Chap/Va. flé HISTORY of the PuxTANS. . 29 Common Prayer, and had put feveral from the communion, when there Queen was more need to allure them to it, &c. But to make fhort work, the ELzabeth, bifhop tendered him the oath ex officio, which Carew refuting, he was rL committed to the Fleet, and another clergyman Pent down to fbppty his place. Mr. Allen the patron, in whom the right of prefentation was by . inheritance, refufiug to admit the bifhop's reader, was fummoned before his lordfhip, and committed to prifon ; becuufe (as the warrant exprefl'is it) he behaved feditioufly in withflanding the authority of the court : Nay, the very Sexton was reprimanded, and ordered not to meddle with the church any more ; and becaufe he afked his lordfhip (imply, whether his meaning was, that he fhould not come to church any more, he com- mitted him for ridiculous behaviour. Both Allen and Carew offered bail, L1/4 0f Ayl- which was refufed, unlefs they would admit his lordfhip's clergyman. mer, p. 122. After eight weeks imprifonment, they appealed to the privy council and 65$' P :652, were releafed'; with which his lordfhip was fo difpleafed, that he fent the council a very angry letter, calling the prifoners knaves, rebels, rafcals; fools, pettygentlemen, precifìans, bec. and told their honours, that if fuch men were countenanced, he mull yield.up his authority : And the bifhop never left him, till he had hunted him out of the diocefe. Mr. Knight fuffered fix months imprifonment, for not wearing the ap- Mr. Knight parel, and was fined one hundred marks. Mr. Negus was fufpended on andMr.Ne- the fame account : Twenty-eight of his parifhioners, who fubfcribed them- gus'rjuer- felves his hungry fheep that had no fhepherd, figned a letter, befeeching mg's' him to conform but he protefted he could not do it with a good con- fcience, and fo was deprived. The reverend Mr. Gford of Malden was a modefl man, and irre- Mr. Gif- provable in his life, a great and diligent preacher (fays Mr. Strype) and ngf'lufer- efleemed by many of good rank. He had wrote learnedly againfl the MS p to, Browns, and by his diligence had wrought a wonderful reformation in 420. the town; but being informed againfl for preaching up a limited obe- dience to the magiflrate, he was fufpended and imprifoned. After force time, he was brought to his trial, and his'accufer failing in his evidence, he was releafed. But the bifhop of London letting his fpies upon him, he Life of Ayi_ was imp-if-tined again for non- conformity. Upon this he applied to the mer, p. sss. lord treafurer, who applied to the archbifhop in his favour ; but his grace having confulted his brother of London, told his lordfhip that he was a ring- leader of the non-conformifls; that he hirnlèlf had received com- plaints againfl him, and was determined to bring him before the high commifion. The parifhioners of IYIaldee prefented a petition in behalf of their minifier, fignedwith fifty-two hands, whereof two were bailiffs of the town, twojuftices of the peace, four aldermen, fifteen head burgeffes, and the vicar: But to put an end to all further application, the archbifhop P p 2 wrote
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