be suffered to sitt quietly in the seate where (yor Lp sayes) he was anciently wont to sitt. Agst wch if the Deane have anie just exception there may be a better tyme hereafter to have it heard then now. And I doubt not but I shall prevayle wth his Matie to give itt a Hearing hereafter, if there shall be just cause for itt, when tyme shall serve.
Yett this I shall take the Boldnes to advise your Lp. that since for ye more speedy Laying this Busines asleepe you have been pleased to use me, rather than your owne Metropolitan, I would have you carry itt as tenderly as possibly you can. And if you can by any good meanes of your owne make an end of itt, I shall not counsell you to use His Maties Name. But if you see it will not otherwise be settled you may then take and use all the Power that these Lr̃es give you. But then I would have you p'sently acquaint my Lo: of Yorke wth itt, that he may know what Necessity putt you upon Calling for his Matyes power and that you used my assistance in obtayning itt. Your sonne will acquainte you wth all things els. So to God's blessed p'tecc̄on I leave you and rest
- Lambeth, Decemb. 20th, 1638. W. Cant."[1]
Lord Strange, in a letter of 7th November, 1638, alludes to a noble entertainment he had lately received from the bishop in his house at Chester, and begs him to send by the bearer a present he had received from him, which he prizes highly, and which had been accidentally left behind when he came away from Chester.[2] This present was a book of printed pictures, entitled Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, &c.
At the beginning of the following year the King and his advisers, alarmed by the bold and refractory carriage of the Scottish Covenanters, deemed it necessary to make preparations for war. An order of the King in council was therefore made on 27th January, 1638-9, commanding a writ to be sent to the great landowners throughout the country, and among others to the bishop of Chester, ordering them to dwell upon their lands with their families for defence of the same, and to resist the malice of the King's enemies and rebels, if they shall presume
