General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . is this charge Fuller satisfactorily vindi-cated himself in his Miscellanea Sacra, cumApologia contra V. CI. Johan. Drusium, pub-lished at Leyden in 1622, 4to., and consisting,,besides the authors defence of himself, of twoadditional books to his former work. These Miscellanea are inserted in the ninth vo-lume of the Critici Sacri, and dispersedthroaghout the whole of Pools Synopsis Cri-ticorum. Fu
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . is this charge Fuller satisfactorily vindi-cated himself in his Miscellanea Sacra, cumApologia contra V. CI. Johan. Drusium, pub-lished at Leyden in 1622, 4to., and consisting,,besides the authors defence of himself, of twoadditional books to his former work. These Miscellanea are inserted in the ninth vo-lume of the Critici Sacri, and dispersedthroaghout the whole of Pools Synopsis Cri-ticorum. Fuller was also the author of an Exposition of Rabbi Mordecai Nathans He-brew Roots,with Notes, and a Lexicon;both which remain in MS. in the Bodleian li-brary at Oxford, and are honourable memorialsof the authors erudition and industry. There was another Nicholas Fuller, acontemporary of the preceding, who was mostprobably educated at Emanuel college, Cam-bridge, to which he was a benefactor. He be-came a counsellor of some eminence, and abencher of Grays-inn, in London. He hadthe boldness to resist, in his professional cha-racter, the illegal and oppressive proceedings of. £*(hurc texfrzfit the. fymttgr<ff +*J SHP&, Qompamtrvc tos Blifle ant!? Tame . ruL ( 261 ) r u l archbishop Bancroft, and his brethren of theHigh-commission Court, against a minister ofYarmouth, and a merchant of that town, whowere imprisoned for being present at a pretend-ed conventicle. Having obtained a writ ofHabeas Corpus to bring them to the bar, hemoved that they should be discharged, becausethat thfc high-commissioners were not em-powered by law to imprison, or to administerthe oath ex officio, or to fine any of his majestyssubjects. His pleading, as may be imagined,was ineffectual for the release of his clients -,and by thus honestly discharging his duty, hedrew down the vengeance of the commissionersupon himself. For Bancroft told the king thathe was the champion of the Nonconformists,and ought,
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