578 The H I S T ORY of the PURITANS. Chap. V. K. Charlest the high commiflion ; and Land being now at the headof affairs, the bifhop 1633. of Lincoln his diocefa.n could not proteä him. Mr. Cotton applied to the earl of Dorft for his intereft with the archbithop, but the earl fent hint word, that if be bad been guiltyofdrunkennefs, uncleannef, or anyfuch lef- fèrfault, be could have got his pardon, but the fin of puritan fm and non- cofòrmity (fays his lordthip) is unpardonable, and therefòreyou mull flyfor fTour ff ty. Upon . this he travelled. to London in difguite, and took paffage or New England, where he arrived Sept. 3. 1633. and (pent the remain- der of his days, to the year 1652. Aid Mr. Mr. johnDavenport B. D. and vicar of Coleman,flreet London, reign- pbDavenport. ed his living, and retired toHolland this fummer. He had fallen under .B. III. the refentments of his diocefan bithop Laud, for being concerned in the feefìnents, which., together with force notices he received of being prole- cuted for non- conformity, induced him to embark for Amflerdam, where he continued about three years, and then returning to England, he (hip- ped himfelf with force other families for New.England, where he began the feulement of New-Haven in the year 1637. He was a good fcholar, and an admired preacher, but underwent great hardfhips in the infant colony, with whom he continued till about the year 167o. when he died. AndMr.. The reverend Mr. Thomas Hooker fellow of Emanuel College Cam- Mthather. brid and leéturer of Chelmsford inEfex, after four years exercife of his 1Vlaer's bi- á e gory, N. E, miniftry, was obliged to lay it down for nonconformity, though forty-fevers hi. tit. p.60. conformable minifters in the neighbourhood fubfcribed a petition to the bifhop [Laud] in which they declare, that Mr. Hooker wasfor dodfrine or- thodox, for life and converftion hone, for di7pofition peaceable, and in no wife turbulent orfatlious. Notwithflanding which he was filenced by the fpiritual court, 163o. and bound in a recognizanceof fifty pounds to ap- pear before the high commiflion ; but by the advice of his friends, he forfeited his recognizance and fled to Holland; here he continued about two years fellow- labourer with old Mr, Forbes, a Scots man at Delft, from whence he was called to affift Dr. Ames at Rotterdam, upon whole death he returned to England, and being,purfued by the bifhop's officers from place to place, he embarked this fummer for New-England, and fettled with his friends upon the banksof Connelii ut River, where hedied in the year 1.647. He was an awakening preacher, and a confiderable praétieal writer, appears by his books of Preparationfor Chrill, Contrition, Hu- miliation, &c. Dr. Amess The reverend and e learned Dr. WilliamAmes, educated. at Cambridge,. ,death and under the famous Mr. Perkins, fled from the perfecution of archbithop, sharaacr Bancroft, and became minifter of the E+ngl f dutch at the Hague, from whence he was invited by, the Rates of Erieand to the divinity chair in the
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