THE CAMDEN MISCELLANY, VOLUME THE SECOND: CONTAIN I HO \< COUNT OF THE EXPENSES OF JOHN OF BRABANT AND HiNKV AND THOMAS OF LANCASTER, 121- 1101 SKIIOLD ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH, 15.:; THE REQUEST AND SUITE OF A TRUE-HEARTED ENULIMI MAN, WRITTEN BY WILLIAM CHOLMKLKV, 1553. DISCOVERY OF THE JESUITS' COLLEGE AT CLERKENWELL IN MARCH 1627-8. TKKLAWXY PAPERS. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM TASWKLI.. D.D. n KoK T1IK C V.MDF \ ^"( 111 \ M.DCCC.L.I1I. . -DA-ao -HOIJI AND iOJI, MM PAHLIAMRKT LV.] COUNCIL or Til I. GAMDKN Soil I. I ^ I HE YEAR IN Tin: I;K;IIT nox. LORD BRAYI;I;<><>KL. F.S.A. WILLIAM HENRY BLAAUW, ESQ. M.A. F.S.A. JOHN BRUCE, ESQ. Treas. S.A. Directs. JOHN PAYNE COLLIE!!. ESQ. V.P.S.A. Traumr. C. PURTON COOPER, ESQ. Q.C., D.C.L PJLfl I s A. WILLIAM DURRANT COOPER, ESQ. F> \ ION C-OI;M;V. ESQ. IfJELRL, WILLIAM 1IICHAIID DKAKL, ESQ. F> SIR IILNKV ELLIS, K.H.. I'.l KDWAKD FOSS, ESQ. PA \. Till: REV, .n>r.i'il IIIN -.A. Tin: i;i:\. LAMISKIIT i;. LAKKINC. M.A. PETER LEVESQUE, ESQ. r.^.A. FREDERIC OUVRY, ESQ. F.S.A Tin: KT. no\. LOKD V1SCO1 WILLIAM J. THOM8, L>> PJ3JL, 64 Long, justice, 10, 15, 16, 18, 21, 80, 41, 54, 57, 62 Lovet, Drue, 42, 43 father, 45 Lusher, Nicholas, 46 Maidenhead, 60 Man, Richard, 28 Mannock, John, 46 Marlborough, earl of, 21 Martin, sir Henry, 16 Maxfield, father, 45 Mead, Mr. 6 Milberie, Mrs. 24, 26 Miles, Francis, 46 Montague, lord, 59, 60 Moore, Edward, 22, 41, 48, 62 Mordaunt, lady, 59 More, Henry, 46; his History of the English Mission, 62 Morgan, father, 61 Morley, George, 46 Mosse, William, 46 Musket, father, 41, 59, 60 Mutuation, 11, 36 Oldcorn, Edward, 3, 47 Oliver's Biography of the Je- suits, 4 Olympic (Rome), 49 Oriental joy, 9, 49 Palmer, father, 44 Panzani, Gregorio, bishop of Chalcedon, 4, 12 Parliament, proceedings in, 619 Parre, Edward, 22, 29, 41, 48,49 INDEX. Pateson, father, 45 Pennington, John, 41 Persons, Robert, 47 Petre, sir George, 49 Philips, sir Robert, 13, 18 Piggott, Mr. 50 Plowden, , 22. 48 Ployden, father. 45 Porter, father, 45 Poulton, Thomas, 22, 40, 48 Povey, auditor, 42, 54. 57 Price, father. 41 Thomas, 40 Putney, William, 40 Radfbrd, John, 40 Rich, sir Nathaniel. 14 Richardson, chief justice, 15, 10,17,18 Richelieu, cardinal, 48, 58 Roper, sir William, 59, 00 8alisbury,Thooim,28.40,48 Sanders, Arthur, letter of, 49 Seville, William, 40 Selden, Mr. 13,15, 10, 17 Seymour, sir P. 15, 17 Shillingfbrd, 49 Shrewsbury, earl of. 21, 22, 00 Smith, Richard, bishop of Chalcedon, 4, 45, 50, 54, 58 Other priests of that name, 45 Somerset Home, 18 Southeot, John, 54 Southwell, Nathaniel, 40 South werck, otto* 01 Stannop. Daniel, 27, 28, 41, 54 Stephens, John, 40 Strand, Mr. 10 Sweete, father, 45 Swinburn. Simon, 40 8ydnam,lady,50 Tempest, Robert, 40 Tichborne, Owen, 50 Turrey. 59 Umpton, father, 01 Underbill, Joseph, 22, 41, 42 Vau, lady, 47 Vitelleachi, Musio, 28, 47, 68 Wainwright, Richard, 01 Mr. 18 r,00 r. Christopher, 40 , Edmund, 22, 41, 48 Mr. 51 Oisabeth, 49 Richard, 40 WUldneon, Henry, 40 Williams, llmna*, 40 Willumsoo. Edw. 40 u - p | WingfMd. Edw. 29, 80 Wiebech Castle, 10, 42 Wood, father. 45 Worthington, doctor T. 45 Lawrence, 45, 40 Wright, doctor, 44 William, 44 Yonge, Prancia, 40 Ypaley, Thomas, 40 Yvison, John, 40 TIIELAWNY PAPERS. KIMTKD in WILLIAM DURRANI COOPKi!. I-.S.A. I'KIMI.h FOB I UK ( \Ml>r\ KM I..1II. INTRODUCTION. THK following pages contain copies of papers relating to the well- known Bishop successively of Bristol, Exeter, and Winchester, and to his father and grandfather. The papers are preserved by the family, and were lent to me for the use of the Camden Society. The M lection has been made to a very limited extent, and for the pur- pose of adding to general historical literature rather than