Chap. VIII. The -HISTORY oftZe PURITANS. 347 than our gracious queen profeffes herfelf to be to the preaching of the Queen " word and the adminiftration of the facraments," Fhiaberl With this declaration ofhis faith he fent an humble requeft, that if her majefty would not gracioufly be pleafed to pardon him, the would change : tb bis fentence into ban/ment, that the land might not be charged with his be bombed; blood. King James ofScotland wrote to the queen, requefting molt ear- BUI3L. neftly, that for thefake of his intercefen, Udal might be relieved of his p, 203 prefent lirait, promifing to do the like for her majefty in any matter the lhould recommend to him. TheTurkey merchants alto offered to fend him as chaplain to one oftheir faétories abroad, if he might have his life and li- berty ; which Udalconfented to, as appears by his letter to the lord trea- futer, in which he fays, Lamentable is my cafe, having been three years " in durance, which makes me humbly defire your lordfhip's favour, that " I may be releafed from my imprifon,nent, the Tufkey merchants having " my confent togo into Syria or Guinea, there to remain two years with " their faftors, if my liberty may be obtained," The writer of archbi< fhop Whitgift's life fays the archbifbop yielded to this petition; that the lord keeper promifed to further it ; and that the earl of Ejex had a draught of apardon ready prepared, with this condition annexed; that he Mould never return without the queen's licence ; but her majefty never figned it, and the Turkey fhips going away without him, poor unhappy His dee,th Udal died a few months after in the marfhafaprifon, gt to heart - broken andcharm.- with forrow and grief, about the end ofthe year 5 S92. Mr. Fuller fays roc. he was a learned man, and of a blamelefs life, powerful in prayer,and no P, 222. lets profitable than painful in preaching. He was decently interred in the churchyard of St. George Southwark, not far from the grave ofbifhop Bon- ner, being honoured with the attendance of great numbers of the London minifters, who vifited him in prifon, and now wept over the remains of a man, who after a long and fevere trial of his faith and patience, died for the teftimony ofa good confcience, and Rands upon record as a monument,of the oppreflion and cruelty of the government under which he fuffered. Though the moderate puritans publicklydifowned the libels above-men- Exam;sin ; tioned, and condemned the fpirit with which theywerewritten, they were ofMr. Cart- neverthelefsbrought into trouble for their ajciations. Amongothers, the wri °ht and reverend Mr. Cartwright father of the puritans, and matter of the new h`s brerhrïh. hofpital at Warwick, was fufpended by his diocefan, and fummoned before thehigh commiflìoners, who committed him to the Fleet with his brethren, Mr. Egerton, Fen, Wight, Farmer, Lord, Snape, King, Rrfibroke, Wig- gins, Littleton, Field, Rode, Payne, Proudlove, and ewel. At their firft appearance the commifiioners afked them, where they held their efci- attons or afemblies, and howoften ? Who were prefent, and what matters were treated of? Who correéted or fet forth thebook f difcipline, and who X y 2 had
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