Chap. V. The HIS TORY of ?be POR Trrs. r$S though it was afarewel fermon to the exercife of catechizing. His graci'sx. Charles I. account of his province this year, gives a farther relation of the fufferings W1J of the puritans : He acquaints his majefty, that the French and Dutch churches had not as yet thoroughly complied with his injunctions. that in the diocefe of London, Dr. Houghton rector of flldermanbury', Mr. Simpfon curate and lecturer of St. Margaret Fifh_flreet, Mr. yob'? Goodwin vicar of Coleman, fireet, and Mr. i7íner of St. Lawrence Old- jewry, `had been convened for breach of canons and had fubmitted ; to whom his grace might have added Dr. Sibbes, Dr. Taylor, Dr. Gouge, Mr. White of DorfetJbire, and about twenty'more; fome of whom fled into Holland, and others retired into NewEngland; The bifhop of Bath endWells certified, that he had not one tingle lefture in any corporation town, and that all afternoon fermons were turned into catechizings in all parifhes. In the diocefe of Norwich were many puritans, but that Mr. Ward of Yarmouth was in the high commiffiion From the diocefe of Llandaf; Mr. Wroth and Mr, Earbury two noted fchifmaticks, were brought before the high commiflion. And that in the diocefe ofGtou- cOer, were feveral popular and faflious minu tero. It mutt be confeffed, that the zeal of the puritans was not always well re- IndBrett gulated; nor were theirminifters fo muchon their guard in the pulpit, orcon- zeal ejthe verfation as they ought, eonfidering the number of infòrmers that entered RP;n n all their churches, that infinuated themfelves into all publick converfation, p.%014. and like fo many locufts, covered the land. Thefe were to numerous and corrupt, that the king was obliged to bring them under certain re- gulations; for no man was fafe in publick company, nor even in conver- :fing with his friends and neighbours. Many broke up houfe- keeping; that they might breathe in a freer air ; which the council being informed of; a proclamation was publifhed, {yuly 21.] forbidding all perlons, ex- kept foldiers, mariners, merchants, and their faftors, to depart the king- dom without his majefty's licenfe. But notwithftanding this prohibition, numbers went' to New England Mr. Eulkteÿ this fummer ; and among others the reverend Mr. Peter Bulkley B. D. W and fellow of St. 7obn's College Cambridge. He was fon of Dr. Edward;and. Bulkley of Bedford/hire, and fucceeding him at Woodbil or Odd in that county. Here he continued above twenty years, the hilltop ofLincoln con- niving at his non-conformity: But when Dr. Laud etas at the helm of the church, and the bifhop of Lincoln indifgrace, Brelkley was lilenced by the vi- car-general SirNathaniel Brent; upon which he fold a very plentiful eftate, and tranfported himfelf and his effeêts to New England, where he-died in the year 1558 -9. and the feventy-feventh of his age. He was a thun- -dering preacher, and a judicious divine, as appears by his treatife of the Vo1.. 1. 4 F covenant,
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