"Dear Sir, I have lately had occasion for a while to remove to another place from my former quarters, by which means as your last came a little later to me than otherwise they were designed to do, so am I disabled from giving any speedy account of the business of Mr. Beu. But seeing the matter seems to require more privacy than haste, I shall by this means of absence be better able to give a full obedience to the direction. And I have a way which I am sure will not fail to do it, and this day I shall write, and as soon as I receive a return, I shall communicate it to you. For the papers I have now no farther trouble to return, but only my hearty acknowledgments of all the cares and trouble they have already cost, and indeed of the whole matter I am fully satisfied in every particular, unless in one, whether it be safest to put them to prove there were any Presbyters within the Scripture-times; for though I know they cannot prove it either by Scripture or otherwise, yet neither can we prove the negative by Scripture or any ancient writing, and though we can solve all the places of Scripture wherein Presbyteros is used, yet seeing the rule we go by is Scripture interpreted by the first writers, and the assertion that there were none will not be proved by that, I have some fears of the ill consequences of doing this, more than that one advantage of puzzling and distracting them will come to, knowing that I deal not with ingenuous adversaries, but such as will be a catching at any oblique advantages, and instead of attempting to prove there were Presbyteri cum partiaria potestate (which attempt must destroy them) fly upon my concession, of "episcopi oλúтws ordinati," more in one city, and say those are their presbyteri, and contentiously not ingenuously make use of that to the support of a cause which I conceive falls certainly without that last additional wound. But this I write not to give you more trouble, but only an account why I am as yet rather inclined to yield some respect to that testimony of Epiphanius (which doth prove directly and not a majori that Bishops and Presbyters are not equal from those two places of Timothy, and so concludes peo BÚT [Epos] in them to signify presb. as inferior not to Timothy only as Metrop [olitan] but to Bishops;)— 1. because I pretend to reap advantage by so many other testimonies of his; and 2. because all other ancient writers say the same with him, and I have none to countenance my rejecting them; besides Ignatius makes it the yvwun XpioTou that men should reverence the Presbyters, as they are subordinate to Bishops. I forget again that I am trespassing against your eyes, and deprehending myself in that I make haste to subscribe,

"Dec. 29, [1650.] Your most obedient and faithful Servant, [To the Lord Bishop of Ely.] [Henry Hammond.]"

It is scarcely necessary to say that the writer of the following two letters, under the fictitious signature of Jasper Gower, was Dr.

George Morley. At the time of writing his last letter, Feb. 19, 1650, (see pp. 74, 75, of Vol. VI.) he was at Paris, intending to leave France for Holland within a month, and his next appearance in history is at the Scotch treaty at Breda, whence he would probably have accompanied the young King to Scotland, though entirely disapproving of his enterprise, if it had not been stipulated that none of his chaplains should be with him. From a letter in Clarendon's State Papers, it appears that Hyde expected him to be with his family at Antwerp soon after this, and from his own statement in the first of the two following letters, he must have arrived there about the middle of August, 1650, with his friend Dr. John Earles, of whom we will give a brief account here, as he has been so often alluded to in previous letters, and will be brought before our notice again in documents hereafter to be printed. He was an intimate friend of Hammond's, and nearly of the same age and standing in the University; he had been a Fellow of Merton, and succeeded Duppa, Bishop of Chichester, as tutor to the Prince of Wales, on the translation of the latter to Salisbury. He had the singular fortune to be named of the Assembly of Divines, in 1643, though neither he nor his friends Hammond and Morley, who were also nominated, ever sat among them. All these divines were reputed to have gentle and conciliating manners, and for this reason probably they were selected to sit with the rest of the divines, who were nearly all of the Presbyterian persuasion. He, of course, did not escape the fate of the other episcopal and royalist divines, and lived abroad during the whole time of the Usurpation, sometimes in France, sometimes in Holland. He was after the Restoration made successively Dean of Westminster, Bishop of Worcester, and then of Salisbury, at the time when his friend Henchman was translated to London. He published at the Hague, in 1649, a Latin translation of the Eixar Baiλix, and, as Wood informs us, also translated into Latin all the books of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity. We must not omit Izaak Walton's description of him. He says, that "Since Mr. Richard Hooker died, none have lived whom GOD had blessed with more innocent wisdom, more sanctified learning, or a more pious peaceable primitive temper." We are tempted to ask, In what period of the history of the English Church subsequent to the Reformation, shall we meet with men of such high and holy characters, as were those who adorned the time of her greatest suffering and humiliation, such men as Wrenn, Juxon, Duppa, Morley, Sheldon, Hammond, Henchman, Earle, and Fell?

[Harl. 141.]

Antwerp, October 19, 1650. "Sir,-The jealousy of these unhappy times, and my fear to bring any prejudice upon my friends, hath made me ever since I came out of France, to forbear almost all correspondences with

those of my acquaintance in England. But finding that of late there hath been a poor [er] intercourse of letters than there was formerly, and meaning never to write anything either to you or anybody else that shall any way reflect upon the public, I am resolved to venture this little address to you, and according as I shall hear this speeds, to give you a more frequent account of myself hereafter. My friend, D[r.] E[arle], and I have been these three months now in this town, where we sojourn with the C. C. And here, GOD willing, we mean to stay all this winter: what will become of us after, GOD knows; but you shall hear from time to time of our resolutions. This last post we had each of us a letter from the grandmother of the young gentleman who is committed to your care and ours; she imprudently prayeth for his coming home at the spring, and saith she hath D[r.] H [ammond's] consent for it: for my part I am utterly against it, as a thing that may be dangerous to him, and will be certainly, as I think, ruinous and destructive to his estate, for I believe if he be at home he will have the managing of it in his own power, whether we or the executors will or no, and then whether he do or do not live upon it, I give it for lost, considering the quality of the estate and of his disposition, which to me appears to be as dangerous and as apt to corrupt and be corrupted as ever I saw any yet: if he might continue abroad, in the hands he is, two or three years longer, possibly he might grow wiser and more settled than he is yet. Howsoever, in that time the estate would be cleared from debt, and then he could undo nobody but himself, and those that so much long to help to undo him and to be undone by him.

