Negleéted 
From Cambridge he went to be tutor to 
the two fons of Lord Carey of Lepington,. 
afterwards Earl of Monmouth, and by 
his lordfaip’ s recommendation, was made 
fee of the clofet to Prince Henry 5 and 
ontinued in that poft to Prince Charies, 
ay. was difcarded upon that prince’s $ ac- 
ceffion to the crown. While in this fitu- 
ation he entered into orders, and wrote 
fome tratts againit popery, but he com- 
plains bitterly of archbifhop Abbot, he 
had refuled to licence a piece of his entitled 
“¢ The converted Few,’ written againit 
the Jefuits. ‘The occafion of his being 
difmified from court was, his writing a 
letter to the king, charging the bifhops 
Neile and Laud with the defign of intro- 
ducing popery. About this time he 
obtained the rectory of St. Matthew, Fri- 
day-ftreet, and became very popular by 
his violent fermons againtt the court and 
the hierarchy. For thefe he was at firft 
fufpended and committed to the Fleet 
prifon, where he did not remain long: but 
he {till continued the fame courfe, and, in 
1636, he was called into the high com- 
mifficn court for two fermons preached cn 
the 5th of November, and printed the 
-fame year with this title, “¢ For God and 
the King.’ ‘Though this performance 
was undoubtedly grofs in theextreme, yet 
his fentence was difproporticnate to the 
offence, which was, that he fhould be 
degraded from the minifterial function, 
ftand in the pillory two hours, lofe 
both his ears, pay a fine of 5000l. and 
then be imprifoned for life in Lancatter 
caftle. ‘June 30, 1637, he fuffered the 
moft ignominious part of his punifhment . 
at Weftminiter, and he fays, “ that all 
the time he was in the pillory he thought 
himfelf to be in heaven. For my re- 
joicins’’ headds, ¢* and glorying was fo 
greatall the while, without intermiffion, in 
the pillory, that I can no more eXprefs it 
than Paul could his ravifhments in the 
third heaven.’? July 28, he was con- 
veyed from London to Lancafter, where 
he arrived Auguft 3d, but, in November 
following, he was taken from thence and 
conveyed to Guernfey, where, through 
bad weather, he did not arrive in lefs than 
fix weeks. | 
Though his fentence expreffed that he 
fhould be ‘carefully debarred the ufe of 
pen, ink, and paper, yet he found means, 
while in Guernfey caftle, to write an an- 
{wer to bifhop Laud’s ** Relation of his 
conference with Fifber,’ which was as 
vir rilene as could be expected from the com- 
plexion of the man. He likewile wrote 
there fore other controverfial pieces, but 
could not get them printed, 
362 
Biogrephy. 
The following ftory he relates himflf 
with great folemnity, and it will ferve to 
fhew to what a pitch of enthufiaim he 
was carried, 
<1On April 
apart to feek 
church, which then lay under great. pref- 
{ures ; heal having {pent the day till 
4 of the clock in the afternoone, I walked 
two or three turns in my chamber, and 
being very fad and difconfolate becaufe I 
had not, as at other times upon the like 
occafion, received an aniwer of comfort 
from God, and being fomewhat faint with 
abftinence and the clofenefse of the roome, 
T opened that window which locks into 
the fea eaftward to take a little ayre, the 
fea comming as neere the fhore on that fide 
as that J might from my window throw 
an apple into it: thus looking forth by 
and by there was prefented before the 
_ window a rainbow, lying flat all along 
upon the fea, with the two ends clofe to 
the fhore, and the bow from meward: 
it was a perfect and entire rainbow, but 
becaufe it did not as ordinary rainbows, 
ftand upright, but lay fat upon the fea, 
it filled me with wonderment, and fo 
much the more, becaufe looking both 
upwards and downwards I faw no cloud 
for the rainbow to fubiift m, neither was 
the ayre moiit, it being a dry windy day. 
I obferved, indeed, (putting my head forth 
at the window and looking upwards} 
many broken little clouds driven away 
with the wind, but never a one large 
enough for fuch a rainbow; and the 
clouds moved apace, and ‘pailed away, 
but the rainbow abode ftill for the fpace 
of half a quarter of an houre, keeping 
its pofture, lying flat and fteddy upon the 
fea; whereby it plainly appeared to be 
no naturali and ordinary rainbow, but 
fupernaturall and miraculous, Mine eyes 
were taken up with beholding, and my 
mind with admiring it, till at length, 
whole as it was at firft, it began to with- 
25, 1640, I fet the day 
draw itfelf towards the north eaft, towards 
I (aw it move thus for the. 
England: 
{pace of two leagues lying flat upon the 
fea till it vandued out of my fight. Here- 
upon I began to be amufed in niyfelf 
what this fhould meane: I was per 
{waded that God had fent this rainbow,te 
ne for fome fpeciall ule that I fhould make 
of it; but I knew not nor could imagine 
what. I prayed againe that the ‘Lord 
would be pleafed to thew me what ufe to 
make of it. I hereupon caft my thoughts 
upon the frit rainbow in Genelis, but 
that was fet-in the clouds asa fign of 
God’s covenant that he would no more 
deftroy the world by, a flood of water. 
But 
[* May 
God, efpecially for his 
