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Show 98 Puritan cause for whatever motive or reason, but it's quite another in the eyes of the King to be one in whom the Church of England has expressed great faith and expectation and who then has abandoned the church. Pride is at stake. If Bishop Laud is unable to discredit your father, then one of the other Bishops will attempt to do the same thing. Now...you watch, if I know your father--and I think I do, he won't be intimidated." "Father's not answering the Bishop of St. David's--he's turning to the Archbishop!" "Note how he is holding his head high," the man smiled up at the boy atop his shoulders. "Father's telling the Archbishop that he's a minister!" yelled Samuel. "How and by whom qualified? Where are your orders?" Laud was sputtering at Lathrop's defiance. "I am a minister of the gospel of Christ, and the Lord hath qualified me," Lathrop spoke confidently. A buzz of speculation and comment was heard throughout the courtroom. The Advocate intervened and asked Lathrop if he would take the oath. When Lathrop refused, Sam Eaton was called forward and asked why they had met in a conventicle. "We were not assembled in contempt of the Magistrate," he replied. "No, it was in contempt of the Church of England," |