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A95746	The Popes brief: or Romes inquiry after the death of their Catholiques here in England, during these times of warre: discovered by two commissions; the one sent from the Pope that now is: the other from the Bishop and Duke of Cambrey, to severall commissioners in England: whereby the death of such Catholiques may be returned to the See of Rome, to be determined of (as may be fit for the glory of God.) Together with a catalogue of the vicars generall, and archdeacons under the Bishop of Calcedon, for the setling of the popish hierarchy in England. With divers letters concerning the same. Also severall letters and papers of the Lord Inchiquines in Ireland, intercepted by the Earl of Warwick, and sent to the House of Commons; wherein is discovered the ungratefull and perfidious dealing of the said Lord with the Parliament of England. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that the said Commissions, together with the Hierarchy, and severall letters and papers intercepted, be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	Catholic Church. Pope (1623-1644 : Urban VIII); Inchiquin, Murrough O'Brien, Earl of, 1614-1674.; Warwick, Robert Rich, Earl of, 1587-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing U128; Thomason E77_35	19,595	39

Edward Bennet Arch-Deacon in the Counties of Buckingham and Bedford 5. Mr. Thomas wright Doctor of Divinity Arch-Deacon in the Counties of Norfolk Cambridge and the Isle of Ely To Doctor Thomas Wright now resident in the parts beyond Sea is constituted as a coadjutor Master Elisha Brabant by the Letter of the most Reverend Lord Richard Bishop of Calcedon dared the 11. of Febr. 1626. 6. Master Richard Broughton Arch-Deacon in the counties of Huntington Rutland Lincolne 7. Master Iohn Iackson Arch-Deacon in the counties of Wiltshire and Hampshire 8. Master Cuthbert Trollop Arch-Deacon in the counties of Northumberland and Bishoprick of Durham 9. Master Roger Strickland Arch-Deacon in the county of York 10. Master Iohn Mitchell Arch-Deacon in the county of Lancaster To Master Iohn Mitchel weak through old age is constituted as a coadjutor Master Iohn Redman by the Letters of the most Reverend Richard Lord Bishop of Calcedon dated the tenth of February 16.26 11. Ioseph Heynes Arch-Deacon in the county of Essex and Suffolk To which Heynes Master Iohn Southcot Doctor of Divinity is coadjutor 12. Richard Button Arch-Deacon in the counties of Stafford and Chester 13. Humphrey Hanmer Arch-Deacon in the counties of South-Wales and Hereford To whom succeeded Mr. Guin 14. Matthew Britton Doctor of Divinitie Archdeacon in the Counties of Westmerland and Cumberland 15. Master George Fisher Archdeacon in the Counties of Midlesex and Surrey 16. Master Humphrey Hughes Archdeacon in the County of North-Wales 17. Master Thomas Moore Archdeacon in the Counties of Hartford and Northampton 18. Master Thomas Morton Archdeacon in the Counties of Devonshire Cornwall and Gloucester 19. Master William Shilley Archdeacon in the County of Sussex To him succeeded M. Lane 20. Master Anthony Teuchnor Archdeacon in the Counties of Oxford and Barkeshire 21. Master John Merricke Archdeacon in the Counties of Shropshire and Worcester To him succeeded M. Hyde 22. Master Thomas Manger Archdeacon in the Counties of Sommerset and Dorset-shire 23. Master Thomas Worthington Archdeacon in the Counties of Notingham and Darbie The new division of the Provinces of the Vicaries and of the Archdeacons with the number of the Archdeaconries contained in every one of the Vicarships 1. The first Vicarship containes seaven Counties or Provinces viz. Cornwall Devonshire Somersetshire Wiltshire Gloucestershire Hampshire and it hath under it three Archdeaconries 1. Cornwall Devonshire 2. Somersetshire Dorsetshire 3. Wiltshire Gloucestershire Hampshire 2. The second Vicariate containes seven Counties Viz. Midlesex with the City of London and City of VVestminster Kent Sussex Surrey Barkeshire Essex and Hartfordshire and it hath foure Archdeaconries 1. London Middlesex 2. Surrey Barkeshire 3. Kent Sussex 4. Essex and Hartford 3. The third Vicariate containes five Counties viz. Bedfordshire Huntingtonshire Cambridgeshire with the Isle of Ely and with the part of the Province of Lincolnshire which is called Holland and Norfolke and out of that part which is called Marshland and Suffolke And it hath three Archdeaconries 1. Bedford Huntington 2. Suffolke Norfolke 3. Cābridge with the Isle of Ely Holland Marshland 4. The fourth Vicariate containes eight Counties viz. Oxford Buckingham Northampton Leicester Stafford Warwicke worcester and Chester and hath foure Arch-deaconries 1. Oxford Buckingham 2. Northampton Leicester 3. VVorcester Warwicke 4. Stafford Chester 5. The fifth Vicariate containes fiveteen Counties viz. North Wales South VVales with the Isle of Anglesey Hartford and Shropshire and it hath three Archdeaconries 1. North Wales with the Isle of Anglesey Mountgomerie Merioneth Denbigh Flint Carnarvan 2. Monmouth Clamorgan Radnar Cardigan Carmar then and Pembrooke 3. Hereford and Shropshire 6. The sixth Vicariate containes five Counties viz. 1. Yorkeshire 2. Darbishire Nottingham 3. Lincolne Rutland 7. The seaventh Vicariate containes five Counties Lancashire Westmerland Cumberland Northumberland and the Bishopricke of Durham and it hath three Arch. deaconries 1. Lancashire 2. Westmerland Cumberland 3. Northumberland the Bishoprick of Durham According to the present division there are seaven Vicarships and three and twenty Archdeaconries viz. Two more then there were heretofore ordained