506 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. examined upon certain articles, he was suspended from his ministry.. The year following, he was concerned in Undertree's sham plot. Though Undertree had written many letters in his name, yet, when the case was brought under examination, the whole was proved to be a forgery, and Mr. Brown's innocence was proved and announced in open court+ He wrote certain letters, with ten questions proposed and answered, addressed to his brethren in the ministry, copies of which are still preserved.t One John Brown, B. D. was made canon of Windsor in the time of Queen Mary, and canon of Westminster in 1565, which he resigned, or was deprived of, in 1572 ; and died in 1584 ; but whether this was the same person it is difficult to ascertain.g DAVID THICKPENNY was curate of Brighthehustone in Sussex, a man of good learning, and much beloved by his parishioners; but;, in 1575, he was suspended by the Bishop of Chichester for nonconformity. He was charged, indeed, with the noveldoctrines of the Family of Love ; but, upon his examination, the charge was proved to be false. Although his innocence was fully proved, and his suspension taken off by Archbishop Grindal, lie was soon after brought into fresh troubles for the same cause.l EDWARD CHAPMAN was educated in Trinity college, Cambridge, where he maintained, in a public disputation, that Christ, at his death, did not descend locally into hell. He also observed, that for ministers to hold two or more livings was unlawful ; by which he gave great offence to the ruling ecclesiastics.f He had a prebend in the church of Norwich, and was minister at Bedford; but, in 1573, was deprived by the Bishop of Lincoln. Having received his lordship's sentence, he made complaint to the court, which occasioned the bishop some trouble... In the year 1577, Mr. Chapman, and several of his brethren, fell into the hands of Bishop Aylmer, who recommended, as a just punishment for their nonconformity, that they, should be sent into the most barbarous parts of the kingdom,. where Strype's Parker, p. 412, 413. + Ibid. "4 466. t MS. Register, p. 310, 665. § Wood's Athena,: Oxon. vol. i. p. 694, 722. I Strype's Grindal, p. 197-199. 1 Strype's Annals, vol. i.p. 583. Strype's Parker, p. 449.
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