The , HIST'O~Yojthe PuRITANs~ Vot.U, Ch~~(~{ II. « hope God will incline your majefty's heart to gratify us in thefe our de. , 660 • " fires alfo," Signed by ~ Samuel Clark, Wi!!iam Cooper, 'Ihomas Cafl, Jo. Rawlir!fon, ."fo. She/Ji'eld, 'Thomas Gouge, Gab. Sanger, El. Pledger, Matth. Pool, Jo. Gibbon, Wil!iam Whitaker 'Iho. Jacomb, ' 'Iho. L)'e, John Jackfon, John Meriton, William Bates, With many others. K. Chr. p. The king having received the addrefs, returned this anfwer, Gmtle3'5· men, I 'il)i/1 endea~>our to give y~u all JatisfaBion, and to make you as hap• py as myfe!f. Some accept of prefer– mt.ts. Upon the terms of this declaration Dr. Reynolds accepted of the biihop– ric of Norwich; Mr. Baxter was offered the biihopric of Her~(ord, but refufed upon other reafons; and Mr. Ca/amy declined the biihopric of Litchfie/d and Coventry, till the king's declaration fl}ould be palfed into a law. Dr. Manton having been prefented to the living of Covent-Garden by the earl of Berfford, accepted it upon the terms of the declaration, and received epifcopal inftitution from Dr. She/don biihop of London, Jan. 10, K. Chron. I 66o-6 I. Having firjl jitbftribed tbe doBrinal articles if the church if England only, and taken the oaths o/ allegiance andJupremacy, and if ca– nonical obedience in all things lawful and honefl. The doCtor was alfo con· tent that that the common-prayer lhould be read in his church. Dr.Bates was offered the deanry of Litchjie!d: Dr. Manton the deanry of Rochef ter ; and Mr. Bowles that of York ; but finding how things were going at court, after fame time, they refufed. Declaration The lords and commons, upon reading the king's declaration, agreed rejellee by to wait upon his majefty in a body, and retnrn him thanks; and the cam– the h. of com· mons ordered a bill into their houfe to pafs it into a law ; but when the mons. bill had been read the firfl: time, the quel1:ion being put for a fecond reading, it paifed in the negative; one of the fecretaries of flate oppofing it, which was a fufficient indication (fays Dr. Bates) of the king and court's avedion to it. Sir Matthe·w Hale who was zealous for the declaration, at that very junCture was taken out of the hou(e of commons, and made lord chief baron of the Exchequer, that be might not oppofe the re(oluRtmarks. tions of the minil1:ry. Strange! that an houfe of commons, which on · ·· the
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