SAMPSON. 379 than sacrifice." He observed further, " That the conduct of the primitive christians, in refusing such things, was void of blame. -That to prescribe a certain uniform array for ministers, came out of the corrupt state of the church.- That all reformations ought to be framed according to the original and pure state of the church.-That if the reformation would not admit this, but would determine the reverse, he could not see how this should bind him, who knew and desired greater purity.-That these were only some of the reasons which constrained him to do as he did.-And that as he put no restraint upon others, but left them to the Lord, so be desired to be left in like manner.". In the year 1564, Dr. Sampson and his much esteemed friend, Dr. Humphrey, were cited before the high coin- mission, at Lambeth, an account of which is given in another place.+ After being harassed for some time, Humphrey, at length, obtained a toleration ; but Sampson suffered deprivation, and was removed from the university. The proceedings of the commissioners were severeenough, even in the opinion of Dr. Heylin ; who adds, " that he was worthily deprived, and that, by this severity, the puritans found what they might expect."t Some of the learned lawyers, however, disputed the legality of his' deprivation, andwere of opinion, that the commissioners were involved in a premunire. Indeed, Sampson was deprived not only of his deanery, but of his liberty too, and was kept for some time in a state of confinement : nor was he able, without much trouble, to procure his release.§ He was succeeded in the deanery of Christ-church by Dr. Thomas Godwin, afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells.11 In the year 1573, our learned divinewas struck with the dead palsy on one side ; and having enjoyed, for some time, the lecture at Whittington college, London, for which he received ten pounds a year, he resigned it into the hands of his patrons. It was in the gift of the company of cloth- workers, to whom he recommended Mr. Edward Deering, whom they chose for his successor ; but this divine being; silenced for nonconformity, Archbishop Parker utterly refused his allowance.it Mr. Deering was a man of great Strype's Annals, vol. i. p. 433, 434. + See Art. Humphrey. Heylin's Hist, of Presby. p. 250. Strype's Parker, p. 186, 187. U Biog. Britan, vol. iv. p. 2230. Edit. 1747. 4 Ibid. p. 469, 470.
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