640 The .HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VI. K. Charlesi. and made their peace, by difcovering the king's counfels to the leading 164o. members of parliament, which difabled the junto from making any . confiderable efforts for their fafety. All men had a veneration for the per- fon of the KING, though his majefty had loft ground in their affe&ions by his ill ufage of parliaments, and by taking thefaults ofhisminifters up- on himfelf.. But the Qua EN was in no manner of efteemwith any who had the proteftant religion, and the liberties of their country at heart. The BISHOPS had funk their character by their behaviour in the Spiri- tual Courts, fo that they had nothing to expect, but that their wings fhould be clipt. And the JUDGES were defpifed and hated, for betraying the laws of their country, and giving a fanëtion to the illegal proceedings of the Council and Star-Chamber. As his majefty had few friends of cre- dit or intereft among the people at home, fo he had nothing to expeft from abroad ; France and Spain were pleafed with his diftrefs ; the fo- reign proteflánts wifhed well to the oppreffed people of England; they publifhed their refentments againft the bithops, for their hard ufage of the dutch andfrench congregations, and gave it as their opinion, that apro- teflant king who countenancedpapifls, andat thefame time drovehis protef- tant fuhjetls out of the kingdem, was not worthy the affiance ofthe reform- ed churches, efpecially after he had renounced communion with them, andde- elared openly, that the religionofthe churchof England was not thefame with that of theforeignproteftants. Death of Three confiderable divines of a very different charmer died about this Mr. Bait. time; Mr. yohn Ball, educated in Brazen-Note College Oxon. and after- wards minifter of Whitmore, a (mall village near Newcaftlè inStajòrdfhire, wherehe livedupon twenty pounds a year and the profits of a little fchool. He was a learned and pious man, deferving as high efteem (fays Mr. Baxter) as the belt bithop in England, tho' he was content with a poor houfe, a mean habit, and a fmall maintenance. Being diffatisfied with the terms of conformity, it was fome time before he could meet with an opportunity to be ordained withoutfubfcription, but at laft he obtained it from the hands of an irifh bithop, then occafionally in London ; though he lived and died a non-conformift, he was an enemy to afeparation, and wrote againft Mr. Can and Mr. Robinfon upon that head. His laft Work, entitled 14 Stay againft Straying, was fubfcribed by five molt noted pref- byterian divines, who all teftified that he diedabundantly fatisfied in the caufe of non- conformity, which he diflinguifhed from feparation. His other works were very numerous, and of great reputation in thofe times. He died Oci. 20. 1640. in the fifty-fixth year of his age. OfDr.Chad- Dr. Lawrence Chadderton, born in Lancafhire 1546. of popifh pa- aerton, rents, who when they heard their fon had changed his religion, ditin- herited
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