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366 His Maty & the temporall Llds beginn very honbly & I hope will continue; and for yor Lp I cannot make any doubt but yt I shall receyve a very worthy & a noble answere from you. And that you may see what is done here, my Lds Grace of Canterbury & myself have given each of us a hundred poundes a yeare; my Lds of St Davyds & Rochester, wth others, forty poundes a year a piece; which I make bold to specify that you may see what other Bpps doe in theyr sev'all values, leaving yor Lp to such good thoughtes as it shall please God to bless you wth towardes this worke. Soe wishing yor Lp all health & happines I leave you to ye grace of God, & shall ever rest

yor Lps very lovinge poore ffreind & Brother, ." ffulham house, August 12, 1631.

At the close of the year 1633 the archbishop of York (Neile) sent in to the King a statement of the condition of church affairs in his own and the other dioceses of the Northern province. After thanking his Majesty for his gracious acceptance of a certificate which he had sent him in the previous year shewing what he found to be amiss and how he had put them into a way of reformation, he assures him that in his own diocese of York things have hitherto well succeeded in the way of amendment for the due observance of his Majesty's declaration, the performance of his instructions, and the executing of divine service, according to the Book of Common Prayer and the canons and constitutions of the church. He forwards the informations sent in to him by the bishop of Durham, giving a list of the lecturers in his diocese for the year 1633, and signifying that all these lecturers were conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England so far as he could be informed; to which the archbishop adds that he himself has reason to suspect some of them not to be so conformable as they ought to be, touching his Majesty's declaration and the instructions published.