Private Letter from the Rev. J. Colbatch to the Bishop of Salisbury l696

Author:

Rev. J. Colbatch

Report:

HA 2

Page:

99

Year:

1938

Subject Matter:

Religion and Religious Institutions

Excerpt:

(Chaplain to the British Factory, Lisbon; subsequently Professor of Moral Theology at Cambridge. Transcribed from the original: Add. MSS. 22908 Brit. Mus., by Mr. A.R. Walford)

My Lord

I am sensible by what I am going to do I am like to give your Lordship no small trouble, and therefore I set about it with ye greatest Reluctance Imaginable as will partly appear from my having deferred it so long: But it is what after a serious Debate with myself I find to be Indispensably Necessary, and that for such reasons as make me think Ye Greatest Cause why I should Apprehend yr. Lordship’s Displeasure on this Occasion is my not having done it sooner.

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