R6/63/33/3

From: Joseph Newcome, Curate of Woburn; To: Mrs.Cruttenden at the Duchess of Bedford's house, Streatham [Surrey]

19 Jul 1716

From: 1716 To: 1716

From: Joseph Newcome, Curate of Woburn; To: Mrs.Cruttenden at the Duchess of Bedford's house, Streatham [Surrey] "The enclosed within paper called the Archbishop's Letter to the Bishops of his Province I receiv'd yesterday as the paper was not material to send; I would desire you to communicate the enclosed to Her Grace. The substance of which is that I take out a Licence from the Bishop of Lincoln to preach. When any person goes into Orders, he hath he has a Licence generally from the Bishop he goeth into Orders under to preach, but the Licence will not impower him to preach at any Curacy out of the Diocese of the Bishop who granted the Licence. As I was ordained by the Bishop of Peterborow, and was to preach in Bedfordshire out of the Diocese of the Bishop, I was excused having a Licence because it would be of no use to me who was out of his Diocese and in the Diocese of the Bishop of Lincoln. As the Bishop of Lincoln's Licence is a Licence in general for to grant a person liberty to preach at any parish church in his Diocese, I believe to take one from him will not intrench upon my Lady Duchess's Right at Woburn, but this I leave to her Grace's Judgement. The Archbishop can grant a Licence if he please & thinketh it not an irregular way of proceeding, in this he may be consulted; I beg therefore you would send me Her Grace's Opinion in the present case, what I had best do, for I shall entirely obey the commands I receive I return my most humble Thanks for the two most excellent sermons Her Grace was pleas'd to send me"

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Newcome, Joseph,
Cruttenden,
Bedford, Elizabeth, Duchess of,
Gibson, Edmund [Bishop of Lincoln],
Cumberland, Richard [Bishop of Peterborough]

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