•iiiii:!:: .r^r'iSrH-CF.*: 3^ ^muV^ M,mtxu% Jilr^^at^g iMyi^...iTl^±i<^.. .f 715. 718, 730; New- f Fox vii. 715, 748. court il. 353 ; Strype, E. M. iii. i. 470 ; Annals i. ii. 99. Backings East Thorp, Dagenham, Colchester. 43 Horns, of Billericay, ' maid,' and Elizabeth Thackvel, of Great Burfted, ' maid,' befides Wats, who had been burnt at Chelmsford. About the same date, Katherine Hut, of Bocking, widow, was also sent up to Bonner. Of Potter we, hear nothing further. Harris was but a strippling of seventeen years of age. His crime was, that he had not gone to his parifli church ' by the space of a year or more,' which he confessed to be the fa(3:. After appearing before the bishop several times, he was apparently persuaded to go to confession. ' But when he came to the prieft he stood still and said nothing. ' Why,' quoth the priefl:, ' sayest thou nothing ? ' ' What shall I say ? ' said Harris. ' Thou muil confess thy sins,' said the prieft. ' My sins,' saith he, 'be so many that they cannot be numbered.' With that the priest told Bonner what he had said, and he, of his accustomed devotion, took the poor lad into his garden, and there with a rod, gathered out of a cherry-tree, did most cruelly whip him.'* The other four prisoners, after undergoing a pre- liminary examination, were retained in custody until the 13th of April, when they again appeared before the bifhop, and were sentenced to the stake. Ellis died in Newgate before the day of her burning arrived ; but Hut, Thackvel, and Horns were all three burnt together at Smithfield on the i8th of May.'f On the 28th of the same month, seven persons were delivered into the hands of John Kingfton, then Vicar of East Thorp, one of Bonner's commissaries. These were Chriftopher Lyfter, of Dagenham, ' husbandman ; ' John Mace, of Colchester, ' apothecary ;' John Spencer, of Col- chester, ' weaver ;' Simon Joyne, ' sawyer ;' Richard Nichols, of Colchefter, ' weaver ;' John Hammond, of Colchefter, ' tanner ; ' and Richard Grasbroke. Kingfton sent them to Bonner, ' who, because he (as it seemed by the short process recorded by his register) waxed now weary, made a very quick despatch of them.' Grasbroke submitted himself, but the other six were all condemned to die. They were then com- mitted to prison, "■ from whence, on the receipt of the King * Fox viii. 526. -f- Fox vili. 141, 144. 44 Barking, Stratford, West Berghott, Standford. and Queen's writ,' they were sent to Colchefter, ' where, the 28th day of April, moft cheerfully they ended their lives to the glory of God's holy name and the great encouragement of others.' * Shortly after this, Hugh Lavercock, a lame old man, of the parish of Barking, was ' taken,' and appeared before Bonner on the 1st of May, in company with ' one John Apprice,' who was blind. After their examination they were both of them sent to Newgate, whence they were brought up for the laft time on the 9th of May. Then, being ' travailed ' with to recant their opinions, Hugh Lavercock firfi; said, ' I will ftand to mine answers and to that I have confessed ;' and John Apprice replied, ' Your doftrine is so agreeable with the world and embraced of the same that it cannot be agreeable with the Scripture of God, and ye are not of the Catholic Church, for you make laws to kill men, and make the Queen your hangman.' In the afternoon of that day they were sentenced to death, and on the 15th of May they were taken to the stake at Stratford. *• Hugh Lavercock,' ^fter he was chained, caft away his crutch, and comforting John Apprice, his fellow-martyr, said unto him : ' Be of good cheer, my brother, for my Lord of London is our good physician. He will heal us both shortly ; thee of thy blindness, and me of my lameness. And so patiently these two good servants of God together suffered.' f On the 6th of June ten persons appeared before Darbyshire, Bonner's Chancellor, all of whom were of this county. Agnes George, of West Bergholt, near Colchefter, wife of Richard George, of that parish ; Henry Wye, ' brewer,' of Stanford-le-Hope ; William Halliwell, a ' smith,' of Waltham Holy Cross ; Ralph Jackson, a ' serving man,' of Chipping * Fox vii. 138 — 140. Kingston had presented Kingston to the rectory of Great been presented to his reftory in 1 528, so Birch, and he continued afterwards to hold that he must have witnessed more than both livings until his death in 1558. one change in the 'Establifhed Religion,' Newcourt ii. 239, eg, and equally acquiesced in them all. In -}- Fox vii. 140 141. less than two years after this Lord Rich Chipping Ongar^ Rettendon^ Colchester^ Dunmow, 45 Ongar; John Derifall, a 'labourer/ of Rettendon ; Edmund Hunt, of the parifh of St, James, Colchefter; Thomas Bowyer, a ' weaver,' of Eaft Dunmow ; George Searles, a *■ tailor,' of White Notley ; John Routh, a ' labourer,' of Wicks ; and Elizabeth Pepper, the wife of Thomas Pepper, of the parifh of St. James, Colchefter.* Two of these were young persons, Searles being about twenty-one, and Agnes George twenty-six. Wye, Bowyer, Routh, Searles, and Agnes George, who had been committed because she * would not go to church ' — which was also the great crime alleged against Elizabeth Pepper — were all of them brought up from the prisons at Colchefter. After their examinations the ten were sentenced to death, together with three others that appeared before the Chancellor at the same time, and then the whole thirteen were committed to Newgate to await their * The Incumbents of moft of these parishes had acquiesced in not a few of the changes of the laft few years. The Rec- tor of Bergholt was Edmund Torrell, who was admitted in March, 1531 ; as he continued Reftor until his death in 1559, he muft have repented yet once more. Newcourt ii. 56. James Scott, the Rec- tor of Ongar, had been admitted in 1552. He was also Redlor of the adjacent parifh of Greenftead, to which he was admitted in 1548. He also turned again, and died in 1577- Newcourt ij. 451, 289. The Redtor of Rettendon was John Vaughan. He was admitted in April, 1541, but did not survive to make another change, as he died in 1557. Newcourt ii. 491. The Reftor of Dunmow was John Byrd, who succeeded on the deprival of Jeffrey Crisp in 1554. Byrd was originally a Carmelite monk, who turned with the times, and became a zealous preacher of the King's supremacy in the reign of Henry VIII. Henry rewarded him for his pliancy, firft, with an Irifh bifhopric, afterwards with the See of Bangor, and at length with that of Chefter. Byrd continued to con - form again under Edward VI., and turned round once more on the acceflion of Mary. He was now one of Bonner's suffragans, and is the bifhop of whom Fox speaks as having been present at the examination of Thomas Hawkes, to whom he said — *You are a young man, and I would not wish you to go too far, but learn of your elders to bear somewhat.' Wood Ath. Ox. i. 99 i Strype, Cranmer 87, 88, 89, 443, 519 J Strype, E. M. ii. ii. 173 ; iii. i. 218; Strype, Grindal 458. Byrd was Re£tor of Great Dunmow until his death in 1559. Jeffrey Jones, the Vicar of White Notley, had also acquiesced in not a few changes ; but he was at leaft unwilling to make another. Jones was admitted in March 1537 ; on the acceflion of Eliza- beth he was deprived. Newcourt ii. 442. There is no clue to the Incumbents of Waltham, Wicks, or of St. James', Col- chefter. The Reftor of Stanford-le- Hope was Thomas Bannefter, admitted May, 1556, and died the November following. Newcourt ii. 548. 46 Stratford, Walton, Horksky, Rayleigh, Holland. execution. They all suffered at Stratford, on the 27th of June. ' The eleven men were tied to three stakes, and the two women loose in the midst, without any stake ; and so they were all hurnt in one fire, with such love to each other, and conftancy in our Saviour Chrift, that it made all the lookers-on to marvel.'* In 1557, the persecution still increased. On the 8th of February a commiffion was issued to twenty persons, among whom were Henry Cole, then Dean of St. Paul's, who had been Rector of Chelmsford from 1540 to 1547. t Sir John Mordaunt, of Winslow's, and Sir Roger Cholmley, of Playtz, Weftham, invefting them with ftill further powers for the apprehenfion of the heretics. In the month of August after this, three and twenty persons "• about the town of Colchefler were apprehended at one clap,' of which twenty-three one escaped : the other twenty-two were ' driven up like a flock of Chriftian lambs to London, with two or three leaders with them at moft, ready to give their skins to be plucked off for the Gospel's sake.' The one that escaped was Alice, the wife of William Walley, of Colchester, who submitted herself, afked absolution, and promised to do her solemn penance in her parifli church of St. Peter's, and to continue a ' Catholic and faithful woman as long as God should send her life.' The twenty-two were Robert Colman, of Walton ; Thomas and John Winsley, of Great Horksley ; Stephen Glover, of Rayleigh ; Richard Clerke, ' mariner,' of Great Holland ; William Munt, Alice Munt, and Rose Allen, of Great Bentley ; Margaret Field, of Ramsey ; Agnes Whitelock, of Dovercourt ; Richard Bougeour, Richard Jolley, Thomas Feersane, and William Bougeour, of Colchefter ; "Richard * Fox vlii. 151, 154. Fox says, Eliza- f Fox viii. 301 — 303. Cole preached beth Pepper, when she was burned, was at the martyrdom of Cranmer, at Oxford, eleven weeks gone with child as she then in 1555. Strype, Cranmer 550 — 554. teftified to one Bosom's wife, who then He was Pole's Vicar-general. Strype, unloosed her neckerchief, saying, more- Ecc. Mem. iii. ii. 27. He had also been over, when she was asked why she did not a great Reformer in Edward's time, tell them, 'Why!' quoth she, 'they Wood Ath. Ox. i. 196. knew it well enough.' Dedham, Coggeshall, Colchester. 47 Atkin, and Ellen Ewring, of Halsted ; Richard Barcock, of Wiston, SuiFolk; Richard, the husband of Agnes George, who was burnt at Stratford ; Robert Debnam, of Dedham ; Cicely Warren and Chriftian Pepper, of Coggeshall; and Allin Simpson.* The whole party was sent up to Bonner by Kingfton, with a characteristic letter, the bearers of which were William Godwin, of Much Birch, husbandman, and Thomas Alsey, of Copford, which last was Bonner's apparitor of the con- sistory of Colchefter. In this letter Kingston, after informing the Bishop that the Commissioners had taken measures for seizing all the 'lands, tenements, and goods of certain fugitives,' among whom we afterwards learn was one John Lowe, of ' Colchefter Heath, a perverse place,' and relating certain incidents connected with the delivery of the prisoners into his hands, he reminds his lordship that ' if the householders might be compelled to bring every man his own wife to her own seat in the church, in the time of divine service, it would profit much.' The twenty-two were all bound together with ' gyves and hemp, and in this way they travelled up to London.' When they reached the city, as they passed through Cheapside, ' they both exhorted the people to their part,' says Bonner in a letter which he wrote to Pole on the subject, ' and had much comfort e promiscua plebe.' At the inftance of Pole an easy submiffion was framed for them, which being signed, they were released, and for this time they all escaped. Before the end of the year, however, some of them were in trouble again. Not long after the return of William and Alice Munt, and * The Incumbents of Bergholt 45, livings under Edward ; and the Incum- Walton 35, and Coggefliall 31. In the bents ofWalton, Ramsey, Rayleigh, and other eight Effex parilhes that are men- Dedham, all turned round on the accellion tioned, there had been but two deprivals of Elizabeth. Cootes, the Reflor of Great on the acceflion of Mary, and one of Horklley, seems to have been a conliftent them, Great Bentley, could not have been Papift, as he was deprived in 1562. for conscience sake, as Shereman was pre- Newcourt ii. in locc. In the regifter of sented to the Vicarage of Bulmer in 1 556. the parifli of St. Nicholas, Colchefter, we The Incumbents ofWalton, Ramsey, and find this entry : 1560, Margaret, daughter Halfted, had all of them enjoyed their of Rich. Bougeour, baptized Aug. 11. 48 Great Bentley, Colchester., TFakering, Harwich. Rose Allen, to Great Bentley, a petition was sent to the Lord Darcy by Thomas Tye, a prieft then already resident in the parifh, and certain others, complaining of them not only as having ' in their own persons shewn manifest tokens of dis- obedience in not coming to the church' . . . but also as ' having seduced many.' In the beginning of Mary's reign Tye had professed himself to be a gospeller, and ' for a twelve- month or more he came not to the church, but frequented the company of godly men and women, and as they thought he laboured to keep a good conscience ;' but he had now turned round, and as his reward for betraying those whom he once called his brethren, he was in the course of the year presented to the vicarage.* Five days after his admission to the vicarage, Tye writes to Bonner : ' Since the coming down of the twenty-two rank heretics dismissed from you, the deteftable sort of schismatics were never so bold since the King and Queen's Majesties' reign, as they are now at this present. . . They assemble together upon the Sabbath day in the time of divine service, sometimes in one house, sometimes in another, and there keep their privy conventicles.' Tye then proceeds to complain of the ' Jurats and Questmen,' and to throw out hints that even the biftiops are favourers of heretics ; and adds : ' The rebels are stout in the town of Colchefter. The ministers of the church are hemmed at in the open streets, and called knaves. The blessed sacrament of the altar is blas- phemed and railed upon in every house and tavern. Prayers and faftings are not regarded. Seditious talks and news are rife as though there had no honourable lords and commissioners been sent for reformation.' In this letter Tye- encloses an account of a two months' tour which he had just completed in other parts of the county, in the course of which he mentions visits paid by him to Great Wakering, Harwich, Langenhoe, and Peldon. The Munts, becoming aware of the proceedings that were in progress against them, now concealed themselves. About * Tye was admitted 13th December, 1557,011 the presentation of Bonner. Newc. ii. 50. Thorpe., Colchester, Bocking. 4g the beginning of March, however, they returned from their concealment, and they were soon taken. ' By two o'clock of the morning on Sunday' the 7th of that month, Edmund Tyrrel with others came to their house. He bade them at once pre- pare to come to Colchefter Caftle. Alice Munt desired that her daughter might firft fetch her some drink. To this Tyrrel consented, and Rose Allen accordingly went out, taking a stone pot in one hand and a candle in the other. On her return Tyrrel met her, and taking the candle from her held her wrist, and ' the burning candle under her hand burning crosswise over the back thereof so long till the very sinews cracked asunder .... In which time of his tyranny he often said to her, ' Why, whore, wilt thou not cry ? Thou young whore, wilt thou not cry ? ' unto which she always answered, that she had no cause she thanked God, but rather to rejoice.' Tyrrel and his companions then searched the house, and found there John Thurfton also and Margaret his wife, whom they carried with the Munts to Colchester, and lodged them all in prison. About the same time John Johnson, otherwise called John Aliker, of Thorpe, was also brought to Colchester Castle; and shortly afterwards two others of the twenty-two, William Bougeour and Ellen Ewring, were apprehended and laid in the ' Mote Hall,' together with William Purcas, a native of Bocking, Agnes Silverside, and Elizabeth Fowkes, ' a young maid ' of the age of twenty, who was a native of Stoke-by-Nayland, and then a servant to Nicholas Clere, in Colchester.* While these prisoners were in custody, one Richard Rothe, who had been a fellow prisoner with the twenty-two in London and who was now in prison for the second time, wrote them a letter ' with his own blood.' This letter, unhappily, never reached them. Rothe continued in prison until the September following, when he was burnt at Islington, in company with three others. John Thurfton died in prison in the May after his apprehension. The others, to whom there was shortly added Agnes, the wife of Richard Bougeour, having been * A Nicholas Clere was bailiff of Colchefter, 1564 — 1605. Mor. MSS. Col. Mus. E 50 Colchester. frequently examined previously, were at length brought before William Chadsey, one of Bonner's chaplains ; John Kingfton ; John Boswell, Bonner's Secretary; and Robert Brown and Robert Maynard, who were then the Bailiffs of Colchefter, in the Mote Hall.* They were then condemned to die, and shortly afterwards Bonner sent down a writ for their execution. They were burnt on the 2nd of August. ' Between six and seven of the clock in the morning,' says Fox, ' were brought from Mote Hall unto a plot of ground hard by the town wall of Colchester, on the outward side, William Bougeour,t William Purcas, Thomas Benhold, Agnes Silverside, Helen Ewring, and Eliza- beth Fowkes. When all the six were nailed at their stakes, and the fire about them, they clapped their hands for joy in the fire, that the standers by, which were by estimation thousands, cried generally almost. The Lord strengthen them ! the Lord comfort them ! the Lord pour his mercies upon them ! with such like words, as were wonderful to hear.' f In the afternoon of the day, the Munts, Johnson, and Allen, were brought forth into the caftle yard, which 'godly conftant persons, after they had made their prayers, and were joyfully tied to the stakes, calling upon the name of God, and exhorting the people earnestly to flee from idolatry, suffered their martyr- dom with such triumph and joy, that the people did no less shout thereat to see it, than at the others that were burnt the same day in the morning.' Margaret Thurfton was reserved because of some expectations which she encouraged that she might recant ; and Agnes Bou- geour was reserved because of an error in the writ. When Agnes Bougeour found that she was separated from her fellow- * Chadsey. He had also abjured Popery as bailiff in 1543—, 549. S. Maynard, in the reign of Edward VI., and that after 1551 and 1560. Morant's MSS. having made himself exceedingly promi- f The regifter of the parish of St nent as a Papist. He was now on a Nicholas, Colchefter, contains the foUow- special comm.ffion to Colchefter. Strype, ing entry :-i 543, Richard Bougeaur, the E. M. li. .. 64; m. ii. iz6 ; Cranmer, son of William, was baptized the iqth of 244; Wood, Ath. Ox. i. 136, which August, compare with Strype. Brown also appears J Fox viii. 392. Colchester, Maldon, Great Bentley. 5^ prisoners, and was not to die with them, she wept : ' so little did she look for life, so greatly did God's grace work in her above nature, that death seemed a great deal better welcome than life.' Margaret Thurston soon recovered her former steadfaftness, and by the time that the writ had been amended, she was also 'ready to be offered up.' The two women were burnt together on the 17th of September. 'When they came to the place in Colchefter where they should suffer, .... they fell down upon both their knees and made their humble prayers unto the Lord, which thing being done, they rose and went to the stake joyfully, and were immediately thereto chained ; and, after the fire had compassed them about, they with great joy and glorious triumph gave up their souls, spirits, and lives into the hands of the Lord.'* Shortly before these martyrdoms at Colchefter, Boswell, writing to Bonner from Maldon, speaks of six persons whom Kingston had succeeded in persuading to recant — Elizabeth Wood, Chriftian Hare, Rose Fletcher, Joan Kent, Agnes Stanley, and Margaret Simson. f In the April of this year another of Tye's victims was sent up to Bonner — Ralph Allerton. Allerton was also of the parish of Great Bentley. He had been apprehended previously about twelve months before this, when he was prevailed upon to recant. On that occasion he confessed that — ' Coming into his parish church and seeing the people sitting there either gazing about or else talking together, he exhorted them that they would fall on prayer and meditation of God's most Holy Word. Then, after prayers, he read unto them a chapter of the New Testament, and so departed.' For this he was 'con- strained to keep himself in woods, in barns, and other solitary places, under the fear of apprehension.' After his recantation he was ' raised up again,' God ' giving unto him not only heafty and unfeigned repentance, but also a most confirant boldness to profess again (even unto the death) His most Holy Name and glorious Gospel.' He was sent up to Bonner, by • Fox viii. 420, 421. -f- Fox viii. 588. E 2 52 Chelmsford, Colchester. Tye, on the 8th of this month. After his remand he wrote an account of his examination 'with blood for lack of other ink,' which is publiflied by Fox. Allerton again appeared before Bonner on the 7th of July; on the loth he was condemned to die; and on the i8th of September he was burnt, in com- pany with Rothe and two others, at Islington.* Some time in this year there was another sufferer for the Gospel's sake in Essex. This was George Eagles. This man, *• as before in the days of King Edward VI., he had not unfruitfully shewed and preached the force and power of the Lord, so afterward .... driving about .... lodging sometimes in the country, and sometimes, for fear, living in fields and woods. For his ' iinmoderate and unreasonable going about' he was called 'Trudgeover.' He was discovered in Colchester, ' upon Mary Magdalen's day, when there was a fair in the town,' apprehended, and committed to the prison there, whence four days afterwards he was taken to Chelmsford. The next day he was carried to London, and was then brought down to Chelmsford again to be tried at the sessions on the charge of treason. On that charge he was sentenced to be hung, drawn, and quartered. He was 'laid upon a sledge with a hurdle on it, and drawn to the place of execution, being first bound, having in his hand a Psalm-book, of the which he read very devoutly all the way with a loud voice. . . After he had hanged a small time, having a great check with the halter, immediately one of the bailifl^s cut the halter asunder and he fell to the ground being still alive. . . . Then one William Swallow, of Chelmsford, a bailiff, did draw him to the sled that he was drawn thither on, and laid his neck thereon, and with a cleaver .... did hackle off his head and did foully mangle him, and so opened him. Notwithstanding, this blessed martyr of Chrift stood steadfaft and constant in the midft of his torments, till such time as his tormentor, William Swallow, did pluck the heart out of his body. The body, being divided in four parts and his bowels burnt, was brought " Strype, Ecc. Mem. iii. ii. 63. Harwich, Dedham, Colchester, Roehedge. 53 to the foresaid Swallow's door, and there laid upon the fifh stalls .... till they made ready a horse to carry his quarters, one to Colchefter, and the rest to Harwich, Chelmsford, and St. Osyth. His head was set up at Chelmsford, in the market cross, on a long pole, and there stood till the wind did blow it down ; and lying certain days in the street, tumbled about, one carried it to be buried in the churchyard in the night.' * During the whole of this fearful period there were not wanting many who made it their special mission to travel about the country for the purpose of ' visiting the professors of the gospel, and comforting and exhorting them to steadfastness in the faith.' Among these were Laurence, of ' Barne Hall,' and John Barry, his servant ; William Pulleyn, otherwise known as Smith; and 'William a Scot,' who dwelt, Fox says, "-at Dedham Heath.' These also regularly miniftered to a con- gregation at the King's Head, Colchefter, which conftantly assembled during the whole period of the persecution, ' and as a candle upon a candlestick, gave light to all those who for the comfort of their consciences came to confer there from divers parts of the realm. 'f The wretched reign of Mary was now rapidly drawing to a close ; but still the fiery persecution raged with unabated fiiry. It was evident, however, that violence was defeating itself. Many began to ' make songs ' against the government because of this. One Cornet, "• a minstrel's boy, being at a wedding at Roehedge, near Colchefter, and being bid to sing some song out of the Scripture, he sang instead one of these.' For this he was committed into custody, brought before the Earl of Oxford, and was ' whipped for his pains.' J The Queen and Bonner still moved on. In April, 1558, by virtue of a commission from the Bifhop and some warrants * Fox viii. 396. X Strype, Ecc. Mem. ill. 11. 124. The -f" Strype, E. M. ill. 11. 285. See an accuser of this boy was Thomas Yaxley, Interefting account of the congregation at then Reiftor of Eaft Donlland. Yaxley the King's Head. Strype's Annals, il. U. was at leaft confiftent. He was deprived 283 — 286. in 1562. Fox viii. 578 ; Newc. 11. 215. 54 Colchester^ Harwich. also from the Council, Chadsey and two of Bonner's chaplains came down to Colchefter and Harwich *• to examine heretics, and to condemn them to be burnt,' bringing with them a letter from the Bishop to Lord Darcy ' to countenance and further on this business.' Strype says ■• that on their firft coming down they examined six one day and condemned them the next, and so were making quick work with many more. . . . But by the providence of God . . . while these bloody men were very earnest at their cruel business, the Council sent for the chief of them (Chadsey) up to court immediately. Chadsey remonftrated, alleging, ' we be now in the myddeft of our examination .... and if we should give it up ... . we should set the country in such a rore that my eftimation shall be for ever lost. . . . Would to God,' he adds, ' the honourable Council saw the face of Essex as we do see. We have such obftinate heretics, anabaptifts, and other unruly persons here as never was heard of.' Notwithltanding this remonstrance the Council persifted, and Chadsey was obliged to return to London. But, after their colleagues had left them, the other two still followed their work. On the 22nd of April, 1558, they write to Bonner : ' Yesterday, being Thursday, we finifhed the examination of three obftinate and cumberous heretics ; for one of them held us all the forenoon, and the other two all the after- noon. This morning, being Friday, we intended to finifh the examination of the other three, and at afternoon to pronounce sentence of them all. There is little hope in them. The officers of this town be very diligent with us, and the under shereve. To-morrow . . . we intend to ride to Harwich.' * As the first fruits of this commission, three persons were brought to the stake at Colchester on the 27th of May : Wil- liam Harris, Richard Day, and Christian George. This last was the second wife of Richard George, whose first wife had been burnt at Stratford. ' These three good souls being brought to the stake, and having joyfully and fervently made their * Strype, Ecc. Mem. iii. i. 125, 126. Colchester. 55 prayers unto the Lord, were settled in their places and chained unto their posts, and when the fire flamed fiercely round about them, they, like constant Christians, triumphantly praised God within the same, and offered up their bodies a lively sacrifice unto His Holy Majesty, in whose habitation they have now their everlasting tabernacle.' * Shortly afterwards Richard George married a third time, and in November he and his wife were also imprisoned for con- science sake. While they were in prison they had for their companions one Edward Grew, priest, and Appline, his wife, who had been compelled to fly from their dwelling at a town called ' Broke,' and had now fallen into the hands of Bonner's officer in Essex ;t and before the month of November six more had found their way into the same prison ; John Pilgrim, James Wilson, Elizabeth Young, and three others. J On the 17th of November the wretched Queen had gone to her lafl: account. * Fox vUi. 467, 468. X Strype, Annals of the Reformation f Fox viii. 538. i. 55. CHAPTER IV. 1558 — 1602. WITHIN a few hours after the death of Mary, Elizabeth was proclaimed as her successor. One of the new Queen's first adis was to issue her commands for the release of such prisoners for conscience sake as had been left by Mary in the different gaols of the kingdom. At Colchester there appears to have been ten if not more; befides those just mentioned, Alice Michael, Chriftian Crampe and John Hoste. Concerning these a letter was addressed to William Cardinal and John Tey, who were direiSted to summon the Bailiffs of Colchefter, and ' to ex- amine for what causes ' they ' were committed to their caftle,' and ' if they found there was no cause by law to detain them, then to set them at liberty, taking firfl their own bonds to be forthcoming when they should be called to answer that which should be objefted to them.' These bonds the prisoners at first refused to give, but they afterwards relented. The letter addressed to Cardinal and Tey bears date 21st Dec, 1558* Encouraged by this and similar proceedings on the part of the Queen, many an earnest ' gospeller ' who had hitherto concealed himself now came from his retirement and began openly to preach. But this was anything but grateful to Elizabeth. A proclamation was therefore issued on the 27th of December, to the effect that : ' The Queen's Majesty, underftanding that there be certain persons, having in times past the office of ministry in the church, which do now purpose to use their former office in preaching, and partly » Cardinal was of Great Bromley. chefter were George Sayer and John Moranti. 441. Tey, of Aldham Hall. Beaft. Morant MSS. Morant il. 197. The Bailiffs of Col- Colchester, Shoehury, Great Bentley, TVeit Mersea. 57 have attempted the same, assembling .... in sundry places great numbers of people, hath therefore thought it necessary to . . . command . . . that they do forbear to preach, or to give credence to any manner of doftrine other than to the gospels and epistles of the day and to the ten commandments in the vulgar tongue without exposition .... added or to use any other manner of public prayer .... in the church, but that which is already used .... until consultation may be had by parliament' .... and that ' if any shall disobediently use themselves to the breach hereof, her Majesty both must ' and would *■ see the same duly punished.' Among others who were affected by this proclamation were ' one Pullen,' ' one Dodman, of Colchester,' and ' one Thomas Pike, at Shoehury.' * Pike was probably a layman. His offence appears to have been the pulling down of certain images in the parifli church. For this he was complained of to the Council, who remitted his case to the Lord Rich, ' no very -good friend to Protestants, with instructions to see him punifhed according to the quality of his offence.' Pullen was probably William Pulleyn; f and his friend, the clergyman who was presented in the next year following by Grindal' then Bifhop of London, to the vicarage of Great Bentley, on the death of Thomas Tye, and to whom also the Queen gave the rectory of West Mersea, in 1560.! Their offence was that they had presumed to preach, for which they were apprehended and put in prison. A few days after these proceedings a letter was sent from the Council to Thomas Mildmay, the Bailiff of Colchester, and other "• Justices of the Peace thereabout' . . . ' to give orders .... for the apprehending of any others who had been guilty of similar offences.' || * Strype, Annals i. 63, 69, 70. Bailiffs of Colchefter were Robert Brown ■j- Fox viii. 384; Strype, Ecc. Mem. and Robert Northen. Morant MSS. iii. ii. 64. Strype, Annals i. i. 63. Elizabeth was at T Newcourt ii. 50, 414. least impartial in enforcing this proclama- 11 Mildmay, afterwards Sir Thomas, tion. Several papifts were also appre- of Springfield Barnes. Morant ii. 9. The hended for the offence of preaching. 58 Wickham^ Copford^ Barkings Colchester. Within a month after the issue of the proclamation, Elizabeth had met her first parliament, which was convened for the 23rd of January. The two most important measures now passed were ' An A£l to restore to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction over the Estate Ecclesiastical and Spiritual;' and an ' Aft for the uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church, and Administration of the Sacraments.' Among other powers conferred upon the Crown by the Act of Supremacy was one that gave rise to a new court, afterwards but too notorious as the Court of High Commission. The section under which this power was given is to the efFeft, that the Crown shall ' have full power and authority ... to assign ... to such persons ... as (it) may think meet,' . . . ' to visit ... all heresies, schisms . . . whatsoever . . . provided only that they shall not have . . . power to . . . adjudge any matter to be heresy . . . but only such as here- tofore have been determined ... or such as hereafter shall be ordered ... by the High Court of Parliament . . . with the assent of the clergy in their convocation.'* The ' Common Prayer ' sanctioned by the A£t of Uniformity was the ' book . . . authorized by parliament in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Edward VI.' with one alteration and the addition of certain lessons ; ' the form of the Litany corre6ted ; ' and two sentences added in the delivery of the Sacrament. The alterations in the lessons were of no moment ; but especially one of those that were made in the Litany was most ominous. In Edward's book there occurs the prayer — ' From the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome, and all his detested enormities . . . good Lord deliver us.' In Elizabeth's Among them were the following : John Walker, Reftor of St. Leonard's Col- Morren, who held the livings of Wick- chefter, Strype, An. i. i 67; Ne'wc. ii. ham Biihops, and Copford, in this county, 173. Walker afterwards conformed, and and who was also Reaor of St. Martin's, became Archdeacon of Stafford and Derby. Ludgate, in the City of London. S'rype, He was a member of the Convocation of Annals i. i. 62. ; Newcourt i. 147. John 1562. Strype, An. i. 489, 50 c Gregyll, Vicar of Barking. Strype, An. * ,. Elizabeth c. i 17 ig ,6 1. i. 65; Newc. ii. 35. And Peter ' The New Prayer Book. 59 this prayer was omitted. Scarcely less so were the additions made to the communion service. In Edward's book the minifter is diredied to say, ' when he delivereth the bread, ' Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving ; ' and in delivering the cup, '• Drink this in remembrance that Chrift's blood was shed for thee, and be thankful.' Now he was to add, in delivering the bread, ' The body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul, into everlasting life;' and in delivering the cup, " The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for thee, preserve thy body and soul into everlasting life.' These two sentences were at least consistent with the doftrine of the ' Real Presence.' * The Acft of Uni- formity further enacSed, that ' such ornament of the church and ofthe minifter shall be retained as was .... in the second year of Edward VL, until other^order shall be taken by the Queen's Majefty ; ' and under this clause of the A<5t, the Queen took upon herself to make another alteration in the communion service. Edward's book had enjoined, ' That the minister at the time of the communion, and at all other times, in his minis- trations, shall use neither alb, vestment, or cope.' But Elizabeth enjoined him to use ' such vestments as were in use in 1547.' t It was also ena6ted, 'That if any persons .... speak anything in the derogation, depraving, or despising ofthe same book, or of anything therein contained .... he should, for the first offence, be fined one hundred marks ; for the second, four hundred marks ; and for the third, forfeit to the Queen all his goods and chattels, and sufl-'er imprisonment during his life ; and that any minister so oftending, should, for the first offence, forfeit a year's income and suffer imprisonment for six months ; for the second, be deprived and suffer imprisoned for one whole year ; and for the third, be deprived and suffer imprisonment during his life.'f * Strype, An. i. i. 123,124. Liturgies f Eliz. ii. 25. Strype, An. 1. i. 123. of Edward VI. and Liturgical Services of Liturgical Services of Q^Elizabeth. Q^Elizabeth's P. Soc. Profter, Hift. of J i. Eliz. ii. 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11. Common Prayer 56. 6o Copford, Aldham, Kelvedon Hatch, Burjied, Hadlelgh. Such measures ofFered but few obftacles to the clergy who were already beneficed. Indeed, the Pope himself expressed his willingness to endorse the liturgy. Strype says, that ' Of nine thousand four hundred ecclefiastics, but one hundred and seventy-seven left their livings, and of these only eighty were re6tors of churches.' I cannot find that more than three persons were deprived in Essex : John Morren, of Copford ; John Kingston, of Aldham ; and John Baker, of Kelvedon Hatch. And with regard to the laity, Heylin says, ' The book was made so passable among the papists, that they generally repaired to their parifh churches without doubt or scruple.'* But to the ' gospellers,' the new A6t of Uniformity soon proved to be a grievous stumbling-block. By this time many of those who had taken refuge on the Continent during the unhappy reign of Mary were returning home. During their absence, most of them ' had learned the way of the Lord more perfectly,' and these were naturally more than disappointed at what they found awaiting them. Many of them were ofFered Biftioprics but refused them, as Miles Coverdale and David Whitehead ; f and others, though they accepted office, did so with much reluctance. J Shortly after the passing of the A£ls of Supremacy and Uniformity, the Queen issued a series of injunftions preparatory to a royal visitation. These injundtions required, among other things, that within three months every parifh should be provided with ' one book of the whole Bible of the largest volume in English ;' and, within twelve months, with "• the Paraphrase of Erasmus also;' and further, ' that all shrines .... and all other monu- ments of superftition should be deftroyed.'|| There were also * Strype, An. i. i. 339; Camden, Annals of E. Bible i. 185 ; Brooks, Lives Elizabeth in Complete Hift. of England of the Puritans i. 117), and Whitehead il. 384; Hallam's Const. Hift. i. 198; was Curate at Hadlelgh. Strype, Cran- Filher's Revifion of the Liturgy, 155,198. mer 393. f Coverdale was a preacher at Bum- % Neal, Hift. of Puritans i. 99, a. u. ftead, and about the same time 1837. also at Great Burftead. He had been % Strype, An. i. i. 245 ; Cardwell made Bifhop of Exeter by Edward VL Documentary Annals i. 209, 231. and was deposed by Mary, (Anderson, The Queen's Injunctions. 6 1 appended to these injundlions, among other ' admonitions,' the following : 'Whereas Her Majefty underjftandeth that in many .... parts the altars of the churches be removed, and tables set for the administration of the Holy Sacrament, and in some other places the altars be not removed .... it is ordered .... that the holy tables in every church be .... set in the place where the altars stood .... and so to stand, save when the communion of the sacrament is to be distributed, at which time the same shall be so placed .... as the minister may be more conveniently heard .... and the communicants also more conveniently, and in more number 'communicate with the said minister. And after the communion, from time to time, the same holy table to be placed where it stood before.' * The vifitation took place about Midsummer, 1559, and those who conduced it, with the exception of Parker, Grindal, and William May, were all laymen, f After the royal vifitation had been completed, the vacant Archiepiscopal See of Canter- bury was filled up by the consecration of Matthew Parker on the 9th of December, i559-t One of Parker's first acts was, in conjun6tion with the other bifhops of his province, to issue a paper of 'interpretations' of the Queen's injunctions; two of which were as follows : ' That there be used only but one apparel, as the cope in the ministration of the sacraments, and the surplice in all other ministrations : ' and ' that the table be moved out of the choir into the body of the church before the church door, when either the choir seemeth to be too little or at great feasts of receivings.' Both of these interpretations, as well as the injunctions to which they relate, afterwards became of great importance. The reorganization of the hierarchy was now rapidly proceeded with. In this diocese Edmund Grindal had already * Cardwell, Documentary Annals 1. I suppose;' but no such name appears in ^33j ^34- Newcourt's lists of the Incumbents of -f- Cardwell i. 256. either of the Bradwells in this county. J Strype, in enumerating Parker's early It is more probable that Parker was bene- preferments, speaks of him as having been ficed at Bradwell, in Cambridgeflilre. Reiftor of Bradwell, adding 'That in Essex 62 They don Garnon, High Ongar, Copford. been consecrated bishop, on the 2ist of July, previous to the consecration of Parker. The deanery of St. Paul's, vacant by the deprival of Henry Cole, had been filled up by the re- appointment of William May, W[iO had been deprived by Mary : and the archdeaconries of London, Essex, and Col- chefter, which v^ere vacant by the deprivals of John Harpsfield, Thomas Darbyshire, and John Standish, were severally filled — that of London by John Mullens, who was also Rector of Theydon Garnon, and who afterwards became one of the Deans of Bocking ; that of Essex by Thomas Cole, Rector of High Ongar, and afterwards also Rector of Stamford Rivers ; and that of Colchefter by John Pulleyn, who soon became also Redtor of Copford. Mullens, Cole, and Pulleyn had all three of them been exiles in the reign of Mary, and during their absence had each of them more or less sided with the more advanced of the Reformers.* Elizabeth dissolved her firft parliament on the 8th of May, 1559. Her second affembled on the nth of Jan., 1562. On the same day the convocation of the clergy of the province of Canterbury met in the chapter house of St. Paul's. This body having framed the thirty-nine articles — to which there seems to have been no great difficulty in securing the subscriptions of any but those who, secretly at least, were papists rather than proteftants — a paper was brought into the Upper House by Edwyn Sandys, then Bifhop of Worcefter, praying that ' Her Majefty might be moved that private baptism and baptism by women might be taken from the Common Prayer Book ; that the cross in baptism may be disallowed .... and that measures might be taken to set down ecclesiastical orders and rules in all matters.' And this was soon followed by another, * May had held the sinecure Reftory of ments he retained until his death in June, Littlebury, 1538— 1553. Newc. iii. 394. 1591. Newc. i. 637, 92 ; Orig. Letters, Standish had been Reflior of Paglesham. Parker Society 751 ; Zurich Letters New. i. 92. Mullens was collated to the P. S. 11.307; ib. i. 256; Brooks Lives prebend of Kentish Town in 1559; in i. 114 — 116; Strype, Whitgift i. 245; 1561 to Theydon Garnon j and in 1587 Cooper, Ath. Cant. i. 295, 558 ; Pulleyn, to Bocking. He was also canon resi- Wood Ath. Ox. i. 148. dentiary of St. Paul's. All which prefer- Backings Laingdon-cum-Basildon. 63 which Was presented at the request of thirty-three members of the Lower House, praying ' That the Psalms ... be sung by the whole congregation ; that none be suffered to baptize but minifters only,' and ' that they also may leave off the sign of the cross :' that ' in the time of miniflering the communion kneeling may be left indifferent ;' that ' the use of copes and of surplices may be taken away ;' that ' miniflers be not compelled to wear such gowns and caps as the enemies of Chrift's gospel have chosen to be the special array of their priesthood ;' that ' the words in Art. XXXIII. concerning those who do not in all things conform in matters of ceremony may be mitigated ;' and that ' all saints, feafls, and holy days may be mitigated.' Among the signatures to this last are those of John Mullens, John Pulleyn, Thomas Watts, then Arch- deacon of Middlesex, and afterwards the successor of John Mullens, in the deanery of Bocking ; and James Calfhill, afterwards Rector of Bocking, and also Archdeacon of Col- chester.* Both of these papers were rejected. On the 13th of February, another paper was debated in the Lower House, which was much to the same effect with those which had already been rejected in the Upper ; and on a division being taken it appeared that of those who were present forty-three were in its favour, while but thirty-eight were against it. But when the proxies of those who were absent came also to be reckoned, it was found that the paper was negatived by a majority of one. By that single voice, and that the voice of an absent member, proposals were again rejected, which, if they had been received, much of the strife which now immediately ensued would have been happily escaped. In the minority, we find Thomas Watts, John Walker, afterwards RecStor of Laingdon-cum- Bafildon and Archdeacon of Essex, John Pulleyn, and James Calfhill. t Thomas Cole with others was unhappily absent, and either withheld or neglected to send their proxies, or the majority would have been reversed. * Strype A. i. i. 501, 501; Watts, f Stiype, A. i. i, 504; Walker, Newcourt i. 82, 92 ; Cooper Ath. Cant. Newcourt i. 73 ; Cooper, Ath. Cant, i. 365; Calfhill, Wood Ath. Ox. i. 163; ii. 37. Cooper i. 285. 64 St'ifted^ Backing. The convocation afterwards submitted certain propositions to the parliament, which were subsequently embodied in their KSts. Among Aem were the following; ' That all manner of persons, with their household servants, shall frequent their own parifli church at the time of common prayer, and there to remain during the whole time of the same ; and also shall receive the holy communion .... so oft as is appointed by the book of service ; and that, if any person .... be found notably to transgress his duty .... as it is prescribed, in addition to being fined, he shall be treated as a person excommunged . . . . and be discharged of the benefit of the gracious Majesty's laws, and be made unable to sue or hold plea in any of the courts of the realm.' * Not long after the convocation had been dismissed, Richard Kitchen, who had recently been presented by Parker to the RecStory of Stifted, came into collision with one Holland, a Curate of Bocking, and John Nowell, the Dean of Bocking, on certain matters which they felt to be objectionable in his practice, f Holland had taken him to task in his own pulpit at Stisted, for accompanying his parifliioners in their periodical ' perambulations,' and also for denouncing ' preaching on such subjects as predestination and the like ;' and Nowell had reproved him for ' turning his face to the east when reading divine service.' Kitchen appealed to his patron, complaining to him especially of Holland, and at the same time informed the Archbifhop that there was ' great liberty used among the clergy ' of his neighbourhood, ' in varying from the appoint- ments of the church ;' ' that some conferred baptism in basins, some in dishes, rejedting the use of the font ; some held there must be seven godfathers ; some would either that every father should chriften his own child, or at leaft admit him to be chief godfather . . . some detefted the surplice in miniftration ; and that in Bocking it had been laid a-water (as he expressed it) many a day.' J This coming to the ear of Elizabeth, she imme- diately wrote to Parker, charging him to see to the suppression * Strype, Annals i. 529. J Strype, Parker i. 303—306. \ Kitchen, Cooper, Ath. Cant. li. 291. Stijied. 65 of all nonconformity throughout his province ; adding — ' For wee intend to have no dissension or variety growr .... for so the sovereign authority which wee have under Almighty God, should bee violate and made frustrate, and wee might bee thought to bear the sword in vain. And in the execution hereof wee require you to use all expedition that to such a cause as this is shal seem necessary, that hereafter wee bee not occa- sioned, for lack of your diligence, to provide such further remedy, by some other sharp proceedings, as shall per case not bee easie to bee born by such as be disordered.' * Thus encouraged by the Queen, Parker soon bestirred himself, and a general persecution of the Puritans forthwith commenced. One of the firft to suffer was the venerable Miles Coverdale. Some time after his refusal of a bifhopric, he had been presented by Edmund Grindal, his former companion in exile, with the poor living of St. Magnus, in the city of London. Although he had assisted at the con- secration of Parker, he was compelled to refign his living, and ever afterwards remained without any ecclefiaftical preferment until his death, at the age of eighty, in January, 1568. t The High Commission also took in hand to suppress the separate congregations of dissenters, which w^re now being constantly augmented by those who had been driven or dis- couraged from the communion of the Establifhment. One such congregation was disturbed at Plumber's Hall, in the city of London, on the 19th of June, 1567. Their number was con- siderable. The greater part of them were imprisoned. After remaining in Bridewell for a year, twenty-seven of them were released ; the rest, however, seem to have remained there some- what longer. The principles professed by this community, it is now plain, were substantially those of the Congregationalists. Their pastor was Richard Fitch, and they also had a deacon. * Strype, Parker iii. p. 68. The f Neal i. 124. Brooks' Lives of whole letter, commencing p. 65, will the Puritans i. izy. Strype, Parker i. repay reading. 480. 66 Chelmsford. Thomas Rowland.* To complete the overthrow of the Puritans it was still necessary to command the Universities, and especially that of Cambridge. There was a power lodged in the University of Cambridge to license twelve preachers yearly to preach anywhere throughout England, ' without obtaining license from any other.' Parker appealed to the Chancellor that this privilege might be removed. In this, however, he ultimately failed, and Cambridge — which was already a stronghold of Puritanism — continued to exercise it, greatly to the advan- tage of the gospel throughout the country, f It was chiefly under this privilege that the lecturers, who shortly played so important a part in the great controversy of the age, were able to find admission to the ministry and to hold their ground. The gentry proved more pliable than the Univerfities. On the 25th of December, 1569, Sir Thomas Goldinge, Sheriff of Essex, and others who had been specially con- vened at Chelmsford on the 20th of November pre- viously, addressed the Council in the following *• declaration ': ' Our humble duties done unto your lordfliips ; this is to signifie that wee whose names are underwritten doe knowledge that it is our bounden duty to observe the contente of the A&. of Parliament, entitled, ' An Ail for uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church ;' and the AGt of the supremacy ; and for observance of the same lawes, we doe hereby freely promys that every of us and our famylies . . . shall repaire to our parifli churches, or to other usual chappells . . . and there shall decentlye and duly heare and take parte of the same common prayer, and all other Divine Service, and shall receyve the Holy Sacrament from tyme to tyme, according to the order of the said Adt of Parliament ; nayther shall any of us . . . doe, saye ... or suffer anything to be done or sayde by our privity * Strype, Parker i. 481, Hiftorlcal so, the William White of the Hiftorical Papers, firft series, i — 16. It is evidently Papers might possibly be the Rector of of the leaders in this community that Shering of that date. Newc. ii. 624. Fuller speaks. Ch. Hift. ii. 481. If f Strype, Parker i. 381. Strethall, Saffron Walden. 67 ... in contempt of anie parte of religion eftablifhed by the foresaid Adls.' This declaration was signed by nearly seventy of the leading men of the county.* In 157 1 Elizabeth met her third Parliament, when an aft was passed f ' For the Minifters of the Church to be of sound religion,' which incorporated thirty-eight of the thirty-nine Articles of 1562 with the statutes of the realm, and required subscription to them on the part of all the clergy, on pain of immediate deprivation. It is remarkable that the omitted Article should have been the twentieth, but the reason probably is, that the Queen was too jealous of the power which she possessed under ss. 25.26 of the Adt of Uniformity even to appear to part with it. ' These Articles now being legally confirmed, the biftiops began the urging thereof more severely than before ; which made many dissenters keep their private meetings in woods, fields, their friends' houses, &c.'J Among other places in which these meetings were held, was Strethall, in this county. Robert Sharp, who was presented to the rectory in 1572, seems to have countenanced them. Strype says that ' they were found to be indeed innocent, well- disposed people, that met together on holydays . . . only to read and confer the Scriptures, and to inform and confirm one another in their chriftian duty ; and to edify themselves in the knowledge of God, thinking thereby to spend their time better than others ... at cards, dice, or tables, or sitting at ale-houses.' They were, nevertheless, informed againft, and brought before Andrew Perne, ' parson of Balfham, in Cam- bridgeshire.' II There was also another congregation of a similar character at Saffron Walden. This was informed againft by * S. p. O. Dom. Ser. Eliz. ix. 53. % Fuller, Church Hift. ii. 471, 503. Golding was of Belchamp, St. Paul's. The twentieth article is to the effect that He *was one of the Commissioners for *The Church hath power to decree rites certifying the Chantry lands in Essex, or ceremonies, and authority on contro- and he knew well how to improve that versies of feith.' opportunity by getting a large share of || Strype, Ann. ii. i. 556; Parker ii. them.' Morant ii. 228. 340, 380 — 385 ; Newc. ii. 565. f I Eliz. xii. F 2 68 Maldon, Ulting. one Bird, who ■• seems to have been some minifler in or about that town.' * In 1575, Archbifhop Parker died, and was succeeded at Canterbury by Edmund Grindal, Bifliop of London. Grindal was succeeded in the diocese of London by John Aelmer, Elmer, or Aylmer, of whom Newcourt says, that ' he was a great enemy to the Puritan fadlion,' adding, that he ' was much hated by them.' f During his episcopate, Essex became as diflinguifhed for its Puritans as it had been for its Gospellers under Bonner, in the reign of Mary. In 1576, John Coppin had been committed to prison at Bury St. Edmund's, for his disobedience to the ecclesiaftical laws, and had then, or shortly afterwards, for his companions in trouble, Elias Thacker and Thomas Gibson. In 1578, John Gill, of Barly, in Essex, clerk, deposed against Coppin that he should say ' that whoever keepeth any saint's day appointed by the Book of Common Prayer is an idolater ;' and further ' that the Queen was sworn to keep God's law, and she is perjured.' These three good men were all of them Con- gregationalists. After long imprisonment, they were arraigned at the assizes held in Bury in the month of July, 1583, when they were condemned to die, not on the charge of treason, but only on that "■ of dispensing Browne's books and Harrison's books.' This was done by the judges in obedience to a letter from the Council, charging them to be severe with all nonconformifts. Elias Thacker and Thomas Gibson were * Strype, Ann. u. ii. 65; Whitgift i. tradesmen . . . employed a fellow to 151. This was Richard Bird. Cooper, go into the church besmeared like a fool, Ath. Cant. U. 521. to snatch the bifliop's hat from his head, f Aylmer had been tutor to Lady Jane and after twirling it round on his finger to Grey. He was an exile in the reign of toss it into the midst of the people. . . Mary. While abroad he assisted Fox in The bifliop was apprised of this design, preparing the Engliih edition of the Adls and committed the principal contrivers of and Monuments. He sat in the convo- it to prison.' Aylmer died in 1594. cation of 1561, and was one of those Newc. i. 27. Cooper, Ath. Cant. ii. 168. who were absent when the Puritan move- At his death Aylmer was possessed of ment was defeated. Aylmer narrowly eftates at Ulting. Morant ii. 136. escaped a serious insult at Maiden. 'Some Colchester^ Ahherton^ Purleigh^ Rochford. 69 hanged on the Thursday after their sentence, and John Coppin on the next day following. The Lord Chief Juftice, writing to the Lord Treasurer to inform him of the execution of these martyrs, adds : ' There were also five minifters convidted for dispraising the Book of Common Prayer.' * . . . One of these minifters was Oliver Pigg. Pigg had been Vicar of St. Peter's, and also Reftor of All Saint's, in Colchefter, from 1569 to 1570, in which laft year he removed to the Retftory of Abberton, where he continued until 1578. On his removal from Abberton he was beneficed in the diocese of Norwich. The then Biftiop of Norwich was Edmund Freake, a native of Essex, who had held the Reftory of Purleigh from 1567 to 1575.1 Pigg had been committed on the charge of putting the queftion in the Baptismal Service, ' Doft thou believe ? ' not to the child, as directed in the Book of Common Prayer, but to the parents. His remand was owing to some infor- mality. Before the next assizes Pigg conformed, and after some little trouble, he was discharged. J We afterwards hear of him, however, again in Hertfordfhire, and as an active member of the Puritan party. While the Bury martyrs were awaiting their trial, Robert Wright and Lord Rich were apprehended at Rochford, as men that were guilty of holding similar opinions. Robert Wright had been tutor to the Earl of Essex, Lord Rich's brother-in- law. Having scruples about ordination in the Church of England, he had gone to Antwerp, where Thomas Cartwright was now settled, to seek ordination. This was in 1581. Shortly after his ordination he received an invitation from Lord Rich to become his domeftic chaplain at Rochford. * Strype, An. ii.ii. 186; lii. 268, 269. deacon of Canterbury. He was made Hiftorical Papers 42, 44. Browne, Han- Bifliop of Norwich in 1575. Freake bury Memorials relating to the Inde- was translated to Worcefter in 1584. pendents, i. 18 st. seqq. Harrison ib. 164. He died 1590. Cecily, his widow, was -j- Freake was originally a canon of the buried at Purleigh. Cooper, Ath, Cant, order of St. Augustine, in the Abbey of ii. 96 ; Newc. ii. 476. Waltham. This was before 1539. He | Hift. Papers, 54 — 56; Cooper, was ordained by Bonner in the reign of Ath. Cant. ii. 147 ; Strype, An. iii. i. Edward VI. In 1564 he became Arch- 6gi ; ii. 479. JO Rochford. ' He defired now to fill the paftoral office,' and expressed to Lord Rich the opinion that the ' election of minifters ought to be by the flock or congregation.' With the concurrence of his patron a church was accordingly formed at Rochford Hall, and ' signified their defire that Mr. Wright should take the oversight of them, and a service was held to implore the divine blessing on this new relation.' John Greenwood, afterwards co-paftor with Francis Johnson, and who suffered in company with Henry Barrow, at Tyburn, was also associated with him as assiftant chaplain. ' They did not withdraw themselves from the parish church, but held their meetings in the hall, usually at eight o'clock in the evening.' The mother of Francis, afterwards Lord Bacon, writing to Lord Burleigh, in 1584, says of these services : ' I hear them in their public exercises as a chief duty commanded by God, and I also confess, as one that hath found mercy, that I have profited more in the inward feeling of God's holy will .... by such sincere and sound opening of the Scriptures .... than I did by hearing occasional services at Paul's, well nigh twenty years together.' * It soon came to the Queen's ear that ' there were disorders practised in Essex, and particularly in the house of Lord Rich ;' she therefore caused Aylmer to be told that it was her ' com- mand to him to forbid them.' It appears that he had already made the attempt, but had been foiled. Accordingly he told the Queen ' that he had many great storms with the late Lord Rich, and that now lately the present Lord Rich, and his baftard uncle and another, came into his house at Fulham to solicit him to license Wright to preach in his diocese, and he had * Hift. Papers, 57, et seqq ; Strype, Greenwood, Hiftorical Papers 145 — Aylmer 54, et seqq. The Lord Rich 177; Hanbury Memorials i. c. i,. iii. was Richard, the second son of the first Iv. ; Brooks' Lives ii. 25, z8, 41, 42. Lord of that name, and brother of Robert The Lady Bacon was the accomplifhed afterwards Earl of Warwick. Morant ii. wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon, and daughter 102 i Strype, Aylmer 55 ; Hiftorical of Sir Anthony Cook, of Giddy Hall. Papers 59; Francis Johnson, Hiftorical In 1564 she translated Jewel's Apology Papers I2i et seqq Hanbury Memorials into Englilh. Strype, Parker i, 354. 83 et seqq ; Henry Barrow and John Southchurch, Althorne, Shopland^ Lee, Rochford. '] i refused to do so, but that the Lord's aforesaid uncle did here- upon so shake him up, that .... he was never so abused at any man's hands since he was born.' He was only too willing, however, -to make another attempt, and now he was successful. Wright was apprehended and caft into the Fleet ; Rich was apprehended also, and with them both •• one Dix, another very disordered man.' Rich was cast into the Marshalsea, and Dix into the Gate House. The matters proved againfl: Wright ' by deposition of certain witnesses,* by virtue of a commission sent down,' were "■ that he calleth the preachers that followed the Book of Common Prayer ' dumb dogs,' ' that ' the people were drawn away from a sermon at the church at Rochford by the tolling of a bell, to a sermon preached by him at the Hall ;' ' that he found fault with the laws ecclesiaftical, and depraved the miniftry ;' and ' that preachers were openly examined and rebuked for their sermons in a great audience in the Hall of the Lord Rich, by procurement of Wright.' Wright seems to have been removed from the Fleet to the Gate House. While there he, together with Lord Rich, who had also been removed in the meantime from the Marshalsea, addressed a joint petition to the Privy Council : ' We do offer up our supplication unto your Lordships in the presence of the God of heaven .... that our cause might have access unto your wisdomes, and that we may be either released or condemned .... Befides the measures of our troubles .... and disgrace for the service which we have laboured to do both unto God and to herMajefty, we underftand, moreover, that grievous things are reported of us to her Highness, and such as might juftly offend her most gracious mind if this were true The queftion is not one of liberty only .... nor of our wealth, but of the favor of her Majefly .... we do, therefore, most humbly * The witnesses againft him were John wards, 1579 — 1617, also Vicar of Dagen- Nicholson, Reiftor of Southchurch, and ham ; Edward (Edmund) Barker, Vicar afterwards Vicar of Althorne j Bernard of Prittlewell ; and together with others or Barnaby Turner, Vicar of Shopknd ; who are not named, strange to say, John Bowden, Redor of Lee ; John Arthur Dent, Reiftor of South Shoebury. Berryman, Reiftor of Rochford, after- Strype, Annals lii. i. 178. 72 Rochford. fly unto your Lordships .... craving that it might please you to look into our afflidted case . . . . ' The petition is dated January 27th, 1582.* The keeper of the Gate House being a man that favored Puri- tanism, ' having some secret v/ord from the Secretary,' showed Wright much kindness while he was in his cuftody, and even went so far as to allow him to go into Essex to see his wife and child, t This soon came to the ears of the bishop, who threat- ened to complain to the Queen. Wright hereupon wrote to Lord Burleigh in the keeper's behalf, which led to a further, and, it should seem, a final inveftigation of the whole cause. Wright's letter to Burleigh bears date May 5. By September Wright was subdued, a fadl which the bishop announced to the Lord Treasurer as follows : ' I have perused the two articles where- unto Mr. Wright .... hath willingly subscribed to the good allowance of the miniftry of England, and the Book of Common Prayer .... unto both which points, if he can be content with his friends to stand bound in a good round sum, that from henceforth he shall neither commit to writing, nor preach anything contrary to the same, I, for my part, do not mislike that he shall have some favour.' This was on the nth of September. Wright was now released; Lord Rich was also set at liberty, if indeed he had not been before this. What became of Dix does not appear. \ Towards the close of 1579, Richard, the natural uncle of Lord Rich, had also been committed to the Fleet. In the month of Auguft John Stubbs, the brother-in-law of Thomas Cartwright, had published a pamphlet against the then pro- jeded marriage of Elizabeth with the Duke of Anjou, an alliance which the Puritans generally regarded with the greatefl: alarm. The pamphlet was entitled, ' The Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf.' The Queen was so incensed against Stubbs, * Hiftorical Papers 58. \ Strype, An. iii. i. 177, igo ; li. 228, t The secretary was Michael, after- 237; Strype, Aylmer 54, 57; Hift wards Sir Michael Hicks, secretary to Papers 57 — 63. Lord Burleigh. Strype, An. ii. i. 214. Danbury^ Matching. 73 that she issued a proclamation to suppress the pamphlet, and caused the author to be apprehended. On the 3rd of November, Stubbs and his printer. Page, 'had their right hands cut off with a cleaver driven through the wrifts vi^ith the force of a beetle, upon a scaffold in the market-place at Weftminfter.'* Notwithftanding the proclamation, Richard Rich had kept a copy of Stubbs' book in his possession, and had also favoured Stubbs himself. It wzs further alleged against him, that he ' was a great favorer of one Dyke, who in his sermon inveighed againft statute-Proteftants, injunition-men, and such as love to jump with the law.' Richard Rich also obtained his release about the same time with his relative Lord Rich, and his friend Robert Wright, f In 1583 the Queen issued a commission, under which so many deprivals took place that strenuous efforts were made to prevail with Lord Burleigh to interfere. Arnong others that wrote to. him was George Withers, who was now Redtor of Danbury, and had been Archdeacon of Colchefter since the death of James Calfhill, in 1570. Withers had been in exile in Geneva in the reign of Mary, and while there had contracted a firm friendfhip with the leaders of the reformation on the Continent. There are extant two letters of his in the ' Second Series of the Zurich Letters,' one written by him, in conjunflion with John Barthelot, to Henry Bullinger and Rodolph Gualter, both of which are of the greateft value. The firft is dated Auguft, 1567, and is a vindication of the nonconformifts from certain charges which had been made againft them by Grindal, then Bifhop of London, and Robert Horn, Bifhop of Winchefter, in a letter which they had previously written to the same good men. % And the second, which is 'without place or date,' was addreffed to Frederick III., the Prince ElecSlor Palatine — a great friend of the » Cooper, Ath. Cant. ii. no; Strype, Coggeshall ; Infra. Strype, Ann. iii. i. An. ii. ii. 155, 232, 239, 3°3) 3°Si ^9' i »• 479- Strype, Grindal 359, 594; Hallam, Con- | Horn had been Vicar of Matching stitutional Hist. i. 227. in the reign of Edward VI., 1546 — 1553. f Dyke was probably William of Newc. i. 246. 74 Danbury. Calvinifts — not long before the issue of this commission. In this letter Withers draws a lamentable picture of the low con- dition into which the church had then already fallen. ' The ministry,' he says, ' is in fact nothing at all ; nor is there any discipline ; for those persons cannot be said to be minifters of Chrill, but servants of men, who can do nothing according to the principles of the word, but are obliged to adt in every respecJl: at the nod of the Queen and the bifhops. . . . Moft of them are popifh priefts .... and the far greater part of the remainder are moft ignorant persons . . . . ; preaching is a privilege confined to the bifhops . . . . ; the sword of excommunication is taken out of the hands of the clergy and handed over to lawyers !'....' If you possess any kind of influence with our moft serene Queen, we beg and entreat you to make use of it .... to heal these so great maladies of the church ; and to condemn, for evermore, the entire remembrance of popery. If you cannot .... obtain a more complete reformation of the whole church, you will, nevertheless, entreat .... for those who abominate the relics of Antichrift, the ■ liberty of not being obliged either to adopt them, or to relinquifli their miniftry.'* George Withers had himself been a sufferer from the severities of the hierarchy. After his return from exile, he became a preacher at Bury St. Edmund's. While there he was deprived by Parker, in 1565,- for not wearing the cap. At the earneft entreaty of his people, however, he submitted, and was reftored. Parker afterwards attempted to silence him for a sermon which he preached at Cambridge, but was foiled. He was presented to the living of Danbury by Sir Arthur Mildmay, of Danbury Place, the brother-in-law of Sir Francis Walsingham, and one of the Queen's privy council, in 1572. The letter which Withers now wrote to the Lord Treasurer is printed at length in the Appendix to the Third Volume of Strype's Annals, No. xxxiii., but does not appear to have had * Zurich Letters ii. 146, 156. Whit gift's Articles 75 much effect, for the persecution still went on, and in the next year following waxed even hotter than before. * On the 6th of July Grindal died, and on the 27th of August John Whitgift (who had been consecrated Bifliop of Worcefter in April, 1577), was confirmed as his successor. Strype says, ' The state of the church was evidently now but in a tottering condition, both from the Papists on the one hand, and the Proteftants on the other Among the Proteftants there were many of the minifters who undermined the present con- stitution of the church by disaffecfting the people's minds against the Common Prayer Book ; . . . . and for the more secret doing this, there were meetings in private houses upon a pretended religious account ' f To such a man as the new Archbifhop a state of things like this was intolerable. In order to reftrain the Puritans, Whitgift, within a month after his consecration, together with eight other bifhops of his province, prepared and issued a series of articles, among which were the following; — ' That all preaching, reading, catechising, and other such like exercises, in private places and families whereunto others do resort, being not of the same family, be utterly extin- guifhed That none be permitted to preach, read, and catechise, in the church or elsewhere, unless he do, four times in the year at least, say service and minister the sacraments according to the Book of Common Prayer.' Another article required a new subscription, without which none might ' be permitted to preach, read, catechise, minis- ter the sacraments, or to execute any other ministerial func- tions.' It was as follows : — 'I. That Her Majesty, under God, hath and ought to have the sovereignty and rule over all manner of persons born within her realms and dominions and countries, of what estate, eccle- siastical or temporal, soever; and that none other foreign power, * Strype, Parker i. 374; Strype, Withers in Brooks' Lives, ii. 250, but see Parker i. 382; Morant ii. 4; Newc. li. Wood, Fast. i. 95. 205. There is a memoir of George \ Strype, Whitgift i. 228. 76 Whitgift's Commission. prelate, state, or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdidion, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or temporal, within Her Majesty's said realms, dominions, and countries. 'II. That the Book of Common Prayer, and of ordering bifhops, priefts, and deacons, containeth in it nothing contrary to the Word of God ; and that the same may be lawfully used, and that he himself will use the form of the said book prescribed in public prayer and adminiftration of the Sacraments, and none other. 'III. That he alloweth the Book of Articles of Religion agreed upon by Archbifhops and Bifliops in both provinces, and the whole Clergy, in the Convocation holden at London, in the year of our Lord 1562, and set forth by Her Majesty's authority, and that he believeth the Articles therein contained to be agreeable to the Word of God.' * The Archbilhop also procured from the Queen a new High Commission, for whose use he prepared ' twenty-four articles of examination,' so comprehensive as to embrace the whole scope of clerical uniformity, and yet so precise as to leave no room for evasion. Lord Burleigh, writing to Whitgift on the 1st of July, 1584, on the subject of these articles, says of them: — 'I .... find (them) so curiously penned, so ful of branches and circumftances, as I think the In- quisitors of Spain use not so many queftions to comprehend and to trap their preyes . . . . ; surely, under your Grace's corre£tion, this judicial and canonical sifting of poor minifi:ers is not to edify or reform ; .... bear with my scribbling. I desire the peace of the Church ; . . . . this kind of proceeding is too much savouring of the * Cardwell says that in enforcing tliesc maintained, that those articles, but those articles Whitgift a(fted on 'his own per- only, should be subscribed . . and it is sonal authority. ' The queftion was evident that it was intended to exclude the discussed whether the Archbifliop had not article connected with the authority and exceeded his powers. . . . The statute discipline of the church. Doc. Ann. i. 13EI., c. iz, which ratified the thirty- 153; Strype, Whitgift i. 229— 231. nine articles, enacted, as the Puritans The Ex-officio Oath. 77 Romish Inquisition, and is rather a device to seek oiFenders than to reform any.' * What rendered the administration of these articles more oppressive was the fact that the clergy vvrere required to answ^er them on oath ' ex-officio mero,' a ' process utterly unknovv^n in the courts of common law, and irreconcilable with the spirit of English jurisprudence— a process, indeed, which Sir Edward Coke, in the next reign, judicially pronounced to be illegal.' The sufferings which the Puritan clergy now endured were extreme. In Odlober Whitgift issued letters to the bifhops of his province enjoining the 'diligent putting in execution' of the articles. Aylmer was only too willing an instrument in the hands of the Archbifliop, and before the end of the year many of the minifters in his diocese had been already put to silence. While Aylmer's visitation was in progress, twenty-seven of the Essex ministers appealed to the Privy Council for proteftion. Their petition was as follows : — ' Our mean estate .... in the eyes .... of the world, together with divers other cir- cumstances, .... cannot but minister some discouragement to us in this our attempt. Yet the same is utterly wiped away, and we do boldly and cheerfully offer this our humble suit .... being our only sanctuary next to Her Majesty which we have .... to repaire unto in our present necessity : .... we are encouraged when we consider how richly God hath endowed your honours with knowledge, wisdome, and zeal of the Gospell ; and .... we do beseech your honours .... to hear and judge of our matters .... Hearing this sounded out from the God of Heaven upon every one of us . . . . ' Woe be unto me if I preach not the Gospell ' according to the measure of God's grace .... we have endeavoured ourselves .... to approve ourselves both to God and man. Notwithstanding that, .... some of us are * Strype, Whitgift iii. 87, 105 ; ii. 28 cuse himself of any criminal matter or 32; iii. 232 — 235. The oath ex-officio thing, whereby he might be liable to any was an oath whereby any person might measure, penalty, or punifhment whatso- be obliged to make any presentment of ever ! Cardwell, Doc. Ann. ii. 269. any crime or offence, or to confess or ac- y8 Petition of the Essex Ministers. already put to silence, and the rest living in feare, not that we have or can be, as we hope, charged with false doftrine or slanderous life, but for that we refuse to subscribe that there is nothing contained in the Book of Common Prayer, and of ordaining of Bifliops, Priefts, and Deacons, contrary to the Word of God. We do protest, in the sight of the living God, who searcheth all hearts, that we do not refuse in desire to dissent .... The Apostle teacheth that he which doth doubt if he eate is condemned. Then if a man be condemned for doing a lawfull acSion because he is in doubt .... and yet doth it, how much more should we incur the displeasure of the Lord and procure his wrath .... if we should subscribe, being certainly persuaded that there be some things in the Book contrary to His Word. If these reasons which lead us hereunto might be so answered by the doctrines of the Sacred Bible, that we might have a sure and settled persuasion law- fully and in the feare of God, we would willingly consent to it ... . We humbly pray that your honourable and sacred protection may be extended upon us ; . . . . Instantly praying both day and night that He will blesse and preserve Her Majesty and your Honours to eternall salvation. ' Your Honours' poor and humble suppliants, William Dike, Thomas Upcher, Laurence Newman, Thomas Carew, Robert Edmunds, Roger Oar, Giles Whiting, John Bishop, Augustine Pigot, John Wilton, Thomas Redrick, Camillus Rusticus, Samuel Cotesford, Edmund Barker, Nicholas Colpotts, Richard Rogers, Richard Allison, Nicholas Blackwell, Ralph Hawkden, Thomas Chaplein, William Seredge, Thomas Howell, Jeoffrey Josselin, Arthur Dent, John Huckle, George Gifford, Mark Wiersdale.' * • Second part of a Register, MSS., Dr. Williams' library, Red Cross Street , Appeal of the Privy Councillors. 