Chap. VIL The HISTORY of t, PURITANS. 325 wearing the habits. Bithop Aylmer told him, that except he and his com- aeen panions would be conformable, in goodfaith he and his brethren the bi- _ Eltzb dt, (hops, would in one quarter of a year, turn them all out of the church. ,. Sept. t ith. Mr. Udall ofKingflon upon Thames, was fufpended and impri. Ibid. p. 800, foned, for keeping a private fart in his parith. In the month of 7a- 805 nuary Mr. Wilfon, Mr. More, and two other minifters, were imprifoned, and obliged to give bond for their good behaviour. In the month of May the reverend Mr. Settle was fummoned before Mr. Settle's the archbifhop at. Lambeth, and charged with denying the article, Ofthe examination, defcent of our Saviour's foul"into hell, or the place of the damned. Mr. and trouble. Settleconfeffed"it was hisopinion, that Chrift did not defcend locally into hell, and that Calvin.and Beza were of his mind ; which put the archbi- fhop into fuch apatfron,that he calledhim afs, dolt,fooli Mr. Settle faid, he ought not torail at. him being a minifterof the gofpel. 'What, faid the arch- bifhop, doff thou think much tobe called of and dolt 2: I have called many of thy betters fo. True, Paid Mr. Settle ; but the queftion is, how law- fully you have done fo? Then faid the archbifhop, thou 41ìa11 preach no more in my diocefe. Mr. Settle anfwered; I"am called to preach the gofpel, and I will not ceafe to do it. The archbifhop replied with a (tern counte- nance, neither you,, nor any one in England; (hall preach without my leave. He then charged Mr..Settle- with not obferving the order of the fervicebook ; with not ufing the crofs-in baptifm with difal;bwing the baptifm of midwives; and not ufing the words-'in marriage, With this ring I theewed. The dean of Wincherafked him, ifhe had fubfcribed.. Set= M.S: "p. 798t- tle anfwered, Yrs, as far as,the law required ; that is, to the d"oarines of faith and the facraments; but as -touching other rites and ceremonies, he neither could nor would. Then faid the archbifhop, thou fhalt be fub- jekt tothe ecclefiaftical authority. Mr. Settle replied, I thank God you can ufe no violence but upon my poor body. So his grace committed him to the Gate-houfe, there to be kept clofe prifoner. Sandys- archbifhop 'of York was no lets attive in his province.; I have many of his examinations before me ; he was a fevere governor, hafty and paffionate ; but it was Paid in excufe for him and fome others, that the ci= villeins by their emi4faries -and fpies turned-informers, and then pufhed they bifhops forward; to bring bufinefs into the fpiritual »courts: About this time Dr. Bridges, afterwards bifhop of Oxford, wrote againf£ 1587 the puritans; and maintained that THEYwere not grievouJly affiraed unlefs Dr. j3ridjes it were caufed by their own de'rts.. The doftor was anfwered by Mr. Feu- an/wared by' ner, who appealed to the worldin there words :, " Is it na grievous af- Mr. Fenner, fliétion, by fufpenfion.to be hung up between hope and defpair for a " year or two, and in the mean time to fee the wages of our labours " eaten up by loiterers ? Nay, our righteous fouls are vexed with feeing
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