judicio praeterquam suo Praesul verè Magnus Qui Ecclesiam Veterum institutis Clerum suo Exemplo Populum Concionibus Affidue instruxit Chronologiam sacram pristino nitori restituit Bonarum artium Professores Inopia Afflictos Munificentiâ sublevavit Denique qui Haereses repullulantes calamo erudito contudit His ingenii dotibus his animi virtutibus ornatus Praesul optimus piissimus meritissimus Cum inter bella Civilia Ecclesiae Patriae suae funesta Sibique Luctuosa Nec Ecclesiae nec Patriae diutius prodesse poterat In Christo pacis Authore placide obdormivit Anno Aerae Christianae 1655. Aetatis suae 76. Riegat in Comitatu Surrey Martii 21. Obiit Sepultus apud Westmonast In Hen. 7mi Capellâ Apr. 5. 1656. A Catalogue of the Lord Primate James Usher's Works and Writings already Printed In Latin DE Ecclesiarum Christianarum Successione Statu cum Explicatione Quaestionis de Statu Ecclesiarum in partibus praesertim occidentis à tempore Apostolorum De primordiis Ecclesiarum Britannicarum Epistolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge Historia Gotes-Chalci Polycarpi Ignatii Epistolae Graec. Lat. cum desertatione de eorum Scriptis deque Apostolicis Canonibus Constitutionibus Clementi tributis Appendix Ignatiana De Romanae Ecclesiae Symbolo Apostolico vetere aliis fidei formulis De Anno solari Macedonum Epistola ad Lodovicum Capellum de textus Hebr. variantibus Lectionibus Annales Vet. Test. Annales N. Test. Chronologia Sacra De Graecâ Septuaginta Interpretum versione Syntagma Desertatio de Cainane In English AN Answer to Malon the Jesuits Challenge The Religion professed by the Ancient Irish and Britains A Sermon Preached before the House of Commons Westminster A Sermon of the Visibility of the Church Preached before King James Jun. 25 1624. A Speech delivered in the Castle Chamber Dublin concerning the Lawfulness of taking and danger of refusing the Oath of Supremacy Nov. 22. 1622. A Speech in the same Place upon the denial to contribute for the Supply of the Kings Army for the defence of the Government April 30 1627. Immanuel or the Mistery of the Incarnation of the Son of God A Geographical Description of the lesser Asia A Discourse of Bishops and Metropolitans A small Catechism entitled the Principles of Christian Religion with a brief Method of the Doctrine thereof His Annals of the Old and New Testament Translated into English with the Synchronisms of the Heathen Story to the destruction of Jerusalem The Power of the Prince and Obedience of the Subject stated with a Preface by Dr. Robert Sanderson late Bishop of Lincoln Published from the Original Copy written with his own hand by James Tyrrell Esq Grandson to the Lord Primate A Body of Divinity or the Summ and Substance of Christian Religion by way of Question and Answer collected by himself in his younger years for his own private Use and through the Importunity of some Friends communicated to them but not with a Design to be Printed though afterwards published by others with good Acceptance A Volume of Sermons in Folio Preached at Oxford before his Majesty and elsewhere published since his Death These that follow were gathered out of the Fragments of the Lord Primate and Published since his Death by Dr. Bernard HIS Judgment and Sense of the State of the present See of Rome from Apocal. 18. 4. Ordination a Fundamental His Sense of Hebrews 6. 2. Of the use of a Set form of Prayer in the Church The extent of Christs Death and Satisfaction with an Answer to the Exceptions taken against it Of the Sabbath and Observation of the Lords Day His Judgment and Sense of John 20. 22. 23. Receive ye the Holy-Ghost Whose Sins ye Remit c. A Catalogue of the Lord Primate Ushers own Manuscripts of various Subjects not Printed Lemmata Manuscriptorum CEnsura Patrum aliorum Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum five Bibliotheca Theologica Historiae dogmaticae Quaestionum inter Orthodoxos Pontificios Controversarum Specimen in Quaestione de Communi Sacrarum Scripturarum usu contra Scripturarum lucifugas De veterum Pascalibus Scriptis de ratione Paschali quibus computi Ecclesiastici in Universo orbe Christiano ante Gregorianam reformationem apperiuntur ex vetustissimis Manuscriptis codicibus notis Illustratum Veterum de tempore Passionis Dominicae Phaschalis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Variae Lectiones Collationes Vet. Nov. Instrumenti 1. Genesis Longe antiquissimum exemplar Graecum Cottonianum cum editione Francofurtensi Collatum 2. Collatio Psalterii à B. Hieronymo ex Heb. conversi à Jacobo Fabro Parisiis An. 1513. editi cum aliis exemplaribus Manuscriptis Impressis 3. Annotationes variarum Lectionum in Psalmis juxta Masoreth Judaeorum five cum notâ aliquâ Masoreticâ 4. Psalterium cum versione Saxonicâ interlineatâ in Bibliothecâ Salisburiensis Ecclesiae 5. Psalterium Gallicum cum Romano collatum Hebraico 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 oppositum Manuscripto in Westmonasteriensis Ecclesiae Bibliothecâ 6. Collatio Canticorum utriusque Testamenti cum editione vulgatâ Latinâ 7. Variae Lectiones Collationes N. Test. ex vetustissimis Exemplaribus 8. Collatio editionis Chronici Eusebii à Josepho Scaligero edit cum Manuscripto è Regiâ Bibliothecâ 9. Collatio variorum Pentateuchi Samaritani Exemplarium cum notis Observationibus 10. Chronologia Legum Codicis Theodosiani Justiniani collata cum Malmesburiensi Manuscripto Julianae Periodi ad Juliani anni usum vulgaris aerae Christianae ad anni Juliani pariter Gregoriani Methodum accommodatae fixa jam Epochâ cum Tabulâ reductionis dierum Anni Juliani veteris ad dies Anni Gregoriani Novi hodie usitati in pluribus partibus orbis Ratio Bissextorum literarum Dominicarum Equinoctiorum Festorum Christianorum tam mobilium quam immobilium De Institutione Chronologicâ viz. De Tempore illius Mensurâ de Die ejusque partibus de horis scrupulis de Hebdomadibus Mensibus de Anno Astronomico de variâ Annorum Supputatione Secundum Graeca Exemplaria De differentiâ circuli spherae de cursu septem Planetarum Signorum Coelestium de quinque Parall in sphera Zonasdistinguent Veteres Observationes Coelestes Chaldaicae Graecae Aegyptiacae Insigniorum Imperiorum Regnorum quae ante Christi adventum in orbe floruerunt successiones et tempora ad usum veteris Historiae studiosorum eorum praesertim qui exoticam Chronologiam cum Sacra conferre cupiunt Series Chronologica Syriaca Regum Imperatorum Babylonicorum Persarum Graecorum Romanorum à Nebuchadnezzar ad Vespasianum ab Anno Mundi 4915. ad Annum 5585. De fastis Magistratuum Coss. Triumphorum Romanorum ab Urbe Condita usque ad excessum Caesaris Augusti ex fragmentis Marmoreis foro Romano effossis à doctissimis nostri temporis Chronographis suppletis Catalogus Consulum ex variis Authoribus De Ponderibus Mensuris De
in their proper places In the next place it is requisite to mind the Reader touching the following Collection of Letters herewith published being for the most part Originals written by the Lord Primate to learned Men of our own and foreign Nations or of those written to him relating mostly to matters of Learning These Epistles I gathered together with what care I could and when I had selected those out of a far greater number that I thought might prove most fit for publick view and useful both in respect of the Learning contained in them and the various subjects whereof they consisted I would not presume to publish the Collection until they had passed the Inspection and Censure of those Learned Men to whom they were first shown being Persons of great Judgment and Integrity and who retain a very high Esteem and Veneration for the Primate's Memory Perhaps the Reader will expect to meet with if not all yet many more of the Primate's Letters in this Collection than may be found but by all our Industry and search they cannot yet be retrieved partly because the Primate himself seldom kept Copies of his Lettes and many of those he had reserved met with the same fate which many others of his loose Papers and Manuscripts which were either lost in his often forced removals or fell into the hands of the Men of those spoiling times who had no regard to things of that Nature There are other Epistles not numbred with the former at the end of this Collection written by Men of great Names found among my Lord Primate's Papers which are thought worthy to be inserted and Printed Before I dismiss the Reader I have one thing more to advertise touching two Letters in the Collection one written by Dr. Bedell then Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland to the Primate Usher then Arch-Bishop of Armagh and his answer to it as you will find Numb 142. and 143. importing an accidental difference between those two Eminent Bishops and most intire Friends touching the Administration and Jurisdiction in Ecclesiastical Courts as then exercised in the Kingdom of Ireland which Letters however otherwise Worthy of perusal yet are now more especially published for the doing right to the Arch-Bishops Character which might else have suffered by some injurious Reflections upon him in the Life of that Bishop lately Written taken up partly from some uncertain Reports and partly upon the Bishops Letter to him upon that occasion But how little Reason there was to say the Primate was not made for the Governing part of his Function as that Author affirms besides his known abilities that way his Answer to the Bishops Letter and other Composures of his upon those kind of Arguments will sufficiently testifie Of which inadvertency as the Composer of that Life is already made sensible so we hope that he will do him Right according as he hath promised when time shall serve The order observed in disposing these Letters in the following Volume is according to their several Dates that being concluded fittest beth for the use and delight of the Reader only some of them through mistake are transposed and others that were brought in late are Printed at the latter end of which the Reader may consult the Advertisment at the end of the Book Farewell THE LIFE Of the Most Reverend Father in GOD JAMES USHER Late Lord Arch-Bishop OF ARMAGH Primate and Metropolitan of all IRELAND Collected and Written by RICHARD PARR D. D. his Lordships Domestick Chaplain Psalm CXII v. 6. The Righteous shall be had in Everlasting Remembrance Proverbs X. v. 7. The Memory of the Just is blessed but the Name of the Wicked shall rot LONDON Printed for NATHANAEL RANEW at the Kings-Arms in St. Pauls Church-Yard MDCLXXXVI THE LIFE OF The Most Reverend Father in God JAMES USHER SOMETIME Arch-Bishop of Armagh PRIMATE of all IRELAND THIS great Person whose Life we now write was Born in the City of Dublin the Metropolis of Ireland upon the fourth day of January Anno Domini 1580. His Father Mr. Arnold Usher one of the Six Clerks of Chancery and of good repute for his prudence and integrity was of the Ancient Family of the Ushers aliàs Nevils whose Ancestor Usher to King John coming over with him into Ireland and setling there changed the name of his Family into that of his Office as was usual in that Age his descendants having since brancht into several Families about Dublin and for divers Ages bore the most considerable Offices in and about that City His Mother was Margaret Daughter of James Stanihurst who was of considerable note in his time being chosen Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons in three Parliaments and was Recorder of the City of Dublin and one of the Mastres of Chancery and that which ought always to be mention'd for his honour he was the first mover in the last of the three Parliaments of Queen Elizabeth for the Founding and Endowing of a Colledge and University at Dublin which was soon after consented to by Her Majesty and being perfected hath ever since continued a famous Nursery for learning and good manners blessing both the Church and State with many admirable men eminently useful in their several Stations His Uncle by the Fathers side was Henry Usher sometime Arch-Bishop of Armagh a wise and learned Prelate one who industriously promoted the founding of that University and by his Zeal and Interest procured of the said Queen an established Revenue for the maintainance of a Provost and Fellows Students and Officers as may be seen by the Charter and Statutes of that Foundation and so it has flourished ever since with ample improvement A happy Foundation and great honour to that Kingdom having in the space of somewhat more than 90 years sent out divers Persons very considerable both in Church and State and yielded more than fifty Bishops besides others of inferiour Dignities who were many of them of great parts and excellent learning His Uncle by the Mother side was Richard Stanihurst a Learned man of the Romish Perswasion an excellent Historian Philosopher and Poet as appears by several of his Works still extant though some of them for that reason written against his Nephew yet notwithstanding their difference in Judgment they had frequent correspondencies by Letters some of which you will see hereafter in this following Collection He often mentioned two of his Aunts who were blind from their Cradle and so continued to their deaths and yet were blessed with admirable understanding and inspection in matters of Religion and of such tenacious Memories that whatever they heard read out of the Scriptures or was preached to them they always retained and became such proficients that they were able to repeat much of the Bible by heart and as their Nephew told me were the first that taught him to read English He had but one Brother Ambrose Usher who though he died young yet attained to great skill and perfection in the Oriental
fata libelli I have sent you the King's Book in Latin against Vorstius yet scant dry from the Press which Mr. Norton who hath the matter wholly in his own hands swore to me he would not print unless he might have money to print it a sufficient argument to make me content with my Manuscript lying still unprinted unless he Equivocated but see how the World is changed time was when the best Book-printers and sellers would have been glad to be beholding to the meanest Book-makers Now Mr. Norton not long since the meanest of many Book-Printers and sellers so talks and deals as if he would make the Noble King James I may well say the best Book-maker of this his own or any Kingdom under the Sun be glad to be beholding to him any marvel therefore if he think to make such a one as I am his Vassal but I had rather betake my self to another occupation therefore again I request you that my possibility be not frustrate for the School of Armagh Thus hoping to see you in London ere long with my very hearty thanks unto you and commendations to Mr. D. Chaloner Mr. Richardson and all the residue of our good friends with you I commit you to God's gracious preservation Yours as his own Thomas Lydiat Inner Temple Aug. 22. 