.262 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VI. ze n referred to the confiderationof his lordfhip," But the court paid no El ageth, regard to fuch remonítrances ; and the queen had her ends, in en- couráging the fpvrts, pa/limes, and revellings of the people on fundays and holydays. Death and This year died the famous northern apofile Mr. BernardGilpin, minifter charaaer the revered of Houghton in the bifhoprick of Durham. He was born at Kentmire, in Mr. Gilpin Weflmoreland, s 517, of an ancient and honourable family, and was entered Bp. Cade- into Queen's College, Oxjbrd, in the year 1533. He continued a papift all ton's I:fe of the reign of king Henry the VIIIth, but was converted by the lectures of C Ipm. Peter Martyr, in the beginning of the reign of Edward the VIth. He was remarkably honeft, and open to convhttion, but did not feparate from the romifh communion, till he was perfwaded the pope was antichrift. Cuthbert Tonßal bifhop of Durham, was his uncle by the mother's fide, by whofe encouragement he travelled to Paris, Levain, and other parts, being Rill for the real prefence of Chrift in the facrament, though not for tranfub- ftantiation. Returning home in the days of queen Mary, his uncle placed him firft in the reétory of Ejngdon, and afterwards at Houghton, a large parifh containing fourteen villages ; here he laboured in the work of the rniniftry ; and was often expofed to danger, but conftantly preferved by his uncle bifhop Ton/lal, who was averle to burning men for .religion. Miferable and heathenifh was the condition of thefe northern counties at this time, with refpe& to religion ! Mr. Gilpin beheld it with tears of cotn- pafion, and refolved at his own expence to vifit the defolate churches of Northumberland, and the parts adjoining, called Riddefdale and Tindale, once every year to preach the golpe!, and diftribute to the neceflities of the poor, which he continued to his death; this gained him the veneration of all ranks of peoplein thofe parts ; but though he had fuch a powerful fkreen as bifhop Tonllal, yet the fame of his doltrine, which wasLutheran, reach- ing the ears of Bonner, he fent for him to London ; the reverend man or- dered his fervant to prepare him a long.fhirt, expelling to be burnt, but before he came to London, queen Mary died. Upon the accefliion ofqueen Elizabeth, Mr. Gilpin having a fair eftate of his own, erected a grammar fchool, and allowed maintenance for a matter and ufher; himfelf choofing out of the fchool, fuch as he liked belt for his own private inftruEtion. Ma- ny learned men, who afterwards adorned the church by their labours and uprightnefs of life, were educated by him in his domeftick academy. Many gentlemens foes reforted to him, fome of whom were boarded in the town, and others in his own houle ; befides, he took many poor mens Eons under his care, giving them meat, drink, clothes, and edu- cation. In the year 156o, he was offered the bifhoprick of Carle, and was . urged to accept it by the earl of Bedfòrd, bifhop Sandys, and others, with the
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