"I pray, if you receive this, let me [know] as soon as you can whether you be of my mind in this particular, or no. Your letters if they be sent to the Three Artichokes, in the Old Bailey, will be sure to find their way to your true friend,

"Jasper Gowre.

"The lady, your friend here, together with the whole family, have been, and are, in great want, and are like to be in much greater. "For Dr. Sheldon."

[Harl. 140.]

"Antwerp, Nov. 26, 1650. "Sir, I have received yours of October 15th. You tell me you are loth to quarrel with me for not writing, and in truth you have no reason to do so considering it was for your sake only I forbore to write, as fearing letters from hence might be as prejudicial to you as I heard they had been to others. And thus much I told you in my last, which, whether you have yet received or no, I know not. I told you likewise that the grandmother of the young gentleman, our charge, had written lately to me and Dr. E[arle], pressing us very passionately for his return at the next spring, tell

ing us plainly she can be no longer without that only comfort of her life now left her, and threatening, if he may not be suffered to come home to her, she will [come] abroad to him, and live with him, wheresoever he is, but hopes she shall not be put to it, having as she saith, D[r.] H[ammond's] consent for his return. I told you then my opinion, that besides the interrupting of the good and safe course he is now in, his coming home before he or England are at all settled may probably prove dangerous to his person, but will most certainly ruin him in his manners and estate, which if he go presently to housekeeping, which he will do as soon as he comes home, do what we or the executors can to the contrary both . . . [MS. effaced] news in my judgment before he comes to years of age or discretion be irrecoverably engaged and sunk beyond any after possibility of thrift or repentance to recover it. Whereas if he stays abroad two or three years longer, here may be some antidote or remedy found for all or the greatest of those inconveniences. Thus much in effect I have writ to D[r.] H[ammond] and to my lady herself, but withal told her that if you and D[r.] H [ammond] who are upon the place, be of another opinion, I will subscribe to it. And truly for the youth himself, he doth no way answer the hopes his childhood gave of him, being by what I can judge, and by what his governor tells me, of as ungovernable, as uncounsellable, and as dangerous a disposition for the ruining himself and his estate as any youth can be.

"Now for the penance you enjoin, I will willingly undergo it, and would much sooner have given you the account you desire of our friends here, had not I verily believed you had heard it from themselves, the rather because, at least a month agone, L[ady] H[yde] told me she had heard from you. The truth is, they are, and have been at least seven or eight months, in a very sad condition, Lady] H[yde]'s brother going or rather stealing away from them, having, before he went, sold his father's study of books, and disposed of all the money to his own use, beside the intercepting of a bill of exchange of £50, payable to his father, and besides leaving his poor sister above £100 in debt, for which all her goods were like to be seized on, as his own he left behind him were sold at an outcry.

"In this condition I found her at my coming out of France, in March last that is to say, at least £200 in debt,—an old father and mother, an aunt, a sister, four children, and as many more as come in all to nineteen, to find clothes, and provide for, without anything in present or any probability for the future, to support this great charge, which cannot with any possible thrift be maintained or defrayed in this very dear place, under £500 per annum sterling, for I find the weekly charge of what belongs to the belly only to come communibus septimanis to £6, besides paying house-rent, clothing, and physic, which last only hath cost her at least £30 for herself and family.

"Finding her, as I said, in this condition, I did presently supply her myself with what I could spare, which, God knows, was but little, viz. £20. Afterwards I got a promise for £200, but D. H. her husband's friend, that undertook to be her solicitor, and assured me she should not fail of it, went away at length with his master without effecting any part of his undertaking. After this I helped her to £40 more from two other of mine and her husband's friends, and since my coming hither to continue, I have out of my little remainder of stock helped her to £15, which I do not tell you out of mere vanity, but to obey your commands in letting you see to what hard shifts she is driven. Besides this she had at several times £50 from her husband's sister in England, and £40 from an unknown friend there also, which she hath now in stock, if she be not forced to pay some debts out of it. Her husband hath divers times written both to her and me, that if with her credit here, (which was never great, and now none at all,) and her friends' help, she could but support herself till Michaelmas last, she should by that time be infallibly supplied from thence in a very good proportion. But Michaelmas is past, and Christmas almost come, and yet no news of money from those Indies, but we look for letters daily with letters of exchange in them: if they come you shall hear of it. In the mean, the old knight and his very good lady, with all their part of the family, have, I am confident, not half 20s. amongst them all, and these days.

'I have yet £20 more left, and as long [as] that lasts, GoD willing, they shall not want bread; but, alas! what are all these petty supplies to the constant support of such a charge? And thus having obeyed your commands, I desire your prayers.

"From yours,

Jasper Gowre.

From these letters as well as from the previous mention of him, it will be judged that young Lord Falkland was a troublesome pupil to manage, and the more so because his waywardness seems to have been indulged and encouraged by his grandmother, Lady Morison. His mother had died a few years before, and he was now the only survivor of his father's family. We shall soon lose sight of him for a time; all that is known of him till the time of the Restoration being, that he was concerned in one at least of the Royalist conspiracies against the government, and that he returned to England from France in Nov. 1656. See a letter of Lockhart's in Thurloe's State Papers, in which he says of him, that all he had learned of him is, that he is a deeper enemy to himself, by reason of his extravagant debauchery than to any else. After the Restoration he became a more respectable character than his guardians seem to have anticipated. But our readers will perhaps