'Ibe HISTORY of the PuRITANs,' VoL. H. King teemed a very learned and able divine. He died at his houfe at 7uatCharles ll. fi d ,, rr • 1662 . or June 1665. ~ We have alre~d.Y. ~emembered Dr. Cheyml among the Oxford profefTors, )/nd of Dr. a man of great abilities, and a member of the afTembly of divines. Ht: Cheynel. . d 1 . 1 r. qUitte 11s prefer:nents in t 1e unive:•~ty, for refuling to take the engage· ·t666. <Jhefire of London. ment, and was tjeCl:ed from the hv111g of Petworth at the refloration, without having enriched himfelf by any of his preferments. 'Tis re~ parted that he was fometimts difordered in his head, but he was per~ feC1:1y recovered fome years before his death, which happened at his houfe near Brighthe!trJlone in Suj[cx, September 1665. The vices of the nation not being fnfficicntly puni!hed by pefli!ence and war, it pleafed almighty God this year to fuffer the city of London to be laid in afhes by a dreadful conflagration, which broke out in Pudding~ lane behind the !11omtment, September 2, and within three or four days, confumed thirteen thoufand two hundred dwelling-houfes, eighty·nine churches, among which was the cathedral of St. Paufs; many. public ihuCl:ures, fchoolf, libraries, and !lately edifices. Multitudes loll their goods and merchandize, and the greate!l part of their fub!lance, and fome few their lives; the king, the duke of York, and many of the nobility, were fpeCl:ators of the defolation, but had not the power to !lop its pro~ grefs, till at length it ceafed almo!l as wonderfully as it began. Moorfields was filled with houOJold goods, and the people were forced to lodge in huts and tents: Many families who were the lafi: week in profperity, were now reduced to beggary, and obliged to begin the world again. The authors of this fire were faid to be the papijls, as appears by the infcrip~ tion upon the monumei>t. The parliament being of this opinion, petition~ ed the king to iffue out a proclamation, requiring all popifh prie!1:s and j-eluits to depart the kingdom within a month, and appointed a commit– tee who received evidence of fome papi!1:s, who were feen to throw fire– balls into houfes, and of others who had materials for it in their pockets ; but the men were fled, and none fuftered but one Huberi a jrmch man by his own confeilion. . Produces a In this general confufion, the churches bemg burnt, and many of the fort of libcr· pariOl mini!lers withdrawn for want of habitations or places of worfhip, ty of the the non-conformi!ls refolved again to fupply the neceilities of the people ; :\~~~onfor- depending upon it that in fuch an extremity, they. l11ould efcape per~ fecution ; fame churches were ereCl:ed of boards, whiCh they called taber– nacles; and the diffenters fitted up large rooms with pulpits feats and gal~ Baxter's life, laries, for t~Je reception of all who would c01_ne. Dr. Manton_ had his p. 19. rooms full 111 Covent-Gardm; Mr. 'Thomas Vmcent, Mr. Doohtle, Dr. 'Turner, Mr. Crimes, Mr. Jenkyns, Mr. Nath. Vincent, Dr. Jacomb, Mr; W-atjon, had their feparate meetings in other places. The independen.ts allo,
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