, GLOVER. 313 call nonresidents ! !" Upon Mr. Gellibrand's attempting to answer, he was interrupted, and not allowed to proceed. Andwhen Dr. Eosin charged himwith speaking against the laws of the land, he replied, " I have long been of this opinion, and so have many others, that nonresidents are allowed by law." Mr. Gellibrand being charged with seducingher majesty's subjects, and with bringing the archbishop and bishops into contempt, which, it was said, gave much encouragement to papists ; lie replied, " I never entered upon any discourse about the government of the church, but delivered the true sense of the scriptures." When he was urged to a further consideration of the charges brought against him, and to submit to the court, he was carried out, until the commis- sioners determined what punishment should be inflicted upon him. After some consultation, he was called in, when the archbishop thus addressed him You deserve not only to be sequestered from your ministry, but to be expelled from your house, banished from the university, and cast into prison ; and all this we could inflict upon you ; but we will not deal thus with you, if you will revoke your errors, and give satisfaction for your offences." Thegood man was, therefore, suspended fromhis ministry, obliged to enter into a bond of a hundred pounds, either to revoke his errors in such form as their lordships should appoint, or to make his appearance at Lambeth at any time by them to be determined, when theywould further proceed against him.. But it does not appear whether he recanted, or was brought under additional hardships by the relent- less prelates. EDWARD GLOVER was a nonconformist to the church of England, as well in doctrine, as in ceremonies. He appears to have mixed faith and works in the article of justification, and to have denied the doctrine of predestination ; for which, in the year 1586, he, together with some others, was apprehended by Archbishop Whitgift, and cast into prison. These persons, denominated " a poor handful of free-will men," it is said, could not assemble in a private conventicle, without attracting the rod of ecclesiastical censure, and suffering by means of the archbishop, the rigorous penalty of imprisonment. But whatever were their character and MS. Register, p. 801-801
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