from town to town and
opened his courts. Stowmarket was one of the places he visited. The
Puritans are said to have hung sixty witches in Suffolk, but the Puritans
were not alone responsible. It is a fact that, up to fifty years ago two
supposed witches lived in Stowmarket.

Dr. Young escaped the Star Chamber, but, like most good men who would be
free at that time he had to fly his native land for awhile. Milton
refers to this exile in his Latin elegy:

'Meantime alone
Thou dwellest, and helpless on a soil unknown,
Poor, and receiving from a foreign hand
The aid denied thee in thy native land.'

It seems from this that the living at Stowmarket was under sequestration.
A little while after Young is back in Stowmarket, and Milton thus
describes his daily life--a personal experience of the poet's, not a
flight of fancy:

'Now, entering, thou shalt haply seated see
Besides his spouse, his infants on his knee;
Or, turning page by page with studious look
Some bulky paper or God's holy Book.'

Good times came to Dr. Young. The seed he had sown bore fruit. For
awhile England had woke up to attack the Stuart doctrine of royal
prerogative in Church and State. The men of Suffolk had been the
foremost in the fight, and in 1643 we find the Doctor in Duke's Place,
London. A sermon was preached by him before the House of Commons, and
printed by order of the House. A Stowmarket Rector speaks of it
naturally as a very prolix, learned, somewhat dull and heavy effort to
encourage them to persevere in their civil war against the King; but he
has the grace to add: 'There is much less of faction in it than many
others, and it is rather the production of a contemplative than of an
active partisan.' 'One of his examples,' writes Mr. Hollingsworth, 'is
from 2 Sam. xiii. 28, where the command of Absalom was to kill Amnon:
"Could the command of a _mortal man_ infuse that courage and valour into
the hearts _of his servants_ as to make them adventure upon a _desperate_
design? And shall not the command of the _Almighty God_ raise up the
hearts of His people employed by Him in any work to which _He_ calls
them, raise up their hearts in following at His command!"' The Doctor
had not cleared himself of all the errors of his times. He urged on his
hearers, by the example of the Emperors, the necessity of maintaining the
doctrine of the Trinity uncorrupt, by the aid of the civil power. He
ur