Chap. VII. The HISTORY of the PuRITANs.· 657 alfo as Dr. Owen, Dr. Goodwin, Mr. Grilfiths, Brooks, Caryl, Barker, Nye, King ' f: . · · fi · d h Charles II and others, began the ame practice; many Citizens requer:te t e_ meet· 1666 . • ings, where the liturgy was not read; though the few parrfh pulprts that ~remained, were filled with very able prezchers ; as Dr. 'Iiiloljon, Stifling· jieet, Patrick, White, Gifford, Whichcot, Horton, Meriton, &c. But none of thefe calamaties had any further influence upon the court prelates, than that they durfl: not profecute the preachers fo feverely for the prefent. Among the non.conformifl: minifl:ers who died this year, were the D eath of reverend Mr. Edmund Calamy B. D. the ejected miniCter of Alderman- Mr._Calamy. bury, born in London I 6oo, and bred in Pembroke Hall Cambridge; he AbnJg. P· 4• was firfl: ch,aplain to Dr. Felton bi{hop of Ely, and afterwards fettled at St. Edmundjbury; from whence after ten years, he with thirty other mi- !lifl:ers, were driven out of the diocefe by bifhop Wren's viiitation articles an d the book of fports. Upon the death of Dr. Stoughton I63 9, be was chofen to Aldermanbury, where he foon gained a vall: reputation. He was one of the divines who met in the Jerufakm Chamber for accomo· dating ecclefiall:ical matters in the year I 641. He was afterwards a member of the affembly at Wejlminfler, and an aCtive man in all their proceedings. He was one of the moll: popular preachers in the city, and had a great hand in the king's refl:oration, but foon repented his having done it with-:- out a previous treaty. He refufed a bifhopric becaufe he could not have it upon the terms of the king's declaration ; and foon after the Bartholomew act, was imprifoned in Newgate for preaching an occaiional fermon to his pari!hioners. He afterwards lived pretty much retired till this year, when being driven in a coach through the ruins of the city of L ?ndon, it fo affected him, that he went home and never came out of h is chamber more, dying within a month, in the 67th year of his age. Mr. Arthur Jaclfon M. A. the ejeCted minill:er of St. Faith's was Of Mr. born about the year I 593, and educated in Cambridge. He became Jackfon. minifl:er of St. Michael's Wooc!flreet .in the year I 625, when the pefl:i- ~~~~;y's lence ragecl in the city; and continued with his pari!h throughout the n g. p. 3• whole courfe of the difl:emper. He was fined five hundred pou n s for refuling to give evidence againfl: Mr. Love, and committed prifoner to the Fleet, where he remained feventeen weeks. At the rell:oration he was chofen by the provincial alfembly of London, to prefent a bible to the king at his public entrance. He was afterwards one of the co~miffioners of the Savoy; and when the uniformity ad took place, ?em& old, he retire? to a private life, and died with great fatisfaction m his non-conform1ty, .Aug S• 1665, in the feventy-fourth year of his age. y OL, II. Dr.
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