of illus- trating points of family or personal interest. Tin' Bishop, when before James II., repudiated the notion that he or his family could be guilty of disloyalty, and referred his Majesty particularly to his being sent down to Cornwall to quell Monmouth's rebellion. The following papers show plainly how loyal the grand- tat her of the Bishop, Sir John Trelawny, and the father, Sir Jo- nathan Trelawny, had been. What they had suffered for the royal cause in Cornwall, their own county,' is verified by the report of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, now printed; and the first document in tliis selection, written after the second battle of Newbury (1644) to Captain Jonathan Trelawny (who, under the warrant of Colonel " By TRE , POL-, and PKH-, You shall know the Cornish men." Sir Jonathan Trelawny purchased Trelawny, near West Looe, in 1599. He WM of Poolc, near Liskeard. Carew, in his Surrey of Cornwall, p. 117 (1602), say*, " Poole houseth Sir Jonathan Trelawny, farre beneath hn worth and calling. . . Poole in Mynliin.'t (now Menheniot) parish/' ! N 1 l;oM i I K i.N. John Digby, hail in April 1643 raised at Liskeard a ti horse, consisting of fourscore, officers included, well armed and furnished for the service), proves on what good terms he was with actinir in tin.- hVM with tin- Kin^. The jwiper appears to be other- wise interesting f>r the insi L r!,t it irives into the -pinions of the most sanguine of Charles's followers. After the Restoration the son, who was born in 1650, was not for- _ -i r -i i. 1 1 a \ ing been found useful for his great influence in Cornwall during M on mouth 'a rebellion, he was rewarded by being nominated to the See of Bristol, the intimation of the Conge* d'Elire being conveyed to him by tin- Marl of Sundcrland on 17th October, i It will be seen that on \\\> tir>t Visitation he zealously applied himself, un.lrr Sunderland's direct orders, to appeasing the ill-will of the to\\ard> the Kin- an>l tin Roman Catholics, This leniency brought upon him the complaint by Sir John Knight of being disrespectful t<> ni/aiul la v..nring papists, fromuliich charge the Bishop defended hi in- -If in a letter to Sunderland, dated 2->th June, 1686,* stating Kni-Jit to be so dangerous a man that he had ti.rl.idden the clergy "f th> il to converse with him ; that, before going to Bristol, he (the P.M...;.) had takeu die advice of the Lord Chancellor as to the persons he should become acquaint. I with ; that, as to the ti objected to 1.;, Knight in the Hisln>; ions to hi> clergy, he "exactly follow cil his Majesty's orders," anl only enjoined the clergy, in relation to the Roman Catholics, to outdo them in sti lite: that, whilst he was there, he preached only once, and that was the sermon he had the honour to preach before his late Majesty, enforcing a good life and loyal hehaviour to r nment, which he purposely chose to enact a pattern to the rest ot his der^v. and to i-apor Off. Domestic, 156. .-lit \vli:it ^tnrir-. in- had ,incr t'.uiid ami til Hid that lu- had principally . -nti-rtaiwd the ,f}'u-. lesty's regiments in tin- t<\vn commanded l>y his In-other, " t'r which the town said he was a papist." So little of papistry . however, had he in him.tljat, tliouirh lie had been will: 'TV ., ut. so far as was consistent with his <>\vn principles, tli-- v. Mies of the Court for conciliation, there was soon to arise a point to which he could not assent. A :'s Declaration of toleration, and lor liberty of consci. i, i/land, Burnet* says, of' the BMiopx. that were irained by tin- Court, carried their compliance to a shameful pitch ; for they set on Addresses of thanks to the Kinir t'orthe promise- h- had made in tin- late Declaration of main- taining tin- ( 'hurch nt' Knuland." U S drawn into