256 the HISTORY of the PtHTTANS. Chap. Vi. ,Zaerr depending. However the proteflants in the Netherlands, being in ditiref, Ezabeth, the queen afiifled them with men and money, for which they delivered 15:32. into her majetly's hands, the mod important fortreffes of their country, been u.0yfswhich the garrifoned with Englijh. She alto Pent relief, to the Freecl. í01e1 .'" p, proteflants, who were at war with their natural prince ; and ordered a col. e /tn le&ion all over England, for the relief of the city of Geneva, befieged by the duke of Savoy ; which meafures were hardly confident with her own pria_ Vol. VIII. ciples ofgovernment ; but as Rapin obferves, queen Elizabeth's zeal for p. 475 the protedant religion, was always fubordinatetoher private intered. 1582. About this time thequeen granted a comm.An ofconcealments, tofome of her hungry courtiers, by which they were empowered to enquire into the ?T`'"""/- titles of church lands and livings ; all forfeitures, concealments, or lands anent:. for which the parifh could not produce a legal title, were given to them : The articles of enquiry feem to be levelledagain[ the puritans, but through their fides, they mud have made fad havock with the patrimony of the Strype's/Inn. church. They were fuels as thefe; What right have you to your parfonage? P. 114 How came you into it ? Whoordain'd you ? And at what age were you ordained ? Have you a licence ? Were you married under the hands oftwo judices ofthe peace ? Do you read the whole fervice? Doyou ufe all the rites, ceremonies and ornaments, appointed by the queen's injunctions? Have you publickly read the articles and fubfcribed them ? The church wardens ofevery parifh, had alto 24 interrogatories adminidered to them upon oath, concerning their parfon, and their church lands ; all with a de- fign to fequefter them, into the hands of the queen's gentlemen penfioners. This awakened the hilltops, who fell upon their knees before the queen, and entreated her majefly, ifthe had any regard for the church, to fuper- fede the commiflion ; which (he did, though it is well enough known, the queen had no fcruple of confcience, about plundering the church of its re- venues. Ibid. P. 123. To return to the puritans ; the reverend Mr. Robert Wright, dornedic W. chaplain to the late lord Rich of Radford in E ea fell into the hands of :iht's p f . "' feèrings, the bifhop of London lad year; he was a learned man, and had lived 14 years in the univerfity ofCambridge ; but being difiatisfied with epifopal ordination, went over to Antwerp, and was ordained by the laying on of the hands of the prefbytery of that place. Upon his return home, lord Ricb took him into his family, at Rockford in the hundreds of Efex, where he preached conftantly in his lordfhip's chapel, and no where elfe, becaufe he could obtain no licence from the hilltop. He was an admired preacher, and univerfally beloved by the clergy of the county, for his great feriouf- nefs and piety. While his lordfhip was alive, he protelked him from dan- ger, but his noblepatron was no fooner dead, than the bifhopofLondon laid hands on him, and confined him in the Gase-houfè, for faying,,that to keep the'
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