r 344 ` Colonel Scot, one of the Regicides. He thought to turn the Chapel into a Hall or Dancing-Room. This venerable Monument (landing in the Way, it was totally demolifhed ; and out of Hatred to Epifcopacy, and, it may be, to ArchbifhopParker himfelf, who indeed was no Friend to Puritans, (and foretold that which was then come to pals by their 1Vleans) they caufed his Body to be digged up. The Lead that enclofed it they plucked off, and fold, and the Bones they buried not in the Church or Church-yard (that was too great a Fa- ` vour) but in a (linking Dunghill, where they re- ` mained till fome Years after the happy Reflora- ` tion of King Charles Il." Had the Corps of a Puritan been treated with half this Ignominy which was put upon the Remains of an eminent Archbi- fhop, we fhould have had other Language than removedby aprivate Gentleman. N's Hitt. p. 349 ' The whole County of Kent almoll figned Petitions to the Archbifhop for ` Mr. Stroud's Continuance among them. In the next Page, Mr. N. forgetting this AfT'er- tion, particularly enumerates the feveral Parifhes that fubfcribed Petitions. The Amount of all the Petitioners is r r. Thefe Mr. N calls the whole County of Kent almofI. But this is not the only Inilance where Numbers are encreafed. Thus, Life of 4l.p. 367. When his Author Pays, ` MANY of the vier, p. 32. ` old Incumbents and Curates were fuch as were fitter to fj ort with the Timbrel and Pipe, than to take into their Hands the Book of the Lord. Mr. N. tells us, Mosr of the old Incumbents are difguifed Papifts (which is likewife his Additi- on) fitter to íport with the Timbrel and Pipe, than to take into their Hands the Book of the Lord. N's Hill. p. 359. ' The Queen put down the r Prophefyings, or religious Exercifes for no other Reafon, but becaufe they enlightened the People's Minds in the Scripture, and encouraged their In- quiries after Truth. 'Tis very hard Ufage of the Queen, not to al- low her to give the Reafons of her own Conduá, and
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