myselfe. And this as I had reason to take very kindly from you so I could not rest satisfyed in myselfe till I had some way or other exprest my Love to you.
Besides your thankes there is nothing in either of your Lr̃es save only in the last of them. There you tell mee the Value of Sephton, & I am glad to heare 'tis soe good.
But ye Lady Strange is very angry, as I heare, that shee had not one of the Benefices for her chaplen Mr. Hinde. And now I am informed that shee purposes to sett up an other Title agst ye King's for Sephton. Which, if shee doe, I know not how to helpe itt. And Dr. Morton must arme himselfe agst itt as he can.
For Standish I pray be as carefull of itt as you may in p'serving the King's Title, & in giving mee notice when it falles. And then, if my L. Strange & his Lady use mee kindly, I can thinke upon their chaplen, or otherwise passe him by, as I see cause. But the lesse noise is made of Standish ye better. And I beseech you have care of itt. So to God's blessed p'tection I leave you, and rest
- Lambeth, June 24th, 1639. W. Cant.
L. B. Chester."[1]
- ↑ Family Evidences.
in the cathedral there, without any memorial; being succeeded in the bishopric by Dr. John Lake, and in the deanery by Dr. James Ardern. His last wife survived him and was remarried, on 4th February, 1687, to Mr. John Allen. Margaret, the wife of Mr. John Allen, a member of the Custom House, was buried 18th July, 1700, and Mr. John Allen, of the Abbey Court, Chester, was buried 10th November, 1716. Henrietta Bridgeman, the young daughter of bishop Henry Bridgeman, appears to have had much difficulty in recovering her property from Mr. Allen; but she found a friend and protector in her cousin (her father's greatnephew) John Bridgeman, of Blodwell, in the county of Salop, Esq., son and heir of Sir John Bridgeman, of Castle Bromwich, baronet, who offered her a home; and from his house at Blodwell she was afterwards married to the Rev. Samuel Aldersey, then curate of Hardgrave, in Cheshire, and afterwards rector of Wigan, second son and eventually heir of Thomas Aldersey, of Aldersey and Spurstow, in the county of Chester, by whom she had several children. They were married at Llanyblodwell on 8th October, 1712, and are now represented by Thomas Aldersey, of Aldersey and Spurstow, Esq., who has in his possession, at Aldersey Hall, a portrait of Mrs. Henrietta Aldersey, ætat. 55, painted by Fellows in 1734, as also of her father bishop Henry Bridgeman, three-quarter length, in which he is represented in surplice and stole with an Oxford master's hood, having a little black scull cap on his head and a book in his hand with the Bridgeman arms upon it. He wears a moustache but no beard.
