5. HILL-N. BROWN. 275 spokenno untruth of your honours." Anderson then shewed him the copy ofa supplication, demanding whether he had not set his hand to it ; and Mr. Hill answering that he thought he had, the angry judge said, " we shewed you favour before in accepting your plea, but we will chew you no more." Mr. Hill then replied, " I hope your lordships will not revoke what you have done, seeing you have discharged me of this matter already." The judge then answered, " that which we did, we did out of favour to you." Here the business closed, and Mr. Hill was sent to prison, being charged with no other crime than that, of which the same judge had acquitted him. He continued in prison a long time; but whether hewas ever restored to his ministry, is very doubtful.* NICHOLAS BROWN, B. D. - This learned divine was fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, and one of the preachers to the university, but dissatisfied with the disci- pline of the national church. In the year 1573, he was brought into trouble for two sermons which he preached in the university. For the erroneous and dangerous doctrines supposed to be contained in these sermons, he was several times called before the heads of colleges, and, afterrepeated examination, was kept for some time in a state of confine- ment. Dr. Whitgift, afterwards the famous archbishop, was a leading person in these severe proceedings. Upon Mr. Brown's appearance before his learned judges, he was required to retract his dangerous positions; which, at first, he utterly refused ; but afterwards, it is said, he complied. These dangerous positions were contained in the two following articles : " That in his two sermons, he uttered doctrine and reasons tending to infringe the order and manner of creating and electing ministers, and the regimen now used in the church of. England.-And that no priests made in the time of popery ought to have any function in the church of England, except they be called afresh."+ These doctrines, said to have been delivered in his sermons, contain all the crimes with which he was accused even by his enemies. He was, therefore, required tomake the following recantation, in the place, and before the congregation, where he had delivered the sermons : " Whereas, I preaching in thisplace, the Sunday before MS. Register; p. 314. Sir, pe's Parker, p. 391, 399. iii
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