Chap. II. 7e MSTOR of the PURITANS. 47t provinces ; he then retired to Tonninghen, in the dukedom of Holfleiu,KiñgjamesI. where he died a profeffed Socinian, Sept. 19. 1622. 1612 His majefly had a further opportunity of difcovering his zeal againfl Baye v ät herefy this year, upon two of his+own fubjeéls. One was BartholomewCrit. Legate an Arian ; he was a comely perfon, of a black complexion, and Heretiekr about forty years of age, of a fluent tongue, . excellently well verfed in the burnt Y Y g $ Y Barth. fcriptures, and ofanunblameable converfation. King names himfelf and Legate. fome of his bithops, in vain conferred with him, in hope of convincing Fuller, him of his errors. Having lain a confiderable time in Newgate he was at B' X. 6 3 length convened before bifhop King in his confiftory at St. Paul's, who with force other divines and lawyers there affembled, declared him a con- tumacious and obdurate kteretick, and certified the fame into chancery by a figr.fcavit, delivering him over to the fecular power; whereupon the king figned a writ de hmretico comburendo to the Sheriffs of London, who brought him to SmithfieldMarch a 8th. and in the midfr of a vafi concourfe of people burnt him to death. A pardonwas offered him at the flake if he would recant, but he refufed ií. Next month Edward Wightman of Burton upon 2'rent, was convicted And Edward of herefy by Dr. Neile bifhop of Cokentry and Litchfield, and was burnt wrghtman. at LitchfieldApril r nth. He was charged in the warrant with the heretics Huller of AritaCerinhus, Manicheeus, and the Anabapti is. ---There was ano- ther condemned to the fire for the fame herefies ; but the conflancy of the above-mentioned fufferers moving pity in the fpeétators, it was thought better to fuffer him to linger out a miferable life in Newgate, . than awaken too far the compaf lions of the people. Nothing was minded at-court but luxury and diverfions. The affairs of Seat, of the the church were left to the bithops, and the affairs of frate to fubordinate court.,. magifirates,or the chief minifters, while the king himfelf funk into a moll indolent and voluptuous life, (offering himfelf to be governed by a favourite, in the ,choice of whom he had no regard to virtue or merit, but to youth, beauty, gracefulnefs of perfon, and fine clothes, &c.. This expofed him to the contempt of foreign powers, who from this time paid him very little regard. At the fame time he was lavifh and profufe in his expencesand grants to his hungry courtiers, whereby he exhaufted his exchequer, and was obliged to have recourfe to arbitrary and illegal methods of railing money by the prerogative. By thefe means be loft the hearts of his people, which all his kingcraft could ne- ver recover, and laid the foundation of thofe calamities, that in the next reign threw church and frate into .fuchconvulfions,.as threatened their final ruin;. But =
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