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their conventicles, which they went on doing with
wonderful pertinacity, in spite of all prohibitions, pains,
and penalties. The authorities utterly failed to
suppress them. They flourished in spite of all their
efforts, and abounded at that period in very many
parts' of Yorkshire where, at the present day, there is
scarcely a representative of the sect to be found.
The adherents of the Society of Friends appear to
have then belonged chiefly to the lower middle
class. It was almost the only form of dissent known
at that time in Yorkshire, with the exception of
Presbyterianism.
Archbishop Frewen's episcopate was not a long
one. He died at Bishopthorpe on the 28th March,
1664, and was buried in the Minster.
His successor, Richard Sterne, was translated from
Carlisle. He is memorable as having been chaplain
to Archbishop Laud, and having attended him on
the scaffold. He died i8th June, 1683.
The next Archbishop's career was somewhat remarkable.
When little more than a boy, John Dolben
left Oxford, where he had a studentship at Christ
Church, joined the ranks of the Royalist army, was
present at the siege of York, and fought at Marston
Moor, where he was dangerously wounded. He
afterwards received Holy Orders, and by one of
those strange chances, as we call
them, which sometimes
occur in life, his next entry within the walls of
York, long years after, was in far different array and
with far different surroundings. Strange memories
must have been awakened in the Archbishop's mind,
as he passed under the archway of Micklegate bar on