Note 549 — Chapter XIX
Reading edition
Walker's Sufferings, part ii. 183-185, 193.
I have lighted on the following scraps in newspapers of the day:—
Mr. Bullinger, of Lincolnshire (sometime chaplain to a Regent of the King), grandchild to the old bishop, being newly returned from France, where he hath lately been, is sent up by the Committee of Dover, very poor, in a gray suit, and neither cloak to his back nor money in his purse; and yet he scruples the taking of the Covenant, and desires time to consider of it. His examinations were this day taken.—Perfect Occurrences, 18th of December, 1646.
A story is told of a singing man from Peterborough, who went to Wisbeach, as clerk, and then read the burial service, when he was insulted in the rudest manner, and knocked down, the poor fellow crying out, "I am a Covenanter."—Moderate Intelligence, January, 1647.