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Rh I am hartelye glad to see yor sonne Orlando; he is much better since his cominge up, & came to me to Croyden." In this year the bishop apprenticed his youngest son, Richard Bridgeman, to Mr. Robert Masters, merchant in London, for which he paid a fee of £100 and agreed to pay £20 more when he should be employed beyond the seas.

Another letter of Laud's tells the bishop about the death of a horse he had received from him as a present a few years before:

"S. in Xp̃o

My very good Ld, I am heartily glad to heare of your health & to see your sonne safely returned hither, and very glad also to see by him that the place wch he hath gotten in those parts gives him so much content. I heartily pray your Lp to be confident that in whatsoever I may farther serve him, or yourselfe, noe man shall be more ready then I shall bee. My Lo: 'tis true I had a mischance wth the horse wch, I thank you, you sent mee about three yeares since. But I did not thinke either your Lp or your sonne should have knowne itt. The truth is hee was lost in the sleepie disease, and I was like to have lost two or three more