622 The HIST OM( of tie PURITANS. Chap. VI. K Chharles I. . Mr. Charles Chauncey $. D. educated in Cambridge and greek leFtu- Cr3 rer of his own college in that univerfity. He was afterwards fettled at Nlr. Chaun- Ware, and was ass. admired and ufefùl preacher, till he was driven (ev from thence as has been. related. When the book of(ports was publifh- Mÿ` fÑew ed, and the drums beat about the town tò fummon the people to their England. dances and revels on the Lord's day evening, he preached againft it, for which he was fufpended, and coon after totally filenced. Few fuffered more for non-conformity .(fags my author) by fines, by imprifonment, and by neceffities than Mr. Chauncey ; at length he determined to re- move to. New-England, where he arrived in the year 1638, and be- came prefdent of Harward College in Cambridge. Here he continued a, molt learned, laborious, and ufeful governor, till the year 1671, when he died in the eighty-fecond year of his age ; he left behind him fix tons, the eldeft of which was Dr. Ifaac Chauncey, well known heretofore a- mong the non- conformift miniflers of London. Oliver I pals over the lives of many other divines and fubftantial gentlemen, and nwe who deferted their native country for the peace of their confciences; géntlemtt but it deferves a particular notice that there were eight fail of (hips at baundfer once this fpring in the river of Thames bound for New-England, and land. -E"g- filled with puritan families, among whom (if we may believe Dr. George Bates and. Mr. Dugdale, two famous royalifts) were OLIVER CROM WELL, afterwards protefor of the commonwealth of England, JoHN HAMPDEN Efq; and. Mr. ARTHUR HASELRIGGE, who feeing no end of the opprefiions of their native country, determined to (pend the re- mainder oftheir days in dnaerica but the council being informed of their defign, blued out an order dated May r, 1638, to make flay of thofeflips, and to put on (hare all the provifons intended for the voyage. And to prevent the like for the future, his majefty prohibited all mat- ters and owners of (hips, to fet forth any (hips for New- England with paffengers, without fpecial licenfe from the privy-council ; and gives this Rufhw, remarkable reafon for it, " Becaufe the people of New-England were P. 409. " fa6tious and unworthy ofany fupport from hence, in regard of thegreat " diforders and want of government among them, whereby many that " have been well affeCed to the church of England have been prejudi- " ced in their eftates by them." Others re- When the puritans might not tranfport themfelves to New-England, nave to ..the removed with their families into the LowCountries among the di- Holland, y ; Dr. Tho. vines who went thither about this time, were Dr. Thomas Goodwin Goodwin. educated in Cambridge, and a great admirer of Dr. Preflon. In the year 1628, he was chofen to preach the leCurein Trinity Church, and held it till the year 1634, when he left the univerfity and all his prefer- ments, throúgh diffatisfaCion with the terms of conformity : Having lived
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