[280] Dr. Spurstow has been mentioned before as chaplain to Hampden's regiment. He was one of the Assembly of Divines, and, after his ejectment from Cambridge, enjoyed the vicarage of Stepney.
[281] See list of his works, and also an article on Lightfoot, in Kitto's Cyclopædia, edited by Dr. Alexander.
I am indebted to the Dean of Westminster for some friendly suggestions relative to the character of Witchcot and Lightfoot.
[282] Burnet's Hist. of his own Times, i. 188.
[283] The Greek studies at Cambridge in the first part of the seventeenth century are noticed in the Life of Thorndike, appended to his works vi. 167, 168.
[284] I have seen a petition amongst the State Papers belonging to the year 1653, to the Protector from John Worthington, Master of Jesus College, in Cambridge, complaining of some restraint upon the payment of the augmentation annexed to the mastership of that college (as also of the augmentations annexed to some other masterships.)
[285] Pages xviii., xix.
[286] See Southey's Life of Wesley, ii. 380, and Stanley's Eastern Churches, Introduction, p. vii.
[287] Calamy's Account, ii. 755. Wood (Ath. Ox., ii. 710) says that the proposition in the book condemned by Convocation was that the sovereignty of England is in three estates, King, Lords, and Commons. This decree of Convocation was itself burnt in Palace Yard, Westminster, by order of the House of Lords, March the 27th, 1710.—Calamy's Cont., 865.
[288] Calamy's Account, 761, 81, 105. Continuation, 137.