Chap. V. The HISTORY of the PuRITANS. 127 " the tenants, becaufe they did not accept of the committee's compofi- K. Charles I. ,, tion.--That he had obliged a brewer near the court not to burn fea- ~'J "coal, under penalty of hJving his brewhoufe pulled down ; and that by " a like order of council many ibop keepers were forcibly turned out of " their houfes in Cheapjidc, to make way for golt!finiths, who were for- " bid to open !hop in any other places of the city. When a commiffion " was iflued under the broad feal to himfelf, to compound with delinquents " of this kind, Mr. 'Ialboys was fined fifty pounds for non-compliance; "and when he pleaded the ftatute of the 39th of Elizabeth, the archbi- " Chop replied, do you plead law here? eitber abide the order, or take your " trial at the fiar chamber. When Mr. Wakern had one hundred pounds " allowed him for the pulling 'down his houfe, he was foon after fined " one hundred pounds in the high commijji'on court, for prifanation; of " which he paid thirty." This the archbi!hop admitted, and replied to the refl:, that he humbly ALp'i ,·eplj;.. and heanily thanked God, that he was counted worthy to ii.1ffer for the Laud's hilt. repair of St. Paul's, which had coft him out of his own purfe above ~~~;1~5~}4•'· twelve hundred pounds. As to the grievances complained of, there was ' a compojition allotted for thefidferers, by a committee named by the lords, not by him, which amounted to eight or nine thoufand pounds, before they could come at the church to repair it; fo that if any thing was amifs it muft be imputed to the lords of the council, who are one body, and whatfoever is done by the major part is the act of the whole; that however, here was fome recom pe_nce made them, whereas in king James's time, when a commiffion was ifii.Jed for demoliihing thefe very houfes, . no care was taken for fatisfaCl:ion of any private man's interefl:; and I< cannot forbear to add (fays the archbiihop,) that the bifhop and dean and chapter, did ill in giving way to thefe buildings, to encreafe their rents by facrilegious revenue; there being no law to build on confecrated ground. When it was replied to this, " that the king's commiffion was· " no legal warrant for pulling down houfes, without authority of parlia- " ment," he anfwered, that houfes more remote from the church of St. Paul's had been pulled down by the king's commiffion oBly in king Edward the third's time. As to the brew-houje, the arch- bifhop owned that he had f<1id to the proprietor, that he mufl: feal a bond of two tboufand pounds to brew no more with fea-coal ; but it was at the council table when be was delivering the fenfe of the board, which office was, uf~ ally put upon him if pref7nt; fo that ~his or any other hardfl1ip he might fuffer ought not to be 1mputed to him, but to the whole council ; and he was very fure it could not amount to treafon, except it were treafon again~ a brew-hot(je. The like anfwer he made to the charge abont the golq[m1ths jhops, namely, that it was the order of council, and was thought
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