[325] Life of Bramhall, prefixed to his Works, i. x., xxii.
[326] Bramhall's Works, i. 276, 277.
Yet here it should be remembered that, under date May the 23rd, 1658, Evelyn says: "There was now a collection for persecuted and sequestered ministers of the Church of England, whereof divers are in prison. A sad day! the Church now in dens and caves of the earth."
Kennet in his Historical Register, 861, refers to the Lord Scudamore's charity to the distressed clergy.
[327] It was not published till after the author's death, when it appeared with a violent and foolish preface by Dr. Samuel Parker.
[328] Bramhall's Works, iii. 579.—The whole tract is worth reading as an example of the way in which Episcopalians met the charge of favouring Popery. It is an answer to Baxter, who had brought the charge against Grotius and against Bramhall also. While Baxter accused Grotius of helping the Papists, Owen accused him of Socinianism. Thorndike, in the preface to his Epilogue, defends Grotius against both.
[329] Ibid., 582.
[330] For Milletiere's epistle and Bramhall's reply, see Works, vol. i. cxxi. and 7.
[331] The careful editor of Bramhall's Works has appended a table, with extensive notes, of Acts and dates relative to the admission into their new sees of the bishops consecrated or confirmed in the second and third years of the reign of Elizabeth.—Vol. iii. 216.
[332] Bramhall's Works, i. xcv.