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414 you for your sending of those horse and foote armes wch you provide, whether to send them by themselves to Yorke or to joine them wth the rest of your county. If I shall receive any further directions from my Lo: of Canterbury, you shall have notice thereof wth convenient speed. In that your Lorp saieth you would doe as I doe I lett your Lorp know that I meane to contribute in money, besides the horse and foote armes, three tenthes, besides the charge that may be required of mee towards the payment of them that shall serve wth my armes, horse and foote; wch I doubt will grow to a weekly charge of £20 a weeke. As concerning the abuse you write of, of scattering seditious bookes, I wish some course were taken to apprehend those wicked instruments, and alsoe those that have received any of those books. And if your Lorp can thinke of any course, by the authority of the high commission, to apprehend the dispersers & such as have received such bookes, thinke of what is fitt to be done, and wee shall yeild you all the assistance wee can.

ffor the Scotch merchants, aƚs pedlars, I know not what to say to them. If your neighbours be soe ill advised as to trust them, who can help it?

This is all for the present that I have to trouble your Lorp withall, soe with my hearty commendations and thankes for your prayers & kind wishes to mee I committ you to God and rest

ffebr. 19, 1638. I understand by Dr. Wickham yt you required of him to be at ye calleing of the clergie in your Archdeaconry of Richmond. There is not a man in your dioces more willing to doe you service then hee is, essentially in this his Maties service; but the truth is, by reason of mine owne infirmity being unhable to goe my selfe about this his Maties service, I am constrayned to relye upon him for ye doeing of it for mee in sundry places of this county; besides yt hee is to waite as ordinary chaplen, in Aprill, and, by the imployment that I put him to, hath not time to goe to his booke for yt his Maties service. And therefore I heartily pray your Lorp to release him of that your command." About this time Laud writes to the bishop to inform him that he has sent him a copy of his new book which he had been obliged to compile under very trying circumstances. It must