C 173 D " as for reftoring Learning and Religi- on, fo particularly for her Regard " and gracious Anfwer to a Petition of `` certain Divines concerning the Ha- bits." Mr. Strype gives a further Confirmation of this. " As for the Lifeof Parker peaceable Nonconformifls, and parti- Annßs67. " cularlySarpfon and Lever, to whom I might add Coverdale, Fox, and " Humphrey, and fome more, as Wt- .& burn, john(on, and `fenny, they were " dealt gently with, and had, if not " Licence, yet Connivance to preach " in publick, and hold Preferments. Admonitions and Sufpenfions preceededvid. srrype's Deprivations ; and if thofe who had Parker,p.,78. not obferved the Laws would after- wards promife Conformity, they were continued in their Preferments. But fill farther, in the Year 1572, we find an Account of the great Favour and Indulgence fhew'd them: " That they were as gently intreated srrype's Lice " as might be, no kind of Brotherlyof Witg f Perfusfion omitted towards them, " moft of them as yet, [eight Years s` after the Queen's Letter] kept their " Livings, tho' one or two were difpla- " ced. They were offer'd, as he ad- " ded, all kind of Friendlinefs, if they 64 could be contented to conform them- " (elves; yea, but to be quiet, and " hold
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