The Lord Keeper to the Duke. 24. Decem∣ber, 1624.
My most Gratious Lord,
I Most humbly beseech your Grace for Gods sake, and his Churches, to consider of this motion, which I do make unto your Grace, con∣cerning the Deanerie of York now vacant, the Dean being struck dead suddenly, by a Letter, which one Dr. Scot procured from his Majestie, to be his Coadjutour.
It is not for any man in particular; but against Doctor Scot, that he may not by the importunity of any one upon your Grace be pro∣moted to this place, being the sixth, or seventh place of preferment Ecclesiastical within this Kingdom, but that your Grace would be pleased to remove Doctor White, or Doctor Hall, or whom your Grace shall please, unto this great Deanery, and bestow the lesser Deanerie (far above his merit) upon him.
For these Reasons.
1. I know that he hath sold away all his Livings which he hath had in this Church, and hath at this day never an one.
2. I am credibly informed, he oweth 5000 l. at the least. A vast summe for a poor Scholar, and too much to be got up in a poor Church. And most of this money in York.
3. I know he is a great Gamester, and of no fitting conversation for a Church-man; but of very mean parts, either of Learning, or government.
4. I am certified at this time, that he is a man often overseen in drink; but this I do not know.