220 Mr. N E A L'S IId Vol. of t%e was mook for the top of Bop Hatfield's Tomb, which had been eretled 25 Tears. * Collier Pays, it had ftood in the Church above 250 Years, which is probable enough : t for Bi- Ihop Hatfield died the 8th Day of May, 138 a. Neal, p. 388. That he did not forbid the finging the Pfalms in Metre, nor direct the finging the Au- them to the three Kings of Colen. f ythly, ' That Coufns never forbad ringing the Pfalms in Church, but ufed to fing them himfelf with the People at Morning- Prayer. 8th/y, That he was fo far from directing the finging the An- ' them to the three Kings of Colen; that at his firft coming to Durham Cathedral, he ordered this fuperftitious Hymn to be cut out of the old Song- ' Books belonging to the Chorillers. That no filch Anthem had been fung in the Choir during, his ' being there, nor, as far as his Enquiry could reach, for threefcore Years before.' Neal, ibid. The Commons having voted him unfit to hold any Ecclefiaflical Promotion, theDoflorfore- feeing the Storm that was coming upon the Church, wifely withdrew into France, where he behaved dif- creetly and prudently till the Reftoration, being fof- tened in his Principles, by Age andSufferings. Thus (lays Nafon) went the popular Tor- ' rent, and under the pretence of the Fear of an Inundation of Popery, brought on an impetuous ' Flood of Mifery, and thofe Perlons were accus'd ' as defigning to introduce the Raînfh Religion ' and Superftition, who defign'd by thofe innocent Ceremonies, Decency, Order, and Uniformity in religious Worfhip, to avoid thofe Divifions * Collier, p. 799. Wharton's Anglia Sacra, Vol. T. p. 77T . Mr. Brown Wil- lis's Survey of the Cathedrals of York, Dttrhnm, &c. p. 24!. / Collier, p. 799. Nafon, 'oi. I,. p. which
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