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ten years, for the payment of certain sums; subject to this trust the leasehold farm was left to his son Francis; and his daughter, Elizabeth, then unmarried, was left sole executrix. This daughter Elizabeth afterwards said that her brother was "in his fathers displeasure" and that she had induced her father to make his will as he did at the solicitation of her brother, who promised that thus it should turn out more to her advantage.¹

The next that is known of the refugee is that on All Saints' Day (1 November), 1635, he preached at the "Chapel of Wapping," and in his bidding prayer before the sermon took occasion to commit a blazing indiscretion, calculated to be almost as annoying to the Puritans as it was offensive to their opponents. An English canon of 1603 provides for the " Bidding Prayer" thus:

Before all sermons, lectures, and homilies, the preachers and ministers shall move the people to join with them in prayer, in this form or to this effect, as briefly as conveniently they may: "Ye shall pray for CHRIST'S Holy Catholic Church, that is, for the whole congregation of Christian people dispersed throughout the whole world, and especially for the Churches of England, Scotland, and Ireland. And herein I require you most especially to pray for the king's most excellent Majesty, our Sovreign Lord James [Charles], King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, and supreme governor of these his realms, and all other his dominions and countries, over all persons, in all causes, as well ecclesiastical as temporal, etc.²

What Mr. Doughty called the King, at Wapping, was, "Charles by common election and general consent King of England." This coming to the notice of the High Commission, was not considered "to the same effect" as the words of the canon. Accordingly, we find him before that court: on 28 January, 1635-36, he "appeared and took oath;"³ and on 4 February was "pronounced contumacious for non-appearance, his punishment being reserved till next court day,"⁴ — when he seems to have appeared, for, on 11 February it was ordered that the "defendant is to satisfy the

¹ Lechford's Note-Book, p. 110.
² W. F. Hook, Church Dictionary (1846), p. 121.
³ Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1635-1636, p. 471.
⁴ Ibid. p. 479.