That if it doth not seeme good to multiply the number of the Archdeacons the present division may be so ordained that Cheshire and Staffordshire shall be taken from the fourth Vicarship and the Archdeanerie of Worcester and Warwickeshire shall be added thereunto and Cheshire shall be ioyned to the Archdeanerie of North Wales or Lancashire and so shall belong to the fifth or seaventh Vicarship A Committee of Parliament sitting at Rochester intercepted the foresaid Catalogue and divers other letters and papers herewith printed as they were carrying to the Bishop of Chalcedon for the nominating such persons to fill up vacant places in England as his Lordship shall thinke fit SIR I Send you all the inclosed open that ere you deliver them to my Lord you may if you please take Copies of them or at least be able to suggest unto his Lordship the ordering of his Secretary to copy out and keepe safe such Records as we are in danger here to lose and cannot misse without great prejudice to our Clergy You have herein what light and assistance we can give you towards filling up the Chapter in case you persist in that resolution in these confused times which perhaps considering my Lords age were not amisse to dispatch if not before at least as soone after the election of a Coadjutor as may be lest his Lordship die before it be done for we were better have it done lesse compleatly before his Lordships death then not at all and this cogitation hath accurred since I writ the former Papers wherein was some doubt made about the point especially in the long Letter I had written to you before this setting downe the present state of your Chapter and certifying who are living thereof who Dead wherein are some things necessary perhaps to shew my Lord what ere the whole Letter it selfe be which I referre unto your discretion because I had no notice from his Lordship of filling up all the vacant Places in the Chapter only of adding some more Canons thereunto As I had written thus farre I received yours of this weeke and by good fortune Master Herbert was actually with Master Webster at the same time so after he had read your Letter to him and heard how earnestly Mr. Webster moved not to resist his Brethrens Election in case your selfe may not comply with the place hee at last consented to submit to what his Brethren should finally conclude upon desiring first that they advise againe about your selfe if there be any probabilitie with you to comply with the Place if not you see by his consent our businesse is at an end for he hath in case you faile all the Votes there and here of those that are to Vote herein as also he hath Master Bensons of Doway and doubtlesse will have most if not all of our Brethren in the Countries who are not yet consulted about this affaire but shall be speedily The said

places in each County and such as are persoually best known I beleive to your Lordship for the most part of them As I wrote last weeke that Mr. Fittons repaire to England would not be necessary though he be chosen Coadjutor to Mr. Webster cum jure missionis so I write againe now upon better grounds for God be thanked Mr. Webster mends in his health but admit he should fall back and dy yet even in that case perhaps Mr. Fitton would most probably get our Chapter confirmed in his person of Deane and this not onely through his being knowne and liked well of in Rome but farther through his perticular relation with Lord _____ who perhaps would conduce much towards confirming our Chapter and Mr. Fittons person and the Confirmation of our Chap being the main thing we ayme at moves many to thinke that we were better choose Mr. Fitton Coadjutor then a stronger man because if in his person we get the Chapter confirmed we can easily choose a Coadjutor to him in case he should not grow strong And so by this means we effect our greatest affaire and desire The rest is that I am my Lord Your most humble servant F H Mr. Herbert upon sight of these last Letters from being moved by Mr. Webster to accept of the place makes answer that if Mr. Fitton cannot supply the place rather then give offence unto his Brethren he is content to conforme to the Votes of his Brethren A Letter from the Earl of Warwick and some Members of the house of COMMONS To the Honorable William Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the said House SIR VVE have thought fit to acquaint you with some Informations that we have lately received concerning the affairs of Ireland such as we suppose you will think fit to be imparted to the House The Inhabitants of the Lath of Saint Augustine in the county of Kent out of their charitable commiseration of the miseries of the Protestants in Ireland being inabled thereunto by an Ordinance of Parliament did in a very large manner contribute and gather Five hundred quartets of Wheat and other Grain and accordingly sent it over to Cork imbarqued in a Vessell called the Prosperous of Sandwich whereof one Thomas Basset was Master who accordingly carried the same unto Cork and delivered it unto the hands of the Lord Inchequine according to an Order of the Committee for Irish affairs Now the said Vessell being returned the Master thereof makes this report which we with all care and diligence have sent up 1. First That the Lord Inchequine was so far from distributing the said Grain according to the intention of the Parliament and the Doners who did intend it as a free Gift for the relief of the poor Protestants in Ireland that he did seize it and sell it at a very dear rate to any that would buy it detaining it from those to whom it was given 2. That he did not onely deprive them of the