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him. So farre as I may assiste, y^r L^p hath good right to commaunde

Y^r L^ps humble servant,

Dublin Castle, 21 Junii, 1639. Geo: Radcliffe.^[1]

lo. bp̃ of Chester."

James Bridgeman seems to have had a quarrel soon after his arrival in Ireland, with a certain Sir John Browne, knight, which induced his father to send for him to England, as may appear by the following letter from the bishop of Elphin:^[2]

"Right Reverend and my verie good Lo:

Your last, dated the 27th of August, I received the 20th of this moneth, three weekes almost after the returne of Peter Stringer unto this towne; who at his cominge excused himselfe (by his hastie and suddaine departure from Chester) for not bringinge with him your Lo^pps letter; so that the letter delivered latelie to my hands may likewise pleade mine excuse for not givinge yo^r Lo^pp an answer thereof longe before this tyme. The

↑ Sir George Radcliffe was the intimate friend and confidential adviser of the Lord Deputy, by whom he was knighted. He was the eldest son of Nicholas Radcliffe, of Overthorpe Hall, in the county of York; and married Anne, daughter of Sir Francis Trapper, knight, by whom he had one son, Thomas, who died unmarried. Sir George Radcliffe is said to have died of grief immediately after the execution of the noble Earl of Strafford.
↑ Henry Tilson, bishop of Elphin, was born at Midgeley, in the parish of Halifax, in 1577. He was entered a student of Balliol College, Oxford, in 1593, and elected Fellow of University College in 1599. He was collated to the vicarage of Rochdale by archbishop Abbot in October, 1615, and resided upon his benefice for many years. He afterwards became chaplain to the Lord Deputy Wentworth, by whom he was preferred to the deanery of Christ Church, Dublin, in December, 1634, and it was doubtless Tilson of whom bishop Bridgeman speaks so highly in his letter to Lord Wentworth, 29th June, 1634 (see p. 376). He became archdeacon of Connor in 1635, and was promoted to the see of Elphin in 1639, to which he was consecrated on 23rd September of that year on the death of Dr. Edward King. In the troubles which followed the rebellion of 1641 his library and other property were plundered, and he retired to England and settled at Southill, in the parish of Dewsbury, in Yorkshire. Being much straitened in circumstances, he employed himself in clerical duties, and had a salary allowed to him by Sir Thomas Wentworth for preaching at Comberworth. He died on 31st March, 1655, and was buried in the Southill chapel of Dewsbury church (Cotton's Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ, and Raines' Vicars of Rochdale).

[1] Sir George Radcliffe was the intimate friend and confidential adviser of the Lord Deputy, by whom he was knighted. He was the eldest son of Nicholas Radcliffe, of Overthorpe Hall, in the county of York; and married Anne, daughter of Sir Francis Trapper, knight, by whom he had one son, Thomas, who died unmarried. Sir George Radcliffe is said to have died of grief immediately after the execution of the noble Earl of Strafford.

[2] Henry Tilson, bishop of Elphin, was born at Midgeley, in the parish of Halifax, in 1577. He was entered a student of Balliol College, Oxford, in 1593, and elected Fellow of University College in 1599. He was collated to the vicarage of Rochdale by archbishop Abbot in October, 1615, and resided upon his benefice for many years. He afterwards became chaplain to the Lord Deputy Wentworth, by whom he was preferred to the deanery of Christ Church, Dublin, in December, 1634, and it was doubtless Tilson of whom bishop Bridgeman speaks so highly in his letter to Lord Wentworth, 29th June, 1634 (see p. 376). He became archdeacon of Connor in 1635, and was promoted to the see of Elphin in 1639, to which he was consecrated on 23rd September of that year on the death of Dr. Edward King. In the troubles which followed the rebellion of 1641 his library and other property were plundered, and he retired to England and settled at Southill, in the parish of Dewsbury, in Yorkshire. Being much straitened in circumstances, he employed himself in clerical duties, and had a salary allowed to him by Sir Thomas Wentworth for preaching at Comberworth. He died on 31st March, 1655, and was buried in the Southill chapel of Dewsbury church (Cotton's Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ, and Raines' Vicars of Rochdale).

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