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a Royal Mandate was issued to the Mayor and 

 Aldermen of Hull, directing them to inhibit Mr. 

 Shawe from preaching any longer at the Trinity 

 Church. To this inhibition Shawe reluctantly sub- 

 mitted, but he continued to preach at the Charter- 

 House to crowded congregations, until, through 

 the constant interruption of the military, he 

 found himself obliged to quit Hull; and, in the 

 following year, he went to Rotherham, where he 

 died on the 19th April, 1672, in the 65th year of 

 his age. His works consist chiefly of sermons, 

 which savour strongly of the politics of that day. 

 Of these, the following were published, viz. ; 

 one under the title of " The Grand Sacrifice, or 

 " Broken Heart/' preached at Beverley, on the 

 28th December, 1642, being a fast day ; another, 

 intitled "Two Clean Birds, or the cleansing of the 

 " Leper," preached shortly afterwards at Selby, 

 before the Lord Fairfax and his army ; another, 

 called " The three Kingdoms' Case, or their sad 

 " calamities ; together with their cause and cure, 

 " with some very remarkable passages of Provi- 

 " dence, worthy of general observation/' printed 

 in 1646; to which sermon is prefixed a curi- 

 ous epistle, recording many remarkable events 

 about Hull, and its siege by the Earl of Newcastle ; 

 another sermon, called " Brittaine's Remem- 

 " brancer, or the nationall Covenant ;" and two 

 Assize Sermons, preached at York, during the 



