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PART
II.
Reverend
Mr:
Richard
Baxter.
freely in
the
Tower
alfo,
that he
was
thipt away Prifoner to
Tangier
ih
Africa.,-
Mu
BagJhaw
being furprized by L'Egrange,and
his
Chamber
fearcheds
there was found
with him
a
Paper
called Mr.
Davh'sCafe: Whereupon
he was
brought
out tefpeak
with
the King, who examined him
of
whom he had
that Paper,
and he denied
to
confers,
and fpake
fo
boldly to the
King
as
much
offended him
;
whereupon he
was fent back
to the
Tower,
and laid in
a
deep, dark, dreadful Dungeon
:
When he
had
lain
there three or four Daysand Nights, without Candle, Fire,
Bed
or
Straws
he
fell
into
a
terrible
fit
of
the
Hiemorrhoids
which
the
Phyficians thought did
fave his
Life:
for
the pain
was fo
vehement,
that it
kept him in
a
fweat, which call
out
the
InfeLtion
of
the Damp. At
laf,
by
the lolicitationof
his
Brother
(who
was
a
Conformift, and dearly
loved
him) he
was
takenup,
and after
that
was fent
away
to
Soutbfea.Caflle,
an unwholefome place in
the
Sea
by
PortJinourb,
where
(if
he
-b
alive) he remaineth clofe Prifoner to this day, with
Vassalor
Pond
( a
Prieacher
of
North-
Wales)
and others
s
fpeeding worfe
than Mr.
Crofton,
who
was
at
lait
re-
..
leafed.
§
a6t.
While
I was in
Sbrepfhire
and
Worre/lerfhire,
it
fellout that
force one
print-
ed one
dour
Papers given
into the
Bithops
:
And thoughI
was
,above an hundred
miles off,
yet
was
it
all
imputed to me and
Roger
L'Eftrange
put
is
in the News Book;
that it
was
fuppofed
to
be
my
doing.
Indeed, when Dr.
Gunning
had asked me,
Whether
we would keep ours from
the
Prefs,
if
they would do the fame by theit
s;
I
would
not
promife
him
;
but told him, though Ifuppofed that none
of
us
intend-
ed to
be
fo
prefumptnous
as
to
publifh
them without Authority, yet
i could
pro-
mife nothing for
all
them that were abfeht; nor
could any one promife
its
when fò
many
Scriveners
were intruffed to Tranfcribe them,that the Kingand
Bishops
might
have
Copies: and whether any of
thofe Scriveners
might
keep
a Copy
for
them,
felves
I
knew not.
And
after this
molt
of
the other Papers were printed,
by
I
know not whom, to
this day
:
But.
I
conje&ured
that
a
poor Man
that
I
paid
for
writing
me
a Copy
(
Dr.
Reignolds's
Curate)
was likelieft io do
it,
to
get
Come.
what to
fupply
his
very great wants
;
but I am utterly uncertain
:
But
,1
had
in
-,
telligence
that
thefecond Pipers
were in the Prefs, and
that
Malice
might impute
it
to me no
more,
I
went to Secretary
Marrice,
and acquainted him with
it,
that,
he might fend
a
Meffenger
to
(nrprize them
:
But
he told me,
that
if
I
could affure
him that the
Bishops
had
not given
cent-cm;
I
fhould have
a
warrant to
fearch for.
them.
I
told him that
I
knew not what
the
Bifhops had
done,
but he
Might tali-,
ly conjelture
:
Nor
would I fearch
for
them;
but having told
him,
left him to
do
what
he
thought
meet.
§
z62. And here
I
mutt
give
notice,That
whereas
there are then printed,
[r.Oue
firit Propofals for
Concord in
Difcipline:
2.
Our
Papers
upon the
fight
of
the
fielt
Draught
of
the King'sDeclaration.
;.
Our Petition
and Reafons
to,
the
Bishops;
for
Peace. 4.
Our
Reformed Liturgy.
ç.
Our
Exceptions againli
the
Faults
of
the Common Prayer
Book. 6.
Our Reply to the
Bitisops
Ah£wer to
theft Excep-
tions;
with the Anfwer
it
felfverbatim inferted.
y.
Our lait
Account
and Petition
to
the
King.
8.
A Copy
of
all
their Difputation.fbr the Liturgy
,
with
our
An-
(wers
J
;
all
theft
being furreptitioufly printed
(fave the
fielt.piece
)
by fonte
poor
Men
forgain, without our Knowledge and Corre&ion; are
fo
fay
printed, that
our wrong
by
it
is
very
great:
Whole Lines are
left out ;.the
molt fignificantwords
are perverted
by
Alterations;
and this
fo
frequently, that
fume
parts
of
the Papers
.(efpecially our
large Reply,
and our
loll
Account to the
Ring) are
made,
Nonfehee,
and
not
intelligible. But
the
lait Paper
(Dr.
Pierfon's
and Dr.
Gunning's
Difputati
on)
I confefs was
not printed without
my
knowledge
:
For
Bifhop Morley's,
Andre-
ports with fo great confidence uttered had made
it
of
force nece(ìity
:
But
I
added
not
one
Syllableby way of
Commentary,
the
words
themfelves being (gfficient
for
his
Confutation.
If
I remember, I
will giveyou
inthe
end
of
this Book
the Errar
to
of
them
all
that they drat
have
the printed
Copies may know how
to
comet
them.
§
a6
;.
The
coming forth
of
there
Papers had various
effe
&s :
It
increafed
the
burning indignationwhich
before was kindled against me
on one
fide, and, it fome-
what mitigated the Cenfures
that
were
takenup
agaìnft me on'
the
other, fide.
For
you muff know
that
the
Chief
of
the Congregational
(or Independent) Party,
rook
is ill
that we
took
not them with
us
in our Treaty,
and
fo did
a
few
of
the
Presbyterian Divines
;
allwhom we fo far
puffed
by
as
not to
invite them
to our
Councils,
(
though
they were
as
freeas
we to havedone the like)
becaufe we
knew
that
it
would
be but
a
hinderance to us;
partly
becaufe their Perfons were
unaocep-
table, and partly becaufe it
might
have
delayed
the
Work: And
molt
of
the lnde-
C
c
c
z
pendenisf
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