Chap. VII. The HISTORY of the PURI 'AN8. 335 teftant religion ; he took orders from archbifhop Cranmer and Ridley' in .tueen the year 5549, who difpenfed with the habits at his requeft, and be- Ehaabeth, came re6tor of Allballows Breadflreet: He was a famous preacher in the r58ß' reign of king Edward ; but upon the accef ion of queen Mary he fled to Strafburgh, and was highly efteemed by the learned Tremelius. When queen Elizabeth came to the crown, the offered him the bifhoprick of Norwich, which he refufed for no other reafon, but becaufe he could not conform to the habits and ceremonies. In the year 1561, he was inftalled dean of Chrifi Church, Oxon; but loon after in the year 1564., was de- prived by fentence of archbifhop Parker for non-conformity. He after- wards contented himfelf with the maflerfhip of an hofpital in Leicefler, where he fpent the remainder of his days in peace. He was feized with the dead palfey on one fide before he died ; but continued preaching and writing to the lafl, and was in high efleem over all England for his learn- ing, piety, and zeal for the proteflant religion. He died at his hofpital Wood'sAth. with great tranquility and comfort in his non- conformity, the latter end ofOx. p. 238, March, or the beginning of April 1588-9, in the 72d year of his age. Soon after him died the very learned Dr. Lawrence Humphreys, a great DeathofDr. friend and companion of Sampfon's; he was born in Buckinghamfhire, and Humphrey'r. educated in Magdalen College, Oxen, of which he was perpetual fellow. In the reign of queen Mary he obtained leave to travel, and continued at Zurich till queen Elizabeth's accefiîon, when he was made queen's pro feffor in divinity; he was afterwards prefident of Magdalen College, and dean of Gloucefler, which was the higheft preferment he could obtain, becaufe he was a non-conformß from the ceremonies of the church. The Cambden. Oxfordhittorian fays, he was a moderateand confcientious non-conformift, and flocked his college with a generation of that fort of men, that could not be rooted out in many years : He was certainly a tirit Calvinifi, and a bitter enemy of the papifts; he was a great and general fcholar, an able linguift, and a deeper divine than molt of his age: He publifhed many learned works, and at length died in his college, in the 63d year of his age 1589, having had the honour to fee many of his pupils bifhops, while he who was everyway their fuperior, was deniedpreferment for his puritannical principles. To thefe we may add the venerable Edwin Sandys, archbifhop ofYork; Andof Sarr an excellent and frequent preacher in his younger days, and an exile for re- dys archbi- ligion in queen Mary's reign. He was afterwards fuccefhvel bifho of Wor-Top York. Y P kr,p.Par, cer, London, and York, and a zealous defender of the laws againfl non- ker, p. 428, conformitts of all forts; when arguments failed, he would earneftly im- 438. plore the fecular arm ; though he had no great opinion either of the difci- pline or ceremonies of the church, as appears by his last will and teftament, in which are thefe remarkable expreffions. " I am perfuaded that the rites
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