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Letter to theRe r J. Mr.Bateman.

(a Chaplain of Archbishop Parker, who so desperately pill’d the Bishoprickof Peterborough before, that he was by means of Secretary Hencage, translat-ed to Norwich, to pleasure him with the like there) which would very wellbear a treble reserv’d Rent, and yet yield the Lesser some competent Fine.So that, if when the said Leake should be within 20 Years of expiring, theKing should order the then Bishop to grant no new Demise of any Parcelthereof, without reserving a treble Rent upon the same, it would be an In-crease of a 1000 /. per Annum to that See.

His Majesty liked it, and resolved to look to it; but God hath taken himaway. And at the Writing hereof by Bishop Wren , May 25, 1660, theOpportunity of doing this was at the Height; the Lease being within eightYears of expiring.

May 13, 1663. Dr. Prank , Master of Pemhroke-Hall, did in the Nameof Bishop Wren, and in the Presence of divers Heads of Colleges (Dr. Pear-son of Trinity, &c.) and of the Dean, Arch-deacon, and many of the Pre-bendaries of Ely lay the first Stone of the Foundation of the new Chapel ofPembroke-Hall , which the said Bishop since finish’d at his own Charge. Out ofBisloop WrenV Autographum.

GWSir, Ch. Ch. Sept. 14, 1734.

B Y Barn's Oxford Waggon, which comes to the King’s Head in the Old-change, on Tuesday Night, 1 have sent a Box of Papers relating to Bi-shop Wren, directed for yourself, and to be left in the Warehouse till call’dfor. So that I must desire you to send some trusty Person, to enquire thereafter the same, and to convey them to Mr. Wren, whose Habitation I knownot.

He has full Liberty to transcribe, or make what Use he pleases ofthem.

I conceive the Bishop's Answer to the Articles of Impeachment tobe so well drawn up, and to be so effectual a Reply to all the Clamoursraised against that Prelate, that it should be printed; — and indeed, great

Part of the other Papers are only Materials for that Defence.-I have

also caused to be transcribed two remarkable Passages out of some MSS. ofArchbishop Sancroft relating to Bishop Wren , which I think were neverprinted.

I have, I am sure, several other Letters and Papers of this Bishop's;—but I have unfortunately left behind me in Wales, the Catalogue of myManuscripts, so know not where to meet with them, till I can receive itthence.

This Bishop was certainly a Person of great Capacity for Business, and ofvast Industry; I have seen exact Abridgments of all the Registers and Institu-tion Books in the Bishop s Offices, at Norwich and Ely, under his own Hand.'®

--1 think some of them are at Ely-Houfe.

I have some Letters of Sir Christopher Wren, and Schemes of his, about therebuilding of Paul’s, bound up in a Folio Collection of Papers belonging tothat Church, which I lent last Year to the Lord Bishop of Chichester, andhe has it still by him.-——Mr. Wren may have the Use of the Book, whenmy Lord comes to Town.

Dr. Knight, Prebendary of Ely, has a very good Picture of Dr. ChristopherWren, Dean of Windsor.

* Bishop Wren made a new Body of Statutes for the Cathedral Olnrch of Ely, and got the sameconfirm’d under the Great Seal, 1 66..

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