Annals of Evangelical Nonconformity in the County of Essex

CONTENTS.

PART THE FIRST.- ANNALS.

CHAPTER I. 1380-1532.

Wyclyffists; Colchester, Pattiswick, Manuden, St. Osyth, Boxted.

Tyndale's Teftaments; Colchester, Witham, Braintree, Boxted,

Horksley, Steeple Bumpfted. 'Heresy' at Halfted, St. Osyth,

Colchester, Bumstead, Birdbrooke, Doniland, Billericay. The

Rood at Dovercourt, King, Marsh, Debnam, Gardiner, and Rose.

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CHAPTER II. 1532-1553.

Marriage of Henry. Cranmer at Waltham Abbey, and New Hall,
Boreham. Divorce of Henry. Act of Supremacy. Marriage of
Anne. Frith at Milton. Articles of 1536. Bishop's Book. The
English Bible. Malden, of Chelmsford. Cowbridge, of Colchester.
The Six Articles. Death of Henry. Acceffion of Edward. Udal,
of Braintree. The Prayer Book. Sectaries at Bocking. Preaching
reftrained. Putto, of Colchester. The Forty-two Articles. Death
of Edward

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13-25

CHAPTER III. 1553-1558.

Lady Jane Grey. Acceffion of Mary. Bourne, of Ongar. Rogers, of
Chigwell, and Bradford, of Saffron Walden. Mary Honeywood.
Rose, of West Ham. Brown, member for Colchester. Deprivals
of married clergy. Hawkes, of Coggeshall. Hunter, of Brentwood.
Piggot, of Braintree, and Knight, of Maldon. Laurence, of Col-
chefter. Higbed, of Horndon, and Caufton, of Thundersley.
Layes, of Thorpe. Drakes, of Thundersley. The Spurges, Cavell,

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and Ambrose, of Bocking. Andrew, of Horksley.
Wats, of Billericay. Meeting of Martyrs at Chelmsford. Osmond,
Bamford, and Chamberlain. Simpson, and Ardeley. Newman,
of Saffron Walden. Whittel and Went. Potter, Ellis, Horns, and
Thack vel, of Billericay. Katherine Hut, Lyfter, Mace, Spencer,
Joyne, Nichols, Hammond, and Grasbroke. Lavercock, and
Apprice. Thirteen burnt at Stratford. Twenty-three persons ap-
prehended at one clap.' Tye, vicar of Bentley, and the Munts.
The Bongeours and their companions at Colchefter. Allerton.
Eagles. Comforters of the persecuted. Congregation at Colchester.
Cornet, of Roehedge. Chadsey at Colchester. Three last victims.
Death of Mary

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26-55

CHAPTER IV. 1558-1602.

Acceffion of Elizabeth. Prisoners in bonds. Apprehensions for preaching.

Act to restore to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction.' Act of Uni-

formity. The Prayer Book. Return of the Exiles. Injunctions.

Parker. Re-organization of the Hierarchy. Convocation of 1562.

Kitchen, of Stifted, and Holland, of Bocking. Persecution. Con-

gregationalists. Address of Effex Gentry. Act for the minifters

of the church to be of sound religion.' 'Sectaries' at Strethall, and

Saffron Walden. Aylmer. Executions at Bury. Oliver Pigg,

Wright, Lord Rich, and Greenwood, of Rochford. Richard Rich.

Withers, of Danbury. Whitgift and the new subscription. Re-

newed severities against the Puritans. Petition of Effex minifters.

Appeal of the Privy Council to the Prelates. Elections of 1586.

Petitions from Maldon, Rochford, and other places. Petition of

suffering minifters. Execution of Greenwood. Act to restrain

the Queen's Majefty's subjects in their due obedience.'

A Contemporary Survey of Sixteene Hundreds in the County of Effex,

containing Benefices 335; wherein there are of ignorant and un-

preaching ministers, 173; of such as have two benefices a-piece, 61;

of non-residents that are single beneficed, 10; preachers of a scanda-

lous life, 12; summa totalis, 225. The Hundreds wanting are

Harlow Half-hundred, Waltham Hundred, Beacontree Hundred ;'

with biographical Notes, and Memorials of the more prominent

Puritan Ministers of the County ...

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CHAPTER V. 1603-1609.

Antecedents of James. Millenary Petition. Proclamation. Hampton
Court Conference. Speech of James at the Opening of Parliament.
Convocation and Canons of 1604. Conformity enforced. Bancroft.
Speech of James in Council. Persecution. Negus, Culverwell,
Rufticus, Ames. Abbot. Martyrdom of Leggatt.

Drax, of
Laud. Acceffion of Charles I.
Sequeftration of Abbott. Laud's
Speech of Alford, M.P. for Col-

Dovercourt. Book of Sports.

Mountague, of Stamford Rivers.

promotion. Elections of 1627.

chefter. Manwaring. Cromwell's maiden speech. Suspension of

the Conftitution

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CHAPTER VI. 1629-1639.

Laud and the Lecturers. Harsnett. Rogers, of Dedham; Rogers, of
Wethersfield; and Archer, of Halfted. Hooker and Eliot, of
Chelmsford. Collins, of Braintree. Browning, of Rawreth. Peti-
tion of the Clergy in favour of Hooker. Petition of the Clergy for
the enforcement of Conformity. Suspension and Exile of Hooker.
Exile of Eliot. Suspension and Exile of Shepard, of Colne. Exile
of John Wilson, and John Norton. Collins, of Braintree, in
trouble. Innes, of Dovercourt. Reports about the lecturers.
Colchester. Laud and the Impropriations. Laud archbishop.
John Baftwick. Laud's 'inftructions.' Book of Sports. Dutch
and Walloon Churches. Wheeler, of Colchester. Attack on the
Press. The Ex-officio' Oath. Emigration forbidden

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145-182

CHAPTER VII. 1640-1647.

Parliament called. Essex Elections. Petition from Essex. Speech of

Harbottle Grimstone. Convocation. New Canons. The 'Et

Caetera Oath. Speech of Grimftone. Impeachment of Laud.

Grimstone's speech. Grimstone and Selden. The Proteftation.

Bill against Pluralities. Resolution against the innovations of Laud.

Irish rebellion. Smectymnus. Petitions from Essex and from Col-

chefter. Trained Bands at Dunmow. Lecturers at Saffron Walden,

Dagenham, and Barking. Walthamstow. Sequeftrations. As-

sembly of Divines. County Committee for Scandalous Ministers.