[442] Hanbury, i. 38. Harl. Miscellany, ii. 21.

[443] Strype's Annals, iv. 245. Hanbury, i. 85.

[444] Published by Camden Society.

[445] This is the name written in the MS., no doubt intended for Greenwood.

[446] Letter from Thomas Phillips to William Sterrell, April 7, 1593. State Papers, Dom. The bracketed portions are underlined in the original, the writer desiring, in a postscript, that the passages so marked, should be "disguised with cipher."

[447] Strype's Annals, iv. 186. Hanbury's Mem., i. 90. The Archbishop referred to was Whitgift. Rippon died in 1592.

[448] "He was a person most excellently well read in theological authors, but withal was a most zealous Puritan, or, as his son Henry used to say, the first Independent in England."—Wood's Ath. Oxon., i. 464.

[449] Jacob's book, printed at Middleburgh, 1599, was entitled: A Defence of the Churches and Ministry of England. Written in two Treatises against the Reasons and Objections of Mr. Francis Johnson and others of the Separation called Brownists. Johnson replied in an Answer to Master H. Jacob, his Defence, &c. 1600.

[450] Hanbury's Mem., i. 226.

[451] See Hanbury's Mem., i. 227.