Chap. VIII.. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 34r anfwer without prefentment before juflices on matters of record, or by due Been proofs and writ original, &c. A. 42 Edward 3. cap.. 3. 4nderfon. That EL59eth, r is law if it be not repealed. Bi./hop of Rothefter. Pray let me afk you a queftion concerning your book. But Udal was upon his guard, and faid, It is not yet proved to be mine. Mr. Solicitor. I am forry, Mr. Udal, you will not anfwer nor take an oath, which by law you ought to do ; but he did not fay by what law. tidal. Sir, if I have a liberty by law, there is no reafon why I fhould not challenge it : Shew me by what law I am obliged to accule myfelf. Dr. Lewin. You have taken the oath hereto- fore, why fhould you not take it now ? Udal. I then voluntarily con- feßèd certain things concerning my preaching of the points of difcipline, which could never have been proved ; and when my friends laboured to have me reftored to my miniflry, the archbifhop anfwered, there was fufficient matter againft me by my own confeflion, why I fhould not be reftored ; whereupon I covenanted with my own heart never to be my own acculer again. At length the bifhop told him his fentence for that time, was to be fent to the Gate houfe: Take it in his own words, " I was carried to " the Gate-bofe by a meffenger, who delivered me with a warrant to " be kept dole prifoner, and not to be fuffered to have pen, ink, or " paper, or any body to fpeak with me. Thus I remained half a year, " in all which time my wife could not get leave to come to me, Paving " only that in the hearing of the keeper the might fpeak to me, and I " to her of fuch things as the fhould think meet. All which time, " my chamber-fellows were feminary priefls, traitors, and proffed pa- " pills. At the end of the half year I was removed to the White Lion in " Southwark, and fo carried to the affizes at Croydon." On the 23d of .7uly Mr. Udal was brought to Croydon with fetters on His trig!. his legs, and indicted upon the ftatute 23 Eliz. cap. 2. before baron Clarke and Mr. Serjeant Puckering, for writing awicked, fcandalous and feditious libel, called a demonfiration of difeiptine, dedicated to the fuppo- fed governors of the church of England, in which is this paffage ; Who cart without blufhing deny you the bithops] to be the caule L. of Whit " of all ungodlinefs ? Forafmuch as your government gives liberty for a gift, p- 343s " man to be any thing but a found chriftian ; it is more free in thefe " days to be a. papift or a wicked man, than what we fhould be; I " could live twenty years as fuch in England, and it may be in a " bifhop's houfe, and not be molefled : So true it is, that you care for " nothing but the maintenance of your dignities, be it to the damna- " tion of your own fouls, and infinite millions more." Thefe are the words of-the indictment. -To which Mr. Udal pleaded not guilty, and . put hitxtfelf upon the trial of his country. In opening the caule, Me. Dalton
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