this. lint the r.i-hop ot Oxford had so ill success in his diocese, that he got but one single nan to concur with him in it" Theletu Loi-d Sunderlaiul, which I copy from the State Paper Office, proves only that the Addresses were of "_ Mt " manufacture, but a n. \ioii-ly lo.,krd for from tho tal who had received : . The draft I the Bishop gives the first intima- tion of that sti'oi I which afterwards led him to the Tov- ami, th .nuh the actual an- .vhat modified in term-, it was in substanc- ive. The other docinnrnt- -utHciriitly explain themsel\- B, The Bishop was translated to in IGNl), and to Winchester 1707; and died 1721. W. D. C. ? \ , (ir(i Street, 17 /;ec. 1852. ' 'NX D Time*, vol. in. \. TRELAWNY PAPERS. TIM: PROSPECTS OF CHARLES TIIK FIKST AFTER Till SECOND BATTLE OF NKWHIKY, A.D. 1 His Majestic was verry fortunate after that great battle in New- bery (wherein there fell att the least six rebells to one royalist) in nitvting neare Bristoll both Prince Rupert's horse and Collonel Gerard's Welch foote. This enabled him within a weekes tyme to march hark to Deniston Castle * and to reh-ive that place, and to fetch troiu thence the artillery and magazine which he had left there. Afterward he advanced yet farther, and faced their armyes in New- bery, provoking them to fight, which they refused. Waller being more prevalent to persuade their forbearance than Manchester to accept that offer, which hath caused a great heate betwixt them, and moreover administered unto my Lord of Essex a plentiful! argument of venting himselfe against Waller. 5 And this is disco- vered unto us aswell by our espialls, but by an express message from the Earl of Essex unto Generall Goring, assuring the generall that he beyn on the place, as he was not (being sick att Reading) he would rather have hazarded all then suffered us to goe of as we did without being fought withall. But wee did not goe of fair, soe as his excellency might have had tyme enough to have interposed his courageous counsells if he had pleased ; ffor the King, having Donington Castle. * These complaint* of Essex against Waller attained such a height that they could Ml he concealed from the Parliament. 8 i 1:1.1. vu N 1 ! I'M i -it hi- arm\ two or tl. red himsclte to rcleixe Basing; which those of New IK- r\ per. -,-i\ in_. immediate^ townc, and marching to Basing, planted tin -m-elvcs round about it. In the interim, Colonell Gage had persuaded his M not to trouble his whole army \\\m th:t work.-, un it only uith a party of horse and son dragoons, which his Majestic forth- with consigned unto him : and the coll,, nel had ne -ooncr putt hiin- selfe on the way, but the whole strength U-ll* presently rose, quitting their Beige and hastning every one to his owne winter Barters, Waller to Fame-ham, Manchester towards his associated countycs, and N.-I Portsmouth. This hath byn the 1\ worke in all that straight \\ithout blowcs. And his Maji- since retired to Oxford to niet the n-b,-ll commander* there. The ' ll-.i:-- hirl rds Denbigh and Maynard : the Ix>wV Mr. \Vliittlock, Mr. Hollis Mr. I'erpoint, and t! to treat with tin- Kini'. :m i re accompanied with tin- M.iMland, Sir Williar . and Mr. Robert BarkU. for the : it 1" ing a jwirt of their rebellions league that neither king- dome should treat without the other. This treaty the rebeils have been forced unt > in regard that the hearts even of their owne people are much drawnc out towards a peace, and that it was necessary for them to endeavour one seemingly: but their sending of Mr. H.