"I here send you His Matie's commission for your taking ye oath against all innovation of Doctrine & Discipline contained in ye vi Canon of ye Canons lately published by his Matie, & for your ministering yt oath to others, & your giving power to others to minister it.
I should at this time allso send you copies of ye grant of ye contribution to his Matie granted in our late convocation, with the ordinances for the collecting & paying thereof; whereof I have written to my Lord of Canterbury, & doe daily exspect his answare & farther direction; & so soone as I shall receive his Lopps answeare I will send to your Lordship.
So with my love remember'd to your Lopp I committ you, as I doe my selfe, to the comfort of God's blessed Saving Grace, & rest," &c.
In another letter, undated but endorsed 10th August, 1640, the archbishop sends copies of what passed in the convocation at York of the grant of six years' contribution to his Majesty, and the ordinances for the collecting and paying thereof. He also tells him that:
"The officers which attended the service of the convocation, as the apparitor, that was at the charge and labour of sending all the summons for the convocation and did many other services all the time of the convocation, and the Register, which attended all the convocation time and prepared and performed all manner of writings concerning that service (which in truth was very much), with other officers of the church, petitioned, before the end of the convocation, for some favourable allowance to bee made to them, which the whole house taking into due consideration, and examining records what had beene heretofore done in ye like case, and finding sundrie Presidents thereof, with one consent resolved of a small allowance to bee made, of which resolution you shall have a copie from the Register, with their request that you would doe them favour for the collecting of it by the helpe of your officers, wch otherwise is so small, that their owne collecting of it would bee as much charge as the thing it selfe will come to. For your own benevolence to them, the whole howse thought it fit to leave it to your owne goodnes, and my selfe entreats your Lordship to favour them in the collecting of that small benevolence that is desired for them."
Bishop Bridgeman's health appears to have broken down in the summer of 1640. In or before the August of that year he
