Chap. VIII. The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANS. 66t " fey, who kept clofe by lord Clarendon, the great patron of perfecuting King " power, loft the king's favour; the former never recovered it, and the Ch~~es II. " latter was fent from court into his diocefe. When complaint was ~l " made of fome diforders and conventicles, the king faid the clergy were ' " chiefly to blame, for if they had lived well, and gone about their pa- " riihes, and taken pains to convince the non-conformills, the nation· « might have been well fettled, but they thought of nothing but to get " good benefices, and keep a good table." In another converfation with " the biihop about the ill fl:ate of the church, his majefty faid, " if the· " clergy had done their parts it had been eafy to run down the non~ " conformifts, but they will do nothing (fays the king), and will have me " do every thing; and mofl: of them do worfe than if they did nothing;. " I have a very honeft chaplain (fays he), to whom I have g·iven a liv- ,, ing in Suffolk, but he is a very gre,lt blockhead, and yet has brought' " all his pariih to church; I can't im~gine what he could fay to them, . " for he is a very filly fellow ; but he has been about from houfe to houfe, " and I fuppofe his nonfenfe has fuited their nonfenfe; and in reward of " his diligence, I have given him a biihopric in Ireland." About this time Ralph Wallis, a cobler of Gloucejter, publiihed an account of a great number of fcandalous conformift minifters, and enumerated their fcandals, to the great difpleafure of the clergy; and I fear (fays Mr. Baxter), p. 23; to the temptation of many non-conformills, who might be glad of any thing to humble the prelatifis. The learned Dr. Lazarus Seaman, the ejected minifter of Allhallows J?eathofDr~Breadflreet died this year, of whom we have given fome account among Seaman.. the Cambridge profe!fors; he was educated in Emanuel College, and by his indefatigable indullry rofe to a high reputation in the learned world, for his exact acquaintance with the oriental languages ; he was an able di.:.. vine; an aCtive member of the a!fembly at Weflminjler; and was takerr notice of by king Charles I. at the treaty of the Ijle of Wight; for hi~ fingular abilities in the debates about church government. He was alfo mafter of Peter-houfe Cambridge, but loft all at the rel:l:oration ; he under.;. went ftrong pains with admirable patience, and at length died in peace in the month of September I 667. Mr. George Hughes B. D. the ejected minil:l:er of Plymouth, born inOf Mr. G.i1 Southwark, and educated in Corpus Chrijli College in Cambridge. He was Hughes, called to a lecture in London, but was filenced for non-conformity by . archbiihop Laud. After fome time he went to 'I'avijlock, and !aft of ali fettled at Plymouth, having inftitution and induction from Dr. Broronrigge biihop of Exeter, in the year 1644. Here he continued till the year 1662, whence he was ejected a week before the act of uniformity took place, He was afterwards imprifoned in St. Nico/as ljland, where he
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