Chap. VI. 7'& HISTORY of the PURITANS. 22.9 Rate ; a flave to the prerogative and the fupremacy ; and a bitter enemy to ueen the puritans, whom he perfecuted to the length ofhis power, and beyond ELzabeth the limit of the law. His religion confifted in a fervile obedience to the rr queen's injun&ions, and in regulating thepublicfervice ofthe church : But his grace had too little regard for public virtue; his entertainments and feaftings being chiefly on the lord's day : Nor do we read among his epif- copal qualities, ofhis diligent preaching, or pious example. Fuller calls him a Parker indeed, careful to keep the fences, and Phut the gates ofdifcipline, againft all fuch night -ftealers as would invade the fame ; and indeed this was his chief excellence. He was a confiderable benefaétor to BennetCol-. Ìege, the place of his education, where he ordered his MS papers to be de.. pofited, which have been of confiderable fervice to the writers of the Eng- Ifh reformation. He died of the ftone on the 17th ofMay, 1575. in the lad, year ofhis age, and was interr'd in Lambeth Chapel the 6th of yrsne following where his body refted till the end of the civil- wars ; when col:. Scot having purchafed that palace for a man fibnhoufe, took down the ma- L% ofPär. nument and buried the bones (lays Mr. Strype) in a stinking dunghill, ker, p. 49%. where they remained till fome years after the reftoration, when they were decently repofed near the place where the monument had flood, whichwas. now again erected to his memory. C H A P. VL From the death of arehbijhóß PARICER to the deathofarch'bi/hop- GR.INI]AL., D R. EDMUND GRINDAL archbifhop ofYork, fuceeeded Parker in the fee of Canterbury, and was confirmed Feb. 15th 1 575-6. He was a divine of moderate principles, and moved no fatter in courfes of feve city againft the puritans, thanhis fuperiors obliged him, being a friend to their preaching and propbefyings..Sandyswas tranflated from London to York,_ and Aylmer was advanced to the fee of London. This laft was one of the exiles, and had been a favourer of puritanifnz; for in his book againft Knox,, entitled, An Harbour forfaithfulfobjeéls, he declaims againft the wealth and fplendorof the bifhops, and fpeaks with vehemence againft their lordly . dignities and civil authority. In the convocationof 5562. whenthe queflion about the habits was debated, he withdrew, and would not be concerned in the.
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