Note 279 — Chapter XI
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Wood, iv. 311. There is in the Record Office (1678, May) a petition from Croft, Bishop of Hereford, in which he says the bishopric is not worth, in rents, £700 a year. In sixteen years he had not raised £2,000 in fines. There is also a letter from Bishop Barlow (Oxford, May 29, 1675), in which he writes, “Fees, first-fruits, &c., will cost me £2,000 or £1,500 before I shall receive a penny from the bishopric.”