454 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. thanks for all his favours undeservedly conferred upon mc, do thus dispose of my temporal goods which he hath given , me : First, I bequeath to the master and fellows of Christ's college £100, to beemployed towards the intended building. Secondly, I give to my sister £40, and to her children, and to the children of my sister deceased, to each of them£20, and to two of them who are my godsons £40 each. Thirdly, I give to the poor of the town of Cambridge, to be distributed among them, .100. Fourthly, I give to my pupil John Pye, £5, and to my sister Crouch Lastly, I give all the remainder of my goods to the master and fellows of Christ's college, to be expended toward the adorning of the college chapel. And of this my last will I do constitute my executor, John Alsop, fellow of Christ's college. "* JOHN WORKMAN.-This persecuted servant of Christ was born near Lasborough in Gloucestershire, and edu- cated in the university of Oxford. Having finished his academica studies, he became the laborious and pious lecturer at St. Stephen's church, in the city of Gloucester ; where, for preaching against images in churches, he met with most oppressive and cruel usage from Archbishop Laud. He said, in one of his sermons, , That pictures or images were no more ornaments to a church than stews were to a commonwealth.-That for a person to have an image of any saint, but especially of our Saviour, in his house, is unlawful.---And that any man keeping such pictures or images in his house, if it be not flat idolatry, it is little better." This was the principal charge brought against him. Some other things were, however, added : as, that he used certain harsh expressions againstlascivious and mixed dancing,: especially on the Lord's day, only citing the words of the Waldenses in their censuring the same practice ; and that he prayed for the states of Holland, the King of Sweden, and other foreign princes, before he prayed for the King of England ; though, in this, he followed the exact order of the Book of CommonPrayer. These things were among the charges brought against him; but the principal stress was laid upon his expressions against images. For these crimes Mr. Workman was con- vened before the high commission, at Lambeth, when he Baker's MS. Collec. vol. ii. p. 543.
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