charge, and on the Sunday following he preached his farewell sermon to the parishioners of Worthenbury. For the sake of peace he later received some of the arrears due to him from the Emral estate, but only on condition that he surrendered all the benefits with which his patron Sir John Puleston had endowed him, most notably the house specially built for him, which is what the young Puleston was eager to obtain. It was while Philip Henry was undergoing these severe trials that he married the girl