1611. LETTER VI. A Letter from Mr. James Usher late Arch-Bishop of Armagh to Mr. Thomas Lydyat Good Mr. Lydyat HOwsoever I intended not to have written unto you before I had first heard from you which I long since expected yet having the opportunity of this Bearer offered I could not pretermit that occasion of saluting you and making known that you are not out of remembrance with your friends here for in truth that was the special cause of my writing at this time You will not believe how I long to be informed from you of the state of things there both of our own private and of our Respublica literaria in general Now I pray you be not slack in satisfying my desire and let me hear among other things how matters go with Mr. Casaubon and how he is imployed If hereafter you shall have occasion to enter into conference with him learn whether he can bring any light to the clearing of the Albigenses and Waldenses from those imputations wherewith they are charged by their Adversaries Ludovicus Camerarius reporteth That many of their Writings in the Ancient Occitanical Language Langue d' Oc were to be seen in Joseph Scaliger's Library Poplinier in the 28th Book of his History to prove that their Religion little differed from ours alledgeth the Acts of a Disputation between the Bishop of Pammiers and Arnoltot Minister of Lombres written in a Language savouring much of the Catalan Tongue Yea sundry persons saith he have assured me that they have seen the Articles of their Faith engraved in certain old Tables which are yet to be seen in Alby in all things conformable to those of the Protestants At my last being in London Mr. Fountayn the Minister of the French Church dwelling in the Black-Fryars told me That in his time there was found a Confession of the Albigenses which being exhibited to a Synod of the Reformed Churches in France was by them approved as Orthodox He promised me to write to the Ministers of Paris for the Copy of the Articles of that Confession I pray you put him in mind of it And get from Mr. Casaubon and him what information you can in those particulars for you know how greatly they make for my purpose You remember that Dr. Chaloner wished you to deal for some Minister to come hither for St. Warburghs I would willingly understand what you have done therein if Mr. Ayre be about London you may do well to acquaint him with it and try whether he can find in his heart once again to visit poor Ireland Dr. Chaloner hath written to Mr. Provost to this purpose You may do us a very great pleasure if you can help us to a faithful Minister to undertake that Charge and Letters commendatory from the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury I would willingly hear what is done with Mr. Justice Sibthorp's Book the Preface whereof I sent over by you If Mr. Briggs cannot get it printed I pray you let it be safely sent unto me again and that with as convenient speed as may be If it will pass there intreat Mr. Crashaw for my sake to take some pains in perusing the same and altering therein what he thinketh fit for that hath the Author wholly referred to his discretion If you can come any where to the sight of Sanders De Schismate Anglicano write me out what he noteth concerning Ireland in the year 1542. Sir Robert Cotton promised me the Copy of certain Letters which concerned the Consecrating of the Bishops of Dublin by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury they are at the end of his great Manuscript Book of the Pope's Epistles I pray you call to him for it and likewise intreat Mr. Camden to send me the Copy of those Letters which he alledgeth to that purpose in his Hiberniâ pag. 765. of the last Edition I will trouble you no more at this time but expect to hear from you after so long silence in the mean time committing you and your labours to God's good Blessing and Wishing unto you as unto mine own self James Usher Septemb. 9. 1611. LETTER VII A Letter from Mr. James Usher afterward Arch-Bishop of Armagh to Mr. Thomas Lydyat at London I Received your Letter of the 22 of August together with the Books specified therein for which I give you great thanks And as you have not been unmindful of my businesses so have not I been altogether of yours I have dealt since with my Uncle the Primate both for the annual stipend in the Proportion of Land lying about the School and do find him constant in his Promise Whereby I resolve you may well make account of your Fifty Pounds per annum at the least His Register hath been very forward in furthering the matter and will take care that the utmost benefit be made of the Land to your behoof I have caused him to write unto you of the state thereof for your better information Make I pray you as convenient hast unto us as you can and in the mean time let us hear once more at least of your Affairs and send unto me in your next Letter in what forwardness Justice Sibthorp's Book is as you have signified delivered unto a Stationer in the Church-yard and whether Mr. Crashaw hath taken any pains in running it over And at your coming forget not to bring for me a Bible in Octavo of the new Translation well bound for my ordinary use together with Mr. James and Mr. Cook 's Books you wrote me of I would hear also willingly whether you have proceeded further with Mr. Web and what hope we may conceive of his coming Because you met not with himself and we had no certainty
remove to Greenwich on Tuesday from thence to Rochester and the next day take shipping homeward But I have no leisure to write unto you any news and therefore reserving the relation of them unto others and remembring my heartiest commendations to Mrs. Chaloner and all the rest of my good friends I leave you all unto the blessed Protection of our good God and rest always Yours in all Christian Affection James Usher London April 9. 1613. LETTER IX A Letter from Mr. Samuel Ward to Mr. James Usher afterward Arch-Bishop of Armagh Salutem Good Mr. Usher I Am given to understand by Mr. Bourchier That the Edition of the Councils specified in the new Catalogue as set forth by the Authority of Paulus Quintus hath the Greek Councils in Greek I would know whether the Acts of the IV. V. VI. VII and VIII Councils were set forth Graeco-lat as the first Tome is which I have seen at Oxford also what other remarkable Differences you observe between these and former Editions If there be any other Books of Note which you meet withal amongst the new I pray you in the next Letter let me have the Names Yesterday I went to Benedict Coll. Library where we found Cladius Seisellius contra Waldenses not perfect Thus with my best Wishes I commend you and your Studies to the protection of the highest Your loving Friend Samuel Ward Sydney Coll. May 12. 1613. LETTER X. A Letter from Mr. James Usher afterward Arch-Bishop of Armagh to Mr. Sam. Ward YOU will not believe good Sir what great Pleasure I took in perusing those writings which I received from you especially where I found your learned Parisian so fully to agree with me in collecting the Order of the ancient Codex Canonum out of the Council of Chalcedon For not long before I had entred my self into the same Consideration and resolved after the same manner but upon somewhat a more sure Ground I had found in Baronius ad an 341. § 34. that both in the 4th and in the 11th Action of the Council of Chalcedon certain Canons of the Council of Antioch were cited but without any Name out of some ancient Collections in which the 95th and 96th Canon did contain the same that the 16th and 17th of the Antiochen Council I mused a while what this might mean and conceiving Baronius his Opinion to be somewhat improbable that these Canons should be produced from some other Place than the Council of Antioch it self I bethought my self at last of that which Dionysius Exiguus hath in his Preface before his Translation of the Greek Canons ad Stephanum Salonitanum Episcopum Regulas Nicenae Synodi deinceps omnium Conciliorum sive quae anteà seu quae postmodùm facta sunt usque ad Synodum 150. Pontificum qui apud Constantinopolim convenerunt sub ordine numerorum id est à primo Capitulo usque ad 165 um sicut habentur in Graecâ auctoritate digessimus Tum sancti Chalcedonensis Concilii Decreta subdentes in his Graecorum Canonum finem esse declaramus Then set I a numbring of the Canons and finding some variety in the divers Editions I resolved to try Constantinus Harmenopulus his reckoning in his Preface before the Abridgment of the Greek Canons where he numbreth 20 Canons of the Council of Nice 25. Ancyranae 15. Neocaesariensis 19. Gangrensis 25. Antiochenae 60. Laodicen Synodi although I yield rather to give with your Parisian 14. to the Council of Neocaesaroea and 20. to that of Gangra So applying his Reckoning to the Order of the old Codex Canonum the 16th and 17th Canon of the Council of Antioch fell out precisely to be 95th and 96th in the other Reckoning and the first Canon of the Council of Constantinople which immediately followed the five Provincials in Dionysius his Order to the 165th Hence I concluded that the first Collection of the Canons consisted only of the first General and five other Provincial Councils unto which afterwards were added the General Councils that followed For thus much both Dionysius his Distinction of them from the rest seemeth to insinuate and the Order of placing those General Councils after the Provincials which otherwise no doubt if then they had been extant when this first Collection was compiled would immediately have been conjoyned with the Council of Nice doth further confirm and the Citation of this Collection in the Council of Chalcedon afterwards incorporated into the same Book of Greek Canons as appeareth by Dionysius manifestly convinceth Whether the Ephesine were as yet entred into the same body I make some Question because I find no Canon thereof cited neither by Fulgentius Ferrandus or Cresconius neither is it well known which were to be accounted the Canons of that Council the Canons which are in the counterfeit Isidorus his Collection being quite divers from those which are in Tilius his Greek Edition of the Canons Of this ancient Collection of the Greek Canons there was an ancient Latin Translation extant before the time of Dionysius as he in his Preface witnesseth But it being somewhat confused Dionysius made a new Translation which also he enlarged with Addition of new Canons prefixing in the begininng of his Book the 50. Canons of the Apostles translated by him out of Greek In principio saith he Canones qui dicuntur Apostolorum de Graeco transtulimus quibus quia plurimi consensum non proebuere facilem hoc ipsum ignorare vestram noluimus sanctitatem Then having ended the Greek Canons in the Council of Chalcedon he adjoyned thereunto the Latin Canons of the Sardican and African Councils which before were never brought into Codex Canonum as you have well observed For so much also doth himself testifie in his Preface Ne quid praeterea notitiae vestrae videamur velle substrahere Statuta quoque Sardicensis Concilii atque Africani quae Latine sunt edita suis à nobis numeris cernuntur esse distincta And here I take it about the year 530. do we first find mentioned these Canons of Sardica of Dionysius and Ferrandus being as yet also unknown unto the Greek Church howsoever afterward we find them added unto their Codex Canonum For about this same time in the days of Justinian Constantinus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alledged by Turrian lib. 1. contra Magdeburg pro Canonib Apost cap. 21. 28. maketh his Collection of Ecclesiastical Constitutions only out of the Canons of the Apostles and the ten great Synods as he calleth them viz. Ancyrana Neocaesariensi Nicenâ Gangrensi Antiochenâ Laodicensi Constantinopolitanâ Ephesinâ Chalcedonensi Carthaginensi without mention of that of Sardica whose Canons seem to have been coyned for the Advancement of the Bishop of Rome's Authority after that the Forgery of the Canon of the Council of Nice had no Success as no small presumptions may induce us to imagine If we may believe Bellarmine lib. 2. de Romano Pontif. cap. 25. who herein I think followeth
literas mixtas scilicet Justitiae Misericordiae est B. Petrus Apostolus qui in palatio Dei est janitor constitutus ubi sunt duae portae viz. porta justitiae misericordiae Nam per portam justitiae ingrediuntur illi qui salvantur exoperibus justitiae per portam verò misericordiae ingrediuntur illi qui salvantur ex sola Dei misericordia gratia sine operibus Et istam differentiam tangit Apostolus ad Rom. 4. dicens Ei autem qui operatur merces non imputatur secundum gratiam sed secundum debitum ei verò qui non operatur credenti autem in eum qui justificat impium reputatur fides ejus ad justitiam c. Ideo Petrus pingitur cum duabus clavibus quia cum una aperit portam justitiae illis viz. qui dicere possunt cum Psal. 107. Aperite mihi portas justitiae ingressus in eas confitebor domino c. Cum alia verò aperit portam gratiae miserecordiae viz. illis quibus dicitur Eph. 2. Gratiâ servati estis per fidem hoc non ex vobis Dei enim donum est non ex operibus ne quis glorietur Tertius Cancellarius est ille ad quem spectat dare literas purae gratiae misericordiae hoc officium habet B. virgo c. I pray if your leisure serve and opportunity too let me know if you have read of like Divinity to that of the two Gates and of St. Peter's two Keys in any other Paper And besides I would gladly know whether you have not seen these words in the Title page of Arius Montanus his Interlineal Bible printed by Plantin An. 1584. viz. Accesserunt huic editioni libri Graece scripti quos Ecclesia Orthodoxa Hebroeorum Canonum sequuta inter Apocryphos recenset For if my memory deceive me not I have seen them there And yet a friend of mine hath that Bible bearing the same date wherein they are not and I have not opportunity to see more Copies I verily think the Papists have reprinted the first page whereby it comes to pass that in some they are and in some they are not I would be glad to see the other part of the Succession of the Church which you promise in that you have set out already And if I can hear when good occasion brings you to London I will make hard shift but I will meet you there The bearer hereof Mr. Foxcroft is an honest Gentleman and one of my Brother's neighbours by him you may send to us at your pleasure My Brother commends himself very kindly to you And so with remembrance of mine own love unto you I commend you and your Labours to God's gracious blessing Your unfeigned Well-willer Alexander Cook Leedes in Yorkshire July 2. 1614. Do not you think that Mr. Casaubon p. 305 306. mistook Baronius his opinion of Damascen for my part I do not believe his censure touched Damascen de Imaginibus LETTER XIII Another Letter from Mr. Sam. Ward to Mr. James Usher afterward Arch-Bishop of Armagh Salutem in Christo. Good Mr. Usher I Understood by a paper inclosed in a Letter to Mr. Winch that you were desirous of some information hence in sundry particulars therein mentioned And first for the place alledged out of Joachim Abbas in Mr. Perkins his Problem there is a little mistake for it is cited pag. 2. whereas it should have been Part. 2. pag. 119. facie 2. in the Edition which was An. Dom. 1527. There is in the allegation a word or two differing but in the place mentioned you shall find somewhat more to that purpose For that which is written touching Rabanus in the Preface of Guilielmus Malmesb. in abbreviatione Amularii it is verbatim the same with that which you have in your Book alledged out of the MS. in Collegio Omnium Animarum Oxon. As for the words which M. Plesseis alledgeth out of Claudius Seisellius contra Waldenses in commendation of the said Waldenses I have not exactly perused the Book but thus much I find fol. 9. Nonnihil etiam ad horum Waldensium confirmandam toler and amque sectam confert quod praeter haec quae contra fidem religionemque nostram assumunt in reliquis fermè puriorem quam coeteri Christiani vitam agunt Non enim nisi coacti jurant raroque nomen Dei in vanum proferunt promissaque sua bonâ fide implent in paupertate pars maxima degentes Apostolicam vitam doctrinamque servare se solos protestantur Touching the History of the Earls of Tholouse I have transcribed some part of that which concerneth the Waldenses and will finish the rest and send it you ere long It chiefly consisteth in a narration of Simon Mountiffort his attempt warranted by the great Council of Lateran for the suppressing of the Hereticks and their Abbettors chiefly Raymundus Earl of Tholouse But I will in some sort satisfie your request shortly by sending you the Transcript I doubt not but they which set forth the Council of Chalcedon for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 writ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus with my best wishes and kindest salutations and willingness to help you here in what I can out of our Libraries I commit you to the Protection of the highest In hast Your very loving Friend Sam. Ward Sidney Colledge July 28. 1614. We have lost and so hath the whole Church a great loss by Mr. Casaubon's untimely decease LETTER XIV A Letter from Mr. Samuel Ward to Mr. James Usher afterward Arch-Bishop of Armagh then in London Salutem Good Mr. Usher I Am sorry I had not opportunity to see you before my departure out of the City I pray you inform me what the Specialties are which are omitted in Mr. Mason's Book I would only know the heads I would know of you whether you have seen or heard of the second Tome of Councils Groeco-lat set out at Rome I hear it is alledged by Fronto Ducoeus Or whether you can remember out of the Reading of Catalogues of Manuscripts whether the Acts of the Council of Chalcedon be extant in any Library in Europe Graecè I have read of the Acts of the 1 Concilium Arelatense set forth by P. Pithoeus but could never come by them I would know whether they be extant in the late Paris Edition of Hilary or no 1605. I had no leisure when I was with you to inquire how Mr. Mason doth warrant the Vocation and Ordination of the Ministers of the Reformed Churches in Foreign Parts Thus with my best wishes and kindest salutations I commend your self and all your labours to God's blessing and the good of his Church and so rest Your assured loving Friend Samuel Ward Sidney Colledge April 14. 1615. I did hear that the King had given 600 l. per Annum to the Colledge in Ireland and that now the whole revenue of the same is 1100 l. per Annum which I am glad to hear of LETTER XV.
