ADDENDA. 505 casts into prison, and threatened with banishment, if lie would not conform:, MR. WALSH was preacher at Little Waldingfield in Essex, but, in 1573, was obliged to leave the place for non- conformity.t He afterwards preached in Suffolk, where he was esteemed a holy and painful divine, a great light in his time, and famous for his ministerial labours, his fervent zeal, and abundant charity. Mr. Samuel Crook, another worthy puritan, married his eldest daughtent MR. FULWER was a puritan minister in London, but treatedwith great cruelty by the ruling prelates. He was a man of most exemplarypiety, and greatly esteemed by his brethren, but cast into prison for nonconformity. Towards the close of the year 1573, he was, with several of his brethren, confined in the Compter; but how long he remained we have not been able to learn.§ MR. LOWTH was some time minister at Carlisle, but, in 1574, was prosecuted in the high commission of York for nonconformity. Having compared the severe proceed- ings of Archbishop Grindal and other commissioners to the Spanish inquisition, he was charged with slander. But the principal crime alleged against him was, that, though he had laboured in the ministry about sixteen years, he had never been ordained according to the practice of the church of England. After receiving the ecclesiastical censure, he made suit to the Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury for pardon ; which, said Grindal, was intolerant. Grindal, therefore, wrote to his brother of Canterbury, and prayed him, if it were in his power, to stay Mr. Lowth's pardon.11 This, as might be expected, Archbishop Parker promised to do with all faithfulnesS.5 JOHN BROWN was chaplain to the Duchess of Suffolk, " but, in 1573, was convened before the council; and being Strype's Parker, p. 412, 413. + Ibid. p. 452. I Clark's Lives annexed to Martyrologie, p. 205. § Baker's MS. Collec. vol. xxxii. p. 441, 442. u Strype's Grindal, p. 185, 186. 1 Strype's Parker, p. 480, 481. 1111.1111.11.11L3Mi"c711le,
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