Igo The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. V. queen " The other is, that fometime a meffage was brought to the houfe, either Elizabeth, " commanding or inhibiting our proceedings." He added, " That it was I5 " dangerous always to follow a prince's mind, becaufe the prince might " favour a caufe prejudicial to the honour of God, and the good of the Rate. Her majefly has forbid us to deal in any matter of religion, un- " lets we firft receive it from the bithops. This was a doleful meffage; " there is then little hope of reformation. I have heard from old parlia- ment men, that the banifhment of the pope, and the reforming true " religion, had its beginning from this haute, but not from the bifhops; few laws for religion had their foundation from them ; and I do furely think, before God I fpeak it, that the bithops were the caufe of that " doleful meffage." But for this fpeech, and another of the like nature, Wentworth was fent to the Tower. Subfcription In the mean time the late aEt of the 13th Eliz. for fubfcribing the ar- urgnt 4on titles, was put in execution allover England, together with the queen's in- she çlergy. unétions and according to Mr. Str e s computation, too clergymen were Strype's4n - > g yp P gy nais, p. 187. deprived this year, for refufing to fubfcribea The univerfity of Cambridge was a nett . of puritans ; many of the graduates were difaffeéted to the difcipline of the church, as particularly Mr. Browning, Mr. Brown of Trinity College, Mr. Millain, of Chrf's, Mr. Charke ofPeter-houfe, Mr. Deering of ChrJ's College, and feveral in St. John's College, who being men of learning, had great numbers of followers ; but Dr. Whitgift, the vice-chancellor, watched them narrowly, and kept them under. The reverend Mr. Charke in one of his fermons at St. Mary's had faid, that " there ought to be a parity among the minifters in the church; and " that the hierarchical orders of archbithops, patriarchs, metropolitans, &c. was introduced into the church by fatan." For which he was fum- moned before the vice-chancellor and heads of colleges, and refufing to recant, was expelled the univerfity. Charke wrote a handfome latin apo- logy to lord Burleigh, their prefent chancellor, in which he confeffes, that it was his opinion, that the church of England might be brought nearer to the apoolick char-abler or likenefs ; but that this mull not be faid either in the pulpit or defk, under the feverel penalties. The chancellor knowing him to be a good fcholar, and in confideration that he had beenhardly dealt with, interceeded for him, but to no purpofe. Mr. Browning, Mr. Deering, and others, met with the like ufage. Deering was a man of good learning, and made a chief figure in the univerfity; he was alfo reader at St. Paul's, London, and a moR popular preacher ; but being an enemy to the fuperior order of bifhops, he fell into the hands of the commiffroners, and was filenced. Puritans ap- The puritans finding it in vain to hope for a reformation from the queen mlent parlra or " bithops, refolved for the future to apply to parliament, and Rand by the con Ri-
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