NOTES TO THE LETTERS. 255 P. 87. On Tuesday next, if pleas God, your father will keep aday. -In this parliament Sir Robert Harley and Sir Walter Pye represented the county of Hereford. He now sets apart a day for solemn prayer, in preparation for his duties in parliament. P. 95. On Sunday morning I recewed a letter from your father, by which I found the naves of the disolueing of the parlament to be true. -On Sunday, the 10th May, Lady Bril- liana hears from Sir Robert a confirmation of the rumour of the dissolution of parliament which took place on Tuesday (Die Martin) the 5th of May. P. 100. Letter txxxrri.-Ends another series of letters to Edward Harley at Oxford. P. 101. Letter Lxxxiv.-Finds Edward Harley with his father in London. P. 103. I heare that parlament is ajournded for ten days, but I defer my beleefe. -A mere rumour. Parliament sat all December. P. 105. Mrs. Wallcote was with me this weake. -The wife of Humphrey Walcot, of Walcot, Esq., whose funeral sermon, under the title of "The Gale of Opportunity," was published with that preached at the funeral of Sir Robert Harley, by Thos. Froysell, minister of Clun, in Shropshire. Dr. Toby Mathue was with Mr. Plooden, wheare theare was great resort of papis, which makes some feare they haue some plots.-At Plowden Hall, near Walcot, the seat of a Catholic family who have enjoyed the estate, from which they derive their name, as far hack as our records extend. Sir Toby Mathew was a Jesuit of the order of Politicians. P. 106. Mr. Tomms was at Bromptonand helpt us in myfamily. -In the religious exer- cises of the previous Wednesday. This was most probably John Tombes, B.D., a most eminent divine of his sect, settled at this time at Leominster, whom Calamy says, in his abridgment of Baxter's History of his Life and Times, "all the world must own to have been a veryconsiderable man and excellent scholar, howsoever disinclined theymay be to his particular opinions." See a list of his works in Calamy, and further particulars in Neal's History of the Puritans, and also in Wood's Athena, vol. iii. p. 1063. P. 112. I thought the.Jesuet had bine acuesed of treson. I hope the King will yeald to the request of the parlament in that particular. -The person alluded to was John Good- man, a priest and Jesuit, whose history is well known. P. 117. I hope my brother is not for Lord Straford : I hard my Lord Straford keyed some of his actions to his charge.-Lord Conway gave adverse evidence on Strafford's trial. P. 118. If you have bine to hear the Scots ministers, send me word how you like them. -" The people throngs to our sermon, as ever yow saw any to Irwin communion : their
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