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 understood the Puritan movement, and saw its evils. They felt so keenly about the truth and teaching of episcopacy that Laud, at least, was urged to be somewhat too earnest and aggressive in his desires to put its enemies down.

I must speak first, in the order of time, of Lancelot Andrewes. He saw Puritanism in its infancy. His time extends from 1555, throughout the whole of Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the year 1626, two years after the death of James. He was spared the pain of witnessing the evil results of the Puritan movement of Charles' troublesome years. This divine was born in Thames Street, in the parish of All Hallows, London. His parents were religious people, and in circumstances sufficiently well-to-do to give their boy a splendid education and to leave him a fair-sized estate as well. His early training was received in London. He was sent to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and became a Fellow in 1576, at the time when Puritanism was so popular in the University. He was of a very retiring nature, and in early days loved the quiet of the study rather than the pleasures of the field. "What he did when he was a child and a schoolboy it is not now known," says his biographer; "but he hath been sometimes heard to say, that when he was a young scholar in the University, and so all his time onward, he never loved or used any games, or ordinary recreations, either within doors, as cards, dice, tables, chess, or the like; or abroad, as bats, quoits, bowls, or any such, but his ordinary exercise and recreation was walking, either