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veryly beleeve that he will keepe his day or the next day following. And it may so fall out that we may take our journey to London together, for I make accompt your L. will not sett forward untill the Monday following.

My Lo. Lieutennant hath had a fit of goute. The payne is past but the weaknes continues; but that will not hinder his resolved journey:

yor L. humble servant,

Dubline, this 25 of Mar., 1639[40]. Ph. Mainwaring."^[1]

That bishop Bridgeman attended this parliament, known as the Short Parliament, which was summoned for the 13th of April, 1640, and dissolved on the 5th of May, after sitting barely three weeks, and that he returned to Chester shortly after the dissolution, may be gathered from a letter which he received from the bishop of Durham^[2] dated from Aukeland, 12th June, 1640.

In this letter, which chiefly concerned the confirmation of the bishop of Durham's leases by his dean and chapter, concerning which he had asked his advice and assistance, he thanks him for his "intelligence of the Parliament, or rather of the Non-Parliament's Businesses." The letter is directed to him at "Mr. Orlando Bridgeman's^[3] house at the flower de luce in ffleet streete, right over against Rom Ally"; from whence it was forwarded to the bishop at Chester.^[4]

The archbishop of York writes to him from Bishopthorp, 30th July, 1640, saying:

↑ Family Evidences.
↑ Thomas Morton, bishop of Durham, had been translated to that see in 1632, from the see of Coventry and Lichfield. He had formerly occupied the see of Chester, in which he had been succeeded by bishop Bridgeman on his translation to that of Coventry and Lichfield in 1619. He died in September 1659, during the time of the rebellion.
↑ Orlando Bridgeman, Esq., then Vice-Chamberlain of the county palatine of Chester, afterwards Lord Keeper of the great seal, the bishop's eldest surviving son, represented the borough of Wigan in this parliament, together with Alexander Rigby, of Rigby in Amounderness, Esq.
↑ Original letters inter Family Evidences. The seal of this letter bears the arms of the see of Durham, a cross crosslet between four lions rampant, impaled with, quarterly, 1st and 4th a goat's head erased, and 2nd and 3rd (apparently) 5 tortoises.

[1] Family Evidences.

[2] Thomas Morton, bishop of Durham, had been translated to that see in 1632, from the see of Coventry and Lichfield. He had formerly occupied the see of Chester, in which he had been succeeded by bishop Bridgeman on his translation to that of Coventry and Lichfield in 1619. He died in September 1659, during the time of the rebellion.

[3] Orlando Bridgeman, Esq., then Vice-Chamberlain of the county palatine of Chester, afterwards Lord Keeper of the great seal, the bishop's eldest surviving son, represented the borough of Wigan in this parliament, together with Alexander Rigby, of Rigby in Amounderness, Esq.

[4] Original letters inter Family Evidences. The seal of this letter bears the arms of the see of Durham, a cross crosslet between four lions rampant, impaled with, quarterly, 1st and 4th a goat's head erased, and 2nd and 3rd (apparently) 5 tortoises.

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