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 ABBOT. 9 king James's reign, but the part afted therein by the arch- biftiop added much to the reputation he had already acquired for incorruptible in'egrity [uj. In 1618, the king publiihed a declaration, which he ordered to be read in all churches, per- mitting fports and palfimes on the Lord's day : this gave treat uneafmefs to the archbifhop; who, happening to be at Croy- tlon when it came thither, had the courage to forbid its being read. On April 5, 1619, fir Nicholas Kempe hid HrvhVi the firft ftone of the hofpital at Guilfbrd ; the archbifhop, l '"'- "' the who was prefent, afterwards endowed it with lands to the ' ' bb M93 ' value of three hundred pounds per annum; one hundred of which was to be employed in fctting the poor to work, and the remainder for the maintenance or a matter, twelve brothers, and eight fitter?, who have blue cloaths, and gowns of the fame colour, and half-a-rrown a week each. O6t. 29, being the anniverfary of the bifho;.'s birth, is com- memorated here, and the archbifhop of Canterbury for the time being is the vifitor of the hofpital. Towards the end Aubrey's of this year, the Eleclor Palatine accepted of the crown of Anti q- of Bohemia, which occafioned great diiputes in king James's jjj rrey> I ,'' councils: fome were defirous that his majelty fhould not in- terfere in this matter, forefeeing that ii would produce a war in Germany; others again were of opinion, that natural af- fection to his fon and daughter, and a juft concern for the Pro- teftant interefr, ought to engage his majelly to fupport the new election. The latter was the archbifhop's fentiment ; and not being able at that time to attend the privy council, he wrote f n] This affair was by the king refer- when fentence was pronounced, the court red tn a court ot delegates. It was drawn was divided in the following manner : out into a great length, and many acci- The comrriifiioners who gave fentence dents happened in :!,e courfe of ir, which in the lady's behalf, were gave the archb'.fhop dilquiet. He faw Winchefter, - P'ainly, that the king was very de/irons Ely, (p'/i, the lady fhould be divorced ; bothewas, Litcli field and Coventry, f P ! ' in his own jix^menr, direftiy againft Rochcrtf-r, 3 tr-e divorce. He laboured all he could Sir Julius Caefar, -i to extricate himlelf from ihefe d;rn- Sir Thomas Parrey, C Dolors of Iaw, j culties, by hiving an end put to the Sir Danifl Dunn, caole fome other way than by f-ntence ; The coinmiffioners diffenting, but it was to no purpose j for thole who Archbiftiup of Canterbury, drove on this affair had got tco great Bifhop of London, power to be retrained from brinpinc it to Sir John Bennec, j the conclufion they dcfited. He prepared Fiancis Jarnes, i Dodors of law. a fpeech, which he intended to have Thomas EdwarJs, J fpoken, againft the nullity of the m.-r- The king was very defirous the Jdy riage, in the court at Lan be:h ; but he Aould be divorced: the archbifliop, bei j did not make ufe of this fpeech, becaufe aaainft it. drew up l-.,s n..'i ns, wh rt the king ordered them to deliver their the kirg thought fit to anfwer him l". opinions in few words. He co.uinued, See Saunderfin's Kifl. u ry of ItiDg James, hovyevnr, inflexible in his opinion j and p. 390, his