79 Notwithftanding this earneft appeal of the twenty-seven minifters to the Council, the persecution still went on; and before these proceedings had been concluded nearly fifty miniflrers had been either silenced or deprived in Essex alone. Some of the Privy Council now became alarmed. They accordingly appealed to Whitgift and Aylmer, in a letter signed by eight of their number, in which they say : ' Hearing of late of the lamentable eftate of the church in the county of Eflex, that is, of a great number of zealous and learned preachers there suspended .... the vacancy of the place, for the moft part, without any miniftry of preaching, prayers, and sacraments ; and in some places of certain appointed to their void rooms by persons neither of learning nor of good name : and, that in other places of that county a great number of persons occupying the cures being notoriously unfit, most for lack of learning, many charged or chargeable with great and erroneous faults, and drunkenness, filthiness of life, gamefters at cards, haunting of ale-houses, and such like ; against whom we hear not of any proceedings, but that they are quietly suffered ; . . . . and having then in general sort heard, out of many parts, of the like of this lamentable eftate London. These MSS. were compiled 1 60 ; Strype, An. i. ii. 161; Whitgift i. by Roger Morrice, the ejected Vicar of 34. Josselin was Redtor of Shellow Duffield, in Derbyshire, chiefly from col- Bowels, to which living he was instituted le£lions in the library of Lord Mollis, to 22nd of July, 1581, on the presentation whom he was chaplain. They were of the <^ueen. His successor is entered made use of by Strype, who speaks of 14th Jan. 1585, per. cess. Josseline ; Morrice in very grateful terms, in his Newc. ii. 522. Upcher, Reftor of Ford- ed, of Stow, Survey of London ii. 57; ham, 1561, and Reiftor of St. Leonard's, Annals fol. ed. i. 241 ; Calamy Con- Colchefter, up to May, 1582, when he tinuation, 371 ; Brooks' Lives ill. 539. resigned. At what date he voided Ford- Edmunds had been Reftor of Fifield, ham and was inflituted to St. Leonard's 1560 — 1562, and was afterwards, 1586 does not appear. He was in trouble in — 1602, Recftor of Eaft Mersea. Newc. 1570 and brought before the Council, but ii. 262, 414. Where he was during the discharged. He was still in Colchefter interval I have not been able to ascertain. after his resignation of St. Leonard's j Colpotts was Vicar of South Weald 1576 Newc. ii. 270, 173; Strype, Grindal — 1593, and also Reiftor of Dunton S. P. O. Dom. S. Eliz. vii., 92. For the 1585 — 1593. Hediedin 1593. Newc. others see Appendix to this Chapter. ii. 646, 231; Cooper, Ath. Cant. ii. 8o Appeal of the Privy Councillors. of the church, yet to the intent we should not be deceived we sought to be informed of some particulars, namely, of some parts of EiTex ; and having received the same .... we have thought it our duties .... without intermeddling ourselves with your jurisditSion ecclesiaftical, to maJce report unto your lordfliips as persons that ought moft specially to have regard thereto, as we hope you will ; and therefore have sent you herewith, in writing, a catalogue of the names of persons of sundry natures and conditions : that is, one sort being reported to be learned, zealous, and good preachers, deprived and suspended, and so the cures not served with meet persons. The other sort, a number of persons having cures, being in sundry sorte far unmeet for any offices in the church for their many defects and imperfedlions, and so, as it seems by the reports, have been and are suffered to continue without any reprehenfion. ... In a third sort, a number having double livings with cure, and so not resident upon their cures, but yet enjoying the benefit of their benefices without any personal attendance. . . . Againft all these sort of ... . corrupt members we hear of no inquifition .... but yet of great extremity againft them that are known diligent preachers. Now, therefore, we .... do moft earneftly desire your lordfliips to take some . . . consideration that the people . . . may not be deprived of their paftors, being diligent, learned, and zealous, though, in some points ceremonial, they may seem doubtful only in conscience, and not of wilfulness ^ Your Lordfliips' loving friends, William Burleigh, Gilbert Shrewsbury, Ambrose Warwick, Robert Leicester, Charles Howard, James Croft, Francis Walsingham.* * Cecil, Lord Burleigh, married i. 58?. Howard of Effingham. Cooper, Mildred, daughter of Sir Anthony Cook Ath. Cant. Gilbert, son of Francis and sifter of Lady Bacon. Morant 1. 66 i Talbot. Strype, Annals 1. 1. 187. Lei- Ath. Cant. ii. 249—257. Ambrose cester, Robert Dudley, a great friend of Dudley, Earl of Warwick. See a coUifion the Puritans. Strype, Parker i. 311 ; ii. of his with Whitgift. Strype, Whitgift 191. Whitglft i. 430. 471. Ful'ke^ Essex Elections. 8 1 There is a document transcribed in the ' Second part of a Regifter,' which bears internal evidence of being the identical return to which the Councillors thus refer. I therefore subjoin it in the form of an Appendix to this chapter, with such brief biographical notes as I have been able to collect and my space will allow. Even this powerful interpofition had but small effeBi with the prelates. They therefore still went on. A new Parliament was summoned for the 23rd of October, 1586, and the pro- ceedings which were in progress againft the Puritans had not a little influence on the eledlions. Wherever the nonconformifts were in sufficient strength they returned members in whom they felt some confidence. The members for the county were Sir Thomas Henneage and Sir John Petre ; for Colchefter, James Morice and Francis Harvey, both of whom were nominated by Sir Francis Walsingham, a firm friend of the Puritans ; and the members for Maldon were John Butler and Edmund Lewknor.* The laymen of the county, immediately after the eledlion, petitioned, some the newly-elected members, others the Privy Council, others Lord Rich, and others the Parliament, Butler and Lewknor were petitioned ■• in an humble requeft of the inhabitants of Maldon, with their neighbours thereabout Rector of Great Warley 1571 — 1589, i. 17, 46, 48; ii. 135. Morant, Col- was one of his chaplains. Ath. Cant. ii. Chester 134. S. P. O. Dom. S. Elizabeth 30, 34, 56. Newc. ii. 641. Sir James xxxiv. 44. Sir John Petre, afterwards Crofts, Comptroller of the Queen's House- Lord Petre, of Writtle. Morant ii. 63. hold. Walfingham had been an exile in James Morrice, Ongar. Morant i. IZ9. Mary's reign. He was now Recorder of Strype, VS'hitgift ii. 28 — 31. Butler was Colchester. Strype,Whitgift i. 425,431 ; probably of the family into which Robert iii. 221. Ath. Cant. ii. 86 — 92. Wright married. Edward Lewknor • Sir Thomas Henneage was Treasurer afterwards Sir Edward. He had pro- of the Queen's Privy Chamber. In 1564 viously represented Tamworth in 1571, he has granted him the Manor and Port and Shoreham in 1572. He also again of Copthall, where he afterwards built a represented Maldon in 1592. Newport, noble mansion. In 1573 he has also in Cornwall, in 1597 ; and Maldon once granted him the Manor and Rectory of more in 1603. Sir Edward's daughter, Epping. Sir Thomas continued to sit for Hester, married Sir Robert Quarles, of EfTex until his death in 1595. Morant I^omford. Cooper, Ath. Cant. ii. 412. 82 Petition from Maldon^ Rochford, and other places. of Dengie, Rochfort, Thurstable, and Witham,' which says : ' It is not an injury to our bodyes that causeth us this day to complaine. It is not the want of bread, or the scarcity of come. . . . But it is the wrong done to our soules, and .. . . the want of spiritual foode. If we aske our paftors, and such as are set over us ... . they are crueller than the oftriche in the wilderness, and more unkind than the dragons. . . . For alas ! the greater number .... either be utterly unfit by reason of their ignorance .... or altogether careless and unable .... being non-resident .... or being not only unable to teache, but also of an ungodly life, such as have been Popish priefi:s, taylors, wheelwrights, fletchers, serving-men, and many of them ale-house haunters, dicers, quarrellers, whoremongers, and full of gross sins. As for the small number of our godly teachers, some are suspended, and the most of them are threatened to be. . . . These things have wrunge from us this lamentable complaint, and have enforced us to cry out for helpe .... beseeching and praying the High Court of Parliament to procure the removing of such things as have no better use in the Church than to make difference among brethren, and give occasions to such of the wicked as are ready to use them to vex and molest the faithful ministers and to interrupt the free course of the gospel .... The godly have long languiflied for this and prayed to see it. The strength of sin and iniquity of the time hath found it more than needfull. The zeale of God's glory, and the soules of our pofterity seeme to require all this from us.' The same persons also address the Privy Council in much the same terms of pleading earneftness ; concluding thus : ' We most humbly beseech your Honours, even in the bowells of Jesus Christ, to be meanes for us that our faithful and godly preachers may be reftored and continued, so that we may serve the Lord our God according to His bleffed and ever- lafting Word.' Upwards of two hundred, and among them the chief men of the Hundred of Dunmow, addreffed themselves to Lord Rich. ' The greateft number of our ministers are utterly without Petition from Maldon, Rochford, and other places. 83 learning, or very idle, or otherwise of very scandalous life . . . and those few at vsrhose hands we reaped comfort are from ' time to time molested, threatened, and put to silence. May it, therefore, please your Honour .... to make known our lamentable case . . . that . . . our grievances be redreffed . . . and so the foundations of Chriftian religion be not every- where laid.' Upwards of a hundred of the chief laymen of Rochford Hundred petitioned the Privy Council. After having related their grievances in much the same strain as their neighbours, they conclude with the appeal : ' Moft humbly we doe entreat and beseech your Honours, according to your accuftomed care and good will towards the Church of God, that these good and godly preachers .... to whom we are accuftomed to repaire, may be freed and at liberty to preach the Gospel amongst us as they have done to God His glory." And the Hundreds of Hinckford, Freshwell, Uttlesford, and Clavering, petitioned the Parliament with similar complaints of their privations, adding : ' May it, therefore, please the Honorable Court that redresse may be had of this our pitifull estate .... and that the godly preachers we have, . . . may be freed from their vexations and troubles, and continued still in their places in the labor of the Lord's vineyard, to the praise of His glorious name.' * Six of the suffering minifters also addressed the Parliament in a Petition, a part of which has been already printed by Mr. Brooks in the first volume of his Lives of the Puritans, p. 52. They pray the High Court: ' .... to stand assured of their dutyfuU subjeftion and obedience to all lawfull authority .... if the terror of the Lord conftrained them .... and if the love of God, crying day and night unto them, .... shall so far prevail with them, .... that they be enforced .... in all quiet and peaceable manner to preach the Word of God to the people vsrhom they serve, and commend their lives and whole estate to Almighty God as to a faithfull Keeper, and to * Second part of a Register. MSS. 457 — 749. G 2 84 The Puritans in Parliament. the gracious clemency of the House, and of Her Right Ex- cellent Majesty the Queen.' * Moved by these and similar appeals from other parts of the country, the friends of the Puritans in the House of Commons endeavoured to procure them some relief. On the 27th of February, 1587, Mr. Cope 'offered to the House a bill and a written book,' the bill containing a petition ' that it might be enafted that all laws now in force touching the Ecclesiaftical government should be void ; ' and ' that it might be enaded that the Book of Common Prayer now offered, and none other, might be received into the Church to be read.' t Mr. Cope was supported, among others, by Mr. Lewknor, who spoke, ' shewing the necessity of a learned ministry, and thought it very fit that the petition and book should be read.' This coming to the ears of the Queen, she sent for the ' bill and the book,' and in a few days after this Mr. Cope, Mr. Lewknor, and two other members, who had spoken on the motion, were summoned before the Lord Chancellor and the Privy Council, and by them were committed to the Tower.' J The House of Lords also had more than one debate upon the subject of Puritan grievances, and a bill was aftually introduced, and apparently with the saniStion of the Queen herself, on the subject of pluralities. But on the petition of the bifhops, alleging 'a catalogue of inconveniences that would arise if pluralities were taken away,' and arguing the danger of innovations, the Queen interfered, and the bill was withdrawn. || When the Parliament was dissolved in March, 1538, things therefore remained precisely as they were. Satirical and scurrilous pamphlets shortly came to be pub- lifhed, and obtained extensive circulation throughout the country; among them the notorious Martin Mar- Prelate Tracts. On the bare and it should seem the altogether * Part of a Register MSS. 819, gao. f See Fuller's Church History iii. 94. The six ministers were Ralph Hawkden, J Pari. Hist. i. 850 852. George GifFord, John Huckle, Giles || Fuller iii. 95, 96. Whiting, William Turnftall, Roger Oar. Rochford. 85 unfounded suspicion of being implicated in these last pub- lications, John Penry was executed 'at St. Thomas a watering, situated close to the second milestone on the Old Kent Road,' on the 25th of May, 1593. John Udal was also sentenced to death at Kingston, but died in the Marshalsea towards the end of the year 1592.* About the same time John Greenwood, of whom we have already heard at Rochford, also suffered death for his opinions. He had been apprehended as early as 1586, and having undergone several examinations, had laid in divers prisons in company with others who were also in custody for their nonconformity until the 23rd of March, 1592, when he was finally indidled, together with his friends, Henry Barrowe and Scipio Bellot, Robert Bowie and Daniel Studly, before the Lord Chief Justice, the Attorney-General, and other function- aries, on the charge of publifhing and dispensing seditious books. Barrowe and Greenwood were condemned to execution on the following day. The sequel up to the day on which these martyrs died, is thus related by Henry Barrowe, in a letter dated the 4th or 5th of the fourth month, 1593 : ' Upon the 24th, early in the morning, was preparation made for our execution. We were brought out of the limbo, our irons were smitten off, and we ready to be bound to the cart, when her Majesty's most gracious pardon came for our reprieve. After that, the bifhops sent unto us certain doftors and deans to exhort and confer with us. We showed them how they had neglefted the time ; we had been well nigh six years in their prisons, never refused, but always humbly desired of them Chriftian conference for the peaceably discussing and deciding our differences, but could never obtain it at their hands .... That our time was now short in this world, neither were we to beftow upon it con- ferences .... yet if they desired to have conference with us, they were to get our lives respited .... we then would gladly condescend to any Chriftian and orderly conference by the Scriptures. Upon the last day of the third month, my brother Greenwood and I were very early and secretly conveyed • Hist. P. 177 — 19Z. 86 Rochford. to the place of execution, where, being tied by the necks to the tree, we were permitted to speak a few words. We there, in the sight of that Judge that knoweth and searcheth the heart, before whom we were then immediately to appear, protefted our loyalty and innocency towards her Majefi:y, our nobles, governors, and this whole State ; that in our writings we had no malicious or evil intent, so much as in thought towards any of these, or towards any person in the world, and that wherein we had through zeal or unavoidably let fall any word or sentence that moved offence or carried any show of irreverence, we were heartily sorry, and humbly besought pardon of them so offended for the same. Further, we exhorted the people to obedience and hearty love of their prince and magistrates, to lay down their lives in their defence against all enemies ; yea, at their hands, patiently to receive death or any punishment they shall inflict, whether juflly or unjufHy .... For the books written by us, we exhorted all men no further to receive anything therein contained, than they should find sound proof of the same in the Holy Scriptures. Thus craving pardon of all men whom we had any way offended ; and freely forgiving the whole world, we used prayer for her Majesty, the magistrates, people, and even for our adversaries, and having both of us almost finished our last words, behold one was even at that instant come with a reprieve for our lives from her Majesty.' Notwithstanding this second reprieve, the very next day after the date of his letter (April 6) Greenwood and his friend Barrowe were hurried to the place of execution secretly, and put to death.* The Parliament which was now sitting passed a measure entitled, ' An A(k to retain the Queen's Majesty's subjects in their due obedience ; ' the intent of which is stated in the preamble to be ' For the preventing and avoiding of such great inconveniences and perils as might .... grow by the wicked practices of seditious sedlaries and disloyal persons.' This A6f: * Historical Papers, 145, 176. Brooks ii. 23—44. Hanbury's Memorials i. 35— 8z. Ath. Cant. i. 154. Death of Elizabeth. 87 provided that, ' if any person above the age of sixteen years ' should "■ obstinately refuse ' to come ' to church for the space of a month,' or be 'present at any assemblies, conventicles, or meetings, under color of . . exercise of religion,' he should be ' committed to prison, there to remain, without bail or mainprize,' until he should 'conform,' w^hich he w^as required to do by making ' public and open submission,' in a form which demanded he should say, among other things, ' I do humbly confess and acknowledge that I have grievously offended God .... by absenting myself from church .... and in using and frequenting . . conventicles . . and I am heartily sorry for the same.' It was further provided that any one who should refuse thus to conform, having once been convicted, should ' abjure this realm of England, and all other the Queen's dominions for ever ; ' and that if ' he should refuse such abju- ration,' or having made it, •■ should not go to such haven and within such time as is appointed,' or having gone away, should return again, he should be guilty of ' felony, without benefit of clergy ! ' Oppression could no farther go than this. Conformity had been rendered impossible for thousands already, and now dissent was either transportation for life, or death.* The long reign of Elizabeth closed on the 24th of March, 1603. * 35 El. I, 2, 3, 5. Burns, Ecc. Law. Aft. Diflenters. APPENDIX TO CHAPTER IV. A SURVEY OF SIXTEENE HUNDREDS IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX, CONTAINING BENEFICES 335 ; WHEREIN THERE ARE OF IGNORANT AND UNPREACHING MINISTERS I73 ; OF SUCH AS HAVE TVi^O BENEFICES A-PIECE 61 ; OF NON-RESIDENTS THAT ARE SINGLE BENEFICED 10 ; PREACHERS OF SCANDA- LOUS LIFE 12; SUMMA TOTALIS 225. THE HUNDREDS WANTING ARE HARLOW HALF-HUNDRED, WALTHAM HUN- DRED, BEACONTREE HUNDRED. I. A survey of the unpreaching ministers in Essex, with their conditions. Mr. Rush, of Maplestead Parva. The curate of Glestenthorpe. * Mr. Dunnell, parson of Burbrooke.f Mr. Whiting, parson of Toppesfield, sometime a serving man. J Mr. Storie, parson of Yeldham Parva. || Mr. Hunt, curate of Sible Hedingham, a very infamous person. Mr. Ludham, vicar of Wethersfield. § » The Vicar of Gestlingthorp was was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Col- Thomas Corbett. N. ii. 281. Chester by Whitgift in 1592. Strype, t Robert Donnell, poffibly a son of W. ii. 147. Ann. iv. 555. Cooper, Ath. Thomas, of whom see Strype, Cranmer Cant. ii. 469. If Newcourt be right in 450. Grindal 52. Cooper, Ath. Cant. identifying the Reftor of Yeldham with "■ 5^^- the Vicar of Witham, it is perhaps more t William Whiting, admitted on the likely that Storie was the Curate than presentation of the gueen, nth Feb., that the name is misspelt in the MSS. ii 1578, and died before April, 1598. Feb., 1578 ; and died before April, 1598. II John Sterne. N. ii. A John Sterne § John Ludham, 17th May, 1570. became Vicar of Witham in 1587, and N. ii. 654. Appendix to Chap. IV. 89 Mr. Kenhed, vicar of Stamford, sometime of an occupation. Mr. Walker, vicar of Old Saling. * Mr. Joiner, re 621. p. 165. 94 Appendix to Chap. IV. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. tailor. I Mr, Mr, Johnson, of Woodham Mortimer, a drunkard. * Hickson, of Munden, sometime a serving man. f Dobson, of Criksea. % Glover, of St. Laurence, a gamefter. || Dew^banke, of Brad well. § Barnley, of Althorne, an ale-house haunter. H Salifbury, of North Fambridge.** Miller, curate of Denge.ff Seeper, curate of Burnham. JJ Potts, parson of Tolleshunt Darcie, sometime a mes, parson of Wickham. §§ k viV^r r.f Wlf-Viarr,^ incontinent. %*\ Hoi Halls, vicar of Witham * Nicholas Johnson. 14th Feb., 1567. Died before April, 161 1. f Robert Hickson. The date of his admiflion does not appear ; he died before March, 1604. N. ii. 428. X Nat Dobson. 19th April, 1585. Died before Aug., 1610. N. ii. 201. 11 Hugh Glover, 28th Feb., 1570. N. ii. 372. § Bradwell by the sea. John Debanke, 24th March, 1562. Died before April, 1602. p. 165. His succeffor was William Tabor, Reftor of Widding- ton, Dec. 30, 1570; Reftor of High Ongar, Feb. 21, 1571. Tabor refigned Widdington in 1574, and became Reiftor of WiUingale Spain, Nov. 25 of that year He refigned WiUingale in 1582. In Aug. 1585, he became Archdeacon of Eflex ; Ongar and Bradwell he retained till his death in 161 1. N. i. 73. Tabor's name appears among the fignatures to an appeal to Sir W. Cecil, in behalf of Thos. Cartwright, in July, 1570. Strype, Annals i. i.z. Also in another, addreffed to the same person on the same subject, in the Aug. following j this time it appears in company with those of Edmund Chap- man and Henry Knewftub. Strype i. ii. 417. f Richard Barnley, 5th July, 1575. He died before Feb., 1590. N. ii. 10. ** Henry Saliibury, 22nd Sept., 1583. N. ii. 253. tt The Reftor was Edward Morecroft, 27th Jan., 1558. He died before Feb., 1580. N. ii. 202. XX The Vicar was Peter Lewes, 5th Sept., 1583. Died before July, 1619. N. ii . 114. III! William Potts, 8th May, 1574. Died before Oft. 1587. N. ii. 605. §§ Wickham Bifliops. John Holmes, 1 2th Feb., 1568. He had previoufly been Vicar of High Eafter, i8th Jan., 1566. He resigned this Vicarage before his ad- miflion at Wickham. Holmes died before 0(ft., 1600. N. ii. 658. f f" Edward Hall, 5th Oft., 1560. Died before March, 1587. N. ii. 667. p. 166. Hall had also held the Reftory of Nitteswell fi-om 1560 to 1572. His succeffor at Witham was John Sterne, p. 88. Hall was also Vicar of White Notley, 13th Jan., 1573. N. ii. 442. Strype, Grindal 54. Appendix to Chap. IV. 95 Mr. Day, of Cressing.* Mr. Copland, of Bradwell. f Mr. Laie, of Owting. \ Mr. Harrell, curate of Little Brackfted. || The curate of North Uckendon.§ The curate of Crannam.f Mr. Tayler, vicar of Aveley. ** Mr. Frier, vicar of West Thurrock. ff Mr. Wafher, parson of Upminfter, sometime a grocer. Jf Mr. Atkins, curate of Romford, thrice presented for a drunkard. Mr. Hitchin, of Bromley, parson in Stratford. Mr. Wood, of Woodford. |||| Mr. Claiton, of East Ham. §§ * Nicholas Day, i8th June, 1585. N. ii. 199. t Bradwell by Coggeshall. John Cop- land, 9th Nov., 1559. N. ii. 83. t Ulting. Francis Lea, z8th Oift. 1564. Refigned before April, 1591 II James Harrell, 8th March, 1579 Refigned before Nov., 1594. N. ii. 93 § The Redor was Robert Wilmot, 28th Nov., 1582. N. ii. 447. He was also Vicar of Hornedon-on-the-Hill, 2nd Dec, 1585. ib. 34. His predecelTor was Henry Trippe, 27th Feb., 1569; who also held the living of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, London, 1564 — 1601. He refigned Ockenden before Nov. 1583. N. ii. 447. This was the Trip who, with another minister, was the means of having Thomas Pond, the papift, removed from the Marflialsea to the Caftle at Biihops Stratford. Strype, Alymer 30. Cooper, Ath. Cant. ii. 329. f\ The Reftor was John Goldring. Infra. 17th Ofl. 1571. He died before June, 1590. N. ii. 195. ** William Tayler, 23rd Jan., 1573. On the presentation of Aylmer. He died before June, 1589. Tayler also became Reftor of Springfield Boswell in 1581. N. ii. 538. tt Robert Fryer. 15th Dec, 1584. Died before July, 1593. N. ii. 592. JJ William Waftier, 25th Nov., 1562. Died before May, 1609. N. ii. 618.. nil Richard Wood, 2nd Dec, 1561. Died before Oift. 1589. N. ii. 680. §§ The Vicar was Nicholas Smith, 7th July, 1569. He died before Oct., 1589. He was also Vicar of Fulham, 19th April, 1550? If this date be corred:, and Newcourt is correct in the identification, it is at least a curious illustration of epis- copal vigilance. How would Aylmer have tolerated a Puritan so near him ? Smith subscribed the Articles of 1562, as member of Convocation, and, of course, voted with the majority againft any altera- tion in the rites and ceremonies. Strype's Annals i. i. 489, 505. 96 Appendix to Chap. IV. Mr. Hall, of West Ham, a drunkard. Mr. Newton, of Little Ilford, a grand drunkard.* Mr. Silget, vicar of Boxted. f Mr. Andrews, vicar of Wormingford, a notorious drunkard. J Mr. Turner, curate of Chappel. Mr. Adam, vicar of Earls Colne. || Mr. Perkinson, parson of Gaines Colne. § Mr. Damian, of Little Taie. %. Mr. Goodwin, parson of Stanway, an ale-house haunter.** Mr. Hewet, parson of Copford, sometime an apothecary, and an ale-house haunter, ff Mr. Burgis, of Fingringhoe. %% Mr. Kirkbie, parson of Eaft Donniland. {| || Mr. Carter, parson of Walton. §§ Mr. Chaplin, vicar of Little Clacaon. ^11 Mr. Warne, curate of Welie.*** * Thos. Newton, 4th June, 1583. N. ii. 346. Died in May, 1607. Newton was a coniiderable author. He is best known as a Latin poet, by his lUustrium aliquot Anglonim Encomia, London, 4to, at the end of Leland's Latin works. He left a legacy to his parifliioners to buy ornaments for their church. Wood, Ath. Ox. i. 338, 339 j Strype, Annals iii. 658, 744; Whitgift i. 3. t Philip Silgate, i8tl} March, 1578. Died before Dec, 1596. N. 80. J Robert Andrews, zoth July, 1579. Died before Feb., 1586. N. ii. 636. |l William Adams, 23rd June, 1575. N. i. 186, p. 168. § Colne Engaine. John Parkinson, i6th May, 1572. He died before May, 161 8. N. ii. 188. Parkinson seems to have been one of Knyvet's predecessors at Milend, 1555 — 1560. N. ii. 420. He had also changed with the times. fy Henry Damyan, 22nd Jan., 1572. He died beforeMarch, 1588. N. 574. ** John Goodwyn, 5th March, 1570. Died before May, 1588. N. ii. 554. tt Robert Hewett, 9th Sept., 1572. N. ii. 192. %X Edward Surges, 27th March, 1572. Died before June, 1589. N. ii. 267. He had previously been Vicar of Elmsted, 1564 — 1570, N. ii. 244; and was now also Reiftor of Wivenhoe, 8th July, 1572. N. ii. 679, p. 167. nil William Kirkby, 28th March, 1571. Died before Jan., 1590. N. ii. 215. §§ Walton-le-Soken, William Carter, 2ist Oct., 1561. He died before i6th Jan. 1588. N. ii. 630. *\*\ William Chaplen, 23rd April, 1575. Died before Dec. 1689. N. ii. 154. He was also Redlor of Frinton, 1575, 1576- N. ii. 278. *** The Reftor was Bartholomew Glascock, 27th Nov., 1580. N. ii. 666. He was also Reilor of Bobbingworth. Infra. Appendix to Chap. IV. 97 Mr. Ofborne, parson of Alford.* Mr. Harridaunce, parson of Frating. \ Mr. Wingfield, curate of Manningtree and Myflrley.J Mr. Sayer, vicar of Wrabness. || Mr. Caire, vicar of Bradfield. § Mr. White, vicar of Ramsea, presented for his scandalous life upon certain articles directed from the Queen's Majefty's Council, and also indicted for a common barrater. Witness the Records and Dr. Withers. fl Mr. King, vicar of Bromley Parva.** Mr. Rochefter, parson of Much Okeley.ff Mr. More, curate of Harwedge. f J Mr. Darnell, vicar of Much Bentley. || 1| The curate of Little Bentley. §§ The curate of Little Ocley.^^ The curate of Salcot, an alehouse haunter. Mr. Goodwrin, curate of .*** Mr. Disborow, curate of Fering. fff * Arlesford, Alresford, Samuel Os- borne, 4th April, 1578. Died before July, 1602. t Samuel Harridance, 5th Od., 1576. Died before Nov., 1607. N. ii. 276. X The Reiflor was Richard Jones, 13th Jan., 1580. Died before Jan., 1585. N. ii. 422. ][ Thomas Sayer, 3rd March, 1565. Died before 23rd Dec, 1608. § Edward Card, 8th Feb., 1577. Died before Nov., 1587. N. ii. 81. fl' John White, 30th April, 1575. Died before Ofl., 1592. N. ii. 485; Withers, p. ** Ralph King, 1st March, 1579. Died before June, 161 1. N. ii. 99. tt Thomas Rochefter, 6th Feb., 1561. Died before June, 1613. N. ii. 445. XX The Vicar of Dovercourt was Hugh Branham, 7th Oft., 1574. N. ii. 220. He held the rectory of Little Okeley in 1579, ib. 446; and about the same date that of Peldon also. He died before April, 1615, ib. 467, see p. 104. II II Robert Dernell, 2nd Nov., 1585. He died before Feb., 1601. N. ii. 50. §§ The Reiftor was Edward Giles, 13th Jan., 1573. He resigned before Ofl., 1587. N. ii. 52. He also held Mose, i8th Nov., 1584. Died before Od:., 1616. N. ii. 425, see p. 104. ^f[ Note ii. *** Layer de la Hay. Roger Goodwin ? N. ii. 379. ttt The Vicar was Edward Nowell, 26th Aug., 1564. Refigned before June, 1603. N. ii. 260. Nowell had held Chignell Smeley, 1569 — 1575, N. ii. 1 39 j and was also Incumbent of Pattis- wick, April, 1575, ib. 465, p. 104. H 98 Appendix to Chap. IV ■ Mr. Ellis, curate of Abberton, sometime a linen draper. * Mr. Warrener, of West Mersea, an adulterer, f Mr. Shillburie, parson of St. Nicholas. Mr. Holland, curate of St. Buttulphs. Mr. Philipps, curate of Berechurch, a drunkard. Mr. Golde, curate of Trinity, also sometime a mender of saddles and pannels. Mr. Walford, parson of St. Marie's. % Mr. Amiat, vicar of Boreham, an alehouse haunter and gamefler. || Mr. Stere, vicar of Little Baddow, also a gamefirer, some- time a tailor. § Mr. Feme, parson of Sandon, heretofore a frier, now a careless minifter ; doth not preach ; indifted and found a common barrater. H * The Rector was Peter Wentworth, 2nd Dec, 1578. Resigned before May, 1591. N. ii. 3. Wentworth was also Reftor of Bromley Magna, 14th Sept., 1581, which he held till his death before May, 1600. N. ii. 97. He held the sinecure of Gefidngthorpe, 15th Aug., 1582. N. ii. 28. He was also Chaplain to Lord Darcy. He published a sermon on Ps. ii. 10, II, London, 1587, and *is the same, if I miftake not,' Newcourt says, ' who wrote an exhortation to ([^ueen Elizabeth, and a ' Discourse of the true and lawhil successor,' printed in 1598. Wood, Fasti, i. 258, see p. 104. •f* Francis Warner, 1st Sept., 1580. Resigned before Sept., 1590. N. ii. 415. J These six pariflies are all in Col- chefter. There is no entry of a re£lor of St. Nicholas at that date, N. ii. 177 ; neither is there any of an incumbent of St. Botolph's, N. ii. 166, or Berechurch, N. ii. 53, or at St. Mary's j but the Rev. C. A. L'Ofte kindly informs me that the name of John Walfore occurs in the parifti regifters about that date, see Infra. The entry in Newcourt for Trinity, is Robert Good, 22nd Oift., 1585. ii. 182. Good was afterwards Vicar of ToUeshunt Major, 1590 — 1615. N. ii. 604; see also p. 167; Gold, Infra, p. 104. II Gilbert Annande ? 14th Sept., 1567. Died before Jan., 1 61 1. N. 75. § Henry Steare, 14th May, 1570. Died before Dec, 1591. N. ii. 27. ^ Patrick Feme, 31st May, 1567, on the refignation of Alvey, Feme died before Jan., 1587. His predecessor was the diftinguiflied Mafter of the Temple, Richard Alvey. Alvey was Reftor of Thorrington, 1538^1554; Reftor at Grinfted, near Colchefter, 1546 — 1548 ; at which laft date he became Reftor of Sandon, on the presentation of Sir John Gate. In 1552 he was inftalled Canon of Weftminfter. He was deprived of his canonry, and the rectories of Thorrington and Sandon, on the acceffion of Mary in 1554, and then became an exile. He returned on the accession of Elizabeth, and was reftored to the reftories of Thorrington and Sandon, and also to his Appendix to Chap. IV. 99 Mr. Pekins, parson of South Hanningfleld, sometime a fishmonger, now a button maker ; a very careless and in- sufficient minifter ; an alehouse haunter. * Mr. Palmer, parson of Widford, heretofore a serving man or a soldier, a gamefter, and pot companion .... w^as called to the spiritual court for the same. Witness, William Seredge, with others, f Mr. Wingate, parson of Margetting. J Mr. Binder, curate of Blackmore, sometime a sow gelder. || The curate of Mountnessing. § The vicar of Bromfield. % Mr. Kendall, curate of Roxwell, reported to be a purloiner. The parson of Ramsden Bellows.** Mr. Driwood, parson of Downham, a gamefter. f f The parson of Little Burfted, a gamefter. f J Mr. Tailor, parson of Wickford. || || Mr. Parker, parson of Shenfield, sometime also a petti- fogger- §§ canonry at Weftminfter. He recovered Thorrington in 1565, and Sandon in 1567. In 1571 he became Redlor of Burfted Parva, whicli he retained till 1576. He was appointed Mafter of the Temple 1559, and died in 1584. His successor at the Temple was Richard Hooker. Newc. in locc ; Cooper, Ath. Cant, i 491 J Strype, Cranmer 315, Zurich Letters ii. 255, iii. 755, 763; Walton's Life of Hooker. * John Pokyns, z8th Oft., 1577. Died before April, 1598. N. ii. 308. f Henry Palmer, 2nd July, 1563. Died before May, 1589. N. ii. 662. J David Wingate, 5th Feb., 1571. N. ii. 406. II Edwardu Binder, still there in 1578. N. ii. 65. § The vicar was Anthony Brazierj nth Feb., 1562. Resigned before Feb., 1605. N. ii. 430. Brazier was also Reftor of Ingateftone from 1566 to his death in 1609 j hence the curacy. See p. 105. % George Parnell, 8th March, 1582. Died before March, 1620. N. ii. 96. ** Robert Booth, 2nd March, 1577. Died before Nov. 1606. N. ii. 486. Robert Booth, fellow of St. John's, Cambridge, 1573. Strype's Annals ii. i. 451. ft Wm. Drywood, 12th 0&.., 1574. Died before May, 1608. N. ii. 221. JJ Stephen Luddington, 25th June, 1576. Died before Nov., 1590. This was Richard Alvey's successor here. N. ii. 118. II II John Taylor, 21st Sept., 1572. Died before Aug. 1591. N. ii. 656. §§ Robert Parlcer, 8th Jan., 1575. Died before April, 1604. Newc. ii. 506. H 2 100 Appendix to Chap. IV. Mr. Brown, curate of Laingdon* The parson of Buttefburie. Mr. Dixon, parson of Leighs Parva. t Mr. Beecher, minifter of ChadwelLj Mr. Jollie, parson of Thundersley, a gamefter. || The parson of Doddinghurst. § Mr. Martyn, of Standford. Mr. Walker, of East Tilbury. Mr. Lewen, of Bulvan. ^ Mr. Pannell, curate of Paglefham.** Mr. Saundes, of Sudminfter, a gamester, ft Mr. Stret, parson of Little Hennie. Jf Mr. Mingie, vicar of Bulmer. || || Mr. Nicholls, parson of Much Eson. §§ Mr. Darloe, parson of Ugle, a common swearer, a proude careless man, a riotous man ; he hath absent from his benefice and preacheth not. Witnesses, John Hockley and George Haggis. *?1^ Mr. White, of Fobbin.*** * Laingdon with Bafildon ? The redlor was John Walker, see ante p. 63, I2th Nov., 1573. He now also held the prebend of Mora, in the Cathedral of St. Paul's, and was Archdeacon of Effex. He died in 1588. N. i.73. f Robert Dixon, Z3rd March, 1567. N, ii. 387. He was afterwards Reftor of Althorn, 21st June, 1593. N. ii. 10. J James Beacher, 6th Feb., 1584, Died before 14th July, 1600. N. ii. 125 Beacher preceded Amadas, p. 92, at Hallingbury Magna, 1582 — 1585. N. ii. 296. II Thomas Jolye, 16th Nov., 1569. Died before April, 1600. N. ii. 587. § Robert Comyn, 7th May, 1584, Died before Aug., 1610. N. ii. 223. ^ William Lowen, 31st May, 1570 N. ii. 107. ** Howell had juft been deprived His successor, Richard Langley, was not admitted, according to Newcourt, until Feb., 1599. Langley afterwards, 1608, had the Redtory of Lachingdon, and held both livings at his death before 161 5. N. ii. 355. ft George Sandys (Sandes), 4th XDct., 1566. Died before 1591. N. ii. 537. XX William Strutt, 12th March, 1577. Died before March, 1620, N. ii. 328. II II Robert Mingaye (Mingay), 17th May, 1587. Died before Oct., 1598. N. ii. loi. §§ Nicholas Nicholls, 19th Nov., 1576. Died before Jan., 1605. N. ii. 236. He was Redlor of St. Martin, Iron- monger Lane, in 1568. N. i. 412. f[ f George Darlee, l6th Feb., 1580. Refigned before Jan., 1596. N. ii. 614. *** Philip Wljite, 7th Aug., 1577. N. ji. 218. Appendix to Chap. IV. loi II. A survey of the double beneficed men in Essex : — Mr. Sommerton, parson of Fockfhead. * Mr. Mullins, parson of Bocking. f Mr. Jacques, parson of Ashon. Mr. Corbet, parson of Otten Belcamp. J Mr. Le Grice, parson of Alphamfton. || The parson of Pebmarsh. § Mr. Woodthorp, of Lamersh. ^ Mr. Dove, ofWalden.** Mr. Sw^inoe, parson of Wickham.ft Dr. Sherbrooke, parson of Afhdon. J J Mr. Fletcher, parson of Barnfton. || || Mr. Vaughan, of Much Dunnow^. §§ * Thomas Sommerton, p. 90. t P- 62. J Thomas Corbett, 30th Aug., 1582. Refigned before May, 1 591. N. ii. 45. He was now also Vicar of Gestingthorpe, 1583— 1588. ii. 281. p. 88. II Nicholas Grise, Le Gris, 29th Od., 1567. Died before July, 1593. N. ii. 8. § Luke Clapham, 30th Sept., 1584. Resigned before 14th Nov., 1604. N. ii. 466. ^ John Woodthorpe, p. 89. ** Thomas Dove, p. 90. tt Wickham Bonant. William Swynoe, Swynow, 1556. N. ii. 660. He was also Reaor of Chifliill Parva, 17th May, 1570. Died before March, 1586. N. ii. 151. J+ Edmund Serebrooke, Sherebrooke, 147, 20th Nov., 1565. N. Ii. 16. The tiame of Edmund Sherbrook appears among the fignatures to two petitions from certain members of the University of Cambridge to Sir W. Cecil, in favor of Thos. Cartwright. Strype, Annals 415, 417. II II Henry Fletcher, 29th Oa., 1597. Refigned before Feb., 1610. N. ii. 39. He was also Reftorof Eafton Parva, i6th June, 1582. He died before 1634. N. Ii. 238. §§ Richard Vaughan, afterwards Bishop of London. Cooper, Ath. Cant. ii. 450. No. 194. He had been Redtor of Chip- ping Ongar, 1578 — 1581. He was now Redtor of Little Canefield, Prebendary of Holborn, (N. In locc.) and Chaplain to his uncle, Bi/hop Aylmer. Newcourt gives the date of his admiffion to Dunmow, as 19th Feb., 1 591, and Cooper follows him. Newcourt gives his admiflion as per refig fving. This was Robert King, whose preferments I trace as follows : Admitted Prebend of Newington, by Aylmer, 3rd Dec, 1577. N. i. 188. Vicar of Dun- mow, also on presentation of Aylmer, 15th Nov., 1578. N. ii, 225. And Rec- tor of Orsett, 23rd Nov., 1579. N. ii. 454, on the presentation of the Queen. Did not this last preferment create the vacancy which Aylmer filled up by the presentation of his nephew ? I suspect some misprint in the dates in Newcourt, and that Vaughan now held three benefices befides his Chaplaincy. He refigned Little Canefield before Jan., 1590. N. U. 1245 loa Appendix to Chap, IV, Mr. Somes, parson of Sharing and Stow, a gamester, and preachet not, yet a Mafter of Arts* Mr. Drurie, parson of High Rodding. f Mr. Gravet, parson of Little Laver, is glutton, and a non-refident. Witnesses, William Buries, of Abbots Rooding. % Mr. Shipton, of Northweale. || Mr. Rennolds, of Stapleford Abbot. § Mr. Shaw, parson of Moonit (sic.)f Mr. Glascock, of Bobbingworth. ** hunter, a a drunkard and a John Collin and and in 1591 he was admitted to the Re£tory of Moreton, which he retained with his other preferments until his ele- vation to the See of Bangor, 1595. He was afterwards translated to Chefter, 1597, and thence to London, 1604. Robert King, Vaughan's predecefTor at Dunmow, was buried at Orsett. * Leonard Solme, 20th Feb., 1572., Died before Dec, 1613. N. ii. 524. He was admitted Re£tor of Stow Maries, 31st March, 1 57 1. Solme retained both livings till his death. N. ii. 564. f Henry Drury, ist July, 1568. N. ii, 501. He wasalsoReftorof Tendring, 3rd Dec, 15845 was admitted 3rd Dec, 1584. He died before Sept., 1613. He was presented to Tendring by William Drury, L.L.D., who had been Abp. Parker's Secretary, and was then Judge of the Prerogative Court. N. ii. 577 j Strype, Parker i. 454, ii. 154; Cooper, Ath. Cant. ii. 74. X Will. Gravett, Gravet, 3rd Dec, 1569. Died before nth April, 1599. N. ii. 370. He was also Vicar of St. Sepulchre's, London, 8th Oft., 1566, N. i. 534> and prebendary of Willesdon, 28th July, 1567 J all three of which preferments he held till his death. N. 1. 299. He was appointed by the Council to confer with Papifts, 1 582. Strype, Whit- gift, i. 198. He also held the Reftory of Bradfield, In Berks. Cooper, Ath. Cant- ii. 260. § Thomas Shipton, 29th Sept., 1570. Died before- Aug., 1592. N. ii. 644. He was also Rector of High Laver, 28th Dec, 1566. N. ii. 368. § Richard Reynolds, 7th Aug., 1568. Died before Dec, 1606. N. ii. 555. He was also Redtor of Lambourne, 24th May, 1569. N. ii. 360. He had only juft refigned the Vicarage of Weft Thur- rock, to which he had been admitted 2nd May, 1578. He was M.D., but had been eje<£led by the College of Physicians in 1571, as being very ignorant and un- learned. He was then also imprisoned for having praftised two years without a license. In 1579 he had been summoned by Aylmer to answer certain allegations, and when the conftable served the sum- mons, he had so abused him, that he was caft for it into the Marshalsea prison. Cooper, Ath. Cant. ii. 444. The con- stable was Francis Bushe. In the S. P. O. Dom. Ser. Elizabeth, ccxxxlii. 45, there is his original petition for release. ^ Possibly William Shaw, admitted Reftor of Chingford, 19th March, 1583, who was also Reftor of Cranford, Mid- dlesex. N. ii. 148, i. 594. ** Bartholomew Glascock, admitted nth March, 1582. He was also Redtor of Weeley, p. 96. Appendix to Chap. IV. 1 03 Mr. Hussman, vicar of Canendon. * Mr. Dawell, vicar of Little Wakering. f Mr. Beriman, parson of Rochford. J Mr. Barwick, parson of Much Stambridge. || Mr. Hedlam, parson of Raleigh. § Mr. Dewbanke, of Bradwell. IT Mr. Simson, of.Tillingham. ** Mr. Freeke, of Purleigh. ft Mr. Bembridge, of Bracksted, curate at Tollesburie, an ale- house haunter', a companion with drunkards, and a gross abuser of the Scriptures. Witness, Edward Paine and Courtman of Tolsburie. JJ Mr. Jansen, parson of Langford. 1| 1| Mr. Hailes, Vicar of Whitham ; no preacher, one that gave a sum of money to two men to conceale .... he hath made a confirmed lease of his benefice to his son for a small thing yearly, and that for many years. Witness to his evil manners, Mr. Sammes, of Langford. §§ Mr. Chapman, parson of Black Notley. 1T^ Mr. Blage, of Much Brkkfted.*** * John Howseman, p. 93. Oft. 1604. N. il. 476; Cooper, Ath. t Francis Dewell, p. 93. Cant. ii. 393. He was also a Canon and J John Berryman, 9th Jan., 1572. Archdeacon of Norwich. Strype, Whit- Died before Dec, 1617. He had been gift i. 408, ii. 145. Reflor of Shelly, 1568 — 1574, and was JJ The Vicar of Tollesbury, Francis now also Vicar of Dagenham, Z9th Oct., Searle, also held the Redlory of ToUes- 1579. N. ii. 497, 521, 103, see p. 71. hunt Major, and the Vicarage of Tolles- II Thomas Barwicic, 1st April, 1577. hunt Darcy. N. ii. 602, 604, 605. Died before Dec, 1588. N. ii. 542. || || Lancelot Jannson, 2nd Sept., 1585. § John Headland, 15th Oft., 1582. ^^ Edward Hale, p. 153. Sammes was Died before Jan., 1593. N. ii. 483. of Langford Hall. Mor. i. 381. ^ John Debanke, p. 94. ^^ William Chapman, 29th Sept., ** A Nicholas Simpson was Canon of 1570. Died before Jan. 1604. N.ii.443. Canterbury at this date. Wood, Faft. *** Thomas Blage, 9th Sept., 1570. 180; Strype, Parker i. 103,433; Whit- Died before 12th May, 1612. He was gifti. 596. one of the Queen's Chaplains. N. ii. 91. -f"|- John Freake, son of Edmund, p. He was also Reftor of St. Vedast, London. 69, 22nd Sept., 1574. Died before N. i. 565; Wood, Fast. 124. 104 Appendix to Chap. IF. Mr. Ware, parson of StifFord. * Mr. Rider, parson of South Uckendon. t Mr. Wilmot, parson of North Uckendon. J Mr. Golding, parson of Cranham. || Mr. Monck, parson of Wakes Colne. § Mr. Nowell, vicar of Peering. *\ Mr. Burgis, parson of Wivenhoe. ** Mr. Branham, parson of Harwich, ft Mr. Simpson, vicar of Kirbie. %% Mr. Giles, parson of Mose. || 1| Mr. Glascock, vicar of Weelie. §§ Mr. Forth, vicar of Emstead. Mr. Wentwrorth, parson of Much Bromley. HH Mr. Kitchen, parson of Stifled. *** Mr. Lov7, vicar of St. Leonard, ttt Mr. Walford, vicar of All-Hallowes. %XX Mr. Holmes, of St. James. || || || Mr. Gold, of St. Martin. §§§ * Thomas Ware, 15th June, 1575. Died before Feb., 1610. N. ii. 560. He was also Redtor of Orsett, 21st Nov., 1584, N. 454, and had juft reiigned the Reftory of St. Mary-le-Bow, ib. i. 439. f John Rider, 20th Nov., 1583. Reflgned before Aug., 1590. N. ii. 449. % Robert Wilmot, p. 95. II John Golding, p. 95. ^ Robert Monke, 7th Nov., 1565. Died before Dec. 1 601. N. ii. 191. He was also Rector ofWoodham Ferrers, 19th Feb., 1560, ib. 6S2. ^ Edward Nowell, p. 97, ** Edward Burgis, 96, •\-\ Hugh Branham, 97. XX William Simpson, 29th Jan., 1579. Died before June, 158S. N. ii. 353. He had been Vicar of Little Cladton, 1564 — 1575, ib. 154, and Reftor of Little Okeley, 1565 — 1579, ib. 446. II II Edward Giles, 97. §§ P. 96. f\V\ Peter Wentworth, p. 97. *** P. 63; I2th April, 1561. He was also Reftor of Inworth, 13th April, 1562. Died before Jan., 1599. N. ii. 562, 349. ■\\\ Colchefter. Thomas Lowe, 9th May, 1582. Died before Aug., 1615. N. ii. 173. He was also Vicar of Gos- field, 28th July, 1579, ib. 286. Lowe was admitted to the Redtory of St. Leonard's on the reiignation of Thomas Upcheare, p. 78. XXX All Saints, Colchefter. John Wal- ford, 17th Oa., 1571. Reflgned before May, 1609. N. ii. 164. He was also Vicar of St. Mary's, Colchefter, see 98. II II II Colchefter. Robert Holmes, 9th March, 1585. N.ii. 167. He was also Reftor of Grinfted, Colchefter, 26th Jan., 1585, ib. 287. §§§ Colchefter, see p. 98. Appendix to Chap. IV. 105 Mr. Wardle, parson of South Fambridge. * Mr. Brasier, parson of Ingatestone. f Mr. Pindar, parson of Stocke. J Mr. Mascall, parson of Woodham Walter. || Dr. Walker, parson of Laingdon. § Mr. Draper, parson of Curringham. ^ Mr. Harwood, of West Horndon. ** Mr. Adams, vicar of Earl's Colne. tt Mr. Ellis, parson of Buers. %% III. Non-resident : — Bartholomew Barefoot, very young in yeares, presented to his benefice by his father; a non-refident. The parson of Quendon : a double-beneficed man ; he liveth absent from his place, vsfhere there hath been neither Divine Service nor preaching since Chriflide. || || Mr. Banckes, parson of Moreton, and canon of Chrift Church, in Oxon, who by reason of age is not able to preach, nor dis- tindlly to read, yet he provideth none among his people to do good. Witness, Robert Oyley. §§ * Nicholas Wardall, 5th Dec, 1581. ^ Robert Draper, 12th Dec, 1578- Died before ist March, 1586. N. ii. N. ii. 194. 254. HewasalsoReiftorof Hawkeswell, ** William Harwood, loth Feb., 6th Sept., 1564, ib. 320. I54i. Died before 1591. N. ii. 342. -|- Antony Brazier, p. 99. He had therefore changed twice. Pro- J William Pinder, 2nd April, 1580. bably the Reftor of St. Clement's Danes, N. ii. 562. whom Newcourt calls Harward. Strype II Alexander Maskall, 3rd May, calls him Harewood. Aylmer, loi, 102. 1573. Died before Dec, 1619. N. ii. W William Adams, p. 96. 685. He was also Re(Sor of Lees Magna, JJ Bures GifFord. Henry Ellis, 12th 1588, ib. 386. Jan., 1571. Refigned before Nov., § C. Basildon. John Walker, 12th 1588. N. ii. 102. Nov., 1573. N. ii. 556. He was also |{ || The Redlor seems to have been Archdeacon of Essex, and held the prebend Roger Philips, 14th May, 1585. Died of Mora, ib. i. 73. He died about 1608. before Sept., 1632. N. ii 477. Strype, Annals i. i. 489, iii. ii. 362, iii. i. §§ Robert Banks. He had been 329,11.232; Parkerii.84, 267, iii. 186; Redlor from 1548 to 1554, at which Aylmer, 29, 34 i Whitgift i. 1 98, see pp. latter date he was deprived. He was 63, 100. reftored after 1559, and died before 1591. N. ii. 424. Cooper, Ath. Cant, ii. 109. io6 Appendix to Chap. IV. IV. A note of the sufficient painful and carefull preachers and ministers in Essex, who have been sundry times molefted and vexed, partly for refufing the late urged subscription, and partly for not v^earing the surplice, and omitting the cross in baptism and the like : * ' Mr Northee, preacher of Colchefter ; suspended by the Bifhop of London for the space of a wrhole yeare.' This was George Northye, otherwise spelt Nordthie. It appears from the parifli regifters, that the Northyes were a numerous family in Colchefter at that date ; it should therefore seem that George Northye was a native of the town. He was of Clare Hall, Cam- bridge. Northye was appointed Town Lecturer in 1580. There is a lengthened correspondence on the subject of his suspenfion among the Morant MSS. in the Colchefter Museum. In answer to Sir Thomas Heneage, who interfered in his behalf, Aylmer writes under date October 10, 1583. ' I cannot set Mr. Northye at libertee, unless he will subscribe unto these articles . . . especially . . . that he will with preaching joyne the minifterynge of the sacraments, and the sayinge of Service, and the Book of Common Prayer, that he dothe allow of the mynis- terie of England and the lawfuU callinge . . . allowed by ftatute, and that he will subscribe to the articles of the Synod of London ... if he will not yield to these thynges I may not in any wise re-admitt him.' On the 14th of October following, the Bailiffs' petition the Bifhop ' to grant hym lybertie to preache agayne, which shall be no small joy to our hearts .... con- sideryng the man ys godlye, learned, and in lyffe unexceptional ! ' The next day following, the Bailiffs entreated Sir Thomas Heneage to interfere a second time. But still the Biftiop refused to yield. In March, 1584, they twice appealed to Sir Francis Walfingham to intercede for them, saying that Northye had been suspended ' for what cause they knew not, and praying * I have preferred to insert such but I have carefully diftinguiflied such biographical notices as I have been able to passages as are reprinted from the ' Survey,' coUecft, in the text, here, because of the by inverted commas, length to which some of them extend ; Appendix to Chap. IF. 1 07 that he might not be dealt with otherwise than other minifters and lecturers around us.' Aylmer now replied in November, that Northye ' muft subscribe. There can be no great want of preachers, there is Mr. Upchurche (sic) a good minifter; ' and added ' that he and Parker have appointed Mr. Steare to fill Northye's place.' The Bailiffs again endeavoured to prevail with Aylmer, first through the Earl of Leicefter and Robert Earl of Warwick in December, and afterwards through William Cole, who is described as a ' former lecturer,' in the June following. Cole was as unsuccessful as his predeceflbrs had been. Aylmer's answer was, that he would not give Northye liberty unless "• commanded by the Queen's Majestie.' Northye was restored however, but whether he yielded to the prelate's demands, or whether the Queen herself at length interfered, does not appear. Northye died in 1593, and was buried at St. James's, Colches- ter. The following is the entry in the parish register. 'Anno Domini 1593. Colceftrias Luctus et Letitia. George Nord- thee. Preacher of the Town of Colchefter, departed this life XXIII daie of Julie, and was buried the XXIIII of the same moneth. Corpore non magnus, magnus fuit alta docendo Vexibus que imbelUs, verbis fortiflimus Autor Diftichion in Landes ejusdem Georg Nordthie.' * ' Mr. Newman was suspended almost half a year for not subscribing.' This was Laurence Newman, Vicar of Cogges- hall, who was admitted to that living February loth, 1575, on the presentation of Robert, afterwards Earl of Warwick, and then Lord Rich. Newman was buried at Coggeshall, March 18, 1559. His successor was Thomas Stoughton, who was deprived in 1606. t * Sir Thos. Heneage, p. 81. The Ath. Cant. i. 194, 339; Fast. 109. Bailiffs in 1583 were Robert Mott, and Cole was 3 personal friend of Aylmer's. Thomas Cock; and in 1584, Thos. Strype, Aylmer no; Thomas Upcheare, Laurence, and Richard Lambart. Mor. P- 78. MSS. Col. Mus. Sir Francis Walsingham -j- Newcourt il. i6i. For the date of p. 74. William Cole was of Corpus Newman's death I am indebted to my Chrifti, Oxford. He was one of the friend, Rev. B. Dale, who took it from translators of the Geneva Bible. 'Wood, the parifh regifter, p. 131. ic8 Appendix to Chap. IV. ' Mr. Dikes, preacher of Coggefliall, was suspended about half a year for not subscribing.' The Chriftian name of Dyke was William. He was the father of Jeremiah Dyke, after- wards Vicar_of Epping, and also it should appear, of Daniel Dyke, the suffering minifter of St. Alban's. Brooks has con- founded him with his son Daniel. It is possible that this is the Dyke who, in the matters objected to Richard Rich, is described as 'one that inveighed against statute-proteftants, injun£l;ion-men, and such as love to jump with the law.'* ' Mr. Rogers, preacher of Wethersfield, was suspended a long time for not subscribing.' Richard Rogers, he was son or grandson of a steward of that surname to the Earls of Warwick. He was educated at Cambridge, and was ledurer at Wethersfield for forty-six years. After his suspension by Aylmer, he was reftored through the influence of Sir Robert Wroth. But in 1598, and also in 1603, he was again in trouble. On the 25th of April, 1605, he makes this entry in his diary : ■• I was much in prayer about my troubles, and my God granted me the desires of my heart. For, by the favour and influence of William, Lord Knollys, God hath, to my own comfort and the comfort of my people, delivered me once more out of kll my troubles. Oh, that I may make a holy use of my liberty ! But it greatly troubles me, that after labouring betwixt thirty and forty years in the miniftry, I am now accounted unworthy to preach, while so many idle and scandalous persons enjoy their ease and liberty.' He was frequently cited by Richard Bancroft for nonconformity. During the episcopate of Richard Vaughan, Rogers enjoyed much liberty. On the 30th of May, 1606, he writes : ' If I preach no more, I heartily thank God for my liberty both at home and abroad for this year and a half, and I hope with some fruit; the bishop has been my friend;' and on the 2nd of April : ' This week came the painful news of our Bifhop Vaughan's death, who, for twenty-eight months, * Ps. 73, 78. His name appears in Strype, Aylmer, 104, loi, 203 ; Ann.iii. the parifli regifters at Coggeshall. Strype, 691 j ii. 479 ; Broolcs' Lives ii. 225 j see Annals iii. i. 214 ; Rich, p: 72. p. 73. Jeremiah Dyke, p. , Daniel Dyke, Appendix to Chap. IV. 109 being all the time he continued, permitted all the godly minifters to live peaceably and to enjoy liberty in their ministry.' He was again a sufferer under Thomas Ravis, who succeeded Vaughan. Ravis protefted in the presence of Rogers : ' By the help of Jesus, I will not leave one preacher in my diocese who doth not subscribe and conform.' Rogers died at Wethersfield, April 21, 1618. He was the father of Daniel and Ezekiel Rogers, and the immediate predecessor of Stephen Marfliall. Bifhop Kennet says of Rogers : ■• that England hardly ever brought forth a man who walked more closely with God.' * ' Mr. Whiting, parson of Panfield, was greatly molefted for matters of the Book; he had his benefice sequeftered, and a day set for his deprivation ; who being notwithftanding released, is, ever since the bishop's visitation, suspended for the surplice, and hath a day again fixed for his deprivation.' Giles Whiting was of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was presented to the Reitory of Panfield by George Cotton, of Panfield Hall, and was admitted and Odiober, 1582. The sentence hanging over him at the date of the survey was put in execution before May, i587-t ' Mr. Cornewall, minifter of Mark's Tey, suspended for * Chefter. Life of John Rogers, 240, (3) Commentaiy on the Book of Judges, 242; Brooks' Lives ii. 231, 234. Sir comprised in 103 Sermons. London, Robert was the son of Sir Thomas Wroth, 1615, fol. (4) Samuel's Encounter with of Langton and Bradfield Hall, and a grand- Saul, I. Sam. xv., 13 — 14. London, son of Richard, the firfl: Lord Rich. He 1620. He was buried in the churchyard and his father had been in exile in the reign at Wethersfield. The inscription on his of Mary. Sir Robert died in 1605-6. tomb is almoft undecypherable. Rogers Morant i. 163, ii. 519; Cooper, Ath. is mentioned by Bancroft as one of a Cant. ii. 429. Lord Knollys was the son classis about the Brayntree side, together of Sir Francis. His mother was a cousin with Culverwell, GifFord, and others, of Elizabeth's. He was Earl of Banbury. ' Dangerous Pofitions,' p. 84. Knollys died in 1632. Cooper, Ath. -f- Newcourt ii. 461. Whiting was Cant. ii. 212. He was a great firiend of the author of ' Giles Whiting, his short the Puritans. Strype,Whitgifti. 309, 633. queftions and answers to be learned of Vaughan pp. 92, loi. Rogers wrote, the ignorant before they bee admitted to (i) Treatises containing Direftions out of the Lord's Supper.' Lond., Svo., 1591. Scripture leading to True Happiness. (2) Cooper, Ath. Cant. ii. 354 ; Cotton, Certain Sermons. London, i6i2, 4to. Mor. ii. 406. no Appendix to Chap. IV. not subscribing, whereupon he was forced to leave his charge ; and, after having been reftored again, hath now a day set him for his deprivation, for not yielding to weare the surplice.' In another part of the Regifter there is this note of Cornewall : ■• Reviled openly at Witham, by the bifliop calling him wretch, beaft, and committing him to the Pursuivant, &c.' * ' Mr. Beamont, parson of Eafthorp, was inditSted at the assizes for matters of the Book, and now, since the bifhop's visitation, hath a day set him for his deprivation, for not yielding to wear the surplice.' Stephen Beamont, admitted 22nd May, 1579, on the presentation of Richard Atkins, of Eafthorp Hall. Beamont resigned the re6lory before November, 1609. f ' Mr. Wilton, parson of Aldham, indiping, 1623 ; and one on Heb. xi. 7. Lond., 1628 ; also 'A Treatise concerning a good conscience.' Lond., 1624, 1626, 1635; and two 4to volumes of the works of his brother Daniel, of whom see Strype, Annals iii. i. 214, 691; ii. 470; Aylmer 104,201, 203; Whitgift ii. 6 J the second part appeared in 1633. Brooks' Lives ii. 279 . Brooks is miftaken as to the date of his death. 11 Aylmer, who was his relative, pre- sented him to this vicarage in Aug., 1592, saying, ' play, cousin, with this awhile, till a better comes.' Aylmer afterwards offered him * Brentwood Weald,' which was three times better, but Lynch refiased it, ' an- swearing that he preferred the weal of his parifhioners souls before any other weal whatsoever.' He lived 61 years in wedlock with Elizabeth his wife, and had 10 children, ' one of whom was Simon Lynch, of Runwell.' Fullers' Worthies 337. ed. 1662. He is returned in 1650 ' as an able preacher, and well liked of by the parifhioners.' Lands. MSS. 459. He was buried at North Weald, 24th May, 1656. § 26th Jan., 1601 J and died before 25th June, 1637. N. ii. 585. ^ l8th June, 1600; and refigned before i8th May, 1632. There was a Thomas Denne, Redlor of Nettleswell, 1634 — 1640. N. ii. 367, 435. ** Refigned before nth June, 1646. N. ii. 223. f-j- 30th 0£l., 1627 ; and refigned before 28th May, 1632. N. ii. 642. 158. Petition of Beneficed Clergy. Tib. Hewett, redtor de Bulpha. * Nathaniel Ward, refflL* Sir Francis Harrington and Sir Harbottle Grimston ; for Colchefter, Sir W. Mafham and Harbottle Grimftone ; for Maldon, Sir Henry Mildmay and John Porter ; and for Harwich, Sir Thomas Cheke and Sir John Jacobs. f * Nalson's CoUeftion i. 279, 2S0. James I., in 1620. Mor. ii. 430. Sir Sir T. Barrlngton was the son of Sir Henry Mildmay, probably of Graces, Francis, and the cousin of Oliver Crom- Little Baddow. He married the sifter of well. He had been member for Newton Sir Arthur Harris. Mor. ii. 25. Lord in James' three laft Parliaments, and also Carlisle was James, the second earl, then previously sat for Essex. He died in seated at Waltham Holy Cross. Mor. i. 1644. Sir Cranmer Harris was the son 44. Daniel Rogers, ante. of Sir Arthur, of Cricksea, and then a f Harbottle Grimftone was the second young man of about 30. Mor. 363. son of Sir Harbottle. He was born at Captain Bernard was probably John, of Bradfield Hall, about 1594, studied at Depden Grange. Mor. ii. 562. Lord Lincoln's Inn, and soon became eminent Maynard was the firft Engllfti peer of as a lawyer. He married a niece of Sir that title, created by Charles I. in 1627, Geo. Croke, the Judge. He was now having been previously created Baron Recorder of Colchefter, and had recently Maynard, of Wicklow, in Ireland, by purchased the Crouched Friars, where he South Weald^ JVillingate, Lamhourne. 185 Immediately after Parliament was opened the House of Commons fell more earneftly than ever upon the discussion of 'grievances.' On the i8th, Harbottle Grimftone, having presented a petition from the county of Essex on the subject, spoke at considerable length, saying, 'The diseases and dis- tempers that now are in our bodies politic are growrn to that height that they pray for and demand a cure;' and concluding with the ominous words, ' we cannot complain we want good laws, for the wit of man cannot invent better than are already made; there want only some examples that such as have been the authors and causes of all our miseries and diftraftions in Church and Commonwealth, contrary to these good laws, might be treacle to expel the poison of mischief out of others.' Charles, however, had still as little inclination to go into the subject of grievances as he had before. He therefore suddenly dissolved the Parliament, after it had sat for only three weeks, on the 5th of May. Simultaneously with the Parliament, Convocation also had assembled. Two of the members were beneficed in Essex — • Samuel Baker, who had just been presented by Juxon, Bifliop of London, to the vicarage of South Weald, and Thomas Winifte, re£tor of Willingale Doe, and also reftor of Lam- bourne. * There was also a third member of this Convocation lived. In 1 642 he was Lieutenant for ' A Chriftian New Year's Gift, or Ex- Essex. On the death of Charles he left hortation to the chief duties of a Chriftian, the country, but returned again. After written in Latin by H. G., tranilated for having been one of the representatives the more public profit j' Cambridge, 1644, for Essex, in 1656, he joined in a remon- i6mo. Reports of Sir Geo. Croke, strance with Cromwell, in 1659, but 1669. fol. Porter was now Recorder of afterwards became one of his Council of Maldon. Sir John Jacobs was of Stanfted State. He was very active in promoting Hall, Halfted. He was one of the the reftoration, and was well rewarded for farmers of the King's Cuftoms. Sir it. He died Dec. 13, 1683, and was John was knighted in 1633. He sur- buried in St. Michaelis, St. Alban's. vived the reftoration, was created a baronet Biographia Britannica, Mor. Colchefter, in 1664 by Charles II., and died in 1666. 109. He publilhed, ' Strena Chriftiana Mor. .i. 256. sine Hortatiuncula ad praecipuas virtutum * Newcourt ii. 646; i. 214, 454; a£tus exterioresj' Lond. 1644, which Memorials; Nalson's Colledlions i. 352 ; was afterwards printed under the title of Baker, Newcourt ii. 646; i. 215; infra. i86 Great Dunmow, The New Canons. who had but recently resigned the vicarage of Great Dunmow, and who, two years afterwards, became reftor of Great Tay; this was Thomas Wykes, then re£f:or of St. Botolph's, Bifhopsgate. * Convocation continued to sit until the 25th of May. During this interval it took upon itself to pass seventeen new ' Conflitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical,' which had been prepared by a committee, consifling of fourteen members, among whom were Thomas WiniiFe, and Gilbert Sheldon, who sat in the Convocation as Procurator for the Chapter of Gloucefter. f The first of these canons ordained : ' That every parson . . . or preacher, upon some Sunday in every quarter of the year, shall audibly read' certain explanations there given of the Regal Power, among which were these : 'The most high and sacred order of kings is of divine right. . . . The power to call and dissolve councils, both national and provincial, is (the) . . . king's . . . for subjects to bear arms against their king . . . upon any pretence whatever, is ... to resist the powers which are ordained of God, and ... St. Paul tells them plainly, they shall receive to themselves damnation ; ' and ' that . . . aid and subsidy, and all manner of necessary . . . supply be respectively due to kings from their subjects by the law of God.' The fifth decreed — 'That because there are sprung up among us a sect of factious people, despisers and depravers of the Book of Common Prayer, who do not, according to the law, resort to their parish church or chappel to joyn in the public prayers, . . . contenting themselves with the hearing of sermons only, thinking thereby to avoid the penalties due to such as wholly absent themselves from the church, . . . the church or chappel warden . . . shall be careful to enquire out all such,' and that 'they shall be excommunicated.' The seventh declared — 'That the communion table should be placed in the parish Memorials. Winiffe now also held the * Wykes. He was also Reftor of Prebend of Mora, and was Dean of St. Finchley, in Middlesex, and Precentor of Paul's. He was afterwards Biihop of St. Paul's. Newc. ii. 102. Lincoln. Hedied atLambourne in 1654, t Nalson's CoUeaions i. 364. and was buried there. Newc. i. 52. The ' Et Caetera ' Oath. 187 churches where and as it already had been in most cathedrals,' and that ' the people should do reverence and obeisance both at their coming in and going out of the churches.' The eighth required — 'That all preachers should . . . instruct the people . . . that the rights and ceremonies now eftabliflied in the Church of England are . . . commendable . . . and if any preacher shall refuse or neglect ... let him be suspended by his ordinary.' But the crowning act of this Convocation was the new oath, which it required by the sixth canon. It was to the following effect: 'I, A. B., do swear that I do approve the do£):rine and discipline or government eftabliflied in the Church of England, as containing all things necessary to salvation; and that I will not ever give my consent to alter the government of this church, by archbifliops, bifliops, deans, and archdeacons, ET CAETERA, and as by right it ought to stand.' And, on the subject of this novel oath, the canon prescribed : ' If any ecclesiaftical person shall refuse to take this oath, the bifliop shall give him a month's time to inform himself, and at the month's end, if he refuse to take it, he shall be suspended ab. officio, and have a second month granted, and if he then refuse to take it, he shall be suspended ab. officio et beneficio, and have a third month granted him . . . but (then) if he refuse, he shall by the bifliop be deprived;' and also, ' That it should be taken by all Masters of Arts (the sons of noblemen excepted) ; all graduates in Divinity, Law, or Physic ; all pradlitioners of medicine, ecclesiaftical officials, all school- mafters, and all candidates for ordination.' The King having given his assent to these illegal canons, they were immediately publiflied, with a Declaration, in which Charles required 'all that exercise ecclesiaftical jurisdi£tion to see them duly observed, not sparing to execute the penalties . . . upon any that shall break or wilfully neglect the same.' * The sudden diflblution of the Parliament, and the ilTue of these canons by the King, contributed not a little to embitter * Nalson's Colledtion i. 542, 562. them by His Majestie's Authority, under Conftitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical . . the Great Seal of England. Lond. 1640, now publilhed for the due observance of 4to, 1 88 Hahted. the excitement which by this time greatly prevailed throughout the country, and disorders took place ; among other parts here in ElTex. On the 28th of O6i:ober, one John Pool, who is described as an ' excommunicated person,' went into the church at Halsted in the time of service, and taking William Till, the clerk, by the throat, ' compelled him to go into the vestry, and give up the surplice and the hood to him and others who were with him.' These Pool and his companions tore in pieces. At the same time one Robert Haward, entering the church, rushed up to the desk where Mr. Carter, the curate, was reading the baptismal service at the font, struck the prayer book out of his hand, and, with several others, kicked it about, saying ' it was a popish book.' Of this John Etheridge, the then vicar, very justly complained to the magistrates, and war- rants were iffued for the apprehenfion of the offenders. But they were no sooner taken into cuftody than they were rescued by the people. There were also implicated in this outrage, Grace, the wife of John Pool ; Barbary, the wife of William Rogers ; John Sach, and Mary, his wife ; Peter Redall, and William Rich. The matter was ultimately brought before the House of Lords, when it was found that all the offenders, with the exception of the Pools, Haward and Sach, had fled. These were committed to the Fleet. Grace Pool was admitted as evidence againft the others, who, being ' poor and silly men,' were sentenced to ' make public submiflion for their foul and contemptuous oftence in the church of Halsted, before the congregation, and in the presence of the next two justices of the peace ; ' and, at the same time, to ' ask forgiveness of the curate and the clerk for that which they had done.' This sentence was passed on the 19th of December, and that day the Lords placed a resolution on their records to the effect : ' That this House doth deeply condemn the fact to be an offence of a very high nature ; and that, if any person what- soever shall hereafter dare presume to commit the like offence, he shall be severely and exemplarily punished.' * * Journals of the House of Lords, vol. vicar of Fairsted, which also he resigned iv. 100, 107, 109, 113, 183. Etheridge before Dec, 1643. Newc. ii. 179, 249. resigned shortly after this. He was also Essex Elections. 189 The experiment of governing without a Parliament having again failed, and *■ the Scots' rebellion ' having now become still more serious, Charles summoned another Parliament, for the 3rd of November. The Essex members now elected were : for the county, Robert Lord Rich, eldeft son of Robert Earl of Warwick, and Sir William Mafham; for Colchefter, Sir Thomas Harrington and Harbottle Grimston ; for Maldon, Sir Henry Mildmay and Sir John Clotworthy ; and for Harwich, Sir Thomas Cheke and Sir Harbottle Grimston. The new Parliament was even more decided on the subject of grievances than the former ones had been. Harbottle Grimston, speaking at considerable length, said : — ' Mr. Speaker, there hath been since the last Parliament a synod, and in that synod a new oath hath been .... ei.joined. . . . They might as well have made a new law .... not being establifhed by Act of Parliament, and in point of mischief, the safety of the Commonwealth, and the freedom and liberties of the subjeft, are more concerned in the doing of the one than if they had done the other. . . . Mr. Speaker, they •would have us, at the very first dafh, swear to a damnable heresy ; that all things necessary to salvation are comprehended in the dodtrine of our church only .... and for pre- vention, in case the wisdom of the State, in its great council, should at any time think fit to alter anything in the government of our church, they would anticipate and forstall our judgment, by making us swear beforehand that we would never give our consent to any alteration. Nay, Mr. Speaker, they go a little further, for they would have us swear ' That the government of the church by archbilhops, bifliops, deans, archdeacons, ET CAETERA, is yure Divino.' . . . whereas we meet not with the name of an archbisfhop, or a dean, or an archdeacon, in all the New Testament. And whatsoever may be said of the funftion of bifhops, it is one thing, but for this jurisdiction it is merely ' Humana Injiitutione,' and they must thank the King for it. As for their gross absurd ' ET CAETERA,' where they would have them swear, they know neither what nor how many fathoms deep, there I go Colchester, Finchingfield. is neither divinity nor charity in it, and yet they would put that upon us. Mr. Speaker, what they meant and intended by this new oath, and this book of canons, and the book of articles, which they would have our churchwardens sworn to enquire of, .... I must confess I know not, unless they had a purpose therein to blow up the Protestant religion and all the professors of it, and to advance their hierarchy a step higher, which, I suppose, we all fear is high enough already. . . . Who are they, Mr. Speaker, that have countenanced and cherifhed Popery and Arminianism to the growth and height that it is now come to in this kingdom ? Who are they .... that have given encouragement to those that have boldly preached these damnable heresies . . . . ? Who are they .... that have given authority and licence to them that have publifhed these heresies .? Who are they, Mr. Speaker, that have of late days been advanced to any dignity or pre- ferment in the church but such as be notoriously suspicious in their disciplines, corrupt in their doctrines, and for the most part vicious in their lives .?.... To put ourselves in a way for our redress .... it were fit that a committee might be named to take these petitions that have been now read, and all others of the like nature, into their confideration, to the end that the parties grieved may have just repair for their grievances, and that out of them laws may be contrived for the preventing of the like mischiefs for the future.' * A committee was named, consisting of twenty-three mem- bers, among whom were Harbottle Grimstone, Sir John Clotworthy, and Sir Thomas Barrington. The 17th of November was set apart by the House of Commons for a *• solemn fast.' The House affembled in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, where Stephen Marfhall, of Finching- field, was one of the preachers, f On the 15th of December, a resolution was passed in the House of Commons, ' That the clergy of England .... * Rufliworth, Coll. iv. 112; Pari. f Nalson i. 530. Hist. ii. 679. Colchester. 191 have no power to make any .... canons .... whatso- ever, or otherwise to bind the clergy or the laity of this land, without common consent of Parliament.' And on the 1 6th it was further resolved, ' That the canons and conftitutions ecclesiaftical treated upon by the Arch- bifhops of Canterbury and York .... and the rest of the bifhops and clergy of these provinces, and agreed upon with the King's Majefty's licence .... in the year 1640, do contain in them matters contrary to the King's prerogative, to the fundamental laws and statutes of the realm, to the rights of Parliament, to the property and liberty of the subjects, and matters tending to sedition and of dangerous consequence.' On the 17th the Scots exhibited articles against Laud, and, in the course of the debate that followed, Harbottle Grimftone again- spoke at some length, saying, 'Mr. Speaker, long intro- ductions are not suitable to weighty businesses. We are now fallen upon the great man, the Archbifhop of Canterbury .... Who is it but he that hath advanced all our Popish bifhops.'' .... These are the men that should have led Christ's flock, but they are the wolves that have devoured them ; the sheep should have fed upon the mountains, but the mountains have eaten up the sheep. It was the happiness of our church when the zeal of God's house eat up the bifhops, .... but the zeal of the bifhops hath been only to eat up the church .... Who is it, Mr. Speaker, but this great archbifhop that hath sate at the helm to steer ... all the projects that have been set on foot in this kingdom this ten years last past? .... and there is scarce any grievance or complaint come before us in this place wherein we do not find him, ... as it were, twifled into it . . . This man is the corrupt fountain that hath corrupted all the streams, and till the fountain be purged, we can never expect nor hope to have clear channels .... I conceive it is most necessary and fit that we should now take up a resolution to do somewhat, to strike while the iron is hot, and to go up to the Lords, in the name of the Commons of England, and to accuse him of high treason.' * * Rufliworth iv. IZ2. 