The Bishop of Worcester's letter to his reverend clergy within the county and diocess of Worcester with some short and genuine animadversions upon it.
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The Bishop of Worcester's letter to his reverend clergy within the county and diocess of Worcester with some short and genuine animadversions upon it.
Fleetwood, James, 1603-1683.
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The
Bishop
of
Worcester's
LETTER
To
his
Reverend
Clergy
within
the
County
and
Diocess
of
Worcester
.
VVith
some
short
and
genuine
Animadversions
vpon
it
.
HAving
received
in
a
Letter
from
a
Person
of
Eminent
Quality
in
the
County
of
Worcester
,
who
is
pleas'd
to
Honour
me
with
his
particular
Friendship
and
esteem
,
That
of
this
Right
Reverend
Bishop
;
and
being
assured
from
him
,
upon
the
Testimony
of
a
Clergyman
of
that
Diocess
,
who
has
one
of
the
Originals
,
(
for
it
seems
there
were
several
of
them
sent
abroad
)
that
it
was
an
exact
Copy
,
I
was
mightily
pleased
with
his
great
kindness
in
it
,
and
upon
reading
it
several
times
over
,
I
thought
it
very
well
worthy
of
many
good
Animadversions
.
Indeed
I
could
have
wished
this
Labour
had
been
saved
me
by
a
more
Ingenious
and
habile
Pen
;
for
then
not
only
I
my self
should
have
got
considerable
Improvement
by
the
learned
remarks
that
must
needs
have
been
made
on
it
,
but
the
publick
would
no
doubt
have
testifyed
greater
acknowledgments
,
and
have
given
their
just
applauses
,
according
to
Cicero's
opinion
,
Habet
enim
justam
venerationem
quicquid
excellit
.
But
having
waited
thus
long
,
and
finding
none
so
generously
inclined
as
to
bestow
his
serious
thoughts
this
way
for
common
good
and
benefit
;
I
conceived
it
would
not
be
altogether
ungrateful
to
the
world
if
I
should
venture
at
it
;
and
,
rather
than
have
all
lost
,
present
you
with
my
short
and
natural
Reflections
upon
the
Letter
that
followes
.
To
the
Rectors
,
Vicars
,
and
others
within
the
County
and
Diocess
of
Worcester
,
James
by
Divine
permission
Bishop
of
Worcester
,
sendeth
greeting
.
WHereas
the
Knights
and
Principal
Gentlemen
of
the
County
,
(
in
pursuance
of
his
Majesties
Writ
for
calling
and
holding
a
Parliament
at
VVestminster
upon
the
17th
of
October
next
coming
)
have
met
together
and
resolved
and
pitched
upon
Collonel
Samuel
Sands
,
to
stand
as
a
Candidate
to
be
elected
for
one
of
the
Knights
of
the
Shire
to
serve
in
the
said
Parliament
;
We
taking
into
Consideration
his
constant
,
known
,
and
steady
affection
,
loyalty
,
and
fidelity
to
the
Crown
and
Church
of
England
,
do
recommend
him
to
You
as
a
Person
that
will
be
firm
and
faithful
to
the
Interest
of
the
King
,
the
true
Protestant
Religion
,
and
the
Common
good
of
the
People
of
this
Realm
;
And
we
do
earnestly
desire
You
to
give
your
suffrages
for
him
,
and
to
ingage
such
as
are
qualified
in
your
Parishes
to
do
the
like
,
upon
VVednesday
next
,
being
the
third
of
September
;
and
thus
leaving
You
wholly
to
your
freedom
in
the
other
part
of
your
choice
,
but
confiding
in
your
filial
and
hearty
compliance
in
this
,
we
recommend
You
to
God's
Holy
Protection
,
and
remain
,
Your
Affectionate
Friend
and
Brother
James
Bishop
of
Worcester
.
