you and to send you grace and peace, I rest your loving friend and Landlord. [Jo: Cestrien:]
Lever, May 5, 1631.
To my loving tennants the Maior and Commonalty of Wigan."
To which letter he received the following reply:
"The Wiganers Letter in Answer."
"Our duties and service to your good Lop ever p'mised. Whereas your good Lop is pleased, of your good and pious respect for the safetie of us all and this poore Town where we live in this time of present danger, to forbid and restraine the ffaire to be holden here at Wigan at the Ascention day now next following: ffor wch wee ourselves not onely in our perticuler estates, but generally the poore commonalty here, for this your care and providence are and shall be ever bound to pray for your Lop, and do applaud and humbly desire your Lop to go on wth your resolution by proclamation or otherwise in prohibiting of the same ffaire. So wth our prayers for your Lops preservation wee take our leaves and rest in all Obeyance at your Lops service.
Wigan, 6 Maii, 1631.
James Markland
- deputie Maior
- deputie Maior
Rob't Mawdesley.
. . . Browne.
Will'm ffoster.
Hugh Langshaw.
Gilb't Gardner.
Chr'ofer Bankes.
Presuming of this your Lops favour & care wee make bold to entreat yt pedlers and such lyke vagrant p'sons may be restrained your Lops Market, as wee resolve to keep them from our market, and so take leave and rest at your Lops com'and.
James Markland,
- deputie Maior.
Rob't Mawdesley.
To the right reverend father in God our honnored very good Lord John by God's providence Lord Bpp of Chester at Lever these d.d."[1]
- ↑ Wigan Leger, fol. 151. These letters and many other particulars relating to bishop Bridgeman's life and family here narrated have already been printed in the Palatine Note Book, vol. iii. pp. i & seq.