192 Chigivell, Pattiswick. On the 1 8th of January a petition was presented to the House of Commons against Emmanuel Utey, the vicar of Chig- well; and on the 26th of January, another from the inhabitants of the town of Pattiswick, against Thomas Dove, the incum- bent of that parish, and both petitions were referred to the com- mittee which had now been formed ' to consider how there may be preaching minifters set up where there are none,' and ' of some way of removing of scandalous minifters, and putting others in their places.'* This body was a sub-committee of the grand committee for religion. Walker says that it consifted of about sixty-one persons, together with all the knights and burgesses of Northumberland, Wales, Lancafhire, Cumberland, and the burgesses of Canterbury. Nalson, however, makes it to consist of only forty members. Both agree in saying that Sir Thomas Cheke and Sir William Mafham were members of this committee, and Walker adds the name of Sir Thomas Barrington. f It was about this time that the celebrated passage of syllo- gisms took place between Harbottle Grimftone and John Selden. Grimftone argued 'that bifhops are Jure Divino is a queftion; that archbifhops are not Jure Divino is out of queftion ; now that bifliops, which are queftioned whether Jure Divino should suspend minifters that are "Jure Divino I leave to you, Mr. Speaker.' To which Mr. Selden answered, ' that the Con- vocation is Jure Divino is a queftion; that Parliaments are not yure Divino is out of queftion; that religion is Jure Divino there is no queftion. Now, Mr. Speaker, that the Convocation which is queftionable whether Jure Divino, and Parliaments which out of queftion are not "Jure Divino, should meddle with religion, which, queftionless, is Jure Divino, I leave to you, Mr. Speaker.' Selden was right: and it had been more than well if his argument had so far prevailed that the Parliament had always left religion alone. % On the 20th of March, the House of Commons ordered, * Nalson i. 744 i Rufliworth iv. 164; f Sufferings of the Clergy i. 63 Journals of the House of Commons i. 76. Nalson i. 691. ;J^ Nalson, 744. Scandalous Ministers. X93 ' That the committee for scandalous minifters do prepare and draw a bill againfl: scandalous ministers, and present it to the House ; and they are to take that into consideration which has been offered concerning commiffioners to be sent into the several counties to examine scandals in minifters.' * And on the same day the House resolved, ' That for bifhops, or any other clergymen, to have employment as privy councillors at the council table, or as private officers, is an hindrance to the discharge of their spiritual function, and a prejudice to the commonwealth, and ought to be taken away, and that a bill be brought in accordingly.' On the 3rd of May, 1641, the House finding that there have been, and having cause to suspect that there still are, even during the sittings of Par- liament, endeavours made to subvert the fundamental laws of England and Ireland .... whereupon the subjects have been prosecuted and grieved, and that divers innovations have been brought into the church, multitudes driven out of his Majefty's dominions, jealousies created between the King and his people, and a popish army levied in Ireland, and two armies brought into the bowells of this kingdom, and that endeavours have been and are used to bring the English army into misunder- standing of this Parliament, thereby to incline that army by force to bring to pass those wicked counsels, adopts the following form of proteftation : ' I, A. B., do, in the presence of Almighty God, promise, vow, and protest, to maintain and to defend as I lawfully may, with my life, power, and eftate, the true reformed religion, expressed in the dodlrine of the Church of England, against all popery and popish innovation within this realm, contrary to the said do<£trine ; and, according to the duty of my allegiance, I will maintain and defend his Majefty's royal person, honour, and eftate, also the power and privilege of Parliament, the lawful rights and liberties of the subjefts, and every person that shall make this proteftation, in whatsoever he shall do in the lawful performance of the samej and to my power, as far as lawfully I may, I will oppose, and by all good * Journals ii. 169. IQ4 The Protestation. ways and means endeavour to bring condign punifliment on all such as shall by force, praftices, counsels, plots, conspiracies, or otherwise, do any thing to the contrary in this present pro- teftation contained. And, further, that I shall, in all just and honourable ways, endeavour to preserve the union and peace between the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland; and neither for hope, fear, or any other respect, shall relinquish this promise, vow, and proteftation.' This proteftation was immediately taken by all the members of the House then present, and the next day it was sent up to the House of Lords, where it was also taken by all who were present, with only two exceptions. It was afterwards taken very generally by the absentees of either House. * On the 5th this proteftation was sent down into all the counties, with an intimation that it would be agreeable to the House if it were also taken by all corporations, sheriffs, and juftices of the peace. Directions were also given that it should be submitted to the minifter and inhabitants of the different parifhes, to whom it should be read ' on the afternoon of some Lord's day, after sermon;' and that 'there be a regifter book provided, in which every man taking it should subscribe his name, and that the names be taken of such as do refuse the same.' Several of the parish regifters in Essex contain this "-proteftation,' together with the signatures of the minifter and the parifhioners appended to it. t It does not appear that the taking of the names of those who refused to sign the proteftation was followed by any serious results. Samuel Collins, the vicar of Braintree, refused to sign it, yet he continued unmolefted to his death. John Gauden did not take it, and yet he was after- wards appointed reftor of Booking; neither did John Fuller, * Rufhworth iv. 241; Nalson i. 810. by the vicar, Rev. T. P. TufFnell, and Both Nalson and Rufhworth give com- also with a copy of the entry in the register plete lists of those who took the Protesta- at Childerdich, by my friend, the Rev. tion. See also Walker i. 2Z. H. P. Bowen, of Brentwood. I have t I am obliged with a copy of the seen the signatures in the regifter of Great entry in the parilh register of Wormingford Bentley. Pluralists. 195 the then vicar of Stebbing, yet he also continued unmolefted till his death. * In June a bill passed the House of Commons which enafted 'That whosoever had two livings should, before the 21st of September next, resign one of them; and that if any clergy- man should be absent, at one time, sixty days from his living, he should ipso faSfo forfeit it.' f And, in September, the Commons passed a resolution ' That all crucifixes, scandalous piiSures of any one or more persons of the Trinity, and all images of the Virgin Mary, shall be taken away; and that all tapers, candlefticks, and basons, be removed from the communion table; that all corporal bowing at the name of Jesus, or towards the east end of the church .... be hence- forth forborne; that the Lord's day shall be duly observed: all dancing or sport, either before or after divine service, be forborne; that the preaching of God's word be permitted in the afternoon; and that minifters and preachers be encouraged thereto.' Seven days afterwards, Sept. 8th, these resolutions were, in the main, endorsed by the House of Lords, who also resolved 'That where there are rails already, they are to be * Collins, ante. Gauden was the son of author of the following — Certain Scruples John Gauden, who was vicar of Mayland and Doubts of Conscience about taking from 1598. He was first of St. John's, the Solemn League and Covenant, 1643; Cambridge, and afterwards of Wadham, A Defence of the Minifters of the Church Oxford. He was chaplain to the Earl of of England, 1653; A Petitionary Re- Warwick ; then reftor of Brightwell, in monftrance presented to Oliver, Proteftor, Berks, and beneficed also at Chippenham, 4th Feb., 1655; Ecclesiae Anglicanse in Cambridgeshire. He became redtor of suspiria, 1659 ; besides others published Rocking in 1643. He was elected of the after the Reftoration, among which were Assembly of Divines. He refiised to take a Life of Richard Hooker, prefixed to an the Covenant also. In 1659 he became edition of his works. The EikonBasihke preacher at the Temple. At the Restora- is attributed to Gauden. N. i. 68 ; Wood tion he was made chaplain to Charles II., Ath. ii. 311; Keble's Hooker 1. xxxi. who made him Bifljop of Exeter in 1660. Fuller was father of Thos. Fuller, Bifhop In 1662 he was translated to Worcester, of Ardfert, and afterwards Archbilliop of where he died in the December of tliat Cafliel. Wood, Fast. ii. 46 j Kennett's year. He preached and printed a fianeral Regifter; Davy MSS. B. M. xxxii. 322, sermon for Robert, the son ot the Earl 324. of Warwick, in 1657. He also publifhed + Pari. Hist. ii. 843. several other sermons. He was also the O 2 ig6 Parliament Adjourned. removed with the communion table ; but where there are none, they shall not be enforced on any; and that all steps in the church, raised within these fifteen years, shall be re- moved.' * The plague now raging in London, both Houses shortly afterwards adjourned to the 20th of Oftober, having first appointed committees to act during the recess. On the committee of the House of Lords we find the name of the Earl of Warwick; and on that of the House of Commons the names of Sir Henry Mildmay, Sir Thomas Harrington, and Sir John Clotworthy. Parliament had scarcely re-assembled when the country was convulsed with the intelligence that a fearful rebellion had broken out in Ireland. Many thousands of men, women, and children were moft cruelly used; ' the women ript up, and treated moft filthily and barbarously, and infants used like toads or vermin.' When the matter came to be enquired into, there were not wanting many who saw reason to believe the allega- tion of the Irifh, ' that they had the King's commission for what they did.' f During the next few months the breach between the King and the Parliament grew wider than ever. The ' grand remonftrance ' was therefore resolved upon, and presented to the King on the ist of December. % On the 30th, followed the ' impeachment of the twelve bifhops.' On the 3rd of January, the King demands the surrender of five members of the House of Commons, and one of the members of the House of Lords ; and on the 4th, he takes the fatal step of going down to the Houses in person, with a body of soldiers, to apprehend these whom he had claimed. All confidence was now defl:royed, and the country generally shared in the alarm which these proceedings had awakened. This year was publiflied the celebrated ' Answer to a book entitled an Humble Remonftrance, in which the original of Liturgy and Episcopacy is discussed, and queries pro- * Pari. Hift. li. 907, 908. X Nalson i, 513, 572; Rufliworth i. \ Calamy, Life and Times of Richard 338 — 451. Baxter i. 43 ; Rushworth iv. 399, 421. The Smectymneans. 197 pounded concerning both ; the parity of bishops and presbyters in Scripture demonftrated ; the occasion of their imparities in antiquity discovered ; the disparity of the ancient and modern bifliops manifefted ; the antiquity of ruling elders in the church vindicated ; the prelatical church bounded ; written by Smeftymnus.' It was a small book, consifting of only ninety-four pages, including the appendix, but it proved to be the severeft blow of the kind which ' prelacy ' had ever yet received. It was the joint produftion of Stephen Marftiall, then of Finchingfield ; Edward Calamy, recently of Rochford, but then of Aldermanbury, London ; Thomas Young, of Stow- market; Matthew Newcomen, of Dedham ; and William Spurftowe, who was afterwards ejected from Hackney;* the initial letters of whose several names compose the word Smeitymnus. The ' Humble Remonftrance ' to which this little book was intended as a reply, was written by Joseph Hall, Bifhop of Exeter. Its complete title was, ' A Humble Remonftrance to the High Court of Parliament,' 1640. The appendix to the 'Answer,' consifting of a stirring historical nar- rative of the doings of the prelates, concludes thus : — ' The inhuman butcheries, bloodsheddings, and cruelties of Gardiner, Bonner, and the reft of the biftiops in Queen Mary's days, are so fresh in every man's memory, as that we conceive it a thing unmeaning to make mention of them. Only, we fear lest the guilt of the blood then shed should yet remain to be required at the hands of this nation, because it hath not publicly en- deavoured to appease the wrath of God, by a solemn and general humiliation for it. What the practices of the prelates have been ever since, from the beginning of Queen Elizabeth to this very day, would fill a volume, like Ezekiel's roll, with lamentation, mourning, and woe to record. For it hath been their design ever since the Reformation to bring in dodtrines of Popery, Arminianism, and libertinism ; to maintain, propa- gate, and much increase the burden of human ceremonies; to keep out and beat down the preaching of the word ; and to * Calamy, Memorials ; Newcomen ib. 198 Essex Petitions. silence the faithful preachers of it; to oppose and persecute the mofl: zealous professors, and to tread down the power of godliness, insomuch as it is come to an ordinary proverb, that when anything is spoiled, we used to say, ' the bifhop's foot is in it ;' and in all this, and much more that might be said, fulfilling Bifhop Bonner's prophecy, who, when he saw in King Edward's Reformation that there was reservation of ceremonies and hierarchy, is credibly reported to have used these words : ' Since they have begun to tafl:e our broth, it will not be long before they will eat of our beef.' The ' Answer ' was replied to by the biftiop in a ' Defence of his Remon- strance.' The Smectymneans rejoined with 'A Vindication of the Answer,' and Hall concluded with ' A Short Answer to a tedious Vindication of Smedlymnus.' All these publications also were issued in 1641. * On the i8th of January, 1642, six thousand EfTex men came up with two petitions, one to the Lords and another to the Commons. t The petition to the Commons was from the ' Miniflers and other inhabitants,' and says, ' We doe appre- hend a great stop in all reformations of matters of religion, .... and the whole kingdome to be in great danger of the Papists, and other ill-affefted persons, who are everywhere very insolent, and are ready to aft the parts of those cruell * Brooks iii. 245 — 247 ; Kippis, number of 20,000 hands, have subscribed Biog. Britannica iii. 132. John Milton and presented to the Committee of the took a prominent part in this controversy. House of Commons, at Grocer's Hall, in 'Of Prelatical Episcopacy,' 1641 j 'Ani- London, Jan. 18, 1641 ; which was ac- madversions upon the Remonstrant's companied by knights, gentlemen, and Defence againft Smectymnus,' 1641. others of good quality, in a very great Hall replied to the Animadversions in number.' London, printed for Tohn ' A Modefl: Confutation,' which provoked Thomas. Afterwards both petitions ap- from Milton ' An Apology for Smectym- peared, together with another from the nus,' 1642. inhabitants of Cokhefter, in a 4to. pam- t Diurnal Occurrences in Parliament, phlet of six pages. Publilhed by order, to 17th of Jan. to 24th, No, 2, 1641. The prevent false copies. London, printed'for petitions were afterwards publiflied. That Benjamin Allen, 1642. The county to the Commons in a broadside, under the petition is also printed in the Pari. Hift. title of *The Humble Petition of the In- ii. 1053. habitants of the county of Essex, who, to the Petition of Essex Ministers. 199 blood-suckers in Ireland . . . . ; by meanes whereof our trading, especially of clothing and farming, grew a great pace to so great a damper as many thousands are like to come to suddaine want. Nor can we expedl any redreffe thereof, un- leffe the bifhops and popish lords be removed out of the House of Peers. Therefore we humbly pray that you would earnestly mediate his Majesty, and the House of Peeres, that our brethren in Ireland may be speedily relieved, and the Papists throughout the kingdom be disarmed : and that such defeats of armes as in your discretions shall appear to be meet may be supplied, and this county and kingdom put into such a warlike posture as may be best for its defence and safety ; and that the bishops and popish lords who, as we conceive, have hindered the suc- ceffe of your godly endeavours, may be put out of the House of Peers, not doubting but that then our petition, formerly pre- sented to your House, will receive a more full and speedy answer.' The House ordered the Speaker to call the leaders of the petitioners to their bar, to ' thank them for their care and afFeftion,' and to affure them of their readiness to forward the reformation of religion, freedom, and liberty ; and that ' with all convenient speed ' they would ' take their petition into consideration. * The petition to the Peers says: 'Wee doe in all humility represent to your most honourable consideration our remaining feares and grievances, arising from the delayes of helpe to our brethren of Ireland . . . the feares from the Tower of London . . . which is intrufi:ed in unknowne hands, and with one whom we cannot confide in; the defect of the armes of our trained bands, which were not long since taken away . . . the putting some of our gentlemen out of the commission for the peace because they would not serve the turne of present times ; the not executing of priefts condemned by law, whereby that party are growne more insolent, seeing that juftice against them is stopped, even in the time of Parliament, though they are delinquents in the highest kind. The prelates and popish * Pari. Hist. ii. 1049 ; Continuation of the True Diurnal, 20tli Jan. 200 Colchester Petition. lords still sitting and voting in your House— a thing, as we conceive, most incompatible to the office of the one, and no- wise fit to bee allowed to the other. And, laftly, our feares are, from the unparallel'd breaches of the liberties of Parlia- ment, which are the strength and safety of your body, and the inheritance of the subject. All which do cause such decay of clothing and farming, the two trades of our county, .... that we tremble to thinke what may follow therefrom. Most humbly praying that bleeding Ireland may be relieved . . .the Tower . . . committed to safe hands; the armes of trained bands repaired .... that the county may be put in a pofture of defence .... the gentlemen which have beene, for their faithfulnesse, put out of commission, may bee reftored; the condemned priefts executed; the prelates and popish lords may bee excluded your House ; the priveleges of Parliament may be fully assured, and the worthy members of it, who have, in an unheard-of and illegall way, beene endangered, may be vindicated and receive reparation.' The following petition was also presented from the mayor and town of Colchefter: 'May it please this Honourable Court, your petitioners cannot enjoy their much desired re- formation in religion, but are very fearefuU that our consciences, as formerly, shall hereafter be inthralled and burthened, and our liberties and eftates endangered, by bifhops, chancellours, archdeacons, commissaries, and their officials, together with the cannons, conftitutions, ceremonies, and service book; and as dependancies on these we shall still be troubled with idle double-beneficed, scandalous, and ignorant minifters, who have not onely bin carelesse of the duty required of them, but also in their places very troublesome and vexatious. And however we well perceive that the good intentions of this Honourable Assem- bly are, that wee should enjoy the liberty of our consciences and tradings; yet, notwithftanding, we find the trade of clothing and drapery, upon which the livelihoods of many thousands, men, women, and children, in this towne doe depend, to be almost wholly decayed, and poverty aboundantly to grow upon us, which is occasioned, as we humbly conceive, by the high Dunmow. 20i breaches of the priveleges of Parliament, and the want of a thorow reformation in matters of religion, which we conceive have been hindered by the oppositions made thereunto by the bifhops and popish lords, and by the insolences of papifts in this land, and the outrageous cruelties of the rebels in Ireland. It is, therefore, most humbly prayed that this Honourable Assembly would be pleased, with their unwearied and serious zeale, to redresse the aforesaid greevances in Church and State; and that, according to your pious determinations, expressed in your late remonstrance, a discipline and government may bee establifhed according to the word of God. They do likewise humbly pray that there may be some considerations had about the fortifying of the towne ; the block-house and outworkes being at this time wholly ruinated and decayed, the guns without carriages, and no man hath the care or charge of them; and, besides, the inhabitants, by reason of the great decay of trade, are altogether disabled, at their own charge, to furnish themselves with such quantities of ammunition and powder as is necessary for the defence of so great a port-towne, the losing of which would, apparently, indanger the whole county.' The next few months were spent in anxious preparation for the approaching conflict. On the loth of June, a meeting of the ' Trained Band ' and ' Volunteer Companies ' was held at Dunmow, when the following resolution was ' received with universall approbation, by holding up of hands, throwing up of hattes, and acclamations, professing that they held them unworthy to live that should dislike it.' Within three days it was ' subscribed with ten thousand hands,' and shortly afterwards it was presented to both Houses, in the form of a petition : ' That we having, with joy and admiration, observed the wise and gratious passages and proceedings of the Parliament, and the pious, tender, and affeftionate care of your honours for the preservation of the peace and honour of his most excellent Majefty, and these three thrice happily united kingdoms, represented to the world in your several ordinances, declarations, votes, and remonftrances, sufficient to stop the mouth (if it were possible) of malignity itself, cannot but 202 Dunmow Petition. with grief and indignation, wonder to hear that there should yet be found, and that even about the royal throne, such un- natural and evil affected spirits, and malignant councillors, who .... doe continually inftill into his Majefty's royal heart sinister conceit and misinterpretation of your moft humble and loyall afFeiSlions and noble aftions and undertakings. Where- fore we, underftanding, not by misinformation of flying report, but by the late votes and declarations of both your honourable Houses, that his Majeflie, seduced by wicked councell, intends to make warre againfl: the Parliament ; that so to doe is a breach of the trufi: reposed in him by his people, contrary to his oath ; and that whoever shall serve or assist him in his warres are trayters to the fundamental lawes of the kingdom. And withall, perceiving your moft chriftian and heroicall resolutions to persift in your honourable endeavours for the publicke safety, though you should, which God avert, perifh in the worke, we thought it our duties moft humbly to represent to your honours the faithfull affediions and inviolable resolutions of ourselves to stand or fall, live or die, together with you according to our proteftation. Thus, with our hands upon our swords, we stand ready at your command, to performe our vows to God, and oaths of fidelity to his Majeftie, in taking up arms against false flatterers and traytors, who abuse his royal favour, intending, under the glorious title of his name and standard, to fight againft the peace and honour of their sovereign, against religion, and the lawes, and to make a prey and spoyle of three flourifhing kingdomes at once ; and to spend our dearest blood in the defence of the lives and liberties of our countrymen, the lawes which are the life of our liberty and peace, religion more precious than both, and the King and the Parliament, in whose lives lie bound up the lives of all the rest. Whosoever is otherwise affefted, we hold him not worthy the name of a soldier, but a proditor of his King and country to all posterity. Lastly, finding a multitude of well- affefted people, whose hearts are good to joyne with us, but want armes, we most humbly crave that restitution may be made of those armes which were taken out of their county. Colchejier. 203 either out of the store lately arrived from Hull, or other- wise, as to your most honourable House shall seem best.' * This petition was carried to the Commons by the high sheriff, Robert Smyth, of Upton, accompanied by a number of county gentlemen, one of whom, at the presenting of the petition, declared ' that though there were not above ten thousand hands to it, yet there were some four score and ten thousand that were ready to set their hands to it if they had had time.' f On the nth of August the King published a proclamation, declaring the Earl of Effex and the army which he had by this time organized, under the auspices of the Parliament, ' rebels ; ' and the next day serious disturbances broke out in Colchefler. Sir John Lucas had secretly collected a small force in the town with which he intended to join the King. This being dis- covered, on the nth, which was Sunday, John Langley, captain of the trained band, and Henry Barrington, alderman, rode over to Coggefhall, from thence to Braintree and Bocking, and from thence to Halsted, to invite aflistance. Sir John, not knowing this, sallied forth early in the morning of the I2th, when he found a strong guard pofled at the outside of the gates to prevent him. The whole town was inftantly aroused, and the volunteers fired upon him, and horsemen were sent by direftion of Daniel Cole, alderman, into all parts of the county to call in further aid. A riot now ensued. Sir John's house was broken into, its contents were spoiled, and its inmates apprehended. Among them was Thomas New- comen, the rector of Trinity, who was implicated in the conspiracy, and had aided Lucas in collecting the force. Sir John himself was also taken, together with Lady Lucas, his sister, and his mother. The mayor, Ralph Harrison, not knowing what to do, dispatched a messenger to London to * Broadside. London, printed by R. f Rufliworth iv. 479 ; Smith, Morant O. and S. D., for William Sames, at the i. Ix j Journals of the House of Commons, sign of the Bible in E. Cheepe. It was 17th June, 1642. printed by order of the House of Commons. Journal, 17th June. 204 Disturbances in Essex. inform the Parliament. The next day Sir Thomas Harrington and Harbottle Grimfton were sent down to inveftigate the matter on the spot. The result of the inveftigation was, that Sir John Lucas and Thomas Newcomen were brought up to London in cuftody. On the 29th Sir John was declared guilty of high treason, fined in the sum of ^^40,000, and laid under bond not to depart from London or the suburbs without the permiffion of the House ; and Newcomen was committed to the Fleet, where he remained until the 24th of September, when he was discharged. * In the meantime the tumult had spread into the neighbourhood. In the course of the inveftiga- tion it was discovered that the violence to which the people had proceeded was greatly owing to a printed paper, which had been freely circulated, purporting to be an order from the Par- liament to plunder the houses of any who were suspected of disaffection to them. This led to a repudiation of the ' paper' by the House of Commons, and a formal condemnation of all the proceedings to which it had, unhappily, given rise. The sufFerers from the ' plundering ' were also re-imbursed by order of the House. On the 14th of September, Sir Thomas Honey- wood and Harbottle Grimftone, accompanied by ' near upon five hundred of the county of Effex,' came to the House to * Sir John Lucas was then refident at 98. Henry Harrington was twice Bailiff St. John's Abbey. He was the son of of Colchefter, in 1617 and 1629. He Sir Thomas, and the third knight of that was also Mayor in 1640. Morant MSS. name. Notwithstanding his bond, he Colchefter Museum. Daniel Cole was afterwards joined the army of the King, three times Bailiftj in 1624, 1628, and and was present at several battles, among 1634 : and twice Mayor, in 1635, 1644. others at those of Leftwithiel and New- ib. Newcomen, infra. Harrison was buried bury. In 1644 he was created a peer by at St. Botolph's. He was the father of the title of Lord Lucas, of Shenfield. In Ralph Harrison, clerk, who was buried 1663 he procured his daughter, Mary, the in St. Leonard's. Mor. Col. April 23. Countess of Kent, to be created a peeress. Declaration of the Lords and Commons by the title of Baroness Lucas, of Crude- .... concerning the abuses . . in well, Wilts. He died July 2, 1671, and the County of Effex. Printed by order was buried in the Church of St Giles', of Pariiament, Sept. 2, 1642. Broadsheet. Colchefter. Mor., Colchefter, p. 124; Perfeft Diurnal, No. 12. Mercurius rus- John Langley, p. 174. He was made ticus, 1648. 1—6. Journals of the House M. A. of Oxford, 1637. Wood, Fasti, li. of Commons. ,Walden^ Dagenham^ Barkings Lachingdon. 205 inform them that the ' tum'ults and uproars lately raised in Colchefter and elsewhere in the county had been appeased, and that the county in general stood well afFefted to the King and Parliament In witness whereof, there hath been a general colleftion throughout the whole county, and so have gathered some more, some lesse, according to each man's ability, in plate and money, seven horse load, amounting to ^30,000, and have left it at the Guildhall, London.'* In the meanwhile petitions continued to flow in from the county on the subject of religion, f Some parifhes petitioned for the appointment of lecSturers : among them Saffron Walden, Dagenham, and Barking. The Saffron Walden petition was complied with on the 8th of March, by the recommendation of 'Mr. William Spalden, M.A., ... to preach a weekly lefture on such day of the week as the parifhioners shall agree upon, and also on every Lord's day in the afternoon;' and the order that 'the vicar and all other persons should permit him to preach there without interruption.' The Dagenham petition was complied with on the 26th of September, by the recom- mendation of Mr. John Bowyer to the parifhioners ' to preach to them every Lord's day in the forenoon,' and the order ' that Mr. Charles True, the minifler of that place, is required to permit him the free use of his pulpit accordingly.' The parifhioners of Barking expressly petitioned for John Bowyer, and the House complied with their request by recommending him to preach to them in the afternoons, requiring 'Dr. Hall * Perfedl Diurnal, No. 6. Sir Thos. -f- There was one presented to the Honeywood was the son of Sir Robert, of House of Lords by Laud. It was for Charing, in Kent, and Markshall, in their sanation to the appointment of Essex. He was brother-in-law to Sir Richard Howlett, who had recently loft Harry Vane. He was one of the Com- a good lifing in Ireland by the rebellion mittee for Essex. In 1648 he commanded there, to the Reftory of ' Lachenden." at the siege of Colchefter. In 1651 he Howlett was also recommended by the led a company of Essex men at Worcester. Archbifliop of Armagh. Laud's requeft In the same year he was made D.C.L. was complied with, and Howlett was in- at Oxford. He was member for Essex stituted accordingly. His name does not 1654 — 1656. In 1657 he was one of appear in Newcourt. Journal of House Cromwell's Lords. • He died 26th May, of Lords iv. 715. See infra. 1666. 2o6 WalthamstoWt Hatfield. to permit him to exercise his miniftry without any lett or interruption.' * It was now that the greater number of the sequeftrations took place, of which I have given a full account in the Appendix to this Chapter. In the meanwhile the battle of Edgehill had been fought ; other events had also taken place which it would be foreign to the purpose of these pages to relate. On the 1 6th of February, 1643, the parifliioners of Walthamflow, the cure of whose church had long been neglefted in consequence of a protracted lawsuit on the subject of the patronage, petitioned the House of Commons for relief. The House ordered that the sequeftration, which had taken place at the inftance of Juxon, Bifhop of London, should be declared void, and that the 'tithes and profits should be paid to Mr. Lee, the then minifter.' f * Journals of H. of C. ii. 783, 803, 992 ; iii. 270. The Vicar of Walden seems to have been Nicholas Gray. Newc. ii. 627 j Bowyer and True, infra. The Vicar of Barking was Richard Hall, 13th April, 1630. N. ii. 35. "I" Journal iii. 401. The lawsuit had been carried on ever since the death of Alexander Grant, in 1638. Cole, MSS. additions to Newcourt, Britifli Museum. The cure had been supplied for some time after Grant's death by Alexander Robin- son. This Lee, Cole thinks, was Richard Lee, who became of Hatfield Regis, 19th Dec, 1660. Kennett, Hift. Regifter, 234. He had been Reftor of St. Martin Orgar, on the sequeftration of Bryan Walton. Journal H. of Commons iii. 136. Lee was very adtive in procuring the covenant to be taken, for which service he had a piece of plate presented to him by the committee which sat at Romford. In Sept., 1644, his name appears in the lift of twenty-three persons who, after the abolition of Episcopacy, were appointed as ordainers. Journal Ho. of Co. iii. 630. In 1648, he was in trouble for a sermon which he preached in the Temple. His name again appears in the Journals of the House of Lords, as receiving a patent, vi. 403, In 1652, his name is attached to a petition, which was also signed by ' the regicides, Whalley, Skey, Harrison, and their preachers Nye, Sympson, GreenhiU, Bridge, Byfield, Goodwin, White, Storry,' and others, that persons of godliness, and gifts of the Univerfity, and others, though not ordained, may preach the gospel, and receive the public maintenance ; and that a number of persons, minifters, and others of eminency and godliness, may sit in every county to examine and approve of such as are called to preach. Journal of Ho. of Commons viii. 259. There is another reference to him in the same Journal, viii. 462. There is a long poem of some 1 20 lines, by Dr. Wilde, on the changes of Lee. Poems, Lond., 1668, 8vo. Cole says that 'In a 4to. of Mis- cellaneous Poems given to Magdalen College Library, among other printed pamphets is a poem entitled 'The Re- cantation of Penitent Proteus, as afted Book of Sports. 207 On the 5th of May the 'Book of Sports,' so frequently referred to in the preceding pages, was ordered by the Parlia- ment to 'be forthwith burnt by the hand of the common hangman, in Cheapside and other usual places.' This order was executed by the sheriffs of London, on the Wednesday following, 'at twelve of the clock.'* Five days after the burning of the Book of Sports, the King publiflied, at Oxford, a proclamation against the proceedings of Parliament in the matter of sequeftrations, in which he declared them to be null and void, and commanded all persons to regard and treat them accordingly. The committee, however, still continued their enquiries notwithftanding, and before the end of the year many more had taken place, f It had long been in contemplation to convene a representative assembly to deliberate on the reformation of religion, and this year that purpose was fulfilled. J An ordinance was passed on the 1 2th of June 'for the calling of an assembly of learned and godly divines and others, to be consulted with the Parlia- ment for the settling of the Government and Liturgy of the with good applause in St. Mary's, in f Rufhworth v. 319 ; Mercurius Cambridge, and at St. Paul's, in London.' Aulicus, 20th week ; Journals of both This also refers to Lee. Soon after his Houses ; Diurnal No. j . collation to Hatfield, Lee preached a J As early as April 25, 1642, there was celebrated sermon, which was pub- published, *A Catalogue of the names of lifhed under the title of ' A Broken Orthodox Divines presented by the and a Contrite Heart,' a sermon on Ps. li. Knights and Burgesses of several counties, 17. London, 1664, 4to. It was dedi- cities, and boroughs, as fit persons to be cated to Sheldon. The sermon was an consulted with by the Parliament, touching act of abjedl self-humiliation. At the the reformation of Church Government time that Lee preached this sermon he and the Liturgy. London, printed by was chaplain to Monk, then recently Thomas Fawcett, for Thomas Banks.' created Duke of Albemarle. See infra. The Essex names mentioned are, Stephen Lee was a worthy successor of Henry Sidal, Marfliall, of Finchingfield, and Obadiah of whom see Strype, Cranmer 209, 285, Sedgwick, of Coggeshall. These names 519, 5505 Ecc. Mem. ii. i. 383; ii. were sent in pursuance of an ' Ordinance ' 200; iii. i. 394; Parker i. 154. which was passed by both Houses, April * Rufliworth V. 317. The order was 9, 1642. Hanbury Memorials ii. 149. publifhed on a broadside. London, printed for Thomas UnderhiU, in Great Wood Street, May 9, 1643. 2o8 Assembly of Divines. Church of England, and for vindicating and clearing of the docftrine of the said church from false aspursions and inter- pretations.' The 'divines' consifted of one hundred and twenty minifters, and the 'others' of ten Lords and twenty- Commoners. Among the laymen were Edward, Earl of Manchefter ; Edward, Lord Howard, of Esrick; Sir John Clotworthy ; and Sir Thomas Barrington. Among the minifters were William Bridge, Edmund Calamy, Stephen Marfhall, Matthew Newcomen, Obadiah Sedgwick (recently vicar of Coggeftiall), and Matthias Styles, reftor of Orsett. * It was expressly provided by the 'ordinance' that the 'assembly' should reftrict themselves to 'consult and advise of such matters and things as shall be proposed to them by both or either of the Houses of Parliament ; ' and ' that they should not assume to exercise any jurisdiftion, power, or authority ecclesiaftical whatsoever.' Immediately after the publication of the Parliamentary ordinance, the King issued a proclama- tion 'forbidding the assembly, and declaring that no afts done by them ought to be received,' and threatening to proceed against them with the utmost rigor of the law. f The assembly, notwithftanding, met on the ist of July, and forthwith proceeded to the business with which they had been charged. On the 27th of August they adopted ' The Solemn League and Covenant,' which was sent up the next day to the Houses of Parliament, and on the 2ist of September following it was formally taken in St. Margaret's, Weftminfter, by such of the members of the House of Commons as were then in town, and by the assembly of divines. J It was also taken by the House of Lords, and afterwards it was ordered that it should be generally taken throughout the kingdom. || Charles * Rufhworth v. 337. The Earl of Gauden, Rector of Booking, was also Manchefter was brother-in-law to the nominated. Ath. Ox. ii. 311. Earl of Warwick. He was possessed of f Neal ii. 42, ed. 1754, This Pro- considerable eftates in Essex, at Brom- clamatlon was dated June 12. field, Great Waltham, and Little Leighs. J Rufhworth v. 339. Morant ii. 102, 76, 85, 103. Lord || Rufliworth iv. 75; Pari. Hist. iii. Howard also was connefted with Essex. 192. The orders could not have been Mor. i. 402. Wood says that John very striftly executed, as John Ganden Essex Committee for Scandalous Ministers. 209 also denounced this step in a proclamation, dated Odtober 9, in which he straitly ' charged and commanded all our loving subjects, upon their allegiance, that they presume not to like the . . . said Covenant.' * It is from the taking of the ' Solemn League and Covenant' that the entire dissolution of the hierarchy dates : henceforw^ard the functions hitherto discharged by the prelates, in the inftitution and removal of minifters, became wholly vested in the Parliament. The hierarchy being dissolved, it also became necessary that some provision should be made for the ordination of candidates for the ministry. This was met by the appointment of a committee of the assembly of divines for that express purpose, f In January, an ordinance was passed empowering the Earl of Manchefter to appoint one or more committees in each of the counties of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Hertford, Cam- bridge, Huntingdon, and Lincoln, consifting of 'such as have been nominated deputy-lieutenants or committees by any former ordinance of Parliament,' for the purpose of invefti- gating complaints againll the then exifting miniftry. This was done to obviate the expense and inconvenience of bringing witnesses up to the metropolis. Under this ordinance the Earl appointed Sir Thomas Honeywood, Sir Henry Mildmay, Oliver Raymond, Richard Harlackenden, John Meade, Arthur Barnardifton, Thomas Coke, John Ellifton, Robert Crane, and Henry Barrington, as a committee for the county of Essex, with full power 'to call before (them) all minifters within the county .... that are scandalous in their lives, or ill-afFecfted to the Parliament, or promoters of this unnatural warre, or that shall wilfully refuse obedience to the ordinances of Parliament, or that have deserted their ordinary places of residence, not being employed in the service of the King and Parliament;' and also 'to send for any witnesses and to examine any complaints, in teftimony againft such ministers and several men in this county refused to of Commons. Husband's Colleftions, 420. take itj and there was not any penalty * Rulhworth v. 482. attached to the not taking it, beyond that \ Neal ii. 70. of being returned as refusers to the House 210 Essex Committee for Scandalous Ministers. upon the oaths of such persons as shall and may be produced to give evidence against them, and to certify the names of such ministers, with the charges and proofes against them, to him ;' and ' to administer the late Covenant taken or to be taken of all the three kingdoms .... by all persons within the said county.' The Earl's warrant bears the date of February 26, 1643-4.* Their instruftions were: — 'I. Diligently to set about the work, and to that end to split into several committees of five, and to fix certain days for their sitting at several places. II. When articles were exhibited against a minister, to summons him and the witnesses. III. I think it not fit that the party accused should be present at the taking of the depo- sitions, because of discouraging the witnesses and disturbing the service ; but when depositions are taken, the accused is to be entitled to a copy on paying for it, and a day shall be named for him to answer in writing and to make his defence at another meeting to be appointed, within fourteen days or so. IV. You are to return both accusation and defence under your * Cole MSS. British Museum, vol. champ Walter. He was afterwards one xxviii.; Plut. clxxxi. ; F. 5829. It is of the knights for the county, in 1653 — described by Mr. Cole thus : ' MS. original 1656. Raymond married Frances, daughter of the viUanous and iniquitous aftings of of Sir William Harris, of Margareting. the Committee appointed by the Parlia- He was burled at Belchamp, March 25, ment of 1643, against such as they were 1679. Morant ii. 330. Richard Har- pleased to call Scandalous Minifters. It lackenden was of Earl's Colne. See p. was given to me by Stephen Soane, of 464. He was the grandson of Sir Henry Thurlow, in Suffolk, Esquire, in 1752. Mildmay, of Graces. Morant ii. 212. He had it a present from Lady Bernar- John Meade was of Nortofts, Finching- difton, of Kedington, in the same county, field. His wife was the niece of Sir with two other MSS. . This Com- Thomas Barrington. Morant ii. 366 mittee's Acfts is a thin 4to. of about forty Arthur Barnardifton was the son of Sir leaves, in different persons' hands ; before Thomas Barnardifton ? of Witham ? it is placed a copy of the Earl of Man- Burke's Landed Gentry i. 55. Thomas, chefter's commission to these persons to act Cooke was of Pebmarsh. He was created by.. ' The same volume contains several D.C.L. of Oxford in 1651. He was one pagesofnotes to Walker's Sufferings, and of the knights for Essex in 1654. Mor. also some additional matter relating to the ii. 263 ; Wood, Fasti, ii. 97. John Essex, Cambridge, and Suffolk sequeftra- Ellifton was of Overhall, Geftingthorp. tions, taken from a copy of the committee Morant ii. 306. Robert Crane was of book in the possession of Dr. Philip Coggelhall. Williams. Oliver Raymond was of Bel- Essex Committee for Scandalous Ministers. 21 1 hands, sealed up, to Mr. Good and Mr. Afh, appointed to communicate with me, V. If the accused refuse to appear to defend, the cause of such absence or default is to be certified ; for if he is non-resident, or fighting againfl: the Parliament, I shall proceed against him notwithstanding. VI. Because of the backwardness of parifhioners to complain of ministers, although they be very scandalous, too many being enemies to that blessed Reformation, and loath to come under a powerful ministry, and some sparing their ministers because such ministers, to gain the good opinion of their people, spare them in their tithes ; you are willed to call unto you some well-afFe 4^^'- ^^ ^^^ ^"" Infra. Jackaman died before 9th Odt., stituted to the reQorjr 4th Feb., 163a, on 1643. N. ii. 282, 342. the presentation of Wadham College, || Add. MSS. 15670, 34, 270, 306, Oxford. Newc. ii. 278; see p. 420. 316. He recovered the living at the t Inftituted at Gingrave 9th Oft., reftoration, and died before 7th May, 1638, and at Horndon 9th Nov., 1638. 1679. Newc. ii. 284; see p. 474. I have no fijrther authority for this than 232 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. i. their liberty, and that holy days ought to be kept as well as the Sabbath,' and that "■ when the communion table was to be rayled in and set altar-wise, he afking him, why he was so forward to charge the towne in bringing in such an innovation before it was in other parifhes, he answered, "■ we shall be the firft that shall worfliip ; ' two, that ' he was very active and strict to observe the late innovations .... preaching with his surplice, hood, and tippett, without prayer at the end of the sermon ;' three, that ' one Mr. Wems preaching there, he would not suffer him to make any prayer after his sermon, but pulled the pulpit dore open twice, whereon the cufhion lay so as the minifter was in danger to fall down and spoile himselfe ;' and three, that 'when the godly miniflers preached, then he would usually looke upon them and jeere at them whileft they were in their sermon.' Crosse appealed to the Committee for Plundered Minifters. The case was re-heard before Auguft, 1645, and the sequeftration was confirmed. * Grinsted juxta Ongar. — Andrew Harward. Articles were exhibited againft him before the Committee for Plundered Minifters January 31, 1645. ^^ ^^^ sequeftered before May 9, 1646. t Thomas Punter. J Hadstock. — Edward Young. He was also reftor of Haidon, and it should appear that he further held the re£tory of Anftie, in Hertfordfhire. Walker adds to these preferments, * Cole MSS. xxviii. 28, 29 ; Add. promised one of his parifliioners a sermon MSS. 15669, 270; Lansdowne MSS. at his wedding,' . the remainder is 459 ; infra. unfit for publication. If Cole be right in f Add. MSS. 15669, 31, 277, 315, his identification of Punter, he must 329, 404, 521 . 15670, 171 ; infra. have been inftituted at Ongar, notwith- J That Punter was sequeftered seems standing his conviftion before the com- to be clear. Infra. Cole gives the fol- mittee when only a curate, as the date of lowing from the committee book of the his admission is 19th June, 1646, and his date of 1644: 'Mr. Punter, curate of sequeftration probably followed as soon as Haydon and Hadstock, that he is a the fact had reached the ears of the com- common ale-house haunter, harbours mittee. Cole xxviii. 86. He survived malignant minifters, refused to take the the reftoration, when he resigned the covenant, negligent in keeping the Par- living. Newc. ii. 289. MSS. extrafts liament fafts, observed illegal innovations, from Juxon's regifter, Britifli Museum. The Sequejiratlons. 233 the archdeaconry of Exeter, a prebend at Exeter, and also a prebend and two canonries at Norwich. Articles were ex- hibited againft him at Trinity College, Cambridge, July 16, 1644. Walker's statement that ' he was turned out for plurality and non-refidence,' may well be true, but it only applies to Had (lock ; he still retained the reftory of Haidon. * Hallingbury Magna. — Edward Thurman. ' The bene- fice of Edward Thurman, reitor of the parifli church of Hallingbury, in the county of Essex, is sequeftered for that he is a common drunkard, and hath prevented his parifhioners from going from their own church to heare sermons, when they had none at home ; and hath affirmed that he would drive away all the Puritans out of his parish, and enforced his parifhioners to come to the railes, and hath wholly deserted his said cure for the space of half a year now lafl: paft.' t Hallingbury Parva. — Fifher. J Halsted. — See Memorials. Ham East. — William Fairfax. He was also xeStor of St. Peter's, Cornhill, London. ' The benefices of William Fair ef ax, do£tor in divinity, recStor, are sequeftered, for that he hath refused to deliver the sacrament of the Lord's Supper to such of his parifhioners as refused to come up to the railes ; and refused to let his parifh have a lecturer on the Lord's day, in the afternoon, except he might have fifty pounds given him for the same ; and for the space of eight yeares refused to let his parifhioners have a ledture on a weeke day, which was appointed, and maintenance for the same given by the will * Infra. Walker ii. 25, 410; Cole dean of Exeter in 1662, and at the same MSS. xxviii. 75 j Newc. i. 797; see also time obtained the rich living of Up- infra. Young was inftituted to the redtory Leman, in Devon. He died in 1633. of Hadftock 20th March, 1637, on the Wood, Fafti. i. 281 ; Walker ii. 27 ; presentation of the Biihop of Eljf. The infra. date of his institution to Haidon does f The Firft Century 5. He was infti- not appear. Newc. ii. 292, 294. Young tuted 30th Sept., 1629. Died before the survived the reftoration, when he was reftoration. Newc. ii. 296. Infra, made canon-residentiary at Exeter, in { Add. MSS. May 13, July 15, Aug. 1660, recovered his archdeaconry, and :4, 1647 ; 1 5671, see infra, also his prebend at Norwich, was made 234 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. i. of the dead ; and usetli to prophane the Sabbath day by playing at cards, and hath often been drunke in ale-houses and other places, and usually seeketh and haunteth the company of women notoriously suspedled of incontinency, and intrudes himselfe into their company, and into the company of other women walking alone in the streets in the dark and in the twilight, and tempteth them . . leading them into dark places and into tavernes . . . and hath expressed great malignity againft the Parliament, and charged the Parliament to be the cause of all the trouble and dijiurbances in the kingdom^ and hath greatly neglefted his cure, and in his absence hath pro- vided scandalous miniflrers to supply the same,' * Hanningfield South. — See Memorials. Hanningfield West. — Edward Aylmer. I give this sequeftration on the evidence of the depositions taken againft Daniel Falconer, of Aldham. f Hatfield Broad Oak. — See Memorials. Hedingham Sible. — John Jegon. Witneffes were exa- mined againft him at Halsted, 20th March, 1643, when four deposed on oath, that ' he was very active in setting up the rayles, endeavouring to compel his people to come up to the same by courtening (sic.) of them; threatening to resign if these fadlious fellows (were) not punished ; to persuade them to go to it he coated (sic.) Matt. xv. 12, 15, and John xv. 29, denying to publifti the absolution, whereupon divers left the * The First Century, 7. He was of f P- 35^) 417- Aylmer was M. A. the University of Oxford. Wood, Fast. i. of Qi^een's College, Cambridge. * He was 226. The dates of his inftitutions do not created D.D. (at Oxford, 1645), by virtue appear. Newcourt says he was sequeftered of the letters from the Chancellor of the for his loyalty ! i. 526. Walker and University and Prince Rupert. This per- Wood say that after his sequeftration son, who was grandson to John Aylmer Fairfax was imprisoned in Ely House, in sometime Biiliop of London, being forced the Tower, and on ship-board, and that he from his station by the barbarities of the died in 1659 — ii. 161. The lefture Presbyterians, took refiige in Oxon, and which he refused to have filled up was under the said Prince." Wood Fast. ii. augmented by Jane Nevlll, Countess of 53. Aylmer was inftituted to the reftory Weftmoreland, in July, 1641. Morant 4th Nov., 1630, on the presentation of >• 14- his father, A. Aylmer, D.D., and died before the reftoration. Newc. ii. 310. The Sequejirations. 235 towne;' and that he 'was negligent in preaching till this Par- liament, and when he did, he preffed bowing to the name of Jesus, coating for it Is. xiv. 23, and from thence inferred that the refusers made God foresworne, and delivered other dan- gerous pointes of doctrine ; his curates being moft of them also scandalous : ' one, that ' he often inveighed against godly minis- ters in private, naming Marfhall, Rogers, Brewer, and Sutton ; ' three, that "• ordinarily in his sermons he railed against profeffors generally, terming them spirit-mongers, puritans, and people of phantastical spirit;' three, that ' he delivered in a sermon that God had mercy on Judas, in that he sent him not to hell but to his own place ; ' three, who were his servants, that ' he often swears by his faith and troth ;' two, that he ' is a prophaner of the Sabbath day, sending his servants usually on errands ; and one day left his wife and servants to bag hops when (he) him- self went to evening prayer, and threatened to cudgell his man to it, because he argued the unlawfulness of it ; and these hops were the same day weighed and carted towards Bury : ' three, that ' he is an upholder of ale-houses in his parish, reproving in his sermons the officers that would have suppreffed them;' three, that ' in his sermon he said, he saw little or no difference between the papists and us in matters of religion;' two, that ' he blamed the Parliament for raising arms, and the county of Effex for their forward contributions ; ' one, that ' he said that bishops would rise to a greater power than they had before, and then he would plague his parifhioners worse than ever ; ' two, that "■ about three weeks since he said in his sermon, out of Rom. xiii., that the profeffors in these times are the chief in making the cumbustion in the kingdom ; ' one, that ' the same day the railes were pulled up he said, it was a pity the Bible was ever translated into English ; ' and two, that ' he did very seldom pray in his familie or read the Scriptures to them.' Further evidence was taken againft Jegon on the 4th of April, when one witness deposed that ' Mr. Jegon sent for him the laft April faft, and employed him the molt part of that day and next in copying his depofitions ; ' another, that ' laft September three years, Mr. Jegon commanded (him) and his brother, who 236 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. i. wrought with him, to bag his hops on the Lord's day, just after dinner, and about sundowne the same day he caused them to be carried to the rode where a carte was to take them up ; ' another, that ' Mr. Jegon's sonne said that his father's hops were a bagging at the time they went to church in the after- noon .... and that the said hops were at Sturbridge faire ;' another, that ' he said 'twas pitty that ever the Bible was trans- lated into Englifh, for now every woman and beggarly fellow thinke themselves able to dispute with reverend divines;' and another, that, ' passing by Mr. Jegon's stable dore, he heard him sware by God.' The second depofitions were evidently taken after Jegon had sent in his written answer to the firfl:. On the 13th of February, 1644, the Committee for Plundered Miniflers make this entry in their minute book : ' The com- mittee were informed that articles had been exhibited againft John Jegon .... and that the Earl of Manchefter had iffued a sequeftration, but that on information fmce given him that Jegon was released by this committee, his lordfhip withdrew the sequeftration ; but this committee did not release, they then had not the power, they only suspended the case. The Earl of Manchefter is to be made acquainted with this, and the committee are to send to this committee all their depofitions, that juftice may be done.' Nine days afterwards the Committee resolved, ' The cause now having been further heard, and report had, the committee order that Jegon should be dis- charged.' * Henny Magna. — Charles Forbenck. 'The benefice of Charles Forbench, parson of Henny, was sequeftered because he is a common swearer, oftentimes breaking forth into fearful oathes and imprecations, and very carelesse of his paftoral fun£lion, and wholly negleiteth the observing of the monethly fast, setting his men to plou, himselfe also working on these dayes in the fields ; and hath affirmed that the Earle of Strafford was no traitor, and that he was put to death wrongfully by the * Cole MSS. xxviii. 8, 9, 20, 21; 13th Oft., 1638. He survived the refto- Add. MSS. 15669. Jegon was still reiftor ration, and died before June, 1672. N. in 1650. Infra. Jegon was inftituted ii. 324; see ante. 160. The'SequeJirations. 237 Parliament.' The sequeftration took place under an order of the House of Commons, 28th October, 1643. * Holland Magna. — Edward Cherry. 'The benefice of Edward Cherry^ reftor of the parish church of Much Holland, in the county of Essex, is sequeftered for that he usually boweth twelve times toward the east, when he goeth into the chancell ; and his sermons, which were rarely more than once a moneth, mostly tend to the upholding and pressing of that and the like superftitious innovations; and hath refused to give the Sacrament to those of his parilhioners that would not come up to the railes to receive it; and hath taught, in his sermons, that baptism washeth away originall sinne, and that all men may be saved if they will and have free will thereunto; and hath been very often drunk; and, afterwards, that a man may more lawfully play, game, and drink in an ale-house on the Sunday than on other day ; and hath publiflied a very scandalous libell against the Earle of Essex, Earle of Warwick, and Earle of Holland; and hath affirmed that he never knew any good the Parliament did, unlesse it were to rob their country and pick their purses; and hath deserted the said cure for above a year last past, leaving the same wholly unsupplied, and is reputed to have betaken himself to the army raised against the Parliament.' The order for the sequeftration bears date October 21, 1643. f HoRKSLEY Magna. — Thomas Eyre. He was a pluralist, being also rector of Milend, Colchefter. % * The First Century, 3; Journals of Dec, 1633, on the presentation of the the House of Commons iii. 292. Walker Earl of Rivers. He recovered his living says that after his sequeftration Forbench at the reftoration, and died before Nov., served the small cures of Sandford and 1678. N. ii. 333 . Newcourt and Islep, nearOxon, and that 'whilst he was Walker ii. 288, say that he was seques- resident in these cures .... he was im- tered for his loyalty ! See infra, prisoned at Woodftock for reading the J P. 161. Add. M. 15670, 103. He Common Prayer' — ii. 242. He was in- was inftituted 31st March, 1642, on the stituted to the redlory 8th Aug., 1634. presentation of Sir John Lucas, on whose He was restored to the living in 1660, presentation he had been inftituted to and died before the 22nd June, 1666. Milend, on 27th Sept. previously. Walker Newc. ii. 327. Newcourt says he was says he was sequestered at Milend, ii. sequeftered for his loyalty ! 237, but he was still there in 1650. f The Firft Century, 3. Journ. Ho. Laud. M. 459 j see Birch, infra. Com. iii. 285. He was inftituted 13th 238 Appendix to Chap. FH. No. i. HoRNCHURCH. — See Rawreth. HoRNDON ON THE HiLL. — John Hurt. 'The benefice of John Hurt, vicar of the parish church of Horndon on the Hill, in the county of Essex, is sequeflered for that he is a common frequenter of taverns and ale-houses, and a common drunkard and gamefter, a common sw^earer and curser, and hath been convi£led before the juftice of peace for six oaths at a time, and then swrore by God he did not sweare, and hath a very evill report of uncleanness .... and hath spoken barely of the Parliament, and expressed malignancy against the same; and taught his parifhioners on fast days, in the afternoon, to follow their wrorldly occasions, and used himselfe then to spend that time in the ale-house.' * Horndon West. — See Gingrave, p. 231. Kelvedon Hatch. — See Memorials. KiRBY. — See Memorials. Laingdon cum Basildon. — William Haywood. He was also rector of St. Giles' in the Fields, London, canon of the eleventh stall at Weftminfiier, and held the prebend of Cham- berlain Wood in the cathedral church of St. Paul's. He had left his cure and joined the King at Oxford, t Lambourne. — Lodovick Weemes. He also held a prebend at Westminster, and Walker adds that he was incumbent of Gedney, in Lincolnfhire. He was summoned before the House of Lords on the 23rd of March, 1643, but not ap- pearing, the House taking this as a contempt, proceeded in the cause, and heard the proof of the witnesses. It was found that he had negledted his cure, and had said ' that this Parliament was no Parliament, that most of the best and the wisest lords * The First Century, 46. The date Ely House, and the ships, 49. He had of his institution does not appear. New- been one of Laud's domestic chaplains, court also says of Hurt, that he was se- and was also chaplain in ordinary to the qucstered for his loyalty! ii. 543. Add. King. He publiflied some sermons. He MSS. 15670, 95. See p. 409. recovered his preferments at the restora- f Add. MSS. 15671, 189 j Newcourt tion, and was buried at Westminster, July ii. 357 5 i. 613; Wood, Fasti. 57. The 17, 1662. Wood, Ath. Ox. ii. 324; author of * Persecutio Undecima ' says that infra, he was also imprisoned in the Compter, The Sequejirations. 239 were with the King, and both of the Houses were led by a few fanatical Lords and Commons.' For these misdemeanors the Lords adjudged ' that he should be sequestered from the profits of Lambourne, and from his officiating there during the pleasure of this House.' He was also attached for his contempt. Weemes afterwards appealed to the Committee for Plundered Ministers. The committee resolved (August 12, 1645), 'that the sequestration having been done by the Lords they cannot interfere.' * Laingdon Hills. — See Memorials. Langenhoe. — See Memorials. St. Lawrence. — Edward Turner. 'The benefice of Ed- ward Turner, parson of the parifli church of St. Lawrence., in the county of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common swearer and ale-house haunter, and strong to bear strong drink, and useth to sit four or six hours together tipling at taverns, sometimes whole days and nights tipling and drinking, and sometimes drunke, a common pracftiser of the late illegal innovations, and hath deserted his cure for the space of a yeare now last past.' f Laver Magdalen. — See Memorials. LiTTLEBURY. — Hemy Tucker, vicar. J Maunden. — Samuel Southen. ' The benefice of Samuel Southen, vicar of the parifh church of Manudine, in the county of Essex, is sequestered for that he is a common haunter of ale-houses and taverns, and often drunke upon the Lord's day, and is a common provoker of others to drinke excessively, rejoicing when he had made them drunke ; and * JournalH. of L. vi., see also vii. 759; sentation of Charles I. Newc. ii. 373; Journal H. of C. iji. 56 — 62 ; Add. MSS. see p. 429. 15669, 200, 263; Newc. i. 925 J J Add. MSS. 15671, Oft. 1,1647; Walker ii. 91. He died before the Lansdowne, 459. Walker suggests that restoration. MSS. extraiSs from Juxon's Christopher Green, the reftor, was also register, B. M. ; Newc. ii. 360 ; Wood, sequestrated, but I find no evidence of it, Fast. ii. 46; infra. ii. 251. Tucker was instituted 21st t The First Century, 28. Add. MSS. April, 1629, on the presentation of 15669, Ap. 29, 1645. He was insti- William Green. Newc. ii. 394; infra, tuted 30th September, 1639, on the pre- 240 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. I. is a common swearer and curser, and hath refused to deliver the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to his parifhioners that would not come to the railes to receive it, and useth to bow to the elements in the Sacrament, lifting them up and em- bracing them, and hath administered the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in one kind only, and preached in maintenance thereof, and hath been a diligent pradtiser of the late inno- vation, and persuader of others thereunto ; and hath frequently enveighed against painfull preachers and their hearers, com- paring them to pedlars and ballad singers that have much company., when rich merchants have but few; and hath per- secuted his pariftiioners even to excommunication, for going to heare sermons at other churches on the Lord's day afternoone, when they had none at home, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament, and is vehemently suspefted of ... . and hath been several times presented to the Eccle- siastical Court by the churchwardens and sidesmen for the same.' * Maplested Magna. Edward Shepard. He also held the living in fee by purchase. Depositions were taken against him at Halsted, March 22, 1643, when two witnesses, who were the pariih sextons, swore 'that while the rayles stood he ordinarily prayed at it, with his face to the east, bowing towards it before he came at it ; ' two, ' that he was not fitted for the ministry,' having a ' very bad utterance,' and being of ■■ weake memory ; ' two, that ' he said it was never a merry world since there was so much preaching, for now all hospitality and good fellowfliip was laid abed:' further saying 'that Mr. Brewer (a very diligent preacher upon all occasions), was a railer, and preached that which was false ; ' three, that ' catechizing the youth before the Sacrament, he taught there were seven sacra- ments, as, first, marriage — secondly, churching of women — thirdly, penance— fourthly, burials— fifthly, taking up of lands * The Firft Century, 48. Instituted Maghedana, Menghedana, Magellana, 6th Oftober, 1630. 'The name is and is vulgarly called Mallendine.' written in records in these various Mor. ii. 619. ways, Manuden, Manewdon, Mangden, The Sequejirations. 241 by a clover with a white rod stuck in it ;' three, that he taught that ' souls went to three places, some to heaven, some to hell, and some to a middle place, from which they might be resolved by prayer ; ' two, that ' when he read the vow and covenant on the Sabbath, as they remember, he took it not then but on a weeke day — he took it with some of his parifhioners, with these limitations, ' so far as it was agreeable to the word of God and not contrary to the former protestation and oath of allegiance' — and also 'that on the Sabbath afore, William Laverick offering to take the vow and covenant after the reading of it, and desiring to subscribe his name, he would not suffer it to be done.' Further depofitions were taken against him on the 8th of April, when one witness swore, ■■ that being churchwarden, Mr. Shepard would have him present his parifhioners because they went to other churches, which this deponent refused to doe, telling him his people delighted not to heare him, because he made no application of his doctrine, and did not reprove sinners.' Mr. Shepard replied, ' he knew no whoremongers, drunkards, nor such like in his parifh, and what should he do rayling in the pulpit ;' two, that ' upon Parliament's firfl: taking up arms, Mr. Shepard, divers Sabbaths in pulpit, dissuaded from enlistment, saying he knew not whether Parliament or King were for the truth ; ' one, 'that being afked why he discouraged enlistment, he said, shall I stand for Parliament when they stand not for me .'' ' and one, that ' he told this deponent in private what the three previous witnesses had deposed to his saying in public' 'Sixteen women of the parifh,' also, 'some of good sort came to the committee to defire a godly minister, affirming Mr. Shepard altogether unfit to be a minister.' * Maplestead Parva. — John Chamberlain. Depositions were taken against him April 9, 1644, when one witness gave evidence that, 'it was deposed on oath, before coroner's * Cole MSS. xxviii. ri, 12, 20, 21, Shepherd was inftituted 6th July, 1639, 22 i Lansdowne MSS. 459. One of on the presentation of Thomas Shepherd, the witnesses was Will. Harrington, of See infra. Walasses, for whom see Mor. ii. 279. 242 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. I. inquest, that Mr. Chamberlain was in the ale-house from two in the afternoon till half an hour afore day next morning ; ' another, that 'he was a common frequenter of ale-houses in his parish, and six days in one week, and that the very next after the officers had reproved him, when they took him there ; ' three, that ' the officers finding him in an ale-house, and telling him they were sorry to see him in that place, he replied, doe the best you can, and then called the churchwarden knave ; ' four, ' that he was a£tive in the late innovations about the railes;' three, that 'because his parifhioners refused to pay for his licence he refused to preach, and only read homilies and the later service at the rails, with his face toward the east,' and that, ' to his sermon he prayed that the blood of the deputy of Ireland might not be required at their hands ; ' two, that ' he often left his parish a whole Sabbath without a supply;' one, that 'in preaching he misinterpreted the Scriptures, saying some part thereof was the very spirit of Samuel, which the witch of Endor raised;' and one, that 'he said he would read mass if paid.'* Mashbury. — Robert Gray. \ Matching. — Robert Snell. He appears also to have held the vicarage of Mucking, as I find under date 13th July, 1643, an ordinance for 'sequeflering' that vicarage 'whereof Robert Snell is vicar.' 'The benefice of Robert Snell, vicar of Maching., in the county of Essex, is sequeftered, for that he hath often refused to adminifter the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to such of his parish that refused to come to the railes to receive it, and there being a crucifix in the window, over the altar, he useth to bow towards it, and would not suffer it to be pulled down, notwithftanding the order of Parliament for it; and hath taught his people that God hath now an altar, and that the table set altar-wise put him in mind of God to worship him the better; and in adminiftering'the Sacrament, called one of his communicants puppy, for that, being left-handed, he put * Cole MSS. xxviii. p. 25, 26. He f Add. MSS. 15671, Sept. 23, 1647. was eftabliflied to the curacy in 1634. He survived tlie reftoration, when he Newc. ii. 405 ; see infra. resigned. N. ii. 409. The Sequejirations. 243 forth that hand to receive the bread, and caused the church- wardens to present such as would not come up to the railes to receive there and kneele before them, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.'* West Mersea. — See Memorials. MiDDLETON. — William Frost. Depositions were taken against him on the 5th of January, 1644, when two swore to his 'having been adlive in setting up the railes, and forcing his parifhioners to come there;' three, to his 'having read the Book of Sports, and thereupon the youth said they had liberty to play, and would ; ' two, to his ' being a tipler, and there having seen him so diftempered with drink that he could not speak plaine, nor goe right in the street, about two or three years sithence,' and that ' in his diftemper with drink, he came whooping and hollowing home at unreasonable times in the night, and this was before Michaelmas last ; ' two, that ' in one of his drinking fitts at the Crowne, in Sudbury, he offered to forgive a woman divers debts which he pretended she ought (sic.) him, if she would give him a kisse;' three, that 'he was dangerously suspedted of incontinency, as may appear from the following :....;' one, that ' one Susan Ruggle told her that her miftress, Mr. Froft's wife, fell out with her, threatening to turne her out of dores, but she sayd that if she did turn her out she would make her mafter (sic.) for ever shewing himselfe in the pulpit ; ' two, that ' upon a suit against him in the High Com- mission Court, for the crime of . . . , he was forced to find com- purgators to sweare for him, who were, are (sic.) most of them either sequeftered or run away ; ' the evidence of three others is wholly unfit for publication, and one swore to his 'having uttered treasonable speeches.' Further depositions were taken against him on the nth of May following, when one of the worst fa61:s deposed to in January was confirmed by the personal evidence of the female whom it implicated. Additional depo- sitions were also taken against him on the 17th of June following, when one witness deposed 'to his improprieties;' * Jour. H. of Commons Hi. 164; The Inftituted May 16, 1608 ; infra. Firft Century, 6 j Add. MSS. 15670, 392. R 2 244 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. I. two, that ' preaching on the subject, on the Sabbath for taking the covenant, after many cautions about the danger of brech of vows, (he) so pressed upon us what proteftations the King had made for defending the Proteftant religion, (that) we were much disheartened from taking it, till Mr. Wall, one of the parish, did persuade us;' one, that 'on the day of Public Thanksgiving, Mr. Frost came to her house, then at Twinsted, ; ' and two, that ' about the time that the King's army went first against the Scots,' he 'read a paper publicly in the church, which was to this effect — that though the Scots pleaded their coming was for the maintenance of the gospel and the liberty of the subject, yet the end of their coming was to take away our eftates, and abuse our wives, and other words to that purpose.' And either in July or some time afterwards (for these 'additional depositions' are not dated in the transcript), one witness confirmed the evidence given as to his discouraging his people from taking the covenant; and another the charge of drunkenness at Sudbury, adding, that since that time also he had seen him ' so distempered that he could not go without leading, and that about September last he heard Mr. Frost ask Mrs. Frost, his wife, why she went not to church, and she said to him that he had better stay at home than come home with broken legs, as he did.' * MouNTNESsiNG. — Humphrey Davies. ' The benefice of Humphrey Dawes (sic), vicar of the parish church of Mount Nezing, in the county of Essex, is sequeflered, for that he hath discouraged his parifhioners from assisting the present defensive war, affirming that they are damned., and are traitors to the King., that have lent money to the Parliament; and that he hath read the Book of Sports, and encouraged his parifhioners to prophane the Sabbath ; and hath been often drunke, and came so drunke to church on the Lord's day, as he bad his people sing a chapter in the Hebrews for a psalme, not knowing what he did.' On the minutes of the Committee for Plundered Minifters, under date January 24, 1645, there is entry of a * Cole MSS. xxviii. 30, 4Z — 44; Froft died before May, 1661. Newc. ii. Add. MSS. 15669, 30; 15671, 23. 419; see infra. The Sequejlratiom. 245 complaint made by Davies of being charged with a rent that ought to be paid by his successor. The Committee ordered that his grievances should be redressed. * Mucking. — See Matching, p. 242. MuNDON. — Thomas Staples. 'The benefice of Thomas Staple^ vicar of the parifli church of Munden, in the county of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common frequenter of taverns and ale-houses, and a great drinker and companion w^ith drunken, debauched, and malignant persons ; and upon the ist of June, in this instant year 1643, being the next day after the fast, invited to his house a riotous company to keepe a day of prophaneness by drinking of healths round about a joyn'd stoole, singing of prophane songs, with hollowing and roaring, and, at the same time, enforcing such as came to him upon other occasions to drinke healths about the stoole with him until they were drunke ; and hath taught that it is not for laymen to meddle with the Word, nor yet to search the Scripture; and hath oft left his parifliioners deftitute of preaching on the Lord's day, even within these twelve moneths, and when he hath been absent from them hath subftituted in his room very drunken and debauched curates, and hath professed that if any of his parish that did not like of his course of life should be sicke and send for him to be reconciled to him, hee could not come at him though hee were to save his soule thereby; and hath taught ^^17/ children dying without baptisme are all damned, and if any infant that received the sacrament of baptisme should be damned, hee would be damned for him.' f Nasing. — See Memorials. Navestock. — Samuel Fiflier. J Norton Cold. — See Memorials. NoTLEY Black. — See Memorials. * The Firft Century, 38. Add. MSS. 13th Dec, 1641, on the presentation of 15670, 45. He was inftituted 6th Sept., the Duke of Lancafter. Newcourt says 1605, on the presentation of John, Lord he was sequeftered for his loyalty! 