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in wars of earlier and later date. At the same time we have an 
entry in the books of St. Andrew : "1643, paid for 71bs of Candles 
for the Souldiers that were at the Church ready to go forth on a 
party the 6th and 7th Oct., and 14th Oct. ; " and if St. Andrew 
was so used Charles was not likely to be excepted. On the other 
hand, the " Trve Mapp and Discription of the Towne of Plymouth, 
a.d. 1643," has no indication of Charles Church; but the absence 
of any mention of the church is not to be taken as evidence of 
much value one way or the other, because the author of the map 
was more intent upon giving accurately the fortifications, with the 
works and approaches of the enemy, than in giving a detailed 
description of the buildings of the town. 
We have now come to the year 1643. Dr. Aaron Wilson had 
been gathered to his fathers, as is commemorated in the tomb in 
the southern aisle of St. Andrew, and Bedford was promoted by the 
king from lecturer to vicar. The Parliamentary spirit was strong 
in Plymouth. The inhabitants resented the appointment of a man 
thoroughly at variance with their principles, and so successful 
were they in their opposition that when the case was brought before 
Parliament, that body felt no doubt that it was undesirable for 
a man of such learning and capacity to be in office in their head- 
quarters in the West, and also perhaps knowing that his power of 
winning friends to himself personally was likely to be detrimental 
to their cause, even though the preacher of their own choice had 
been installed, on the 3rd June, 1643, passed the following resolu- 
tion : " That Mr. Geo. Hughes be recommended unto the Town 
of Plymouth to be their Lecturer to preach there;" and on the 
4th September the following order was passed by the House : 
" Eesolved that Mr. Bedford shall be discharged of being a Lecturer 
in the Town of Plymouth, and that he be sent for as a delinquent 
by the Serjeant-at-Arms." 
The House evidently would not even recognize his appointment 
as vicar, and the times were peremptory. Plymouth, the stronghold 
of their cause in the West, was assailed by foes without — for in 
November, 1642, the Eoyalist forces had begun the siege — and by 
treachery within, for an attempt to yield up the island of Plymouth 
to the Royalists had been discovered. For this latter attempt Sir 
Alexander Carew, then high in office, was arrested and brought to 
the block on Tower Hill. Sustained as the Roundheads were by 
strong religious enthusiasm, it behoved the House to make sure that 