intended Charity but also opprest them with Billetting of two Regiments of Souldiers that are since sent over whereof the said Mr. Basset was an eye-witnesse under the command of Sir Charles Vavasour and Sir John Pawlet to the Port of Bristoll to serve here against the Parliament 3. That the Lord Inchequine did presse the said Master Thomas Basset to carry over more Souldiers to the Port of Bristoll which Basset did colourably undertake and attended severall dayes to receive the Souldiers aboard of him till such time as he met with a convenient opportunity to make his escape which he desired and now at last obtained 4. The said Thomas Basset doth report upon very good grounds That there are further intentions of raising great Forces of the Irish Rebells to come over to serve against the Parliament and that for present there are ready two Regiments under the command of Sir Hardes Waller and four Regiments of the Lord Inchequines and six Troops of Horse under the command of the Earl of Cork all which are to be listed under the Duke of York to maintain this unnaturall War against the Parliament and Kingdom Now that it may appear that this Information of Thomas Basset is not conjecturall he is ready to testific all this upon Oath And for present we have here sent up divers Instruments tending to this effect subscribed by the Lord Inchiquine and delivered to the said Thomas Basset By all this you may perceive what a Designe there is to bring over both Horse and Foot of the Irish to war here against the Parliament which might in some sort have been prevented if the winter guard had been timely set forth which we desire you with all possible speed to hasten the winter guard as hoping it may be a means to prevent and intercept a great many of the Irish Rebells which daily are in readinesse to come over And so with our best respects remembred unto you praying God to give a blessing to all your proceedings We bid you heartily farewell and rest Downs the 7th Novemb. 1643. Your assured loving Friend Warwick William Strickland Henry Mildmay Edw. Boys By the Lord of Inchiquine Commander of His Majesties Forces in chief for the Province of Mounster VVHereas Thomas Basset Master of the Providence of Sandwich Bur. 100 Tuns arrived here in this Port of Cork with his said Vessell from Sandwich loaden with Corn and other provisions for the use of His Majesties army for which he hath here accordingly duly performed in that particular And further I do hereby certifie to whom it may or shall concern That I have pressed the said Vessell Master Company and all other provisions to her belonging for His Majesties service the Ninth day of this present October And is by me commanded from the said day to give his attendance untill further order For which he the said Master may not fail at his perill Given under my hand at Cork the Ninth day of October ut supra Anno Dom. 1643. Jnchiquine By the Right Honorable the Lord of Inchiquine Commander in chief of his Majesties Forces within the Province of Mounster VVHereas Thomas Basset Master of the good Ship called The Prosperous of Sandwich Burthen 100 Tuns or thereabouts Company and said Ship Is imployed by me from this Port of Cork To carry and transport Souldiers for the Port of Bristoll And in respect I finde him obedient and ready to perform the said service I do hereby very earnestly desire the Admirals of His Majesties Fleet and all others imployed in His service or any other person or persons whatsoever whom it may any way concern Not any wayes to hinder or molest him the said Master Ship or Company or any of them in their departure from the said Port of Bristoll or in their intended Voyage into Wales there to lade the said Ship with Coals to be transported from thence to this Harbour for the relief of this distressed Garrison of Cork To which purpose I have ingaged my self to the said Master and therefore am confident That my desire herein shall be complyed withall Dated under my Hand at the said city of Cork this Eighteenth day of October Anno Dom. 1643. Jnchiquine To the Right Honourable my very good Lord the Lord Hopton Governour of the City of Bristoll MY LORD I Have imployed this Bearer Mr. Basses Master of a ship called The Prosperous of Sandwich for the transporting and carrying over hence in his ship to the Port of Bristoll souldiers for His Majesties service and have According to His Majesties Letters enabling and authorizing mee agreed with the said Master that he shall be paid fourty pounds ster for the fraight of his ship upon her arrivall there which I conceive to be reasonable And therefore do desire not only for the present service but also for the future encouragement of others of his quality That the said money according to my said agreement with him be forthwith upon his arrivall in that Port punctually paid Thus not doubting of the speedy performance hereof I take leave and remaine Corke 18. Octob 1643. Your Lordships affectionated friend and servant Inchiquine If it be nor proper for your Lordship to order this payment I beseech you recommend the Master to whom your Lordship thinks fit for his satisfaction A Letter from the Governor of Plymouth To Mr. Speaker of the Honourable House of SIR COMMONS These present in London I Have sent you true Intelligence from Falmouth one Iohn German comming from Perrin doth report that two ships are come to the Pott of Falmouth From the Rebels in Jreland with-men and ammunition shewing the Kings Broad-seale for their safety And the Castle gave two Peeces of Ordiance with great joy at their arrivall with menacing speeches against the Parliament and swore the Round