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differed from his views, for the singular excellence
and consistency of his character. Of this no stronger
proof can be given than the offer which was made
him, shortly after the Restoration, of the Deanery of
York. H e was well known in that city, for during the
Commonwealth he was a very frequent preacher at
the Minster and at All Saints' Pavement, the church
in which the Solemn League and Covenant was taken
by the citizens of York. He was also chaplain to
Thomas, Lord Fairfax, the great Parliamentary
general, by whom he was greatly beloved. Another
was Thomas Calvert, rector of the last-mentioned
parish, who was a highly accomplished Oriental
scholar, and on that account was familiarly designated
as Rabbi Calvert. To these must be added Matthew
Poole, the author of the "Synopsis Criticorum."
He was highly esteemed by Lord Fairfax, who
bequeathed him ;^io " towards the carrying on of his
Synopsis of the Cretics." There were others also,
of somewhat lesser note as regards learning, but of
equal excellence and piety. Amongst these Oliver
Heywood occupies no undistinguished place. Peter
Williams may also be named, who was a native of
York, and Shaw, the Vicar of Rotherham, who
mentions in his autobiography that he once had
"very terrible threatening language '' used to him by
Archbishop Neile.
A vast amount of sympathy was felt by very many
of the better class of persons in Yorkshire, for men
such as those thus briefly indicated, who were either
ejected, or whose conscientious convictions forbade
conformity. There was much to incline pious and