Chap. V. ireHIST'ORY of the PURITANS. . 599 hibited againft the bifhop for divulging fcandalous libels againft the king's E. Charlesi. privy counfellors. His lordfhip,replied that he did not remember his 1637 having received the letters, and was fore he had never divulged them, '; becaufe they were ftill among his private papers; but nötwithftanding all he could fay, he was condemned in a fine of eight thoufand pounds; five thoufand to the king, and three thoufand to the archbifhop ; for the non- payment ofwhich he was kept clofe prifoner in the Tower till the meeting of the long parliament. The reverend Mr. Osbaldellon was charged with plotting with the bilh.op Sentenee of ofLincoln to divulge f al f e news, and to breed a d T e r ence between the lord k Ofbat- treafurer Weflon and the archbi f ho p o fCanterbury, as longago as the ye ar i ll 1633. The information was grounded upon the two letters alreadymen- p. 803, 817,." tinned, in which he reportsa mifunderflanding between the great levia- than and the little urchin. And though the council for the defendant, abfolutely denied any reference to the archbifhop, and named the perfons meant in the letter, yet the court fined himfive thoufand pounds to the king, and. five thoufandpounds to the archbop ; to be deprived cf all his fpiri- tual dignities and promotions, to be imprifonedduring the king's pleafure, and to f and in the pillory in the Dean's Yard before his ownfchool, and have his ears nailed to it. Mr. Osbalde,Pion being among the crowd in the court when this fentence waspronounced, immediately went home to his Rudy at Wellininfter-fchool, and having burnt fame papers abfconded, leaving a note upon his defkwith thefe words, If the archbjhop inquire after me, tell him Iam gone beyond Canterbury. The meffengers were foon at his houfe, and finding this note, fent immediately to the fea-ports to appre- hend him; but belay hid in aprivate houfe in Drury-Lane till the fearch was over, and then concealed.himfelf till the meeting of the long parlia- ment ; however, all his goods and chattels were feized and confifcated. This"Mr. Osbaldefion was M. 4. of Chrifl Church College Oxford, and pre- bendary of LPßminfier ; he was an admirable matter, and had eighty doe"tors in the two univerfities that had been his fcholars, before the year 164o; hewas afterwards reftoredby the long parliament, but when :Ath. Ox, he apprehended they went beyond the bounds of their duty and allegiance, p. 212. he laiddown his fchool and favoured the royal caufe. - Mr. Lilburne afterwards a' colonel in the army, for refuting to take And of Mr. an oath to anfwer all interrogatories concerning his importing andpubl. Lisburne. ing feditious libels, was fined five hundred pounds, and to be whipped through the ftreets from the Fleet to the pillory before Weflminfer Hall Gate, April 8th. 1638; While he was in the pillory he uttered many bold and paf3ionate fpeeches againft the tyrrany of the bifhops; where- upon the court of ftar chamber then fitting, ordered him to be gagged, which was done accordingly; and that whemhe was .carried back to pri- fon
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