NOTES TO INTRODUCTION. li There is a MS. Life of Bishop Bedell in the Harl. MSS. in the Brit. Miss. supposed by Archdeacon Hone to be the MS. which Bishop Burnet made use of in the compilation of his Life of Bedell, which was published in 1685; for this reason, the writer appears to identify himself with A.C. minister of Cavan, and Burnet's authority (see Preface, page b) was Mr. Clogy, minister of Cavan, " a worthy and learned divine," and as having lived in the bishop's house, and shared his troubles up to the time of his death, 1642. In a letter of the Bishop of Meath, dated Dec. 14, 1685, found amongst Mr. Boyle's Correspondence, " a Life of Bedell is mentioned lately published by one Clogy, who is somewhere beneficed in England, if he be alive, and as having married the bishop's daughter." May not this Mr. Clogy, -A. C. (Minister of Cavan) be Alexander Clogie, Minister of Wigmore from 1647 to 1698 ? Stanley Gower, the Rector of Brampton Bryan, had been chaplain to Archbishop Usher, and to him Mr. Clogy or his family might have been known; and it is not at all improbable that, seeking an asylum in England, as he did, he might have found a friend in Mr. Gower, which may have led to his being fixed at Wig- more. There appears to be an inaccuracy in the Bishop of Meath's letter not noticed by Archdeacon Hone, for it is there said that Clogy had married the bishop's daughter; but in the Life of the Bishop it is said, " of his four children, two died in infancy, the other two, being sons, grew up to man's estate, and survived their parents. "-Archdeacon Hone's Lives - Bishop Bedell, vol. ii. pp. 211, 248-257. Mr. Clogie's marriage with Susannah Nelmes at Ludlow, 11 Dec. 1665, is noted in the Register of Wigmore. Among his children was a daughter named Brilliana, after the Lady Brilliana Harley. Page xxiv. Dr. Herbert Croft, Bishop of Hereford..-See an interesting account of him in Wood's Athenw, vol. iv. p. 309-318. In 1688, he published a short discourse con- cerning the reading his Majesty's late Declaration in churches. This pamphlet coming into the hands of a certain courtier, he communicated it to the King, who, upon perusal, commanded so much as concerned the reading of the Declaration (which was for the indulging of consciences,) to be printed, but suppressed all that he said against taking off the Test and penal law. Page xxvi. Sir EdwardHarley, Governor of Worcester. -WhenGovernor of Worcester, " A party having brought into the city the plunder of horses and other things, Sir Edward ordered all that could be seized to be restored, except a blasphemous image of the Holy Trinity, which (having been first shewn to the Bishop,) he ordered to be broken in pieces in the open street. "-Auditor's Notes. Page xxvii. John Lord Viscount Scwdar ore.-See a view of the ancient and present state of the churches of Dore, Home-Lacy, and Hempsted, endowed by him; with remains of that ancient family, by Matth. Gibson, M.A. Rector of Dore.-Lond. 1727. Page xxviii. Dr. Tuckney.-Anthony Tuckney was originally of Emmanuel College, of which he became a fellow, and thence removed to the vicarageof Boston, from which place
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