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 disposition, attached to him the affectionate regard of men who did not share his views. No encomium from his own party gives so sympathetic a picture of his character as we find in the graphic touches of his compeer, Bishop Hall, who puts the living man before us, 'very strong and eager in argument, hearty in friendship, regardless of the world, a despiser of compliment, a lover of reality.' In the year before his death Bradshaw got back to Derbyshire from one of his journeys, and the chancellor of Overall, the bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 'welcomed him home with a suspension from preaching.' But 'the mediation of a couple of good angels' (not 'two persons of some influence,' as Rose suggests, but coins of the realm) procured the withdrawal of the inhibition, and Bradshaw was left to pursue his work in peace. On a visit to Chelsea he was stricken with malignant fever, which carried him off in 1616. A large company of ministers attended him to his burial in Chelsea Church on 16 May. The funeral sermon was preached by [q. v.], who subsequently became his biographer. Bradshaw married a widow at Chatham; but the marriage did not take place till a short time prior to his election by the vestry as afternoon lecturer at Christ Church. He left three sons and a daughter; the eldest son, John, was born in Threadneedle Street, and 'baptised in the church near thereto adjoyning, where the minister of the place, somewhat thick of hearing, by a mistake, instead of Jonathan, nam'd him John.' He became rector of Etchingham, Sussex. Bradshaw published:
 * 1) 'A Triall of Subscription by way of a Preface unto certaine Subscribers, and reasons for lesse rigour against Nonsubscribers,' 1599, 8vo (anon.)
 * 2) 'Humble Motives for Association to maintain religion established,' 1601, 8vo (anon.)
 * 3) 'A consideration of Certaine Positions Archiepiscopall,' 1604, 12mo (anon.; the positions attacked are four, viz. that religion needs ceremonies, that they are lawful when their doctrine is lawful, that the doctrine of the Anglican ceremonies is part of the gospel, that nonconformists are schismatics).
 * 4) 'A shorte Treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme &hellip; the use of the crosse in baptisme is not indifferent, but utterly unlawful,' 1604, 8vo (anon.)
 * 5) 'A Treatise of Divine Worship, tending to prove that the Ceremonies imposed &hellip; are in their use unlawful,' 1604, 8vo (anon.); reprinted 1703, 8vo, with preface and postscript, signed D. M. (Daniel Mayo), 'in defence of a book entitled "Thomas against Bennet"' [see, D.D.]
 * 6) 'A Proposition concerning kneeling in the very act of receiving, &hellip;' 1606, 8vo (anon.)
 * 7) 'A Treatise of the nature and use of things indifferent, tending to prove that the Ceremonies in present controversie &hellip; are neither in nature or use indifferent,' 1606, 8to (anon.; a note prefixed implies that it was circulated anonymously in manuscript and published by an admirer of the unknown author).
 * 8) 'Twelve generall arguments, proving that the Ceremonies imposed &hellip; are unlawfull, and therefore that the Ministers of the Gospel, for the &hellip; omission of them in church service are most unjustly charg'd of disloyaltie to his Majestie,' 1605, 12mo (anon.)
 * 9) 'English Puritanisme: containeing the maine opinions of the rigidest sort of those that are called Puritans &hellip;' 1605, 8vo (anon.; reprinted as if by Ames, 1611, 4to; the article, speaks of this as the earliest edition of the original; it was translated into Latin for foreign use, with preface by William Ames, D.D., and title 'Puritanismus Anglicanus,' 1610, 8vo. Neal gives an abstract of this work and No. 10, carefully done; but the main fault to be found with Neal is his introduction of the phrase 'liberty of conscience,' which implies rather more than Bradshaw expressly contends for).
 * 10) 'A Protestation of the King's Supremacie: made in the name of the afflicted Ministers, &hellip;' 1605, 8vo (anon.; it was in explanation of the statement of the church's attitude towards civil governors, contained in the foregoing, and concludes with an earnest plea for permission openly and peacefully to exercise worship and ecclesiastical discipline, subject only to the laws of the civil authority).
 * 11) 'A myld and just Defence of certayne Arguments &hellip; in behalf of the silenced Ministers, against Mr. G. Powell's Answer to them,' 1606, 4to (anon.); Gabriel Powell was chaplain to Vaughan, bishop of London, and had published against toleration (1605). In reply to 9, Powell wrote 'A Consideration of the deprived and silenced Ministers' Arguments, &hellip;' 1606, 4to; and in reply to Bradshaw's defence he wrote 'A Rejoinder to the mild Defence, justifying the Consideration,' &c., 1606, 4to).
 * 12) 'The Unreasonablenesse of the Separation made apparant, by an Examination of Mr. Johnson's pretended Reasons, published in 1608, whereby hee laboureth to justifie his Schisme from the Church Assemblies of England,' Dort, 1614, 4to. (Francis Johnson's 'Certayne Reastma and Arguments' was written while Johnson was at one with Ainsworth in advocating a separatist congregational polity. John Canne, who subsequently became pastor of Johnson's Amsterdam church, and who lived to distinguish himself as a fifth-monarchy man, published 'A Necessitie of Separation from