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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33332	The lives of two and twenty English divines eminent in their generations for learning, piety, and painfulnesse in the work of the ministry, and for their sufferings in the cause of Christ : whereunto are annexed the lives of Gaspar Coligni, that famous admirall of France, slain in the Parisian massacre, and of Joane Queen of Navarr, who died a little before / by Samuel Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1660 (1660)	Wing C4540; ESTC R36026	335,009	323

the disposition of many of the deponents what little credit was to be given to them and that Master Hildersam might have had the most odious and capital crimes desposed against him by such Witnesses who did not only in matter of fact affirm upon oath that which all the Parish knew to be notoriously false but did also take upon them to know and deliver upon their oath the reason and ground of his pretended practice which they having ever been as all the neighbours knew meer strangers to him was impossible for them to do it The next term the cause came to be heard and censured but Master Hildersam hearing of the heavy sentence against Master Dighton and Master Holt November 21. 1616. viz. to return back to prison there to remain till they conformed themselves they were also fined a thousand pounds a piece pronounced excommunicate and ordered to be so publiquely denounced and injoyned to make their submissions in conceptis verbis in three several places and lastly they were condemned in expences and costs of the suit concealed himself and did not appear at the day of his calling and censuring but did eight daies before send a Copy of his answer to the several points that were desposed against him to his Advocate Doctor Hussey to be shewed to the Court Which Answer in the judgment of rational honest indifferent men was full and satisfactory To instance but in the proof of one Article and his Answer thereunto One George Reding deposed That upon Palm-sunday was two years he was one of those that came up to the Communion-Table in Ashby Church in several companies and though Master Hacket had before given warning that he would admit none that would not receive it kneeling refused so to receive it but would have received it standing and when he could not have it so yet stood still among them that kneeled till the Communion was done To which disposition Master Hildersams answer was That it is notoriously known to all the Inhabitants at Ashby that I was at that time sick in my bed and for many weeks before and after utterly unable to stir out of my Chamber neither did I ever at any other time present my self in that manner to the Communion-Table neither doth Master Hacket or any other deponent charge me with any such matter And this fellow that hath devised this against me whereof there was no colour at all of truth would in all likelihood have sworn any thing that might have done me hurt if he had been required to do it Notwithstanding this his answer to that and his answer to all the rest delivered as aforesaid to his Advocate the Court proceeded to censure him November 28. 1616. whereby he was pronounced a man refractory and disobedient to the orders rites and ceremonies of the Church of England And because he yet refused to submit himself and to joyn in the administration of publique Prayer and divine Service and Sacraments as they are here lawfully administred therefore he was by the Court pronounced a schismaticall person and a Schismatick and thought well worthy of severe punishment And in respect that he was the prime Ring-leader of all the schismatical persons in that Countrey both of the Clergy and Laity he was first fined two thousand pounds to his Majesties use pronounced excommunicate and ordered to be so publiquely denounced as also was ordered to be attached and committed to prison and so to be brought before the Commissioners to be degraded from his Ministry and was further ordered to make his publique submission conceptis verbis as shall be prescribed him by this Court and lastly he was condemned in charges When he heard of this terribly cruel sentence it was his wisdom now to conceal himself which accordingly he did for a long time in the City and God so hid him under the shadow of his wings that his adversaries could not meet with him During this time of his keeping close one Master John Hartly one of the Elders of the English Congregation at Leiden in Holland came with Letters of Credence from the Congregation making offer to him of the Pastors place then vacant which he resolved to have accepted of had not his Wives unwillingnesse to go over the Seas retained him here The foresaid fine of two thousand pounds was estreated without abatement into the Exchequer March 12. 1616. whence several Processes were issued to the Sheriffs of Leicestershire to enquire of his estate but they by several returns answered They could find none At length the said fine was begged and granted by his Majesty King James under the Great Seal to Master Williams Page to the then Marquesse of Buckingham whereupon Master Hilderdsam compounded both with him giving him a great summe of money and with the Registers also of the High-Commission Court for their part of the fine and obtained a discharge from them both I suppose it will be hard to find that any man was before or scarce hath been since in that Court so deeply fined and heavily censured meerly for his judgment and conscience having done nothing either factiously or contemptuously against that Government and those orders of the Church that were then established He was indeed alwaies from his first entering into the Ministry a resolved and conscientious Non-conformist as appeareth by the foregoing story and so continued to his dying day witnesse that clause in his last Will I do hereby declare and protest that I do continue and end my daies in the very same Faith and Judgment touching all points of Religion as I have ever been known to hold and profess and which I have both by my Doctrine and Practice and by my sufferings also given testimony unto He was a great admirer follower and friend of Master Thomas Cartwright famous for Religion and learning who left his papers to Master John Dod and him to peruse and publish what they thought fit Though he himself was a constant Non-conformist yet such was his ingenuity and Christian Charity that he respected esteemed and was very familiar with those he knew to be religious and learned though of another judgment He did alwaies oppose the separation of the Brownists and the semi-separation of Master Jacob with whom as also with some Ring-leaders of the former sort he had divers conferences and disputes He is called by Doctor Willet his Contemporary and sometimes Competitor The Hammer of schismaticks whom they commonly call Brownists as you have it in J. C. his Epistle to the Reader before the forenamed Lectures on John 4. That is Master John Cottons of New-England his dear and familiar Friend who there expresses his high opinion of the Authour those Lectures and his Treatise of the Doctrine of the Lords Supper printed 1608. annexed to a little Treatise of the like Argument set forth by a godly learned man his intimate Friend Master William Bradshaw of which Treatise of Master Hildersams Master Cotten