Cl1ap. VI. The HIS T 0 R Y of the Pv RITANs." « of abfolving them from this obligation." It was given out, that they King c I I . d b h . f L d d h Charles II. were to have wrty c 1apc s m an a out t e ctty o . on on, an muc 166 r. more was underil:ood by them (fays archbi!hop Tenifon), who have pe- ~ net rated into the defigns of a certain paper, commonly called the decla- Compl. ~ift, ration of' Somerlet-Houle.; but the de!ign cnifcarried, partly by their clivi- P· 252 • zn :; J' '.!' r f h • . marg. fions among themfelves, and partly by the refolutene•s o t e pnme mt- K. Chron. nifl:er, who charged them with principles inconfiflent with the peace of p. 495· the kingdom. Father Orleans fays, " there were great debates in this lb. p. 498; " parliament about liberty of confcience - The catholic party was " f.Jpported by the earl of Brijlol, a man in great repute; the prate(- " tan t party by chancellor ~Hyde, chief of an oppofite faction, and a " perfon of no lefs confideration, who putting himfelf at the head of '·' the prevailing church of England party in that pariiament, declared not " only againil: the roman Catholics, but againil: the prefbyterians, and " all tbofe the church of England calls non-conformifts. The king, " who ~vas no good chrijlian in his aeliom, but a catholic in his heart, did '' all that could be expected from his eafy temper, to maintain the com- ,, mon liberty, that Jo the catholies might have a jhare in it ; but the " church of England, and chancellor l:lyde, were fo hot upon that " point, that his majefly was obliged to y;eld rather to the chancellor's " importunity than to his reafon." However, by the favour of the queen-mother, fwarms of papifis came over into E1tgland, and fettled about the court, they fet up private feminaries for the education of youth ; and though they could not obtain an open toleration, they multiplied exceedingly, and laid the foundation of all the dangers which threatened the conflitution and protefl:ant religion, in the latter part of this and in the next reign. Towards the latter end of this year, the court and biG1ops not content with their triu mphs over the living preibyterians, defcended into the grave, and dug up the bodies of thofe who had been depofited in Weflminjter-Ab– bey in the late times, leil: their dull: fhould one time or other mix with the loyali!l:s; for befides the bodies of Cromwell, and others already men– tioned, h!s maje!l:y's warrant to the dean and ~hapter of We/tmilyler was now obtamed, to take up the bodies of fuch perfons who had been un- D i bd' . warrantably buri~d in the chape~ of k~ng Henry Vlf..and in other cha- o/'//,, ;:;/ pels and places wnhm the colleg1ate cnurch of fVejlmu!Jler fince the year conjiderable 1641, and to interr them in the church.yard adjacent; by which war-Pnfon.sinthe rant they might have taken up all the bodies that had been buried there /date limes r . ~~ wr twenty years pail:. Purfuant to theft: orders, on the I zth and 14th Ken. Chron, of September they went to work, and took up about twenty, among p. 536. whom were, 4 K 2 The
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