xviii INTRODUCTION. by Dr. Hoye, probably at Dublin, as he had been chaplain to Arch- bishop Usher for some time. His last ministration recorded in the register of Brampton is dated 1 May, 1642. He had been nominated Journals ofthe and approved as one of the Assembly of Divines,a and removed at House of Com- mons, 23 April, once to London, and became a constant attendant and active member 1642. in that assembly, being employed in the compilation MS. Notes on 9 of the Assem- ' the Rectors of bly's Confession of Faith and the larger and smaller Catechisms. He B. Bryan. was one of the committee appointed by ordinance of Parliament for the examination and approval of such clergymen as petitioned for segues- ' Neal's History tered livings,b and himself in possession of one near Ludgate. He of the Puritans, by Toulmin, was also a select preacher before the House of Commons at St. Mar- vel. iii. p. ss. garet's, and one of the presbyters and members of the Assembly to examine and ordain by imposition of hands all those whom they should Neal, vol. iii. judge qualified to be admitted to the sacred ministry .e No doubt he p. I40. agreed with Sir Robert Harley in all such matters, and disapprov- ing, like his patron, of the wicked designs upon the King, he was one Neal, vol. iii. of the ministers who assembled at Zion College,d and published p. 491. is Jan. 1348-9. " a serious and faithful representation of their judgment, in a letter to the General and his Council ;" and also, " A Vindication of the London Ministers from the unjust aspersions cast upon their former actings for the Parliament, as if they had promoted the bringing the King to capital punishment." But to return to the Lady Brilliana. Moving but little from home, her time was much given to her children and domestic matters-and, in the absence of Sir Robert, to the management of his estate, on which several judicious remarks will be found in these letters. The affairs of the country, in these sad times, afforded too great cause of anxiety to allow her to be a quiet observer of what was passing. It was but to be expected, on the breaking out of the Civil Wars, in a county which was generally devoted to the King's cause, that Brampton Bryan, the seat of one so influential on the other side, would soon
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