ruammitirIF ADDENDA. 527 questioned in the high commission at York. The /articles of his examination, together with the doctor's answers, were sent to Lambeth, for the archbishop's consideration. This was going the sure way to work. And the good man was so cruelly harassed in the various ecclesiastical courts, that he was obliged to quit the place, and the kingdom too ; when, to avoid the fury of his tyrannical persecutors, he fled to New England.. JOHN JEMMET; lecturer at Berwick-upon-Tweed, was barbarously handled for his nonconformity. The outstretched arm and tyrannical oppressions of Archbishop Laud, were carried so far north. For, in December, 1639, he caused the Bishop of Durham to apprehend him by a pursuivant, to silence him from preaching any more at Berwick, and to banish him from the town, without any article or witness ever being examined against him.t JOHN STOUGHTON, D. D. was fellow of Emanuel col- lege, Cambridge, where he most probably received his educa- tion. He is classed among the learned writers and fellows of that college, and is denominated a pious and learned divine.$ He was rector of St. Mary's church, Aldermanbury, London ; where he succeeded the excellent Dr. Thomas Taylor. Here, for the space of seven years, he wasa laborious, orthodox, and useful preacher; but having occasionallytouched upon the popish and arminian innovations, he was, by the instigation of Laud, prosecuted in, the high commission.§ He died in the year 1639, when he was succeeded by Mr. Edmund Calamy, the ejected nonconformist.11 He wasauthor of " Choice Sermons," 1640.-" Heavenly Conversation, and the Natural Man's Condition," 1640,-" A Form of Sound Words, with the Righteous Man's Plea to true Hap- piness." MR. BURCHELL was minister at St. Martin's, Micklegate, York, where he was much esteemed by persons of piety. Previous to the civil wars, when the nonconformists were MS. Remarks, p. 901.-Prynne's Cant. Doome, p. 181. + t Fuller's Hist. of Cam. p.147.-LeighonReligion and Learning, p.310. Prynue's Cant. Dome, p. 362. Palmer's Noneon. Mem. vol. i. p. 77.
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