I78 The L I F E of the Part III. I would promife not toPreach on Sunday : I anfwered, [ I/hall not] Equivocal- ly, meaning [I fhall not promife] when he thought I meant [Ifhall not ?reach :] 0, thefe fay the Malignants , are your holy Men ! And was fuch a putid Falihood it for a Pulpit, from fuch Men that never fpake one word to my face in their 'Lives? The whole truth is this ; The forefaid 7f o. Refs', with Fhihpr;. being appointed to fend me to prifon for Preaching atBrainford, Ihut the Cham- ber doors, and would neither thew or tell me who was my Accufer or Witnefs niar let any one living be prefent but themfelves : And it being Saturday , 1 askt them to Stay at home, to fee my Houfe inorder till Monday : Rof: asked me, Whether I mould promife not to Preach on Sunday ? I anfwered, No 1 fhall not The Man not understanding me, Paid, Well, youPromife not to Preach I reply- ed, No, Sir,I tell you,! will notpromifè any fuch thing: Ifyou hinderme, I cannot help it but I mill not othçrmife forbear. Never did I think of Equivocation: This was 'my ,prefent Anfwer, and l went Strait toPrifon upon it Yet did thisRof, vent this falfe Story behind myback; and, among Courtiers and Prelatilts it pale for cpyránt, and was worthy Dr. Mafon's Pulpit- impudency : Such were the Men that we were perfecuted by and had to do with! Dr. Mafon died quickly after. §. 4. Being denied forcibly the ufe of the Chappel which I had built, I wasfor- ced to let it ftand empty, and pay Thirty pounds per fnrum for the Ground- Rent my Pelf, and glad to Preach (for nothing) near it, at a Chappelbuilt by ano- ther formerly .in Swallow-fired ; becaufe it was among the fame poor people that hadno Preaching, the parilh having d0000 Souls in it more than the Church can hold; when I had Preached there a while, the forefaid Justice Parry ( one of them that was accufed for flitting Sir john Coventree's Nofe,) with one Sables, figned aWarrant to apprehend me, and on Nov. s. 1676. fix Confiables, four Beadles, and many MelFengers, were jet at the Chappel-doors to execute it : I forbare that day,and after told the Dukeof Lauderdaile of it ; and askedhim, What it was that occafioned their wrath againft me : He defired me to -go and fpeak with the Bifhop of London ( Compton:) I did ; and he fpake very fairly , and With peaceable words: But prefently (he having fpoken alto with tome others) it was contrived that a noife wasrailed, as againft the Bithop, at the Court, that hewas Treating of a Peace With the Presbyterians : But, after a while, I went to him again, and told him It was fuppofed, That Juftice Parry was either fee on work by him, or at leafs a word from himwould take him off ; I defired him thereforeto fpeak to him, or provide thatthe Confiables might be removed froín myChappel-doors, and their Warrant called in; And I offered him en ragamy Chappel in Oxenden- /ireet to a Conformift,fo be ithe would procure my continued Liberty in Smállomflreet, for the fake of the peor multitude that had no Church togo to : I-Ie did as good as promifeme telling me, That be did not doubtto do it; and fo I departed, expeeiing Quietnefs the next Lord's-day : But, in- Itead of that, the Confiables Warrant was continued , though fouie of them begg'd to be excufed, and, againft their wills, they continued guarding the Door for above Four and twenty Lord's -days after : And I came near the Bilhop no more, when Thad fo tried what their Kindnesfes andPromifes lgnifie. g. q. It pleafed God to take away (by torment of the Stone) that excellent faithful Minifter Mr. r;o.Wadfmorth in Southmark ,and jute when I was thus kept out at Sudan- Street, his Flock invited me to Southwark, where (though I refuted to be "their Pallor) I Preached many Months in peace, there being no Juftice wil- ling todifturb us. This was in 1677. §. 6. When Dr. Lamplugh, now Bilhop of Exeter, was Pallor at St. Martin's, old Mr. Sangar the Minifter, thence put out,thought it his duty to abide in the Parilh with thofeof hisancient flock that defired him, and to vifit filch as defired him in ficknets (becaufe many that were againft our Preaching, pretended, that we might find work enough in private Vifitings and helps:) An old Friend of Mr. Sangar's being lick near St. t'amer's Market-houfe tent to him to vì&t her: By that time he had a while Prayed by her, Dr. Lampleugh came in, and when . he had done, came fiercely to him, Paying, Sir, What bufrnef have you here? Mr. Sangar anfwered To vifit and Pray with my fick Friend that feat for me. The Dotìor fiercely laid hold of his breaft, and thruft him toward theDoor, laying , Getyou out of the Room, Sir, ] to the great trouble of the Woman that lay lick in Bed by them , having buried her Husband but a little before: Had this been
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