tho he grants the French Churches having a constant President of the Presbytery to enjoy the substance of the Episcopal Office Yet whereas their Discipline is still very defective he wishes them in the bowels of Christ by all means to redress and reform it and to conform themselves to the ancient Custom of the Church of Christ So that I hope after all this Question Whether Episcopacy be Ordo or Gradus will prove only a difference in words rather than substance between those of the Lord Primat's Judgment and those of the contrary since they are both agreed in the main Points in controve sie between them and the Presbyterians viz. That Bishops were ordained in the Church by the Apostles themselves from the direction or at least approbation of our Saviour himself being the Stars which St. John saw in his Vision in our Lord Christ's own Hand and that they are permanent immutable Officers in the Church which cannot subsist without it but in Cases of pure Necessity And lastly that those Presbyters which in Churches founded and setled with Bishops do separate from them are guilty of Schism These things being agreed upon on both sides I think the rest of the Controversie is not worth contending about But if any Learned Persons of the Church of England who are well vers'd in the Writings of the Fathers and other ancient Monuments of the Church have already proved or can further make out that Episcopacy has always been an absolute distinct Order as well as Office in the Church I suppose the Lord Primate were he now alive would be so far from opposing them that he would heartily thank them for giving him greater light provided it could be done without unchurching all those Protestant Churches abroad vvho want Bishops And I hope however if the Lord Primat may be thought by the Doctor or others not to go high enough in this matter nor sufficiently to magnifie his own Office yet that he may well be pardoned since it proceeded from his excess of Humility and Charity towards our neighbouring-Churches to whom no good Protestants ought to deny the right-hand of fellowship The third Point which the Doctor will have the Lord Primat to hold contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England which he says maintains an Universal Redemption of all Mankind by the Sufferings and Death of Christ as is proved by the Prayer of Consecration of the sacred Elements in the Sacrament which declares that God hath given to his Son Jesus Christ by his suffering death upon the Cross and by the Oblation of himself a full and sufficient Sacrifice Oblation and Satisfaction for the Sins of the whole World And also that in the publick Catechism the party catechised is taught to believe in God the Son who hath redeemed him and all Mankind But that in this Point the Lord Primat is of a contrary Judgment to the Church of England For as he seems not to like their opinion who contradict the riches of Christ's Satisfaction into too narrow a room as if none had any interest therein but such as were elected before the foundation of the World so he declareth his dislike of the other Extream as he is pleased to call it by which the benefit of this Satisfaction is extended to the Redemption of all Mankind The one Extremity saith he extends the benefit of Christ's Satisfaction so far ut reconciliationem cum Deo Peccatorem Remissionem singulis impetraverit as to obtain a Reconciliation with God and a Remission of Sins for all Men at his merciful hands p. 21. which tho they are the words of the Remonstrants at the Conference at the Hague Anno 1611 and are by him reckoned for untrue yet do they naturally result from the Doctrine of Universal Redemption which is maintained in the Church of England not that all Mankind is so perfectly reconciled to Almighty God as to be really and actually discharged from all their Sins before they actually believe which the Lord Primate makes to be the meaning and effect of that Extremity as he calls it p. 2. but that they are so far reconciled unto Him as to be capable of the remission of their Sins in case they do not want that Faith in their common Saviour which is required thereunto And here the Doctor thinks he finds out two notable Contradictions in the Lord Primat's Letter of the Year 1617 since in one part thereof he seems to dislike of their Opinion who contract the riches of Christ's Satisfaction into too narrow a room as if none had any kind of interest therein but such as were elected before the foundation of the World as before was said And in the other he declares that he is well assured that our Saviour hath obtained at the hands of his Father Reconciliation and Forgiveness of Sins not for the Reprobate but Elect only p. ●1 Now the Doctor has done his worst Yet I hope to prove that tho there may be a difference