300 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VII,' aeon " them. I always retorted to my parifh church, and was prefent at fer- Elizebeth, .< vice and preaching ; and received the facratnent according to the book. ev¢ I thought it my duty, not to forfake a church, beecaufeof fome blemifhes L. gf Whl 'c in it ; bat while I have endeavoured to live in peace, others have pre_ o,, I'. 377. " pared themfelves. for war. I am .turned out of my living by command- - ". ment. I afterwards preached without living, or a penny ftipend ; and '< wl eu I was forbid I ceafed. I then taught a few children, to get a " little bread for my felf and mine to eat ; fome difliked this, and wifhed me to forbear, which I have done, and am now to go as an idle rogue and vagabond, from door to door, to beg my bread, tho' I am able, in a " lawful calling td get it." Thus this learned and ufeful divine, was fi- lenced till the death of Whitgift, after which he was iuftituted to the living of St. Anne, within Alderfrate. Mr. Tra- The reverend Mr. Walter Travers, B. D. fotnetime fellow of Trinity cafe. College, Cambridge, already mentioned, came into trouble this year. He had been ordained at Antwerp, and being an admired preacher, a fine gen- tleman, and ofgreat learning, became domeflic chaplain to fecretary Cecil, and ledurer.at the temple. Dr. Alvey the mailer dying about this time,' Traverí was recommended to fuccecd him, by thedoftor on his death-bed, and by the benders of the boute, in a petition to the treafurer on his be- half; but the archbifhop interpofed, declaring peremptorily, that unlefs he would be re- ordained according to the ufage of the church ofEngland, and fttbfcribe to his articles, he would not admit him. Upon which he was fet elide, and Mr. Hroher preferred. Travers continued let urer about two years longer, and was then deprived of his led urefhip, and depofed from the minifiry. The treafurer, and others of Travers's friends, advifed him, for peace fake, to be re- ordained ; but he replied in a letter to his lordfhip, that this would be to invalidate his former orders; and not only fo, but as 1àr as in him lay, to invalidate the ordinations of all foreign churches, "As " for my fell (fays he) I had a fufficient title to the minifterial office, hay- ,' ing been ordained according to God's holy word, with prayers and im- " petition of hands, and according to the order of a church of the fame " faith and profeffion with the church of England, as appears by my tef- " timonials." He prayed his lordfhip to confider further, whether his fub- fcribing the articles cf religion, which only concern the profèon, of the true chriflianfaith, and doEirine ofthefacraments, asagreed upon in the convoca- tion of s 562. which moll willingly, and with all his heart, he affented to according to the ftatute, did not qualify him for a minifler in the church, as much as if he had been ordained according to the Englifh form. But the archbifhop was determined to have a firiIt eye upon the inns of court, and tobring them to the publick ftandard ; and the rather, Mafia-loch as Tome of them pretended to be exempted from his jurifdiIion; for though in all other
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