PENDARVES-J. GIFFORD. 257 no other purpose than to obtain wealth, and make himself famous to posterity ; so it would be accounted worthy; if by my omission of him his name could have been buried in oblivion." This bitter writer, nevertheless, allows him to have been a .tolerable disputant.. Mr. Pendarves died in London, in the beginning of September, 1656, aged thirty- four years. His remains are said to have been carried to Abingdon,.in a sugar-cask .filled up with sand; where they were interred, with great funeral solemnity, in the baptists' burying-ground. He was a fifth monarchy man0- and, being famous among the party, his interment drew together so great a concourse of people, that the government took notice of it, and sent Major-general Bridges, with a party ofsoldiers, to attend at Abingdon on the occasion. The numerous assemblage of people spent several days in the religious exercises of praying and preaching, which was attended with some rude behaviour and confusion.t His Worms -1. Arrows against Babylon ; or, Queries serving to a clear Discovery of the Mystery of Iniquity, 1656.-2. Endeavours for Reformation of Saints' Apparel, 1656.-3. Queries for the People called Quakers, 1656.-4. Prefatory Epistle to a BMA( entitled, ' The Prophets IVIalachy and. Isaiah prophesying to the Saints and Professors of this Generation,' 1656.-5. Several Sermons, 165;. - .Enid various other small articles. JOHN GIFFORD.-This person was born in the county of Kent ; afterwards he became a major in the king's army during the civil wars. He was concerned in the insurrection raised in that county ; for which he was apprehended, and, together with eleven others, received the sentence of death. But, the night beforehe was to suffer, his sister coming to visit hint, and finding the centinels who kept the door of the prfson fast asleep, and his companions in a state of intoxication, she urged him to embrace the favourable opportunity and escape for his life. Having made his Wood's Athente, vol. ii. p. 127. 1- The fifth monarchy men arose about the time of the deathof Charles I. and during the commonwealth. They expected the immediate appearance of Christ to establish on earth a new monarchy or kingdom, and to com- mence his glorious personal reign of a thousand years. As there are four great empires mentioned in ancient history, which successivelygained the dominion of the world, so these men, believing that this newspiritual king- domof Christ was to be thefifth, received the appellation of fifthmonarchy men. Meen's MS. Collec. p. 452. ' VOL. III.
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