16 LIVES OF THE PURITAN'S. extinguished, though it were at the price of his own blood.° When he fell down in the pulpit, he was carried to his lodgings and laid upon his bed, where he languished about a twelvemonth. Duringhis long illness, multitudes ofpersons resorted to him, who witnessed his exemplary faith and patience. In the civil wars, he had been driven from his curacy and the people of his charge, at Newbury, and deprived of all his property, by the royal forces ; so that, in the time of his sickness, when certain persons were deputed from the assembly to visit him, they reported, " that he was very sick, and in great straits." The parliament, having taken his case into consideration, passed an order, Decem- ber 4, 1645, for one hundred pounds to be given him out of the public treasury.t Nearly the last words that Dr.Twisse uttered, were, " I shall at length have leisure enough to follow my studies to all eternity ;" and died July 20, 1646, aged seventy-one years. The whole house of commons, and the assembly of divines, paid their last respects to his me- mory by following, in one sorrowful procession, his mortal remains to the grave ; when Dr. Robert Harris preached his funeral sermon from Joshua, i. 2., Moses my servant is dead. He was buried in Westminster abbey, where his body quietly rested till the restoration, when the humane, the liberal, and the enlightened Charles ordered his bones to be dug up, together with the bodies of many other persons, eminent in church and state, and thrown into a pit digged on purpose in St. Margaret's church-yard.t The Clark's Lives, p. 17. f Whitlocke's Mem. p. 189. t. One of those illustrious persons, whose body suffered this shameful indignity, was the valiant Admiral Blake, whose name was a terror to the enemiesof Britain ; who raised the naval reputation of his country to a higher pitch than any of his predecessors, and whose services to the English nation will be a monument of his renown as durable as time. The following is a list of some of the persons towhose bodies this malevolencewas offered, on the 12th and 14th of September, 1661. Others would probably have shared the same fate; but the thing was so indecent, and drew no general an odium on the government, that a stop was put to any further pro- ceedings Elizabeth Cromwell, mother of William Stroud, esq. M. P. Oliver, lord protector, Humphrey Mackworth, colonel, Elizabeth Claypole, her daughter, Dennis Bond, esq. Robert Blake, admiral, Thomas May, esq. the historian, . John Pym, esq. M. P. John Mildrum, colonel, Dr. Isaac Dorislaus, Colonel Boscawen, Sir William Constable, colonel, Doctor William Twisse, prolocutor, Edward Popham, admiral, Stephen Marshall, presby. divine, Richard Dean, admiral, William Strong, indepen. divine. Granger's Biog. Hist. vol. iii. p. 80.-Wood's '.4thetun Oxon. vot p. 826.
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