658 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VII, X. Charles I. years : the bifhop therefore never complained to the houle of his fuffer- 4o. ings, or petitioned for fatisfaEtion. Prynne, Mr. Prynne, Mr. Burton, and Dr. Ba/lwick, being remanded from the Burton and feveral iflands to which they had been confined, Upon their humble pe- Baftwick. tition to the houfe of commons, were met fome miles out of town by great numbers ofpeople on horfeback with rofemary and bays in their hats, and efcorted into the city in a fort of triumph, with loud acclamations for their deliverance ; a few weeks after the houle came to the following re- folutions, " That the feveral judgments againft them were illegal, unjuff, " and againft the liberty of the fubjett : that their feveral fines be re- " mitted ; that they be reftored to their feveral profef ions; and that for reparation of their loffes, Mr. Burton ought to have fix thoufand "" pounds, and Mr. Prynne and Dr. Baflwick five thoufand pounds each, u out of the eftates of the archbithop of Canterbury, the high commit.- " fioners, and thofe lords who had voted againft them in the Star- " .Chamber; " but the confufion of the times prevented the payment of the money. Dr. Leighton was releafed about the fame time, and his fine of ten thoufand pounds remitted : the reading hispetition drew tears from the houle, being to this effe&. The humble petition of Alexander Leighton, prifoner in the Fleet. HumblyJhewetb, Dr. Leigh -" H AT on Feb. 17. 163o. he was apprehended coming from ton'rpetition. " fermon by a high commiflion warrant, and dragged along the " ftreet with bills and Raves to London-hole. That the gaolar of New- " gate being fent for clapt him in irons, and carried him with a ftrong `' power into a loathfome and ruinous dog-hole full of rats and mice, that " had no light but a little grate, and the roof being uncovered, the fnow and rain beat in upon him, having no bedding nor place to make ." a fire but the ruins of an old fmoaky chimney. In this woful place " he was Phut up for fifteen weeks; no-body being fuffered to come to " him, till at length his wife only was admitted. That the fourth day after his commitment, the purfuivant with a mighty multitude came to his houfe to fearch for jefuits books, and ufed his wife in fuel a barbarous and inhuman manlier as he is afhamed to exprefs; that they rifled every perfon and place, holding " a piflol to the breaft of a child of five years old, threatning to kill " him if he did not difcover the books; that they broke open chefls, preffes, boxes, and carried away every thing, even houfhold ftufl; ap- parel,,
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