Chap. VII. ?7e HISTORY of the PURITANS. 657 . At the delivery of thefe articles Mr. Pym declared, that the commons K. Charles r. referved to themfelves the liberty of prefenting fome additional articles, by '64°. which they intended to make the charge more particular and certain as to time and other circumftances ; and prayed their lord(hips to put the caufe into as quick a forwardnefs as they could. When the archbifhop had heard the articles read, he made his obei Brchbjop fance to the houfe and laid, " Thut it was a great and heavy charge, and hpm e[ or .. that he was unworthy to live if it could be made good ; however, it fÎ was yet but in generals, and generals made a great noiCe but were no " proof. For human frailties he could not excufe himfelf; hut for cor- << ruption in the leaft degree, he feared no accufer that would (peak truth. But that which went neared him, was that he was thoughtfalfe in his " religion, as if he should profefs with the church of England, and have " his heart at Rome." He then befought their lordfhips, that he might enlarge himfelf, and fo made a short reply to each article, which confid- ed in an abfolute denial of the whole. The lords voted him to the Tow- He Isfenrto er; whither he was carried in Mr. Maxwell's coach through the city, on theTower Monday March t. It was defigned he should have paired incognito, but an apprentice in Newgate-Street happening to know him raifed the mob, which furrounded the coach, and follocved.him with huzza's and infults till he got within the Tower gate. Indeed, fuch was the univerfal ha- tred of all ranks and orders of men againft this infolent prelate, for his cruel ufage of thofe who had fallen into his hands in the timeof his prof- perity, that no man's fall in the whole kingdom was fo unlamented as his. His grace being lodged in the Tower, thought it his intereft to be quiet, without fo much as moving the lords to be brought to a trial or putting in his anfwer to the articles of impeachment, till the commons after two or three years, exhibited their additional articles, and moved the peers to appoint a day for his trial. Before the archbifhop was confined, he had the mortification to fee prifoners of molt of the church and (tate prifoners releafed ; Nov. 16. the bifhop of the preroga- Lincoln was difcharged from his imprifonment in the Tower, and his fineti,e reSeaYed. remitted. Next day being a public fait, he appeared in the Abbey church Lincoln at'We iminfter, and officiated as dean. When he refumed his feat in the houfe of lords, he behaved with more temper than either the king or the archbifhop could expect ; whereupon his majefty Pent for him, and en- deavoured to gain him over to the court, by promifing to make him full fatisfaction for his part fufferings; in order to which his majefty com- manded all the judgments that were entered againft him to be difcharged, and within a twelve-month tranflated him to the archbifhoprick of York, with leave to hold his deanry of Wßminfer in commendam for three VoL. I, 4 P years :
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