Chap. III. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 579 Efq ; and others ; force were confined in the Fleet, the Marthafea, the K. Charles I. Gatehoufe, and other prifons about London, as Sir yohnElliot, Mr. Selden, &C. 16 Upon the whole, there were imprifoned by orders ofcouncil, nine- teen knights, thirteen efquires, and four gentlemen, in the county- gaols ; three knights, one efquire, and four wealthy citizens in the Fleet, betides great numbers in other places. Thofe of the lower fort who refufed to lend were preffed for the army, or had foldiers quartered upon them, who by their infolent behaviour diflurbed the peace offamilies, and com- mitted frequent felonies, burglaries, rapines, murders, and other barbarous cruelties, infomuch that the highways were dangerous to travel, and the markets unfrequented. The king would have borrowed one hundred thou- fand pounds of the city of London, but they excufed themfelves. However his majefty got a round fum of money from the papifis, by iffuing a corn- mifíion to thearchbifhop ofrork, to compound with them for all their for- feitures that had beendue for recufancy, fence the tenth of king names I. or that fhould be due hereafter. By this fatal policy, (fays the noble hiftorian) then well affeéted to the hierarchy, though enemies to arbitrary power, were obliged to fide with the puritans to fave the nation, and enable them . to oppofe the defigns of the court. To convince the people that it was their duty to fubmit to the loan, the Sibthorp's clergy were employed topreach up the doétrines of paffive- obedience and f ",;,onforre non-refiftance, and to prove that the abfolute fubmiffion of fubjefts to Rumgárave. the royal will and pleafure, was the dofrine of holy fcripture; among p. 423. thefe was Dr. Sibthorp, a man of mean parts, but of fordid ambition, who in his fermon at the lent afiizesat Northampton, from Rom. xiii. 7. told the people, " that if princes commanded any thing which fubjeds might " not perform, becaufe it is againft the laws of God or of nature, or impofii- " ble, yet fubjers are bound to undergo the punifhment, without refilling, " or railing, or reviling ; and fo to yield a paffive obedience where they " cannot yield anattive one." Dr. Manwaring went further, in twofer mons preached before the king at Oatlands, and publifhed under the title of religion and allegiance. He Pays, " The king is not bound to ob- And Dr. " ferve the laws of the realm, concerning the fubjeéts rights and liberties, Manwaring's " but that his royal will and pleafure, in impofing taxes without confent " of parliament, doth oblige the fubjefts confcience on pain ofdamnation ; " and that thofe who refufe obedience tranfgrefs the laws of God, infult the king's fupreme authority, and are guilty of impiety, difloyalty, and " rebellion. That the authority of both houfesof parliament is not necef- " fary for the railing aids.and fubfidies, as not fuitable to the exigencies of " the flue." Theme were the dolrines of the court ; " which (lays the " noble hiflorian) were very unfit for the place, and very fcandalotis for the perlons, who prefumed often to determine things out of the vergeof their.
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