xlvi NOTES TO INTRODUCTION. Page xi. Piedmont collection, &c.-The collection for the persecuted Protestants in Piedmont, &c. is said to have amounted to 37,0971. 7s. 3d. ; about 30,0001. wasremitted in 1655 and the followingyear: the confusion following the Protector's death prevented the clearing of the whole amount till the Convention Parliament at the Restoration, when the remainder, 7,0001., was ordered tobe paid. "-Neal's Hist. of the Puritans, byToulmin, vol. iv. p. 141. Page xii. Thos. Froysell.-Journ. H. Com. 17 March, 1642-3. " An ordinance for sequestering the rents and profits of the parish-church of St. Margaret's, New Fish Street, London, into the hands of certain sequestrators, to the use of Thos. Froysell, M.A., a godly, learned, and orthodox divine, who is hereby required and appointed to take care for the discharge of the cure of the said place in all the duties thereof, until both houses of parliament shall take further order, was read, and by vote upon the question assented to, &c." Ibid. 25 March, 1643. " It was ordered, upon the petition ofthe common councilmen and others of ye parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, that Mr. Thos. Froizell shall preach the lecture everyThursday forenoon." " Mr. Froysell of Clun, an ancient divine of extraordinary worth, for judgement, moderation, godliness, blameless life, and excellent preaching, who with many others, in poverty and sickness, and great suffering, continued to preserve the peace of his con- science."-Calamy's Abridgment of the Life and Times of Baxter, p. 355. Recent generations of the Harleys since the time of Henry VII. -In the curious old mansion of Birt's Morton in county Worcester, formerly the seat of Giles Nanfan, who married Elizabeth, the sister of Thomas Harley, and first cousin of Sir John Scudamore and William Rudhall, as stated above, there is, along the cornice of a fine old panelled room, the arms and names of the following gentlemen, amongwhom, no doubt, an exten- sive cousinship was recognized : William Rudhall, of Rudhall, Esq. Jhon Blount, of Eye, Esq. Ye Lord Copley. Sr Henry Polle, Knight. Sr John Scudamore, Knight. Sr Thos. Throgmorton, Knight. Sr James Croft, Knight. Thomas Cornwall, Esq. Baskerville of Erdesley, Esq. Thomas Harley, Esq. Walter Vaughan of I3ergest, Esq. Roger Minors, Esq. Jhon Bridges, Esq. Bromwich of Bromsberro, Esq. John Hyett, Gent.
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