. The great civil war of the times of Charles I. and Cromwell . 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, theyendiired 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 Ulusti-ious to escape thenotice of history. Among such, Hammond and Jeremy T
. The great civil war of the times of Charles I. and Cromwell . 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, theyendiired 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 Ulusti-ious to escape thenotice of history. Among such, Hammond and Jeremy Taylor, it is true, found shelterwith friends; but Lydiat was dismissed to penury; and Walton completed, in indigence,his prodigious labours, designed for a generation who had deprived him of bread, and whodecried all human learning as savouring of imgodliness. Persecution and want shortenedthe Hfe of the ever-memorable Hales. The melancholy story of the great Clullingworthis related by Cheynell, his persecutor in life and death, to enhance his credit with his. •I .1 THE CHURCH I.\ DESOLATION. 115 presbyterian brethren. That scholar^ 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 suirender of Arundel Castle; and being unabl6, from the infirm state ofhis health, to bear a jouiney to Loudon with his feUow-prisoners, was removed to Chi-chester. There this man Cheynell (who gravely charges himself with foolish pity towards his victim), and other violent presbyterians, so harassed him with the insolenceof unseasonable controversy, that Mithin a fortnight he expired; although, with tendertreatment, as the inflated zealot himself acknowledges, he might have recovered. Buthere the inhumanity of his gaolers did not cease. ChiUingworths friends, says Cheynell,were, out of mere charity, permitted to afford him the civiUty of a funeral, though nothing which belongs to the superstitio
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