752 The HISTORY of th~ PuRITANS.' VoL H. King while f11e was looking out for an opportunity, to fend him out of the Jam6 e8s 11 · 'kingdom, went out and accufed her for harbourinrr him, and b}' th at 1 S· r l I· l'f I · b V""v-'--' means 1avec liS own 1 e by ta <.:ng away hers; !he was burnt alive at Tyburn, and died with great refolution and devotion. Mr. Bateman a fur– geon, Mr. Rouje, Mr. Ferneley, Col. Aylojje, Mr. Nelthorpe, and others, fuffered in like manner. Lord Stamford wa5 admitted to bail, and lord Delamere was tried by his peers, and acquitted. Many who had corref– ponded with· t.he duke of Monmouth abfconded, and bad proclamations againft them, as John Trenchard, Efq; Mr. Speke, and others. But all who fuftered in this caufe, expre!Ted fuch a zeal for the proteftant religion, which they apprehended in danger, as made great imprellions on the fpeCtators. Some fay the king was hurried on by J~/Jeries; but if his own inclinations had not run ftrong the fame way, and if his priefls had not thought it their intereft to take off fo many aCtive prote!l:ants, who op– pofed their meafures, they would not have let that butcher loofe (fays Burnet), to commit fo many barbarous acts of cruelty, as !truck an uni– verfal horror over the body of the nation; It was a bloody fLJmmer, and a dangerous time for bone!l: men to live in. When the king met his parliament Nowmber 9, he congratulated them on the fuccefs of his arms; but told them, that in order to prevent any new di!l:urbances, he was determined to keep the prefent army together; King's Jimcband let no "man (fays his majefty), take exceptions that fome officers to bis parlia·" are not qualified, for they are moll: of them known to me for the loyalG~~;tte " ty of t~eirhpri?ciphlesdanhd pbractfiices ;f anhd. th~ref?re t? dealylainlfy with No. 20 g 5 , " you, a.ter avmg a t e ene t o t etr .ervJces m a tlme o need " and danger, I will neither expofe them to difgrace, nor myfelf to " the want of them - " Thus we were to have a ftanding army under popi01 officer<, in defiance of the penal laws and tell:. The com– mons would have given them an aCt: of indemnity for what was paft, but the king would not accept it; and becaufe the houfe was not difpofed Burnet, p. to his dijpel!fing power, be prorogued them Nov. 20, when they had fat 667. only eleven days; and after many fuccefiive prorogations in the fpace of two years, diifolved them. . 1 686. The profecution of the diifenters, which was carried on with all imaSome turn ginable feverity this and the !aft year, forced fome of their mini!l:ers in– from the to the church but it had a different, and more furpriung influence upchurch to the h' d h · h fi d"ffi 1 · t dijfenters. on others, w o ha t e courage m t e e 1 cu t time~, to tenounce t 1e Calamy's church as a perfecuti?zg ejtablifoment, and to take their lot among the nonAbridg. conformilts ; as the reverend Mr. John Spademan M. A. of S7vayton in P· 4 60 • &c. Linco!njbire; Mr. Jobn Raftrick, vicar of Kirton near Bojlon; Mr. Burroughs of Frampton; Mr. Sco!Jin of Brotherton; Mr. f<!fip of Moreton; and a few others; who could be influenced by no other principle but con-
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