Chap. X. 7be HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANS. 737 him at leaf1 to perform the office of a divine, in vifiting him in prifon, King I to argue him out of his doubts; but the doClor, like an ungenerous ad- Cha6~' I · verfary, deferted him. Mr. Delazme therefore ~as to be convinced by ~an indiCtment at law; for that on Nov. 30, be drd bJ force if arms, &c. unlawfully, feditioujly, and malicioujly, write, print, an~ pz(blijh, a cer~ tainja!Je, feditious, andfcandalous ltbel, if, and concermng our lord the king, and the book if common-prayer, entituled, a plea for the non-conformrfls. For which offence he was fined one hundred marks, and to be kept prifoner till he paid it; to find fecurity for his good behaviour for one year, and his books to be burnt before the Royal Exchange. The court told him, that in refpeCl: of his being a fcholar, he !hould not be pilloryed, though he deferved it. Mr. Delaune not being able to pay his fine, lay in prifon fifteen months, and fuffered great bardfl1ips by extreme poverty, having no fubfifl:ance but on charity. He had a wife and two [mall child– ren with him, who all died in the gaol , through the length and clofenefs of the confinement, and other inconveniencies they endured; and at length Mr. Delaune himlelf funk under his fufferings, and died in Ne71!- gate, a martyr to the challenge of this high church champion. . Mr. Francis. Ban;pfield fuffered the like, or gre~te.r hard!hips; he h~d And of Mr; been educated 111 If adham College Oxon, and was mmJil:er of Sherbourn In Bampfield. Dotjetjhire. After the aCt of uniformity, he continued preaching as he had opportunity in private, till he was imprifoned for five days and nights, with twenty-five of his hearers in one room, with only one bed, where they fpent their time in religious exercifes; but after fome time he was releafed. Soon after he was apprehended again, and lay nine years in Calamy, p; Dorch1fer gaol, though he was a perfon of un!haken loyalty to the king, 26o. · and againfl: the parliament war; but this availed nothing to cis being a non-conformift. He afterwards retired to London, where being again ap– prehended, he was !hut up in Ne7vgate and there died, Feb. I 6, I 683-4. He was for theJeventb day Jabbatb, but a perfon of unquefiionable ferioufnefs and piety. With him might be mentioned Mr. Ralpijim, a learned man, and a Ad if M fellow-fufferer with Mr. J?e!aune in Ne1egate. On the I oth of Decem- R:lpl~ron. r, ber, a bill was found againil: him by the grand jury of London; on the 13th of the fame month he pleaded not guilty at the Old Baily. On the 16th of January he was called to the Sff!ions Hozife, but other trials proving tedious, his did not come on. The next day be was brought to the outer bar; and after an attendance of divers hours in a place not very agreeable, and in the !harpefl: winter that had been known, he contraCted a violent cold, which i!fued in a fever, that carried him as well as Mr. Bampfield beyond the re.ich of tyrants, or the refhaint of bail-docks and prefj-yards, Cblamy's c. to the manfions of ev~rlail:ing re~. Mr. Pbilips, partner with Mr. ~;:d~77. VoL, II. 5 B · · Bamp-
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