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Rh , as it seems, amongst her own kin. He returned to, and on , 26th , he on  ,  the , and maintaining that only the  could initiate. The storm which this sermon aroused in the, then well-nigh abandoned by the active , brought about Fuller’s secret flight to , and the loss of all his preferments and. He lived in a hired chamber at Lincoln for 17 s. Thence he put forth a witty and effective reply to, who had attacked his views on. Fuller subsequently by  request a    10th , at St Mary’s, , before  and , called Jacob’s Vow. In this discourse which, it is supposed, had relation to ’s proposed restoration of the, the  referred to some  exercise then being observed every  by , all record of which has been omitted in the pages of. The spirit of Fuller’s, always characterized by calmness and moderation, gave offence to the high , who charged him with lukewarmness in their cause. To silence unjust censures, he became to the  of the excellent. For the first five of, as he said, when excusing the non-appearance of his Church-History, &ldquo;I had little list or leisure to write, fearing to be made a , and shifting  for my safety. All that time I could not live to study, who did only study to live.&rdquo; After the defeat of at, Fuller retreated to. He took an active part in its defence, and was once incited by the noise of ’s, which disturbed him at his , to head a sally upon the. His life with the caused him to be afterwards regarded as one of &ldquo;the great  s.&rdquo; In his marches with his  round about  and in the west, he devoted much time to the collection of details, from, old , and the conversation of ancient , for his Church-History and Worthies of England. His patriotism in was evidenced in many ways. For the and the more  of the  he compiled,, a small  of s and s,—the Good Thoughts in Bad Times,—which, set up and  in the   of , whither he had retired, was called by himself &ldquo;the  of  .&rdquo; It was inscribed to ,  to the  , , who was  at , 16th. Fuller was by placed in the  of  through the influence of. In, as elsewhere, he attracted to himself a circle of friends. The corporation gave him the ship, 21st  –, and he held it until 17th , soon after the surrender of  to the. The Fear of losing the Old Light,, , was his farewell discourse to his friends. Under the Articles of Surrender Fuller made his composition with the at, his &ldquo;delinquency&rdquo; being that he had been present in ’s. In a characteristic petition to compound, dated 1st, he acquainted the committee that he was then lodging at &ldquo;the Crown&rdquo; in StPaul’s - (the  of his , Williams); and the word  is  in large  and designedly falls in the centre of the document, in which, moreover, there are traces of the disagreeable position in which he was placed. In a life of Andronicus,, partly authentic and partly fictitious, he the leaders of the ; and more than one edition of this little book was called for. For the comfort of sufferers by he issued,, a second devotional manual, entitled Good Thoughts in Worse Times, abounding, like its predecessor and its successor, in fervent aspirations, and drawing  lessons in  out of the events of his life, or the circumstances of. In grief over his losses which included his and  (his &ldquo;upper and nether &rdquo;), and over the calamities of, he wrote his  on the Wounded Conscience,. It was prepared at Boughton House in, where, in a penniless, feeble, and exiled position, he and his little son were entertained by , his , and where, as he says, he was restored to his former self. For the next few of his life, Fuller was mainly dependent upon his dealings with, of whom he asserted that none had ever lost by him. Amongst other minor productions of his pen at he seems to have made considerable progress in an  translation of the Annales of his friend Archbishop Ussher from the  of that great work. Amongst his benefactors it is curious to find of, afterwards the. Under the countenance of s whose s are perpetuated in the dedications in his books, Fuller in began to  at StClement’s,, and elsewhere, in the capacity of. While at StClement’s he was suspended; but speedily recovering his freedom, he wherever he was invited. His connexion with the named has recently been recognized by the  of a fine   in which, clad in a ’s, he stands holding in his  his best gift to the. At, where also he occasionally officiated, he covertly a sermon on the death of ,—an event which he deeply deplored. Amongst Fuller’s  was the, who made him his , and presented him to the  of. To he dedicated his history of ; and on the title-page placed the —

His possession of was in jeopardy on the appointment of ’s &ldquo;&rdquo;; but he evaded the  questions of that dreaded body by his ready wit. He had, however, the good sense to fortify himself under this ordeal with the counsel of the -minded, to whom he went, saying, &ldquo;Sir, you may observe that I am a pretty man, and I am to go through a passage that is very straight; I beg you would be so good as to give me a shove and help me through.&rdquo; Nor was Fuller disturbed at  in the &ldquo;dangerous &rdquo; , when the ’s  prohibited the  of the  from. Moreover,, third of , who lived in the , gave him what remained of the  of the  ; and through the good offices of the , part of his own pillaged  was restored to him. Under such circumstances Fuller actively prosecuted his, producing successively, at great cost, his of the , called A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine, ; and his Church-History of Britain, , from the  until. These were furthered in no slight degree by his connexion with Sion, , where he had a chamber, as well for the convenience of the  as of his  ships. The Church-History was angrily attacked by DrP. Heylin, who, in the spirit of, wished, as he said, to vindicate the truth, the , and the injured. About Fuller  into the  and loyal family of. By his (Mary, youngest sister of ) he had several children. At the Oxford Act of, the celebrated , who was Terræ filius, ed Fuller for his frequent and other peculiarities. He described him in this Oratio as living in, ever , and each bringing forth new  like a 