188 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. y. teen with refpea to the apparel, that neither party might condemn the other, Elizabeth. but that thofe who wore it, and thofe who did not, might live in unity :vr and concord. How reafonable foever this was, the archbifhop told them L. of Parker, peremptorily, that they mutt come up to the ftandard of the queen's in. P 326, 327junétions, or be deprived. Goodman was alto required to renounce a book that he had wrote many years ago, when he was an exile, againfl the government of women ; which he refufed, and was therefore fufpended. Ann. Ref. Mr. Strype, fays, that he was at length brought to a revocation of it, vot. IL p. and figned a proteftation before the commiffioners at Lambeth, April 23. 95 r 571. concerning his dutiful obedience to the queen's majefty's perfon, and her lawful government. Lever quietly refigned his prebend in the church of Durham. Browne being domeflick chaplain to the duke of Norfolk, his patron undertook to fcreen him ; but the archbifhop fent him word, that no place within her majefty's dominions, was exempt from the jurifdiilion of the commiffioners, and therefore if his grace did not forthwith fend up his chaplain, they fhould be forced to ufe other methods. This was that Robert Browne, who afterwards gave name to that denomination of diffenters, called Brownifls; but his family and re- lations covered him for the prefent. yohnfon was domeftick chaplain to the lord-keeper Bacon, at Gorambury, where he ufed to preach and ad- minifler the facrament in his family: He had alto Tome place at St. Albans, and was fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He appeared before the com- miffioners in °filly, but refufing to fubfcribe to the book of CommonPrager as agreeable to the wordofGod, he was fufpended, though he affured them, that he ufed the book, and thought for charity fake it might be fuffered, till God fhould grant a time of more perfea reformation; that he would wear the apparel, though he judged it neither expedientnor for edification; and that he was willing to fubfcribe all the do&rinal articles of tie church, according to the late at of parliament : But the commiffioners infifting peremptorily upon an abfolute fubfcription, as above, he was fufpended, and refigned his prebend in the church ofNorwich; and abottt two years after, he fell into further troubles which colt him,his life. 1522. The learned Reza, writ to the`bifhops, not to be the inffruments-of Beza'a later filch feverities; and being informed that a parliament was fhortly to be far reforma- called, in which a confultation was tobe had concerning the eftablifhifg oration. of religion, he excited the lord treafurer to endeavour fome reformation, of difcipline ; " For I will not differnble, fags he, that not a few coin- " plain of divers things wanting in the church; and when I fay not a " few, I do not mean that worfe fort, whom- nothing pleafes but what .< is perfelt, and abfolute in all refpeéts but I underftand godly learned " men, and Tome that are belt affected to God's church, and lovers of :, their nation. I look upon the reformation: of difcipline as of great importance,
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