heads should pay for all Whereupon some Captains of the ships being men of war there and divers of the Inhabitants petitioned Iohn Arundel Esquire Governour of Pendennis Castle asking of him if he would admit entrance to the Rebels and told him if he did many of them would forsake that cause for good could not possibly come of it hee answered them that he would send to know His Majesties pleasure in that particular the Rebels that came from Ireland and Falmouth report that they look every day for eleven ships from Ireland with men and ammunition and call themselves the Queens Army two ships were also going to relieve the poore Protestants in Ireland and both stopt at Falmouth the one laden with wheat the other with malt Likewise there is one Iohn Burlasse Esquire a known Papist hath command of a foot Regiment and governs the West of the County of Cornwall Moreover the said German reporteth that to the foresaid Port of Falmouth is come four French ships landed some Officers and men being laden with ammunition and it is thought that the Officers are gone to the Kings Army for they presently tooke post from Falmouth and the said French Officers report that they expect ten thousand men to be speedily sent over out of France to them Your most humble servant to command Iames Wardlaw Plymouth Novem. 1. 1643. FINIS

the most gracious Queene of England and the Reverend Masters Master George Cathericke Father Robert Hadock alias Benson late Provinciall of the Province of Yorke of the order of S. Bennet and Father William Anderton of the order of S. Francis all every one of them joyntly severally and wholly to this purpose that they according to law make presse to inquire of the cause and kinde of death of them who in their respective Limits during this last fierce persecution there against the Catholickes have dyed for the Catholick Faith Commanding them by the said Apostolicall Authority that they do personally repaire to such places as for this purpose are or shall be to be repaired unto and that they call before them such persons of honesty and credit as have knowledge of the sufferings and deaths of such Catholicks and that they diligently inquire heare and examine upon solemne oath the truth and manner of their sufferings and deaths and the cause of such their knowledge and such circumstances pertaining to the same and other things requisite for the discovery of the truth of the matter and that they conveniently put in writing the names sirnames sayings and depositions of the said persons and direct them to us being so disposed faithfully closed up That we may afterwards transmit them to the Apostolicall See to the end that the said See may ordaine and determine of them that which shall bee fit to the glory of God Moreover we intend and declare That if any one or some of them deputed by us by himselfe or by themselves cannot personally performe that office he or they whom one or some of the said deputed persons shall or will substitute to that effect he or they so substituted shall enjoy the very like power jurisdiction as they which were principally and first deputed doe enjoy To that end that any one of the said deputies or their substitutes the rest having lawfull excuse of absence may proceed and go on with effect in the execution of these presents and by our ordinary authority given unto us by the Apostolicall See from this time forth wee grant unto them such power for testimony and credit whereof we have authorized with our hand and seale these presents Dispatched by our Secretary Given at Cambrey in our Archiepiscopall Palace in the yeare of our Lord 1643. Tenth of June FRANCIS VANDER BURGH Archbishop of Cambrey By the command of the most Illustrious and Reverend Lord the Lord Archbishop and Duke of Cambrey aforesaid Foulin Secretary This Figure of a Crosse ✚ was on the top of the Letter Very much respected Sir SEEing that I was to write unto you obout the businesse contained in the inclosed Commission I was also commanded by my Master who is altogether unknown unto you to let you understand that the Bearer who is the Foreman of his shop is sent to the party with Letters from Mr. Iozelin the which he is to impart unto you and with Letters from himselfe to the Parents of some young men who are Prentises here expecting to heare their resolutions before they can become Free men I hope that you will find him to be a fit man for both imployments if you would be pleased to assist him with the best advice whiles he is a stranger amongst you peradventure you will startle at the sight of the inclosed Commission considering how the times go now in those parts and to how little purpose it is to medle in affairs of that nature But if you please to know the true reasons and motives why I sent it now I doubt not but that you will rest satisfied The first is because I had now an extraordinary good opportunity to send it safely by a known friend who would have a special care to see it conveighed unto you with those small directions it hath which none could make any use of in case it should fall into their hands but only the Bearer and if I should not have sent it now by him the directions must have beene such as might have brought you into some question if my Letters had been intercepted The second and principall reason is because the Pope is old and sickly and so is the Archbishop of Cambrey and if either of them dye before the mattet be begun by one or other the grace would be of no force and if any of the three named in it do but call any one Catholike man and take such information as hee can give of the martyrdome of Father Ambrose and record them before witnesse the grace will be of such force that wee may make use of it any time these thirty or forty years following when the said parties are dead Therefore I beseech you excuse me for having sent it unto you and for Gods sake commend it presently to some of the parties named in it or to be named by them to see the matter begun as I have said and then to be kept in great secrecy till we see better times Thus in haste I bid you fare-well August 17. 