40 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. the ejected nonconformists, w- his assistant in the pastoral office.. It appears that he w. s living in the year 1646, and still pastor,of the church at Rotterdam. Though he was an independent, Edwards styles him " one of the most moderate and modest of that way."t Several pieces, written by a person of the same name, occur in the Sion and Bodleian catalogues.t Though pastor of a church in a foreign land, he was sometimes called to preach before the parliament, as appears from one of his sermons afterwards published with this title, " A Sermon lately preached at. Westminster, before sundry of the Honourable House of Commons, 1641: By Joseph Symonds, late minister in Ironmongers'-lane, London, now pastor of the Church at Rotterdam.' HENRY BURTON, B. D.-This painful sufferer for non- conformity was born at Birdsall in Yorkshire, in the year 1579, and educated in St. John's college, Cambridge, where he took his degrees, and was afterwards incorporated at Oxford. His first public employment was that of .a-tutor to the sons of Lord Carey at Leppington, who, in 1625, was created Earl of Monmouth, and whose lady was governess to Prince Charles in his infancy. It was probably owing to the interest of this honourable person, that he was made clerk of the closet to Prince Henry, and, after his death, to Prince Charles. In the year 1623, he was appointed to attend the young prince to Spain ; but, for reasons unknown, he was set aside, even after part of his goods were shipped.§ On that prince's accession to the crown, he expected no less than to be continued in the clerk's office ; but his majesty giving that place to Neile, Bishop of Durham, Mr. Burton is said to have been so highly disgusted, that he warmly expressed his resentment on all occasions, particularly by railing against the bishops. " The vapours of ambition fuming in his head," says Clarendon, " he would not think of less than still beingclerk of the closet. Being thus disappointed, and, as he called it, despoiled of his right, he would not in the greatness of his heart, sit down with the affront, but com.. mitted two or three such weak and saucy indiscretions, as caused an inhibition to be sent him, that he should not presume to come any more to court." The principle of Palmer's Noncon. Mem. vol. ii. p. 355. t Edwards's Gangrtena, part iii. p. 243. t Granger's Biog. Hist. vol. iii. p. 5. Fuller's Church Hist, b. xi. p. 152.
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