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porarjr writers give a very different representation of his carriage on this occasion . A number off the most respectable gentlemen of Kent , made strong representations to the Archbishop in favour of the ministers , but without
effect . * He was steady in his purpose of putting down dissent , and proceeded to suspend the ministers from their functions , on their refusal to subscribe three articles , one assuming the Queen ' s supremacy , ( to which alone probably they would not have objected , ) the
second pledging assent and consent to the Book of Common Prayer , as containing nothing contrary to the word of God , and the third pledging the same approbation of the Book of Articles as all agreeable to the word of God . The ministers carried their
complaints to the Queen ' s Council ; the Archbishop delivered in his justification ; and the result was , as usual in such cases , that the complainants were committed to gaol . Fenuer was kept ir > prison twelve months and then released upon a general subscription
to the articles , " as far as the law required , " and a promise to use the Book of Common Prayer and no other . ( Neal , 1 . 406 . ) Not choosing to trust to the tender mercies of the English
hierarchy he retired to Holland , according to the following * notice in Wood , I . 497 : ¦ " Fenner , a noted Dissenter from the Church of England , died-at Middleborough , in Zeland , in the winter-time , an . 1589 . "
He published various works , and left some MSS . which are still extant , one of which is in Dr . Williams ' s Library . It is a neatly written 4 to
vo-* The intercession of the Kentish gentlemen is related in the Archbishop ' s own language in Strype , pp . 137 , &c . A more particular and interesting history of this application is given in the * 'Chronological Account , ' * &c , in Dr . Williams s Library , I . 332 , &c . This is only one instance of many in which the laity have endeavoured to moderate the clergy , and the gentlemen of England have used their influence to further religious re format ion . Of late ,
the country gentlemen have lost much of their consequence and usefulness ; partly tiom the changes in property brought about by the public debt and the steamengine , and partly from the clergy being so generally in the commission of the peace , and often forming the majority ' on the magisterial bench *
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lume in parchment , and is entitled " Sacred Theologte or tKriniitie or The Truth which is according to Godltoes , described accordmge to the La ^ es and Bales of the Onelie and True Method , and digested ( or divided ) into Ten
Bookes , bye Dudley Fenner . Philip . i . 9 , 10 , " The work is dedicated " To the most noble renowned Earles , Knightes of the Garter , most
honorable Councellers of His Majesty's learned Privie Councell , his most gracious Lordes , the Earle of Warwicke , to the Earle of Leicester , the iaost worthy Chanceller of the Universitie of Oxenford : Grace and Peace from
our Lord / ' Then follows " The Epistle of Maister Cartwrighte —— - *> To his most adorned and dearest brother and colleage in the ministerye Mr . Dudlye Fenner . " Cartwri ^ hte addresses him t € Most learned
Feniier . " This epistle is dated 3 Sept . 1583 . The " Sacred Theologie" is a mere skeleton of divinity , in a logical form . Baxter had seen it , and says it gave no satisfaction to his reason . ( Life and Times , Pt . III . p . 69 . ) His " Defence of the Godlie
Ministers" against Bridges will be hereafter examined . Bliss , the editor of Wood , refers to € C an account of one of his canting' productions in the British Bibliographer , IV . 224 . ( Ath .
Ox- 4 to . I . 496 . ) He also gives the following information among additions to Wood , ( IV . 736 , ) uncfer the name of John Lloyd— ¦ " Beza was the first that turned the Canticles into
verse . Next to him was Dudley Fenner , ar \ old Puritan , who dedicated his piece to the company of merchant adventurers of Middleburglv , anno 1581 , esteemed then a good work-, but since accounted mean and ordinary . "
Grey , in his Review of Neal ( quoted by Brook , Hist , of Puritans , I . 394 ) , reproaches Fenner " on account of his vile Republican principles , with holding that it was lawful to take away the life of a king . "
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American Unitarian Tract * . ~* 0 pim # m of Dn Watts . 133
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Liverpool ' , Sir , March 9 , 1825 . IN addition to the list of Tracts , mentioned in your * ' Notices of
American Publications , " in your last Number , p . 103 , as having been reprinted in Liverpool , I beg to state that two others h ^ ve very recently appeared ; namely , * Memoirs of tftte
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/5/
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