.146 - LIVES OFTIIE PURITAN5. with the archbishop, got the prosecution to be withdrawn, About the year 1642 he succeeded the famous Mr. Marvel' in the vicarage of Hessel cum H ull, whence he was after- Wards ejected for refusing the engagement.. Dr. Walker says Mr. Styles was turned out about the year 1647, for preaching against the intended murder of the king; and was succeeded by one Hibbert, who, it was thought, was not in orders till atter the restoration. " I am further informed," says he, 4, that Mr. Styles was once of the parliament's party, and was in Hull when Sir John Hotham excluded the king, and was present when, upon his majesty's demand of his town and garrison of Hull, Sir John denied him admittance : at which, as I was told by a drum- major who stood by, Mr. Styles clapped Sir John upon.his shoulder, and said, Honour should sit ,upon his shoulders for that day's work.' I am also informed," says' he, tc that he never appeared in the commission against scandalous ministers, but for the safety and deliverance of some persons that wereloyal and episcopal ; and this I am sure of, that he died a very great penitent, and openly declared, in his last sermon, in favour of loyalty and conformity."+ But this account, transmitted in the 64 Sufferings of the parochial Clergy," says Mr. Thoresby, is full of mistakes.} Mr. Styles having refused the engagement, as intimated above, President Bradshaw wrote to Lieutenant-colonel Salmon, deputy-governor of Hull, to turn himby force out of the church and secure his person. Upon this a petition and testimonial was subscribed by the inhabitants, certify- ing-" That he was a very orthodok and laboriouspreacher, of -a most blameless conversation ; and, by his constant and unwearied pains in the gospel,' he had won many souls to God ; and consequently their loss of him would he exceed- ing great ; that he was a very old man, unfit to travel, and had not a house in the world to put his head in, offering to be bound for his peaceable demeanour; and that if he Could not in conscience comply, before the.latter end of March, he should then yield to the law." The president was by-this means prevailed upon to allow his continuance till the winter wasover, when lie was finally turned out and driven from the place, Upon his ejectment he removed to London, and preached nearly a year in Ironmonger's-: lane . but his health very much' declining, he returned into Thoresby's Vicaria Leodiensis,p. 95. + Walker's Attempt, part ii. p. 818. Thoresby's Vivaria Leodiensis, p.99.
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