t 318 1 . ties. He had the Chief Power ovei~ Chancellor Hyde, who ruled the Land ; Arid She/don was next him , and Hinchman the third : But under them truckled many of the fame Mind. · The King publilhed a Declaration .of Liberty for tender Confciences (at Breda), (expounded fince by 2 7 Years barbarous Perfecution , laying all on the Protefi:ant Prelatill:s that would not make a Law for it.) I was pafi: doubt in I66o. that the King was as he Died , or' had engaged himfelf to promote it here, firfi by giving them Liberty of their Re· ligion, and afterwards the Power of the Land, in Magifiracy, Militia, and the Church. Knowing Men faid that Morley, Sheldon, Guning, and the other Chief Agitators , knew .this , and thought they had no other way to oblige him to keep up the Engli!h Prelacy,but to engage,that 'they would be firmer to his Abfolute Power , ·and foie Le– giflation , and for Paffive Obedience, and for the Extirpadon of Puritans and Parliament Power, than the Jefuites were ; and therefore that he fhould ·be more for them than for the Jefuites. And withal that they would begin where La1-td was interrupted, and would attempt a Coalit~on 1 or if that failed, Would yield to Liberty for the Popifi1 Religion, ( which joined with their power would foon prevail.) § 5· At that time Mr. c alamy and I motioned a Treaty with the Ptelatifis for Union and Con– cord, with which the Earl of Manchefter and the Lord Orery acquainted the .King : which he pre– fently accepted as an Opportunity to quiet Men till his Abfolutenefs was fettled. Hepromifed us that the Church ~.ithops ihould meet us in the - ·· · mid·way,_
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