r 343 ] R.Yohnfon. If it pleafe your Honours, may I not fubmit myfelf, and declare the Truth of Things as they were done. L Ch. Jullice. Yes, you may. R. johnfon. I nand here Indic`led for THREE Points ; the farfi is, That I have not repeated the Words of the Inflitution or, as they commonly fay, I have not confecrated the Wine, when I delivered it to the People. Secondly, That I have not married with a Ring. Thirdly, That I have not ufed to make the Ctofs in the Adminifiration of Baptifm. After feveral Quellions and Anfwers, the Bjaop rofe up, and fpake. ` Thefe two lati be but Trifles, and Matters of no Weight, but the ehiefe/t is the Confecration of the Sacrament; for in that it had not the Word, it was no Sacrament, and fo the People were mocked. There are feveral Particulars in Mr. 3ohnfon's Chara&er, as well as that unreverent Behaviour which, as he has recorded himfelf, was Paid to be the Caufe of his Commitment; together with force other Circumfiances that might be taken Noticeof; but the only Defign of mentioning his Cafe, is to thew, how little we can rely upon Mr. N's Quo- tations from this MS. ÌV's Hill. p. 34r. After a very injurious Chara- der of Archbithop Parker (whom Mr. Strype, after Life of Par. taking fo much Pains in inquiring into his Life,ker, P. 491. declares a Perfon of great Integrity, Worth and Learning) Mr. N. tells us, ` He died of the Stone in the Year r5-75., and was interred in Lambeth- ` Chapel, where his Body retied, till it was removed at the End of the Civil Wars, by aprivate Gentle- ' man, who purchafed that Palace for a Mutation- ' houle. Removed by a private Gentleman! Thrown into a Dunghill by a Regicide! This was the Truth of the Cafe, however Mr. N. thought fit to foften the Fa6t, for the fake of him that committed it. Mr. Strype gives the following Account of it. Upon the Diffolution of Monarchy, in the bar- Life of Parker barons Violence ufed upon the facred Perfon ofP. 499. King Charles I. Lambeth Houfe fell to the Lot of r- 4 c.-
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