Chap. vnr. Tbe HISTORy of the PuRITANS'. 6'79 In the beginning of this year died Dr. Antho1zy 'l'uckney, born in Sep0 . Kintr d d d . E l G z··t C. b 'd: H f. •.Jades II. tember 1599, an e uca~e 1~ man~e otege am n 'fle. .e was a - ~670• terwards vicar of Bo/fon m Lmcoln(htre, where he contwued till he was ~ called to fit in the affembly of divines at Wdfminjie-r. Ill the year I645 D1ath of Dr he was made mafter of his college, and in the year I 648 being cha>fen•Tuckney. vicechancellor, he removed to Cambridge with his family. He wag. afterwards ma!ler of St. John's, and regius profljjor, whic.h he held till the re!loration, when the king fent him a letter, defiring him t(l)" retign his profefforfhip, which if he did, his maje!ly, in confideration of tlne.great pains a!D.d diligence of the faid doctor in the difcharge of his duty, would oblig!! his fucceffor to give him fufficient fecurity in law, to pay him one hundred pounds a year during his natural life. Upon this notice the doctor immediately refigned, and had his annuity paid him by Dr. Gunning who fucceeded him. After the coming ou.t of the jive mile act, he (hifted about in feveral counties, and at lafi: died in Spittle Yard L o11don, February I669, in the feventy-firfi: year of his age, lea·ving behind him the character of an eminently learned and pious man, an indefatigable ftude11t, a candid difputant, and an earneft promoter of truth:and. piety. About the fame time died Mr. William Bridge M. A. the ejected mi· And of Mt:. niller of Yarmouth; he was !l:udent in Cambridge thirteen years, and fel- William· low ef Ema11uel College. He afterwards fettlcd in Nor'ivich, wher.e he Brtdge. was filenced by_biiliop Wren for non-conformity I 637. He \!VaS afterwards excommunicated, and when the writ de excommunicato capiendo came out againft him, he withdrew to Holland, and became pail:or to the eng!ijh church at Rotterdam, where Mr. Jer. Boroughs was preacher. In I 6.p he returned to England, and was one qf the d(/Jenting brethren in the a!fembly of divines. He was chofen after fome time, mioift"er of Great Yarmouth, where he continued his labours till the Bartholomew aCt ejected him with his brethren. He was a good fchol ar, and had a well furnifhed library, was a hard ftudent, and role every morning winter and fummer at four of the clock. He was alfo a good preacher, a candid and charitable man, and did much good by his miniftry. He died at Yarmouth March I 2, I 670, /Etat. feventy• . While the prote!lant diffenters were harraifed in all parts of the 1671. kmgdorn, the roman catholics were at eafe under rhe wing of the pre-Caufesofthe rogative; there were few or no proceifes againft them for they hadgrowth of h l .b f · . ' popery. t e 1 erty o refortmg to mafs at the houfes of foretgn ambaifadors,Rapin, p. an~ other chap.els, both in town and country; nor did the bilhops corn- 439• plam of them tn the houfe of lords, bJ which means they began in a few years, to rival the protefiants both in ftrength and numbers. The commons reprefented the caufes of this misfortune in an addrefs to the king, toge-
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