Years the contrary Report whereunto was the chief Cause wherefore you deferred the sending of those Books by the former Messenger And so nothing doubting but you will yield at last to my earnest Request I bid you heartily farewel resting ever Your assured loving Friend and Brother James Usher Scripsi raptim Dominici Adventûs Anno Domini 1617. LETTER XXXI A Letter from Sir Henry Bourgchier to Dr. James Usher afterwards Arch-Bishop of Armagh at Dublin Worthy Sir HAD the Opportunity of convenient Messengers concurr'd with my Desires my Letters should have come faster to your Hands than they have done and what hath been wanting of that Respect which absent Friends yield one another I do assure you hath been supplied by an affectionate Desire in me to enjoy your Company together with the Remembrance of those many happy Hours which I have spent with you I had once hop'd to have seen you this Winter but my necessary Occasions in England with the Difficulties of a Winter Journey are like to detain me here until the Spring where if my Service may be useful or advantageous to you it shall be as absolutely at your Command as any Friend of yours that lives I doubt not but you have heard much of the troublesome Estate of the Low-Country Churches by their Diversity of Opinions and what Tumults had like to have ensued or rather are like to ensue for the Tempest is not yet over-blown and had not the opposite Faction to the Arminian by them termed vulgarly Gomarians shewed a great deal of Temperance and Patience much Effusion of Christian Blood had followed I suppose you have seen Sir Dud. Carlton's Speech in the last General Assembly at the Hague which is answered by H. Grotius in Print He is a Professor in Leyden very inward with Mouns Barneveldt and by name I think well known to you And 14 of the 18 Cities which send their Deputies to the General Assembly have publickly protested against any National or Provincial Synods which shall be called About a Fortnight since the Heads and others of the University of Cambridge were summon'd to appear before his Majesty at New-market where at their coming they were required to deliver their Opinions concerning Mouns Barneveldt's Confession lately sent over to the King to which as I am informed many of them did subscribe and principally Dr. Richardson the Kings Professor for which he either hath already or is in some Danger of losing his Place I know not whether you have seen the Book called Analecta Sacra published the last Mart if you can discover the Author I pray you let me know him I have written to a Friend of mine at Paris to enquire at the Printers where the Book was printed of the Author With much difficulty I obtained one of them which you should have received had I not been constrained to bestow it otherwise Here in England there is little written or published in any kind of Learning In every Parish-Church there are now Sums of Money collected for Chelsey Colledge but I see no Addition to the Work Our kind Friend Mr. Briggs hath lately published a Supplement to the most excellent Tables of Logarithms which I presume he hath sent you Suarez's Book against the King is now grown common by the late German Impression which if you please you may have The Popish Writers having sharpned their Weapons being now to strike with sharp Invectives our Arch-Bishop of Spalato after their wonted manners and now openly charge him with Apostacy and revolt from their Religion He hath not obtained any Ecclesiastical Promotion nor for ought I hear desireth any but rather to end his Days in a retired and solitary Exile Since the return of Digby into Spain there is little known of the Progress of our Affairs there neither of Sir Walter Raleigh since the Return of Captain Bayly from him if I may give his unworthy running away so honest a name Sir both I and my Messenger stand upon Thorns as they say being both presently to begin our Journeys he for Ireland I for the West of England where I mean to spend this Festival time which I hope shall excuse my Rudeness in Writing both for Matter and Manner When I come to a place of more leisure you shall hear from me In the mean time let me live in your good Opinion as one who truly loves you and will ever declare himself Your truly affectionate and faithful Friend Henry Bourgchier London the 6th of December 1617. LETTER XXXII A Letter from Mr. William Eyres to Dr. James Usher afterward Arch-Bishop of Armagh Eximio Sacr. Theologiae Professori amico suo singulari Domino Jacobo Usserio S. RAMUS iste tuus noster qui brevi ut opinor ad nos in Angliam reversurus est absque grati animi mei significatione aliqua pro singulari tuâ erga me clementiâ benignitate non est dimittendus Gratulor verò tibi charissime frater felicitatem tuam qui in regione minùs culta variis motibus perturbatâ natus educatus nobis hic in florentissimo Regno totique orbi Christiano facem Divinae intelligentiae in rebus maximè necessariis praebuisti ac etiamnum porrò uti speramus expectamus praebiturus es Intelligo doctissimas tuas lucubrationes tanquam stellas totidem lucidissimas Macte Virtute istâ tuâ Christo optimo Maximo duce in omnibus Nos hic Semipagani qui ad stivam religati sumus Rusticos in Christianae fidei fundamentalibus in timore Domini instruimus Plerique hic ferè omnes Papismum detestantur Sit nomen Domini benedictum Contra Papatum quotidie concionamur Neminem habemus repugnantem omnes consentientes Caeterum valde multi sunt qui odio Papismi plusquam Vatiniano ut ita dicam flagrant ut solenniorem Dei cultum nullo modo ferre possint Hinc omne genus nequitiae caput sustollere taxim occoepit Multi qui contra Papisticam superstitionem invehuntur contra rapinam sacrilegium luxuriam ebrietatem gulam arrogantiam superbiam avaritiam usuram id genus enormia ne protestantur quidem Sed quorsum haec Manum de Tabula Verbum sapienti sat est satque habet favitorum semper qui rectè agit Quid nos in votis habemus postmodum accipies Interea verò in Jesu Christo Domino ac sospitatore nostro benè vale Fraterculus tibi multis nominibus devinctissimus Guilielmus Eyres Colcestriae 21. die Aprilis 1618. LETTER XXXIII A Letter from Dr. James Usher afterward Arch-Bishop of Armagh to Mr. William Camden My dear and worthy Friend I Have been earnestly intreated by Dr. Rives to send this inclosed Letter unto you He hath had his Education in New-Colledge in the University of Oxford where he took his Degree of Doctor in the Civil Law He is now one of the Masters of the Chancery with us and Judge of the Faculties and Prerogative Court Two things he told me he was
Parts wherein was certified of them ducentis abhinc annis ex regione Pedemontanâ profectos in provinciae partemillam commigrasse c. as may be seen in Crispin lib. 3 o Actionum Moniment Martyrum Thuanus hath here 300 Years but 200 of these times they were persecuted under the Name of the Beghardi I alledge the Testimony of Matthias Parisiensis who lived in Bohemia about the year 1390. Qui alienant se strenuè saith he in lib. de Sacerdotum Monachorum spiritualium abominatione Cap. 30. ab exercitio tulium à contubernio propter Domini Jesu timorem amorem mox à vulgo Christiano hujus mundi conviciantur confunduntur nota pessima singularitatum vel Hoeresum criminantur propter quod tales homines devoti qui similia vulgo profano non agunt Bechardi vel Turspinii lego Turebipini aut aliis nominibus blasphemis communiter jam nominantur quod figuratum est in illis primis in Babylone quibus alia nomina impofuerunt quà m habuerunt in terra Israel There cometh also unto my mind another place which is not common touching the Beghardi and Fratricelli out of the Book de squaloribus Romanae Curiae written by Matthew de Cracovia who was Bishop of Worms ab anno 1405 ad 1410. Thus he there complaineth Vadunt Beckardi Fratricelli Sectuarii suspectissimi de hoerefi clero infestissimi erectis capitibus absque ullo timore in urbe et seducunt liberè quotquot possunt And mark that this fell upon the time of Pope Gregory the XII who usually did send his Letters to the Princes and Bishops of Christendom per Lollardos seu Beguardos ad quos semper videbatur ejus affectio specialitèr inclinari As is affirmed by Theodoricus à Niem lib. 3. de Schism cap. 6. Whereby we see what Rest and Boldness the same Professors got by the great Schism in the Papacy agreeable to that which Wickliff writeth lib. 3. de Sermone Domini in monte You see when I begin I know not how to make an end and therefore that I prove not too tedious I will abruptly break off desiring you to remember in prayers Your most Assured Loving Friend and Brother James Usher Dublin Aug. 16. 1619. LETTER XXXIX A Letter of Dr. James Usher 's afterwards Arch-Bishop of Armagh Sir YOU hear I doubt not ere this of the lamentable news out of Bohemia how it pleased God on the 29th of October last to give victory to the Emperor's Army against the King of Bohemia His whole Army was routed 3000 flain on the ground others taken Prisoners who have yielded to save their lives to serve against him Himself and the chief Commanders fled with 2000 Horse came to Prague took away the poor Queen being with Child and some of his Councellors with such things as in that hast could be carried away and so left that Town it not being to be held and withdrew himself into Silesia where he hath another Army as also in Moravia though not without an Enemy there invading also How those of the Religion in Bohemia are like to be dealt with you may imagine and what other evil effects will follow God knoweth if he in mercy stay not the fury of the Enemy who in all likelihood intendeth to prosecute the Victory to the uttermost Spinola also prevaileth still in the Palatinate one Town or two more with two or three little Castles he hath gained and now we hear that a Cessation of Arms is on either side agreed upon for the space of five months The Spaniard hath made himself Master of the Passage betwixt Italy and Germany by getting Voltelina where he hath put down five Protestant Churches and Erected Idolatry in their places He hath so corrupted many among the Switzers as they cannot resolve on any good course how to help the mischief or how to prevent the further increasing of it The French that should protect them are Hispaniolized The Germans have their hands full at home And the Venetians that would dare not alone enter into the business And now newly while I am writing this addition we are certified here that the King of Bohemia hath quit Moravia and Silesia seeing all things there desperate and hath withdrawn himself unto Brandenburgh God grant we may lay this seriously to heart otherwise I fear the judgment that hath begun there will end heavily upon us and if all things deceive me not it is even now marching toward us with a swift pace And so much touching the Affairs of Germany which you desired me to impart unto you whether they were good or evil Concerning Mr. Southwick's departure although not only you but divers others also have advertised me yet I cannot as yet be perswaded that it is intended by him for both himself in his last Letter unto me and his Wife here no longer than yesterday hath signified unto me the plain contrary Your Son Downing wisheth the place unto Mr. Ward your neighbour Mr. Johnson unto Mr. Cook of Gawran and others unto one Mr. Neyle who hath lately preached there with good liking as I hear The last of these I know not with the first I have dealt and am able to draw him over into Ireland Your assured loving Friend James Usher 1619. LETTER XL. A Letter from Mr. Edward Browncker to the Right Reverend James Usher Lord Bishop of Meath SIR I Marvel much at the Deputy's exceptions he discovers a great deal of unworthy suspicion What answer I have made unto him you may here see I doubt not but he will rest satisfied with it unless he hath resolved to do me open wrong You may seal it up with any but your own Seal I pray you lend me your best furtherance it shall not go unacknowledged howsoever I speed As for the Manuscripts you desire to hear of neither one nor the other is to be found It is true according unto Dr. James his Catalogue there was one Gildas in Merton Colledge Library but he was Gildas Sapiens not Gildas Albanius whom Pitts says was the Author of the Book entituled De Victoria Aurelii Ambrosii neither is that Gildas Sapiens now to be seen in Merton Colledge he hath been cut out of the Book whereunto he was annexed Yet there is one in our Publick Library who writes a story De Gestis Britannorum in whom I find mention of King Lucius his Baptism His words be these Post 164 annos post adventum Christi Lucius Britannicus Rex cum Universis Regulis totius Britaniae Baptismum susceperunt missa legatione ab Imperatore Papa Romano Evaristo As for the Orations of Richard Fleming there be no such to be heard of in Lincoln Colledge Library Neither can I find or learn that the Junior Proctor's Book relates any passage of the Conversion of the Britains If you have any thing else to be search'd for I pray make no scruple of using me further So wishing you comfort in your
