INTRODUCTION, Xxiii In a memorandum which will be found in the Appendix,a he re- ' P. 247. cords, " that he was preserved from the cruelty of that power which put to death holy Mr. Love." Love was a Presbyterian minis- ter ; b the martyr of the cause; he was charged with treason, tried, b Marsden's History of the and condemned, as implicated in the plot with the Scots, for Later Puritans, bringing in Charles II., and was executed on Tower Hill, When Neai e History on the scaffold, attended by Manton, Calamy and other Presby- of the Puritans. P terian ministers, he exulted in the cause for which he was about to Athena;, vol. iii. 278. suffer ; declaring in a calm and manly manner his dislike of the Com- P 22Aug. 1661. monwealth, and his detestation of the Engagement, saying, " I am for a regulated mixed monarchy, which I judge to be one of the best governments in the world. I opposed the late King and his forces, because I am against screwing up monarchy into tyranny, as much as against those who would pull it down into anarchy. I was never for putting the King to death, whose person I did promise in my covenant to preserve, and I judge it an ill way to cure the body politic, by cutting off the political head." In the Parliament of 1656 he was again chosen for the county of Hereford, and being again secluded with other members, he was one who signed and published the Remonstrance,d " that they would not " Memorials, Whitelocke p. s be frightened or flattered to betray their country, and give up their 643, ed. Lond. religion, lives, and estates, to be at the will, to serve the Protectdr's I682. lawless intentions ;" setting forth his depredations, and the power he had assumed; protesting "that the assembly at Westminster was not the representative body of England, and that all such members as shall take on them to approve the forcible exclusion of other chosen mem- bers, or shall sit and vote, or act by the name of the Parliament of England, while to their knowledge many of the chosen members are so by force shut out, ought to be reputed betrayers of the liberties of England and adherents to the capital enemy of the Commonwealth." It was the lot of himself and family still to lie under suspicion in the
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