THis
is
the
Letter
Verbatim
as
it
came
to
my
hands
;
and
how
kindly
it
is
written
for
advancing
the
Interest
,
or
but
maintaining
the
natural
liberty
and
property
of
the
more
inferiour
Commons
,
you
shall
in
part
see
by
and
by
.
But
before
I
come
to
take
notice
of
the
Letter
it self
,
I
think
it
will
not
be
very
improper
here
by
the
way
to
observe
,
how
much
that
dissenting
party
from
the
Church
of
England
,
I
mean
,
the
Presbyterians
,
is
taxed
for
going
(
as
they
say
like
Satan
)
to
and
fro
in
the
Earth
,
and
for
walking
up
and
down
in
it
to
make
their
parties
for
Elections
;
what
tricks
and
Insinuations
they
use
to
gain
Proselites
;
and
especially
in
this
late
Election
for
our
Metropolis
,
the
City
of
London
,
where
they
said
,
as
I
my self
heard
it
,
there
were
three
of
their
chiefest
Ministers
particularly
,
but
whom
they
would
not
name
,
that
made
it
their
great
business
to
run
from
house
to
house
to
secure
Votes
for
a
Worthy
member
and
Patriot
of
it
,
whom
another
party
,
under
the
Vizar
and
Masquerade
of
Church
of
England
men
,
would
fain
have
set
beside
the
Cushion
;
when
as
,
for
I
have
made
as
particular
an
Inquiry
into
it
as
possibly
I
could
,
not
one
of
them
has
stirred
in
it
any
further
than
perchance
accidental
common
Conversation
has
brought
them
on
;
but
,
as
I
believe
the
party
who
affirm'd
it
only
vapoured
,
and
would
fain
have
blackened
them
,
if
his
silly
word
would
have
been
credited
;
so
,
on
the
other
hand
,
put
the
case
it
had
been
so
,
they
had
done
nothing
but
what
they
could
have
produced
a
very
good
president
for
,
from
this
Letter
,
which
was
a
long
time
Antecedent
to
the
Election
here
,
and
I
hope
none
will
be
so
spiteful
as
to
hit
their
own
selves
a
box
o'
th'
ear
in
blaming
them
for
their
Conformity
to
the
Church
,
but
will
be
rather
glad
to
see
that
they
will
in
any
thing
come
over
to
it
,
and
take
their
Measures
from
it
.
For
my
part
,
I
am
so
much
a
Lover
of
unity
and
peace
,
and
so
impatient
of
whatsoever
looks
like
faction
,
or
dividing
Interests
,
that
I
should
be
one
of
the
first
to
cast
a
stone
at
that
man
that
sets
himself
to
make
a
party
:
for
,
if
we
are
free-born
,
let
's
injoy
our
priviledg
,
and
not
suffer
our selves
to
be
cullied
and
ham-string'd
by
every
formal
Fop
that
perhaps
either
has
a
hank
upon
us
,
or
else
has
got
the
knack
to
talk
more
oylily
than
our selves
.
I
would
have
my
judgment
my
own
,
and
would
choose
where
I
please
,
and
not
give
another
man
the
power
to
say
he
has
got
me
in
his
pocket
,
and
he
can
shake
me
like
a
Dog
in
a
blanket
.
But
now
to
my
Subject
.
And
first
of
all
I
think
it
is
very
easy
to
remark
,
that
the
Knights
and
Principal
Gentry
of
a
County
,
when
any
Important
Affair
of
the
State
is
to
be
mannaged
,
(
as
is
this
of
Electing
Parliament-men
)
do
meet
together
,
and
in
their
private
Cabals
,
do
consult
and
resolve
among
themselves
how
the
matter
shall
determine
,
and
which
way
they
will
have
things
to
go
;
and
after
this
,
then
they
pitch
upon
such
ways
and
means
as
they
judg
most
proper
to
be
conducive
to
those
Ends
:
and
here
in
this
case
that
we
have
before
us
,
You
see
they
take
this
course
;
so
that
by
this
mean
,
if
any
would
have
a
particular
faction
or
party
,
be
it
about
business
of
either
Church
or
State
,
carryed
on
;
it
is
only
to
make
your
interests
with
these
great
Do●alls
of
their
respective
Shires
or
Districts
,
by
bribes
of
Money
,
preferments
to
high
places
,
or
by
getting
honours
to
be
conferred
on
them
,
&c.
