Chap. VII. The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANS. churches, and preached to the people, who quickly became infpired K Charles I.•. with the fame fpirit; women as well as men taking upon them to~ pray and preach; which made as great a noife and confufion in all opinions concerning religion, as there was in the civil government of the · flate. Biibop Bramball in one of his letters to arcboiibop U)her writes,. that Bp. Bram• " the papifis took advantao-e of thefe confufions, and fent over above oneh~I if the pa– " hundred of their clergy~ that had been educated in France, Italy, and. ~1r~~ Life of " Spain, by order from Rome. In thefe nurferies the fcholars were taught·Ulher,. p. " feveral handicraft trades and callings, according to their ingenuities, be- 6II. '' fides their funCtions in the church; they have many yet at Paris (fays " the biibop) fitting up to be fent over, who twice in the week oppofe one " the other; one pretending prefbytery, the other independency,.fome ana- " baptifm, and others contrary tenets. The hundred that went over this " year (according to the bifi1op), were moft of them foldie1:s in the parlia- Life, p: 78~ '' ment army." But Mr. Baxter after a moft diligent enquiry declares, '' that he could not find them ont ; " which renders the biibop's account fulpeCted. ' \,The moft that I could fufpeCt for papifts among Cr'Oinwel's " foldiers (fays he), were but a few that began as ftrangers among the •• common foldiers, and by degrees rofe up to fome inferior officers, but " none of the fuperior officers feemed fuch." The body of the army had' a vaft averfion to the papifts, and the parliament took all occaiions of treating them with rigor; for June 30. Morgan a priefl was- drawn, hanged;. and quartered, for going out of the kingdom to receive orders from Rome, and then returning again. However without all queftion,_. both church and {bte were in the utmoft diforder and confufion at the dofe of this year. Among the illufhious men of the parliament's fiae who died about this Death" of E•. t1me, was Robert D'Evereux earl of Ej[ex, fon of. the famous favourite of Eifex•. of queen Elizabeth; he was educated to arms in the Neth'edands, and afterwards ferved the king and queen of Bohemia for the recovery of. the pa- · lt~t~'nate. _King Charles-L made him lieute~ant of his army in his expeditiOn agatnft the fi:ots,_ and· lord chamberlam of the houiliold ;· but the earl being unwilling to go into the -arbitrary. meafurc;:s of the court in favour of popery and fiavery, engaged on the fide of the parliament, and!. accepted of the commiilion of captairr-ge.neral of their forces, for whichthe king proclaimed him a tray tor. He was a perfon· of great honour,.. and ferved the parliament. with fidelity; but being of opinion, that . the- ":ar iliould be ended rather by. treaty than conqueft; did not always puili h1s fuccelfes as far as he might. . Upon the new modelling of the army L dl" . the cautious gl!neraL was.difmilfcd with an honourable l:!enfion for his pad"xS6,ow, £'.ilfer,.
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