554. Ve HISTORY of the PURITANS: Chap. IV. K. Charles I. the very texts of theothers (fays Mr. Fuller) gave offence : One preached 163r. on Numbers xiv. 4. Let us make us a captain, and let us return into Egypt Book XI. And another on i Kings xii. 2. Andhe cried againfi the altar in the wordof P. 141. the Lord, andfaid, O altar, altar, &c. Thefe divines being convened before the vice chancellor Dr. Smith, as offenders againft the king's Infíruelions,. appealed from the vice-chancellor to the proétors, who received their ap_. Rathw peal. Upon this, the chancellor complained to the king, and procured Part H. thecaufe to be heard before his majefty at Wood ock Au 23. when the p. rro. J Y i , $ 3 following fentence was paled upon them : " That Mr. Ford Thorn, and Hodges, be expelled the univerfity ; thatboth the prodors be deprived C.r of their places for accepting the appeal ; and that Dr. Prideaux redor " of Exeter college, and Dr. Wilkinfon principal of Magdalen-Hall, re l'rynne, " ceive a (harp admonition for their mifbehavionr in this bufinefs." Mr. Cant. Thorn and Hodges, after a year's deprivation, defirin to be reftored .loom.p.r75. g Y P' > g , preached a recantation fermon, and read a written fubmiffion in the con- vocation houfe on their beaded knees, before the doEtors and regents ; but Mr. Ford making no addrefs to be reftored, returned to his friends in Devonfhire ; and being like to be chofe l-e urer or vicar of Plymouth, the inhabitants were required not to choofe him, upon pain of his majefty's high difpleafure; and in cafe he was chofeta, the bifhop of Exeter was- commanded not to admit him. . ardlhips of Mr. Crowder vicar ofhell near Nonfuch,, was about this time commit- M:. Crow- der. ted chofe prifoner to Newgate for fixteen weeks, and then deprivedby the high commiffion, without any articles exhibited againft him,, or proof of acrime. It was pretended that matters againft him were fo foul, that . they were not fit to be read in court; but then they ought to have been certified to him, that he might have had an opportunity to difprove or confefs them, which could not be obtained. Mr. Crowder was a pious man, and preached twice a day, which was an unpardonable crime fo near thecourt. 11Ir, Elliot Sundry eminent divines removed to New Englandthis year; and among remover to others the famous Mr. Elliott, the apoftle of the Indians, who not being New Eng- land, allowed to teach fchool in his native country, retired to America, and fpent a long and ufeful life in converting the natives, and with indefati gable pains tranflated the bible into the Indianlanguage. DeathafMr. Two very confiderable puritan divines were alfo removed into the other Arthur Hil- world by death, viz.) Mr. Arthur Hilderfhám, born t Stechworth Cam- deráham. bridgefhire, Oticber the 6th, 5563. and educated in, Chrill's College Cam- bridge; of an ancient and honourable family ; his mother AnnePoole being niece to the cardinal of that name. His father educated him in the po- pith religion; and becaulè he would not go to Rome at fourteen or fifteen years of age, difinherited him: But the earl ofHuntingdon, his near kinf- man
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