11.428 ; Petre. Newcourt says that he was seques- see infra, tered for his loyalty ! ii. 430; see infra. J Mor. i. 184; Add. MSS. 15670, i The Firft Century, 45. Inftituted 443. 246 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. i. OcKENDON South. — See Memorials. Ongar High. — See Memorials. Panfield. — See Memorials. Parndon Great. — See Memorials. Pattiswick. — See Memorials. Pebmarsh. — See Memorials. Peldon. — See Memorials. Pentloe. — See Memorials. Purleigh. — Laurence Wafhington. ' The benefice of Laurence Washington., rector of Purleigh., in the county of Essex, is sequeftered, for that he is a common frequenter of ale-houses, not only himselfe sitting daily tippling there, but also encouraging others in that beaftly vice, and hath been often drunke, and hath said that the Parliament have more Papijis belonging to them in their armies, than the King had about him or in his army, and that the Parliament's army did more hurt than the Cavaliers, and that they did none at all ; and hath publifhed them to be traitors that lend to or assifi: the Parliament.' * Radwinter. — See Memorials. Rawreth. — John Browning. The only evidence I have for this sequeflration is Walker's statement. Walker says that he was also sequeftered from the vicarage of Hornchurch. The sequestration at Rawreth is partially confirmed by the appearance of the name of Warley in the classis, some months before the death of Browning, t Rayne Parva. — See Memorials. Rettenden. — See Memorials. Rivenhall. — See Memorials. RoDiNG Abbots. — See Memorials. RoDiNG High. — John Duke. % • The Firft Century, 4. Inftituted { Lansdowne MSS. 459. Duke died 14th March, 1632. Newcourt says he before 6th Feb., 1663. Newc. ii. 501. was sequeftered for his loyalty ! ii. 476 ; He does not appear to have recovered his see infra. living. Lansdowne MSS. 459 ; see also f Browning, p. 152, 150; Warley; infra, infra. TTie Sequejlrations. 247 RoDiNG White. — See Memorials. RoxwELL. — John South deserted his cure before his seques- tration. See Writtle. RuNWELL. — Simon Lynch. He was also the incumbent of Blackmore. He retained his curacy, and his family also had the fifths of Runwell to his death. * Saling Magna. — John Lake. Depositions were taken against him at Halfted, March 22, 1643, when three witnesses gave evidence as to ' his urging the Book of Sports ; ' four, to ' his having refused the Sacrament to those of his parifhioners that would not come to the rails, but gave it to a wandering pedlar that railed against Roundheads ;' three, to ' his being a very common tipler, often drunke, so that sometimes he is' not able to go home without leading, and that he hath not forborne tipling on Saturday night till next day it rung to church, and then he went home and preached;' three, to 'his being a common swearer;' and four, to his 'being notoriously vile in attempting ' Additional depositions were taken against him also at Halfted, on the loth of April, 1644, when one witness swore, that ' about three years since he saw Mr. Lake so drunke at Braintree Ffaire that he could not walk upright in the streets, and one goodwife Bigbone, now deceased, that had been his mayd servant, led him then away ;' another, that he saw him ' at another time, about three and a half yeares since, so drunk at Braintree, on market day, where he was drinking till nine or ten at night, that he was not able to goe home alone, but this deponent was fayne to lead him, and yet he could not keep him upp, but he had a great many falls by the way, and coming out at the towne's end, Mr. Lake called at the George for more beere, but he had drunken so much before that he was able to drinke but little of that, and as he was going homewards, he reeling, fell down amongst bufhes and rent his coate, and when this deponent did helpe * Add. MSS. 15670, 366; ColeMSS. of his successor's appointment to Black- xxviii. 80; seep. 254. He was inftituted more is I5tii April, 1664. Newc. ii. to Runwell 17th March, 1629, on the 511,65; see infra, presentation of Simon Lynch. The date 248 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. I. him up agayne, he swore by God he had rent his cassock ;' two, that ' formerly and within this half year, he caused or suffered drunkenness in his house, so as divers have gone from his house in drink, and so disguised as they could not speak or goe right, and that he hath kept company with other drunken company since ....;' two, to ' his being a common swearer;' one gave evidence that ; and six, that 'they have seen no evidence of the reformation or repentance he pretends, and that he is not gifted either for preaching or praying.'* Saudford Parva. — Jegon Webfter. f Sandon. — See Memorials. Sheering. — See Memorials. Shenfield. — See Memorials. South Church. — See Memorials. SouTHMiNSTER. — Edward Jeffrey. Walker says that he was also imprisoned. J Springfield Boswell. — See Memorials. Springfield Richard. — Robert Tourney. || Stambourne. — See Memorials. Stamford Rivers. — See Memorials. Stambridge Magna. — There was a sequeftration here, but I have not been able to discover the name of the redtor. § Stanway. — Samuel Baldock. He was summoned for con- tempt for refifl:ing the sequestration. ^ Stapleford Tawney. — See Memorials. * Cole MSS. xxviii. 14, 15, 55, 56. Tournay was appointed to that living by f Lansdowne MSS. 459. He was the Committee, the year after his seques- inftituted 16th May, 1640. Newc. ii. tration at Springfield ; see infra. 516; see infra. § Lansdowne MSS. 459 ; see infra. X Add. MSS. 15671, 30; Walker ii. f[ Add. MSS. 15669, 393 j 15670, 57; see infra. 189,210,297. He was inftituted 21st II Add. MSS., June 3, 1645, 15669, Oft., 1630. He had also held the reftory 164, 230, 254; 15670, 215; 15671, of Greenfted, Colchefter, up to 1638, 14. He was reftored, and died before when he was chaplain to the Earl of 25th Aug., i66i. N. ii. 539. If New- Dorchefter. Baldock recovered Stanway court be right in identifying him with the at the reftoration, and died before 28th Redlor of South Fambridge in 1660. May, 1668. Newc. ii. 554, 287. The Sequejirations. 249 Stebbing. — See Memorials. Steeple ? — Richard Nettles ? * Stisted. — See Memorials. Stock. — See Memorials. Takely. — Thomas Heard. ' The benefice of Thomas Heard, vicar of the parish of JVeJl Tukely (sic), in the county of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard and companion of drunkards, and hath been so drunke that he hath tumbled into ditches and mire, and hath been oft drunke since he was complained of in Parliament, and in one of his drunken fits called for a fire to be made, and would he could burne his wife and children in it ; and refused to deliver the Sacrament to his parifliioners for not kneeling near unto it within his reach ; and when the former Parliament broke up, said boaftingly, that he hoped to live to see all the Puritans hanged.' f Tay Parva. — Erasmus Laud. ' The benefice of Erasmus Laud, re(5tor of the parifh church of Little Tey, in the county of Essex, is sequeftered, for that he is a common drunkard, even on the Lord's day, thereby disabling himself from officiating his cure, and sitting drinking late on a Saturday night was demanded who should preach on the next day, answered. Let the Devill preach, give me another cup of sacke; and is a common swearer, and hath used frequent superftitious cringings to the altar, and seldome preacheth to the parifliioners, not above once in five or six weekes, before the Parliament, and divers times through his negleft his church doors have been shut up all day on the Lord's days and fast days, and at those times set his servants to worke, and did work himself with them.' J Thaxted. — See Memorials. * Lands. MSS. 459 J see infra. J The Firft Century, 31. InfKtuted •f- The Firft Century, p. 49. In New- on the presentation of Laud, znd May, court he appears as Timothy. He was 1631. N. ii. 574. He was a sufferer in inftituted 20th March, 1629, on the the difturbances of 1642. Mer. Rust. ii. presentation of Laud. He is said to 12. But he received compensation. have been 'ejedled by the rebels.' N. ii. 569 i infra. 250 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. I. Theydon Boys. — William Joy. My sole authority for this is Walker's statement that a minifter of the name was seques- tered somewhere in the county, and the only one I can find in Newcourt is at Theydon. * Theydon Garsons. — Nicholas Wright. 'The benefice of Nicholas Wright, recSor of the parish church of Theydon Garnon, is sequeflered, for that he hath not preached above twice or thrice a yeare to his parifhioners, and yet hath pre- sented divers of them and put them to great charges in the ecclesiaflical courts for going to heare sermons in other churches when they had none at home, and brought also such miniflers as they heard so preach into trouble ; and hath procured the communion table to be set altar-wise, with stepps to it and railes about it, and conftantly bowed towards it at his coming in and going out of church, refusing to adminifter the Sacrament to divers of his parifhioners, without any cause other than his own wilfulnesse, and read the Book for Sports on the Lord's day in his said church, and preached to maintain the lawfull- nesse of it, by means whereof the Lord's day hath ever since been much prophaned by foot-ball playing and other ungodly practises ; and hath deserted his said cure ever since Palme Sunday last, and betaken himselfe to the army of the cavaliers, and is in a£luall war against the Parliament and the kingdome; and hath brought, and continued long under him for his curate, a drunken, lewd, and scandalous person, that hath been indidted and found guilty at the sessions for a common drunkard.' t Thorpe. — Thomas Darnell. 'The benefice of Thomas Darnell, vicar of the church of Thorpe., in the county of Essex, is sequeftered, for that he is an usuall prophaner of the Lord's day by sports and playes, and by making cleane his cow-house and out-houses, and other like servile works, and read the Book of Sports on the Lord's day in the church, with approbation * See infra; Walker ii. z8i ; N. ii. Newc. ii. 58. Some disputes arose between 583. him and his succeflbr about the fifths, -|- The Firft Century, 18. Add. MSS. which were ultimately settled by the 15669, March 1, 1644; ib. 201,246, Committee for Plundered Minifters 260. He died before the reftoration. The Sequejlrations. 251 thereof, and is a common swearer and curser, and a notorious drunkard and ale-house haunter, even upon the fast dayes, and is a common gamefter at unlawfull games ; and hath been con- vi£ted of incontinency and adultery before Do£lor Warren and others, juftices of peace, and began suites at law in an action of slander for the same, but durst never proceed therein; and hath preached that he that would not conforme to his Prince in any religion ought to he hurnt^ and was a conftant practiser of the late innovations, and put such of the parish from the Sacra- ment of the Lord's Supper as would not come to receive it at the railes; and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.' The sequeftration was confirmed September 13, 1645. * Thorrington. — There would seem to have been a seques- tration here. If so it would have been Thomas Fothergill, inftituted 17th Oftober, 1643, and the reason seems to have been that he had forsaken his cure, f ToLLESBURY. — Peter Allent. ' The benefice of Peter Allen (sic), vicar of the parish church of Tolsbury, in the county of Essex, is sequeftered, for that he hath . . . . ; and while the railes were standing about the communion table, he refused to adminifler the Sacrament to such as would not come to them; and hath been very negligent of his cure, absenting himselfe without any care taken for supply thereof a month together, whereby the bodies of the dead have been left unburied severall dales; and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parlia- ment.' There are entries of a dispute between him and his successor on the minutes of the Committee for Plundered Minifters, which was ultimately referred to the County Com- mittee for adjudication. % ToLLESHUNT Darcy. — John Hayle. There is an entry in the minutes of the Committee for Plundered ]W[inifters that * The Firft Century, p. zg. Add. % The Firft Century. Add. MSS. MSS. 15669. Feb. 6, 1644; see also 15669, 297, 554. He was inftituted 201, 226, 316, 323. Infra. 27th Nov., 1616. Newc. ii. 612; see f Add. MSS. 15669. Feb. 15, April infra. 19, 1644; infra. 252 appendix to Chap. VII. No. i. John Hayle having deserted the cure, the living is sequeftered. This entry is dated May 3, 1645. * ToLLESHUNT Major. — See Memorials. ToTH AM Magna. — Ambrose Weftrop. 'The benefice of Ambrose TVeJirop, vicar of the parish church of Much Totham^ in the countie of Essex, is sequeftered, for that he doth com- monly prophane the ordinance of preaching by mentioning in the pulpit matters to stir up his people to laughter ; and hath taught in his sermons and speaking against such as pleased him not in paying their tithes, in the pulpit he turned towards his brother-in-lavsr, then in the church, and said, you, brother Blockhead, will pay no tithe bushes neither; and, being angry with one whose name was Kent, he said then in the pulpit, they say the devill is in Harwich, but I am sure he is in Kent; and speaking of the parable of those that made excuses for not coming to the marriage, he observed and, at another time, told a story in the pulpit of two severall women and being a suitor to one Miftris Ellen Pratt, a widow, he did write upon a piece of paper these words : Bonny Nell, I love thee well, and did pin it upon his cloake, and wore it up and down a market towne, which woman refusing him, he did for five or six weeks afterwards utter little or nothing else, in the pulpit, but inveftives against women; and being suitor to another woman, who failed to come to dinner upon invitation to his house, he immediately roade to her house, and desiring to speake with her, she coming to the doore, he pulled ofF her head-geere, and rode away with it, and many other like passages fell from him in his preaching, and were proved against him.'f ULTiNG.-;-William Hull. Depositions were taken against him 15th June, 1644, when one witness swore, that 'on * MSS. 15669; see infra. Newc.ii.6l0. He died before 1 9th Nov., t The Firft Century, 50. The omitted 1646. Journal House of Lords, viii. 571 ; paffages ate offensive in the laft degree. see infra. He vfas inftituted a9th Nov., 161 6. The Sequeftrations. 253 Michaelmas day last, Hull came to his house so diftempered with beere that he staggered and reeled, so that he was like to fall into the fire, and after he had taken a pipe of tobacco he went and fell asleep all the while this deponent was at supper, and so he left him there when he went to bedd, and found him in the house the next morning;' another, that on ' the same day he saw Mr. Hull at ... . going toward the house of the first witness, reeling and staggering in the street;' another, that "■ about a year and a half since Mr. Hull came to his house much diftempered with drinke, and tumbled down when he came into his house, and that he doth too often frequent ale-houses.' He also deposed that 'the said Mr. Hull told him when the Parliament officers came to Sir H. Mildemay Monson's house for his armes, that they were none but a com- pany of rogues and rascalls ; ' two, that ' Mr. Hull doth ordinarily frequent ale-houses ; ' that they have ' seen him divers times distempered with beere;' that 'he doth conftantly go from Maulden either very late on Saturday night or on Sabbath morning to his own parish of Oulting; ' and one, that he was ' a common swearer.' Mr. Hull 'did openly, before the whole Committee, confess to not taking the covenant.' * , Upminster. — See Memorials. Weald South. — See Memorials. Wethersfield. — See Memorials. WiCKFORD. — Cornelius Gray. The following entry is in the minutes of the Committee for Plundered Minifters, under date August 20, 1645 : 'Ordered that the reftory be forthwith sequeftered from Cornelius Gray, for that he hath adhered to the forces raised against the Parliament, and was taken and now continues prisoner.' And on the 23rd of July, 1647, the House of Lords issued an order for inftitution to that living, from which it appears Gray had died before that date, f * Cole MSS. xxviii. 40, 41. He re- reftoration, and died before i5th March covered his living before 1650,35 he is 1669. Newc. ii. 617; see infra, then returned thus, ' He doth not neglea f Add. MSS. 15669,294. Journal his cure, but is not a godly minifter.' House of Lords ix. 348. He was Infti- Lansdowne MSS. 459. He survived the tuted loth Sept., 1635, on the presentation 254 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. I. WicKHAM St. Paul's. — See Memorials. WiLLiNGDALE DoE. — Gilbert Watts. There is an entry in the minutes of the Committee for Plundered Minifters, under date Auguft ii, 1647, to the efFe<3: that his case was to have a second hearing. * WiMBiSH. — See Debden, p. 228. WiTHAM. — See Memorials. WooDHAM Ferrers. — See Memorials. Writtle. — John South. \ See Roxwell, p. 247. Yeldam Parva. — See Memorials. of Thomas Arnold. Gray died before 23rd July, 1647. Jour. House of Lords ix. 348. Newcourt gives the succeflion of re£lors in accordance with the MSS. and the Journals, ii. 656. Walker, ii. 329, says that Robert Perceval was secjueftered, but he was not inftituted until after the death of Gray's succeffor. MSS. extracts from Juxon's Regifter. Harl. 6100, 186. B. M. Newc. ii. 656; see infra. * Add. MSS. 15671, 132. He was of Lincoln College, Oxford. He was one of between forty and fifty persons who were created D.D. at Oxford, in 1642. Wood ii. 30. He died in 1657; having publiftied a tranflation, into Englifli, of Bacon's * De Augmentis Scientiarum.' Lond. 1633. Oxon. 1640 j and leaving behind him a tranflation also of Davila's Hiftory of the Civil Wars in France, and other MSS. Wood, Ath. Ox. ii. 213 ; see infra. f Lansdowne MSS. 459. He was of New College, Oxford, and profeffor of Greek in that Univeriity. He recovered his living at the reftoration. In i665 he became chauntor of Salilbury. He died in Auguft, 1672, and was buried at Writtle. Wood, Faft. ii. 199. The Rev. J. E. Sewell, B.D., the present Warden of New College, Oxford, kindly informs me that he was presented to Writtle by his college in Feb., 1624. He was seques- tered after his desertion of his livings. Lansdowne MSS. 459 j see infra. APPENDIX TO CHAP. VII. No. 2. The F'lrji Classis, called Braintree, with the Liberty of Havering and Chafford Classis. Braintree Hundred. West Ham. * East Ham. t Walthamstow. Wansted. 11 M. Ministers. Richard Allen, M. Slaughter, M. Lee, M. Humphrey Maidison, Elders. Robert Smith, Esq. M. John Dickins. Sir H. Holcroft, Knt. M. Thos. Muskett. M. William Miller. Sir H. Mildmay. * Allen, Memorials. Robert Smith, of Upton, created Baronet in 1655. Mor. i. 14. t Slater.? Sir H. Holcroft, of Green- ftead. Morant i. 1 5 ; Memorials. I Lee. p. 206. His succelTor was John Wood, of whom the return in 1650 is, that * he had been put in by the Com- mittee for Plundered Minifters, but he is now queftioned for his abilities, and certain articles are exhibited againft him to the committee, and he is dislilced by the greater part of the inhabitants, who will not come to church to hear him, whereby there is a great diftraction in the parish.' Lansdowne MSS. 459. Lyson's Environs i. 708. Thomas Cartwright became Vicar in 1659, and refigned it before 23rd Nov., 1660, for the better living of Barking. Newcourt says that he was Vicar of "Waltham in 1 649, but see infra. In 1686 he was consecrated Bifliop of Chefter. He was one of the Non- jurors, and fled to France to James II. at the revolution. He died in Dublin, April 15, 1689. Newcourt i. 218. There is a long account of him. Wood Ath. ii. 329, and 1173. Fasti, ii. 98, 103. His succeiTor conformed. II Maddison (sic) in Newc. ii. 639, was Reiftor in 1641. He entered the Protes- tation in the regefter and figned it, together with William Brereton, probably Sir William, the Parliamentary General, Henry Herbert, Thomas Mildmay, Henry Mildmay, Richard Boothby, William Boothby, James Cawbell, and thirty others. Lyson's Environs i. 723. Mad- dison is returned in 1650 as an able godly preacher. Lands. 459. He died before nth Dec, 1660 J when he was succeeded by Thomas Harrison, who conformed. Richard Boothby was of Carew Hall. Mor. i. 31. Sir Henry Mildmay. 141. John Saltmarfli, who died at Ilford, was buried atWanfted, Dec. 15, 1647. Lyson's i. 722. For a fiiU account of this remarlcable man, and his remarkable death. Wood, Ath. Ox. ii. 287^289, also Brooks' Lives iii. 30. 256 Appendix to Chap, VII, No. 2. Braintree Hundred. HoRNCHURCH. * Romford, f Havering. J Layton. Ministers. Elders. M. John Hoffman, T. Witheringe, Esq. Carew H. Mi Id may. M. John Morse, Joachim Matthews, Esq. M. John Fenninge. M. Wm. Cummins. M. John Dodson. M. Nehemiah Dod, SIrThos.Cheke,Knt. M. Edw. Pickering. M. Tho. Preftone. Sir William Hicks. * Hofman. A German that fled into England upon the first taking of Heidel- burg. Dr. Henry Sampson's Diary. Ays- cough MSS. 446 — 7, where there is an anecdote of him and Bradfhaw. Wither- inge is buried in Hornchurch. He died in 1655 J and is said in his Epitaph to have been ' Chiefe Poftmafter of Greate Britain.' Mor. i. 69. Carew Harvey Mildmay was of Marks. He was the nephew of Sir Gawin Harvey, and the son of William Mildmay, of Springfield Barnes. Mor. i. 68 ; ii. 9 ; infra. •\ There is the following entry in the parish regifter of burials, under date 1615, June 5 : * James Morse, son of John Morse, Minifter of the Word.' Notes and Queries, Aug. 3, 1862. ' In Sept., 1646, ^^50 was allowed for Mosse's better maintenance out of the reftory of West Ham. S. P. O. Dom. Ser. Interregnum C C D. xxxvi. 261. Mosse was buried Jan. 31, 1648. Samuel Auftin was minifter in 1648. The return in 1650 is : *Mr. Pierce, an able preaching minifter.' Lansdowne 459. Dec. II, 1659. Edward Vaughan was minifter. His name appears in the regifter as late as Jan. 12, 1662. N. and g. ib. Matthews was of Gobions. He was a native of the neighbourhood, and in early life was under clerk to Sir Thomas Mewtys, clerk of the Privy Council. He married the daughter of Sir Thomas Wolftenholme, Baronet, of Forty Hill, Enfield. He was now a Colonel in the Army. He was member for Maiden. He died in 1658. Mor. i. 63. Wood Fasti, il. 97; see also Lyson's Collections ; Add. MSS. 9456, 181. J Havering. See Doddinghurst. Dod probably succeeded John Petchie (N. & Q.) Aug. 30, 1662, but could not have continued there long, as the minifter in 1648 was John Wheatley. Infra. A. Mr. Dalton was minifter in 1650. ^ An able preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. A Mr. Laykill was curate in 1662. He then conformed. Visitation book. Under date of Aug. 12, 1646, I find the following entry in the committee book, Inter, reg. cclxxxvi. 289, 290 : ';C5°was ordered to be paid out of the reftory of West Ham to such godly and orthodox divine as shall be fi-om time to time set- tled in the chapel of Havering, annexed to Hornchurch.' Sir Thos. Cheke, pp. 141, 184, 189. 11 Layton ; infra. Sir William Hicks, eldest son of Sir Michael Hicks, secretary to Cecil, Lord Burleigh ; see p. 72. He was created a baronet July 21, 1619. He The Classes. 257 Braintree Hundred. Barking. * Ilford Parva. t Dagenham. % Woodford. II Ministers. Elders. M. Thos. Lake. Chafford Hundred. Childerditch. § Ministers. Elders. M. Dan. Duckfield, Nic. Threftier. North OcKENDON^ M. Jackson. Warley M. ** M. Ed. Foord (sic), Isaac Paine. Thos. Prentice. was Lieutenant of the Forest of Waltham, and one of the Deputy Lieutenants of the county. He suffered much in the cause of Charles L Sir William was seated at Rokholt, and died in Oct., 1680. He is buried in the old chancel of the church. He is frequently mentioned in Pepys' Diary j see also Diary of John Evelyn i. 315, 332, ed. 1850. * Barking. Memorials. -f- The reftor of Ilford Parva was Humphrey Richards, inst. 8th March, 1639. N. ii. 347. He is described in 1650 as an 'able preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Richards was buried at Ilford Sept. II, 1654. Notes and Queries, Oct. 11, 1862. Atllford Magna John Wells was appointed to preach Nov. 10, 1646. S. P. O. Dom. Ser. Inter, cclxxxvi. 334, infra. And Jan. 22, 1647, one Sharpe appeared to a summons before the Committee for Plundered Minifters, but no prosecutor appearing, the case was dismissed. Add. MSS. 15671, 78. The minifter of Ilford Parva, at the reftoration, was Henry Osbaston. He conformed. Osbaston was instituted to Stapleford Abbots, 13th Nov, 1662. J Dagenham, pp. 205, 228. The suc- cessor of Charles True was one Coleman, whose name occurs as late as July 4, 1 646. In 1648 John Bowyer (333) appears as minister, p. 205. He is still there in 1650, 'an able, godly preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. The Rev. S. Farmer kindly informs me that Bowyer was buried by the communion table Oct. 15, 1650; and also that he was succeeded by Jona- than Lloyd, who died Nov. 18, 1654. The vicar, at the restoration, was Frede- rick Tilney, who conformed. N. ii. 203 . II The reftor was William Isaacson, inst. i6th Nov., 1619. The Rev. W. B. Philips obliges me with the information that he was succeeded by his son, Richard Isaacson, who died in Nov., 1653. Isaacson by Zechariah Caudrey, and Cau- drey by Will. Master, in Feb., 1660. Isaacson is described, in 1650, as an 'able, painful, godly minister.' Lands. MSS. 459; Lyson's Environs ii. 744. Caudrey was probably one of several sons of Robert Caudrey, of whom see Strype, Aylmer 84 — 97 ; Annals i. 262 ; and the brother of Daniel Caudrey. Con- tinuation, p. 489. Master conformed. N. ii. 600, § P. 156 and Memorials. % William Jackson, inst. 26th April, 1629. He is returned, in 1650, as 'a learned divine, constantly performing the cure.' Lands. MSS. 459. His successor seems to have been Edward Herbert, who conformed. N. ii. 447. ** The Rev. Dr. Robinson kindly informs me that Ford became Reiftor in 258 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. Chafford Hundred. Cranham. * Stifford. t Upminster. X South Weald. Ministers. Elders. M. Robert Watson, Ralph Jocelin. John Graunt. M. Lathum (sic), Js. Silverlocke, Esq. John Sands. Roger Tanner. Ric. Gooday. M. Thos. Lathum. M. Nic. Folking ham (sic), AVETHLEY. § (sic.) Gray Thurrocke. H Rainham.** 1637, and died July lo, 1659, when he was succeeded by George Weldon, a Fellow of King's. Ford is described in 1650 as an * able learned minifter.' Lands. 459. Weldon conformed. N. ii. 641. * Memorials. f Daniel Latham (sic) was insti- tuted 7th May, 1645. N. ii, 561. He is returned in 1650 as a very able and constant preaching minister. Lands. MSS. 459. The Rev. W. Palin kindly informs me that Latham ceased to be Rector early in 1653, when he was succeeded by Jeremiah Potkin, who conformed at the reftoration. Silverlock is thus described in the tablet, eredled to the memory of his wife Anne : — * Marmore non opus est illi, sua fadta loquntur [ Si deslt tumulus, nomine notus erit I Nil restat nobis faciendum namque sepulchrum | Durans dum vixit condidit ipse sibi.' Lyson's CoUedlions. Add. MSS. 9458. There are also several inscriptions to the memory of the Lathums in these Colledlions. J Memorials. II Memorials. Lathum was probably the son of Thomas Lathum, of StifFord. Rob. Smith. John Skelton. John Wright. Morant i. 97. Wright was of the Moat House, which was then called Brook Hall. He was possessed of both the Ropers. Mor. i. 121. § The vicar was William Ayscough, admitted 6th Aug., 1641, on the pre- sentation of Juxon. In Nov., 1646, £,1^ was ordered to be paid for the 'in- crease of the maintenance of the minister out of the reftorial tithes of East Tilbury, which had recently been sequestered from Daniel Deligne,' the lay impropriator. S.P.O. Dom. Ser. Int. cclxxxvi. 249. In 1650, Ayscough is returned *as a preach- ing minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. He seems to have been succeeded by John Stone, who conformed. ^ The vicar, in 1650, was Daniel Jones, who is returned as * negligent of his cure and of a bad life.' Lands. MSS. 459. ** The vicar was Thomas Risden, according to Newcourt ii. 481, but the Lands. MSS. speaks of him as ' an able, preaching minister, he constantly performs the cure,' and adds * no vicar.' Risden conformed, and was rewarded with the reftory of All-Hallow', Bread Street, on the ejection of Lazarus Seeman. N.i. 246. The Classes. Chafford Hundred. Ministers. Elders. Warley Parva. * Wennington. t West Thurrock.J The Second Classis, called Barjiable Classis. Barstable Hundred. Ministers, Elders. GiNGRAVE. 11 259 BuRSTED Magna. § M. Sam. Bridge, Shenvill (sic).fl * Memorials. ■f- John Ellborough, Risden's prede- cessor at Rainham, 22nd Jan., 1642. In 1 642 he is returned as an ' able minister, preaching constantly.' Lands. MSS. 459. He seems to have been succeeded by Will. Asque, who con- formed. N. ii. 651. J Thomas Swinnerton, inst. 27th 0&., 1643. In May, 1646, there is an order for * ^40 to be paid out of Dagen- ham, sequestered from John Fanshawe, for the maintenance of Swinnerton. S.P.O. Dom. Ser. Int. cclxxxvi. 53 j Fanfhawe, Mor. i. 10. In 1650 he is returned as ' a godly preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. II P. 231. Richard Babbington, 9th OSt., 1643. N. ii. 282. The return made of him in 1650, is by order from the Committee for Plundered Ministers, ' an able, godly preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. John Willis was ad- mitted here by the Commissioners for approbation of Public Preachers, Aug. 12, 1656, and in Sept. also to that of Lieut.-Col. Farre. M. Lagdon. Fra. Brogg. Samuel Wayt. M. Smeath. Edw. Humphrey. Rob. Nicolson. William Hall, sen. Walter Merrick. John Ridley. West Hornden. N. ib. Willis con- formed. Farre held the manor of West House, Great Burghsted ; and Buckwyns, Butsbury ; and Abbot's Hall, Standford le Hope. Mor. i. 197. There is publiflied of his ' A Speech spoken to the Earl of Warwick, in behalf of the whole county of Essex.' Lond., 8vo., 1642. § Bridge, infra. Inst. 5th Jan., 1641. He was of Emmanuel Coll., Cambridge, where he matriculated July 9, 1627. Baker MSS. Notes to Calamy. In 1650 he is returned * as an able and feithflil minister.' Lands. MSS., 459. He died before 21st Feb., 1661. MSS. Ext. from Juxon's Register, Harl. B.M. Calamy erroneously names him among the ejed:ed ministers. Account 307. Wayt, probably one of the Gaines family. Mor, i. 107. In the next generation Sir W. Humphreys, Knt., purchased the manor of Mal- maynes, Barking. Mor. i. 4. Sir Philip Hall, of Upton, was sheriff of Effex, in 1727. Mor. i. 63. ^ Memorials. 26o Appendix to Chap. VIL No. 2. Barnstable Hundrzd. Ministers. Elders. West Horndon.* HoRNDON SUPER MoNTEM.f M. Moyse, Tho. Caldwell. John Ashen. Tho. Amatt. Rich. Petchie. Rich. Amatt. Ben. Wennington, M. Reeve. M. Edmund ClifFe, Henry Green. Geo. Walton, Esq. HUTTON.J Layndon Hill. || East Horndon. § BURSTED PaRVA.^ BuRES GiFFORD.** M. Clark. * p. 238. Rich. Car(di)nal, 9th Oa., 1643. One of the Bromley family? pp. 56, 124. He is returned in 1650, as ' a godly, able minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. John Willis succeeded 23rd Sept., 1656. Newc. identifies him with Willis, of Gingrave, but the law against pluralists would surely have been observed by the Commiffioners who indufted him. \ P. 238. The return in 1650 is * William Adams, an able preaching minister, is vicar.' Lands. MSS. 459. John Davis probably succeeded, and Simon Gale i Davis Gale conformed. N. ii. 343. A Daniel Caldwell died 1634, possessed of Thomas Higbed's (34) mes- suage. Mor. i. 219. J Infra. 6th Feb., 1646, 'ordered that Dr. Aylett, or his lawfial deputy, are hereby authorised and required to give institution and induftion to Walter Tayler, clerk, M.A., to the redlory of HutCon, county of Essex, void by the death of the late incumbent . . said Mr. Tayler taking the national league and covenant, and producing his presentation thereunto, under the great seal of England.' Jour. H. of Lords viii. 711. Tayler was still at Hutton in 1650. 'An able and godly minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. He seems to have been succeeded by Richard Goltie, who conformed. MSS. addition to one of the copies of the ' Classis ' in the British Museum. Newcourt ii. 344. II P. 239. Wennington was previously of Great Bursted, where he preceded Sam. Bridge. A Henry Crewe had been re- commended to the Assembly as Pindar's successor, but he was not accepted. Add. MSS. 15670. Wennington did not remain there long, as in the Lands. MSS. 459, the parifh is returned as having ' no minister, and that Mr. Pindar has re- turned.' § ClifFe was still here in 1648, when his name is given as Edward. Infra. He is returned in 1650 'as a preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. His suc- cessor seems to have been John Browne, who conformed. N. ii. 341. Walton was one of the old Essex family of that name. Mor. i. 346. f[ P. 220. The minister in 1650 was John Pease, 'an able, godly preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. It would seem that Pease conformed at the resto- ration. Newc ii. 118. ** Edward Clark succeeded to the rec- tory on the death of Henry Palmer, who was buried, the Rev. W. W. Tireman informs me, March 26, 1640. He also I me with copies of the register of The Classes. 261 Braintree Hundred. Mucking. * Churringham. t Ramsden Bell. J Bassedon. II South Benfleet. § Brodpham. ^ Standford le Hope.** DUNTON WaYLETT. ft Ministers. Elders. John Webb. John Collins. the baptisms of two of Clark's children. Clark is returned in 1650 as 'an able, preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459- He conformed, and was re-instituted * ad corroborandum titulum.' MSS. Extracts from Juxon's register, Harl. MSS. 6100, p. 186. See also S.P.O. Dom. Ser. Charles II. Ixxxii. 99. This explains the entry in Newcourt ii. 102, from which it would appear that there were two Edward Clarkes, rectors of Bures GifFord in suc- cession. * P. 245. The vicar was Thos. Ellen, who is returned in the Lands. MSS. as Thomas Allen, ' an able, godly minister.' He conformed at the restoration, resigned Mucking, and became reftor of Little Waltham. See infra. \ P. 228. The reftor was Jonathan Hoyle. Add. MSS. 15669. Hoyle is returned. In 1650, as *a godly minister.' Lands. 459. I am kindly informed, on the authority of the parifh registers, by the Rev. S. S. Greatheed, that *he was suc- ceeded on the 25th March, 1658, by Samuel Jones, who held the redtory for less than twelve months, as he was buried Feb. 14, 1659. The next redlor was John Cacot.' Cacot conformed. X p. 158. II p. 238. James Moore was reflor in July, 1647. Add. MSS. 15671, 159. He was still there in 1650, *an able and laborious preacher,' at which date one Gale preached at ' Bassildon,' by his ap- pointment. Lands. MSS. 459. § The return in 1650 is 'Robert Sparkes, an able minister, approved of by the parifliioners.' Henry Greenwood be- came vicar in Feb., 1660. He died before Feb., 1662. His successor con- formed. fl pp. 100, 158. Hewitt was succeeded by Will. Hawkesbey, who conformed. N. ii. 107. ** Probably John Richardson. Inst. nth Feb., 1628. N. ii. 549. In 1650, Caleb Wood, ' an able preaching minifter, but is reputed a conftant frequenter of ale-houses.' Lands. 459. Thos. Aleyn, who also held the living of Chadwell, became recftor in 1660. He conformed. N. ii. 549, 125. tf P. 230. April 12, 1645. One James. Add. MSS. 15669. He was succeeded by WilUam How. Lands. MSS. 459. How by Edward Larkin, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, who re- moved to the reilory of Limpsfield, in Surrey, his native parilh, in 1665. Larkin is spoken of by Wood, Ath. Ox. ii. 471, and was the author of ' Speculum Patrum,' Lond., 1650 He was suc- ceeded by John Holroyd, who was also a fellow of King's. Cole MSS. xv. 162. Holroyd was succeeded by Chris. Chal- font, who conformed. N. ii. 231. 262 Appendix to Chap, VIL No. 2. Braintree Hundred. Thundersley. "^ DOWNHAM. t doddinghurst. % East Tilbury. || Fobbing. § North Benflete. ^ Orsett. ** Ministers. Elders. * Jeffrey Preftney. Inst. 2nd May, 1646. N. ii. 587 ; J. H. of Lords viii. 291. The return in 1660 is, * no settled minister since Midsummer last.' Lands. MSS. 459. William Rogers was the minister at the restoration. He con- formed. N. ib. "f- Thomas Redrich. Instituted 1st Sept., 1637. 'An able, godly minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. He conformed. N. ii. 221. \ Nehemiah Dodd, p. 256. Inst, nth June, 1646. N. ii. 223. He removed to Havering about 1648. The Rev. W. Marbey kindly informs me that the name of his successor was Hicks. Hicks was succeded by Nehemiah Rogers, p. 156. Francis Denham, who succeeded, con- formed. Newc. II James Huddlefton, 17th 0£t., 1630. In 1650 he is returned 'as an able, godlyj preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459 Samuel Caftleton became vicar in June. 1661. N. ii. 597. Heconformed. MS Visitation Book of the Archdeaconry. § P. 230. Johnson's successor was Rich. Searle, May 13, 1645. By the 20th of January following, Searle was dead. On the petition of the pariihloners Joseph Pease was appointed in March. Pease dying before April 25, 1646, Francis Scott was appointed at that date to the vacancy. Add. MSS. 15669, 15670, 12, 91, 147, 176, 177- Scott was there in 1648, infra He is re- turned in 1650 as *an able preacher.' The Rev W. S. Thomson informs me that Scott was buried at Fobbing, Nov. 23, 1653. His successor I have not been able to ascertain. John Pell became reftor in June, 1661. ^ Geo. Bosvile or Boswell. Inst. 20th Oct., 1644. Newc. identifies him with Boswell, of Rivenhall, which living was sequeftered from him. See Memorials; N. ii. 47, 495. He is returned, in 1650, as 'a preacher of good name and reputa- tion.' Lands. 459, 28th Sept., 1654. Francis Baylye succeeded. N. ii. 47. He conformed. ** The re£tor was Matthias Styles, p. 208. He was presented to the living by Charles I. In 1640. Newcourt ii. 454. Stiles was of Exeter College, Oxford, where he took the degree of Dodlor in Divinity in 1638. Wood, Fasti. Ox. i. 276. He had been chaplain to Sir Isaac Wake, ambassador to Venice, in 1624. In 1630 he was presented by Charles I. to the reftory of St. George, Botolph's Lane, London. Newcourt i. 354- He was also about that time preacher at St. Gregory, by St. PauPs, where he was maintained by the parish. Newcourt i. 359. His name appears in conjundtion with that of Calamy, Maden, Janeway, Marfhall, and Samuel Joyner, as recom- mending 'a petition of W. C(astell), of Courtenhall, Northampton, concerning the propagation of the gospel in America.' London: printed in the year 1641. He resigned his living of St. George about The Classes. 263 Braintree Hundred. Ministers. Thurrock Parva. * Vannage. t West Tilbury. J WlCKFORD CUM GuiLDABLES. 11 Elders. 1642. Newcourt repeats Wood's doubt as to whether he ever sat in the Assembly of Divines, but Neal distinftly states that he took the Proteftation, and gave con- scant attendance — ii. 40. He was still reftor of Orsett in 1650, where he is described as 'an able, godly minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. He died loth Aug., 1652. The Rev. J. Blomfield has kindly obliged me with the following inscription on his tomb at Orsett : Dormi- torium D.D. Matthiae Styles | S. Theol. Professoris Procuratoris Acadae. | Oxon Subredloris Exon Collegii | Sacellani Reg, necnon D. lUustr. | Isaaco Wake Apuid Ven. Archi. Legato j Qui \ Post duode- cennalem animarum curam ( Exantlatus Apud Orsettanum Ecclesiam j In Com. Essex obdormitsomnogloriae | Reunionis anhelans jam Caronldem | •rex.vviyvpis I Unus e 1000 bus. veteri stylo Theologus Ecclesiae o-tuXos praestantissimus. / Ob. 10 Aug. \ / Fidelia \ \ 1652. I \ Relidta I ) An Aetat i i Moerens i \ 6z. ) ^ Posuit. / Styles is one of Walker's sufferers. He mentions him twice over — ii. 177, 357. The above notices show that every word of the long account which Walker gives of his sufferings, on the authority, as he says, of Dr. Northleigh, grandson of Dr. Styles, is simply false. The statements in Persecutio Undecima (45) are about as trustworthy as those of Walker. John Michaelson became reftor in Aug., 1660. He conformed. * The reftor, in 1650, was Nicholas Grey, *no preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. He was succeeded by Abra- ham Garnon, who died before August, 1661. Charles CuUen conformed. N. il. 590. f Vang. Geo. Mawle, 2nd Dec, 1639. -^^ ^^ returned, in 1650, as *an able, godly minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. He seems to have conformed. Newcourt ii. 6i2. J John Fordham, nth March, 1645. Jour. H. of Lords viii. 207. 'An able, godly preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. He seems to have conformed. N, ii. 598. Jl P. 253- 'The Geldables extend into the neighbouring parifhes of Rawreth, Runwell, and South Hanningfield Geldable signifies liable to pay tax or tribute.' Mor. i. 255, Aug. 30, 1645. The living was sequeftered to Thos. Lake, minifterof the Word. Add. MSS. 15669, 294. On the 27th of Sept. following it was sequeftered to * John Banning, minifter of the Word.' Add. MSS. ib. 377. July 23, 1647. Nicholas Bound was ordered to be instituted, Gray being now dead. Journals House of Lords ix. 348. Ro- bert Percival (p. 254) was inftituted 26th March, 1661, on the death of Bound. Percival conformed. Newc. ii.656. 264 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. The Third Classis., called Chelmsford Classis. Chelmsford Hundred. Leez Parva.* Waltham Parva. t Waltham Magna. J Bromfield. Ministers. M. Clark, M. Harrison, M. Ham, M. Burr, Elders. The Rt. Honorable Earl of Warwick. Roger Poole. James Weald. Sir Richard Everard, Knt. M. John Sortell. (sic.) John Goodere. Elias Pledger. JohnAttwood, Esq.^ Tho. Puttimer. M. Bullen. * Infra. Newcourt erroneously gives the date of John Clark's resignation as June, 1646. His successor was Am- brose Wethered, who was presented to the living by the Earl of Warwick, the Earl of Manchefter, Edmund Calamy, and Obadiah Sedgwick. N. ii, 388. Wethered was succeeded by John Benson. Memorials. f Memorials. Poole was a descendant of the benefedlor of the parish of the same name. Mor. ii. 94. X Infra. The Rev. J. Dyer kindly informs me that Henry Ham succeeded John Harrison. Memorials. In 1650 he is reported thus: *He conftantly dischargeth the cure — an able, godly minifter.' It is added: *Blacke Chapel, three miles diftant — Mr. J. Jackson, an able, godly minifter. Little Chapel — now discontinued and converted to other uses.' Lands. MSS. 459. Blacke and Little (y) Chapels. Mor. ii. 89. Thos. Cox became redtor in March, 1653. He conformed. N. ii. 633. Sir Richard Everard was also a baronet. He was nephew to Sir Thos. Barrington. He was one of the committee for Essex. He was sheriff in 1644, and member for the county in 1654 and 1656. He died Aug. 29, 1694, at the age of seventy, and was buried in the church here. Mor. ii. 85; Noble, House of Cromwell ii. 58. The Sorrell family were the then lessees of the parsonage, and had also the parsonage of Stebbing. John married Mary, the daughter of Thomas Aylett, of Coggles- hall. Mor. ii. 85. ![ Thomas Burr succeeded Geo. Par- nell, ante. p. 99, the 20th March, 1620. N. ii. 96. He is returned in 1650 as * an able preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. He died before Nov., 1661. His successor, William Alchorne, conformed. During part of Burr's miniftry one of his hearers was the famous Patrick Young, ' Homo ad literaturae Omnis duntaxat graece beneficium natus.' Young was the fifth son of Sir Peter, tutor and privy councillor to James I. He was born at Seaton Lothian in 15S4. He took the degree of M.A., at St, Andrews, and went from thence to Oxford. He had been librarian to James I. j treasurer of St. Chelmsford Hundred. Springfield.* Chelmsford, f WiDFORD. J Writtle. II BOREHAM. § The Classes. Ministers. 265 Elders. M. Guy, M. Shetlewood. M. Rathbone, J. Woolner. Ja. Taverner. M. Veasie, M. Peter Whitecomb. Paul's, and also reftor of Hayes, Middle- sex. N. i. 107. He publiihed, (i) Ver- sio et notae in Clementds Epiftolum ad Romanas, Ox. 1633, which Dr. Fell afterwards reprinted, Ox. 1669. (2) Catena Graecorum Patrum in Lib. Job. London, 1637. (3) About 1628, an Alexandrian copy of the whole Bible in a Greek MSS. was sent by Cyril, Patriarch of Constantinople, to Charles L, con- taining the Ixx version of the O. T., and also the text of the N., together with Clement's Epp. to the Corr. Young undertook to prepare the MSS. for pub- lication. For this purpose he made valuable use of other MSS., particularly one in University College Library, entitled * Oftateuchus,' two Greek MSS. tiansla- tions into Arabic in the Bodleian, and an ancient MS. formerly in the Cotton CoUeftion. The Assembly of Divines greatly encouraged him in this under- taking, and an ordinance was passed by the Parliament, in 1645, to print the work when completed at the public ex- pense. It does not appear that Young ever went further with it than c. xv. of Numbers. Brian Walton afterwards pub- liflied Young's Annotations in his Poly- glot Bible, vol. vi. (4) In 1638, he published an *Exposirio in Cant. Canti- corum,' written by Gilbert Follot, bishop of London in the time of Henry II. (5) In conjunftion with J. B. Cotelerius, and Gotfr Vendelesius, Young translated Clement's Epiftles to the Corinthians. This was publifhed in London, 1683, 8vo. (6) He was also united with John Selden and Richard James in the preparation of the * Marmora Arundelliana,' published in 1629. Wood, Fasti, i. 170. Bell, Life of Sam. Butler, prefixed to his poems, i. 12. Lond., Parker, 1855. Young was a presbyterian. He died Sept. 7, 1652, and was buried In the chancel of the church here. Morantli. 78. There is a life of Young, by Dr. Thos. Smith. Wood, Fast. i. 170 j Newc. i. 107. % John Attwood was the son-in-law of Patrick Young. He was lessee of the parsonage house, glebe, and great tithes of the parish. Mor. ii. 78. * Memorials. ■\ Memorials. J George Guy, who was presented to the reflory in 1637. In 1650 he is re- turned as 'an able and godly preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Guy con- formed. II Writtle, p.254. Abel, or as his name appears, infra, Ariel Rathband, probably one of the family of William. In 1650 the return is * M. Abel Wrath- bone (sic), an able preaching minifter, is vicar, by sequeftration from Dr. South.' Lands. MSS. 459. The Taverneri now held the manor of Buckwyns. Mor. ii. 39. § Henry Vesey, inst. 14th Nov., 1643. 24th 0£t., 1648, the vicarage being void by death, Thomas Attwood Rotherham was appointed. J. H. of Lords, V. 563. He was still therein 1650, 'a very godly and orthodox divine:' T 26b Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. Chelmsford Hundred. Ministers. Elders. Ingatestone. * M. Willis, M. Jont Foard. WESTHAViNGFiELD.f M. Wrenew, Wm. Goldingham, Esq. Rettenden. X Baddow Parva. Baddow Magna. § M. Ragg, M. Succliffe, Abraham Luckin." vicar, M. Leavit. M. Maiden. M. Purcell. M. Holborow. M. H. Mildmay. Tho. Calfe. Stock et Butsbury.^ South Hanningfield.**M. Seath North MoUNTNEAZING.ft Danbury. XX Sandon. II II M. Smith. RUNWELL. § § WooDHAM Ferris. H IT M. Wright. Benjamin Griggs. Lands. MSS. 459. Memorials, infra. In the next generation, Peter Whitcomb, a. Turkey merchant, became the purchaser of the manor of Great Broxted. Mor. ii. 139. * Memorials. + P. 234. Ranew ? Memorials. In 1650, * Samuel Hileman, an able, godly preacher.' Lands. MSS. 459. The next entry in Newcourt is, Jo. Mafterson, 7th Dec, 1 661, 'per mort ult reiS.' This refers to Aylmer. ii. 310. J Memorials. II 2lst March, 1647. John Arwaker, was appointed to the vicarage. J. H. of Lords. John Wilson was minifter in 1648. In 1650 the return is 'no minifter there, but the parilhioners can get some of the neighbouring minifters.' Lands. MSS. 459, See Memorials. § Infra, Memorials. John Purcell, of Baddow Hall, son-in-law to Sir Thomas Moullham, Kt. Mor. ii. 18. Henry, the eldeft son and heir of Sir Henry Mildmay, of Graces. Mor. ii. 25. M. Francis. ^ Stock. Memorials. Butsbury, p. 220. Nov. 29, 1645. The living of Butsbury was sequeftered to Henry Bartlett. Add. MSS. 15669, 508. The return in 1650 is ' Paul Negus, upon petition . . by some in the liberty. An insufficient preacher.' Lands. MSS. 459. ** Memorials. f-f- P. 244. The return in 1650 is 'Mr. Sandelands, he officiates the cure.' Lands. MSS. 459. One Peele died vicar before May, 1661. Will. Norris, his successor, conformed. XX Memorials. II II Samuel Smith. Memorials. §§ P. 247. The minifter seems to have been Matthew Longe. Add. MSS. 15670, 366. The return in 1650, is ' Mr. Oakley, by sequeflradon from Mr. S. Lynce ; he is a godly preaching minis- ter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Thomas Bil- liard was admitted 9th Sept., 1660, ' per mort Lynch.' Silliard conformed. N. ii. 511. *\ ff, Memorials. The Classes » 267 Chelmsford Hundred. Ministers. Blakemore. * ROXWELL. t East Hanningfield. J Marget Ing. II Chignall St. James. § Chignal Smealey. ^ Fryarnit (sic.) *'*^ Leez Magna, tt * P. 247. The return In 1650 is * Simon Lynce. He was sequeftered from Runwell for his scandalous life.' Lands. MSS. 459. Lynch died before Sept., 1660. N. p. 266. N. il. 65. -f- P. 247, From information kindly fiarnifhed me by the Rev. J. Hearne, I find that Auguftine Hill was minifter here in 1 643 — 1 644. The return in 1650 is 'John Reeve, an able, orthodox divine.' Lands. MSS. 459. The Youngs were once a considerable family in this chapelry. Mor. ii. 75. One of them, R. Young, was a popular writer of valuable tracts, which are well worth reprinting. A number of these were republiflied during the author's lifetime, under the title of 'TheChriftian Library.' Lond., 1655- J The redlor was John Torey, inft. 24th Feb., 1645. In 1648 the re<£lor was James Torey. Infra. He is returned in 1650 as 'an able preaching minifter.' Lands. 459. Torey seems to have con- formed. N. Ii. 307. II William Rogers, 26th March, 1641. Infra. In 1650 the return of him IS, ' he came in without consent of Parliament or parifli. He is a conftant preacher, but ill-affe£ted to the present government.' Lands. MSS. 459. He wrote a poetical preface to Samuel Pur- chas' 'Theatre of Flying Insedts,' 1657, Rogers was succeeded by a Mr. Eley. Elders. M. Whitstone. Tho, Reynolds. Robert Sharpe. Simon Joceline. Thos. Harall. MSS. Add. to the Classis, B.M. His successor seems to have been Will. Hoard or Hoare, who conformed. N. ii. 406. § John Fenwick, inft. i6th Jan., 1638. Walker says that he was se- queftered, ii. 422, but he was here in 1650, when he is returned as 'an able preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Articles were exhibited against him. Cole says 'Conformity was the great iault in Mr. Fenwick, as appears from the depositions.' MSS. Add. to Walker, p. 78. There is no evidence of his sequestration. He appears to have been succeeded by Robert Fuller. See Tillingham, infra. Fuller died before Sept., 1661. His successor conformed. N. ii. 138. ^ John Manning, Inst. 1617. Still there in 1650. 'An able preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. He seems to have conformed. N. ii. 139. ** P. 231. March 22, 1645. The living was sequestered to William Beard. Add. MSS. 15669. He seems to have been removed shortly, as Samuel Smith was reftor in 1648. In 1650 Smith is returned as ' an able preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. John Peake became reftor in 1657. He conformed. New- court ii. 278. f-f- Jeffrey Watts, inst. 14th Dec, 1619. In 1650 he is returned as 'an able and godly preaching minister :' Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. Chelmsford Hundred. MoULSHAM. Ministers. Elders. The Fourth Classh, called Rotchford Classis. Parishes. Ministers. Elders. Wakering Parva. * M. Packhurst. South Shobury. t South Church. % Prittlewell. II Sutton. § M. Church, M. Peck, M. Purcas, Will. Britteredg. John Cannon. Sam. Freeborne, Esq. William Barrow. John Sharp. Rich. Legg. Sam. Freborne. Jno. Boyce. Kenelme Harvie. Lands. MSS. 459. He died before Jan., 1662. His successor conformed. N. ii. 386. Walker says that he was seques- tered at Clavermg, and hints that he was so also here, which is all the more remark- able since he mentions the sequestration of Cornelius, at Clavering. There is no incumbent of that name in Newcourt's list of the vicars there. N. ii. 395, 218; Mor. ii. 95. Watts wrote, ' A Scribe, Pharisee, Hypocrite, and his letter an- swered ; Seperates Churched, Dippers Sprinkled, or a Vindication of the Church and Univerfities of England, &c.' Lond., 1657, 4to. This was in answer to a letter of John Wels, of Little Waltham. He died before Jan., 1662. Walter Adamson, his succefTor, con- formed. N. ii. 386. * The vicar was James Marfhall,adm. 3rd May, 1 611. In 1650 he is returned as ' an able preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. Was Packhurst his curate.? The vicar at the restoration was John Fuller. He conformed. N. ii 621. f Josias Church, 2nd July, 1610. 27th Aug., 1647 ; 'ordered that institu- tion shall be given to John Parkhurst.' Jour. H. of Lords ix. 408, p. 652. He was still re(£tor in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. Parkhurst was succeeded by one Smith. MSS. Add. to Classis, B. M. Samuel Keeble, infra, succeeded in 1654. He conformed. N. ii. 531. Britteridge was of Sutton Hall. Mor. ii. 292. J Church. Infta, Memorials. II Peck. Memorials. Mr. King kindly informs me that there are two wives of Freborne's buried in Prittle- well Church. § Sam. Purchas, p. 267, inst. 30th Sept., 1629. N. ii. 561. He was the son of the well-known author of the same name. His fether was vicar of Eastwood ; a native either of Dunmow or of Thaxted, to which living he was presented by James I. in 1 604. He was also rector of St. Martin, Ludgate. N. ii. 241, i. 415. The work by which his father is best known is the ' Pil- grimage,' of which there are three edi- tions, 1613, 1 6 14, 1626, all in folio. He also wrote ' Microcosmos ; or, the The Classes. 2t Parishes. Ministers. Elders. ASSINGDON. M. Gibson.* John Greene. Phil. Boyce. Geo. Gilson. ROTCHFORD. M. Beard, f Thomas Sharpe. Edward Emmerson, Hawkewell. t M. Oresby, John Brand. Henry Berryman. Tho. Hubbard. South Fambr IDGE. 11 M. Hopkins. Historic of Man : relating the Wonders of his Generation, Vanities in his De- generation, Necessity of his Regeneration,' i2mo., 1629: 'full of the tenderest autobiography imaginable.' This Samuel was himself an author. He publiflied *A Theatre of Political Flying Inserts, wherein especially the nature, the work, and the manner of right ordering of the bee is discovered and described, together with Discourses Historical and Observa- tions Physical concerning them ; and, in a second part, are annexed Meditations and Observations, Theological and Moral, In Three Centuries upon that subject, by Samuel Purchas, M.A., and pastor at Sutton, in Essex.' Lond., 1657, 4to. To this volume there are several prefatory recommendations prefixed, some in prose and some in poetry, written mostly by neighbouring ministers. He was presented to the rectory by Thomas Hobson, who was of Sutton Hall. Mor. ii. 291. In 1650 he is returned as *an able, godly minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. The successor of Purchas seems to have been Rich. Rochell, who conformed in 1662. * John Gibson, inst. 3rd Feb., 1644, infra. The Rev. S. Nottidge kindly informs me that he was buried, April 7, 1 649. He was succeeded by Sam. Keeble, who was afterwards of South Shobury, p. 268. In 1650, Keeble is re- turned as ' an honest and feithfiil preacher.* Lands. MSS. 459. His successor was John Filher. Memorials. ■f- Nicholas Beard, who was presented to the rectory, on the resignation of Ed- mund Calamy, by Robert, Earl of War- wick. N. ii. 497, p. 652. In 1650 he is returned as 'a godly minifter.* Lands. MSS. 459. J Thomas Oresby, infra. Inst, yth Dec, 1643. N. ii. 320. The return, in 1650, is *Thos. Orphy (sic), an able preacher.' Lands. MSS. 459. He had been a hearer of John Cotton, at Boston, when he preached much of what after- wards appeared in his 'Exposition of John,' which was edited by Chr. Scott. Oresby wrote a prefece to that volume, which was publifhed in 1655, at which date he was still at Hawkswell. He seems to have been succeeded by Josias Church. Memorials. II P. 230. The living had been seques- tered to one Jackson, the cousin of Richard Smith, Prothonotary of the Poultry Comptor. Jackson died Aug. 29, 1645. Peckj Desid. Cur. ii. 530. John Hopkins was appointed Sept. 4, 1645. He was dismissed for neglecting the cure, June, 1646, and Roberi: Tourney appointed. Add. MSS. 15669, 307, 310; 15670, 212, 271. In 1650, the return is, * J. Tourney, an able preaching 270 Appendix to Chap. VIL No, 2. Parishes. Ministers. Canewdon. * M. Forward. Rayleigh. t M. Caley, Leighs. X M. Augar, Hadley. II M. Wells, Rawreth. § M. Warley, Barling, fl Elders. Ric. Radyard. John Marshall. John Stillman. John Bundock. Richard Haddock. Richard Pulley, gent. Thomas Harrison. Jonathan Wyer. William Rawlins. Thomas Marshall. Alexander Gowers. minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. Robert Tourney became the reftor in Jan., 1660, ' per mort Vicars.' He conformed. Newcourtj ii. 254, identifies him with the sequestered of Springfield Richards, p. 248. * P. 220. May 10, 1645. Add. MSS. 1 5669. Forward must have voided almost immediately. The return, in 1650, is * (James) Norris, a godly divine, is vicar.' Lands. MSS. 459. He wrote two poetical epiftles, the one in Latin, and the other in English, prefixed to Purchases Hiftory of Bees, 1656 — p. 269. Jona- than Deveraux (infi-a) seems to have suc- ceeded. He conformed. N. ii. 121. f Memorials. J Augar J Memorials. There are two persons of the name of Bundock buried at Leighs, either of whom may have been the elder. John Bundock, 'maryner,' who died 14th July, 1659, aet. 77, or John Bundocke, of St. Catherine's, near the Tower, who died 28th Aug., 1660, aged 58. Haddock was the grandfather of the distinguifhed admiral, Sir Richard Haddock, and one of a family which had been seated at Leigh ever since the reign of Edward IIL Pulley was a solicitor, who was much employed in the county sequeftratlons, and was probably the father of Richard Pulley. For this information I am in- debted to Mr. King, who has publifhed a memoir of the Haddock family, in the Appendix to Dunkin's Hiftory of Kent. [j William Wells, who was presented to the re£tory by Robert, Earl of Warwick, in 1639. N. ii. 291. The return in 1650 is, * Mr. Devorax, of him they hope the best, he having been settled but a little while.' See N. * Samuel Bull seems to have succeeded. He conformed. § P. 246. 14th Nov., 1648. It was ordered that * John Man, M.A., be ap- pointed, void by death.' J. H. of Lords X. 588, p. 652. The Rev. J. C.White kindly informs me that * Browning died some months before the inftitution of Man, and that Man was of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.' Man is returned in 1650, as *a godly and painful minifter,' Lands. MSS. 459. He was still there at the reftoration, when he conformed N. ii. 489. ^ P. 219. The return in 1650 is, *John Negus, a hopeful young man, he is not yet fully settled.' Lands. MSS. 459. The Classes. 271 Parishes. Eastwood. * Foulness, f hockleigh. x North Shobury. || Paglesham. § Stambridge Magna. H Shopland. ** Wakering Magna, ft Ministers. Elders The Fifth Classis, called Denzie Classis. Denzie Hundred. Ministers. Elders. Maldon Towne. %X M. Israel Hewet, Isaac Allen, Esq. Tho. Harris, Esq. Tho. Plum, gent. * P. 268. Sam. Purchas left his cure to his brother about 1613. Wood, Fast. i. 200; N. i. 415. In 1650, Thomas Purkiss, *an able divine, only the jury- affirmed him scandalous for " tippling.' Lands. MSS. 459. Memorials. f P. 230. Dove had not given up possession Aug. 16, 1645. Add. MSS. 15669, 403. In 1650, 'Mr. Goodwin, approved by the parilhioners.' Lands. MSS. 459. Richard Goddiffe conformed. N. ii. 274. J In 1650, the return is 'John Bolneft, not by presentation from the Committee. He is a very idle, lewd, and drunken man.' Lands. MSS. 459. Memorials. II Gabriel Price ? inft. 20th Feb., 1640. N. ii. In 1650, 'William Hawksby, reputed a godly man.' Lands. MSS. 459; see p. 261, Memorials. § John Hanfley, inft. 2nd Oct., 1 641. In 1650, he is returned as 'an able, godly preaching minifter.' Lands. 459. Walker is in error also about him, ii. 49. His prebend of Holborn pro- bably was sequeftered, but not the living of Paglefliam certainly. N. i. 158. He was also the redtor of St. Chriftopher's, London, but that living he resigned before Jan., 1643. N. i. 324. He conformed in 1662, and was rewarded with the archdeaconry of Colchefter. N. i. 93. ^ P. 248. The return in 1650 is, ' Griffith Wood, an honest, painfiil minifter, by sequestration.' Lands. MSS. 459. Robert Stirrell was the reiftor at the reftoration. He conformed. N. ii. 542. ** Probably William Williams, p. 219. The return in 1650 is, 'no settled minis- ter, but Mr. Joy officiates the cure.' Lands. MSS. 459. ■|"|- Memorials. Xt Hewit, inst. 4th April, 1620, p. 654. The return in 1650 is, 'All Saints, with St. Peter's joyned to it. No minifter yet settled, but the patron intends to present Mr. Horrocke, a godly and able minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Me- morials. 272 Appendix to Chap. VIL No, 2. Denzie Hundred. Ministers, Maldon Towne [continued) Elders. WooDHAM Water.* PuRLEIGH.f M. Edmund Whitefoot, gent. John Stevens, gent. John Surtosories, gent, Tho. Langdale, gent. Isaac Robient, gent. M. William Baker. Edward Bigg. John Andrews, Samuel Eve. William Pond. * Edmund Caftle. By order of the House of Lords, 12th 0£t., 1647, on the presentation of Charles Fitch, who held the manor, 12th Oft., 1647. Journals ix. 477. This diftinguiilied man was a native of Hatley, Cambridgefhire, where he was born in 1606. He was of Emmanuel College. He had resigned the vicarage of Hatfield Peverel,in 1638. He spent a considerable fortune on his femous * Lexicon Heptaglottum,' and also a considerable sum on the ' Polyglot,' publiihed by Brian Walton, his literary contributions to which were also of great value. Walton makes no mention of his pecuniary services, and even of his literary aid he says much less than they deserve. In 1650 Castle is returned as 'a godly and able minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. In 1660, he publiJhed a thin 4to. pamphlet, * Sol Angliae Oriens Auspiciis Carol ii. regum Gloriosissimi.' He conformed in 1662. In 1666 he was made King's chaplain, and profeffor of Arabic at Cambridge, and in 1668 he obtained a prebend at Canterbury. He resigned Woodham in 1670, when it should seem he became reftor of Higham Gobions Beds. He died and was buried at Higham in 1685, aet 79. N. ii. 685, 318; Wood, Fast. ii. 48 ; Biog. Brit. Kippis iii. 3105 Mor. ii. 134. ■|~ P. 246. Andrews was shortly suc- ceeded by John Rogers, second son of Nehemiah, p. 156. He was born at Mes- sing, about 1 625. He entered the miniftry at 19. He came here from St. Neot's, Hants. He is returned in 1650 simply as holding the sequeftration. Lands. MSS. 459. In 1651, we find him in Ireland, and minifter of an Inde- pendent church in the Cathedral at. Dublin. Thence he returned to London, became' ledhirer at St. Thomas the Apoftle, and abandoning Independency, declared for the Fifth Monarchy. He was a violent opponent of Cromwell and his government, and was imprisoned for sedition, from July, 1644, to Jan., 1657, firft at Lambeth, then at Windsor, and finally in the Isle of Wight. Soon after his return he was detected in treasonable correspondence, but was not molefted until Feb., 1658, when he was com- mitted to the Tower, whence he was released in April. At the reftoration he had abandoned theology and taken up with medicine. He was made M.D. at Utrecht, in 1662, and at Oxford, in 1664, atwhich laft date he was pradtising in Bermondsey. Rogers died 22nd July, 1720. Wood, Ath. ii. 594; Fast. ii. 159 J Chefter, Life of Rogers, 282, 289. John Head was reftor at the reftoration. He conformed. N. \\. 476. The Classes. 273 Denzie Hundred. MUNDON.* ASHELDHAM. f burnham. x St. Laurence. Ministers. M. Isaac Sendy, M. William Gutry. M. Anth. Sams, M. John Walker, Tillaigham (sic.)§ Bradwell. fl M. John Sherman, Elders. Tho. Sorrell. William Stacey. Jeremy Evered. John Death. James Noble. John White. * P. 245. The return in 1650 is, ' James Carey, by sequeftration from Thomas Staple.' Lands. MSS. 459. t * William Guthrey, an able minifter, by sequeftration.' Lands. MSS. 459. Memorials. X Inft. 23rd July, 1639. In 1648 he was at Rainham, which I suspeft to be a misprint for Burnham. Infra. He was still there in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. Robert Wickes was one of his successors. Nat. Hewitson succeeded in January, 1660, and conformed. N. ii. 114. II P. 239. April 29, 1645. The Committee ordered that the living, which had been sequeftered from Turner to John Brayne, should be sequeftered to John Walker. Add. MSS. 15669. The return in 1650 is, *the incumbent lately dead.' § The vicar in 1650 was Robert Fuller (p. 267), 'an able, godly minifter.' L^nds. MSS. 459. He seems to have been succeeded by John Taverner, who con- formed. N. ii. 599. ^ P. 220. J. Mare. Sherman was ap- pointed to the sequeftration in 1644. In Nomina Sepultoru SHenricus "l Priscilla j Payntei ! Johannes ) Elizabeth ) Sherman 1650 he is returned as * by sequeftration, an able minifter.' At the reftoration he had some difficulty in retaining his living, as John Kawley was actually in- stituted in May, 1662, and John More in the February following, on the death of Kawley- N. ii. 85. Sherman never- theless died re£tor in 1666. The Rev. J. Warner obliges me with the inscription on a tablet eredled to his memory : — M. S. I Siste viator, | Urnam inspice capacem | Dominum claudlt domumq. j Johannes Sherman, S. T. P., [ Hujus Parochias fidus Paftor, | Annos 22, con- tinuosresidensReftor, j Vitricum matrem uxorem -^ dam. 11 liberos, | Hue prae- missos I Quels accessere binae mox filiae | (Praeter sepultum Cantabrigiae filium primogenitum, | *et cognominem,') | Tandem insecutus est [ Et ad caros cineres civis dodtus reversus | Hie jacet placide | Olim paluftri marina hac vescebatur aura [ Nunc antem vere veacitur Aetherea. | Obiit 1 3 Nov. Dom. 1666, | AnAet. 50. I Tres ex tertio ventre superftites liberi I Ad exemplar parentis discant mori, i Abi viator | Et si potis es dinumera. | Uxor posuit relifta quondem tertla, | Rebecca Sherman | Jana Anna Maria Maria nna Thomas 1 Georgius ^ Samuel I Y Sherman Bezaleel Ursula Priscilla Elizabetha Anna ^Maria j ' Edmund Sherman appears as minister also in 1648. Memorials. He was probably the assistant of John Sherman. White, Morant ii. 375. U Henrietta ] 274 Appendix to Chap. VII . No, 2. Denzie Hundred. WoODHAM OrTIMER (sic.)* Stoe (sic.) Marie, t Mayland. X southminster. || Steeple. § Aldthorne. H Cold Norton.** Crixey. tt * Nathaniel Hewitson, presented by Sir — Harris, in 1640. In 1650, 'an able minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. He conformed in 1662, and was rewarded with the living of Burnham. p 273. f Probably the same whom Newc. ii. 564, calls James Waldew. He must have very shortly resigned the reftory, as 1 5th Feb., 1 648, there was an ' order ' for the inftitution of Nicholas Chewney to the redlory, which is said to be void ' by cession of last incumbent.' Jour. H. of Lords X. 44. In 1650, the return is * John Wright, by what right they know not.' Lands. IMSS. 459. At the refto- ration James Maiden (not Waldew, as Newcourt once more has it), was again reftor. He died before Aug. 1662. Ext. MSS. Juxon's regifter, Harl. MSS. 6100, p. 186. It is singular that the name of John Wright also should appear a second time in Sept. :o, 1670. N. ib. Both Calamy and Palmer say that Maiden was cjedled, but the extract above quoted diltinctly gives the inftitu- tion of John Greswold, 28th Aug., 1662, as ' per mortem naturalem Jacobi Maiden.' \ i6th Dec, 1639. He was still there in 1650, 'an able man.' Lands. MSS. 459. His successor seems to have been Henry Robinson, who conformed. II P. 248. May 24, 1647. The living, which had been sequeftered to one Ministers. Elders. M. Nathaniel John Versey. Harrison, M.James Maiden. M. Wm. Buckley, John Heydon, gent. John Winterflood. Henry Fairechild. William Skelton. Nicholetts, who had now left the place, was sequeftered to the use of Nehemiah Holmes. Add. MSS. 15671, 30, see infra. In 1650 he is returned as 'an able minister.' Lands. MSS. 459; see Matching, infra § P. 249. Five parifhioners were summoned before the Committee, Nov. 15, 1645, for abusing Lemuel Tulte in his officiating the cure. Add. MSS. 15669, 409. In 1650 the return is, 'Mr. William Goodrich enjoyeth it. Mr. Nettles is incumbent.' Lands. MSS. 459. Richard Lee, who succeeded 26th Nov,, 1660, 'per mort Nettles,' conformed. % William Danes (sic), 2nd Oct., 1644. In 1650 the return is, ' William Davyes (sic).' Lands. MSS. 459. Danes is a clerical error. Davyes' successor was Thos. Hawices, and his, Chamber Griffith, who conformed. N. ii. 10. ** In 1650, Mr. J. Maiden, (note t ?) ' a godly man, by sequeftration.' Lands. MSS. 459. Memorials. ft The reftor was Richard Parker, loth Nov., 1641. He was still here in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. He was suc- ceeded by Edmund Collett, and he by Richard Lee (note §), who also held the living of Steeple, and conformed. N. ii. 201. The Classes. 275 Denzie Hundred. Ministers. Dengy. "^ Lachingdon c. Lawling. t North Fambridge. J Elders. The Sixth Classis^ called Ongar Classis, Ongar Hundred, High Laver, Ministers." Elders. M. Thos. King, Sir Wm. Mafham, Bart. William Mafham, Esq. Robert King, sen. Tho. Barrington. Barnaby King, Magdalen Laver. M. Ph. Saunders. § Little Layer, fl William Collins. Peter Foster. * The reftor was Auguftine Hill, inft. 31st March, 1630. He was still here in 1650 (Lands. MSS. 459), and was succeeded on his death before nth Jan., 1661, by Nehemiah Long, who conformed at the reftoration. In the depositions taken against John Jarvis, of Grinfted, and North Fambridge, it is said that the parifhioners at Grinfted * desire to have Mr. Nehemiah Long to be their minifter, who is well known to Mr. Harlackenden.' Cole MSS. xxviii. 67. Long afterwards became reftor of Steeple also. Newc. ii. ziz, 560. -f- P. 205. The successor of Hewlett was Martin Alderson, who had been in- cumbent of Dunmow Parva. He is called Martin Alders in the Lands. MSS. 459) ^^^ described as * an able minifter.' Alderson conformed in 1662, and died before Nov. 1680, still redtor of Laching- don. N. ii. 355. J P. 224. The incumbent, probably Samuel Jilden, who was referred to the parishioners for their approbation, Sept. 24, 1647. Add. MSS. 15671, 224, 24th Oct., 1648, there was an order made by the Lords that the living, which was void by death, should be given to Thomas Hilliard. Jour. H. of Lords, X. 363. In 1650 the return is, * Mr. J. Hyliard, an honest preacher.' Lands. MSS. 459. II King was still there in 1650, * an honourable preacher of the truth.' Lands. MSS. 459. Memorials, William Mafham was the eldeft son of Sir William. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir John Trevor, Knt. He was the fether of Sir Francis, the friend of John Locke. Locke died here, 28th Oct., 1704, and his remains were buried in this churchyard. Morant ii. 141. § Memorials. f[ John Oliver, inft. 26th June, 1637. In 1650, the report is, *J. O. returned by two of his parifhioners, said to be in- sufficient, but others assert the contrary.' The committee agree with the first. Lands. MSS. 459; Collins, Mor. ii. 143. 276 Appendix to Chap, VII. No, 2. Ongar Hundred. North Weald.* Morton, f Abbas Roding. J Belchamp Roding. FiFIELD. § Bobbingworth. ^ Ministers. Elders. M. Simon Lince, Tho. Archer, gent. The. Bennet, gent. M. Sam. Head (sic. ) Henry Shippie. Robert Paveley. M. John Wood. j Jno. Rust. M. Constantine, Rbt. Ashfield, gent. John Ting. M. John Poole, Robt. Browne, Esq. * Lynch, p. 157. He was succeeded by Nathaniel Eyre, .28th Aug., 1660. Eyre conformed. Bennett, a relation of Lord Ossulfton, who married the eldest daughter of Sir Denner Strutt, of Warley Hall. Morant, li. 115. f Samuel Hoard, p. 155. J Memorials. II The reftor was John Siday. He was admitted here 15th Aug., 1642, on the presentation of William Siday, of whom see Mor. ii. 220; N. ii. 361, 503. He is returned in 1650 as 'an able, godly preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Siday conformed. § This was Conftantine Jessop. He was appointed to the incumbency by an order of the House of Commons, Nov. 3, 1643. Jessop leftin August, 1647. Add. MSS. 16671, 78. Jessop was succeeded by Edmund Bruer. He was succeeded by Henry Havers (Memorials) and Havers by Anthony Walker, as I am kindly in- formed by the Rev. H. Gibson, in 1650. The Parliamentary return in that year is, ' Mr. Walker. Mr. Havers supplies the cure till Michaelmas next, by appoint- ment of Mr. Walker.' Lands. MSS. 459. Wood, Ath. ii. 269, whose whole account of Jessop is singularly confiised, says, that he succeeded John Owen at Coggeshall, and also that he was some time minifter of St. Nicholas, Bristol ; but it is clear from the above that he is mistaken In saying that he afterwards became reftor of Fyfield, in Essex, * where I find him In 1660.' Besides which, he was at Wimborne, in Dorset, as early as Sept. 1654, and he there died in April, 1658. Jessop's preface to a 'Modest Vindication of the Do£trine of Conditions in the Covenant of Grace,' by John Graile, minister of the Gospel at Tld- worth, in the county of Wilts. (London, 1655, 4to.) Below the Marchioness of Exeter's tomb, in the church at Wim- borne, on a black marble tablet on the wall is this inscription : ' Here wayteth, in expectation of a glorious resurrection, the body of Constant Jessop, some time paftor of this place, who, after he had Uved 53 years, exchanged this mortal life for an immortal one on the i6th day of April, 1658. Constans et fidelis con- sequitur proemium.' Hutchins, Hist, of Dorsetsh. ii. 546. Besides the preface above quoted, Jessop also published * The Angel of the Church of Ephesus,' on Revelations ii. i. London, 1644, 4to. 1660. ^ John Poole, * a constant preaching minister, and well approved by the parishioners.' Lands. MSS. 459. Nicholas Searle seems to have conformed. N. ii. 266. Browne, of Blake Hall, Mor. ii. 149. Poole, of Bobbingworth Hall. Mor, ii. 149. The Classes. 277 Ongar Hundred. Ministers. BoBBiNGWORTH [continued) Shelley.* Chipping Ongar. t M. Hen. Havers, Grinsted. { High Ongar. || M.Jno. Lavender, Norton Mandeville. M. Whiston,§ Standon. ^ Kelvedon. ** M. Geo. Brov/ne, (sic.) Navestock. ft Stamford Rivers . % % M.Mat. Ellestone, Elders. John Poole. Stephen Summer. Samuel Calford. Tho. Savill. Robert Young, Esq. Jacob Archer, Esq. William Wolvit, Esq. James Darnell, gent. Tho. Everer, gent. Richard Bancks, gent. Zech. Bell, gent. Ric. Petchie. Isaac Dacres, gent. Hen. Prior. John Rippingale. Anthony Luther, Esq. Henry Cramp. Samson Sheffield, Esq. Richard Doe, Esq. Wm. Attw^ood, Esq. Tho. Cranefield, gent. John Man, gent. * P. 157. Memorials. f Memorials. J P. 232. In 1650 the return is, *M. Nathan Lacy, a constant preacher, and well approved by the Parliament.' Lands. MSS. 459. Nathan Lacy was confirmed in the re£tory 25th Feb., 1661, on the sequestration of Thomas Punter, He conformed. N. ii. 209. 11 Memorials. § In 1650, he is returned as ' an able, godly minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. ^ Ant. Sawbridge ? Inst. 8th Aug. 1633. He was still there in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. Ed. Ottway, 22nd Aug. 1660, conformed. ** Hatch. George Bound, by ap- pointment of Committee for Plundered Ministers, M. Withers, the incumbent, being since dead, Oct. 25, 1645. Add. MSS. 15669, 388. From information kindly sent me by the Rev. J. Bannifter, it appears that Bound succeeded Nathaniel Bettes. He was still at Kelvedon in 1650, ' a noble, godly preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. His successor was Charles CuUen, who conformed in 1662. N. ii. 352. Luther was of Miles. He was buried in the church here. Morant i. 186. See Memorials. ff Memorials. JJ Memorials. Attwood was of Little- bury and Rockenhoe. Mor. i. 155. 278 appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. Ongar Hundred. Ministers. Stapleford Tawney.