-lli* meant not one really, t : iiierly declared that he would not treate with any of those five notorious members, one ot \\hom they therefore named, that his Majestic blancetiiiiiLi at t liiin, might refus | on, and soe bring the ^li-le envy of the breach upon I; but his Majesties most nmvcaryed goodnes deceaveurin: tlu in that however they had scornefully refused soe many gracious oflfers of a treaty from him, yet he had not IOM minute's time since the projx.sal from them, and to retin See also C'larvndon's Hint, of the Behellioii, book * .1 I I:I.I.\\N N^ I'AI'KRH. in. -MI howe w. -II. -i .in.- tli'-ir message was to him, adding that he was only sorry that they had not accompanied an overture of this n.-itnn- \\ith anoth.-r t'..r the cessation, both being soe agreeable <>ii. to the other: l.ut -ince they have not done that, he beleeved that they did not intend that, and that therefore they were not to expect that lie would superseade the progress of his army during the ty: and this was to prevent the like calumny which they threw upon his Maje-tie att I'.rainford," when, notwithstanding the treaty, he continued his march, and was sufficiently rayld att by them for it His Mai.-ti.- d.-i-'nes now are for Abbington, and, as occasion shall serve, for Xorfolke and Suffolk*.*, the King having a great interest thereabouts, for the Crowlanders have lately possest themselves of tin- towne and castle of Wisbich ; and the report is yet strong that the Ne of Illy is ours also, which hath occasioned principally Man- chester's looking back that way. In Scotland the Lord Montrose hath lately well banged therebells, and is nowe at the head of 7000 men; and the Earl of Antrim's forces have beaten Argile entirely out of every fort in his country. The Lord Marquess Huntley is very strong by himselfe likewise, soe that the King's party is nowe eminently the powerfuller in that kin-dome. Newcastle, indeed, is lost, but Tinmouth holds out stoutly. From Wales wee have excellent newes of the releaving of M"ii- inouth. The governor of the place 1>. iiiL f gone out with the greater part of his forces to storme Chepstow, my Lord Charles Herbert tooke the opportunity and marcht thither, dei^inling mi the affec- tions of the townsmen, with 120 firelocks, acquainting by the way the Governor of Abergenney with his designe, who approving it, end-cased him with as many firelocks more ; and as hoped, soe it fell out, the towne immediatly joyned with him, soe that he tooke all those of the rebells that were left there ; they were in all about Brentford. AMD. f B ]() TRELAWXV I'APEBft. eighty, anine\vrall yeares, untill he was forced to redeem it by <; H\ ne. Fifthly. That his father, l>y virtue of a commission from his late . levied and received of the countrie (which hoc paid over tor lii> Majesties service) severall sumes of money, to the vallue of 1000/., for which hee and his father wen iftt -'i-med by the then power: to defend which suites ami tyranny then imposed upon tin-in t-rvice hee was forced to bee at great expense, charge, and trouUe, and att the end compelled to repay the said 1000/., with charges to the value of 500/. more. Sixthly. That hee paycl decimation and all other taxes and pay- ments, imposed upon him with all severity i. le. Seventhly. That hee suffered imprisonment in IVndenis, Truroe, _;ony, Bodmyn, and Dortmouth nine severall times, sometimes three quarters of a yeare att a time, to the great preiudice of health and ruine of his estate and family. Kiirhthly. That hee was designed three times to have lost his life, luin-e allwayes considered by the enemy as most obnoxi- ous to them of all the Kin-'- partie in that countrie, beinge t\ imprisoned when noe other of Li> Majesties partie in that county was soe treated. Ninthly. That in the last winter's designes he disbursed 300/, in preparation of horses, armes, and men for his Majesties service. That in all time of the warrs, and since the warrs, he never received any money att all tor iocs, ill which hee was never either