Chap. VII. 7 eHISTORYof the PURITANS. 659 " parel, arms, and other things; that at the end of fifteen weeks he was K. Charles I. " lerved with a Jubprena, on an information laid againft him by Sir Robert 164' 1° Heath attorney general, whole dealing with him was full of cruelty " and deceit; but he was then lick, and in the opinion of four phyfi- " ciaras thought to be poifoned, becaufe all . his hair and 1kin came off ; " that in the height of this ficknefs the cruel fentence was paffed upon ,' him mentioned in the year 163o. and executed Nov. 26. following, " when he received thirty-fix firipes upon his naked back with a three- " fold cord, his hands being tied up to a flake, and then flood almoft" " two hours in the pillory in the frofl and fnow, before he was branded in the face, his nofe flit, and his ears cut off; that after this he was " carried by water to the Fleet, and (hut up in fuck a room that he was never well, and after eight years was turned into the common ° Gaol ---." The houle voted him fatisfa&ion,for his fufferings ; but He is relea, it does not appear that he adually received any, except being appointedled. keeper of Lambeth houfe as a prifon, for which he mutt be very unfit, be- ing now in the feventy - fecond year of his age, and worn out with pover- ty weaknefs and pain. Beides thole aforenamed, there were likewife let at liberty, Dr. Of. Dr. Oíbal- baldeßon one of the prebendaries of Weflminfler ; the reverend Mr. Hen- defton and a-. ry Wilkinfon B. D. of Magdalen-hall Oxford, Mr, Smith, Wilfon, Small, Nalfon, Cooper, and Brewer, who had been in prifon fourteen years ; Mr. Georgep. 250. Walker, who had been committed for preaching a fermon ()Sob. rq.. Ib. p. 570. 1638. at St. john the Evangel/11's London, and detained four weeks in the hands of a meffenger, to whom he paid twenty pounds fees. This gentleman after his profecution in the Star Chamber, had been (hut up ten weeks in the Gate-houfe, and at laft compelled to enter intoa bond of a thoufand pounds to confine himfelf prifoner in his brother's horde at Chifwick, where he continued till this time, his parfonage being fequefler- ed; and in general all who were confined by the high commißion were releafed, paffing their words to be forth-corning when ever they fhould be called for. The imprifonment of the above-mentioned gentlemen being declared Authors of illegal, 'tis natural to imagine the houle would make fome enquiry after the late inno- theirprofecutors..About the latter end of January, Dr. Colin prebendaryf°éäns tea- ofDurham, and afterwards bithop of the diocefe, was lent for into cuflody, Dr. Colins. no account of the fuperftitious innovationswhich he had introduced into that cathedral. The doétor in his anfwer denied the whole charge, and as to the particulars be replied, that the marble altar with cherubims was fet up before he was prebendary of the church ; that he did not approve of the image of God the Father, and that to his knowìdge there was no Inch reprefentation in the church of Durham ; that the crucifix with the 4 P 2 blue
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