254 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. January 29, 1573, he was cited before Scambler, bishop of Peterborough, who first suspended him for the space of three weeks, then deprived him of his living, worth a hundred pounds ayear. Several others were suspended and deprived at the same time, because they could not, with a good con- science, subscribe to certain promises and engagements proposed to them by the bishop.. Upon their deprivation, they presented a supplication to the queen and parliament, for their restoration to their beloved ministry ; but to no purpose : Theymust subscribe, or be buried in silence. A circumstantial account of these intolerant proceedings will be found in another place.+ In the year 1576, Mr. Paget was exercised with new oppressions. His unfeeling persecutors, not content with depriving him of his ministry and his living, ordered him to be taken into custody, and sent up to London. He was, therefore, apprehended, with Mr. John Oxenbridge, another leading person in the associations in Northamp- tonshire and Warwickshire, and they were both carried prisoners to the metropolis, by a special order fromArch- bishop GrindaLt It does not, however, appear how long they were kept in custody, nor what further persecutions they suffered. , Mr. Paget was afterwards preferred to the rectory of Kilkhampton in Cornwall. Upon his presentation to the benefice, he acquainted both his patron and ordinary, that he could not, with a good conscience, observe all the rites, ceremonies, and orders appointed in the Book of Common Prayer ; when they generouslypromised, that, if he would accept the cure, he should not be urged to the precise- observation of them. On these conditions, he accepted the charge, and was regularly admitted and inducted.4 He was a lame man; but, in the opinion of Mr. Strype, 4, a learned, peaceable, and good divine, who bad formerly complied with the customs and devotions of the church, and had been indefatigable in the ministry." ii But Mr. Farmer, curate of Barnstaple, envying his popu- a Dr. Edmund Scambler, successively bishop of Peterborough and Norwich, was the first pastor of the protestant congregation in London, in the reign of Queen Mary ; but was compelled, on account of the severity of persecution, to relinquish the situation. He was a learned man, very zealous against the papists, and probably driven intoa state of exile: but, surely, he forgot his former circumstances when he became a zealous persecutor of his brethren in the days of Queen Elizabeth. See Art. Arthur Wake. Strype'sGrindal, p. 215, 216. § MS. Register, p. 572. Strype's Whitgift, p. 277.
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