ivmic or nci:li:cm in promoting of his Majesties interest and 1 '2 TRELAWNY PAPERS. service, all \\luVli shall bee made very clerely and fully appeare \\licnsoever his Majestic shall commande it For all which the said Collonell Trelawny humbly imploreth his Majesties favour and goodnesse to him. And whereas your Ma- jestic, on the petitioner's former request, was pleased that y petitioner should have a grant of the duty of tenn shillings upon the awne of Deale and 1 ; wine, at the rent of 2()/. per annum, as the same was formerly granted unto William Murcey, Esq. May it please your Majestie to give your possitive order for your Petitioner's proceeding with the said grant to effect, wit h- out which your lVtiti>nor and his family must inevitably perish. And, as in duty, &c. JONA. TRELAWNY. (Indors, My owne case to the K May it please your Majesti- . I have, according to v.nir Majesties pleasure signified to me by Mr. Mvivtarv M.-nir,- u|M, n tin- 17th "t M.uvh. OOMldmd of till Petition <>t Mr. Jonathan Trelawny, and do find that, in the yeares 1643 and 1644, Sir John Trelawny, father of the said Jonathan, amongst others, by his then Majesties commission, was employed for his service in tin- ouinty of Cornwall, and did thru receive severaD sumes of money out of the estates of Sir Richard I'.ull.-r. Francis Hullor of Tregarvie, Mr. Arundell, and Sir Samuel Holies, and others whose estates were sequestred t. know your Majestic lookes upon him as a person in all respects very worthy of your bounty and favour. All which 1 humbly siilunitt to your great wisdome. CLARENDON C. Worc-ister House, 23 April, 1663. ATE OF THE DORSETSHIRE CLERGY ON Till. 1.ISHOF8 ITI:ST VISITATION. The Bishop of Bristol to the Earl of SundorlamL* MY LMI:I. M.J 2Ut, 1686. Your lordship having done me the honor to let me wayte on your lordship, and to receive some commands to be observed in my Visitation of Dorsetshire, I know myself obliged to present your lordship with the observations I made as to the principles and actions both of the clergy and layety of that county. The first tliiiiL' which happened of any moment was the presenting in my court at Cerne of 12 persons for being Roman Catholiques, which my chancellor acquainting MM- with, and asking how he was to proceed, I commanded him to dismisse them, as he did accord- ingly. At Dorchester I had the misfortune of a very impudent sermon, with inui-iidos, that though we were not in any certaine feares of l"'l"Ty yet we were not wholly free from some apprehensions of it Ilavin-r severely reprimanded the preacher, and threatened him with suspension it' he did not alter his method hereafter, upon advise with Sir Winstone I'huivhil, and the man's hearty repentance for his folly, I forbore the punishment 1 designed for him, and then speak- ing to the clergy told them of the danger of such reflecting dis- Original in State Paper Office. Domestic, 1686. I 1:1 I. \\\ N^ rxi'ERS. 15 courses, that whil-t tlx-v juvached that it' the papists w*ro cruel, oppressing, and such as could not keep their word with heretiques, did in-innate t<> tin- ignorant JMM.J,!,. that the King, being a iirlit to be dreaded under all those characters, whereas his Majesty was so tender of his word as hitherto to neglect that ease which mi- lit have been expected he would have given to those of his own religion; so gracious in his frequent expressions of lo\;ilty of the Church of Knidand, and his concern for its estab! in. -lit. that, thonidi the foolish heates of some members of it had a il< >n led him just provocations for the taking them off of some libert\ - th.-y had ill used, yet he had not restrained them in anyone. 