forward  to  write  and  publish  books  for  confirming  their
erroneous  doctrine,  and  impugning  the  truth;  and  now  of
late  seem  more  careful  than  before  to  send  daily  into  our
realm  such  their  writings,  whereby  our  loving  subjects,
though  otherwise  disposed,  might  be  seduced,  unless  some
remedy  thereof  should  be  provided  :  We,  by  the  advice  of
our  Council,  have  lately  granted  a  corporation,  and  given  our
allowance  for  erecting  a  College  at  Chelsey  for  learned
divines -to  be  employed  to  write,  as  occasion  shall  reqtiire,  for
maintaining  the  religion  professed  in  our  kingdoms,  and
confuting  the  impugners  thereof  ^  Whereupon  Dr. SutcUffe,
designed  Provost  of  the  said  College,  hath  now  humbly
signified  unto  us,  that  upoh  divers  promises  of  help  and
assistance  towards  the  erecting  and  endowing  the  said  Gollegei ,
he  hath  at  his  own  charge,  begun  and  well  proceeded  in  the
building,  as  doth  sufficiently  appear  by  a  good  part  hereof
already  set  up  in  the  place  appointed  for  the  same;  we
therefore,  being  willing  to  favour  and  further  so  religious
a  work,  will  and  require  you  to  write  your  letters  to  the
Bishops  of  your  province,  signifying  unto  them,  in  our  name,
that  our  pleasure  is,  they  deal  with  the  clergy  and  other  of
their  dioceses,  to  give  their  charitable  benevolence  for  the
perfecting  of  this  good  work  so  well  begun;  and  for  the
better  performance  of  this  our  desire,  we  have  given  order  to
the  said  Provost  and  his  associates  to  attend  you  and  others-
unto  whom  it  may  appertain,  and  to  certify  us  from  time  to
time  of  their  proceeding. And  thus,  nothing  doubting  of
your  care  herein,  we  bid  you  farewell. Thetford,  the  fifth  of
May,  1616."

Now,  because  this  so  pious  and  religious  a  work,  conducing
both  to  God's  glory  and  the  saving  of  many  a  soul,  within
this  kingdom,  I  cannot  but  wish  that  all  devout  and  well-
aflfected  persons  should,  both  by  yourself  and  by  the  preachers
in  your  diocese,  as  well  publicly  as  otherwise,  be  excited  to
contribute  in  some  measure  to  so  holy  an  intendment  now
well  begun. And  although  these  and  the  like  motives  have
been  frequent  in  these  latter  times,  yet  let  not  those  whom

'  [See  a  full  account  of  Chelsea  Col-     of  the  King  and  Archbishop  are  also
lege  in  Fuller's    Ch. Hist,  book  x. printed.]"'
sect. iii. 