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378 any from ye place where they and their ancestors have time out of minde [been] accustomed to sitt, will begett more brabbles, suits in law & p'hibions then either you or I would be contented to be troubled with.

Whereas yor Lopp complayneth of my officers, in their prosecuting of ye correction of things presented, and detected, in my metropoliticall visitation, I pray yor Lorp to distinguish right of things. If yor Lorp or yor counsell (whosoever they be) should thinke after a metropoliticall visitation my officers should not prosecute the correction you might as well say ther should be noe metropoliticall visitacon. If you looke into the Relaxa$\overline{c}$on you will there finde a reservation for ye prosecuting of the corre$\overline{c}$cons. If yor Lop will charge all or any of them to have oppressed the country by extorting from ye people any greater or more fees then are justifyeable I will be beholden to yor Lop to informe me thereof, and, if I doe not my indeavor to doe the country right and make them give satisfaction, take yor liberty to complayne or seeke redresse where you thinke good. I cannot but wonder at that wch yoe Lop writes,—that my officers have received manye more hundred pounds in my one visitation then you and all yor officers have done in sixteene yeres' visitations. ffor my p'ticuler, I have not received ffour score pounds upon my visitacon of both ye diocesses, Chester and Carlile. And therfore if such great summes as yor Lop speakes of be received by them, they have putt them into their owne purses, I have already written to my Lord of Carlile to informe me what he can charge any of myne officers with in ye like sort. It may be some part of my p'cura$\overline{c}$ons due in my metropoliticall visita$\overline{c}$on are yet unpaid, wch I must not loose for want of meanes to p'secute suite for recovery of them.

By yt wch yor Lop writeth of some unconformable men's creeping into corners of yor diocesse, you see how necessary it is to have a watchfull eye over them. It may be some may say, it may be myne owne case as well as yours, and I cannot denye it but it may be soe, though much against my will; and I shall require both my officers & all others to know, that I will not only not wittingly winke at it, nor leave it unreformed when I may know it nor will indure any officer under me whom I shall have reason to thinke to be other wise minded.

I presume yor Lorp hath certaine knowledge of those things wch you write concerning ye warden of Manchester. I purpose to make them knowne to his Mātie.