[Afterwards he seems to return to England.

For when I liv'd at Combs in Suffolk, from 1711 to 16, Mr. Thomas Denny, a pious and ancient Gentleman there inform'd me that] he knew the Rev. Mr. Thomas James minister of Needham, about 4 Miles off, who [he said] came from NE. [Dr. E Calamy says] he was a very holy good Man, of the Congregational Perswasion; resign'd the Parochial Church of Needham August 24 1662, because he could not in Conscience approve of the uninstituted Ceremonies; and had a pretty numerous Society after his being silenced. [And Mr. Denny told me, that] tho' he was much belov'd and esteemed; yet when he died, the Clergyman who came in his Place would not allow him to be buried in any other Part of the Church Yard, but that unconsecrated Corner left for Rogues, Whores and Excommunicates; tho' the Clergyman ow'd his Benefice to the noble Uprightness of Mr. James's heart.]

II. The most material Events in England.

The Annual Feast of Dedication of Churches prescrib'd at first by Pope Felix and Gregory, turn'd by the People into meer Bachanals, were by the Injunctions [even] of K Hen. VIII. as the Occasion of much Idleness, Excess, Riot, and pernicious to the Souls of Men, all restrain'd to the 1st [Lord's Day] in October; and after, totally abolished by Statute of 5 and 6 of Edward VI: being reviv'd again with their Bachanalian Disorders, under the Names of Wakes or Revels, for the most part on Sundays; Sir Thomas Richardson, Lord chief Justice of Eng, and Baron Denham, being at the Assizes in the County of Somerset ; many indited for Murthering Bastard Children begotten at Wakes and Revels, with sundry other grand Disorders occasioned by those Meetings; the Justices of that County earnestly importune the Judges to make a severe Order for suppressing of these Wakes and Revels, as diverse of their Predecessors had done; without which they could never keep the Country in good Order, nor prevent the Multitudes of Bastards, Drunkenness, Quarrels, Bloodshed, Murther and other Disorders occasion'd by them. Whereupon those Judges make the ensuing Order in the Public Assizes

March 19 [1631,2] An Order made by the Judges of the Assizes for suppressing all Ales and Revels: whereas divers Orders have been made heretofore by the Judges of the Assize for the suppressing of all Ales and Revels; the same Order is now confirm'd at this Assize, and again order'd by the Court, .in Regard of the infinite Number of Inconveniences daily

arising

' arising by Means of Revels; that such Revels be henceforth utterly suppressed; and that the Justices take Course, for the speedy appre'hending and punishing idle and lewd Persons drawing together at such Places, &c. [But] Bp Laud being inform'd of this good Order, is very much nettled and vexed at it, complains of the Judges and it to his Majesty, and procures a Commission to Bp Pierce and some Divines of that County, to enquire of the Manner of publishing this Order in Churches, and what was done therein, and of the Lord chief Justice Richardson's Carriage in this Business. [it) [Fuller wrongly places this in 1633.]

March 29. Sir Isaac Wake and Sieur Bouillon, sign the Treaty be tween K Charles I and the French K Lewis XIII: The Title of which is; Articles settled between Sir Isaac Wake Knight and Ambassador of the K of Great-Britain, commissioned by said K; and Messi. Bouillon, Counsellor to the most Christian K in his Privy Council and 'Council of State, and Bouthillier his Majesty's Councillor in his said 'Councils and Secretary of his Orders, Commissaries appointed by his 'said Majesty, for the Restitution of the Things taken since the Treaty 'made between the two Crowns on the 24th of April 1629.' And in this new Treaty, K Charles resigns to the French K all the Places the English possessed in Canada and Laccady [the latter then including Nova Scotia] in particular, Fort Kebeck [i. e. Quebeck] Port Royal and Cape Breton, with the Merchandize found in the Fort Kebeck by the English in 1629. (Dennis) which puts an End to the Difference; the Fort delivered; and the Money [i. e. the remaining Half of the Queens Portion] paid. (cb)

