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imprisoned, for giving the name of Charles to a child to 

 whom he was godfather. 



The Impropriate Parsouages of Lymington, South Bar- 

 row, and Barton, were part of the temporalities of Dr. 

 Walter Raleigh, Dean of ^^"ells, and sequestered for 

 his delinquency. The sufFerlngs of Dr. Raleigh ended 

 only with his death. He endured a long imprisonment, 

 aggravated by constant removals from gaol to gaol, in one 

 of which the plague had broken out, and at length, whilst 

 in custody in his own house at Wells, was murdered by 

 David Barrett, a constable, who had been appointed his 

 keeper. No proper notice appears to have been taken by 

 the authorities of this foul deed. His widow and son were 

 frustrated in several attempts to bring Barrett to a trial, and 

 the clergyman who performed the burial service at the un- 

 fortunate Dean's funeral, ac(;ording to the Book of Common 

 Prayer, was impi'isoned for disobeyiiig the ordinance for- 

 bidding its use. 



Mr. Guy Clintom, minister of Alford, was deprived "for 

 reading the Book of Common Prayer, and being very 

 insufficient for the ministry and scandalous in his life ; and 

 his son also conceived to he maintained in arras by him 

 against the Parliament." And a further note is added, that 

 " the son hath been very active since, in the tumult at 

 Bruton." 



The abolition of the Book of Common Prayer was 

 always a great object with the Puritans. The Assembly 

 of Divines, a body which had been appointed by an ordi- 

 nance of the 12th June, 1643, amongst other things, to 

 confer and treat on matters concerning the liturgy sub- 

 mitted to them by Parliament, had framed in obedience to 

 Instructions, a new form of prayer called The Directory; 

 and the House of Lords on the 3rd January, 1645, being 