1643. Your true Friend B. B. This Letter was intercepted with the former Commission with divers other Letters to Papists in England A CATALOGVE OF The Vicars Generall and Arch-Deacons in ENGLAND under the Bishop of CALCEDON Vicars Generall constituted by the most Reverend RICHARD Lord Bishop of CALCEDON By the Letters dated the first of JUNE 1625. MAster John Colleton Episcopall Vicar in the eleven Provinces under-written Two moneths after nis Majesty came to the Crowne Essex Suffolk Norfolk Cambridge and the Isle of Elv Bedford Buckingham Middlesex and Hartford The City of London and the Suburbs and the City of Westminster To Master John Colleton being disabled through old age is added as a Coadjutor Master Gregory Fisher alias Muscot Arch-Deacon of Surrey and Middlesex by the letters bearing date the tenth of February 1626. by the most Reverend Richard Lord Bishop of Calcedon 2. Edward Bennet Episcopall Vicar in the sixteen Provinces under written viz. Walesboth South and North parts the Isle of Anglesey Hereford Shropshire and Chester 3. Master John Bostile Doctor of Divinity Episcopall Vicar in the five Provinces under-written Oxford Warwick Northampton Stafford Worcester 4. Master Broughton Episcopall Vicar in the seven Provinces under-written Huntington Rutland Lincoln Leicester Nottingham Darby and York 5. Master Iohn Iackson Episcopall Vicar in the six Provinces under-written Dorcester Wiltshire Gloucester Somerset-shire Devonshire and Cornwall 6. Mr. Cuthbert Trollop Epicopall Vicar in the five Provinces under-written Lancaster Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland and the Bishopricke of Durham 7. Master Be●iamin Norton Episcopall Vcar in the five Provinces under-written Kent Surrey Sussex Hampshire and Barkshire Arch-Deacons and their Provinces 1. Master Iohn Colleton Arch Deacon in the County of Kent 2. Master Arthur Pits Arch-Deacon of the Cities of London Westminster and the Suburbs 3. Master Iohn Bostile Doctor of Divinity Arch-Deacon in the Counties of Warwick and Leicester 4. Mr.

News of Mr. Montague being taken at Rochester Mr. Montague and preparation for him in the Tower doth much afflict his friend● and will be as unwelcome to you as to any man living This night the Count de Harecourt is expected in Towne I beseech you excuse me at this time to Master Clifton you see I have been overcharged with the inclosed and pray tell my Lord I had not time to write faire those Lights I send him for 〈◊〉 the Chapter besides they are not so perfect as were requisite if we had more time but if his Lordship will give longer time he shall have it more exact The ninth Canon now I perceive was Master Herbert excuse if what I writ before in that be obscure or lesse exact for I have no time to rectifie it you may easily mend all Errours therein by what is written otherwise about this businesse of the Chapter SIR ACcording to your desire and my promise I now send you the state of our present Chapter together with such Patents as will be necessary for the filling up thereof with a particular of how many thereof are dead and with such a note as up on so short a warning could be gotten of names to fill it up againe as have been by those of the Chapter in London reflected on for such was your desire The Copies of the Patents are such as Master Lovell left me and I snall desire that you will cause them to be kept there in safetie lest those I have here should in these troublesome times miscarry I could wish you had also there other Copies of things most necessary which I find here handsomely recorded in Bookes by Master Lovell God rest his soule but truly I am so ill I cannot my selfe transcribe them and to trust them out of my hands in the●● times to Scribes I dare not and spare the Booke I cannot so I must hope God will protect them and us his servants whom they concerne You will perceive by the Copie of the Catalogues of Vicars and Archdeacons which Master Lovell left as I now send them to you transcribed that there have bin two divisions of the Counties in the first there appeare 55. in the last but 53 Counties of 〈◊〉 distributed unto the care of 7. Vicars Generall and of 23. Archdeacons out of which number of Archdeacons you must deduct but 7. forasmuch as the 7. Vicars Generall not being as Vicars of the Chapter were made each of them Archdeacons purposely to render them Chapter men also so that how are the number of Archdeacons be 23. yet deducting 7. out of that number as appropriate to the 7. Vicars you will find remaining only 16. Archdeacons I meane such as are purely Archdeacons and not Vicars to boote And yet by the Note of Master Lovells at the end of the new Division me thinkes there was an intention to have only 22. Archdeacons in all or to speake perhaps more properly to the Bishops intention but 22. Chapter-men Yet I find that either you must increase the former districts of some Archdeacons of else you will not exhaust the Counties in the distribution thereof for you shall not find the Counties of Nottingham nor Darby appropriated to any Archdeacon unlesse you resolve the number of 23. shall stand good An perhaps that number was reduced to 22. only in the last Division