206 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. V. !*ern and continued hanging there for three clays. The poor man talked very Fisí3th, wildly, and was by fits downwright mad, fo that if he had been flint up in Bedlam after his firft attempt, as he ought to have been, all further áóís. p. 87o. mitchief, had been prevented. However, it was wry unreafonable to lay this to the charge of the puritans, and to take occafion from hence, to fpread a general perfecution over the whole kingdom: But the queen was Life of Par- for laying hold of all opportunities, to fupprefs a number of coof ientious ker, P. 454. men, whom fhe often would fay, fhe hatedmore than the T/jtation of The commißïoners being thus pufhed forwards froth above, fent la- the Norwich. of tors to the bifhops, exhorting them,to command their archdeacons, and Strype's/In- other ecclefiaf}ical officers, to give it in charge to their clergy and q14_ nals, Vol. II. men, to prefent the-names and firnames of all non-conformifts in their p 26f Par_ feveral parifhes, before the firft week in lent. A letter of this fort was ker, p. 246, fent, among others, by the old bifhop of Norwich, to his chancellor, da- 259, 449 ted from Ludhatn, January the 3oth, 1573. This was very unacceptable 451, 4552 work, to a man who was dropping into his grave; but he gave orders is Snolstry, pe'Vo1.sita- II. Y he was commanded, and man minifters of his diocefe being returned _p. 26r, 262, unconformable, were fufpended from reading common prayer, and -admi- L%of Par- niftring the facraments, but allowed (fill to catechife youth, feveral of ker, p. 336, whom offered to preach to force- congregations, as the hifhop fhould ap- point, of which his lordfhip. writ to the arcbifhop, but his grace refufed to fet them on work, and continue their parts in the publick exercijes or prophecyings, for which the bifhop was feverely reprimanded, and threat- ened by the corm/oners, with thequeen's high difpleafure ; whereupon he allowed his chancellor to filence them totally, though it was againft his judgment; for in his letter to a gentleman on this occafion, he writes, L. of Par- " I was obliged to reftrain them, unlefs I would willingly procure ker, p. 452. rr my own danger. Therefore let not this matter feem ftrange to you, Strype's An- a for the matter was of importance, and touched me fo near, that I nalJ, Vol. iI. p. 109, 263. rr could do no lofs if I would avoid extreme danger." But after all, his lordfhip being fufpended of remiffnefs, Parker direcrted a fpecial commif- faon to commigaries of his own appointing, tovifit his diocefe parochially; which theydid, and reported, that force minifters were abfent, and fo could not be examined ; other churches had no furplices, but the -mi- nifters faid they would wear them whenprovided ; but that there were about three hundred non-conformifts, whom they had fufpended; forne of whom, as the good old bifhop writes, were godly and learned, and had done much good. Puritans of- The heads of the puritans being debarred the liberty of preaching and for a pablia printing, challenged their adverfaries to a publick difputation : This had d:fputatron. been allowed the proteftants in queen Mary's reign, and the papilla at the acceffìon of queen Elizabeth; but the queen and council.would not now
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