348 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. there, nor to hear others ? This is very hard dealing. God willing, I will never yield unto it. D. Do as you please. Do as you please. W. I was born and brought up in that parish, and I am bound to attend there by the laws of the realm. Do you then sit here to execute the law, and will you bind me to act contrary to the law? Palmer. Erase it, erase it, for shame ! It is a thingnever before beard of, that a man should be bound from attending at his ownparish church. Proctor. I will put this in its place, "that he shall never come there to preach." W. Will you put in that, Mr. Proctor ? Will you first exclude me from his whole province, and then exclude use from that particular place ? D. What else have you for him to do ? I'. He must confess that before us, which he would not acknowledge publicly in the church. D. Then read it unto him. W. I will confess these things neither publicly, nor pri- vately. But if you allow me, -I will separate those things which are true, from those which are false. D. Give him the paper. He then took the paper, and told them what was true, and what was false. This being done, and the good man having bound himself to preach no more in the archbishop's province, be was released, ascribing honour and praise to God for his merciffil deliverance.* Mr. Wilson having obtained his liberty, though excluded from all usefulness in the province of York, went 0 Lon- don, and, during the same year, frequently preached at Alhallows in Thames-street. Also, by the allowance of the minister of St.. Michael's, Cornhill, he delivered a sermon there; for whichBishop .Aylmer silenced him the very next day, and, summoned him, and the church,wardens of Alhal- lows, to appear before him the Saturday following. Mr. .Wilson not seeing the bishop's officer when he left the information at his lodgings ; nor knowing what warrant he had for what he did, refused to appear. But one of the ,church-wardens appeared, when, though the bishopwas not present, Dr. Stanhope pronounced upon them both the sentence of excommunication ; upon the one for not ap- pearing, and upon the other for suffering Mr. Wilson to MS. Register, p. 784-786.
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