between my Lord Primat's way of explaining this Doctrine and that of the Doctor 's which proceeds indeed from the different Notions they had of Election and Reprobation Yet that there is no such formidable Contradiction in these two Propositions of my Lord Primat's by him laid down as the Doctor fancies or that the L. Primat hath maintained any thing in this Doctrine contrary to that of the Church of England for 1. the Doctor owns that all Mankind is not so perfectly reconciled to Almighty God as to be really and actually discharged from all their Sins before they actually believe but that they are so far reconciled unto him as to be capable of the remission of their Sins in case they do not want that Faith in their common Saviour which is required thereunto Now what will the Doctor get by these words if they are so far reconciled to him as to be capable of the remission of their Sins in case they do not want that Faith which is required thereunto since the Question still remains between the Lord Primat and those of the contrary Opinion Whether all Men can obtain without the aid of Grace this saving Faith which is required thereunto Our Saviour says the direct contrary Joh. 6. 44 65. No Man can come to me except the

your learned Treatise De Christianarum Ecclesiarum Successione But such hath been your happy industry therein that I have little hope to add any thing and less to observe any mistaking Thus with my salutations to your good self and my respectful love remembred to Sir Arthur Savage I rest Your true and devoted Friend William Camden Chesilhurst July 10. 1618. LETTER XXXV A Letter from Mr. Thomas Warren to Dr. James Usher after Arch-Bishop of Armagh Sir I Have read carefully what Arminius hath written De justitia efficacia providentiae Dei in malo Yet in that I read him for especially he leaves me as doubtful as he found me For where he saith Quum soepenumero futurum sit ut creatura non omnino in malo obdurata actum quia peccato junctus sit patrare nolit nisi argumentis quibusdam occasionibus quae velut incitamenta sint ad illum patrandum objectis istius quoque objectionis administratio penes Dei providentiam est qui irritamenta ista objicit In these words if I mistake him not he will have it That God casts Stumbling-blocks in the way of them that of themselves would have gone upright of purpose to provoke them to do evil which taken together with his foreknowledge of the event in my apprehension seems very harsh and flat contrary to the Scripture Jam. 1. 13. Indeed if God foreseeing both what arguments and occasions inciting unto sin would by ordinary course of Nature or free-will come in the way of him that for the present meant no such evil and likewise that unless his Providence hindered he would be thereby overcome I say if God foreseeing all this should with-hold his preventing interposition it were no more than bare permission the justice whereof cannot be called in question And if this seem too little it might haply be farther granted istius objectionis administrationem penes Dei providentiam esse to use his own words though I cannot think what bounds are thereunto due but that he should irritamenta ista objicere cum creatura actum peccato junctum ex se patrare nolit It seems to me very hard to grant and he as hardly to maintain the justice of it pag. 102. 114. But of the extent and justice of his Administration in this point I would your leisure served to send me your opinion you shall both pleasure me and do God service in it So commending you to his Protection and Grace I rest and shall be Ever at Your Service Edward Warren Kilkenny Sept. 1. 1610. I have sent you Arminius by this Bearer James Congame LETTER XXXVI A Letter from the Right Reverend Thomas Morton Bishop of Chester to Dr. James Usher late Arch-Bishop of Armagh Salutem in Christo Jesu Sir I Do heartily thank you for your double pains in writing which is your kindness beyond any single desert of my part and I must twice thank you for the young Batchelor who hath approved himself since his coming hither to be indeed very commendable Your manifold Imployments specified in your Letters will not suffer me to be too large in these of mine lest I might morari tua tempora Truly I cannot but admire your exceeding pains and bless God for his Graces in you The Synod in the low Countries is held at Dort the most of their Suffragators are already Assembled the manner of their proceedings is methodically ordered the Remonstrants excepting some few do exempt themselves I think to hold universal grace quoad revelationem negativè as importing that no Soul can be said particularly to be excluded may sufficiently qualifie the violence of oppositions I shall long to see you with me that I may enjoy the comfort of your presence I pray you if it be possible satisfie my desire In the interim and always I pray our Lord Jesus to preserve us to the glory of his Saving Grace and rest Your loving Friend Tho. Cestrensis Chester Decemb. 