Chap. VI. The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANs.' Mt. Edward Bowles M. A. born I 6 I 3, and educated in Katheri'neKing Hall Cambridge, under Dr. Sibbes and Dt. Broumrigge, He was firll: Cha~~s If. chaplain to the earl of Manchejler, and upon the reduction of rork to~the parliament, fettled in that city. He was a wife and prudent man, Of Mr. Ed having a clear head and a warm heart; an excellent fcholar, and an ufe- ~ar~ ful preacher. He attended lord Fairfax when general Monk paired thro' owes. Yorkjhire, and prefented an addrefs to the general for a free parliamtlnt. He was very zealous and active in promoting the king's refl:oration; and waited on his majefl:y with lord Fairfax at Breda. 'Tis credibly reported that the deanary of rork was offered him, but not being fatisfied with conformity, he was excluded the mitifier, though he continued preaching at All hallows, and afterwards at St. Martim, as he had opportunity. When the fatal Bartholome71J day approached he grew iick of the times, and died in the flower of his life, aged forty nine, and was· buried on the eve of St. Bartholomew r 062. C H A P. VII. From the aEl of uniformity to the banijhment of the earl of Clarendon in the year 1667. AT this time, fays bifhop Burnet, the name of PURITANS wasViewiftbe changed into that of PROTESTANT NON-CONFORMISTS, whofe.veralpm·– were fubdivided into prejb)'terians, independents, anabaptijls, and quakers; tus. 01/b' there being fhut out of the ell:ablifhment, had nothing now in view but ~~(7;,con or– a toleration, which the credulous preJbyterians faid they had il:rong affurances of, before the act of uniformity paifed into a law; but in this they were difappointed, as well as in every thing elfe ; for which the independents told them they might thank themfelves, becaufe their ma- ?lagers had proteiled againll: including the papifl:s ; whereas the legiflature and the bifhops were concerned to prevent any mifchief from that quarter, and to their <.:are the prefbyterians fhould have left it. Some obferving Burnet' how much the court and parliament were fet againfl: them, were for re-P· 193; moving with their minifiers to Holland; and others propofed New England; but the papifis, at a meeting at the earl of Brijlol's houfe, agreed to do whatever they could to keep the non-conformill:s in England, and buoy them up with hopes of a tolerationv The
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