[But how faithful are K Charles's Ministry to the British Interest, both in America and Europe! when he had both Canada and Laccady in Possession, his Navy vastly superior to that of France, who had then scarce any, and no other to help her; yet, without any Necessity to quit to the French, even Laccady a most important Branch of the British Empire, which even in 1613, the peaceable Reign of his Father, Sir Samuel Argal like a true Englishman had recovered : one of the finest Provinces in the known World, for Fishery, Masts and Harbours; intercepting between our others of Newfoundland and N E, and lying in the Way of all our Trade from the British Colonies and West Indies to Great Britain :-to the continual and most dangerous Growth of the French Fishery, Navigation, Trade, Wealth, and Naval Power, and the infinite Injury of the British Interest ever after and all this only

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K. of France.
Lewis XIII. ||

K. of Great Britain.
Charles I.

K. of Spain.

|| Philip IV.

for Half the Queens Portion, due six Years before. So that they properly sold this Territory to our National Enemies for what the French had agreed to pay in 1626.-A territory as large as Ireland, and of vastly greater Moment than all her Portion ten Times over. But the British Ministry are Bp Laud, who governs without a Rival in Church and State, with Lord Treasurer Weston next highest in the Royal Favour, who soon after dies a Papist; under an active popish Queen, the French K's Sister in K Charles's Bosom, of whom he is so exceeding fond, as hardly to deny her any Thing; and the more subtil Cardinal Richlieu prime Minister of France knew how to improve them all for his Master's Interest. And thus, while the French Ministry are adding to their K's Dominions, the British are giving up their's, and chiefly busied in adding new, popish Ceremonies to the Worship in the Church of Eng, to the great Disturbance of the Nation, and violently persecuting her pious Ministers who faithfully oppose them: In short, acting as if they could more easily part with an important Province than not introduce a popish Ceremony.]

May 6. Mr. Nathaniel Bernard Lecturer at Sepulcher's in London, preaching at St. Mary's Church in Cambridge, against bringing the Pela'gian Errors into our Church, and the Superstitions of the Church of Rome 'into our Worship; as high Altars, Crucifixes, Bowings to them, i. e. ' in plain English worshipping them; whereby they symbolize with the 'Church of Rome very shamefully ;' Dr. Cumber Vice Chancellor informs Bp Laud thereof: who [gets] him into the High Commission Court: [where] he is most severely sentenced, suspended his Ministry, excommunicated, fin'd a Thousand Pounds, condemn'd in Cost of Suit, committed to Prison, where he lies sundry Months, being most barbarously used, and almost starved for want of Necessaries of which he complains to the Bp by sundry Petitions; but can find no relief unless he will make a strange Recantation sent him by the Bp: But refusing to make it, tho' in his Petitions he professed his sincere Penitence for any Oversights and unbeseeming Expressions in his Sermon; this godly Minister is a long time detain'd in Prison, miserably abus'd by the Keepers, of which he oft complains without Redress, and in Conclusion utterly ruin'd for speaking out the Truth. (lt)

May 26. I [i. e. Bp Laud] consecrate the Lord Treasurer's Chappel at Roehampton and June 18, at Roehampton, I marry my Lord Treasurer Weston's eldest Son to the Lady Frances, Daughter

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ter to the D of Lenox : (ld) one of the Blood Royal of Scotland, and that with his Majesty's Consent (ih) [By Bp Lauds Diary Lord Treasurer Weston dies within 2 Years after: and Rushworth tells us he dies a Papist.]

