898 A P P E N D I X . amendments ? I admit, that his lordfhip was for complying with the commands of the prince in things indifferent, for the fake of order and good policy, and vindicated his conformity upon this foot ; but it will hardly follow from hence, that he approved of the ceremonies above- mentioned. However it feems, it was not for our author's purpofe to take notice of this letter, which Mr. Strpye fays he tranfcribed from the original, though it was before him in the margin. Vindic. p. Mr. N. lays, Dr. Humphreys bad nopreferment in the churchtill after ten or twelve years, when hefubmitted to the habits. Here again, (fays uric, our author) we have the MS. quoted, though it is e d7uallly cosfsted by Mr. STRYPE. Who can anfwer for Mr. Strype's contradi&ing himfelf within the compafs of twenty or thirty lines ; for in the place cited by our author, he begins with laying, Humphreys was tolerated for ten or eleven years after the year 1565, that is, till the year 1576, and at the dole of the fame paragraph he adds, in five years after [the year 1565] he became dean of Gloucefter. But this was only a flip of the honeft man's memory, which our acute critick fhould not have taken advan- tage of. Let us here him therefore in other places : In his annals of the year 1576 he writes thus, " now [in the year 1576, which was " more than ten or twelve years after he had been profeffor of divinity " in Oxford] was Dr. Laurence Humphreys advanced to the deanry of " Gloucefter, by means of the lord treafurer, and upon his motion at " length perfuaded to wear the habits." Does not this correfpond exactly with the MS..? And that his want of preferment till this time was owing to his puritanical principles, is evident to a demonftration, from the teftimony of lord Burleigb and Mr. Strype, whole words are thefe, in the latter end of the year 1576, he [lord Burleigb] did Hum- " phreys the honour to write to him, hinting that HIS .NON -CONFORM I- " TY SEEMED TO BE THE CHIEF IMPEDIMENT OF HIS PREFER- " MENT, the queen andfome other honourable perfons at court, confidering "° .him as forgetful of his duty in dfbeying her injunt`tionr." How lit- tle ground then had this writer to appeal to Mr. STRYPE, and to re- mark in the fame breath, " the reader mull pay little regard to Mr. " N's lamentations, or to his manufcript, when he obferves, that he corn- " plains, that this gentleman, Dr. Humphreys, was denied preferment for his puritanical principles." Is not this rather ,a confirmation of the manufcript ? The puritans efieemed it a noble vitiory, that they couldpreach by vir- tue of a bull from ANTICHRIST; as they called the pope. If Mr. N. P. 147. was a miflionary, and could fpread the chriftian faith, by virtue of a li- cence from the pope, or the Grand Seignior, or the emperor ofChina in their Strype's Ann. V. II. P. 451. Strype's An. V. I. P 472. Vindic. p. 328, 329. Hilt. Punit.
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