33'O The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VII. queen " ofEngland, contrary to the example of all antiquity, and contrary to the EIxa88th, " direct ion of the apofl;le in the 4s ; whereby I have given great and " juf offence to many ; and the more, becaufe I have uttered in my fermons " certain impertinent, and very unfit fpeeches for the auditory, as moving " their minds to difcontent with the fiate, rather than tending to godly edification, for which my prefumptionand indifcretion I am very hearti- ", ly fdrry, and defire you to bear witnefs of this my confeffion, and ac- " knowledging my faid offences." This recantation was by the archbifhop's appointment, to be uttered in Trinity Hall chapel, before Eager. In the mean while he was fufpended from the profits of his fellowfhip, and flood bound to appear before thecommiflioners the firf court-day ofEaflee term, if he did not before that time recant. Whether Mr. Hilderfham recanted I am not certain, but Sept. 14, 1587. he left the univerfity and fettledat 1l/hby de la Zouch in Leiceflerfhire, where he continued a deep fufferer for non- conformity 43years, having been fufpended and put to filence by the high-commiffion no lefs than four times, and continued under that hard - fhip almoft 20 years. Death of This year put an end to the life of the famous martyrologift Joxx Mr. Fox Fox, a perfon of indefatigable labour and induflry, and an exile for reli- t e mart,- g ion in queen Mary's days; he fpent all his time abroad in compiling the rotog. adsand monuments of the church of England, which were publifhed firft in Latin, and afterwards when he returned to his native country, in EngliJh, with enlargements ; vafi was the pains he took in fearching records, and colle ling materials for his work; and fuch was its efleem, that it was ordered to be fet up in all the parifh churches in England. Mr. Fox was born at Rogan in Lincolnfhire, r 517. educated in Brazen NO College Oxon, where he proceeded M. A. in the year e 543. He was afterwards tutor to the duke of Norfolk's children, who in the days of queen Mary conveyed him privately out of the kingdom. He was a moll learned, pious, and judicious divine, of a catholick fpirit, and againft all methods of feverity in religion. But he was shamefully negleìted for fome years becaufe he was a non-conformUl, and refufed to fubfcribe the canons and ceremo- nies; nor did he get any higher perferment in the church than a prebend ofSafi/bury, though the queen ufed to call himfather, and profeffed a high veneration for him; as indeed he deferved. He died in London in the both . year of his age, and lies buried in Cripplegate church, where his monu- ment is fill to be feen, againf the fouth wall of the chancel, with a flat marble fone over his remains. Rrfe of the It has been obferved, that ourfirf reformers admitted only two orders of contraverfy church officers to be of divine appointment (viz.) bifhops and deacons, a ofthe di- prefbyter and bifhop according to them being two names for the fame vine right office.; but Dr. Bancroft the archbifhop's chaplain, in u fermon at Paute ofePfco- Cr, Pat,.
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