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you will come hither, or meete the co't at Yorke or Durham about Easter next: only faile not in the rest, and soe I bidd you fare well, and doe remaine

Yo^r very loving frend,

Pembroke.^[1]

Court at Whitehall this

30^th of December, 1616."^[2]

In a letter to Archbishop Laud, written by Dr. Bridgeman many years later, viz., in March 1638-9, when he was bishop of Chester, he says that the first year's income which he received from the rectory of Wigan, for the year ending at Christmas, 1616, amounted to £566 12s. 1d. A full statement of the account is given in his private Leger as follows:

"Receaved out of the parsonage of Wigan the first year I came to it, ending at Christmas, 1616.

							£	s.	d.
May 18 demaynes	Imprimis James Scott & Roger Brown rec. for me and sent me out of the demaynes; for 41 kines grasse in the maynes						40	11	0
parson's medow	It. they pd me for every acre of parsons medow 50s (except one acre wch John hide had & payes me the rentall) wch came to						24	7	6
Hall medow	It. they layd me in 28 load of hay out of my hall medow worth 6s 8d the load						9	6	8
Easter role
	It. they receaved	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	pt of Wigan Easter book £16 12 2 pt of Holland Easter book £11 2 5	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$			27	14	7
	It. Wiỻm Wakefield and Wm Wicksted receaved more of Easter role
Lambs	It. I receaved 37 lambs worth 3s the lamb						5	11	0

1. William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, ob, 1630 s.p.
2. Original letter inter Family MSS.