208 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. . Although Mr. Deering was again allowed to preach, his troubles were not ended. The Bishop of London, by whose influence he had been restored, appeared soon to repent of what he had done. When he waited upon the bishop, informing him that the council, by their letters, had restored him to his lecture, his grace said he would see the letters, or he should not preach, and added, b That unless he preached more soberly and discreetly than before he would silence him again." Mr. Deering replied, " If you do forbid me, I think I shall obey." His obedience was, indeed, soon brought to the test ; for the bishop silenced him presently after. He brought complaints against him in the star-chamber, and urged the treasurer to procure an order from the queen to put down his lecture. He wrote also to the Earl of Leicester, signifying howmuch hedisliked Mr. Deering's continuance. This was going the right way to work, and he was sure of 'success. Accordingly, the business was brought before her majesty, who commanded him to be silenced ; and a warrant being sent to the bishop for this purpose, he was again suspended.. In the year 1574, the famous Dr. Thomas Sampson being laden with old age and infirmities, was desirous of Mr. Peering succeeding him in his lecture at Whittington- college, London, for which therewas a stipend of ten pounds ,a year. The companyof cloth-workers had the power of nomination, and the archbishop had the allowance. Dr. Sampson had no doubt of the company's approbation, but doubted the favour of the archbishop. And, indeed, his doubts were not without foundation ; for his grace being moved to allow of Mr. Deering, in case he should be nomi- nated by the company, lie utterly refused. Dr. Sampson, hoWever, wrote to Burleigh, the treasurer, earnestly intreat- ing him, in this case, to use his influencewith the archbishop. n this leder, he observed, that though the archbishop did not himself like to take pains in the congregation, he should usually carried things with a very high hand, expecting all to bow to, her will and pleasure, This arbitrary temper she exercised over her own clergy, as well .as others. Dr. Nowell, dean of St. Paul's, and 'one of the queen's chaplains, having spoken less reverently of the sign of the cross, in a sermon preached before her majesty, she called aloud to him from her closet window, commanding him to retire from that ungodlydigression, and return to his text.-On another occasion, Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex not exactly agreeing in a point of, political prudence, this sovereign, lady was so exceedingly provoked, that she gave him a box on the ear, and bid him " go and be hanged."-Heylitt's Hist, of Refor. p. 124. Edit. 1670.* Rapin's Hist. vol. i. p. 149. , Strype's. Parker, p. 428.
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