Ii/1ory ofthePuritans, exarnin'd. 2qß3 to the Houfe, and very unadvifedly interrupted their Debates by the following Speech. The Title of it, His Majefly's. Speech to both Töufes, at the Eanquetting-Hotrfe, Whitehall, Jan. 25. 1640. (King Charles's Works, p. 169.) The Speech itfelf is fo mangled, and, disjointed by Mr. Neal, that I fhould find it a difficult Matter to put it together again; and for that Reafon refer the Reader to the Authority above- mentioned. Neal, p. 42 I. Mr. White confider'd the prefent Bifhops of the Church, with regard to their Baronies; their Temporalities; and their Spiritualities. Mr. Echard's CharafterofMr. White is this, * ' That he was a Gentleman oftheMiddle-Temple, a Meat- ' ber of the Houle of Commons, chiefly employ'd as a Chairmanofa Committee for ejeEting of &dons Minifters, in which he íhew'd himfeif a barbarous Perfecutor of the Clergy, both as to their Eftates and their Reputations ; and at laft I died diftraaed,crying out, howmany Clergymen, their Wives and Children he had undone.' This was the Man, who publifh'd a fcandalous Tra& 1643 entitled, -} Thefirft Century offcandalous maliznant Priefts, &c. Dr .. braton makes the fóllow- ing Obfervation upon White's, and the other Speeches againft the Bithopsof thofe Times, and Epifcopacy 11 ' Thus did thefe Vulturs and Harpies accufe the Innocent Doves, upon whom they intended to prey; and quarry i tit Gód be praifid, we have .found; tho' by woful Experience, who were the Occa- fion of all thefe dreadful Miferies, thole War's t and. Bloodthed, that Tyranny and Ufurpation; under which the Nation lb long groan'd .; which ' from the Day, it fa* the Bifhops excluded fidrt Echard's Hittory of En laitá, Vtìl. If. F. 513. Penes me. Náfn, Vol. IL p. 887. R 2 the
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