Chap. VI. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 62I leaders of this colony were Theophilus Eaton, Efq; and the reverend Mr. K Charles I. Davenport, who came from England with a large retinue of acquaintance s638. and followers ; they fpread along the coati, and fiat built the town of NEW-HAVEN, which gives name to the colony ; and after fome time the towns of Guilford, Milford, Stamford, Brentford, &c. Notwith- Banding thefe detachments, the Maffachzfets-bay had fuch frequent re- cruits from England, that they were continually building new towns or enlarging their feulements in the neighbourhood. Among the divines who went over this fummer, was the reverend Puritan mi- Mr. Ezekiel Rogers, M. A. force time chaplain in thefamily of Sir Fran- nters re cis Barrington of Hatfield Broad Oak in Epex and afterwards vicar of w- Rswley in l'ork/hire, where he continued a fuccefsful preacher to a nu- Mr. Rogers. merous congregation almo(t twenty years ; the archbithop of that dio. Mather'shif- cele [Dr. Matthews] being a moderate divine, permitted the nie of thofeEogjftdew- leétures or prophelyings which queen Elizabeth had put down ; the it. 11I. minifters within certain difirkis had their monthly exercifes, in which P. 1Or one or two preached and others prayed before a numerous and attentive audience. One of the hearers that bore an ill-will to the exertfes, told the archbifhop that the minitters prayed againft him ; but his grace inftead of giving credit to the informer, anlwered with a frnile, that he could hardly believe him, becaufe thole good men know (lays he) that ifI were gone to heaven their EXERCISES wouldfoon beput down ; which came to pals accordingly, for no fowler was his fucceffor [Mile] in his chair but he put a period to them, and urged fubfcription with fo much fe- verity, that many of the clergy were fufpended and filenced ; among whom was Mr. Rogers, who having no further profpea of ufefulnefs in his own country, embarked with feveral of his Torkfhire friends for New- England, where he arrived in the fummer of the year 1638, and fettled at a place which he called Rowley. Here he fpent the remainder of his days, amidfl a variety of aflfiétions and forrows till the year 166o, when he died, in the feventieth year of his age. Mr. Samuel Newman author of that concordance ofthe bible that bears Mr. Nett/ hisname ; he was born at Banbury, educatedat Oxford, and having finith- man. ed his ftudies, entered into holy orders, and became minifier of a fmall living in that county; but the leyere profecutions of the fpiritual courts, obliged him to no lefs than (even removals, till at length he refolved to get out of their reach and remove-with his friends to New-England, where he arrived this fummer, and fettled at Rehoboth in the colony of New-Plimouth, where he fpent the remainder of his days to the year 5663, when he died in the' fixty-third year of his age. He was a hard= ftudent, a lively preacher, and of an heavenly converfation,. Mr
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