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clarations at Cambridge. Some others of 
the Heads were imprifoned in St. John’s, 
of which number was Dr. Samuel Ward, 
Matter of Sidney. 
Not long after the Covenant was offer- 
ed to the Univerfity ; and recufants were 
“ordered by the Duke of Manchetter imme- 
diately to leave it. 
Dr. Fuller, in his Hiftory of the Uni- 
verfity of Cambridge, remarks ‘* Some, 
perchance, may be io curious hereafter to 
know what removals and fubfticutions 
were made at this time amongft the heads 
of Houfes. Now, although a man may 
hold a candle to lighten poferity fo near 
as to burn his own fingers therewith, I 
will run the. hazard, rather than be want- 
fi The fol- 
ing to any reafonable defire.”’ 
lcwing are the names of heads of Houfes- 
remov’c, as copied from Dr. Fuller :— 
the Mafters put in are omitted. 
Dr. John Cofens, Dean of Peterbo- 
rougit, and Prebendary of Durham, re- 
moved from Peter-houfe; Dr. Thomas 
Tafk, Archdeacon of London, from Clare- 
hall ; Dr. Benjamin Laney, Dean of Ro- 
chefier, from Pembroke ; Dr. Thomas 
Badgcero!t, from Caius ; Dr. Samuel Col- 
lins, the King’s Profeffor, from King’s ; 
Dr. Edward Martm, Chaplain to. Arch- 
bifhop Laud, from Queen’s; Ralph 
Brownrigge, Bithop of Exeter, from Ca- 
therine-hall’; Dr. Richard Sterne,. Chap- 
Jain to Archbifhop Laud, from Jefus ; 
Dr. William Beale, Chaplain to the King, 
from St. John’s ; Dr. Thomas Cumber, 
Dean of Carlifle, from ‘Trinity; Dr. 
Richard Hck fworth, Archdeacon of Hun- 
tingdon, from Emanuel; Dr. Samuel 
Waid, from Sidney. 
With reipec&t to the Diffentient Fellows 
ejected, the good-humoured Dr. Fuller 
ob/erves,‘* fome pity may feem due to fuch 
Fellows, outed houfe and home, merely 
for refufing the Covenant, being otherwile 
well-deferving in the judgments of thofe 
who ¢j:Gted them ; and it is ftrange to 
conceive how many of them got any fub- 
_ fiftence, or livelihood, to maintain them- 
felves. ‘This mindeth me of the occafion 
of the Greek proverb, 
<6 reOunney, 1 Ssaones yeapmala. 
He is either dead, or keepeth f{chool.” 
which, though quoted by Dr. Fuller, isa 
foolifh line. 
_ XCIL.—-PURITANS» 
‘The term Puritan (fo called from the 
Cathari, or Puritani, of the third century, ) 
was firft applied to certain Diffentients in 
the Eftablifhed Church, in the reign of 
Cantabrigiana. 
FOR, 
Queen Elizabeth ; but the principles of 
Puritanifm had been fermenting in the 
countty a long-while before: the party 
became very numerous, very zealous, and 
very refpectable. Mr. George Cranmer, 
in a letter prefixed to the life of Hooker, 
the celebrated author of Ecclefiaftical 
Polity, obferves, ‘* that the greateft part 
of the learned in the land were, at firft, 
eagerly affetted or favourably inclined 
that way :”? and Mr. Hume informs us, 
that Puritanifm was countenanced by 
fome of Queen Elizabeth’s moft favourite 
minifters, Cecil, Leicefter, Knollys, Bed- 
ford, and Walfingham. The learned of 
the land, however, -foon difcovered where ~ 
their intereft lay ; and Muiton- tells us, 
fome years afterwards, that the reafon 
of his undertaking to write in favour of 
the Puritans, was, that they had lefs learn- 
ing among them than the oppofite party. 
The aé& of uniformity, paifed in Charles 
the Second*s reign, made the Clergy fall 
into their ranks: there, however, ftill 
continued fome rebellious f{pirits, who 
made warfare on the Eftablifhed Church ; 
they objected to it on account of the ha- 
bits of the Clergy : the lurplice, the tip- 
pet, and corner-cap, together with the ~ 
ring in marriage, and rites and ceremos 
nies, all became the objects of their reli- 
gious abhorrence. The orders of the 
Clergy, and the whole fyftem of difcipline 
as eftablifhed in the preceding reigns, 
were, in like manner,-offenfive to them.—~ 
They objeéted to the difcipline of the 
Church, not to its do&trmes. Accords 
ingly, difapproving the terms of confor- 
mity, they were fet afide from their be- 
nefices. 
Two thovfand Clergymen in different 
parts of England were obliged to relin- 
quith their livings in the Church, and 
forty-two were ejected or filenced in the 
Univerfity of Cambridge. ' 
The Minifters ejected from Cambridge 
were the following: ' 
William Dell, D.D. Matter of Caius 
College ;. Francis Holcroft; M. A. of 
Clare- hall ; ——- Wildbore, M.A. both 
Fellows of Clare-hall. From Emanuet 
College, James Illingworth, B.D. and_ 
Mr. Jchn Reyner, both Fellows ; and 
Mr. Robert Brinfley, Mr. Hulfe, and Mr. 
Day. From Jefus, Mr. Daniel Evans. 
and Mr. Edmund Hough. From St. 
John’s, Anthony Tuckoney, D D. Matter 
and Regius Profeffor of Divinity 5 Jona- 
than Tuckney, M.A.; John Wood, 
M.A.; Mr. Windrefs, A. B.; and Mr. 
Mathum ; all Fellows ; and Mr. Alden, 
{cholar. From Katherine-hall, William 
‘ Green, 
