Excerpt from A Letter to the Clergy of the Church of England: On Occasion of the Commitment of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Rochester to the Tower of London I may add another confideration, which fhould difpofe even the melt Difaffee'ted Subject to think, that this Commitment had a Juft and even a Nece 'ary Foundation, Emean the Unpopular View in which fuch an aetion ufes to appear among us it is not many years fince the Impeachment of one of our Order, inferior to this Prelate in Sta tion, but much more fo in perfonal Abilities, alarm'd and almoft turn'd up-fide-down this Nation 3 the men then in power felt the weight of it, and faw (but too late, when they were forc'd out of their high Stations) that the reverence which men pay Us rifes in proportion to our dii'trefs, and that it is much fafer at fome feafons to lay the Laim' 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."