upon reflection that the seventh Vicar viz. Master Norton was not made Archdeacon that I can find upon any Record and I send you all I have of this nature so that my Lord and you of the Chapter there must please to resolve whether there shall be any Vicar Generall without the Title of Archdeacon and so let the first number of 23. Archdeacons stand good or whether all the seven Vicars shall be Archdeacons and then the last Division of Archdeacons into 22. to remaine It seemes here most consonant to reason to make each Vicar Generall an Archdeacon but what you there resolve will be here allowed of but you shall doe well to appropriate such Counties to each Vicar and Archdeacon as may be most convenient for them to repaire unto which will be ahard matter to determine in these unsetled times And hence you will perceive that by the Addition of Canons to the Chapter which you know were added but lately that without filling up the places of the old Chapter-men deceased you will have as great a number almost of Chapter men now living to choose a Coadjutor to the Deane which is the present affaire in agitation as would have been if all the dead persons vacant places were filled up before the Election of this Coadjutor so that if the desire of filling the Chapter proceed out of a feare that there will want a competent number of Chapter-men to make this Election considering the late Addition of Canons to the Chapter with power of voting in all affaires of the Clergy there will be no want of almost as full a number as ever were of the Chapter since it was first erected For you see there never were above two or three and twenty at most of the Chapter and albeit most of them that were Vicars and Archdeacons be dead neverthelesse those that are living together with the Canons lately added thereunto amount to the number of twentie as I wrote you word last weeke onely I forgot then to tell you that one of the six whom I reckoned upon to be in Paris viz. Master Laborne is neither of the Chapter in vertue of Vicar Archdeacon or Canon that I can find upon any Record but this I impute to an Accident of his being out of the way at Tame when the Canons were made and so I reckon upon him as if he were a Chapter-man the rather because he was and is still one of his Lordships Consult which may perhaps ipso facto give him that quality The whole Chapter in the nature of a Counsell to Doctor Rich. Smith titular Bishop of Chalcedon and Ordinarie of England and Scotland by Commission from the Pope in regard the whole Chapter hath the nature of his Lordships Counsell But now to come unto the particulars who are dead of the Chapter and who now living thereof that so you may see cleerely in the particulars what I tell you of our Chapter in generall you may please to understand that of the Vicars Generall who were at most in number but seven there are five dead viz. Master Colleton Mr. Bennet Mr. Boswill Mr. Broughton Mr. Norton so that you must thinke of Constituting five Vicars for however Master Muscot was made coadjutor to Master Colleton yet he is now in a charge by the Popes command incompatible with that office of Vicar Generall in Master Broughtons place whose residence he possesseth yet I doe not conceive that hee was ever made Vicar Generall by Patent Now for the Vicars actually living you will easily see they are but two viz. Master Iackson and Master Trollop who had

need of a Coadjutor being himself grown unable to travell as you all know As for the Archdeacons there are dead five in the five Vicars and of such as were purely Archdeacons and no more there are dead besides Master Muscot whose place is vacant though he bee living ten viz. Master Pits Doctor Wright and his successor Brabant Master Strickland Master Heines and his successor Doctor Lovell Master Hanmer and his successor Mr. Guin as also the intended successor to him Master Robert Hughes lately Doctor Britton Master More Master Martine Mr. Tushenor and his successor Mr. Aston and Mr. Worthington I doe not accompt Mr. Shellyes nor Mr. Merricks places vacant by reason Mr. Lane and Mr. Hide surviving both doe supply them but whether by Patents created Archdeacons or not I cannot say or whether by Deputation only they execute the same which in effect I account is all one So that here are undoubtedly to be de novo created ten Archdeacons to fill up the places vacant by death and more to supply Mr. Muscots place yet living as abovesaid Now for the living Archdeacons they are in number two in the two Vicars above and foure that are purely Archdeacons by Patents undoubted viz. Master Redman Master Button Mr. Hughes and Master Manger whereunto if you adde the suppliants at least living Master Hide and Master Lane then are there six Archdeacons living As for Canons there were Created as I remember nine at the first and they are all living still viz. Master Blaclo Master Harrington Master Holden Mr. Fitton Master Clifford Master Morgan Master Curtes Master Gage and Mr. Herbert for I have now no convenience to come at such Records as doe shew this perhaps your memory will tell you this better then mine or else then Master Hide was made Canon and not Master of which you shall know the certaintie ere long but however thus you see what with two Vicars living six Archdeacons and nine Canons and the Deane there are eighteen persons of the Chapter now living or take the Deane and at least five Archdeacons and nine pure Canons supposing Master Hide to be no Archdeacon they will in all amount to the number of seventeen persons whereunto adding the three Suppliants for Archdeacons who have as vet never had Patents viz Master