Excerpt from Life of Bishop Bedell The life here printed for the first time is pre served in the Tanner mss. (278 f. 15 sq.) together with several of Bedell's letters, and a second life by his son-in-law Ology, which has been published from a Harleian ms. The collection was made with a. View to publication by archbishop Sancroft, whose services to Eng lish history have never been duly appreciated. Transcripts of these and other papers were confided to me some years ago by the learned historian of the Irish church, archdeacon Cotton. I added letters from the state paper ofiice and other repositories, and went to press in 1866, intending to defer to the last the separate issue of this, the shorter and more interesting of the two lives. Being still unable to com plete the larger book, and unwilling longer to delay such help as I can render to the disen dowed church of Ireland, I have resolved to issue at once the bare text as it stands foruntil all my materials are in type, any notes which I could append must be necessarily im perfect. Meanwhile the curious reader may consult some papers which I have contributed to Notes and Queries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.