18 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. JEnumt An BURROUGHS, A. M. - This very amiable divine was born in the year 1599, and educated at Cambridge, but was obliged to quit the university, and afterwards the kingdom, on account of nonconformity. After he had finished his studies at the university, he entered upon the ministerial work, and was chosen colleague to Mr. Edmund Calamy at Bury St. Edmunds.. In the year 1631, he became rector of Titshall, in the county of Norfolk ; but upon the publication of Bishop Wren's articles and injunctions, in 1636, he was suspended and deprived of his livings He sheltered himself for some time under the hospitable roof of the Earl of Warwick ;$ but, on account of the intolerant and oppressive proceedings of the ecclesias- tical rulers, the noble earl at length found it was impossible to protect him any longer; and shortly after, to escape the fire of persecution, he fled to Holland, and settled at Rotterdam, where he was chosen teacher to the congrega- tional church, of which Mr. William Bridge was pastor.i After his suspension, he is charged with attempting to bribe the bishop's chancellor, by an offer of forty pounds ; and going beyond seas, and returning disguised in a soldier's habit, with many libellous pamphlets, when, it is said, the sentence of deprivation was pronounced against him for nonresidence.f Of this circumstance, however, Mr. Edwards gives a very different account. He says, " that Mr Burroughs, for some speeches spokenagainst the Scotchwar, in company not to be trusted, for fear fled in all haste to Rotterdam ;" at which he very much stumbled.2 Mr. Burroughs, inhis animadversion upon this misrepresentation, observes as follows : " Had Mr. Edwards been willing to have conferred with me about thi'., as I desired, before he printed, I should have so fully satisfied him about my goingout of the kingdom, thathe could never have stumbled, nor have caused others to stumble. How does he know there were speeches delivered, for fear of which I fled ? It may be there was only an accusation. In his bold assertion there is held forth to the world, at least ' some indiscretion in me, that I should speak words of a high Calamy's Account, vol. ii. p. 5. Blomefield's Mist. of Norfolk, vol. i. p. 138. t This noble person was a great friend 'and patron of the persecuted puritans, and one of their constant hearers. He was not content with only hearing long sermons in the congregation, but would have them repeated in his own ,house.--Granger's Biog. Hist. vol. ii, p. 116. Edwards's Antapologia, p. 18, 19. o Wren's Parentalia, p. 95. I Edwards's Antapologia, p. 16.
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