CRANE-HUMPHREY, 363 would rejoice ; many able students wouldbe encouraged to enter the ministry ; and the religion of Jesus Christ would more extensively prevail.". In the year 1583, Mr. Crane, with nine other learned divines of Cambridge, wrote to Mr. Thomas Cartwright, warmly recommending him to publish an answer to the Rhemist Translationof the New Testament+ Afterwards, he was cast into prison for refusing conformity to the established church. He subscribed the petition presented to the lord treasurer, and signed by about sixty protestant nonconformists, then confined in the various prisons in and about tondon.t Mr. Strype has placed this petition in the year 1592: but it should have been earlier. Mr. Crane died in Newgate, in the year 1588,1 where many of his suffering brethren shared the same fated! LAWRENCE HUMPHREY, D.D.-This celebrated puritan was born at Newport-Pagnel in Buckinghamshire, about the year 1527, and educated first in the university of Cambridge, then in Magdalen college, Oxford, where, in 1549, he became perpetual fellow, and was chosen reader of Greek in 1552. Having applied himself closely to theolo- gical studies, be entered, about the same time, into the sacred function. He remained at Oxford, some time after the accession of Queen Mary and the commencement of her severities ; but, at length, by the permission of the presi- dent, vice-president, and others of his college, was allowed to go abroad. " In the opinion of all," says the Oxford historian, " he was much commended for his life and con- * Parte of a Register, p. 119-124. + See Art. Cartwright. t An abstract of this most moving petition is given in another place.- See Art. John Greenwood. § Account prefixed to " Parte of a Register." Great numbers perished in the various prisons where they were long confined and most cruelly used. Among the rest, was one Mr. Roger Rippon ; who, dying in Newgate, his fellow prisoners put the following inscription upon his coffin : " This is the corpse of Roger Rippon, a servant of Christ, and her " majesty's faithful subject ; who is the last of sixteen or seventeen which " that great enemy of God, the Archbishop of Canterbury, with his high "commissioners, have murdered in Newgate within these five years, " manifestly for the testimony of Jesus Christ. His soul is now with the " Lord ; and his blood crieth for speedy vengeance against that great " enemy of the saints, and against Mr. Richard Young, (a justice of the peace in London) who in this and many the like points, bath abused his power, for the upholding of the Romish antichrist, prelacy, and print- " hood. He died A. D. 1592."-Strype's Annals, vol. iv. p. 133. Aismilmm:Ena
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