* M. Edward Bentall, Theydon GAMON.t M. Jo. Feribie, Theydon Boys. \ Lambourne. Chigwell. § LOWTON IT Elders. Fra. Stonard, Esq. Tho. How, gent. Jo. Springhatn. Tho. Blomefield. Dn. Dunn, Esq. Major Robert Beard. Tho. Rogers. William Moyne. Geo. Holloway. M. Gamaliel Carre, Wm. Nicholls, gent. Wm. Waylett, gent. Hugh Haselland. M. Peter Watkinson, Tho. HoUis, gent. William Browne, gent. M. Rich. Willis, Capt. Robert Davies. Hen. Osborne, gent. The Seventh Classis, called Harlow and Waltham Classis. Harlow Hundred. Ministers. Elders. Hatfield Broad- M.Jo. Warren,** Sir Tho. Barrington, oake. Kt. and Baronet. * Benthall was of Stapleford Abbot in 1648. Memorials. -|- Memorials. Dunn, son of Sir Daniel Dunne, of Garnifli Hall. Mor. i. 158. J P. 250. The return in 1650 is, * no minifter, the tenant not having ap- pointed one for many years.' Lands. MSS. 459. The tenant was the impro- priator, Edward Elrington, of Birch Hall. Mor. i. 163. II P. 238. Carr, appointed by order of the House of Commons, 22nd April, 1643. Jour. iii. 56, p. 564. In 1650, the return is, ' Gamaliel Carr, by my inftructlons, an able, godly minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Samuel Nafli seems to have been a successor. He is returned as * defunct' at the archdeacon's visitation, 22nd Oct., 1662. Visitation Book. § P. 220. Peter Watkinson, by order of the House of Commons, 12th July, 1643. Journals iii. 163. The return in 1650 is, ' no settled minifters, the vicarage is supplied by such as they can provide.' Lands. MSS. 459. ^ Presented to the reftory by Daniel Thelwell, and others, and admitted 30th Aug., 1638. 'A godly and painful preacher.* Lands. MSS. 459. Willis was succeeded by Edward Wyrley, who conformed in 1662. N. ii. 396. ** Memorials. The Classes. 279 Harlow Hundred. Ministers. Hatfield Broadoake {continued) Hallingbury Magna* M. William Hales, Hallingbury PARVA.f M.Jo. Wilson, Shering. X Matching. Latten. § M. John Yardley, M. Tho. Deane, Netswell. *\ M. Tho. Cramphorne, Parndon Mag. ** M. Jeremy Dike, Parndon Parva. ft Elders. William Man, gent. Henry Wibert. Ric. Rogers. Daniel Fuller, gent. Robert Heath. Robert Tayler, gent. Geo. King, gent. Daniel Cramphorne. William Sampson. W.Stacie,ofRandell's. Dan. Hutson. Sir Wm. Martin, Kt. Jo. Banifter, gent. William Beard. William Hatts. Nic. Chefter. * p. 233. Hales succeeded Osbal- fton, who was appointed to Thurman's sequeftration. Add. MSS. 15669, 230. He was still there in 1650, 'an able, godly preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Newcourt gives the date of Hales' admiflion as June, 1654. This was pro- bably the date of the death of Thurman, when Hales was duly presented by the patron. Hales conformed. N. ii. 296. •f- P. 233. By appointment of the committee, before May 13, 1647. Add. MSS 1 5 67 1, 19. 'An able preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. In the next generation ? Monkbury belonged to the Rev. Robert Tayler, who died about 1719. Mor. ii. 516. J Memorials. II P. 242. John Allen was the minifter, by order of the House of Com- mons, 13th July, 1643. Journals iii. 164. The return in 1650 is, * Nathaniel Long, a godly, able, painful preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. N. ii. 411, has the name of Nehemiah Holmes, but without any date of admittance or avoidance. § Admitted reftor i8th May, 1632. N. ii. 367. ' Thos. Dunn (sic), an able and godly preacher.' Lands. MSS. 459. Dunn conformed in 1662. ^ Admitted 8th May, 1640. N. ii. 435. 'A godly preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Seep. 157. Cramphorne con- formed in 1 662. N. ib. Sir W. Martin was then lord of the manor. He died in 1679, and was buried in this church. Mor. i. 490. Banifter was probably one of the Great Eafton family. Mor. i. 432. 433- ** Memorials. f f The return in 1 650 is, ' William Houghton, an able preaching minifter.' The inftitution of Henry Wolton, 26th 0£t., 1660, is given in Juxon's regifter, as ' ad reftoriam ecclesiae parochialis de Parnedon parva jam legitime vac' Har- leian MSS. 6100, p 186. 28o Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. Harlow Hundred. ROYDON. * Harlow, t Ministers. Elders. Oliver Harvey. Samuel Stracey. M. Edw. Spranger, Capt. Robt. Tomson. Capt. John Savill. Samuel Campaes,gent. Robert Reeve, gent. Waltham Hundred. Ministers. Elders. Waltham Abbe Y.J M. Price, Epping. 11 M. H Chinckford. § M. Edward Golding, gent. John Altcock, gent. Tho. Winpeare, gent. Wilkinson, Lord Grey, of Werk. William Bennet. Ric. Hunt. Sam. Toxey, M. Gunnerie. M. Wallenger. * The vicar probably was Breckett Smith, N.ii. 509. The return in 1650 is ' Brocket (sic) Smith, he preacheth conftantly, but is returned to the jurors to be of scandalous life, but he hath pro- duced good teftimonials.' Lands. MSS. 459. Smith seems to have conformed in 1662. t Admitted 30th April, 1617, see p. 653. ' An able, godly preaching minis- ter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Spranger con- formed in 1662. Robert Reeve, of Hubert's Hall. Mor. ii. 484. % The Rev. James Francis informs me that there are no traces of Price in the regifter. If Newc. be correal in assigning 1640 as the date at which Thos. Fuller became the incumbent, he muft have left for a time, but he soon retiirned, as in 1650 the entry in the Lands. MSS. 459, is, ' Mr. Fuller, an able, godly preaching minifter.' Fuller, of course, conformed in 1662. He was the well-known writer of that name. There were pub- lished by the late Mr. Pickering, ' Memo- rials of Thos. Fuller, D.D., by the Rev. A. F. Russell.' [[ Memorials. Lord Grey was of Epping Bury. He was the eldeft son of Sir Ralph Grey, of Chillingham, in Northumberland, created a baronet 15th June, 1619; and nth Feb., 1623, Baron Grey, of Werke, in the county of Northumberland. He purchased Epping Bury of the Earl of Winchelsea, in 1635. Morant ii. 146. § P. 223. Toxey, afterwards of Ley- ton ? Memorials. The minifter in 1650 was 'Dr. Byrome, by order of the Parliament.' Lands. MSS. 459. In 1655 Robert Plume became the minifter ; and, in 1657, Plume was succeeded by Thomas Witham, afterwards of Burbrook. Lyson's Environs i. 657. There was a Thomas Wallenger, of Warley Hall, at this date. Morant i. 113. The Classes. 281 Waltham Hundred. Nasing. * Ministers. M. Jo. Harper, £lD£ES. William Capp, gent. John Ruggles, gent. The Eighth Classis, called Dunmowe and Freshwell Classis. DuNMOWE Hundred. Barnestone. t Broxted. J Chickney. II Dunmowe Mag. § Ministers. M. Beadle, M. Chadwick, Dunmowe Parva.^ M. Alderson, Canefield Mag.** M. Hearne, CANEFIELDPARVA.ft M. NoWell, Easter Alta. fj Elders. M. Collard. John Searle, gent. William Cotton, gent. Robt. Milburne, gent. Robt. Calthorpe, gent. William Swallow. Andrew Finch, gent. Edw. Hadsley, Esq. Jo. Judd, gent. Capt. Edw. Stileman. Philemon Brewer. * Memorials. f Beadle, Memorials. Collard left a bequeft to the poor of the pariih of Barn- 5ton. He was of the Albanes. Mor. ii. 450. J Chawreth. Chadwick presented to the reftory in 1615. *A very able and godly minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. John Chadwick was succeeded by John Cary, who resigned before March, 1660, and Cary by Robert Poole, who seems to have conformed. Newcourtii. 127. II Memorials. § Memorials. f[ Martin Alderson, afterwards of Lachingdon, N. ii. 231, p. 274. In the S. P. O. MSS. Int. cclxxxvi. p. 312, there is an order for ,^50 to be paid out of the tithes of Little Dunmow to the minister of the parish church of Dunmowe, under date June 3, 1646. The return in 1650 is, *Mr. William Skingle, a godly preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. Skingle seems to have conformed. N. ib. ** P. 240. Jeremiah Home, by ap- pointment of the Committee for Plundered Minifters, May 22, 1645. Add. MSS. 15669, 165. Francis Bridge was minis- ter in 1648. He is returned in 1650 as 'an able divine.' Lands. MSS. 459. Bridge died before Jan., 1662, when he was succeeded by Robert Hasserton, who conformed in that year. N. ii. 123. ■|-|* Samuel Nowell, infra. The Rev. C. L. Smith obliges me with an extract from the parish regifter, which shows that Noell (sic.) was buried April -z, 1649 The return in 1650 is, * John Glascock, an able preacher.' Lands. MSS. 459. Glascock died before nth Oct., 1661 when he was succeeded by John Peachie. who conformed in 1662. N. ii. 124. JJ Memorials. 282 Appendix to Chap. VU. No. 2. DuNMowE Hundred. Easter Bona. * Ministers. Eason Mag. f Eason Parva. { LiNSELL. II Mashbury. § RoDiNG Alba. IT ,, Alta. ,, Barnish. ft „ Aythorp. Xt M. Cleyton, M. Bates, M. Collins, M. Sherwood, ** Elders. Jo. Rolf. J. Lack. M. Jo. Mead. Francis Bowles. John Salmon, jun. M. Walter Luckin. Jo. Sumpner. Dan. Marshall. * The vicar was John Lichfield, who was presented to the living by Robert, Earl of Warwick J Edward, Earl of Man- chester} and Edmund Calamy, in 1645. N. ii. 234. He is returned in 1650 as ' a very godly and able minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Lichfield conformed. t P. 230. Memorials. Mead, of Duton Hill. Mor. ii. 434. J The reftor was John Dockley, pre- sented by William, Lord Maynard, in 1639. N. ii. 138. He is returned in 1650, as * an able preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Dockley conformed in 1662, and was succeeded on his death, 17th Aug., 1663, by Thomas Kenn, who was afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells. N. ii. 238. 'Life of Bishop Kenn, by a Layman.' London, 1854, 2 vols. 8vo. II Elisha Pratt, infra, inst. 3rd Aug., 1635. In 1650, *a very able, honest preaching mlnlfter ' Tho. Conftable suc- ceeded. Memorials. § P. 242. Henry Bates. Add. MSS. 1 5671. Sept. 23, 1647, see infra. The return in 1650 is, 'Mr. Henry Bates, not approved of by the parishioners .... how Mr. Bates came in is not to be discovered.' Lands. MSS. 459. Walker says, Abraham Pinchback was presented to the living in 1654, ii. 251. Soon after the reftoration, William Alchorne was the rector. He con- formed, ii. 248. The Luckins were an old Mashbury family. ^ Memorials. ** P. 246. In the Committee Book, under date Sept. 18, 1646, it is ordered that 'Joseph Sherwood, having relinquished the redlory, it is now sequestered to the use of Francis Hills.' Add. MSS. 15670, 434. Hill was still there in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. Hill conformed. N. ii. 501. The Rev. E. Maxwell obliges me with several extracts from the pariih regifters, among them one relating to the marriage of Francis Hill to Elizabeth Savile, at St. Peter's, Cornhill, London, Dec. 15, 1646, and another recording the burial of Hill at High Rooding, April 3, 1694. f f The incumbent was Wm. Meade, who came here in 1637. In 1650 he is returned as ' not an able nor a preach- ing minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. He seems to have conformed in 1662. N. ib. XX The re£tor seems to have been Richard Argol, who is returned in 1650 as* an able divine.' Lands. MSS. 459, compare Newc.ii. 505. Argol conformed in 1662. The Classes. 283 DuNMowE Hundred. Ministers. „ Margaret."^ „ Plumbea. t Shellow Bowels. J Thaxted. II TiLTIE. § WiLLINGDALE DoE.^ M. Powell, WiLLINGDALE SPAIN.** M. NicholaS, Elders, Daniel Algor. William Alger. William Purchas. Edward Mead. Simon Horndon. Jo. Guyver, gent. Nath. Norris. Freshwell Hundred. Ministers. ASHDON. ft Bardfield Mag. %% * The rector was John Stable, who was admitted 17th Dec, 1635. N. ii. 506. He is returned in the Lands. MSS. as 'an able preacher.' John was suc- ceeded in 1660 by Thomas Stable, who conformed. -|- Thomas Brand. He was here in 1635. See * Annesley's Life and Funeral Sermon of the Rev. Mr. T. Brand.' London, 1694. This Brand was the son of the re£tor of Leaden Roding. In 1650 the return is, * Mr. Thomas Brand, a preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. Brand died before July, 1660, when he was succeeded by John Jackson, who conformed. J The reftor possibly may have been Thomas Keene. John Reeve was rector in 1650, 'an able preaching minister.* Lands. MSS. 459. Reeve conformed. N. ii. 522. || Memorials. § The incumbent may have been Henry Cook. N. ii. 600, In 1650, the return is, * supplied for the most part by Lord Maynard's chaplain.' Lands. MSS. 459- f[ P. 254, John Powell ? Memo- rials. ** Anthony Nicholas, who was pre- Elders. John Bowtell. Sir Martin Lumley, Bart, sented to the rectory by Charles I., In 1642. He seems to have conformed. N. ii. 670. He Is only mentioned by name in 1650. The Rev. W. R. Parker obliges me with several extracts from the parish regifters relating to Nicholas, but there Is no record there of his death. ft Samuel Johnson was reftor. Johnson was admitted ist July, 1640. In the MSS. addition to the Classis, he is called Dr. Johnson. In 1650, he is returned as 'an able divine.' Lands. MSS. 459. Johnson died In 1658. Cole MSS. XXX. 93. His successor was Chrlftopher Fleete, who conformed. JJ P. 284. John Packenham was still reftor. In 1650 the return Is, ' Mr. John Packingham (sic) does not officiate himself, but hath put in Mr. John Morde, to whom he hath made a lease of it for twenty years, eleven of it to come.' Lands. MSS. 459. Morde, therefore, was the officiating minifter at this date. He was succeeded by Samuel Hall. See Bardfield Saling, infra. Sir M . Lumley, of Bardfield Hall, born 1604, High Sheriff, 1639, created a Baronet, 1640. Succeeded to the re- presentation of the county on the eleva- tion of Lord Rich to the peerage. Mor. ii. 520. Pari. Hist. Ii. 607. 284 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. Feeshwell Hundred. Ministers. Bardfield Mag [continued). BUMPSTED HeLION. *■ Bardfield PARVA.t M. Lunne. ,, Saling. X Hempsted. II Hadstock. § M. Wallis, Radwinter. ^ M. Veale, Samford Mag. ** M. Newton. ,, Parva. tt M. Pennington. Elders. James Hart, gent. Ric. Wright. M. Tho. Wall. M. Joseph Hall. M. Joseph Stiles. Ric. Duerdon. The Ninth Classis, called Clavering and Uttlesford Classis. Clavering Hundred. Bearden. XX Clavering. || || Ministers. Elders. M. John Moore, Edward Humphrey. John Chapman, gent. Capt. Hatch. * The vicar was Theodore Cowle? who was admitted 15th Jan., 1635. N. ii. no. The return in 1650 is, *Mr. Theodore Cole (sic), an able divine.' Lands. MSS. 459. Cowle conformed. N. ib. f Thomas Lund, admitted to the rectory 13th Sept., 1616. N. ii. 31. In 1650, the return is, * Mr. Thomas Lunn (sic), an able preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Lund seems to have con- formed in 1662. Wall was of Little Bardfield Hall. Mor. ii. 523. J Possibly Samuel Hall, who was here in 1650, when he is returned as * an able preacher.' Lands. MSS. 459. He re- moved to Bardfield Magna, where he seems to have conformed, p. II Memorials. § See p. 232. Mr. Thomas Wallis, * an able preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. Walker says that Martin Simpson obtained the living in 1654, ii. 411. Adiel Baynard succeeded 23rd Jan., 1662, on the cession of Young. Baynard conformed. N. ii. 292. ^ Voyle. Memorials. ** Samuel Newton. Memorials. ff P. 248. ' Mr. Israel Pennington, a preaching minister, put in by Parliament.' Lands. MSS. 459. John Wale seems to have succeeded. The entry of his suc- cessor, Edward Webster, is ' per res. Wale.' Webster conformed. Newc. ii. 516. Jl The curate was John Waite. N. ii. 55. In 1650, he is returned as * an able divine.' Lands MSS. 459. Berden was the native place of Joseph Mede, of whom Fuller says, ' for things past he was a perfect historian, for things present a judi- cious novilant, and for things to come a prudential (not to say prophetical) con- jecturer.' Worthies, 335, ed. 1662. Mede was born, 1586, and died 1638. Brooks Lives, ii. 429. II II Moore, Memorials. Hatch was of Geddings. Mor. ii. 613. The Classes. 285 Clavering Hundred. Farnham. * Langley. Maunden. t OUGELEY. X Ministers. M. Giles Archer. Elders. Uttlesford Hundred. Ministers. Elders. Arxden. II M. Rich. Cutts. John Norris. BiRCHANGER. § William Read, gent. Chester Parva. IT M. John Houghton, Chissell Mag. ** „ Parva. ft M. James Willett, Tho. AyllofFe, Esq. * Admitted to the reftory 27th April, 1644. N. ii. 256. * An able preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Archer conformed. N. ib. The predecessor of Giles Archer was William Sedgwick. Memorials. ")■ P. 239. The incumbent was Na- thaniel Rawlins. Additional MSS. 15670, p. 290, June 13, 1646. The return in 1650 is, 'Mr. Paul Clement is hired.' Lands. MSS. 459. James Hellam succeeded afterwards. He re- signed before 6th April, 1663. N. ii. 403. J Possibly Richard Smith, adm. 30th March (N.ii. 614), 1630. Memorials. II P. 219. Memorials. Cutts was of Wood Hall, brother of Sir Henry Cutts. Morant ii. 589. § The then reftor was William Parsons, who had been presented by Winchefter College, Oxford, 1641. N. ii. 63. Wood says of him, under date Aug. A, 1658: 'He had been a great sufferer by the Presbyterians, and had been kept in jail at Cambridge 19 weeks for his loyalty to Charles I. . . after- wards returning to his small living in Birchanger, in Essex, did usually read the Common Prayer there in the times of usurpation . . . After his Majesty's refloration, he became prebendary of Chichester, re(Sor of Lambourne, and vicar of Great Dunmow, in Essex. At the laft of which places, he dying of an apoplexy, was buried there 1 1 th July, 1671, aged 72 years.' Fast. ii. 132. Mor. ii. 575. In 1650 the return is, ' William Parsons, a preaching minister,' Lands. MSS. 459. ^ Admitted Feb. 25, 1616, on the presentation of Eliza Houghton, widow. N. ii. 134. He was still there in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. His successor, John Petchell, resigned before nth Dec, i66i, when John Warren became rector. Warren conformed. ** P. 224. The return in 1 650 is, ' no settled minister, the feult being in the sequeftered, who had received the profits some years.' Lands. MSS. 459. John Ney succeeded in 1661. He conformed. N. ii. 150. -f"f- Willett. Memorials. Ayloffe was the son of Sir William Ayloff. He held the manor of Nether Chishill at this date. Mor. ii. 608. 286 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. Uttlesford Hundred. Ministers. Debden. * Elmdon. t Elgenham. X Henham. II Heydon. § LiTTLEBURY.ir Newport. ** M. Glover, M. William Prynne, M. George Wilson, M. Henry Prime, QUENDON. tt RiCKLING. X% Stansted Mountfitchet. Elders. Tho. Hammon, gent. Saml. Chapman, gent. Tho. Stock, gent. Tho. Raymond, gent. Jo. Corbet, gent. Jo. Bigg, gent. Tho. Martin, gent. Timothy Middleton. William Vincent. Takeley.§§ M. Samuel Story. * P. 228. Glover. Memorials. -|- Prynne, infra. Admitted 26th April, 1645. N. ii. 242. He is returned in 1650 as 'an able divine.' Lands. MSS. 459. Prynne's successor was John Bradgate, of whom the Rev. J. Barr obliges me with an extradl form the parish regifter relating to a coUedtion made by him Sept. 1655 or 1658, he is not certain which. The admission of Samuel Fuller, 8th Ang., 1663, is given as * per cess. Bradgate.' N. ii. 242. X P- '55' J""^ '7> '^4^1 £,^° w^5 awarded from the sequestration of Mr. Talkarne, at Bumpsted Helion, to Mr. Wilson, minister of Elsenham. S. P. O. Dom. Ser. Interr. cclxxxvi. 65. John Tallakarne was of Olmsted Hall. He is buried in the chancel at Bumsted. Mor. ii. 533. John Curtis, afterwards of Talcely and of Thaxted, seems to have been vicar at the restoration. He con- formed. N. ii. 246. II Adiel Baynard, inst. 1st Aug., 1644. He was still here in 1650, *a preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. See p. 284. Memorials. § P. 232. Young was still rector In 1650, when he is returned as 'an able preacher.' Lands. MSS. 459. Stephen Chapwell succeeded in 1652. He appears to have conformed. N. ii. 294. fy P. 239. The return in 1650 is, *no settled minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. ** The return in 1650 is, 'no incum- bent.' Lands. MSS. 459. tf The return in 1650 is, 'Mr. John Denifer, a preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. See Memorials. XX The vicarage was now vacant, as the re^Jrn in 1650 is, ' no settled minifter, nor hath been these seven years.' Lands. MSS. 459. Ij II Memorials. Middleton was the second son of Sir Thomas Middleton, Knt. The elder was seated at Bendfield Bury. Mor. ii. 578. §§ P. 249. June 17, 1646. There was an order for £^0 to be paid out of Wimbish for the maintenance of the minifter. MSS. S. P. O. Dom. Ser. Inter, cclxxxvi. 98, cclxxxvii. 511. July 30, 1646. The old sequeftrators prayed to be released, and new ones were ap- The Classes. 287 Uttlesford Hundred. Ministers. Walden. * M. Bentfield, Welden Lofts. t Wenden Ambo. X WicKHAM Bonnet. M. Rowland Green- wood, Elders. Jno.Thorowgood, gent. Frs. Williamson, gent. M. Burrowes. Richard Reynolds. William Mawie. Capt. Morrell. Tho. Young. Ric. Woodley, gent. ■ Nat. Wright, gent. WiDDINGTON. § WiMBISH. ^ Chrishall.** STRETHALL.ft The Tenth Classis, called Hinckford Classis. HiNCKFORD Hundred, Ministers. Elders. Bumstead. %X M. J. Borodale. Kalph (sic) Hill. Sam. Bell. pointed. Add. MSS. 15670, 321. The return in 1650 is, * Mr. S. Rich, an able preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459 John Curtis was admitted ist July, 1661 'per mort ult. incumb.,' which, I presume, refers to Heard, p. 249. He conformed * The vicar probably Nic. Graye, N. ii. 627. In 1650, ' Mr. John Bent- field, an able divine.' Lands. MSS. 459. -j- Wendon. Probably John Mount- ford, 13th Jan., 1641. N. ii. 648. The return in 1650 is, 'Mr. Bartholomew Mountford, an able preacher.' Lands. MSS. 459. Bartholomew conformed. J Great and Little Wendon were united about 1650. N. ii. 650. In 1650, 'Mr. John Warren (p. 278?), at Wendon Parva.' Lands. MSS. 459. [| Theophilus Aylmer, presented by Charles I. in 1627. N. ii. 660. The return in 1650 is, 'Mr. Tho. (ne) Aylmer.' Lands. MSS. 459. Aylmer conformed. § Nicholas Searle, 15th Dec, 1637. See Bobbingworth, p. 276. He is re- turned in 1650 as, 'an able preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. He sur- vived the reftoration, and conformed. Woodley was of Swains. Mor. ii. 5674 f[ P. 254. Greenwood was vicar. Admitted 9th May, 1634. He was suc- ceeded in Nov., 1657, by Edm. Heywood, who conformed. N. ii. 674. ** The vicar in 1640 was Thomas King. N. ii. 196, p. 275. The return in 1650 is, 'Mr. John Griffin, an able preacher.' Lands. MSS. 459. In 1657 John Debnam was admitted, 1st May. He conformed. f f ' Mr. John Hammond, for twelve years last past, a preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. He was admitted 26th May, 1638. Hammond conformed. N. ii. 565. JJ Steeple Bumftead. Stephen Mar- fhall preached at the fiineral of Borodale. Memorials John Wilson was minifter in 1648. The return in 1650 is, 'the laft incumbent is lately dead.' Lands. MSS. 459. Geo. Hyer was admitted 22nd Sept., 1662. N. ii. 112. 288 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. HiNCKFORD Hundred. Stambourne. * Bride-brooke. t Ministers. M. J. Parnell, M. J. Gent. FOXEARTH. X Pentloe. II OviNGTON. § Belchamp Walter. ^ St. Paul.** Oten. ft Elders. Stephen Hints. Geo. Pike, Esq. Martin Sparrow. Jo. Isaac, gent. Tho. Sandall. Sam. Pepps, gent. Oliver Raymon (sic), Esq. Tho. Dyer, gent. William Givers, gent. * Memorials. f Walker says there was a sequestra- tion here, ii. 199, but it is another of his misstatements. John Gent, who was inft. 1 2th May, 1632, continued reftor until 1651, when he was succeeded by John (? Tho.) Thompson, who was redlor till his death, when Tho. Witham, p. 280, succeeded, June, 1661. For the dates I am indebted to' the present reftor. Gent is returned in 1650, 'as an able, godly preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. Witham conformed. N. ii. 63. Piice was of Bathorne. Mor. ii. 344. J John Firmin, admitted 8th June, 1638. He was still there in 1650, 'a godly preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. In 1656, Firmin was succeeded by Thomas Kempe, who conformed. N. ii. 275. II Memorials. § Peter Southill, 7th Feb., 1634. N. ii. 457. In 1650 the return is, * Peter St. Hill (sic), an able, godly preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Southill was succeeded, in 1655, by John Thomas, who conformed, ib. Pepys, one of the Pool family, Yeldham. . Morant ii. 301, 302, 303, 618. ^ The vicar, probably, was John Wright. In 1650 the return is, ' John Firmin, clerk, an able and godly minis- ter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Firmin's name does not occur in N. ii. 45. Between 1584 and 1678, he has only the fol- lowing two names, without any dates of admission or avoidance : Will. Smithies, John Wright. There was a William Smithies at Rayne in 1648, Memorials, and at Stanway in 1650. Mor. ii. 330, Infra. Oliver Raymond. Mor. ii. 330. ** Robert Fisher. Depositions were taken against - Fisher loth May, 1644, when three witnesses deposed to his ' having been active in enforcing the rails J ' three, to his * being a common swearer j' three, to his ' suffering the pro- fening of the Sabbath without reproof ; ' and three, to his ' reading the King's pro- clamations very loudly and diflindlly, but the ordinances of the Parliament only partly, and with a low voice ; ' several to his ' defending the conduct of the King, and urging his cause j' and two, that he ' suffered divers malignants to preach for him ; ' to which was added, that ' he usually kept company with profane men.' Cole MSS. xxviii. 34, 35, 36. But he was not difhirbed in his Uving. See infra. The return in 1650 is, ' an able, godly preacher.' Lands. MSS. 459. tt Memorials. The Classes. 289 HiNCKFORD Hundred. Regwell. * LiSTON. t Tilbury. t BORELEY. II AsHENALs Esse. § Sturanny. it topfield. ** Stebbing. tt Ministers. Elders. Tho. Chaplin. Peter Allifton. Tho. Clopton. M. William Clarke, Tho. Purcas. M. Jo. Overed, M. Ainsworth, ChriftopherEarle, Esq. M. Samuel Smith, Robert Warmtford. John Sorrell. John Andrewes. Arthur Bramfton, Esq. * Memorials. Chaplin was of Paynes. Mor. ii. 342. ■f- James Lumley, presented by Thomas Clopton in 1635. He was still here in 1650, *an able and godly preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS, 459. He was succeeded in 1660 by Daniel Nicols, who conformed. N. ii. 392. Clopton was of Lifton Hall. Mor. ii. 321. X Juxt Clare. Newc. has John Clarke, loth March, 1645. In 1648, John Parnell signs himself a minister of Tilbury. N. p. 653. In 1650 the return is, 'John Clarke, an able, godly preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Ralph Garnons sue-, ceeded, 30th May, 1654. He conformed. N. ii. 595. II P. 220. The entry in 1650 is, * John DeeJts serves the cure.' Lands. MSS. 459. William Playne was ad- mitted re(ftor in 1660. He conformed. ^ § William Jones, 1616. The entry in 1650 is, 'Mr. Jas. Skinner serves the cure, by consent of Mr. Jones.' Lands. MSS. 459. Depositions were taken against Jones, loth April, 1644, when five witnesses gave evidence to his ' having lately had three cures to serve at once : Ashen, Barfield, and Brantham, in Suffolk ;' three, to his being ' non-resident at Aihen for six or seven years last paft, not having preached there above three or four Lord's dales in a year, and hath imployed malignant curates in his place till lately j ' two, to his ' having urged the Book of Sports j ' two, that ' being desired by the churchwarden to publifh and ad- minifter the Vow and Covenant, he said he durft not for fear of praemunire, and so it was not taken in the parish ;' and three, that he made ' a notorious con- vii5ted drunkard his tenant in the par- sonage house, to vex the Parliament.' Cole MSS. xxviii. 26, 27. The MSS. additions to the Classis has the name of Mr. Simmonds. John Mayes succeeded in Nov., i66i,and conformed. N. ii. 19. ^ Sturmere ? Nicholas Gent, pre- sented by Charles I., 1645. In 1650 he is returned as 'a preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. Gent appears to have conformed. N. ii. 566. ** Memorials. Earle, infra. -|"|' Memorials. Y 290 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. HiNCKFORD Hundred. Ministers. Elders. HuNNiNGHAM M. Brewer, M. Bradfhaw. Castle.* John Parmiter, sen. Geo. Taylor. HuNNINGHAM SiBLE. f Yeldham Magna. J M. Rich. Mosely, Sidrach Smith. Sam. Plum, gent. John Simons, gent. Yeldham Parva. || FiNCHiNGFiELD.§ M. Stephen Marftiall, Sir Rob. Kemp, Knt. M. Letmale, Jno. Meade, Esq. Capt. John Pue. Richard Harrington. IT The Eleventh Classis, called the East Classis of Hlnckford. HiNCKFORD Hundred. Ministers. Elders. BocKiNG. Dr.' Gawden,** RogerWentworth,Esq. M. Handes. J. Reeve. William Skinner. M. Samuel Collins, Adrian Mott. Braintree. tt * Memorials. \ John Jegon, see p. 234. He con- ormed. \ Presented by Sam. Plomb, 1629, * an orthodox and able minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Mosely conformed. John Symonds, of the Pool. Morant il. 303, see also the same page for the femily of Plumb. jl Memorials. § Memorials. Sir Robert was of Spaine's Hall, Knt., 1641. Mor. ii. 364. Meade, of Nortofts, p. 209, 210. ^ Harrington, see Mor. ii. 369. ** Gauden, p. 195. Wentworth was of Bocking Hall. Morant ii. 283. Reeve was of High Garrett. Morant ii. 386. Skinner, possibly the son of Mr. Skinner who bequeathed * two crofts, called Waitlands, for the use of the poor for ever.' Morant ii. 388 •j-j- Collins, p. 1 50. Mott was a bene- fadtor to the poor of this parifli, for 'upon the 4th March, 1638, he brought into the veftry ;^loo, which he paid to the minifter and to the rest of the veftry, desiring that it might be laid out in land so soon as conveniently it might, and in the meantime to be improved to the best advantage, the profit thereof to be dis- posed of on the 5 th of November yearly, as his father did direct in his charity. But this charity never had the desired efFedl, for the donor lived to see a great part of the money lost by those to whom it was lent.' Morant ii. 398. The minifter was Samuel Collins, and the father of Adrian Mott was Mark Mott, The Classes. 291 HiNCKFORD Hundred. Ministers. Braintree {^continued) Felsted. * Wethersfield. t M. Daniel Rogers Daniel Ward, Shalford. X M. Hills, Stisted. II Raine. § Panfield. ^ Alphamston. ** BULMER. ft Ballingdon and Brandon. Gestingthorpe. XX Heyney. II II formerly of Wethersfield, who be- queathed a house and field for the use of the poor. Morant, ib. John, probably a son of this Robert Aylett, in 1707, bequeathed the remaining moiety of a house and land in Booking for the use of the poor of Braintree. Morant ii. 398. The Scots were an old and numerous Essex family. Morant ii. index. See Memorials. * Memorials. -(- Rogers, p. 147. J Hills, Memorials. A Martin Carter in the next generation at Baling, a nephew of John Symonds, of the Pool Yeldham. This Carter had the manor of NichoUs, in this parifh. Mor. ii. 375. II Memorials. The Algars were a numerous and wealthy county family at this date. See Mor. ii. Index. § Memorials. ^ Memorials. Elders. Robert Aylet. Richard Scot. Giles Moseley, senior. Edw. Cordall, gent. William Porter. , M. Binceks. Jo. Allen. Jo. Bird. Jo. Walford. Marin (sic.) Carter. Henry Algar. John Eden, Esq. John Ingham. ** Memorials. -|"f- The minifter was John Chamber- layne, who had been inftituted on the death of Thomas Donnell, by an order of the House of Lords, under date 1 6th Dec, 1646. Journals viii. 615, see p. 654. He was still there in 1650, 'an able preaching minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. He was succeeded by Thomas Bernard, who conformed. N. ii. 106. Eden was of Kitchins. Morant ii. 313. XX In 1650 the return is, ' Mr. Will. Beaman is presented to the redtory.' Lands. MSS. 459. See Memorials. || II P. 236. At Henny Magna the minifter was Samuel Sutton, who was instituted by an order of the House of Commons, under date 28th Oft., 1643. Jour. iii. 292. The return in 1650 is, ' Stephen Payne preacheth well, but is scandalous.' Lands. MSS. 459. The MS. additions to the Classis have the name Y 2 292 Appendix to Chap, VII. No. 2. HiNCKFORD Hundred. Ministers. Elders. Lammarsh. "^ Milton, f Maplested Mag. J Maplested Parva. II Dean Tindale, Esq. Pebmarsh. § M. T. Burroughs, Tho. Cock, Esq. WicKHAM St. Paul's. H M. Deersley, Richard White. TWINSTED. ^"^ GOSFIELD. tt Halsted. JJ The Twelfth Classis^ called Lexden Classis. Lexden Hundred. Ministers. Elders. Stanway. II II John Alefounder. of Manning. See also p. 267 ? If this relates to Henny Magna, he was probably a successor of Payne. The minlfter at the reftoration seems to have conformed. N. ii. 326. For Henny Parva, see Memorials. * The minifter was Samuel Siday. N. ii. 361. In 1650 the return is, 'Sam. SJdday, he performs the cure himself, assisted by Mr. Martin, a truly orthodox divine.' Land. MSS. 459. Siday con- formed. f Middleton, p. 243. The minister who succeeded Frost, p. 243, was Francis Gisborough, appointed by the Committee for Plundered Ministers. Add. MSS. 15669, 311. Gisborough soon removed. On Sept. 22, 1647, the Committee referred George Osborne to the Assembly of Divines for this church. Add. MSS. 15671, 223. The return in 1650 is, * Mr. John Preston.' Lands. MSS. 459. Hurdis Smith, 7th May, 1661, was admitted ' per mort Frost.' It is not improbable that there was an ejection here. J P. 240. The return in 1650 is, * Edward Shepperd, by purchase, to him and his heirs. William Hicks officiates, an able and godly minister.' Lands. MSS. 459. II P. 241. The return in 1650 is, ' Chriftopher Welsh preacheth twice every Lord's day.' Lands. MSS. 459 ; Tyndale, p. 5. § Burroughs, Memorials. Cook was afterwards Colonel of the Militia, and, in 1654, one of the knights for the County. Mor. ii. 263. ^ P. 657. Memorials. White, of the family of the benefe(5tresses of the poor in this parifh. Morant ii. 276. ** Memorials. ft P. 231. The minister was pro- bably a Mr. Norton, who was referred to the Assembly of Divines by the Com- mittee, for Gosfield, Aug. 18, 1645. Add. MSS. 15669, 270. The return in 1650 is, 'William Smithies, an able preaching and godly minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459 ; Belchamp Walter, 2S8 j and Raine, Memorials. Thomas Wardener succeeded, though at what date I cannot ascertain. The Rev. S. W. Dowell in- forms me that Wardener died vicar, and was buripd April 5, 1669. See Memorials. XX Memorials. II II Memorials. The Classes. 293 Lexden Hundred. Ministers. Stanway [continued) Dedham. * M. Matthew Newcomen, M. George Smith, FORDHAM. t HucKSLEY (sic). X M. Nath. Bugg. BoxsTED. II M. J. Hubbard, Langham. § M. Farrar. Birch. ^ M. Jo. Ludgate (sic), WoRMiNGFORD.** M. Turner, DONILAND. tt Boreham Easthorpe. %% Elders. Hen. Fenn. Robert Salmon. Rob. Webb. Clement Fenn. Bezaliel Auger (sic). David Polly. M. Jo. Maidftone, sen. Jo. Barker. Jo. Adkinson. Jo. Messing. Nicholas Wall, gent. Hezekial Haynes, gent. Gs. Barnardiftone, Esq. M. Tonftall. M. Jo. Smith. Edw. Philipps. * Newcomen, ante, and Memorials j Smith, see Memorials; Anger, Me- morials. f Memorials. J P. 237. Horkfley Mag. Bugg was stiU here in 1650. Lands. MSS. 4.59. See Birch. 11 Hubbard, see Memorials. Maid- stone was of Pond House. Mor. 241. § John Farrar, p. no, loth Sept., 1607, ' per resig. Tho.' p. 123. His suc- cessor was Thomas Seaborne, who was here in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. Sea- borne appears to have conformed. t\ Birch Magna, p. 219. The Rev. W. Harrison kindly informs me that 'Ludgate' became reftor in 1643, but that there are no traces of his avoidance in the parisfh regifter. He was still there in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. Walker ii. 199, says that John Davies was redlor in 1654. Collingwood recovered his living at the restoration, and died in 1666. The Rev. W. Harrison also informs me that Nath. Bugg (note J) was curate here in 1664. Newc. Haynes was of the Hill ? Mor. ii. 183. ** 26th Dec, 1646, there is an order for the institution of John White. Jour. H. of Lords, viii. 630. White was there in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. Was Turner White's curate .' White died before Jan., 1662. His successor con- formed. N. ii. 686. tt See Memorials. Tunftall was possibly Henry, the son of Sir John Tun- ftall, and the patron who presented Richard Tompson to the redtory in 1638. Mor. ii. 186.; N. ii. 215. Smith was possessed of lands here. Mor. ii. 215. XX P' 23°' John White was referred to the Assembly of Divines for the va- cancy, Aug. 25, 1646, by the Committee for Plundered Minifters. Add. MSS. 15670, 381. The MS. additions to the Classis give M. Rand. The return for 294 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. Lexden Hundred. Ministers. BoREHAM Easthorpe [continued) WiVENHOE.* Inworth. t M. Wharton, COGGESHALL. J Elders. Tho. Michelfield. Robert Crane, gent. William Tanner. CoPFORD. II M. Robert Tomson, Earles Colne. § M. Ralph Joscelin, R. Harlackenden, Esq. Edw. Clarke, Esq. Chappell. M. Timothy Rogers,^ William Laurence. 1650 is, 'Mr. Oaky.' The admission of Joh. Beal, i6th April, 1669, is entered as 'per mort Johnson.'' ii. 239. * The return in 1650 is, 'noe minis- ter.' Lands, MSS. 4.59. f Ralph Wharton, p. 155. See Me- morials. J See Memorials J Crane p. 149. II See Memorials. § Infra. Admitted nth March, 1640, on the presentation of Richard Harlackenden. The return in 1650 is simply, * Mr. Ralph Josselin,' (sic.) Lands. MSS. 459. Some particulars relating to R. J., extracted from his diary by W. Cole, 1676 : « Ralph Joscelin, born at Chalke End, his father's patrimony, Jan. 26, 1616, two years after which, his father and mother re- moved to Bishop's Stortford. In 1622 he was a pensioner in Jesus, Cambridge, his father at that time living at Bump- stead. In 1636 he took his degree of B.A., and became usher to Mr. Neale, of Dean, in Beds. In 1639 he preached his firft sermon at Wormlngton, in North- amptonshire. The same year he left Mr. Neale, and became curate to Mr. Giffard, of Olney, in Bucks. In the Dec. of that year also, he was ordained prieft by the Bishop of Peterborough. There weie several ordained with him j they bowed to the altar, he would not. In 1640 he went to Cranham and kept school at Upminfter, where he married Jane Con- ftable, by whom he had about ten children. In the same year he removed to Earls Colne. He was chaplin to Col. William Harlackenden's regiment. In 1646, when Harlackenden was sheriff, he preached the assize sermon at Chelmsford. He has also publiihed a sermon preached before the Lord Mayor of London. I suppose he lies buried in the church.' Cole MSS. X. 35. Cole also says, from' his diary, * he complied with the Bar- tholomew A<51, though very uneasy in conscience. He often mentions his seek- ing the Lord at Lady Honeywood's, at Markefhall, where he was much respected, as he was also at the Priory House, in his own parish.' He published a sermon preached at the funeral ot Mrs. Smythes Harlackenden, wife to William Har- lackenden, Esq., June 28, 1651. Sm. 8vo. 1652. A descendant of one Bufton, of Coggeshall, has in his possession, among other interefting MSS.' of a similar character, some notes of a fiineral sermon for Mr. Porter, preached by Joscelin, Nov. 17, 1669, at Coggefhall. I have seen the MSS. in the custody of my friend, Mr. Dale. Rich. Harlacken- den, 339. fl" Infra. He is still there in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. Timothy Rogers is supposed to have been a great grandson of the Protomartyr, p, 27. He was the Tfie Classes. 295 Lexden Hundred. Chappell [continued) Aldham.* M. Feering. M. Marshall (sic). J Patyfrick. II Tay Mag. § Messing. ^ White Colne. ** Bergholt. ft Colne Wake. %% Colne-engaine. II II Ministers. Elders. Paul Rayner. Gamaliel Carr, John Sayer, Esq. Jo. Okeley, f Tho. Browning. Sir T. Honeywood, Kt. John Smith. M. Ric. Wiseman. William Stabbing. John Haseler. Edward Johnson. son of the Rev. Vincent Rogers, of Stratford Bow, and brother of Nehemiah, p. 156. We first hear of him as minister at Steeple, where I have not yet been able to trace him. He there publifhed * The Roman Catharist,' London, i6zi, having previously published, as it should appear, ' The Righteous Man's Evidence for Heaven,' the twelfth edition of which came forth in 1637. According to Mor. ii. 208, he came to Chapel in 1623. It is said that he was vicar of Sudbury in 1636, but if he was, he must have returned to Chapel after a * few years at the longest.' Rogers also publiflied ' Good News from Heaven ;' 'A Faith- ful Friend, true to the Soul ; ' and ' The Chriftian's Jewel of Faith.' I have not been able to ascertain the date of his death. Chefter's Life of Jno. Rogers, Lond .,1861, pp. 275-6- Samuel Rogers, the son of Timothy, was admitted vicar of Tay Magna, 27th Jan., 1637, on the presenta- tion of his uncle Nehemiah. N. ii. 573. This was probably during his father's residence at Sudbury. Laurence, Mor. ii. 204. * P. 217. Carr was the successor of Falconer, p. 217. In 1650 the return is, ' Mr. John Wilson,' who seems to have conformed. N. ii. 6. Sayer was of Bourchier's Hall. 'During the Com- monwealth he was a very busy com- mittee-man.' Mor. ii.-Aoo. ■f- Memorials. J Markeshall. Memorials. II Patteswick. Memorials. § Memorials. Stebbing was of Bacons. Mor. ii. 206. ^[ John Prefton, 3rd May, 1642, ' per cess. Rogers.' N. ii. 417. He was still here in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. Preston's successor, Sida Smith, con- formed. N. ib. Walker says Smith was sequeftered, ii. 353. ** Memorials. tt Memorials. XX Edward Layfield, admitted gth June, 1640, on the presentation of Robert Jacob. He is still therein 1650, when he is returned as, 'disaftefted.' Lands. MSS. 459. Layfield comformed. N. ii. 191. nil Tho. Brackley, p. 656, 19th March, 1628. N. ii. 188. In 1650 he is still there. Lands. MSS. 459. The Rev. Dr. Greenwood kindly informs me that he died Feb. 15, 1652. Memorials. 296 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. Lexden Hundred. Mount Bures. * Marke Tay. t Ministers. Elders. The Thirteen Tendering Hundred. Wrabness. % Layford. II Ardley. MiSTLEY AND MaN ningtree. it Bromley Mag.** BeNTLEY PERVA.tt Holland Mag.JJ th Classis, called Tendering Classis. Ministers. Elders. M.William Pibble,Tho. Edgar. M. Jno. Edes, Geo. Francis. M. Nath. Carr,§ John Lorking. Bezaleel Gale. ■ M. Tho. Games, Robert Taylor. Robert Lofkin. M. Tho. Slaughter, Sir Tho. Bowes, Kt. M. Anth. Whiting, M. Edw. Darnell, John Alderton. * John Simpson, admitted i8th Dec, 1616. N. ii. He was still there in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. f Henry Golding, i6th Nov., 1633. N. ii. 575. In 1650, ' Mr. John Neville.' Lands. MSS 459 ; Memorials. J 13rd Dec, 1608. N. ii. 687. The return in 1650 is, ' no minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. The next incumbent ap- pears to have been Isaac Read, who conformed. II Lawford. Edes, p. 156. Memorials. & P. 219. Carr was previously reftor of Langenhoe. Add. MSS. 15669. The next vicar that appears, is John Doughty. The successor of John Doughty was Stephen Brewer, who was admitted 5th Dec, 1662. Gael, of Bonds. Mor. ii. 432. ^ 1st Dec, 1647. An order for the inftitution of John Witham, *void by the resignation of the laft incumbent.' Jour. H. of Lords, ix. 550. Games must now have left. In 1650, Witham is still here. Lands. MSS. 459. He conformed. N. ii. 422. ** Tho. Salter, admitted 5th Aug., 1629, on the presentation of Thomas Bowes. N. ii. 98. Salter was still there in 1650. His successor was Robert Peartree (infra), who died before 1661. Peartree was succeeded by Richard Bowes, who conformed. Sir Tho. Bowes, p. 169. ft The date of his admission does not appear, neither does that of his voidance. The Rev. H. R. S. Smith obliges me with an entry in Whiting's handwriting in the parish regifter. It occurs after the record of the burials of his predecessors, John Willis, and two others : 'En sequimar omnes; | . Omnium versatur urna | serius et ocius.' Job. xxx. 23. AAW. His successor was Henry Stenmar. N. ii. 52, p. 470. In the Lands. MSS. 459, Stenmar is returned as * Mr. Henry Stymeare.' He conformed. XX P. 237. 2ist Oct., 1643. An order for the sequeftration of the hving to Anthony Lapthorne. Jour. H. of Com. viii. 283. Darnell was still here in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. TiT'^r"" iTuNDRED. Thorrington. * Okely Mag. f Okely Parva. J Bradfield. II Ramsey. § Harwich. IT DOVERCOURT. II The Classes. Ministers. 297 Elders. M. Jo. Reade, Jeremy Gale. M. Robert Cole, Ciprian Bridge. M. Jo. Maiden, John Cuckoe. M. Hen. Seamer, Sir Harbottle Grim- stone, Bart. Sam. Carrington. Rich. Hawking, gent. Tho. Crispe. * p. 251. Appointed by committee, Feb. 15, 1644. Add. MSS. 15669, see also under date April 19, 1645. In 1650 the return is, *Mr. Robert Pear- tree.' (P. 296.) Lands. MSS. 459. Thos. Tirwhitt was admitted 23rd Nov., 1661, * per mort. ult reft.' Tirwhitt conformed. •j- Memorials. Bridge, next note. J It appears from the parifli regifter that he was there in 1634. Admitted i6th March, 1641, on the presentation of Eliza, Countess Rivers. N. ii. 446. He was still there in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. There is an entry of the death of Alice, his wife, in the parifh regifters, under date March 4, 1639. Maiden was married again in 1644, to Sarah, widow of Thomas Bridge, alder- man of Harwich. This Thomas, and Cyprian Bridge, were probably related. Traces of Maiden occur in the regifter as late as 1656. He was succeeded by Adam Reeve. N. ii. 446. There are no traces of Adam Reeve in the regifter, but there is an entry on March 16, 1659, of the baptism of EHzabeth, the daughter of Richard Reeve. How Reeve voided, or when, does not appear. He was suc- ceeded by Daniel Bell, or, as the name is written in the regifters, Pell. Bell con- formed, and was buried at Little Oakeley, March 5, 1677-8. For this and much of the previous part of the present note, I am indebted to the kindness of the Rev. Geo. Burmefter. II Henry Stemmar, admitted 1 8th Dec, 1633, on the presentation of Anna, Countess Dorset. He was still here in 1 648. P. 468 i see p. 296. Lands. MSS. 459. Newcourt's entry of John Wytham, 2nd Dec, 1647, inftitut. per Dn. Aylett, must be a mistake. In 1650 the return is John Higgins. Wytham succeeded John Higgins, and conformed, § Richard Tayler, admitted 24th Dec, 1638, on the presentation of Charles 1. He was still there in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. Tayler's successor was Abraham Everit, who conformed. Carrington, probably of South House. Mor. i. 496. ^ P. 229. Oh the 19th Oct., 1643, * a letter ' was read * from the Mayor of Harwich, complaining against Wood, their lefturer. The men that brought up the letter were called in and delivered petitions subscribed with many hands, and it was ordered that the examination of all the matters contained in these petitions be referred to the Committee for Plundered Minifters, who are forthwith to send for the said Mr. Wood, and for the witnesses, and to examine thoroughly the businesses objected against him, and to report it to the House. Ordered, that the clerk shall note of all such members as recommend any man to a 298 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. LfiH9cn Hundred. WiCKES. * Bentley Mag. f Bromeley Parva. X Weeley. II Clacton Mag. § Clacton Parva. ^ Thorpe. ** Arlford. tt Beamont. %X BiCKLESEY (sic.) |{ || Elmsted. §§ living by way of sequeftration or other- wise.' Jour. H. of C. iii. 281. From Add. MSS. 15669, 218, it appears tiiat John Warren, 'a plundered minifter,' was subsequently appointed to the place of Wood. Memorials, June 16, 1646. Alexander Clark was * recommended to the church and parifli of Dovercourt cum Harwich, to have them upon trial.' Add. MSS. 15670, 259. Clark, therefore, was probably the minifter at this date. In 1650 the return is, * Mr. Tho. Tookey is vicar.' Lands. MSS. 459. Tookey was possibly one of the several minifters in the family of Job Tookie, the ejedled of Great Yarmouth. Palmer iii. 20. * Probably Anthony Fenton, who seems to have conformed. N. ii. 657. Veasie was of Wickes Hall ? M. i. 468. ■j- Memorials. Burnaby was one of a great number who signed the proteftation in 1 641. He also appears as church- warden in 1647. Parish regifters and other documents which I was courteously allowed to consult by the Rev. J. Crofts. J Memorials. Cardinal, of Braham Hall, p. 56, 124. Mor. i. 440. II James Parkinson, 4th April, 1607. N, ii. 667 } Memorials. § Joseph Long, 24th Nov., 1609. Ministers. Elders. Tho. Veasie, gent. M. Burnaby. James Cardinal. Amos Fisher. M. Rous. Philip Daniell. Geo. Nicholl. He was still here in 1650. Walker says he was sequeftered here, ii. 292. See Memorials. Long conformed. N. ii. 154- ^ Henry Wayte, admitted 13th Aug., 164Z. N. ii. 155. Waite (sic.) was still here in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. His successor was one Carter, who dying before March, 1660, was succeeded by Francis Flewellin, who conformed. ** P. 250. Thomas Colson, appointed by the Committee, Sept. 13, 1645. Add. MSS, 15671, 36. In 1650 the return is, * Mr. Tho. Harrild is vicar.' Lands. MSS. 459. Robert Ridgeway became vicar afteawards, who conformed. N. ii. 586. ■f-f- Ailesford, Allesford, Alresford. John Lock, admitted 15th Jan., 1645. N. ii. 5. Lock's successor, Tho. Martin, (25th March, 1661). He conformed. N. ib. XX Possibly Bull, p. 270.' Isaac Terling was admitted redlor 20th Aug., 1662. N. ii. 41. II II Brightlingsea. See Memorials. §§ Roger Warfield, admitted 3rd Feb., 1642. N. ii. 245. He was still there in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459 The next entry in Newcourt is Tho. Martin, 29th Nov., 1662. Walker alleges a seques- The Classes, Ministers. 299 4«Kaci« Hundred. Ministers. Elders. Frating. * Frinton. t Holland Parva. % KiRBY. II Messey (sic.) § St. Osyth. H Tendring. ** Walton, tt The Fourteenth Ciassis, called ThurJIabk, Witham^ and Colchejler Classis. Thurstable Hundred. Ministers. Elders. Wickham. XX M. .Enoch Gray, Josiah Wilking, gent. Robert Plum, gent. tration here of 'a very worthy man,' adding that * he has not been able to recover his name.' The above shows this to be another of his mistakes, ii. 236. * Possibly Ant. Cage, admitted 6th Feb., 1627. The return in 1650 is, * Mr. Geo. Rush, elefted by the whole parish.' Lands. MSS. 459. Augustus Underwood became re£lor in Dec, 1658. He conformed. N. ii. 276. f Henry Grimfton, admitted 7th Dec, 1639, on the presentation of Sir Harbottle Grimfton. N. ii. 279. The return in 1650 is, ' Mr. James Reynolds.' Theophilus Peirse, who afterwards suc- ceeded Edward Caftle at Woodham Water, p. 271, became reiftor in 1659. He conformed, and died possessed of both livings, before May, 1691. N.ii.279,685. I The return in 1650 is, 'there is neither parsonage nor vicarage. Mr. Jenkinson, formerly sequeftered from Panfield.' Lands. MSS. 459. Memorials. II Memorials, infra. John Heme, admitted 23rd March, 1645. The re- turn in 1650 is, 'Mr. John Heme.' Lands. MSS. 459. Heme conformed. N. ii. 353. § Mose. Matthew Durden, ad- mitted 8th Jan., 1644. Durden was succeeded by Tho. Cranston, who seems to have conformed. N. ii. 425. f[ Nehemiah Rogers.^ p. 156.^ He was still here in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. ** Israel Hewit. He was still here in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. He con- formed. N. ii. 577. tt Isaac Starling, admitted 3rd March, 1641, on the presentation of Eliz,, Countess Rivers. The return in 1650 is, 'Mr. Stephen Pipple is vicar.' Lands. MSS. 459. Newcourt has no mention of Pipple, but "mentions John Radman and John Heme, after Starling. Heme conformed. See note || JJ Bishops. Admitted 19th Sept., 1644. N. ii. 659. He was here Jan. II, 1643. See 'The Summe of a Con- ference held at Terling.' Lond., 1644. He was still there in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. Tho. Browning, 25th Jan., 1660, conformed. N. ib. Memorials. 300 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. Thukstable Hundred. Ministers. GoLDHANGER. * Heightridge. t Langford. X ToLLESBURY. || ToTHAM Mag. § TOTHAM PaRVA. H TouLSHUNT Knights. ** Major, ft ,, Darcy. XX * p. 231. Sept. 8, 1645. There is an entry in the Committee Book under this date : ' John Whiting (infra), who has had this living sequcftered to him before, now has 'the chapelry of Little Totham sequeftered to him also.' Add. MSS. 15669, 316. See Lexden, infra. In June, 164.7, the cure appears to have been vacant, as the sequestrators are ordered to see to it. Add. MSS. 15671, 49. In 1650 the return is, * Mr. Edward How, by order from Committee of Plundered Minifters.' Lands. MSS. 459. f Possibly Robert Paley, p. 156, 160. The return in 1650 is, 'Mr. Richard Reddrich.' Lands. MSS. 459. Jo. Lasly succeeded on his death in Feb., 1661. N. ii. 329. Lasly conformed. J John Reddrich, admitted 6th Sept., 1637. Reddrich resigned before 29th Nov., 1662. No circumftances are men- tioned. N. ii. 363. II P. 251. In Nov., 1645, Thomas Gouge was the incumbent, as he is ordered to show cause why he negledls the cure, at that date. Notice is also taken that the parifliioners petition for Mr. Gilbert, who is ordered to supply the cure accordingly, until Gouge complies with the order. Add. MSS. 15669, 501. loth Jan., 1645-6, Gouge having left, Thomas Gilbert, a godly and orthodox divine, is appointed to the vacancy. Add. MSS. 15669, 550. In 1650 the return Elders. is, 'Mr. Thomas Gilbert, scandalous.' Lands. MSS. 459. Gilbert seems to have been succeeded by John Perry, who conformed. N. ii. 602. § P. 252. i9thNov., 1646. 'Ordered that Dr. Aylett shall inftitute and induft Edward Reddrich, clerk, M.A., to the vicarage of Totham Magna, Essex, void by the death of Ambrose Westropp, clerk, the late incumbent j the said Mr. Reddrich producing his presentation thereunto, under the hand and seal of William Aylett, his patron.' Jour. H. of Lords, viii. 571. In 1650 the return is, 'no minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. ^ See Goldhanger, p. 231. The re- turn in 1650 is, 'no minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. ** Nic. Gill. The return in 1650 is, ' Nathaniel Gyll.' Lands. MSS. 459 . Thomas Fuller appears in N. ii. 607, without any date. He seems to have died before 26th May, 1662, when he was succeeded by Sam. Croxall, who con- formed. See next note. +f 1st May, 1647. ' Order for the in- ftitution of Ralph Battell to the vicarage.' Jour. H. of Lords, ix. 173. See next note. The return in 1650 was, 'Mr. Nicholas Gyll, scandalous.' Lands. MSS. 459> P- XX P. 251. May 3, 1645. Thomas Payne was appointed to the cure by the Committee for Plundered Minifters. The Classes. 301 WiNisTRZY Hundred. Ministers. Layer Marney. * M. Joseph Downing, WiGBORouGH Mag. f Pelden. J Aberton. II Layer de la Hay. § Elders. West Mersea. fl East Mersea. ** Fingringhoe. tt Langenhoe. Xt Laer Breton. || || Strange Chapman, gent. Robert Poune, gent. WiTHAM Hundred. Ministers. Elders. Witham. §§ M. Richard Rowles, William Allen. Robert Gerard. Jeremy Skingle. Add. MSS. 15669. The return in 1650 is, ' Mr. Battell.' Lands. MSS. 459. See previous note. Newcourt has ' Broom- hall ' next after him, The. (sic.) Hale, and then Joh. Ramsey, 22nd Feb., 1660, ' per cess. Broomhall.' If Hale was still living, Broomhall was ejedled. The next entry is * Nic. Ashwell, 21st June, 1662, per cess. Ramsey.' This also is sugges- tive. Ashwell conformed. N. ii. 605, 606. * Newcourt has * John Downing, 25th Feb., 1628.' His next entry is * Sampson,' and from his next, it appears that Sampson conformed. f John Tindall, admitted i6th Feb., 1645. The next entry in Newcourt is 'Rob. Bland.' Bland conformed. At Wigborough Parva the rector was Robert Stirrell, admitted 22nd March, 1641. The next entry in Newcourt is *John Coe.' Coe conformed. J Memorials. Francis Ong. Infra. Add. MSS. 15669, March 11, 1664, Sept. 4, 1644, May 20, 1645, pp. 116, 238 i 15670, 321, at all. II P. 145. Robert Potter, 22nd Jan., 1646. Potter conformed. § John Awdley was curate in 1640. The return in 1653 is, 'Mr. Thomas Awdley is forced upon them by the Honourable Awdley.' Lands. MSS. 459. Thomas Parker became the curate 3rd July, 1662. Parker conformed. N. ii. 377. ^ See Memorials. ** Israel Edwards, who was admitted 2nd Aug., 1 61 5, having been admitted reiftor of Great Bentley on the 21st of April previously. Edwards conformed. N. ii. 50, 414. ft See Memorials. JJ See Memorials. II II Edward Theedam, admitted 3rd Nov. 1632. The return in 1650 is, ' Edward Thudman,' (sic.) Lands. MSS. 459. Theedam seems to have conformed. N. ii. 276. Walker says he was seques- tered. He says the same thing of one Kympton here, ii. 377, 288. §§ Memorials. Infra. Gerard was of Powers Hall, Moi. ii. 108, and Freborne of Batisfords, Mor. ii. 110. 302 Jppendix to Chap. Vll. No. 2. WiTHAM Hundred. WiTHAM [continued) RiVENHALL. * Black Notley. t Braxted Mag. J Braxted Parva. II Bradwell. § CoGSHALL PeRV. Cressing. Fairestead. f Felborne. ** Hatfield Peverell. ft Keldon. Esterford. X% Terling. II II Ulting. §§ White Notley. *\*\ Ministers. Elders. Jo. Freborne. M. Jeremy Aylett, sen. Colchester. The Towne. *** Ministers. M. Harmer. Elders * Memorials. Aylet was of Dore- ward's Hall. Mor. ii. 148. •f- Memorials. J Memorials. II Possibly Robert White, admitted I5tli Oct., 1630. The return in 1650 is, * Mr. White was presented, but he hath left it about three years, and Mr. Roberts provides for the supply of the cure.' Lands. MSS. 459. Thomas Roberts also held the manor of Little Brackftead, and was patron of the living. Mor. ii. 144. § Memorials. ^ Joshua Blower, admitted 7th Dec, 1643. The return in 1650 is, *John (sic) Blower, an able, godly preaching minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Blower appears to have conformed. N. ii. 249. ** Faulkbourne, Memorials. tt Probably vacant. N. ii. 318, 249. The return in 1650 is, * without a settled minifter this two years, and supplied at present by Mr. Clarke, of much bad odour, a disaffedied minifter.' Lands. MSS. 459. JJ Memorials. II II Memorials. §§ Possibly William Hill, see p. 252. i|ff^ Probably Anthony Bickerftaffe. N. ii. 442. The return in 1650 is, ' Mr. George Barre, an able, godly minis- ter.' Lands. MSS. 459. Barre was succeeded by John Stowe, who con- formed. N. ii. 442. *** Robert Harmer, infra. He was of St. John's, Cambridge. He was nomi- nated 9th 0(ft., 1639. Assembly Book. There is a tablet to the memory of Abigail, his wife, who died June 14, 1642, in All Saint's Church. He was succeeded by Will. Archer. Assembly Book, Mor. Col. a. 100. The Classes. 303 Colchester. Ministers. Elders. Leonard's Parish.* M. Alexander Robert Talcot, gent. Piggott, Maries Parish, f Harbottle Grimstone, Esq. John Cox, gent. Lexden Parish. M. Js.Wyessdale^J Do6lor Gllsson. |1 William Barnes. * Piggott, infra Memorials. A Robert Talcoat was baJUfF in 1612, i6i6j 1623, 1631, and a Robert Talcoat was mayor in 1640, and died during his mayoralty. Mor. MSS. Col. M. This was his son ? f Probably William Boisard, of whom Morant, without giving his authority, says, * put into the room of John Stephens, in 1644, by the Parliament's commissioners.' Col. 109. He was still here in 1650, Lands. MSS. 459, and in 1657, at which date he also held Trinity. Mor. MSS., Col. Mus. 275. John Smith was vicar at the reftoration. He conformed. N. ii. 175. He was the author of (i) The Chriftian Religion's Appeal from the groundless prejudices of the Sceptic to the Bar of Common Reason J in four books, Lend., 1675, fol. (2) A Narrative about the Popifh Plot, 1679. (3) A Narrative that no faith is to be given to the Papifts; relating to the Trial and Speech of William, Viscount Stafford. Lond., 1681. (4) The Dodtrine of the Church of England concerning the Lord's day, or Sunday Sabbath vindicated. Lond., 1690, 8vo. (5) On Universal Redemption. Part i, Lond., 1701, 8vo. (6) Account of a Conference between him and Thomas Kirby, on Baptism. Lond,, 1671, 8vo. John Cox, alderman, who died Nov. 5, 1 649, and is buried in the chancel of St. Peter's. Mor. Col. App. 20. X P. 225- III tlie Committee Book there is an entry, under date Jan. 12, 1645, 'Mr. Wyersdale, a plundered minister, one of those for whom the Committee is especially to provide, is therefore appointed to the sequeftration of Lexden.' Add. MSS. 15669, p. 160 j see also ib. p. 196, 15670, p. 161, and 15671, p. 179. Mor. Hist. Col. 133, gives Gabriel as his chriftian name, and alleges as his authority ' Committee's or Sequeftration's Book.' Gabriel was the name of the Wyersdale who was minifter in 1648. Infra. In 1650 the minister was John Whiting. See Goldhanger, p. 300. In the parifh regifter, No.^ 3, there is the following entry relating to Whiting, Nov. 14, 1650, 'the pa- rifhioners of Lexden having made choice of John Whiting for their parish regifter, I have this day given him his oath for the faithfiill execution of that office. Tho. Pecke, maior (of Colchefter).' Morant, on the authority of the * Rate,' gives George Downe as minifter in 1657, but, according to Newcourt, Whiting was succeeded by John Nettles, 18th Dec, 1657, 'per commissarios.' Nettles con- formed. Memorials. II Of Glisson, Wood gives the fol- lowing account : * This learned gentleman, who was M.A of GonviU and Cain's College, Cambridge, was second son of William GHsson, of Rompiiham, in Dor- setihire, was afterwards doctor of physic, the King's public profeffor of that faculty in the said University, candidate of the College of Physicians at London, an. 1634, fellow the year after, anatomy 304 Jppendix to Chap, VI L No, 2. Colchester, James Parish. * Nicholas Parish. Butolph's Parish. All Saints. 11 Ministers. Elders. Jo, Jocelin, Esq. Jo. Godscale, Esq. Anchony Smith, f Francis Burrowes. J Jeremy Daniell. reader in the said Coll., 1639, practised physic at Colchefter during the time of the rebellion, where he was present when the generous royalifts of Kent were be- sieged, 1648, and after. In 1655 he was chosen one of the ele£ts of the said Coll., and afterwards was president thereof for several years. This worthy doctor, to whose learned lucubrations and deep disquisitions in physic not only Great Britain but remote kingdoms owe ^ particular respect and veneration, died much lamented, in the parilh of St. Bride, alias St. Bridget, in London, in Oct. or November, 1677.' Wood, Fast, i. 238 J Mor. Col. 67, no. * John White, admitted 6th Oct., 164a. In the Committee Book, under date June 3, 1646, there is an entry of an order to the effect that, the parishioners of Grinfted having petitioned that John White might have the living, he being reftor of the neighbouring parish of St. James, the living should be sequestered to him, and also that the parishes of St. James and Grinfted should be united. Add. MSS. 15670, 194. The return in 1650 is, 'the house burnt down in the late siege. Noe minister.* Lands. MSS. 459- White was shortly succeeded by Robert TuUer, infra, and he by Thos. Burton, who resigned before 13th Sept., 1661. Newc. ii. 149. Godschall family. Mor. Colchester, 123. f Possibly Theophilus Roberts, ad- mitted 30th April, 1609. See p. 159. Burrowes was bailiff in 1627. Mor. MSS. Col. Museum. J Memorials. Infra. Daniel was one of the benefa£l:ors of this parish, by his will dated Oct. 26, 1695. Mor. Col. 165. He died i6th Nov., 1696, aet 61. There Is a Purbeck graveftone to his memory in St. Peter's Church. II I cannot ascertain the name of the reftor at this date. In 1650, the minifter was Tho. Buxton. Lands. MSS. 459. Edward Hickeringly became the minis- ter 2ist Oct., 1662. He was first a pensioner of St. John's Coll., Cambridge j then, in 1650, junior Bach-fell of Gonvll and Caiusj soon after a lieutenant in the English army in Scotland ; then a captain in Gen. Fleetwood's regiment, when he was Swedifh ambassador in England for Carolus Gustavus. He lies buried In All Saints' Church, where there is a grave- stone to his memory. One sentence of the inscription was chlsselled out, it is said, by Bishop Compton. The sentence is as follows, * tam Marti quam Mercuric clarus quippe qui terra mari q. Militavit non sine gloria, Ingenii q. vires scriptis multipllce argumento insignids demon- stravit i sacris tandem ordinibus initiatus, (the sentence then concludes) hujusce Parochias 46 annus reftor.' He died Nov. 30, 1708, aet 78. He was the author of (i) Jamaica Revived. Lond., 1661, 8vo., 2nd ed. (2) The Naked Truth? Lond., 1680, fol. (3) The Naked Truth, p. ii. Lond., 1681, fol. (4) The Naked Truth, p. iii. Lond., 1681, fol. (5) The Naked Truth, p. iv. Lond., 1682, fol. (6) A Dialogue be- tween Timothy and Titus about the The Classes. 305 Colchester. Giles. * Magdalen, f Trinity. J RuMBALLs. 11 Martins. § Peter's. H Mile End. ** Greenstreet. ft Beere-durd (sic). XX Ministers, Elders. The return of the Classes of Essex according to directions of Articles and some of the Canons of the Church of England. Lond., 1689. (7) The Black Nonconformist discovered in more Naked Truth. Lend., 1682, fol. (8) The Ceremony Monger, his cha- rafter. Lond., 1689, 4to. Wood Ath. ii. 867 ; Mor., Col. App. 22. News from Dodlor's Commons, or a true rela- tion of Mr. HickerihgiU's appearance there, Jan. 8, 1681, upon a citation for marrying people without banns or a license. Lond., fol. News from Col- chefter concerning E. H., in a letter to an Honefl: Whig at London. Fol., 1681. Scandalum Magnatum, or the great trial at Chelmsford Assizes, held March 6, betwixt Henry, Biftiop of Lon- don, and E. H., ed. 2, 1682, fol. The most humble Confession and Recantation of E. H. publicly made, read, signed, and sealed in the Common Hall of Doctor's Commons, London, on Fryday, the 2nd day of June, 1684. Fol. 1684. * P. 224. The return in 1650 is, ' the church ruinated . . . vacant.' Lands. MSS. 459. -f P. 226. About 1650, Henry Bar- rington was re£tor, and mafter of the Hos- pital. Extrafts from the Lambeth MSS. Morant Papers, Colchefter Museum. The return in the Lands. MSS. 459, is, * church decayed, and made an habita- tion for poor people. A cure of souls. Noe minifter.' J P. 227. The minifter in 1650 was William Boisard. See St. Mary, p. 303. Lands. MSS. 459. II The return in 1650 is, * an antient sequeftration, vacant.' Lands. MSS. 459. § The return in 1650 is, 'church decayed. Noe house nor glebe. Noe tithes. An antient sequestration, vacant.' Lands. MSS, 459. f[ Memorials. ** The redor was Thomas Eyre, P- 237- j-f- Greenftead. See James, p. 304. John Jacobs was the minister in 1650. Lands. MSS. 459. Jacobs was succeeded by Paul Duckett, who conformed. \X The return in 1650 is, 'a donation, Mr. Thomas Buxton.' Lands. MSS. 459. See St. Botolph. Memorials, p. 3o6 Appendix to Chap. VII. No. 2. Parliament, by the standing Committee at Chelmsford, in the county of Essex, March 3, 1646. Tho. Honeywood, A. Luther, William Collard. * J. BARNARDISTONjt Isaac Aleyn, J January 21, 1647. At the Committee of Lords and Commons appointed for the judging of scandal, and approving the classes of the counties of England. It is ordered by the said Committee, that the minifters and elders within named shall be fourteen classes, in the county of Essex, according to the several limits expressed, and shall make one province. WARVi^ICK. William Masham. Martin Lumley. Laurence Whitaker. William Purefrey.§ Gilbert Gerard. ^ Manchester. Nath. Barnardiston.** Francis Rouse, ft Nath. Bacon.' %% * Of Albanes Beemfton. He died in April, 1668, aged 88. Mor. ii. 450. f Son of Sir Nathaniel Bamardifton. { Of Garnet's Hall, Margaret Roding. Mor. ii. 473. Ij One of the members for Oke- hampton. § One of the members for WarwicJc. ^ Baronet, one of the members for Middlesex. ** Knight, one of the members for Suffolk. He was buried Aug. 26, 1653, and his funeral sermon was preached by Sam. Fairclough. It was published under the title of the ' Saint's Worthi- ness,' Lond., 1653, 4to. About the same time there was also published ' Suffolk's Tears j or, Elegies on that renowned knight, Sir Nathaniel Bamar- difton,' 4to. f f One of the members for Truro, translator of the Psalms into Englilh metre, speaker of the 'Little Parliament,' afterwards one of Cromwell's lords. Carlyle, Cromwell iii. 263 XX One of the members for the Uni- versity of Cambridge. CHAPTER VIII. 1647 — 1662. THE supremacy of the Presbyterians proved to be only not as inimical to religious liberty as that of the Prelatists had been. In December, 1647, the London ministers published a ' Teftimony to the Truth of Jesus Chrill, and to our Solemn League and Covenant, as also against the Errors, Heresies and Blasphemies of these times, and the toleration of them : to which is added a Catalogue of the said Errors.' This docu- ment was subscribed by fifty-eight of the most eminent pallors in London, of whom seventeen were of the Assembly of Divines. Among the errors thus protested against is that of toleration, which they denounce in the strongest terms, declaring that they account it 'unlawful and pernicious.' This elicited similar ' Testimonies ' from many of the county ministers. That which was issued in Essex, was published under the title of ' A Testimony of the Ministers in the Province of Essex to the Truth of Jesus Christ and to the Solemn League and Covenant : as also against the Heresies and Blasphemies of these times, and the toleration of them ; sent up to the Minifters within the province of London, subscribers of the firft Teftimony.' * It was signed by one hundred and twenty- seven ministers. After some prefatory observations, they say : ' We, therefore, whose names are hereunto subscribed, doe hereby declare and teftifie to yourselves, and to all our brethren, the minifters and members of this and all other churches of Christ: i. That the confession of faith, direcSorie for worship and humble advice for church government, presented by the * Printed forTho. Underbill, at the Bible, in Wood Street, mdlviii. Neal ii. z6o j Rufliworth iii. 644. Z 2 3o8 Essex Tejiimony. Assembly of Divines to the honourable Parliament, are (as we conceive) so agreeable to the vv'ord of God, that vt^e cannot but exceedingly blesse the name of our God for His presence W\xh. that Assembly, professing our hearty concurrence therein, and cheerfull readinesse to submit thereto ; resolving likevi^ise to continue humble suitors to the Throne of Grace, that our gracious God, in His due time, would stirre up the Parliament to eftablifli the foresaid confession of faith and advice for church government with their civil sanction, as they have already the direftory for worship : 2. That we look upon our Solemn League and Covenant as a moft choice blessing from God to those churches and kingdomes so happily united therein, earnestly entreating the Lord to give us grace that we and all His people may continue faithful therein, and not to charge upon us, but of His abundant mercy to pardon, wherein we ourselves or the kingdom, have in any way therefrom hitherto receded : 3. That however we judge it moft agreeable to Chriftianity, that tender consciences of dissenting brethren be tenderly dealt withall, yet we dare not carry in our bosoms such steeley consciences and rockie hearts as not to mourne in our souls ; that after these strong engagements and such a solemn day of publike humiliation for suffering the growing and spreading of errors and heresies, yet, instead thereof (under colour of liberty of conscience), the same still are boldly and publikely vented and maintained, as much, if not more, than ever before, to the great dishonour of the great and dreadful name of Almighty God, the subversion of His most holy truth, the contempt of the publique worfliip, ordinances and minifterie of Jesus Chrift, the perdition of unstable soules, the grief and scandall of friends to religion, and the great reproach of our church and kingdom ; the which, however, some may perhaps count wisdom to continue it, yet for our parts we do solemnlie and sincerelie professe, as in the presence of Almightie God, the searcher and judge of all hearts, that from our soules we do utterly detest and abhor, as all former cursed doctrines of Popery^ Arminianisme^ and Socinianisme, so like- wise, the damnable errors and blasphemies of these present Siege of Colchejier. 309 evill times, whether of jinti-scripturists, Famulists, Antinomians, Anti-Trinitarians, Arians, Anabaptists , or whatsoever else is found contrary to sound doctrine, and the power of godlinesse.' The wretched civil war was now approaching its unhappy crisis. Charles was a prisoner. A desperate attempt was made by the defeated Royalifls to recover their lost position. In June, 1648, a considerable body, under the command of Lord Goring, having previoufly seized the Parliamentary Committee then sitting at Chelmsford, had thrown themselves into Colchefter, where they suftained a siege which lafted till the August following. The sufferings of the inhabitants towards the close of the siege were extreme ; ' they had scarce one cat or dog left uneaten in the town, some horses they had yet alive, but not many, and as for bread, there was not corn left for one day's provision, and they made all kind of corn the town did afford, as malt, barley, oats, wheat, rye, pease, and all they could recover, into bread for eight weeks together.' The town surrendered on the 27th of August, and on the next day Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, two of the Royalift commanders, were executed as traitors. * By the end of the year the crisis had arrived. Grave dis- sensions arose between the army and the Parliament, which * Mor. Col. 57, 73. 'The remonstrance the leaguers in the 'Moderate Intel- and declaration of the Knights, Esquires, ligencer,' No. 162, July 3j 173, July 14; Gentlemen and Freeholders of Colchester, 176, July 265 and in the 'Perfect now in arms for the King and Kingdom.' Diurnal,' No. 260, July 26. * A letter Printed in the year 1 648, 4to. ' Eng- sent to the Honorable William Lenthall, land's Complaint : with a Vindication of with several letters from the Lord those Worthys now in Colchester. By Norwich, Lord Capel, Sir Charles Lucas, Lionel Gatward, B.D., the true but and their agreement for the delivery of sequestered rector of Dinnington (Suffolk).' the town of Colchefter. The Petition of Lond. 1648, 4to. 'Colchester's Teares, the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town: affecting and afflicting City and Country, and the General's Answer, with the dropping from the sad face of a new war. Results of the Council of War.' Lond. threatening to bury in her own ashes that 1 648, 4to. ' A Diary of the Siege of wofiiU town.' Lond., 1648, 4to. ' Mer- Colchester by the Forces under the Com- curius Progmaticus.' No. 14, June 27 — mand of His Excellency the Lord General July 4, 1648. 'A Letter from the Fairfax, from Tuesday, June 13, to Aug. Leaguer before Colchefter.' London, 22, 1648.' A Folio Broadside. Rush- 1648, 4to. There are other letters of worth vii. 3 JO The High Court of Juftice. resulted in the imprisonment of forty-seven members of the House of Commons, and the exclusion of ninety-eight. Among the imprisoned were Sir John Clotworthy, and Har- bottle Grimftone; and among the secluded was Sir Martin Lumley. * This was in December, and on the 28th of that month, an act was introduced to the House of Commons for ' ereifting of a high court of juftice for the trying and judging of Charles Stuart, king of England.' Among the members of that court were Sir Edward Sainton, Sir John Barrington, Sir John Bourchier, Richard Deane, Thomas Lord Grey, William Heveningham, Sir Thomas Honeywood, Sir William Masham, Sir Henry Mildmay, and Henry Mildmay. f By the 27th of January the Council had completed the trial of the King, and on the 30th his sentence was executed. J In the meanwhile the army had addressed the House of * Pari. Hist. iii. 1248. f Pari. Hist. iii. 1254. ' Fellowes' Historical Sketches of Charles the Firft, Cromwell, Charles the Second, with all the principal persons of that period.' Lond., 1828, 4to. Bainton married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry May- nard, of Little Eafton, and sifter of the firft Lord Maynard. He was member for Chippenham, and seated at Bromham, in Wilts. He never adled. Mor. ii. 432 ; Noble's Lives of the Englifh Regicides i. 85, 1798. Noble confounds Sir Henry with Henry Maynard, of Walthamftow, of whom see Morant i. 34, 37. Bar- rington was sheriff of Essex in 1655. He also never afted. Mor. ii. 505 j Noble i. 89. Bourchier was a cousin .-* of Sir John Barrington's, according to Noble, p. 103, but see Morant ii, 505. Deane fell in the naval engagement near North Foreland, Sept. 28, 1652. At his death he was possessed of the manor of Haver- ing, at Bower. Noble i. 176. Lord Grey was the grandson of Henry Grey, of Pirgo, who was created Lord Grey, of Groby, in 1603. He died before the reftoration. Noble i. 260; Mor. ii. 61. Heveningham was the youngest son of Sir Arthur Heveningham, who was of the family of that name seated at Little Totham. He was sentenced to death at the reftoration, but was spared. Mor. 386 j Noble i. 348. Henry Mildmay was the second son of Sir Henry. He was of Graces. He never sat. He was buried in Little Baddow Church. Upon a stone within the altar rail there is this inscription : ' Hie jacet sepultum corpus Henrici Mildmay, Armigeri de Graces, filii Henrici Mildmay, militis. Qui hanc vitam reliquit decimo tertio die Decem- bris, 1692, in 73 anno aet. sua?.' Deane and Grey signed the warrant for Charles' execution. J * Cromwell was in suspense about it. Fairfax was much disturbed in his mind, and changed purposes often every day. The Prelbyterians and the body of the city were much againft it, and were every- where fafting and praying for the King's preservation.' Burnet, Hiftory of his own times i. 46, 47, ed. 1724. The Agreement of the People. 31 1 Commons in a petition, with which they presented a paper, entitled, ' An Agreement of the people of England, and the places therewith incorporated, for a secure and present peace, upon grounds of common right, freedom, and safety.' In this paper they refer to the subjefl: of ' toleration ' as follows : ' I. It is intended that the Chriltian religion be held forth and recommended as the public profession in this nation, which we desire may, by the grace of God, be reformed to the greatest purity in dodirine, worftiip, and discipline, according to the word of God ; the inftrufting the people thereunto in a public way, so it be not compulsive, as also for the maintaining of able teachers for that end, and for the confutation or discovery of heresy, error, and whatsoever is contrary to sound dotStrine, is allowed to be provided for by our representatives ; the maintenance of which teachers may be out of a public treasury, and we desire not by tithes, provided that popery or prelacy be not held forth as the public way or profeffion in this way. 2. That to the public profession so held forth none be compelled, by penalties or otherwise, but only may be endeavoured to be won by sound doftrine, and the example of a good conversation. 3. That such as profess faith in God by Jesus Christ, however differing in judgment from the do6trine, worfhip, and discipline publicly held forth as afore- said, shall not be reftrained from, but shall be prote6led in the profession of their faith and exercise of their religion, ac- cording to their consciences in any place, except such as shall be set apart for the public worfhip; where we provide not for them unless they have leave, so as they abuse not that liberty to the civil injury of others, or to actual diflurbance of the public peace on their parts. Nevertheless, it is not intended to be hereby provided that this liberty shall necessarily extend to popery or prelacy. 4. That all laws, ordinances, statutes, and clauses in any law, statute, or ordinance, to the contrary of the liberty herein provided for, in the two particulars next preceding concerning religion, be and are hereby repealed and made void.' * * Pari. Hist. ill. 1275. 312 The Essex Watchword. The ' Agreement ' was shortly afterwards sent down into the county for the purpose of receiving signatures. This step exciting considerable apprehension on the part of a number of the Essex minifters who had previously signed the ' Teftimony,' sixty-two of them published an address to ' the religious and well-afFetfted, the nobility, gentry, yeomanry, and others, dwelling within their several congregations,' in which, after an apologetic narrative of the part which they had taken in the civil war, and a fervid expreffion of their deep regret and bitter disappointment at its unhappy issue, they commented upon that passage of the Agreement which related to religion, in the following terms:* 'Although this Agreement saith . ... it is intended that Chrijlian religion be held forth in this nation., (sfc, yet it doth not say by whom it is intended, nor doth it tell us what is that Chrijlian religion which is thus intended to be held forth ; whereas, they know little that do not know, that all the errors and seiSts that are or have been in the church of Chrifi: since the Apoftles days, do all lay claim to the title of Chrijlian religion, and may all by this agreement plead, at least stand as probationers for, the priviledge of publick profession, except popery and prelacy. We confess, indeed, that which is added of desire to have religion reformed in the greatejl purity in doSirine, worjhip and discipline, according to the word of God, and also care for in- struSfing of people in a publike way, and for the confutation of heresie and error, isfc, is necessary and good .... but we conceive the particulars which are annexed, and added in this Agreement, are so inconsistent with the desire and care, as it is in vain to pretend either the one or the other if these may obtain. * * The EfTex Watchman's Watchword premonition of the dangerous evil latent to the inhabitants of the said county, re- in a printed paper, entituled ' The Agree- speftively dwelling under their several mcnt of the People,' intended to be ten- charges, by way of an apologetical, ac- dered to them for subscription. Ezek. count of their first engagement with iii. 17, xxxiii. 6 ; 2 Tim. iv. 5.' London, them in the cause of God, King, and printed for Ralph Smith, at the sign of Parliament, for their vindication from the Bible, near the Royal Exchange, unjust aspersions j also by way of faithful 1649, 4to. pp. 14. The Essex Watchword. 313 ' For first, .... there is one little parenthesis, that, like the flye in the box of oyntment, may make it an abhorring in the noftrils of every one who is knowingly judicious and pious ; and that is, where the inJlruSiing of people in a publick way^ so it be not compulsive, is allowed, &c., which words so it be NOT COMPULSIVE, do Certainly undermine not only the power of the civil magistrate, but even of family governors, in the things of God, or of His worfliip. For upon this Agreement no governor of any family may use any compulsion to his child or servant to cause him to attend upon the publique meanes of instru£tion, but must leave him free ; which, what an advantage it would be to unbridled youth, what an inlet to loose- ness and prophaneness in men's families, how contrary it is to the Fourth Commandment, and how much worse than that once so much lamented and detested declaration of the king's for the toleration of sports upon the Lord's day, let conscience speak. And, secondly, It is expressly cautioned, that to the public profession so held forth none may he compelled by penalties or other- wise, hut only may he endeavoured to be wonne by sound doctrine and the example of a good conversation. Were England now in a state of paganism, there might be some queflion of the lawfulness of compelling men to the profession of the Christian faith ; and yet, even then, it were without all queftion lawfull for the Chriftian magistrate to compell them to attend upon the ministry of the word .... if voluntarily they will not do it ; for otherwise what possibility of being won by sound doctrine ? But the people of England, at least the generality of them, having given the hand to Jesus Christ already to desire or engage now, that none may he compelled to the profession of the Christian faith, is indeed to desire that men may have' liberty to apostalize and cafl: off the profession of it, do despite the spirit of grace, trample under foot the blood of the covenant, crucifie the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame, .... which, how pleasing it would be to God, what a blessing it would be unto the nation, and how much it is to be desired and endeavoured by such as fear the Lord and wish the prosperity of England, we leave to themselves to judge. 314 The Essex Watchword. ' We verily think that there is so much zeale for God and for his truth yet living in the breasts of the people here in England., as if it w^ere but fully understood what the persons are for whom liberty is endeavoured .... that they would be so farre from subscribing their hands to this agreement, as at the very hearing of it, they would rend their clothes and caft dust upon their heads, yea, rather give their right hands to the fire, as holy Cranmer did after his subscription, than ever subscribe at all ; for who are the persons for whom the liberty is pro- vided .... Who almost is there that will not profes faith in God by Jesus Chrifl \ Not only Anabaptists, Antinomians, Arminians, but Arrians, Socinians, Photinians, those that hold the most blasphemous errors about the godhead of Chrifl, and of the Holy Spirit, yea, the Papists themselves, who all will prof esse faith in God by Jesus Christ., will come in for their share in this liberty, especially considering that is added, however dif- fering in judgment from the doctrine., discipline, or worjhip established, &c. ; that let the differences be of never so great a latitude .... yet, professing faith in God by Jesus Christ, they shall not be refrained from the profession of their faith and exercise of religion, though their faith be blasphemous and the exercise of their religion grosse idolatory, yet they shall not be restrained from it: nay, that's too little, they shall be protected in it ... . in any places except places appointed for publik worship : where, say they, we provide not for them except they have leaver But whether this be the leave of the supreme magistrate, or the leave of the inferior magistrate, or the leave of the minifter, or of the people assembled in such place of publike worship, or any part of them, who can tell ? To be sure here is a door wide enough for the masse with all its equipage to come in at ... . The penners or promoters of this agreement would faine beget an opinion of themselves, that they are great enemies to popery and prelacy. But wherein ? they had provided before that popery and prelacy be not held frth as the publike way or pro- fssion in this nation. This denyes not but that both may be tolerated in the nation ; and this third branch makes provision that they may, for both prelacy and popery, make profession of Thomas Cawton. 315 faith in God by yesus Chriji^ and however they say here that it is not intended that this liberty should necessarily extend to popery and prelacy, that does not deny hut that arbitrarily it may ; and though they tell us it is not intended that it should, yet their very words show it was never intended it should not These things we have written, God is our record .... only to clear ourselves, if not from prejudice, yet at least from guilt, and to discharge the duty of our place by giving you this publike and joint warning of these snares we see prepared for you Then let us in the bowels of Jesus Christ beseech you, as you tender your present and eternal good, and the good of your deare posterities, yea, in His name we require you and charge you as you would not be found guilty of all the errors, idolatrie, blasphemie, wickedness, irreligion, that by this flood- gate, if once opened, will break in upon this nation, have nothing to do with this sinful ensnaring agreement; avoid it, flie from it, as from the surest, if not onely engine Sathan hath now left him for the demolishing of the beauty, yea, being of religion, and the advancing of popery, error, blasphemy, and whatever may make us an abhorring to God, a hissing to men, and an execration to all the churches of Jesus Chrifl.' The influence of the Presbyterians now rapidly declined, and the ascendancy was transferred to the Independents, who had always declared themselves in favour of liberty of con- science. Partly with a view to the recovery of their lost position, and partly from sincere Royalist conviftions, some of the Prefbyterian ministers allowed themselves to be drawn into a conspiracy for the restoration of Charles II. Among others who were thus implicated in the crime of high treason, was Thomas Cawton, and his relative William Jenkyn. Of Jenkyn I shall have occasion to speak in the ' Memorials.' Cawton was a native of Raynham, in the county of Norfolk, where he was born in 1605. He was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge. After having spent some years, first at Afhwell, in Cambridgeshire, and then at Orton, in the county of Huntingdon, in 1637, he was presented to the rectory of 3l6 Wivenhoe^ Colchester. Wivenhoe. While there he often preached at Colchefter, for his friend, Robert Harmer, who was then leiturer of that town. There he also married Elizabeth, the daughter of William Jenkyn, ' a renowned preacher in Sudbury, and grandchild to the famous Mr. Richard Rogers, of Wethersfield.' He removed from Wivenhoe in 1644, when he became *■ minifter' at St. Bartholomew's, behind the Royal Exchange, mainly through the influence of Sir Harbottle Grimftone, ' who at that time dwelt in the same parifh, and was his exceeding good friend.' It was not the first time that Cawton had involved him- self in trouble by his strong Royalist sympathies. In the month of February, after the execution of Charles I., being called to preach before the Lord Mayor and aldermen of London, he had so expressed himself, especially in his prayer, as to incur the displeasure of the then government, and was accordingly imprisoned in the Gate House, where he remained from the 3rd of March to the 14th of August. After his release he returned to his miniflry at St. Bartholomew's. The con- spiracy into which he was now drawn is known as ' Love's plot.' On its discovery, he concealed himself for some time in the house of William Whittaker, at Hornchurch, and at length escaped to Holland, where he settled at Rotterdam. He died in that city, August 7, 1659. * It would be foreign to the purpose of these pages to trace the proceedings which led to the eftablifhment of the Protecto- rate. Oliver Cromwell was inaugurated December 16, 1653, * ' The Life and Death of that holy his Majefty, for which he was committed and reverend man of God, Mr. Thomas prisoner to the Gate House, in Weftmin- Cawton, sometime Minifter of the Gospel fter.' Lond., 1662, 8vo. This memoir was at St. Bartholomew's, behind the Royal written by Cawton's son ; of whom see Exchange, and lately preacher to the Memorials. The preface bears, among Englilh congregation at Rotterdam, in other signatures, that of Edward Calamy. Holland ; with several of his speeches and Harrner was of St. John's College, Cam- letters, while in exile for his loyalty to the bridge. He was appointed as the succeffor King's most excellent Majefty. To of John Knowles (of whom see Memo- which is annexed, a Sermon preached by rials), 0(ft. 9, 1639. Colchefter Assem- him at Mercer's Chappel, Feb. 15, 1648, bly Book; Mor., Col. 100 j Whitalcer, not long after the inhumane beheading of Memorials. The Triers. 317 and, in the inftrument under which he took office, 'Articles' were introduced on the subjeft of religion, which substantially agreed with the proposals contained in the ' Agreement of the People.' * Cromwell's first Parliament proved to be short-lived. It assembled on the 3rd of September, 1654, and was dissolved on the 22nd of January following, f For some time Cromwell now governed in conjunction with his Council. Among other Acts of this period was one for the repeal of certain Acts and Resolves of Parliament for taking the engage- ment, upon the plea, as stated in the preamble, that such ' general and promissory oaths and engagements in former times imposed had proved burthens and snares to tender consciences.' This Aft was passed 19th January, 1653, and was afterwards confirmed in 1656. J This was followed, on the 20th March, by an Act for the appointment of Commissioners for the approbation of Public Preachers, which had become necessary in order to legalize presentations and elecSions to parochial and other benefices. The functions of these Commissioners were expressly limited to their approval of the candidate as 'a person for the grace of God in him, his holy and unblameable con- versation, as also for his knowledge and utterance, fit to preach the gospel.' Any interference with the rights of conscience would have been illegal. Among the Commissioners were John Owen, Samuel Slater, Stephen Marshall, Samuel Fair- clough, Obadiah Sedgwick, and Daniel Dyke.|| And on the * Pari. Hlft. ill. 141 6 — 1426. See Turner, of Little Parndon (Mor. ii. 496), Art. XXXV., xxxviii. p. 1425. Richard Cutts, Oliver Raymond, and f Carlyle, Cromwell ii. 22, 88. The Herbert Pelham, of Peyton Hall, Alphan- members for Essex were. Sir Will. stone (Mor. i. 267 j Wood, Ath. ii. 471) ; Mafliam, Sir Richard Everard, of Great for Maiden, Joachim Matthews ; and Waltham, and nephew of Sir Tho. for Colchefter, John Barkstead, and John Barrington (Noble, H of Cromwell ii. Maidftone. 58 ; Mor. ii. 87), Sir Tho. Honeywood, J ScobcU ii. 277, 389. Sir Thomas Bowes, Henry Mildmay, || Scobell ii. 270. These names only Thomas Coke (Cook), of Pebmarsh, are sufficiently suggeftive of the design of (Wood, Fast. ii. 95 ; Mor. ii. 263), the commission. Owen was an Inde- Carew Mildmay, Sir Samuel Sleigh, pendent. Dyke was a Baptist, all the rest Dinoysius Wakening, of Barrow Hall, were Presbyterians. Great Wakering (Mor. i. 306), Edward 3l8 The Triers. 28th of August, 1654, an A61 was passed for the ' more effectual Propagation of the Gospel,' by the appointment of "• Commissioners within the respecStive Counties ' for the re- moval of scandalous and insufficient minister,' which was also confirmed in 1656. The Commissioners appointed for Essex were, Wakering, Honeywood, Masham, Raymond, Cook, Mat- thews, Barrington, Pelham, and Henry and Carew Mildmay, the late members ; and John Brewfter, Dudley Templer, Robert Crane, John Penning, William Masham, Robert Barrington, Richard Harlackenden, Arthur Barnardiston, Robert Maidstone, John Meade, and Hezekiah Haynes. These Commissioners had as their assistants the following ministers : 'Mr. Stalham,of Terling; Mr. Willis, of Ingerstone; Mr. Sams, of Coggeshall ; Mr. Sparrow of Halsted ; Mr. Glover, of Finchingfield; Mr. Peck,of Prittlewell; Mr. Warren, of Hatfield Broadoak; Mr. Martin Holbech, of Felsted; Mr. Matthew Newcomen, of Dedham.' The Aft was passed August 28, 1654, and was afterwards confirmed in 1656. * It is of these Commissioners that Baxter, who was certainly no flatterer of Cromwell, and regarded the Protectorate with anything but favour, says : ' To give them their due, they did abundance of good in the church. They saved many a con- gregation from ignorant and drunken teachers, that sort of men who intended no more in the ministry than to say a few sermons as leaders say their common prayers, and so patch up a few good words together to talk the people asleep with on a Sunday, * Scobell ii. 335, 341, 389. Brewfter p. 285. Kennet says, ' the Protector was of Withiield, Great Ilford. Mor. i. 8. was for liberty and the utmost latitude to Robert Barrington was of Little Baddow all parties, and even the prejudices he had Hall. He was the third son of Sir against the Episcopal party were more for Thomas. He married Lucia, daughter of their being Royalists than for their being Sir Richard Wiseman, of Torrel's Hall, of the good old church. Dr. Gunning, Willingale Doe. Mor. ii. 22. For the afterwards Bishop of Ely, kept a con- ministers, see the Memorials. It is true venticle in London in as open a manner that the Commissioners were empowered as the Dissenters did j and so did several by the A61 to ejeft and displace all 'such other Episcopal divines .' Complete Hist, as have publiquely and frequently read or of England iii. 223. Carlyle, Cromwell used the Common Prayer Book,' but see iii. o. note p. 213 ; see also Will. Parsons, James Parnell. 319 and all the rest of the week to go with them to the ale-house.' The same great man, in 1656, thus speaks of the condition of the ministry : ' For all the faults that are now among us, I do not believe that ever England had so noble and faithful a ministry since it was a nation as it hath at this time ; and I fear that few nations on earth, if any, have the like. Sure I am, the change is so great within these twelve years, that it is one of the greatest joys that ever I had in the world to behold it I know that there are some men whose parts I reverence, who, being in point of government of another mind from them, will be offended at my very mention of this happy alteration ; but I must confess if I were absolutely prelatical, if I know my heart, I could not choose for all that but rejoice.' * Religious liberty was now predominant. As might have been expected, the newly acquired right was anything but wisely used by some of those who had been among the most clamorous for its enjoyment. On the 4th of July, 1655, there was a day of general fasting, prayer, and public collection of money for the poor and persecuted Protestants of Piedmont. When the con- gregation were assembled for these purposes in the parish church of Coggeshall, one James Parnell took upon him to disturb them. For this breach of the peace he was apprehended and brought up before Herbert Pelham, Thomas Cook, Dionysius Wakering, and William Harlackenden, Justices, all of whom had been present at the service. They required him to find bail for his good behaviour, and there being none forthcoming, committed him to prison. At the next gaol delivery, he was tried for his breach of the peace, at Chelmsford, when he was sentenced to pay a fine of ^^40, and also again required to find bail. In default of both he was then committed to Colchester Castle, where he remained until his death in the April following. After his death, a coroner's inquest was held on his body ; a full account of which was afterwards publifhed. The coroner and jury say, ' . . . we found his body very spare . . . . but no blemish save only a swelling on one of his * Life and Times, 72 ; Reformed Paftor civ 8, ii. suh. fin. 320 James Parnell. toes. It having been very generally reported that he had rejefted any food for a long time, we called for the wife of Thomas Shortland, .... the woman that for the most part brought him his provisions. She and her husband being very conversant with him all the time he lay in the caflle, being both of them his disciples, we demanded how long he had fafted ; she answered ten dales .... during all which time he took no succour ; . . . . we afked her if he were sick, or com- plained .... of any impediment .... she answered, ' nay, nay .... he was well, he was well, he was strong, he was strong ;'.... we asked her if it were a wilful act of him to reje£t his food .... she answered, ' yea, yea, it was free, it was free,' .... and that he had done it in obedience unto a divine command She further affirmed unto us, that a month before these ten daies .... he eat very little, and that after the ten daies he assaied to eat Her husband likewise affirmed the most part of these things to be true of his own knowledge. Likewise a prisoner, which lay in the said room with (him), said that (he) had a burning heat in one of his legs, and that he sat one whole night with his stocking down, and that leg against the door, when it was very cold .... The gaoler being examined saith, he would faine have had liberty to have walked upon the top of the caflle all alone ; the gaoler told him that he perceived such diftempers in him, as he durst not yield .... fearing lest he should do himself some harm, or cast himself down off the walls. They all say he lived but three days after his fast was over. Upon which evidence,' they add, ' we could bring in our verdidl no otherwise than as foUoweth : ' We find that James Parnell, through his wilful rejecting of his natural food for ten daies together, and his wilful exposure of his limbs to the cold, to be the cause and hastening of his own end, and by no other means that we can learn or know of ' * * ' A Trae and Lamentable Relation hlmselt in the prison of Colchefter ; of the most desperate death of James together with the atteftation of the chiefe Parnell, qualcer, who wilfully starved magiftrates of the town, and the coroner. Death of Cromwell. 321 The great career of the Protestor closed in 1658. In the month of Auguft he sickened, and on the 3rd of Sep- tember, he '■ fell on sleep.' On the death of Cromwell, his son, Richard, became his successor. Richard's first Parliament assembled in the January after his acceffion. The Essex members were : for the county, the Hon. Charles Rich and Edward Turnery for Colchefter, John Shaw and Abraham Johnson; for Maiden, Henry Mildmay and Joachim Matthews ; and for Harwich, John Sicklemore and Thomas King. * This Parliament was dissolved in the month of April. signed with their own hands, and by them desired to be made publique ; as also his blasphemous letter to Do£tor Glisson, of the same town, and his answer returned thereunto j an example of admonition to those of his own fadiion, and may serve for honour to all that shall peruse it.' London, 1656, 4to., pp. 6. *The Quaker*s Fear j wonderful, strange, and true news from the famous town of Colchefter, in Essex, shewing the manner how one James Parnell, a Quaker by profession, took upon him to fest twelve days and twelve nights without any sus- tenance at all, and called the people that were his followers or disciples, and said that all the people of England that were not of their congregation were all damned creatures j also of his blasphemous life and scandalous death in the jayl at Colchefter, this present month of April, 1656. A Ballad.* Black letter broadside, with three wood-cuts. During his imprison- ment Parnell wrote and publlfiied, ' The Fruits of a Fast, &c,,' London, 4to., pp. 30 ; also * GoUah's Head cut off with his own Sword, in a contest between little David . . . and great Goliah, the proud boafter, in answer to . . . Thomas Draton, a teacher of the word at Abbey Rippon, in Huntingdonfhire.* Lond., 1655, 4to., pp. 85. It is not easy to account for Besse's story, which seems to be the origin of the local tradition. 'Colledlion of the Sufferings of the people called Quakers,' 186, 190, et seqq j see also * The Lamb's defence against Lyes, and a true teftimony given concerning the death of James Parnell,* Lond., 4to., 1656, pp. 30 i and George Fox's ' Myftery of the Great Whore Un- veiled,' Lond., 1659. Before his im- prisonment, Parnell had publifhed, * A Trial of Faith, 'wherein is discovered the ground of the faith of the Hypocrite . and the feith of the Saints.' Lond., 1654, 4to., pp. 8 i and *The Trumpet of the Lord blowne.' Lend., 1654, pp. 13. For the outbreak at Coggefliall, see also Dale, Annals of C, p. 172. * Pari. Hift. iii. 1532. Rich was afterwards Earl of Warwick. Shaw was made recorder of the borough after the reftoration, and was kmghted in 1677. He died in January, 1681. He was buried in the chancel of Trinity Church, Colchefter. Mor. Col. 118, Ap. 20. King's name appears in a list of the * Principal labourers in a great design of Popery and Arbitrary Power, who have betrayed their Country to the Conspirators and bargained with them,* &c., Amfter- dam, 1677. 'Harwich, Thomas King, Esq., a pensioner for ,^50 a seflion, &c., meat and drink, and now and then a suit of clothes.' This pamphlet is said to have been written by Andrew Marvel. Pari. Hift. iv. Ap. xxv. A A 322, Breda Declaration. AfFairs now soon assumed a critical position — a reactionary spirit was abroad, which the hand of Richard proved too feeble to control. The ' rump ' of the old long Parliament was recalled. The Royalist and Prefbyterian parties coalesced, communication was opened with Charles, and when matters were sufficiently ripened, a declaration was obtained from him, he being then at Breda, bearing date April 14, 1660, in which he says: — 'Let all our subjeds, how faulty soever, rely upon the word of a king, solemnly given them by this present declaration, that no crime whatsoever, committed against us or our royal father before the publication of this, shall ever rise in judgment or be brought in queftion against any of them, we desiring and ordaining that henceforward all notes of discord, separation, and difference of parties be utterly aboliflied among all our subjecSs. . . .' The King adds, 'and because the passion and uncharitableness of the times have produced several opinions in religion .... we do declare a liberty to tender consciences, and that no man shall be dis- quieted or called in queftion for differences .... which do not difturb the peace of the kingdom, and that we shall be ready to consent to such an Act of Parliament as ... . shall be offered to us for the full granting that indulgence.' * The ' rump ' had dissolved itself in March, and writs had been issued for a new Parliament, to meet on the 28th of April. In the meanwhile several of the gentry of the county addressed General Monk, whose purpose was now generally underftood, in 'A Declaration and Address of the Gentry in the county of Essex who have adhered to the King, and suffered imprisonment or sequeftration during the late troubles,' which is ' superscribed to his Excellencie the Lord Generall Monk.' They say, 'We . . . taking notice how induftrious some pernitious and desperate persons have been to raise a jealousie, that all who adhered to the King have such a set- tlement of rancour and revenge in their hearts against those who were of a different party, that the blessing of a firm and * Rapin, Hift. E., ii. 6i6. Essex Gentry. 323 lafting peace so long wifht for, and now hoped to be in a near propinquity, is not likely to take its due and desired efFeft, have thought fit to explain the true sense of our hearts in a declaration which we have inclosed herein : conceiving it very fitting not to make the same more publique till it hath first arrived at the view of your Excellency, whom God hath pleased to make so signally eminent in the delivery of this nation ' The declaration is as follows : — ' Whereas Almighty God hath raised this diftrailed nation to some hopes of resettlement on just, known, and lasting foundations, we magnifie his mercy from the bottom of our hearts, and shall ever pay a most grateful acknowledgment to his Excellency the Lord General Monk, as the signal instrument of so great a deliverance We think ourselves bound to declare to all the world (in the presence of God), that we deteft and abhorre all thoughts of animosity or revenge against any party or persons whatsoever. For as we could wish the late divisions had never been begotten, so we desire they may for ever be buryed, and shall think those persons the greatest and common enemies of our country who shall offer to revive them. And we also declare, that we will thankfully submit to attend the resolutions of the next ensuing Parliament for a just and happy settlement of Church and State., that so at last (by God's blessing), the odious marks of sides and parties may for ever be blotted out, and a perfedl union may again be reftored to this diftressed nation.'* * ' This declaration and address was 263), Sir Ben. AylofFe (of Great Brack- agreed upon by the subscribers, at a stead, ib. ii. 139), Sir Denner Strutt (of general meeting at Chelmsford, in Essex, Little Warley Hall, ib. 1. 115), Sir Hum- Sept. 17, 1660, Sir Benjamin Ayloffe and phrey Mildmay (of Danbury, ib. ii. 29), Sir Edmund Pierce being then appointed Sir John Tirrell (of Herons, ib. i. 209), and desired to present this to his Excel- Sir Cranmer Harris (of Cricksea), Sir lencie, which was done accordingly, at Edmund Peirce, Sir Henry Wroth, Kt. St. James', the 19th of the same month.' (of Loughton, ib. i. 164), Gamaliel A broadside printed for Gabriel Bedell Capel (of Springfield, ib. i. 24), Anthony and Thomas Collins, London, B. M. Browne (of South Weald, ib. ii. 118), The subscribers were, Edmund Russell Charles Fytche, Esq. (of Little Canefield (of North Ockenden, Mor, i. 103), Sir ib. ii. 463), Thomas Argall, Esq. (of Henry Appleton (of South Benflete, ib. i. Walthamftow, ib. ii. 37), Stephen Smyth, A A 2 324 Essex Members. The Parliament that was now elefted is known as the 'Convention Parliament.' The Essex members were: John Bramfton and Edward Turner, for the county ; Sir Harbottle Grimfton [and John Shaw, for Colchefter ; Tristam Conyers and Edward Harris, for Maiden; and Capel Luckyn and Henry Wright, for Harwich. * Sir Harbottle Grimftone was chosen speaker of the new House. On the ist of May, letters were read from the King to either House of Parliament, enclosing copies of the Breda Declaration; that to the Com- mons concluding thus : ' In a word there is nothing that you can propose, that may make the kingdom happy, which we will not tend with you to compass .... and we hope that we have made that right Chriftian use of our afflidtion, and that the observation and experience we have had in other countries hath been such, as that we hope all our subjects shall be the better for what we have seen and suffered.' The resolution to recall the King was now taken. On the 8th he was formally proclaimed. On the 25th he arrived at Dover, and on the 29th, which was his birthday, he arrived at Whitehall. Two days afterwards the House of Commons were received by the King in the banquetting house at Whitehall, when Sir Harbottle Grimstone spoke as follows : ' Most gracious and dear sovereign : if all the reason and elo- quence that is dispensed in so many several heads and tongues Esq. (of Blackmore, ib. ii. 57), Salter 525), James Cookson, and Edmund Harris, Henry Pert, John Fanfliawe (of Cook. Malmaynes, Barking, ib. i. 84), Thomas * Pari. Hist. iv. 3. Sir John Bram- Roberts (of Little Bracksted, ib. ii. 144), ston was the son of the notorious judge of William AylofFe (son of Sir Benj., ib. ii. that name. He was of Skreenes, Rox- 139), James Altham (of Leyton, ib. i. well, in the church of which parifli his S4), Dr. John Michaelson, Richard remains were buried. He died Feb. 4, Symonds (the author of the notes so fre- 1690. Conyers was of Walthamftow. quently quoted in these pages, of the Pool, Mor. i. 49. Harris was of Great Great Yeldham, ib. ii. 303), Anthony Baddow, and Lincoln's Inn ? Mor. ii. Kempson, William Harris, Rich, Hum- 54. Luckyn was of Mefling Hall, and phrey, John Lynn (of Little Horksley, the son-in-law of Sir Harbottle Grimfton, ib. ii. 236), William Bramston, John the speaker of this Parliament. Mor. ii. Brown, Nicholas Serle, John Vavasour, 177. Wright was afterwards a baronet. John Grene (of Little Sandford, ib. ii. He was of Henham Hall? Mor. ii. 568. Harbottle Gr'imjione. 325 as are in the whole world, were conveyed into my brain, and united in my tongue, yet should I want sufficiency to discharge that great task I am now enjoined. The resti- tution of your Majesty .... hath been .... brought to pass by a miraculous way of Divine Providence, beyond and above the reach .... of our understandings, and therefore to be admired, impossible to be expressed We doubt not but that your name is registered in the records of heaven, to have a glorious place in the highest form among those glorious martyrs of whom it is reported, that through faith in Chrift and patience in their sufferings, they converted their very tormentors ; . . . they had their ' vicisti,' and that deservedly; but your Majefty must have a treble ' vicisti,' for ... . you have overcome and conquered the hearts and affections of all your people in the three great nations It was a . . . . custom among the Romans, when any of their commanders had done eminent services abroad, at their return to honour them with triumphs and riding through their streets ; there they received the praises .... of the people, with this inscription upon their laurel crowns, ' vincenti dabitur.' But your Majesty's victory .... as it differs much from theirs in the quality of it, so your triumph must differ as much from theirs in the manner of it. They conquered bodies, but your Majesty hath conquered souls ; they conquered for the honour and good of themselves, but your Majesty hath conquered for the honour and good of your peoples ; they conquered with force, but your Majesty hath conquered with faith ; they con- quered with power, but your Majefty hath conquered with patience, and therefore God himself hath written your motto, and inscribed it upon your royal crown, ' patienti dabitur;' .... their triumphs lasted but for a day, but your Majesty's triumph must last for all your days, and after that to triumph in heaven to all eternity. ....... I have it further in command to present you .... with a Petition of Right It hath already pleased two great houses Heaven and Earth, and I have ' Vox Populi' and ' Vox Dei ' to warrant this bold demand. It is, that your Majesty 326 Har bottle Grimjione. would be pleased to resume your throne of state, and to set it up in the hearts of your people ; and as you are deservedly the King of hearts, there to receive from your people a crown of hearts. Sir, this crown hath three excellent and rare properties; it is a sweet crown, it is a fast crown, and it is a lasting crown; it is a sweet crown, for it is perfumed with nothing but the incense of prayers and praises ; it is a fast crown, for it is set upon your royal head by Him who only hath the power of hearts, the King of Kings ; and it is a lasting crown, your Majefty can never wear it out, for the longer you wear this crown it will be better for the wearing ; and it is the hearty desire and most earnest prayer of all your loyal, loving, and faithful sub- jefts that you may never change that crown till you change it for a better — a crown of eternal glory in the highest heavens ; and the Lord say. Amen.'* At first appearances were much in favour of the sincerity of Charles. Several of the leading Presbyterians were promoted by him, and among them Edmund Calamy. As early, however, as the 25th of OcSober, Charles issued a declaration, from which it was already evident that the promise of a ' liberty to tender consciences,' was hardly to be relied upon.f The King had pledged himself to the speedy convocation of a conference; in the declaration he announced his determination for the present to poftpone it ; and when it was at length assembled in the Savoy, several months afterwards, all doubt, if any still remained, was speedily removed, that no concessions ever were intended to be made, or ony ' liberty of conscience ' to be allowed. The Convention Parliament was dissolved on the 22nd of December, but not without having struck the first blow at the too sanguine hopes of ' tender consciences.' In September, the King had given his consent to a measure, entitled, ' An Aft * 'Speech of Sir Harbottle Grimftone, 1660,4(0. It is reprinted in the Pari. Bart., speaker of the new House of Com- Hist. iv. 56 — 58. mons, to the King's most excellent f Wilitin, Concilia iv. 560; Card- Majesty! delivered in the Banquetting well, Conf 286 ; Pari. Hist. iv. 131. House, at Whitehall.' Lond., May 31, Act for the Confirming and Restoring of Ministers. 327 for the Confirming and Restoring of Minifters.' By the first secSion of this Act, it *ras provided, ' That every ecclefiaftical person, being ordained by any ecclefiaftical persons before the five and twentieth day of December last past, and having not renounced his ordination, who hath been formally, since the first day of January, 1642, presented to any ecclefiaftical benefice which hath become void to the patron, shall be and continue the real and lawful incumbent.' This was sufficiently ominous, as it reftritSed the ' confirming ' provision of the Adt, even in the case of those who, on all grounds, must be held to have succeeded regularly to their benefices, not only to such of them as had received Episcopal ordination, but also to such of them as had continued to maintain Episcopal opinions up to the end of the preceeding year ; and these we must in charity infer to have been very few. And the fifth provided that, ' every ecclesiaftical person formerly sequeftered shall be restored at or before the said five and twentieth day of December, and that every ecclesiaftical person who shall be removed shall give his penal bonds to the parson so to be restored, to render to him the moiety of the clear profits and tithes from Michaelmas laft paft to Michaelmas next ensuing.' This last had the effect of ejefting scores of England's best and ablest ministers, and consigning them at once to penury, while it restored an equal number of men, by far the majority of whom had proved themselves to be unworthy of their office, and a scandal to the church.' * Grimftone's speech to the King, at the diffolution, was chara£teristic. It thus concludes : ' You have outdone your Parliament .... as we have nothing more to say, so we have nothing more to do, but that which we will be a doing as long as we have a being, the pouring out of all our souls unto Almighty God for your Majesty's long, long, long, and most happy, blefl^ed, glorious and prosperous reign over us.' f The new Parliament, which has earned for itself the un- enviable distinction of the ' Pensionary Parliament,' assembled * 12 Charles II. * Pari. Hist. iv. 169, 170. 328 Pensionary Parliament. on the 8th of May, 1661. The members for Effex were: Sir Benjamin AylofF and John Bramfton ; for Colchefter, Sir Har- bottle Grimftone and John Shaw ; for Maldon, Sir John Tyrrell and Sir Richard Wiseman ; and for Harwich, Capel Lukin and Henry Wright. * The House of Gommons chose for their speaker Edward Turner, of Little Parndon, who had recently received the honour of knighthood, as attorney to James, Duke of York, and now sat for the borough of Hert- ford. Turner, if poffible, outdid Grimftone in fulsome adula- tion of the King. His address to Charles, at the opening of Parliament, concludes with the following sentences : ' Great sir, whilst this your native country was unworthy of you, foreign nations were made happy in the knowledge of your person, your piety, and your wisdom. And now the Lord our God hath brought you home and set you on your throne, your subjetSs long to see you. What striving and rejoicing was there at your first landing to us, to see your rising sun ! What striving was there at your coronation, to see the imperial crown set on your royal head ! What striving hath here lately been in all the counties, cities, and boroughs of this nation, who should be set up to hear your wisdom, and confer with you in Parliament ! Royal sir, these chosen worthy meffengers are not come up empty-handed : they are laden, they are sent up to you heavy laden, from their several counties, cities, and boroughs. If the affeftions of all Engliftimen can make you happy : if the riches of this nation can make you great : if the strength of this warlike people can make you considerable at home and abroad ; be affured you are the greatest monarch in the world. Give me leave, I beseech you, to double my words, and say it again ; I wish my voice could reach to Spain, and to the Indies, too ; You are the greatest monarch in the world ! ! ' Simultaneously with the opening of the Parliament, Convo- cation also met. After going through sundry preliminary matters, and having made some progress in examining some * Wiseman was of Torrell's, Willingdale Doe ? Mor. ii. 479. Convocation. 329 portions of a book of canons, ' in the session of the 21st of November, the bishops,' says Cardwell, ' entered upon the consideration of the Book of Common Prayer, and directed ' eight of their number ■■ to proceed without loss of time in pre- paring it for their revision. So earnest, however, were they in this matter, and so clearly directed in their judgment .... that they were able to dispense with their newly-appointed committee, and to make considerable progress in the revision of the liturgy at the same meeting. On the day following they held two seffions for the same purpose ; and on Saturday, the 23rd of November, a portion of the Book of Common Prayer, containing the corrections of the bishops, was delivered to the prolocutor of the lower house, with an injunction that they should proceed to examine it with all possible expedition. The lower clergy were not surpassed in zeal and promptitude by their superiors. Three days afterwards, when the bishops had finiflied their labours and placed the second moiety in the hands of the prolocutor, the clergy of the lower house delivered back the first portion, together with their schedule of amendments. With labourers so earnest and so friendly the whole work was speedily completed, A new preface was adopted, the calendar was reconstructed, a form of prayer provided for use at sea ; and, on the 13th day of December, a committee, consisting of members of both houses, was instructed to make a diligent examination and lafl: revision of the whole book ; . . . . and, finally, on the 20th of December, 1661, the Book of Common Prayer was adopted, and subscribed by the clergy of both houses of Convocation and of both provinces.' * * Cardwell, Conferences 371, 372. he was made profeflbr of Mathematics. The calendar was reconstructed by John In 1652 he returned to England. In Pell, assisted by Sancroft, afterwards 1654 he''was sent by Cromwell as his Archbishop of Canterbury. Pell was envoy to the protestant cantons of Switz- now rector of Fobbing, to which living erland ; and, in 1658, he returned to he had been instituted June 19 of this England a second time. After the re- year, on the presentation of the King. storation, he was ordained by Saunderson, N. ii. 269. He was a Suflex man, and Bishop of Lincoln, when he was presented educated in Trinity College, Cambridge. to Fobbing. In July, 1663, Sheldon In 1643 he went to Amsterdam, where presented him to the rectory of Laingdon ■290 Corporation Act. The Parliament showed no less alacrity than the Convo- cation. Eight days after it assembled, the House of Commons ordered all their members to take a sacrament according to the liturgy, on pain of expulsion. On the 20th of May, they ordered ' that the Solemn League and Covenant ' should be burned by the hand of the common hangman. By the 29th of June, they had fallen on the consideration of a bill for the ' Uniformity of Public Prayers and Administration of the Sacraments ; ' by the 3rd of July the bill was committed, by the 9th it was read a third time and passed ; and by the loth of July it had been sent up to the House of Lords, accompanied by Elizabeth's Book of Common Prayer. On the 30th of July the Parliament ad- journed. It re-assembled on the 20th of November. Imme- diately before its adjournment for the Christmas holidays, an A£l was passed, ' for the well governing and regulating of cor- porations,' which rendered it imperative on all mayors and others bearing office in any corporation, on penalty of immediate removal or displacement, to take the oaths of ' allegiance and supremacy;' this oath following: ' I, A. B., do declare and believe that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take up arms against the King; and that I do abhor that traitorous position of 'taking arms by his authority against his person or those that are commissioned by him ;' and also to pub- licly subscribe this "■ declaration,' ' I, A. B., do declare, that I hold that there lies no obligation upon me, or any other person, from the oath commonly called the Solemn League and Covenant; and that the same was in itself an unlawful oath, and imposed upon the subjects of this realm against the known laws and liberties of the kingdom.' The Act also authorized the appoint- ment of Commissioners to visit the different corporations and adminifter the oath, and to witness the subscription. When cum Basildon. N. ii. 357. In August, more than once, he died at the house o Sheldon became Archbiihop of Canter- one Mr. Cothorne, a reader in the church bury, and then made Pell one of his of St. Giles in the Fields, and was buried chaplains. Notwithstanding his promo- at Westminster, by the charity of Dr. tions, he fell into great obscurity, and Busby. Wood, Fasti, i. 254. having been cast into prison for debt Colchester. 331 those who were ele£ted to visit Colchefter arrived there for that purpose, John Millbank, the then mayor, refused to comply with the Aft, and "■ would by no means be drawn to subscribe, and resigned the seal and mace.' Three of the aldermen did the same. * Parliament re-assembled on the loth of January, and by the 19th of April, the ASt of Uniformity had received the royal assent. On that occasion, Turner, the speaker, addressed the King in an elaborate speech, in the course of which, referring to the Ait of Uniformity, he thus expressed himself: 'Great sir, we know the strongeft building muft fall if the coupling pins be pulled out, therefore our care hath been to prepare such constitutions that the prerogative of the crown and the propriety of the people may, like squared stones in a well built arch, each support the other, and grow the closer and stronger for any might or force that shall be laid upon them. We cannot forget the late disputing age wherein mofl: persons took a liberty, and some men made it their delight, to trample upon the dis- cipline and government of the church. The hedge being trod down, the foxes and wolves did enter : the swine and other unclean beafts defiled the temple. At length it was discerned the Smeftymnian plot did not only bend itself to reform cere- monies, but sought to erect a popular authority of elders, and to root out Episcopal jurisdiction. In order to this work, church ornaments were first taken away ; then the means whereby distinction or inequality might be upheld amongst ecclesiaftical governors ; then the forms of common prayer which, as mem- bers of the public body of Christ's church, were enjoined us, were decried as superstitious, and in lieu thereof nothingor worse than nothing introduced. Your Majefl:y having already reftored the governors and government of the church, the patrimony and privilege of our churchmen, we hold it now our duty, for the reformation of all abuses in the public worship * 13 Charles II., 1,4, 5, 6, 7. 'The Milbank, died Nov. 21, 1666, and is Kingdom's Intelligencer,' No. 33, Aug. burled in the chancel of St. Peter's 16 — 18, 1662. Mary, the wife of John church. Mor. Col. Ap. 20. 332 ^ct of Uniformity. of God, humbly to present unto your Majefty a bill for the Uniformity of Public Prayers and Admin iflration of the Sacra- ments.' Turner thus concluded : ' And now, great sir, after these many months most painful and faithful service of your Majefty and our countries, we hope we shall have leave to go home to visit our relations, to tell our neighbours what great things your Majesty hath done for us ; what great things (absit invidia verbo) we have done for your Majefty ; and what great things God hath done for all.' * It was now the law of the land ' That every parson, vicar, or other minifter whatsoever, who now hath or enjoyeth any ecclesiaftical benefice or promotion within this realm of England, shall, in the church, chapel, or place of worfliip belonging to the said benefice or promotion, upon some Lord's day, before the feast of St. Bartholomew's, which shall be in the year of our Lord God 1662, openly, publicly, and solemnly read the morning and evening prayer appointed to be read by and according to the Book of Common Prayer; and after such reading thereof, shall openly and publicly, before the congregation then assembled, declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained and prescribed in these words, and no others : ' i, a. b., do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and pre- scribed in and by the book, intituled, the book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacra- ments AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE ChURCH OF ENGLAND, TOGETHER WITH THE PsALTER OR PsALMS OF DaVID, AP- POINTED AS THEY ARE TO BE SAID OR SUNG IN CHURCHES; AND THE FORM OR MANNER OF MAKING, ORDAINING, AND CONSECRATING OF BiSHOPS, PrIESTS, AND DeACONS.' And that every such person who shall neglect or refuse to do the * Pari. Hist. iv. 245. Turner was ment, on the south side of the church, to buried in the church of Little Parndon, his memory, where there is a handsome marble monu- Act of Uniformity. 333 same within the time aforesaid, shall, ipso faSlo., be deprived of all his spiritual promotions, and that from thenceforth it shall be lawful for all patrons or donors of the same to present or collate to the same as though the persons so offending or neglecting were dead.' And also that ' from and after the feaft of St. Bartholomew's, which shall be in the year of our Lord 1662, no person who is now incumbent or parson of any par- sonage, vicarage, or benefice, and is not already in holy orders by Episcopal ordination, or shall not before the said day be ordained priest or deacon according to the form of Episcopal ordination, shall have, hold, or occupy, the said benefice ; but shall be utterly disabled and, ipso faSlo., deprived of the same, and his ecclefiaftical benefice shall be void, as if he were actually dead.' As the altered Book of Common Prayer was not published until eight days before the Act thus passed came into operation, it was impossible that the book could have been so much as seen by multitudes of men who were required to subscribe to it ; but notwithftanding this, the Act was stringently enforced, and to the honour of England and the then church, some hundreds, rather than defile their consciences by falsehood, or profane their sacred office by unfaithfulness, joyfully accepted the alternative, all of them of social obloquy and personal suf- fering, and many also of extreme privation and even want for life. * The triumph of the prelatiils was only not complete. What with those who had been ejected under the KSt. of 1660, and the greater number who were either silenced or ejected now. * ' Kidder, afterwards Dean of Peter- to that part of the country where he lived borough, and ultimately Bishop of Bath by the time appointed. He used all pos- and Wells, was deprived of his vicarage of sible means, but was notable to obtain Stanground, in Huntingdonshire, by the the sight of a copy until too late. Rather, A33, 34.6i> 62; AlsopandForbench, the Waldgraves, his wife's relations, at see Sequestrations; Raymond, ante; Bures, Aug. 6, 1680. Mor. ii. 271. Lands. MSS. 459 ; N. ii. 43. Wincoll Thomas Beard, Isaac Grandorge. 351 with him, even to drunkennesse ; and is a common dicer and gamefter for money, inticing his tipling companions thereunto ; and is a common curser and swearer, and hath tempted women to incontinency ; and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.' From several entries in the minutes of the Committee for Plundered Minifters, it appears that after his removal Mrs. Woolhouse had considerable trouble with the sequeftrators about her fifths, and that the dispute was not finally settled in June, 1647. Walker says that one 'Walter Okeley got the living in 1654, who could not so much as write ! ' Beard became vicar of Great Bentley on the resignation of John Hubbert. The entry of his appointment bears date March 7, 1645. The vicarage had been sequestered from Nicholas Lewes, ' for that he hath been often drunke and useth to sit tipling in ale-houses seven or eight houres together, even on the Lord's dayes ; and affirmed that he hoped to see them all hanged that had set their hands against bijhops and papijis ; and by his example the people spend the greatest part of the Lord's day in pastimes and drinking at the ale-house ; and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.' Walker says, that Beard got the living in 1654. Beard was buried at Great Bentley, August 12, 1662. * BiRDBROOK. — Isaac Grandorge. Walker, on the authority of Calamy's first edition, says that there was a sequestration here, and as Grandorge was ejedled in 1660, such would appear to be the fact. John Gent appears as ' minister ' among the subscribers to the Essex Testimony in 1648, and was still there in 1650, when he is reported as *• an able preaching minister.' The present reftor of the parish tells me that John Thompson was presented to the living in 1651, and as he must have been the sequestrated redtor, he would be * Cal. Ace. 309; Woolhouse, First 69, 71; Walker ii. 293. The date of Century, 95 ; Add. MSS. 15670, 105, Beard's death I have iirom the parish 361; 15671 j May 17, 1647, 71, 74; reglfter, which the Rev. J. Crofts, the Walker ii. 397 j Lewes, Firft Century, present rector, courteously allowed me to 51; Add. MSS. 15660; Jan. 30,1644, search. Hubbert Infra. 352 John Oakes. sequestered by the so-called ' Triers.' Calamy says that Grandorge was ' some time fellow of St. John's, Cambridge, an excellent man, and a great scholar.' He also adds, that after his ejedment he lived at Black Notley. * BoREHAM — John Oakes. On the death of Henry Vesey, the House of Lords (October 24, 1648) iffued an order for the induction of Thomas Attwood Rotherham, M.A., to the vacancy. Rotherham was still vicar in 1650. The Rev. C. Way, the present vicar, obligingly informs me that Rotherham died and was buried at Luton, in Hertfordfhire, in 1657, also that Oakes succeeded him. He further informs me, from the parish regifters, that Oakes married Mary Tendring, April 25, 1659 ; that they had two sons and a daughter born before March 26, 1662, the two former of whom died infants, and that the last entry to which John Oakes' signature is affixed is on September 2, 1662. After his eje(Sment, Oakes removed to the neighbouring parish of Little Baddow, May g, 1672. He took out a license to be a Prefbyterian teacher ' in his own house ' in Little Baddow, and another for his house "■ to be a Prefbyterian meeting place.' In 1678, he removed to London, where he succeeded Thomas Vincent, the ejedled redlor of St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, as pallor of the church at New Broad Street, Petty France. He died suddenly in December, 1688. His funeral sermon was preached by Samuel Slater, who says : ' He was of my acquaintance between thirty and forty years, a true and cordial friend ; he was just to his Master, Chrift, whom he loved, I dare to say, in sincerity, and served with spirit and strength the best he had ; for whom he courageously appeared, and unto whom he immoveably cleaved, and that in the worst of times He studied that he might be fit to preach, and he preached with fervour, zeal, and plain- ness, as one really set for the securing of himself and them that heard him Death, when it came to him, was in haste, and made quick dispatch. Our God hath sovereign right, and * Gent, ante; Cal. Ace. 306; Cant. 473; Walker ii. 199; Lands. MSS. 549 ; The Triers, ante. John Oakes. 353 may do with His own as He will. He took him away from his work while he was at it, and I am apt to think if he had been put to his choice, he would have chosen to die so. It is counted noble for a soldier to die in the field, but it is more noble for a minister to die in the pulpit, and so to go from a place of service to a throne of glory.' There are publifhed of Oakes', i. ' Blessed Paul's Trial and Triumph ; a Funeral Sermon for Mrs. Elizabeth King.' Lond. 1689, 4to. ; ^^^ ^- ' -^ Sermon in the Continuation of the Morning Exercise, on Prov. xxx. 8, 9.' * After his ejectment, Oakes removed to Little Baddow, where he met with great encouragement from Sir Gobert Barrington and his lady, who then resided at the ' Hall,' and where he also raised a congregation. When he left, he was succeeded in the paftorate by a Mr. Pindar, who is also said to have been ejected from some parifh in this county. Pindar, however, must have left shortly. Rand, the eje6ted vicar of Marks Tay, died pastor of the church in 1692. William Hunt, the son of another sufferer by the A(St of Uniformity, Thomas Hunt, who was eje6ted from the living of Sutton, in Cambridgeshire, succeeded Rand. After sometime Hunt left, and, about 1700, Thomas Leavesly was ele£ted to the vacancy. In 1716, the congregation is returned as containing ' two hundred or three hundred' persons, eighteen of whom are described as having votes for the county ; five, as having votes for the borough of Colchefter ; six, as having votes for Maldon ; and ten of whom are described as gentlemen, f In , 1726, Leavesley also removed to London, and was succeeded in the same year by Thomas Jeffrey, who removed to Exeter * Cal. Ace. 300; Cont. 460J Lands, These returns were collefted by Dr. MSS. License Book, S. P. O. see p. 340. Evans, the author of ' Discourses on the Slater's sermon is entitled, 'The Saint's Chriftian Temper,' from materials sup- Readiness for the Lord's Coming, preached plied to him by the first Lord Barrington. upon the death of that faithfiil and la- The MS. is preserved in the Redcross borious servant of Christ, Mr. John Street Library. There are some mistakes Oakes, M.A., Dec. 30. 1688.' Lond. in these returns ; e. g., it describes the 1689, izmo. church at Terling as being Baptift. Still ■f- Eflex Remembrancer, vol. iv. 1 842. they are not without value. C C 354 Lax and Carr, John Argor. in 1728, when he was followed by 'Anthony Atkey, and Atkey by John StifFe. StifFe conformed. 'On our Lord's day (he) preached his farewell sermon at the meeting, and having, in the course of the following week, received episcopal ordination, on the next Sunday he ... . preached his first sermon in the parochial edifice.' He was succeeded by Richard Denny, Denny by Evan Jones, and Jones by William Parry, one of the ablest and most accomplished ministers of his day. In 1798, Parry became president of the college at Wymendley, and was succeeded by Stephen Morell, the father of the present minifter.* BoxTED. — Lax. He seems to have succeeded John Hubbert, who was the vicar in 1648 and 1649, as at those dates respec- tively, he signed the ' Essex Teftimony ' and the ' Essex Watch- word.' I am informed by the Rev. Charles Norman that there are no traces of Lax in the parish regifter. His successor, Edward Hickeringill, was admitted October 22, 1662. One Carr was also ejected or silenced at Boxted. f Braintree. — John Argor. He was a native of Layer Breton, and educated at the University of Cambridge. He was firft recSor of Lee, in the Hundred of Rochford, to which living he was presented by Robert, Earl of Warwick, 12th of February, i'639. His name is printed in the ' Classis,' Augar. He was one of the subscribers to the Eflex Tesimony in 1648, and also to the Eflex Watchword in 1649. In 1650, he is returned ' John Augar (sic), well approved for learning and dodtrine, and an able preaching minister.' On the death of Samuel Collins, Argor removed to the vicarage of Braintree, to which also it should appear that he was presented by the Earl of Warwick. His name frequently appears in the parifh books at Braintree. In October, 1657, he received a gift of j^ioo from his parishioners, as a token of the estimation in which they held him. After his ejection from the vicarage, * The hiftory ot this church well the Eflex Remembrancer iii. 211, 255, deserves a much more complete record 260. than my limits will allow. There are f Cal. Ace. 307 ; Palmer, N. M. valuable papers on the subjeft in ii. 188 ; N. ii. 80 ; Hickeringill, p. 304. John Argor. 355 Argor continued to reside in Braintree for some time as teacher in the parish school. In 1655, the infamous statute, commonly known as the ' Five Mile Act,' but whose proper title is, ' An A61 for reftraining Nonconformists from inhabiting in Corporations,' passed both houses, and received the royal assent. This adl provided that no person who had not made the ' declarations' required by the Ad: of Uniformity, and should not also take and subscribe the oath following : ' I do swear, that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatever, to take arms againft the King, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his power, or againft those that are commiffioned by him .... and that I will not at any time endeavour any alteration either in church or state ;' and should take upon them to preach in any unlawful assembly .... under colour .... of any exercise of religion contrary to the laws and statutes of this kingdome, should at any time, unless only in passing upon the road, come, or be within five miles of any city or town corporate, or borough that sends burgesses to Parliament, or within five miles of any parifli, town, or place wherein he had been parson, vicar, stipendiary, or ledturer, .... on forfeiture for every such offence, of forty pounds.' It also provided that ' it should be lawful for any two Juftices of the Peace-. ... to commit the offender for six months.' This rendering Argor's longer refidence at Braintree illegal, he removed, as it should appear, to Copford. John Argor was the first of the Essex ejected minifters to avail themselves of the measure of liberty which was allowed by the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672. He was accord- ingly licensed on the 2nd of April, in that year, to be a Presbyterian teacher, in ' Hezekiah Haynes' house at Copford, and ' Zachariah Seaman's,' in Birch Magna. These houses were also licensed as ' places of meeting of the Presbyterian way' at the same date, as was also Argor's own house in Copford. He continued to reside, and also to preach at Copford, until his death in December, 1679, at the age of seventy-seven. His remains were buried in Copford Church. c c 2 356 y*^" Argor^ Wivenhoe. Palmer relates that he often used to say, ' he left his living upon no other terms than he would, if called to it, have laid dovi'n his life.' Palmer adds, ' he was exceedingly beloved, and the loss of him was much lamented. He was a very serious and lovely Chriftian, who had a sense of religion betimes, and in his advanced years often had raptures of joy. When his livelihood was taken from him, he lived comfortably by faith. Being asked by some friends how he thought he should live, having a great family of children, his answer was, ' as long as his God was his housekeeper he believed He would provide for him and his.' He kept a diary of God's providences towards him, and among other things in stirring up friends to assist him. The following are a few inftances in his own words : — 'Jan. 2, 1663. I received ^^5 2s. This was when I was laid aside for not conforming. So graciously did the Lord provide for his unworthy servant. Jan. 3. I received j^3 19s. The Lord have the praise. And I received ,^3 15s. which was gathered for me by my friends. This great ex- perience of God's gracious providence I received at one and the same time. All glory be to God, blessed for ever. Apl. 2, 1663. I received £^^ 12s., so graciously doth the Lord regard the low condition of his servant. Blessed be His holy name for ever. I received likewise, on the 8th day, ^^4, so good is the Lord in stirring up hearts and opening hands to the relief of His unworthy servant.' Many similar obser- vations are contained in his papers. Towards the close of his life, Argor ' had a people at Wivenhoe.' The congregation at Wivenhoe survived for many years. In 1719, Samuel Wood, who had been pastor for some time previously, removed to Lavenham. Shortly afterwards a di- vision seems to have taken place, one part of the congregation being Presbyterian and another Baptist. These now wor- fhipped separately for some time. In 1794, both chapels had been closed, and Isaac Taylor, then paftor of St. Helen's Lane, Colchefter, recommenced preaching in the village, in conjunc- tion with William Kemp, who was then assistant to Giles Hobbs. They succeeded in gathering a church ; and in 1803, 'John Chandler. 357 James Hyde settled as minifter there. A new chapel was now eredted on the site of the present Britifh School Rooms. Hyde died in 1823, and was succeeded by Estcourt ; Estcourt by the Rev. C. Riggs, late of Tiptree ; Riggs by Joseph Woods ; Woods by Samuel Hubbard ; Hubbard by the Rev. G. Frost, now of Woodbridge; and Frost by the present minifter, the Rev. J. R. Smith. * Little Bromley. — John Chandler. He is called Candler in Newcourt, who merely mentions his name, and assigns no date to his inftitution. He probably succeeded Thomas Felton, who was redror there, certainly as recently as Sep- tember 3, 1640. Chandler was first settled at Danbury, which living was sequeftered to him from Clement Vincent, before February 6, 1644. By June 13, 1646, he had left Danbury, and it was now probably that he became re6tor of Little Bromley. He seems to have been ejected because he would not submit to re-ordination, having been ordained by John Fairfax, afterwards ejected from Barking, and others, as a Prefbyterian. After his ejeftment from Bromley he had com- munication on the subject with Reynolds, biftiop of Norwich, who said ' he was as good a minister as he could make him ; and told him he might go and preach the gospel at Pettaugh,' in the county of Suffolk. Chandler accordingly went there. * Palmer's Nonconformist: Memorials abhorred any such designs, and from the ii. 188; Newc. ii. 384; Lands. MSS. beginningof Dec, 1660, to the beginning 459 J Cunnington MSS. of Braintree i. of Oct., had never left the country, but 86, ii. 83. The parish school was en- lived privately at his own house j' that he dowed with a farm at Stoke by Nayland, might * have his liberty on giving security by James Coke, 'for the teaching and for his peaceable living.' MSS. S.P.O. educating of the poor children of Brain- Charles II. 1661. His father, John tree to read and learn English and Latin.' Haynes, who was also of Copford Hall, See John Ray, infra ; Lands. MSS. 459 ; was one of those who accompanied 1 7 Charles II. ii. 2, 3, 4; Rapin, Hist, of Thomas Hooker to New England. He England ii. 662. Hezekiah Haynes was and several of his family settled at Cam- of Copford Hall (p. 318). In 1661 bridge, Mass. Farmer, Genealogical he was in cuftody on suspicion of being Regifter of First Settlers in N. E. 139. implicated in one of the reported con- The Seamans were a numerous and influ- spiracies of the time. He petitioned ential family at that date. Mor. ii. 195, Charles, on the allegation ' that he had 408. Morison and Blackburn MSS. and taken the oath of allegiance, and utterly Wivenhoe Church Books. 358 Edward Symmes^ Mark Mott, Thomas Archer. Calamy says that ' he there read some of the common prayer, and now and then wore the surplice, but was threatened for not observing all the ceremonies. * BuMPSTEAD Steeple. — Edward Symmes. The return for this parish in 1650 is, ' last incumbent lately dead. The parish has allowed to him that officiates, twenty shillings per diem.' The last incumbent was John Wilson, who subscribed the Essex Teflimony in 1648. Edward Symmes was admitted vicar after this date. He was ejected by the Act of Uni- formity. His successor, George Hyer, was admitted 22nd September, 1662. Symmes is said, by Calamy, to have been ' a very humble, modest, holy person.' t Chelmsford. — Mark Mott. The living had been se- queftered from John Michaelson, for political delinquency, and Mott was his immediate successor, as appears from the order of the House of Commons, February g, 1643. Michael- son was presented to the living of Afheldham not long after- wards. Mott had previously been Michaelson's curate. His signature appears to the petition in favour of Thomas Hooker. He also signed the Essex Teftimony in 1648. In 1650 the return for Chelmsford is, ' Mark Mott, by the Parliament, on the sequefl-ration of J. Michaelson, an able preaching minifter.' The Motts were a considerable family in Essex at that period. They may be found in Morant, at Shalford, Braintree, and Birch. The name of Mark is also frequently to be met with in the family. A Mark Mott, B.D., was vicar of Little Raine, 161 1 to 1630. Michaelson recovered his living at the refloration, when he was also presented to the rectory of Orsett. Mott was therefore ejected under the act of 1660. J Chickney. — Thomas Archer. The rectory had been se- questered from William Mitchell. It would appear from the * Cal. Ace. 315 ; Add. MSS. 15669, H. of C. Hi. 394; N. ii. 17, 454; 15670, 208. Vincent, see Danbury. Michaelson pp. 149, 154 all. ; Mor. ii. John Man, infra. 182, 396, 398 ; Hooicerp. 149 ; see John f Cal. Ace. 306 ; Lands. MSS. 459 ; Reeve, Springfield, and Edward Rogers. N. ii. 112, see p. 287. Infra. X Cal. Ace. 304 ; Cont. 467 ; Jour. Thomas Archer. 359 minutes of the Committee for Plundered Minifters, that articles had been exhibited against Mitchell before February 6, 1644, and that the main charges were ' ignorance and unfitness.' His case was frequently heard by the committee, and by January 10, 1645, it was resolved that the living should be sequestered. He appealed against the decision, and after some months delay, he was recommended for examination to the Assembly of Divines. He refused to appear before them, and no certificate being forthcoming from the assembly for that reason, on November 29, the sequestration was confirmed. Mitchell now appealed again; this time, that notwithstanding his previous refusal to obey the summons, he might still go to the assembly for examination. This was granted him December 15. June 27, 1646, there is an entry that the ' Assembly having certified as to his ignorance and unfitness, after hearing him and his counsell, the committe& confirmed the sequestration.' Archer seems to have succeeded. He is returned in 1650, as 'an able divine, by sequestration from Mr. Mitchell.' As Archer was ejected before 28th July, 1660, Mitchell was still living at that date, but there is no entry of his having been restored to the rectory. In the Visitation Book of the archdeaconry of Middlesex, under date 18th April, 1644, there is a minute that Thomas Archer was cited before the court, held at Dunmowe, on that day, ' for maintaining conventicles tending to schisme, and for making various and large sermons in his house, and some- times in his barne, to (which) great numbers of people doe resort from other pariflies.' This was not the first time that he had been thus cited, as at this date he was under judicial admonifhment to ' forbeare such practices.' It was also laid to his charge that he ' absented himself from his parish church.' He appeared to the citation, and for his ' irreverence and con- tempt of the law and jurisdiction of the church,' the court decreed that he should be excommunicated, and he ' was excommunicated accordingly.' * * Cal. Ace. 311 ; Add. MSS. 15660, 519, 527, May 8, 15670, 13, 49, 219, Feb. 6, 27, 1644, ib. 274, 296, 351, 251. 360 J"^^" Harvey^ "James Willett. Chiderditch— 7the county of Herts, and who succeeded to the baronetcy. He was presented to the living by Sir John, the brother of Sir Thomas, and was admitted 22nd September, 1617. The living was sequeftered to the use of (Thomas) Micklethwait. On the sequestration, the creditors of Laventhorp, who had some interest in the profits, petitioned the Committee for Plundered Ministers on the subject. This was in June, 1645. By September 29J 1645, it should appear that Micklethwait had left, and the living, the profits of which had been appropriated either in whole or in part for the satisfaction of the petitioning creditors, was se- queftered to the use of ' Samuel Collins, for the present.' This Collins was still there in 1647, when his name appears on the *• Classis.' In 1650, the return for the parish is : ' It hath been leased for ^100.' It was, therefore, after this that Sandford settled there. He was ejefted under the act of 1660, as Laventhorp recovered the living at the reftoration. Calamy says that Sandford was "■ a good scholar, much a gentleman, and very charitable.' t Sandon. — Samuel Smith. The redtory had been sequestered from the distinguished scholar and biblicist, Brian Walton. » Cal. Ace. 314; Cont. 491; Mor. ill. 203 — 207; Dale, History of Cog- i. 138 J Effex Remembrance, vol. in., geshall, 215. 1841,13 — 19,87,91; Returns of 1 7 1 6, f Cal. Ace. 311; Cont. 485; Add. p. 353; Wilson, History and Anti- MSS. 15669, 186, 249, 342; Mor. ii. quities of Dissenting Churches, 1. 397; 616; Miclclethwait, infra. Brian Walton. 453 Walton also held the reftory of St. Martin Orgar, London. Walker says that, in addition to his two redtories, he also held the prebend of Twyford, in the cathedral of St. Paul's; and, according to Wood, he was at the same time one of the chaplains to Charles I. He was born at Cleaveland, in the North Riding of Yorkfhire, in 1600. He first entered Mag- dalen College, Cambridge, where he was a sizar in 1616, and afterwards removed to Peter-house. While there, he took his degree of B.A. in 1619, and that of M.A. in 1623. From Cambridge he went to a curacy, and the mafherfhip of a school in Suffolk. Thence he removed to London, and lived for a short time with Richard Stock, rector of All Hallows', Bread Street, and the predecessor of Daniel Featly and Philip Nye. January 15, 1635, he ,was admitted to the recftory of St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, and on the same day to that of Sandon. He was presented to both livings by the King. He shortly resigned St. Giles', and was succeeded there by William Haywood. * He was collated to his prebend at St. Paul's in 1639, and in the same year he was also created D.D., of Cambridge. The date of his admillion to St. Martin's Orgar does not appear in Newcourt, but it must have been soon after his settlement at Sandon. Walton early took a very decided part with the prelatists, ' During the controversy between the clergy and the inhabitants of Sandon about the tithes and rents,' says Walker, ' he was very induftrious and aftive in the behalf of the former; and upon that occasion made so exact and learned a collection of cuftoms, prescrip- tions, laws, orders, proclamations, and compositions, for many hundred years together, an abstract of which was afterwards published relating to that matter, that the judge declared that there could be no dealing with the London miniflers if Mr. Walton pleaded for them.' The parifhioners of St. Martin's Orgar petitioned against him, and their petition was afterwards publifhed, under the title of ' Articles and Charges proved in Parliament against Dr. Walton, minifter of St. Martin's * Haywood, p. 238. 