the Princes About this there is now much consultation in what manner to proceed Salvo legatino jure and Sir Robert Cotton as you know his manner is hath been very busie in ransacking his Papers for Presidents Of this more hereafter This day my Lord Treasurer makes his Answer about the beginning of the next Week we shall know his Doom Our good Friend D. Lyndsel was cut on Munday and is yet God be praised well after it there was a Stone taken out of his Bladder about the bigness of a Shilling and rough on the one side I am now collating of Bede's Ecclestastical History with Sir Robert Cotton's Copy wherein I find many Variations I compare it with Commelyn's Edition in Folio which is that I have All that I expect from your Lordship is to understand of the Receipt of my Letters which if I know I shall write the more confidently I should also willingly know how you like your Dwelling My Lord of Bristol is come I pray you present my Love and Service to Mrs. Usher And so with many thanks for all your kind Respects I will ever remain Your very affectionate Friend and Servant Henry Bourgchier London April 28. 1623. Sir Robert Cotton is like to get a very good Copy of Malmsbury de Antiquit Glaston It is a Book I much desire to see I pray you remember the Irish Annal which you promised me before your going out of Town LETTER LV. A Letter from Mr. H. Holcroft to the Right Reverend James Usher Lord Bishop of Meath My Lord IT hath pleased his Majesty now to direct this Letter to the Lord Deputy to admit you a Privy Counsellor of that Kingdom I am ashamed it hath staid so long in my hands before it could be dispatch'd But if it had come at the first to me during the Duke of Buckingham's being here it had not staid three days but gone on in the plain High-way which is ever via sana After the Lord Deputy was pleased to put it into my Hands at my first Access I moved his Majesty and shewed his Lordships Hand But the King willed it should stay and it became not me to press it further at that time I know the Cause of the Stay was not any dislike of your Person or Purpose not to grant it But if the Duke had come home in any time you should have been beholding to him for it I pray your Lordship not to think it strange that about the same time his Majesty dispatch'd the Letter for Sir Edward Trevour to be a Counsellor The Grant was gotten by my Lord of Buckingham before his going and by his Commandment I drew it I do strive to give your Lordship a particular Accompt of this Business and do pray your Lordship to endeavour to satisfie the Lord Deputy of whose Commands herein I was not negligent So soon as I acquainted his Majesty with his Lordships second Letter I had his Royal Signature of which I wish you much Joy My Lord Grandison is in reasonable good Health So I remain Your Lordships most assured Friend Henry Holcroft Westminster June 13. 1623. LETTER LVI A Letter from Dr. Goad and Dr. Featly Chaplains to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to the Right Reverend James Usher Bishop of Meath Admodum Reverende Domine HAving so convenient a means we send to your Lordship which perhaps you have not yet seen translated and thus Armed with a Preface by a worthy and learned Gentleman Sir Humphrey Lynd our Neighbour To whose Observations concerning the Censures upon this Tractate de Corpore Sang. Christi if you will add any thing which he hath not espyed we will impart the same from you to him whereby your Lordship shall more encourage this well deserving Defender of the Cause of Religion to whom in other Respects the Church and common Cause oweth much For at this instant upon our Motion he hath undertaken the Charge of printing the particular passages of many late Writers castrated by the Romish Knife The Collections are made by Dr. James and are now to be sent unto us for preparation to the Press We shall begin with Polydore Virg. Stella Mariana and Ferus Proeterea in eodem genere alia texitur tela The Story of the Waldenses written in French and comprising Relations and Records for 400 years is now in translating into English to be published Before which it is much desired that your Lordship will be pleased to prefix a Preface for the better pass which we think will be very acceptable and the rather because we hope your Lordship will therein intimate that in the same Subject jamdudum aliquid parturis whereto this may serve for a Midwife unless the Masculine birth deliver it self before this foreign Midwife come Thus desiring to hear from your Lordship but more to see you here upon a good occasion we take our Leave and rest Thomas Goad Your Lordships to be commanded Daniel Featly Lambeth June 14. 1623. LETTER LVII A Letter from Sir Henry Bourgchier to the Right Reverend James Usher Lord Bishop of Meath Salutem à Salutis fonte D. N. Jesu Christo. Most Reverend in Christ THough I have little to say more than the remembrance of my love and best respects I could not forbear to lay hold on the opportunity of this Bearer our common friend thereby to present them as many ways most due from me to your Lordship You have been so long expected here that your Friends Letters have by that means come more rarely to your hands We have little News either of the great business or any other though Messengers come Weekly out of Spain And I conceive that Matters are yet very Doubtful The new Chapel for the Infanta goes on in Building and our London-Papists report That the Angels descend every Night and Build part of it Here hath been lately a Conference between one Fisher a Jesuit and one Sweete on the one side and Dr. Whyte and Dr. Feately on the other The Question was of the Antiquity and Succession of the Church It is said that we shall have it Printed All our Friends are in good Health namely Sr. Robert Cotton Sr. Henry Spelman Mr. Camden Mr. Selden and the rest and Remember themselves most Affectionately to you Mr. Selden will send you a Copy of his Eadmerus with the first opportunity which should have been done before this time had not his expectation of you here stayed his hand Philip Cluverius is lately Dead at Leyden of a Consumption Before his Death he was so happy as to finish his Italia which they say is done with great diligence and the Impression so forward that we shall have it this Autumnal Marte My Lord Chichester is to go within a Fortnight to Colen to the Treaty and Meeting there appointed for the Restitution of the Palatinate But some think that the Armies now a-foot in Germany will much hinder it Bethlem Gabor troubles the Emperor again in Austria The Duke of Brunswick in
his own Wants and Desires himself I have trespassed too much on your Lordship whom God long preserve Your Lordship 's in all Duty Tho. James Oxon Feb. 15th 1624. LETTER LXXVIII A Letter from Dr. Ward to the Right Reverend James Usher Bishop of Meath at Much-Haddam in Essex Right Reverend I Received your Lordship's Letter which I should have answered ere now But the truth is I had a purpose to have seen your Lordship at my return from London at the end of the Term but I was hindred in that intention And since my return home I heard your Lordship was fallen into a burning Fever whereupon I purposed to have made a Journey to visit your Lordship and to that purpose went to Mr. Crane to have his Company But being born in hand by one of Jesus Colledg that he should shortly hear from Haddam how your Lordship did the Party went out of Town and so I heard nothing till Mr. Crane came home I did hear at London of the decease of the late Primate of Armagh and of your Lordship's Designment by his Majesty to succeed in that place which I pray God may turn to his Glory the Good of the Nation and your own Comfort and Contentment I have borrowed of Mr. Vice-Chancellor the Book wherein is the History of the Church of Lindifern after of Durham it is in four Books the Book is none of those which Bale mentioneth I borrowed it of him for two Months It is one of them which Matthew Parker gave to the University-Library I spake with Mr. Lisle as touching the setting of some of the Saxon Chronicles He saith he hath seen some but few of them have any thing which are not in other Chronicles now extant If you have any which you think were worth his pains I would incite him thereunto I suppose your Lordship hath seen the Process against the Corps Picture and Books of the Arch-bishop of Spalato Unwise Man that could not easily have presaged these things By halting between two he hath much obscured his worth with all Parties I have perused some of Dr. Crakenthorp's Book which is well done I purpose to see your Lordship at Easter if God will and you continue with Sir Gerard Harvy This Messenger bringeth the Book and things from Mr. Crane with two Letters from him Thus with my Prayers to God for the Recovery of your Health and to bless you in all your Affairs with my best Wishes I commend your Lordship to the gracious Protection of the highest Majesty Your Lordship 's in all Practice Samuel Ward Cambridg this 21st of March 1624. LETTER LXXIX A Letter from Sir H. Bourgchier to the Right Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh at Much-Haddam Salutem in Christo. Most Reverend in Christ IN discharge of my Promise and that great Obligation of Thankfulness due from me I thought good to present these Lines to your Lordship Your Friends here were glad to conceive so good hope of your perfect Recovery which I doubt not will be daily greater I have herewithal sent your Lordship Eusebius's Chronicle and Asserins de vita Alfredi from Mr. Patrick Young together with the remembrance of his Love and Service It was neither his fault nor mine that you had them not sooner He desires that your Lordship will be pleased to return the Transcript of Epistles which you borrowed of me if you have not present occasion to use them for among them are some Epistles of Grossetede which my Lord Keeper desires to have having contracted with the Printer for the Impression of his Works with which he goes in hand presently as I told your Lordship Sir Rob. Cotton hath not yet gotten Malmesbury de Antiquit. Glaston but expects it daily I have been with my Lord of Winehester and presented your Lordship's Love and best Respects to him I also told him of your Samaritan Pentateuch of which he was very glad and desires to see it with your Lordship's best Convenience He keeps his Chamber for a Cold being otherwise very well Since my being with your Lordship I understand that Mr. Mountagues Appeal to Caesar for so he stiles it is in the Press I am promised Sirmundus upon Sidonius Apollinaris and Anastasius Bibliothecarius History which are not common the former with Savarons Notes I have but Mr. Selden will furnish your Lordship in the mean time with both Vettius Valens in Greek is Mr. Selden's now but was sometimes Dr. Dees But the rest of his Books will be had very shortly as many as are worth the having and so much de re literaria Now your Lordship will expect something of the publick Occurrents of the World which may be to you some Recreation The Siege of Breda holds still the Prince of Orange will be in the Field by the 20th of April Stylo novo with 50000 Foot 9000 Horse and 150 pieces of Ordnance and as they say is resolved to fight rather then Breda shall be lost Here is now great talk of the French Match and of the Duke 's present Journey thither but I confess I believe little For I hear others speak of the Popes Nephew Cardinal Barberino coming with great Pomp into France and as some say rather to hinder thâ—n further the Match Here is great preparation for a Fleet to go to Sea They speak of a Press of 10000 Land Souldier and 7000 Mariners to furnish that Fleet and that it shall be victual'd for eight Months Here is News come out of Spain of a great loss lately sustained by the Spaniards in the South Sea and that by the Holland Fleet that went for Lima. And thus wishing your Lordship perfect Health and as much Happiness as to my self I will ever remaim Your Lordship 's very affectionate Friend and humble Servant Henry Bourgchier London March 23d 1624. LETTER LXXX A Letter from the Bishop of Kilmore to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop Elect of Armagh Most Reverend and my honourable good Lord I Do congratulate with unspeakable Joy and Comfort your Preferment and that both out of the true and unfeigned Love I have ever born you for many years continued as also out of an assured and most firm Perswasion that God hath ordained you a special Instrument for the good of the Irish Church the growth whereof notwithstanding all his Majesty's Endowments and Directions receives every day more Impediments and Oppositions than ever And that not only in Ulster but begins to spread it self into other places so that the Inheritance of the Church is made Arbitrary at the Council-Table Impropriators in all places may hold all ancient Customs only they upon whom the Cure of Souls is laid are debarr'd St. Patrick's Ridges which you know belonged to the Fabrick of that Church are taken away Within the Diocess of Ardagh the whole Clergy being all poor Vicars and Curats by a Declaration of one of the Judges this last Circuit by what direction I know not without speedy remedy will be brought to much
loss of Shipping for within this three years it is said England hath lost of Vessels great and small 400. All things concur very untowardly against us but God Almighty hath reserved Victory to himself only We had great rejoicing every where for his Majesty's gracious and good agreement with the Parliament but some ten days ago the House of Commons having exhibited certain Remonstrances to his Highness which as it seemed touched the Duke after reading thereof his Majesty rose up and said They should be answered and instantly gave the Duke his Hand to kiss which the Parliament-men and others were much amazed at God Almighty amend what is amiss if it be his blessed Will and send Unity at Home that we may the better keep off and withstand our Enemies Abroad and continue Peace in these Kingdoms and more pertinently I pray to keep the Spaniards out of Ireland for we shall far better hold tack with them here if they should land than you can do there where too many are ready to join with them I know I can write nothing to your Lordship which is News to you yet express my Love and hearty and humble Affection to your Lordship I make bold to trouble you with a long Letter And so with my Service to Mrs Usher I take leave and rest Your Lordship 's ever truly assured to honour and serve you J. King Layfield June 30. 