1 h. n tore 1 did assure them, where I heard of any excesse in that railing way, too usual of late, I would be certaine to punish not only with >nhh i^h dissented from them, and told them that since the rebells had appeared <)H nlv in the field that they ought not to be scrupulous, for in such cases the laws ought to be supposed to give way to the safety of the King : and according to this sense of his duty he shewed himself the whole time of the rebellion, for he not only jovned with me in signing all commissions, but went day and night through the whole country to view each regiment and their arms, and to dispose them into those places which we thought of the The draft is in the bishop's handwriting; the latter in the State Paper Domestic, 1686. Jonathan Rashleigh, esq. of Menabilly, M.P. for Fowey in the parliaments from L6M t.. 1690. I l;l I \\\ s^ i- MI 17 greatest importance tl.r tin- K inn and his interest; and whilr- we dayly rtrd, upon Miumioiith n i"\ m ens t ward, orders to follow him, no man shewed a greater cheerfulnesse or redinesse to goe ; bat notwith- standing all these expressions of his loyalty, just after the beheading tin- Int. Dukr of Mnimiouth, the lord lieutenant' coming into the country, In- was dismissed (to the wonder of all people who had 1 hU fnnv;irdnesse) from the li-ut-nancy ; but how far such tilings conduct- t> tin- Kind's service your lordship can best judge. I hope your lordship will pardon tin- trouble this gives you, being in obedit -in to your commands on, My lord, your lordship'- Most obedient and most humMe servant. .i. r. iwne, June 14th. 161 To my Lord President. Till: ADDUCES OF THANKS roil TIIK K IXG'S DECLARATK The Earl of Snnderland to the Bishop. b M ^ CiORDj Whitehall, 26 April, 1687. The King commands me to send your lordship the enclosed, being the c.,py of an Addresse which the Bishops of Durhaui, c Rochester, ( ixt'onl, and Chester d have signed and sent to the clergy of their John Earl of Bath, who had been appointed at the Restoration in 1660. b State Paper Office. Domestic, Various, No. 629, p. 371. ' Nathaniel Lord Crewe, translated from the see of Oxford to Durham, Oct. 22, 1674. 4 These three bishops were all of James's appointment : Thomas Sprat, c onsarmt nii bishop of Rochester Nov. 2, 1634, Samuel Parker and Thomas Cartwright consecrated to the sees of Oxford and Cheater respectively on the 1 7 Oct. 1686. See what Caitwright says of this Address in ha Diary (printed for the Camden Society), pp. 50, 51, et seq. was employed to win the assent of the bishops of Lincoln (Barlow) and Lichfield (Wood), and after a long correspondence he effected his object. The Address of the former was presented t h June, and that of the latter on the 8th July, (ll.id. . 66.) AM;-. 18 NUBLAWHl respective diocesses, recommending to them to joine in it. His ^tie does not doubt but your lordship will do the same, an only promote the signing of it in your diocesse, but also amongst the drr^v of your acquaintance. I am, my lor.l, \ MI- most humble servant, i i;i \M. I 1 . Hi.shop of Bristol. Tin- llMiop of Bristol drew out tin- following draft of a reply : IJMiop to the Earl of Sunderland. Indorsed. 11 An Answer to mj Lord IWidcnt'f Letter.** MY I.MI:K In ol.-,liriic.' to \..ur lor.Miip's commands I have, according to my promise, called the clergy of this place together, and recommended that form of an Addressc to them which your Widcnt: My Lord, I am apt to believe your lordship might have further > your lordship's much sooner, l.ut 1 rhoM- rathrr to defem my ivturn till I could send a full account ! l.u>iness projK)sed to me, which I could not doe till I had the ; the clergy of Dorsetshire, and they came to me very lat.