A true copy of a letter from the Right Honourable the Earl of Mulgrave, to Doctor Tillotson, Dean of Canterbury Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, 1648-1720 or 21. 1689 Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2006-02 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A30007 Wing B5346 ESTC R15828 12652436 ocm 12652436 65300 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A30007) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 65300) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 345:20) A true copy of a letter from the Right Honourable the Earl of Mulgrave, to Doctor Tillotson, Dean of Canterbury Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, 1648-1720 or 21. Tillotson, John, 1630-1694. 3 p. Printed, and are to be sold by Randal Taylor ..., London : 1689. Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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SIR , NOthing in this World is , or ought to be so dear to any Man , as his Reputation ; and consequently the Defence of it is the greatest Obligation that one Man can lay on another : There are also some Circumstances , that render this Obligation yet more Acceptable and Valuable ; as when 't is Confer'd Generously , without any Self-Interest , or the least Desire or Invitation from the Person so Defended . All this happens to be my Case at this time ; and therefore I hope you will not be surpriz'd to find I am not the most Ungrateful , and Insensible Man living ; which certainly I should be , if I did not acknowledge all your Industrious Concern for me , about the Business of the Ecclesiastical Commission , which now makes so much Noise in the World. You have , as I am told , so Cordially pleaded my Cause , that 't is almost become your own ; and therefore , as unwilling as I am to speak of my self , especially in a Business which I cannot wholly Excuse ; yet I think my self now a little Obliged to shew my Part in this matter ; though Imprudent enough , yet is not altogether Unworthy of so Just , and so Considerable an Advocate . The less a Man says of himself , the better ; and 't is so well known already , how I was kept out of all the Secret Councils , that I need not justifie my self , or trouble you as to those Matters ; only I Appeal to the Unquestionable Testimony of the Spanish Ambassador , if I did not zealously and constantly take all Occasions to oppose the French Interest ; because I knew it directly Opposite both to the King and Kingdom 's Good , which are indeed things Inseperable , and ought to be so accounted , as a Fundamental Maxim in all Councils of Princes . This , I hope , will prepare the way a little for what I have to say concerning my being one of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; of which Error I am now as sensible , as I was at first ignorant , being so unhappily conversant in the midst of a perpetual Court-flattery , as never to have heard the least word of any Illegality in that Commission , before I was unfortunately engaged in it . For , thô my Lord of Canterbury had very prudently Refus'd to be of it , yet it was talked at Court , it proceeded only from his Unwillingness to act at that time , and not from any Illegality he suspected in the Commission ; having Excused himself from it the most respectful way , by the Infirmities he lay under . Being thus ignorant of the Laws , and in such a Station at Court , I need not desire a Man of your Judgment and Candor , to consider the hardness of my Case , when I was commanded to serve in a Commission with a Lord Chancellor , a Lord Chief Justice , and two Bishops , who had all of them already acted some time there , without shewing the least Diffidence of their Power , or any Hesitation in the Execution of it . And perhaps a Man of more Discretion than I can pretend to , might have been easily perswaded to act in such a Conjunction , and to think he might do it safely , both in Law and Conscience . But I need not say much to shew my desire to have avoided , if possible , a troublesome Employment , that had not the least temptation of Honour or Profit to Recommend it ; and which therefore I continued in upon no account in the World , but to Serve both King and Clergy with the little Ability I had , in moderating those Councils , which I thought might grow higher , if I left my Place to be fill'd by any of those who waited for it greedily , in order to their ill Designs . And I may expect the more Credit in this , when 't is consider'd that the Two Important Affairs which passed in that Ecclesiastical Court , being the Bishop of London's Suspension , and the Incapacitating the Members of Magdalen Colledge ; the first was done some Months before I was a Commissioner , and I opposed the last , both in Voting and Speaking , and with all the Interest I was able to make use of , which indeed was but little after that Opposition ; in which being Out-voted , I seldome Came , and never Acted in that Court after , except to Restore the Bishop of London , thô sent for continually , by reason of my Lodging so near it . And since I have been forced to mention my Good-will at least , if not my Service , to such Learned Men of the Clergy who I thought deserv'd it , it may be allow'd me to give this one Instance more of it ; that althô in Preferring Men to all other Places of the Houshold , I ever us'd to ask Permission first , and accordingly was often Refus'd , for the sake of Roman Catholics and others , who were Recommended by Persons more in Favour than my self ; yet I was so careful of keeping that Considerable part of the Family unmix'd with Mean or Unworthy Chaplains , whom others I fear'd wou'd have impos'd on His Majesty , that I constantly fill'd up those Vacancies without giving him the least Notice or Trouble about it , and Supply'd them with the ablest approv'd Divines , I could possibly find , most commonly Recommended to me by the Bishops who were not of the Court : Which I conceiv'd the most proper course , in a Matter concerning Clergymen , with a King of a different Perswasion from theirs , and intended for his real Service , believing it had been better for Him , as well as the Kingdom , if the Greater Ecclesiastical Dignities had been dispos'd of by others with as much Caution . And thus , Sir , I have endeavour'd to confirm you in your Favourable Opinion of me , which must be acknowledg'd by every-body an Approbation of such weight , that as I hope it may be an Example of Authority to many , so 't is sufficient of itself to Ballance the Censoriousness of others . I am , SIR , White-Hall , Mar. 27. 1689. Your Obliged Humble Servant , MULGRAVE . London : Printed , and are to be Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-hall . 1689.