[425] Lords' Journals, July 27, 1663. A curious incident occurred during their sittings. The Bill for the better observance of the Sabbath was lost off the table, and could not be found. The like had never occurred before, and "every Lord was called by name, and those present did make their purgation, and the assistants likewise did particularly clear themselves." It was the last day of the session. The Bills to receive the Royal assent had been taken out of a bag, and opened on the table; but this Bill disappeared, and consequently did not receive le Roy le veult.
[426] Walton's Lives, 424–427. He had left a list of ministers under his eye designed for discipline, but when he saw death approaching, he burnt the paper, and said he would die in peace.—Conformists' Plea for Nonconformity, 35.
[427] Works, vi. 443.
[428] 31st August, 1663. Evelyn's Diary, i. 399.
[429] State Papers, Dom., Charles II., June 20, Sept. 22, Oct. 12. I may add that a very affecting illustration of the sufferings of an ejected minister through trial and imprisonment for preaching in some retired place after the Act of Uniformity, is to be found in Stanford's Joseph Alleine, chapters x. and xi.
[430] State Papers, Nov. 9, Dec. 31.
[431] Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson, 391.
[432] Anderson's Hist. of the Colonial Church, ii. 286.
[433] Ibid., 316-318.
[434] Anderson's Hist. of the Colonial Church, ii. 342.