Chap. VI. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 627 Mr. Bagfhaw a lawyer of fume ftanding in the Middle Temple, be- K. Charles I. ing chufen reader in that houfe for the Lent vacation, began to attack rb ? the power of the bithops. In his lectures on the 25th Edw. III. cap. 7. Baagmawas he maintained, that acts of parliament werevalid without the of ent of the reads the lordsfpiritual. 2. That no beneficed clerk was capable of temporal jurif- bllop,. diction at the making that law. And 3. that no bifhop, without calling Heylin's Irfe a fyaod, had power as a diocefan to conviEt an heretick. Laud being of Laud, p. informed of thefe pofitions, told the king that Bag/haw had juftifrel 3 the Scots covenanters in decrying the temporal jurifdi Lion of church- men, and the undoubted right of the bithops to their feats in parlia- ment ; upon which he was immediately interdicted all further reading on thofe points; and thoughBagfhaw humbly petitioned the lord keeper and the archbifhop for liberty to proceed, he could get no other an- fwer after long attendance, than that it had been better for him not to have meddled with that argument, whichfbouldftick clofer to him than be was aware of Whereupon he retired into the country. The refolution of the Englifh court to renew the war with Scotland, Ea 640. ® was owing to the lord deputy Wentworth, whom archbifhop Laudhad Srraff d lent for from Ireland for this purpofe. This nobleman from being an called out of eminent patriot, was become a petty tyrant, and had governed Ireland Ireland, ad- in a molt arbitrary and fovereign manner for about feven years, dif- wfe. -a frond countenancing the proteftants; becaufe they were Calvinifts, and enclined to puritanii in, and giving all imaginable encouragement to the Roman catholicks, as friends to the prerogative, whereby he fuffered the balance . of power in that kingdom to fall into the hands of the papifts. Went- worth being come to court, was immediately created earl of Strajird and knight of the garter, and in concert with Laud advifed the king to fet afide thepacification, and to pufh theScots war withvigor, offering his, majefty eight thoufand Irifh, and a large film of money for his afíïftance ; but this not being fufficient, the war was thought fo reafonable and ne- cefl'ary to the king's honour, that it might be ventured with an Englifh parliament, which being laid before the council, was chearfully agreed to, and (after twelve years interval) a parliament was fummoned to meet April i3. 1640. The Scots forefeeing the impending ftorm, confulted where to fly Scots are for fuccour ; fome were for throwing themfelves into the hands of the enc urgety French, and accordingly wrote a very fubmiffive letter to that monarch, figned by the hands of (even Scots peers, but never Pent it; for upon application to their friends at London, they were affured by a letter drawn up by lord Saville, and figned by himfelf, with the names of Bedford, Effex, Brook, Warwick, Say and Seal, and Mandeville, (who agreed to the letter, though they were fo cautious as not to write their 4L 2 own
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