A briefe view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Q. Elizabeths and King James his reigne, to the yeere 1608 being a character and history of the bishops of those times ... / written ... by Sir John Harington ..., Knight.

Of CHESTER;

and the present Bishop, Dr. Flood.

OF this new Bishopricke, and new Lord Bishop also I have very little to say, and I need say the lesse, because your Highnesse 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 ears more universall then either Rome or Constanti∣nople, namely Bishop of Man: but from thence he was translated to Chester the chiefe City of that Shire, that some call chiefe of men, which Shire having a spe∣ciall temporall blessing (to abound) not with milke and honey, as the Land of Pro∣mise, but with milke and salt, a matter more necessary in sacrifice; I wish it may also flow in spirituall blessings, and doubt not but that by the irrigation rather then inundation of this Floud they shall en∣crease

in them, and as our Saviour com∣mands to joyne peace with salt, and espe∣cially I wish that blessing to their Neigh∣bours beyond the salt water, I meane in Ireland, who though they have milk, and are so weake in faith they cannot yet di∣gest hard meat, yet for want of this salt and peace, they make many goe of Pilgri∣mage to Westchester against their wills from both Realmes, some of whom the Bishop of Chester was wont to entertaine in kinde sort, as my selfe can testifie, and this Bishop I heare doth herein succeed also his worthy Predecessor Doctor Vau∣ghan.