3. Queen Elizabeth and King James discountenancing and suppressing the Nonconformists, they attempted in Northamptonshire and Warwickshire a little while to have set and kept up private Churches and governed them in the Presbyterian way; But that attempt was soon broken and frustrate by the industry of Bishop Whitguift and Bancroft: And the Nonconformists lived according to their various opportunities: some of them conformed: some were by connivance permitted in peculiars and small impropriate places, or Chapels that had little maintenance, in the public Ministry, which kept them from gathering secret Churches: some of them had this liberty a great part of their lives, as Mr. Hildersham, Mr. Dod, Mr. Hering, Mr. Paget, Mr. Midsley senior and junior, Mr. Langley, Mr. Slater, and Mr. Ash at Birmingham Mr. Tailor, Mr. Pateman, Mr. Paul Bath, Mr. Fox of Tewksbury, John Fox, and many more. Some had this liberty all their lives, as Mr. Knewstubs, Dr. Chadderton, Dr. Reignolds Dr. Humphrey, Mr. Perkins, Mr. John Ball, Mr. Barnet, Mr. Geeree, Mr. Root, Mr. Atkins Mr. Gilpin, John Rogers and many others: some were fain to shift up and down by hiding themselves, and by flight, and these preached sometimes secretly in the houses where they were, and sometime publicly for a day and away, where they could be admitted: so did Mr. Parker, Mr. Bradshaw, Mr. Nicols, Mr. Brightman, Mr. Brumskil, Mr. Humphrey Fen, Mr. Sutchff, Mr. Thomas, and many more; and after their silencing Mr▪ Cotton, Mr. Hooker, and many more that went to America, Mr. Cartwright was ⟨p. 122⟩permitted in the Hospital at Warwick, Mr. Harvey, and Mr. Hind at Bunbery in Cheshire, and many more kept in (having small maintenance) being in peculiar or privileged places: Mr. Rathband, Mr. Angier, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Gee, Mr. Hancock, and many others oft silenced, had after liberty by fits. Mr. Bowrne of Manchester, Mr. Broxholm in Derbyshire Mr. Cooper of Huntingdonshire (at Elton) and many others suffered more, and laboured more privately. Dr. Ames was invited to Franekera, some were further alienated from the English Prelacy, and separated from their Churches, and some of them called Brownists, were so hot at home, that they were put to death; Mr. Ainsworth, Johnson, Robinson and others fled beyond seas, and there gathered Churches of those that followed them; and broke by divisions among themselves.
3. Queen Elizabeth and King James discountenancing and suppressing the Nonconformists, they attempted in Northamtonshire and Warwickshire a little while to have set and kept up private Churches and governed them in the Presbyterian way; But that attempt was soon broken and frustrate by the industry of Bishop Whitguift and Banctoft: And the Nonconformists lived according to their various opportunities: some of them conformed: some were by connivence permitted in peculiars and small impropriate places, or Chappels that had little maintenance, in the publick Ministry, which kept them from gathering secret Churches: some of them had this liberty a great part of their lives, as Mr. Hildersham, Mr. Dod, Mr. Hering, Mr. Paget, Mr. Midsley senior and junior, Mr. Langley, Mr. Slater, and Mr. Ash at Bremicham Mr. Tailor, Mr. Pateman, Mr. Paul Bayne, Mr. Fox of Tewksbury, John Fox, and many more. Some had this liberty all their lives, as Mr. Knewstubs, Dr. Chadderton, Dr. Reignolds Dr. Humphrey, Mr. Perkins, Mr. John Ball, Mr. Barnet, Mr. Geeree, Mr. Root, Mr. Atkins Mr. Gilpin, John Rogers and many others: some were fain to shift up and down by hiding themselves, and by flight, and these preached sometimes secretly in the houses where they were, and sometime publickly for a day and away, where they could be admitted: so did Mr. Parker, Mr. Bradshaw, Mr. Nicols, Mr. Brightman, Mr. Brumskil, Mr. Humphrey Fen, Mr. Sutchff, Mr. Thomas, and many more; and after their silencing Mr▪ Cotton, Mr. Hooker, and many more that went to America, Mr. Cartwright was ⟨p. 122⟩permitted in the Hospital at Warwick, Mr. Harvey, and Mr. Hind at Bunbery in Cheshire, and many more kept in (having small maintenance) being in peculiar or priviledged places: Mr. Rathband, Mr. Angier, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Gee, Mr. Hancock, and many others oft silenced, had after liberty by fits. Mr. Bowrne of Manchester, Mr. Broxholm in Darbyshire Mr. Cooper of Huntingtonshire (at Elton) and many others suffered more, and laboured more privately. Dr. Ames was invited to Franekera, some were further alienated from the English Prelacie, and separated from their Churches, and some of them called Brownists, were so hot at home, that they were put to death; Mr. Ainsworth, Johnson, Robinson and others fled beyond seas, and there gathered Churches of those that followed them; and broke by divisions among themselves.
