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houfe (y), for his loyalty and (Icady principles. His irreproach- 

 able life appearing in evidence for him, he regained his liberty. 

 The difchargc of his duty being nearer his heart, than- the fears- 

 of dearh, and being as little afraid of the frowns of men, as of- 

 the approach and peril of a ftern difeafe, or the diflionours of 

 poverty, he vindicated the doctrines of the church of Englaml'i- 

 with an eloquence and force that encpofed him again to the re- 

 fentment of his adverfaries, who ordered him into cuftody, and' 

 fhut him up for three or four years in the- tower (zj ', with this 

 remarkable, but honourable declaration in his favour, " That 

 *' if he was permitted to preach, lie would undo all that they 

 " had done." (a) To the cruelty of imprifonment and fequef* 

 tration, they added that of plunder. He was very dear to the 

 king, who defired to have him with him under his confinement 

 both at Jfolmby-houfe, and the JJle of Wight, but was denied that 

 favour by his enemies, being only permitted to fee him at 

 Hampion-coun. His majefty's death afflicted him more than all 

 the other feverities of his fortune, whom he furvived but a few 

 months, dying in Auguft, in the fame year, at the age of fifty- 

 eight. He was interred in his own church of St. Peter k Poor; 

 on the fouth-eaft fide, where a mural monument was erected 

 to his memory, with the following inscription, drawn by his 

 friend, Bifhop Ero-wnrigg t of Exeter (b). 



(y) Le Nevis Fafti, p. 238. 



(z) Stripe's Append, to Stuw's Survey. 



(a) Walker's Suffering of the Clergy, Part 2. p. 79. 



(b) Bp. Kennel's Hiftor. Regift. p* 572-3. 

 Fafti Oxonienf. vol. I. col. 828. 



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