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MATTHEW WREN, O. I).
" hope all, who shall be intrusted by him in that great Affair, will be as just" and dispaffion’d in all their Interpositions, and look upon them as equal“ Lights to Learning and Piety, and equally worthy of all Encouragement“ and Protection. And, if at present my Lord of Ely will recommend any“ Person to his Majesty for the Biffioprick of Carlijle , he shall be approv’d ;“ and if my Lord will transmit a List of Persons to be specially recommended,c to the King for any Dignities in the Church ; I dare promise, the Personsshall find, that they could not have been better recommended.
SIR, ' Brujsel , July 2$, 1659.
F OR the Matter of the Church, I can add nothing to what I said ■ P, 43 I *to you in my last - and, if my Lord o f Ely will recommend a Person" to the See of Carlijle , he will be added to the rest by the King.
Hyde.
SIR, Brussels, July 28, 1659.
" -\jr O u must never forget my Service to my Lord of Ely , and if he A 433-" X please to recommend some of his Friends to the King, they will find« the Fruit of it in all Ways.
Hyde.
Dr. Barwick to Lord Chancellor Hyde, Sept. 14, 1659.
“ A M Y Lord of Ely returns all dutiful Acknowledgements to his 439-
" !\1 Majesty, and his humble Service to your Lordship j I perceive“ you misunderstood him, as to the poizing the Number between the" two Universities ; for he never suspected his Majesty’s equal Favour to<c both ; nor thought him worthy of the Office of Biihop, that is not of the,c same Temper: But however, he has obferv’d it, as a good Encourage-“ ment to Learning, when young Students could recount such and such Bi-" shops of the fame University, or College with themselves. It is not now" indeed so considerable ; feeing the Rule of Æn. Sylvius, which was always
" good, is now indilpenlably neceffary,- Non hominibus dandas ejje digni-
" tales, fed dignitatibus homines and for this, and other Reasons, (with all“ dutiful Thanks) the Bishop of Ely desires to be excus’d, as to the recom-“ mending of any Person either to Carlijle, or any other Dignity ; though he“ will not omit his Prayers, that God would direct his Majesty always for" the best, and at this Time more particularly ; when the Settlement both“ of the Church and the Universities is like to have so great an Influence,
" not only upon the Souls of Men, but also upon his Majesty’s Government,
" to all future Ages, I have heard him fay, (and I know another of the“ lame Temper) that he never was a Suiter for any Place in the Church ;
" and I have heard others fay both of him and Bishop Andrews [of Win-u chejler\ before him, that neither of them ever gave any to any that were, &c.
SIR ,
BruJJels, Sept. 29, 1659.
T H E King hath done all that is in his Power to do; and if my Lordsthe Bishops will not do the rest, what can become of the Church ?the Conspiracies to destroy it are very evident; and, if there can be noCombination to preserve it, it must expire. 1 do allure you, the Names
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