This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...offices, Thomas Fuller." The work here alluded to was not his Pisgah-Sight, as Mr. Nichols stated,1 but either his already promised Ecclesiastical History, or his translation of the Annates of Ussher. There is nothing in our author's writings to indicate how long he remained in the metropolis after making his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...offices, Thomas Fuller." The work here alluded to was not his Pisgah-Sight, as Mr. Nichols stated,1 but either his already promised Ecclesiastical History, or his translation of the Annates of Ussher. There is nothing in our author's writings to indicate how long he remained in the metropolis after making his composition and attempting to find employment in pastoral duty. It is certain, however, that after a few months he removed from London, where, besides being harassed by attendance upon the committees, he was subject to other annoyances; one, in particular, being the compulsory registration of the names and addresses of those who had come from the royal garrisons.8 Again: "Upon extraordinary confluence of delinquents and papists to London," an ordinance passed both Houses (Dec. nth) to put them out of the city, for two months.8 There was, therefore, a degree of unpleasantness connected with Fuller's 1 Holy State, p. 402. See Rushworth, vi. 305. 'Whitelocke, p. 230. c c abode in London; and it is no wonder that, in the next authentic reference to him, he is found to be at a considerable distance from the city, viz. in Northamptonshire, January 1646-7. Circumstances brought him into contact with his former patron and college-associate, Edward Mountagu, who being in the confidence of the Parliament, was in a position of influence. From him the homeless and distressed clergyman met with the kindest reception: it was at his instance that he, with his son, then six years old (who was regarded by the widowed father as the sole hope of his old age), took up his abode at the family mansion. The house was near our author's birth-place; and it had not, in the political changes that had occurred, lost its ancient reputation for hospitality. There, th...
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