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any from y^e place where they and their ancestors have time out of minde [been] accustomed to sitt, will begett more brabbles, suits in law & p'hibions then either you or I would be contented to be troubled with.

Whereas yo^r Lo^pp complayneth of my officers, in their prosecuting of y^e correction of things presented, and detected, in my metropoliticall visitation, I pray yo^r Lor^p to distinguish right of things. If yo^r Lor^p or yo^r counsell (whosoever they be) should thinke after a metropoliticall visitation my officers should not prosecute the correction you might as well say ther should be noe metropoliticall visitacon. If you looke into the Relaxacon you will there finde a reservation for y^e prosecuting of the correccons. If yo^r Lo^p will charge all or any of them to have oppressed the country by extorting from y^e people any greater or more fees then are justifyeable I will be beholden to yo^r Lo^p to informe me thereof, and, if I doe not my indeavor to doe the country right and make them give satisfaction, take yo^r liberty to complayne or seeke redresse where you thinke good. I cannot but wonder at that w^ch yo^e Lo^p writes,—that my officers have received manye more hundred pounds in my one visitation then you and all yo^r officers have done in sixteene yeres' visitations. ffor my p'ticuler, I have not received ffour score pounds upon my visitacon of both y^e diocesses, Chester and Carlile. And therfore if such great summes as yo^r Lo^p speakes of be received by them, they have putt them into their owne purses, I have already written to my Lord of Carlile to informe me what he can charge any of myne officers with in y^e like sort. It may be some part of my p'curacons due in my metropoliticall visitacon are yet unpaid, w^ch I must not loose for want of meanes to p'secute suite for recovery of them.

By y^t w^ch yo^r Lo^p writeth of some unconformable men's creeping into corners of yo^r diocesse, you see how necessary it is to have a watchfull eye over them. It may be some may say, it may be myne owne case as well as yours, and I cannot denye it but it may be soe, though much against my will; and I shall require both my officers & all others to know, that I will not only not wittingly winke at it, nor leave it unreformed when I may know it nor will indure any officer under me whom I shall have reason to thinke to be other wise minded.

I presume yo^r Lor^p hath certaine knowledge of those things w^ch you write concerning y^e warden of Manchester. I purpose to make them knowne to his Mātie.