Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

though the Lord Deputy very kindly assured him, That he should not go over to England for want of Encouragement in Ireland, while he should be in any Power there. I will take the Occasion to say: This was that Admirable Man, the Lord Henry Cromwell, who in the time of his Government acquitted himself with so much Wisdom and Justice, and Goodness, and a Conduct so Unexceptionable, that when he Voluntarily retired unto his own Estate in England, upon the Changes coming on, he was not known to have one Personal Enemy in the World. Mr. Mather had also an Invitation to Sedwells in Exon, (Procured by another Elder Brother Mr. Nathanael Mather, then a considerable Minister in those Parts,) by which his Resolution for England, were Confirmed: Where he Arrived in July. 1658.

though the Lord Deputy very kindly assured him, That he should not go over to England for want of Encouragement in Ireland, while he should be in any Power there. I will take the Occasion to say: This was that Admirable Man, the Lord Henry Cromwel, who in the time of his Government acquitted himself with so much Wisdom and Justice, and Goodness, and a Conduct so Unexceptionable, that when he Voluntarily retired unto his own Estate in England, upon the Changes coming on, he was not known to have one Personal Enemy in the World. Mr. Mather had also an Invitation to Sedwells in Exon, (Procured by another Elder Brother Mr. Nathanael Mather, then a considerable Minister in those Parts,) by which his Resolution for England, were Confirmed: Where he Arrived in July. 1658.

At London, he became Acquainted with that Man of a Thousand, Mr. John How, who was then a Chaplain to the Lord-Protector; and not only then, but also Thirty Years after, gave to Mr. Mather such a Character of that Mighty Man, as was altogether the Reverse of what some Histories and Chronicles, have given of him. He now persuaded Mr. Mather to lay aside his purpose ⟨p. 19⟩for Sedwells, and go to Great Torrington in Devonshire, where he had formerly himself Resided and Laboured. So he spent the following Winter there, Preaching the Gospel to a great Assembly and with a great Acceptance; only he spent One Month with his Brother Mr. Nathanael Mather who was then a Preacher greatly Admired at Barnstable. On the Death of the Lord Protector, Mr. How returned unto his Old People at Great Torrington; At which time Colonel Bingham, then Governor of Guernsey, sent him an Invitation to become a Chaplain unto the English Garrison there. He went thither in April, 1659. Where he Preached every Lord's Day in the Morning at the Castle, in the Afternoon at the Town, called Peters-port, where many of the French people who understood English, were his Auditors. Here he set himself to do good; And particularly, Observing the Lord's Day to be much profaned, he Preached on the Fourth-Commandment, with such Power and Success, that it Produced a considerable Reformation in the Island.