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you for your sending of those horse and foote armes w^ch you provide, whether to send them by themselves to Yorke or to joine them w^th the rest of your county. If I shall receive any further directions from my Lo: of Canterbury, you shall have notice thereof w^th convenient speed. In that your Lor^p saieth you would doe as I doe I lett your Lor^p know that I meane to contribute in money, besides the horse and foote armes, three tenthes, besides the charge that may be required of mee towards the payment of them that shall serve w^th my armes, horse and foote; w^ch I doubt will grow to a weekly charge of £20 a weeke. As concerning the abuse you write of, of scattering seditious bookes, I wish some course were taken to apprehend those wicked instruments, and alsoe those that have received any of those books. And if your Lor^p can thinke of any course, by the authority of the high commission, to apprehend the dispersers & such as have received such bookes, thinke of what is fitt to be done, and wee shall yeild you all the assistance wee can.

ffor the Scotch merchants, aƚs pedlars, I know not what to say to them. If your neighbours be soe ill advised as to trust them, who can help it?

This is all for the present that I have to trouble your Lor^p withall, soe with my hearty commendations and thankes for your prayers & kind wishes to mee I committ you to God and rest your very loving frend and brother,

ffebr. 19, 1638. R. Ebor.

I understand by Dr. Wickham y^t you required of him to be at y^e calleing of the clergie in your Archdeaconry of Richmond. There is not a man in your dioces more willing to doe you service then hee is, essentially in this his Ma^ties service; but the truth is, by reason of mine owne infirmity being unhable to goe my selfe about this his Ma^ties service, I am constrayned to relye upon him for y^e doeing of it for mee in sundry places of this county; besides y^t hee is to waite as ordinary chaplen, in Aprill, and, by the imployment that I put him to, hath not time to goe to his booke for y^t his Ma^ties service. And therefore I heartily pray your Lor^p to release him of that your command."^[1]

About this time Laud writes to the bishop to inform him that he has sent him a copy of his new book which he had been obliged to compile under very trying circumstances. It must

1. Family Evidences.