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Rh A few days later he received a letter from archbishop Laud, dated at Lambeth, 24th January, i636[7], and signed "W. Cantuar.", in which he says: "Your LoP is to take notice that the ffast is left of here by his Matie's command, and you are to see the like done in your Diocese, if it be not ended allready." In this letter he desires him to enter a caveat by the King's command that no clerk should be admitted to Standish rectory in prejudice of his Majesty's title thereto; the incumbent of which is believed to be yet living, but a very old man. In February, 1636-7, bishop Bridgeman entered into a contract with some Wigan colliers to work his pits at Farnworth, of which the following is a copy: