APPENDIX.

I.

Financial Tables.

It is, I fear, altogether impossible to obtain a complete account of the revenue due, and the expenditure incurred in each year. The amounts of revenue received and of payments actually made can easily be calculated; but they would serve no useful purpose, as a great part of them would consist in the former case of anticipated revenue of future years, and in the latter case of arrears due in former years. I am, however, able to give an analysis of the estimated revenue and expenditure for several years, which will give at least an idea of the financial situation. Besides the expenditure thus given there was always an extraordinary expenditure going on. Something, too, must be allowed for the variety of opinion in the estimators. Of the considerable increase shown in the year 1635, for instance, no less than 50,000l. is a mere matter of account, 20,000l. for interest being inserted, which had been taken as extraordinary expenditure in former years, and 30,330%. in the Cofferers' Account being balanced by the composition for purveyance entered for the first time as revenue, and not appearing before. A considerable number of the heads, as given in the MSS., have been put together in Tables, to make comparison easy.

'In the MS. this is wrongly added up 1,163,6551. A debt owed to the Earl of Holland (fol. 34), for which he claimed 17,1927., is not included as being under dispute.

II.

Cases of Ministers suspended or deprived by the Court of High Commission, February 18, 1634, to May 19, 1636.

IT has been so often said that the High Commission deprived ministers in large numbers, that I have thought it worth while to draw up a list of all cases of deprivation or suspension during the period of two years and three months, for which the Act Books have been preserved (State Papers Domestic, cclxi., cccxxiii.). It should be remembered that these years begin very shortly after Laud's accession to the archbishopric, and they are therefore exactly the years in which the action of the Court would be likely to be most vigorous. The names in capitals are those of persons in respect of whom the sentence was wholly remitted. Those in italics are those of persons who subsequently, before May 19, 1636, received permission to continue the exercise of their ministry any. where but in the cure held by them at the time of their deprivation or suspension.

1634. Mar.

1. Deposed from the Ministry.

3. Reginald Carew, for attempt to commit a rape. June 26. THEOPHILUS BRABOURNE, for promulgating the opinion that Saturday should be observed as the Sabbath.

2. Deprived of Benefice and suspended from the Ministry. 1634. Oct. 9. Anthony Lapthorne, for omitting large parts of the service, and reviling his parishioners and the neighbouring clergy.

June 4.

Nov. 20. 1635. Νον. 2.

Richard Murray, for acting as warden of a collegiate

church without taking the prescribed oath, and for dilapidating the property entrusted to his charge. Edmund Lyneold,' for refusal to conform.

Stephen Dennison, for personal abuse of his parishioners.

He was at first deprived of his benefice, but the sentence was changed to suspension on his expression of readiness to confer with his bishop. The result must have appeared in the succeeding volume, which has been lost.

3. Suspended from the exercise of the Ministry.

1634. Nov. 4.

John How, for praying that the Prince 'might not be brought up in Popery, wherecf there is great cause to fear.'

Nov. 6. Francis Abbott, making a disturbance in church, and reviling his parishioners and the neighbouring clergy. George Burdett, for preaching against the ceremonies,

1635. Feb.

5.

Feb. 19.

and refusing to bend the knee at the name of Jesus, &c. Edward Prowse, for obtaining a presentation on false pretences.

Apr. 25. John Workman, for preaching against dancing, declaring it to be idolatrous to possess a picture of the Saviour, &c.

Nov. 12.

Nov. 26.

Nov. 26.

William Frost, for drunkenness.

Samuel Ward, for attacks on the ceremonies and discipline of the Church.

CHARLES CHAUNCEY, for agitating against the removal of the communion-table in a parish not his ow2