rties infringed.

The bishops petitioned to have council assigned them, in which they
were indulged, in order to answer to the charge of high treason. A day
was appointed, the bishops were brought to the bar, but nothing was
effected; the House of Commons at last finding that there could be no
proof of high treason, dropt that charge, and were content to libel
them for a misdemeanor, in which they likewise but ill succeeded, for
the bishops were admitted to bail, and no prosecution was carried on
against them, even for a misdemeanor.

Being now at liberty, the greatest part of them retired to their
dioceses, 'till the storm which had threatened them should subside.
Bishop Hall repaired to Norwich, where he met, from the disaffected
party, a very cold reception; he continued preaching however in his
cathedral at Norwich, 'till the order of sequestration came down, when
he was desired to remove from his palace, while the sequestrators
seized upon all his estate, both real and personal, and appraized all
the goods which were in the palace. The bishop relates the following
instance of oppression which was inflicted on him; 'One morning (says
his lordship) before my servants were up, there came to my gates one
Wright, a London trooper, attended with others requiring entrance,
threatening if they were not admitted, to break open the gates, whom,
I found at first sight, struggling with one of my servants for a
pistol which he had in his hand; I demanded his business at that
unseasonable time; he told me he came to search for arms and
ammunition, of which I must be disarmed; I told him I had only two
muskets in the house, and no other military provision; he not resting
upon my word, searched round about the house, looked into the chests
and trunks, examined the vessels in the cellar; finding no other
warlike furniture, he asked me what horses I had, for his commission
was to take them also; I told him how poorly I was stored, and that my
age would not allow me to travel on foot; in conclusion, he took one
horse away.'

The committee of sequestration soon after proceeded to strip him of
all the revenue belonging to his see, and as he refused to take the
covenant, the magistrates of the city of Norwich, who were no
friends to episcopal jurisdiction, cited him before them, for giving
ordination unwarrantably, as they termed it: to this extraordinary
summons the bishop answered, that he would not betray the dignity
of his stati