Chap. III. The H I ST 0 R Y of the Pu RI'I' AN s. nefs towards his j'udges, keeping his hat upon his head while the indi<'J:- Oliver . "" • (c [ • ff. h r d I · Proteflor • ment was read111g; but an on1cer bemg ent to ta <e It o , e 1ave Jim 6 8 the trouble. The do<'J:or then refufed to plead three times, difowning ~' the jurifdi<'J:ion of the court; but though they read the claufe in the late a<'J:, by which they were empowered to be his judges, he continued mute ; upon which one of the judges fummed up the charge, and was going to pronounce fentence, when he offered to put himfelf upon his trial, but was Life of Bar~ told it was then too late, fo judgment was given againft him as a mute. The w<ek, P• dottor bad prepared a plea and demurrer to the jurifdiCl:ion.and proceed- 1 7 5 • ings of the court, and exceptions to their judgment, drawn up in form by counfel, and ready to be engroffed, but was not fuffered to have them argued. However he had the favour of being beheaded on Tower- Hill June 8, I 6s8, being attended by Dr. Wild, Dr. !Varmeflry, and Dr. Bar- ~vick. His funeral fermon was preached the Sunday following, by Mr. Natb•. Hardy at St. Dionis Back Churcb, in Lime-jlreet; and foon after, both the fermon , and the doB:or's intended defence were publifhed, entitled, beheaded Dr. John Hewet's gboji crying forjuflice; containing his legal plea,, demmrer, and exceptions to the jurili:liCl:ion of the court, &c. drawn up. by his counfel Mr. William Prynne. The doCtor was a Cambridge divine, but lived at Oxford, and in the army, till the end of the war,. when he came to LondOJZ, and was permitted to preach in the church of St. Gregory's London, though he was known to be a malignant. After his conviaion, the lady C/aypo!e and lady Falconbridge, the protector's daughters, interceded with their father for his life; but becaufe he difputed the authority of the court, which ftruck ·at the very li fe of his government, the protector would not pardon him. He told Dr. Manton, one of his chaplains, that if Dr. Hewet had l11ewn himfelf an ingenuous perfon, and would have owned what he knew was his fhare in the defign,; ~gainfi him, he would have fpared his life; but he faid he would not be trifled with, and the De. was of fo obftinate a temper that he was refolved he 11JOuld die; and the protector convinced Dr. Manton before they plt'ted, that he knew without his confeilion, how far he was engaged in the plot. Three more of the confpirators were executed in other parts of the city, but the reil were pardoned. A little before the proteCtor's death, the independents petitioned his high- ConfeJ!ion tf nifS for liberty to hold a fynod, in order to publifh to the world an uni- faith by tbc forz_n confeilion o~ their faith. They ~er~ now become a confidcrable body, ~;~~~~nthm churches bemg encreafed both m City and country, by the additiou of great numbers of rich and fubflantial perfons·; but they were not agreed upon any. ~andard of faith.or difcipline. The preiliyterians in the affembly of drvmes, had urged them to this; and their brethren in, New England had done it ten years ago; nor were the englifb indepenVoL.• ll.. T t t dents
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