416 LIVES OF TEE PURITANS. of starving for want. When the justices at the quarter' sessions would have admitted him to bail, his lordship re- fused, and sent him under theguard of a pursuivant to the high commission in London.* Having been kept under confinement two whole terms, or more, he was brought before the high commission in the consistory of St. Paul's, when hewas deprived of his ministry, degraded from the sacred function, required to pay a fine, and sent back to prison. Being at length released from confinement, and venturing, in the year 1634, to preach, occasionally, with- out being restored, he was again apprehended and sent to the Gatehouse by Archbishop Laud, and from thence to Bridewell, where he was whipt and kept for some time to hard labour; then he was confined in a cold dark dungeon during the whole of winter, without fire or candle, being chained to a post in the middle of the room, with heavy irons on his hands and feet, having no other food than bread and water, and only a pad of straw to lie upon. Before his release could be obtained, he was obliged to take an oath, and give bond, that he would preach no more, but depart out of the kingdom in a month, and never more return. All this was done without any exception against his doctrine or his life.+ Such were the shocking barbari- ties of the above prelates. RICHARD SIBBS, D. D.-This most worthy divine was born at Sudbury in Suffolk, in the year 1577, and educated in St. John's college, Cambridge; where, on account of his great learning and unblamable deportment, he was soon promoted. He took his several degrees with great applause, and was first chosen scholar; then fellow of his college. While making rapid progress in literary fame, it pleased God to awaken him to a sense, of his sins, and bring him to Dr. Samuel Harsnet was master of Pembroke-hall, Cambridge, and successively bishop of Chichester and Norwich, and arch4ishop of York. After his preferment to the see of Chichester,a petitionwas presented td King James, by Pembroke-hall, exhibiting their charges against 'him in fifty-seven articles, though the purport of them does not appear. The citizens of Norwich afterwards accused him to the house of commons, of putting down preaching; setting up images ; praying to the east; punishing the innocent; and some other particulars. Though he protested his own innocence of most of the charges, he does not appear to have been perfectly guiltless. He is denominated " a learned and judicious divine." --Le Neve' s Lives, vol. i. part ii, p. Briton. vol. iv. p. 2545, 2546. Edit. P747. + Huntley's Usurpations of Prelates, p. 161, 162.
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