[294] Parl. Return, p. xxx.
[295] There were two Commissions on this case: the first contained four Bishops and ten laymen—the second, five Bishops and ten laymen.
[296] There are papers relating to him in the Record Office.—Dom. Charles II., 1673, October.
[297] The cases are given in the Parliamentary Return; they are numbered:—53, William Duncke; 74, Edward Hirst (there are three other cases for not resorting to parish church, 53, 70, and 76;) 78, Catherine Gounter; 82, Jonathan Rutter. Duncke and Rutter were excommunicated.
[298] Return, p. viii.
[299] Salmon’s Lives of the Bishops, 310.
[300] I am not sure of the date in the 17th century when the Hall was so used. A fine copy of Baxter’s Christian Directory is preserved in Dr. Williams’ Library, and is said to have been chained to some part of the porch of the great meeting-house in the City of Coventry.
[301] Offor’s Life of Bunyan, Works, iii. lxix.
[302] Thoresby.
[303] State Papers, Dom. Charles II., 1674, Nov. 4.