the same island, called Broad Stairs, where he led a useless. vicious life, giving himself in a manner up to drinking." This seems to be a misrepresentation, for Mr. Thoroughgood, of whom Mr. Lewis gives a very good character, writes in his diary thus: "March 20, 1662. My loving faithful friend, old Mr. Culmer, died in my vicarage-house at Monkton, where he was since he was put by as minister at Minster (the next place,) having been ill some time before; and on the 22d, I preached his funeral sermon from Rev. xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord,' &c."

Mr. EDMUND TRENCH. See HACKNEY, Middlesex.

Mr. DANIEL HAYES, of Preston, afterwards conformed; as also did Mr. OSMANTON, of Ivy-church, who was afterwards parish-minister at Little-Horsted in Sussex.

§ There are so many Inductions in this county, in the year 1662, that there is reason to believe there were many more ministers ejected here than we have any account of.

"Bradstow. This Mr. Lewis was told, and he wrote it to Dr. Calamy, who desired his observations, &c. in a private letter, which should not have been made public without L.'s consent." [To this note is added, apparently written since,] "It is a mistake, for Culmer's son, who was afterwards master of the free-school at Sandwich. Abp, Juxon's papers, MS." Id.

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LKINGTON. Mr. ROBERT TOWN.

ALTHOME. Mr. THOMAS JOLLIE. Of Trin. Col. Camb. His first stated preaching was at Althome, to which place he was unanimously invited by the parishioners. There he continued near thirteen years with great success. Before his ejectment he was seized by three troopers, according to a warrant from three deputy-lieutenants. When he was brought before them, he was accused of many things, but nothing was proved. They then required him to take the oath of supremacy, with which he readily complied, and was discharged. In the same month he was again seized and confined; and when he was released, his enemies would by violence have prevented his preaching in public; but not succeeding in their attempt, he was cited into the Bishop of Chester's court, and obliged to attend there three times, tho' he lived at forty miles distance. He was at last censured by the court for refusing the service-book, and his suspension, ab officio & beneficio, was to have been published the next court-day, but the death of the Bishop prevented it. Some time after, however, the suspension was declared, but not published, according to their own order; and yet they thereupon proceeded to debar him the liberty of preaching one Sabbath before the Act came to be in force. When the day came, in which he must either submit to what he thought unlawful, or resign his place, he preferred the latter.

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Upon his leaving Althome, he remained for a time in an unsettled condition. At length he retired to Healy, where he had not been long, before he was apprehended by Capt. Parker's lieutenant-serjeant and two soldiers, and brought before two deputy-lieutenants, by whom he was examined, and obliged to find sureties for his good behaviour, without any reason alledged for it, and by their order confined in a private house. The family were religious, and as he and they were engaged in family worship, Capt. Nowel broke into the house, and with blasphemous expressions snatched the Bible out of his hands, and dragged him away to the guard, pretending they had kept a conventicle. The captains obliged him to sit up with them all night, whilst they drank and insulted him. In the morning, they let him lie down upon a little straw in the stable; and the next day, tho' it was the Lord's-day, and excessively wet, they sent him to Skipton in Craven, where he was committed into the marshal's hands. He had not been long released from this imprisonment, before he was again seized by three troopers, who told him they must carry him to York. He demanded their warrant for taking him out of the county. They laid their hands upon their swords, and taking hold of his horse's bridle, obliged him to go with them. He was there committed close prisoner at the castle, in a small room, and allowed no fire, tho' it was winter. The window was much broken, and the stench of the stable came into the room, which had two beds in it, with two in each bed. In this miserable place he was confined for some months. At length, as they could find nothing against him, he was discharged.

In 1664, he and some others were taken at a meeting, and committed to Lancaster jail for eleven weeks. In 1665, he was arrested again, by an order from the lord lieutenant, and very roughly treated by Col. Nowel. In 1669, he was committed to jail for six months, having preached within five miles of Althome, and refused to take the oath required by the Oxford-act. At Preston the justices who committed him refused to release him, tho' their illegal proceedings were plainly proved to them. Nay, they suffered him, with some others, to be indicted as a rioter, for the very same supposed crime for which they had committed him. In 1674, he was apprehended by justice Nowel at a meeting in Slade, and fined 20l. In 1684, he was apprehended by order of the lord chief justice, and brought before him at Preston, where he was obliged to find sureties, who were bound in 2007. each

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