discharge by striking a Tallye or Tallyes upon your severall payments into the Exchequer as shall be fitt to secure you. And of this service you must not fayle. Your Lorp must farther be pleased to send up a list of the names of such as refuse this service within your diocesse, but I hope none will put you to that trouble. It is expected that your Lorp and every other Bishop [will send], expresse by itselfe and not in the generall summe of his clergy, that wch himselfe gives. Soe to God's blessed protection I leave you and rest
Your Lorps very loving ffrend and Brother,
- ffrom my house at Bishopthorpe E. Ebor.
ffebruarii 9, 1638[9]
By an advertisement sent to me with the Lords' warrant I am required to joine all able schoole masters with ye clergy in this great service, and to understand those words of sparing such ministers as are scarce able to live, to be meant by theire Lorps of poore stipendaries."
"To the right Reverend ffather in God my very good Lo: and Brother, ye Bishop of Chester, at the pallace at Chester be these wth speed."This was accompanied by a copy of the order in council and a private letter from the archbishop in the following terms:
Upon the perusall of wch lr̃es I cannot but pray your Lorp seriously with mee to observe this clause, vizt. 'In this case of soe great danger both to the state and church of England your Lorp, I doubt not, and your clergy under you, will not onely be vigilant against the close working of any pretenders in that kinde, but &c.,' and to consider what is thereby required of us if it shall appear that any under us hold correspondency with any his Maties rebellious opposites.
And that you may (as I doe) the better perceive what apprehension