[274] From an autograph letter addressed to Sancroft, shown in 1862 at an exhibition of autographs in the Institution of the Incorporated Law Society. See Catalogue.
[275] Articles of Fuller, Bishop of Lincoln, 1671. Appendix to Second Report of Commission on Ritual, 641.
[276] They are computed by the writer of The Future Happy State of England (109) as having amounted, in 1660, to between £300,000 and £500,000 a year. The annual revenue of the whole nation he puts down at eight millions.
[277] Stowe.
[278] Chamberlayne’s Angliæ Notitia.
[279] Wood, iv. 311. There is in the Record Office (1678, May) a petition from Croft, Bishop of Hereford, in which he says the bishopric is not worth, in rents, £700 a year. In sixteen years he had not raised £2,000 in fines. There is also a letter from Bishop Barlow (Oxford, May 29, 1675), in which he writes, “Fees, first-fruits, &c., will cost me £2,000 or £1,500 before I shall receive a penny from the bishopric.”
[280] Granger’s Lives, iii. 235.
[281] Notice of Morley in Life of Ken, 138, and Le Neve, 192. According to another computation, Sheldon gave away £72,000.
[282] Life, by Pope, 57–63.
[283] Life of Sancroft, i. 147. State Papers—Entring Book. Ecclesiastical business, 1670–4. 1670, 13th June.