15. 1618. LETTER XXXVII A Letter from Mr. Samuel Ward to Dr. James Usher at Dublin Good Mr. Dr. Usher MY kindest salutations premised These are to signifie unto you That I received at Dort the Letter you sent me though a long time after the date As touching the Additions and Corrections which J. Scaliger left with Gomarus I understand by him that they shall shortly be published He hath delivered them to a Printer at Leyden who is to print them The Additions are many as he telleth me almost as many as are already set forth Chamierus was not at the Synod and I cannot learn whether any such ancient Writings of the Albigenses were left with him As for that which you desired to be transcribed out of Paulus Alexandrinus concerning the method of the Alexandrian Year I being at Leyden after the Synod was desirous to have spoken with Meursius but enquiring for him of Mr. Joannes Latius one of our Synod he told me he would go to Meursius and transcribe it and send it me into England for he thought it not seasonable to go to him that day being the day of Bernevelt's Execution whose Sons Meursius had been Tutor unto When I receive the Transcript from Latius I will send it you It may be you will be desirous to know the remarkable passages of the Synod which will be shortly published both the Acts and the Canons concluded upon touching the five Articles We had somewhat to do when we came to frame Canons with the Provincials and some of the Exteri touching some points especially touching the second Article Some of us were held by some half Remonstrants for extending the Oblation made to the Father to all and for holding sundry effects thereof offered seriò and some really communicated to the reprobate I had somewhat to do with a principal man touching this point somewhat passed in writing between us privately We were careful that nothing should be defined which might gainsay the Confession of the Church of England which was effected for that they were desirous to have all things in the Canons defined unanimi consensu We foreign Divines after the Subscription of the Canons and a general approbation of the Belgick Confession and Catechism which is the Palatine's as containing no Dogmata repugnant to the Word of God and a Decree against Vorstius's Doctrine chiefly that in his Book De Deo were dismissed In our approbation of the Belgick Confession our consent was only asked for Doctrinals not for matters touching Discipline We had a solemn parting in the Synod and all was concluded with a solemn Feast This was upon Thursday April 29. The Saturday we went to the Hague to take our leaves of the States General where we resolved while our Ship was made ready to see Leyden Amsterdam and Harlem which we did the week following Upon the Monday we purposing to go for Leyden early in the morning were informed that Bernevelt was to lose his head that morning which was executed Upon the tenth

he understood by me how much you esteemed and loved him he desired me to return his humble Thanks with desire that you would imploy his Service in whatsoever he is able to perform His Majesty has conserr'd on him the Prebend in Canterbury which lately was Dr. Chapman's He is now settling himself in it he saith he hath received a late Advertisement of the Death of Bertius who over-lived his own Credit and Reputation Mr. Selden's Titles of Honour hath long slept under the Press by reason of his long close Imprisonment but now he tells me it shall go forward and he thinks within two Months it will come abroad The War in Italy is like to proceed the French King raiseth a great Army for that Expedition Here was a report that the States had taken Gulick but it holds not for a certain Truth One thing I must not over-pass and that a strange and monstrous Accident lately happened here in England One Dorington a younger Son of Sir William Dorington of Hamp-shire and Grand-Child to that Dorington who brake his Neck from St. Sepulchres Steeple in London being reprehended for some disorderly Courses by his Mother drew his Sword and ran her twice through and afterwards she being dead gave her many Wounds and had slain his Sister at the same time had he not been prevented I presume your Grace hath heard of the Death of Dr. Tho. James his Nephew Mr. Rich. James is fallen into some Trouble by reason of his Familiarity and Inwardness with Sir Robert Cotton I suppose you have the last Catalogue of Francfort which hath nothing of note But I fear I have been over troublesome to your Grace's more serious and weighty Imployments wherefore with the remembrance of my Love and Service I will ever remain Your