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292 VI. GREAT KINGS AND BISHOPS (A.D. 15931718).
project for establishing inter-communion between the
Evangelical Churches, which seemed now more than ever
profitable and possible. The well-known Sir Thomas Roe
whose co-operation with Cyril Lucar at Constantinople
forms so interesting a chapter in another branch of the re
union movement happened to come to Elbing as ambas
sador from Charles I. to Gustavus Adolphus, and warmly
took up the project. Durie returned to England, and was
well received both by Archbishop Abbot and by Laud,
then the powerful Bishop of London. He returned again
to Germany in 1631, bearing a recommendation signed by
thirty-eight English divines, and he had a favourable inter
view with the king, then at the height of his glory, after
the victory of Leipsic. This was at Wiirzburg, where he
made the acquaintance of the army chaplains, Jacob
Fabricius and Matthias. The king even offered to give
him letters of recommendation to the Protestant princes,
which Durie for the time declined. Various conferences of
the Evangelical Churches were held, particularly at Leipsic
and Heilbronn, in which Durie had a share. Gustavus
death at Liitzen in 1632 unfortunately deprived him and
the cause of his and its strongest supporter. When Durie
was next in England, in 1633 1634, Laud, who had just
become archbishop, encouraged him to be ordained in the
Church of England. He was ordained priest by Bishop
Joseph Hall, then at Exeter, 24th February, 1634. He
was, however, not expected to reside in England; and he
spent some months in procuring testimonials from bishops,
with whom he had a large and a familiar acquaintance.
In particular Archbishop Laud addressed to him two
letters expressing great interest in his work, both dated
loth February, 1634 one f r use m dealing with adherents
of the Confession of Augsburg, and the other, of a similar
kind, for use in the Palatinate, Zweibriicken and Hesse.43
His episcopal friends did even more for him. Bishop Edward
43
Archbishop Laud :
Letters, 98 (Works, A. C. L., vi., 410)
and 264 (ibid, vii., 112).
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