-ly. My lord, in obedience to your lordship's commands, and according to my promise, soon after the receipt of your lordship's lied the clrr-y of this place together, and recoil i mended to them that form of an Addiv>-e which your lordship sent me. There seei a greate (juerenesse in tliem to the .f it. ujKin whieh I required of them the reasons of their dis>-iit. which they wen- very ly to offer, and they truly seemed to me of so much weight that, had I as fully eon-id. Trd them before, I should have beged leave to have ottered my humble opinion, that it seemed not either for the his Majestie or the honor and interest of the Church of I a inl. However, to make good my promise to your lordshi ordered it to be sent into Dorsetshire, where by reason of the ai iK -aeon's absence at London it was stopt some time, but ards beiiur iroposed to the clergy at two meetings it was returned to me ied only by two persons. The parchment is in my hands, which shall be addressed to your lordship according to your command. I am, your Lordship's, \ A memorandum. Hefore I called the clergy of Bristol together I let them ly Dr. Jane* know I would not siirn the Addresse, and William Jane, D.D. Regius Profeor of Dmnitv in Oxford, was installed Dow of 20 TRELAWNY PAPERS. this was necessary, for several, as 'twas hinted to me, out of would otherwise have signed it, but now they refused to a man. Indorsed. My answer to the Earl of SunderUnd that I and my clergy could not sign the Addresse, &c. ESSAY SUBMITTED TO BISHOP TRELAWNY BY JOHN ASHLEIGR' MY LORD, March 14, 1703-*. I send your lordship this last essay, with which I ended the year, and all the concern I design to have in the controversy during my life. I have from '82 to 1702 been engaged against the old Whigg and tlu- new; and their ancient and modern principles and practises having been r\ .T much the same, a man must say the same things over again if hee should persist to refute them. Nether had I meddled in this matter I send you, but that it moved a little spleen to see a pestilent fellow persisting to justify one of the most mali- cious and villainous attempts to engage us in another domestick insurrection as well as for the inviting in more foreign force ; and I thought wee had had enough of both already, for, at the same time they spread their j;mick fear of a mock persecution by one pamphlet, they put out another for the breaking through the Act of Settle- ment, and laying aside the House of Hannover, to bring more Dutchmen upon our backs before their time, for that was the bottom of it ; and all this was to have passed for church work, as short work as they made of it too. I lately when at London sent your lordshipp a piece of the Lex Talionit, which I beleeve your lordshipp guest to be mine, though it came anonymous ; and I cannot but think, if there were some such law in force, that it would be no dis- This eway, if printed, was probably published anonjmotiftly, at the Ma do not occur in Watt'a Bibliothec* Britannic*. 21 credi udicc to tin- public constitution. This past period of tu. ntv years has afforded us as much matter of reflexion and revo- lution as any twenty wee have had or may have again in our !Mi annuls. I have maintained nothing in it but what I will i to bee orthodox, and to bee according to our old English prin- ciples and con>titutin ; it there have been any new alterations of (at-- ma-!.- in it, I had no hand in that; and let those Whiggs answer for it who had and have turned an Knglish monarchy almost into a Polish one. My treatment in all reigns has been alike, and so I no better in this, unless we had more grandees of your lord- ship'-, principle and temper. Wee have I find a miserably divided court and a >tr..nL r lv united faction; and I have read and seen too much what that is wont to end in. I am, Your lordship's obedient humble servant, JOHN A-III.I IGH. To the Right Reverend Father in God Jonathan Lord Bishop of Exon. VISITATION OF WINUIKSTER COLLK The Bishop to Dr. Radcliffe.