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though not unfaithful, obedience to the Parliament. Kindly in 
disposition, he won the regard and personal esteem of those who at 
first were disposed to treat him with aversion, until at last he was 
loved by those upon whom he had been forced, and the Merchant 
Tailors' Company, who were visited with penalties, and treated 
sharply by the Commonwealth, sent his son William to St. John's 
College, Cambridge, and once and again provided help and assist- 
ance for his supply and comfort in failing health. In 1650 Mr. 
Dugard, the head master of Merchant Tailors' School, acting no 
doubt with the connivance of his Company, was ejected by the 
Parliament on the ground that he had " shown himself an enemy 
to the State by printing seditious and scandalous pamphlets, and 
were therefore unfit to have charge of the education of youth." 1 
Dugard was bound over in £300 not to repeat the offence, and 
later his presses and paper were ordered to be destroyed. 
Again, in August of the year following (1651) the Council of 
State wrote to the Lord Mayor that they had " become aware of 
the intention of certain persons to make a solemn funeral for 
Christopher Love, lately executed for high treason ; " and the Lord 
Mayor was ordered " to command that Merchant Tailors' Hall be 
kept shut up, and to send for Winstanley and any others concerned 
therein, and command them to desist from any such enterprise as 
they will answer to the contrary at their peril." 2 But during all 
this time Bedford was pursuing his theological studies and editing 
Bishop Davenant's works, thus following a line which, without 
being untrue to his new masters, was not unfaithful to his old 
opinions and old friends; and when the last came he is found, 
after making a modest provision for wife and children, to look 
back to his Plymouth days, and provide for a small gift to Charles 
Church, which had been founded with his assistance, and that of 
his ever-honoured friend Eobert Trelawny, and partly built under 
his own eye. This gift, it is a pleasure to think, is with us to this 
day; for lying on the table before me I am able, through the 
courtesy of Eev. George Frederick Head, the Vicar, to bring to 
your notice part of the silver communion plate of Charles ; namely, 
a flagon with a cover 10£ inches high, on which is the inscription : 
" This belongs to Charles his Church of Plymouth, Thomas Bed- 
ford, sometimes Lecturer Donor 1662;" a small paten inscribed, 
1 Cat. St. Pa. Bom., 1st February, 1650. 
2 Cat. St. Pa. Dom., 25th August, 1651. 
