K. Charles I. 1644-. ~ Of doffor .Downing. 'The HISTORY of the PuRITANS. And another ; '1!-Pifcoporum irifimus, peccatorum primus, 'the .leaft of bijhops, the greattjl of }inners. VoL. II. Dr. Calibute Downing was born of an ancient famii y in Gloucejler/hirr, .about I 616. he was educated in .OrieL-College Oiford, and at length be– .came vicar of Hackney near London, by the procurement of archbilhop L aud ; which is very firange, if (as Mr~ Wood fays) he a! ways looked awry on the church. In his fermon before the Artillery company, Sep. J. I 640. he maintained, that for the defence of religion and riformation of the church, it was lawfitl to take up arms againji the king, if it could be obtained no other way. For this he was forced to abfcond till the be– ginning of the prefent parliament. He was afterwards chaplain in the earl of E./fex's army, and a member of the affembly of divines, but died .before he was forty years of age, having the charaCl:er of a pious man, .a warm preachet, and very zealo.us in the interefi of his count-ry•. C I--1 A P. V. AbjlraEt of 1he trial of archbijhop LAuD ; and, of the Jreary of Uxbridge. Trial of abp. ·N E X T day after the efiablilhment of the dire8ory, Dr. WIL– ;Laud . .LTAM LAUD ar<;bbifhop of Canterbury, received fentence of death. He had been a prifoner in the To'i.ver almofi three years, upon an impeachment of high treafon by the houfe of commons, without once petitioning for a trial, or fo much as putting in his anfwer to the articles; however as foon as the parl iament had united with the ji:ots, it was re– folved to gratify that nation by bringing him to the bar; accordingly ferjeant Wild was fent up to the houfe of lords, Oaob. zJ· with ten additional articles of high treafon, and other crimes and mifdemeanors; .and .to pray, that bisgrace mi,ght be brought to a fpeedy trial. We have
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