48 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. II. King ,crouds of people that hungred for the word of life: He was impartial and Edward VI. zealous in the faithful difcharge of every branch of his epifcopal chara&er, 151 j even beyond his flrength, and was himfelfa pattern, of what he taught to .others. In the king's letter to the archbifhop, Hooper is faid to be a divine of great knowledge, deep judgment, and long fiudy both in the fcriptures and prophane learning; as alfo, a perfon of good difcretion, ready utter- ance, and of an honefi life : But all thefe qualifications mull be buried in filence and a prifon, at a time when there was afamine oftheword, rather than the above-mentioned uniformity in drefs be difpenfed with. 'Sentiments of Mott of the reforming clergy were with Hooper in this controverfy : Se- the.refarming veral who had fubmitted to the habits in the late reign, laid them afide in Clergy about this; as the bithops Latimer and Coverdale; Dr. Taylor, Philpot, Brad the Habits, Pierce's//ird.ford, and others, who P hho laid down their lives for the roteflant faith. In P. 31,32,33. dome ordinations Cranmer and Ridley difpenfed with the habits; for Mr. The. Sampfon, parfon of Breadfireet, London, afterwards one of the heads of the puritans, and fricceffively dean of Chichejier and Chrifl church, in a L;feofCran- letter to fecretary Cecil writes, " That at his ordination by Cranmer and mer, p. 192. r< Ridley, he excepted againf the apparel, and was neverthelefs permitted Ridley and " and admitted." If they had not done fo on fome occafions, there would Cranmer re- not have been clergymen to fupport the reformation. Bifhop Burnet fays, nion lax :heir0P' they faw their error, and defigned to procure an att to abolifh the popith garments; but whether this were fo or not, 'cis certain that in the next Habits. $ reign they repented their condu&; for when Ridley was in prifon he wrote a letter to Hooper, in which he calls him his dear brother and fellow elder in Chr ; and defires a mutual forgivenefs and reconciliation. And when he and Cranmer came to be degraded, they fmiled at the ridiculous attire in which they were clothed, and declared they had long fince laid afideall regards to that pageantry. di German This behaviour of the bithops towards the king's natural born fubje&s, Church ßab- was the more extraordinary, while a latitude was allowed to foreign pro- lifhed: teftants to worfhip God after the manner of their country, without any re- gard to thepopißs ve/lments : For this year a church of German refugees was eflablifhed at St. Au/lin's in London, and ere&ed into a corporation, under the dire &ion of yohn a Lafco, fuperintendent of all the foreign churches in London, with whom were joined four other minifiers; and as a mark of favour,. 38o of the congregation were made denizens of England. The preamble to the patent Pets forth, That the German church made profeflion of pure and uncorrupted religion ; and was inflruEted in truly chriflian and Bilirnerrdi r à oflolical opinions and rites. In the patent which incorporates them, there H. R f . P P P P r in Reco s. s the following chute : Item, " We command, and peremptorily enjoin " our lord mayor, aldermen, and magiftrates of the city df London, and their
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