268 the HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VIL Quern 2. It was faid, that the queen as headof the church, had power to publifh Elizabeth' articles and in un ions fir reducing the clergy to uniformity; and that the t5ß3. J f g gY c v archbi/l.'op had the queen's licence and conent for what he did. But the queen herfeif had no authority to publifh articles and injunctions in op- pofition to the laws; and as for her majefty'spermon and content, it could he no warrant to the archbifhop, except it had been under the great teal. And if the archbifhop had no legal authority to command, the clergy were not obliged to obey ; the oath of canonical obedience does not bind in this cafe, becaufe it is limited to licitis & hands, things lawful and ho. ne/l ; whereas the prefent articles were againft law, they were enforced by no legal authority, and were fuch as the minifters could not hontylly confent to. ArehbAap's Notwithftanding thefe objeaions, the archbifhop in his primary metro- primary viii- political vifitation, infifted peremptorily, that all who enjoyed any office or ration, benefice in the church, fhould fubfcribe the three articles above-mentioned; the fecund of which he knew the puritans would refufe: Accordingly there were fufpended for not fubfcribing ; Numbersfuf- pended. In the county of Norfolk Suf}òlk Sufiex, about----. Etex Kent Lincolnfh.ire -- Minifl. 64. 6o --30 38 59 or 20 _--2 t In all 233 MSp.436. All whole names are now before me; befides great numbers in the dio- cele of Peterborough, in the city of London, and proportionable in other counties ; fome of whom were dignitaries- in the church, and moft of them graduates in the univerfity ; of thefe fome were allowed time, but forty -nine were abfolutely deprived at once. Among the fufpendedminiflers his grace (hewed fome particular favour to thofe of Su//ex, at the interceffion of fome great perfons ; for after a long difpute and many arguments before himfelf at Lambeth, he accepted of the fubfcription of fix or feven, with their own explication of the ru- bricks, and with a declaration that their fubfcription was not to be un- MS. p. 3i3, derftood in any other fenfe, than as far as the Boozes were agreeable to 4 °5' the word of God, and to the fubftance of religion eftablifhed in the church of
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