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discharge by striking a Tallye or Tallyes upon your severall payments into the Exchequer as shall be fitt to secure you. And of this service you must not fayle. Your Lor^p must farther be pleased to send up a list of the names of such as refuse this service within your diocesse, but I hope none will put you to that trouble. It is expected that your Lor^p and every other Bishop [will send], expresse by itselfe and not in the generall summe of his clergy, that w^ch himselfe gives. Soe to God's blessed protection I leave you and rest

Your Lor^ps very loving ffrend and Brother,

ffrom my house at Bishopthorpe E. Ebor.

ffebruarii 9, 1638[9]

By an advertisement sent to me with the Lords' warrant I am required to joine all able schoole masters with y^e clergy in this great service, and to understand those words of sparing such ministers as are scarce able to live, to be meant by theire Lor^ps of poore stipendaries."

"To the right Reverend ffather in God my very good Lo: and Brother, y^e Bishop of Chester, at the pallace at Chester be these w^th speed."

This was accompanied by a copy of the order in council and a private letter from the archbishop in the following terms:

"I pray your Lor^p to take notice that this lr̃e, w^ch I now send to yow is the same ad verbum w^ch my Lord of Canterbury hath written to the B^ps of his province, touching this great service, and sent a copy thereof to mee, adding in a private lr̃e—viz^t 'I am commanded by order from the counsell to write my lr̃es to the severall Bishops of my province, and to send your Grace a copy of my lr̃es, w^ch I have prepared and am ready to send, that our lr̃es may not differ in any thing that concerneth the King's service.'

Upon the perusall of w^ch lr̃es I cannot but pray your Lor^p seriously with mee to observe this clause, viz^t. 'In this case of soe great danger both to the state and church of England your Lor^p, I doubt not, and your clergy under you, will not onely be vigilant against the close working of any pretenders in that kinde, but &c.,' and to consider what is thereby required of us if it shall appear that any under us hold correspondency with any his Ma^ties rebellious opposites.

And that you may (as I doe) the better perceive what apprehension