June 15. [Bp Laud says] Mr. Francis Windebank, my old, most dear Friend, is sworn Secretary of State : which Place I obtain'd for him of my gracious Master K Charles. (d) Windebank is a furious Papist: and is no sooner settled in his Place, but he falls to release and protect Priests, Jesuits, Recusants more than any of his Predecessors and all the Council besides; becoming their special Patron, as appears by Father Joseph's Letter from Paris, Nov. 23. 1634, &c. (lt)

June 20. K Charles I. gives by Patent the Province of Maryland in N. America, to Cæcilius Baron Baltimore, and his Heirs and Assigns: [a zealous Papist] Bounding said Province Northerly to the 40th Degree of N Latitude from the Equinoctial, where [said Patent says] New England [i. e. the S Side Line thereof] is bounded: i. e. according to the grand Patent of New England, dated Nov. 3. 1620. So that then New England and Maryland joined on each other: New England then reaching from the 40th to the 48th Degrees of N Latitude, and from the Atlantick to the South Sea. And as the known Design of Maryland is for settling Papists under an hereditary Sort of Sovereign of their own Communion; the K gives the Name of the Province in Honour of his dearest Consort, as he is wont to call her, and in the Patent gives much higher Powers and Prerogatives to this Popish Lord, than as far as I find, the Crown ever bestow'd on any other Person.]

Oct. 3. 1632. The R and eminently pious and learned Mr. John Cotton, BD, of Boston in Eng, being forc'd for his Nonconformity, to hide from Bp Laud's Pursivants, writes thus to his Consort-- 'Dear &c. If our heaven'ly Father be pleas'd to make our Yoke more heavy than we did so soon 'expect; remember I pray thee what we have heard, that our heavenly Hus'band the Lord Jesus, when he 1st called us to Fellowship with himself, called us unto this Condition, to deny ourselves, and to take up our Cross daily, 'to follow him. And truly, tho' this Cup be brackish at the first; yet a Cup 'of God's mingling is doubtless sweet in the Bottom, to such as have learn'ed to make it their greatest Happiness to partake with Christ as in 'his Glory, so in the Way that leadeth to it. Where I am for

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K. of Great-Britain.
Charles I.

K. of Spain. || Philip IV.

K. of France. 1632 Lewis XIII. ||

'the present, I am very fitly and welcomely accommodated, I thank God: 'so as I see here I might rest desired enough till my Friends at Home shall 'direct further. They desire also to see thee here, but that I think it not 'safe yet, till we see how God will deal with our Neighbours at Home: for if you should now travel this Way, I fear you will be watched and dogged ' at the Heels. But I hope shortly God will make Way for thy safe Coming. The Lord watch over you all for Good, and reveal himself in the Guidance of all our Affairs. So with my Love to thee, as myself, 'I rest, desirous of thy Rest and Peace in him. J. C.

(From his Original Letter in Mss)

III. The most material Events among Foreign Nations.

War continues between the Dutch and Spaniards.

In Germany-the K of Sweden having Wintered at Mentz; Tilly gathers a great Army, gets into Bavaria, breaks down the Bridges on the Danube, and strongly lines the S Side of the River to stop the K from passing. But in March, the K with 24 Thousand marches to the Danube, takes the strong City of Donawert on the N Side of the River at the Entrance of Bavaria and on April 6, in a fierce Opposition passes over; when Tilly receiving a Musket shot in his Thigh, a few Days after dies. Upon which the K reduces Bavaria and Swabia: and by the beginning of June had either subdu'd or drawn to his Party all the Lower and Middle Part of Germany from the Baltick Sea to the Alps on the Entrance of Italy, near 500 Miles together. But the Emperor's Forces all joining under Walstein, making an Army of 20 Thousand Horse and 40 Thousand Foot, besides 5 Thousand Crabats, and breaking into Saxony; the K collects his Forces, forms an Army of near 50 Thousand, marches to them, finds them most advantagiously posted and strongly intrench'd at Lutzen. Yet, Nov. 6, in the Morning, after his Chaplain praying with him, and other Ministers at the Heads of their Regiments; He rides from one to another, making animating Speeches to them, To fight valiantly this Day on the Name of God and for their Religion: The Soldiers answering with joyful Acclamations, He then calls out-And now my Hearts let us on bravely against our Enemies, and the God of Heaven prosper our Endeavours! Then listing up his Eyes to Heaven, cries aloud-JESUS, vouchsafe this Day to be my strong Helper, and give me Courage to fight for thy Glory and for the Honour of thy Name! then drawing his Sword, waves it over

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