Chap. V. The HISTORY of the PURITANS: zzr The archbifhop was furprized, to fee his orders countermanded by the ;gaeen privy council ; but his grace took no notice of it to them, only acquainted Elizabeth,. the queen with it; by whole direEtion he renewed his application to the bi- vs ` Shop; that whereas he underftood he had received letters from the council, The arehbifb, . to continue theprophefyings, contrary to the queen's exprefs command, he Prevails.. defired to know, what warrant they had given him for their proceedings Upon this the bifhop of Norwich wrote back to the bifhop ofLondon, who was one of thofe that had figned the letter, for advice ; brit his lord-. fhip and the council were afraid to meddle any further. Parker being thus fupported by the queen, wrote again to Norwich, com- manding the bifhop peremptorily to obey the queen's orders, upon pain of her majefty's high difpleafure ; and advifed him not to be led by fantaftical folk, nor take fuch young men into his counfels, who when they had brought him into danger, could not bring him out of it. Ofmy care I have Lfe of Par foryou and the diocefe, (lays the archbifhop) Iwrite thus muchï ker, p. 46a.. Upon this the good old bifhop lubmitted, and writ to his chancellor from Ludham, une the feventh, " Whereas by the receipt of my Strype's In. °' lord ofCanterbury's letter, I am commanded by him, in the queen her nals, majefty's name, that the prophefyings throughout my diocefe fhould be P. 333 " fnppreffed, thefe are therefore to will you, that as conveniently as you " may, you give notice to everyof my commiffaries, that they in their fe- " veral circuits may fupprefs the fame. And fo I leave you to God. " Thus were thefe religiousexercifes fupprelled in one diocefe, which was but the prologue to their downfal, over the whole kingdom. But his lordfhip didnot long furvive this diflinguifhing mark ofthe arch - Death of bi (hop's difpleafure, for towards thelatter end of the year, he departed this Parkhuft bp. life, to the great lofs of his diocefe, and of the whole church of England. of Norwich, John Parkhill bifhop of Norwich, was born at Guilford in Surrey, 15 t r. and educated in Merton College, Oxon. He hadbeen domeftick chaplain to queen Catherine Parr, tutor to bifhop Jewel, and rector of the rich parfo- nage of Clive ; all which he forfook, during the reign of queen Mary, and was an exile at Zurich in Switzerland, where he was fodelighted with the order and difcipline of that church, that he would often with the church of England, had been modell'd according to it. He was an open favourer of the Puritans, and never entered willingly into any methods of feverity againft them. " I find (lays he, in oneof his letters to archbifhop Parker) Strype'sAnn, " that rough and fevere methods do the leaft good, and that the contrary P. 343' " has won over divers ; and therefore I choofe- to go in this way, rather '° than with others, to over -rule by rigour and extremity. He would willingly have allowed a liberty of officiating in the church, to fuch as could not conform to the Ceremonies ; but by command from above, he was. forced fometimes to obey his fuperiors, contrary to his judgment..The bifhop.
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