112 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. brother's house at Cheswick, and his imprisonment there, is against law. " That the sequestration of the parsonage of the said Walker, by Sir John Lamb, was done without any warrant, and against the law of the land. " That Walker ought to be restored to his parsonage, and the whole profits thereof, 'from the time of the said sequestration, and to have reparation for all such damages as he bath sustained by these several imprisonments, and his case transmitted to the lords.". Whether Mr. Walker received any reparation for damages we have not been able to learn; but after his release from confinement, he returned to his benefice and ministerial charge in Watling-street, where he continued the rest of his days without further molestation. In the year 1643 he was chosenone of the assembly of divines, where, by his muni- ficent and generous behaviour, he gained a distinguished reputation. The year following he was appointed one of the committee for the examination and ordination ofpublic preachers. The same year he was one of the witnesses against Archbishop Laud at his trial, when he deposed that the archbishop bad endeavoured to introduce arminianism and the popish superstitions into the church of England.+ Though Wood, reproaches him with having preached againstthe king and his party, he united withhis brethren, the London ministers, in their protestation against the king's death, declaring that his majesty ought to have been released.g He was a member of the first provincial as- sembly in London, and sometimes chosen moderator. He died in the year 1651, aged seventy years, and his remains were interred in his own church in Watling-street. Fuller says, "he was well skilled in the oriental languages, and an excellent logician and divine. He was a man of a holy life, an humble spirit, and a liberal hand, who deserved well of Zion college library ; and who, by his example and per- suasion, advanced a thousand pounds for the maintenance of Nalson's Collections, vol. ii. p. 250, 251. + Prynne's Cant. Dome, p. SOS, 532. 1: Dr. Grey charges himwith the same crime, for the proofof which he appeals to the following passage in one of his sermons : " After God had rejected Saul for his disobedience from being king over Israel," says Mr. Walker, " and had declared his purpose to him.by Samuel, an evil spirit of fury, jealousy, and tyranny, came upon him." The reader willjudge what degree of proof it affords.-Grey's Examin. vol. i. p. 399. § Calanty's Coutiu. vol. ii. p. 743.
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