1628. LETTER CXXX A Letter from Sir Henry Spelman to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh May it please your Grace I Have nothing since my Letter by your Servant Mr. Sturges to trouble you with but this Bearer my Kinsman coming to see your noble Country I have requested him and therewith enjoined him to present my humble and most devoted Service to your Lordship and to bring me certain word how it standeth with you for your Health which to the good of the Common-Wealth as well as my own particular respect no Man more desireth and prayeth for For the Passages here of note I know you receive them by many Pens and therefore I will not enter into any relation of them only I wish they were better Yet amongst them I desire to present your Grace with the first printed Copy of the Petition of Parliament to his Majesty for their ancient Rights and Liberties with his gracious Answer thereto And by much instance I even in this hour obtained it from Mr. John Bill the Printer before they yet are become publick and to the laming of the Book from whence they are taken I send you also Mr. Glanvill's and Sir Henry Martyn's Speeches to the Upper House about this Matter and the Proclamation agaisnt Mr. Doctor Manwaring's Sermons But the King notwithstanding hath as it is credibly reported released him of all the censure imposed upon him by the Upper House of Parliament and this next month he is to serve in Court The Deputys Lieutenants also of the West Country are released and some of them repaired with the dignity of Baronet others of Knighthood all with Grace Mr. Bill desired me to remember him most humbly to your Lordship and to advertise you that he willingly will print your noble Work in one Volume as well in Latin as in English which with multitude of others I shall much rejoice to see Thus with all humble remembrance to your Grace I rest A Servant thereof most bound and devoted Henry Spelman Barbacan July 1. 1628. LETTER CXXXI A Letter from Dr. George Hakewill to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh My very good Lord YOur Lordship 's favourable interpretation and acceptance of my poor Endeavours beyond their desert hath obliged me to improve them to the utmost in your good Lordship's Service and more especially in the good education of that going Gentleman Ja Dillâ—â— whom you weâ—â— pleased to commend as a Jewel of price to my care and trust praising God that your Lordship hath been made his Instrument to reclaim him from the Superstitions of the Romish Church and wishing we had some more frequent Examples in that kind in these cold and dangerous Time For his tuition I have placed him in Exeter Colledg with Mr. Bodley a Batchelor of Divinity and Nephew to the great Sir Thomas Bodley of whose sobâ—â—ty gravity piety and every way sufficiency I have had a long trial and were he not so near me in Blood I could easily afford him a larger Testimony He assures me that he finds his Scholar tractable and studious In that such a Disposition having met with such a Tutor to direct and instruct it I make no doubt but it will produce an effect answerable to our expectation and desire And during mine abode in the University my self shall not be wanting to help it forward the best I may Your Lordship shall do well to take order with his Friends that he may have credit for the taking up of Monies in London for the defraying his Expences for that to expect it from Ireland will be troublesome and tedious I wish I could write your Lordship any good News touching the present state of Affairs in this Kingdom but in truth except it please God to put to his extraordinary helping hand we have more reason to fear an utter downfal than to hope for a rising Thus heartily praying for your Lordship's Health and Happiness I rest Your Lordship 's unfeignedly to command Geo. Hakewill Exeter Colledg in Oxford July 16. 1628. LETTER CXXXII A Letter from Dr. Prideaux Rector of Exeter Colledg or Oxon to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh Most Reverend Father in God YOur letters 〈◊〉 the more welcome unto me in that 〈◊〉 brought news of the publishing of your Ecclesiastical 〈◊〉 so much desired In which the 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 thing fully and in 〈…〉 see will put a period I trust to the 〈…〉 is a high favour that iâ— pleased you to make use of my 〈◊〉 for the placing of your Kinsman I shall strain 〈◊〉 best endeavours to make good your Undertakings to his Friends Young Tutors oftentimes fail their Pupils for want of Experience and Authority to say nothing of Negligence and Ignorance I have resolved therefore to make your Kinsman one of my peculiar and tutor him wholly my self which I have ever continued to some especial Friends ever since I have been Rector and Doctor He billets in my Lodgings hath three fellow Pupils which are Sons to Earls together with his Country man the Son of my Lord Caulfield all very civil studious and sit to go together I trust that God will so bless our joint Endeavours that his worthy Friends shall receive content and have cause to thank your Grace Whose Faithful Servant I remain Jo. Prideaux Oxon Aug. 27. 1628. LETTER CXXXIII A Letter from the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh to the Right Honourable My most honourable Lord THE noble respect which in a singular manner you have still born to the preservation of
all Monuments of Antiquity hath emboldned me at this time to put your Lordship in mind of a present occasion which may much conduce to the general good of all of us that employ our Studies in this kind of Learning That famous Library of Giâ—cono Barocci a Gentleman of Venice consisting of 242 Greek Manuscript Volumes is now brought into England by Mr. Fetherstone the Stationer Great pity it were that such a Treasure should be dissipated and the Books dispersed into private hands If by your Lordship's mediation the King's Majesty might be induced to take them into his own hand and add there unto that rare Collection of Arabick Manuscripts which my Lord Duke of Buckingham purchased from the Hens of Erpenius it would make that of his Majestys a Royal Library indeed and make some recompence of that incomparable loss which we have lately sustain'd in the Library of Heidelberg We have 〈◊〉 a poor return unto your Lordship of our Commission in the business of Pbeliâ— Mâ—â— Fâ—â—gh Birr and his Sons And because the directions which we received 〈◊〉 the Lords required the dispatch thereof with all convenient expedition 〈◊〉 we have made more haste I fear than good speed fully purposing in our selves that the examination which 〈…〉 taken should have come unto your 〈…〉 your Lordships Resolutions 〈…〉 have been notified before the beginning of Hilâ—â—y Teâ—m That things have fallen out otherwiseâ— iâ— that I confess wherein we shall be hardly 〈…〉 â—â—â— selves 〈…〉 that this important Business might in such 〈◊〉 be 〈…〉 that the Honour and Dignity of his Majesty 〈…〉 might withal be very tenderly respected for the least shew of 〈…〉 that may 〈…〉 he given from thence 〈◊〉 Authority will add encouragement to such â—â— are too apt to 〈…〉 his Majesty's Ministers here from being so forward as otherwise they would be in prosecution of such publick Services of the State Which I humbly leave unto your Lordship's deeper consideration and evermore rest Your Honour 's in all dutiful Service ready to be commanded Ja. Armachanst Dublin Jan. 22. 1628. LETTER CXXXIV 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 your Grace's second Letters and with the Letters from Dr. Barlow a Man known to me only by Name and good Report I have upon receipt of these a second time humbly presented Dr. Barlow's Suit to his Majesty with all fair representation to his Majesty of the necessity of a good Commendam to the Arch-bishop of Tuam And tho in my judgment I hold it very unfit and of ill both Example and Consequence in the Church to have a Bishop much more an Arch-bishop retain a Deanery in Commendam Yet because there is as I am informed much service to be done for that Arch-bishop and because I have conceived this Man will do that Service for so he hath assumed and because much of that Service must be done at Dublin where that Deaury will the better fit him as well for House as Charge and because it is no new thing in that Country to hold a Deanry with a Bishoprick I made bold to move his Majesty for it and his Majesty is graciously pleased to grant it and I have already by his Majesty's special Command given order to Sir Hen. Holcross to send Letters to my Lord Deputy to this purpose But there two things his Majesty commanded me to write to your Lordship The one that young Men be not commended to him for Bishops The other that he shall 〈◊〉 be drawn again to grant a Deanry in Commendam Any other Preferment though of more value he shall be content to yield I am glad I have been able to serve your Grace's desires in this Business And for Dr. Barlow I with him joy but must desire your Lordship to excuse my not writing to him for between Parliament and Term I have not lenure So I leave you to the Grace of God and shall ever rest Your Graces loving Friend and Brother Guil. London Jan. 29. 1628. My Lord Arch-bishop of Tak Dr. Barlow's 〈…〉 that was is of my 〈◊〉 for holding a 〈…〉 LETTER CXXXV A Letter from Dr. William Bedell to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh at Drogheda Right Reverend Father my honourable good Lord SInce your Graces departure from Dublin I began to peruse the Papers you left me of Dr. Ghaloner's hand about the first foundation of the Colledg which although in some places I cannot read word for word yet I perceive the sense and have transcribed so far as they go without interruption But they refer to some Copies of Letters which I have not nor yet are in our Chest as namely the City's Letter to Queen Elizabeth and the Lord Deputy and Comisales and hers to the Lord Deputy here for the founding of the Colledg All which if they might be had would be inserted into the History of the Colledg ad Verbum And which is worse the third Duernion is wholly missing noted it seems in the Front with the Figure 3. This makes me bold to write to your Grace to search if you can find any thing more of this Argument that there may be somewhat left to Posterity concerning the beginnings of so good a Work I have also since your Grace's departure drawn a Form of the Confirmation of our Rectories from the Bishop of Clougher in conformity to two Instruments viz. the Resignation of George Montgomery sometime Bishop thereof and Derry and Rapho and our Colledg Patent I have used all the means I can to know whether any Predecessor of your Grace did in like manner resign into the King's Hands any Patronages within your Diocess and what their Names be which if I could understand I would entreat your Grace to go before in your Diocess and to be our Patron in the soliciting the other Bishops to follow in theirs I send your Grace the form of the Confirmation and the Names of the Rectories in our Patent referring the rest to your wisdom and love to the Colledg This is a Business of great importance to this Society and hath already been deferred so long and Mr. Usher's sudden taking away to omit my Lord of Kilmore admonishes me to work while the day lasts Another Business there is which enforceth me to have recourse to your Grace which is this Yesterday as I was following Mr. Usher's Funeral there was delivered me a Letter from my Lord Chancellor containing another to his Lordship from Mr. Lloyd together 〈◊〉 a Note which I send herewith He demandeth of the Colledg not only his Diâ—t in his absence which the Statute expresly denies to a Fellow and which a your Grace and the Visitors intended to grant him you did him a Favour instead of a Punishment but Wages for being a Prime-Lecturer whereas his Year came out at Midsummer and he had till then his Allowance although he performed not the
The publication of the Martyrdoms of Ignatius and Polycarpus sure cannot be unseasonable we are born to those times quibus sirmare animum expedit constantibus exemplis For my self I cannot tell what account to make of my present Employment I have many Irons in the Fire but of no great consequence I do not know how soon I shall be called to give up and am therefore putting my House in order digesting the confused Notes and Papers left me by several Predecessors both in the University and Colledg which I purpose to leave in a better method than I found them At Mr. Patr. Young's request I have undertaken the Collation of Constantines Geoponicks with two MSS. in our publick Library upon which I am forced to bestow some vacâ—nt hours In our Colledg I am ex officio to moderate Divinity-Disputations once a week My honoured Friend Dr. Duck has given me occasion to make some enquiry after the Law And the opportunity of an ingenious young Man come lately from Paris who has put up a private course of Anatomy has prevailed with me to engage my self for his Auditor and Spectator upon three days a week four hours each time But this I do ut explorator non ut transfuga For tho I am not sollicitous to engage my self in that great and weighty Calling of the Ministery after this new way yet I would be loth to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as to Divinity Tho I am very insufficient to make a Master-buider yet I could help to bring in Materials from that publick store in our Library to which I could willingly consecrate the remainder of my days and count it no loss to be deprived of all other Accommodations so I might be permitted to enjoy the liberty of my Conscience and Study in that place But if there be such a price set upon the latter as I cannot reach without pawning the former I am resolved the Lord's Will be done I shall in all conditions be most desirous of the continuance of your Grace's Affection and at this time more especially of your Prayers for him who is Your Lordship's most engaged Servant Ger. Langbaine Queens Coll. Feb. 9. 1646 7. LETTER CCXIII. Viro Reverendissimo Honoratissimo Jacobo Usserio Patrono meo summo Venerande Christianus Ravius S. P. D. NON possum omittere Patrone Pater Domine quin subinde ad Te scribam ut solâ meâ voluntate animoque interim gratitudinem meritorum ergà me ingentium tuorum ostendam quando reapse nihil dum possum Rogo saltem hoc ut cùm nuper intellexerim Rev. Dominum Rutilium habuisse Commissum à Tuâ Honoratissimâ Reverendissimaque Dign ut aliquos pro te libros inquireret procuraret meâ potiùs eâ te operâ uti velis tanquam clientis tui obsequentissimi Iste enim meus amicus eam fortè nequeat praestare operam ita laboriosam quam tali in re requiri scio Jam fere annus est elapsus elabeturque ad Calendas Majas à quibus Lectiones meas Amstelodamenses tractavi absolvique interim praeter Grammaticam Mehlfureri Ebraicam A. Buxtorfii Chaldeam Joelem prophetam itemque tria priora Capita Danielis privatisque Collegiis binis de septimanâ publicis lectionibus diebus Martis Veneris hora tertiâ pomeridianâ frequentiori certè auditorio quà m Leidae L'Empereurius Franekerae Coccejus Groningae Altingius Altingii Theologi Germani Filius Cl. Pasor qui olim Arabica Oxoniae docuit publicè jam ab aliquot benè multis annis quibus Groningae Professor vivit nihil omnino praestat in Orientalibus eorum amorem penitus rejecit P. L' Empereurius est Professor Theologiae isque locus vacat si Cl. Buxtorfium Basileâ nancisci potuissent vocatum magno gaudio suscepissent cum desistat locum illum pariter supplere perget L' Empereurius Ego Amstelodamensem Conditionem multo praeferam Leidensi proximo Maio res experientur an Magistratus noster Amplissimus Orientalium Professionem constituerere Ordinariam possit velitque Hoc interim fatentur Curatores ipsi rem ultrà suam omnium spem felicius procedere Aliquot MSS. misi Tigurum à quo loco omnium Tigurinarum Ecclesiarum Antistitis Professoris literas T. D. Committo ut videas me non Amstel 8 Aprilis 1647. