. The great civil war of the times of Charles I and Cromwell; with thirty highly-finished engravings . melancholy period,seems to imply no exaggeration. It is creditable to themselves, though matter of regret to us, that so few contemporaryrecords of the sufferings of the clergy, in that period, exist: for the most part, theyendmed in dignified silence. Bishop Halls relation of his own Hard Measure, as one ofthe imprisoned and deprived bishops, is nearly unique, as an autobiographical memoirof an ejected churchman. Yet not a few of the sufferers were too illustrious to escape thenotice of hist
. The great civil war of the times of Charles I and Cromwell; with thirty highly-finished engravings . melancholy period,seems to imply no exaggeration. It is creditable to themselves, though matter of regret to us, that so few contemporaryrecords of the sufferings of the clergy, in that period, exist: for the most part, theyendmed in dignified silence. Bishop Halls relation of his own Hard Measure, as one ofthe imprisoned and deprived bishops, is nearly unique, as an autobiographical memoirof an ejected churchman. Yet not a few of the sufferers were too illustrious to escape thenotice of history. Among such, Hammond and Jeremy Taylor, it is time, found shelterwith friends ; but Lydiat was dismissed to penury; and Walton completed, in indigence,his prodigious labours, designed for a generation who had deprived liim of bread, and whodecried all human learning as savouring of imgodUness. Persecution and want shortenedthe life of the ever-memorable Hales. The melancholy stoiy of the great ChiUingworthis related by Cheynell, his persecutor in life and death, to enhance his credit with his. S 4 THE CHURCH IN DESOLATION. 113 presbyterian brethren. Tliat scliolai, so eminent, to use the words of Cheynell himself,for the excellency of his gifts and the depth of his learning, had fallen into the handsof Waller at the suiTender of Arundel Castle; and being unable, from the infirm state ofhis health, to bear a journey to London with his fellow-prisoners, was removed to Chi-chester. There this man CheyneU (who gravely charges himself with foolish pity towards his victim), and other violent presbyterians, so harassed him with the insolenceof imseasonable controversy, that within a fortnight he expired; although, with tendertreatment, as the inflated zealot himself acknowledges, he might ha\e recovered. Buthere the inhumanity of his gaolers did uot cease. Chillingworths friends, says Cheynell,were, out of mere charity, permitted to afford him the civility of a funeral, though not
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