5í3o 21 HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. V. K. Charles I. " fl:ops, &c. in the year t 562. for the avoiding diverfity of opinions, and 1 3 ^ " for eftablifhing content touching true religion ; and therefore if any " hereafter fhall affirm, that any of thefe articles are in any part fuperfli- " tious or erroneous, or fuch as he may not with a good confcience tub- " fcribe unto, let him be excommunicated." Remarks. The Irifh bithops thought they had loft nothing by this canon, becaufe they had laved their own articles, but Laud took advantage of it during the time of his `chancellorfhip ; for hereby the church of Ireland denounced the fentenceof excommunication againft all that affirmed anyof the thirty- nine articles to be fuperftitious or erroneous, that is, againft the whole B. Xi. body of the puritans; and Fuller adds,, that their own articles which coo- p. 149. demned arminianifm, and maintained the morality of the fabbath, were utterly excluded. Mr. Shep- This fummer the reverend Mr. Thomas Shepard M. A. fled to New- pard removes England. He had been lefturer at Earl's Coln in Efex feveral years, but to EsNI and. when Laudbecame bifhop of London his lefture was put down, and him- Pelf fllenced; he then retired into the family of a private gentleman, but the bifhop's officers following him thither, he travelled into Torkfhire, where Neile archbifhop of that province commanded him to fubfcribe or depart the country ; upon this he went to Hedon in Northumberland, where his laboúrs were profpered to the converfion of fume fouls; but the bifhop ofDurham, by the direCtion of archbifhop Laud, forbid his preaching in any,part of his diocefe, which obliged him to take (hipping at Yarmouth for New-England; here he continued pallor of the church at Cambridge till his death, which happened Aug. a5. 564.9. in the forty-fourth year of his age. He was a hard fludent, an exemplary chriftian, and an eminent prac- tical writer, as appears by his Sincere Convert, and other praCical works that go under his name. And Mr. The reverend Mr. John Norton went over in the fame (hip with Mr. Norton. Sheppard, being driven out of Hertfordfhire by the feverity of the times.. He fettled at Ipfwich in New- England, and was afterwards removed to, lion, where he died in the year 4665. Mr. Fuller Pays, he was a divine of no lefs learning than modefty, as appears fufficiently by, his numerous, writings. French and His gr., of Canterbury having made Tome powerful effòrts to bring botch the churches of Scotland and Ireland to an uniformity with England, re Churches folved in his metropolitical vifitation this futnmer, to reduce the Dutch and, obliged to French churches (which were ten in number, having between five and fix . canformitx thoufand communicants) to the fame conformity ; for. this purpofe he ten- dered them thefe three articles of enquiry. r. " Whether do you ufe the.Dutch or French liturgy ? n. " Of how many defcents are you fance you carne into England?
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