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LETTER CCXIV. A Letter from the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh to Dr. Langbaine Salutem in Christo Jesu YEsterday I received your Letter sent by Mr. Patrick Young and thank you very much for your readiness in contributing your pains to the furtherance of my little Treatise de Fidei Symbolis which is now in the Press I hold therein against Vossius and the vulgar Opinion that the Nicene Creed in our Common-Prayer Book is indeed the Nicene and not the Constantinopolitan I mean the Nicene as it is recited by Epiphanius in his Anchoratus p. 518. Edit Graec. Basiliens a Book written seven Years before the Council of Constantinople was held and yet therein both the Article of the Holy Ghost and the others following are recited 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which have been hitherto thought to have been added to the Symbol first by that Council If the Synodicon which you think to have been written Anno Christi 583 have any thing touching the distinction of Nicene and Constantinopolitan Creed I would willingly understand and with what number your Synodicon is noted in the former disposition of the Baroccian Library according to which my Catalogue is framed In the first Tome of the Graeco-Latin Edition of Gregory Nazianzen about the 728 Page there is a kind of Symbol the first part whereof I find at the end of the Acts of the Council of Chalcedon in Crabbes Edition intituled Fides Romanorum that is as I conceive it Constantinopolitanorum It is to be found also if I remember aright among the Manuscript Tractates of Nazianzen translated by Ruffinus in Magdalen Colledg Library in the first Edition of S. Ambrose his Works and in Georgius Wicelius his Euchologium By comparing of all which together if I might get a right Copy thereof it would do me some pleasure It is also by some attributed to Athanasius and happily may be that Symbol of his differing from ours which Cazanorius or Czecanorius in his Epistle to Calvin saith to be so common in the Moscovitical and Russian Churches of whose Ecclesiastical Offices you have in the publick Library some Copies by which we might understand the truth hereof I will trouble you no further at this time but rest Your most assured loving Friend Ja. Armachanus London April 22. 1647. I send you back with much thanks your Catalogue of the Arch-bishops of Constantinople In Epistolis Photii Epistola prima MS. quae ad Michaelem Bulgariae Regem est cujus partem aliquiam interprete Turriano Latine dedit Hen. Canisius Antiquarum lectionum Tom. 5. pag. 183. post septem Synodos plus
Treatise de tribus Symbolis as any thing else which cometh from your learned Pen be pleased I pray you so soon as it is printed to send it unto my Son-in-law Mr. John Attwood Counsellor at Law in Grays-Inn who will speedily hasten it unto me unto whom likewise I intreat your Lordship to deliver the Key of my Study lest when I come to Town I should miss of it if your Lordship go into the Country Thus with remembrance of my ever bounden Respects I take my leave remaining as ever Your Lordships truly devoted Friend and Servant Pat. Young Broomefield the 25th of June 1647. LETTER CCXX A Letter from the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh to D. Fredericus Spanhemius Admodum Reverendo in Christo Fratri D. Frederico Spanhemio Academiae Lugduno-Batavae pro tempore Rectori dignissimo Leydam ET tuam de gratiâ disputationem uberrimam funebrem Aransicani Principis laudationem accepi Spanhemi Charissime atque in utraque tum ingenii acumen tum facundiam singularem perspexi admiratus sum Quas tamen dotes in priore argumento adversus communes Gratiae adversarios intendendas multò magis optavissem quà m adversus amicos idem bellum adversus Pelagianos Semipelagianos nobiscum professos licet in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 circumstantiis quibusdam nonnihil dissidentes de quâ controversiâ quaenam moderatiorum apud nos Theologorum fuerat sententia ex inclusâ doctissimi Davenantii 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 schedulâ poteris cognoscere Pro amplioribus vero donariis illis tuis de Symbolis dissertatiunculam meam tibi remitto munus sanè levidense sed quod tu ex mittentis affectu aestimabis si tanti videbitur D. Salmasio D. Heinsio Jo. Latio ac D. Riveto quoque si commode poteris communicabis plurimam illis salutem verbis meis nunciabis Tuus in Christo Frater 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 J. U. A. Scripsi Lundini xiv Kal. Sextilis Juliani Anno M. DC XLVII LETTER CCXXI A Letter from the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh to the Learned Johannes Gerardus Vossius Viro Clarissimo Johanni Gerardo Vossio Historiarum apud Amstelodamenses Professori celeberrimo Vir Eximie QUod post acceptos eruditissimos tuos de Diis Gentium Commentarios qui in Mythici Temporis Chronico quod ante multos Annos congesseram recognoscendo mihi magno fuerant usui nihil hactenus ad te rescripserim etsi culpâ liberare me nequeam excusationem tamen asserere possum aliquam non justam illam quidem sed quam humanitati tuae aliquantulùm probari posse non diffidam Subitò incendio tempore illo correpta est nostra Hibernia quod nedum deflagravit sed serpit quotidiè potiùs adaugescit In eo praeter calamitatem publicam Religionis Reformatae Professorum lanienam post homines natos immanissimam crudelissimam externis istis bonis quae appellantur exutus sum omnibus solâ Bibliothecâ è flammis illis ereptâ à quâ ipsâ tamen ad hunc usque diem etiam exulo Exceperunt enim me deinde novi in Angliâ furores qui me Oxonio in Cambriam depulerunt ubi per integrum XVIII Septimanarum spatium gravissimo afflictus morbo aegerrimè tandem ex ipsis quodammodo sepulchri faucibus summâ Dei Misericordiâ sum revocatus Quomodò Londini posteà acceptus fuerim commemorare non libet Neque priorum illorum malorum omnino meminissem nisi ut inde intelligeretur quae animum meum necessitas à literarum literatorum omnium consortio hucusque penè alienaverit Ubi vero primum colligere me caepi ut illam neglecti in te colendo officii culpam aliquo pacto expiarem brevem hanc de Symbolis notissimâ tibi materiâ dissertationem tuo nomini inscribere visum fuit in quâ quia deinceps te alloquor hic finio totus tuus maneo De Mariano Scoto edendo nùm omnem cogitationem abjeceris admodum scire aveo J. U. A. Londini xiii Kalend. Augusti Anno M. DC XLVII LETTER CCXXII A Letter from the Reverend Dr. Barlow now Bishop of Lincoln to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh My Lord I Did receive by the hands of Mr. Tozer your Grace's Tract de Symbolis for which great Honour done unto me this piece of Paper comes to return my most humble and hearty Thanks I confess I have ever been inquisitive after your Grace's Writings and thought my self happy when I had found them for I was never deceived in my Expectation but ever found old Orthodox Truth maintained upon just and carrying Grounds which elsewhere I have often sought but seldom found I wish Vossius in putting out and composing his Tract de tribus Symbolis had used the same Judgment and Diligence your Grace hath done in this For tho your Grace be pleased to give that Tract of his a civil Commendation yet 't is undeniably the most indigested thing that ever Vossius put out And here well knowing your Lordship's unparallell'd Skill in Antiquity and your Candor and Willingness to communicate your Knowledg to the Benfit of others I shall take the boldness humbly to desire your Grace's Opinion concerning the 13 Can. of the Council of Ancyra the words are these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I find no various reading in any Greek Copies Balsamon Zonaras Tilius Justellus c. all agreeing only Salmasius Apparatu ad lib. de Primatu pag. 78. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will have it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And it seems Dionysius Exiguus reads it so too The Latin Translations make it quite another thing than the Greek imports as your Lordship may see by those two Translations in Grabb followed by the rest and that of Justellus in his Codex Can. Ecclesiae Universae pag. 2. which runs thus Chorepiscopis non licere Presbyteros vel Diaconos ordinare Sed nec Presbyteris Civitatis sine literis Episcopi in alienâ Parochià aliquid agere Where Justellus adds these two last words Aliquid agere as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or some such thing were in the Greek which I find not I confess Fulg. Ferrandus in Breviat Cano. Can. 92. reads it as Justellus Ut Presbyteri Givitatis sine jussu Episcopi nihil jubeant nec in unaquaque Parochiâ aliquid agant tho the Greek is otherwise and the old Latin Translation vid. Cod. Can. veterem Ecclesiae Romanae Mogunt 1525. postea Par. 1609. agrees exactly with the Greek So then the sense of the Can. seems to be this That the Chorepiscopi and Presbyteri civitatis may not ordain Priests or Deacons without Commission from the Bishop but with it they may Here first I shall make no question but the Chorepiscopi might ordain with Licence first had from the Bishop for tho it hath been the general opinion of the World that the Chorepiscopi were only Simplices Presbyteri
occasionally and I hope without your dislike I will insert verbatim desiring your Lordship to confirm me or which perhaps there will be more cause for to reform me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Imo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 per me nempe indignum ministrum ejus cui Deus non spiritum timoris sed virtutis dedit 2 Tim. 1. 7. Chrysostomus Homil. 16. ad Antiochenos Doctor vinctus erat verbum volabat ille in carcere latitabat doctrina alata passim currebat Tertullianus ad Martyres Habet carcer vincula sed vos soluti Deo estis Ignatius causam afferens cur Trallensibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non scriberet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inquit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Addit deinde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. ubi legitur in omnibus editis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sententiâ implicatâ vel potius nulla Nos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exigua mutatione pro 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 substituendo eruimus sensum similem Paulino Scribere inquit potuimus vobis altiora at nos retuimus respectus imbecillitatis vestrae neque enim quia in carcere detinemur eo minus caelestia Angelorum ordines c cognoscere potis sum contemplari Seneca 3. 20. de Beneficiis Corpora obnoxia sunt c. mens quidem sui juris Quae adeo libera vaga est ut ne ab hoc quidem carcere cui inclusa est teneri queat quo minus impetu suo utatur ingentia agat in infinitum comes coelestibus exeat Cicero de vere invicto Lib. 3. de Finibus Cujus etiamsi corpus constringatur animo tamen vincula nulla injici possunt I have had Letters from Sir G. R. at Paris which call upon me for A. Gellius upon whom I have more Matter congested than I have published upon Apuleius but the digesting which is the more troublesome part remains Which when I shall have leisure or appetite for I yet see not I heard long since and I doubt by too true a Reporter of the death of my intimate Friend Sarravius in that City Mr. Selden I hear as he flourishes in Estate so declines in strength it will be your Lordship's favour when you see him to mention my humble Service to him I live here God be praised in no want but in little health and much solitude which hath cast me into the passio Hypocondriaca that afflicts me sore and which is worse into some fits of Acedia 'gainst which I arm my self as I can by Prayer and otherwise The Air of this place in the Winter is as to many others most pernicious to me the Conversation of this place both in Winter and Summer is most contrary to me but the Great Duke's Civilities rather than ought else have made me thus long abide here Much Comfort and Favour I should esteem it sometimes to hear from your Lordship there being no Man in the World near whose Person and indeed at whose feet I would die so willingly as at your Lordship's and at those of Bignonius whose infinite Learning and transcendent Christian Humility have made me a perpetual Servant and Slave to him Mr. Jeremy Bonnel Merchant in the Old Jewry who perhaps will present this Letter hath the ready and weekly means of conveyance hither Your Graces most humble and faithful Servant John Price Florence Decemb. 1 11. 1653. LETTER CCLXXXIV A Letter from the Right Reverend Thomas Morton Bishop of Duresm to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh Salutem in Christo Jesu Most Reverend Father in God TOO long silence among Friends useth to be the Moth and Canker of Friendship and therefore I must write unto your Grace although I have nothing to write but this Nothing And yet I have as much as Tully had to his Friends Si vales bene est c. Notwithstanding in earnest I grieve at the Heart to hear of your Grace's declination of Sight though it be my own Disease yet so I thank God that it is not more considering mine Age. Something I should add of O Tempora O Mores albeit an Exclamation which I reprove in the Authors because of Hysteron proteron for that it ought to be rather O Mores O Tempora but it is God that moves the Wheels and blessed be his holy Name and let it be our comfort my Lord that in his good Time he would remove us from those vexatious Mutabilities If there were any thing in my Power which I might contribute as grateful unto your Grace I would not be wanting However according to the mutual Obligation between us I shall still commend your Grace to the Protection of the Almighty to the glory of saving Grace in Christ Jesus I am Your Grace's in all dutiful acknowledgment Th. Duresm Jan. 20. 