Chap.V. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 577 to be put from the bar, and to be forever incapable of his proflion, to be K. Charles I. turned out of the fociety of Lincoln's-Inn, to be degraded at Oxford, toRand 1633. in the pillory at Weftminfter andCheapfrde, to lofe both bis ears, one in each place, to pay afine offive thoufandpounds, and to flierperpetual im- prifonment. Remarkable was the fpeech of the earl ofDorfet on this oc- cafion ; " Mr. Prynne (Pays he) I declare you to be a fchifm-maker in Rufhw. " the church, a fedition-fwer in the commonwealth, a wolf, in fheeps P 33, 240. " cloathing ; in a word, omnium malorumnequmus. I (hall fine him ten " thoufand pounds, which is more than he is worth, yet lets than he de- " ferves. I will not Pet him at liberty, no more than a plagued man or a " mad dog, who though,he can't bite will foam : he is fo far from being " a focial foul, that he is not a rational foul. He is fit to live indens with " fuch beafts of prey, as wolves and tygers, like himfelf; therefore I con- " demn him to perpetual imprifonment; and for corporal punifhment I " would have him branded in the forehead, flit in the note, and have his " ears chopt off." A fpeech more fit for an American favage than an Eng- IJh nobleman ! A fewmonths after, Dr. Baflwick a phyfician at Colcheer, having pub- Dr. Raft- lifsed a book, intited Elenchus religionis papillicce, with an appendix, wick's. called Flagellumpontcis & epifcoporumLatialium, which gave offence to the Englifh bishops, becaufe it denied the divine right of the order of bi- fhops above prefbyters, was cited before the high commiflion, who dif- carded him from his profetfion [1534.] excommunicated him, fined him one thoufand pounds, and imprifoned him till he recanted. Mr. Burton B. D. minifler of Friday/lreet, having publifhed two ex- Mr. Bur ceptionable fermons, from Prov. xxiv. 21, 22. intitled For God and the totí's. King, againft the late innovations, had híi's houle and Rudy broke open by a ferjeant at arms, and himfelf committed clofe prifoner to the Gate-houfe, where he was confined feveral years. Thefe terrible proceedings of the commiffoners made many confcien- tious non-conformifls retire with their families to Holland and New Eng- land, for fear of falling into the hands of men, whofi tender mercies were cruelty. Among others who went ovèr this year, was the reverend and learned Rev. Mr. Mr. john Cotton B. D. Fellow of Emanuel College Cambridge, and mi- Citco re- 'lifter of Bofion in Lincolnfhire, where he was in fuch repute, that Dr. novel :o Preßon and others from Cambridge frequently vifited him ; he was an ad- 1 á hO' mired preacher, and of a molt meek and gentle difpofition : he became a Masher's non-conformift upon this principle, That no church had power to impofi in- Hifr. N. E. diprent ceremonies, not commanded by Chrijt, on the cozfciences ofmen. He III. p. i8, therefore omitted fomeof the ceremonies, and admmiftered the facrament to fuch as defied it without kneeling ; for which he was informed againft in VoL.I. 4 E the
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