BREWER-CITADDERTON. 445 ever saw the like. So in prison he remains."* This was a short and certain method of stopping their mouths. Mr. Brewer having been confined in prison fourteen years, even till the meeting of the long parliament, he was then set at liberty by an order from the house of commons, November 28, 1640, upon his promise to be forthcoming when called ; and this is all we know of him.t LAWRENCECRADDER,TON, D. D.-This celebrated divine was born at Chadderton in Lancashire, in the year 1537, having descendedfrom a Wtulthy family. He was brought up in the darkness of popery ; and his father, intending him for the law, sent him to the inns of court. But he soon renounced popery ; became a religious protestant; forsook the study of the law ; and entered Christ's college, Cam- bridge. This was in the year 1564. Having turned pro- testant, and fixed himself in the university, he informed his father of it, requesting some pecuniary support : but his father, being a zealous papist, was so displeased at his becoming a protestant, that he utterly refused to afford him any aid, and disinheritedhim of considerable estates. Also, as a manifestation of his great resentment, 4, his father sent him a poke, with a groat in it, to go a begging." Though he was abandoned by his parents, he found great comfort from these words : u When thy father and mother forsake thee, the Lord will take fhee up."t He who called him to suffer.reproach and the loss of all things for his name, gave him support and comfort under all his sufferings. Young Chadderton, now cast off by his unnatural parents, still continued at the university, and made the closest appli- cation to his studies. Indeed, he soon became so eminent a scholar, that in three years, he was chosen fellow of his college. In the year 1576, he had a public dispute with Dr. Baro, the Margaret professor, -Upon his Arminian( tenets, when he displayed his great learning, piety, and moderation.§ He afterwards took an active part in the proceedings of the university, against both Baro andBarret, and united with other heads in addressing certain letters to the chancellor of the university.) For the space of sixteen wharton's Troubles of Laud, vol. i. p. 535, 546. Nalson's Collec. vol. i. p. 570. t Fuller's Worthies, part H. p. 117. Fuller's Hist. of dam. p. 145, 146.-Strype's Annals, vol.iii. p. 47, 45. Baker's MS. Collec. vol. ii. p. 6, 90. 1111111111111itaxionts,,,gvarsanov-A.
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