WIGGINTOIC 40 and, in a certain way, deprived me of my living at Sed- burgh : but for my final deprivation, he sent me to Sandys, archbishop of York, " When by the extremity of my sickness in prison, I was constrained still to abide some time iii the city ; and when in the opinion of learned physicians, I Was on mydeath-bed, the archbishop sent two pursuivants, commanding me to appeat before him again at Lambeth ; which I being unable to do, he pronounced against me the sentence of deprivation and degradation.. After My departure, the Earls ofWarwick and Huntington, withoutmy Solicitation, did earnestly sue unto him for my testoration ; but he absolutely refused, signifying, that he had already written to the patron of the living, for the presentation of another to the place."t Upon Mr. Wigginton's recovery from Sickness he returned to Sedburgh, and offered himself to preach In the church, but was refused the pulpit. He, therefore, preached in various places, and particularly in his own house, where he had a considerable assembly; and looking upon himself as the pastor set over the people by the Lord, he adminis- tered both the ordinances of the gospel. This coming to the knowledge of Whitgift, by his instigation an attach- ment was sent forth from Archbishop Sandys, " To all justices, mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, constables, and all other her majesty's officers and subjects, within the province of York, or to any of them, to apprehend him, and commit him to the castle of Lancaster, in the province of York.".t, Accordingly, Mr. Wigginton being soon after on ajour- ney, was apprehended at Boratighbridge, attested by a, pursuivant from the archbishop, and carried to Lancaster castle, being the distance of fifty miles, in a severe, cold winter. There he Was shut up in close prison among felons and condemned prisoners, andmore basely used than they, or the recusant papists. From hence he sent an account of hit ewe to Sir Waltet Mildmay, his worthy patron, andone of the privy council ; wherein he expressed himself as fulls -§ Whitgift, says Hume, was a zealouschurchman, who had signalized his pen in controversy; and who, having in vain attempted to convince the puritans by argument, was now resolved to open their eyes by power, and by the execution of penal statutes. -Hist. of Eng. vol, v. p. yss. f The person presented to the living, was one Edward Hampton, a iliag unlearned, and openly profane. -MS. Registp, p.760-765. 1. Ibid. p. 767. § Ibid. p. 753',754.
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