Chap. I. The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANS. 17 incenft:d againit the puritan clergy, as the chief incendiaries of the peo- K. Charles I. pie and trumpeters of reb~llion. Su7h as refufed to read the king's pro- ~~. clamations and orders agamfl the parhament, were apprehended and fhut up in the common goals of York, and other places within his majefly's quartt:rs. When any parties of the royal. army got poffeilion of ~ ~ow? that adhered to the parliament, they enqUired prefently for the mm!Jler s hot!fe, which was rifled and plundered of every thing th.:lt was valmtble., and himfelf-imprifoned, if he could be found; but the mcumbents ufually took care to avoid the danger, by flying to the .next pa:liamen t garrifon. Above thirty puritan miniflers touk fhelter m the ctty of Coventry after the fight of Edge-Hill. Great numbers came to Lond?n with their families in a naked and flarving condition, leaving their books, and every thing they could not bring away, to the mercy of the ki ng's foldiers, The prifoners underwent uncommon hardD1ips, and would have been executed as rebels, if the parliament had not threatened reprifals. On the other hand, the epijcopal clergy were no lefs haraffed by the A~d •f tbe parliamen t foldiers; thefe being in poffeilion of the belt livings in the epijcopal. chLHch were liable to fuffer the gceatelt ddmJges; multitudes of them left their cures, and took fanCluary in the king's armies or garrifons, having Jifpofed of their goods and chattles in the bell manner they could. Others who had rendered themfelves obnoxious by their fermons, or de· Walker's clarations for the king, were put under confinement in L ambeth, Win- Suff. Cler•. chejler, Ely, and moft of the bi ihops houfes about L?ndon ; and for want P~'~i~· of room about twenty (according to Dr. Walker) were impri foned on P • boctrd of !bips in the river Thames, and !but down under deck,, no fri end being fuff;:red to come near them. The fame writer obferves, that about one hundred and ten of the L ondon clergy were turned out of their livings in the years 1642, and 1643· and that as mctny more fled to prevent impri(onment; yet it ought to be remembered, that none were turned out or irnpri foned, for their adhering to the doCl:rine or difcipli ne of the chu rch of EYJgland, till after the impaling of the [cots. covenan t, but for immorality , falfe doctrine, non-refidence, or for taking part with the king againfi the parliamen t. However it is to be lamented, that feveral pious and worthy bi!b0ps, and other clergymens who withdrew from the world, and were deiirous to live peaceably without joining- either 11de, fu ffe red afterwards in common with the reil of th~ir brethren; their ell:Hes and livings being fequ tltered, . their hDuf~s and goods piundered by ungovernable io!diers, and themfelves reduced to live upon the fifths, or a fmall penfi on from the parliament,. eJtber b~caufe they could not take tbe covenant, or comply with the new direCl:ory for public worfl1ip. Among thefe we may reckon the moll reverend archbifhop Ujber, biihop Morton, Hall, and ma.ny others.. VOL. 11. D. Whent
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