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most strangely succeeded by the bitter, virulent, and unchristian Inventive(above cited) against the Bishop of Ely, in 1641, which was entertain’d bythe Seditious with great Applause, and became the immediate Prelude to theImprisonment and Oppression of his Lordjhip j and of others, his Brethren ;and, in the End, to the Abolition of Episcopacy ; and the total Subversion ofChurch and State. That they should both fall together, was of certain un-avoidable Consequence ; for, Loyalty to the Crown is inlaid in the very Foun-0/ Protestant dations of the reform d Church of England , which stands on those two grandReligion. De- Principles of Religion and Government ; “ the giving to God the ‘Things thatuat ' " are God’s, and to Cæsar the Things that are Cæsar's.” When by the Pro-vidence of God, upon the happy Rejlauration of the Monarchy , the Church ofEngland, which before had been triumphed over as dead, obtain’d a gloriousReJ'urreSlion, it was with the lnstuence ot supreme Authority , which hath causedso close an Union and Combination of Interejls between them, that theChurch of England and the Crown, have, like Hippocrates his Twins, both weptand rejoyced together, And nothing doth more argue the excellent Constitu-tion of our Church , than that therein the Purity of Christian DoSirine isjoyn’d with the Acknowledgment of the regal Power and Supremacy.—— Butto proceed,

All this Persecution and Storm, rais’d by the factious, and fomented byParliament, the Bishop of Ely bore with a sedate and compos'd Mind, sup-ported by his Innocence ; and resolving, that if he perish’d, it should bewithout his own Weakness, or any poor Desertion of himself; he privatelyprepar’d a just Apology and Defence , which being fortunately discover’d, bythe Treachery of his Counsel, prov’d the miraculous Means of his Preserva-tion ; so that he who was impleaded by Falsehood and Malice, was savedand protected by Perfidiousness.

Therefore, without any visible Reason, or the bare Formality of an openTrial, they committed him to the Tower of London, relying on the Plausiblenessof their Conspiracy that had gotten so many noted Abettors, and taking no otherEvidence against him, but the unjust Prejudices of their own Associates 3 thenhad they free Leisure to invent Crimes, that might touch both his Life andEstate ; and lest, there should be any Way left for his Relief, they pro-ceed at last to a publick Sentence, that they might exclude him from all Hopesor Possibility of Favour.

Short View of Of the Propositions agreed upon by the mutual Advice and Consent of thethe Troubles Parliaments of both Kingdoms, united by solemn League and Covenant , ten-der’d to his Majejly at the Treaty of Uxbridge, Nov. 23, 1644. was >

Uxbridge, f. “ Firs, That the Persons who shall expect no Pardon, be Rupert ando 4 sod 68. “ Maurice, Counts Palatines of the Rhine, James Earl of Derby, John Earlx r 1 " of Bristol, William Earl of Newcastle, Francis Lord Cottington, John Lord

“ Powlet, George Lord Digby, Edward Lord Littleton, William Laud, Arch-“ bishop of Canterbury, Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely ; with many’others,“ Lords and Gentlemen of eminent Quality in the two Kingdoms.”

Thus was he loaded with Calumnies, and malicious Imputations, and de-barr’d of all Means to vindicate and defend himself 5 oppressed with Violenceand Tyranny, exposed to the Mercy of Rapine and Sacrilege, divested andstript of all his Fortunes, abridg’d and depriv’d of his Liberty, and condemn’dto the Solitude of a close and tedious Imprisonment in the Tower, (in whichhe continued near eighteen Years.) And yet in all these, he bebav’d himselflike one that was made to bring Afflictions into Repute; the Church beheldhis Sufferings, and saw by him 3 that nothing in Christianity was impracticable,and the World did almost pardon his Enemies for the Pleasure and Benefit ofExample.

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