ADDENDA. 511 NICHOLAS WILLIAMSON was minister of Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire, but was suspended in the year 1.586 for refusing subscription to Whitgift's three articles. He continued a long time under the sentence ; and whether he was ever restored is uncertain.. MR. GIBBON was rector of Ridlington in Rutlandshire, but often convened before the Bishop of Peterborough, and,, about the year 1586,. deprived of his living for refusing sub- scription to Whitgift's articles. Being driven from his flock and his benefice, he went to London, and entered a suit against the bishop ; but with what success we have not been able to learn. Indeed, he had not much prospect of success in contending with one of the persecuting prelates. Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Wilbloud, two other ministers in the same county, were at the same time both suspended, when their livings were sequestered, and they were threatened with deprivation. But, laying their case before Sir Thomas Cecil, their worthy patron, he went himself to the arch- bishop, and procured an order to the bishop for their re- storation.t Mit. Honitoexs, a worthy divine of puritan principles, was vicar of Kildwick in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In the year 1587 he was convened before the high commission of York, committed prisoner to the castle, and, having con- tinued there for some time, was enjoineda public recantation, for the singular crime of suffering Mr. John Wilson, another puritan minister, to preach in his pulpit, though it was his native place4 SAMPSON SHEFFIELD, A. M. of Christ's college, Cam- bridge, was one of the preachers to the university. Having delivered a sermon, in the year 1587, containing certain erroneous and scandalous positions, as they are called, he was convened before his ecclesiasticaljudges, though it does not appear what punishment was inflicted upon him. These positions were the following: -" That it is unlawful for a minister of the gospel to be a civil magistrate.-That in the present troubles about conformity, brethren conspire against MS, Register;p. 208. - t Ibid. p. 714. I Ibid. p, 757. 111111LIM--,-111116.MEE
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