t26 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. gave up the ghost very unwillingly;"* it appears from his life, " that he was an eminently humble, holy, and happy man;' and a 'most zealous, laborious, and useful preacher." Granger says, " he was an admired preacher, a man of great industry in his profession, and of uncommon strictness of life."t Mr. Murcot's works, consisting of various articles, were published at different times; but were afterwards collected and published with his life prefixed, in one volume quarto, 1657. JOSHUA HOYLE, D. D.-This learned divine was born at Sawerby, near Halifax, Yorkshire, and educated in Magdalen college, Oxford. Afterwards, being invited into Ireland, he became fellow of Trinity college, Dublin, took his degrees in divinity, and was chosen divinity professor in that university. In his daily lectures he expounded the whole Bible, seldom taking more than one verse at a time, which lasted about fifteenyears ; and in about ten years mare he went through greatest part of the sacred volume a second time. In the year 1634 he sat in the convocation held at Dublin. But, upon the commencement of the rebellion in Ireland, in 1641, he fled from the terrible effusion of blood returned to England, and became vicar of Stepney, near Lon- don ; but, according to Wood, he being too scholastical, did not please the parishioners.§ In the year 1643 he was appointed one of the assembly of divines, and constantly attended. He was witness against Archbishop Laud at his trial, when he attested that the archbishop had corrupted the university of Dublin, by the arbitrary introduction of the errors of popery and arminianism.i In the year 1645 he was elected one of the committee of accommodation ; and in 1643 he became master of University college, Oxford, and king's professor of divinity in that university. In the office of professor he has incurred the severe 'animadversion of wood's Athena Oxon. vol. ii. p. 113. + Granger's Biog. Ilist. vol. iii. p. 49. t According to the computation of the popish priests themselves, who wereactively employed in this rebellion, upwards of one hundred andfifty- four thousund protestants weremassacred in Ireland in the space of a few months but, during the continuance of the rebellion, according to Sir Temple, there were above three hundred thousand cruellymurdered in cold blood, or ruined in some other way. Cardinal Richelieu was deeply con- cerned in this massacre; and, according to Rapin, King Charles I. "spread abroad that the catholics had his authority for what theydid."--ilist. of England, vol. ii, p. 386. Athena Oxon. vol. ii. p. 113. Prynne's Cant. Doome, p. 178, 359.
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