454 Brian Walton. Orgar, in Cannon Street.' London, 1641, 4to. They com- plained that, 'he was a man of unquiet and unpeaceable carriage ; that he prosecuted such of his parifhioners as were not of his way of thinking; that, in 1637, in spite of his parifhioners, he removed the table, and set it altar-wise in the east end of the chancel, and then read part of the service at the altar ; that he neither preached nor catechyzed oftentimes, nor will permit his parifhioners to procure a preacher, though at their own charge; that he extorted the ex-ofEcio oath* from his parifhioners ; and that he contemptuously asperseth those persons of quality and worth who at this time serve the Commonwealth in the honourable Houses of Parliament.' Walton refusing to appear, these charges were invefligated in his absence, and he being besides a pluralist, his living of St. Martin's was sequeflered, but not, however, that of Sandon. Shortly after this he became involved as a political delinquent, and as such, on the 22nd of December, 1642, it was ordered by the House of Commons that he should be ' forthwith sent for.' It does not appear that he was taken, he having fled to the King. It was now that the sequeflration at Sandon would seem to have taken place. As early as 1644, there is an entry in the minutes of the Committee for Plundered Miniflers, to the effect that, ' Whereas this committee have, the 8th day of July last, ordered that Dr. Walton, from whom the recSory of Sandon is sequeflered, should appear before the committee within six days after notice, to answer his contempt, for prohibiting the parifhioners of the said parish from paying of their tithes unto Mr. Smith, unto whom the said rectory is sequeflrated, in contempt of the said sequeflrration ; who hath made no appearance, onelie a petition is presented in his behalf, which this committee have taken into consideration ; but there are produced against the said doctor three letters, by him written, to forbid the parifhioners from payment of their tithes to the said Mr. Smith. It is therefore ordered that the serjeant-at-arms of the House of Commons, or his deputy or Ex-of5cio Oath, pp. 77, 181. Brian Walto 455 deputies, do bring the said Dr. Walton in safe cuftodie before the committee, to answer his said contempt; and the sheriff of the said county, and all justices of the peace, the constables, and all other his Majesty's officers and loving subjects, are desired and hereby required to be aiding and aflisting in the due execution hereof.' I find no evidence, hov/ever, of Walton's actual" apprehension, neither do I of any of his alleged ill-treatment. According to Wood, Walton remained at Oxford until the declining of His Majesty's cause, when he returned to London, where he refided with William Fuller, the sequeftered rector of St. Giles', Cripplegate. He had already commenced, and in great part completed, the great work by which his name is so honourably distinguifhed — the 'Biblia Polyglotta,' which was first publifhed in 1656-7. There is but one edition of the work itself, but there are evidently three editions of the preface. The first edition contains the following reference to Oliver Cromwell : ' Primo antem commemorandi, quorum favore chartam a vectigalibus immunem habuimus, quod quin- que ab hinc annis a concilio secretiori, primo concessum, postea a serenissimo D. Protectore ejusque concilio, operis promovendi causa, benigne confirmatum et continuatum erat.' The second edition omits the epithet ' serenissimo,' and also the word ' benigne.' And in the third, which is addrefTed to Charles II., the reference to Cromwell is as follows : ' Cur vero aris tuis tabellam hauc votivam citius non appenderim, quod ab ipso suscepti operis initio decretum fuisse, .... omnis notum est, cum per infausta haec tempora, innuo erga Regiam Majestatem officium pro laesae Majestatis crimine haberetur, .... Insidiabatur enim partin nostro, Draco ille magnus et Tyrranidis suae mancipia, hoc agebat ut in ipso partu opprimeretur, nisi ipsi et patrono et protectori decretur. Deus vero ab ejus furore ilium servavit, et nunc gratanter verum parentem lustriacum palam profiteri audet, cujus patro- cinio fretus omnes adversariorum minas contemnit.' In the compilation of this noble work he was assifted by, among others, Edmund Castell and Samuel Baker, and towards the 456 Brian Walton. expenses he received contributions, among others, from Castle; William, Lord Petre ; and William, Lord Maynard.* A month before the 'Polyglot' was published, January 16, 1656-7, it was ordered by the ' Grand Committee for Religion ' that ' it be referred to a sub-committee, to send for and advise with Dr. Walton, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Castle, Mr. Clark, Mr. Poulk, Dr. Culworth, and such others as they shall think fit, and to consider of the translations and impreflions of the Bible, and to offer their opinions thereon to this committee ; and that it be especially commended to the Lord Commiflioner White- lock to take care of this bufmess.' ' The committee,' says Whitelock, ' often met at my house, and had the most learned men in the Oriental tongues to consult with in this great busi- ness, and divers excellent and learned observations of some miflakes in the translation of the Bible in English, which yet was agreed to be the best of any translation in the world. I took pains in it, but it became fruitless by the diffolution of the Parliament.' The Parliament was diffolved February 4. At the reftoration Walton recovered posseflion of Sandon, and, as it should seem, previously to the printing of the third edition of his preface and the fulsome dedication to Charles IL, Walton petitioned the King for the redlory of Winwick, in the diocese of Chefler, and the county of Lancafter, on the plea that, he had been ' for eighteen years sequeflered from his ecclefiastical preferments and from the exercise of his functions, and also plundered of all his personal eflate for his loyaltie, and for his conftant adherence to the Church of England.' He obtained, however, something better. He was appointed Bifhop of Chefter, to which office he was consecrated at West- minfter Abbey, December 2, 1660. Walton died in his house in Aldersgate Street, London, November ig, 1661, and was buried in the south aisle of St. Paul's Cathedral. Smith's name appears on the ' Claffis,' also among the subscribers to the ' Effex Teftimony' in 1648. He is reported in 1650 as, 'an able preaching minifter.' He was buried * Castle, p. 271, 299 ; Baker, infra. Giles Firmtn, 457 April 2, 1662. Calamy says of him, that ' he was a judicious divine.' * Shalford. — Giles Firmin. He was a native of Ipswich, where he was born in the year 1 6 14, and matriculated in the University of Cambridge, December, 1629. His conversion is ascribed to the ministry of John Rogers, at Dedham, who, ' observing him and some others crowding into the church on a week day, cried out, with his usual familiarity, ' here are some young ones for Christ. Will nothing serve you, but you must have Christ? Then you shall have him.'' Firmin applied himself to the study of physic when at Cambridge, and emi- grated with his father, of the same christian name with himself, to New England in 1632, f and joined the church there about the same time as his father did ; he next went to Boston, but soon removed to Ipswich, where he received a grant of one hundred and twenty acres of Und in 1638. He praftised in New England as an apothecary and phyfician, and acquired for himself the reputation of an accomplished anatomist. There he also married Susanna, daughter of Nathaniel Ward. % In 1648 he succeeded Ralph Hilles, at Shalford, where he was ordained, being then about forty years of age, by Stephen Marshall and other minifters. The Rev. S. Groomes, the present vicar of that parish, obliges me with several entries in the regifter, from one of which it appears, that after the removal of Ralph Hilles the parish was deftitute of a minifter for 'one whole year.' The return for 1650 is, 'Mr. Giles Firmin, by order of the Committee for Plundered Minifters, an able, godly preacher'.' There are several letters written by him to Richard Baxter, during his incumbency here, among * Walker ii. 53; Add. MSS. 15671, ed. iv. 283. Cal. Ace. 313; Lands. 232 ; Jour, H. of C. ii. 872 ; Lands. MSS. 459. Peck, ' Desiderata Curiosa,' MSS. ; MSS. S. P. O. Charles IL, 1660 ; voL ii. Wood, Ath. Ox. ii. 47 ; Newcourt i. f He and his father seem to have 223. Todd's Life of Walton. 'Feb. 16, gone from Sudbury in the company 1656, Dr. Walton published the 'Poly- which was joined by John Wilson. See glot Bible.' Whitelock, Memorials, 654, ante. Farmer, Genealogical Register where also see the appointment of the of First Settlers in N. E., 105. Committee for a New Translation, Oxf. J Ward, p. 464. 458 Giles Firmin. the Baxter MSS. in the Redcross Street Library, In 1654, Firmin says, ' I am a stranger to you, as you to me ; yet you are more known to mee than I to you by your learned works .... which while I peruse .... I must say .... to the free grace of God be all the glory of that grace, and -those gifts which he hath most freely beftowed upon you. For Essex we are gospel .... glutted, profeffion and these separatifts have almost undone us. We have some good minifters, but for men of eminence, since Mr. Daniel Rogers died, and Mr. Marfliall and Mr. Owen went away, we have only Mr. New- comen, of Dedham, left.' In 1656, he says, ' Essex is in an ill pofture. Mr. Newcomen is going to Ipswich, as I heare, and another I heare is going, one who is one of our chiefs, Mr. (John) Warren, whom you know I look on as one of the ablest men we have, but I think there is no county in England where there is lesse work done in converfion.' In 1657, Firmin was very adlive in procuring signatures to ' The Agreement of the Associated Minifters of the county of Essex, proposed to particular congregations and to all such of the county as love the church's peace ; with a word of exhortation to brotherly union.' This agreement was publiflied in 1658, but without the names of the subscribing minifters, in a 4to. pamphlet of thirty-three pages. In the preface to the reader the minifters say : ' Oh that we had not to bewail the dissatis- factions . . . among brethern of the same household of faith, and these arifing chiefly from less and lower points and pundti- lioes, when in fundamentals and the main there is so great an accord. Therefore, when souls are famifhing, truth lies bleeding, divisons combining, enemies insulting, dangers and difficulties not abating; and, which far transcends all that can be said, all this likewise when our calamitous condition is not utterly hopeless, but like the patient languiftiing, not from utter defedt of remedy, but want of the physician's willingness to joyn together, study the case, and apply the cure. For these things, the conceived expedient is a brotherly association, shewing the hitherto hindered union to arise not so much from difference of principles as from defed: of will and inclination, Giles Firmin. 459 and this from a grand failing in brotherly love.' The ' Agree- ment ' is an elaborate exposition of the principles, both of doiStrine and of discipline, on which the members of the association declare themselves to be agreed and call on others to unite with them. The following passages from a letter written by Firmin to Baxter, November 14, 1660, will exemplify the working of many minds as the crisis of the Act of Uniformity was ap- proaching : ' Glad I am the Lord hath given you such favor in the eyes of our King that you are so neare unto him. I wish His Majesty the same yourself doe, a spiritual blefling to your being neare him. What your laboures with the rest of our honoured and godly divines have been towards the healing of the breaches .... I perceive by His Majestie's declara- tion. I do not think things are there in all pointes as you would, but as you can. I believe you have found it difficult work to get so farre, and it is a mercie that your King, all things considered, is so moderate as he is. What the Par- liament will do, or a synod, which I desire, I cannot tell ; for forms of prayer .... in that point I am troubled. I perceive that formes of prayer .... will not downe in our parts .... I am of Mr. Warring's (John Warren), your and my friend's minde, we shall quite undoe our miniftry if we shall yielde to anything which men now put upon us, if we cannot convey it direiStly from the Word, which we tell our people is our rule ' Then follows a paffage not very legible, in which he predicts the retirement of the ' godly minifters,' and the return of such as are ' drunkards, gamefters, &c., fit men to advance the power of godliness.' Firmin thus continues : ' Though I cannot judge such episcopacy as is mentioned to be divine, yet if other men will take any power away from me, and will by their power purge my conscience from ignorance, so they will not force me to owne their power as being of divine authoritie, I will not oppose them, and would willinglie live under such a bifhop if I could, for some episcopacies I owne.' When he refused to conform, Firmin had seven children dependant upon him, and was entirely 460 Giles Firmin. without resources. ' After his ejeiftment,' says Calamy, ' the church doors were shut up for several weeks, nay months, and God had no public worfhip there. And he complains that it was also so in several other places, in his ■■ Queflion between the Conformist and Nonconformist truly stated in answer to Dr. Falkner, p. 29.' Firmin shortly retired to Ridgwell, where 'he pra6lised physic for a maintenance, and was still a constant and laborious preacher, both on the Lord's days and on week days.' In the Visitation Book of the archdeaconry there is an entry of proceedings taken, in 1662, against William Augar, John Cutts, John Dawson, and Sarah Rust, for standing excom- municate. December i, 1672, Firmin took out a license for his house at Ridgwell to be a ' Prefbyterian meeting place,' and also one for himself to be a 'teacher' there. He died at Ridgwell, according to Calamy, ' the Saturday after he had preached his last two sermons on the Lord's day, in April, 1697. His loss was generally lamented all the country round.' Firman publifhed, i. ' A Serious Question Stated, whether the Minifters of England are bound by the Word of God to baptize the children of all such parents which say they believe in Jesus Christ, but are grossly ignorant, scandalous in their conversation, &c.' 4to., 1651. 2. 'A Treatise against sepa- ration from the Miniftry and the Church of England.' 4to., 1652. 3. 'The Real Chriftian ; or, a Treatise of EfFecSlual Calling.' 4to., 1653. 4. 'A Reply to Mr. Cawdry, in defence of the Serious Queftion Stated.' 4to., 1653. 5. ' Establishing against Shaking ; or, a Discovery of the Prince of Darkness, scarcely transformed into an Angel of Light, powerfully now working in the deluded people called Quakers.' 4to., 1656. 6. 'The Power of the Civil Magistrate in matters of Religion, vindicated in a Sermon of Mr. Marfhall's, with Mr. Firmin's notes.' 4to., 1657. 7. 'A Treatise of the Schisme of Parochial Congregation in England, and of Ordi- nation by Imposition of Hands ; in answer , to Mr. Owen, of Schisme, and Mr. Noye's, of N. E., Arguments against Imposition of Hands in Ordination.' 1658, 8vo. 8. ' Prefby- Zechariah Fitch. 461 terian Ordination Vindicated, in a brief discourse concerning Episcopacy.' 4to., 1661. 9. ' Liturgical Considerations, or a brief examination of Dr. Gauden's Considerations concerning the Liturgy of the Church.' London, 1661, 4to. 10. 'The Plea of the Children of Believing Parents for their interest in Abraham's Covenant, their Right to Church Memberfliip Vf'ith their parents, and their Title to Baptism ; in answer to Mr. Danvers.' 1683, 8vo. 11. "■ The Queftions between the Conformifl: and the Nonconformist truly stated and briefly discuffed ; in answer to Dr. Falkner and the Family Debate.' 1683, 4to. 12. ' Scripture Warrants sufficient proof for Infant Baptism; a reply to Mr. Grantham's Presumption no Proof.' 1688, 8vo. 13. 'An Answer to Mr. Grantham's Vain Queftion put to and charged upon Mr. Firmin, in his book intituled the Infant's Advocate.' 1689, 410. 14. ' Weighty Queftions discussed about Imposition of Hands, about ruling elders, and the members meeting in one place.' 1692, 4to. 14. ' Of Imposition of Hands, and the Conftitu- tion of Churches ; with the Predictions of Daniel Rogers.' London, 1692. 15. 'A Brief View of Mr. Davis' Vindica- tion giving no satisfaction.' London, 1693, 4to. 16. 'Some Remarks on the Anabaptift's Answer to the Athenian Mer- curies.' 4to. 17. 'Remarks upon some passages of Mr. Crisp.' * Shelley. — Zechariah Fitch. He was of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he matriculated as a penfioner, July 5, 1632, took the degree of bachelor in 1635-6, and that of mafter in 1639. We first meet with him at Twinfted, where we find him on the ' Classis,' and also signing the ' Essex Teftimony ' in 1648, and the ' Essex Watchword ' in 1649. He was still at Twinfted in 1650, when he is returned as ' a godly, able, preaching minifter.' At that date Edward Green was recftor of Shelley. It would seem that Green soon after- wards died, and that Fitch became his successor. In 1653 * Cal. Ace. 297 ; Cont. 458 ; Prince's MSS. 459 ; License Book, S. P. O., see Annak N. E. ii. 2, p. 70 ; Mass. Hist. ante p. 340 ; see Ridgwell ; John War- Colt, and ser. iv. 126, vii. 69 ; Lands. ren, of Hatfield, ante p. 404. 462 George Bound. Fitch was one of the ministers who took part in the ordination of Calatny, Borphet, and Roberts, at Moreton. In the minutes of the Archidiaconal Visitation of 1662 there is this entry : ' Mr. Zecharias Fitch, rector, vac. rat. stat.' Fitch died at Cockerells, in the parish of Havering, and was buried at Romford, February 10, 1687. The admiflion of his succefTor is also given in Juxon's register as, ' de jure vacat.' * Shenfield. — George Bound. He was the son of Nicholas Bound, who was reftor of Wickford, in this county, a brother of Alexander Bound, and a nephew of the celebrated John Dod. George was first settled at Kelvedon Hatch, for which cure he was recommended by the Committee for Plundered Ministers to the Assembly of Divines, October 25, 1645. The reftory had been sequestered from Stephen Withers, ' for that he hath solicited oftentimes the wife and hath not only pra£tised altar-worlhip, but urged his people to receive the sacrament at the railes ; and in his church read the booke for prophanation of the Sabbath by sports ; and will not suffer his people to have but one sermon on the Lord's day, though at their charge; and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament-' f The immediate successor of Withers was Nathaniel Bettes. Bound is called Browne in the 'Classis,' which is probably a misprint, his name also appears among the subscribers to the ' Essex Testimony,' and the ' Essex Watch- word.' The Rev. John Banister, the present redlor of Kelve- don Hatch, kindly obliges me with the following extradls from the parish registers there : ' 1643, Baptizatus, Nathaniel Bettes, filius Mri. Bettes, recftoris hujus ecclesias. June 17, Sepultus- * Ante p. 427 j Cal. Ace. 307; Harfordiae per septennium sub Hooker et Cent. 464 i Lands. MSS. 459 j Notes Stone, Munere pastoral! funftus est Say- and Queries, Aug. 30, and Dec. 1862 j brook, An. 14. Illinc Norvicem emi- Symonds' Notes, Leake MSS., Col. gravit. Obdormivit in Jesu, An. 1702, Mus. Two brothers of the name fled Nov. 18. Aet. 80. Vi concionandi to New England from Booking, in 1638. nuUi secundus.' Zechariah was probably Thomas, who settled at Norwalk, in one of this branch of the Essex Fitch Connedticut, and James, whose hiftory is femily. Farmer, Geneal. Register, 107 j thus related on his tomb : ' Natus fuit Mather, Hist. N. E. apud Becking, 1662, Dec. 24, in Nov ■)- The First Century, 2. The omitted Angliam venit, aet. 16. Vitam degit sentences arc unfit for publication. Shenfield. 463 erat, Nathaniel Bettes, filius Mri. Bettes. Jan. 19, 1646 : July ye sixteenth, George Bound, reftor of the parish of Kelvedon, was maryed to Abigail Graves, of Chipping Ongar. Nathaniel Bound, ye son of George Bound, minister of Kelvedon, and Abigail, his wife, wras baptized ye 8th day of Oftober, 1648. Susanna Bound, ye daughter of George Bound, reftor of Kel- vedon, and Abigail, his wife, was baptized the 20th day of March, 1649. Susan Bound, a daughter of Nicholas Bound, late of Wickford, was buried the 25th day of August, 1649. Thomas Bound, the son of George Bound, minister of Kelvedon, and Abigail, his wife, was baptized March 31, 1 65 1. John Fuller, of Much Waltham, was married to Alice Bound, of Kelvedon Hatch, Odtober 19, 1652.' In 1650 Bound is returned as ■■ a noble, godly, preaching minister, placed by the Committee for Plundered Ministers, Mr. Withers, the late incumbent, being lately dead.'* He removed to Shenfield about 1654. The living of Shenfield had been sequestered from John Childerley in 1643. Childerley was of St. John's College, Oxford. When a junior fellow of that house he became preacher to the English merchants at Stode ; on his return he became chaplain, first to Bancroft, and afterwards to Abbot, Archbiftiop of Canterbury. In May, 1599, he became reftor of St. Mary Woolnoth, which he refigned in 1609, and in June, 1606, he was presented by James I. to the reftory of St. Dunfton's-in-the-East. It was about this last date that he became re£lor of Shenfield. In 1643 ^^ ^^^ ' very aged,' and Wood says that he was "• also blind.' The ordinance for the sequeftration of Shenfield was made by the House of Commons, April 18, of that year, and on the 23rd it was sent up to the House of Lords. The case was then re-inveftigated by the Upper House, and Childerley was summoned to appear on the 28th. On the 29th there is the following entry in the Journals : *• Upon reading the petition of John Childerley, D.D., shewing that he willingly consents and submits himself * Lands. MSS. 459. The name here also is given as Browne. 464 Nathaniel Ward. to the ordinance of sequeftration, humbly defiring that the arrears of rents and tithes, due to him at Lady-day last, may be allowed him, and that the provifions which he hath in his house and barn, as wood and hay, may be allowed him, and he per- mitted to dispose of them as he shall think fit, which this House granting, the Lords read the sequeftration, and passed it.' The living was then sequestered to the use and for the benefit of Henry Goodyere, and at the request of the pa- rishioners. Goodyere was still there July 21, 1647. His successor was Nathaniel Ward.* Nathaniel was the son of John Ward, of Haverhill. He was originally intended for the law. ' Afterwards travelling with certain merchants into Pruffia and Denmark, and having discourse with David Paraeus, at Heidelberg, from which he received much direction, at his return into England he settled at Standon.' We find his name among the subscribers to the petition in favour of Thomas Hooker, in 1629, as rector of that parish. In Laud's account of his province, for 1633, there is the following reference to him : ' Having heretofore, after long patience and often conference, proceeded against Nathaniel Ward, parson of Standon, in Essex, to excommuni- cation and deprivation, for refusing to subscribe to the articles establifhed by the canon of the church (of which I certified last year), I have now left him under the sentence of excom- munication.' Ward remained in England until 1634, when he removed to America. He there became pastor of the church at Ipswich, and 'had Nathaniel Rogers for his assistant.' Here one of his daughters married Giles Firmin. His son John, who was born at Haverhill, accompanied him to New England, where he became pastor of the church at Haverhill, in 1 641. John died in America, at the advanced age of eighty-eight, continuing to preach to within a month of his decease. In 1646, Ward returned to England, and ultimately succeeded Henry Goodyere, but at what date I have not been » Wood, Fafti. i. 157; Newc. i. 334, Jour. H. of C. lb.; Add. MSS. 15671, 463, ii. 526 j Jour. H. of C. jii. 45, 53 ; 526. Jour. H. of L. vi. 15, 21 ; Goodyere, Robert Watson^ John Reeve. 465 able to ascertain. In 1650 he is returned as of Shenfield, ' by sequestration, an able preaching minister.' He died at Shenfield in 1653, at the age of eighty-three. Ward pub- liflied his brother Samuel's ' Jethro's Justice of the Peace,' a sermon preached in 1623, with a dedication to Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England. To this he appended a letter to his brother, dated at ' Elbing, in Prussia.' Mather says, *• He was the author of many composures, full of wit and sense, among which that entitled the 'Simple Cobbler' (which demonstrated him to be a subtle statesman), was most considered.' * I have not been able to trace Bound's course at Shenfield. He was ejected under the act of 1660, when he was succeeded by John Kidby, who had been sequestered at Kirby. Bound died before August, 1662. t North Shoebury. — Robert Watson. We first meet with him at Cranham, where he was in 1644, and where he is returned in 1650, as 'an able, godly preaching minister' At that date the return for Shoebury is, ' William Hawksby, reputed a godly man.' Watson would seem to have been Hawksby's succeffor.f Springfield Boswell. — yohn Reeve. The recftory had been sequestered from Richard Freeman, who also held the rectory of St. James', Garlick Hill, London. According to Walker, Freeman had been presented to St. James' by the Parliament, on the sequestration of Edward Marbury. It should appear that he was sequeftered for political delinquency. January 3, 1645, Fofter Ouldfield was recommended by the Committee for Plundered Minifters to the Assembly of Divines to ascertain his fitness for the vacancy. In 1650, William Banchos, to whom the recSory of the adjoining parish had * Newc. ii. 544; Mather, Hift. of N. f Cal. Ace. 302; Nich. Bound, E. iii. 31 ; Massachusset's Hist. Soc. iii. Cooper, Ath. Cant. ii. 144, 551 ; Kidby, 141, 148 ; Ward's Works appended to N. ii. 853 ; Add. MSS. 15669, May 10, Adams iii. Nichol's ed. 1862; Rufli- 1645,234; Walker i. 57. worth ii. 301 j 'Trial and Troubles of \ Cal. Ace. 314; Lands. MSS. 459 ; Laud;' Lands. MSS. 459; see also Hawklby, pp. 261, 271. ante pp. 119, 174. K K 466 Chelmsford. been sequeftered from Robert Tourney, May 11, 1647, is reported as having both the redlories, ' an able, godly preacher.' At what date Reeve succeeded Banchos I have not been able to ascertain. At the restoration Freeman petitioned Charles for some preferment. His petition was accompanied by a certificate, ' that he was a man of laudable life and unblame- able conversation ; a faithful son of the Church of England, for which he hath suffered the spoiling of his goods and the sequeftration of his living ; and that he is orthodox according to the articles of the Church of England.' He, of course, recovered Springfield, but it does not appear that he recovered St. James', nor can I find that he had any other preferment. He died before i6th December, 166 1, and was succeeded by William Pindar. After his ejectment Reeve remained at Springfield, where he continued to preach. In 1669, he is reported to Sheldon as having 'a conventicle' there. April 30, 1672, he took out a license to be a ' Presbyterian teacher,' in his house at Springfield, and another for his house at Springfield to be a ' Presbyterian meeting place.' About this time, if not before this, he also preached at Chelmsford, as, on the 9th of May following, he took out a third license to be a "■ Presbyterian teacher in his house at Chelmsford,' and a fourth, for his house to be a ' Presbyterian meeting place.' We next hear of him as the successor of Thomas Brooks, the ejeftedminifter of St. Mary Magdalen, Fish Street Hill, who gathered a con- gregation in London after his ejeftment, and died in 1680. Calamy says, ' he was imprisoned in Newgate, and probably died there.' Reeve publifhed, 'A Funeral Sermon for Thomas Brooks,' and also a ' Metrical Paraphrase on the Canticles.' * Reeve's congregation at Chelmsford continued to meet after * Cal. Ace. 304; Cont. 4.67; Free- 1645; on that date it was presented to man, Walker ii. 170; Newc. ii. 538; John Hawkins. Add. MSS. 15669, S. P. O. MSS. Dom. Ser. Charles II. ; 230, 254. Banchos, Add. MSS. 15671, Ouldfield, Add. MSS. 15669, 230; 14; Lands. MSS. 459 ; Returns of 1669, Tourney, N. ii. 539. Springfield had ante p. 345 ; License Book, p. 340. been sequeftered from Tourney, Aug. 6, Henry Havers. 467 his removal to London. Edward Rogers, an ejefled minifter, seems to have been Reeve's successor. He died in 1703. Before the year 17 16, a meeting house had been erefted. About the same time a separation seems to have taken place, which resulted in the erection of a second place of worfhip. The pastor at the old meeting, in 1 7 16, was Nathaniel Hickford. The congregation is then returned as containing seven hundred hearers, of whom twenty are described as having votes for the county, and eighteen as ' gentlemen.' Hickford died in 1765, and was succeeded by William Johnson. The first paftor at the new meeting was Richard, the father of the well-known Nathaniel Lardner. Lardner was succeeded by John Green ; Green by Anthony Mayhew ; Mayhew by Samuel Philips ; and Philips by John Gibbons. After the death of Gibbons, in 1763, the two churches united, but not long afterwards they separated again. In 1799, William Cooper became pastor at the old meeting. He was succeeded by Joseph Gray ; Gray by the Rev. Sam. Eaftman ; Eaftman by the Rev. George Martin ; and Martin by the present minister, the Rev. Theodore Hook. In 1773, Edward Bryant was pastor at the new meeting. He was succeeded by Samuel Douglas ; Douglas by John Hunt ; Hunt by James Dean ; Dean by Julius Mark ; Mark by the Rev. Robert Bowman ; and Bowman by the present minifler, the Rev. George Wilkinson. * Stambourne. — Henry Havers. He was a native of this county, and was of Katherine Hall, Cambridge. We first meet with him at Chipping Ongar. While there he was chosen on the ' Classis.' About 1648, he removed to Fifield, where he succeeded Conftantine Jessop. The redtory of Fifield had been sequeflered from Alexander Reade, who was inflituted November 15, 1630. The order for the ' sequeftration of the profits of the living for the use of Conflance (sic) Jessop,' who was thereby ' required to officiate the cure until further orders should be made,' passed * Rogers, infra; Returns of 1716, ante p. 353; Morison and Blackburn MSS. K K 2 468 Fifield. the House of Commons, April ii, 1643, and two days after- wards it was sent up to the House of Lords. On the 23rd the Lords issued writs for the appearance of Reade, and the witnesses, at their bar, and on the 9th of May the case was before them. Reade was present, and ' the charge being read, he was demanded what answer he could make ; and he denied he was guilty of any of the particulars, only he bowed to the table inftead of the altar, and he confessed he read the Book for Sports on the Sabbath day, but did not speak for it.' Evidence was then heard, when two witnesses deposed, that ' they heard Dr. Reade say, in the church, after the reading of the Book of Sports on the Sabbath day, that it was lawful for the young men to sport on the Sabbath day ;' two, that ' he said that we must obey the bifhops' commands, set over us by God, though they be errors in religion, for our part is obedience ;' one, that ' he said it was a fitting thing for men to cross themselves on the forehead when they came into church ;' two, that ' he refused to read the ordinances of Parliament ;' two, that ' he preached openly that it was utterly unlawful for any people to take up arms for the defence of religion, and that none but Brownifts and Anabaptifts are of another opinion, and that it is better to suffer for religion than to take up arms for the defence of it ;' three, that ' he prayed that the laws in Queen Marie's days might be re-eftablished as they were in her days, and this was a quarter of a year ago ;' and four, that ' he was a compurgator in the ecclesiaftical court for his man and maid, who had committed . . . .' The entry in the Journals proceeds to say, ' Dr. Reade confessed. The Lords having heard the proofs, took the whole business into consideration.' On the nth, their lordfhips adjudged, ' that Dr. Reade, for his offences, shall be sequeftered both from the profits and officiating in the parish church of Fifield for the space of six whole months ; and that Conftant (sic) Jessop, M.A., shall officiate the said cure, and the profits to be sequestered in the hands of indifferent persons, who are to receive the same, and pay the half to Dr. Reade and the other half to Constant Jessop.' On the i6th, it was further ordered, Henry Havers. 469 ' that those dues belonging to Dr. Reade for the time past, before the sequeftration, be paid to him.' And on the day- following, ' on Reade's humble petition,' it was ordered that ' the minister that is appointed to officiate the cure shall make choice of a convenient chamber to reside in during that time, and Dr. Reade is to pay rent of the same ; and further, that Dr. Reade shall nominate two men, and the minifter two men more, indifferent persons, for receiving the profits and tithes of the said living of Fyfield.' This amended order of the House of Lords would seem to have been sent back to the Commons, and after some delay, it received their sanftion. Further proceedings evidently followed, which I have not been able to trace, in consequence of which the sequestration was perpetuated until the decease of Reade, which took place, the Rev. H. Gibson, the present reftor, kindly informs me from the parish registers, in January, 1649. * Anthony Walker, who afterwards conformed, was now presented to the living by the Earl of Warwick, and Havers continued to officiate the cure until the Michaelmas of 1650. This is stated in as many words in the Parliamentary return for that year. Mr. Gibson obliges me with copies of two entries in the parish register, from which it appears that ' Philip, son of Henry Havers, was baptized at Fifield, May 22, 1650,' and that ' Mrs. Havers was buried there on the same day.' At the date of the Parliamentary return, so often quoted in these pages, 'Mr. John Paynell' was at Stambourne, 'an able, godly minifter.' He must have avoided shortly afterwards, and Havers then succeeded to the redlory, to which, being a crown living, he would be presented by the Parliament. Calamy says that he was ordained by the Presbytery in London, and that, when reflor of Stambourne, he refused to take the engagement. He was ejedted by the Act of Uniformity. The inftitution of his successor, Robert Cooke, who already held the vicarage of Great Mapleftead, is given by Newcourt thus: 'nth November, 1662, per inconformitatem ult. recSoris.' * Jour. H. of C. iii. 40,42, 58, 301 ; Jour. H. of L. vi. 15, 37, 42,48, 49. 47° Henry Havers. After his ejetSment, Havers held a farm in the parish, called New House, *• the residence of which was secluded from public view,' and there he regularly conducted public worfhip. Bifhop Kennett says : ' I knew him to be a very moderate and quiet man, who kept possession of his own house and lands in that parish (Stambourne), and had an out-house fitted for a meeting, which was the better filled because the parish church was too much neglected.' His labours were not in vain. He soon gathered a congregation around him, of which frequent notices appear in the archidiaconal and other documents of the period. July 17, 1665, we find several persons cited before the arch- deacon, at Braintree; among them Daniel Smith and his wife; John Choate and his wife; Rebecca Blunt, widowj Daniel Poulter and Elizabeth his wife; Widow French; and Francis and John French, for ' their nonconformity.' Choate and his wife are specially charged with having 'conventicles at his house, preached to by Mr. Havers.' In 1668 Havers was asso- ciated with Scanderet, Barnard, Coleman, Ball, and Billio, in a controversy with the Quaker, George Whitehead. In 1669 he is reported to Sheldon as having 'a conventicle at Stam- bourne.' In 1670 there are three entries in the Visitation Book of the archdeaconry relating to him and his little flock. On the 22nd of February, in that year, the following persons were presented in the court, which was held at Braintree, 'for not coming to church:' Henry Havers, John Chepe, P. Deekes, William Bryant ; Daniel Poulter and his wife, and Francis French, all three of whom had been cited in 1665 ; and Roger Allett, John Stebbing, Thomas Wybrow, and James Smith. Allett and Wybrow seem to have appeared; the others avoided the citation. Judgment was deferred. On the i8th of May several were cited as excommunicated persons: Widow Baron, William Bryant and his wife, Daniel Poulter and his wife, and Robert Smith. Seven more were presented on the same occasion, for ' not coming to church, or receiving the sacrament for three years.' And, July 20, some of the excommunicated ones, to whom there were by that time added John French and his wife, were again before the Court. Two Matthew Ellljion. 471 years after this the Indulgence was publifhed. Havers now took out a license for his own house, at Stambourne, to be a 'Presbyterian meeting place,' and another for himself to be a 'Presbyterian teacher.' The license bears date May 2, 1672. In the meanwhile Havers had extended his labours beyond Stambourne, and, among other places, to Ipswich, where he laboured in conjundiion with Owen Stockton. On the i6th of April, some weeks before he took out these licenses for Stambourne, he had, therefore, protected himself by taking out a license for Ipswich : it was to be a ' Presbyterian teacher in Grey Friars.' Of his other labours, nearer home, I have spoken elsewhere. He lived to a good old age, and was still living in 1705. Calamy might well say, 'he was courageous in his work.' He adds that, 'he was wonderfully preserved in the most troublous times. He was a good philologist and a subftantial divine. One of great holiness, and a most amiable, peaceable temper, on whom malice itself could not faflen a blot.' Havers organized a church at Stambourne. In 1716 the congregation is returned as containing seventeen persons who had votes for Essex, three who had votes for Suffolk, and six who are described as 'gentlemen.' The number of hearers is not given. The paftor, at that date, was Henry Havers, one of the family of the ejefted redlor. He was succeeded by his nephew, of the same name, during whose miniftry the present chapel was eredted. The next paftor was Anthony Mayhew, who was succeeded by Henry Hallamj Hallam by King; King by Benjamin Beddome; and Beddome by the present minifter, the Rev. James Spurgeon.* Stamford Rivers. — Matthew Ellijion. The reflory had been sequeftered from John Meredith, who succeeded to the living June 30, 1641, on the promotion of Manwaring to the see of St. David. Meredith was of All Souls' College, and at this date held also a fellowfliip in Eton College. April 23, * Cal. Ace. 303 ; Lands. MSS. 459 ; Returns of 1669, ante p. 345 ; Indul- Kennett's Regifter and Chronicle; Con- gence, ante p. 340; see also pp. 369, troversy with Whitehead, ante p. 414; 394; Returns of 1716, ante p. 353. 47 2 Stamford Rivers. 1643, an ordinance passed the House of Commons for the sequeftration of the living to Ellifton, which was sent up to the Lords five days afterwards. The Upper House then resolved to re-inveftigate the case, and issued an order to Meredith to appear before them. On the 6th ot May there is an entry on the Journals to the efFeft, that Meredith failing to appear, and ' proof being given of the service of the order, of the 28th of April, at his lodging, the House taking this as a contempt, proceeded with the case in his absence.' Evidence was then heard, that ' he hath not been at his charge, at Stam- ford Rivers, this nine months, and that he is at Oxford with the King's army.' The House now adjudged, that Meredith should be sequeftered, and 'that Matthew Ellifton, M.A., should be appointed to officiate the cure during their pleasure.' On the 17th of May, an order was made that Meredith ' should receive the proceeds of the living up to the date of the seques- tration.' The settlement of Ellifton in the vacancy thus created, for some reason, did not take place, however, until after the 3rd of September, 1646. In the meanwhile, Decem- ber, 1645, Meredith had also been ejected from his fellowfhip of Eton College, but had been presented by the Earl of New- burgh to the mafterfhip of Wiggftan's Hospital, in Leicefter- shire. The House of Commons further deprived him of that preferment on the nth of April, 1644. Ellifton appears to have been a native of Coggefhall. I find no traces of him previoufly to his settlement at Stamford. The Rev. Dr. Tattam, the present redtor, obliges me with copies of entries in the parish regifter of the ' baptism of John Ellifton, son of Matthew Elliston, minister, September 14 ;' of the ' burial of John, on the nth of July, 1651 ;' and also of the 'baptism of his son Matthew, 27th of August, 1651.' Elliston was chosen on the 'Classis,' and is reported of in 1650 as, 'an able preacher, and of a godly conversation.' He was eje6ted under the aft of 1660, as Meredith was restored to the reftory, as well as to his fellowftiip at Eton, and his masterftiip at Wiggstan's. Meredith refigned Stamford before 30th April, 1 66 1, and afterwards became warden of All Souls' College, Ox- Robert Abbot. 473 ford, on the promotion of Gilbert Sheldon to the see of London, and subsequently provost of Eton. He died in August, 1665. After his ejecSment Elliston removed to Little Coggeshall, where w^e find him licensed, on the 13th of May, 1672, to be a ' Presbyterian teacher in his house at the Grange,' and on the same day w^e find his ' house also licensed to be a Presby- terian meeting place.' Calamy speaks of him as ' a person of great worth and ability.' There are traces of his preaching at Coggefhall as late as 1675. It is not improbable that the following entry in the parish register, at Markfhall, refers to him : ' 1693, May 3. Buried, Matthew Ellistone.' * Stansted Mountfitchet. — Robert Abbot. He appears to have been of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he matricu- lated March 2, 1629. He succeeded to the vicarage of Stansted Mountfitchet on the refignation of Richard Ward, under an order of the House of Lords, and on the presentation of Timothy Middleton, of Stansted Hall, the then patron of the living, and an elder of the parish, 23rd July, 1647. Ward was the author of, i . ' The Anatomy of Warre, with the woful fruits and effects thereof, laid out to the life, by R. W., minister of the word.' London, 4to., 1642; in which volume he speaks of the following other works, which he had publifhed previously : 2. ' The Pious Man's Practise in Parliament time.' 3. ' The Principal Duty of Parliament men.' 4. ' Vindication of the Parliament and their proceeding.' It is poflible that he was the immediate successor of Boswell, at Rivenhall. If so, he would seem to have been the author also of, 5. 'The Chiefest Divine Virtues Epitomized : or, concerning Faith, Hope, and Charity.' London, 1655, 8vo. Abbot signed the 'Essex Teflimony,' in 1648, as minifler of Stanfted. In 1650, he is returned as a 'preaching minifter.' Abbot's successor, Thomas Wallis, is. entered in the regifter of the diocese as having been admitted ' 22nd of January, 1663, per inconform. ult. vie' * Cal. Ace. 312; Cont 312; W. ii. Fast. ii. 29. Dale, Ann. of Coggefhall, 88; Jour. H. of C. iii. 56,62,456; pp. 81, 196. Jour. H. of L.vi. 21 — 33,48,86; Wood, 474 Lewis Calendrine. Abbot left traces of his ministry at Stanfted. The church there, however, seems to have originated writh Holcroft, Oddy, and Cradock. The chapel was eredled about 1698. The first minifter was Philip Burgesss. In 17 16, the congregation is returned as containing three hundred and fifty hearers, of whom thirty-five are described as having votes for the county and eleven as "■ gentlemen.' Burgess was succeeded by Jackson ; Jackson by John Sewell ; Sewell by Thomas Impey Impey by James Johnston ; Johnston by James Cavalier Cavalier by Benjamin GafFee ; GafFee by Josiah Redford Redford by R. E. May; May by the Rev. Thomas Pinch- back ; Pinchback by the Rev. John Hall ; Hall by the Rev. Horrocks Cocks ; and Cocks by the present minifter, the Rev. D. Davies. * Stapleford Abbots. — Lewis Calendrine. He was the son of a former minifter of the Dutch church, and, probably, a relative of Caesar Calendrine, who was reftor of Stapleford from 1620 to 1640. Of this Caesar, Wood says: 'he was by birth a German ; by profession a theologist ; and, being a learned man, was beloved of the famous Dr. Uflier, who took him into Ireland, and there, as 'tis said, preferred him.' Lewis appears to have succeeded Edward Benthall, who was still here in 1648, when he signed the 'Essex Teftimony.' The return in 1650 is, 'Lewis Calendrine, an able, godly preaching minifter.' Soon after his ejeftion Calendrine went to Holland, but shortly returned to Essex. In September, 1672, there is entry of a license granted to the house of Edward Praden, in this parish, to be a ' Presbyterian meeting place.' I find, how- ever, no entry of a license to Calendrine. ' He had nothing to trust to when he was ejecSed, but threw himself upon Provi- dence, with his ten children.' Calamy adds, 'he met with many difficulties, and yet was contented and cheerful under all.' In his old age he lived in a alms-house at Mile-end, London, * Baker's MSS. Notes to Calamy; was admitted 1st July, 1649. Newc. Jour. H. of L. Ix. 348 ; Cal. Ace. 307 ; ii. 551; Returns of 1716; Stanftead Cent. 475; Lands. MSS. 459; Middle- Church Book, ton, Mor. H. Y.. ii. 579, 599. Ward Samuel Bantoft. 475 where he officiated as chaplain. It appears that he was still living in 1692.* Stebbikg. — Samuel Bantoft. He was for many years fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and some time president. He took his degree of B.A. in 1641 ; that of M.A. in 1645; and afterwards that of B.D. He was one of the preachers sent out by the University about 1659. From this it would appear that it was after that date that he came to Stebbing. The living had been sequeftered from Samuel Johnson, S.T. P., who was also reftor of Fobbing. In the minutes of the Committee for Plundered Minifters, under date May 3, 1645, we find that it was ' ordered that the redlory of the parish church of Stebbing, in the county of Essex,' should ' be forthwith seques- tered' from him 'for his malignancy against the Parliament;' and, under the same date, ' that Richard Searle, M. A., be recom- mended to the Assembly of Divines for the vacancy at Fobbing.' In 1647, M. Aynsworth is given as the incumbent of Stebbing. He signed the ' Essex Teftimony,' in 1648, as 'minifber of the word there,' and is returned, in 1650, as 'Samuel Alsworth (sic), a godly preacher.' Bantoft probably succeeded Ainsworth. After his ejection Bantoft removed to Braintree, where he preached for some time. September 5, 1672, he was licensed, as 'of Braintree,' to be a 'Presbyterian teacher;' and, on the same day, there is entry of a license granted for the ' house of Mr. Henry Infers to be a Presbyterian meeting place.' He was ultimately forced to leave Braintree, when he went to' London, and was there ' promoted to an excommunication.' He removed from London to Ipswich, where he died August 21, 1692, at the age of seventy-three. 'While he was just a dying, he was heard to say that he blessed God that kept him faithful, that he never conformed.' f * Cal. Ace. 311 ; Cont. 485; Lands. ■[• Cal. Ace. 310; Cont. 485; Add. MSS. 459; License Book S. P O. ante MSS. 15669; Fobbing, ante p. Z30 ; p. 340 j Dr. D. Williams' ' Gospel Aynsworth, p. 289 ; Lands. MSS. Truth i ' Wood, Fast. i. 216. Benthall, 459 ; License Book, p. 340. ante p. 278, 423. 476 Backing. Bantoft's labours at Braintree proved to be the origin of the church at Bocking. We have no authentic record of the hiftory of that church, however, until 1700, when a large congregation, which assembled in a barn near the White Hart, Braintree, invited Thomas Shepherd to become their paftor. Thomas was the son of William Shepherd, who was admitted TtStoT of Tillbrook, in Bedfordfhire, in 1654; and who, although he conformed at the reftoration, afterwards resigned his living. The Rev. N. B. Young, the present reiSor of that parish, obliges me with a copy of the following memo- randum, which is preserved among the parochial documents : ' In the parish church of Tillbrook, on Sunday (being the 20th day of February, 1660), William Shepheard (sic), clerk and recSor of the said church, did publicly read the whole Book of Articles. N.B. — The said Mr. Shepheard, that unusually devoted labourer in the vineyard, notwithftanding his sub- scription, promises, and oath, at his ordination of priest and deacon, unhappily left the Eftabliflied Church, and became a divinity teacher at Oundle, in the year 1690.' Thomas Shepherd had also been a beneficed clergyman, at St. Neot's, in the county of Huntingdon, where, I am informed by the Rev. G. B. Thomas, from the parish records, that he was infti- tuted to the vicarage in the same year that his father resigned the living at Tillbrook, and that he left in 1692. It is said that he was afterwards beneficed again in Buckinghamfhire. While in Bucks he entered into a *• serious correspondence with some of his brethren on 'the subject of subscription, a part of which was afterwards publiflied.' In 1697 he preached as a probationary to a Presbyterian congregation in London, but did not accept their invitation to settle with them. Under Mr. Shepherd's miniftry the congregation at Bocking enjoyed great prosperity. In 1707 a spacious place of worfliip was eredted for their accommodation, which soon became crowded. In 1 7 16 the congregation is returned as consifting of eight hundred persons, of whom one hundred and ten had votes for the county, and nine had votes for Colchefter and Maldon, and thirty-four of whom are described Backing. 47 7 as 'gentlemen.' Shepherd died January 29, 1738-9, at the age of seventy-three, and was buried at Bocking. He pub- lifhed: I. 'Several Sermons on Angels, with a Sermon on the Power of Devils in Diftempers.' 1712, 8vo. 2. 'Three Ser- mons on Separation, showing the Church's Fear of False Worfhip ; her care to tread in the footfteps of the flock ; what Schism is and where the guilt of it lies ; in Answer to Mr. Bennett's Discourse of Schism, with a Poftscript to Mr. Bennett.' 1712, Svo.. These discourses are inscribed 'to the Dissenting churches in Essex, with their bifhops and deacons.' Thomas Bennett was re£tor of St. James', Colchefter, from 1700 to 1 7 16, when he resigned, and became vicar of St. Giles', Cripplegate. He was the editor of 'An Abridgement of the London Cases,' which was a series of treatises against the Dissenters, publifhed by some of the London clergy in 1684. 3. 'A Volume of Sermons,' in 1726. 8vo. This was a collection of all the single sermons which he had publifhed previously, together with some additional discourses. 4. There is also ascribed to his editorfhip, 'Mason's Remains,' being pofthumous sermons of the Rev. W. Mason, re£lor of Water Stratford, Bucks. Shepherd was succeeded by Joseph Pitt, who was ordained August 24, 1738. He resigned and preached his farewell sermon March 21, 1738, which was afterwards publifhed. On the removal of Mr. Pitt the church invited the well- known George Whitfield, who was then itinerating the neighbourhood, to become their paftor. Whitfield declined, but recommended Thomas Davidson, a native of Cromarty, in the north of Scotland. Mr. Davidson was ordained July 5, 1744. John Thorowgood became Davidson's assistant in 1776. Davidson publiflied: i. ' The Triumphant Exit of a Faithful Servant of Christ ; a sermon on the death of John Harrison, pastor of Wethersfield, June 10, 1770.' 2. 'A Sermon at the admiflion of Dr. John Trotter to the pastoral charge of the Scotch congregation at Swallow Street Chapel, London.' 3. ' The Early Knowledge and Remembrance of God recommended ;' a sermon to young persons. 4. ' The 47 8 Angel, of St ebbing. Neceffity of a Divine Teaching to make us number our days ;' a sermon preached at Colchester on the death of Mr. Henry Stapleton, November 23, 1783; together vi^ith 'The BlelTed- ness of the Dead vi^ho die in the Lord ;' a sermon preached at Braintree, on the death of the Rev. Samuel Tabor, January 24, 1784. Davidson died April 6, 1788, and vv^as succeeded by John Thorowgood, who continued pastor of the church until his death. Thorowgood's succeffor was the present pastor, the Rev. Thomas Craig, who was ordained October 12, 1802. Soon after the death of Davidson a secession took place from the church at Bocking, which was the origin of the church at Braintree. The first pastor was David Pritchard, who was chosen in 1789, and continued pastor till his death February 28, 18 12. Pritchard was succeeded by the present pastor, the Rev. John Carter. Stebbing. — . Angel. I have not been able to recover his chriftian name. He was probably the associate of Bantoft. The Morison and Blackburn MSS. state that a Mr. Young was also ejecSed hercj but this is evidently a miftake. There was a Young who was silenced at Bifhop's Stortford, where he had been associated with Jonathan Payne ; and as Payne was aftive in this neighbourhood after his ejeftion, and was probably the founder of the church at Dunmow, it is not unlikely that Young may have laboured here after he was silenced at Stortford. It is said that the church now assembling at Dunmow met originally in this village, whence it ' removed to the more public and central situation it now occupies.' The Revs. Messrs. Shepherd, of Braintree, and Notcutt, of Thaxted, afterwards preached a lefture here. This was the case in 17 16. There was a minifter of the name of Laing here before 1719. In 1720, a small barn, situated on the spot where a part of the present meeting-house now stands, was fitted up with a pulpit, forms, and gallery. In 1724, Thomas Doughty, then minifter at Finchingfield, was accuftomed to preach at Stebbing, one Lord's day out of every three. After his removal the pulpit was succeflively Thomas Clark. 479 supplied on the same plan by the Revs. Messrs. Stennet and Davis, of Terling. During their miniftry the village vi^as visited by the itineraat preachers w^ho laboured under the auspices of the Rev. J. Berridge, of Eversden, Cambs. In 1767, a small church wzs formed by Richard Hume, formerly of Braintree. This church was dissolved in 1776. The Revs. Messrs. Fell, of Thaxted, and Wickens, of Dunmow, then took up the cause, and condudled evening services here once in every three Lord's days, and also on alternate Tuesdays. In 1790, the Rev. Ezekiel Ollwood, formerly of Abbots Roothing, was minifter. After preaching for a few months he relinquiflied the pulpit. In 1792, the Rev. Samuel Torr became paftor. In 1793, the old barn was taken down, and a new place of worfhip was eretSed, mainly under the auspices of one William Barber, assisted by the generous contributions of the neighbourhood and the county. Mr. Torr was succeeded, in 18 10, by the Rev. Joseph Morison. Morison was succeeded by the Rev. Charles DufF, the present minifter. * Stisted. — Thomas Clark. In the Journal of the House of Lords there is an entry, under date April 19, 1642, of an order, that ' Mr. John Clark, the now curate of the parish of Stisted, the incumbent being lately dead, is hereby specially recommended to the Archbifhop of Canterbury to be minister and parson of the said church, being certified to be a man of good life and of sound dodlrine.' Under date of the 23rd of the same month, there is another as follows : ' Upon the humble suit of Mr. John Clark, the now curate of Stisted, made this day, ordered that the said Mr. John Clark is hereby specially recommended to the Arch- bifhop of Canterbury to be minister according to a former order, dated the igth of April, the said Mr. Clark being, as hath been affirmed by the parifliioners there, and divers miniflers, a man of good life and sound dodlrine.' And on the 3rd of May, there is a third entry of an ' order, that Mr. John Clark is recommended to be presented unto the Archbifhop of Canter- bury, to be presented to be minister of Stisted.' Laud gives * Cal. Ace. 310; Dunmow, p. 385. 480 Stijied. the following account of the matter in the ' History of his Troubles and Tryal,' which he wrote during his imprisonment in the Tower : ' The rectory of Stisted was fallen void, and in my gift ; the Earl of Warwick was an earnest suitor to me for it, for one Mr. Clark. I delayed, having six months' time by law to dispose of my benefices. During the delay Mr. Richard Hewlett, a bachelor of divinity, and a man of very good worth, a dean in Ireland, was, by the rebels there, turned out of all he had, and forced, for safety of his life, to come with his wife and children into England. His wife was my near kinswoman,, At their coming over I was forced to relieve them, else they might have begged. Hereupon I resolved in myself to give Stisted to Mr. Hewlett, and to gratifie Mr. Clark with some- thing after ; nothing doubting but that the Parliament would readily give way in such a neceiEty, for so worthy a man as Mr. Howlett was known to be. While these things were in my thought, two other great benefices fell into my disposal, Bocking and Lachingdon, both in Essex. Presently the pa- rishioners petition me, they of Bocking, for Dr. Gawden, a chaplain of the Earl of Warwick's ; they of Lachingdon, that they might choose their own minister. I gave a fair answer to both, but reserved myself. Then I was pressed with letters from the Earl of Warwick, for Dr. Gawden. My answer was, I could not gratifie Dr. Gawden with Bocking, and Mr. Clark with Stifted. Then Dr. Gawden brings me a very earnest letter, but very honourable, from the Earl of Hertford. When I saw myself thus preffed, I resolved to name fit men to all these benefices presently, and see how the Parliament would be pleased to deal with me. Before I did this I thought fit to make a fair offer to the Earl of Warwick, who, by Dr. Gawden's entreaty, came to me to the Tower. I freely told his Lordfhip, and my honourable friend the Lord Marquis of Hertford, I could give Bocking to Dr. Gawden ; Lachingdon to Mr. Howlett, in regard of his alliance to me, and his present necessity; and Stisted to Mr. Newstead, to whom I was pre-engaged, by promise to my ancient worthy friend. Sir Thomas Rowe, whom Mr. Newstead had served in his embassages seven years ; and Stljied. 481 for Mr. Clark, he should have the next benefice which fell in my gift, for his lordfliip's sake. His lordfliip seemed to be very much taken with this offer of mine, and promised me, and. gave his hand upon it, that he would do me all the kindness he could that these nominations might pass with the Lords, May 31, 1642. Upon this I rested, and according to my promise petitioned the Lords as is expressed. Upon the reading of this petition the Lords ordered me presently to collate Bocking upon Dr. Gawden, which I did, the order being brought unto me the next day, April i, 1642. But for the other two the Lords took time to consider. The Earl of Warwick was then present in the House, and, as I am informed, said little or nothing. This made me fear the worst, and therefore I ordered Mr. Hewlett to get a full certificate from the Lord Primate of Armagh, both for life and learning, and attend with it at the Parliament, to make the best friends for himself. The bufiness stuck still. At last he met with the Lord Kimbolton, who presently made all weather-fair for him, and, upon his lord- ship's motion to the House, an order passed for Mr. Hewlett to have Lachingdon, April 13, 1642. The motive this: Mr. Howlett was fellow of Sidney College, in Cambridge, and tutor at that time to two sons of Lord Montague, the Lord Kimbol- ton's uncle ; at which time also the Lord Kimbolton himself was a student in the same college, and knew the person and worth of Mr. Howlett. This his lordship honourably now remembered, else it might have gone hard with Mr. Hewlett's necessities. So, upon the order thus obtained, I collated Lachingdon upon him. After this the Earl of Warwick went lord admiral to sea, by appointment of the Parliament, and forthwith I was served with another order, to give Stifted to Mr. Clark. Hereupon I petitioned again, and set forth my resolutions and ingagements to Sir Thomas Rowe, and Dr. Gawden having told me that the Earl of Warwick had left that bufiness with me, in trust with the Lord Roberts, I made bold to write to his lordfhip and entreat his lawful favour. The Lord Roberts denied that any such order or care of that business was left with him, nor would he meddle in it; but L L 482 Sti/ied. referred me to the Lord Kimbolton, who still followed the bufiness close for Mr. Clark. By all which it appeared to me that the Earl of Warwick had forgotten his promise to me, to say no more. Soon after I received another order to give Stilted to Mr. Clark. To this I answered again by petition, April 25, 1642, but with like success, for another order came forth peremptorily to command me to give Stifled to Mr. Clark, May 3, 1642. But it so fell out that this order was not brought to me till ten days after the date. I sent my council to attend the Lords, that I might not fall into contempt. The business was not then called on, and by the sixteenth of the same month Stifled fell in by lapse to His Majefty, so I lost the giving of the benefice, and somebody else their ends upon me.' The King now presented Richard Middleton. This was pofTibly the same person who had been his chaplain when Prince of Wales, and who publifhed, i. 'Card and Compass of Life.' Lond., 1613, 8vo. ; 2. ' The Heavenly Progress.' Lond., 1617, i2mo. ; and 3. 'The Key of David,' Lond., i6ig, i2mo. He soon became involved in the troubles of the times, as, on the i8th of April, 1643, the Commons passed an ' ordinance for sequeftering the rents and profits of the reiSory of Styfted, whereof Richard Middleton is vicar, for the benefit of Edward Sparrowhawke, M.A.' This ordi- nance was sent up to the Lords on the 20th, and on the 24th the Lords returned for answer, *• that it should be taken into consideration.' They did not however confirm it, but issued an order for the presentation of Chriftopher Newftead, whom Laud was anxious to present before. On the 1 6th of June, in that year, Newftead (sic, in the Journals) had presented a petition, complaining that, ' whereas the House made an order for his quiet oiEciating and enjoying the possession of his living, yet, notwithstanding, the said order is disobeyed, and he not suffered to come into the church, and that the women threw stones at him, and reviled him and his friends.' And it was that day ordered, that ' Thomas French, and the con- stable, and the sexton, shall be sent for as delinquents, to Stifled. 483 answer for the said offences.' The result was, that for the time Newftead succeeded in obtaining possession of the redtory. In the March following, however, depositions were taken against him at Halfted, when two witnesses gave evi- dence on oath, ' to his having been a great promoter of the late innovations, by bowing to the altar towards the east, reading the service and churching women there, prosecuting tender consciences, affirming it treason not to obey the same ;' four, to his having preached ' that the sin of ignorance is but a small sin, and that Papifts are saved as well as Puritans, but that a Papist must go a little farther about, and that (that) sin which makes some people infamous, made Magdalene famous ;' two, to his having ' buried corses with crosses on the breast,' and, ' there being in his church at Abington the pictures of God (the) Father and of Purgatory, he caused to be rased out some texts on (the) walls shewing their unlawfulness, and put up others to juftify them, e. g., i Pet. iii. 19, and ob- served that Lent (was) kept for more than politick ends, and when he was told of the Act of Parliament to the contrary effect, he said, what cared he for Parliament ;' three, to his ' incompetence, and that he does not preach to prepare people for the sacrament ; ' three, that ' his curate, catechizing, shewing that Chrift's death was sufficient for all, but not sufficient to all, he silenced him, and next Lord's day he preached that Christ died for all, proving it from the catechism, Christ died for me and all mankind;' two, to his having 'declared malignity against the Parliament, and especially Lord Say, that he was no good subject;' three, to his 'being conversant with malignants and ill-affedted persons, and choosing those of most base and lewd life for his churchwardens;' two, that 'when Mr. Rood, his predeceffor at Abington, was unjuftly imprisoned by the High Commiffion, Newsted (sic), in the absence of Mr. Rood, threw their goods and children out of the house, exposing them to the cold, barefoote ;' one, that ' on taking possession of Stisted, last summer, he said he must goe to his master, the King;' one, that ' he swore before the House of Lords against some of his neighbours, that they broke the peace on his taking L L 2 484 Stijied. possession ;' and six, ' that this oath was false, for the peace was kept, the constable to that purpose charging several persons ' (there appears to be an erasure here in the original MS.); three, that ' he behaved so ill at Abington, that he was forced to resign to escape articles, and that he bound some of his parifliioners not to sue him ;' two, that ' he preached that God had saving mercies for David in hell ;' and three gave evidence to his ' not taking the covenant,' and ' its not being taken in his parish.' The living was now sequestered from Newstead, but the fifth of the proceeds were awarded to his wife. The name of Thomas Clark does not appear on the 'Classis,' nor do I find any evidence of his being here until 1649, when he subscribed the 'Essex Watchword.' In 1650 the return is, ' Thomas Clark, by sequeftration from Mr. Newftead, an able, godly divine.' Calamy says of him, that he was 'a very laborious, useful preacher.' The admission of Daniel Nicholls, S.T.B., his successor, 8th March, 1662-3, '* entered in Juxon's regifter as 'jam legitime vacante.' Palmer has the following, in addition to Calamy : 'He had ten children when he left this valuable living for the sake of a good conscience. A daughter of his was mother to the late Mr. Woodward, an eminent brewer in Bedford — a gentleman in good repute, and of considerable influence in that town. Two of his daughters were married to eminent dissenting minifters, the one to Mr. James Belfham, some years minifler of Newport Pagnel, who afterwards preached only occasionally, residing at Bedford ; the other to Mr. Samuel Saunderson, who died paftor of the con- gregation in that town, and afterwards to the late Mr. Prichard, of London. Mr. Belfham left a son in the miniftry, who was later in the academy at Daventry, and afterwards removed to Hackney.' Newftead survived the reftoration, when he became pre- bendary of Cadington Minor, in the cathedral of St. Paul's. Newcourt identifies him with the Chriftopher Newftead of whom Wood says that, he ' was the son of Thomas Newftead, of Somercoates, in Lincolnfhire; ' that he 'became a com- moner of St. Alban's Hall in 1615;' that he wrote 'An Martin Sympson, . Green. 485 Apology for Women, or the Women's Defence,' Lond. 1620, 8vo. And that 'he afterwards had a benefice conferred upon him, and though he never took any degree in arts in this University (Oxford), yet he took that of B.D. in 1631.' * Stock. — Martin Sympson. The reftory had been sequeftered from William Pindar, virho was also reiStor of Laingdon Hills. I have not been able to discover either the date or the reasons of this sequeftration, but as Pindar's personal property was also sequeftered, political delinquency may be safely inferred to have been its chief occasion. Henry Crewe was recommended to the Assembly of Divines for the sequeftration of Laingdon ; but in 1650 the return is, 'It is in the hands of sequeftrators, having no settled minister. Mr. Pindar, the sequeftered minifter, is returned.' At the reftoration Pindar resigned the re£tory, and was succeeded by William Rogers. The Rev. E. J. Edison kindly informs me that there is a memorandum in the parish regifter, at Stock, that 'one Holmes and one Duke and Martin Simpson (sic) were put in by Parlia- ment.' The return for that parish in 1650 is, ' Mr. Duke, by sequeftration, a very weake and insufficient preacher.* Sympson seems to have been Duke's successor. He was ejected by the act of 1660, as Pindar recovered this living also. Pindar was the successor of John Reeve, at Springfield Boswell. In the Visitation Book of the archdeaconry for 1690, under date July 24, there is entry of a Mr, Crowley, of Laingdon, having been absolved from excommunication, which he had incurred by frequenting ' seditious conventicles, in consideration of his previous good conduct.' \ Great Tay. — . Green. He must have succeeded on the death of Timothy Rogers. I have not been able to ascertain * Cal. Ace. 304; Cont. 468; Palmer, MSS. 459; Newc. i. 132; Wood, Ath. N. M. ii. 219 J Jour. H. of L. vi. 6, 16, Ox. i. 457; Howlett, ante p. 205 ; Spar- 30 ; Jour. H. of C. iii. 49, 53 ; Jour. hawke, ante p. 432. H. of L. vi. 15, 16, 97 ; ' Troubles and f Cal. Ace. 313 ; Add. MSS. 15670, Tryals of Laud,' 194, 195; Wood, Sept. 4, 1646, p. 227 ; Harl. MSS. 6100, Fast. 11.131; CoIeMSS.xxviii. I7,seqq.; Lands. MSS. 459; Crewe, ante p. 260; Add. MSS. 15669, 223, 290; Lands. Springfield, ante p. 465 ; Duke ? 246. 486 Richard Rand, John Stalham. anything more of him than the fact of his ejeftment, neither can I discover his Christian name.* Tay Marks. — Richard Rand. In the MSS. additions to one of the copies of the ' Classis,' in the British Museum, the name of Rand appears at Easthorpe. It is quite possible that this may refer to Richard, as he was not at Marks Tay until after 1650, the entry in the Parliamentary return for that year being, 'Mr. John Neville.' Rand vs^'as ejected under the Act of Uniformity. His successor was admitted 13th November, 1662. Calamy says, ' he was a holy, humble, learned man, and a very serious, awakening, profitable preacher. I have also been informed that it happened that very few knew Mr. Rand's Christian name, which was the means of his escaping divers sufferings. Once a Quaker of the same surname was taken in his stead. He showed them their mistake, and that he was not the person they meant. Then they would fain have learnt of him what this Mr. Rand's Christian name was, but being a man of honour, he would not assist them in their design of taking him, and therefore plainly told them that he could tell but would not. God hath many ways to shelter His servants from their enemies, and can make use of many instruments for that purpose.' If not immediately, certainly not long after his ejedtment. Rand removed to the parish of Great Braxted. June 10, 1672, he took out a license to be a 'Congregational teacher in the house of Robert Maidston,' in that parish ; and on the same day a license was granted to the house, to be 'a Congregational meeting place.' We afterwards find him at Little Baddow, where he died in 1692. f Terling. — yohn Stalham. Calamy says that ' he was a native of Norfolk, and was bred up in the University of Ox- ford.' He seems to have first settled as 'a preacher of the gospel' at Edinburgh, and was presented to the vicarage of Terling on the deprival of Thomas Weld, in 1632. He was of strict Congregational principles. In 1643 '^^ ^"^ ^'"^ * Cal. Ace. 308 ; Rogers, ante p. MSS. 459 ; License Book, S. P. O., ante 294,421. p. 340; Maidstone, infra j Easthorpe, f Cal. Ace. 308 ; Cont. 476 ; Lands. p. 293 j Little Baddow, p. 353. Terling. 487 holding a public disputation with 'Timothy Batt, physician,' and Thomas Lambe, ' sope-boyler,' at Terling, on the subject of infant baptism, on which occasion he was assisted by his neighbours, John Newton, of Little Baddow, and Enoch Gray, of Wickham. In 1654 he was appointed one of the assistants to the county commissioners for the removal of scandalous and insufficient ministers. And, in 1655, he was one of those who assisted at the fast service at Coggefliall, which was disturbed by James ParnelL* Stalham was ejedted under the Act of Uniformity, and was succeeded, October 10, 1662, by Robert Ridgway, who also held the vicarage of Thorpe. After his ejedtment he still continued at Terling, and as pastor of a Congregational church. He died there in 1680, or 1681. The congregation is returned in 17 16, erroneously as Baptist, as containing two hundred hearers, twenty of whom had votes for the county, and eight of whom are described as 'gentlemen.' The next pastor seems to have been Nathaniel Wyles, who died in 1748, at the age of eighty-eight. Wyles was succeeded by . Stennet. Stennet died in 1761, and was succeeded by . Davis; Davis by Daniel Bocking ; Bocking by Stephen Foster ; Foster by John Mills ; and Mills by William Kemp, who removed here from Colchester, and died here June 30, 1844. Kemp was suc- ceeded by the present pastor, the Rev. Francis Moore. f * Cal. Ace. 304 i Cont. 468. * The watchmen were set with halberds at Scriptures Vindicated,' by Richard Fame- every corner, but the preacher escaped worth; London, 1655, p. i. Weld, them all ... . having on a coloured infra ; Newton, ante p. 1 54 ; Gray, suit .... and so to London. * Newes p. 299. * About five years since, the from Canterbury,' Lond. 1 649. Deane of Canterbury, hearing that one .j- Newc. ii. 578 ; Morison and Black- Mr. Gray, a godly and able minister, now burn MSS. ; Returns of 1716, ante p. living in EiTex, had preached against the 353. There is an interesting letter prelates' popish proceedings .... Sab- addrefled by the church at Terling to bath morning rode out to find him, and that at Rowel, in Northamptonshire, and hunted . . . from parish to parish ; signed by Stalham, in the name and with at last, towards night, he came to Sand- the consent of the church, in Maurice's mch, where he had almost caught the 'Memoir of Thomas Browning,' of whom game .... But the Gray was crept see infra. Unhappily the letter is not through .... whereupon the dean dated, caused the town gates to be shut, and 488 'J'^^i^ Stalham. Stalham publiflied, i. 'The Summe of a Conference at Terling, EiTex, Januarie 11, 1643, .... by which the strength of truth and weaknesse of error is discovered; and before which an epistle more largely is prefixed, to give some light thereunto, and to promote the cause pleaded for.' Lond., 1644, 4to. From the introdu6lion it appears that there had been a similar conference, held some little time previoufly, at Wickham, when Thomas Lowry was also present, and ' sweetly put out a request to God that he would keep us in his presence, not to seeke ourselves, but to lay ourselves at the foot of truth ; and that the word may judge between us now, as well as it shall judge us at the last day.' 2. ' Vin- dicia Redemptionis in the fanning and sifting of Samuel Oates, his exposition on Matt. xiii. 44 ; with a faithful search after our Lord's meaning in his two parables of the Treasure and the Pearl, endeavoured in severall sermons upon Matt. xiii. 44, 45 : wherein the former part, universal redemption, is discovered to be a particular errour ; and in the latter part, Christ, the peculiar treasure and pearl of God's elect, is laid as the sole foundation, and the Chriftian's faith and joy in Him and self-denial for Him, is raised as a sweet and sure super- strucfture.' Lond., 1647, 4to. In the dedication of this treatise there is a passage which is not without biographical interest. ' You are the people among whom my lot hath fallen these fourteen years and upwards, and I cannot but remember that inviting report which was given of you, that you were a fasting and a praying people, which I found true. I doe not forget what example of nonconformity to prelatical injuncSions you held out to me, nor what forbearance you allowed me for a time in the use of the ceremonies which my reverend and godly predeceflbr had refused, and I, through inconsiderate timidity and temerity, had introduced, till God convinced me of my folly.' Poor Gates, to whom this treatise replied, was now in Colchefter gaol as a difturber of the public peace. There is also prefixed an address to the Christian reader, by John Maidstone. Speaking of Oates, and those who followed him, Maidstone thus expresses himself upon the John Stalham. 489 subject of ' toleration,' which was then already creating so wide a breach between the Congregationalifts and the Presbyterians : ' For my part I shall call for neither hammer, sword, nor fire against them, but the Sacred Scripture, which is compared' to all three. Let him cry murther, and call for a conftable to keep the peace at a dispute, who is impatient of contradiftion and accounts his own principles ruined by another man dis- senting from him. Meek and innocent truth sufficiently contenteth him in whom it dwells, though it meets with opposition" from him that knows it not. And I would expect to see his flesh come, like the flesh of a young childe that is once baptized in the Jordan thereof, when he that is once dipt in the Pharpar of corporall punifliment shall go away in his errour, a leper as white as snow. And much more should I rejoice to rescue one poor soul in gentlenesse and love out of the prison of a corrupt opinion, than keep all the hereticks under heaven in the ward where Pharoah's prisoners are bound, till their feet are hurt in the stocks, and the iron enter into their soul.' 3. ' The Reviler Rebuked ; or a reinforcement of the charge against the Quakers so-called.' London, 1657. This was written in answer to Richard Farnworth. It is dedicated to ' His Highness Oliver, Lord Proteftor of the Commonwealth, and the Right Honour- able the Council of State.' Stalham says to the Protedtor : ' The liberty proclaimed to godly, gospel preachers, and your foftering of orthodox paftors and teachers, will much conduce, by the spirit of Chrift's mouth, to the consumption of the man of sin. Some, indeed, cry up nothing but club-law against the Quakers, and can give no other measure than their prelatical fathers to those that dissented from them. But, by your indulgence and forbearance of saints erring and otherwise minded, many have conscientiously made enquiries after those truths which lay hid,' or were defaced, and have the more heartily embraced them, and do hold them after scripture conviction.' 4. ' Marginal Antidotes to be affixed over against the Lives of R. H. and E. B., their pamphlet entitled the Rebukes of a Reviler.' Lond., 1657. 49° yames Parkin. Thaxted. — James Parkin. There is a four-leaved traiS among the King's pamphlets in the British Museum, the following reprint of a part of which will not unfitly introduce what fadts I have been able to collect with reference to this devoted man. It is entitled ' A Great Fight in the Church at Thaxted, in Essex, between the sequeftrators and the minifter, and the Mayor being present ; the men and women in this fight fell all together by the eares, on the Lord's day : concerning which divers of the chiefe acSlors were brought before the House of Lords, in Parliament assembled, this present Friday, September 24, 1647 ; with the manner of the tryall, and the several charges brought in against them at the Lords' barre. London, printed for Henry Becke, in Aldersgate Street, Anno Domini 1647.' 