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Rh discharge by striking a Tallye or Tallyes upon your severall payments into the Exchequer as shall be fitt to secure you. And of this service you must not fayle. Your Lorp must farther be pleased to send up a list of the names of such as refuse this service within your diocesse, but I hope none will put you to that trouble. It is expected that your Lorp and every other Bishop [will send], expresse by itselfe and not in the generall summe of his clergy, that wch himselfe gives. Soe to God's blessed protection I leave you and rest Your Lorps very loving ffrend and Brother,
 * ffrom my house at Bishopthorpe

ffebruarii 9, 1638[9] By an advertisement sent to me with the Lords' warrant I am required to joine all able schoole masters with ye clergy in this great service, and to understand those words of sparing such ministers as are scarce able to live, to be meant by theire Lorps of poore stipendaries."

"To the right Reverend ffather in God my very good Lo: and Brother, ye Bishop of Chester, at the pallace at Chester be these wth speed."

This was accompanied by a copy of the order in council and a private letter from the archbishop in the following terms:

"I pray your Lorp to take notice that this lr&#771;e, wch I now send to yow is the same ad verbum wch my Lord of Canterbury hath written to the Bps of his province, touching this great service, and sent a copy thereof to mee, adding in a private lr&#771;e—vizt 'I am commanded by order from the counsell to write my lr&#771;es to the severall Bishops of my province, and to send your Grace a copy of my lr&#771;es, wch I have prepared and am ready to send, that our lr&#771;es may not differ in any thing that concerneth the King's service.'

Upon the perusall of wch lr&#771;es I cannot but pray your Lorp seriously with mee to observe this clause, vizt. 'In this case of soe great danger both to the state and church of England your Lorp, I doubt not, and your clergy under you, will not onely be vigilant against the close working of any pretenders in that kinde, but &c.,' and to consider what is thereby required of us if it shall appear that any under us hold correspondency with any his Maties rebellious opposites. And that you may (as I doe) the better perceive what apprehension