58. My Lord Since the conclusion of this Letter I have been moved by this Bearer that your Grace would be pleased to favour him in his reasonable Request unto you Th. D. LETTER CCLXXXIV A Letter from Mr. Thomas Whalley to the most Reverend James Usher late Arch-bishop of Armagh Right Reverend YOur last Letter to me dated April 7. I received not till Easter-even April 15. your Messenger bringing it too late to my Nephew as he saith The Holy-days being past I have since wholly attended to satisfy your demands touching the Autumn Aequin and Mr. Lin. computation is Ecl. ad a m. I m. Olymp. 293 ae which I have here sent you inclosed with my whole Proceedings therein that you may the better judg thereof where if you espy any Error as well may be among such variety and wanting the help of any other Man albeit I have been very careful to examine my whole working over and over again let me intreat so much that you would be pleased to certify me thereof Indeed at last I found out Garsilias whom you call Garsills his other Copy which also transcribed by my Scholar for lack of leasure in my self because I have not my own Copy at home to compare the difference only I have sent you examined though by my self and him together D. Ward saith he remembreth your Business and will be with you as he sent me word within this week Though I have calculated the Autum Aequ as precisely as I could by the Prutenicks yet you know by Tycho's Observations the Prut fail of the true Ingress into the Aequinoctial 12 hours sometimes and sometimes more which 4000 Years backward will perhaps make a greater difference than in 400 of Tycho's You may read in Peucer whereabout the Aequin Vernal was at the first Olymp. c. Amandus Polanus in Syntagm Theolog. and Origan in his Ephem have argued contrarily touching the World's Original Time which methinks in regard of correspondence of the Second Adam with the first Adam as in other things so in this should be in the Spring as Polanus holdeth when our Saviour suffered for the Recreation as I may so speak of the
corruptelis quibus nullum imperium statu etiam florentissimo nunquam caruit emendationes illas utiliores judicate quae non agglomerantur sed per partes momenta digeruntur paulatim sanciuntur Et denique per viscera miserationum Christi permittite vos exorari ut quas opes quam potentiam quas vires vobis Deus cumulatè largitus est eas non videamus amplius in perniciem vestram consumi verum in tot afflictissimorum fratrum vestrorum pacem vestram suspirantium liberationem levamentum explicari Haec purissima nostra vota exaudiat rataque esse jubeat Deus pacis Ille Diaboli Antichristi machinamenta omnia demoliatur regnumque atque Ecclesias vestras in alto illo sanctae gloriae reponat quae hactenus in terris Ecclesiae Theatro emicuere Nostra vero sensa fraterna fiducia exprompta aequi bonique consulite atque cunctationem in respondendo nostram causis quas habuimus graves condonate Rumor percrebuerat pacis tractationem apud nos fervere quare expectandum nobis judicavimus quid dies pareret ut omnia verba nostra omnesque animorum motus in meram gratulationem effusam laetitiae testificationem liquescerent Dolemus nos inani ope luctatos sed prope diem fore illius compotes optamus vovemus eo affectu quo vos fratres conjunctissimos nobis esse à vobis haberi gloriamur vobisque amplissimam Dei benedictionem ipsius sapientiae roboris copiam exoptamus Valete in Domino foelicissime Johannis Deodati S. S. Theologiae apud Genevenses Professoris Pastoris ibidem Responsum Ad Conventum Ecclesiasticum Londini Congregatum 1647. LETTER XIII A Letter from Sir Thomas Bodleigh to Sir Francis Bacon My good Cousin ACcording to your Request in your Letter dated the 19th of October at Orleans I received here the 18th of December I have sent you by your Merchant 30 l. Sterling for your present supply and had sent you a greater Sum but that my extraordinary Charge this Year hath utterly unfurnished me And now Cousin though I will be no fevere exacter of Account either of your Mony or Time yet for the love I bear you I am very desirous both to satisfy my self and your Friends how you prosper in your Travels and how you find your self bettered thereby either in knowledg of God or of the World the rather because the Days you have already spent abroad are now both sufficient to give you Light how to fix your self and end with counsel and accordingly to shape your Course constantly unto it Besides it is a vulgar scandal to Travellers that few return more religious than they went forth wherein both my Hope and Request is to you that your principal care be to hold your Foundation and to make no other use of informing your self in the Corruptions and Superstitions of other Nations than only thereby to engage your own Heart more firmly to the Truth You live indeed in a Country of two several Professions and you shall return a Novice if you be not able to give an account of the Ordinances Strength and Progress of each in Reputation and Party and how both are supported ballanced and managed by the State as being the contrary Humours in the temper of Predominancy whereof the Health or Disease of that Body doth consist These things you will observe not only as an English-man whom it may concern to what Interest his Country may expect in the Consciences of their Neighbours but also as a Christian to consider both the Beauties and Blemishes the Hopes and Dangers of the Church in all places Now for the World I know it too well to perswade you to dive into the practices thereof rather stand upon your own guard against all that attempt you thereunto or may practise upon you in your Conscience Reputation or your Purse Resolve no Man is wise or safe but he that is honest and let this Perswasion turn your Studies and Observations from the Complement and Impostures of the debased Age to more real grounds of Wisdom gathered out of the Story of Times past and out of the Government of the present State Your guide to this is the knowledg of the Country and the People among whom you live for the Country though you cannot see all places yet if as you pass along you enquire carefully and further help your self with Books that are written of the Cosmography of those Parts you shall sufficiently gather the Strength Riches Traffick Havens Shipping Commodities Vent and the Wants and Disadvantages of all places Wherein also for your own good hereafter and for your Friends it will be fit to note their Buildings Furnitures their Entertainments all their Husbandry and ingenious Inventions in whatsoever concerneth either Pleasure or Profit For the People your Traffick among them while you learn their Language will sufficiently instruct you in their Habilities Dispositions and Humours if you a little enlarge the privacy of your own Nature to seek acquaintance with the best sort of Strangers and restrain your Affections and Participation for your own Country-men of whatsoever condition In the Story of France you have a large and pleasant Field in three Lines of their Kings to observe their Alliances and Successions their Conquests their Wars especially with us their Councils their Treaties and all Rules and Examples of Experiences and Wisdom which may be Lights and Remembrances to you hereafter to judg of all Occurrents both at Home and Abroad Lastly For the Government your end must not be like an Intelligencer to spend all your time in fishing after the present News Humours Graces or Disgraces of Court which happily may change before you come Home but your better and more constant ground will be to know the Consanguinities Alliances and Estates of their Princes the proportion between the Nobility and Magistracy the Constitutions of their Courts of Justice the state of their Laws as well for the making as the execution thereof How the Soveraignty of the King infuseth it self into all Acts and Ordinances how many ways they lay Impositions and Taxations and gather Revenues to the Crown What be the Liberties and Servitudes of all Degrees what Discipline and Preparations for Wars what Inventions for increase of Traffick at Home for multiplying their Commodities encouraging Arts and Manufactures or of Worth in any kind Also what good establishment to prevent the Necessities and Discontentment of People to cut off Suits at Law and Duels to suppress Thieves and all Disorders To be short because my purpose is not to bring all your Observations to Heads but only by these few to let you know what manner of Return your Friends expect from you let me for all these and all the rest give you this one Note which I desire you to observe as the Counsel of a Friend not to spend your Spirits and the precious time of your Travel in a captious prejudice
and censuring of all Things nor in an infectious collection of base Vices and Fashions of Men and Women or general corruption of these Times which will be of use only among Humorists for Jests and Table-talk but rather strain your Wits and Industry soundly to instruct your self in all things between Heaven and Earth which may tend to Vertue Wisdom and Honour and which may make your Life more profitable to your Country and you self more comfortable to your Friends and acceptable to God And to conclude let all these Riches be treasured up not only in your Memory where Time may lessen your Stock but rather in good Writings and Books of Account which will keep them safe for your use hereafter And if in this time of your liberal Traffick you will give me any advertisement of your Commodities in these kinds I will make you as liberal a Return from my Self and your Friends here as I shall be able And so commending all your good Endeavours to him that must either wither or prosper them I very kindly bid you farewel Your's to be commanded Thomas Bodleigh LETTER XIV A Letter from Sir Thomas Bodleigh to Sir Francis Bacon SIR AS soon as Term was ended supposing your leisure to be more than before I was coming to thank you two or three times rather chusing to do it by Word than Letter but was still disappointed of my Purpose as I am this present upon an urgent occasion which doth tie me fast to Fulham and hath made me now determine to impart my Mind by Writing I think you know I have read your Cogitata Visa which I have done with great desire reputing it to be a Token of your singular Love that you joined me with those of your chiefest Friends to whom you would commend the first perusal of your Draught For which I pray you give me leave to say this first That if the depth of my Affection to your Person and Spirit and to your Work and Words and to all your Abilities were as highly to be valued as your Affection is to me it might walk with yours Arm in Arm and claim your love by just desert but there can be no comparison where our states are so uneven and our means to demonstrate our Affections so different in so much as for my own I must leave it to be prised in the nature that it is and you shall ever-more find it most addicted to your worth As touching the Subject of your Book you have set on foot so many rare and noble Speculations as I cannot chuse but wonder and shall wonder at it ever that your expence of Time considered in your publick Profession which hath in a manner no acquaintance with any Scholarship or Learning you should have culled out the Quintessence and sucked up the Sap of the chiefest kinds of Learning for howsoever in some Points you vary altogether from that which is and hath been ever the received Doctrine of our Schools and was always by the wisest as still they are deemed of all Nations and Ages adjudged the truest yet it is apparent that in those very Points and in all your Proposals and Plots in that Book you show your self a Master-Workman For my self I must confess and do speak it Ingenuè that for matter of Learning I am not worthy to be reckoned among Smatterers Howbeit sith it may seem that being willing to communicate this Treatise to your Friends you are likewise willing to listen to whatsoever they can except against it I must deliver unto you that for my private Opinion I am one of that Crew that say there is and we possess a far greater hold-fast of certainty in the Sciences than you by your Discourse will seem to acknowledg for where at first you do object the ill Success and Errors of Practitioners of Physick you know as well they proceed of the Patient's unruliness for not one in an hundred do obey his Physician in observing his Counsels or by misinformation of their own indisposition for few are able in that kind to explicate themselves or by reason their Diseases are by Nature incurable which is incident you know to many Maladies or for some other hidden Cause cannot be discovered by course of Conjecture Howbeit I am full of this belief That as Physick is ministred now-a-days by Physicians it is much to be ascribed to their Negligence or Ignorance or other touch of Imperfection that they speed not better in their Practice for few are found of that Profession so well instructed in their Art as they might be by the Precepts which their Art affordeth which if it be defective in regard of full Perfection yet certainly it doth flourish with admirable Remedies such as Tract of Time hath taught by experimental Events and are the open High-way to that principal Knowledg which you recommend As for Alchimy and Magick some Conclusions they have worth the preserving but all their Skill is so accompanied with Subtilties and Guiles as both the Crafts and Crafts-masters are not only despised but named with derision Whereupon to make good your principal Assertion methinks you should have drawn the most of your Examples from that which is taught in the Liberal Sciences not by picking out Cases that happen very seldom and may by all confession be subject to reproof but by controuling the Generals and Grounds and invent Positions and Aphorisms which the greatest Artists and Philosophers have from time to time defended for it goeth currant amongst all Men of Learning that those kinds of Arts which Clarks in time past termed the Quadruvialls confirm their Propositions by infallible Demonstrations and likewise in the Trivials such Lessons and Directions are delivered unto us as will effect very near or as much altogether as every Faculty doth promise Now in case we should concur to do as you advise which is to renounce our common Notions and cancel all our Theorems Axioms Rules and Tenents and to come as Babes ad Regnum Naturae as we are willed by Scripture to come ad Regnum Goelorum there is nothing more certain to my understanding than that it would instantly bring us to Barbarism and after many thousand Years leave us more unprovided of Theorical Furniture than we are at this present for it were indeed to become very Babes Tabula Rasa when we shall keep no impression of any former Principles but be driven to begin the World again and to travel by trial of Actions and Sense which are your Proofs by Particulars what to place in intellectu for our general Conceptions it being a Maxim of all Mens approving in intellectu Nihil enim quod non prius fuit in sensu and so in appearance it would befal us that till Plato's Years become about our insight in Learning would be in less esteem than now it is accounted As for that which you inculcate of a Knowledg more excellent than now it is among us which Experience might produce
