indeed have been very difficult to find time for writing at this busy period, while he had to advise the King from day to day on much more important matters.
"S. in Xp̃o
My very good Lo:
Your last Lr̃es were only an accompt that you had settled the Busines of the Mayor of Chester; and I am very glad 'tis all quiett; and hope the Deane will have more care to keepe things orderly, and in peace.
My Lo: all the occasion I have for writing to you att this tyme is to lett you know that, to satisfye his Maties desires, I am once more come under the Presse; and a Booke I here send you. I have been faine to steale Broken tymes to make itt in. And therefore if, when you reade itt, you finde itt a Broken Discourse, you will be the readyer to p'don both itt and mee. And this I assure you, I do not beleeve that ever anie man was putt upon such a Busines with soe many Busy and Interrupted thoughts about him. Well! here you have it; and I am desirous som friends should see itt, since many enemyes will. So to God's blessed p'tection I leave you, and rest
- Lambeth, febr: 20, 1638-9. W. Cant.[1]
The following letter of archbishop Laud is the more interesting in connection with this memoir as shewing that it was at that time his intention to purchase the perpetual advowson of Wigan for the King:
"S. in Xp̃o
My very good Lo:
Upon the receipt of yor last lr̃es of febr. 11th I shew'd yor old new Prophesy to the King; and every body that sees itt is of yor opinion, that neither stile nor verse agree wth ye tymes of Edw: the first; but 'tis certaynly made and spred, as divers other Pamphlets are, to dis-serve the- ↑ Family Evidences. This book will have been "A relation of the conference betweene W. Laud ... and Mr. Fisher the Jesuite; ... with an answer to such exceptions as A.C. takes against it, &c.," which was printed by R. Badger, London, 1639; fol.; and appears in a MS, "catalogue of the Lord Bishop of Chester's Bookes in his study in the Palace, taken 29o 8bris, 1644," in possession of the Earl of Bradford.
