Chap. III. The HIS T 0 R Y of tlie PuRITANS. 489 repolitory fir the dead bodies of the greatdJ faints. In his lafl: ficknefs he O liver " m·•t d . h . 1 . f I ft d ft h' h h b Protector. was a. 1 ~.. e wit v10 ent pams o t 1e one an rang~ry, w tc e ore 1656 . with wonderful patience, till death put an end to all hzs troubles, Sept. 8, ~l I 656, in the eighty fecond year of his age. Towards the latter end of this yeJr died the reverend Mr. RichardOf Mr. Cape!, born at GloucdJer I s84, and educated in JY!agdalen College Oxon, Cape!., h d d M A H . . . l · r: (r h 0 Fuller s where e procee e . . IS enunence 111 t 1e un:ver,Jty 1ays t e x- Worthies, ford hiftorian) was great; he had divers learned men for his pupils, whop. 260. were afterwards famous in the church, as Accepted Frewen, archbi!hop of York , William Pemble, and others. He left the univerfity for the rectory of Eajington in his own country, where he became celebrated for his painful and praCtical preaching, as well as for his exemplary life . When the book of fports came out 1633, he refufed to read it, but refigned his reCtory, and commenced phy!ician. In 1641 he clcfed with the parliament, and was chofen one of the affembly of divines, but declined fitting among them, chufing to relide at his living at Pitchcomb, near Stroud, where he was in great reputation as a phyfician and divine, preaching gratis to his congregation. He publiilied feveral valuable treatifes, and among others a celebrated one, rj temptations, their 11aturr, danger, and cure. He was a good old puritan, of the fiamp of Mr. Dod, Cleaver, and Hilderjham; and died at Pitchcomb in Gloucejterjhire, Sept. 2 I, J 6 s6, aged feventy two years. The parliament which met Sept. I 7• continued fitting till the next 1 557 . year, having before them an affair of the greateft confequence, which was Debates a-. confirming the government under CROMWELL as LoRD PROTECTOR, bout the tztl~. or changing it for the title KING. Colonel Jephfon one of the members ~t~5: from Ireland, moved, that the protector might have the crown, with thep. 646. title of KrNG, and was feconded by alderman Pack, one of the reprefentatives for the city of London; bn t the republicans in the houfe oppofed it with great vehemence; however upon putting the quefiion, it was car.ried for"a king; moft of the. lawyers, as ferjeant Gb·n, Maynard, Fountam, St. John, and others, bemg on that fide. April 4, a petition was prefented to the proteC!or, recommending the title and office of a KrNG, as bell fitted to the laws and temper of the people of England; and upon his deliring time to confider of it, a committee was appointed to give him fatisfaBion in any difficulties that migh t arife , who urged, that " th.e n~me of proteC!or was unknown to our englifb conftitution- " that hts h1ghn~fs had already the office and power of a king , and " therefore the difp.ute was only a~out a name.-That his perfon would " never be fecure ttll he aifumed 1t, becaufe the laws did not take no- " tice of him as chief magijfrate, and juries were backward to find per- ~· fons guilty of treafon where there was no king.-They urged the adVoL. ll. R r r ~~ vantages
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