204. The HI STORY of the PURITANS. Chap. V. ,eeen trivance of Mr. Co; now bishop of Ely, for not reading the Englifh fer- Ehzabetlr, vice. He afterwards preached to the Engli/h at Geneva ; and upon the 5 ) breaking tip of that congregation in the year 1559, he returned to Scot- land, and was a great inftrument in the hand of providence, for the refor- mation of that Kirk. He was a fon of thunder, and feared not the face of any man in the caufe of religion, which betrayed him fometimes into too coarfe treatment of his fuperiors. However, he had the refpe t of all the proteftant nobility, and gentry of his country ; and after a life of great fervice and labour, died comfortably in the midft of his friends, in the 67th Life of Par- year of his age, being greatly fupported in his laft hours from the s7th ker, p. 366 chapter of St. yob:, and i Cor. s5th chapter, both which he ordered to be frequently read to him : His body was attended to the grave, with great folemnity and honour. 1373. The queen being incenfed againft the puritans, for their late applica- tions to parliament, reprimanded the bithops for not fupprefling them, re- Ibid. p. 447. folving to bend all the powers of the crown that way. Accordinglycan- 479. mylioners were appointed under the great feal, in every (hire, to put in pvereper- execution the penal laws, by way of Oyer and Terminer, and the queen fecutien. Strype's An- publifhed a proclamation in the month of OElober, declaring her royal plea- ;rats, Vol. II, fore, that all offenders againft the at7 of uniformity fhould be feverely pu- p. z6o.' niched. Letters were alfo fent from the lords of the council to thebifhops, Life ofgar- dated November the 7th, 1573. to enforce her majefty's proclamation, in ker, p. 454 -which, after having reproached them with holding their courts only to get App. Vol. II. money, or for fach like purpofes, they now require them in her majefly's p. zóo. name, either by themfelves, which is molt fir, or by their archdeacons to vifit, and fee that the habits with all the queen's injun&ions, be exaftly anduniformly obferved in every church of their diocefe ; and to punifh all. refuters, according to the ecclefiaftical laws. The lord treafurer alto madealong fpeech before the commiflioners in the Star Chamber, inwhich by the queen's order, `° He charged the bithops with negleft, in not en- " forcing her majefty's proclamation ; he faid the queen could not fatis- fy her confcience without crufhing the puritans, for the thought none " of her fubjeéts worthy of her proteftion that favoured innovations, or " that direftly or indireftly countenanced the alteration of any thing " eftabliched in the church : That by too much lenity, Tome might be " apt to think the exceptions of thefe novelifts againft the ceremonies, " were reafonable and well founded, or but trifling matters of difputa- " tion ; but the queen was refolved, that her orders and injunftions fhould " not be 'contemned ; that the publick rule fhould be inviolably obferv- " ed; and that there fhould be an abfolute obedience, becaufe the fafety L. ofParker, " of her government depended upon it." The treafurer therefore or P. 456) 458. force other, member, propofed in council, that all minifters throughout the
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