262 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. man, be not discouraged; I'll let . you have that horse of mine," pointing at his servant's." "Alt ! master," replied the countryman, " my pocket will not reach such a beast as that."' " Cbme, come," said Mr. Gilpin, "take him, take him ; and when I demand the money, then shalt thou pay me ;" and so gave him his horse. The celebrated Lord Barleigh being once sent into Scotland, embraced the opportunity on his return to visit his old acquaintance at Houghton. His visit was without previous/notice ; yet the economy of Mr. Gilpin's house was not easily disconcerted. He received his noble guest with so much true politeness, and treated him and his whole retinue in so affluent and generous a manner, that the treasurer would often afterwards say, " he could hardly have expected more at Lambeth." Daring his stay, he took great pains to acquaint himself with the order and regularity of the house, which gave him uncommon pleasure and satisfaction. This noble lord, at parting, embraced his much respected friend with all the warmth of affection, and told him, he had heard. great things in his commendation, but he had now seen what far, exceeded all that he had heard. ' ". If Mr. Gilpin," added he, " I can " ever be of any service to, you at court or elsewhere, use " me with all freedom, as one on whom you may depend." When he had got upon Rainton-hill, which rises about a mile from Houghton, and commands the vale, he turned his horse to take one more view of theplace, and having fixed his eye upon it for some tune, he broke out into this ,exclamation : "There is the enjoyment of life indeed ! Who can blame that man for refusing a bishopric ? What " cloth he want, to make him greater, or happier, or more " useful to inankinctr* 'Dr. Richard Gilpin, an excellent and useful divine, ejected by the Act of Uniformity in 1662 ; and Mr. William Gilpin, author of " The Lives of eminent Reformers," were both descendants of Mr. Gilpin's family.+ JOHN COP eING.-This unhappy man was minister near Bury St. Edmunds, a zealous puritan of the Brownist per- suasion, and a most painful sufferer for tioncoliformity. In the year 1576, he was brought into trouble by the commis- * Biog. Britan. vol. vii. Sop. p. 75. + Palmer's Noncon. Mem. vol. i. p. 588.-Granger's Biog. Hist. p. 163.
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