Chap. III. ne HIs T 0 R y if the PuRITANS-~ •' in a time of general calamity, but thife [in r662.] were ejeCted not K. C~arles I. •' only in a time of peace, but a time ?f)~Y to all the la~d, a~d. after an ~· ,, aCt of oblivion, to which common reJOicmg thefe fuffenng mmdl:ers had " contributed their earneft pryers, and great endeavours-" I muft own (fays " another of the doctor's correfpondents) that though both fides have be~n cc excefiively to blame, yet that the feverities ufed by the church to the dtf- " [enters are lefs excufable than thofe ufed by the diffenters to the church; " my reafon is, that the former were ufed in times of peace, and a fettled Calamy's eh•. "government, whereas the latter were inflicted in a time of tumult and and ddfent- . . b h h h ers eompa- " confufion, fo that the plundermg and ravagmg endured y t e c urc red, p. 23 , " minifiers were owing (many of them at leait) to the rudenefs of the 24. "foJdiers, and tbe chances of War; THEY WERE PLUNDERED NOT "BECAUSE THEY WERE CONFORMISTS, BUT CAVALIERS, AND OF "THE KING's PARTY." The cafe ofthofe who were fober and virtuous, feems 10 me much the fame with the nonjurors at the late revolution of king William Ill. and I readily agree with Mr. Fuller, that "mo- Hill. P· 2070 '' derate men bemoaned thefe feverities, for as much corruption was let '' out by thefe ejeCtments (many fcandalous minifiers being defervedly " punifhed,) fo at the fame time the veins of the mg!ijh church were " alfo emptied of much good blood." We have already obferved, that a fifth part of the revenues of thefe 'The fifths. ejected clergymen was referved for the maintainance of their poor families, " which was a chriftian aCt, and which I lhould have been glad Calamy's eh. – " (fays the divine above-mentioned) to have feen imitated at the reftora- and ddfent– " tion," Upon this the cavaliers fcnt their wives and children to beers, P· 21 ' maintained by the parliament minifters, while themfelves were fighting for the ki ng. The houfes therefore ordained, Sept. 8. 1645. that the Hufb. Col. fifths fhould not be paid to the wives and children of thofe who came P· 726 · into the parliament quarters without their huibands or fathers, or who were not bred in the proteftant religion. Yet when the war was ovet·, all were allowed their fifths, though in fome places they were ill paid the incumbent being hardly able to allow them, by reafon of the fmall~ nefs of his living, and the devail:ation of the war. When fome pretended to excufe themfelves on the forementioned exceptions, the two houfes publirhed the following explanation, November I 1. 1647· (viz.) "that Suff. Cler; . " the wives and children of all fuch perfons whofe eil:ates and livings are, P· 100 ' "have been, or rhall be fequeftered by order of either hou(e of parliament ::!hall ~e compreh~nded within the ordinance which allows a fifth par~ for wtves and chtldren, and rhall have their fifth part allowed them ; " and the committee of lords and commc-:1s for fequeil:rations, and the " committees for plundered minifl:ers, and all other minifl:ers are required " to. ,
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