43 2 The HISTORY of the PoRITAN9. Chap.!. K;ng Tames'. for whom we shall always pray, &c,Monfieur de la Fountain delivered the 1604. addrefs, with a (hort latinfpeech, to whom the bifhop replied, " I thankyou, " moti dear brethren, for your kind addrefs; I am fenfible of the merits of " ,ohn .odla /o, Utenhovius, andEdmund Grindal bifhop of London, fuperin- ". tendents of your churches; andof the reft of my predeceffors in this bi- " fhoprick, who had reafon to take your churches, which are of the fame. " faith with our own, under their patronage, which I alfo am ready to do. Strype's Ann. " I have known your churches twenty-five years to have been beneficial to Vol. utt. " the kingdom, and ferviceable to the church of England, in which the P. 395 " devil, the author of difcord, has kindled the fire of diffention, into; " which I pray you not to pour oil, but to endeavour, byyour counfels " and prayers, to extinguifh." Thus the foreign churches enjoyed full peace, while his majefty's own fubje ts, of the fame faith and difcipline with them, were harraffed out of the kingdom. BANCROFT was a.divive of a rough temper, a perfect creature of the prerogative, and a declared enemy of the religious and civil liberties of his country. He was for advancing the prerogative above law, and for en- larging the jurifdiltion of the fpiritual courts, by advifing his majefty to take from the courts of Weflminfler-hall to himfelf, the whole right of grantingprohibitions ; for this purpofe he framed twenty-five grievances of the clergy, which he called articuli cleri, and prefented them to the king for his approbation ; but the judges having declared them to be con- trary to law, they were fet afide. Perfrcution His grace revived the ,perfeeution of the puritans; enforcing the ftriét of the pu- .obfervance ofall the feftivals of the church ; reviving theufe ofcopes, fur- ritans revs- pukes caps, hoods, f&c according to the firft fervicebook of kingEdward; ved. obliging the clergy to fubfcribe over again to the three articles of Whit- gift, which by the late canon [N°. XXXVI.] they were to declare they Altare Da- did willingly and from the heart. By thefe methods of feverity above male. three hundred puritan minifterswere filenced or deprived; tome ofwhom were excommunicated and calf into prifon, others were forced to leave their native country and livelihood, and go into banifhment, to preferve E. W. their confciences. (Ifay fays Mr. Collier) to preferve their confciences, for p. 687. it is a hard thing to bring every body's underflanding to the commonßandard, and to make all honk men of the fame mind. Opinion of To countenance and fupport the archbithop's proceedings, the king the Star- fummoned the twelve judges into the flar-chamber, and demanded their ments upon three ons ' prefent a- ud è uefti there were the Whops of Can- bout riv g p q Lions, proi- térbury and London, and about twelve lords of the privy-council. bitions, and The lord chancellor opened the afl'embly with a (harp fpeech againft petitions, the puritans, as difturbers of the peace, declaring that the king in- tended to fupprefs them, by having the laws put in execution; and thn
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