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chat. sentence of the council, to have his coat pulledMi. over his head , and to be dismissed the king’s"Z7. service

Here is another instance of that rigorous sub-jection , in which all men were held by Laud.Some young gentlemen of Lincoln’s-inn , heatedby their cups, having drunk confusion to thearchbishop, were at his instigation cited beforethe star-chamber. They applied to the earl of |Dorset for protection. Who bears witness againstyou ? said Dorset, One of the drawers , they said.Where did he stand , when you were supposed todrink this health ? subjoined the earl. He was atthe door , they replied, going out of the room.Tush : cried he , the drawer was mistaken : Youdrank confusion to the archbishop of Canterbury’senemies ,- and the fellow was gone before you pronouncedthe last word. This hint supplied the young gen-tlemen with a new method of defence: Andbeing advjsed by Dorset to behave with great !humility and great submission to the primate; themodesty of their carriage, the ingenuity of theirapology , with the patronage of that noble lord *saved them from any severer punishment than areproof and admonition, with which they weredismissed

Trial of This year, John Hambden acquired, by hisHambiieii. spirit and courage, universal popularity through-out the nation, and had merited great renown

’* Rush. vol. ii. p« 470. Welwood, p. 278.

Rush. vol. iii. p. igi.