[454] Clark's Lives, 103.
[455] Samuel Fairclough. He held the living of Banardiston in Suffolk, and afterwards became Rector of Keddington, in the same county. There is a remarkable memoir of him in Clark's Lives.
[456] Clark's Lives, 114.
[457] Works, vi. 476.
[458] Memorable Women of the Puritan Times, i. 105-116.
[459] These notices are taken from Dr. Gibbons Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women. We have purposely retained some forms of phraseology which are employed in the original narrative. It would be easy to add to these illustrations. Some interesting ones are given in Pattison's Rise and Progress of Religious Life in England, chap. xii. See also Tomkin's Piety Promoted. Even amongst the Fifth Monarchy men there were instances of genuine piety; nor do we doubt that the persecuted Roman Catholics furnished examples of devotion and beneficence.
[460] Morley stated at the Savoy Conference "that some places had no ministers at all through all those times of usurpation," and instanced Aylesbury. Baxter told him: "I never knew any such; and therefore I knew there were not many such in England." With regard to Aylesbury, he says the story was false, as he ascertained there were usually in that town two at a time.—Life and Times, part ii., 340. Some poor parishes might, during a part of the period, be without ministers.
[461] Life and Times, part i., 96.
[462] Even what was said by the scoffers is worth noting:—
"Here's now no good action for a man to spend his time in; taverns grow dead; ordinaries are blown up; plays are at a stand; houses of hospitality at fall; not a feather waving, nor a spur jingling anywhere. I'll away instantly."—Eastward Ho! 228.