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The Nonconformist . No . XIV , An Essay on the Life and Charactei of Hvffh Peters , Chaplain to Olivei Cromwell and the Parliament *
( Concluded from p . 532 . ) HUGH PETERS was so great a favourite with the Parliament , that they made an order for . £ 100 a-year for himself and bis heirs ; at another time they voted him an additional £ 200 a-year . After this they gave him an estate , which had been a part of Lord Craven ' s , and the whole
of Archbishop LaiuVs private library , valued at £ 140 , * besides continuing to him his animal stipend as a preacher . These were handsome rewards in those day * * , yet he says , ** L lived in debt , because what I had , ethers shared in . V
This benevolent man saw how he was valued by the Parliament , and therefore embraced every opportunity of improving his interest with them iu behalf of the unfortunate . * Respecting Laud ' s books , see Wei * - wood ' s Memoirs , 12 mo 9 London , 1710 , p . £ 8 . •§• See the Last Legacy , p . 103 .
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When Archbishop Laud was prosecuted , Peters interested himself much in his behalf ; and it was at his especial recommendation that a motion was made in the House of Commons to spare his life , and transport him to New England . * v When Lord George
Goring , Earl of Norwich , was in danger of losing his life , Peters himself petitioned the Parliament , and obtained his pardon . For this service the Earl made him a present of a valuable seal ; and this he produced on his trial , saying that he should
keep it for his sake as long as lie lived . On the 9 th March , 1648 , James , Marquis of Hamilton , was beheaded for inarching . an army against the Parliament ; but as Peters had presented a petition from Hamilton to the Speaker , it was imagined he would
have been pardoned . See a Letter addressed to Secretary Nicholas , and preserved in Omiond ' s papers , published by Carte , which shews the opinion the public had of his interest with the
House . A few months before this , viz . in December 1647 * Henrv Sornerset , Marquis of Worcester , died at the age of 84 in the custody of the Parliament ' s Black Rod , and it appears that Peters interested himself in his
behalf also ; and so grateful was the Marchioness for this service , that when Peters was going to his trial , she gave him a certificate , written with her own hand , beginning thus * ' 1 do hereby testify , that in all the
sufferings of my husband , Mr . Peters was my great friend . " f Lord Goring , the Marquis of Hamilton , and the Marquis of Worcester , were all of the opposite party to that which Peters had so warmly espoused ; but to be unfortunate , seems to have been
-sufficient to entitle any man to his good offices . Although Hugh Peters was an enemy to kingly authority , I have no doubt but he felt towards the king as a Christian ought to have done , and would have rendered him any service in his power * , J for in his letter to his daughter he says , ** I had access
* lViog-. Diet . IX . 248 . 'f- See Trials of the Regicides , p- 173 . j It has been said that Hugh Peters was the means of preserving 1 the Royal Library at St . James's entire . Mora . Repos . 11 * $ 20 , in a note .
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602 The Nonconformist . No . XIV ,
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extraordinary what they write of this field ) . Yet had there not been some tradition respecting this achievement of the Empress Helena , or some peculiar property iu the earth of the Campo Sa , 7 ito 9 this scholar would scarcely have ventured to introduce the passage in his very curious and learned work . I cannot refrain from
adding his compliment to our country ( p . £ 25 ) : " Britannos hospitibus vocat Horatius . ( Carm . L . iii . O . iv . ) At nihil hodie ista gente amabilius . Tanta cultural vis est , qua liters © animos cetero quiu feros emolliunt . " ( Horace describes the Britons as ferocious to
strangers . Yet , at this day no people are more courteous . Such is the powerful effect of cultivation , by which literature polishes the rudest riiC ' rtAciiiAni ' i
UWlJVaillUlIkj . y You have , I think , in some early Volume an account of the Empress Helena ' s transportation of the true Cross . OTIOSUS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 602, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/14/
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