372 The H LSTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VIII. El ee t, that no private perfonsmight reform the fiate, but they are toabftain from 1592 .any any unlawful thing commanded by the prince. 9. Whether every parti- wti cular church ought to have aprefbytery? He anfwered in the affirmative. After this examination he was remanded to doleprifon, and denied a copy of his answers, though he earnestly defired it. Hajecond His next examination was before the archbifhop, the lord chancellor, examination. lord treafurer, lord Buckhurfl, and the bishop of London, at Whitehall where he, found twelve of his brethren in the fame circumftances with himfelf, but was not admitted to (peak to them. Being called into ano- ther room and kneeling down at the end of the table, the lord treafurer fpoke to him thus. Ireaf. Why are you in prifon? Barrowe, Upon the ftatute againft recufants. TTreafurer, Why will you not go to church ? Barrowe, Becaufe I think the church of England as eftablifhed by law not a church of Chrift, nor their manner of worship lawful. After a long debate on this head the treafurer laid, You complain of injuftice, where have you wrong ? Barrowe, In being kept in prifon without due trial; and in the misery we fuller by a dole imprifonment contrary to law. The archbishop laid, he had matter to call him before him for an heretick. Barrowe replied, that you (hall never do, I may err, but heretick by the grace of God I will neverbe. It being obferved that he did not pay fuch reverence to the archbishop and bishop of London as to the temporal lords, the chancellor asked him, if he did not know thole two men, pointing to the bifhops. Towhich he anfwered, that he had caufe to know them, but did not own them for lord bishops. Being then afked by what naine he would call the archbishop ; he replied, that he was a monfler, a perfecutor, a compound of he knew not what, neither ecclefiaflical nor civil, like thefe- cond bea, fl fpoken of in the revelations : Upon which the archbithop rote out of his place, and with a severe countenance Paid, my lords, will you fufér him ? So he was plucked off his knees, and carried away. YriatofMr. Mr. Greenwood the minifter was examined after the fame manner be= Barrowe, fore the archbifhop of Canterbury, the bifhops of London and Wincher,. Greenwood, P yr andothers. the lords chief juf ices, the lord chi f baron, and the mailer of the rolls: He had interrogatories put to him as Barrowe had, but refuted to fwear, and made much the fame anfwer with the other. At length, on the 21ft of March, ;592. they together with Saxio Begot, Gent. Daniel Studley, girdler, and Robert Bowlte, fithmonger, were indicted at the feffions. houle in the Old-Bailey, upon the statute of 23 Eliz. for writing and publifling fundry feditious books and pamphlets, tending to the Hander of the queen andgovernment ; when they had onlywrote againft the church ; but this was the archbifhop's artful contrivance, to throw off the odium of their death from himfelf too the civil magiftrate; for as the reverend and
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