An account of the life and death of Mr. Philip Henry, minister of the…

In the Beginning of the Year 1665. when the Act for a Royal Aid to his Majesty of two Millions and a half came out; The Commissioners for Flintshire were pleased to nominate Mr. Henry Sub-collector of the said Tax for the Township of Iscoyd, and Mr. Steel for the Township of Hanmer. They intended thereby to put an Affront and disparagement upon their Ministry, and to show that they looked upon them but as Laymen, ⟨p. 112⟩His note upon it is, It is not a Sin which they put us upon, but it is a Cross, and a Cross in our Way, and therefore to be taken up and born with patience. When I had better work to do, I was wanting in my Duty about it, and now this is put upon me, the Lord is righteous. He procured the gathering of it, by others only took account of it, and saw it duly done and deserved, (as he saith, he hoped he should) that Inscription mentioned in Suetonius [Greek or Hebrew]. To the Memory of an honest Publican.

In the Beginning of the Year 1665. when the Act for a Royal Aid to his Majesty of two Millions and a half came out; The Commissioners for Flintshire were pleas'd to nominate Mr. Henry Sub-collector of the said Tax for the Township of Iscoyd, and Mr. Steel for the Township of Hanmer. They intended thereby to put an Affront and disparagement upon their Ministry, and to shew that they look'd upon them but as Laymen, ⟨p. 112⟩His note upon it is, It is not a Sin which they put us upon, but it is a Cross, and a Cross in our Way, and therefore to be taken up and born with patience. When I had better work to do, I was wanting in my Duty about it, and now this is put upon me, the Lord is righteous. He procured the gathering of it, by others only took account of it, and saw it duly done and deserv'd, (as he saith, he hoped he should) that Inscription mentioned in Suetonius 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. To the Memory of an honest Publican.

In September the same Year, he was again by warrant from the Deputy Lieutenant's fetched Prisoner to Hanmer, as was also Mr Steel and others. He was examined about private Meetings: some such (but private indeed) he owned he had been present at of late in Shropshire, but the Occasion was extraordinary; the Plague was at that Time raging in London, and he, and several of his Friends having near Relations there, thought it time to seek the Lord for them, and this was imputed to him as his Crime. He was likewise charged with Administering the Lord's Supper, which he denied, having never Administered it since he was disabled by the Act of Uniformity. After some Days Confinement, seeing they could prove nothing upon him, he was discharged upon Recognizance, of 20 l. with two Sureties to be forth-coming upon Notice, and to live Peaceably. But (saith he) our Restraint was not Strict for we had liberty of Prayer, and Conference together, to our mutual Edification: thus, out of the Eater came forth meat, and out of the strong Sweetness, and we found Honey in the Carcass of the Lion. It was but a little before this, that Mr. Steel setting out for London, was by a Warrant, from the Justices, under Colour of the report of a Plot, stopped and searched, and finding nothing to accuse him of, they seized his Almanac in which he kept his Diary