SNELLING. 499 restraint he is under by colour of this warrant; and ought to have reparations for damages. 4. "That this business concerning Mr. Fox ley be com- mitted to the same committee, to prepare it in a fit way for this house to prefer it to the house of lords.". Mr. Foxley was, therefore, released from his long and severe confinement ; but whether he received any repara- tions is very doubtful. The multiplicity of business which the parliament had to look after, and the confusions which followed, most probably prevented it. In the year 1644 he was witness against Laud at his trial.+ This persecuted servant of Christ was a popular and useful preacher in London, as well after as before his troubles ; but at what place he was employed in his stated ministerial exercise, and the particular time of his death, we have not been able to learn. The following anecdote, however, may not be unworthy of notice.f The celebrated Mr. William Kiffin, beiri, an apprentice in London, and having then no sense of religion upon his mind, became dissatisfied with his situation, and resolved to leave his master ; and accomplished his intention early one morning, being then about fifteen years ofage. Wan- dering about the streets of London, he happened to pass by St. Antholin's church, and seeing people go in, he followed them. The preacher was Mr. Foxley, who, preaching on the fifth commandment, unfolded the duty of servants to masters. Thiswas so applicable to the case of young Kiffin as to create his astonishment. He thought the preacher knew, and addressed him personally. The effect was, that Kiffin returned immediately to his master, before his ab- sence was discovered. He afterwards became a very pious man and a useful minister ofChrist. LAWRENCE SNELLING was many years the learned and pious rector of Paul's-Cray in Kent; but experienced most cruel usage in the high commission court, chiefly for refus- ing to read the " Declaration for Sports on the Lord's day." He was brought before his ecclesiastical judges at Lambeth, when he pleaded in his own defence the law of God and the realm, the authority of councils, fathers, and all modeifi writers. He alsopleaded " that the declaration itself did Rushworth's Collec. vol. v. p. 58, 142, 143. Prynne's Cant. Doome, p.387. Wilson's Hist, of Dissenting Churches, vol. i. p. 403.
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