Of this new bishopric, and new lord bishop<543> also, I have very little to say; and I need say the less, because your Highness hath heard him preach, often, and very well. I call him a new lord bishop, because though he were a bishop before, yet was he not thereby a lord of the parliament house; howbeit, his title before sounded to the vulgar ear more universal than either Rome or Constantinople, namely Bishop of Man. But from thence he was translated to Chester, the chief city of that shire, that some call chief of men; which shire having a special temporal blessing to abound, not with milk and honey, as the land of promise, but with milk and salt, a matter more necessary in sacrifice; I wish it may also flow in spiritual blessings, and doubt not but that by the irrigation rather than inundation of this Flood they shall increase in them; and as our Saviour commands to join peace with salt. And especially I wish that blessing to their neighbours beyond the salt water, I mean in Ireland; who though they have milk, and are so weak in faith they cannot yet disgest hard meat, yet for want of this salt and peace, they make many go of pilgrimage to Westchester against their wills from both realms, some of whom the Bishop of Chester was wont to entertain in kind sort, as myself can testify, and this bishop I hear doth herein succeed also his worthy predecessor Doctor Vaughan.

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