Grace's most affectionate Friend and humble Servant Henry Bourgchier London December the 4th 1629. LETTER CXLVIII A Letter from the Right Reverend William Laud Bishop of London to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh My very good Lord I Have received two or three Letters from you since I writ you any Answer I hope your Grace is not of opinion that it is either idlenesi or neglect which have made me silent for the plain truth is I fell into a fierce burning Fever August the 14th which held me above three Weeks It was so fierce that my Physicians as well as my Friends gave me for dead and it is a piece of a Miracle that I live I have not yet recovered my wonted Strength and God knows when I shall yet since I was able to go to the Court tho not to wait there I have done as much business as I could and I think as your Grace hath desired of me for the Church of Ireland as your Lordship will see by this brief Account following And first my Lord I have obtain'd of his Majesty the new incorporating of the Dean and Chapter of Derry and I think the Dean is returned At the same time the King was pleased to give order for confirming the Election of Dr. Usher to be Governour of the Colledg in Dublin Thirdly upon the refusal of my Lord of Clougher his Majesty gave in the time of my Sickness the Arch-bishoprick of Cassills to the Bishop of Killally and the Bishoprick of Killally to the Dean of Rapho And whereas your Grace in the close of one of your Letters did acquaint me that there was a fear lest some cunning would be used to beg or buy some Patronages out of the King's Hands I moved his Majesty about that likewise and he made me a gracious promise that he would part with none of them And now my Lord I give your Lordship thanks for the Catalogue of the Bishopricks of Ireland which I heartily desire your Grace to perfect as occasion may be offered you And for the last business as I remember concerning the Table of Tything in Ulster I have carefully look'd it over but by reason I have no experience of those parts I cannot judg clearly of the Business but I am taking the best care I can about it and when I have done I will do my best with his Majesty for Confirmation and leave Mr. Hyegate to report the Particulars to your Grace I have observed that Kilphanora is no fertile Ground it is let lie so long Fallow Hereupon I have adventured to move his Majesty that some one or two good Benefices lying not too far off or any other Church-Preferment without Cure so it be not a Deanery may be not for this time only but for ever annex'd to that Bishoprick The care of managing that Business he refers to your Grace and such good Counsel in the Law as you shall call to your assistance And I pray your Grace think of it seriously and speedily and though I doubt you will find nothing actually void to annex unto it yet if that Act be but once past the hope of that which is annex'd will make some worthy Man venture upon that Pastoral Charge and so soon as you are resolv'd what to do I pray send me word that so I may acquaint his Majesty with it and get pow'r for you to do the Work These are all the Particulars that for the present I can recall out of your Letters sent unto me in the time of my Sickness So with my hearty Prayers for your Health and Happiness and that you may never be parch'd in such a Fire as I have been I leave you to the Grace of God and rest Your Grace's loving poor Friend and Brother Guil. London London-house Decemb. 7. 1629. LETTER CXLIX A Letter from the Right Reverend William Bedell Bishop of Kilmore to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh Right Reverend Father my Honourable good Lord I Have received your Grace's Letters concerning Mr. Cook I do acknowledg all that which your Grace writes to be true concerning his sufficiency and experience to the execution of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction neither did I forber to do him right in giving him that Testimony when before the Chapter I did declare and shew the nullity of his Parent I have heard of my Lord of Meathe's attempt and I do believe that if this Patent had due Form I could not overthrow it how unequal soever it be But falling in the essential parts besides sundry other defects I do not think any reasonable Creature can adjudg it to be good I shall more at large certify your Grace of the whole Matter and the reasons of my Counsel herein I shall desire herein to be tried by your Grace's own Judgment and not by your Chancellor's or as I think in such a case I ought to be by the Synod of the Province I have resolved to see the end of this matter and do desire your Grace's savour herein no farther than the equity of the Cause and the Good as far as I can judg of the Church in a high degree do require So with my humble