260 NOTES TO THE LETTERS. P. 152. Idid much long to receave the declaration to the King.-"A new declarationof both Houses of Parliament sent to the King's most excellent Majesty, 16 March, upon his removall fromHuntingdon to York." See May's Hist. Appendix, p. 493. I heave the justices have sent up theare answer why theywould not take the Protestation. - The Protestation of the 4th May, 1641, now demanded of all of eighteen years of age and upwards. See Appendix, p. 221, and note, page 121. I hope shortly you will have the petition from this county, but Sir Will. Croft disswaded it, as a thing unlawful to petition. -See the petition in Appendix, p. 226. It was pre- sented 4th May, 1642, and is again alluded to in pages 158-159. P. 155. Mr Gower is very well pleased that he is chosen on of the ministers.-Journ. H. Corn. 23 April, 1642. " Mr. John Green of Pencomb, and Mr. Stanley Gower of Brampton, were approved as divines for Herefordshire, fit to be consulted in the matters of the Church. The Bill for calling the Assembly of Godly and Learned Divines was read the third time 19 May, 1642." A list of them will be found in Rushworth Abridged, and Neal's History of the Puritans. P. 158. We hard the Kentichepetition was brought by 3000 men, and that 3000 Loun- donersmeete them upon Blackeheath, and theare fought, and many weare killed.-This was the celebrated Kentish Petition. Its reception is thus entered on the Journ. H. Corn, 30 April, 1642: "The House being informed that divers gentlemen of the co. of Kent were at the door that desired to present a petition to the House, they were called in, presented their petition, and then withdrew. And their petitionwas read, and appeared to be the same that was formerly burnt, by order of both Houses, by the hands of the common hangman." P. 159. Ihope something will be done to Docter Rogers.-Dr. Henry Rogers, Canon Residentiary of Hereford Cathedral, and Rector of Stoke Edith, in Herefordshire. He was of Jesus College, Oxford, and became a famous preacher and schoolmaster. He was a member of the Convocation assembled with the Parliament of Nov. 1640, a decided Royalist, and, on the surrender of Hereford in April, 1643, was made prisoner. His pre- ferments were sequestered, and his prebendal house, furniture, &c. bestowed on Dr. Timothy Woodroffe, a gifted chaplain, mentioned in the Introduction as having been pro- moted by Sir Robert Harley to the rectory of Kingsland, and a Parliamentary Preacher in. Hereford cathedral. Wood informs us that. Rogers had been acquainted with John Perse, alias Fisher, the Jesuit, with whom he hadmany disputes, and who, without autho- rity, published an account of what had passed between them, which brought from Rogers an answer by way of Dialogue between Mr. Rogers and Mr. Fisher, 1633, to which Fisher published a reply, which was followed by Rogers in " The Protestant Church existent, and their Faith professed in all ages, and by whom. Lond. 1638." Wood's Athena, vol. iii. p. 31. Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, part 2, p. 35.
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