510 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. JOHN HOPKINS was the puritanical vicar of Nasing in Essex, to which he was preferred in 1570, but was after- wards persecuted for nonconformity. About the year 1584 he was deprived of his benefice, for refusing subscription to Whitgift's three articles.. THOMAS FARRAR, minister of Langham in Essex, was charged with rebellion against the ecclesiastical laws, and suspended by Bishop's Aylmer's chancellor for not wearing the surplice. On receiving the ecclesiastical censure, he procured a letter from certain respectable persons, addressed to the bishop himself, solicitinghis favour and the removal of the sentence. This letter he carried to his lordship at Fulham, November 14, 1586; when, after demanding his reasons for not wearing the surplice, he said to Mr. Farrar, " that except he and his companions would be conformable, he and his brethren the bishops, in good faith, would, in one quarter of a year, turn them all out of the church;" and dismissed him without relieving him from his sus- pension.t. JOHN OXENBRIDGE, B. D. was minister at Southarn in Warwickshire, and afterwards at Coventry, where he was celebrated for his great learning, piety, and usefulness. In 1576 he was convened before the high commission for non- conformity ; but it does not appear what punishment was inflicted upon him.t About the year 1583 he was again called before his ecclesiastical judges, and suspended from his ministry. He was one of the heads of the associations ; he subscribed the " Book of Discipline ;" and ended his days among his friends at Coventry.g MR. HARSNET was a learned and pious divine of Pem- broke-hall, Oxford, but was persecuted for nonconformity. In the year 1586 he was convened before the Bishop of Oxford, and cast into prison for refusing to wear the surplice ; but how long he remained under confinement we cannot learn.ii Newcourt's Repert. Reel. vol. ii. p. 432. + MS. Register, p. 800, 805. Strype's Grindal, p. 215. 5 Clark's Lives annexed to Martyrologie, p. 161.--Neal's Paritaac, vol. i. p. 423. fl MS. Register, p. 801.
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