Maximus Venerandae Dignissimae Amplitudini Tuae tuisque in Ecclesiâ suâ magnis laboribus abunde benedicere pergat Vale. Tuae Excellentiae Observantissimus cultor Gothofredus Hotton Propria manu Dabam xxviii Januarii 1652. Amstelodami LETTER CCLXX. A Letter from R. Vaughan to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh Reverend Father MY Duty most humbly remembred unto you with thanks for your Opinion of King Cadwalader which hereafter shall be unto me a Tract to follow as best agreeing with Reason and Truth I hope you have received your Books in November last and if they are any way impaired in the carriage if you please to send them me I will have them fairly written again for you What I omitted in my last Letter by reason of the Bearers haste is that in your Giraldus his first Book Laudabilium and 8. Cap. I observe that my Countrymen in his time used to yoke their Oxen for the Plow and Cart four in a breast in these words Boves ad aratra vel plaustra non binos jungunt sed quaternos c. which I find not in the printed Book This may happily give some light and help to understand a clause in our ancient British Laws treating of Measures made as is there alleged by Dyfrewal Moel-mud King of Britain where it is said that the Britains in his time used four kinds of Yokes for Oxen the first was four foot long the second eight foot the third twelve and the fourth was sixteen foot long The first was such as we use now a-days for a couple of Oxen the second was that mentioned by Giraldus serving for four Oxen the third as I suppose suitable with those two for six Oxen and the fourth consequently for eight Oxen. The two last are clean forgotten with us and not as much as a word heard of them saving what is in that old Law but of the second mentioned by Giraldus we have a Tradition that such was in use with us about sixscore Years ago and I heard how true I know not that in Ireland the People in some places do yet or very lately did use the same I pray you call to your mind whether that be true or whether you have heard or read any thing of the use of the other two in any Country and be pleased to let me know thereof The Copy of Ninnius you sent me hath holpen me well to correct mine but finding such difference between the three Manuscript Books which the Scribe confesseth to have made use of I presume your Transcript comprehends much more in regard you have had the benefit of eleven Copies as you confess to help you which Differences are very requisite to be known of such as love Antiquity And also where those several Copies that you have seen are extant and to be found at present and how many of those Copies bear the name of Gildas before them and how many the name of Ninnius And what those of Gildas do comprehend more or less in them than those of Ninnius And whether the Notes of Samuel Beulan are found in any of those of Gildas or yet in every one of the Copies of Ninnius and whether the name of Samuel be added to those Notes in any of those Copies and to which of them All which with the antiquity of the Character of those several Copies are very necessary to be known and may easily be discovered by you and very hardly by any other ever after you Moreover about three Years ago I sent a Copy of the Tract concerning the Saxon Genealogies extant if I mistake not in Gildas and Ninnius unto you to be corrected by your Book and Sir Simon D'Ewes undertaking that charge for you as Mr. Dr. Ellis told me returned me only this Answer upon the back of my own Papers viz. The eldest Copy of this Anonymon Chron. doth in some places agree with the Notes sent up but in others differs so much as there can be no collation made of it c. But those my Notes do agree very well with the Book you sent me and differs not in twenty words in all the Tract whereof either many are only Letters wanting or abounding and therefore I marvel what he meant in saying so unless he had seen a larger Copy of the same than that I had but your last Letter unto me tells that it is only extant in Sir Thomas Cotton's two Books and wanting in all the other Books that bear the name either of Gildas or Ninnius and that Book you sent me was copied out of one of Sir Thomas Cotton's Books and examined by the other He further addeth that the Author of that Tract being as he saith an English-Saxon lived in the Year of our Lord 620 upon what ground I know not Yet I cannot think otherwise but that Sir Simon D'Ewes had some grounds for the same and it may be the very same that Leland the famous Antiquary had to say that Ninnius lived tempore inclinationis Britannici imperii and Jo. Bale who more plainly saith that he lived in the Year 620 just as Sir Simon D'Ewes hath And for that Sir Simon is dead I desire to know of you whether the said Tract be not more copious in one of Sir Thomas Cottom's Books than it is in the other Or whether Sir Simon D'Ewes might not find a larger Copy of the same elsewhere for if it be not the work of Ninnius nor Samuel Beulan it may as well be in other Books as in those especially if an English-Saxon was Author of it But if it be not found elsewhere I pray you tell me upon what grounds is the Author of it said by Sir Simon to live Anno 620 and Ninnius by Leland and Bale likewise said to live in the same Time when by the first Chapter of some Copies of Ninnius his Book it seemeth he wrote not two hundred Years after Moreover in regard you prefer that small Tract so much spoken of by me before all the rest of the Book it were a deed of Charity for you to paraphrase a little upon it whereby such as are but meanly skilled in Antiquity may reap some profit by it Truly some remarhable Passages from the Reign of Ida to the Death of Oswi Kings of Northumberland are contained in it which being well understood would add a greater luster to the British History Lastly Most Reverend Father I pray you be pleased to lend me your Copy of that Fragment of the Welch Annals sent by the Bishop of St. David's Rich. Davies to Matthew Parker Arch-bishop of Canterbury who bestowed a Copy thereof upon the Library in Bennet-Colledg in Cambridg or your Copy of the Book of Landaff and I shall rest most heartily thankful unto you and I do hereby faithfully promise to return whatsoever you shall send me as soon as I shall have done writing of it I have already taken order to provide a little Trunk or Box for the safe carrying of
it to and fro And my loving Friend Doctor Ellis who in these dangerous Times hath suffered many Assaults and Storms at the hands of his Adversaries with patience and constancy will I know be very careful of the safety of your things I have troubled your patience too long therefore craving pardon for my boldness I rest and commit you to the protection of God Almighty Your humble Servant Robert Vaughan Hengwrt near Dolgelly in Merionith-shire May 1. 1652. LETTER CCLXXI. A Letter from Mr. Arnold Boate to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh May it please your Grace BY your Letter of June 30 I do find that my last to you having staid so long by the way hath made me lose the benefit promised by you of printing an Apologetical Epistle jointly with yours to Capellus whereat as I have cause to be not a little grieved so I am glad to find on the other side by that part of your Epistle already printed which you have sent me that you do overthrow the principal Grounds of Gritica Capelli and so confirm the main part of mine Assertions against the same But whereas you say pag. 5. Variantes Hebraicorum codicum Lectiones Bootius ex reliquis omnibus Interpretibus praeter 70. desumi posse libenter concedit You will be pleased to give me leave to tell you that that neither is nor ever was my meaning that I say no such thing in the place quoted by you Epist. § 14. ubi sermo non est de colligendis Variis Lectionibus ex Veteribus Interpretibus sed de authoritate codicum Hebraeorum quibus usi sunt supponendo cum Capello sed nequaquam concedendo eos Versionibus inde factis fuisse per omnia conformes and that my whole Epistle from the beginning to the end is full of Passages wherein I most plainly say the contrary T is true that I confess Probabiliter posse defendi in aliquibus aut compluribus eorum locorum ubi Interpretes illi à textu nostro Haebraico discrepant eos ita in codicibus suis scriptum invenisse quomodo Versio eorum prae se fert Sed istud idem de ipsis quoque 70. fateor uti liquet ex § 53. ubi ex professo de hac re ago ac monstro quare hoc non obstante nulla tamen Veteris Interpretis cujuscunque variatio à codicibus Hebraicis possit pro eorum Varia Lectione haberi cum ulla certitudine Quod enim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 70. saepissime accidisse affirmat Hieron uti bene scripta male legerint hoc quia aliis quoque Interpretibus interdum contigerit causa nulla dici potest vel hallucinando interlegendum vel aliter legendum putando prout à te ipso indicatur pag. 12. § 6 7. pag. 4. in imo Et concedendo reliquos Interpretes interdum ut 70. passim alterutro istorum modorum perperam Haebraica legisse nullo modo constare nobis potest in locis illis ubi Interpretes à Textu nostro Hebraico discrepant utrum ipsi Interpreti an codici quem prae manibus habuit Hebraico ista accepta referenda fuerit differentia uti ipsemet ais dictâ pag. 4. ubi exactissime idem mecum sentis ac dicis nisi quod pro tuo de eorum plurimis mihi dicendum videtur de ullis omnino Namque illud de plurimis tacite supponere videtur de aliquibus saltem constare posse Ast ego non video quomodo de ullis imò vel de unica tantum constare possit aut quomodo quiscunque mortalium illo humano ingenio dignoscere aut decidere possit prolatâ quacunque Veteris Interpretis cujuscunque à Textu Hebraico discrepantiâ an illo in loco revera ita scriptum fuerit in codice Interpretis Hebraico quomodo Versio prae se fert an verò locum ibi bene scriptum sequius legerit alterutro modorum istorum jam nunc dictorum Ego quidem ne animo quidem fingere possum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quo verum à falso hic internoscatur Quod si tâ—oi de eo constat omnino te obsecro ut illud mihi impertiri ne graveris quod donec fiat non possum vel lato pilo à pristina sententia decedere Quod neque ex Septuagint neque ex ullo alio Veterum Interpretum quocunque possunt ullae Hebraici textus Variae Lectiones colligi nisi conjecturales ad summum omni prorsus certitudine destitutae Thus having nothing else wherewith to trouble your Grace at this time I humbly take leave and ever rest Your Grace's most devoted and most obedient Servant Arnold Boate. Paris 11 21 July 1652. LETTER CCLXXII A Letter from the Learned Johannes Buxtorfius to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-bishop of Armagh Viro Reverendissimo D. Jacobo Usserio Archiepiscopo Armachano Theologo summo c. Domino observando Londini apud Comitissam de Peterboro in Long-Acre SP. veniam me à te impetraturum Vir Reverendissime si in gravissimis tuis occupationibus quibus ad publicum bonum Ecclesiae aedificationem omni tempore distraheris importunius Te interpello Fiduciam capio ex Tua humanitate benevolentia quam ante plures annos Tuis ad me literis es testatus cui hactenus per silentium temporum injuriâ nobis indictum nihil decessisse persuasissimum habeo Causam scribendi praebet quod causae seu controversiae illi quae mihi cum Capello intercedit Te quoque immixtum atque praeter meritum iniquissime ab illo exceptum viderim ex Epistola ejus Apologetica quam impudenter Tuo Nomini maximo inscribere non est veritus Post quam publicatam ab aliis amicis intellexi illum etiam privatis literis Tecompellare et in partes suas trahere conari non erubuisse Adeo illi omnis pudoris sensus periit Sed relatum mihi quoque est Tuam Reveren jam ante plures menses eidem epistolâ publicâ typis editâ respondisse suamque hac in re sententiam exposuisse quam tamen mihi hactenus videre non contigit videre autem mea causae magni interest A sesquianno nullas accepi literas à D. Bootiò ut planè nesciam num ille adhuc Parisiis degat necne scribo tamen nunc ad eum Epistolam quam unà cum hac per Amicum quendam illuc euntem Lutetias mitto si forte illic reperiri possit Sin minus Tuam Reverentiam obnixe rogo ut quâ brevissimâ potest viâ certissimâ exemplar illius ad me deferri curet Quod puto compendiosissime fieri posse si Parisios mittat ad D. Bootium si illic sit vel ad D. Flavignium Doctorem SS Th. Sorbonicum SS literarum Professorem qui viam novit si quid ad me spectat mittendi certo id faciet Favet enim ille causae nostrae impensissime Mea Anticritica quam