And
when
you
have
once
brought
them
over
to
you
,
and
made
'em
your
own
,
you
may
sleep
on
,
and
take
your
rest
,
as
it
is
said
in
another
case
,
for
they
know
how
to
do
your
work
well
enough
without
any
further
troubling
them
.
And
when
they
have
concluded
the
matter
thus
by
themselves
,
it
is
as
obvious
to
any
considering
man
as
the
former
,
that
they
then
go
,
and
acquaint
the
Right
Reverend
their
Bishop
with
what
they
have
done
,
and
pray
in
aid
to
him
,
that
he
would
graciously
please
to
inform
the
Clergy
over
whom
he
presides
,
with
their
project
;
and
by
an
express
to
let
them
know
,
how
agreeable
it
is
to
his
Lordship
,
how
good
in
it self
,
and
how
honourable
it
will
be
for
them
to
be
seen
in
,
and
advance
the
cause
;
and
not
only
that
they
themselves
would
stir
in
it
,
but
recommendations
must
be
made
to
them
,
that
they
do
all
they
can
to
ingage
such
as
are
qualified
in
their
Parishes
,
to
lay
their
Shoulders
to
the
work
,
and
according
to
their
power
to
influence
all
others
of
their
acquaintance
junctis
viribus
to
do
the
like
.
And
therefore
because
the
Knights
and
principal
Gentlemen
in
a
County
have
pitched
upon
such
a
one
,
(
be
he
never
so
deserving
a
person
,
or
never
so
otherwise
,
that
is
nothing
to
the
purpose
)
as
for
instance
,
to
be
a
Member
of
Parliament
,
he
must
of
necessity
be
the
man
:
so
that
as
I
take
it
,
(
and
I
would
not
willingly
mistake
the
point
)
this
is
to
exclude
the
Commonalty
absolutely
to
have
a
hand
in
the
choice
;
for
they
must
not
dare
to
give
a
Negative
Vote
if
they
should
be
injoined
to
stand
up
for
such
or
such
a
particular
person
;
and
by
this
means
they
are
cashiered
of
that
power
and
liberty
,
and
that
property
that
they
have
,
to
appear
in
the
behalf
of
another
person
,
whom
they
may
think
to
be
better
qualified
,
or
however
,
whom
they
may
like
better
,
and
otherwise
would
choose
,
if
they
were
not
beforehand
so
ingaged
.
But
further
,
by
leaving
them
to
their
freedom
in
the
other
part
of
their
choice
,
(
as
is
here
mentioned
)
doth
imply
a
Restraint
upon
them
and
that
,
despotically
,
or
magisterially
,
for
the
first
;
by
which
means
,
if
commonly
practised
by
other
Bishops
,
the
Parliament
may
make
an
Act
to
exclude
the
Clergy
from
voting
,
as
they
did
those
that
had
Lease-lands
,
nay
Copy-holds
of
Inheritance
;
presuming
they
would
be
byassed
by
their
Lords
of
their
Estates
to
vote
which
way
they
pleased
,
for
fear
of
a
black
reckoning
when
they
came
to
renew
.
Besides
,
if
they
do
restrain
them
for
one
,
as
here
you
see
it
is
plainly
proved
de
facto
,
why
may
they
not
by
the
same
right
and
justice
lay
a
restraint
on
them
for
both
:
And
how
can
they
then
be
said
indeed
to
be
our
representatives
,
when
possibly
they
may
not
be
those
persons
whom
we
would
have
to
represent
us
,
but
are
such
as
the
Knights
and
principal
Gentlemen
of
the
County
,
together
with
the
Bishop
and
his
Clergy
,
will
impose
upon
us
,
and
make
us
to
stand
by
,
for
fear
of
worse
circumstances
to
befal
our selves
.
