ADDENDA : CONTAINING A SKETCH OF THOSE PURITAN DIVINES OF WHOM N'O FURTHER INFORMATION COULD BE OBTAINED. MR. ALLEN was an eminent puritan divine, and among the first sufferers for nonconformity in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In the year 1564 he was convened before the 'high commission at Lambeth, when he was sequestered and deprived for refusing subscription. He afterwards obtained absolution, and was again restored to his ministry-.. MR. BROKLESBY was vicar of some church in the city of London, but prosecuted for.nonconformity. Hewas accused of having asserted, 1. " That it was not lawful for women to baptize.-2. That, in the ministration of sacred things, he was above the queen.-3. That the Virgin Mary was be- gotten and conceived in sin.-4. That the purifying of women, according to the usage of the church, was super- stitious.-And, 5. That the ecclesiastical ceremonies were the abominable rags of popery." Though it does not appear what sentence was inflicted upon him for these assertions ; yet, April 3, 1565, he was deprived of his ministry for not wearing the surplice, and was the first who was thus punished for this significant crime.t MR. EVANS was one of the ministers belonging to the congregation of separatists in London, in the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; and, as a punishment for his Strype's Grindal, p. 98, MS. Register, p. 10.-MS. Remarks, p. 170.
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