'The Committee for Plundered Minifters sequeftered one Mr. Leader, vicar of Thaxted, and settled (sic) one Mr. Hall, a godly, learned minifter. Mr. Leader deceasing about a year after, the Lady Maynard, being patronesse of the said living, refused to present Mr. Hall, but presents one Mr. Croxon, a man for swearing, cursing, and drunkennesse, the whole country cannot parallell as was proved against him. The well aiFefted parifliioners perceiving what a judgment they lay under, to sit under the miniftry of such a soul-starving paftor, began a new prosecution, and exhibited severall articles against the said Mr. Croxon before the Com- mittee for Plundered Minifters, and prosecuted the same untill the said committee, hearing the cause, sequeftered the said living from Mr. Croxon. * The Lady Maynard suggefted to the said committee that Mr. Croxon had made a refignation to the lady of the said living ; but because no refignation did appear to the committee, it was ordered that the said lady should have only leave and two months' time to nominate some * Neuman Leader, presented by Sir swer charges that were alleged against W. Maynard, bart., (Mor. ii. 432,) and him, May 2, 1646. Add. MSS. 15670, admitted 30th September, 1612, died in 153. Lady Maynard was the wife of 1645. Edmund Croxton was admitted Lord Maynard; her husband was now 3rd December, 1645. N. ii. 582. Croxton under impeachment for high treason, was summoned to appear before the Com- Mor. 11. 432. mittee for Plundered Ministers, to an- Thaxted. 49 1 godly minifter to the committee for the said living. The well aiFedted parifliioners petitioned the committee to vacate the said order, for these reasons : I. Because the lady had pre- sented two unworthy minijlers before^ the prosecuting of which minijlers had cost a few well affelied persons in the parish at least a hundred pounds. II. Because that order that gave the lady power^ was gotten upon pretence of a reftgnation^ whereas there could be none legall : First, because when articles are depending no man can refign. Secondly, because if the refignation had been before articles the living must needs be relapst, because it was more than six months before the said lady went about to present the said Mr. Hall; but it is proved, by an order, that the said refignation was a little before the sequefiration, therefore, by the order of the committee, void, as we can make clearly to appear. * Yet, notwithftanding, the committee gave the lady liberty to commend some godly minifter : she com- mended Mr. (Samuel) Hall, who was referred to the Assembly of Divines, who found him unfit, and made return of it to the committee. Mr. Hall was sent a second time to the Assembly, who returned him still unfit, and they were more unsatisfied than before. Mr. Hall was sent a third time, and returned unfit, whereupon he was discharged from intermeddling with Thaxted any more by the said committee, they having power to place none but such as the Assembly approves of. Since which time he hath addressed himself to the right honourable the House of Lords, who did order the Assembly to examine him ; who have returned answer that they cannot approve of him. The Lords were pleased to order that the Assembly should bring in the reasons why they did not approve of him. The Assembly did produce their reasons, which gave the Lords such satisfaftion that the cause was laid aside for the present, and the said Hall, in the absence of the speakers, got an order for inftitution and induction, which is now made void by the ordinance.' f * This petition was received June 25, \ The order from the Lords to the 1646, and was referred to the County Assembly was issued 18th May, 1647. Committee for the necessary documents On the 21st the Assembly reported, to be produced. Add. MSS. 15670, 247. The Lords then ordered 'a copy of the 492 Thaxted. The tract then recapitulates the story of a ' report from the sequeftrators,' and proceeds to say, ' Hall came to the church accompanied with the mayor, Nitingale, and divers others of the disafFedted party. The sequeftrators demanded his authority; he refused to show any authority, and said they should not question it, and went and preached the forenoon. In the after- noone the sequestrators went and stood at the door of the deslce to force him to show authority, or prevent him from preaching. Mr. Hall came in the afternoone to the church, accompanied with the above-said mayor. The sequeftrators demanded his authority ; he refused to show any. The sequeftrators told him they had no order, that he should not officiate, and if he could show a letter they would desist, which he refused to doe. Then one Chiftopher Tanner, churchwarden, and Edward Mountforth, told the sequeftrators that if (they) would not come downe, they should be pulled downe, and said that Mr. Hall should preach too, with other daring words. Then came the mayor out of his seat, and reproved the sequeftrators, and said he wondered the sequeftrators would make a difturbance, which animated divers disaffected men and women, who fell upon the sequeftrators, beat them, tore their hair from their report to be sent to Hall, and that he of the Eastern Association, for preaching should be heard what he could say to a malignant sermon in Cambridge against clear himself from the things which are the Parliament, within these two years charged against him.' In the report the last past.' And concludes, ' And we do Assembly says : * It have been our use in humbly pray that he may not be per- the examination of ministers to consider mitted fiirther to interrupt the public first, of their lives, . . . and especially work of this Assembly.' Jour. H. of L. now . . when so many, who have ix. 192,200,201. The Assembly, how- been cast out for their scandalous and ever, was troubled with Hall again, ist ungodly conversation, do endeavour to June, the Lords ordered them to make get into livings we do fiirther good their charges on Friday next. On certify . . . that this very man hath the 4th, Stephen Marfliall and others occasioned more trouble to us, and more appears at the bar for that purpose. The hindered the public service, than any Lords take time, and then, on the 4.th of other minister that ever was referred to August, the order is given for Hall's in- ns.' They also say, 'We (be) credibly stitution, ib. 229, 236, 369. In the informed of sundry miscarriages in his meanwhile the parifliioners had refiised preaching and otherwise, and that he to pay the sequestrators. Add. MSS. hath been imprisoned by the Committee J 5671, 65. Thaxted. 493 heads, and their bands from their necks, and endangered the taking away their lives; the mayor being present and never reproved the same. Anne, the wife of Thomas Meade ; the wife of Laurence Porter, the wife of Nathaniel Weftley, the wife of Samuel Salmon ; these women fell violently upon the said sequeftrators, beate them sore, tore their haire from their heads, their bands from their necks, and their hattes and cloakes ofF. Then came Henry Jebb, Thomas Meade, junior ; Edward Meade, junior; John Moore (who struck Captain Turner, one of the sequeftrators) ; William Caton, Lewis Caton, Nathaniel Smith (alias Baby), John Guy, and John Baker, who animated and abetted the said women ; the sequeftrators being forced to haste as fast as they could out of the church, being in danger of having their lives taken away from them by the persons above-mentioned. The mayor of the town being present, never charged any one of them to keep the peace, but animated them, and said, when others pressed towards the sequeftrators, ' Let them alone : and let the women decide the case.' In the interval between the last report of the Assembly and the ' Insurredlion of the London Apprentices,' both Houses had broken up. This was on the 26th of July. On the 27th they re-assembled, but without their speakers, and adjourned to the 30th. In the meanwhile the army had resolved to march on the metropolis; and, on the day of their re-assembling, both Houses found that their speakers had joined the army. It was in the midst of this confusion that Hall obtained his order. When the Houses were re-conftituted, one of the first measures was to pass an ordinance for ' making null all orders, ordinances, and votes, in both or either Houses, from the 26th of July to the 6th of August.' Due notice of this was sent to the sequeftrators at Thaxted, who immediately presented it to the mayor, who read it in the presence of Hall. Both of them set the order at defiance, and the sequeftrators then appealed to the House of Lords. The House, on hearing this petition, on the 27th of August, ordered that ' Hall, the mayor, and also Henry Gibb, who had made himself conspicuous in the resiftance of their orders, should be attached and brought to their bar;' and, 494 Thaxted. on the 8 th of September, they appointed the following Thursday to hear the case. The case was heard accordingly, but judg- ment was' deferred. On the 24th of September (the very day that this scene was taking place in the parish church at Thaxted), the Lords delivered judgment to the effect 'That the order, dated the 3rd August last, is void, and that Samuel Hall shall not officiate there (at Thaxted) any more;' and further, that ' Henry Gibb, town clerk, for his contemptuous words against the Parliament, shall stand committed to the Fleet during the pleasure of this House.' Three days after- wards the Lords ordered that Nitingale, the mayor of Thaxted, should ' attend them' the following day, and that the rest of the persons complained against by the sequeftrators, except Samuel Hall, should be released, 'they having by their petitions sub- mitted themselves to this House.' By the ist of 0 ^^^ Flower by the present paftor, the Rev. J. G. Carpenter^ to whom I am indebted for much of the preceding information.* Samuel Fairclough. Ejected from the rectory of Kedington, in Suffolk. He was the son of Laurence Fairclough, vicar of Haverhill, where he was born, April 29,, 1594. After receiving his early education under Mr. Robotham, who said of him, ' that he was the first scholar that he had ever sent forth in the thirty years' time that he had been a master,' he was sent to Cambridge at the age of fourteen. He had already received serious impreflions under the able ministry of Samuel Ward, then lecSurer at his native place. Ward had answered for him in baptism, and had always a hearty love for him. ' Preaching one day on the converfion of Zacchaeus, and dis- courfing upon his fourfold reftitution in cases of rapine and extortion, Mr. Ward used that frequent expreflion, ' that no man can expect pardon from God, of the wrong done to another's eftate, except he make full reftitution to the wronged person, * Cal. Ace. 128; Morison and Blackburn MSS. Clavering Church Books. Returns of 1716, ante p. 353. T T 6io Samuel Fair dough. if it may possibly be done.' This was a dart directed by the hand of God to the heart of young Fairclough, who, together with one John Triggs, afterwards a famous phyfician in London, had the very week before robbed the orchard of one Goodman Jude, of that town, and had filled their pockets with the fruit of a mellow pear tree. At and after sermon young Fairclough mourned much, and had not any sleep all the night following ; and, rifing on the Monday morning, he went to his companion, Trigg, and told him that he was going to Goodman Jude's to carry him twelve pence by way of reflitution for three penny worth of pears of which he had wronged him. Trigg, fearing that if the thing were confessed to Jude he would acquaint Robotham, their mafter, therewith, and that corporal punifliment would follow, did earnestly strive to divert the poor child from his purpose of reftitution. But Fairclough replied, that God would not pardon the sin except reftitution were made. To which Trigg answered thus : ' Thou talkest like a fool, Sam ; God will forgive us ten times sooner than old Jude will forgive us once.' But our Samuel was of another mind, and therefore he goes on to Jude's house, and then told him his errand, and offered him a shilling, which Jude refused : though he declared his forgiveness of the wrong, the youth's mind smarted so that he could get no rest till he went to his spiritual father, Mr. Ward, and opened to him the whole state of his soul .... Mr. Ward .... proved the good Samaritan to him, pouring wine and oil into his wounds, answering all his queftions, satisfying his fears, and preaching Jesus to him so fully and effectually that he became a true and sincere convert, and dedicated and devoted himself to his Saviour and Redeemer all the days of his life.' At Cambridge Fairclough entered Queen's College. He had not been long at Queen's before he was recommended by the mafter as sub-tutor to Spencer, Lord Compton, the eldest son of the then Earl of Northampton. At Cambridge he formed the friendfhip of the great Puritan divines : John Preston, master of Emmanuel; John Davenant, afterwards bifhop of Salisbury, then Margaret profefTor ; Arthur Hilder- Samuel Fair dough. 6ll sham, fellow of Christ's ; and William Perkins, preacher at St. Andrew's church ; as well as of others who were scarcely less distinguiflied both for godliness and learning. While yet young one of his many friends offered him the living of Halsam, in the county of Suffolk, but not being of age to receive priefl's orders, he declined it, and preferred to place himself under an experienced minifter, at least for a time. Samuel Ward re- commended him to Richard Blacerby, then resident at Ashen, in this county ; of whom Calamy says, that ' he was an eminent divine, greatly skilled in the Hebrew tongue, and reputed one of the holiest men on earth.' Blacerby was a native of Worlington, in Suffolk, where he was born in 1574. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was one of the many converts of William Perkins. On leaving the University he became chaplain to Sir Edward Lewkner, of Denham. While at Denham he married Sarah, daughter of Timothy Prick, alias Oldman, who was then minifler of the parish, and whose alias had been assumed by his father in the reign of Mary. From Denham he removed to Feltwell, in the county of Norfolk, where he was soon involved in trouble for his nonconformity, and being forced to fly, he came to Essex, and settled at Ashen. There he remained for twenty-three years, *• conftantly preaching in the neighbourhood, more statedly at Castle Hedingham, Stoke by Clare, and Hundon.' A contemporary periodical says, that ' preaching at Halsted on one occafion,' he *• told the people that to bow at the name of Jesus was to thrust a spear into Christ's side, and that such minifters as signed children with a cross did as much as in them lay to send such children to the devil.' Here he also educated several pupils, who became no less diftinguifhed than Fairclough, among others Jonas Proost, who was some time minifler of the Dutch congregation at Col- chefler, and afterwards removed to London. He was still at Ashen in 1644, as April 10, of that year, at the examination of William Jones, ' the parifhioners defired of the committee that old Mr. Blacerly may be their minifter.' He left Ashen to reside with his son-in-law, Chriftopher Burrell, reftor of T T 2 6 12 Samuel Fair dough. Wratting, in Suffolk ; and while there he statedly preached at Geftingthorpe. Blacerby ultimately became paftor of a church at Great Thurlow, in Suffolk, where he died, at the age of seventy-seven. He was a diftinguiftied scholar, and such was the reverence in which he was held as a chriftian, that Daniel Rogers, of Wethersfield, used to say he never could come into his presence without trembling.* While Fairclough remained at Ashen he preached much in the neighbourhood, and especially at the stations frequented by his revered tutor. His first settlement as a minifter was at Lynn, in the county of Norfolk, where he was eleded town lefturer. The then bifliop of Norwich was Samuel Harsnet. Fairclough was already a nonconformist, and among other delinquencies, he was guilty of omitting to use the sign of the cross in baptism. This soon reached the bifliop's ears, and the result was that Fairclough retired. He now accepted a similar but less conspicuous position at Clare, at which place he had often preached while at Ashen. While at Clare, he married the daughter of Richard Blacerby. He had not been there long before Sir Nathaniel Barnardifton, who was fre- quently one of his hearers, presented him to the living of Barnardifton, June 2^, liii^- At Barnardifton he 'preached twice every Lord's day, once upon every feftival day, and once a month, a preparation sermon for the Lord's Supper.' He soon became again involved in trouble. One of the minifters at Sudbury being ill, Fairclough occupied his pulpit for him, and in the evening he repeated the sermon which he had preached to the family in whose house he lodged. For this articles were exhibited against him in the Star Chamber, where the suit was prosecuted against him for more than two years, and was at length only brought to an issue ' through the influence of one,' whom it appears that Harsnett ' could not well disoblige.' Shortly after this, the recSory of Kedington was avoided by the death of the incumbent, and his friend, Sir Nathaniel, presented Fairclough to the vacancy. It is said that * Brook's Lives iii. 96 j Clark's Lives iii. 63 — 65; Merc. Rust. iv. 37; Cole MSS. xxviii. 26. Samuel Fair dough. 613 the baronet also procured him inftitution, 'without his personal attendance upon the bishop, taking the oath of canonical obedience, or subscribing the three articles.' ' In this place,' Calamy tells us, ' he continued nearly thirty-five years, preaching four times a week — twice on the Lord's day, a Thursday ledture, which was attended by all' the minifters round for many miles compass, and a sermon on the Saturday evening at his own house. When he first came to this place he found it ignorant and profane, not so much as one family in twenty calling upon the name of the Lord ; but when he had been there some time, so great was the alteration, that there was not a family but profefied godliness, but their governours offered up their morning and evening sacrifice.' In the meanwhile Fairclough was frequently in trouble for not complying with the illegal innovations of the times ; but when the tide of affairs turned, he betrayed little aftive sym- pathy with the Prefbyterians. He was nominated on the Assembly of Divines, but procured himself to be excused. He was also offered the mafterfhip of Trinity, but refused to accept it. He absolutely refused the engagement. He was one of many to whom all extremes were equally diflaflieful, and, therefore, when the crisis came he was the more prepared to ' count all things but loss ' for Christ. ' Unfeigned alTent and consent to all and everything' in his case was impossible. Accordingly, he threw up all, and cast himself upon the world. It was no small comfort to him that he was succeeded by no worse a man than John Tillotson, afterwards archbifhop ot Canterbury, whose institution appears in the diocesan regifter as ' per non subscriptionem seu abrenunciationem, secundu adlu Parliamenti in eo casu provisum ultimi incuben. ibi. vaca.' Fairclough seems to have remained at Kedington for some time after his ejeftment, but after the passing of the Five Mile Act, he felt himself constrained to remove. He now took up his abode at Finchingfield, where he had the comfort of living for some time in the same house with two of his sons and two of his sons-in-law, who were miniflers, and had left their livings, ' who, being scattered before in five different 6 14 Samuel Faircloiigh. counties, were brought together in the time of this storm.' The sons were Richard and Samuel, of whom some notices follow ; and the sons-in-law, George Jones and Richard Shute. Jones married Fairclough's daughter Jane, March 22, 1655. He was then of King's Lambourne, Hampshire. He con- formed after this, and became reftor of Heveningham. Shute also conformed, and became vicar of Stowmarket. The five remained at Finchingfield for some four or five years, preaching by turns in the family and to such of the neighbours as chose to come in. 'It was a constellation of stars, every one of whom had afforded a very fair light when it was separate, but now being all in conjunftion, they drew the eyes of much people into the corner upon them.' When they were dispersed, Fairclough went to reside with his youngest son, John, who was incumbent of Kennet, in Cambridgeshire, and had con- formed. After having remained with him for some time, he alternated his residence with his daughters at Heveningham and Stowmarket, until his death, which occurred in the latter place, at the advanced age of eighty-four. He was buried near the vestry door of the church at Stowmarket, where there is a stone with the following inscription : ' Here lyeth the body of that eminent divine Mr. Samuel Fairclough, who was many years minifter of Ketton, in this county, but dyed in this town the 13th of December, 1677, ^^ ^'^^ 'i^th year of his age.' In the parlour of the parsonage at Kennet, in Cambridgefhire, is a fine old pi£i:ure with the inscription : ' H EIKflN rov flsou ANAPOZ KAPAKTHP. This is the picture of Samuel Fair- clough, reftor of Ketton, in Suffolk, grandfather to Mr. Fairclough, reftor of Kennet ob. Stowmarket, 14 Dec. 1677.' Fairclough publifhed, I. 'A Sermon preached before the House of Commons, on Josh. vii. 21.' April 4, 1641. 2. 'The Troubler Troubled ; or, Achan condemned and executed.' Lond., 1641, 4to. 3. 'The Prisoners' Praise for their deli- verance from their long imprisonment in Colchefter.' Ps. cxlix. 5, 6, 7, 8. A thanksgiving sermon for the deliverance in Colchefter, preached at Rumford, September 28, 1648. 4. ' The Saint's Worthiness and the World's Worthleffness ; Richard Fair dough. 615 a funeral sermon for Nathaniel Barnardifton.' August 26, 1653. To this there is an appendix, containing several elegiac poems, entitled, 'Suffolk's Teares.'* Richard Fairclough. Ejefted from Mills, in the county of Somerset. He was of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was a fellow. At Mills he was ' a burning and a shining light, and was resorted to by all the country round.' His labours were almost incredible. Besides his usual exercises on the Lord's day of praying, reading the scriptures, preaching, catechising, and administering the sacraments, he usually, five days in the week, betimes in the morning, appeared in public, prayed, and preached an expository lecture upon some part of the scripture in course, and he always had a considerable con- gregation, nor did he produce anything in public that did not smell of the lamp. Besides which he found time for visiting, not the sick only, but all the families within his charge, in a succeflive course, when he would personally and severally converse with every one that was capable, labouring to under- stand the present state of their souls. Every day, for many years together, he used to be up by three in the morning, and to be with God while others slept. He preached also often at the leftures settled in other places of the county, and was very acSive and much respeited in the meeting of the minifters by way of association for the preservation of common order.' After he left Finchingfield, Fairclough became paflor of a church in Newman Street, London. Thence he removed to Briftol. He died in London, July, 1684, at the age of sixty- one. His funeral sermon was preached by John Howe, and was afterwards published. That great man said of him : "■ He was of a large and great soul, comprehensive of the interests of God, the world, the church, his country, his friends, and, with * Cal. Ace. 635 ; Cont. 786; Ward's Lives iii. 153. Sculpins belonged at that Works, appended to Nichols' edition of date to John Marshall, who had married Adams iii. vii. ; Davy MSS. B. M. ; Hars- Dorothy, the daughter of George Meade, net, ante p. 145. Among the entries of Nortofts. Mor. ii. 367. Richard copied by Davy, from the Kedington Shute died 3rd Feb., 1686-7, ^^t. fifty- regifters is : 'John Fairclough, son of eight. Davy's MSS. Samuel, buried 5th April, 1672.' Clark's 6 1 6 Richard Fair dough . a peculiar concernedness, of the souls of men, ready to his uttermost to serve them all ; made up of compaflion towards the distressed, of delight in the good, and of general benignity towards all men. He had a soul, a life, a name darkened with no cloud but that of his own great humility, which clouded him only to himself, but beautified and brightened him in the eyes of all others, an humility that allowed no place with him to any aspiring defign or high thought that could ever be perceived by word, look, or geflure, except the high thoughts and designs which neither ought to be excluded nor repressed. He was a very public bleffing in that country while he kept his public station in it, and when the time approached of his quitting it, he earneflly showed his conftant, great moderation, in reference to the controverted things that occafioned his doing so, in all his reasonings with his brethren about them. And it further appears in the earnest bent of his endeavours to form the minds of his people, as much as it was poflible, unto future union under the conduct of whoso should succeed him in the serious cure of their souls; and to a meek, unrepining submiflion, to that present separation which was now to be made between him and them. In the subftantial things of religion no man was more fervently zealous, about the circumftantials none more cool and temperate. But he could in nothing prevaricate with his once settled judgment, or depart in his praftice one ace from it. His great contempt of the world, and remoteness from making the sacred office subservient to secular intereft, too soon appeared in the mean condition to which he was brought (by) his deprivation. For some years, as I have heard him say, he did owe much of his subsiftence to the bounty of some worthy citizens of London, whose temper it is to take more pleasure in doing such good than in having the world told who they were.' Richard Fairclough was buried in Bunhill Fields, where a monument was eredled to his memory, as a ' teftimony of gratitude for many obligations, by Thomas Percivall, of the Middle Temple, Gent. Anno Domini 1682.' * * Cal. Ace. 582; Cont. 735. Samuel Fair doughy Junior. 617 Samuel Fairclough, the younger. Ejefled from the reftory of Houghton Conquest, in the county of Bedford. He was fellow of Caius College, Cambridge. Almost the earliest entry in the parish regifter at Kedington, after his father became rector, as I am kindly informed by the Rev. W. H. Syer, the present rector, is that of the publication of a ' compact of marriage between Samuel Fairclough and Miftress Frances Folkes, of Kedington^ on the 14th, 21st, and 28th days of October, 1655.' He is then described as of Houghton Conquest. He died December 21, 169 1, and was buried at Heveningham, of which place his brother-in-law, George Jones, was then reilor. On a marble slab, in the centre of the chancel of the church, there is this inscription : ' In this vault are deposited the bodys of that learned, pious, and faithful minifter of the gospel, Samuel Fairclough, and Frances, his most virtuous and beloved wife. He was the son of Samuel Fairclough, that late eminent and pious paftor of Kedington, in the county of Norfolk, and true heir of his minifterial gifts and graces. He departed this life ye 2 1st December, in ye year of our Lord 169 1, aged sixty-six years.' And within the communion rails, against the north wall, is a small round monument, on the tablet of which there is the following : ' Reader, look hence, under yon marble rest The best of preachers, and his wife, the best Of women ; there do their aflies lye : Their dearer souls are mounted 'bove the sky, On thrones of glory ; but they'll ere long returne. And re-assurae those alhes from that urne. Do prophets live for ever? Can the best Of Heaven's ambassadors firom death's arrest Pretend a franchise too ? Behold this shrine — See here a prophet, and complete divine, One whom the thankless world too late well knew. And by his absence find him to be so. When prophets die the worst of ills we fear. When envoys are recalled some war is near j One only refiige is. He still doth live, Who did both prophets and apoftles give." 6i8 William Folkes, Robert Gouge. His funeral sermon was preached by a conformist, a Mr. Parkhurst, then incumbent of Yoxford, in the county of Suffolk, who says of him, ' he shined very openly while laws permitted him, and when this protection failed this light was unhappily obscured from public view. Very unhappily, for it had been alone worth an act of comprehension to have included this one, so valuable a man.' It appears that he publifhed nothing but seven pages before Mr. John Shower's funeral sermon for Mrs. Anne Barnardifton, 1681, 4to.,and an epiftle before his brother-in-law's (Mr. Richard Shute) funeral sermon, in 1689.* William Folkes Ejedled from All Saint's, Sudbury. After his ejeftment he went to live at Wenham, in the county of Suffolk, where he had a small eftate. He succeeded Owen Stockton, at Colchefter. See p. 374.t Robert Gouge. He was silenced at Ipswich. He was a native of Chelmsford, and was educated at Chelmsford, it should appear, at the expense of Lord Fitzwalter. At Cam- bridge he was a pupil of the celebrated Henry More. When he left the University, he settled at Maldon, where ' he both preached and taught school.' From Maldon he removed to Ipswich, where Samuel Petto, who was afterwards ejected from Sandcroft St. Cross, writing to Samuel Slater, afterwards ejefted from St. Katharine's, Tower Hill, on the i6th of August, 1658, speaks of him as ' paftor of a Congregational church.' Gouge continued to reside at Ipswich, after he was silenced, until about the year 1674, when he became paftor of the church at Coggefhall. He died at Coggefliall, in October, 1705, at a ripe old age. Gouge publifhed, ' The Faith of Dying Jacob;- or, God's presence with His Church notwithftanding the death of His eminent Servants : being several sermons from Gen. xlviii. 21, occasioned by the death of Mr. Isaac Hubbard, with the Memorials of his Life and Death, and Advice to his son.' Lond., 1688. He was the father of Thomas Gouge, who was succeflively minifter at * Cal. Ace. 91 ; Cont. 129 ; Davy f Cal. Cont. 789 ; Davy MSS. B. M. MSS. B. M. Francis Holer oft. 619 Amfterdam, and paftor of the church at the Three Cranes, Thames Street, London, and of whom Isaac Watts says, that ' he was one of the three greatest preachers in his younger time, the other two being John Howe, and Joseph Stennett.' * Francis Holcroft. Ejefted from a fellowfhip in Clare Hall, Cambridge. He was the son of Sir H. Holcroft, Knt., whose name appears on the ' Claffis ' as one of the elders of the parish of East Ham. While a pupil at Clare Hall, he was chamber-fellow with John Tillotson, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury. He was a communicant at SwafFham Prior, of which Mr. Jephcot, the succeflbr of Edmund Calamy, was then incumbent. Mr. Jephcott was also one of the sufferers from the Act of Uniformity. ' His chamber being over the college gate,' says Palmer, ' Holcroft often observed a horse waiting, for a long time on the Lord's day, for one of the fellows to go to preach at Sitting- ham, a village thirteen miles diftant, and often returning without the preacher, who was much given to intemperance and debauchery. Touched with compassion for the souls of the neglected country people, and ashamed of continuing idle in the college, when preaching was so much wanted, he offered to supply that parish. The offer was accepted, and his miniftry was very much blessed there.' He also statedly preached at Bassingbourne, and extended his labours into the neighbour- hood for many miles around. After his ejeftment, Holcroft considered himself still the paftor of the large and scattered flock which he had thus gathered, and determined to preach and adminifler the ordi- nances to them in separate bodies, ' at the different towns where they lived.' As this was too much for him to accom- plish alone, he assembled his people at Eversden for them to consider the matter, and they chose Joseph Oddy, J. Waite, and Mr. Beare^ or, as Holcroft himself seems to have written the name. Bard, as elders. The next year following, 1663, Holcroft was imprisoned in Cambridge Castle, ' for preaching * Cal. Ace. 645 ; Peck, Desid. Cur. ii. 505 ; Wilson, Hist. Diss. Churches ii. 69 ; Dale, Annals of Coggeftiall 199 ; ante 364. 620 Francis Holcroft. at Eversden.' Oddy also shared the same fate, and Bard only escaped by flight. They were indidted at the aflizes for the county, under the act of Elizabeth, and were sentenced to abjure the realm or to suffer death as felons. The Earl of Anglesea represented their case to Charles, who reprieved them, but they do not seem to have received their liberty until the indulgence of 1672, when both of them resumed their labours with more vigour and earneilness than ever. Holcroft was soon imprisoned again, and the intention was to proceed against him once more under the outrageous act of Elizabeth, but he was removed under a writ of ' certiorari ' to the Fleet, whence, after remaining some time, he was discharged. While in the Fleet he was a frequent preacher, and great crowds resorted to hear him. Exceflive labours, and frequent and long imprisonment, soon so impaired the health of this devoted man, that it became neces- sary to relieve him of part of the pastoral oversight of the whole of the church which he and his colleagues had gathered. The church was accordingly divided, each separate division confti- tuting a several and independent fellowfhip. He continued to decline until January, 1692, when he died, at Triploe, in Cambridgeshire. He was buried at Oakington. Palmer says, ' there is scarcely a village in Cambridgefhire but some old person can show you the barn where Holcroft preached.' His labours in Essex were also very extenfive, as may be seen from the notices of Clavering and Stansted. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Milway, then minifter of Bury St. Edmunds, on Zech. i. 5, 6 ; and was afterwards publifhed. Holcroft publifhed a sheet, intituled ' A Word to the Saints from the Watch Tower.' 1668, i2mo. This was written by him when a prisoner in Cambridge Castle. * * Cal. Ace. 86 J Cont. 120; Palmer appears in the parish regifter every year i. 239. Jephcot. 'The Suftbllc Bartho- without intermiflion from 1624, the date lomeans, by Edw. Taylor.' Lend., 1840, of his admiffion, to 1660, the date of his 8vo. Act of Elizabeth, ante p. 87. death. At this latter date William Scarlett Calamy and Palmer are miftaken in became vicar, conformed, and retained saying that Holcroft was ejefted from the the vicarage until his death, in 1 700. vicarage of Bassingbourne, as I am in- Clavering, p. 607 ; Stansted p. 474. formed that the signature of John Lawson Robert Howlett, Joseph Oddy. 621 Robert Howlett. Ejefted from the reftory of Hinderclay, in the county of Suffolk. The inftitution of his succeflbr is thus entered in the regifter of the diocese, ' p. amotionem, incapacitatem sive deprivationem Roti. Howlett, cllci ultl. rect. sive incls. ibem.' After his ejediment he came to Col- chefter, and kept a school there. May 22, 1672, his house in the parifh of St. Martin's was licensed to be an ' Independent meeting house.' * Joseph Oddy. In one of the spy books among the MSS. in the State Paper Office, which is preparing for publication by Mr. Clarence Hopper, who has kindly obliged me with the use of some extradls from it, this name is spelt Audey. He was a native of Leeds and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He afterwards held the living of Mildred, in Cambridgefhire. After his ejedion from his fellowlhip and living he retired to Willingham, in the Isle of Ely, where Nathaniel Bradfhaw, who was ejefted from the reiSlory of the parifli, had formed a church in his own house. Bradfhaw removing to London in 1666, Oddy became his succefTor at Willingham. Here he was so much followed that persons travelled twenty miles to hear him, and ' he was sometimes constrained by the numbers that attended to preach in the open fields.' He was now frequently imprisoned, and it is said that at one time he was confined five years together. In the spy book he is reported as an ' affistant to Mr. Holcroft, lives three miles from Royston, at Mildred, where are conventicles of many hundreds, both Independents and Baptists ; ' and again, as ' an afEstant to Holcroft and Lock, who rides by turns with the said Lock into Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Bed- fordshire, to gather concourse of people to their meetings.' Oddy and his colleagues became the founders of several Congregational churches in Cambridgeshire, and also of at least one in the county of EfTex — the church at Clavering. He died May 3, 1687, and was buried at Oakington, in the same tomb where his colleague, Holcroft, was afterwards * Cal. Ace. 316; Cont. 647; License Book S. P. O. ante p. 340; Stockton, ante p. 370. 622 'Jonathan Paine, Edward Rogers. buried, in 1692. It is said of Oddy, that 'on being insulted by one of the wits of Cambridge, after he was released from prison, in the following extempore lines : < Good day, Mr. Oddy, Pray how fares your body ? Methinks you look damnably thin j' he as promptly replied : * That, Sir, 's your miftake, ' Tis for righteousness' sake, Damnation's the fruit of your sin.' * Jonathan Paine. Ejected from the vicarage of Bishop's Stortford, to which he had been presented by Joseph Crowther, the ejefted vicar of Great Dunmow. The ad- mission of his succeffor at Stortford is thus given in Newcourt : 'Nat. Crowcher (sic), 13th September, 1662, per amoc. (sic) ult. vie' t After his ejectment, Paine laboured much in Essex. See Dunmow and Thaxted. Edward Rogers. Calamy says, ' he was ejected from the redlory of Westcot, in the county of Gloucefter,' and also that ' he was ejected at Medley, in Herefordfhire. I suppose that one of the two was a sequeftered living, but cannot say which.' From information kindly supplied me by the Rev. T. B. Pantin, the present rector of Weftcot, I suspect an error in Calamy's statement as to the locality of Weftcot. Edward Loggin, of Trinity College, Oxford, was rector of Weftcot, in Gloucefterfhire, in 1630, and was also buried there in 1672, but there is no evidence of his sequeftration. I have not been able to obtain any information from Medley. Some years after his ejectment Rogers came to reside at Chelmsford, where he became paftor of a congregation, and died about the year 1703. J * Cal. Ace. 88; Cont. laz; Palmer's 88; Cont. 127. Holcroft and Clavering, Nonconformist Mem. i. 275. Thomas p. 607. Locke was a scholar of Trinity. He was f Cal. Ace. 360; ante 385, 478, 495. also ejefted. Palmer i. 280; Cal. Ace. J Cal. Ace. 331 ; ante p. 467. Stephen Scanderet. 623 Stephen Scanderet. Ejected from Trinity College, Cambridge, and also silenced at Haverhill, where he was lecturer. His father was yeoman of the wardrobe to Charles I. He was M.A. of both Universities, and Calamy says, ' he was conduct of Trinity.' ' After the return of King Charles, he was ordered by Dr. Duport, the vice-mafter, (Dr. Wilkins, the mafter, being absent), to read the service book in the chappel. He desired him to stay and see whether the Parliament required it; but he would allow of no delay, and insifted on it that it should be done the next morning. Mr. Scanderet refused. The doctor then told him he must provide another to do it, but he replied that he could not put another upon that which he could not in conscience do himself. The doctor said he would do it. Mr. Scanderet said that it was his office to pray, and he was as willing to discharge it as ever. While the bell was ringing next morning for prayers, the doctor and Mr. Scanderet walked to and again in the ante- chappel, and when the bell had done, Mr. Scanderet was for going in, and had some ready to bear him company. The doctor said, ' Hold, for my party is not come.' Mr. Scanderet began to pray, and the doctor at the same time read the service book, and his party came in and drowned Mr. Scanderet's voice, upon which he went out of the chappel, and was, by Dr. Fern (who succeeded Dr. Wilkins) put out of his place. He was afterwards silenced at Haverhill, in 1662, where^ he had been for some time preacher.' After his ejectment, Scanderet continued to reside at Haver- hill, and to preach there and in the neighbourhood. The following narrative of his citation in the Ecclefiaflical Court, for ' preaching for the old minifter of the parish, after his being silenced,' is also taken from Calamy. ' He owned that he had assifted Mr. Eyers, who was very old. But, said Mr; Coleman, the regifter, did you not preach ? He answered that he had visited the sick, but owned nothing further, that he might not give advantage against himself. He then, with great fury, bid him answer the queftion that was asked him, whether he had not preached ? He would make no other 624 Stephen Scanderet. answer than that he had visited the sick .... Mr. Coleman rode to Norwich, and acquainted the bifhop, who told him that he had never ordained Mr. Scanderet. Hereupon he was summoned before Dr. King and Sir Gervase Elwes (of Stoke College). Sir Gervase told him he had long borne with him, but that now he was informed a multitude of people came to hear him, on horseback and on foot, it was no longer to be endured. Mr. Scanderet told him he hoped by bearing with him he had done God good service, and he did not see why he might not do so still. Sir George told him a cobbler or tinker might preach as well as he. He told him he thought not .... he spent several years in hard study to fit him for the minifl:ry He added, that when he had gone through the course of his studies he was solemnly ordained to the miniftry. Sir Gervase said, it was not fit that any should preach but such as the bishop approved. Mr. Scanderet answered, that he had already submitted to the examination of several worthy, able divines, and was approved of by them, and was not unwilling to submitto be examined over again; that if he was either ignorant and unfit to teach, or erroneous, and so likely to poison the flock, or upon any account unlikely to edifie by his preaching, he might be set by. Sir Gervase told him he had broken the laws. Mr. Scanderet told him he hoped it was not the design of the laws to deprive the poor people of an edifying ministry. Mr. Wyers (sic), the minifter of the place, being by, owned that he could not preach, for he was eighty-five years old. Sir Gervase said, be it as it would, as to that the law must take place. But, said he, the Parliament hath made an additional act, that persons ordained by bifliops shall continue till Chrifirmas if they conformed. Then Mr. Scanderet desired the perusal of the act, and having viewed it, desired that he might have the benefit of it.* Sir * This was 15 Charles II., 6, 4, had 'thereby been deprived of their dean- which provided for the cases of those eries, canonries, prebendaries, mafterfliips, who, not having subscribed before the fellowfliips, parsonages, vicarages, or other 24th of August previoufly, ' through ab- Ecclefiastical benefices or promotions." sence, or sicicness, or other inability,' In such cases, on subscription before 25th Stephen Scanderet. 625 Gervase told him that he was neither parson, nor vicar, nor curate, nor lecSurer, and so not included in any of the titles mentioned. Mr. Scanderet replied, that if under one or other of these titles he was silenced by the Act of Uniformity, he hoped that under the same title he might have some further allowance. Sir Gervase told him he was not ordained by a bishop. Mr. Scanderet said, that that was more than was proved. Sir Gervase told him that the bifhop of Norwich informed him that he did not ordain him. Mr. Scanderet saying that there were a great many bifhops, and it did not follow from thence that he was ordained by no other bifhop, he was bid to produce his orders ; not being able to do that his '• mittimus ' was drawn up. Conllables were sent for, and ordered to wait below, but he made a shift to get out of the room, and haftened to get home, and for that time escaped ; for, though the church was in Suffolk, and it was in that county that the conffable lived, yet his house was in EfTex, and there he held on preaching. Upon this the court excommunicated him, and Mr. Wyers read the excommunication publicly in the church.' Calamy also relates, that some time afterwards Scanderet was to preach a lecture at Walfliam, in the Willows, a sinecure. ' The liturgy was read, and afterwards Mr. Scanderet came in and preached. In the midst of the sermon. Sir Edmund Bacon^ Sir Gervase Elwes, Sir Algernon May, and two other juftices, came into the church, and afked him what authority he had to preach, and forced him to come down, and he was sent with some other miniflers to Bury gaol. After a while they . . . bound them all . . . to appear at the next assizes. Mr. Scanderet was there, but did not answer when he was called, and when he saw his brethren remanded to gaol he withdrew. Afterwards going home, he met Sir Edmund on Dec, the deprival was to be cancelled. tunity of subscribing if he pleaded ina- Scanderet was charged with an act that bility to subscribe before, the charge could was unlawful, on the ground that he was not be suftained. This plea fixes the date not legally a clergyman. The benefit of the examination as between the day which he claimed clearly was, that seeing when the act received the royal sanftion that the act allowed him still the oppor- and the December following. U U 626 Stephen Scanderet. the road. He was very severe upon him for not appearing at the assizes, and would take him prisoner. He riding away, Sir Edmund's servant pursued and stopped him. When Sir Edmund came up to him, he first lashed at him with his whip, and then, snatching Mr. Scanderet's cane from him, laid on severely on his head and body with his own cane, he doing what he could to save his head with his arm, that was miserably black and blue from his head to his shoulder. He sent him prisoner to Ipswich, rather than Bury, that, as he said, he might break the covers. From thence he sent for and obtained a habeas corpus for tryal at the Common Pleas, where, having declared how^ he had been dealt with, he was discharged, when he returned to Haverhill, and notwithflanding his persecution, persevered in preaching still.' There are traces of Scanderet's labours covering a wide extent of country in that neighbourhood. In 1668 he was engaged in a public dispute with George Whitehead, the Quaker, in which he was assifted by five more of his brethren, Barnard, Havers, Coleman, and Billio. In 1669 he was re- ported to Sheldon as having a 'conventicle at Great Sampford,' and also as having another in ' Thaxted, in connexion with Nathaniel Ball and Robert Billowe.' Calamy also speaks of him as preaching to the people at Waterbeach. There he ' was apprehended by an officer, who committed him to two others, but he escaped from them. Then he preached at Mr. Thurlow's house, in Cambridge, and was difturbed by the mayor, and fined ten pounds.' 13th May, 1672, he took out a license to be a ' Prefbyterian teacher' in the house of Joseph Addy, in Haverhill, which was at the same time licensed to be a ' Prefbyterian meeting place.' Scanderet died December 8, 1706, aged seventy-five, and was buried in the chancel of Haverhill church. Palmer tells us that ' Mr. Bury, at the end of his funeral sermon for Mr. Cradock, mentions several other ejected ministers who died near the same time, and among the rest Mr. Scanderet, of whom he writes thus : ' We have now an account of another ancient minifter of Christ in these parts, a loss which will be Samuel Slater. 627 felt by many, inasmuch as his service was not confined to a little compass. He was a man of primitive piety and good works, an holy, humble, and laborious servant of Christ. . . . His life was a life of holiness, faith, service, and communion with God, and, as a reward thereof, he had ordinarily the peace of God in his soul His pains and infirmities, his watchings and wearinesses, his persecutions and imprisonments, his bonds and his stripes, for Jesus' sake, are now all over.' ' Scanderet publifhed, I. ' An Antidote against Quakerism.' 2. ' Doftrine and Infl:ru£tion ; or, a Catechism touching many weighty points of Divinity.' 1674, 8vo. The succeflbr of Scanderet, in the church which he formed at Haverhill, was Thomas Green, who died in 1732. Green was succeeded by Thomas Millaway, poflibly a son of the Millaway who took out a license at Coggefhall in 1672. Millaway died in 1787, and was succeeded by William Hum- phreys ; Humphreys by James Bowers, in 1792; Bowers by the Rev. Abraham C. Simpson, now LL.D., in 1820; Simpson by James Davies, in 1832 ; Davies by the Rev. Robert Simpson, who was succeeded by the present paftor, the Rev. John Simpson.* Samuel Slater. Silenced at Bury St. Edmunds. He was son of Samuel Slater who was ejected from St. Katharine's, Tower, London. He was first settled at Nayland, in the county of SuiFolk. Through the courtesy of the Rev. C. W. Green, the present vicar of that parish, I am favoured with copies of three entries in the parish regifter relating to Slater, the earliest of which bears date June 8, 1651, and the latest April I, 1655. Slater and Nicholas Claggett, who seems to have been his colleague at Bury, and was ejected from the vicarage of St. Mary's, in that town, were indidled at the first assizes after the reftoration for their nonconformity. Slater afterwards removed to London, but at what date I have not been able to discover. * Cal. Ace. 655 J Cont. 805 j Palmer communications from the Rev. John iii. 263 J Returns of 1669, ante p. 345 ; Simpson. Morison and Blackburn MSS. Private 628 Samuel Slater. In 1672 he was residing at V/althamflrow, in this county. A license was granted to him on the 21st of April, in that year, to be a ' Prefbyterian teacher in any allowed place,' and the day before, 'his own house at Walthamflow' had been licensed to be a 'Prefbyterian meeting house.' He afterwards became paflor of a considerable congregation in Crofby Square, Bifhopsgate Street. He died May 24, 1704. Slater preached and publiftied funeral sermons for John Reynolds, the ejected minifter of Roughton, in Norfolk; Richard Fincher, the ejefted re<£tor of St. Nicholas', in the city of Worcefter ; Thomas Vincent, who was silenced at St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, London ; John Oakes ; George Day, the ejected vicar of Wivalscombe, Somerset; William Rathband and Thomas Gilson. Also, i. ' A Thanksgiving Sermon on the discovery of the Horrid Plot.' 2. ' A Discourse of Family Religion, in eighteen sermons.' 8vo. 3. ' Of Family Prayer.' i2mo. 4. ' Of Closet Prayer.' i2mo. 5. ' A Sermon before the Lord Mayor of London, on the Preciousness of God's Thoughts towards his People.' 6. ' A Sermon to Young Men, preached December 25, 1668.' There are no memorials of the congregation gathered at Walthamftow by Slater. In 1740 a chapel was built for the Prefbyterians there, principally at the expense of William Coward, who also founded the Friday morning lecEture at Little St. Helen's, London, in 1729, and the college which was afterwards condufted first at Wymondley, then in Torrington Square, London, and is now merged in New College, St. John's Wood. The first minifter of this chapel was Hugh Farmer, under whom the congregation greatly increased, and became ' one of the most wealthy diffenting societies in or near the city pf London.' Farmer was succeeded by Ebenezer RadclifFe, and Radcliffe by Joseph Fawcett, who resigned in 1787. Differences now arising in the congregation on doc- trinal subjects, a nevv- place of worship was ereiSed, of which the first minifter was George Collison, afterwards also presi- dent of Hackney College. On the death of Collison, John Joseph Freeman became the minifter ; Freeman was succeeded fames Srnall^ Richard Taylor. 629 by Robert Mc.Rae; Mc.Rae by the Rev. S. S. England ; and England by the present minifter, the Rev. John Davies.* yames Small. Silenced at Yaxley, in the county of Suffolk. He v\fas born at Sandford, in the county of Devon. The curate of Sandford, which is a chapel-of-ease to Cuditon, was the father of Ezekiel Hopkins, who, after having com- menced his miniftry as an assiftant to William Spurftow, at Hackney, conformed, and was ultimately rewarded with the bifhopric of Raphoe, in 167 1, and that of Londonderry, in 168 1. Small and Hopkins were schoolfellows. After he was silenced, Small became chaplain in the house of a ' gentleman of good eftate,' named Davies, in the west of England. He afterwards lived in the same capacity in the family of the Lord Massarene, in the north of Ireland. There, it would appear, he succeeded the great and good John Howe, on his removal from Ireland to London. Thence Small removed again, in the same capacity of chaplain to the family of Sir John Barrington, of Hatfield Broad Oak. There he remained as long as Sir John Barrington lived, and afterwards until the removal of Lady Barrington. This was in 1690. Small continued still at Hatfield for some years, and on the removal of John Warren to Bifhop's Stortford, he became his succeflbr in the paltoracy of the church there, f Richard Taylor. Eje£led from the incumbency of Holt, in the county of Denbigh^ He was educated at Oxford, and settled at Holt when he was very young. He married Eliza- beth, the daughter of John Brewfter, of Withfield. After his ejectment he came into Effex, and settled at Barking, as paftor of the congregation there, probably as suc- ceffor to Edward Keightley. I am kindly informed by Mr. Sage, so well known to the readers of ' Notes and Queries,' that Taylor evidently held a very high position in the parish of Barking, and was a man of wealth and influence. There are several entries relating to him in the parish regifters there^ * Cal. Ace. 646; Cont. 747; Morison f Ante p. 406; Cal. Ace. 307; and Blackburn MSS. j Farmer, Biog. Brit. Cont. 474. Kippis V. 664. 630 Thomas Wadsvjorth. from which it appears that his son, Richard, was baptized August 18, 1683 ; another son, John, December 16, 1686 ; his daughter, Mary, December 27, 1687 ; a third son, Auguftine, April 7, i6gi. Also, that his daughter, Mary, was buried Odtober 29, 1685; he himself, August 18, 1697 ; another daughter, Mary, November 3, 1698 ; his son, Edward, May 21, 1699; his son, John, August 21, 1707; and his daughter Elizabeth, Oftober 4, 1708. Taylor was buried near the pulpit, in the chancel of Barking church, where his grave-stone still remains, with the inscription, •• Here lieth ye mortal part of Mr. Richard Taylour, clerk, who died August 12, 1697. In Coelo Quies.' Taylor's congregation became extinct. The present church owes its origin to the labours of George Gold, paftor of the church at Stratford, who preached in a ' hired house ' there, in 1782. The first paflor was Joseph Kennet Parker, who was succeeded by John West, in 18 19; West by George Corney, in 1825 ; and Corney by the present paflor, the Rev. Joseph Smedmore.* Thomas Wadsworth. He was first ejefted from the seques- tration of Newington Butts, and afterwards silenced by the Act of Uniformity, in the city of London. He was born in December, 1630, in the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark. At the age of sixteen he was sent to Cambridge, where he was entered of Christ's College. The redtory of Newington had been sequeftered from James Meggs, who, according to Walker, was also recStor of St. Margaret Pattens, London. Wadsworth was appointed to the sequeftration, with the full ^ concurrence and at the earnest petition of the parifhioners, in 1652. He was ejedted by the act of 1660, under which Meggs recovered both his livings. Meggs was also rewarded with the rectory of Theydon Garnon, in this county. On his ejedlion from Newington, Wadsworth continued in the Saturday morning lecSturefhip, which he appears to have filled for some time, at St. Antholins, and also preached there * Cal. Ace. 716 ; Notes and Queries, Nov. i. 1862; Essex Cong. Rem. iv. 213. Woodward, Abraham Wright. 631 on the Lord's day evening. Besides these labours he preached at St. Margaret's, Fish Street, on Monday evenings, and accepted an invitation from the parifhioners of St. Laurence, Pountney, to become their minifter. But w^hen the Act of Uniformity was passed he cheerfully abandoned all. After he was silenced he still persifted in preaching alternately to a congregation at Theobald's, and at Southwark. On the declaration of indulgence he took out a license to be a ' Prefbyterian teacher in the house of Jonathan Pretiman, in Theobald's, Effex.' This was May i, 1672, and on the same day the house was licensed to be a ' Prefbyterian meeting house.' Wadsworth died October 29, 1676, aged forty-six. He publifhed, i. 'A Discourse of the Immortality of the Soul.' 2. ' A Serious Exhortation to an Holy Life.' 3. ' Separation, yet no Schism.' 4. ' Faith's Triumphs over Death.' 5. ' A Short Catechism of Twelve Qufestions.' 6. ' A Plea for the Absolute Neceflity of Inherent Righteousness.' 7. ' A Last Warning to secure Sinners,' being his two last sermons. 8. 'A Collediion of Meditations on the Lord's Supper.' 9. 'Letters.' 10. ' Practical Sermons,' 11. 'Hymns and Poems.' 12. 'A Serious Exhortation to Self- Examination.' After his decease there were publifhed, ' His Remains,' and also ' His Life.' * . Woodward. Ejefted from Southwold, in the county of Suffolk. After his ejectment he preached at Harlow, in this county, where he seems to have founded the Baptist church. He also founded another congregation at Little Parndon, which is now extinct, f Abraham Wright. He was ejefted from the reflory of Cheveley, in the county of Cambridge. After his ejedlment he went to reside with John Meadows, of Ousden, for a time, and then removed to Wimbish, in this county. The following, which was of ' Mr. Wright's own drawing up, appears in Calamy's Continuation.' ' A true narrative of * Cal. Ace. 26 ; Cont. 22 ; License f Cal. Ace. 648 ; Morlson and Black- Book S. P. O. ante p. 340. burn MSS. 632 Abraham Wright. the sufferings a/" Abraham Wright, of Wimbish, in the county of Essex, M.A., sometime minijier a/'Cheaveley, in Cambridge- shire, humbly sheweth^ that in the year 1646, in the month of July, the said Abraham JVright was plac'd in the rediory of Cheaveley., by authority of Parliament .... the said reftory being .... sequeftered from Mr. Robert Levit .... And in the year 1659 .... the said Mr. Levit died, and in the year following .... there was an act .... made by which all such miniflers as were in mort livings .... were settled in them ; by which said act the said Abraham Wright was firmly settled in the reftory of Cheavely : nevertheless one Afr. John Deken^ minifter of Newmarket., procureth a presentation .... and goes .... to the bifhop, and gets inftitution .... and comes down to get posseffion .... but that being denied him, the said Mr. Deken .... did dissuade the people from paying the harvest tithes .... whereupon the parifhioners detained the harvest tithes, and after harvest was over .... Mr. Deken .... did procure five juflrices of the peace .... who did summon the said Abraham JVright .... He did but desire a friend of his ... . to go along with him to see the carriage of the business, and he was order'd .... to be put out of the room .... The chief thing they had against the said Abraham Wright was this : That they were not satisfied that he was in orders When they asked him the queftion .... he told them he was, and likewise what bifhop it was that ordained him .... and .... he would fetch his orders to them. . . . But . . . . because he had not his orders about him, they caused an order to be drawn up, that he ... . should resign the living to Mr. Deken, .... and about two days after .... underftanding that the juftices were to meet at Cambridge, (he) went and took his orders with him .... but they would not look on them, but let their order run still. . . . And the said Abraham Wright not yielding to resign the living .... the said juftices caused another order to be sent to the sheriff" .... which order . . . (he) did execute, 061:ober 28, 1660 ; he then coming .... turn'd the said Abraham Wright., with three small children, Abraham Wright. 633 and the rest of the family into the open street. Whereupon the said Abraham Wright .... did bring his a£lion. As to the title to the living, the judge, who was the Lord Chief Baron (Sir Matthew) Hale, did declare that the said Abraham Wright had a title to the living .... but he proposed that a rule might be drawn up in court, that the counsel on both sides should draw up the case, and meet at his chambers in London. But .... (the) counsel for Mr. Deken would not appear .... so that the said Abraham Wright was forced to wait there at great charges about a month's term .... and then was forced to bring down the tridl again the next assizes . . . and so they went upon a special verdict, and the said Abraham Wright was .... forced to attend at London .... several terms, one after another, till such time as the Act of Uni- formity was ready to come forth And the said Abraham Wright not yielding to what the act .... did require, there was a stop put to all proceedings And afterward, when the said Mr. Deken did underftand that the said Abraham Wright had not conformed, he did, about the beginning of OSiober., 1662, arrest (him) .... which he conceiveth to be for that he hath taken some tithes Yet the said Mr. Deken never went on to declare what he had against him, for about the same time that he did arrest the said Abraham Wright, it pleased God to arrest him with sickness After the decease of Mr. Deken .... the said Abraham Wright .... has been deprived of two years' proiit of his living .... having nothing left him to live upon, saving some little temporal eftate of his own .... 23rd Odtober, 1680.' Wright died about 1685.* * Cal. Ace. 119; Cont. 158. Walker says that Lewet (sic) was sequeftered for his disafFeftion to the Parliament, ii. 291. INDEX. Abberton, 69, 98, 217, 301. Act: — ' Concerning the King's Succession,' 'For the Appointment of Commis- sioners for the Approbation of Public Preachers,' 317. 'For Burying in Woolen,' 435. ' For the Confirming and Reftoring of Minlfters,' 326. ' For the Minifters of the Church to be of Sound Religion,' 67. ' For the more effedhial Propagation of the Gospel' by the 'Appoint- ment of Commissioners, for the Removal of Scandalous and In- sufficient Minifters,' 318. 'For the Removal of Certain A6h and Resolves of Parhament,' 317. ' For Reftraining Nonconformifts from Inhabiting in Corporations,' 355- 'For Taking the Engagement,' 317. 'For'' the Uniformity of Common Prayer in the Church and Ad- miniftration of the Sacraments,' 57- ' For the Uniformity of Public Pray- ers and the Adminiftration of the Sacraments,' 332.. 'For the Well-governing and Re- gulating of Corporations,' 330. 'The King's Grace to be Supreme Head,' 14, 29. 'To Prevent and Suppress Seditious Conventicles,' 344. 'To Reftore to the Crown the An- cient Jurisdiction over the Eftate Ecclesiaftical and Spiritual,' 58. Act: — 'Touching Marriages and the Re- giftry thereof, also touching Births and Burials,' 317. Agreement of the Associated Minis- ters of Essex, 458. Agreement of the People, 311. Aldham, 56, 60, no, 217, 295. Alphamfton, loi, 291, 317, 341, 589. Alresford, 97, 298. Althorne, 71, 94, 100, 274. Ardleigh, 160, 219, 296. Arkesden, 167, 285, 342, 607. Articles : — Six, 19, 37. Forty-two, 24. Thirty-nine, 62, 67. Whitgift's, 75, 131. Afliden, 15, 90, loi, 283. A/heldham, 273. Afhen, 91, loi, 289, 61J, 612. Afhingdon, 93, 269, 343, 400. Aveley, 95, 258. Baddow, Great, 141, 160, 266, 324, 343. 418- Baddow, Little, 98, 99, 100, 154, 162, 266, 310, 318, 344, 352, 353, 390, 486. Bardfield, Great, 36, 89, 283, 284, 297, 306, 494. Bardfield, Little, 284. Bardfield, Saling, 284, 494. Barking, 44, 58, 205, 257, 324, 339, 573, 629. Barling, 93, 219, 270. Barnfton, 92, loi, 281, 346. Beaumont, 159, 298. Belchamp, Otten, loi, 288, 348. 636 Index. Belchamp, St. Paul, 8, 89, 123, 288. Belchamp, Walter, 89, 210, 288, 292. Benflete, North, ill, 262, 449. Benflete, South, 38, 160, 261, 323, 438. Bentley, Great, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 57, 97) '94. 298, 3°i) 35°>433- Bentley, Little, 97, 296, 357. Berden, 91, 284, 608. Berechurch, 98. Bergholt, 2,11. Bergholt, West, 44, 47, 512. Billeiicay, 10, 38, 42, 340, 389, 543. Birch, Great, 44, 47, 170,219, 355, 519. Birchanger, 89, 90, 91, 285, 318. Birdbrook, 9, 88, 288, 351. Blackmore, 99, 157, 247, 267, 324. Bobbingworth, 96, 102, 219, 27*?, 287. Bocking, 22, 36, 43, 49, 62, 63, 64, loi, 147, 148, 167, 290, 462. Boreham, 8, 14, 98, 113, 265, 345, 352. Borley, 89, 220, 289. Boxted, 3, 10, 96, 293, 354, 433, 589. Brackfted, Great, 103, 155, 302, 323, 324, 486. Brackfted, Little, 95, 156, 160, 302, 324. Bradiield, 97, 140. Bradwell juxt. Coggefhall, 95, 156, 302, 417. Bradwell juxt. Mare, 94, 103, 161, 220, 273, 568. Braintree, 7, 21, 33, 37, 109, 147, 150, 154, 168, 290, 346, 354, 417, 475, 593- Brentwood, 32, 345, 411. Brightlingsea, 298, 542. Bromley, Great, 56, 98, I04, 124, 170, 296, 404. Bromley, Little, 97, 298. Broomfield, i, 99, 154, 264. Brundon, 89. Buers GifFord, 105, 159, 260. Buers Mount, 89, 296. Bulmer, 47, 100, 291. Bulvan, 17, roo, 158, 261. Bumfted, Steeple, 3, 8, 9, 60, 166, 287, 358. Bumfted, Helion, 284. Burnham, 273, 448. Burfted, Great, 40, 42, 60, 155, 259,260. Burfted, Little, 98, 99, 100, 220, 260. Butsbury, 100, 220, 266. Canefield, Great, 38, 92, 220, 281. Canefield, Little; 92, loi, 281, 323. Canewdon, 93, 103, 220, 270. Canons : — 1604, 131. 1640, 186. 1660, 329. Chadwell, 100, 261. Chapel, 96, 294. Chapel, Black, 264. Chapel, Littley, 264. Chawreth, 281. Chelmsford, 18, 39, 46, 52, 53, 91, 149, 154, 155. 157, 162, 171, 294, 319, 358,466. Chefterford, 541. Chefterford, Great, 90. Chefterford, Little, 285. Chickney, 281, 358. Chignal, St. James', 159, 267. Chignal, Smealey, 97, 154, 267. Chigwell, 26, 93, 145, 192, 220, 278, 44°, 544- Childerditch, 156, 194, 257, 360. Chingford, 102, 223, 280. Chishill, Great, 91, 224, 285, 608. ChishiU, Little, 181, 360, 597, 608. Chrishall, 287. Clacton, Great, 298. Clacton, Little, 96, 104, 298 Clavering, 83, 91, 268, 284, 361, 608, 620, 621. Coggefliall, 12, 31, 37, 39, 47, 78, 107, 149, 155, 157, 164, 207, 264, 294, 302, 318, 319, 363, 411, 473, 487, 552. 556, 558, 586- Colchefter, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 18, 24, 29, 32, 34, 40, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 5°, 51, 5», 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 69, 78, 79, Si, 98, 104, 106, 107, III, 113, 114, 133, 145, 159, 160, 171, 173, 174, 179, 180, 184, Index. 637 189, 200, 203, 218, 224, 225, 226, 227, 237, 302, 303, 304, 305, 309, 315. 317, 3i9> 330. 345> 3651 373. 377, 447, 488, 5^8, 529, 543, 555, 558. Colne, Earls, 8, 96, 105, 164, 210, 294 Colne, Engaine, 96, 295, 377. Colne, Wakes, 104, 295. Colne, White, 295, 368, 377. Commission, High Court of, 58. Copford, 47, 58, 62, 96, 170, 294, 318, 355, 377- Corringham, 105, 228, 261. Cranham, 95, 104, 154, 258, 294, 378, 465. Cressing, .95, 183, 302. Cricksea, 94, 141, 184, 274, 323. Dagznham, 43, 71, 103, 155, 205, 228, 257. Danbury, 73, 122, 266, 357, 379. Debden, 184, 228, 286, 391. Declaration and Address of Gentry of Essex in 1660, 322. Breda, 322. Of Indulgence, 340. Dedham, 11, 12, 28, 47, 53, 112, 123, 146, 171, 179, 293, 318, 344, 380, 383,457, 581, 583, 596- Denge, 34, 82, 94, 275. Direflory, The, 213. Doddinghurst, 100, 156, 157, 256, 262. Doniland, East, 7, 10, 11, 53, 96, 293, 397, 551- Dovercourt, 11, 28, 30, 46, 97, 134, 161, 229, 297, 298. Downham, 99, 262. Dunmow, 82, 148, 268. Dunmow, Great, 45, 92, 101, 186, 201, 281, 285, 359, 384. Dunmow, Little, 45, 92, 275, 281. Dunton, 79, 159, 261. Dutch Congregations, 179. Easter, Good, 282. Eafter, High, 92, 94, 121, 281, 386, 516. Eafthorp, 43, no, 230, 293, 486. Eafton, Great, 100, iii, 282,413, 538, 539- Eafton, Little, 92, loi, 282, 310, 539. Eaftwood, 268, 271. Elmdon, 90, 286, 608. Elmfted, 104, 298. Elsenham, 91, 155, 286. Epping, 81, 108, 129, 157, 167, 177, 280, 387, 498, 592, 598. Fairsted, 188, 302. Fambridge, North, ^4, 224, 230, 275. Fambridge, South, 230, 269. Farnham, 92, 284, 566, 608. Faulkborne, 302, 521. Felfted, 154, 172, 290, 318, 348, 386, 389, 513, 565. Fering, 5, 97, 104, 162, 294, 390. Fifield, 79, 92, 155, 276, 437, 467. Finchingfield, 172, 210, 290, 318, 391, 499, 523, 613- Fingringhoe, 96, 301, 396, 551. Fobbing, 100, 159, 230, 262, 329. Fordham, 31, 79, 293, 397, 554. Foulness, 230, 271. Foxearth, 90, loi, 288. Frating, 97, 299. Frierning, 119, 231, 267. Frinton, 299. Gestingthorpe, 6, 88, 98, loi, 161, 210, 291, 400, 612. Gingrave, 161, 231, 259, 443. Goldhanger, 231, 300. Gosfield, 104, 231, 292, 579. Grinfted juxt. Colchefter, 98, 104, 224, 248. Grinfted juxt. Ongar, 45, 154, 232, 277, 435- Hadleigh, 60, 270, Hadftock, 91, 232, 284. Haidon, 90, 232, 286. Hallingbury, Great, 92, loo, 233, 279, 608. Hallingbury, Little, 92, 233, 279, 400, 608. 638 Index. Halfted, 8, 47, 146, 148, 185, 188, Z17, 292, 318, 402, 611. Ham, 523. Ham, East, 95, 233, 255, 565. Ham, West, 28, 46, 96, 255, 256. Hanningfield, 514. Hanningfield, East, 78, 121, 267. Hanningfield, South, 99, 263, 266, 404, 532. Hanningfield, West, 112, 234, 265. Harlow, 280, 631. Harwich, 40, 48, 53, 54, 97, 104, 169, 184, 189, 297, 298, 601. Haseleigh, 155. Hatfield, Broad Oak, 140, 149, 206, 278, 318,-404, 607. Hatfield, Peverel, 78, 118,272, 302,513. Haverhill, 8, 146, 609, 623. Havering, 141, 256, 310, 433. Hawkwell, 105, 155, 269, 400, 437. Hedingham, Caftle, 5, 171, 290, 385, 501, 512, 518, 611. Hedingham, Sible, 160, 234, 290, 410, 511, 512. Hempfted, 42, 46, 78, 91, 121, 122, 284, 406. Henham, 286, 324, 406. Henny, Great, 89, 236, 291. Henny, Little, 100, 291, 408. Heybridge, 93, 125, 156, 160, 300. Hockley, 36, 93, 271, 409, 411. Holland, Great, 46, 237, 296. Holland, Little, 299, 439. Holy Water Clerk, 4. Horkslcy, 7, 12, 37. Horksley, Great, 46, 161, 293, 447, 519. Horksley, Little, 324. Hornchurch, 246, 256, 315, 539, 546, 578, 599- Horndon-on-the-HiU, 34, 35, 95, 159, 238, 260. Horndon, East, 238, 260. Horndon, West, 105, 231, 259, 260. Hutton, 78, 121, 260, 416. Ilford, 96, 255, 257, 440. Informers, 371. Ingateftone, 99, 265, 318, 345, 411. Inworth, 155, 294, 410, 511. Kelvedon, 41, 159, 302, 363. Kelvedon Hatch, 60, 277, 378, 436, 462, 514. Kirby, 35, 41, 104, 299, 465. Lachingdon, 100, 205, 276. Laingdon i,. Basildon, -j.^ 8, 17, 39, 63, 100, 105, 238, 261, 329. Laingdon Hills, 260, 485. Lambourne, 186, 238, 278, 285. Lamersh, 89, loi, 292. Langenhoe, 48, 296, 301, 413. Langford, 103, 160, 300. Langham, 42, no, 293. Latton, 157, 279. Laurence, St., 94, 239, 273. Laver, High, 167, 275, 306, 414. Layer, Little, 102, 274, 414. Laver, Magdalen, 275, 415. Lawford, 156, 296, 416. Layer, Breton, 301, 354. Layer de la Hay, 97, 301. Layer, Marney, 13, 301. Leigh, 71, 114, 115, 270, 354. Leighs, Great, 267. Leighs, Little, 4, 100, 154, 264, 346, 417. Leyton, 90, 256, 280, 324, 418. Linsdell, 92, 156, 282, 420. Lifton, 90, 289. Littlebury, 17, 90, 239, 286. Loughton, 278, 323. Maldon, 33, 37, 51, 68, 78, 81, 84, J09, 116, 126, 184, 189, 271, 317, 4-"> 5>5> 55^- Manningtree, 97, 172, 596. Manuden, 3, 91, 239, 285, 608. Maplefted, Great, 5, 89, 240, 292, 469. Maplefted, Little, 88, 241, 292. Margareting, 99, 160, 267. Marklhall, 28, 294, 295. Maflibury, 159, 242, 282. Matching, 73, 242, 279, 421. Index. 639 Mayknd, 195, 274. Mersea, East, 301. Mersea, West, 98, 301, 350. Messing, 156, 295, 324.. Middleton, 89, 243, 292. Milend, 96, III. Miftley, 172, 296. Moreton, 102, 105, 155, 276, 427, 462. Mose, 97, 104, 299. Mountnessing, 99, 244, 266. MSS. :— Cole, vol. xxviii. 210. Lambeth, 639, 345. Lansdowne, 459, 154. Second Part of a Regifter, Dr. William's Library, Red Cross Street, 79. Sheldon, 345. Mucking, 154, 242, 261. Mundon, 94, 161, 245, 273. Nasing, 162, 281. Naveftock, 93, 245, 277, 430. Netteswell, 94, 157, 279. Newenden, 159. Newport, 90, 166, 286, Norton, Cold, 274, 431. Norton, Mandeville, 156, 277, 415. Notley, Black, 103, 302, 352,432, 593. Notley, White, 45, 94, 302. Oakeley, Great, 97, 297, 433. Oakeley, Little, 97, 104, 297. Oath :— 'Ex-officio,' 77, 181. 'Et Caetera,' 186, 189. Ockenden, North, 95, 104, 161, 257, 323. Ockenden, South, 104, 433. Ongar, Chipping, 44, loi, 156, 277, «47 4-67. 565- Ongar, High, 26, 33, 62, 232, 277, 435. Orsett, loi, 102, 104, 208, 262, 358. Osyth, St., 3, 4, 9, 13, 53, 156, 177, 299. Ovington, 288, 604, 605. Paglesham, 62, 100, 121, 271. Panfield, 109, 291, 437. Parndon, Great, 157, 279, 317, 439. Parndon, Little, 631. Pattiswick, 2, 10, 97, 192, 294, 440. Pebmarsh, loi, 210, 292, 441, 506. Peldon, 48, 97, 123, 301. Pentloe, 89, 288, 442, 598. Prittlewell, 16, 71, 78, 116, 268, 318, 443. 504. 569- Proteftation, The, 193. Purleigh, 69, 103, 160, 246, 271. QuENDON, 105, 286, 444* Radwinter, 8, 284, 445, 572. Raine, 78, 84, 89, ill, 291, 292, 420, 570, 572. Rainham, 258, 273. Ramsden, 99, 158, 261. Ramsey, 46, 89, 97, 297. Rawreth, 36, 152, 159, 246, 263, 270, 539- Rayleigh, 35, 41, 46, 270, 446. Regicides, The Essex, 310. Rettenden, 45, 246, 265, 447. Rickling, 90, 286. Ridgwell, 8, 122, 289, 441, 448, 460. Rivenhall, 26, 302, 449. Rochford, 41, 69, 71, 82, 103, 170, 269, 534. Romford, 20, 70, 81, 95, 256, 310,422, 424, 462, 502, 524. Roothing, Abbot, 93, 102, 276, 450. Roothing, Belchamp, 93, 276. Roothing, Berners, 282. Roothing, Eythorp, iii, 282, 514. Roothing, High, 102, 123, 246, 282, 568. Roothing, Leaden, 91, 283. Roothing, Margaret, 156, 283, 306. Roothing, White, 92, 282, 452, 554. Roxwell, 38, 99, 247, 267, 324. Roydon, 280. Runwell, 159, 247, 266. 640 Index. Saffron Walden, 1, 8, 17, 28, 41, 67, 90, 172, 205, 287. Salcot, 97. Saling, Old, 89, 247. Samford, New, 91, 248, 324, 626. Samford, Old, 91, 2S4, 406, 626. Sandon, 98, 154, 266, 452. Shalford, 291, 440, 457, Shelley, 92, 103, 157, 277, 461. Sheering, 66, 102, 279, 378. Shellow Bowels, 92, 283. Shenfield, 99, 105, 161, 269, 462, 541. Shobury, North, 271, 465. Shobury, South, 15, 57, 71, 114, 268, 400. Shopland, 71, 95, 210, 271. Stnectymnus, 197. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 163, 504. Southchurch, 40, 71, 268, 400. Southminfter, 100, 248, 274. Springfield, Boswell, 95, 156, 161, 265, 465. Springfield, Richards, 155, 248. Stambourne, 288, 394, 467. Stambridge, 103, 125, 132, 248, 271. Stamford, 89. Stamford Rivers, 62, 93, 136, 139, 142, 277) 435) 4-7I- Stanford, 44, 45, 261. Stanfted, 155, 286, 473, 602, 608, 620. Stanway, 96, 248, 292, 576. Stapleford, Abbot, 102, 257, 278, 423, 474- Stapleford, Tawney, 278, 422. Stebbing, 156, 230, 289, 475. Steeple, 249, 274, 572. StifFord, 104, 258. Stilled, 64, 172, 291, 432, 479. Stock, 105, 158, 266, 485. Stondon, 158, 277, 464. Stowmaries, 102, 274. Stratford, 35, 44, 46, 95. Strethall, 67, 287. Sturmere, 89, 289. Subscription, 24, 75, 131. Sutton, 268. Table Communion, 22, 24, 61, 143, 177, 180, 195. Takeley, 90, 249, 286. Tay, Great, 295, 485. Tay, Little, 96, 249. Tay, Marks, 109, 156, 294, 296, 369, 486. Tendring, 102, 299. Terling, 154, 302, 318, 486, 574. Teftimony, The Essex, 307. Thaxted, 17, 268, 283, 490, 553, 622, 626. Theydon, Boys, 250, 278, 386. Theydon, Garnon, 62, 250, 278. Theydon, Mount, 157, 496, 524. Thorpe, 35, 49, 250, 298. Thorrington, 98, 251, 297. Thundersley, 34, 36, 100, 159, 262, 398- Thurrock, Grays, 258, 340. Thurrock, Little, 263. Thurrock, West, 95, 259. Tilbury juxt. Clare, 89, 289. Tilbury, East, 262. Tilbury, West, 135, 263. Tillingham, 34, 103, 267, 273. Tilty, 78, 121, 283. Tollesbury, 103, 115, 159, 251, 300. ToUefliunt, Darcy, 94, 103, 251, 300. Tollefliunt, Knights, 93, 159, 300. ToUefliunt, Major, 98, 103, 160, 300, 354, 552- Toppesfield, 88, 90, 289, 499. Totham, Great, 84, 118, 252, 300. Totham, Little, 300, 310. Twinfted, 244, 292, 350, 461, 517. Ugly, 100, 284. Ulting, 68, 95, 252, 302. Upminfter, 95, 258, 294, 502. Vang, 78, 121, 263. Veftments, 23, 59. Wakering, Great, 48, 121, 271, 317, 504. Wakering, Little, 93, 103, 268. Index. 641 Waltham Abbey, 13, 26, 44, 69, 184., 280. Waltham, Great, 152, 173, 264, 505, 54-1 • Waltham, Little, 119, 154, 261, 264, 344, 505- Walthamftow, 206, 255, 323, 324, 628. Walton, 35, 46, 96, 299. Wanfted, 141, 255. Warley, Great, 81, 160, 257. Warley, Little, 157, 259, 323, 506. Watchword, The Essex, 312. Weald, North, 102, 157, 276. Weald, South, 32, 156, 157, 160, 185, 3='3, 379i 5°6- Weeley, 96, 102, 298, 509. Wendon, Ambo, 287. Wendon, Great, 90. Wendon, Little, 155. Wendon, Lofts, 287. Wennington, 259. Wethersfield, 78, 88, 108, 146, 154, 172, 184, 290, 291, 366, 392, 410, 509, 543, 58^- Wickford, 99, 160, 253, 263, 398, 462. Wickham, Biihops, 58, 94, 299, 512. Wickham, Bonant, 287. Wickham, St. Paul, 292, 515. Wicks, 45, 125, 298. Widdington, 94, 220, 287. Widford, 99, 159, 265. Wigborough, 40, 301. WiUingale, Doe, 92, 185, 254, 283, 328. WiUingale, Spaine, 92, 94, 153, 283. Wimbish, 229, 254, 286, 287, 631. Witham, 7, 82, 88, 94, no, 116, 301, 450, 518. Wivenhoe, 104, 295, 315, 356, 543, 587. Woodford, 15, 95, 257, 606. Woodham, Ferrers, 159, 266, 496, 538. Woodham, Mortimer, 94, 160, 274. Woodham, Walter, 105, 154, 272, 299. Wormingford, 194, 293. Wrabness, 296. Writtle, 81, 119, 160, 174, 254, 265, 418. Yeldham, 513. Yeldham, Great, 290, 324, 521. Yeldham, Little, 88, 290, 520. WARREN HALL AND CO., STEAM PRINTERS, CAMDEN TOWN, LONDON, N.W.