Barlo in Warwickshire and Master Stevens in Hertford and Master Thomas Greene in Suffolke by the old Division Norff. by new you see we may accompt upon just nineteene or twenty Chapter-men now actually living whereas at first Erection of the Chapter there were never more as you see then twenty two or twenty three at most And thus you have the exact account of the Chapter as now it stands wherewith if you rest not satisfied but desire either to make more Canons as my Lord seemes to doe or to fill up the number of those that ale dead Wee can suggest unto you for the present only these that follow for that purpose because we cannot have an exact accompt from all the Shires what men are now residing therein much lesse can we make any probable conjecture how to six any one man in any one County of England as times now stand to officiate therein and so we should not at this time have thought of filling up the vacant places yet because you there have that cogitation and desire to know whom we here in towne thinke fitting for that purpose wee have reflected on these under-written For Vicars Generall Master Blaclo Mr. Holden Mr. Harrington Mr. Fitton Mr. Herbert Mr. Hide Mr. Drury Mr. Clifford Mr. Laborne Mr. Barquer For Archdeacons Master Iohn Berrington Mr. Stevens Mr. Barlo Mr. Edward Hughes Mr Green Mr. Coffin Mr. Sands Mr. Laurence Mr. Bruarton Doctor Bloudston Mr. Faulconer Mr. Ireland Mr. Iennings Mr. Curtes Mr. Cattericke Mr. Clampit Mr. Woodward Master Cheake For Canons Master Carleton Mr. Everard Mr. More Mr. Knightley Master Warham Mr. Polewheele Mr. Carre Mr. Todhill Mr. Bradshawe Lassels Mr. Warnford Mr. Hall Mr. Worthington Mr. Marten Mr. Lutlo Mr. Turbervile Mr. Ellice Mr. Weekes Mr. Harrison Mr. Page Mr. Skinner Mr. Sale Mr. Totty Mr. Tustall Above all things you must recommend secrecie if you resolve upon Master Herbert that his Lady come not to the notice of his being chosen into any Office that will require resort to him or his going abroad Master Carre however not in England is a man so considerable that above all others not already of the Chapter it were fit he were made one thereof and however I put him amongst Canons only yet if his continuall absence admit of higher place surely his merrits will claime it CONSIDERATIONS COnsiderations about filling up the Chapter The maine to appoint such Officers in such Divisions as probably shall reside therein or at least conveniently may once a yeare repaire thereto to comply with their Officers Then persisting in the last Division which you will find taken out of Master Records The first Vicar is Master Hammon in Cornwall Note that he is also Archdeacon of the Shires Hunt and Wiltshire now to keep the forme of this last Division you must either adde Gloucester shire to his Archdeaconate or else incurre a greater confusion in altering the whole frame of this Division And here I may not omit to let you know that master Ham. hath often desired to resigne up his Archdeaconate in the two Shires above said for what cause I know not but admit hee may be intreated to keepe them and to accept of Glocester shire thereunto Yet you must cast for two Archdeacons more viz. of Somerset Dorset Cornwall and Devon For however master Manger is living Archdeacon of Somerset and Dorset shire yet now a bedrid man in Wales hee had need of a Coadjutor at least The men living in or at least acquainted frequenting those parts are Master Victor Mr. Martine Mr. Woodward the two Brothers Warhams Mr. White Mr. Hames Mr. Browne Mr. Newman The said Vicar according to this last Division of London Etcae't will be the man of most consideration in this affaire as being being neere to the Dean hee through whose hands the greatest part of the Clergies affaires will run both for receiving the Priests new commers and dealing With Persons of greatost ranke about the Towne This was Mr. Lahetans charge and since Mr. Muscots and is now by his absence and being in a charge incompatible therewith vacant If you thinke of fixing in this place any of the Chapter-men now about the Towne you will finde few to afford you choyce for Mr. Herbert is already suppliant to the sixth Vicariate and happily may bee changed into the fifth as being the onely Britton that we can thinke of except Master Humphrey Hughes to be Vicar Generall of Wales Etcae't Mr. Hamman you see is already fixed Mr. Webster is Deane here onely remaine of Chapter-men Mr. Curtes and Mr. Hoard now about the Towne so that you must in this point goe I believe by ghesse who is likely

of all those learned and grave Chaptermen now at Paris or Doway to fixe in Towne when times come favourable and those men you know are Master Blacklo Mr. Harrington Mr. Barquer Mr. Holden Mr. Filton Mr. Hide Mr. Clifford Mr. Laborne Master Drury Now admit you fixe upon one of these abroad for the Vicar Generall about London You are then to finde him three Archdeacons more for by this last division there are foure Archdeacons belonging to this Vicurate so that making the Vicar one of these foure Archdeacons as is supposed you will there remaine three Archdeacons to be chosen under him With whom they shall be most serviceable for the cómon good as being most upon the eye of the world and stay of our common affaires you must resolve The Priests about the towne are now so few that they scarce make a number especially those that are Chapter-men and not already deputed otherwaies viz. Master Curles Mr. Howard The Priests abroad you know The Priests not Chaptermen in towne to bee thought on for this charge are sew or none onely Mr. Worthington though hee was one moved to bee made of the Chapter and it was