[433] As I have already observed, Harrington also did this. One of his political aphorisms on the subject is admirable, "When civil liberty, is entire it includes liberty of conscience. When liberty of conscience is entire, it includes civil liberty."
[434] Letter from Grindal to Bullinger, June 11th, 1568. Zurich Letters, First Series.
[435] This is extracted from p. 12 of a small volume entitled Historical Papers, First Series, Congregational Martyrs, published by Elliot Stock. The document bears internal signs of genuineness, but it is not said where the original may be found.
[436] Ecce Homo, 16.
[437] April 21st, 1581.
[438] Fuller's Church Hist., iii. 62.
[439] Strype's Annals, vol. iii. part i. 22-30.
[440] Fuller's Church Hist., iii. 65.
[441] Lansdowne M.S., 115, art. 55. Lord Keeper Bacon had a chaplain of Puritan tendencies. See Strype's Parker, ii. 69. Lady Bacon shewed her learning and Protestant zeal by translating Jewel's Apology,—Ibid., i. 354.
The Rev. Thomas Hill, late of Cheshunt, informs me:—"It is undeniable that there was a congregation of Separatists as early as the days of Elizabeth, in the neighbourhood of Theobalds. One or more of the ministers suffered persecution and imprisonment, but I do not think it improbable that the influence of Cecil, Lord Burleigh, who then resided at Theobalds, may have afforded some degree of protection to the Nonconformists of the neighbourhood."