Hi/?or.y ofthe Puritans, examin'd. 371 Pounds, nor exceeding the Sum of go 1. to be im- poled by thofe, before whom he fhould have his Trial. Neal, p. 59o. The Names, Titles and Offices of Deans and Chapters, werenct abolifh'd till after the King's Death, [This is niokily exprcffed ; a lefs prejudiced Perlon, would have call'd it the King's Murder] in the Year 1649. Thus cauliou/ly did the Parliament proceed, as long as there was any pro/pea of Accommodation with the King. This cautious Parliament had actually affum'd to themfelves the Sovereignty in 1642, as has been ob- ferv'd from Lord Clarendon, (Vol. II, p. 68, 69.) And I believe the leading Men of the two Houfes had neither then, or at any other time, the leaft delire ofanAccommodation. [See Husbands's Exa& Collections, p. 267, 279.] Lord Hollis, who had himfelf, at the beginning of the Troul les, been as ac ive in the Caule as any one, gives this Chara&er oftheir Leaders : * Whilft thofe Men acted in the Simplicity of their Hearts, there was another Generation of ' Men, which like the Frozen Snake, that lay in their Bofoms, feem'd to defire but the fame things ' with them, when it was nothing fo ; bur they had further Deligns to deftroy, and cut offnot a few, c to make the Land an Ace/dama, ruin the King, and as many of the Nobility and Gentry as they could ; alter the Government, have no Order in the Church, nor Power in the State over them. This was the Venom they harbour'd, which at firft they were not warm enough to put forth; ' but it Ibon appear'd, by force evident Symptoms ' which difcover'd it to difcerning Eyes. For as the Devil can transform h 'nfelf into an Angel of Light, fo they pretended Zeal in Religion, and to be * Lord Hollis's Memoirs, p. s, 6, 7, &c, Bbl Pubti
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