X Dr Stephens, editor of ' Statius,' Master of Bury ? ' Life of Isaac Milles,' 1721, pp. 8-12, 74.— M.
§ Richard Capel, Wood's ' Athense,' ed. Bliss, iii. 421, Clark's ' Lives' (as above), p. 303 seq.—K.
II Dr Wm. Gouge. See his life in Clark (as above), p. 234 seq., Harwood's ' Alumni Etonenses,' p. 202, Wm. Lilly's ' Life,' ed. 1774, p. 29, Prynne's ' Canterb. Doome,' p. 3G2, Life of Row' in Clark's ' Lives of Eminent Persons,' (1688), pt. ii. p. 106, Brook's ' Lives of the Puritans,' iii. 165, seq. — M. Also 'Memoir' prefixed to his Exposition of ' Hebrewes,' folio, 1655, vol. i. — G.
% From a tract bound in the volume marked R. 10. 16 in the University Library of Cambridge (p. 525) it appears that 10s. was commonly charged to the poor, and 20s. to the rich, for a funeral sermon. Tlie tract contains the answer of George Finch (a Cambridge man, brother to Lord Fincli) to the articles against him a.d. 1641.— M.
** See Birch's James L, vol. ii., p. 55, and Whear's ' Charisteria,' p. 127. — M.
ft See his life in Clarke's ' Lives of Eminent Persons,' (1083), pt. ii., \\ 105, seq. Cf. ibid. pp. 161, 163, 169, 172, 175 ; Calamy's 'Account,' pp. 636, 637 ; 'Coutin.'p. 786.— M.
X% The Black Bull was given by will to Cath. Hall by Dr Gostlin, for the found- ing of six scholars, &c.— M.
APPENDIX TO MEMOIR. CXXXIX
I shal conclude with an Observation, v/"^ I made of the Time, ■when this holy man, and some other Godly and precious his death, isa. Divines, were taken out of this world, by the wise Providence ^^' ^' of God. Tis that of ye Prophet Is : 57, i. That Eighteous and merciful men are taken away, from the Evill to come. They enter into Peace, and rest in their Graues, as in Beds of Sleep. Thus ye Lord said, 2 k. 22. 19, concerning good Josia, I wil gather thee to the Fathers, and 20. thou shalt go to thy Grave in Peace, And thine eyes shall not see all ye Evil, w'** I wil bring upon this place. In like manner, the Lord took away, about the same Time, with this Reverend man diuers, that their eyes might not see that great Evils, then ready to break out, upon these 3 kingdoms. To instance in some few, C- Sibs died July 5, 1635 ; M"^- Sam. d,- sibs, Mr Ward,* that Worthy Preacher of Ipswich, was censured in the ^*™- ^^' *'"'*• High commission, and silencet in October follow^ ye same yeare 1635, and died, as I remember 1638. The Irish Rebelhon, the slaughter of 100,000 Protestants in a yeare, the long, fatal war, between the Iving and ParP.
M''- Rogers f also, that Zealous and powerful Preacher of Mr Rogers Dedham in Essex, died Octob : 15 : 1636. And I may not ^^i^edham. forget my own father also, W- Robert Catlin, I an aged and a '^^F Uobert faithfuU Minister in Rutlandshire, about four score yeares old died July 24 : 1637 : who Being unable any longer to serue his great Pastoral cure, he came over to Barham, neere Ipswich, to dy amongst his children (here) in Suffolk : who lying on his sick Bed, heard M""- Fentou, a Minister relating the Heavy censure, that was then newly passed upon the Bishop of Lincoln, and Deane of Westminster, Doctour Wil- ^^ wiiuams liams, reputed at that Time a very good Man, whom my Father cast into ye knew to be a great Freind to the Good ministers in his Diocese, °^ ^' and a gi-eat enimy to the setting the Tables Altarwise, and to the Altar worship, w"*" then began to be much advocated, and one that had done many munificent works of charity, and had given yearely a great summe to the Releife of the Lady Elizabeth. The Bishop, by the malice of Ai-ch- bishop Laud and others his enemies, was suspended in the High Commis- sion ab officio or beneficio, censiu'ed in the Star-Chamber, fined 10,000 lib. and cast into the Towre of London about July 15, 1637 : from whence he was fetchet out the beginning of this Pari*- Nov. 3d, 1640, with gi-eat applause. My Father, I say, hearing of this Bishop's censure (wherein my Brother Wm. Catlin, a minister was deeply concerned, as being a wit- ness for ye Bishop), He brake out into these words, before the 2 Ministers, and others then present in the chamber. Alas poore England, thou hast now seen thy best dales ; I that am 4 score yeares old, and I have in al my time seene no alteration in Religion, nor any foreign Enemy setting
* See Brook's ' Lives of the Puritans,' vol. ii. p. 452, seq., -with the authors there cited; also Heyliu's ' Cyprianus Angl.' p. 120, seq.; Prynne's ' Canterb. Doome.' pp. 157, 159, 361, 375 ; Birch's ' James I.,' voL ii. pp. 226, 228, 282 ; Clark's ' Lives of Eminent Persons' (1683), pt. ii. pp. 154, 159 ; D'Ewes' ' Autobiography,' vol i. p. 249 ; Calamy's ' Account,' p. 636 — M. Also Mr Ryle"s Memoir, prefixed to his 'Sermons' in present series (see Adams's, iii.). — G.
t See his life in Brook's ' Lives of the Puritans,' vol. ii. p. 421 : and Bastwick's 'Utter Routing.' p. 474, Prynne's 'Canterb. Doome,' pp. 363, 373, Calamy's 'Ac- count,' p. 606, Clark's ' Lives of Eminent Persons ' (1683), p. 64 (Life of Blackerby), Mather's ' Life of T. Hooker,' p. 8, Mather's ' Life of John Cotton,' pp. 24, 25.— M. Also Chester's ' John Rogers' . . . pages 245, seq. (1 vol. 8vo, 1861).— G.