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there in King Edward’s Reigne. Upon Queen Maria’s acces- 
sion he was forced to Retire wt others To Germany. Spots- 
wood sayes He fled To Frankfurt and served The English 
Congregation there as a minister; afterwards, adds_ the 
Bishop, ‘ he was upon some occasion called to the charge of 
a church in the Lower Germany; he continued there the rest 
of his dayes. Some Homilys he left on the prophesy of Hea 
(Hosea?) and a History of the Beginning and progress of the 
English Church.’ Whether this be ye known pamphlet of 
qch in Mr Knox his life, The History of The Beginning and 
Progress of the Troubles of the English Church at Frankfort, 
qch was not printed till after 1570 about the midle of Q. 
Elizabeth’s reigne, 1 know not. But I am Ready to Think 
the Bishop is misunderstood as to Mr M‘Brair’s Dying in 
Germany, since it’s certain enough He Returned To England 
after his exile as the rest of the worthy persons Forced away 
By the Marian persecution. Mr Strype, Memoires, Vol. 3, 
named him among the exiles at Frankfurt. The passage 
deserves a Room here, because I do not find it taken nottice 
of By any other Historians :—‘ At Frankfurt wre Mr Isaach 
a Kentish Gentleman In whose House wer Harboured 
Richard Chambers and Thomas Samson (cf. . . Introduc- 
tion) Dean of Chichester who were the first two who desired 
earnestly Jouell (Jewel) upon his first coming over to make a 
public Confession of his Fault. In subscribing this Chambers 
who was Treasurer of the Contribution money for maintain- 
ing the exiles gave sustenance to the said Jouell. However 
many persons of Quality as Sr Francis Knoules afterwards 
Threasurer to Q. Elizabeth's Chamber and Henry his Son, 
However (?) Samford, Rob. Croucas (?) Robt. Horn, late 
dean of Durhame, David Whitehead, an ancient revrend 
divine once Recommended by Cranmer To be A Bishop of 
Armaugh, Thomas Lever. a grave learned man of St. John’s 
Colledge Cambridge, who afterwards went to Arou (Ziirich ?) 
in Helvetia and was there minister of another Congregation 
of the English, another Scots preacher, John Makebray, who 
was the first that preached the Gospel to the English at 
Frankfort for about a year and then went to another Church 