refused because hee was as servant to Doway being Procurator and so not to governe Note that of the three Archdeacons Master Lane must bee one for he hath a long time supplyed Mr. Theli●s place as Archdeacon of Sussex and so to keep Order of this second Division must have added unto his district Kent also so his Patent must run Archdeacon of Sussex and Kent The third Vicar of Bedford Huntington Elect is in vertue already and in repute M. Herbert and consequently Archdeacon of two Counties therunto belōging So then you must provide for him two Archdeacons more out of these Priests following you will take such as live in those parts they are Master Thomas Greene Mr. Weekes Mr. Everard Mr. Carleton Mr. Henry Blacklo In Norfolke and Suffolke In Cambridge elect Elie Hoh Marchland or thereabouts none at all The fourth Vicar of Oxford Buckingham Elect which was Doctor Bosvile and now must be supplyed by whom you think good either of those named in an other paper for Vicars or of some of these following Priests living in that Division and hath under him foure Archdeacons but himselfe being to be one of the foure you must cast for three more and if you take the Priests living in those Counties they are these that follow Master Button Archdeacon already of Stafford and Cheshire but so old that he had need of a Coadjutor with power to succeed him Master Barlo Mr. Bruerton Mr. Venables Mr. Lawrence Master Suttlo Mr. Turbervill Master Iennings designed one for a Reader a very able man but young Master Humphrey Hattlo Mr. William Ellis These are in Worcester Warwick Stafford Cheshire in Northton Leicester shire are Mr. Faulconer Mr. Cheeke Mr. Edward Hughes Oxford and Bucks are the Counties perhaps most fit for these Vicars district as hee is Archdeacon The fist Vicar who is he of Wells Elect hath under him three onely Archdeacons whereof himselfe standing for one you are to thinke onely of two Archdeacons more for that Division For the Vicar himselfe there occurres none fitter then either Mr. Herbert if he be not deputed Vicar in Huntington Elect or Mr. Humphrey Hughes now Archdeacon of North Wales For two Archdeacons under him besides if you choose them out of Priests in those parts they are these following Master Stevens living in Hertford Mr. Vaughan Mr. Stephen Pue Mr. Permane Mr. Williams Mr. Iohn Barrington Master Iohn Powell Mr. Perkins Mr. Thomas Street Mr. Iohn Holland Remble Master Barnes Lay Mr. William Pue Mr. Francis Greene chiefe man Master Elliets Mr. Morris Mr. Prises two of them Master Stevens and Mr. Barrington held the two fittest The sixth Vicar who is of Yorke Darby Nottingham Lincolne and Rutland and whose place is vacant hath under him only two Archdeacons whereof himselfe being one you are to thinke of one more onely for that Division The men fit to be thought on for this Vicariate if you take the Priests living in those parts are Master Falconer Mr. Coffine The Archdeacon may bee one of those names in the foure Vicars district Mr. French Mr. Arnold Mr. Fathering Mr. Edward Hughes Mr. Iackson Mr. Wor●hington The seventh Vicar who is hee● of Lancashire Northumberland c. Master Trollop still living but so old as he had need of a Coadjutor with power to succeed him which whether it may not be Mr. Holden considering who is of those parts or master Lab. who is likewise of the same you may there advise This Vicar hath under him three Archdeacons himselfe being one you are to appoint one more onely Mr. Redman being Archdeacon in Lancashire already The Priests in the Countrey most considerable for Vicars or Archdeacons are these that follow In Northumberland and the York-shire district Mr. Catricke Mr. Walker Doctor Blunderston Master Wivell Mr. Nearby Mr. Iohn Lassells Master H. Greene Mr. William Constable Mr. Hodgeson Master Strickland one his name Prebend of Yorke Minster In Lancashire there is already Archdeacons Master Redman too besides him are Master Sands principally Mr. Totty Mr. Sale Mr. Thomas Worthington Master Tunstall Right Reverend my very good Lord Isend you now according to my promise last week such Copies of Patents as you desired of Canons and such other of Vicars and Archdeacons and Rurall Deanes as you may have need of for compleating the Chapter with such light into that affaire as in these darke and confused times I could procure I must not omit to certifie your Lordship that I have inserted Mr. Peter Warnefords name amongst those who are suggested here to be made Canons and I should humbly desire he may be made such for one maine reason above others that I have a probable hope hereby to secure the Chapter of the holy Thorne after his decease and that is a Jewell which I am sure your Lordship values at a high rate A pretious Relique as also doe all others that know thereof If the light I have given in the choice of such men as may compleat the Chapter be sufficient to satisfy your Lordship of the merits of the men suggested Perhaps it may not be a misse to thinke of even in these uncertaine times if for no other reason then to prevent mortality and that the Chapter might have the fuller power in its compleatnesse in case your Lordship should dy as we that are many yeares younger cannot say but wee may dye very suddenly and truly but for this only reason perhaps it were better deferre the filling up the Chapter till wee better times expected yet since I writ those inclosed Papers I have reflected that perhaps it may not bee amisse to compleat the Chapter with all speed that may be for however we cannot suggest unto your Lordship all our men in every County yet I am confident we have named those that are fittest for such