Salutem & Officia in Christo Jesus.  
Good Brother,  
FInding myself obliged by his MAJESTY's most Gracious Letters Patents, for the Relief of the French that have lately taken Refuge in this Kingdom, to give a particular Recommendation to the Clergy of my Diocese, for the Advancement of so Pious and Charitable a Work, I do with all the willingness and earnestness imaginable Recommend it to your most effectual and speedy Care, That you will press for a Bountiful Contribution, by your making such a Christian Representation of their Deplorable Wants as is set forth in his MAJESTY's said Royal Letters; and that you will concern yourself in the management of this Affair, with all the Compassion and Tenderness due to Strangers, and to great Numbers of Strangers in extreme necessity; and lastly, to Protestant Strangers, which is another Qualification mightily to endear them to you, especially they bringing along with them so good Inclinations as they do of Conformity to the Church of England; to promote this very seasonable and most Noble Charity, nothing is like to be more conducive on your part, than your own leading good Example added to your Exhortations, this being indeed a Case so extraordinary, as calls for our Assistance to the utmost of our Abilities. I beseech God (in the words of our Churches most excellent Collect) to stir up the Wills of his Faithful People, that they plenteously bringing forth the Fruit of Good Works, may of Him be plenteously rewarded. So prays  
Your most assured Friend, and most Affectionate Brother in Christ, FRANCIS ELY, Almoner to his Majesty. Elyhouse. London. April 6. 1686. To the Minister, or Curate of