OR THE CHURCH, COURT, AND PARLIAMENT DURING THE REIGNS OF EDWARD VI. AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. BY SAMUEL HOPKINS. "The Liberties of our House it behooveth us to leave to our Posterities in the same Committee of the Puritan Commons to the Lords, 1575-6. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. BOSTON: GOULD AND LINCOLN, 59 WASHINGTON STREET. NEW YORK: SHELDON AND COMPANY. 1 8 6 1. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. University Press, Cambridge : PREFATORY NOTE. In the course of the following pages I have cited several authorities not mentioned in the catalogue prefixed to my first volume. When I have first had occasion to notice any one of these, I have without exception, I think-identified the edition in a note. I have occasionally referred to "Waddington's Papers and to “Waddington's MS." By the former I designate certain papers with which I was furnished by the politeness of Rev. Dr. Waddington, Pastor of the Pilgrim Church in Southwark, England, while on his late mission to this country. One of these papers a letter written in April, 1593-I consider of great value; and I think I have shown it to be such. By "Waddington's MS." I designate a work, yet unpublished, written by the same gentleman, and entitled "The Hidden Church." This manuscript is in the hands of "The Congregational Board of Publication," and has been generously lent to me by their Publishing Committee, who have allowed me to use it at discretion. I have rarely quoted from it, but have often referred to it. In either case, I could not, of course, specify the pages which I cite, as I certainly should have done, were it already published. Some of "Waddington's Papers" are contained in his man uscript volume. But as I was previously furnished with them by Dr. Waddington himself, I have used them independently of the favor of "The Publishing Committee.” "The Hidden Church" is a history of the early struggles of ecclesiastical Independency, from its development under the reign of Queen Mary to its establishment on the shores of New England. It is a work of much interest, and the delay of its publication is to be regretted. In prosecuting the task which I now conclude, I have found it necessary to procure from England a few volumes rare and of old date which were essential to my purpose. A few others have been furnished to me from the libraries of private gentlemen. With these exceptions, I have depended upon generous and protracted loans — most freely granted from the libraries of Harvard College, the Boston Athenæum, Brown University, the University of Vermont, Amherst College, Yale College, and the Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Connecticut. The unfailing courtesy which I have received from these sources during the five years of my labor, I most gratefully acknowledge. NORTHAMPTON (Mass.), April, 1861. S. H. CONTENTS. THE PROGRESS OF PURITANISM. ARCHBISHOP WHITGIFT'S APPREHEN- SIONS. HIS CARE OF ROBERT BEAL, CLERK OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. - HIS DECREE AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. THE CASE OF EUSEBIUS PAGET, ARRAIGNED FOR HIS OPINIONS. THE ARGUMENT IN HIS CASE. THE CASE OF THOMAS CAREW. THE ACTION OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL IN HIS BEHALF.-BISHOP AYLMER RESENTS IT. — - THE CONTEMPT OF THE BISHOPS FOR LAW AND FOR HUMANITY, IN THE CASE OF JOHN GARDINER. THE CASE OF THOMAS SETTLE. THE FABLES RICHARD HOOKER'S ARRIVAL AT LONDON. HE IS INVEIGLED TO MAR- RIAGE. - HIS SAD CONDITION. WALTER TRAVERS RECOMMENDED TO THE MASTERSHIP OF THE TEMPLE. ARCHBISHOP WHITGIFT PROTESTS AGAINST IT. TRAVERS REFUSES EPISCOPAL ORDINATION. HOOKER APPOINTED TO THE MASTERSHIP. — HE REFUSES TO AWAIT THE SUF- FRAGES OF THE TEMPLARS. THE PULPIT CONTROVERSY OF TRAVERS AND HOOKER. — THEIR DIFFERENT STYLES OF PREACHING.-TRAVERS PUBLICLY ORDERED BY THE ARCHBISHOP TO CEASE PREACHING. THE ARCHBISHOP'S REASONS. - TRAVERS APPEALS TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL. - HIS ARGUMENT FOR THE VALIDITY OF HIS PRESBYTERIAN ORDINA- TION. - HIS FRIENDS IN THE COUNCIL BAFFLED. — THE OBJECTION TO |