[78] Clarendon (Hist. 454).
[79] Rushworth, i. 647.
[80] Hist. 74.
[81] Compare Nugent and Forster.
[82] Hampden was reported at a Visitation for holding a muster in Beaconsfield Churchyard, and for leaving his parish church. To avoid a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court, he applied privately to Sir Nathaniel Brent, and satisfied him by explanation and concession.—State Papers Cal., 1634-5, p. 250.
[83] "The Puritan would be judged by the Word of God; if he would speak clearly he means himself; but he is ashamed to say so, and he would have me believe him before a whole church, that has read the Word of God as well as he." Table Talk, 160.
Selden, in the same book (p. 13), while denying the divine right of bishops, maintains they "have the same right to sit in Parliament as the best Earls and Barons." Yet he signed the Covenant.
[84] Life, 923.
[85] Life, 936.
[86] In the State Paper Office is a letter by Laud, July 20, 1634, addressed to the King, in which the writer speaks of two daughters of the late Lord Falkland being reconciled to the Church of Rome, "not without the practice of their mother." He alludes to Lord Newburgh's request that she would forbear working on her daughters' consciences, and suffer them to go to their brother, or any other safe place. The archbishop appears anxious to save them from Popery. The letter is printed in Laud's Works, vii. 82, with illustrative notes.