Foreseeing the persecutions which ensued, he removed to England, and brought his congregation along with him.

The council, who regard them as industrious, useful people, and desired to invite over others of the same character, not only gave them the church of Augustine Friars for the exercise of their religion, but granted them a charter, by which they were erected into a corporation, consisting of a superintendent and four assisting ministers.

This ecclesiastical establishment was quite independent of the church of England, and differed from it in some rites and ceremonies.[*] These differences among the Protestants were matter of triumph to the Catholics; who insisted, that the moment men departed from the authority of the church, they lost all criterion of truth and falsehood in matters of religion, and must be carried away by every wind of doctrine.

The continual variations of every sect of Protestants afforded them the same topic of reasoning.

The book of common prayer suffered in England a new revisal, and some rites and ceremonies which had given offence were omitted.[**] * Mem.Cranm.p.