* DEAR SIR, This i> no visiting day, and to-inorrow I am obliged to go fifteen or sixteen miles to confirm, and yet what 1 have to say to you is of such hi4>ortance to me that I must not delay it, for feare lest you should happen unwarily to do me a mischief, which I am sure you would not willingly doe. I have reason to believe that some of the Fellows of Winchester College may, some how or other, have made friends to you to John Radcliffe, M.D. the celebrated phjncuui. 22 TBELAWNY PA1M my Lord Treasurer* to countenance tin in so far as to get an or : council to put a stop to my proceedings in my inquiry into the reasons of tln-ir disobeying the injunctions of the Warden and lowers of New College. From the steps which I have already made in this matter, they distrusting the merits of theyr cause, appealed to the Archbishop, intimating that I only visited them as diocesan; but his Gra< the Dean of the Arches, being satisfy 'd that I acted not as Bishop but as Visitor of the College, dismissed theyr appeal as being sensible lu- li:il nothing to do with it From liim they apply 'd to the Lord Keeper b for a Commission of acy ; but his lordship went out of town without doing any thin-: in it, as conviiu ! I 1> -lieve that this matter was only I WestminM.T Hall, tin re being no one instance, as the lawyers toll me, <>t its being referred to a Court of Delegates to determine whether a person be Visitor or not, which surely a certain gentleman was not aware of, who broke in upon my Lord Keeper last ^ nesday with rudeness and im; to hope to have awd his Lordship into a grant of such a Commission, for some men of late days give themselves strange opinions of they r having made the late change in the Ministry, and upon that account think they may use them at present with familiarity, perhaps command; and I wish they may not think my Lord Treasurer himself to be one of theyr crea- : but, be theyr interest and success what it will, having justice and the laws of the land on my side, I am resolved to go on, and. it' I go beyond my powers, no doubt but Westminster Hall will make me Mii-ihle of it You may (and if you think fit with my service) let the Lord Treasurer know that when tin* Privy Counsil had layd hold of the business of Exeter College, in hopes to have awd me by the authority ot that Board into a submission to th -initiation, I told them plainly they were no court of judicature, and that I would be Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer. * Sir Simon Harcourt. I KM. \u NI IVM-I.I:-. 23 nl\ l.\ \\Yxtiiiiii-tT Hall, ii|Nin wliirli mo to the lau : and, l.v tin of God, when- law, reason, and the founder's \\ill uiv on my side, no power on earth shall fright, no application persuade, in- t'rmu doing my duty. I ha\v luvn imw nearc four years, and made three journies on purpose, persuading the Warden and rYllow* of \Vin< hcster College to make up tlu-vr assistance of the Dean and Prebendaries of Windicstrr, trlliii^ tlu-ni they did not know what mischief they mLrlit d> thriiiM Ivts by forcinn; me on a Visitation. Sometimes they gave me hopes that things should be amicably made up; hut now, by an encouragement which perhaps they will not be thankfnll for, they make it m < ssary for me. I should not have given you this trouble, but that 1 foresee that your inti-ivst will lu- upply'd for by one of the fellows who is your patient, which I am sorry for, becaus if you knew him as well as I do, onilcl not think him fit to live. I hope you have better thoughts of nir than I have of him, and you believe that I am, with the greatest obligation, truth, and respect, Your most affectionate and faithfull servant, -l".\. \\'iv HESTER. For Dr. Radcliffe. In.lorsed. Copy July 29, 1711.