Editing Thomas Fuller (section)

==Under the Commonwealth==

Amongst his benefactors was Sir [[John Danvers]] of Chelsea, the regicide. Fuller in 1647 began to preach at [[St Clement's, Eastcheap]], and elsewhere in the capacity of lecturer. While at St Clement's he was suspended; but soon recovered his freedom and preached wherever he was invited. At Chelsea, where he also occasionally officiated, he covertly preached a sermon on the death of Charles, but he did not break with his [[Roundhead]] patrons. [[James Hay, 2nd Earl of Carlisle]] made him his chaplain, and presented him in 1648 or 1649 to the curacy of [[Waltham Abbey (abbey)|Waltham Abbey]]. His possession of the living was in jeopardy on the appointment of [[Oliver Cromwell]]'s "Tryers"; but he evaded their inquisitorial questions by his ready wit. He was not disturbed at Waltham in 1655, when the Protector's edict prohibited the adherents of the late king from preaching.

There is good reason to suppose that Fuller was at [[the Hague]] immediately before [[Stuart Restoration|the Restoration]], in the retinue of [[John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton|Lord Berkeley]], one of the commissioners of the House of Lords, whose last service to his friend was to interest himself in obtaining him a bishopric. ''A Panegyrick to His Majesty on his Happy Return'', one of the many contemporary poems celebrating the restoration of Charles II, was the last of Fuller's verse efforts.