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the day on which they passed the Bill for the attalnder 

 of Laud, voted another forbidding the use of the Book 

 of Common Prayer, and establishingj as the ordlnance 

 States, " the said Directory for the public worship of 

 God." 



By a subsequent enactment, all luinisters were enjoined, 

 under a peualty, openly to read the Directory in their 

 respective chui'ches before the murning service, and all the 

 Books of (/ouimon Prayer were to be collected by the 

 churchwardens and constables, and disposed of as Parlia- 

 ment should direct. 



Mr. William Hashetf., the Rector of Maperton, was de- 

 prived " for rayling against the Parliament in his sermons, 

 and stirring up the people to goe against the Parliament 

 forces, and for being scandalous in his life." This case 

 sliews that it was not without reason that the Parliament 

 were jealous of the practices of the clergy, who both in 

 their public ministrations and private life, had manifested 

 such Opposition to the Parliamentary cause, lipon Mr. 

 Haskett's removal, the inhabitants immediately petitioued 

 that Mr. Peter Bradford should officiate in his stead, and 

 having procured a certificate of some able ministers of his 

 ability and fitness, he was appointed to the parish. 



The Rev. Anthony Richardson, Rector of West Camel, 

 who next claims our attention, must have been a most 

 determined Royalist. Mr. Curll's charge against him is : — 



" That he read the Book of Common Prayer, contrary 

 to the ordinance of Parliament and Directory, until 

 Michaelmas last. 



" That he read the Somcrsetshire Petition publicly in 

 the church, and caused most of the inhabitants to subscribe 

 their names unto it at his house ; and because Wm. Jeans 

 refueed, he, the said Mr. Richardson, said it should be the 



