J. WORKMAN. 435 endeavoured to vindicate what he had said, by an appeal to the testimony of the most celebrated authors, but especially the homilies. Though he is said to have jus- tified every syllable in his sermon, this only served to increase the wrath of the archbishop, by whose tyrannical influence, April 25, 1635, the good man received the fol- lowing cruel sentence :-.44 He was suspended from the office, and function of his ministry, excommunicated, re- quired to make a recantation of his erroneous and scandalous doctrine, the next court-day at Lambeth, in such manner and form as the commissioners should appoint; this recan- tation to be published before the public congregation in the cathedral church and the church of St. Michael's, Glou- cester; and he was condemned in costs of suit, and cast into prison.". Mr. Workman being a man of singular piety, learning, wisdom, and moderation, which even the archbishop him- self acknowledged ; and having been a most painful and diligent preacher in the city of Gloucester upwards of Efteen years, the corporation, by unanimous consent, and under the common seal, granted him, in the year 1633, an annuity of twenty pounds a year. This was designed as a public acknoWledgment, and a just compensation for his great pains in preaching, and visiting the sick ; and' was found particularly serviceable towards supporting his numerous family of children. For this honourable act of kindness and liberality to their worthy minister, John Buckston, the mayor of the city, Mr. Wise, the town clerk, and several of the aldermen, were, by the instiga- tion of Laud, brought before the council, then prosecuted in the high commission court; by which they were great sufferers ; and, to the perpetual reproach of the archbishop, Mr. Workman was deprived of his annuity. The good man, having suffered many months imprisonment, after much solicitation, obtainedhis liberty ; and to provide for his numerous starving family, was obliged to teach school. Laud no sooner heard of this, than he prohibited him from teaching children, and warned him to do the contrary at his, peril. Being forbidden to teach school, Mr. Workman obeyed the prohibition, and, to procurea subsistence, began to practise physic also.i. In these painful circumstances, Prynne's Cant. Doome, p. 103-107. 4. It is observed that Archbishop Laud was a man of au upright heart and a pioussoul, but of too warm and too positive a nature. He was full of fire, and had too much zeal for the church. Though his fire and his zeal
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