Again
,
By
his
confiding
in
their
filial
and
hearty
compliance
,
he
doth
explain
the
restraint
as
to
the
first
vote
:
That
is
,
methinks
,
as
much
as
to
say
,
we
will
oblige
you
to
choose
one
such
man
as
we
would
have
you
,
and
to
be
made
a
mouth
of
by
us
in
that
particular
,
and
we
will
give
you
freedom
in
the
other
part
of
your
choice
;
we
will
put
the
wheadle
on
you
as
for
the
other
,
you
shall
seem
wholly
to
elect
him
,
though
he
be
fore
▪
ordained
to
be
the
man
,
by
our selves
at
our
private
Cabinet-board
:
for
,
to
be
sure
,
if
you
are
once
so
far
prevailed
upon
as
to
yield
to
their
Judgments
in
one
,
you
tacitely
do
acknowledg
that
you
have
not
understanding
,
and
be
not
fit
enough
of
your selves
to
make
a
wise
and
safe
choice
without
their
previous
direction
,
and
so
consequently
will
be
easily
led
away
to
give
your
suffrage
for
any
other
,
whom
perhaps
some
of
the
slie
pretenders
to
your
party
,
(
if
that
may
be
called
so
,
which
is
only
a
disinteressed
affection
to
serve
you
Country
)
may
be
their
secret
order
and
impulse
loudly
bawle
out
for
,
and
cry
up
;
so
that
in
one
sense
there
will
be
a
restraint
upon
you
as
for
both
,
though
knowingly
it
shall
appear
but
for
one
,
and
to
that
it
plainly
seems
you
must
comply
.
Moreover
,
which
to
me
looks
like
a
Paradox
,
for
it
is
contradictio
in
adjecto
;
he
expects
from
them
a
filial
or
son-like
obedience
,
and
yet
he
subscribes
himself
their
Brother
;
he
would
have
them
blindly
to
pay
him
the
duty
of
Children
,
but
he
does
not
stile
himself
their
Father
:
indeed
he
is
their
right
Reverend
Father
in
God
to
superintend
them
in
spiritual
affairs
,
and
in
Divine
Mysteries
;
but
I
do
not
very
well
understand
,
how
it
is
his
Province
to
charge
them
with
the
cares
of
State
,
how
he
can
ingage
them
to
run
up
and
down
after
all
such
as
are
qualified
in
their
parishes
,
and
get
Votes
for
the
beloved
Candidate
;
but
yet
this
they
are
obliged
to
do
,
if
they
mean
to
show
their
filial
respect
to
their
honour'd
elder
Brother
;
for
here
's
their
Injunction
;
and
,
litera
scripta
manet
,
should
they
prove
obstinate
and
restive
,
and
offer
to
disobey
the
precept
,
this
hand-writing
would
no
doubt
rise
up
in
judgment
against
them
,
and
render
them
inexcusable
.
This
is
by
no
means
to
reflect
upon
that
Worthy
Gentleman
,
whom
this
Letter
has
a
relation
to
;
for
all
persons
I
can
hear
of
,
that
have
any
acquaintance
with
him
,
give
him
deservedly
a
most
honourable
mention
;
and
I
cannot
in
the
least
imagine
but
that
the
qualified
Electing
persons
would
voluntarily
have
given
him
their
voice
to
be
one
of
their
Representatives
,
without
the
Solicitations
and
ingagements
of
their
Clergy
to
them
.
But
this
is
to
show
by
what
ways
and
artifices
Men
may
get
to
be
chosen
,
and
to
leave
it
upon
a
dubitatur
in
Lege
,
how
far
such
things
are
just
and
rightful
.
FINIS
.