Chap. IV. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 565 widow ; notwithftanding this misfortune, if he woald have betrayed the K. Charles I. proteftant religion, and been the dupe of the prerogative, he might have 1633 continued in high favour with his prince ; but for his Ready oppofition to r' the arbitrary meafures of Buckingham and Laud, and for not licenfing Sib- tborp's fermon, he was fufpended from hisarchiepifcopal jurifdiêtion [1628.] whereupon he retired to Croydon, having no more intereft at court, or in- fluence in the government of the church; here he died, in his archie- pifcopal palace Augufi 4th. 1633. aged feventy-one, and was buried in Trinity church in Guilford, the place of his nativity, where he had erec- ted and endowed an hofpital for men and women. There is a fine mo- nument over his grave, with his effigies in full proportion, fupported by fix pillars of the dorick order of black marble, Handing on fix pedeflals of piled books, with a large infcription thereon to his memory. C H A P. V. From the death of archbyhóp ABBOT, to the beginning of the commotions in Scotland in theyear 1637. DR. LAUD was now at the pinacle of preferment, being tranflated to Laud crab- the fee of Canterbury two days after archbifhop Abbot's death. bßmpofCan- His grace waslikewife chancellor of the univerfities of Oxford and Dublin, terbun. privy counfellor for England and Scotland, firft commif loner of the Ex- chequer, and one of the committee for trade, and for the king's revenues: He was alío offered a cardinal's cap Augu/i r7.] which he declined (as he faya) becaufe there wasfomething dwelt withinhim which would notfu i'r it, till Romewas otherwfe than it was. We are now to fee howhe moved in this high fphere. Lord Clarendon admits, " that the archbifhop had all " his life eminently oppofed Calvin's doctrine, for which reafon he was " called a papift; and it may be (faya his lordfhip) the puritans found " the more fevere and rigorous ufage for propagating the calumny. He " alfo intended, that the difcipline of the church fhould be felt as well " as fpoken of." The truth of this obfervation has appeared in part al- ready, and will receive fironger evidence from the feven enfuingyears of his government. The archbifhop's antipathy to calvinifm, and zeal for the external beau- ty of the church, carried him to Tome very imprudent and unjuftiflable ex.. tremes ;
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