156 The LIFE of the Part III: askt me earneltly to forgive him : I askt him what had changed his mind : He told methat his Confcience hadhopeace from the hoer that he troubled me; And that it increated his Dtfemiet that no Jufiee would hear, nor one Confiable of forty ex- ecute the warrant,and all the people cryed out againít him ; But that which fet homewas Mr. Barmel's Death (forSir yohn ldedlicot's he knew not of). I exhorted theMan to an Univerfäl. Repentance and Reformation of Life, and he told me he would never meddle in filch Bufneltes, nor troubleany Man, and promifed to live better himfelf than he had done. § 2133. A little beforeDr. Manton's Meeting alfo was furprized, and he having notice of it before, was abfent, and got Mr. Bedford topreach for him : For it was refolved to have fent him to the CommonGoal, upon the Oxford A&, as a refufer of the Oath, bchdes the penalty of a Conventicle : TheMakes were Mr. Ball(Bro- ther to Dr. Bah Preacher at the Temple) the violenten of then"., and Mr. Rofs and Mr, Philips,, thefain two Men that had fent meto theGoal four years before ;They offered Mr. Bedfordthe Oath but it proved that he had taken it before, and fo far defeated them : But he was fined accordingly to the A& in not. (and`the place401.) which the LordWharton, theCounteffes of Bedford, Manchefter and Clare, andother hearers paid.: But two of the lattices fworethat he faid, that the Xing didnot in goodcamel? &lire the execution of this Law; which he profeffedhe neverPaid) ; And for this theKing feathitn to Prifon. s 24. An Accident at this time fell out, which ocealioned a little teeming flop of my trouble which I willrelate as the Duke ofLauderdail told it mehimfelf,who was ,refcnt. The Lord Falcon-brigde beingwith the Bilhop of Salisbury (Ward) afterreported that the Bilhop told him, that it was nothing of the Bithops, but of the Lord Treafurer, that the Aft wasthus Executed: The Lord Treafurer char- ged it asan injury on the Bifhop : The LordHigh Chamberlain(E. of Lindfey) told it Bilbop Morley, who told it Bilhop Ward, who went to the Lord Treafurer and Complained of it as a falfe injurious report of the LordFakonbridge; The Lad Treafurer tookhim to theKing, whoPent for theLord Faleonbridge,who (before the King, the D. of Lauderdail, the LordTreafurer, theLord High Chamberlain, ere.) wasaeenfedby B'ilhopWard for a falfe report of hiswords : TheLord Fakonbridge could not make it good, but tho he fpake not thofevery words, he took the Scope of hisSpeech to be of that Importance : TheKing (laid theDuke to me) Paid [ I Mull tell you this my felf : I called the. Bifbops togive me their advice, what was to be donefor therefills fecuringof the Church, and the Proteftant Religion, and they told one, that there was fometbing to be done, but theythought it not fafe for them to give advice its it : I told them that I took this for aLibel ;, andaskt themmho, or what they were afraid of s And I appointed there Lords to fee themgive their Anfwer. Among other paffages theLord I aloonliidge faidthat theBilhop called theExecution of theLaw [a trick] : TheEi;hop Anfivered Wald not that the Execution of the Lawwas a trick; but that to begin sub Mr. Tiaxter wasa trickofforre, to make it thought that we are unreconcilabk to the molt ,00dcrateandpeaceable Men.]. And thusthey were drawn in to givetheir teeming Judgment againft my fuffering (tho there was great reafon to think that Pa- pins and Prelateswere the Contrivers of it.) § s8ç. For the better undernandingof many of thefematters, it mullbe known, thatat z or 3 of the laRSellions of Parliament, Bilhop Morley had, onall occafmns in theCompany of Lords, Gentlemen and Divines, cryedout of the danger of Pope- ry, and talkt much for abatements, and taking in theNonconformins, or elfe we are like all to fall into the Papílis hands; fo that there were no Lordsor others for agreement, but he made himfelf theheadof theirDelga, and fo gotan Interen Rill in the work, as theforwardeR defirer of it : Dr. Fulwood, Mr. Collyer, and Divers others, came to me to advice about a way of Concord,as encouraged by this Bilhop's words : I fent himword by them all that I had heard thefe many years of there agreeing peacemaking purpofes and ¿¢fires of his Lordihip but having known fo much of his Endeavours to the contrary I intreated him by come Deeds to convince me of lois fincerity, for till then I was not able to believe it. And the Event Rowed that my incredulity was not withoutcaufe. § z16. At this Sefrions of Parliament approaching, he let upon the fame Courfe again, and Bilhop Ward as lois fecond and chief Coagent joynedwithhim, and they were famed tobe the twoBithopsthat were for Comprehenfion and Concord, none foforward as they : At lait Dr. Batesbrings mea meffage front Dr. T lotfon Dean of Canterbury, that he and Dr. Stihing cet dehred a Meetingwith Dr. Manton, Dr. Batts
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