ADDENDA. 509 JOSEPH NICHOLLS was minister in Kent, a laborious and faithful servant of Christ, endowed with great piety and rich ministerial accomplishments. In 1583 he was suspended for refusing subscription to Whitgift's three articles, when he united with his brethren, the ministers of Kent; in addressing the archbishop for relief. He is styled " the ringleader of the puritans."1- JOHN HARRISON was vicar of Histon in Cambridgeshire, and a conscientious nonconformist. For refusing subscrip- tion toWhitgift's articles he was twice warned, by virtue of his canonical obedience, to subscribe, but he still refused. In the end, when sentence should have been inflicted upon him, the commissionwas called in ; and so he continued vicar of Histon, without observing the order of the Book of Common Prayer.t WILLIAM FLEMING was rector of Beccles in Suffolk, but because he could not, with a good conscience, subscribe to Whitgift's articles, he endured frequent molestation in the ecclesiastical courts, and at length, July 23, 1584, was sus- pended and deprived by Bishop Scambler. This is attested by Richard Skinner, the bishop's register.'i JAMES GOSWELL was a puritan minister of considerable eminence, most probably at Bolton in Lancashire, who cor- respondedwith the venerable Mr. Anthony Gilby, of Ashby- de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire. Two of his letters we have seen; and though they are without date, they were evidently written about the year 1584. In the latter, written from Bolton, he says, "I have no news to write out of this county. Here are great store of Jesuits, seminaries, masses, and plenty of whoredom. The first sort our sheriff courseth pretty well. Other good news is, that, the. Bishop of Can- terbury has not yet, God be thanked, stung us with his articles, which in the south parts have so great power, that, by report, they have quenched the Lord's lights nearly to, the number of two hundred."d * See Art. Dudley Fenner. MS. Register, p. 889.-Strype's Whitgift, p, 140. Baker's MS. Collec. vol. xii. p. 211. § MS. Register, p. 585,586. 11. Baker's MS. pollee. vol. xxxii. p.416, 437.
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