ABSTRACT
Hammond contemplated this scheme, which was never realized, after finishing his reading of John Bramhall’s Just vindication of the Church of England, from the unjust aspersion of criminal schism (London, 1654), in which the exiled Bishop of Derry had plainly outlined the wretched state of refugee partisans of the House of Stuart and the Church of England:
They who have composed minds, free from distracting cares, and means to maintain them, and friends to assist them, and their books and notes by them, do little imagine with what difficulties poor Exiles struggle, whose minds are more intent on what they should eat to morrow, then what they should write, being chased as Vagabonds into the merciless world to beg relief of strangers.2
